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Purpose: The intent of the undergraduate research summer research program in Chemistry is to give UTC Chemistry Majors an intense research experience while stimulating and enhancing chemical research at UTC. The research groups will consist of pairings of one UTC chemistry major with one Chemistry faculty member. Projects originated by the faculty member of each of these research teams will be pursued. Research skills will be developed as progress toward experimental objectives is made.
Format: Students will receive a $4000 stipend for ten weeks of full time participation during the Summer of 2017. Individual research teams will have some flexibility in scheduling this activity. Periodic group meetings of participants will be held throughout the summer. Furthermore, the student researchers are expected to give two presentations. The first presentation will involve a brief 5 minute introduction to the project, and the second presentation will be at the conclusion of the 10 week program where final results will be presented. Formal written reports will be submitted by students at the end of the summer. It is expected that the Spring and Fall of 2017 will allow time for preparation for and continuation of research.
Eligibility: All UTC chemistry majors are encouraged to apply but preference shall be given to students who are rising seniors and have completed at least 24 hours in chemistry. Grades, interest in chemistry and the judgment of the participating faculty, who will form the selection committee, shall be considered. Student research interests will also be used as a criterion for selection and for matching students to projects. Applications from women, minority, and physically handicapped students are strongly encouraged.
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An ex-landlord writes a landlord reference letter to another who is considering renting his premises to a potential tenant. The new landlord requests for a reference on the potential tenant from the previous landlord to gauge the credibility of the new tenant before committing a rental. It is important to have good tenants to ensure that the rented premise would be taken care of and the rental is prompt.
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Mr. Williams is an author, and he works at home; hence, he prefers a quiet environment for his writing. He is a prompt paymaster, and other tenants have found him very pleasant through some social interactions.
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Age: ~500?
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Character: Hopeless dreamer and romantic. Scholar.
Special skills: Stunning swordsmanship, defensive majutsu.
Family: Adopted daughter Giesela von Krist. He's clearly a member of the Krist ruling family. Other than that, we don't know.
Günter was in typical romantic rapture over his daughter's marriage to the Great Sage, Murata Ken - she could hardly have picked someone who'd please her father more (PW). Günter was especially relieved she wasn't after that scoundrel Adelbert von Gratz anymore.
We learn a little more about Günter's life in the real world (as opposed to his normal abode in la-la land). Despite earnest academic aspirations, the great scholars of the von Wincotts and von Bielenfelds consider him a tutor quality hack. General Lord Walde hired him to tutor his son Gwendal (TwT), and he stuck around. Günter fought for Krist in the Great Troll and Goblin War under the General. Cecilie, noting Günter's still-rabid outlook on trolls and goblins, forbade him to discuss the topic, which kept Gwendal, Conrad, and Yuuri rather in the dark, though not Wolfram, whose education was supervised by professor father Manfred.
Günter sponsors the late-night gay bath scene at Blood Pledge Castle, to which he contributes the cauldron of vodka punch (YHD). Yozak is also a devotee.
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- 9 inches round refrigerated pie dough, thawed,unfolded
- 6 ounces cream cheese, softened a bit
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh lemon zest
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- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat over to 450°F Fit dough into tart pan, leaving a 1/2 inch overhang, then fold overhand inward and press against the side of the pan to reinforce edge. LIghtly prick bottom and side of shell with a fork. Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake until edge is pale golden, about 10 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights and bake shell until golden all over, about 5 minutes more. Cool shell in pan on a rack, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, beat together cream cheese, sugar, milk, zest and vanilla in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Spread cream cheese filling in cooled shell and top with kiwi slices. Cover and chill before serving.


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Office politics is defined as a network of personal and social relationships (alliances, cliques, friendships) that arise as people associate with other people in a work environment. The relationship network forms an informal organizational structure. Unless you work alone, you must take part in office politics. It isn't optional. Depending on the organization, the informal structure may be more effective than the formal.
Benefits of Office Politics
Being part of a group can give an employee a sense of belonging that is missing in the formal structure. The state of inclusion allows a conduit for feelings of frustration or tension which may help to diffuse them. The formal organization usually has no means of dealing with emotions, and other employees can be a source of support in bad times. An office run in an informal way allows employees to tailor their job to a certain extent, giving rise to innovation and creativity and providing support for the manager as others pick up duties the manager leaves behind. The informal organization handles simple communication better than the formal. The informal structure does a better job of controlling behavior in an office, even of the manager, who will have a harder time exercising inappropriate authority if he's part of the informal organization.
Disadvantages of Office Politics
Informal structures depend on the personalities of the individuals involved, not on a rulebook. That means that individuals may bring negative behaviors to the office and create an atmosphere of distrust or resistance to change. In addition, individuals may become more loyal to each other than the organization. As their loyalty increases, individuals will communicate with each other. Communication is faster in the informal organization, but there is no way of correcting false information.
Office Politics for the Employee
Each employee must realize that the informal organization exists. The gates on the arena are closed and locked. Hiding in a corner won't make the lions go away. The effective employee will find a mentor to work as an ally and supporter in dealing with others in the office. The effective employee also seeks help and guidance from peers in the office and forms or joins a team which can work together for the betterment of all.
Office Politics for the Manager
The effective manager knows her employees and her employers and recognizes the existence of office politics. The individuals under the manager will have different personalities and must be dealt with according to those personalities. That means bending the organization rulebook. In all organizations, executives above the manager will impose conditions which affect the employees. The manager must apply these directives appropriately. She must also decide how much fraternization to allow. She may not be able to be the friendly co-worker and, at the same time, the person who fires and promotes.


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December brings some more horror-loving holiday joy our way from the Scream Factory as they've just dished the details on two of their upcoming releases: The Beast Within and Crawlspace! Read on!
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Scream Factory invites you to embrace the chills this December with two stalk-and-slash cult horror favorites, Crawlspace and The Beast Within, making their debuts on Blu-ray!
On December 17th, 2013, bring home the Klaus Kinski starring Crawlspace, the story of a demented son of a Nazi surgeon who runs an apartment house for women. His tenants, however, are unaware the house is equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and devices for torture and murder!
Also available on December 17th is the terrifying coming of age tale The Beast Within, the story of 18-year-old Michael MacCleary, who experiences growing pains of a most shocking sort!
Available for the first time on Blu-ray, each movie collection boasts original theatrical key art, anamorphic widescreen movie presentations and exciting bonus content. Horror fans can preorder these exciting Scream Factory collections now at ShoutFactory.com or Amazon.com
Crawlspace: "Renters Beware! Landlord Karl Gunther (Klaus Kinski – Nosferatu The Vampyre) seems like a conscientious landlord who looks out for this female tenants. What they don't know is that he has an elaborate network of crawlspaces that he uses to watch their every move. Can a new prospective renter stop this apartment building's rapid turnover rate…or will Gunther continue to make a killing?"
Also starring Talia Balsam (The Kindred) and Tané McClure(Death Spa), directed by David Schmoeller (Tourist Trap, Catacombs, Puppetmaster) and featuring a haunting score by Pino Donaggio (Dressed To Kill, Blow Out, Piranha), this disturbing and truly creepy film is driven by a compelling performance from Kinski.
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This is what my body usually tends to look like; I'm not really proud of it -- 5"5.5, with the hefty weight of 160. :I Note that in these pictures, I had medium length hair (it fell out when I started chemo, and it's only just now growing back! My last chemo treatment is next week, if everything goes as planned!!).
Sorry for the mess in the second pic; I was unpacking some things from a trip, if I recall correctly.
Here's what I look like, now:
According to my teachers and peers around me, I'm very intelligent; I have two honours classes, and I was originally scheduled to be on foreign exchange, before I actually moved into the States from Lithuania due to some issues with my homelife.
I tend to be very close to my older brother, his boyfriend, and Kylee (my niece) because I'm currently living under the same roof as them.
I have had a total of around about six boyfriends in the past three years, but none of my relationships ever really lasted.
I am an amateur writer, and I also like drawing (I'm currently designing a web comic), acting, psychology, criminology, video games (i. e., things like Gears of War), playing piano, playing violin, playing guitar, and singing. All around, I'm a very quiet person in school, unless I'm in drama class.
I am a natural born leader, and before I was cancerous, my brother shipped me off to a survival camp every summer, for three years, so I have basic survival and medical skills, granted that a disaster ever happens.
None of my relationships, however, took place in school. They were all either online, or within my neighbourhood, or someone that my brother set me up with. Is there something wrong with me?
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there's absolutely nothing wrong with not meeting a man at school. But it is a little ridiculous to meet your first love online. I mean, there's a slim chance you would meet him in real life! But if you were worried about meeting the one at school, i understand, because its a good environment to socialize, and find common ground (interests). But this can also work when you meet someone outside of school; this time, go to the park or someplace you'd think you and the boy would love to hangout at. As for your bro, well... Unless if he was a clone of you, dont take his matchmaking dates unless he REALLY KNOWS what things you are interested in, or what is your favs. Peace out.00|00|0


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|Dorothy Harrison Eustis - 1927 Saturday Evening Post
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Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 5, 1927, p. 43.
The Seeing Eye by Dorothy Harrison Eustis
To everyone, I think, there is always something particularly pathetic about a blind man. Shorn of his strength and his independence, he is a prey to all the sensitiveness of his position and he is at the mercy of all with whom he comes in contact. The sensitiveness, above all, is an almost insuperable obstacle to cope with in his fight for a new life, for life goes on willy-nilly and the new conditions must be reckoned with. In darkness and uncertainty he must start again, wholly dependent on outside help for every move. His other senses may rally to his aid, but they cannot replace his eyesight. To man's never failing friend has been accorded this special privilege. Gentlemen, I give you the German shepherd dog.
Because of their extraordinary intelligence and fidelity, Germany has chosen her own breed of shepherd dog to help her in the rehabilitation of her war blind, and in the lovely city of Potsdam she has established a very simple and business-like school for training her dogs as blind leaders. Inclosed in a high board fence, the school consists of dormitories for the blind, kennels for the dogs and quarters for the teachers, the different buildings framing a large park laid out in sidewalks and roads with curbs, steps, bridges and obstacles of all kinds, such as scaffoldings, barriers, telegraph poles and ditches -- everything in fact that the blind man has to cope with in everyday life.
Many Dogs and No Fights
Three forces work together to make this school the model that it has become: The German Government, the Shepherd Dog Club of Germany and the association of war-blinded soldiers. The latter is a splendid organization of some 3000 men which strives continually and successfully to keep its members in work and above pity or charity and out of the class of beggars and peddlers. The government furnishes the land for the school and further grants each blind man a subsidy for his dog's keep after he has left the school.
The dogs are supplied by the Shepherd Dog Club of Germany and are either donated or bought at the lowest price compatible with the qualities they must have, for these blind leaders are the distant cousins and the cinderellas of famous show dogs; they not only have the goods but they deliver them in the shape of courage, intelligence and service. The total cost of a dog, trained and ready to leave the school, is about sixty dollars, which includes the initial cost of the dog.
They must be young and healthy, with quiet, steady nerves and a good character. As a whole, they are a very nice looking lot, especially when you take into consideration that not more than ten or twelve dollars has been paid for one of them. Moreover, they have a certain expression in their eyes, a sturdiness and interest which is too often lacking in their fashionable cousins. As the qualities of courage and intelligence are characteristics of the German shepherd dog wherever he is found unspoiled by intensive show breeding, it is not so hard to collect groups of these leaders for the blind as it would seem, and after a few simple tests to prove he is fit for the service, the new recruit can go to work, and all his work is founded on obedience.
Now these are the Laws of the Jungle,
Life in a Big City
In the beginning, all schooling went on in the park; but it was soon found that a dog might work perfectly there and be of no use in the bustle and distraction of a city, so the park was given over to obedience exercises and the advanced classes were moved into the city itself. From the moment a dog wears the leading harness his schooling is done under actual working conditions. He must go at a fast walk so that the slackening in his gait for an obstacle is instantly felt through the rigid handle of his harness. For curbs he pulls back and stands still so that his master can find the edge with his cane; for steps, approaching traffic and all obstacles barring progress, he sits down; and for trees, letter boxes, scaffoldings, pedestrians, he leans away from his man, who follows the pull and so is led safely around. He learns the direction commands of right, left and forward, and to pick up anything his master drops. He is taught to protect his master from violence and this instinct develops in bounds after he finally wins through to his own blind master. He must be ever watchful and protective, but never aggressive, and it is that quality of perfect balance in instruction that is the success at Potsdam.
He passes gradually from the lower to the higher grades of work and is not given advanced problems before he has mastered the simpler ones. His head is not bothered about approaching traffic, pedestrians or obstacles until he is ready for them. They are the higher mathematics of his course. His first days are spent learning to sit down before every curb. This later develops into half sitting down or pulling back, but in the beginning it is very definitely sitting down and having the curb brought to his attention. After a few days he is allowed to make the mistake of crossing without signaling. Then the teacher stumbles against the curb exactly as a blind man would and instantly corrects the dog, making him sit down in the proper place.
The Graduating Class
As he progresses in one exercise another is added, so that one by one he learns always to keep the middle of the sidewalk, to cross directly from one curb to another, to keep a slight pull on the harness handle and not to dawdle. Gradually he is warned from pedestrians and it becomes second nature for him to skirt them. Finally he learns his duty in street traffic, and the different strands of his education have been woven together into the finished fabric, each strand in its place and giving support to the whole.
Then, too, there is the difficulty of accustoming the dog to his new master. In the four months of school he has become attached to his teacher and works perfectly for him and he is puzzled and thrown off by the exchange. The first days with the new master are difficult. The blind man is nervous, distrustful and supercritical, as well he might be. The dog works unevenly, often looking back at his old teacher, and the blind man has a disturbed mental picture that this is the way he is always going to be led and he states his opinion in no uncertain terms.
This is all class work, as the man's real schooling commences with the practical work of brushing, feeding and making friends with the dog that has been assigned to him. On the man's arrival at the school the dog leaves the kennel where he has lived for four months and comes to live with his master in the dormitory. This helps enormously to smooth over the strangeness and difficulties of the first few days, as after kennel life the dog feels that he belongs to someone and the man dimly feels his companionship. The dog's home is under his master's bed and he instantly takes charge of all his master's property. Nothing can be touched or taken away without permission, and so from the first day his master has the feeling of protection -- a new little flutter of comfort that starts the ball rolling along the path of hope in the future.
A Guide to Freedom
The proud young scholar now turns teacher and through the same streets which have so lately served as schoolrooms, with the help of his own instructor, he teaches his new master the technic of a lead dog and shows him how he can guide him safely and surely. The course is all carried out in an atmosphere of cheeriness, confidence and security, and in two or three weeks even the most faltering has learned his dog's signals. Every day, under the direction of a teacher, the blind scholar carries on his dog's lessons in speaking, fetching and carrying, so that he may learn to put command into his voice -- a quality sadly lacking since his blindness -- and to gain authority over his dog, it being a proved fact that the dog knows the man is blind.
A comparison of the men completing their course with those just commencing is the proof. The men arrive forlorn, with lined, anxious faces and drooping bodies, thin or over-fat from inertia. In four short weeks they are remade; life takes on a new interest; shoulders lose their droop, backs straighten up and feet forget to shuffle. The thin have won back their appetite through their daily exercising walks and have put on weight and muscle, and the fat ones have trained down. Occasionally, a chuckle is heard which is the opening wedge for a laugh, just as the birds' early morning twitter presages the full song to the sun.
An Afternoon Stroll
The dogs were running loose and romping about in the park for their half hour before working as I stood near by talking with Mr. Liese, the director. I had come to the school a skeptic, but he laughingly excused me on the ground that I belonged to the majority. I had seen so many so-called trained dogs which, put to the test, did mediocre work accompanied by many excuses that I was more or less prepared to hear reasons for poor work. I had expected possibly to see an instructor with eyes bandaged give an exhibition with one special dog to the running accompaniment of: "He's off his work today -- didn't eat this morning; he was not exercised yesterday; that's funny, he usually does that perfectly; there must be something distracting him: and so on -- all kinds of incidents that would go to prove my contention that, intelligent and full of courage as this grand breed of dogs is, it is too much to ask of him to take the entire responsibility of a blind man's life.
I quickly asked permission to follow him on his walk, first getting a few details about him. He had never before owned a dog, and since his blindness had been led everywhere by a member of his family; on arriving at the school he had been particularly nervous, helpless and lacking in confidence. He was a man of about forty-five, thickset and husky, who had evidently been accustomed to lots of exercise and had become overfat through lack of it. He passed us whistling through his teeth and feeling for a cigarette, his dog looking us over with an appraising eye. I turned quietly and followed. Walking at a good pace, the pair went down the street to the first crossing, where the dog pulled back to indicate the curb. The man's cigarette was apparently his last, as he gave orders to be led to the tobacco shop, went in, made his purchases and then continued his walk.
Passing Barriers
The walk lay through the crowded shopping street with all the traffic of a big city, its noises and distractions, its scents and stray dogs on mischief or business bent. Understanding responsibility and never-failing protection radiated from that blind leader as he went about his work. His attitude was, "You mind your business and I'll mind mine," as he threaded his way along the street, and the pair went much more quickly without interference than I, who continually bumped into people in my efforts to keep up. I was amazed at the pace; I had started by walking briskly, but found the distance ever widening between us and the need to make it up every so often on a jog trot.
An Intelligence Test
Captain Schoenherr, of the Instruction School for Police Dogs at Gruenheide, was with me and he invited the man to take a glass of beer with us, which he accepted very pleasantly. Picking up his harness handle and his cane, he gave the dog the order to follow Captain Schoenherr, who, to test him, took a curving course between the tables. Step for step and curve for curve, the dog followed him, saw her master safely into his chair and lay down quietly beside him. The man told us that he had had her for three years and only once in all that time had she run him into anything, and then he said it was largely his own fault.
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I made these into rolls. I really wanted to like this recipe. But there was just something about it we didn't like. The baked up very nice and the smell was AWESOME!. I'm sure others will really enjoy this recipe. I guess it wasn't for us. I am glad I tried it! But I don't think I'll make it again. Thanks for sharing! :)
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In an adjustment to its overall corporate branding strategy, IBM today announced it is placing more emphasis on the word "on" in its global ad campaigns, to underscore the importance of its nearly 2-year-old effort promoting "on demand" computing services.
On-demand computing is an IBM-coined term (IBM uses it without the hyphen) that generally refers to the creation and use of a single unifying computer matrix to which a company, its partners, suppliers and customers have instant access but only pay according to the time they are actually connected to that matrix. In effect, they are "on" whenever they are using that special connective network.
Earlier this week, IBM kicked off a related software campaign for the nuts-and-bolts "middleware" integration services, which enable companies to get all their disparate information technology systems working together. Middleware, in many instances, is the crucial component that allows IBM to create the larger connective matrix service, which is being marketed in the broader "on" effort.
In a noon meeting with analysts today, IBM's CEO, Sam Palmisano, unveiled a red-buttoned, white-lettered "on" icon to be featured in the new global advertising campaign that begins next week. Mr. Palmisano originally announced the on-demand concept in 2002 and is now giving it a higher priority.
Mr. Palmisano displayed ads that feature the icon and new taglines, such as "Acura is on," "Napster is on" and even "China is on."
"On demand is the broad umbrella to tell the IBM story," said Lisa Baird, IBM's vice president for integrated marketing communications.
The goal of the campaign is twofold: bring the concept of on-demand computing down to earth with examples of real customer usage and claim ownership of -- while differentiating from the competition -- on-demand computing, she said.
Generically, the industry sometimes refers to this sort of service more narrowly as utility computing or adaptive computing. IBM competitors such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard have different strategies to accomplish similar goals for their clients.
IBM's on-demand computing means persuading businesses to outsource technology services to one supplier: IBM. The ad campaign puts a face to companies that have been doing just that. Along with Acura and Napster, IBM itself is its own client, and has undertaken an aggressive on-demand effort to change its internal systems to on-demand computing.
"On-demand business has the attractiveness of being on, not only literally but also on in the way that business is firing on all cylinders," Ms. Baird said. "It carries a lot of connotations, like responsiveness, flexibility, focus."
The new "on" strategy was born in the 2002 IBM corporate advertising concept of "ebusiness on demand," which in retrospect bridged the gap between the 6-year-old "ebusiness" and the newer on-demand computing. "Ebusiness" won't be dropped, but rather reassigned to specific advertising such as that for e-servers or other similarly tagged e-products. IBM's signature blue letterboxing (blocking off the top and bottom of the TV screen, as seen in movies shown on TV to preserve the film's wide-screen aspect ratio) will also continue in TV and Internet advertising.
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Max: He saved Tailow for us to take down his other Pokemon instead?
Luccanio: Correct, since Skie was unable to battle apart from a Normal attack, I can bring out a Pokemon so powerful, it takes 5 Pokemon from 1 Poke Ball to bring it out fully by this effect. Go, Skiel my Machine Emperor Pokemon! Go Skiel Top! Go Skiel Attack! Go Skiel Guard! And Go Skiel Carrier! May: Did you just bring out 5 Pokemon at once?
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Hair are most important part of your body and add beauty to your personality. Many people are gifted with beautiful hair but with passage of time their hair become rough and damaged and at the end people face problem of hair fall. Why and when does it happen with hair? There are several causes of hair problems that usually start from teen ages of people when they become fashion and beauty conscious. Here is some information on the issue why does hair get damaged?
Poor Diet Schedule
Imbalanced diet schedule is the first and foremost common cause of damaged hair. People drink less plenty of water and take irregular and unhealthy diet that affects hair growth, health and beauty. Proper diet must be taken for hair growth and beauty.
Excess Use of Shampoo
Some people use shampoo more than needs of their hair like they take bath twice a day and use shampoo both times. All of us know that shampoos are manufactured using different saturated and diluted chemicals that can harm beauty of hair if used more than needed.
Frequent Use of Beauty Gadgets
Some style conscious people use different beauty gadgets to get newer and stylish looks. Most commonly used gadgets include blow dryer, hair straighter, hair curling rod and many more. Frequent use of these gadgets make hair dry and then damaged. All people are advised not to use these gadgets frequently for health of their hair. People who use blow dryer as a routine with every bath, should change their habit and let their hair dry naturally.
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Cosmopolitan Harms Minors Campaign.. Cosom now a sex, porn rag21:12Alexandria CM
Pornography has been found to be prostitution with a camera, human-sex trafficking. Children are being trafficked for the pornography industry.
Our society has the media and magazines like Cosmo contributing to the destruction of our children. Our children's lives being put in danger, our children being stolen trafficked for pornography.
The so called 15 best porn site for women Cosmo wrote about, and had every link to on their article with pictures, were sleazy porn sites for men. All full of sexual violence. We know the ones since we do study in this field.
Cosmo harms minors Campaign Launch Press Conference
We are professionals with PhD's mothers, fathers, children of our own, including teenagers. Our children are exposed to so much sexual violence. None of us buy Cosmos anymore, we grew up on it ourselves. The magazine now, nothing but smut, porn. The articles that have anything to do with sex, love, human sexuality are so misleading, the content wrong, dangerous in fact, misleading anyone who reads them.
The site Fifty Shades of Passion is about human sexuality, sex, but the articles are going to be responsible articles by Professionals. Aimed at teens to adults. Parents also to help them understand human sexuality, sex and also the dangers in our society. At the moment there is no site that is teaching teens about responsible sex, human sexuality, intimacy. Teens are very confused and at the same time scared. The site is brand new, we will be adding more articles each week.
Only today we were on google plus and reading from Cosmo site there. A young guy around 26 with no medical background no training, the author of the article wrote. "The six things women need to know about having multiple orgasms". The article was a complete joke....and we soon told them so. The six things had nothing to do with anything medical, all of it total crap and just a fluff piece written by a guy no less, who didn't have one clue. And here we have who ever, what ever age group, reading this rubbish thinking OK this is how it must be.
The six things from this guys perspective were you had to be smoking hot body, that was basically his six things rolled in one for a women to have multiple orgasms. A complete joke and very bad journalism. He actually doesn't even know what a multiple orgasm is, how could he for one being a man, the other he has no training in the field of human sexuality....and he is writing about female orgasms.
Victoria Hearst, granddaughter of famed newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, whose Hearst Corp. publishes the magazine, says Cosmopolitan went from what the magazine advertised its self as being "Family, women, positive" "to now a sex rag" dangerous to society, to our children.
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Pornography is written, printed or video material that contains sexually explicit images or content that some people find to be arousing.
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Writings, pictures, etc. intended primarily to arouse sexual desire.
The production of such writings, pictures, etc.
The explicit depiction of sexual subject matter; a display of material of an erotic nature. [from the mid-19th c.]
The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something.
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- Lurid or sensational material. Often used in combination: violence pornography.
Under the laws to protect children...harmful to minors laws.
All of the above and drawings, photographs, or similar representation of a person or persons, or portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct etc, which is harmful to minors, or any book, pamphlet, or magazine, which contains any of the above, or explicit narrative accounts....where minors are present.
This doesn't not include material which is designed for sex education, medical, to minors. (there is a difference between such materials)
It unlawful to any person to knowingly exhibit an of the above and below, to minors, in place of public accommodation, where minors maybe present, and where minors are able to view the material, unless each item of material is kept in a seal wrapper, concealing the content from minors. This also goes for written content, such as Fifty Shades of Grey...who's content is R rated, pornography, sexual violence, rape, domestic violence.
These websites with magazines are selling vibrators, sex toys, R Rated DV's and R rated books just like Fifty Shades of Grey does on their websites and social media including to children...breaking state protection laws.
There are also laws to protect children from obscene or harmful material on the Internet. For one, federal law prohibits the use of misleading domain names, words, or digital images on the Internet with intent to deceive a minor into viewing harmful or obscene material (See 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252B, 2252C). It is illegal for an individual to knowingly use interactive computer services to display obscenity in a manner that makes it available to a minor less than 18 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 223(d) –Communications Decency Act of 1996, as amended by the PROTECT Act of 2003). It is also illegal to knowingly make a commercial communication via the Internet that includes obscenity and is available to any minor less than 17 years of age (See 47 U.S.C. § 231 –Child Online Protection Act of 1998).
The standard of what is harmful to minors may differ from the standard applied to adults. Harmful materials for minors include any communication consisting of nudity, sex or excretion that (i) appeals to the prurient interest of minors, (ii) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors, (iii) and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
Fifty Shades of Grey meets every single criteria and more for pornography, sexual violence, rape, domestic violence, stalking, sex slaves, dangerous content that is being promoted for our children, putting their lives in danger.
The Franchise of Erica James Fifty Shades of Grey and Grey House this year were screen shot and recorded, sharing R rated material with minors on social media, explicit sexual violence and sex scenes and pictures with minors. This was reported to the FBI.
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1) I have dark circles under my eyes, and my entire eye is shadowy. I like to cover up the bottom, but am I supposed to put concealer on my entire eyelid and all around my eye? Or just on the bottom? The top part doesn't look like a "flaw" the way dark circles on the bottom do, my eyelids actually always have a natural tinge to them, like I am wearing earthy reddish/brownish eyeshadow even when I am not. People actually ask me what kind of eyeshadow I use, but I actually never use. However sometimes when I am putting on eye makeup I put concealer and a nude eyeshadow on top of my eye as well, to act as a base. But should I just leave it nude and only use liner and mascara on top?
2) For top eyeliner...where do you draw it? On the lashline? On the inner rim and between the lashes? Above the base of the lashes on the bottom half of the lid? I've been drawing it on my lashline and my upper inner rim between the lashes, but is that too heavy?
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I only put concealer under my eyes, but you can do it either way. Concealer can actually act as an adhesive agent for the eyeshadow. It doesn't really make a difference :)
Top eyeliner - I stretch out my eyelid horizontally and draw it along the lash line as close to my lashes as possible. Then I shape it however I want. It's a bitch getting it even, but I've gotten used to it now. I go from the inner corner to the outer, winging it slightly. I don't think that's too heavy, depending on how thick you make it.00|00|0
Yeah I figure the concealer is a base for eyeshadow. But since my eyes are shadowy, there is a visible difference from when I only put concealer on the bottom and put my liner compared to when I put it on my lid before doing my shadow and liner.
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everyone has pet peeves, especially when you're a super fan of something so when it comes to iCarly what are your pet peeves?
I hate it when people make seddie videos and use melody as Sam
I hate it when people want a ship to happen so badly even if it destroys the integrity of the characters that they ship(i.e. Ferddie cheating on Sam with Carly)
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Im just curious because I'm been seeing a fair amount of the well known users leaving in 'protest' I guess. Is this true? Is something going on that I Haven't been updated about lol
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Maybe they left because they had reached the end of a chapter in their life.No man or woman is bigger than GAG. If a "well known" user wants to leave let them go. People are here to offer and receive advice. No ones opinion is more valuable than the next person's. If one person leaves another person has signed up. There are better ways to "protest" than to leave and hope that someone will miss you.00|00|0


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For a first one shot it was pretty great, I think more description could have been even better, like you could have described the saw of one animals, with the all perspective of everyone, Tay holding Aria while karlie sneakily taking a video and being full of love for her wife....


text: John5342 wrote: > I see a very big difference. I look at > http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora and i see a Fedora 11 Desktop > Edition which somewhere in the small print says it features Gnome. > Anyone at a glance could easily believe that this is the one and only > desktop that Fedora provides (it is after all the "Desktop" edition). > In the meantime the KDE spin is hidden behind a "KDE fans, go here" > link which could for all i know leads to the website of some > <favourite sport here> team named KDE. > > Linux is supposed to support choice but in reality people are offered > 1 choice and then left to search for others. Just call these spins > what they are. All the other spins seem to describe themselves > accurately so why can't the Gnome one do the same. [etc.] Well said. I agree with the entirety of your mail (not just the portion I quoted). IMHO this issue really needs to get voted again next week and the mailing list feedback should be taken into account! As Orcan's and John's reply show, I'm far from the only one who thinks the current naming of the GNOME-based spin is misleading and biased (which was another thing the opponents to my proposal claimed during the meeting). Kevin Kofler


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Romanian Flag With A 1970S Twist Birithday Cake
Decorating By mrswendel Updated 19 Aug 2009 , 5:29pm by brincess_b
Hi All,
I have to do a 30th birthday cake for Saturday with the Romanian flag (red, yellow and blue vertical stripes), however they want to have a 1970s twist to the cake.
I've looked up the 70s for inspiration and found disco, pet rocks and platform shoes, but I'm having a hard time visualizing this one.
any ideas out there? TIA
could you have the flag covering the cake, but split up like disco squares, and a figure or two dancing?
if its a tierd cake, maybe have the bottom one striped (thinking vertically, but maybe horizontally would be more flag like), top one with a image of a couple of disco dancers round it or something 70's.
im sur eif you look for 70s in the gallery, there will be loads.
the key question is how flag like does the flag have to be, or can you just use the colours - like retro dots are fairly 70's style.
Thanks brincess_b. It's just going to a single tier - by their choice.....I would have preferred to do a tiered cake....more options that way!
They want the flag to be a flag...which if the problem. I've looked at the galleries and there are lots with peace signs, smiley faces and disco balls....just having a hard time getting an image in my head that will look adult and male.
you could go traditional sheet cakey. white icing, rectangle of flag in the middle. then little smilies, peace signs and yin yang signs round the sides, or border of the flag.
its a pretty tricky one to mix, cause a flag is a flag. unless there was a random 70s version, you are a bit stumped!
you could have 70's figures holding the flag - or using it as a blanket, at a festival type camp fire - but then maybe that depends if the guy ever did anything like that!


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One thing I struggle with as an AP teacher is relying too heavily on the released exam prompts. When I do, I find that I run out of viable prompts for students to use during timed writings and that I end up teaching too much to the test and not the variety of skills needed for strong argument analysis. The materials that I create on my own are good and interesting but do not generate as much discussion as the AP-released materials. This is another reason why I love incorporating the GRE prompts into my classroom. The prompts are complex enough and the arguments intricate enough to adequately replace the AP prompts and still challenge my students to think about the minute details associated with argument analysis.
Yesterday I suggested that one way to introduce these prompts is to examine the ways in which it is true and the ways in which it is false. Another way to utilize these prompts is to ask students to examine the outcomes or effects of the position.
I would offer the following prompt for students to read.
Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future. Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
There are many complexities to this prompt that students need to uncover. As suggested yesterday, I would begin by asking students to paraphrase every word in this prompt because it would cause them to think about what "information" and "fact" truly mean.
After coming up with a shared understanding of the words in the prompt, I would consider asking my students the following questions, which transcend to most of the "Analyze an Issue" prompts:
- If true, what is the effect of this statement?
- What is implicated by its veracity?
- What are potential outcomes of this statement if it is considered to be true?
- What evidence complicates this theory?
For students that struggle to see the larger significance of the argument I offer a variety of avenues for them to consider, like economic, political, cultural, ethical, and historical. Such as,
- What are the economic effects of this statement if it is considered to be true?
- What are the ethical implications of this statement?
- If true, how can this impact our country culturally?
More sample prompts to consider using:
- Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
- The best way to teach—whether as an educator, employer, or parent—is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
- According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on the rise. However, Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students; under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Thus, all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's in order to decrease cheating among students.
- "A recent study of eighteen rhesus monkeys provides clues as to the effects of birth order on an individual's levels of stimulation. The study showed that in stimulating situations (such as an encounter with an unfamiliar monkey), firstborn infant monkeys produce up to twice as much of the hormone cortisol, which primes the body for increased activity levels, as do their younger siblings. Firstborn humans also produce relatively high levels of cortisol in stimulating situations (such as the return of a parent after an absence). The study also found that during pregnancy, first-time mother monkeys had higher levels of cortisol than did those who had had several offspring."


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It is the season of holidays and beheadings.
The death of an American aid worker, Peter Kassig, at the hands of the Islamic State terrorists was accompanied by the killing of a dozen Syrian soldiers, captives of fighting in what was once called quaintly the Levant.
In Jerusalem, the sanctity of a synagogue was violated by two extremist Palestinian youth, who killed four rabbis before being killed themselves; one Israeli, an Arab Druze policeman, later died from the attack.
The catalog moves along to central Asia, when four people were killed when a suicide car bomb detonated at a perimeter wall of a camp housing foreign contractors in Kabul. Both militants and two Afghan guards were killed.
Part of the spirit of this kind of holiday season is the rattling of windows across the central diplomatic district of Kabul, as Reuters reported after the car-bomb attack. Those who might otherwise see diplomacy as full of niceties were reminded of the hostilities nearby.
We in America should not hold any particular pride in our stability. A young man lost his life in his attack on the Florida State University library in Tallahassee. Closer to home, an intruder at Centenary College in Shreveport was shot and killed after firing on campus officers.
As we've seen from west coast to east coast, Oklahoma City to Boston, there are home-grown lunatics and immigrant lunatics inspired by extremism and nihilist fantasies, but there are also just plain lunatics, with easy access to guns they turn on others and themselves.
Lest this holiday travelogue seem to be weighted too heavily with "non-state actors," as the State Department would categorize them, move on to Ukraine. There, the cause of murders and beatings is a pure state actor: Russia.
Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since a Sept. 5 cease-fire came into force — yes, since the cease-fire. That is according to the Nov. 18 report of the United Nations commissioner on human rights, documenting a breakdown in the rule of law and the flooding of the region with hooligans whose day jobs are in the Russian army.
"The continuing presence of a large amount of sophisticated weaponry, as well as foreign fighters that include servicemen from the Russian Federation, directly affects the human rights situation in the east of Ukraine," the U.N. report noted.
One of the features of the holiday season is the prayer of the pope for peace in the world. In that, he will speak for the victims of the violence, Christians, Jews or Orthodox, Islamic or Buddhist. In every part of the world, one can wonder if the author of the universe intended people to be targets of evil on the scale we are experiencing across the globe this year.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Having apparently ruled out sex as an option, Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter opted for controversy to help bring some much needed attention to the Stanley Cup finals.
Not surprisingly, it works for him and, oddly enough, the National Hockey League, as well.
On Wednesday, Sutter all but accused NHL commissioner Gary Bettman of dictating the terms of the one-game suspension handed to Flames forward Ville Nieminen for Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday (ABC, 8 ET).
He also strongly implied that not only does the league not want Calgary to win the Stanley Cup, but it also did not want the Flames here in the first place.
He fudged the truth about whether Nieminen had made the trip from Calgary.
Then, after blaming the media for its role in the Nieminen suspension, he finished his news conference by declaring his players unavailable.
All in all, it was a horribly transparent ploy designed to embarrass the league and set us all off on a story line that has next to nothing to do with the prickly situation he and the Flames are facing -- beating Tampa Bay in a two-out-of three games series while the Lightning hold home-ice advantage. Give Sutter credit in at least one area though, he has a wicked sense of humor.
Pressed on the suspension to Nieminen, Sutter said: "The decisions are made in New York not in Toronto."
Bettman's offices are located in New York, while Colin Campbell, the league's executive vice president and director of hockey operations and the man charged with supplemental discipline, works out of Toronto.
Sutter also said that during the playoffs his team "lost three players total to injuries and there was a total of two minutes called, not -- that's as far as it went. So fine, we know what we're up against. We're the underdog. We've said that. I am not saying it now to make a point, but it's dead on true. We're the little team that wasn't supposed to be here, and a lot of people don't want us to be here and want to make sure that we're not successful.
"We know that."
Pardon us if we take an editorial pause here to both put on our hip boots and reflect upon the consequences of those remarks.
First off, Sutter isn't entirely wrong. The commissioner's office does sometimes get involved in both the suspension hearings and the discipline imposed. It comes with the job description and -- in this instance -- happens to be in writing (not always the case regarding NHL rules). If Sutter knows for a fact that Bettman had a hand in this, it would be because of one of two possibilities: Either Campbell told him or he was making it up.
Regarding the poor, persecuted Flames, the little team from Canada against the world, excuse me while I laugh out loud. If there's anything sustainable about the rhetoric surrounding this series so far it's that Sutter is playing that card so far beyond the high-roller limit he would be booted out of Las Vegas. Unfortunately for hockey, however, there are huge numbers of Canadians who believe this stuff.
By virtue of location, the Flames have emerged as Canada's team. And from the actions of the coach and the reactions in some media, one has almost to stop and remind one's self that Nieminen did indeed hit Lecavalier with an elbow in the head from behind with intent and injured him. On a non-Stanley Cup playoff day, that's often good for anywhere from a three-game suspension to a Todd Bertuzzi-like dismissal.
The commissioner was not pleased by Sutter's tack.
"Mr. Sutter's comments were ill-advised, inappropriate and inaccurate," Bettman said in response to numerous requests for comment. "The focus of the Stanley Cup Final should be on the ice, and to the extent any response is needed to any gamesmanship off the ice, it will be made after the Final is over."
Campbell held a lengthy press conference to defend his one-game decision, fending off a number of inquires about why a repeat offender who delivered a blow to the head only got one game.
In true NHL fashion, Campbell said the rules are simply different in the playoffs.
Sutter then had enough brass in his extremities to say that even one game was a media-orchestrated event.
"Hey, the media is a powerful tool, believe me," he said. "And it's unfortunate that's what ends up -- you know, I hold myself responsible because I don't bitch and whine in the media.
"So that's something I have learned, that you should bitch and complain and whine, and it has an impact."
Sutter never did address who, in fact, was doing the complaining. Though the implication was strong that it was opposing coach John Tortorella, the Lightning coach refused to address the issue after the game and said even less about it on Wednesday. It was, for him, a don't-go-there affair.
Which is not to say that the Lightning don't conspire to get their story straight either. Posted in their room was a message advising the players to meet at 3:15 before media availability, presumably to get their story straight about the hit, the suspension and Lecavalier's readiness for Game 5. If so, Lecavalier might have missed the notice or part of the meeting, because he said he felt great and would play in Game 5 minutes after his coach refused to discuss it.
Which brings the manure wagon full circle.
A series nobody is watching -- and even fewer people are writing about -- now has a story line that has almost nothing to do with on-ice performance or off-ice personality and everybody is clamoring to get a piece of it.
Jim Kelley is the NHL writer for ESPN.com.