text: THE IMPACT OF THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT 68 OF 2008 (CPA) ON INSURANCE ANDREW PACKMAN and DREW SCHNEHAGE PURPOSE OF ACT • • • • Establish national norms and standards Provide improved standards of consumer information Prohibit unfair marketing Provide consistent enforcement of transactions and agreements PURPOSE OF ACT(2) • • • Fulfil rights of historically disadvantaged people and promote their full participation as consumers Protect interests of all consumers – redress for consumers subject to exploitation in the marketplace Effect to internationally recognised consumer rights OPERATIONAL DATES • • • • Assented to Published on Come into effect : : : 24 April 2009 29 April 2009 Already, operative ± October 2010 Give suppliers opportunity to comply and re-draft agreements THE ROLE PLAYERS "Consumer" – • a person to whom particular services are marketed/rendered in the ordinary course of the supplier's business; • a person who has entered into a transaction with the supplier in the ordinary course of the supplier's business (unless the transaction is exempt from the application of the CPA by Section 5(2) or Section 5 (3); • the user of particular goods or recipient or beneficiary of services irrespective whether they are a party to a transaction concerning the supply of the goods and services. "Supplier" – • a person who markets any goods or services; "Market" – (as a verb) • means to promote or supply any goods or services; "Goods" Includes – • anything marketed for human consumption; • any tangible object, including any medium on which anything is or maybe written or recorded; • any literature, music, photograph, motion picture, game, information, data, software, code or other intangible product written or encoded on any medium, or a license to use any such intangible product; • a legal interest in land or any other immovable property, other than an interest that falls within the definition of "service" in this section; and • gas, water and electricity "Services" – • includes but is not limited to; • the undertaking, underwriting or assumption of any risk by one person or on behalf of another; • the undertaking, underwriting or assumption of any risk by one person on behalf of another, except to the extent that any such service – • constitutes advice or intermediary services that is subject to the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act; • is regulated in terms of the Long-Term and Short-Term Insurance Acts The exclusion of the Short-Term Insurance Act, 1998 (Act No. 53 of 1998), and the Long-Term Insurance Act, 1998 (Act No. 52 of 1998), is subject to those sector laws being aligned with the consumer protection measures provided for in the CPA within a period of 18 months from the commencement of the CPA, failing which, the provisions of the CPA will apply. "Supply" – (As a verb) • In relation to goods, includes sale, rent, exchange and hire; • In relation to services means the selling of services or to perform or causing to be performed or provided "Retailer" – • with respect to any particular goods is a person who in the ordinary course of business supplies those goods to a consumer "Distributor" – • In relation to any particular goods is the person who in the ordinary course of business is supplied with those goods by producer, importer or other distributor and in turn supplies them either to another distributor or a retailer "Importer" – • With respect to any particular goods is a person who brings those goods or causes them to be brought from outside the Republic into the Republic with the intention of making them available for supply in the ordinary course of business "Producer" – • With respect to any particular goods is a person who, inter alia, grows, mines, creates, manufactures or otherwise produces goods within the Republic or who causes that to be done with the intention of making business course of "Intermediary" – • A person who, in the ordinary course of business and for remuneration or gain, engages in the business of – • representing another person with respect to the actual or potential supply of any goods or services; • accepting possession of any goods or other property from a person for the purpose of offering the property for sale; or • offering to sell to a consumer, soliciting offers for selling to a consumer any goods or property that belongs to a third person, or service to be supplied by a third person REALISATION OF CONSUMER RIGHTS • Section 4(1) • Person may approach court, tribunal, commission • Rights are infringed, impaired, threatened • Person • Own behalf • Interest of group • Public interest REALISATION OF CONSUMER RIGHTS • • • Section 4(4) Court, tribunal, commission must interpret (o.b.o. supplier): • Standard form • Contract • Other documents For benefit of consumer REALISATION OF CONSUMER RIGHTS • Section 4(4)(a) • • • Ambiguity that allows more than one reasonable interpretation Interpret in favour of consumer Statutory contra proferentum rule REALISATION OF CONSUMER RIGHTS • • • • • Section 4(4)(b) Any restriction, limitation, exclusion, deprivation • of consumer's legal rights Limited to the extent that reasonable person • would contemplate or expect: • Content of document • Manner and form of contract presented • Circumstances of transaction Interpret in favour of consumer Statutory contra proferentum rule Section 40(2) – • It is unconscionable for a supplier knowingly to take advantage of the fact that a consumer was substantially unable to protect the consumer's own interests because of physical or mental disability, illiteracy, ignorance inability to understand the language of an agreement, or any other similar factor RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • • Section 48(2) "Unfair, unreasonable, unjust" – meaning? Without limiting generality: • Excessively one sided in favour of person other than consumer • Terms so adverse to consumer as to be inequitable • Consumer agreed on • False • Misleading • Deceptive misrepresentations • Consumer agreed subject to conditions should have been notified of (but was not) RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • Section 49(3) Provision, condition, notice must be: • In writing • Plain language RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • Section 49 Consumer's attention must be drawn to: • Provisions • Condition • Notice RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • Section 49(5) Consumer must have adequate opportunity to: • Receive provision / notice • Comprehend it RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • • • • Section 49(1) Limits risk / liability of supplier / another Assumes consumer's risk of liability Duty on consumer to indemnify supplier / another Acknowledgement of any fact by consumer RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • • Section 48(1)(c) Supplier must not require consumer to: • Waive rights • Assume obligation • Waive liability of supplier On terms that are: • Unfair • Unreasonable • Unjust RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • Section 49(4) Fact, nature and effect of provision / notice must be: • Conspicuous manner and form • Likely to attract attention of consumer in circumstances • Before consumer enters into transaction / required to offer compensation for the transaction, whichever one is earlier EXEMPTIONS There are certain exemptions - not important to us RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • • Section 48(1)(a) & (b) Prohibits offers / marketing on: • Prices • Terms that are: • Unfair • Unreasonable • Unjust RIGHT TO FAIR, REASONABLE, JUST TERMS AND CONDITIONS • • • • Section 49(2) Unusual character / nature No reasonable expectation of its presence Condition results in serious injury / death POWERS OF COURTS • • Section 52: If Act has no remedy, court may make order POWERS OF COURTS • • • • • • • Section 52(3) Transaction unconscionable, unjust, unreasonable, unfair in whole / part Make further order deemed just and reasonable Restore money / property Compensate consumer for losses / expenses relating to transaction and court proceedings Require supplier to stop activities and practice Serve any part and declare void if person alleges agreement terms and conditions void POWERS OF COURTS • • Section 52(2) Court considers • Fair value of goods and services • Nature of agreement, subjective elements: • Education • Experience • Sophistication • Bargaining power POWERS OF COURTS • Section 52(2) (continue) • Circumstances reasonably foreseeable? • Objective conduct of parties • Extent of negotiations • Documents in compliance with Act? • Actual / reasonable expected knowledge of consumer of provisions • Amount of identical / equivalent goods / services in market LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY GOODS Section 61(5) – • Harm for which a person may be held liable in terms of this section includes – • the death of or injury to, any natural person; • an illness of any natural person; • any loss of, or physical damage to, any property, irrespective of whether it is movable or immovable; • any economic loss that results from harm contemplated above Section 61(1) – • Except to the extent contemplated in sub-section (4), the producer or importer, distributor or retailer of any goods is liable for any harm, as described in sub-section (5), caused wholly or partly as a consequence of – • supplying of unsafe goods • a product failure, defect of hazard in any goods; • inadequate instructions or warnings provided to the consumer pertaining to any hazard arising from or associated with the use of any goods; POWERS OF COURT TO ENFORCE CONSUMER RIGHTS CLASS ACTIONS Section 76(1)(c) – • In addition to any other order that it may make under this Act or any other law, a court considering a matter in terms of this Act may award damages against a supplier for collective injury to all or a class of consumers, generally, to be paid on any terms or conditions that the court considers just and equitable and suitable to achieve the purposes of this Act PENALTIES Section 111(1) – • Any person convicted of an offense in terms of this Act is liable – • in the case of a contravention of Section 107(1) to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years, or to both a fine and imprisonment, or • in any other case, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months, or to both a fine and imprisonment • Despite anything to the contrary contained in any other law, a Magistrate's court has jurisdiction to impose any penalty provided for in this section ADMINISTRATIVE FINES Section 112(1) – • A tribunal may impose an administrative fine in respect of prohibited or required conduct. • An administrative fine imposed in terms of this Act may not exceed the greater of – • 10% of the Respondent's annual turnover during the preceding financial year • R1,000 • When determining an appropriate administrative fine, the tribunal must consider the following factors; • the nature, duration, gravity and extent of the contravention • any loss or damage suffered as a result of the contravention • the behaviour of the Respondent • the market circumstances in which the contravention took place • the level of profit derived from the contravention Section 112(1) (continued) – • the degree to which the Respondent has cooperated with the Commission and the Tribunal • whether the Respondent has previously been found in contravention of this Act • For the purposes of this section, the annual turnover of the supplier at the time when an administrative fine is assessed, is the total income of that supplier during the immediately preceding year, as determined in the prescribed manner • A fine payable in terms of this section must be paid into the National Revenue Fund CONCLUSION To download this presentation you can get it from the following URL link: http://www.insurancegateway.co.za/9.10.80.Irn=219&CIrn=1131 Online media partner


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Robert Penn Warren, Poet and Author, Dies
Published: September 16, 1989
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Even those who admired him complained of the obduracy of his style. Reviewing ''Brother to Dragons,'' Randall Jarrell wrote that Mr. Warren's ''florid, massive, rather oratorical rhetoric is sometimes miraculous, often effective and sometimes too noticeable to bear.''
Arthur Mizener praised him for bringing to the telling of a story ''the most penetrating and most beautifully disciplined historical imagination we have.'' But in reviewing ''Band of Angels,'' Mr. Mizener wrote that the author's ''brilliant and subtle arguments spread speculations . . . over the imaginative life of 'Band of Angels' like a blight.''
Many critics felt that these characteristics of his work had a more natural place in his poetry. In ''The Ballad of Billie Potts,'' for example, many said that the apostrophes slowed down the story, but that the delays added to the suspense of the poem. Born in Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren was born on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, a small southern Kentucky town that was part of the Cumberland Valley. It was a beautiful spot, Mr. Warren recalled, ''a country well adapted to the proper pursuit of boyhood.''
He came from a literate family; his grandfather, a Confederate veteran, was fond of quoting from Scott and Byron and such verses as ''The Turk Lay in the Garden Tent.''
As a youth, Mr. Warren went to school in Guthrie and then entered Vanderbilt University. It was the decisive act of his life. There he encountered Ransom, Tate, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore and others - ''poets and arguers,'' he called them - who turned him from the study of engineering to the study of literature. He later did graduate work at the University of California and at Yale, and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
On his return to the United States, Mr. Warren taught for a while at Southwestern College in Memphis and at Vanderbilt, then moved on to Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. Unprovincial Provincial Review
There, in 1935, he founded and edited, with Mr. Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin, The Southern Review, one of the noteworthy and substantive magazines of its time. Though it claimed to express ''the regional and sectional piety'' of the editors, it was far from a provincial effort and was read eagerly throughout the country. The magazine published stories and poems by Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Ford Madox Ford and W.H. Auden, among others. It was disbanded in 1942, after university officials declared the magazine's success should be defined by whether or not it was self-supporting.
The same year, Mr. Warren accepted a professorship at the University of Minnesota. In 1950 he moved to Yale, where he was named professor of playwriting. He left in 1956 to write full time, but returned to Yale as a professor of English in 1961.
Although he never again lived in the South, he remained the essential Southerner, with a keen sense of history and life's webs of tragedy, triumph, upheaval and peace. His attitude toward the region changed over the course of his life. Early in his career he had contributed to ''I'll Take My Stand,'' a volume that opposed the coming of industrialism to the South and argued for an almost antebellum structure of society.
Mr. Warren's essay, ''The Briar Patch,'' defended segregation as the best hope for blacks to have a decent life. Later, Mr. Warren said he had been wrong. ''I remember the jangle and wrangle of writing it, some kind of discomfort, some sense of evasion,'' he said in a 1968 interview.
But in the 1950's and 60's he published two books, ''Segregation'' and ''Who Speaks for the Negro?'' that describe visits he made to the South to interview officials and black leaders about the civil rights movement.
And he acknowledged that he could not really return home again. Fierce Demeanor, Soft Voice
Mr. Warren made his Connecticut home in a pair of converted barns surrounded by fields he loved to walk. He and his wife, the writer Eleanor Clark, worked from 9 A.M. to 2 P.M. every day in their studies.
To his friends he was ''Red,'' from the color of his hair. He was a burly man with a face that seemed carved from stone. It was said he looked like a man who was about to throw you off his land. But his voice, soft with pronounced Southern intonation, belied his fierce demeanor.
As the years passed, Mr. Warren kept on writing. A collection, ''New and Selected Poetry,'' came out in 1985. New work took up roughly one-fourth of the book's 322 pages, and won particular praise from William H. Pritchard of Amherst College, who wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Mr. Warren was ''no one-note dweller on remembrance.''
Professor Pritchard wrote that his favorite poem in all of Mr. Warren's oeuvre was one of the new ones, ''After the Dinner Party,'' about a couple tarrying at the dinner table after the guests have gone, drinking the last of the wine and holding hands. It ends with these lines: The last log is black, white ash beneath displays No last glow. You snuff candles. Soon the old stairs Will creak with your grave and synchronized tread as each mounts To a briefness of light, then true weight of darkness, and then That heart-dimness in which neither joy nor sorrow counts. Even so, one hand gropes out for another, again.
Mr. Warren's first marriage, to Emma Brescia, ended in divorce.
He is survived by his wife; a sister, Mary Barber of Maysville, Ky.; a daughter, Rosanna Scully of Needham, Mass.; a son, Gabriel, of Washington County, R.I., and three grandchildren.
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Hall of Fame
The Construction Industry Hall of Fame was established in 1995 by the UW Department of Construction Management to honor individuals who have made significant contributions throughout their professional careers to the construction industry, construction education, and community service.
Nomination Criteria
Persons nominated must have distinguished themselves in the construction industry, in their support of construction education, and in their community. To be considered, the department must receive a nomination letter which includes details contained on this form. Deadline for nominations is January 16, 2016. Nominations should be emailed to Bill Bender.
The recipient(s) are honored at a special dinner event held in even numbered years. For more information, please contact Bill Bender, Chair of the Department of Construction Management.


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Subclass of:
008 - Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification of textiles and fibers
Patent class list (only not empty are listed)
Deeper subclasses:
|Class / Patent application number
|Number of patent applications / Date published
|PROCESS FOR PREPARING COMPACTED PIGMENT GRANULES, PROCESS FOR PREPARING ENCAPSULATED PIGMENT GRANULES, AND PROCESS FOR DYEING LANDSCAPING AND/OR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS - A process for preparing compacted pigment granules, a process for preparing encapsulated pigment granules, and a process for dyeing landscaping and/or construction materials using the same.
|System and Method for Coloring Articles - A method and apparatus for coloring an article includes fastening an article to a container which at least partially encloses the article. The article fastens to the container in a fixed position. A portion of the container is inserted into a liquid by an actuator. The liquid enters the container through an open end. An air pocket is created in the container when it is inserted into the liquid. A first portion of the article is contained within the air pocket and a second portion of the article is dipped into the liquid and thereby is colored from a dye in the liquid. The actuator also removes the container and the article from the liquid. The process can be repeated with the article in an inverted position and with another liquid to color another portion of the article a second color.
|METHOD FOR CONVERTING PERYLEN-3,4:9,10-TETRACARBOXYLIC ACID DIIMIDES INTO A FORM SUITABLE FOR USE AS A FLUORESCENT DYE - Novel crystalline forms of and a process for converting perylene-3, 4:9, 10-tetracarboximide of the general formula I
|Dyeing Method for Plastic Lens - A dyeing method for a plastic lens includes immersing the plastic lens in an oil bath containing a dye.
|Method for Colouring Toothbrush Filaments - A method of applying a consumable, in particular a wear indicator dye, to toothbrush filaments and/or other wearing parts for personal needs, in which the consumable is added to a medium which is subjected to pressure above atmospheric, and the toothbrush filaments and/or the wearing part are exposed to the pressurized mixture of consumable and medium for a predetermined exposure period. The medium to which the consumable is added includes CO
|Process for Creating Composite Materials to Produce Polymer Nanocomposite Films that Exhibit Improved Light Fastness Properties - The present invention relates to new methods of producing polymer composite materials. More specifically, the invention involves a process in which layered materials including clays and other inorganic materials are dispersed into polymer systems to create polymer nanocomposite films. The resulting films exhibit improved resistance to fading when compared to polymer films that lack the additional layered materials.
|Azo compound and salt thereof, and dye-containing polarizing film comprising the compound or salt - Disclosed is an azo compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof:
|Unsubstituted and polymeric fluoran colorants for coloring consumer products - This invention relates to unsubstituted and polymeric leuco colorants for use as consumer product additives to indicate a product function by color change, to make attractive or distinctive visual effects, or to provide latent or delayed color generation. The colorants may be present in a stable, colorless state and may be transformed to an intense colored state upon exposure to certain physical or chemical changes. Alternatively, the colorants may be transformed from one color to another color upon exposure to certain physical or chemical changes. The colored form of the unsubstituted or polymeric leuco colorant may be transient, since the colorant can revert back to its colorless form or its original color after the physical or chemical activation has been removed or changed. Polymeric leuco colorants are typically comprised of at least two components: at least one leuco chromophore component and at least one polymeric component.
|Unsubstituted and polymeric lactone colorants for coloring consumer products - This invention relates to unsubstituted and polymeric leuco colorants for use as consumer product additives to indicate a product function by color change, to make attractive or distinctive visual effects, or to provide latent or delayed color generation. The colorants may be present in a stable, colorless state and may be transformed to an intense colored state upon exposure to certain physical or chemical changes. Alternatively, the colorants may be transformed from one color to another color upon exposure to certain physical or chemical changes. The colored form of the unsubstituted or polymeric leuco colorant may be transient, since the colorant can revert back to its colorless form or its original color after the physical or chemical activation has been removed or changed. Polymeric leuco colorants are typically comprised of at least two components: at least one leuco chromophore component and at least one polymeric component.
|Vinyl chloride polymer substrate
|ANTIMICROBIAL COLORANTS - Quaternary ammonium salts were incorporated into anthraquinone dyes via a stable linkage. The structure of the antimicrobial colorants were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and UV-vis spectrometry. The dyes demonstrated excellent antimicrobial ability against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria in aqueous solution, as indicated by very low minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). The colorants showed excellent stability in water under light, continuous heating as well as acidic and alkaline conditions.
|Polymer/Clay Nanocomposite Films with Improved Light Fastness Properties and Process for Producing Same - A colored polymeric material having improved light fastness is generally provided. The colored polymeric material generally comprises a polymer, a colorant, and natural nanoparticles. The colorant can be a dye, such as an acid dye. In one embodiment, the dye can be susceptible to degradation when exposed to light in the presence of oxygen, such as many azo dyes. The natural nanoparticles can include many natural clays.
|PROCESS FOR IMPARTING COLOR TO MOLDED ENGINEERING PLASTICS - The present invention is directed to processes for colorization of molded articles made from engineering plastics. In particular, the processes are used to colorize ice skate blade holders and goalie skate cowlings.
|Acrylonitrile polymer substrate
|Glycol based pigmetnt preparation for mass dyeing of polyacrylonitrile fibers - The invention relates to a process for mass dyeing of polyacrylonitrile, wherein there is incorporated into a solution of acrylonitrile polymer or copolymer a pigment preparation which comprises
|Olefin polymer substrate or rubber
|Styrene polymer
|Method for Selecting Desired level of Dye Loading and Controlling Loading of Polymer Microparticles - Solute-loaded polymer microparticles are obtained by immersing microparticles in a bath comprising a selected solute dissolved in a ternary solvent system. A first solvent of the ternary system is a strong solvent for both the solute and the polymer from which the microparticle was formed. A second solvent is a weak solvent or non-solvent for the solute and the polymer (tuning solvent). A third solvent is a weak solvent or non-solvent for the solute and polymer, but serves as a co-solvent with respect to the first and second solvents in that it is miscible with both the first and second solvents. The amount of solute incorporated into the microparticles is controlled by adjusting the ratio of solute with respect to the microparticle polymer, and by adjusting the composition of the ternary solvent system, principally the amount of tuning solvent. The method is particularly useful for providing libraries of combinatorially encoded microparticles containing distinguishable dye loadings, particularly distinguishable fluorescent dye loadings.
|Polymer from isocyanate and polyol, e.g., polyurethane, etc., substrate
|ACID DYEING OF POLYURETHANE MATERIALS - A polyurethane is dyed with an aqueous solution of an acid dye compound, a quaternary ammonium compound selected from soluble tetrabutylammonium compounds and tetrahexylammonium compounds, and, optionally, an water-soluble organic solvent.
|Method of tinting a plastic article - A method of tinting a plastic article is provided. The method comprises the steps of (a) providing a plastic article comprising a thermoset or thermoplastic polymer; (b) contacting at least a portion of the surface of said plastic article with a treatment composition comprising at least one dye and water; (c) maintaining said portion of said plastic article in contact with said treatment composition for a period of time at least sufficient to form a tinted plastic article; (d) removing said tinted plastic article from contact with said treatment composition; and (e) rinsing said tinted plastic article with water to remove excess dye. The method is carried out in the absence of an organic solvent, without the need for fixing or further processing steps.
|Anthraquinone Dyes For Coloring Polyurethane - The invention relates to a dye of the formula I
|Oil, fat, wax, or gasoline dyeing
|LIQUID DYE FORMULATIONS IN NON-PETROLEUM BASED SOLVENT SYSTEMS - A dye formulation is disclosed that includes a vegetable oil ester based solvents that have carbon chain lengths of C-1 to C-18, a solvent dye that is a true liquid dye dissolved in the vegetable oil ester for imparting color to the dye formulation, and reduced sulfur levels in commercially available dye formulations as compared to those in hydrocarbon based solvent systems. Sulfur content is typically reduced to 2-3 percent of dye formulations in hydrocarbon based solvents. The formulations are particularly useful for tagging petroleum substrates as well as writing instrument and ink jet formulations.
|Inorganic substrate
|DYE MATERIAL - The invention herein provides for an improved dye material composed of a dry particulate mixture of azo and phthalocyanine dyes for concrete surface applications.
|Weak Acid Based Concrete Stain - The present invention provides compositions and methods which are adapted to impart color to concrete or mineral substrate surfaces. Specifically, the present invention relates to a composition and methods adapted to treat concrete surfaces which have the advantage of using a non-corrosive acid-based solution.
Patent applications in class NONTEXTILE, DYEING PROCESS OR PRODUCT, INCLUDING INORGANIC FIBER
Patent applications in all subclasses NONTEXTILE, DYEING PROCESS OR PRODUCT, INCLUDING INORGANIC FIBER


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Scarlet - WesMature
"I'll get it!" I shouted, shuffling down the stairs toward the door. From somewhere in the back of the house there was a grunt, followed by a bout of coughing. "Yeah, don't bother," I hissed through my teeth, and pulled the door open.
Wes was there, standing on my front step, in the pouring rain. He smiled apologetically at me, pushing his hands into his pockets. "Hey, Scarlet, right?"
I stared at him as a mess of emotions swirled through my heart and nodded mutely.
He looked down at the ground, a faint bush creeping into his gray-tinged cheeks. "I...uh...I was wondering if you would talk with me. I don't know anyone else here and you're a nice enough girl." He took a deep breath and looked up at me with those deep blue eyes I knew so well. "Please, Scarlet. I just need someone to talk to...a lot's happened lately."
For a fraction of a second we were both silent, standing as still as though we were frozen in time and simply looking into each other's eyes.
Then it was over.
"Are you serious?" I asked in disbelief, and felt a tiny spark of satisfaction as his eyebrows kit together in confusion and he turned a deep red. "What kind of coldhearted person are you, anyway? Just get away from me!"
"Scarlet! What do you mean? What are you talking about?" His voice was wounded, and he sounded like he was going to cry.
I stared at him uncomprehendingly. "Do you not get it? This morning I...made a mistake. I thought you were someone else...someone I lost. Which you promptly denied and then just walked away! And then, some creepy emo kid threatened me and told me to stay away from you! And now you have the nerve to come back here and try and chat me up? How shallow do you think I am?"
My voice had risen as I got angrier, and by the last sentence I was practically shouting. Slowly I unfurled my fists, and looking down I saw that my fingernails had dug into my palms in my anger. I glared at Wes with narrowed eyes.
"Listen. Scarlet." He reached out a hand, and I flinched as he touched my shoulder. "I didn't mean to hurt you. Later I heard about your friend Hunter and I felt terrible. He sounded like a great guy, and I'm really sorry about what happened. Right now, I swear to you, I only need someone to talk to."
I bit my lip as he smiled at me, and felt some of the anger diffuse. "Well...how come that kid told me to stay away from you?"
He shrugged. "I have no idea. Maybe he's just jealous." He winked at me, and I sighed as I felt a rush of feelings for this boy who looked just like my best friend. I held the door open.
"Well, I guess you'd better come inside then."


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The Argentines are coming! Tonight Argentina take on Germany in the battle for international football's biggest prize and its fair to say that fans of the former are getting pretty excited.
LIVE: Germany vs Argentina latest
Of course a proud footballing nation such as Germany is equally excited, but with no World Cup success since 1986 and the tournament back on South American soil, it is the passion of the Albiceleste supporters that seems most on show.
Their chant 'Brasil decime que se siente' - to the tune of Bad Moon Rising by Credence Clearwater Revival - has been more of an official anthem to this World Cup than the Fifa sanctioned monstrosity involving Jennifer Lopez and a pitbull and now from Copacabana to Kolkata, their fans are out in force.
Today's Sunday address by Pope Francis. in St Peter's Square in the Vatican, even saw Argentina fans waving flags and wearing replica shirts in support of their team.
Queues to get into the fan area in Rio are already snaking back as far as the eye can see and a whole shopping centre in Porto Alegre has been overrun by exuberant fans dressed in blue and white stripes.
The first stop on the Rio Metro. At each stop, more and more cacophonous Argentines will pile on. Superb stuff. pic.twitter.com/U9UFyfaOlb— Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 13, 2014
In fact even on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata, Hindu priests have performed rituals for the success of the Argentina team.
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Kate Middleton's Female Friend Reveals Their Girl-On-Girl Kissing
Rumor has it, Kate Middleton once had a makeout session with a girl. The 29-year-old beauty who became Duchess of Cambridge following her marriage to Prince William reportedly did "the girl-on-girl moment" when she attended Marlborough College boarding school in 1996.
At that time, Kate reportedly was just a 14-year-old shy girl who had never kissed a boy. She later became friends with a girl named Jessica Hay who recently opened up about their smooch. "I pecked her on the lips," she said to Star Magazine. "Our eyes locked and we started full-on kissing, with each of us pretending the other was a boy!"
Jessica revealed that they were "a little tipsy" when doing the kissing, but she slammed any speculation that the kiss was a step to the lesbian affair. "It was more about a mutual love of each other and an intimate friendship," she stated. "If you combine raging hormones and alcohol, all sorts of things happen."
Talking about her relationship with Kate, Jessica gushed, "I was her protector, best friend and guide, making sure she became fully involved in school life." If they were not lovers, what kind of guy Kate was interested in back then? "She had a picture of Prince William on the wall of our dorm," Jessica opened up. "She always told me he seemed like a kind, caring, sensitive person."
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As an attorney, David has represented small businesses and farmers for more than 28 years. He knows the struggles that middle class families face. As a legislator, he will fight for policies that make it easier to find a job -- or easier to create one for yourself.
David is committed to bringing high quality, good paying jobs to the people of Grady, Caddo, and Kiowa counties. The key to this is economic development. David supports measures to create a better climate for small businesses and those who wish to start businesses. Essentially, as a legislator, David's top priority will be to ensure the citizens of District 56 are well represented in discussions and debates on our economy and the future.
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text: Hopkinsville Community College Tibetan Monk Makes Rounds In Region For The 8th Year In A Row By Taylor Inman • Mar 2, 2017 via Murray State University College of Education and Human Services facebook page Tibetan Monk Tsering Phuntsok is touring western Kentucky this week for the eighth year in a row. Phuntsok is speaking with local businesses and schools about Buddhist teachings and compassion. Phuntsok said that he doesn't worry about the current political climate because the world goes through ups and downs. Hopkinsville Community College Selected to Compete in 2017 Bellwether Awards By Rob Canning • Nov 23, 2016 sinclair.edu Hopkinsville Community College is one of ten community colleges selected as a finalist for a prestigious national award for innovative education. Community Colleges in Western Kentucky Reducing Staff and Faculty By Allison Crawford • May 11, 2016 KCTCS Logo Community colleges in western Kentucky are cutting faculty and staff, shortening contracts, eliminating programs and making changes to their facilities in an effort to reduce projected budget deficits. The cuts come in the face of declining enrollment and a reduction in state appropriations. Inaugural Breathitt Lecture Features Civil Rights Activist By Allison Crawford • Apr 7, 2016 Hopkinsville Community College Civil Rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland has been chosen for the Inaugural Breathitt Lecture at Hopkinsville Community College. [Audio] Hopkinsville Community College Hosts 2016 Regional Entrepreneur Conference By Parker Franklin & Tracy Ross • Mar 7, 2016 Regional Entrepreneur Conference / Facebook Hopkinsville Community College is hosting an entrepreneurial conference on March 9. HCC Workforce Development Liaison Lea Martin and Kentucky Small Business Development Center District Director Chris Wooldridge speak with Tracy Ross on Sounds Good about what to expect. 'Fuel the Force' Asks for Restored Postsecondary Education Funding By John Null • Jan 19, 2016 KCTCS A group of business leaders representing Kentucky's community colleges have started a campaign aimed at securing more funding for postsecondary education in the upcoming biennial budget. NSF Grant Expands Rural Tech Education at Hopkinsville Community College By Kate Lochte & Matt Markgraf • Jan 30, 2015 Hopkinsville Community College, Facebook Hopkinsville Community College has been awarded its first National Science Foundation grant, a $200k award through the Advanced Tech Education program. It's called "Technological Education for the Rural Community" and focuses on access, low math comprehension and employability. On Sounds Good, Kate Lochte speaks with faculty members Sherry McCormack of math and Stuart Zieman of industrial electronics to learn more about their project. Hopkinsville Community College Receives $200K National Science Foundation Grant By Staff • Jan 16, 2015 hopcc.kctcs.net Hopkinsville Community College is the recipient of a two-hundred-thousand-dollar National Science Foundation grant. The funds go toward the Technological Education for the Rural Community project or TERC. HCC math instructor and principal investigator Sherry McCormack says the grant will specifically fund relevant math and engineering coursework designed to provide context to the manufacturing industry. Christian County Chamber Considers Future with Fort Campbell Reduction By Troy Taylor • Aug 29, 2014 www.christiancountychamber.com/ The Christian County Chamber of Commerce has conducted a study to project the effects of a proposed reduction of 16,000 troops by the U.S. Army and compare it to the Army's Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment, and the Chamber says the economic impact would be devastating. Meet Hopkinsville Community College's New President, Dr. Jay Allen By Kate Lochte • Mar 25, 2014 Dr. Jay Allen, Twitter In late 2013, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System announced the appointment of Dr. Jay S. Allen as the next president of Hopkinsville Community College. Dr. Allen comes from his position as Vice President of the Perkinston Campus and George County Center of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College System. He brings over 18 years of experience as a community college administrator. Kate Lochte learns more about Dr. Allen in a conversation on Sounds Good, including some of his plans for the future of HCC. Pages1 2 3 next › last »


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You probably have noticed that: Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) is about to be released. As of today, the Microsoft website states that VS2010 will be launched on April 12th. I have been playing with various builds since more than a year and I am really looking forward to taking this new version into production, since it comes loaded with plenty of new features for parallel programmers. After the launch you probably have to pay money for it, so grabbing the release candidate (RC) and taking a look at it right now may be worth it!
The feature I am talking about right now is the improved MPI Cluster Debugger that lets you execute MPI debugging jobs either locally or on a cluster, with only a minor configuration task involved. A few days ago at the German Windows-HPC User Group event Keith Yedlin from Microsoft Corp was talking about it and I demoed it live. Daniel Moth has a blog post providing an overview of that feature, MSDN has a walk-through on how to set it up, so I am not going to repeat all that content but instead explain how I am using it (and what I am still missing).
Examining variable values across MPI processes. This is a core requirement on a parallel debugger, as I stated in previous posts already. Visual Studio 2008 did allow for this already, but Visual Studio 2010 improved the way in which you inspect variables, especially if you are switching between threads and / or processes. I am not sure about the official name of the feature, but let me just call it laminate: when you put the mouse pointer over a variable the menu that will appear does not only show you the variable value, in VS2010 it also contains a sticker that you can click to keep this window persistent in front of the editor.
In my debugging workflow I got used to laminate exactly those variables that have different values on the threads and / or processes involved in my program. Whenever I switch to a different thread and / or process that in fact has a different value for that particular variable, the view will become red. This turned out to be very handy!
Debugging MPI applications on a Cluster. This became usable only with Visual Studio 2010 – before it was possible, but involved many configuration steps. In Visual Studio 2008 I complained about the task of setting up the right paths to mpiexec and mpishim – gone in Visual Studio 2010, thanks a lot. If you intend on using Microsoft MPI v2 (either on a Cluster or on a local Workstation) there is no need to configure anything at all, just switch to the MPI Cluster Debugger in the Debugging pane of your project settings. It gets even better: The field Run Environment allows you to select between the execution on your local machine, or on a Windows HPC Server 2008 Cluster:
Debugging on a cluster is particularly useful if you program is not capable of being executed with a small number of processes, or if you have a large dataset to do the debugging with and not enough memory on the local machine. The debugging session is submitted to the cluster just like a regular compute job. Setting up your debugging project for the cluster is pretty simple: just select the head node of your cluster and then the necessary resources, that is all. Hint: After selecting the head node immediately select the node group (if any) to reduce the number of compute nodes status information are being queried from, since this may take a while and let the Node Selector dialog become unresponsive for some moments.
After the configuration step you are all set up to F5 to the cluster – once your job has been started you will see no difference to a local debugging session. If you open the Debug -> Processes window from the VS2010 menu you can take a look at the Transport Qualifier column to see which node the debug processes are running on:
If you are interested, you can start the HPC Job Manager program to examine your debugging session. Unless explicitly object, Visual Studio does the whole job of deploying the runtime for your application and afterwards cleaning everything up again:
What I am still missing. The new features all are really nice, but there are still two very important things that I am missing for an MPI debugger: (i) better management of the MPI processes during debugging, and (ii) a better way to investigate variable values over multiple processes (this may include arrays). Microsoft is probably working on Dev11 already, so I hope these two points will make it into the next product version, maybe even more…


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Tricana poveira
Tricana poveira is a traditional style of women's clothing from the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim. This look, consisting of colorful costumes, was fashionable and mainstream from the 1920s to the 1960s. Women who dressed in the Tricana poveira style became known as tricana girls.
During tricana's heyday, a tricana girl would typically wear a shawl, an apron, a skirt, a handkerchief and glossy high-heeled slippers.[1][2]
They were thought of as Povoan beauty icons. The author José de Azevedo, referring to their peculiar way of walking and dressing, called tricanas common people with the mannerisms of royalty.[3]
Even though the fashion was based on traditional fishers' clothing, the Tricanas were generally from a blue collar background, often daughters of shoemakers, carpenters or similar craftsmen, while many worked as tailors themselves. They applied their knowledge derived from their background in fashion-related industries to their own dressing style. Bairro da Matriz quarter was famed for its charming and attractive tricanas.[3]
Meanwhile, women actually working in the fishing industry would wear their traditional costumes. Though dressed similarly to the tricana girls, they were visibly poorer and wore longer skirts made of lower-quality materials and in darker colors.[3]
Hair texturing techniques are also relevant to the style and follows traditional Povoan techniques, most notably the pulling of the hair called puxo.[4]
Color code[edit]
During parades, tricanas from the six traditional quarters wear dresses in their neighborhood colors.[1]
|Tricana dressing
color code
|Bairro Norte
|Blue and yellow
|Bairro Sul
|Green and white
|Bairro da Matriz
|Red and white
|Bairro da Mariadeira
|Red and yellow
|Bairro de Belém
|Blue and white
|Bairro de Regufe
|Red and green
The tricana style's heyday was between the 1920s and the 1960s, when it had a strong impact both within Póvoa de Varzim and on outsiders visiting the city.[3]
Tricana costumes were mainstream fashion amongst middle class teenagers until the appearance of ready-to-wear clothing in the 1970s. As younger people adopted more modern international fashions, tricana poveira now only appears in urban folklore groups and parades.[3]
Nowadays, tricana costumes can be quite expensive depending on the preferences of the tricana girl and the materials used. Still kept as a strong tradition, tricana girls during Rusgas de São Pedro (Saint Peter Parades), play a big part in the city's festivities on June 28 and 29.[3]
Tricanas do Cidral (from Bairro da Matriz quarter), the first folklore group based on the tricana style, appeared as early as 1920.[5] Tricanas da Lapa (from Bairro Sul quarter) banded together in 1952, Rancho Estrela do Norte in 1954[6] and the regional Tricanas Poveiras in 1993.[2] Leões da Lapa F.C., the city's south quarter association, has a Miss Tricana contest.[7]
- Notes
- ^ a b Vera Rodrigues (June 21, 2011). "Bairros com novidades para o S. Pedro". Póvoa Semanário. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ a b "Bairros com novidades para o S. Pedro". CMPV. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f Azevedo 2007
- ^ "A Arte do Puxo da Tricana". A Voz da Póvoa. June 27, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
- ^ "Associação Cultural e Recreativa da Matriz". CMPV. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ "55º Aniversário Rancho Estrela do Norte". CMPV. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ "Bairro Sul escolhe a Miss Tricana". CMPV. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Azevedo, José de (2007). Poveirinhos pela graça de Deus (in Portuguese) (2007 ed.). Câmara Municipal da Póvoa de Varzim. ISBN 9789729146459.


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Title: After taste
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Genre: Angst
A.N. Recently I started reading the manga for Air Gear and I fell in love with one or should I say two characters. The ever so adorable Akito and Agito and as a result I started writing this one shot for them. Enjoy and please read and review if you have some spare time because after all we know how much writer love reviews. The story is not beta so forgive this pitiful fan writer for her lack of poor grammar.
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After taste
I survive again today. Yet, no matter how many times I rinse my mouth I could still taste the blood in my mouth and smell the stench of the battle. The glorious after taste of my preys have calmed the beast within me. For years I had known nothing but darkness and death. Everyday I would wake up not knowing if today would be my last day on earth. My world was painted with black and red streaks. My precious road was built on living corpses and I have long forgotten what light felt like. I have long forgotten what freedom taste like because inside my cage there was no freedom and no light would penetrate through my windowless room.
So I can't help but wonder what was my purpose for living then?
"Devour them"
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My body would grow colder with each new droplet of blood coming from my enemy. The moment I devour a new prey I would also die a little inside. The insanely low body temperature started to numb my once warm beating heart and I become a killing machine. The magnificent after taste of the human blood cloud my sense and I become the hungry shark that my brother had created. In the end I was and will always be a machine with no regret and no need for human emotions. I will always be a machine whose sole purpose was to kill and to destroy.
They are all things that are as useful to me as having a pair of wings to fly.
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I know you know this Sixto.......live fire simunitions scenarios is probably the closest you can come to the real thing, it was great during the academy, I learned a lot
the problem is getting permission and costs associated with sims rounds/weapons
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I know you know this Sixto.......live fire simunitions scenarios is probably the closest you can come to the real thing, it was great during the academy, I learned a lot
the problem is getting permission and costs associated with sims rounds/weapons
Just to be clear, I wasn't really asking for help with a name. I was using the play on words to illustrate a much larger point.
I was just making the point that a lot of these shooting schools would be better served to replace the word "tactical" with the word typical.
But, 99 out of 100 responses to a life threatening situation are hardly the orchestrated tactical response taught to people. Its going to be a chaotic "Holy S***T" fight or flight response. Yes, maybe you will use some of the tools taught to you, but it wont be in the same context that you were taught in. I can guarantee that.
I'm saying, why not embrace the human nature element and deal with it realistically instead of pretending its not there and everybody is Bruce Willis who laughs in the face of danger and eats bullets for the hell of it.
I like the idea....a name that actually gets to the point of your mission and is real "real world".
Sign me up as well. When do we get the t-shirts that say "I survived................"?
You might want to consider something like:
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Whatever you call your school you'll attract a lot of folks from the internet if you add, "Not for Geckos".
Scared Sheepless? lol You're right on about most not dealing with the aftermath of a shoot. Seems unless you do your own research beforehand you're SOL.
Before I started to take self-defense seriously, I was mugged at gunpoint. I wanted to learn if my reactions were typical in a scared-to-death situation. It's one thing to hear or read about it, but another to experience it first hand. I appreciate those who try to put into words what they experienced as well as those who try to simulate real world training. The variables in situation and personality make it difficult to generalize, but the shock and adrenaline burn can be likened to that of waking to the feel of tires on the shoulder after dozing off at the wheel.
Because we are trained drivers, we instantly know the problem and how to solve it, so the shock and adrenaline dissipate under control. Driver's ed taught us how to drive and told us not to fall asleep at the wheel. Shooter's ed teaches us how to shoot and tells us not to get into victim situations. But the law of natural selection cannot be learned except through real world experience.
WWII pilots who survived five missions of real life shooting training in combat went on to become aces. Those unfortunates, who didn't make it, all had the same ground school and flight training. So what made the difference? What kind of training can give one a decisive edge on the street? Driver's ed can't run you off the road, so you'll know what to expect. Airsoft aside, I can't shoot at my students, in order to give them a taste of adrenaline and the will to survive.
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Three in 10 people in England have little or no confidence that the NHS will give them high-quality treatment this winter, a poll claims today.
The survey, by Ipsos MORI with the Evening Standard, discloses the damage to public faith in the health service after a winter crisis in accident and emergency departments.
A total of 29 per cent of people questioned said they were not very or not at all confident of receiving high-quality care — up from 25 per cent in November, before the current crisis began.
After weeks of major delays suffered by A&E units and ambulance services, just 18 per cent feel "very confident" of getting top-notch treatment, with 52 per cent "fairly" confident.
Affection for the NHS is high, with 68 per cent seeing it as "a symbol of what is great" about the country that should be maintained. But 29 per cent think the health service may be difficult to sustain in its current form, saying it was "a great project for its time" that probably cannot stay the same.
With health at the top of voter concerns for the general election, there are big differences in the way the public thinks David Cameron and Ed Miliband would run the NHS. Some 31 per cent believe the Tories would cut spending, despite Mr Cameron's pledge to protect the budget. Only nine per cent think Labour would do so, while 48 per cent think they would spend more.
But asked who they blame for the problems in the NHS, people were divided. In unprompted answers, the biggest number — three in 10 — blamed underfunding or cuts. Almost a quarter pointed the finger at people using A&E units for minor ailments instead of going to a family doctor or pharmacist. Some 23 per cent said it was down to staff being overworked or underpaid.
Only five per cent said the Conservative Party was to blame, while six per cent named the Coalition and 12 per cent blamed governments in general. Other responses included the ageing population (six per cent), immigration (eight) and NHS managers (12).
Gideon Skinner, head of political research for Ipsos MORI said: "The NHS remains a great source of pride to many Britons, and confidence in normal circumstances remains high. But this affection also means the winter crisis in A&E is worrying the public and shooting the NHS up the election agenda, with underlying concerns about underfunding and lack of staff, as we have seen for many years, and perhaps a recognition that some of us need to change our habits too."
Today new figures showed that, in the week to last Sunday, only two of London's 19 NHS trusts with A&Es — Chelsea and Westminster, and Guy's and St Thomas' — hit the target of treating 95 per cent of patients within four hours.
London North West Healthcare, which runs Northwick Park and Ealing hospitals, was joint worst in the country for A&E performance, with just 62 per cent of patients treated in four hours.
Across England, the figure was 89.9 per cent, compared with 94.5 per cent for the same week last year. There were 389,377 A&E attendances (up 5,811) and 75,546 admissions to hospital (up 2,441). Anne Rainsberry, regional director of NHS England in the capital, told the London Assembly that she had ordered an investigation into the "spike" in winter pressure in London.Reuse content


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Where Aunties Pull You To the Side
Girlfriends, if you are my Twitter Pal, then you know I LOVE ME A NILLATUNE! THE NILLAS GOT THE LYRICS! Follow me, Girlfriends!
I was singing Ace of Base's "The Sign" and the lyrics started to minister to my soul. Those Swedish Nillas said a lot of shady shit! "I got a new life, you would hardly recognize me I'm so glad. How could a person like me care for you?" Daaaamn NillaWoman! Talk about getting rid of a FuckNilla!
But back to the sermon at hand… Girlfriends, the lyrics that spoke to me were "No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong". Oftentimes, we are waiting for this big thing to happen that will bring us happiness. We'll be happy once we are in a relationship, have kids, lose weight etc. We'll be happy once we make peace with certain things "happening to us". But the truth is that happiness is dependent upon us getting into the light where we belong. Ain't a gotdamn person finna save us. Nobody is going to point us to the light! We have to identify our light, go be the light engineer, adjust the shit to the perfect spot, then go stand in the shit! This is a one-girlfriend show!
We cannot wait for anyone to give us the signal. We have to notice the signs around us and get into the motherfuckin light where we belong! We don't have to want what we were told we should. We don't have to live where we were born or where the cost-of-living is low! Girlfriends, we can do whatever the fuck we want & we get to choose whatever that light is. So like those Swedish Nillas said "No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong. But where do you belong?"
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Girlfriends, I come here and share some of my experiences with gentleman callers because that's what girlfriends do, amirite? In my NiggaEncounters, it's been this weird phenomenon where these niggas are on a quest to show that they are "cool as a cucumber". They aren't "beat" or "pressed". THAT SHIT IS CORNY! What I am wondering is, "Why is a bad thing is sweat the person that you like?" Why are they so hype to be "Cool Hand Luke Ass Niggas"? Follow me, Girlfriends.
Girlfriends, I am a woman of science and analytics where 1+1 will always equal 2. In my best experiences with gentleman callers, it always followed the pattern of he liked me…he sweated me…I sweated him back…Mutual sweat…Bliss. But presently, it seems like sweating the person you like is taboo. Wuttice dis shit? What is wrong with having the courage to show the person you like that you…I don't know…LIKE THEM!? What bad things could I possibly say about a man that sweats me? "Oh that nigga was sweatin me his dumb ass thought I was worth his concentrated attention! Haha clown!"? Why do people feel the need to skip days between contact "just to let you know they ain't beat?" What good does that serve? Unless you never liked the person to begin with and you're just wasting their time-which is some other dumb ass shit for another post.
Back to the sermon at hand, I work hard to be a deliberately good person with good energy, straight teeth and all types of things to make ppl bask in my ambiance. I work hard to BE the exact energy that I want bestowed on me. I like for my gentleman callers to show me that they dig my shit by sweating me. Call me nigga. Text me boo. Plan the dates! Cuz guess what? I'm gonna load up the selfie choppa for you. You like my lips? A bitch went to Ulta & used her rewards on a new lipstick & I'm gonna send you kissy faces. I'm gonna order all the cute clothes & panty drawers for our dates. I'm gonna touch you, I'm gonna show how I brush with baking soda by cheesin all in your presence! You look good? I'm body rollin' on sight! We are gonna be in a MUTUAL SWEAT!
Girlfriends, since we tend to agree on many things (that's why we're good girlfriends right?) if you like for your gentleman callers to sweat you, don't accept any dry ass treatment from these Cool Hand Luke Ass Niggas. Don't be afraid to give them the simple math of "If you like me, sweat me and I will sweat you back!" Cuz Girlfriends, ain't much cornier than a man too cool to show you his excitement about your presense. If he ain't pressed then he can press on and be corny and dry with someone who likes that dry shit. As for me and MY GIRLFRIENDS, WE DEMAND THE PERSPIRATION!!!
Girlfriends, there is this strange epidemic that seems to only afflict these niggas. It is called After the Fact Ass Love. Follow me, Girlfriends.
For some reason, love isn't good enough until it's gone. In my experience, these niggas have to lose me to SEE me. While I'm present, they are not sure. All my aunthentic awesomeness is never enough for the solid choice. But as soon as I bounce, here come the NIGGAPIPHANIES! My hotline is blinging, they are scoring high on the SAT verbal section for analogies, adjectives & synonymns in my inbox! All of sudden they are the masters of Shakesperean sonnets, thug love songs & Triple Crown Publishing thug book poetry. All of things that I asked for but were "couldn't dos" reveal themselves as "wouldn't dos but doing it nows". This is After the Fact Ass Love.
What's worst of all about After the Fact Ass Love is these niggas think that I should be happy about it! My longtime girlfriends know that I don't remix my dicks. While I make this clear to my gentleman callers, they think I'm a motherfuckin game. I am not. Not only do I refuse to remix the dick, but I am also highly offended by their attemps to be remixed. I am the same person as I was when we were involved. So all of the awesome things that you now miss about me were all of the things that were too much, too little or not valued by you before.
So while I understand that people come to awakenings at different times; please save your niggapiphanies for your pastor, imam or rabbi. My love is for those who can see it in the moment. For those who may be afraid but have the courage to go after it in the present. As St. Diddy of New York once said "You want it but u fear but u love it when you near it". That is the love that deserves me. Not that stale ass "Oh I been thinkin on the good times" After the Fact Ass Love.
So Girlfriends, you do what you want, but just know that you deserve love in the present. If they can't see you, then they don't have the vision. You don't have to settle for that old ass, moldy ass, remixed dick ass, needed to put sod on the other side of the grass ass, After the Fact Ass Love.
This is a bit more emotional than I'm usually willing to be but it's honest. Follow me, Girlfriends.
"Good things come to those who wait" is a saying that all of us girlfriends have been told at one time or another. Patience is the elusive virtue of waiting that we've been trying to master all of our lives. When we were children, we tried to control the angst of wanting to go to KB Toys or McDonalds. We did little dances, counted down the minutes or days until we walked through those doors to toy & hamburger heaven. As teenagers, we checked the mail every day for those college acceptances. We filled our days with teenage activities that stole away our attention in effort to practice patience. But of all these events; we knew that there was a date where our suffering would end.
However, as adults, we are told to practice patience in receiving the one thing that has no guarentee of ever arriving; love. Walt Disney told us that fairytale love was waiting for us. TV showed us that the undeniable love that we were owed would surely happen at college. You know-Whitley & Dwayne love. But what happens as the days of waiting go on without a hint of an end date and the cup reserved for love remains …without… love? While they tell us to keep our hearts open, they never tell us about the weight of waiting. Yes girlfriends, the weight of waiting. YOU know exactly what I mean because you feel it…right… now. As we wait, weights take up residence in the space in our souls that is reserved for love. These weights often read as follows:
1 kg- Is this thing on? *taps mic*
5kg- Did my soulmate beep me 911 when I was late on my bill? *checks beeper*
10kg- Am I not attractive enough? *hits gym*
20kg-Am in the right location? *researches best place for singles*
30 kg- Do I go out enough? *calls girlfriends*
40 kg- Do I go out too much? *orders kindle books*
50kg- Did I choose the wrong career path? *looks at degrees*
75kg- Am I not "soft" enough? Am I loveable? *plays Lemonade *
100 kg- Not everyone gets to experience love; I'm one of them. *cues tears*
Before you know it, all of these weights have summed into the unspoken but ever-present weight of waiting. The emotional fatigue of waiting, reading articles, praying & exercising faith in effort to convince yourself that you're okay and waiting the "right way"- all result in an undeniable but clandestine weight that consumes you. It manifests itself into weight gain/loss, extreme behaviors, overcompensation, doubt…apathy. You then rebuke yourself for believing in those fairytales and denouncing love. "Why did I think that coulf be for me?"
But…while those weights are there, that cup…that space in your soul reminds you that it is highly specialized…for love. Weights are taking residence; but because it is the designated space for love- it is essentially…STILL…empty.
Unlike other posts, I can't offer any remedy or cute anecdotal retort. All I can say is- girlfriends, the weight of waiting gets the best of us. It is rude and does not give a fig newton about your plans. You don't have to be actively seek love. It doesn't matter if you are waiting the "right" or "wrong" way. Doesn't matter if you have 18 gentleman callers or haven't been called on in 18 years. The weight of waiting for the love that you don't know will ever happen is real and it is valid. I don't know if we can uplift it but I do know that sometimes it helps to conceptualize what you feel and to also know that your girlfriends feel that weight too.
In past relationships, I have listened to the advice of others who say "tell him what you need, you can't expect people to read your mind." But, I have often found myself frustrated after communicating what I wanted and not receiving it. When this happened to me, I kept analyzing the situation and it made me fixate on the concept of willingness. Follow me, Girlfriends.
Willingness is the capacity of which you allow yourself to do; to be open and available to surrender. With this one particular person, no matter how much I yelled what I wanted, he would not relent. In his eyes, he did not see the need for the things that I said I wanted. It was then that I realized that he did not have the willingness to give me what I needed. Despite all his claims of love for me, he was unwilling to show said love in the way that I needed. It wasnt about me, it was about his unwillingness to be anything other than what he thought was necessary. It was his right to do so; just as it was my right to walk away. And I did.
Willingness takes courage. It means that despite past experiences, one is willing to cleave from old paradigms and adapt to the needs of others. It's not about what you think about it; it's about how the other person feels. My definition of love encompasses thinking of new ways to make your S.O. happy. That requires willingness.
So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you aren't getting what you want and you have communicated this to your S.O; walk away. They dont have the willingness to love you in the way that you need. So, you have to have the willingness to get the love you deserve…from someone else.
So today's my birthday!!! I'm 32 and very excited!With every birthday, I try to reflect on the past year. I accomplished a lot of tangible goals that I am very proud of. But I am most proud of ridding my life of bullshit!
I made it another year without ruining my life with some nigga that didn't deserve me. No arrests and no kids! My hair aint fall out, my teeth are still straight, my bills are paid! Praise NillaYahweh!!! I'm really proud to be in a place where I'm in control of my destiny! I made a vow to myself that I would only involve myself with things that were "the shit" and not "bullshit" and I did not go back on my word!
I wont pretend that it was a piece of cake being on a niggabatical and not falling on a dick. I love men! But once I reminded myself that I didn't want chocolate covered bullshit, it got easier. I made a committment to my upper echelon life and that includes treating myself like gold. So, I can't subject myself to bronze ass behavior.
So while I've received a lot of gifts and well wishes, the best gift that I received is the one that I gave myself. That is; the permission to be strong enough to declare what I deserve and to not deviate from it. I dont listen to anyone's advice to settle or stop being too this or that. The life and love that I want is specific; and some people just cant be a part of it. I cant make people fit for a part that was written for a specific type of person. I gave myself the permission to decline requests for association without apology or explanation. I'm not for everybody; nor is everybody for me. And that's okay.
So with that, Happy Birthday Elle. May your next year be one bearing the fruit of your sacrifices and commitment to yourself. #1010 #LadyLibra
I love sexy niggas and that's my fuckin' problem. But late last year, I found myself in a situation with a nigga that should not have gotten the chance to be in my space. I fell for all of the pomp and circumstance that comes with the "I've liked you since (insert educational institution) but didn't think that I had the chance" shtick. But it was all for naught because his actions did not match his words. I was very upset because I just did not understand why he would bother me if he was not ready to put the effort in. Mind you, I am very rarely affected, but for some reason, I was beyond upset and hurt.
After this happened, I took a good look at myself and decided that I needed to get off of the field of play and figure my shit out. Generally, I make extremely sound decisions with critical evaluation. But when it comes to these niggas, I'm dumb. My choices of and with men were not matching my desires. I would never say that I am done with men, but I decided that I needed a break from these niggas. So I decided to institute the Niggabatical.
So what is a Niggabatical? Simply put, the Niggabatical is when you take a break from these niggas. It is not implemented to make you bitter or angry. Instead, the goal of the Niggabatical is to take a step back and look at your needs, desires and patterns. It's a time where you figure out if your choices and actions match your desires. For example, I want an easy relationship, but I tend to like complicated men. How exactly can I have an easy relationship with a man that is complicated? This is something that I really had to ask myself. I had to figure out why I am even attracted to them. It was then that I realized that I am a bit complicated. I also realized that my dad was complicated with everyone EXCEPT me. Therefore, I have subconsciously developed this identity of "being the exception". In essence, I subconsciously think that the rules do not apply to me. In my professional life, I definitely operate this way. But I never thought about how this idea manifests in my personal relationships. This was a valuable finding and one that I could not have arrived at had I been getting dicked down by some complicated nigga.
For some girlfriends, the idea of no dick and not wasting your time with some nigga who has no intention of being anything you need is too hard to fathom. I get it. But I encourage you to challenge yourself to a Niggabatical so that you can figure your shit out. Learn your needs, desires and patterns so that you can stop doing the same shit over and over again.


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Kim West is writing a book. Well not so much writing, more picture showing. A 352-page book of selfies. It will be called 'Kim Kardashian Selfish' and is due out in April for $19.95. Kim says she got the idea while she was making a personal album of photos for Kanye. Apparently she thought EVERYone needed them!
Kate Upton will not be posing nude thanks to the Internet! And you. Kate says "With social media and the Internet and not-so-great blogs and the attention like that, I don't think that my pictures would be received in the way that I'd want them to be received." Meanwhile she was the guest co-host for Live With Kelly and Michael Friday and explained what happens when her and Justin Verlander fight:
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'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' took the top spot at the box office over the weekend making $65 million. So...we're getting a sequel. Paramount announced they're beginning work on a sequel and set a release date for June 3, 2016. Happy?


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22 August 2014
Yarra and Moreland Councils will head to court in December to challenge the validity of the State Government's approval of the East West Link project.
The December 15 hearing date will come just weeks after the November state election but the timing will not deter either Council from pursuing a judicial review of the Minister's decision to approve the first stage of the East West Link project.
Both Councils are resolute that the process followed by the Minister was deficient and that a favourable finding in the Supreme Court will invalidate any contract signed between the State Government and potential contractors, regardless of when it is signed.
Mayor of Yarra, Cr Jackie Fristacky said 'This legal action is about the rule of law and the right to challenge governments when they fail to follow the rules on major projects.
'It is important to be clear, contract or no contract, the project cannot be built unless there is a valid approval.
'This case concerns the validity of the approval process. Whether contracts are signed or not, the works cannot proceed if the approval is invalid.'
The Mayor of Moreland, Cr Lambros Tapinos said 'Our legal challenge, which we believe will be successful, is one thing, but perhaps even more important, is the court of public opinion at the state election.
'Let the Premier secure a mandate from the people of Victoria for his project.'
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James Mangold
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Femke Janssen
Hiroyuki Sanada
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Before all that, whether it was director James Mangold's intention or not, we're treated to a post X-MEN THE LAST STAND Logan living in the wild like an animal. The brief story this provides is reminiscent of a Spider-Man five part series called PERCEPTIONS, guest starring Wolverine. In the comic, a Wendigo is spotted in the mountains where some kids have been found dead. Everyone automatically pins in on the Wendigo and try to kill it. Wolverine ain't having that shit, and gets the real story his way. This bit with the grizzly bear felt like a wink in this direction and I absolutely loved it.
The main story follows another popular comic series for Logan, and what's great about it is that they actually explore his character rather than just point at bad guys for him to slice and dice. It's these moments of inner struggle that shine. Putting Wolverine in Japan with ninja's, samurai and a plot to steal his healing factor is done with much more finesse and intelligence than you'd think to find in a summer comic book flick, which again, adds to the flavor.
Hugh Jackman is the man. Pure and simple. It's been thirteen years since he first donned the claws and the character's lost none of his potency. Jackman can channel Logan at will, and continues to peel back new layers for us to enjoy. He's also in peak physical form, I mean d-a-m-n, dude is jacked to the max. His Japanese counterparts are equally impressive here, and my mind's still reeling at the fact that co-stars, Tao Okamoto (Mariko) and Rila Fukushima (Yukio) are first time actresses. Well done, ladies.
THE WOLVERINE is the best comic book film I've seen this summer, and is an overall excellent stand-alone chapter in Logan's life. The Silver Samurai battle was a little over the top, and I didn't care for femme fatal, Viper (she was pretty damn lame to be honest), but these are minor complaints that didn't manage to rob me of my grin. Add to that, the best post credit scene Marvel's made to date (they should truly be ashamed of the IRON MAN 3 post credit scene), and you've got a damn good reason to hit this up. At the end of the day, it's impossible to embody a comic series accurately into a film. There's no fancy way of putting it, that's just the way it is. And it's for this reason I didn't go down too hard on ORIGINS, because it was another chance to see a Marvel character I love on the big screen. No, I'm not condoning a lazy film, I'm simply trying to be realistic. Thankfully, this time around we get something special. I'm looking forward to DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (and praying it doesn't suck), as well as another solo round or two from our adamantium clawed hero.
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Set Tour: A three minute tease of what's to come in DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Please god, make this flick own all kinds of ass.
Alternate Ending: What can I say about this one, other than, f*cking A. If you're a big fan, you've no doubt already caught this on the net. If not, prepare to smile wide.
THE WOLVERINE: Second Screen App: These second screen things are being pushed at us like they're all the rage, but personally I'm not feeling them. Each to their own though.
Previews: There are a slew of trailers as well as a DVD and Ultraviolet Copy of the film.