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Virtue/Moir excerpts from Rostelecom post-FD press conference:
Part 1 (0:38)
Moir gives their reaction to their skate and looks ahead to GPF in Sochi
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Virtue answers question about the big change in their coaching situation this season
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Moir discusses their choice of Carmen
Thanks for the links golden411! We have a Canadian dance & an American dance thread, and the Tessa & Scott and Meryl & Charlie fans seemed to post there rather than creating a Fan Fest thread. I so glad both teams now have their own fan fest threads. They are both very special teams, and I am not looking forward to the 2014-2015 when one or both teams will be retired. I am just enjoying them now.
And golden, thanks so much for posting those videos!
Also, here's a picture of their last rotational lift
I was surprised there wasn't a thread for Tessa and Scott so I started one but again surprisingly all their fans didn't keep it up and so it was archived. Maybe it's good now that there is a Fan Fest section so this thread will be kept in perpetualty.
Love their Carmen! They are superb in choreography, techniques, and performance. Like their new take on the relationship too, with Carmen being the eventually defiant and triumph one. Power to the femme fatale!
Anyone going to nats please let me know and I can give you the banner I made for T&S. T&S said they got 2 banner in Russia but dont get any in Canada so would appreciate this.
I want it back so I can take it to worlds. Thanks.
Maybe you should have a mirror banner as well as a correct reading banner, since it seems most of the youtubes these days are uploaded mirrored to defeat youtube's penchant for taking down skating videos?
If anyone wants to make a mirrored banner I can give them a beautiful vinyl poster of T&S.This was what I ordered first in order to 'make' a banner and not being artistic at all. then DH suggested that I should have the work done for me taking pity on my banner making skills and he ordered another one with the words Tessa & Scott our living legends in red. So now I have to only arrange to have it hung up.Maybe you should have a mirror banner as well as a correct reading banner, since it seems most of the youtubes these days are uploaded mirrored to defeat youtube's penchant for taking down skating videos?
Perhaps if you check with the arena beforehand? I know other arenas in the states have guidelines, some helpful, some not so much?
BTW, there is a recent interview with Marina, mostly about Tessa & Scott at Cup of Russia
I've been going through the GS archives to see what interviews GS has done with our Fan Fest favs, and
In 2003, when they were juniors (and already crowd pleasers)
And 2009, as an Olympic season preview
The Virtue/Moir website has been updated, including the addition of their GP wins and some links to recent media coverage.
This anecdote about their determination was new to me:
We were at a competition in 2007...and I decided that I wasnt going to let anyone else tell me what my dream would be, Moir describes. I remember being on the plane ride home... I took out a piece of paper and I wrote what I thought I needed to do and what steps I needed to take in order to be Olympic Champion. And I put it in my wallet. Its still there today and Ive tried my best to follow those [steps].
There was that special something about them even at that tender age. They are unsurpassed in talent.
My favorite Dance team! Finally saw their LP. WOW! Scary fast and difficult.


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In 1892 a young accountant from t, USA, quit his job and set off to cycle solo around the world. Frank Lenz rode a Rover Safety Bicycle, a revolutionary new design that would soon consign the traditional high wheeler – or penny farthing – to obscurity. It was the birth of the bicycle as we know it today. And Lenz is one of the pioneers of cycle touring. Cycling historian David Herlihy's latest book tells the story of his courageous, extraordinary and ultimately ill-fated journey.
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Transcript of the live chat session that took place Thursday, January 30, 1997. These sessions are scheduled for noon-1 PM US Eastern Time (GMT -4) every Thursday.
These sessions are hosted by Richard Seltzer. If you would like to receive email reminders of our chat sessions, simply send a blank email message to email@example.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/businessonthewebchats and sign up there.
For transcripts other previous sessions and a list of future topics, click here.
For an article on how to make "business chat" work (based on this experience), click here.
Since the chat itself happens at a rapid pace, it's often difficult to note interesting facts in particular URLs as they appear on-line. Here's a place to take a more leisurely look. I've rearranged some of the pieces to try to capture the various threads of discussion (which sometimes get lost in the rush of live chat).
Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and suggions for topics we should focus on in future sessions. So long as the volume of email responses is manageable, I'll post the most pertinent ones here for all to see.
Threads (reconstructed after the fact):
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:02pm (18.104.22.168)Hi.
Tom Dadakis firstname.lastname@example.com(126.96.36.199) Hello.
Richard Seltzer12:03pm (126.96.36.199)Welcome, Alan and Tom --Once again I'm battling a slow connection.700 bps. I'm not sure where the problem lies.
Richard Seltzer12:03pm -- (18.104.22.168)We're here to share experiences about doing business on the Internet -- particularly the World Wide Web. What works? What doesn't work? Why? What are the trends that matter? How can you/should you adapt to the Internet culture and environment?
Bill_H., 12:03pm (184.108.40.206)Hi. I'm here for the Business on the WWW chat.
Richard Seltzer, 12:04pm (22.214.171.124)Hello, Bill_H -- I'm just going through some preliminary info, so we're all oriented.
I work for the Internet Business Group at Digital Equipment inLittleton, MA. In that capacity, I end up talking to people from large companies about how they can use the Web for business.I also have my own personal Web page -- which iscontent rich and no frills -- which I do for practically nothing and draws a fair amount of traffic and attention.
Richard Seltzer, 12:05pm (18.104.22.168)In a chat session like this things can get pretty frantic. It's sometimesdifficult to follow the threads of conversation. And there's notime to write down intering URLs and facts. So last week, I took a copy of the raw transcript and edited it to make the threadsclearer and posted it at my own little Web site so anyone could takea look. You can see it at http://www.samizdat.com/chat26.html I plan to do the same today. Barring technical difficulties, I hopeto have a transcript up later today.
Barbara, 12:05pm (184.108.40.206) I'm here. Instead of taking me through the second page with selecting which chat I wanted, I was sent immediately to the chat after clicking on the Icon on the main page! I'm psyched!
Richard Seltzer, 12:06pm .-- (22.214.171.124)Barb -- glad you were able to connect this time.
Richard Seltzer, 12:07pm (184.108.40.206)Today, we want to continue last week'sdiscussion on Wireless technology and Internet -- what's happening? what are the opportunities? what specialized gadgets are already available? and how can businesses take advantage of them? Check "Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing" http://www.wirelessinternet.com and Unwired Planet http://www.uplanet.com.
Richard Seltzer, 12:08pm (188.8.131.52)By the way, there was lots of good informationin last week's chat. Due to technicalproblems the transcript didn't get upuntil yerday. Sorry about that.Please check it when you canhttp://www.samizdat.com/chat26.html
Richard Seltzer, 12:14pm .(126.96.36.199)By the way, any of you out there who are "lurking" -- reading but not writing --please step forward and identify yourselvesand let us know your inters and yourquions so we can make this session as useful to you as possible. If we need to start with some basic definitions, please holler. That's what we're here for.
Warren H., 12:17pm . (18.104.22.168)Hello
Steve C., firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:18pm (18.104.22.168)I am a systems integrator/consultant.
DAW, 12:32pm -- (126.96.36.199)Good afternoon Richard. Just "listening."
Tom Dadakis firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:05pm (220.127.116.11)Alan, do you email your newsletter?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:07pm .(184.108.40.206)Tom, my newsletter is basically a biweekly paper copy for $595 a year. I also provide some information on my Web site, but, quite frankly, people will pay for a paper version, but not for a Web-only version! However, I would be glad to send e-mail versions to subscribers, if they wish.
Richard Seltzer, 12:09pm (188.8.131.52)Alan -- In your newsletter do you deal just with the technology issues related towireless Internet? Or do you also deal with the business models -- in other words,how online businesses can use wireless capabilities to better serve customers and generate revenue.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:11pm .(18.104.22.168)Richard, I deal with both issues. I write about the technologies -- packet radio, new wireless devices, etc. I also write a great deal about business issues. Indeed, the business of wireless Internet is more important than gizmo side.
Tom Dadakis email@example.com, 12:25pm(184.108.40.206)Alan, do you list these providers and review their service at your website?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:27pm (126.96.36.199)Tom, I do have some information, mainly in articles. I need to update my site! But I would be glad to provide you with additional information. Send me e-mail to email@example.com (no, I don't work for IBM!) or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:09pm .(184.108.40.206)Richard, I also could discuss how wireless companies are trying to do business on the Web. For example, Cellmart, www.cellmart.com, can sign you up for cellular service. Some paging companies really want to use the Web to sign up customers because that cut's out the reseller, which takes a hefty cut of revenues.
Richard Seltzer, 12:12pm (220.127.116.11)Alan --How cellular companies are using theInternet to promote their business is interesting. But far more interesting is how wireless Internet customers are building businesses/services around the new capabilities.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:13pm .(126.96.36.199)Most wireless airtime speeds for mobile networks, rather than fixed wireless systems, are between 4,800 and 28.8K bps -- actual throughput. With regular circuit switched cellular you can get up to about 10K bps to maybe 12K, though in good environments you might get a bit more. With paging, the typical airtime speed is 6K. With Metricom it's about 9,6K to 20K.
Tom Dadakis email@example.com, 12:16pm .(18.104.22.168)So it is like a modem, rather than a T-1. What would be the average monthly cost?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:22pm .(126.96.36.199)Tom, the costs for wireless Internet are about $25 - $100 a month. For CDPD, the packet charge is about 8 cents per kilobyte -- but these rates are negotiable. With Ram and Ardis, you can get a rate of, say, 75,000 for $35 a month. For Metricom, you can get unlimited wireless access for $29.95 a month. The cost of the devices range from $299 for Metricom's radio modem to $499 for a PC Card for Ram to about $800 for a CDPD radio modem.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:32pm (22.214.171.124)Steve, Metricom in the San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle and Washington, D.C. areas provides what you might want. It is true Internet access. But, you need a radio modem which weighs around and pound and connects to a notebook computer with a cable.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:25pm (188.8.131.52)Barbara, I guess a basic definition for wireless Internet would be a way to access the Internet by using the radio spectrum rather than landlines. This could be using the Internet to send e-mail to an alphanumeric pager, connecting a cellular phone to a laptop computer, building a packet modem into a cellular phone or setting up a fixed antenna on the roof of your building and connecting you desktop PCs.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:15pm .(22.214.171.124)Richard, some companies have indeed built their businesses around wireless access, such as Federal Express. Also, UPS uses wireless to compete against FedEx. However, integrating the Internet with wireless is still so new, that it's difficult to cite examples.
Richard Seltzer, 12:17pm -- (188.8.131.52)For FedEx and UPS, how are they using it? Just for uploading signatures?For brief email messages as well?What kind of device does the driver in the field use? What's the speed? Arethere reliability issues? Issues about geographical location and how far you are from your home base?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:17pm (184.108.40.206)Beginning this year you should see a lot of interesting things going on in wireless Internet because companies will begin testing two-way paging (over Skytel) and over the packet radio networks of Ram Mobile Data and Ardis. All these companies will introduce two-way paging, with Internet connectivity, including devices with on-screen or keyboards -- picture a large pager with a keyboard attached.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:42pm .(220.127.116.11)Microsoft is quite interested in using wireless for new generations of Windows CE devices -- specifically the PC Wallet (is that the name, I'm afraid I forgot!). This is a device that's smaller than today's Windows CE palmtops-on-steroids products, and you would indeed use (Microsoft believes) for e-mail, shopping, an address book, etc.
Bill_H., 12:43pm (188.8.131.52)Alan - "many pagers today have Internet addresses"? You mean IP addresses, just like I get when I connect to my ISP (using PPP)?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:48pm .(220.127.116.11)Bill, I would estimate that there hundreds of thousands, perhaps a few millions that have the capability to receive Internet e-mail. For example, you would simply send a message to firstname.lastname@example.com and it would be routed to the pager. Also, a PCS operator, Omnipoint, provides an Internet address for each handset, though this service isn't being widely promoted yet. As for TCP/IP as a wireless transport -- it's awful! It's not efficient; too many acknowledgments, etc. UDP is used in many cases.
Lenny, 12:50pm (188.8.131.52)UDP? no file transfer, remote terminal emulation, or messaging.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:53pm (18.104.22.168)Lenny, the cost of transferring long files is pretty expensive in wireless. There are terminal emulation programs for connecting mainframes applications to wireless networks. It's not the most efficient way, but it can be done.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:55pm .(184.108.40.206)By-the-way, this year you will see ISPs in the US and Canada selling wireless Internet service for, I believe, Ram Mobile Data and maybe Ardis and paging systems. Netcom is working with RadioMail, a wireless data gateway provider, to provide this service in the the first quarter of the year.
Richard Seltzer, 12:20pm (220.127.116.11)Steve C. --When you are talking about access for sales people, are you thinking in terms of two-way email over paging systems?Or do you have something more elaborate in mind (for the short term)? Do you have any examples (real or thought-experiment)?
Steve C., firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:25pm.(220.127.116.11)I was thinking more in terms of salespeople using Web-based electronic commerce products while on the road. With companies like Open Market and Connect coming up with ways to perform secure transactions, I would think that ECommerce on the net is going to start really growing. Therefore, mobile salespeople are going to have to connect while on the road with their laptops.
Richard Seltzer, 12:30pm (188.8.131.52)Steve C. --another aspect of electronic commerce --sheer speculation on my part -- I could imagine limited function very-inexpensive wireless devices hooked up to particular stores or sets of stores. E.g., the on-linefood shopping like Peapod and Shoplink don't seem particularly appealing to me right nowbecause I'd have to sit at my PC and dial up the network and go through a set of identification/verification steps -- I'd rather just drive to the store. But if I had a pocketsized gadet that immediately connected tothe store and knew who I was without much hassle, I could order food for supper whiledriving home from work, or while at thekid's Little League practice, or while tied up in meetings at the office.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:30pm .(188.8.131.52)Steve, the wireless data industry basically services field service personnel, couriers, truckers -- who aren't interested in the Internet. These markets are interested in dispatching and some transactions over non-TCP/IP channels. The concept of using wireless to conduct transactions is so new that wireless companies are still trying to learn how to provide reliable Internet access rather than offering transactions now.
Richard Seltzer, 12:35pm (22.214.171.124)Alan --I think the key phrase is "who aren't interested in the Internet". I believe that increasingly people who aren't interested in the Internet will be using the Internet without needing to know that they are.I suspect that many wireless apps thatexist today as standalones will come touse the Internet, not just as a transmission environment/medium, but also to provide additional services and access to additional data that those field service folks and truck drivers could use to do their jobsmore efficiently. And I could imaginea whole range of gadgets that use Internet signals to provide very limited/targeted information and services to a set of subscribers.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:39pm (22.214.171.124)Richard, the trick is getting the prices right and offering the right service for the right device. For example, I have a two-way from Wireless Access using the new Skytel 2-Way network. It's a small pager with an on-screen keyboard, which isn't designed for anything more than very short messages or sending pre-programmed responses. Skytel 2-Way charges $24.95 a month for 100, 80-character messages. For sending long messages, this could really add up -- but the pager is a very onvenient device to use.rdis and Ram charge much less, but you ned a more expensive PC Card or external radio modem.The wireless industry WANTS to offer Internet-based services -- many pagers today have Internet addresses -- but it's not easy to come up with the right applications at the right price for the right device.
Richard Seltzer, 12:44pm -- (188.8.131.52)Alan --Right on target -- the right devices at the right price for the right audience.Solving that puzzle is an enormous business opportunity.
barbara, 12:31pm (220.127.116.11)Another electronic commerce company is Elcom Systems in Westwood. I work for them. We sell full-circle electronic commerce software.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:34pm (18.104.22.168)Barbara, the wireless industry would LOVE to activate customers via the Web. They would love to sell them additional information services.
Steve C., email@example.com, 12:37pm (18.104.22.168)Richard -- I don't think your speculation is off base. Using the web/internet as sort of a "back-end", it is certainly possibly to create a limitless number of "front-end", including such thiings as hand held grocery shopping devices. As transaction standards continue to evolve, it will become ossible to do all sorts of things with hand held gadgets. However, I'm not sure which industries will choose to go this route rather than just come up with an application that used via your laptop. I suppose it would be possible to have a home banking gadget that could attach to your checkbook... or even BE your checkbook.
Richard Seltzer, 12:43pm (22.214.171.124)Steve C. --The advantage of relatively dumb and inexpensive gadgets is that they can be very easy to use and can reach a much wider, consumer audience. They could even be cheap enough to give away.On the negative side, it's handy to have an all-powerful laptop that can do everything,rather than dozens of throw-away (easy to lose) gadgets. I thinks there's room in the world for both, and that the gadgets will vastly open up the marketplace.
Richard Seltzer, 12:24pm (126.96.36.199)Bill Gassman --Can you tell us more about that "Spike"technology? The more basic the definitions the better. Trying to put that into thecontext of today's capabilities and giving us a sense of how far off in the futurethose higher speeds may be.
Bill Gassman: firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:24pm .(220.127.116.11)Spike is a "fixed wireless" technology, and uses cable modems, which are starting to see encryption features.
Tom Dadakis email@example.com, 12:20pm .(188.8.131.52)Bill, Spike would have to be line of sight if it is microwave. Wouldn't that limit one's mobility?
Bill Gassman: firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:28pm (184.108.40.206)Spike uses a central microwave antenna, with focused beams from 1/2 degree to 22 degrees, in the 2 gigahertz range. The provisioning cost at the end user includes a $50 antenna, a $200 radio,and a $600-$1200 cable modem. The central antenna can support multiple ethernet channels by reusingthe same frequency on different beams. Each end user is on an Ethernet segment, which is then switchedto an Internet backbone provider, or concentrated for a private network.
Richard Seltzer, 12:31pm (188.8.131.52)Bill Gassman --Who sells Spike? And who uses it today?You say that this approach uses cablemodems. Is this a competitor to Internetover TV-cable lines? Or in some way asupplement to it?
Bill_H, 12:32pm (184.108.40.206)Bill Gassman - Is this microware channel two way?
Bill Gassman: firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:42pm (220.127.116.11)Spike Technologies is out of Nashua, New Hampshire. They make the equipment, and also run a proof ofconcept ISP called Third Rail. They are selling to telcos and other ISPs around the globe. I think theyhave about a half dozen reps, with some in Europe, Asia, and US. It's two way - uses CSMACD since it'sethernet - radio travels faster than a signal on a cable, so it works on a 20 mile radius or so. It's an alternative to cable, but doesn't require the cables - so it's easy to set up and get running quickly.However, the capital cost can be 5-10 million - the cost of the central antenna is VERY expensive (at least till they get some volume).
Richard Seltzer, 12:46pm (184.108.40.206)Bill Gassman --Sounds like an ISP or a company might choose to go with Spike and the endusers could be getting signals over wires.Is that the case?
Bill Gassman: firstname.lastname@example.com, 12:53pm .(22.214.171.124)Richard, an ISP could still connect end users over wires and uplink over the microwave but I thinkthe more typical case would be to connect businesses full time with the microwave system, then use wired T3 as an uplink. Another use is for private networking. The NH State Police are piloting a system, andthe city of Nashua is using the technology for court TV - where the Judge can try cases from his home dressed in jammies in the middle of the night, or testimony can occur from jail, saving transportationand security costs. It's not just Internet. The ease of setting the system up and tearing it down (takes15 minutes to "sync") is one of the advantages of non-moving wireless. No city wide infrastructure costs.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:56pm (188.8.131.52)Richard,
in the UK, PCS-GSM operators have connected their switches directly to
ISPs. So, when a PCS phone user accesses the Internet, it's faster and
cheaper. You probably will see this happening in the US, too.
Richard Seltzer, 12:16pm (220.127.116.11)Alan -- Can you tell us more about the difference between mobile and fixed wireless networks and how they are used.Will "mobile" go away when there are eventually fixed wireless connections everywhere? Or am I misunderstanding?
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:20pm .(18.104.22.168) Richard, "fixed wireless" seems like an oxymoron! Fixed is when the device doesn't move or move much. For example, schools can ablished fixed wireless networks on computers in desktops, but the systems are designed for machines that you don't carry around with you. You get higher speeds this way -- you don't have to worry about moving from cell to cell, for example. With mobile wireless Internet, I mean paging, Ram, Ardis, Metricom, PCS, cellular, where you can move around the city or country with your palmtop, laptop, etc.
Richard Seltzer, 12:22pm (126.96.36.199)Alan --I guess the concepts of fixed vs. mobile begin to blur with fixed devices that anyone can use become ubiquitous (more ubiquitous thanphone booths). then you don't have tocarry a gadget around with you all the time.But that's probably distant future.
Bill_H, 12:24pm (22.214.171.124)Alan - thanks. Does 'fixed wireless' include infared communications or are we only talking radio waves?A
Richard Seltzer, 12:25pm (18.104.22.168)Bill_H --I hope we're talking about all forms of wireless -- whenever the device you are using does not need a visible physicalconnection to a network. Let's keep thediscussion broad. To me a TV remote control is wireless, as is cellular telephone, as is a two-way radio.
Richard Seltzer, 12:40pm (220.127.116.11)Let me try to orient myself (in my ignorance).It feels like there is a range of wireless technology -- from infrared for very short range line-of-sightconnections, to radio/cellular phone kindsof connections from individuals who roam totheir home base, to microwave high speedlinks between distant fixed points, tosatellite signals (or is that the same asmicrowave, only bounced). Does this makesense? Please correct an educate me, and help me understand the various realms of usage.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:44pm .(18.104.22.168)Richard, you're right. There are a great many technologies: infrared, spread spectrum, TDMA, CDMA, microwave, etc. Infrared and spread spectrum are often used for wireless LANs -- a whole other subject.
Lenny, 12:46pm .(18.104.22.168)Microwave has 2 forms: terrrial (ground mounted parabolic dishes) and satellite (connecting 2 points on earth surface via satellite). Infra-red has 2 forms: broadcast (like radio), and line of sight (like laser). Radio has 3 forms: short range single freq., long range single freq., and spread spectrum.
Richard Seltzer, 12:47pm (188.8.131.52)Lenny --Welcome and thanks for the explanation.
Richard Seltzer, 12:51pm (18.104.22.168)Yes, Barb, I believe that this technology is very much in its infancy and that it's potential is enormous.Hence if you are making Internet-related business plans you should keep a close eye on it and try to find ways to experimentwith it and add it to your repertoire.
Richard Seltzer, 12:48pm (22.214.171.124)As usual, time is moving very quickly,and just when the conversation reach the point that I can't read fast enoughthe hour starts to run out.Keep in mind that I'll post an editedversion of the transcript (reconstructing threads of discussion as best I can).Check http://www.samizdat.com/index.html#chat
Richard Seltzer, 12:50pm (220.127.116.11)Our current schedule of future topics is as follows: Feb. 6 -- International aspects of Internet business -- translation, local language, cultural barriers to on-line business; advantages and disadvantages of a local vs. a global approach to on-line business. Check http://www.eurolinks.com and http://www.japanbiztech.com Feb. 13 -- Distance education/training/on-line meetings -- what does it take to make these work? Feb. 20 -- Electronic commerce -- how do you spell success in today's marketplace? where should companies focus their efforts to get the best return for their Internet investments? This is always subject to change.Please send me email with your intersand preferences and suggestions. Normally, too, discussions like this spill over tofollowing weeks. Please send email with your followon comments so I can add them to the transcript.You can reach me at email@example.com
Richard Seltzer, 12:53pm (188.8.131.52)Regarding next week -- we want to focus on "international" next week, but thatmight have interesting implications forwireless applications. It seems likesome wireless implementations (likecellular phone) have natural geographic limits. It might be possible and desirable to set up local language services over the Internet that are wireless based.
Richard Seltzer .12:55pm (22.214.171.124)Also, today the Internet is a "global"phenomenon already, but it is English centric. As the audience broadens (withall these less expensive gadgets) English-only will only skim the top. And even forEnglish as second language folks youdon't really connect with them untilyou address them in their native language.Only that way will you add them to your community. And think not just language,but culture and law. Very important for future electronic commerce.
Richard Seltzer, 12:56pm (22.214.171.124)All, please, before you sign off, give us your email and Web addresses sowe can continue these discussions.
barbara, 12:57pm (126.96.36.199)I have to sign off, but since Richard always asks for people's addresses, my address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Elcom Systems' website is http://www.elcom.com. Check us out.
Alan Reiter, www.wirelessinternet.com, 12:58pm .(184.108.40.206)My Web address is www.wirelessinternet.com. My e-mail is either firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bill_H, 12:58pm (18.104.22.168)Alan - thanks for the info. I think I understand. In the general pager case you send a message to the pager service provider, which has an IP address, and it routes the message to the pager (which does not need it's own IP address).
Steve C., email@example.com, 12:58pm (220.127.116.11)Signing off. Once again, I am systems interator. I'm looking forward to the international discussion.
Lenny,. 12:59pm . (22.214.171.124) firstname.lastname@example.com://www.peoplesoft.com---Forbes #1 Corp. for B Companies to Work for.
DAW, 1:00pm (188.8.131.52) firstname.lastname@example.com day Richrd, And all. Until Next week. DAW.
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Richard Seltzer, 12:58pm (184.108.40.206)Thanks to all for joining us and sharing your knowledge and insights.
Thank you very much for including us in your group and referring members to our site. I would like to let you know about our seminar February 20 on the Asian Internet (full seminar program below).
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9:45 Succeeding in the Asian High Technology Markets, Marketing Manager, Internet Business, Digital Equipment Corporation Asia Pacific, Jeevan Kumaran
10:30 Electronic Commerce in Asia, Bruce Wilson, Senior Vice President, CyberCash
10:45 Launching Electronic Commerce Business in Asia, Stratton Sclavos, CEO of Verisign
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Once again I have a schedule conflict. I'm sorry. I will attend the following Thursday, since I have been keenly chasing conference/chat software and options for the last several weeks. I probably have some information to share and I definitely would like more input.
As for tomorrow's conference, I will chip in one little tidbit related to that discussion that I would have mentioned, had I been there. Last week I installed NetObjects Fusion...the new beta version (2.0f)... and it is a *fabulous* product for those web site developers coming more from a desktop publishing background. (http://www.netobjects.com/netobjects_home.html) It uses templates and frames (in the desktop publishing sense) to lay out work visually on a page. Then once you have it the way you want it visually, it converts it to HTML code. So it's not an HTML editor...I still have to use Netscape 3.0g for that after the page is "final".
It's truly a web layout program, combined with a really good site manager facility. And the whole thing is very intuitive...much easier to use than Microsoft's FrontPage, which I have been using, and apparently just as powerful. What's relevant to your session tomorrow is that you can offer text or multilanguage site versions by simply clicking a button! This is a really wonderful product and deserves all the rave press it's been getting. I'm about to develop a multilingual site, and I'll let you know how it works out.
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"But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl."
18 years ago yesterday, on July 19, 1995, Clueless was released in theaters. Directed by Amy Heckerling and based on Jane Austen's novel Emma, it became known for its fashion and quote-ability, and has an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [more inside]
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Christopher Hitchens analyses the use of "like" as a filler word (single link Vanity Fair). Short version: "Clueless" started it, and the general Californication of the American spoken language. African American kids say "nome sane" instead of "like". Hitchens compares the use of "like" to intoning declarative sentences as questions, also called uptalk. Like, "I go to Columbia? The University?" [more inside]
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I pocket carry a LCP and its sorta think and noticeable in the front pocket....some commented once and I said my phone they I stopped carrying phone on belt. generally on my desk or something now.......no one asks anymore questions.
This is a discussion on What to tell nosy coworkers --- your suggestions wanted! within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Do you have a pic of said Bulge LOL...
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I pocket carry a LCP and its sorta think and noticeable in the front pocket....some commented once and I said my phone they I stopped carrying phone on belt. generally on my desk or something now.......no one asks anymore questions.
Please...work HARDER as MILLIONS on welfare depending on YOU !!
If he keeps pressing you, can you say it's a knife?
Would that be allowed...?
You would get an "Oh..." and your "none of your business" response would then make sense.
Do you have a feeling on whether this co-worker is in your camp? or an anti?
Yoda, I am, yes.
Tuckable IWBs with clips, as stated, do not work for me. Required to wear dress slacks, tucked in dress shirt, and tie.
Prefer pocket carry, because a sport coat gets pretty warm in the summer.
Trying to make PC work. Not interested in a dinky .380
And, not sure if he's pro or anti, just don't want ppl to know about it!
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Why do you feel obligated to tell them anything? If it's not against comany policy or rules I wouldn't worry about it. If it is, then time to carry some other way before you get ratted out.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. Because it's in English, thank a vet
concealed means......
no one sees any thing so no one ever asks you about how your 'looking'
different gun and location as bullshark said
and---for the next little while, so when he has his eyes on you--
you can take "whatever" out of the pocket and let him acccidently see it.
perhaps an old style address book, notebook, caculator, cell phone....
whatever to get him to stop thinking about your pocket.
You plug 'em, I plant 'em
...kid can't read at 17 (Garcia/Hunter 1985)
Lack of preparation on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on mine
The reason I want to go pocket carry is because I am a medical professional. I don't think I can move my white jacket out of the way, untuck my shirt, draw, and fire, fast enough to prevent harm to myself.
"Gun control should mean hitting your target every time."
Please try to remember- I have a very dry sense of humor. It usually sounds mean, but isn't meant to be.
It is my Teddy Bear I have had since I was 2 two years old and I can't let it go.
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
--Thomas B. Reed, American Attorney
Second Amendment -- Established December 15, 1791 and slowly eroded ever since What happened to "..... shall not be infringed."
for you they make shoulder holsters
wear with a loose fitting shirt and if you need the gun you just push past the button ( it can be fixed afterwards)
to get to the gun. practice with old shirts; buttons do not break as easy as one commenly thinks.
You plug 'em, I plant 'em
...kid can't read at 17 (Garcia/Hunter 1985)
Lack of preparation on your part does not necessarily constitute an emergency on mine
Reason I even want to carry in the first place is because the hospital where I am working is in sh*tville central. They have a "no firearms" sign on the entrance, but that doesn't mean sh*t to a drug addict or felon. Our "security" team consists of 6, middle-aged, overweight men (and 1 woman). They carry a walkie talkie and wear blue polos and black tactical pants. No cuffs. No baton. No tazer. No mace. No gun....no security. It's a joke. Needless to say, anyone and everyone in the hospital is a sitting duck for a crazed person intent on hurting others.


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Analyst Jody Schechter has written an analysis for Compete Pulse looking at the demographics of men on online dating websites. The study arose after a friend of Jody's bet her that the dating site for cheating, MarriedButLonely.com's "visitors are almost entirely male".
Her study found out that in almost all of the Top 30 most popular dating sites, men outnumbered women. In generated word clouds for the dating sites' 'About' or 'Home' pages, the bottom 10 dating sites (when arranged by male percentage of users) mentioned the words 'singles' and 'relationships' a lot, whereas the top 10 "more male-dominated" sites featured words such as 'causal' or 'sex' more often.
Jody concludes that even though men frequent 'cheating' online dating sites more than women, it is does not make an "ironclad case" that men cheat more. Instead she concludes that it could be because "more men visit the sites with explicit sexual messaging", which could be "because the developers of the sites cater their content to heterosexual men".
The full article can be found here, and is well worth a read.
What do you make of how male dominated online dating is? Do you think online dating sites cater too much to heterosexual men? Leave your comments below.


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UMass Post Game Notes at George Washington
Feb. 15, 2014
* UMass improved to 20-5 overall and 7-4 in Atlantic 10 play. The 20 wins mark the third-consecutive season they have achieved that milestone. The last time a UMass team strung together as many consecutive 20-win campaigns was in the mid 1990s when the John Calipari-led teams did so in his final six years.
* UMass improved to 6-3 on the road and 3-3 in A-10 road games this year. The Minutemen are now 10-4 in road/neutral games. UMass also became the first team to defeat GW in the Smith Center this season. The Colonials were 12-0 coming in.
* UMass shot 49 percent in the game, marking the 12th time this season - fifth in A-10 play - to shoot as well or higher.
* UMass improved to 14-0 on the year when leading at the half (led 32-29 on Saturday).
* UMass' win brought its record in the series with GW to 29-36 and 9-20 in the nation's capital. The Minutemen have won the last two over the Colonials and the last two in the Smith Center. The road team has won the last four games played on campus. 10 of the last 14 meetings have been decided by 10 points or less.
* UMass tied its season high with 10 steals. Seven different players had at least one, led by Cady Lalanne, Raphiael Putney and Chaz Williams, who had two each.
* UMass shot a season low 46.2% (12-of-26) from the free throw line.
* UMass held the Colonials to just 4-of-13 shooting from outside for 30.8% - right on par with its 24th-ranked NCAA season field goal defense of 29.6% and 4.8 made 3s allowed per game.
* The Minutemen had five dunks on Saturday, bringing their season total to 90. Raphiael Putney had three to bring his season total to a team-high 30, while Cady Lalanne had two and raised his total to 26.
* A-10 Race: UMass moved up one spot into a tie for fifth place (with GW) with five games remaining.
* Senior F Sampson Carter tied his career high with 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting. He also made a career-best four 3-pointers. In two games this week he led the Minutemen in scoring (16 in Wednesday loss to George Mason) both games and averaged 18 points, made 59 percent of his shots form the floor (13-of-22), 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists. For his career, he has 894 points and 525 rebounds.
* Sophomore G Derrick Gordon continued his strong play over the past five games, finishing with 11 points, three rebounds, two assists and a steal. In the last five he has collected four double-figure games and averaged 11.4 points while raising his season scoring average from 7.6 ppg to 8.8 ppg.
* Senior F Raphiael Putney had eight points, a team-high nine rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block. His raised his career totals to 981 points, 587 rebounds and 144 blocks. In the last five games he has averaged 9.0 rpg and led the team in that category three times.
* Senior G Chaz Williams finished with eight points, six assists and two steals. His UMass totals are now 1,521 points, 656 assists and 182 steals. He is 22 assists shy of tying Chris Lowe's school record of 688 assists. In his four-year college career, Williams has 1,846 points, 794 assists and 236 steals.
* Junior C Cady Lalanne was perfect from the floor, making three field goals and two free throws for eight points. He also had six rebounds, two blocks and two steals. He played 37 minutes, including all 20 of the second half. His only time on the bench came from 14:16 to the 11:38 remaining in the first half. Only Derrick Gordon (38 minutes) played more in the game on either team.
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RALEIGH — North Carolina's Environmental Management Commission should reject plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. It's the wrong governing body, both legally and practically, to make "critical" decisions about regulating CO2, according to a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
"CO2 regulation is not just an ordinary policy question — to make that argument would be like arguing that global warming is just another environmental issue," said report author Daren Bakst, JLF Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst. "There are significant and unprecedented implications linked to regulating CO2."
That's why any decision about regulating CO2 emissions for the first time in state history belongs in the hands of the General Assembly, Bakst said. "The legislature is an elected, accountable body that is expected to make critical policy decisions," he said. "The EMC is neither elected nor directly accountable to the public."
Bakst is issuing his findings one day before the Environmental Management Commission meets again in Raleigh. The 19-member appointed commission is considering regulations that would mandate that "certain facilities" report CO2 emissions, Bakst said. "These regulations would lay the groundwork for far costlier CO2 regulations."
CO2 emission regulations would affect everybody, Bakst said. "CO2 emissions are prevalent in almost every sector of the economy and in many personal actions we take — including the CO2 we exhale as we breathe," he said. "Broad-based CO2 regulation, such as a cap-and-trade program, could have devastating impacts on the economy."
CJ: Experts say one storm could collapse Beach PlanRALEIGH — Insurance policyholders across the entire state should brace
for troubled waters ahead. The reason? The North Carolina Beach Plan,
the state levy that insures coastal homes across the state, is
under-funded by more than $65 billion. Experts agree the plan could
collapse under a surge of claims if a major hurricane hits the state's
CJ: Study: Tar heel state average in freedomRALEIGH — A new report from the libertarian Mercatus Center at George
Mason University ranks North Carolina 23rd in the nation on public
policies that increase or ensure economic and personal freedom. The
study, titled "Freedom in the 50 States," tracked policies in areas
such as gun control, homeschool regulation, income taxation, and
government spending.
Dell cuts, job loss a double whammyWINSTON-SALEM — North Carolina's economy was hit with a one-two punch
yesterday. About the same time that the N.C. Employment Security
Commission reported that the state's jobless rate hit a 26-year high of
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major job cut at its plant in Forsyth County.
Mom will fight order against home schoolingRALEIGH — Home-school groups and conservatives across the country are
infuriated by a Wake County judge's declaration that he will make a
North Raleigh mother stop teaching her children at home and send them
to public schools. As part of a continuing divorce case, Wake District
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interests" of Venessa Mills' three children to go to public school this
NC health plan bill would raise premiumsRALEIGH — The General Assembly moved closer Tuesday to getting a $250
million cash injection for the state employee health insurance program
by the end of the month when a Senate panel agreed to make wide-ranging
changes to the plan. The one-time funds were attached to a bill that
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"I don't see the rate peaking until next year, probably at near 14 percent for the entire state."— N.C. State economist Mike Walden, talking to WRAL about North Carolina's unemployment rate. The state's unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in January, already the highest in 25 years.
"It certainly is a real good sound bite."— Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, commenting to the Associated Press on Gov. Bev Perdue's pledged during her State of the State speech that "will increase per-pupil spending in our public schools." How the governor proposes to do so given the state's budget situation remains to be seen.
"We need the money."— House Minority Leader Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, commenting to the Raleigh News & Observer on legislative proposals to transfer funds from Golden LEAF to help close the state's budget deficit. Attempts in previous years to take money from Golden LEAF have failed, but the state never faced this severe of a budget deficit.
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I use a baby pool for my chocolate lab. She LOVES the water. When I saw this online, I was very excited and thought I'd give it a try. After one use, I am disappointed. The pool gets dirty, so the drain is not that helpful. The dirt remains in the bottom. With the babypool, I can easily prop it up and spray it clean. It's a great concept, and good thought -- just not as I had hoped.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Product is as advertised
By Dog Lover
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Even with multiple dogs playing, it remains sturdy
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Puppy Heaven here on Earth!
By Toni
from Prescott, AZ
My 70lb Lab is extremely happy and exhausted by the end of the day - and I have this play pool to thank for it. She uses it constantly, playing by herself and interacting with her toys and pet humans. It's held up wonderfully. It's been "attacked" in all forms - running jumps, ramming, pulled at, scratched, wild rolling and splashing, all without damage. Well worth the money.
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Nice pool for dogs!!!
By Joe the Dog lover
from Baltimore MD
This pool is super easy to set up, holds a nice amount of water, but best of all, is made very sturdy for dogs -- will not be affected by a dog's claws. Also, the bottom is the type of material that will prevent a dog from slipping when using the pool. I haven't quite gotten my dog used to the pool yet, but I think I will in time. The pool is also very easy to drain with the built-in plug on the side.
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By GIGI
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I am using this as a wading pool for my little grandchildren. If it's strong enough for dogs then it's strong enough for kids. Works great, easy to fill and drain, and very portable. The folding concept was what attracted me to it. Thanks
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Wonderful for our two large dogs in the Texas summer heat, they love it!
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Love it!
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100 pound 8 month old Newfie puppy who loves water. I was concerned she would put her toe nails through the pool but it seems to be strong enough to prevent this at least for the first 5 baths she has taken. Fills quickly and folds up to a light small size. No problem with smell as long as you let it dry before you fold it up for storage. So far, so good.
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Awesome! Much better than the plastic bulky ones
Outstanding Value--best dog pool ever--easy set up
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I have been looking for a product like this for years. I no longer have to bail out buckets of water from two kiddie pools stuck together which still Crack. So compact and my dogs love it I plan to purchase another one next month.
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I wrote a piece for a magazine that was rejected. It's about anal, and if you want to read it, it's below the fold. I suspect my own ambivalence about writing the piece imbued it a bit too heavily for publication. Hey, it happens. My remunerative loss, your chewy gain.
The Good, the Bad and the AnalThe essential question remains: why would you want to put anything up there? It's a good question, one that sits docile if provoking in the recesses of my mind each and every time I have anal sex, and I have had it often. Though quite probably not often enough and certainly not recently. Two years have passed since I was last fucked in the ass, and for good reason. Or for reasons good enough. Or merely for reasons. There are reasons enough why I've forgone the glorious gutter pleasure that is anal, and all of them are boring and complicated and as lacking in wet pink erotic tinge as a sere Mother Superior.
Anal, you see, requires me to give it up in ways that defy understanding or articulacy. Anal requires trust deep as viscera. It brings me to a place velvet-dark as night. It lingers like a burn. Butt-fucking is, for me, not a venture to be embarked upon lightly. Therefore when I do do it, when I do decide, when I do commit, when I find myself face down and ass up, my tender lavender brown asshole the starry plum in my soon-to-be-plundered booty, I give in, give up, and let go, because what else can a girl (or guy) do? Everyone has an asshole, and everyone should let theirs be gently fucked at least once in their long lives.
I do enjoy being fucked in the ass, though it pains me. I may even enjoy being fucked in the ass because it pains me. The pain is part of it, like the flour tortilla that wraps the burrito. You don't eat the burrito because of the tortilla, but you can't really admit that it doesn't add to the burrito-eating experience. The pain of anal is not unlike that. The pain is the gateway to the pleasure. The pain—and it comes sharp and hot and molten; it makes my breath catch and turn ragged; it is something that I will to subside, to melt, and to resolve itself into a slow, hot and red-flushed glory—is necessary. It serves to remind that what you're doing isn't entirely natural, entirely acceptable, entirely normative. It makes you slow down, consider, and commit. It makes you see the entire operation, the cock sliding into your recalcitrant rectum, your sphincter opening surely if surly, and your grudging acceptance of this magnificently hard foreign object into your most private of privates. The pain sharpens the focus, and you glory in it, or you do if you are me.
It pains me to admit I do enjoy being fucked in the ass. That pain is also pleasurable. Butt-fucking has such a lowly reputation. No sex act gets kicked in the can as much as sodomy. Anal is the low man on the totem pole, a metaphor so loaded it can hardly bear its own weight. But it is the bottom-feeding nature of ass-fuckery that sweetens the experience. Anal is like lobster—its lowly shit-eating status adds to its delight. If it weren't so faintly tainted with disgust, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun. (Plus, I might add, both lobster and anal require copious amounts of butter.) The word that I'd use to describe this pleasure would be "transgressive" were I going to get all intellectual about it, but anal makes it hard to think.
Which is one of the reasons why I treasure it so. I am afflicted. I think too much. My head is a constant whirring hamster wheel of thought. Few things quiet this thinky susurration like having my ass stuffed with a nice, hard cock. It's like a ball gag for my mind. When I'm being butt-fucked, whether I'm above, below, beside or before, my mind goes blank as a slate. I achieve a rare purity of consciousness and it takes the form of some primal raging keening need whose shape and red-ragged form sit ecstatically outside my ken. When I'm being buttfucked, all I see and feel and sense and am is that hard cock, my slowly relenting ass, and a conflagration of orgasm. When I'm being buttfucked, I am unhinged and wild and raw and glory and fuck me and faster and shallow and yes and yes and now and please and god.
The word most often employed to describe ass play, ass toys, or ass sex is "full." Manufacturers of adult novelty items will in their marketing material claim that their product "gives that feeling of fullness." Sometimes they'll add an adjective too, as in "that wonderful feeling of fullness," or "that feeling of wonderful fullness." "Full" is part of the anal experience, but it is word that ultimately fails to describe what it feels like to jam something hard and foreign—toy or cock—in your ass. It's not the fault of "full"; "full" is a perfectly fine word. The problem is that no words can really do anal justice. Former ballerina Toni Bentley wrote an entire book on her experience of finding god through butt-fucking; writer, sex educator and pornographer Tristan Taormino has dedicated no small section of her life to awakening others to the joys of anal. Both of these writers have failed, and it's not their faults. They are wonderful writers. The fault is that of anal: it's simply too big, too deep, and too complex to express.
Anal sits outside utterance, something for which I am eternally grateful. The cock in the ass (and I return to the cock again and again, for as much as I enjoy the toy, enjoy it alone in solipsistic hand-on-clit meanderings, enjoy it with others, enjoy it with a cock in my pussy, enjoy the toy while walking around its secret buried deep within me, enjoy the toy early and often, but enjoy the toy most when it serves as a prelude to actual ass-fuckery) reduces me to a wobbling puddle. Anal is the ultimate release, shredding boundaries, busting barriers, and bringing me to my knees, literally and figuratively. I'd endeavor to describe the seismic orgasms of anal, their banshee wails, their cunt-shuddering power. I'd try to detail how they leave me wet and wrung out, walking like a stroke victim, talking like an aphasiac. I'd try to tell you, but I'd fail.
Which is the tortuous road to the reason why I've not had my ass fucked in two years. For two years, I've sat on my delectable ass, my roseate hole puckered up and silent, dusty even. Because it's not something that is entered into lightly. Because it's not something to be done on a whim. Because to give it up is to give in, and it's dark and dangerous road to travel with a stranger. And yet the question lingers: why would I want to put anything up there?
Because it feels good, so good that words, like a blessing, fail me.


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Aus Open Day 3: Players set for a scorcher
Tennis writers Peter Hanlon and Linda Pearce preview Day 3 of the Australian Open with the mercury set to rise to 40 degrees. How will the players cope?PT0M0S 620 349
For just the second time in six visits to the tournament in her home city, Olivia Rogowska advanced to the second round of the Australian Open.
The 22-year-old Melburnian defeated Colombian Mariana Duque Marino 6-3, 6-3.
Rogowska has only made the second round of a grand slam tournament twice before, in Melbourne in 2012 and at Roland Garros in 2009. "I am pretty stoked. The plan was just to stay immensely calm and I am really happy with how my nerves held out to the end and closed it out so I was really happy," she said.
Olivia Rogowska plays a forehand in her first-round match against Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia. Photo: Getty Images
"I woke up feeling good this morning and in the match I got a bit ahead of myself at one stage at 5-3 in the second but I have been working on some mental things in the off-season and I just closed it out so I am happy."
The young player from St Kilda said the difference this year and the difference looking ahead to the next round was playing the mental, not the physical game.
Last year she rose to 108 in the world before a slide in the rankings when despite feeling she was playing good tennis results did not fall her way. That forced the off-season focus on her mental approach, knowing her tennis was actually in good order.


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1. Political Crises
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Thomas Jefferson called the controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state a "fire bell in the night." Indeed, the disagreement revealed deep sectional differences.
Many northerners feared that Missouri's admission as a slave state would set a precedent that other states carved out of the Louisiana Purchase would also permit slavery. Southerners feared that northern growth would cause them to lose political power in Congress if they did not succeed in making sure that at least one half of the states permitted slavery (thus preserving a balance of power in the Senate). The debate occurred in the context of the North gradually abolishing slavery while the South was expanding it.
Map Resource: Slavery Ends in the North. Map of Northern Free States prior to 1820 compiled by PSU Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies' Community Geography Project (from various sources).
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 [pdf resource] maintained balance in the Senate by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It settled the status of future western states by establishing a line at latitude 36o30'N across the area of the Louisiana Purchase. States that formed north of the line would be free. States that formed south of the line could be slave. But the bitter debates of this legislation played out largely on sectional lines and boded ill for the future.
Map Resources: Missouri Compromise of 1820 Map.
Web Resource: Interactive map of the Missouri Compromise (showing population statistics).
The Compromise of 1850
Like the Louisiana Purchase, the acquisition of Northern Mexico and (to a much lesser extent) the Oregon Country in the late 1840s prompted bitter disagreements over whether new territories and states would be slave or free. In the years since the Compromise of 1820 anti-slavery (including abolitionist) sentiment had grown in the North even as slavery and celebrations of slavery had expanded in the South. Northerners resented the fact that southerners had controlled so much of the federal government, and Southerners feared that northern industrial and population expansion would translate into northern political dominance.
The political disagreements that led to the Compromise of 1850 [pdf resource] (often called the Clay Compromise) began when David Wilmot, a congressman from Pennsylvania, in 1846 introduced legislation (as an attached amendment to a military appropriations bill) banning slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. This passed the House, but stalled in the Senate, where the South had more power.
Four years later senator Henry Clay of Tennessee successfully steered compromise legislation through Congress. California was admitted as a free state, and the residents of New Mexico and Utah would, like California's voters, decide for themselves whether these territories would be free or slave (on the basis of popular sovereignty). The slave trade, but not slavery, was abolished in Washington, D.C., and slave owners got a stronger Fugitive Slave Law [pdf resource] that radically restricted the rights of African-Americans who lived in the North and who were accused of being fugitive slaves.
Map Resource: Compromise of 1850 showing Slave and Free States.
Map Resource (historic document): "Map Showing the Comparative Area of the Northern and Southern States" and the Mason-Dixon Line (Source: Library of Congress).
Graphic Resources: Fugitive Slave Notice and Fugitive Slave Caution Poster.
PDF Resources: Transcripts of historic speeches on the Compromise of 1850 debate by Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Steven Douglas, an Illinois Democrat, in 1854 touched off a fire storm by proposing a bill that would allow the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide for themselves (again, by popular sovereignty) whether they would be slave or free. Douglas hoped that this concession to southerners would induce them to support the rapid development of these territories, and he believed that the concession was more symbolic than substantive. Since he expected them to be settled largely by northerners, he did not anticipate that their residents would vote to allow slavery.
But Douglas miscalculated. His bill negated the Missouri Compromise, legislation that had long reassured northerners that slavery would not expand across the West. Many Northerners were enraged. The Whig Party splintered along sectional lines over the issue, and most Northern Whigs joined the emerging Republican Party, a party that had no following to speak of in the South and that opposed slavery. Meanwhile, proponents and opponents of slavery were going to Kansas to try to influence its constitution. Some even attacked and killed each other in what has been referred to as "Bleeding Kansas." A sort of miniature version of the Civil War had already erupted. Kansas became a free territory in 1858, but not before the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 [pdf resource] and the controversy surrounding it had created bloodshed and a great deal of ill will.
Map Resource: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Shows Slave and Free states following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.


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Lee Westwood comes up short on the 13th at Augusta. (Getty Images)
Yes, Lee Westwood, the guy who's now lost 54 consecutive majors. As GolfTalkCentral notes, Westy is now in the market for a new putting coach after giving Phil Kenyon the boot.
"I don't know how much difference Kenyon's made," said Chubby Chandler, Westwood's manager. "I don't think he's made any. Whether that stays the same or not, hmmm. But Lee will keep working."
How critical was Westwood's putting? This: He finished two strokes off the lead. But he took128 putts, while Bubba Watson needed 120 to win, and Phil Mickelson got out the door with only 107 putts. Westwood ranked 59th in putting among the 62 players who made the cut.
A late charge, where he dropped four birdies over the last six holes, helped put him on the outskirts of contention. Better play throughout the week would have had him in charge.
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The Citroën REVOLTe Hybrid Concept vehicle was unveiled this week to much acclaim. Attempting to bring a more fashion forward feel to hybrid technology, the Citroën features an interior that looks more like a lounge than the inside of a car and a rear seat that resembles a sofa. This vehicle, with its glamorous bells and whistles, is obviously being touted towards women. The only thing we can't figure out is why they made it purple and hot pink? Hello, we're almost in 2010, you think men would finally get that it doesn't have to look like a "My Little Pony" just because it's for girls.
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The fluffy water to which I am referring is, of course, snow. In Chicago, this material is abundant on lawns, streets, sidewalks and parking lots. This fluffy water is free.
Fluffy water is suitable for sculptures instead of for paintings and sculptures. You can shape this material with bare hands or gloved hands. Screwdriver points can create more intricate designs.
The usual, fluffy water shapes are balls-snowballs. Be creative, vary from the norm. Create snow ovals, snow triangles, snow hexagons, snow stars and snow cubes. If you can create snow stars with 10 or more rays, you may be an artist.
By placing Chicago items in your snow forms, you can qualify the pieces as Chicago art. A brown oak leaf from Douglas Park that you embed in a snow octagon has a Chicago touch. A wooden or metallic piece of Comiskey Park that you display as one of many rays in an 11-point, snow star can qualify as Chicago art.
Of course, the common, snow color is white. You can vary this by temporarily hiring dogs (They should be yours.) to give the snow forms yellow tints. Sand sprinkled in and around snow forms give these forms more cohesion, and add some light brown shades.
Your fluffy water art will be transitory because if you keep this art outside it will eventually melt. (You can place such art in your refrigerator or ice box where it will quickly become hard water [ice], Chicago art.) Any pets you own that have Fluffy as their names may be able to create crude, fluffy water forms by Fluffy, but such forms are unlikely to be art.


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Silk Road - Its Fall
The Fall of the Silk Road
The Silk Road flourished during the highly artistic and prosperous Tang Dynasty. Chang'an, the capital of China at the time, was the departure point and final destination for travelers on the Silk Road. The city in 742 AD was five by six miles and had a population of nearly two million, including over 5,000 foreign residents.
Numerous religions were represented and the city contained the temples, churches and synagogues of Nestorians, Manicheans, Zorastrians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, and other denominations. Foreigners from Turkey, Iran, Arabia, Sogdia, Mongolia, Armenia, India, Korea, Malaya and Japan lived in Chang'an. Dwarfs, who impressed and delighted the Chinese elite as jugglers and actors, were recruited from all over Asia to come to the imperial court. The faces of these foreigners can be discerned among some of the terracotta figures discovered east of Xi'an.
In addition to Western goods, religious thought and art, Chang'an received caravans from distant lands loaded with exotic treasures such as cosmetics, rare plants including saffron, medicines, perfumes, wines, spices, fragrant woods, books and woven rugs. Strange and unknown animals also arrived: peacocks, parrots, falcons, gazelles, hunting dogs, lions, leopards, and the Arabian ostrich.
By the end of the eighth century, the sea routes from the southern coastal city of Canton (Guangzhou) to the Middle East were well developed. The art of sericulture had been mastered by the Persians and, though silk was not to be produced in Europe until the 12th century, the heyday of the Silk Road was over. The Tang Dynasty's downfall led to political chaos and an unstable economy less conducive to extravagant foreign imports. At the same time entire communities, active oasis towns, thriving monasteries and grottoes along the Silk Road were disappearing in the space of weeks, as the glacier-fed streams ran dry or changed course. Since the end of the Ice Age, shrinking glaciers have been consistently reducing the amount of water in the Tarim Basin. Only the most fertile and well-irrigated oasis towns have survived.
The spread of Islam from the Middle East was one of the most critical factors in the disappearance of the Buddhist civilizations along the Silk Road, and perhaps the most destructive element in the loss of Serindian art. Only those caves and monasteries that had been swallowed by the sands centuries before were preserved. Many of the Buddhist cave frescoes, silk paintings and statues had adopted the Gandharan figuative style, portraying "the almighty" in human form, a practice sacrilegious to Muslims. By the late 15th century, Islam became the dominant religion in the Taklamakan region. Buddhist stupas and temples were either destroyed or left to crumble. At this time, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) shut China off from the outside world, effectively ending the centuries-old influx of foreign ideas and culture. Islam brought a whole new mix of religion, art and architecture that today is the root of Uygur culture in Xinjiang. The surviving remnants of an intensely artistic Buddhist civilization were to remain interned until the late 19th century, when a new generation undertook archaeological excavations in the Tarim Basin.
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Over 400 pages long and featuring 275 tables and figures, the report forecasts market growth to 2017 and in doing so highlights the growing importance of developing economies to the future of the refractories industry, especially China, India and other Asian countries, as well as South America.
The refractories industry largely follows trends set by its main driver, the steel industry. Iron and steel production is responsible for up to 70% of the total demand for refractories: therefore, the profitability of the refractories industry as a whole is strongly influenced by steel production levels and steel plant investments. Current steel production and forecasts through to 2017 are analysed in the report by region/major producing country. While the short term outlook remains problematic because of the global economic situation, the report predicts that there will be an upturn in the second half of 2013, with realistic and sustainable growth in steel production and in other key end-user industries through to 2017. Indeed, there may even be a short-term surge in demand for refractories once confidence recovers because of new capital investment and refurbishment of idled equipment.
Though end-user sectors other than the steel industry consume lesser amounts of refractories, their influence on the industry is still very important, and there are a considerable number of refractories manufacturers that offer specific high value products for these sectors, which include cement, glass, ceramics and non-ferrous metals. These are analysed in detail, with statistical data on consumption and forecasts for growth.
Total world production of refractories was estimated to be 41.5 million tonnes in 2012, valued at 25 billion. The largest portion of this was in China, with production estimated at 29.5 million tonnes valued at 14.3 billion. The European Union (EU) is the second largest producing region, with estimated production of 4.1 million tonnes in 2012 valued at 3.9 billion, followed by North America, with 1.4 million tonnes in 2014 valued at 1.4 billion. It is forecast that world refractory production will rise to 46 million tonnes by 2017, with a value of 29 billion. The report breaks down forecasts by region / major producing country.
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Who we areMarch 26,2014
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The town of Berlin voters, for the first time in memory, voted down the budget item for Circle, formerly Battered Womens Services and Shelter. We have heard anecdotally from friends and supporters that many people did not know who we were and as a result did not vote in support of our request.
We changed our name almost four years ago from Battered Womens Services and Shelter to Circle for many reasons (you can find out our motivation by looking at our website, www.circlevt.org), and we have worked hard to build recognition for our new name. We apparently have more work to do.
We cant afford this happening again, and we cannot imagine the impact of more towns voting against us because voters dont know who we are. So we are making a public appeal to all the towns in Washington County that provide us with funding to include us on the ballot as Circle (formerly Battered Womens Shelter) to help. We are convinced that the majority of voters in Berlin really do support our work for victims and survivors of domestic violence in Berlin, as they have for so many years.
And if you are a Berlin resident who does support our work, and want to help, please go to our website. The Donate tab at the top has numerous ways you can support our work.
Finally, as a Berlin resident, I know so many of my neighbors who do support the work we do.
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Boxing is one of America's pass time favorites. It has been popularized by significant figures such as Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and George Foreman. Currently, Floyd "Money" Mayweather has garnered much attention in the world of boxing due to his impeccable boxing statistics and classy character. This has made him the focus of many contenders that want to fight boxing's best. Demitrius Andrade is one of them. Thus, they are both in the same weight division (154 lbs., junior middle weight), and both hold titles.
Demitrius Andrade is the current WBO Light Middleweight champion. He won the 2007 world championships as an amateur, and then made his professional boxing debut on October 23, 2008. Demetrius represented the United States in the 2008 Olympics were he grew significantly as a boxing and a person. He is currently training for a fight on June 14, 2014 against Brian Rose to be televised on HBO.
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Examiner: When did you begin boxing?
Demitrius Andrade: I began boxing at the age of 5, and I had my first fight at the age of 6. I was very young when I started because my father had his own gym. My brother was in the gym. Boxing helped me to develop discipline, talent and skill. This is also what I wanted to do, because it prevented me from hanging in the streets. Boxing taught me that there is more to life.
Examiner: What was it like competing in the 2008 Olympics?
Demitrius Andrade: The Olympics of 2008 was in Beijing, and it was an experience. I was the number one fighter, and most feared going in. I lost due to unfair judging of the Korean Officials.
Examiner: Who are you going to fight next?
Demitrius Andrade: I will fight Brian Rose on June 14, 2014 on HBO. He is 25-1, and I am 20-0 with 13 KO's.
Examiner: Who do you want to fight next?
Demitrius Andrade: I have the belt, so I want to fight champs. I am the best so I want to fight the best. It would have to be Floyd Mayweather. He is an amazing fighter and very inspirational.
Examiner: Is there anything else you want to say?
Demitrius Andrade: To all my fans, keep fighting and support me on Twitter @boobooboxing and on Facebook at https://zh-tw.facebook.com/boobooboxing, I'm a star in the making…"All Glory do to the Most High".
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The central downtown area is bounded by the Willamette River on the east and by the curve of I-405 on the other sides. Compact, clean and pedestrian-friendly, with short, 200ft square blocks and three historic districts, the city's core is a destination and gathering spot for residents and workers from all over the city. Parks, fountains, public artworks and a rich texture of building and street materials add to its appeal. Brick-paved Transit Malls (one-way streets reserved for buses) completed in 1978 along Southwest Fifth and Sixth Avenues bisect the main retail and business district.
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