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An improved physical appearance is a universal desire. However, many people have stubborn, unsightly bulges which diet, exercise, and flattering clothing styles simply cannot erase.
In women, those fat deposits occur most frequently from the waist down, on hips, buttocks and outer thighs (saddlebags). Fat deposits on men tend to accumulate above the waist, on the abdomen and sides of the waist (love handles).
Now thanks to a procedure called liposuction surgery, both men and women can improve the contours of their bodies through a relatively simple and safe technique. Liposuction surgery involves the removal of fat cells from the body and may be used alone or in conjunction with other procedures, such as facelift or "tummy tuck". It is designed for persons who have specific areas of localized fat deposits and who have tried unsuccessfully to eliminate them through diet, exercise and weight loss.
While the procedure is not designed to correct general obesity, any area where excess fat deposits have accumulated can be treated. These include the chin, neck, jowls, cheeks, arms, inner and outer thighs, buttocks, knees, hips and abdomen. (Fig. A) Men with enlarged breasts called gynecomastia can also benefit from this technique.
Men and women in good physical condition with good skin elasticity are the best candidates for this surgery. When the procedure was first introduced, only younger people were considered to be good candidates; however, recent improvements in the technique have made it possible to treat patients of all ages. Each person seeking this treatment, regardless of age, must be personally assessed by the physician to determine if he or she is a suitable candidate for liposuction surgery.
Prior to surgery a complete medical history is taken in order to evaluate your general health. A thorough examination is also conducted. Dr. Gilmer describes the type of anesthesia to be used, the procedure, what results might realistically be expected, as well as possible risks and complications.
Preoperative directions may include the elimination of certain drugs which contain aspirin in order to minimize the possibility of excess bleeding. Antibiotics may be prescribed prior to surgery to prevent infection. Photographs are often taken before and after surgery in order to evaluate the final results. The areas to be contoured are marked with a special marking pen.
Liposuction surgery can be performed in our office as an outpatient procedure. It is done under general anesthesia. Pre-medication is administered to help you relax. When performing what is known as the "tumescent" procedure, Dr. Gilmer injects a large amount of diluted local anesthetic solution into the area. This procedure has the advantage of reducing pain and bruising in the area.
Dr. Gilmer then makes a small incision in the skin and inserts a tube (cannula) either attached to a high pressure vacuum suction or to a syringe system. The fat is loosened from surrounding tissue by moving the tube back and forth and is then removed or vacuumed from the body with the suction device. The physician determines the amount of fat to remove be feeling the skin and pinching the tissue.
Another technique is referred to as the Gilmer Technique. This procedure got it's name from Dr. Gilmer because he created this technique himself. Using this method, a special cannula is used to loosen the fat prior to suctioning which helps to create a smoother appearance than traditional methods.
Last, but certainly not least is a third cutting-edge option for liposuction which is the Water Jet Assisted Liposuction procedure.
The WAL procedure is the new wave in gentle and effective fat removal. Unlike traditional tumescent or energy-assisted liposuction, WAL harnesses the gentle power of water to remove unwanted fat, while sculpting and shaping the body. During the WAL procedure, a fan-shaped laminar jet of water simultaneously dislodges and removes unwanted fat from the body, while sparing surrounding nerves, blood vessels and connective tissue. WAL is a gentle and painless lipoplasty method, resulting in significantly less swelling, bruising and postoperative discomfort when compared to traditional methods. Even more important, WAL does not require tumescent infiltration, reducing the risk of systemic side effects, while allowing precise real-time contouring throughout the procedure. The WAL procedure is safe, effective and easy, offering outstanding results with minimal risk, significantly shorter procedure times, and shorter recovery time for the patients.
After the incisions are closed, a compression dressing or bandage is applied to the area to prevent bleeding, reduce swelling, and support the affected area. The procedure can last from thirty minutes to several hours depending upon the amount of fat removed.
The dressing remains in place for seven to ten days depending upon the extent of the surgery and your individual healing process. A surgical compression garment may also be worn. Because liposuction surgery does not involve large incisions and extensive cutting, pain is minimal to moderate and is controlled with oral medication. Antibiotics may be prescribed to prevent infection.
Most patients are completely ambulatory immediately following surgery, but rest is recommended for the initial postoperative period. Patients are usually able to return to normal activities within a week although vigorous physical activity is discouraged for several weeks.
Some swelling and discoloration can occur but usually disappear within a month. Scars, which fade significantly with time, are for the most part, inconspicuous because they are made within the natural creases of the body whenever possible.
Complications connected with this surgery are rare; however, an uneven skin surface, bleeding, infection, numbness and discoloration can occur. Some of these conditions correct themselves in time: others respond to medications. There are certain inherent risks connected with every surgical procedure which should be discussed with Dr. Gilmer and his staff. You can minimize complications by carefully following directions.
It is important to remember that liposuction surgery, while not a cure for generalized obesity, is an excellent procedure that can benefit those who want to remove unsightly fat from localized areas. Patients who choose this type of surgery, however, must have realistic expectations about the outcome and understand that final results may not be apparent for up to one year.
Dr. Gilmer is considered one of the best liposuction surgeons in this area. If you are interested in learning more about liposuction surgery, please contact our office and we will be happy to answer your questions.


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Discover the science behind the perfect cocktail at Science World's exclusive afterhours event.
I don't know about you, but I feel as though my potential career in the field of science would have gone much further if my lessons at school had revolved around creating the perfect cocktail. I've sampled many gin-based drinks in my day, but I know very little about what is involved in the biology of cultivating a juniper berry, or the physics of a perfect pour. Luckily, the Science of Cocktails event is coming to Science World on February 4, 2016 to provide answers to these sorts of important questions. Don't worry, I promise there won't be a test at the end of the night…
The Science of Cocktails is the ultimate hands-on cocktail event, where you can sip drinks from the kings and queens of the city's spirits scene—Bittered Sling's Lauren Mote, The Diamond's Giancarlo Quiroz Jesus, and L'Abattoir's Thor Paulson, just to name a few—as you explore Science World after dark. Delve into the physics, chemistry, and biology behind the artistry of your favourite libations, embrace your inner mad-scientist at a liquid nitrogen demonstration, or sneak off to explore Science World's exhibits with a drink in hand from one of 25 bar stations set to include cocktail selections like a smoked apple martini or an "Instant Moscow Mule" from top-shelf names like Finlandia Vodka and Campari, all paired with canapés from Railtown Catering. So throw a lab coat over your snazziest ensemble—we will see you there.
Funds raised from the night will go towards Science World's class field trip program for under-served schools across the Lower Mainland. For more information and to buy tickets, visit scienceworld.ca/cocktails

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This past weekend, The Vermont Maple Festival was held in St. Albans, Vermont. Vermont is well-known for producing maple syrup (aka liquid gold) and the tradition runs generations deep. Growing up, it's one of the things that I remember with fond memories. Collecting sap and sitting in sugarhouses socializing and embracing what helps to make Vermont, Vermont. In the spring, a sugarhouse is main point of connecting with others, catching up while working and there is nothing in this world like the smell of the sweetness in the air and tasting hot, fresh syrup.
Last year, I went home during sugaring season. This is when the sap is running, the syrup is boiling and the fresh made gloriousness that is maple syrup is sitting in barrels waiting to be sold. It had been quite a while since I had been home during maple season and was lucky enough to have my dad bring me around to some of Vermont's sugarhouses. He is the World Famous Tim after all.
If you're unfamiliar with sugaring, here is a quick explanation:
Each spring, when the world begins to thaw from the previously, frigid winter, the sap begins to run from the maple trees. Think of the sap like a sweet, sugar water. The sap is collected and boiled in evaporators using heat generated from wood or oil fires. (If simplified, think of a giant, rectangle pot boiling.) The purpose is to boil out the water to a certain extent and the remainder is maple syrup. Rule of thumb, it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. Maple syrup also had more calcium than milk and is a natural sugar – so it's good for you! All of this is done in sugarhouses.
So in honor of sugaring season coming to an end and all the hard-working folks out there getting ready to clean their equipment, attend maple shows, sell their products and wanting a break, I wanted to feature a few sugarhouses that I saw on my last spring trip home. They come in all shapes and sizes, traditions old and new. One thing is for certain – we all can't get enough of the liquid gold!
Do you have a tradition in your home state?
I'm strongly convinced that maple syrup and/or cheese can be put on any kind of food. I've yet to be proven wrong.
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Kohlrabi resembles a cross between a cabbage and a turnip. If you get a small kohlrabi, peeling may not be required, but large bulbs of kohlrabi require peeling away two layers of thick skin in order to reach the crisp flesh below. It can be eaten raw or cooked, including the leaves, which can be sautéed or added salads. Try cutting your kohlrabi into strips and serving on a veggie platter with dip, spritzing with oil and baking to make kohlrabi fries or chopping and sautéing or steaming like broccoli. One cup contains 139% of your daily recommended Vitamin C intake!
Garlic Scapes
These are the stalks that grow above ground on certain varieties of garlic. Many farmers remove them to keep them from stealing nutrients from the bulbs of garlic as they grow. They are often discarded, but they can be eaten and are becoming more popular at farmer's markets and in CSA baskets! Try chopping them like green onions and using them as a topping for a salad or stir fry or adding them to other dishes with vegetables for a nice garlic flavor. Garlic scapes can are also often used to make pesto!
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Today, I've had probably one of the best Sundays i've had in a long time. I did what Sundays are meant for…no not rest. I worked four hours in the morning and then tidied my room up, one because it needed it, two to sort my clothes out, yes, I actually threw some away!! and three to start the long process of sorting out stuff to go back to uni. Luckily a lot is already up there because I kept some stuff up there. I then had a bath, a cream tea and came over to my Grandparents.
I'm also really excited because my uncle is bringing down a free standing mirror which will go in my bedroom, i'm so excited! I've always wanted one.
Anyway so i'm waiting for this vintage jacket I ordered on ebay to come but with it being Sunday the lack of post made me sad so i thought I would post about the other mail I recieved this week. I love getting mail, unless its a bank statement. I muse over it for a while and feel guilty nfor the fact it feels a bit thick and then toss it.
So here's what I recieved this week…
I got a couple of things from eBay. After hankering over a cricket jumper for ages, I now have two!! I like this one the most though.
I think i'll team it with my new oversize blazer, also eBay and of course my hat!
Sorry for the flat, lack of modelling, I know you probably all like to laugh at me (hahaha) but my hair was wet as i got out of the shower.
I also got this post card from my sister.
It made me so happy. I love James Dean. I watched Giant one day at uni when it was a sunny Friday and everyone had gone home. It made me feel so much better! I tweeted this a while back…


text: DDR Freak :: View topic - Isn't it about time DDRFreak made some changes...? about ddr | forums | buy ddr | radio | song lists | FAQs | machine locations Forums FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Login to check your private messages Login Isn't it about time DDRFreak made some changes...? Goto page Previous 1, 2 DDR Freak Forum Index -> Site Feedback View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message 8ftmetalheadTrick MemberJoined: 29 Oct 2008Location: Auckland, New Zealand 20. Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: As much as I love DDR freak, I too feel that the site is becoming stale and dated. Users have almost completely stopped posting, and that discourages new users who see the topic dates and think "hmm, a dead community". There's even a topic on beatspace that suggests that DDR Freak IS dead. I really feel that the site could use a bit of a tweak, if not in a graphical rework, certainly a organizational one. For example, your topic in bemani controllers on "my home built metal pad" was started in 2003. People tend to not want to read through over 100 pages of post looking for the information they want, so why not compile the most important bits of information you can find, and then make a new sticky? Then, for any missing information, you can ask the users what they feel should be added. I've just noticed your sticky saying you're going to merge the DDR related forums and (after deleting my own paragraph that would have suggested the same sort of thing) think it's a good idea. As long as you do it correctly. When you move them, take the stickies that were the most popular, and give them a kick in the pants. Then pick them up, brush them off, and set them off again. As above, people aren't going to read through the hundreds of pages that have accumulated since god knows when, (ie) of people achieving this or that. They'll read maybe the first and last 2-5 pages before posting their own, and then only focusing on the last ones. This is relevant to the achievements topics, of course, but why not just make 1 sticky for "DDR Achievements" Anyway, i'm posting myself into a bluster, so i'm going to leave it at that for now. TL;DR - Spring clean the forums, gather the "best of collection" from the existing stickies/forums, repost them in a cleaner and more streamlined format to encourage focused activity, as opposed to random posts every few days or whatever. Back to top JIZZWIZARD OF THE YEASTTrick MemberJoined: 02 Jul 2009 21. Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:48 am Post subject: delete fucking everything. nice start with Imaging. like when I told you retards that the media forum was a bad idea, more subforums actually equals less posts. there should only be three subforums: DDR stuff, Random Chat, and the Penis Palace. Back to top HumanBeingTrick MemberJoined: 24 Mar 2007 22. Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: Most of the posts/topics probably aren't very important to save. (For example, I made these scores on these songs). Other stuff is important to save. (For example, this is how you make your own home pad. Or these are the codes for such and such arcade machine to unlock everything. Or this is how you manage to get your own Stepmania songs onto ITG PS2. And so forth) If you simply lock and then delete entire subforums, you then also remove all the potentially useful information they contained as well and as a consequence make the site less useful. If you want to trim up subforums, might it be better to make a new subforum called, say, 'Archive' and then have that one be locked yet ever present (don't delete it) and then move all the other to-be-deleted subforums under there? No more posting allowed, but this still allows people to search for the few useful things if they want them. So someone would click on Archive from the main forums and then be presented with a new page with all the old (now locked/unpostable) forums in there, click on what they wanted, then browse through. It removes clutter from the main page, while disallowing new posting in the old subforums, while still allowing people to search through them if they want._________________I'm a human being! :-O Back to top J DoggAdministratorJoined: 16 Jan 2002Location: Sunnyvale, CA 23. Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:58 am Post subject: HB, while I agree with you in theory (and actually that's how I ran the place for the last 9 years), the search function is not good enough to actually bring up the important posts. In fact, part of the reason is because of the huge number of posts cluttering the database. My plan is to move the somewhat important stickies into the surviving DDR forum, unsticky them, and delete everything else in the subforum to be deleted that hasn't been accessed for 6 months._________________ Back to top HumanBeingTrick MemberJoined: 24 Mar 2007 24. Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: Eh. The search function has always been broken. I just use Google to search through this (or any site) rather than using site-specific search functionality anyway. All you do is, say, you want to search for every occurrance of "AAA" in ddrfreak.com in google. So your google query would be. site:www.ddrfreak.com AAA and it'll find it even though the site's own search function is messed up. In any case, I'd recommend saving all the important stuff though at least (All the howto's, do-it-yourself, homebrew, mods, codes, etc...) because much of that cannot be easily found elsewhere and someone may come across an old DDR arcade machine they bought and want some of that information. Also, since the search is messed up, why not just disable it entirely and just put a sticky telling people to use google search instead with the site-specific modifier or something?_________________I'm a human being! :-O Back to top J DoggAdministratorJoined: 16 Jan 2002Location: Sunnyvale, CA 25. Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:57 am Post subject: Yes, I do plan on moving any important threads I find into DDR Chit-Chat to be saved. Also, great idea about replacing the phpBB search with google search._________________ Back to top HumanBeingTrick MemberJoined: 24 Mar 2007 26. Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject: Random Chat is broken. It looks like it is being invaded by the year 2003. :-P Seriously though, it doesn't matter what page you click on, it's the same topics from 2003 which are there. Is this some kind of an inside joke? Or is it a legitimate bug? A result of merging other subforums into Random Chat? ---edit So yeah. Somehow random chat magically got fixed. It is magic I tell you! Leprechauns, Voodoo, Unicorns. The precise formula has something to do with Leprechauns using Voodoo on the Unicorns while reciting passages from the Necronomicon and summoning Cthulhu._________________I'm a human being! :-O Back to top Edible Bondage TapeTrick MemberJoined: 26 Jan 2002Location: Kerri 27. Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: this rash of deleating old stuff has once again put me at over 1% of all posts made feels nice to be back if even for a bit_________________ Back to top ÂLaundryTrick MemberJoined: 17 Nov 2007 28. Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: Just a quick suggestion for reorganization now that a bunch of forums are gone: Move "Other Bemani" and "Music Game Controllers" up to the top forum category as the top forum is getting bare and those forums don't really belong with the other forums in the category. 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I'm terrible at saying goodbye. All day I've been getting choked up, muttering something about fond memories and kindness and before I finish speaking I sidle away in a flutter of bows.
I feel like I should write something.
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I'm getting home in a few weeks and I'll be needing a place to live and a job. If you can help me find one of those, email me or something. Thanks!
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It's crunch time in the Ontario election as the three major party leaders face off for the first — and only — time in a live televised debate.
Tuesday's broadcast is the single most important event of the campaign and Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath are raring to go.
"Is there pressure? Absolutely," Wynne told reporters Monday at the Westin Prince Hotel in Don Mills.
"But there's pressure because this is such an important election and there's such a stark choice between what Tim Hudak is proposing for the province, which I really believe would take us backwards, and what we're proposing, which will take us forward," she said of the June 12 vote.
"The debate is always an important juncture in an election campaign and I am the rookie. This is the first time that I've had an opportunity to take part in one of these debates."
Hudak, widely seen as the strongest debater in the legislature of the three leaders, played down expectations of great theatre.
"I won't say anything exciting nor am I a good actor. I'm straight up. I'm just going to be the guy on the stage giving it to you straight. I recognize the strength of my two opponents and I respect that — I have known Andrea and Kathleen a long time," he said in Toronto.
"You'll see someone who probably isn't the best actor on stage. I'm confident that they will look into the camera tomorrow night and tell you all the things that they are going to spend money on, knowing full well that they don't have any money — the money has run out.
"I'm going to talk about my plan. There's only been one leader that has been honest with the people of Ontario, to speak plainly about the challenges that we face and the hole that we are in, and offers an optimistic plan on how we will get to our feet again."
The New Democrat leader, who was praised for her strong performance against Hudak and former Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty in the 2011 campaign debate, said she hopes to showcase herself as he best alternative to the others.
Horwath will use the debate to highlight the troubles with "a corrupt Liberal party that wastes money" and "Mr. Hudak's Conservatives that, frankly, haven't made a lot of sense during this campaign."
Noting this is her second such campaign debate, the Hamilton native stressed she will not be a shrinking violet in the CBC Broadcast Centre studio and has been practicing on a replica set in downtown Toronto.
"I've got a nickname and it's the 'Steeltown Scrapper' and I'm not afraid to bring out the 'Steeltown Scrapper when I need her," Horwath said after an appearance City TV's Breakfast Television before heading off to a day of debate preparation.
Tuesday's 90-minute broadcast — at 6:30 p.m. on CBC, CTV, Global, Sun News Network, TVOntario — will be moderated by TVO's Steve Paikin, a veteran of past provincial and federal debates.
Wynne has been doing mock debates with her campaign co-chair Tim Murphy, former chief of staff to prime minister Paul Martin, playing Hudak and Liberal advertising maven Amanda Alvaro portraying Horwath.
Murphy, principal secretary Andrew Bevan, campaign director David Herle, and ex-journalist Elly Alboim, have been coaching Wynne, who succeeded McGuinty 15 months ago.
Insiders say Wynne, saddled with a decade of Liberal baggage, is bracing for a barrage of criticism from both her opponents.
In a northern-issues debate last week in Thunder Bay, which Hudak skipped, Horwath repeatedly blasted her for leading a "corrupt Liberal party."
While Wynne handled the onslaught on the stage, immediately afterward she denounced her NDP rival for trafficking in untruths.
Still, both the Tory and NDP leaders are expected to assail Wynne for McGuinty's cancellation of gas-fired power plants in Oakville and Mississauga before the 2011 election.
His decision could cost taxpayers and ratepayers up to $1.1 billion over the next 20 years and the Ontario Provincial Police anti-rackets squad is investigating the alleged wiping of premier's office computers related to the transactions.
Hudak, meanwhile, will face questions about his Million Jobs Plan, designed to create 1 million jobs over eight years, but has become an object of derision after economists noted his math was wrong.
"No, I stand behind my plan. It's going to create jobs," he insisted.
"We can have a great argument about how many it's going to create — 80,000, 100,000, 120,000, 150,000 jobs, but the bottom line is that it's going to create jobs. We need it."
Green Leader Mike Schreiner was not invited to participate in the debate because his party holds no seats in the legislature.


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Book Review: Yoyo By Subo
By Tyler Austin
The older we get the more blind we become.
As we grow older and become more and more engrossed with the demands of life, the less we seem to notice in our everyday. We get so consumed with everything going on around us that we forget to take a step back and see the roses that rest right below us. In his recent book, Yoyo, renowned photographer Subo cautions us to remember "the path is endless, no need for haste."
We overlook things that are directly in front of us, objects and scenes that on the surface don't appear noteworthy. Well finally, the underappreciated art that we interact with on a regular basis is given a spotlight under the lens of Subo's camera.
"When we look at our environment we hardly ever look at our nose" Subo says in an interview that concludes his book. "Noses have been taken for granted for a long time and are never paid any attention. But they are always there. What beauty is inherent in the seemingly small and insignificant?"
The book is filled with images of the everyday, each of which plays with a different photographic element: color contrast, foreground, focus, framing etc. Every now and then we're gifted with an image that veers from the suspected norm, like a lounging peacock in a field or the pointed glass shards of a broken window.
Every spread within the book has an image that is either complemented with a blank page or another seemingly unrelated image. When asked what the connection between the images might be Subo replied, "for me these photographs are like words, whose deeper meaning is only revealed in their relation to one another."
Yoyo is a book that reminds us that there is everlasting beauty in the everyday: the looming shadows of a plant against the walls of a house, the crystallized shards of glass in a shattered window or the sharp reflection of trees in a still puddle. It's important to stop and smell the roses as we get consumed by all that life asks of us and Subo's oyo is a perfect reminder of how beautiful they can be.


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The future course for MV Isle of Lewis remains up in the air this week, as CalMac consider options for the long term use of the vessel.
Currently the ferry is on standby in Stornoway to cover MV Loch Seaforth in the event of an issue arising and is scheduled to undertake two return crossings to Ullapool from the end of this month until the end of August.
However her long term future is now up for discussion with the ferry soon due to set sail on a tour of ports to see where she fits in best.
A CalMac spokesman said:
"We need to maintain as flexible a fleet as possible to meet the demands of the communities we serve.
"To help us deliver on this the MV Isle of Lewis will shortly be embarking on tour of a number of our larger ports across the west coast to determine where it can berth and what adaptations it may need to serve the greatest number of routes.
"During this exercise it will remain on standby to cover the Ullapool Stornoway route if required.
"Long term where the vessel will be deployed will be dependent on where it can best be used to meet passenger demand and address capacity issues."
When asked about the potential for MV lsle of Lewis to provide additional summer sailings between Stornoway and Ullapool again next year, the CalMac spokesperson said that would be decided by Transport Scotland.
At this week's meeting of the Convention of the Highlands and Islands in Orkney, the issue of capacity on island ferries was discussed with it noted that MV Isle of Lewis could potentially be used on the Oban-Craignure route.
In a paper presented to the Convention on Infrastructure, it was noted: "RET has clearly had a significant impact on the routes where it is now in operation.
"In particular, increased demand for cars is now leading to capacity constraints on a number of routes throughout the summer months.
"Most concern has been expressed in the Outer Hebrides, in particular from the tourist industry, where there is a strong belief that the capacity constraints are preventing some prospective visitors from travelling to the islands and therefore limiting opportunities for growth.
"In the short term, additional capacity is being provided on the Ullapool-Stornoway route in summer with the introduction of the new MV Loch Seaforth alongside the MV Isle of Lewis.
"Plans for 2016 are still under discussion, but could see the MV Isle of Lewis being moved to provide additional capacity on the Oban-Craignure service."
They also discussed the plans to order the next two large vessels for the CalMac fleet which is likely to be in 2017-18, one of which will be for the Uig-Tarbert-Lochmaddy triangle.


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Giant Robots are awesome, aren't they? Some of them are really creative and fun to watch fight giant monsters and what not. The best part of this is that we can thank Japan for the onslaught of awesome giant robot shows that we have seen over the past couple of decades. Sadly, we don't seem to get a lot of the cooler Super Robot animes that are shown everywhere else in the world. Most of the time, We get stuff like Gundam, which can get a little more tedious since politics take a front seat to the action, but giant robot shows need to be more action-oriented. We do have some good ones, like The Big-O and Daiguard, but there is one that I have wanted to see for some time now, the Getter Robo series. It's a really popular robot anime and manga series that is still around today in Japan. Today, I decided to take a look at one of the more recent anime adaptations of the series, Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo. This series, which was made in 2001 and ran for only 4 episodes, was a pretty epic show in my opinion. So, let's get right down to it, and see what makes this series so awesome. Just a heads up though, I plan to do a review of some of the other anime adaptations later this year, and I do plan on doing a review of Shin Getter Robo: Armageddon.
The main plot takes place in an alternate universe where this anime acts as a sequel to Getter Robo. This time though, it starts with an invasion by the Dinosaur Empire. They are dinosaurs that have lived underground and evolved into humanoid form. While two of the original Getter Robo pilots try to charge up Shin Getter Robo, a stronger version of Getter Robo, the other original pilot takes the original Getter Robo, and tries to single-handedly defeat and prevent the invasion from the Dinosaur Empire in Manhattan. Sadly, they can't get Shin Getter Robo up and running, and the third pilot of the original Getter Robo realizes he can't hold them all off for long, and instead uses a self-destruct device using the core of the robot. In the end, the explosion kills the Dinosaur Empire and wipes out Manhattan. Years later, one of the original pilots, Hayato, is trying to find a third member for a new team to pilot Neo Getter, a newly-made robot that runs on Neo energy, due to Getter energy getting banned from the Japanese Government. However, the Dinosaur Empire somehow survived the blast from the explosion and is trying to kidnap people and turn them into its soldiers. Hayato finally finds a third pilot named Gou who must team up with the two other pilots, Shou and Gai, and save the world with Neo Getter Robo.
Shin Getter Robo Vs. Neo Getter Robo is like other Super Robot shows, in that there is an evil force trying to take over the world and the giant robot needs to stop the invasion and save the world. However, this series starts off dark, with one of the original Getter Robo characters dying. I mean, Shin Getter Robo is probably the darkest of the anime series based on of the Getter series, but this one is a little more lighthearted, but still serious. For most of the episodes, the three main pilots use Neo Getter Robo until episode 3, where Neo Getter is destroyed and they are forced to use Shin Getter Robo. Like other Getter Robos, it has three forms. The first one is basically the ground-based default robot, which is usually the titular character of the series. I mean, he IS on the title. The second one is usually the fastest of the three forms and always uses a drill attack. The final form is usually more ground-based, but depending on what series you watch, has two different styles of attacks. The Neo Getter version has a powerful wind engine-like weapon around his head, and uses it to make a strong tornado-like blast at the enemy. The other version has extendable arms, and basically has tank-wheel caterpillar legs, but uses missiles in most of its powerful attacks. There is usually a second robot on hand, like in Shin Getter Robo, and in this show also. Here we have the American robo, Texas Mach that is themed like a cowboy and uses revolvers, a lasso, rides a robotic horse, and has a huge rail gun hidden in the US and Japan, if things go bad. Let's get down to the villains now. There is not a lot of the original Dinosaur Empire left, so it works, since this series is only 4 episodes long. They do use robots, like humans, but they usually have some form of lizard or reptile thing attached to them. The exception is the ruler of the Empire who doesn't need his own robot since he is as big as one.
The animation looks nice. The art style of Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa still holds up well, and I like the designs of the enemies and the robots used in the series. Sadly, Ken Ishikawa is no longer with us, dying in 2006. It's always sad to see people who made things you watched or read in your childhood or life pass away. The music is typical Getter Robo stuff, but it helps that Ichiro Mizuki, who you all know I love, sings the opening for the anime. The anime opening is actually well done, filled with intense action music and action scenes. Don't believe me? Then check it out for your self.
Now, it's time to talk about the bad parts of this little series. I just don't like the whole 4-episode thing. I think it's too short, and it forces the creators or whoever to rush the whole story line. It seems even pointless to have Neo Getter Robo since it gets destroyed in episode 3, and then they use Shin Getter Robo to finish off the villains. We also don't get a lot of character development. You get the basic idea of what they are all like, but still, they could have made this series at least 26 episodes. I also kind of find it weird how Americans are portrayed in the Getter Robo series. In Shin Getter Robo, they are portrayed as arrogant and brutish. In Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo, they are portrayed as cowboys and are cocky as they can be. It kind of makes you wonder how Japan actually sees us. Some of the designs of the dinosaurs are really weird, and only a few seem sloppy. That seems like a theme in some of the monsters in Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa's work, but they have a charm to them. They might seem weirdly simple looking, but they hold a charm.
Overall, this was a fun, but short 4-episode anime. I say, if you can find the DVD for this show, pick it up or just watch it on Youtube with English subtitles. I will always have a part of my heart dedicated to this series for the inspiration for a group of my giant robot drawings. Let's just see where Go Nagai goes next with the Getter Robo series.
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Havel Conversations Live: Wendy Luerstalk 22 May, 2018 - 6:30 PM
[BBLA at Bohemian National Hall]
Wendy Luers, human rights activist and non-profit leader, founder of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, diplomatic spouse, and pre-revolution Prague resident in conversation with former Havel foreign policy adviser Lise Stone. On Havel's influence, human rights around the world, and the responsibilities that go hand in hand with expanding social media and escalating global conflicts.
Wendy W. Luers is the founding President of The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS) and Co-Chair of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition. She established FCS in New York and Prague in January 1990 at the request of the Czechoslovaks and Americans following her residence in Prague with her husband, Ambassador William Luers from 1983 to 1986 when they became close to Vaclav Havel and Charter 77. FCS helped promote civil society and provided advice and expertise with offices in New York and Prague from 1990 through 1999, and in Bratislava, Slovakia from 1993 through 1999. In 2012, Mrs. Luers co-founded the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in New York. She serves on numerous boards, including those at Stanford, Tufts and the University of Southern California. She was the first woman and first non-Czech to receive the Gratias Agit Award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and she was decorated with the Double White Cross by Slovakian President Michal Kovac.
Lise Stone is a writer and editor with a focus on international affairs. A journalist and longtime public policy analyst, she served as expert adviser in the foreign policy department of President Vaclav Havel, 1996-1997. She has worked in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors as a writer and editor and has been published online and in newspapers including The New York Times. She has served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Off-the-Record Lecture Series of the Foreign Policy Association and was chair of the Speakers' Committee. For VHLF, she drafted remarks for delivery by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the 2014 Gala Dinner in Washington, D.C., celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
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SlutWalk marched through D.C. on Saturday as one of many recent marches organized by women to raise awareness and reduce the blame put by society on victims of sexual abuse.
Women and men gathered at Lafayette Square and processed down 15th Street to the Washington Monument. Some marchers woreonly in a bra, several painted "Slut" across their chests, others carried signs declaring "My Dress is Not a Yes" and "Even Sluts Have a Right to Say 'No'." All conveyed the same message: Consent is not granted by the way a woman dresses or acts, and victims are never responsible for sexual violence committed against them.
SlutWalk D.C. defines its principle goal as onethat "specifically aims to challenge 'rape culture' which excuses sexual violence through messaging such as 'Don't Get Raped' – instead the message should be 'Don't Rape!'"
SlutWalk D.C. follows a series of marches that began with a small movement in Toronto in April, after a Toronto police officer who suggested that women could better protect themselves by not dressing "like a slut."
Since Toronto, SlutWalk has not only taken Chicago, Austin, Philadelphia and Seattle by storm, but also gone international with marches in Brisbane, Australia and London, England.
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Could a small, tropical country with no military ever be considered a superpower?
It seems unlikely… actually, it seems impossible. But maybe that's because we're thinking about superpower nations the wrong way.
What if there were a new measure of superpower status? A country that can successfully do battle with the emerging threat of climate change? A country whose rank as a superpower is determined by environmental sustainability, rather than military might.
What if, as Hillary Clinton said during last week's presidential debate, there is going to be a new type of "clean-energy superpower of the 21st century?"
Could it be Costa Rica?
If you're still reading this article (and I'm guessing some of you aren't—I've seen the analytics), bear with me for another second, because I actually asked the President of Costa Rica this same question, and I'll get to that in a moment.
First, a bit about Costa Rica. 1) It's not an island. 2) It's sort of like the Ned Flanders of Central America. And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I lived in Costa Rica for years and still have friends there, including the president. But Costa Rica isn't as wild as its neighbors. It's generally friendly, responsible, democratic and overall Okily Dokily.
Costa Rica's beer isn't as good as Nicaragua's, and it's buildings aren't as tall as Panama's. But when it comes to clean energy production, the Ticos are in a league of their own. In fact, just two weeks ago Costa Rica became the first country in the hemisphere to announce it has fully switched to renewable energy sources. It's 100% green. The U.S., by comparison, is only about 10% clean energy, and 90% fossil fuel.
"In 2015, we generated 99% of our energy through renewable sources. And this year, during the months of July and August, we got to 100% renewable generation," said Edgar Gutiérrez, Costa Rica's Minister of Environment and Energy.
Costa Rican power plants haven't burned a single drop of fuel for three months. And considering the country just inaugurated Central America's largest hydroelectric plant—the massive Reventazón dam, which pumps out enough megawatts to power half a million homes (10% of the country)—Costa Rica might never go back. The country already produces more hydroelectric energy than it consumes, so when you factor in the additional geothermal, eolic, and solar power, Costa Rica has a bunch of spare "green batteries" sitting in the drawer.
But Costa Rica's commitment to going green doesn't stop there. The country aspires to become the first nation in the world to become carbon neutral by 2021, just in time for it's 200th birthday. That means net-zero carbon emissions within the next five years. And if you've ever backed your car out of the driveway without simultaneously planting a tree, you know how difficult that is.
Anyone who has sat in a San José traffic jam knows that Costa Rica's goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2021 is increasingly elusive as the bicentennial approaches. But hey, the country is taking greater strides in that direction than most countries, and it'll probably get there first.
But is all that enough to make Costa Rica a clean-energy superpower? Maybe, maybe not.
"I don't think we'll become a superpower, because we don't have the size, but we can become a model in many ways. This is something that we can preach to the world about," says Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís (see, I told you we'd get to him).
Solís says that when he travels to other countries—something he does entirely too much of, according to his critics—foreign leaders often ask him about Costa Rica's experience with renewable energies.
"You should have seen the look that Angela Merkel gave me when we were talking about this a year ago. She told me Germany is making efforts to remove its nuclear power plants and [switch to clean-energy], and when I told her we switched to hydroelectric 60 years ago, she said: 'Really? Tell me about it!'" Solís said. "Energy is the kind of thing I can talk about with Angela Merkel or anyone else. I mean I cannot talk about armies, but I can talk about energy."
In fact, Costa Rica's long-term commitment to clean energy started the same year the country abolished its army, nearly seven decades ago. It's part of what makes the country such a unique case.
Costa Rica didn't go green overnight. It started the process gradually and methodically in 1949, when the state-run Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) was created with a mandate to switch the country to hydroelectric power. While other Central American countries were plotting guerrilla insurrections and military coups, Costa Rica was getting down to the serious business of nation-building. It was the type of long-term planning not normally seen in a region where "long-term" usually means a four or five-year presidential term, before the next person comes into office and tries to undo everything their predecessor started.
Switching to clean energy, Costa Rica's president says, was a sustained "conversion process" that has endured 18 administrations from right, left and center. Even outside tipsy Central America, that's the type of steadfast commitment that very few countries are able to make.
"I would definitely claim that we're a case to be looked at and a model to be followed, particularly because we got here as a result of a number of public policies that were enacted through many decades," Solís said.
Climate change is a fickle problem, however. Costa Rica is now faced with the challenge of adapting its commitment to clean energy to an ongoing cycle of worsening droughts. In recent years, the country has been turning brown as fast as it's going green. Water shortages have led to rationing in the capital, and a shriveling effect in Guanacaste, the northern Pacific beach region that's popular with tourists.
Solís says his government combating the problem by focusing on long-term reforestation and by investing more in geothermal energy to rely less on hydro in the future.
It will be another long and slow process to shift the energy matrix to geothermal, but Costa Rica has track record of staying the course. And if the country can pull off two renewable energy revolutions before other countries can do one, that will definitely put them in the running for clean-energy superpower status.
Tim Rogers, Fusion's senior editor for Latin America, was born a gringo to well-meaning parents, but would rather have been Nicaraguan. Also, he's the second hit on Google when you search for "Guatemalan superhero." Tim was a Nieman Fellow in 2014.


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Feature Running Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Date of Production: 2017
Genre: Star Showcase; Anal; Double Penetration; Feature;
Condoms: No
Audio/Video: Video quality: Shot in HD. Audio: Stereo 48000 Hz
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Director: Greg Lansky
Lana Rhoades as Lana
Penny Pax as Kate
Adriana Chechik as Wealthy Wife
Jean Val Jean as Pierre
Mick Blue as Mr. Kaiser
Manuel Ferrera as Mr. Roman
John Johnson as Donnel
Casey Calvert as Donnel's Assistant
Trey Reel as Wealthy Husband
Bonus Scenes: No
Extras: Multiple Chapters; Photo Gallery; Cumshot Recap;
Lana is s 2-disc star showcase featuring Lana Rhoades and this is a flick I'm rating an XCritic Pick. The Xcritic Pick is something I reserve for high-quality porn with a compelling story, hot sex, top shelf production, sound, lighting, backdrops, costumes, the works! Multi-award winning director Greg Lansky has woven all of these things together in this sensational story behind Lana's secret sex life. The production style in this flick reads like a box office movie and Lansky sticks to a storyline that reveals Lana's passion for a variety of sexual experiences. Lana's secret world of transactional sex collides with her professional life and everything is at stake. It's all or nothing and she doesn't know which way things are going to turn. We experience all the twists and turns as Lana experiences them while enjoying watching her turn up the volume on her sexual escapades, inviting more and more cocks inside her pussy and ass hole to feed a growing desire for a stress-free life.
Scene 1: Lana Rhoades and Jean Val Jean
Lana moved from Chicago to L.A. with one thing in mind: to graduate law school. She only has one year left before graduation. But with all the work preparing for her finals and her unpaid internship, her financial situation became very challenging. She had no time for herself and it was hard to get by. Lana is no quitter. She is determined to succeed. Her internship at the law firm is the best way to get a job after graduation, but she has to work very hard to edge out the other interns. The whole place is so competitive. She gets a roommate, Penny, to help out with the bills but things are still tough. Lana knows that Penny's parents don't have a lot of money but Penny always seems to have lots of money and is also going on shopping sprees. One day, Lana tells Penny that she won't be able to cover her half of the rent this month and she needs help. Penny offers to pay her half and tells Lana to pay her back whenever she can. This leads Lana to ask Penny just how she's getting by. Where is all the money coming from? Penny lets Lana in on a deep, dark secret. Penny is involved in a number of transactional relationships. The guys pay her at least $3,000 for dates and the fun thing is the sex. Lana can't believe the amount of money. Penny offers to introduce her to some of her regulars. Lana hesitates at first but says she's open to it. She's tired of stressing about money. It's a deal. Penny gets to work right away and she has a guy lined up to meet Lana. He's young, rich, European and he pays a lot of money. He's also super kinky with an anal fetish. Lana is open to experiencing something new and getting paid for it.
She meets Jean at his house. He pours her a glass of champagne and tells her there's something in the bathroom for her. It's an envelope full of money. There's also sexy lingerie waiting for her. Lana is turned on by the whole thing and she's ready to put her money woes behind her. She puts on the lingerie and walks back into the room where Jean is waiting for her. He hugs her and tells her, "you're mine now." Lana has begun her journey of sexual freedom. The 2 kiss while he strips her out of her clothes and fingers her pussy. She jerks his cock and is soon sucking it along with his balls. She eats his ass too, stuffing her tongue deep in his hole then she gets on her hands and knees for a throat banging. He feeds her mouth, making her drool then he tongues her ass hole, spreading it wide and making it gape. He tells her he wants her ass hole. But first, he fucks her pussy missionary style followed by the push-up. His nonstop drilling makes Lana cum. With that body slamming intro, Jean tells her he wants to fuck her ass hole now. Lana is open to doing whatever it takes. She stays on her back, opens her legs wide and spreads her ass cheeks open. Jean kneels at the edge of the bed and sticks his dick deep inside her ass hole. She wants him to go slow at first and he gives it to her that way, slowly massaging her rectum and spreading her ass hole with his cock. The thrusting gets faster and deeper and the feeling of it has Lana closing her eyes in ecstasy. She tells him to use her ass hole. She lies on her side for more anal drilling from Jean then sucks his dick in a sloppy ass to mouth. With her ass hole opened up, she decides to sit on his cock in reverse cowgirl position and watch it pump in and out of her tight sphincter. It all feels so good to her. More ass to mouth leads into deep penetrating doggy up the ass and her tight ass hole makes Jean cum. He pulls out, turns her over on her back and shoots off in her wide-open mouth. She sucks his cock then swallows his cum, showing him her empty mouth. Jean tells her she did a very good job and he can't wait to fuck her ass again.
Scene 2: Lana Rhoades, Penny Pax, and Manuel Ferrera
Lana couldn't believe how easy it was to make the kind of money she made with Jean. She made more money letting him fuck her up her ass than she has made working for months. She is hooked on it now and wants more of it. Back at the office, she feels so good about not being stressed about money. It's making her feel more powerful and in control of her life. For the first time, Lana feels good about her job. It's been a few weeks now and Lana wants to feel that rush again, the rush of the money, the control, and the sex. After a few more transactional dates, Penny suggests Lana set up a webpage so guys can contact her directly. This is going to get Lana more clients. The next day at work. Penny texts her saying that she has a big client at 5 o'clock today and he wants 2 girls. Lana is nervous about it because she has never been with another girl before, but she trusts Penny and decides to show up for the job.
Lana meets Penny at Manuel's house and realizes that Penny and Manuel have already started the fun. Penny parades Lana over to Manuel and he is excited about seeing her. He kisses her and fingers her pussy while Penny watches. It feels so good to her, she tells him not to stop playing with her clit. Lana and Penny have never been together before and they're both turned on by the idea of playing with each other. Penny bends over doggy style on the bed and Lana eats her fat pussy from behind while Manuel watches the girl on girl play. Penny's pussy tastes so good to Lana and so does her ass hole. Lana uses her tongue to explore every crevice between Penny's legs, making her toes curl. Manuel adds his cock to the fun, making for a threesome. Penny sucks his big dick first then Lana joins her. They both bend over doggy style near the edge of the bed and enjoy getting their throats fucked by Manuel's huge prick. He takes his dick from one girl's mouth to the next and thrusts it to the back of their throats. Once he lies on the bed, the girls share in sucking his cock, balls, and ass then Lana titty fucks his dick.
She is the first to host his cock in her pussy, riding it cowgirl style while Penny sits on Manuel's face. With his cock fully covered in her pussy juices, she climbs off and both girls suck the juices off his cock. Lana wants more anal and she gets it in spoon position with Manuel stuffing his monster meat hard and deep in her tight ass hole. He strums her clit and continues fucking her rectum. She moves into reverse cowgirl and the penetration is just as deep. As soon as she climbs off his cock, Penny grabs it and sucks it in hot ass to mouth action, tasting Lana's ass off it then she gets spoon fucked up her ass while Lana sticks her tongue deep in Manuel's ass hole. Penny takes it up the ass in reverse cowgirl position and the girls share his pole in ass to mouth cock sucking. Lana is back on her hands and knees again with Manuel's prick wedged deep in her ass hole, plugging it doggy style. Penny follows suit, getting her anal cavity searched by a big, hard pole. Manuel fucks her ass until he's ready to pop and he pulls out and shoots off in Lana's wide open mouth. He plasters her tongue with cum and she swallows it all then eats it off of Penny's ass cheeks. She swaps the rest of his cum with Penny. With a hot threesome and a girl-on-girl behind her, she reminisces about how much fun she had. She wants more transactional relationships.
Scene 3: Lana Rhoades and Adriana Chechik
After her threesome experience with Penny and Manuel, Lana is in too deep. She has been booking clients and enjoying the sex. Her next client is a married couple and they are waiting for her to get dressed in her sexy lingerie. While she's doing that, the husband walks in and hands her an envelope full of money. Lana's eyes light up as she tells him he's very generous. The husband tells her that his wife has a fantasy of having anal sex with a beautiful woman and she's waiting downstairs for her. Lana walks boldly into her new experience to find Adriana in her lingerie waiting to explore her body. Adriana's husband sits and watches the 2 women get acquainted. This was all part of Adriana and her husband's plan. Lana and Adriana continue to kiss passionately and run their hands all over each other's bodies. The chemistry between these 2 heats up the screen.
In no time, Lana is lying on her back and Adriana is running her tongue all over Lana's body. She sucks and licks her nipples, biting them in short bursts that send shivers down Lana's body. Adriana kisses Lana's stomach then swaps spit with her while she grinds her body on top of Lana's. Adriana has finally reached her prize; it's Lana's soft, pink pussy. She spreads Lana's legs open and runs circles around her pussy with her tongue. She sucks on Lana's clit, sending her body into convulsions. Lana tells her to slather her tongue all over that pussy and Adriana is happy to do whatever it takes to make Lana happy. She stabs Lana's cunt with her tongue, making Lana cum then tells her it's time to play with her ass. Lana gets in doggy position and Adriana spends some time admiring Lana's tight, pink ass hole. She tongues her hole, licking all around it then sticking her tongue in it. The hot fireplace behind these 2 starlets isn't the only thing burning in this scene. Adriana stuffs Lana's hole with her 2 fingers while Lana fingers her clit. The sensation makes her cum. Adriana calls it butt cum and she licks it off her fingers. Lana plays dominatrix next, ripping everything off of Adriana, spreading her legs open and licking her ass hole and pussy. Lana spits on Adriana's ass hole then tongue fucks it and sticks her fingers in it. She opens her ass hole wider and wider and soon is fucking her with 3 fingers. Adriana has totally submitted to Lana's advances. Adriana gets back in the driver's seat, stuffing Lana's ass hole with her fingers and fucking her. Lana cums again and it makes Adriana happy. She loves to see Lana's pretty face when she's cumming.
Scene 4: Lana Rhoades and John Johnson
Lana is racking up a lot of sexual experiences and a lot of money too but with everything going on at work and in school, things are getting stressful for her again. She shares her frustration with Penny who tells her to relax and charge her clients more money and be more selective. She takes Penny's advice. She figures out how to manage her work and school life with her secret life. Her next client is a big celebrity who she has been wanting to meet for a long time. John is a very popular guy and before he meets any girl, he has his secretary make her sign a non-disclosure agreement. Lana understands the drill and finally gets her time alone with him at his place. They start kissing on the couch and she rubs his cock in his pants, telling him it's big. He leads her to the bedroom where another one of Lana's transactional relationships begins. She asks him if he wants her to suck his big fat cock. That's when she kneels, grabs hold of his balls and sucks his dick. He likes the way she's hugging his cock with her lips. He tells her to do it nice and sloppy. Lana spits all over his prick and tells him to fuck her mouth. He beats her tongue with his cock first then guides it over her tongue and to the back of her throat, making Lana drool. He instructs her to suck it and stroke it. She's a good girl at following orders, especially when there's a big, hard cock in her mouth.
The throat fucking continues until he pulls her panties off and sees a diamond butt plug wedged deep in her ass hole. He spreads her cheeks open and licks her pussy, making her moan. She rides his cock cowgirl style with the butt plug in then she pulls the plug out and sucks it like a lollipop. John fucks her pussy then turns her over into missionary position to fuck her ass hole. The anal drilling picks up with Lana lying on her side and telling him she likes the way his dick feels in her ass hole. John goes balls deep in her ass then Lana tastes her ass off his cock, sucking him in ass to mouth action before she sits on it in reverse cowgirl position. Her ass hole is the primary target for John's cock missile and he's hitting a bullseye. He pulls out and cums on her tits and tongue.
Scene 5: Lana Rhoades, Mick Blue, and Jean Val Jean
It's been a year since Lana has been doing her transactional relationships. So much has changed in her life. She finished law school and her internship is riding high with a successful settlement at the firm. One day at work, she gets a text from Jean, her first client who started the whole thing for her. He tells her he's in town and wonders if she is open to having sex with 2 guys. She is so excited about the idea because she has never been with 2 guys before. She leaves work and meets Jean at his house. The 2 of them drink champagne and she wonders where the second guy is. Jean tells her he's in the bathroom and will be right out. To Lana's surprise, her boss, Mick, from the law firm walks out of the bathroom. He's the second guy Jean has been talking about. Their eyes meet in disbelief. Jean asks them if they've met before. After a long pause, Mick says no. They've never met before. Lana has one more parting glance at Mick then she goes to the bathroom to get dressed in seductive lingerie. When she comes out of the bathroom in her black lingerie, she is a different person. She's the dirty whore the guys want and she's greedy for cock.
Lana drops to her knees and starts sucking both cocks. They guys' dicks flank her and she turns from one to the other, sucking them and drooling. She's spitting up so much that the drool from Mick's dick is hanging off Jean's. She looks up at them and tells them she wants them to take turns fucking her little slut mouth. Mick is the first to take her up on her offer, thrusting his meat down her throat. Jean goes right in after him, barely giving Lana a chance to breathe. The guys work on her pussy next. Mick eats her missionary and doggy style then keeps her in that position and starts fucking her. Jean fucks her throat, keeping Lana's holes busy. Mick's cock is drilling deep inside Lana's pussy and he's keeping a steady pace as he slams her tight pussy. After a long round of doggy style fucking, Jean goes straight for Lana's ass hole. His cock does an anal cavity search in doggy position that makes her moan in pleasure. The camera gets in close on Lana's anal stretching activity. She sucks Mick's dick while Jean stretches her ass hole. Mick fucks her ass hole missionary style then Lana turns up the heat on her 2-guy affair when she tells them she wants to feel them both inside her at the same time. Before Lana knows it, she's in cowgirl position, sitting on Jean's cock in her pussy and getting fucked in the ass by Mick's long dick. Her DP is the height of pleasure for her as the guys drill her holes deep. Mick and Jean trade places, keeping the hot DP going. Lana's DP really gets exhilarating when she gets into reverse cowgirl position and the guys slam her holes hard and fast. This leads to Mick blowing his load on her tongue and Jean doing the same. She looks up at both guys, jerking their cocks.
After the sex is over, Lana starts to have a breakdown. She can't stop thinking about what just happened. She can't believe that she just had sex with her boss and his best friends. She never wanted her worlds to come together like this. Everything was supposed to be anonymous. She decides to go home and just sleep the whole thing off and figure things out in the morning. When she wakes up, she finds out that someone delivered flowers for her. The note is a job offer from her boss. She's being offered the position of junior associate at the law firm. Lana is elated. Her 2 worlds have collided and it's led to the best possible outcome she could imagine.
Final Thoughts:
Kudos to Lana Rhoades and multi-award winning director Greg Lansky for a spectacular star showcase in the flick Lana. This 2-disc set is one to get your hands on. Sit back, relax and get turned on as you watch Lana's burning desire for sex increase with each session she has. I'm giving this flick a rating of XCritic Pick for the compelling story, hot sex, top shelf production, sound, lighting, backdrops, costumes, the works! It all begins when hard working Lana, who is in law school and interning at a successful firm for no pay, can't make her rent payment. Her roommate introduces her to the world of transactional sex, going out with guys for money. Her first experience is with Jean Val Jean who pays her well and fucks her virgin ass hole. Her next transaction lets her explore her lesbian side when she eats her roommate, Penny Pax's, pussy and ass hole while taking Manuel Ferrera's cock deep inside her. Things pick up and the money gets even better when she fucks Adriana Chechik while her husband watches in steamy girl-on-girl action. By the time she meets John Johnson, Lana has refined her process, limiting the number of clients and fucking only the guys that can pay top dollar. He's a well-known celebrity and the money he pays her is more than before. In the final scene, her first transactional sex partner, Jean, invites her over to have sex with him and another guy. She can't wait to experience it because she has never had sex with 2 guys before. When she gets to his house, much to her surprise, the second guy is her boss, Mick Blue, from the law firm. In that moment, Lana's world comes crumbling down. She just knows her career is over. The two stare at each other, causing Jean to ask them if they've met before. Her boss looks then says no. He pretends he doesn't know her then joins Jean in pounding her pussy and ass hole in a sizzling round of double penetration. Lana loved the sex but leaves the house a wreck and afraid that her worlds have collided to her demise. The next day, Mick sends her flowers and offers her a permanent job at the firm. That validation makes Lana feel like maintaining her secret life has been worth it all along.
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The first-ever TEDxWallStreet was hosted at the New York Stock Exchange on March 30th, 2012. The half-day conference focused on 'Redefining Success' in a challenging world. The event was followed by a reception on the Trading Room Floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Speakers were:
Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO of LearnVest
David S. Rose, CEO of Gust and Founder of Singularity U
Don Tapscott, Best-Selling Author, most recently of MacroWikinomics
Doug Dachille, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of First Principles Capital Management
Jeff Hoffman, Founder of ColorJar and Former CEO of Enable Holdings
Jeff Stewart, Founder and Global CEO of Lenddo
Jim Cramer, Host of CNBC's Mad Money
Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, Creators and Performers of Witness Uganda: The Musical, Winner of the 2012 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater
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They wait and watch. That's what they do. About three hundred or so of them on either side of you. The older ones seem to be to the right of you, with the younger ones on the left. Watching football in the away end at Millwall is a strange, surreal experience. It starts at South Bermondsey railway station, where you're funneled away from the home supporters and down a long walkway with metal fencing on each side. Once inside the ground, we walked through and into the bottom tier of the stand, where there were already no seats available. We might have been expecting stewards to rush over and berate us for standing in a gangway, but none came. We were still there an hour and three quarters later.
Then, of course, there was the staring. It's part unsettling and part amusing, the knowledge that there are a good number of people not even watching the match and are watching you instead. They can't, you rationalise, get anywhere near you (the four stands at The Den are completely separate structures with no way of getting between any two and for this match the lower tier of the two sides of the ground were closed) and they won't see you immediately outside the ground, but they may catch up with you at some point and the fact that there are so many junctions at which they could meet up away from the ground throws the propensity for trouble away from the ground into sharp focus. You can see how it could or might happen, but last night it didn't.
For all the spiky metal that surrounds it, though, The Den itself is a perfectly good facility and, considering that it is now approaching twenty years old, it has worn its age better than many of the other first rash of new grounds that started to spring up at the end of the 1980s and the start of the 1990s. Wimbledon had some cause to be worried by this fixture. For all that has happened over the last twelve months they were outplayed by a Wycombe Wanderers team that was inferior to this Millwall team at the same stage of the FA Cup last season. A win may have been too much to expect, a creditable performance probably not.
They got one. A tight first half saw Millwall dominate possession for long periods without being able to turn this into anything tangible in front of goal, and Wimbledon broke effectively and fluidly when they did get possession of the ball. Indeed the only clear cut chance of the first forty-five minutes fell to the visitors shortly before half-time, when a smart ball in from the right hand side found DannyKedwell unmarked and twelve yards out, but his shot rolled just wide and the chance was gone. Had he converted it, the second half might have been a very different proposition – even so, half-time came with the scores level and not a great deal to choose between the two sides.
Three minutes into the second half, Millwall struck. Neil Harris, who seems to have been at Millwall since the dawn of time (even though he spent a couple of seasons failing to completely fit in), found the corner with the sort of clinical finishing that turned out to be the main difference between the two sides. The second half soon became an even contest in a similar vein to the first, with both sides jabbing at each other. Wimbledon goalkeeper James Pullen made two outstanding saves at one end while, at the other, Elliott Godfrey poked the ball wide from a good position while Paul Lorraine headed narrowly over.
When Jason Price swept in a second goal for Millwall with just under twenty minutes to play it should have finished the game as a contest, but Wimbledon came back and, with nine minutes to play, Danny Kedwell's smart backheel teed up Lewis Taylor to roll the ball in. For a short while, it looked as if the comeback could be on as Wimbledon threw themselves forward in search of an equaliser, but this left them exposed defensively and five minutes later Danny Schofield curled the ball into the top corner from twenty yards out to reinstate the two goal advantage. In the closing minutes, Price added a fourth goal to finish the contest.
Unlike last season, Wimbledon weren't outplayed by their Football League opposition this time around and the final margin of Millwall's win was certainly somewhat flattering. Ultimately, the difference between the two sides was in the finishing. When the professionals of Millwall had their chances, they took them. When the part-timers of Wimbledon had theirs, they didn't. This, however, only tells part of the story of last night. We got a train back to London Victoria that was pleasingly incident-free. A travelling support of almost 3,500 had come to The Den and it is unlikely that Millwall will see a bigger, louder away support all season, yet the match passed off without incident. They watched and they waited but last night that was all that they did, and their hospitality was welcome. Next time they meet, it might just come as equals.


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At least my 2 sons did. The boys held it and tossed it and played out the string and each time the kite can crashing back to earth having barely lifted its wing. Turns out there was a spar broken, so the kite kept listing to the left and then dropping.
But you know what? We all had fun. We, meaning the girls and I, watched and laughed. The boys tried to fly the kite and laughed, and it was an couple of hours of chill time that we all needed.
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Not much has grabbed my imagination this week. It's been business as usual on the Aussie sports scene
The Australian cricket team won as expected and the Socceroos also won as expected. Melbourne United in the NBL had been winning before last night with one of their wins with a bit of help from the match officials. Melbourne Victory won the FFA cup as expected. Nothing in horse racing was as near as interesting as the Melbourne Cup, save for the racing being a bit more interesting due to a less biased track.
One thing which has created a bit of discussion around the traps is the UFC event featuring Ronda Rousey at Etihad Stadium this weekend. I am not a big fan of UFC, but I don't mind it and it is certainly more interesting than main stream boxing these days. I do not subscribe to the view that it is too brutal as I think the sport is well governed and there are probably less injuries in the UFC than there are in boxing. I think one of the reasons why the UFC has somewhat supplanted boxing as the preferred "blood sport" is that it does not appear to be controlled by the likes of Don King and other entrepreneurs and it doesn't have the multiple factions and associations that have split world boxing. If boxing wants to reclaim lost ground they need to win back the public and have one unified governing body to control the sport world wide.
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Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn has ponied up for the $1 million buy-in table at the World Series of Poker, BusinessWeek's Mason Levinson reports.
He will donate any winnings to the non-profit group City Year, Levinson writes.
Einhorn finished 18th in the World Series of Poker's main event in 2006. He also played in last year's tournament, making it to Day 2
He'll be playing in Vegas this year July 1.
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