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A full house at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit warmly received a first ever discussion about the 150th anniversary of the Freedman's Bank, chartered March 3rd, 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln to 'teach freed slaves about money.' I also took the time to connect the history and legacy of the Freedman's Bank to my now bestselling book, internationally, "How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class," which amongst other things, explained 'why poor people remain poor.'
A special kudos to my HOPE Leaders, including Kevin Boucher, Director of HOPE Global Forums, and Ryan Mack, Market President, for doing a great job organizing the highly engaged (and thus successful) Freedman's Bank Tour event last night, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History.
And a very special thank you to my hero, and our HOPE Global Spokesman, civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young, who traveled to Detroit for this special event.
The evening was capped off with a feature of local heroes and sheroes who spoke on a Detroit panel, including BankOn founder JoAnn Watson, David Mack, Esq, David Caroll of Quicken Loans, and my new friend Dr. Tonya Allen, CEO of the Skillman Foundation, and moderator and friend Gail Perry-Mason of Oppenheimer Funds. Check out some of the special images here.
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"You can make more money honestly from a growing economy, than you can steal…from a dying economy."
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"There is a difference between being broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of a mind, and a depressed condition of the spirit, and we must vow to never, ever be poor again."
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Report offers recommendations on improving financial capability of youth; members commit to actions to build skills of young people
WASHINGTON — The President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans (Council) today published its final report to the President and Secretary of the Treasury on ways to build the financial knowledge and skills of the nation's young people. The report includes recommendations for government, individual commitments to action, and best practices for improving financial capability.
"The Council's work recognizes that the financial decisions young people make can set the course for their futures. We must ensure that young people, especially those in underserved populations, learn early about life's financial choices," said U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. "The commitments to action that individual Council members and their organizations have made will provide opportunities for young people to build the financial skills necessary in today's economy."
"Financial literacy is critical to ensuring opportunity for all young Americans," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "This report is an important contribution to our understanding of financial capability and makes thoughtful recommendations for empowering students."
"The work of the Council offers a road map to reach young people at important stages in their lives," said John W. Rogers, Jr., Chair of the Council and Chairman and CEO of Ariel Investments. "Many of the recommendations and actions announced today focus on building the financial capability of young people in public schools, as well as other key settings, and highlight the promise of partnerships with private sector and non-profit organizations."
Today's report includes recommendations for improving the financial capability of youth and identifies a number of areas where progress is needed to improve financial decision making. These areas include simplifying student aid, tying together youth employment opportunities and financial education, addressing identity theft and financial abuse, and encouraging innovative approaches to build teachers' ability to teach financial education in schools.
Additionally, Council members outlined several actions that private sector and non-profit organizations are taking to implement initiatives that align with the recommendations. Some highlights include:
Council members intend to grow partnerships for college mentoring by expanding existing mentoring partnerships such as the Davidson College, Franklin & Marshall College and the College Advising Corps program by training college students to help underserved students and families to prepare and make informed choices about college and financial aid.
With support from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Digital Promise will develop a pilot to test whether teachers who become more comfortable and confident with personal finance topics and effective strategies for teaching these topics will be better equipped to teach them. The pilot will provide access to tools powered by digital technologies to improve teachers' motivation, confidence, and skills.
The National Endowment for Financial Education and the Take Charge America Institute at the University of Arizona are building a new online national teacher resource center. The center will provide financial capability resources for middle and high school educators.
The Citi Foundation and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund expanded their Summer Jobs Connect program into the District of Columbia and St. Louis to provide more than 2,000 low-income youth with summer work experience, access to financial education, and appropriate financial services. Other cities involved in the initiative include Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago.
Over three years, the Chicago Financial Education Initiative will bring together city agencies and financial education providers for the first time to develop and enact a plan to make financial education accessible to all youth, parents and community members.
In New York, a partnership between the Council for Economic Education and W!SE will provide financial education and certification to high school students.
Operation HOPE has partnered with a number of financial institutions to open Hope Inside Centers in underserved communities, including Detroit and St. Louis.
The Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati and the Math Forum at Drexel University have launched a new series of lessons for students in grades three through eight that integrate math and financial literacy called "Math That Makes ¢ents." The series is funded by Jump$tart, and supported by the National Endowment for Financial Education.
Casey Family Programs has committed to sponsoring an Operation HOPE Fellow to help carry out the recommendations of this report, with a particular emphasis on building financial capability through employment.
The full report includes a complete list of the recommendations as well as additional resources for educators and policymakers.
Members of the Council include the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Education, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and 22 non-governmental members appointed by the President. President Obama created the Council with Executive Order 13646 in June 2013 for a two year term.
Click here to view the Council's report.
I strongly believe, that "America needs Detroit to win — again."
Detroit, is part of the American experience. It is part of America's birth of enterprise, and literally, our middle class. The history of Detroit, is embedded in the DNA of our nation.
This is why Ambassador Andrew Young and I are here in Detroit, MI tonight, for the event honoring the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Freedman's Bank, at the Charles H. Wright Museum on African-American History, and why I have dedicated my life to advancing both the free enterprise system, and what I call the 'silver rights' movement. Making free enterprise work for all.
Here's more information on the total Freedman's Bank Tour, and specifically our Freedman's Bank Tour Detroit evening tonight.
John Hope Bryant
Tonight, civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young, right hand to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and respected international statesman, and my personal mentor, advisor and friend (and global spokesman for Operation HOPE) will join me and the HOPE team this evening at the African-American Museum in Detroit, MI. We are in Detroit for the Freedman's Bank Tour, hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum in the city.
A special thank you to Mayor Michael Duggan, the City of Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Private Bank & Trust, Talmer Bank & Trust and all the others who helped to bring tonight together.
RSVP here.
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Most people, have no idea, that Martin Luther King, Sr. — more affectionally called 'Daddy King' — was not only a minister of the gospel, and the father of the world's 20th century prophet, but a businessman and a capitalist too. Yes, that's right, a businessman, and a capitalist.
Daddy King served on the board of a bank — Citizen's Trust Bank in Atlanta to be specific — for 42 years. Daddy King, who shared the pulpit with his son Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached faith, charity, service, voting, education and HOMEOWNERSHIP too. I wrote in detail about Daddy King here, on LinkedIn Influencers.
Dr. King worked for no salary, and had a Ph.D in 1958. This was not a poor family. They were deeply concerned about, and connected to the social and civil rights issues of the day, but this was no poor family. This was a family with resources, and Daddy King helped to make that so. Even when Dr. King would get arrested, it was often Daddy King who would bail him out. Or when Dr. King donated his Nobel Peace Prize winnings to ten other civil rights organizations (none of which acknowledged the gift, nor said thank you by the way), it was Daddy King who paid the taxes on the gift.
Daddy King understood very well, that before you could have civil rights, you had to have silver rights — your economic stability — first.
For these and other reasons, Operation HOPE and its HOPE Inside @Ebenezer was and remains proud to become the anchor for the newly constructed Martin Luther King, Sr Community Resource Complex at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Introducing the national flagship for the growing HOPE Retail Network — HOPE Inside @Ebenezer.
You can schedule a tour and visit of the new HOPE Inside @Ebenezer and Martin Luther King Sr Community Resource Complex by contacting HOPE Leader Darrick Graham here.
Let's go…
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The story of the Freedman's Bank, is an American story. And it's our story. But it's never been told. Well, Operation HOPE and our Project 5117 initiative is not only committed to completing what President Lincoln started in 1865, immediately following the civil war, we are committed to telling the empowering and inspiring story of the Freedman's Bank — 150 years later. A bank chartered — to teach freed slaves about money!
Join us tonight. Contact my lead in Detroit, Ryan Mack.]]>


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This course covers the entire photographic workflow in Apple Aperture, from import to enhancement to output. Author Derrick Story covers organizing image collections with star ratings, labels, and Smart Albums, and using the image editing tools to adjust exposure, retouch flaws, and correct color balance issues. And one of the most noteworthy features in Aperture is explored in detail: its ability to store video clips alongside the stills from digital cameras, then combine them to create stunning multimedia slideshows.
This course was updated on 10/03/12. Updated movies cover the features added through version 3.3, including Retina display support, iCloud photo sharing, streamlined integration with iPhoto, and much more.
One of the questions that I get a lot is, is there a way I can share my Aperture library with somebody else? Let's say that a couple of people are working on a project. Well you can't put Aperture library on a network server and have different people access it simultaneously. That doesn't work but with this new library system, there is a way that you can share your work. And let me show you how that works. And then see if that will fit into your workflow. So let's say that I have a friend who also takes pictures of parking spots with his mobile phone, and he wants to add to my collection of shots and I go, "great, let me send you the library." "You can add and then you can send it back to me." So all I have to do of course is go to my project here and I am just going to Export > Project as New Library.
And we will just call it iPhone Shots. So we are going to put it here in our Exercise Files. We are going to consolidate, we are going to include previews, and yes we want that alert when we are finished. So we will go ahead and send it out. Aperture does its thing. Here is our message. So we will reveal in Finder, there it is. Now what I can do is I can send this to my friend, I can iChat with him and I can send the file to him even that way, where you just drop it onto his name.
I can put it on a network server where he can grab it and then what he will do is that he will open up this library, he can add to it in Aperture, and then when he closes the Aperture, he can send it back to me and I can either open it up as a separate library or I can merge it back into this library here. All the work travels with it, the metadata, the previews, the masters, all back and forth. This is a nice way to share your work with other people and it is not putting on a network server and everyone accessing it but it can be put on a network server and have other people use it and then have you either bring it back into your library or open it up.
Think about the applications for you, hopefully there will be something that will work when you are working with other people.
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Given the number of veterans and military retirees who have comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions, the committee recommends that DoD and VA consider jointly funding research on the effects of tobacco use on these conditions and on effective tobacco-cessation interventions for these populations. Tobacco use in people with comorbid mental-health disorders should be monitored, and research should be conducted to develop more effective tobacco-cessation programs for such VA populations as those with alcohol abuse or PTSD. VA has conducted considerable research in that field, but further work needs to be done, particularly with regard to the timing of interventions and the use and possible interactions of tobacco-cessation medications and psychiatric medications. It may also want to consider jointly funding such efforts with DoD, given the large population of military personnel returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan with mental-health disorders.
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fMRI studies have found that brain areas associated with the reward of relationship self-expansion are also the same areas that are associated with the reward of smoking cigarettes (Aron et al., 2005; Ikemoto et al., 2006; Xu et al., 2011). This raises the possibility that one reward may be able to substitute for another, and that self-expansion may be able to aid in smoking abstinence and cessation. One recent study found that successful quitters experienced significantly more self-expanding experiences (both in and out of the relationships context) immediately prior to their quitting, and even unsuccessful quitters were able to abstain longer as a function of how many self-expanding experiences they had prior to their quit attempt (Xu, Floyd, Westmaas, & Aron, 2010). The current studies build upon the idea of replacement by experimentally manipulating self-expansion and using fMRI to investigate whether craving attenuation is the mechanism behind this effect. In Study 1, smokers who were in a new romantic relationship abstained from smoking overnight and then viewed pairs of photographs in the scanner. Each pair consisted of one headshot and one object image. Headshots were either self-expanding (an image of their romantic partner) or not self-expanding (images of a friend or neutral acquaintance). Object images were either a pencil (control) or a cigarette (craving cue). When smokers viewed cigarette images alongside a photo of their partner, they exhibited less activation of areas in the brain associated with craving than when the cigarette image was alongside the non self-expanding photos. In Study 2, smokers in long-term relationships (at least 2 years) abstained from smoking overnight and then, while in the scanner, played a series of cooperative two-player games with their partner. Games were randomized to be either self-expanding (novel, exciting, and challenging) or merely pleasant but not self-expanding, and some versions of the games contained smoking cues. Smokers showed less craving area activations when viewing smoking cues during self-expanding games as opposed to non self-expanding games. These studies provide evidence that self-expansion rewards can undermine craving for cigarettes in smokers. Implications for interventions and future studies are discussed.
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Learn how to implement and customize an interactive rotating carousel animation with jQuery and Adobe Dreamweaver. Author Chris Converse covers preparing the carousel images and captions, creating the carousel containers with HTML and CSS, and activating the carousel with JavaScript. The course also explains how to add images to the carousel container, set the caption based on the image in focus, and add animated transitions between captions.
Now that we have the document ready finding all of the images and putting them into the carousel container, what we're going to do next is create our custom function to initialize the carousel. So, outside of the document ready, we're going to create our own function. We're going to call this function, space, createCarousel, beginning and ending parentheses, beginning and ending bracket. So createCarousel is a function name we're making up. And so what we're going to do first is initialize the carousel. So, we're going to type dollar sign, beginning and ending parentheses, two tick marks for a string literal, div, hash sign, carousel.
So, we're going to target the div with the carousel ID. Then we're going to type .roundabout, beginning and ending parentheses, then a semicolon. So, .roundabout is the name of the plug-in's function that actually creates the roundabout on the div with the carousel ID. Inside of the parentheses we're going to put two brackets and then split that open. And inside of here, we can define custom parameters for our roundabout.
So, the first thing we want to do is to find what the childSelector is. This is which items inside of the carousel ID are going to be turned into the roundabout and put along the circle to create the carousel. So, childSelector, colon, two tick marks for a string literal. We're going to type img. We're going to take all the image tags of the teapots that are being injected into the carousel ID and turn those into the roundabout. So after img, we're going to hit a comma. Let's hit a line return.
Next, we're going to define the tilt. This is again going to give you that sort of 3D angle effect, and we're going to set it to -4.5, then a comma. Next line, we're going to set minimum opacity. We're going to type a 1. This is going to be the items that are in the back, whether or not they're semi-transparent. In this case I don't want the teapots to be semi-transparent if they're in the back. Let's hit a return. Next, we're going to set minimum scale, how small do the items get when they're in the background? We're going to type .45, so they get 45% of their original size, comma, and then lastly, duration.
This is going to decide how long each item takes to go from wherever it currently is to being the item in the forefront. And we're going to type 1200 for 1.2 seconds. Now, before we can test this, we actually need to call this function so that the carousel gets generated. So, let's come up here and select the createCarousel name. Let's copy that to the clipboard, and let's come inside of the document ready. After we've gone through and injected all of the items into the carousel, let's hit paste to run the createCarousel function. So, once the document .ready gets done and all of the images are placed in, this will run the createCarousel function, which will come down here, look for the carousel ID item on that div, and then generate the carousel based on all of the images that are found inside of the div carousel ID.
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I want to free type in combobox. When I stop typing I have a delayed task that populates combobox items with some input dependent results. The problem is that my input is overridden by the first item in the list. Is there a way to keep my input?
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Debug.WriteLine("Thread id: " + Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);
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cbSearch.Items.Add(new ComboBoxItem( item.Value<string>("name"), item.Value<string>("_id")));
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I'm giving an example of what I'm really trying to do.
- Combobox is empty (no items)
- User starts typing for example "ja". Combobox sends query to my backend. Should n't be a problem as the call is asynchronous with 1 second delay after user last input.
- My backend returns some results (Anton Jamison, James Aaron, James Hetfield, etc., limited to 50)
- I want to populate the dropdown list with results, to open it, but as a combobox text i want to keep "ja", so the user can clarify his search further.
- User extends his search "ja h". Backend responds with James Hetfield. Result now is only one item and I can set the combobox text now or keep the behavior from above. Not sure which would be better yet.
All this is implemented but at step 4 when I populate the combobox using the function above, the text of the combo is changed from "ja" to the first match of the list. (Anton Jamison in the example). I'm almost sure that there was a simple option for implementing this behavior but I'm not sure if it was in C#.
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- It was a good try but unsuccessful. Once I populate the combobox items my search string is changed to the first match of the list.
- I think I don't try to implement the autocomplete feature.
- Good catch about the DroppedDown. I move it in the edited version.


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The Signet Q is currently the longest helmet front to back on the market, even 5mm longer than the Profile helmet it replaced in the Arai line up.
Ali, thanks for the detailed response. I took your advice and tried unfolding the C3's rubber flap so that it covers the forehead vents. I wouldn't have thought that such a little thing could make a difference, but it actually seemed to feel better on my daily ride to work. I will have to see how it feels on a full-day ride, but so far, so good.
I think the C3's internal shape is not really so bad for me compared to the Signet-Q. I think it's more a matter of a C3 "Large" being 1cm smaller than an Arai Large. In particular, I think you made a mistake in describing the Signet-Q as 5mm longer than the Profile. On Arai's own website, they have
a graphic showing that it is longer than the current RX-Q model
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The Arai head shapes have become less radical over the last year or so... Both the Long Oval and Intermediate Oval Arai helmets are now very similar to the "Neutral" fit found on other helmet brands... This evolution has been made crystal clear in our evaluation of the Signet-Q -- a helmet with the (new) Arai "Long Oval" shape that, in the previous Long Oval iteration, would probably not fit me, due to its narrow internal profile. In fact, the original Signet and Profile were two helmets that were out of the question for me, even with my "Neutral" head shape. The "evolved" Arai shape -- combined with the typical Arai firm-yet-plush padding -- feels fuller and more comfortable.
So the Signet-Q is actually LESS of a long-oval shape than the old Profile, not more. Which explains why I was feeling only a small (but important!) difference in fit between the Signet-Q and the C3. Believe me, there are some helmets I literally cannot bear to squeeze into due to their round shape across my forehead, and the C3 is not one of them.
With your tip about unfolding the rubber flap up front, and maybe a little more break-in time, I have high hopes the C3 in size Large will fit me fine without the need for any spoonwork.
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When the 2012 football campaign started Zach Zwinak was a name on the roster that most weren't too familiar with. The sophomore had very little game experience, only rushing the ball 3 times last year, and wasn't the marquee running back in preseason. It wasn't until late September that we would get the first glimpse at this downhill runner. When Penn State welcomed Temple into Beaver Stadium, we saw Zwinak explode for 94 yards, a career high in both yards and attempts and act as the featured back in the Nittany Lions offense. The following week against Illinois, Zwinak hit the 100 yard rushing mark on 19 attempts and crossed the goal line twice in a Penn State blowout. For the second time in 2012, Zwinak was the featured back for the Nittany Lions, and was proving to be an effective runner. In an offense that relies on depth and many moving parts, Zwinak has found a role as a major contributor. He has rushed for over 600 yards this season and 4 touchdowns. With four...
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We did not dislocate PHCN workers but only sent idle workers to active stations—Minister of Power Prof. Barth Nnaji
Before he took over as the Minister of Power in 2011, Prof. Barth Nnaji knew that the energy crisis in Nigeria was not going to be solved within a short time. In an interactive session with journalists at a leadership forum in Abuja, the minister spoke on the various measures being taken by the government to tackle the problem. Our Managing Editor, Northern Operations, YUSUF ALLI, and Abuja Bureau Chief, YOMI ODUNUGA, were there. Excerpts:
Can you tell us exactly what the government is doing to make electricity affordable?
What I need to point out is that it is a two-pronged approach that the government took in addressing the power sector reform; one is to have short term measure which has led to an improvement in what we met on the ground. The other is for medium and long term. In terms of the short term, you can do emergency power by some other which means somebody brings the equivalent of generators and you use diesel to run them or you use some other fuel to run them and then when it comes to tariff, they will charge you about three or four times the tariff. So, who is going to pay? That is why we have not gone that route. But if you want to build a sustainable power plant, it takes usually about minimum of two years. What we are trying to do is to see what we can do within the period before we begin to get the benefit of the new plants that are being built.
The short term measure includes recovering capacities in already existing power plants that are just there probably because one thing went wrong with the turbine or something in the power station. So we want to recover the capacities and that is what we have actually done in the last year or so. You will find that when we came on board, we had about 2800 megawatts. Now we are talking about 4400 megawatts, even though I don't want us to be talking about numbers. But that is tremendous growth in power just within the short period and it comes from focusing on recovery of installed capacities that are just lying dormant. Secondly, I believe that most Nigerians would have seen this; there is greater stability and people may have forgotten that it used to be epileptic power supply before now. But it is not so anymore. We are not saying that we don't lose power but we are saying that we have greatly stabilised power on the national grid.
Thirdly, the whole system collapse that we used to have, at times three to four system collapse every month, no longer happens. In fact, I am happy to announce this year that we have not had any system collapse at all up till this moment. There was a partial system collapse once in December 2011. But it is no longer frequent because of the measures we have taken. So there is a lot going on, but what we have to say is that Nigeria is a country of 167 million people and to be talking about 400, 5000 megawatts is nothing because you really need to do this leapfrogging am talking about which is why the long term measures are important to have an appropriate investment. It is not about putting so much cash by government in it but about how the system is structured to deliver power with the appropriate investment. So, we are doing all those things.
A few days ago, a national newspaper reported that the electricity tariff would be increased by over 80%. How true is this and is this a sign of what we should expect from the investors that would take over the power sector?
In terms of tariff increase, you may be surprised that it is just like paying for nothing. In Nigeria today, the tariff for electricity is the second lowest in Africa other than Zambia which pays the lowest tariff in sub-Saharan Africa and we are not the poorest country. We can even say that we are perhaps the richest in West Africa may not by per capita. What we want is for Nigeria to be, at least, in the middle tariff-wise and what we are talking about tariff-wise is for the upper income people. The urban poor and rural dwellers will not see this tariff increase because there is subsidy in place to make sure that this doesn't happen and that even whenever subsidy goes out in some years to come, there are some cross-subsidy, that lifeline, consumers will continue to receive electricity at the rate they can afford to pay. So it is not the same as when you had fuel subsidy issue. There is what we call C1 tariff consumers like the local welders and those that have small scale businesses will pay low tariff because they are subsidized in the regime that is in place. So, this is all properly structured and worked out as it is done everywhere in the world.
It looks as if some staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria have been left in the cold judging from the way they were sent to the distribution companies. The members of staff are saying that if you do so without giving them their entitlements, these distribution companies will not accept them as their liabilities. So why don't you give them their entitlements before you distribute them?
Are the distribution companies not part and parcel of the government? The electricity that you receive wherever you are is coming from government today. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Kaduna, Yola, Kano, Ibadan, Enugu, Porthacourt and Benin are all government-owned. So we are redeploying headquarters staff who are doing nothing at the headquarters to the government-owned companies and transferring their salaries and benefits to same. So how can anybody quarrel with that? Will it be better for Nigerians to be paying for somebody who is sitting in the headquarters doing nothing? I thought that the labour union should be the first to go to fight against that. That it is not good for Nigerians because, in this country, we have to do things according to the correct way it is supposed to be done according to the law. The Act was enacted in 2005, whatever it is we are doing, we are doing according to law. So the workers in PHCN headquarters are being redeployed to various successor companies. We are not sacking anybody, so why would we have to pay them their benefits?
When the privatisation comes on stream and it is completed, then that severance will come and at that time, it is not about transfer or redeployment to any successor company, it is about change of ownership. There will be severance from the Federal Government to terminate agreement between the government and the workers while the new agreement will come from the private-led companies to now take the same workers in as their workers. So, it is not actually that they are being sacked from service. Where will the new owners get workers? It will have to come from these people? Secondly, if you look at that, you will find out that we don't even have enough workers. We are going to need more. But we need competent people. So if anybody is saying that we should keep anybody who is not working, I don't think you will like that. I think what Nigerians will want to see is that we are up and doing so that we have people who are prepared to work like any other place in the world. The reason why people go to Korea and different places is because people want to work and to work hard; they don't go to office to sit and want to be paid.
Still on the power roadmap, is there any assurance that the Act has been reformed in such a way that somebody can generate power and sell it by himself?
This question is very important. Anybody who wants to generate electricity today can generate electricity and sell the electricity to the national grid or sell the electricity to the distribution company. There was a discussion on the River State electricity project which prompted the National Economic Council to set up a committee under the Vice-President. They came to an agreement on how things should move forward in terms of state participation and the agreement is basically as follows: that states should be able to generate power, invest in power, domicile that power within their states if they so chose because what any governor wants is to be able to provide this service to their people. So if this state government can build a power plant, they should be able to domicile that power coming from that plant for the state. If they have excess, they can sell the excess to the grid, either local grid or national grid. So, that is agreed. Secondly, that the governments that fall within the distribution zones, out of the eleven distribution companies, can now take equity position in the new entity. Now, how will that work? Each governor says that they invested in rural electrification, they will choose a valuer between the state government and the regulatory commission.
Now, this valuer will go to value their investment and whatever that value is becomes carried interest in the successor company, so they get equity as such. If a state government wants to invest more than that carried interest, they are free to do it provided that, at the end, the joint equity position of state governments, federal government and workers will not exceed 49 per cent. So it is a business structure that makes sense. They all agreed and that is what we are following now. I want to also say that this is the first time that workers will have right to have shares in the business where they work. Right now, all the 100% shares is owned by the Federal Government. In the future, you will have workers, state, federal government and new investor having some shares.
You mentioned some sort of subsidy for the poor in the power sector. Can you tell is how much is involved and is there any guarantee that this subsidy would not end up in the pre-paid meters of the rich and powerful?
Approximately N60 billion will be available this year to ensure that the urban poor and rural dwellers will not experience significant increase in tariff. Right now, they are all rated. The distribution companies have rated all the consumers of electricity as at now. So we have R1, R2 and R3 which are the classes for the residential and you have C1, C2 and C3 for commercial and you have the industrial classification. For those that are rated, if they are using meters, they buy meters, if not in the interim and they using estimated billing system, which we want to wipe out as quickly as possible; if they are using meters, they buy credit and it is according to consumption in that area that determines the rate which they pay. So really, the consumers are known and we want all of you to monitor how it is going to work. What happens is that at the end of the month, the volume of power that went to R1 consumers and R2 would be recorded and that is where the distribution companies get their subsidy. So the market operator only pays for power consumed? There is a bulk meter that measures the amount of power transferred on per second basis to the distribution companies.
Before your appointment, you were an active player in the power sector as your company was on the verge of completing a power distribution plant in Aba, Abia State. What has happened to that project?
I keep hearing about their progress. What I heard is that, by this third quarter, they will commission. When they commission, they will become the first indigenously-owned private power company to have commissioned such a big power project because that city will now be able to have absolute reliable electricity. We hope other cities will begin to, through the effort we are making, match what Aba will have. The power that currently goes to Aba will now be displaced to other parts of the federation through the national grid.
In the past, other big government companies like NITEL and Nigeria Airways toed the path the PHCN is toeing now and that experiment did not succeed. Are you not setting trap for investors who might not want to accept the staff of PHCN? And if they say they are not accepting them, what happens?
It is a different business altogether when you look at NITEL versus power. But we have learnt a lot from the inadequacies of the process they followed and this is why we are very careful not to make such mistakes. If you decide to transfer staff just like that to a new buyer, it won't work a lot of times which is why we are talking of severance. When the time comes, all the workers that will be transferred will be severed from the system but the severance doesn't mean sack but it means they are free either to decide to leave the service entirely because the service would have been bought out or that the new owners decide to take them in if they like some particular workers. It is likely that they will first retain all of them and see if they will perform. But now, they would be working under private sector management. So this is a very different arrangement that will happen. So the workers cannot be really thought of being liabilities to the Federal Government or to the new owners because of this method. It is only if government is not able to pay severance that you will have that situation.
When I talk about institution set up by government to ensure that the reform works, you have the Nigerian Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMCO) set up to manage just the liabilities including the pension funds so that the pension of the workers will be paid every month because the workers want to be paid for life, they don't want to be paid out. So these are the things that are being put in place to see that every aspect of what should happen to the workers will be taken care of, that the transition is clean and people are comfortable. So I do not see the similarity. You can rest assured that the workers will be taken care of, just that they are severed from service is what scares people and we understand it. There will also be abundance of business opportunities.
You told us here that it takes a minimum of two years to build a power plant and we can recall that since the time of the administration of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo, we have been hearing of power plants being built in this country. At some time, we were told that there were about 14 in the offing. If it takes a minimum of two years to build one, how come none has been completed at this time?
I told you that, for a period, the process was stalled for two and a half years. It is part of why the projects have not been completed, I don't want to stand for what people did in the past, but I would want to say that at least, the stalling of the process contributed to why they have not been completed and if you look at it, if you have a contract – EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) contractor, you have what we call an end to end contract to build a power plant and suddenly, you have mobilised to site but there is no money released to you to continue to do anything, so you have to demobilise and you have to abandon the equipment in various places and go which is what happened here. When you come back, you now have to be paid a remobilisation money which will cost more money and you have to be paid to test the equipment purchased before to see if they are still in good condition. So, a lot of those things have to be done by the operators of what you call National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP).
But many of those projects are now accelerating to completion, we have about 10 power plants of that nature and then you have transmission, distribution project and you have 100s of different projects under the NIPP which are being managed by Niger Delta Power Holding Company. So the reason why is partly that. But truly, when you start a power plant, it means you have broken ground, the period of design which could be about a year is not included in the two years, the conception period, design, procurement period are not included. So really when you have done all these and you start the construction that you have between 18 months to two years. You have to go to a site where power plant is being built, the civil works, the mechanical, the electrical, the controls, the miles and miles of wires that would have to be laid, it is not a simple matter. So it is only those who are being mischievous that will say that they can build a power plant in six months or eight months. They are just being mischievous, they need to go and see what it looks like. That is what I am saying, it takes a while. This year alone, we should be able to commission four power plants which should be about 1000 megawatts of power.
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Editor's Note: Say What?! is a new, occasional feature that consists of online comments readers have made in response to articles and features on our web sites -- www.news-daily.com, and www.henryherald.com. These are raw, unedited comments. In bold type, are the headlines to which the comments are attached.
* Police: Ralph had 'overwhelming odor of alcohol'
It was a set up! All lies!
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
Everyone seems to be down on Lampl..my questions are these: Did the Mayor and City Council not vote on this project. I don't think Lampl did this complete project all on his own. We visited the resturants at Old Towne several times and other than the parking, we enjoyed it. I hope the Mayor and Council look at themselves before passing judgment on Mr. Lampl.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
How would anyone think a development like Olde Towne Morrow could survive in such a crime ridden area. No one in their right mind would go there.
* Victim ID'd in fatal accident
I've known her all of my life and she was an outstanding citizen and volunteer in her community, Juliette, GA. She also served as Secretary at the Springhill Baptist Church. She has three surviving children. We will miss her.
* Gas prices spike at pump
I used to live in Forest Park, but I now live in Alaska. The gas prices here have been ridiculous, but I always had hope as long as the south had good prices. I can't believe that you folks are paying only 34 cents less than Anchorage-ites.
* Ga. 42 project adding passing lanes
I have to agree with Pat and Richard; this is a waste of money; just seems to be (looking) busy work.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
hey why didnt you put the money on the police dept.we already have a bunch of broken down houses
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
This is just the tip of tax payer money that is wasted in Morrow. They City of Morrow has wasted funds on a path system for golf carts that no one has except the Mayor of the city. It is Clayton County get real it will never be a golf cart community. The city has invested numerous funds in purchasing property and pouring the path system. The community does not want it and it serves no purpose. The parking garage is another example of what were you thinking. A parking garage on Northlake Drive that is never used that cost a lot of money to build. Then we have the conference center at Southlake Mall. A mall full of hat and sneaker stores that is going to hit rock bottom. A staff of employees are paid to clean it, run it, and the cost of operations itself and for what? How much does this cost and how much revenue has it returned to the city? The tourist center is another waste of money. The facilities itself cost money and no one uses it.
* Local educator earns U.S. Citizenship
I understand tax payers concerns over this issue. Teachers need to be evaluated on their ability to teach period. Ms. Williams can teach. She wants to be a part of our community as she lives and works in Henry county. My son is in her class and she has challenged him every day to be better. You don't find that with every teacher. She also sets an example of what a woman can be if she works hard for our kids. Her working in the county before being a legal citizen is the least of our worries. I see it as an investment that has paid huge dividends and give kudos to the BOE.
* Stockbridge citizen-activist works to make impact
Mr. Steinberg, I think you are on the right track. I share your same feelings and efforts to help keep our citizens abreast on "WHATS HAPPENING" to us and for us. Stockbridge is well over due for,old ways out and to make room for growth. I stand totally with our new Mayor as I think any person seeking and having a true heart to be fair,represent truth,having a moral conscience,able to represent ALL people andbeing accountable. To me this is some important parts of a good and effective leader. There IS A PROBLEM IN GEORGIA. To many dishonest,self-serving,selfish people in high places. In Education, leaders(so-called)are cutting the futures throats of our kids or are you trying to separate certain groups of peoples to serve your self ambitions? Nothing new. Are you? will you? BE BLESSED.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
Thank you for this information. Please continue to keep us informed on the investigation. Myself, as well as friends I have spoken with in the past have often wondered about this "development". It was puzzling how the combination of the location and the amount of money it had to be costing to move and build this vision could ever pay off. Now we know. It was only just that, someone's vision. It wasn't a professionally planned, data-backed, responsible use of taxpayer's money. As was said in the article by McLaughlin "the good thing about real estate development is that every problem you can possible imagine has already occurred somewhere else". This irresponsible use of an enormous amount of taxpayer money needs to be thoroughly investigated and publicized so that this "problem" doesn't occur somewhere else.
* Commissioner decries lack of GDOT district support
seems as though a traffic light IS needed for the intersection at Hwy42/King Mill Rd.....What would be the point in all the roadwork if you dont put a light there?????
* Students get crash course in adulthood
Kudos to Ola Middle for this project that gives students a glimpse into their future. I would love to see all the schools take on this project and others as well as classes to better prepare them for everyday life after graduation. I've seen high school seniors, weeks from graduation, that have no idea how to even endorse a check. We require students to take P.E. and Sex Ed. They should also be required to take at least one class in basic personal finance. Our country's current economic situation speaks volumes of the need for these basic skills. Being fiscally responsible must begin on an individual level and then progress to families, businesses and government. It is essential that we educate our students on the basics of finances and the advantages and disadvantages of making either wise decisions or ill-informed decisions. We are giving them an incredible government deficit to deal with. Let's also give them the tools to solve it.
* Victim ID'd in fatal accident
This is my mother The most kindest and meekest person you could know. Everyday is a constant Struggle for my family. Please keep us in your prayers. It is told to my family the driver reached down for coffee and killed my sweet mama who was parked on the median reason unknown(perhaps the heavy rain). I was the 1st family member on the seen and to be helpless to your mama is an awful feeling. To all love your mama and daddy and cherish each moment God has given you with them because once Death comes they are no more. There is no pain Heavan cannot heal!
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
I am glad that someone out of Morrow sees the wasteful use of our tax monies.Seems that the people in charge here love to create things that have no purpose other than too put someones name on, check out all the little parks and walking trails that noone uses.We have a narrow bridge near my house that could have been widened but no now they have built an island to plant flowers, how many more useless things can they think of? Seems that our leaders have too much time on their hands.Oh, could someone tell me where John Lampl is and if he lost his job for his unkindley words to city employees. I'll be at the council meetings now for sure.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
I think thatif people knew what the area was they would have visited itMost of the people I know drive down 75 and say "What is that over there?" Try advertisisng!
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
What were they thinking, clearly they were not. Even someone who wants to open a small business realize you need a business plan which include pre-planning and anaylsis of the community and how viable such a business venture would be. I think the GBI and other authorities should investigate this matter, I believe because they were using tax payers money didn't care to do the necessary to figure out if this would be a successful venture. I am sure some of the higher ups involved in this debacle received some form of financial kick back, from the purchasing of the land to the fact that basic business codes were ignored.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
I think we should begin by tearing out the very expensive lining in Lampl's trouser pockets. For whatever reason, he took an attractive idea and hosed it down from one day to the next. As a resident of the area, I watched while passing along I75 and the Mall perimeter drive anxious to see the end result. When done, I was sorely disappointed that even the traffic flow was poorly planned along with what few struggling merchants could be found within. I pittied their dashed hopes and enthusiasm for a chance to be part of something attractive and unique in the area. I know that I certainly could have done a better job of developing that space, but alas, such is the power of those in position of influence versus those of us out here among the masses.
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
I hope the whole city of Morrow sinks.The Mayor and others are too worried about tractor trailers being parked with in the city limits of morrow and writing them high dollar parking tickets while the driver is eating lunch. I will not and do not spend one dime in the city of morrow and neither do my friends,family or anybody i work with!!!
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
I cannot understand why the city of Morrow allows Mr. Lampl to continue to sit on the City Council. He should be suspended until his case has been settled one way or the other. He has obviously shown a lack of good judgement in his handeling of Olde Town and his refusal to admit mistakes were made. It is sad that someone like that is still able to make decisions that affect all the citizens of Morrow.
* Conley man arrested for cardboard theft
Poor guy was only looking to make a house for his homeless self and family---Hello?
* Man dies, woman wounded in home invasion
Hello!?? The door crashed open and they started inside. The man had every right to use lethal force. Good for him!
* 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems
Another failed gov't attempt to duplicate what private enterprise does. A gross misuse and waste of taxpayers dollars, and should result in penalties for someone.
* BOC aims to curb personal attacks
Commissioner Hambrick you've sat on that board for two years in silence. Your first public comment is in support of a fellow commissioner whose private actions are in question. Then you give an interview to express your feelings are hurt because you think someone is calling you all names and the public must stop this nonsense in your opinion. Where are your fellow supporters? Grow up, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
More like this story
- Lampl: 'I'd do Olde Towne again' ( April 26, 2011 )
- Morrow residents raise questions about 'Olde Towne' ( March 22, 2011 )
- Lampl: 'I'd do Olde Towne again' ( April 26, 2011 )
- Officials recount alleged aggressive behavior by Lampl ( April 27, 2011 )
- 'Olde Towne Morrow' riddled with problems ( February 25, 2011 )


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DH is starting a class where he won't be able to leave for appointments (to watch DS) and I'm getting to the point in my pregnancy where I need to see the doctor more frequently and possibly start cervical checks (children aren't allowed in the clinic unless supervised by another adult or is the patient being seen) so I'm in the market for a babysitter, but I have no idea what the going rate is. Is $7/hr a good rate, too much, too little? I'm at a loss.
Babysitters - How much do you get charged?
Who is going to watch him - a highschooler, college student? Where you live also affects price. we pay $10/hr for college kids to watch all 3 boys but I know many people who say they can't find anyone for under 15.
mom to Brian 3/07, Kevin & Patrick 4/09, angels Elisabeth ^11/12^ and Kacey ^1/14^ and our rainbow Finn 12/30/14
We live in Japan (military base) so most of the ladies I've talked to are either SAHMs or are married with no kids.
I think if it would be another mom who is watching her own kids in addition to your son, $7/hr would be fine. I usually just come out and ask a new sitter what rate they prefer and take it from there.
mom to Brian 3/07, Kevin & Patrick 4/09, angels Elisabeth ^11/12^ and Kacey ^1/14^ and our rainbow Finn 12/30/14
I live in Houston and pay between 15-18 for a sitter (yikes!) When I was a sitter in high school and college I made way more than 7. That seems really low. I one time had a middle school girl helping me out and she charged 8. You might find it hard to get a sitter at such a low rate of pay. You might consider starting at least at 10 and going up from there. Sitters aren't cheap.
L and S est. 2007
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We pay about that for high school aged babysitters for both of our kids. I usually pay more if both kids are awake the whole time the sitter is here than if they're in bed. I would ask other moms in your area how much they pay. We rarely need a non-family babysitter, so when we did, I asked a few of my friends how much they paid per hour so I knew I wasn't under or over paying.
I pay anywhere btwn $10-18/hourly depending on who it is-
Mom of two boys...Fuss (4/09) and Little Spaghetti (1/12)
At least $10 an hour, could be more depending on the person.
Mom to Lauren 2/17/04 (c/s-breech), Caroline 5/6/09 (VBAC!) & Madelyn 3/25/12 (VBAC!)
The days are long, but the years are short.
I pay my 16 year-old sitter $7/hr. I asked her how much she charged, and that seems fair to me. (She DOES get to play with my precious angel for a few hours after all!) :)
Shelley in Atlanta
Charlie arrived on April 9th!
We pay high-schoolers (age 16 and up) $7.50/hr rounded up to the next hour & the next dollar (so 2.5hrs would = $23).
Adult friends of ours, we pay $10/hr with a minimum of $50 (so even for 3hrs, we'll still give them $50), though, those friends of ours who are professional babysitters/nannies actually charge $17/hr, but do us the favor 'cause they love the LO!
I also have a housekeeper/nanny who comes once a week, watches LO, does our laundry, cleans the bathrooms, kitchen and generally tidies up around the house, & we pay her $14/hr, which is a MAJOR BARGAIN!!!
Roseanne...where do you live? Send her our way! lol
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I get horny when I hold in my pee, does this make sense? I told my boyfriend about it and he was impressed. so now he denies me going to the bathroom... Show More
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Yes, making a girl holding in her pee is a fetish, and it's kinky. It's about controlling you. He can control when you go to the bathroom. If he can do that what other aspects of power does he have.
I think it might have to do with you kegal muscles. When you hold in your urine, and your going to the bathroom your using your kegal muscles. Th kegal muscles is a group of muscles on both sides of the urethra, up by the bladder. I think it makes you horny because of the pressure built up, and then you feel the release of all of that pressure.
Not sure though. Just what I think :)
This is a fetish, but I don't believe it has to do with controlling anyone. I've gotten horny from holding my bladder as far back as I can remember, and developed out of my own experiences a fetish for also making other girls hold their bladders too. It's just a way to give your partner the intense physical sensations hold it can produce. I started a message-board for people with this fetish and, of the 225 male members, only a 3 demonstrate a secondary interest in controlling women.
Katryina you are more than right... your muscles are stimulated when the pressure grows up... so that's why most of you love those feeling...
In my opinion, it' something correlated with desperation/wetting... that could come from a branch of sadism, because I do like to stare at a girl who is desperate to pee and even if she ends up wetting herself... obviously this is a fantasy, because people doesn't go around wetting theirselves..
however I guess it is because the sight of a girl, crossing her legs, holding, bending... and doing all those things to keep holding, it is really sexy for me.
the only problem is that it seems to be a really tabu' topic... no one would talk about it... and I don't really know how many people do it... :(
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Yes, it does make sense! And you are not alone. What does it mean: "He was impressed"? Was he turned on? Does he deny you going to the bathroom because he knows you like that, or is it something for himself too? - If you were my girl, it would be heaven for me! It is nothing to feel insecure about. It is just a matter of finding the right partner. And guys who are into it need not necessarily be vulgar, silly or insensitive. Life is more than the textbook of standard education allows...
Damn I hope I find more girls like you! I'm sorry if anyone finds it gross, but I would love to try having sex with a girl when we both have to pee. I bet our orgasms would be way more intense. :-)
I seen read a story similar to that. it was weird but I would like to try it... probably in a bath with at least a few inches of water so when we do pee it won't be all over the bed.
There are two different kinks going on there. One is transmission of control to your boyfriend, and the other is related to pee. Many people get turned on by getting in contact with their lover's pee. You should notice that he enjoys one of them more than the other, or both at the same time.
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It's completely normal - It does it to me too (: Like if I press on my lower stomach when I need to pee, it's like a turn-on I don't know why. But I wouldn't have sex while I need to pee - I wouldn't enjoy it at all.
Tell him it just feels good to have to pee but it doesn't feel good to have sex while you have to pee - Then you can just have normal sex and make it kinkier! Ha
I am the exact same way and I thought it was weirder than it apparently seems to be. I actually can achieve near orgasm if I have to pee and I have on one occasion experienced an orgasm from holding it in. That might be even weirder, I don't know. I have never talked about it.
great experience...
I'm really sad that girls don't talk so freely about it... I know it is something of really intimate, private...
but also because our society has grown us up with the pee as a tabù.
however you are the first I read that says to have had an orgasm from holding...
but are not a little dangerous orgasming while holding... I mean... can you hold it in that moment?
I also get horny from holding my pee. I used to think I was "the only girl in the world" who got this way. Fortunately, the internet and books saved me from being insecure about it.
What you and I have is a sexual fetish. In psychology, sexual fetishes are a strong sexual association for an object, act, or experience which is not ordinarily sexual to others. Sexual fetishes are, in fact, quite normal - however, everyone's sexual fetish(es) are different; so any one particular fetish may seem abnormal or perverse to those who have a different fetish. In that sense it is a kink...in the eyes of someone whose fetish is for something else.
As for making sense: holding your pee builds up intense physical sensation which involve the same nerves and reflexes active during sex. If a few particularly intense, or perhaps your earliest, experiences of stimulating these was from having to restrain your bladder, it makes sense you would develop a fetish for it.
How a fetish for someone else holding pee develops is less clear to me. In my case it arose out of the thought of someone else experiencing what I experienced. However, many with a fetish for others holding it are not aroused by holding their own pee, or claim their interest in others holding it existed first.
I also run a message board on this topic. Your boyfriend's reaction of being "impressed" sounds like something one of our male members would say; and suggests he already had an interest is girls being able to resist peeing before you said anything. He may have suspected your fetish before hand, and even been initially attracted to you because of it.
It's usually not about controlling anyone (although it can be); some even say the reverse is true, that a woman holding her pee demonstrates her will-power to resist peeing - hence she is in control and even when denied going to the bathroom cannot be forced through desperation to pee at the expense of dignity. But both cases in my experience are the exception not the rule.
For most, what it is about varies from person to person. Many aren't even sure why it makes them horny when someone else is holding it. More than likely your boyfriend just denies you the bathroom before sex cause he knows holding your pee makes you horny, and figures it will turn you on.
In your case, I consider you particularly lucky in that your romantic interest already has a "complimentary" fetish. This is quite rare, as the typical scenario is one partner is "weird ed out" by the fetish of the other, or has to "get the other interested" through some effort over time. As long as the other aspects of your relationship are healthy, you may be a "match made in heaven".
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Always figured they were closely related to man, considering how endlessly horny they are.
Always figured they were closely related to me, considering how endlessly horny they are.
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But the last thing we need on this planet is more human lives.
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Hard to believe isn't it? Some people even take the trouble to write a 500-word opinion about it in a forum. Silly!
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There is no amount or type of evidence, even in principle, which would answer climate change sceptics. They will disavow the fundimental principles of science if that is what is necessary to protect their beliefs.
Couldn't the same be said for climate change zealots?
The 'climate change zealots' don't have to, since science seems to confirm their beliefs.


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I loved working with both of these models, so we decided to get together and film a hardcore scene with both of them.
It was a long shoot, but a lot of fun. Kitty Doll is a character!
Both of these models dicks got extremely hard and big for this shoot. My constant interruptions were annoying me. At one point, Gina Hart "jokingly" asked me to leave.
All kinds of footage here. There is an awesome 30 minute clips entitled Gina Hart Fucks Kitty Doll… and soon, they'll be another entitled Kitty Doll Fucks Gina Hart.
Since I stepped up my videography, I must say, this is some of the best camera work and video editing I've done to date. I've got to thank Taylor and Gabriel Criss for that. Shooting them hardcore definitely caused me to want to step my game up a little… okay a lot. That was a whole 'nother animal. I love doing more difficult shoots, because I rise to the challenge ever time.
The angles and views you get in this video take you right inside the action. You'll feel like you're right there.
I can't wait for you to see this one!
There is an amazing contrast, because Kitty Doll is 6'0″ tall while Gina Hart is only 5'4″. There's a nice shower scene at the end. No fucking there, just cooling down and talking in the shower.
This is definitely my best work. Next time will be even better!
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TORONTO (AP) — NHL labor negotiations will resume Wednesday, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.
NHL, union to return to bargaining, with mediators
The Canadian Press on Tuesday reported the restart of bargaining between the league and union, citing unidentified people on both sides of the lockout.
U.S. federal mediators Scot Beckenbaugh and John Sweeney are to return to the process. They took part in sessions Nov. 27 and 28 before deciding they couldn't help.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, based in Washington, also was involved during the lockout that canceled the 2004-05 NHL season, with Beckenbaugh attending sessions.
As recently as last week, Commissioner Gary Bettman indicated he didn't think mediators would be able to help bridge the gap.
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Tuesday marked the 87th day of the lockout. Wednesday's session will be the first meeting since the sides blamed each other after talks broke off last week.
Until then, they appeared to be making progress during three days in New York in which they exchanged proposals. Union executive director Donald Fehr maintains there are agreements on almost all the important issues.
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We were at Knott's Berry Farm on Monday, January 31st. It was the last day of the promotion where you get in for $16.95 and a canned food item (a benefit for the Orange County Food Bank).]
There were no lines ALL DAY! You could walk in and sit down on Silver Bullet or Xcelerator all day long. The place looked great! The bathrooms were clean and the Employees were really friendly and personable, a pleasant surprise considering the condition of the place a couple of years ago.
For the first time I can remember, there was no line for Mrs. Knott's Chicken Restaurant! We walked right up and were seated immediately.
Knott's was open 10-6. We got there after 11, did EVERYTHING (except Ghostrider, closed and all torn up) including a sit-down lunch and we were leaving before 5. We had a fantastic day!
In February, Knott's tickets for adults are just $25 each when you buy two. And kids ages 3-11 are 14.95.


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Very atmospheric, well done.
Best Regards Mike.
'Live every day as if it was your last, one day it will be'.
Thanks for comment. Certainly have to enjoy every day and every moment before the last day.
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