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Getting rid of debt is a great way to exert more control over your finances. When you have fewer financial obligations, it's easier to put more of your budget toward growing your family, planning for retirement and vacations, and other want-to-dos, versus have-to-dos. The new year is a great time to take concrete actions to reduce what you owe.
Not sure how to get started? Use these ideas to figure out an approach and then start taking your first steps to help pay down debt — the best New Year's resolution yet.
- Create a budget.
You'll find that documenting what you spend and what you take in is a good first step toward understanding your debt and figuring out ways to pay it off faster. Record all fixed expenses such as rent or mortgage, utilities, and vehicle and student loan payments. Then determine miscellaneous expenses for things like restaurants, entertainment, and clothing. Total those and subtract them from your income to see how much, if any, you have left.
- Establish a "debt payoff" budget line item.
Even if you don't have much leeway in your budget, try to include a separate line item dedicated toward reducing your debt. It helps you create a habit of thinking about faster debt payoff as a regular expense to account for. One note: your debt payoff budget line item shouldn't be lower than the minimum balance you must pay each month, otherwise you risk affecting your credit score negatively.
- Don't add to your debt.
If you can, don't continue to use your credit cards or add to any loan totals. Your goal is to reduce debt.
- Prioritize debts.
Pick the loan or credit card with the smallest balance or with the highest interest rate, and focus extra resources on paying off that first. Then move on to the next smallest one or next highest interest rate loan or credit card.
- Consolidate — if it makes sense.
Balance transfers can be a good way to both reduce your interest rates and streamline your payment strategies. If consolidation is an option, make sure there are no associated fees.
- Double your minimum due payment.
Paying the minimum won't help you make quick progress on your debt. Instead, for the first loan or credit card you prioritize, try to pay double the minimum due — or even a little bit extra — to make a quick impact on the remaining balance.
- Put extra income or resources to work.
Apply bonuses, tax refunds, and any other money you make, such as a second job, to work on your debt priorities.
- Know that every contribution matters.
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RightUp necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 168 diseños de 53 diseñadores freelance.
Carbon Neutral Planet
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Carbon Neutral Planet, which will be located at CarbonNeutralPlanet.org, is a website where ecologically-conscious people can pay money to offset the carbon they are producing. When you drive in your car, fly in a plane, or heat your house, you are releasing carbon into the atmosphere that damages the environment and causes such problems as global warming.
To reduce your impact on the climate, you can reduce the amount of carbon you produce. Alternatively, you can pay someone else, like Carbon Neutral Planet, to reduce the carbon in the atmosphere on your behalf, which is a "carbon offset." If all the carbon you produce is offset by activities that remove carbon from the atmosphere, that is called "carbon neutral."
If every person and every business on the planet was carbon neutral, human carbon production would no longer be damaging the environment. We can strive for this goal, but we're starting at the individual level and helping people get their own lives closer to carbon neutral.
Carbon Neutral Planet sells carbon offsets that individuals and businesses can purchase to reduce their own carbon impact on the environment. When you purchase a carbon offset from us, we use the money to plant trees in Mexico, to stop trees and vegetation from being cut down or burned, and to teach people how to reduce the amount of carbon they produce.
Companies and people who buy carbon offsets from Carbon Neutral Planet care about the environment and they want to do something to improve it. Environmental ("green") issues are important to them, and they are concerned that if we don't improve the environment it will be damaged for future generations.
People who buy carbon offsets may drive a hybrid car such as a Toyata Prius, they avoid consumer packaging that increases carbon waste, they usually care about their health and what they eat, and they are more likely to be liberal than conservative.
We need a logo and a logo-related favicon for Carbon Neutral Planet. You should provide source vector art on a white background.
Our name implies a planet that is carbon neutral. Representing that graphically some way would be nice.
The ".org" does not need to be displayed in the logo.
The logo should be warm and inviting, and it should be clear that it's about the environment. The logo should inspire trust that Carbon Neutral Planet is a good place to purchase carbon credits.
Environmentally friendly colors such as green, blue, and a cool grey are preferred.
I prefer simple, clean designs compared to complicated ones.
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Also, the word "Neutral" should not be separated from the word "Carbon". They go together. Some designs have Carbon on one line, and then neutral planet on the next line. That won't work. Having planet on another line is ok, but "carbon neutral" must stay together.
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|Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
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8.2.3 Figures of Merit
There have been many attempts to obtain a "figure of merit" for climate models. Usually such quantification is only attempted for well-observed atmospheric variables and range from calculation of simple root mean square errors (r.m.s.) between a model variable and an observation, to more complex multi-variate calculations. Among the most promising attempts at generating skill scores deemed more suitable for climate models are: the normalised mean square error approach of Williamson (1995) that follows on, in part, from Murphy (1988); and the categorisation of models in terms of combination of the error in the time mean and the error in temporal variability along the lines suggested by Wigley and Santer (1990) (see Chapter 5, Section 126.96.36.199. of the SAR for an example). Other less widely used non-dimensional measures have also been devised (e.g., Watterson, 1996). Although a number of skill scoring methods have been devised and used for the seasonal prediction problem (e.g., Potts et al., 1996; linear error in probability space score - LEPS) these have not found general application in climate models. Attempts to derive measures of the goodness of fit between model results and data containing large uncertainties have been partially successful in the oceanographic community for a limited number of variables (Frankignoul et al., 1989; Braconnot and Frankignoul, 1993). Fuzzy logic techniques have been trialled by the palaeoclimatology community (Guiot et al., 1999). It is important to remember that the types of error measurement that have been discussed are restricted to relatively few variables. It has proved elusive to derive a fully comprehensive multi-dimensional "figure of merit" for climate models.
Since the SAR, Taylor (2000) has devised a very useful diagrammatic form (termed a "Taylor diagram" - see Section 188.8.131.52 for description) for conveying information about the pattern similarity between a model and observations. This same type of diagram can be used to illustrate the relative accuracy amongst a number of model variables or different observational data sets (see Section 8.5.1). One additional advantage of the "Taylor diagram" is that there is no restriction placed on the time or space domain considered.
While at times we use a figure of merit to intercompare models for some selected variables, we usually apply more subjective assessments in our overall evaluations; we do not believe it is objectively possible to state which model is "best overall" for climate projection, since models differ amongst themselves (and with available observations) in many different ways. Even if a model is assessed as performing credibly when simulating the present climate, we cannot be sure that the response of such a model to a perturbation remains credible. Hence we also rely on evaluating models in their performance with individual processes (see Chapter 7) as well as past climates as in Section 8.5.5.
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2 dead in head-on Oviedo crash
8-year-old boy, 65-year-old woman die in crash
OVIEDO, Fla. – An 8-year-old boy and 65-year-old woman were killed Sunday morning in a head-on crash in Oviedo, in the area of S.R. 434 and the 417.
Ethan Deuter died in the accident, while his brother Kyle Deuter, 6, and sister Courtney Deuter, 9, only suffered minor injuries, troopers said.
The Deuters' neighbors were shocked to hear of Ethan's death.
"It's devastating," said Jenifer Walker, whose son played with Ethan. "It's even more devastating to even know the mom is still in critical condition."
Their mother, 28-year-old Danielle Deuter, who was driving the vehicle with the children, was listed in critical condition at Orlando Regional Medical Center. The woman driving the other vehicle, 65-year-old Marie Radford, a teacher at Seminole High School, died from her injuries, troopers said.
"Danny Deuter is a friend from high school many of us are praying and keeping positive thoughts for his family," said Tiffany Hicks in a statement. "Many of us are praying that God will heal his family."
The crash was dispatched around 10:09 a.m. FHP had to close S.R. 434, east of the 417, while investigators worked the scene.
Walker said the construction zone along 434 contributes to a lot of accidents.
"People don't slow down," Walker said. "They're not paying attention and they just fly by. A lot of times they even pass the school bus when the school bus stops there in the afternoons."
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Jane Goodall on climate change: 'We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing from our children, and it's shocking'
Jane Goodall greets the audience by imitating a chimpanzee, then launches into an hour-long talk on her relationship with apes and how, from being a primatologist, she became an activist to protect them.
At 78, Goodall, who has 53 years of studying chimps behind her, is still criss-crossing the planet to raise the awareness of populations and their leaders on the fate of the apes and the need to protect the environment.
"I haven't been more than two or three weeks in one place at one time," for the past 25 years, she says.
It all started with a conference on chimpanzees that she attended in the US in the 1980s.
There were sessions on the ethics of chimps being used in medical research, habitat destruction and chimps caught in snares and the beginning of the bush meat trade.
"I went in as a scientist happily learning about chimpanzee behaviour… but I left that conference as an activist," she recounts.
She started her career as an activist in Africa, travelling from country to country with her exhibit — a collection of photos and some tools used by chimpanzees, who, like all the great apes, are endangered by habitat destruction and the bush meat and pet trades.
"While I was travelling around in Africa, I was not only learning about the need to conserve chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos, but I was also learning about many of the problems facing African people," she added.
"I was learning more and more about the poverty and the ethnic violence and problems of that sort."
The realisation that many of the problems faced by African populations stemmed from exploitation of natural resources, first in the colonial era and then by multinational companies, led her to realise "it's also clearly important to travel in Europe and North America, and now increasingly in Asia," she told those gathered to listen to her at the National Museum headquarters in Nairobi.
She spoke of the explosion in the planet's human population, of the ever greater need for land, food and housing, and evoked the scarcity of water as well as global warming.
"When I first came to Africa and I flew over Kilimanjaro, even in the height of the summer there was a great cap of snow. The snows of Kilimanjaro," she recalled.
"I just read the other day that we should rather be talking about the dusts of Kilimanjaro. That is just one signal and this is all around the world that the glaciers are melting," she went on.
For Goodall, one of the world's leading chimpanzee experts, "something has gone wrong" in the relationship between man and the planet.
"We've just been stealing, stealing, stealing from our children, and it's shocking. But is it true that there's nothing that can be done? No absolutely not," she goes on, explaining how her latest project, Roots and Shoots, began.
The project, which now spans 132 countries, began in Tanzania, where Goodall, the first scientist to name the animals she was studying — a practice that sparked controversy, started observing chimpanzees, with just 12 students from nine different high schools.
Roots and Shoots is aimed at sensitising young people to the importance of the environment and fauna.
"Young people are influencing their parents, they are influencing their teachers, they grow up to become teachers and parents, they grow up to go into business, to become politicians," Goodall said.
"I now look back over nearly 53 years of unbroken research in Gombe and I think the thing that strikes me most and probably that has been the most significant in enabling this study to continue is how like us chimpanzees are," she added.
"They are way more like us than we thought back then," she said.
"We didn't know back then the DNA structure of chimps and humans differs by only just over 1%, we didn't know to what extent the immune and blood systems and the anatomy of the brain is similar in humans and chimpanzees and we certainly didn't know how similar our behaviour is," she said, noting that chimpanzees are capable of altruism.
"There is no sharp line dividing us from the chimpanzee or from any of the great apes," Goodall said, whilst also dismissing the idea of a sharp distinction between the great apes and monkeys and other mammals.


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It is among my few regrets in life that I don't have a front yard, only in that it limits me from unleashing an army of solar-powered squirrels on the neighborhood.
Imagine, if you will, standing behind a legion of weather proof, poly-resin rodents that operate off free energy. What in the world would not be mine for the taking, as presidents and kings alike bowed to the power of the amber LEDs or simply broke into tears at the unparalleled beauty of 3,000 squirrel soldiers all adorned with the same hand-painted finish?
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- "Amputee Mommy" blogger has mission to let people who have lost limbs know they aren't alone
- Saturday is "Show Your Mettle Day," when amputees are encouraged to reveal prosthetics
- The idea is to "bring the amputee community out of the shadows"
Peggy Chenoweth woke up angry the first time she dreamed of herself as an amputee.
She'd found a certain measure of comfort in late-night reunions with her two-legged self, but for the first time since her surgery, the reality of her altered body seeped into her sleeping hours.
She felt cheated, took a moment to mourn, and went about the business of her day. Living with limb loss requires a certain toughness.
The graphic images and accounts from the Boston Marathon bombing have thrown the issue of amputation into the national spotlight. As tragic and violent as the circumstances of their injuries were, the 14 people who lost arms, legs, hands or feet as a result of the attack represent a fraction of who undergo amputation in the United States on any given day -- roughly 500 people, according to figures from the Amputee Coalition, the nation's largest limb loss advocacy and support group.
It is Chenoweth's mission to let every person who has lost a limb know they are not alone. Through her blog, The Tales of an Amputee Mommy, the 38-year-old writer and social media manager receives 10 to 20 e-mails a day from people newly dealing with limb difference, and feeling severed from the world as well.
By 2011, Chenoweth had been dealing with her own limb loss for nearly eight years. What started as an accident at a work conference -- a computer monitor falling off a cart and crushing her foot -- spiraled into a five-year nightmare of excruciating pain, endless and ineffective surgeries and finally a legal battle to win the right to the amputation that would finally end the physical part of her suffering. (Her insurance company contended that she could live a "happy, healthy and active lifestyle on narcotics and crutches." She disagreed.)
Frustrated that she rarely saw people like herself outside the confines of her prosthetist's office, Chenoweth declared the last Saturday of that April, which is National Limb Loss Awareness Month, to be "Strut Your Stuff Day."
In a blog entry titled "Starting a Movement," she encouraged her readers to forgo cosmetic coverings, wear shorts and other clothes that reveal prosthetics and residual limbs and "bring the amputee community out of the shadows."
It hit a nerve. Now in its third year, Chenoweth's movement has been adopted by the Amputee Coalition and retooled as "Show Your Mettle Day," with public outings and awareness events planned around the country for Saturday. There is also a Facebook contest for people to share pictures of themselves in public with the absence of their limbs evident.
Winners, determined by number of Facebook "likes" in four categories (individual, family and friends and community, support groups and facilities, or workplace) will receive recognition in several of the organization's publications. For each photo uploaded to the page during April, prosthetic limb maker WillowWood will donate $1 to the coalition.
The feedback Chenoweth has received steels her belief that this exposure, however uncomfortable it might be for both participants and onlookers, is a force for forward motion.
"I was astounded that so many people aren't living their lives out of fear of what other people are going to think," she says. "This event gives people a reason to stand up and say, 'This is who I am.' Not every amputee uses a prosthetic, but every amputee in their own right has shown that they're strong and they have gumption and courage to persevere. That's the definition of (showing) your mettle."
The journey toward public exposure can be terrifying, but both experts and members of the community agree on its importance in the process of seeing one's self as whole again.
"People are afraid of what they don't know," says Anissa Gustafson. The 41-year-old registered dietitian lost her leg (and the family dog) four years ago in a car accident 90 miles from her home in Las Vegas.
Gustafson vividly recalls her first public outing, picking up her children at day care, before she received her prothesis. "I remember walking into my children's classroom and all the little kids tilting their heads sideways, like they were looking for the rest of my leg," she says.
"The looks on their faces were priceless. It was such a sweet moment, explaining to a group of 3- and 4-year-olds what happened to my leg. But somehow, explaining it to those innocent little kids was kind of healing."
Gustafson also said goodbye to an emblem of her former self in the form of a "shoe funeral." No longer able to wear shoes with a heel higher than two inches, she had to get rid of 40 pairs of shoes and adapt her signature style to work with her new prosthetic -- a "realistic" model that cost her $20,000. For her, the price was worth it.
"I don't see it as being ashamed of my leg," she says. "For me it's just a matter of feeling more whole and beautiful. We all dress or style our hair a certain way as an expression of ourselves, and I felt a part of that was taken from me."
While she doesn't always care to draw attention to her prosthetic, Gustafson does always make sure the socket that fits around her residual limb has a bit of fun or sparkle to it. It's part of the process of embracing her changed physical self.
Over the past two years, Strut Your Stuff has inspired people to go out in their community for the first time without a cosmetic cover, reveal to co-workers that they're living with a prosthetic, or even leave the confines of their own homes, which they hadn't done since their limb loss.
Chenoweth designed an awareness ribbon that incorporates the image of a prosthetic leg, and last year received a large order for merchandise. A boy was about to return home from having his leg amputated, and his soccer team wanted to rally around him on Strut Your Stuff Day with the ribbon emblazoned on their jerseys.
"That's what it's about," Chenoweth says, "getting the community's support, raising awareness and letting people know that you can be missing a limb and still be very whole and live a fulfilling life."
Chenoweth says that, like most amputees, she still has "bad leg days." But she says the acceptance of her limb loss came about without fanfare one day when she realized what she had been missing. "I knew I was going to be OK when I got through my lunch and I realized I hadn't cursed out my prosthetic yet."
Going out to strut your stuff?
Dr. Roberta Cone is a psychologist who specializes in dealing with limb difference. (She lost her arm below the elbow in a car accident and opts not to wear a prosthetic.) Here are some of her tips for situations your might encounter, both from friends and loved ones.
• If people stare at you, look back and smile. It is part of human nature to be curious, and they don't necessarily mean anything by it.
• If you do get positive feedback, put that in your self esteem bank for later when you might be having a difficult time.
• Do not define yourself by your lost limb. If people have a negative reaction, it is not personal toward you.
• It is natural to feel repulsed upon first seeing the absence of a limb, even when it's a loved one or romantic partner. Neither one of you should feel ashamed by this, and know that it does pass.
• There are tremendous resources available on the Amputee Coalition website. Educate yourself as much as possible, so you can be open to discussion if it arises.
See someone showing their mettle?
Peggy Chenoweth has some advice for those who may have questions for people with limb loss.
• Take their lead. If a person seems open to questions, you may ask them politely. Otherwise, just leave them alone.
• Don't conduct the Spanish Inquisition. Let the person share whatever they're comfortable with, but don't press. Not everyone is at the same place in their journey, and they don't owe you a story.
• For goodness' sakes, don't make fun. Within the community, a good sense of humor is necessary for survival and we'll make plenty of jokes -- but that doesn't mean you are free to as well.
• Don't tell them what they "should" be doing. Yes, Oscar Pistorius has those cool sport legs. Those cost a lot. The most basic prosthetics are almost a luxury item for most people and often aren't covered by insurance.
Are you or someone you love dealing with limb loss? We would love to hear from you. Please share your story in the comments below; we're paying close attention.
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RIM rebrands as BlackBerry; launches nifty new devices
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd on Wednesday unveiled the long-delayed line of smartphones it hopes will put it on the comeback trail, but it disappointed investors by saying U.S. sales of its all-new BlackBerry 10 devices will not start until March, sending its share price tumbling 12 percent.
Chief Executive Thorsten Heins also announced that RIM was abandoning the name it has used since its inception in 1985 to take the name of its signature product, signaling his hopes for a fresh start for the company that pioneered on-your-hip email.
"From this point forward, RIM becomes BlackBerry," Heins said at the New York launch. "It is one brand; it is one promise."
RIM, which is already starting to call itself BlackBerry, had initially planned to launch the new BlackBerry 10 devices a year ago. But it pushed the release date back twice as it struggled to perfect a new operating system.
Ahead of Wednesday's announcements, analysts had said that any launch after February would be a black mark for the Canada-based company.
"The biggest disappointment was the delay in the U.S., that it will take so long before the devices get going there," said Eric Jackson, founder and managing Partner at Ironfire Capital LLC in New York.
Heins said the delays reflected the need for U.S. carrier testing, although carrier AT&T Inc offered few clues on what that meant. Instead, the carrier merely stated it was enthusiastic about the devices and would announce availability, pricing and other information at a later date.
"Carriers in all other parts of the world get their devices through the testing process significantly faster than the U.S. carriers do," said John Jackson, an analyst at IDC, adding that the U.S. process can often take "weeks" longer.
Nevertheless investors were extremely disappointed with the delay and RIM shares on the Nasdaq ended the day 12 percent lower at $13.78. Its Toronto-listed shares fell by almost the same margin to close at C$13.86.
RIM launched its first BlackBerry back in 1999 as a way for busy executives to stay in touch with their clients and their offices, and the company quickly cornered the market for secure corporate and government emails.
But its star faded as competition rose and the BlackBerry is now a far-behind also-ran in the race for market share, with a 3.4 percent global showing in the fourth quarter - down from 20 percent three years before. Its North American market share is even smaller - a mere 2 percent in the fourth quarter.
RIM shares have tumbled along with the company's market share and the stock is down 90 percent since its 2008 peak. Despite the pullback on Wednesday, RIM's share price has more than doubled over the last four months, reflecting the growing buzz about its new devices.
The new BlackBerry 10 phones will compete with Apple's iPhone and devices using Google's Android technology, both of which have soared above the BlackBerry in a competitive market.
The BlackBerry 10 devices boast fast browsers, new features, smart cameras and - unlike previous BlackBerry models - enter the market primed with a large application library, including services such as Skype and the popular game Angry Birds.
The BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen device, in black or white, will be the first to hit the market, with a country-by-country rollout that starts in Britain on Thursday.
A Q10 model, equipped with a small "qwerty" keyboard that RIM made into its trademark, will launch globally in April.
"I'm still confident that a lot of the subscriber base are going to want the upgrade to BlackBerry 10. It's a very strong improvement over what they currently have. This is not going to cause mass defections from iOS and Android, but it doesn't have to be a success for RIM. You've got to start somewhere," said Jackson of Ironfire, which owns shares in RIM.
The Z10 device won a lukewarm review from The Wall Street Journal's tech blogger Walt Mossberg, who complained of a shortage of apps.
On the other hand, David Pogue, who writes for The New York Times, apologized for describing BlackBerry as doomed in the past. The Z10 touchscreen device was "lovely, fast and efficient, bristling with fresh, useful ideas," he said.
While technology analysts conceded that RIM has done quite a remarkable job on many of the features of BlackBerry 10 and on the array of its app selection for a new platform, many argue it will be a very tough slog for RIM to regain its crown.
"I don't think that RIM will return to its glory days," said Charles Golvin, analyst at Forrester Research. "Success for them looks like staunching the bleeding and clawing back a percentage or point or two of market share."
Announcements about pricing so far have been in line with expectations. U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless said the phone would cost $199 for a two-year contract, while Canada's Rogers Communications is quoting C$149 ($150) for certain three-year plans.
RIM picked a range of venues for its global launch parties, including Dubai's $650-a-night Armani Hotel, which occupies six floors of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower.
The New York event took place in a sprawling basketball facility on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just north of the Manhattan Bridge. The BlackBerry has been "Re-designed. Re-engineered. Re-invented," RIM said.
RIM, which is splurging on a Super Bowl ad to promote its new phones, also introduced Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys as its global creative director.
"I was in a long-term relationship with BlackBerry and then I started to notice some new, kind of hotter, attractive, sexier phones at the gym, and I kind of broke up with you for something that had a little more bling," Keys said at the New York launch.
"But I always missed the way you organized my life and the way you were there for me at my job, and so I started to have two phones - I was kind of playing the field. But then ... you added a lot more features ... and now, we're exclusively dating again, and I'm very happy," she said.
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State Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, brought HB 15, his version of the abortion sonogram bill, to the House floor today, only to be met by beleaguered Democrats using whatever weapons they could muster to delay the inevitable. The weapons included amendments, point-of-order delaying tactics, and, for state Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, a trans-vaginal probe.
Standing at the front mike on the House floor, Alvarado reached into a plastic grocery bag and pulled out the long, white-plastic device and then proceeded to describe in clinical detail how it's used in the trans-vaginal sonogram procedure that she maintained Miller's bill would require.
"This is not the jelly-on-the-belly that most of you think," she said, introducing an amendment that would explain what the sonogram entails. "This is government intrusion at its best. We've reached an all-time high, the climax of government intrusion."
Alvarado informed her colleagues that during the procedure the device was covered with a condom and gel "and is then inserted into the vagina. The probe sends out ultra-sound waves, which are used to project an image of the uterus and its contents onto a computer screen. And the health provider will move the probe within the area to view the pelvic organs. . . . A woman who has been a victim of rape or incest would undergo the penetration of this trans-vaginal probe, this very intrusive process. HB 15 provides no exemptions for victims of rape or incest. They would be forced to undergo this very, very intrusive procedure."
Miller explained to his colleagues that his bill would require a doctor performing an abortion to conduct a sonogram on the woman at least 24 hours ahead of the procedure. (The Senate bill sets a two-hour mandate.) The doctor also would show the woman the sonogram image, play the audible heartbeat for her and describe what appears on the sonogram. In the House version, the woman would be allowed to refuse to view the sonogram or hear the heartbeat; in the Senate version she could opt out of seeing or hearing but would have to listen to the description.
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SmartMoney's "Find Free Checking Accounts Now advises consumers to meet checking account minimum balance requirements by shifting money from savings to checking accounts, even if that means sacrificing some interest—no big deal because savings account interest rates are pathetic now anyway. Also, a resource is recommended for shopping around for online banks that offer free checking and fewer fees than brick-and-mortar counterparts:
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If you're a regular consumer seeking an alternative to the big banks, a credit union might be your best bet.
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I felt myself dissolving. Darkness. A thought. A wish. A vision. A flash. And there… Madrid. Spain. Midnight. I'm actually here. Finally. I'm standing in this street. This very street. Near the driveway that leads up to Tate's House. I can't believe it. I need to savour it. This moment of reckoning… Grey rays of pale moonlight filtered through the trees that were being battered and blown in the fierce wind. A storm. But I felt none of it. I felt as if I'm floating in a breezeless street. Calm. Focused. And weightless.
"Come with me", said the reaper standing next to me. His voice was calm and crisp, as if there was no whistling wind, no thunderous hum around us.
"I have unfinished business here", I replied faintly.
"You're just a shade. A ghost. There's nothing left for you here. No one will notice you anymore", he continued.
"Oh I know I'm dead. But it's about how. So young. So unfulfilled. I left. I died obsessed and madly in love with the boy who lives in that house over there. Right there. He never even knew I existed. But I had these extreme feelings. The bits and pieces I never bothered to put into words. It's so powerful, what I feel. That's why I believe my actions still have meaning. I know he will feel me. I just know—"
I took a deep breath, of nothing. I felt a thumping in my chest – a ghostly fake heart. I was so excited. And I began my final and longest journey alone. I started walking. Kept my pace. I walked up the driveway, through the walls of the house. Inside. Searching every room. So far, empty. No one home. I started feeling sad, worried, in the darkness it seemed as if some great bird had flown over and swept away what once lived here, with the shadow of its wing. But wait. Can you feel that? I entered the last bedroom on the left. There's an energy. So much life. The bedroom lights were off, and something lay lightly in the shadowed valleys of sheets on the bed, in blissful slumber. In nothing but boxers, there lay my prize of love for one single night, in a lifetime. Despite all his fame and all his power, Tate looked so vulnerable and delicate here, just like any other 18-year old boy, obeying the rules of sleep and bedtime.
I switched on the digital video camera and put it down on the side of the bed focused on Tate. Then I climbed on top of him. I touched his face. The softest. I felt his breath on my fingers. Like a countdown. Calm breathing of ocean waves. Stop. I ripped off his deep blue boxers with a supernatural force I didn't know I had. I barely had time to get a good look at his dick before he woke, began kicking and screaming. I pinned him down. I loved the sheer male power of him. Like a real thoroughbred colt he fought, struggling, punching me off wildly. But it made no difference. It all just went straight threw me. I was invisible to him. And his eyes, oh those gorgeous icy blue eyes, they were so confused, so frightened.
I let him go, just to see what he would do. He ran for the door, only to find it locked without a key, then to the burglar-barred windows which, for some supernatural reason, couldn't even be opened, couldn't be broken. "HELP ME SOMEBODY!" he shouted, "Mum! Dad. Help me—". I kept the camera focused on him, on his soft perfect cock, and on his taught bubble butt. I'd never seen such a cute boy-ass. The way it wiggled, just right. The way it was shaped, my dear god, the sheer roundness of it.
I caught him and threw him on his back on the bed. (CameraView: Tate being flung onto the bed by an invisible force). He felt my every touch. I held him down 100% naked on the bed under me. He looked up, tears rolling down his face. "Tate… Calm down baby", I whispered in his ear, and from the reaction on his face, I knew he heard me. He looked so beautiful – the best example of how every young boy should be. So energetic, so fresh. I craved his mouth, his voice, his hair. I picked his legs up into the air, exposing his slim ass to the camera. I almost melted at how hot he looked. I drew circles on his sleek thighs and his butt-cheeks with my tongue, marking my path down to his hole. It was so soft there, between the pillows of his ass, so slippery and inviting. Then I dipped my tongue into him. His whole body tensed up. It was so amazing, that control I had over him. I wiggled my tongue to deepen the penetration. It had never been in such a soft place before. I started licking him harder, as if I was sucking for honey. And then came the unexpected. When I looked up, his cock was fully and beautifully erect. Right in front of my face. What a cock. Definitely number one on my top10 list of the slickest things in existence. Perfection. Smooth. Neat. Lollipop-like. Slit like a snake-eye. It was like one of those carved dildos, but better. I just wanted to eat him all up.
I played with it between my fingers and wanked it a bit in its own pre-cum. Tate moaned the entire time, as if he was sharply in pain, but I could tell that it was just him enjoying it, mingled with his fear and intrigue over the unknown. Now he was keeping his legs raised all by himself. I took the head of his penis into my mouth and inserted two fingers into his soft buttery anus at the same time. "OHH FUCK!!! What the fuck is that?? Mmmmm", he moaned. His cock fitted into my mouth so well, as if it was designed to be sucked. It worked so smoothly, the skin moved so easily, like changing gears on a brand-new Lamborghini. (CameraView: Tate's legs in the air, his feet arched backwards in ecstasy, his asshole a little open, moving slightly, and his hard dick's foreskin being sucked back and forth by something invisible, as he moans like a little puppy)
He was humping against my hand, moving his hole against my fingers, pressing his cock back into my mouth, trying to force me to go faster. I noticed he was losing control, so I stopped for a moment. I just left him there on the bed in his peak. I watched him. He looked around, disappointed, embarrassed. He clenched his thighs together and slowly tried to cover his hard-on with his bed-sheet. His mouth was half open. It looked almost hungry for something. I touched his hand. He shivered. I hooked my fingers in-between the spaces of his. So cute and sweaty they were. I kissed and sucked on them lightly. Then I bit on the outer side of his palm. "You bit me", he half-smiled and said it, that killer-smile. I adored the way his lips moved when he spoke, the curves and dimples at the sides of his mouth, "—What are you?"
"I'm only your biggest fan in the entire world, Tate. And I wish you would love me too. But in my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind", I said softly.
He looked around. There was a hint of naughtiness in his expression. Curiosity. Then he moved the sheets off him slowly and leaned forward. I knelt up on the bed and guided his face. He knew what I wanted, because he let his mouth hang open. I pressed the coolness of his young lips against the tip of my cock. I grabbed two fistfuls of his silky hair as my entire stem slid down Tate's warm throat. I held the camera closer. (CameraView: Tate's head bobbing up and down, his mouth open in a perfect O-shape, young lips sliding back and forth, the back of his throat expanding intensely as something fucks in and out of it. Vicious slurping noises and only Tate's cute but stifled moans can be heard) And then I started gushing. Long jets of liquid started shooting out of my cock down Tate's throat, and it just didn't stop. It went on for about five full minutes! It wasn't cum. Pre-cum maybe. Or ectoplasm. Or ghost piss. Honestly I have no idea what it was, but it felt incredible to have The Tate Riordan milk and drink all of it straight out of my dick. (CameraView: Tate begins gulping something down, his little Adam's apple vibrates as he struggles to keep up with the drinking. Tate moans frantically. He chokes a little, but something holds his head in place, some liquid leaks out of his mouth)
I gave Tate some time to recover from the rather forceful mouth-fucking. After a few minutes, he began looking rather uncomfortable, then restless, then worried. "Are you there? Something's wrong, something is seriously wrong with me. It's what you made me swallow. What did you make me swallow??", his voice was trembling.
"What's wrong??", I asked. I wrapped my arms around him, and pulled him in close.
"I think it's my prostate. It's fuckin' itching. Like extremely insanely. I wish I could reach it, but the itch is fuckin' inside me!", he continued.
I placed my hand at his lower tummy soothingly. I loved how the little squares of his natural abs flexed and relaxed according to my touch. He was truly sexy all over, every bit and spot of him. I picked his legs up and rubbed my finger at the entrance of his hole. "Uhhhhhh. Yeahhhhhhh—" came his urgent and vibrating moan. I pushed a finger in. "UHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he gasped, "Go deeper! The itch is further in!" he trembled out desperately. I put his feet on my chest, and I inserted my cock partially in his hole. He nearly rose off the bed. It was like wedging a knife of need deep inside him.
"AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!" he arched his back. I moved it around until I found the spot, and then I stroked it. "FUCKKK!!! Presss… down more. Yes ahh AHHH YESSS! Almost there…. Yeah OHH HARDER!!! SOOOOO GOOD!!!! MMMMMMMMM!!!! AHHHHHH!!!" he screamed. I couldn't hold myself back any longer. The time had come for the real fucking to begin. I finally pumped my big thick cock into his wet pussy over and over.
"Damn you're so fucking tight", I whined as I felt him wrap up around me, like a flame around a wick. He was shuddering as I thrust and sank into him, with the wild beating of our bodies against each other. Like the wind on the mountains shaking ancient oaks. I leaned forward and kissed him. I licked the corners of his mouth before I stuck my tongue in. Then I was a million light years away, inside of Tate. I was alone. It was just me then and this feeling, which was him. (CameraView: Tate's cute ass being slammed as he bounces, his anus stretching widely outwards and inwards with each ebb, flow and shudder of his body). Tate was screaming so loudly that he ought to have lost his voice by now. He looked adorable. Dripping. His skin was glowing wet. Dark shadows outlined his magnificent young body. Holding his feet up, I could feel the mad pulse pounding in his lovely ankles. His high-arched feet were so cute stuck up in the air, they looked tense but perfect, like a little lion cub's big paws preparing to pounce. And oh how he purred, purred and screamed, and screamed some more. His long sexy legs and thick slender thighs strained to my control—they were so lean and hot, with streamline muscular dimples reappearing at every thrust. Definitely from all that soccer he plays. "FUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!! YOU-UU HAV-VV NO-OO IDEA HOW GOOOOD THAT FEEELS!!!! AW! AW! AW! AW! AWW!" he yelled.
We made love in all kinds of positions, with our bodies in all manners of contortions, against the wall, on the floor, on the sofa, as if in mist and in clouds. Next I sat up on the bed and made him sit on me, face to face. He wrapped his lean arms around my neck and his legs around my waist for leverage as he moved up and down, his small boy-vagina swallowing my shaft entirely. I had my face in his neck, that sweet graceful neck, bruised by my kisses, I could feel the beating of his tender throat against mine. "OHHHH TAAAAAYYYYYYTE!!! DON'T STOP! YEAH! UH! UH! UH! UH! UH! UHHHHHHHHHHHH" I moaned, as if wishing someone would hear the thunder of our love echo in the night. Tate's pretty eyes were fluttering in ecstasy as our bodies mingled, blended, dissolved together, a knot of love, as Tate's chest slid against mine, sandwiching his drenched cock between our bellies, like on a soft sandy beach where hungry waves rub, bite and lick the sensual shore, riding the tide of passion. (CameraView: Tate sitting upright on something invisible on the bed. Neither his hands nor legs actually touch the bed. It's as if he floats just above it. It looks like he hugs something to balance as he moves his butt up and down at an incredibly fast pace and howls like a wild animal)
Now I made Tate get on his knees on the bed so that I could bang him doggy-style. He steadied himself on the bed with his arms, back arched and ass up, so I could easily plunge my huge dick all the way inside. By now, Tate's slender waist and thighs were exhausted and weak from this night of cloud dancing, but it didn't stop him from still grinding his ass against my cock. I held on to him tight as we rocked and moaned. I bit his adorable ears and the back of his neck leading down to his lightly defined shoulders. His silky hair smelled of mangoes, and it shook seductively as I got into him, shoved into him again and again. It was such a nice place to be, like I had always been there, always should be there, that close to him. "AAAASHHH! WA! AHH! UHH! AWWW! FUCK! FUCK! FUCCKK! FUCK ME!!! UH! DO MY ASS!! ITS! ITS YOURS!!! OOOOOOH!!!", squealed Tate as I probed and filled him. He put his face down on the pillow but raised his butt provocatively higher for me. I held on to his slithery cock with both my hands to anchor my thrusting, and at the same time, I wanked it. I loved the smooth hard peaks and valleys of his sculpted body and back, his firm muscled ass attached to my cock, consuming it completely, grinding body to body in the cool.
I penetrated him more and more, ripping him open for the entire world to see. I couldn't get enough. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, literally fucking like there was no tomorrow. "SO-OO FUCKINN GOOD!! OH YEAH! MMM! UH! UH! UUUHH! UHHHHHH!! AH! AH! AHHH!! AHHHWWW! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Tate, shaking, then trembling, as he came, long spurts of teen cum hitting his tummy, the bed, and my hands. His anus clenched tightly around my cock so hard that it felt as if my cock would become lodged in there forever. The pressure was so wickedly awesome that I burst. I jerked this way and that. It was electric. I blow my load deep inside him while he panted as if on the verge of death. I pushed all my love into him. He felt its hotness travel up him. My most hidden river rose and released. Rippling over and over again, for so long and so much that some of my cum was squirting out of his ass with my cock still stuck in it. Now Tate was totally fucked. (CameraView: Initially Tate bent over on his knees while his anus is being stretched obscenely, the inside of his love canal expands and contracts rhythmically as if something big and invisible is being rapidly plunged in and out of it. His foreskin opens and closes over his throbbing cock while it's being wanked. Love bites begin to appear from no-where on his neck. Tate screams and cums all over, after which his cock melts into softness. We are then shown the inside of his asshole filling up with more and more of a milky liquid, until it begins overflowing. Tate lies shivering, shaking and panting on the bed until he eventually passes out. The room is a mess. A storm.)
Someone once told me that if you want something too much you'll never get. They said it's the first universal truth and that it's more reliable then both Murphy's law and Friday the 13th. Nonsense. You can do whatever you want to do, be whoever you want to be, there are no rules to this thing. I connected the video camera to my computer and logged on to my YouTube channel. Video title: "Ghost Of Me". 10%. 65%. 99%. Upload complete.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
What She Saw Down There
Guest Blogger: Deborah Fries
Kore Press First Book Award Winner for Various Modes of Departure
Let's assume that when Persephone returned--older and wiser than before she was abducted by Hades--she emerged from the underworld profoundly changed by what she'd seen, things her family might never experience or understand: soft, wide veins of gold and silver, underground rivers, rotting bodies and buried evidence, the obligations of ruling a dark, secret kingdom. And now she also knew how it was to live with--even love--a bad man.
Home, safe, she might want to keep that stuff to herself. Or she might want to tell everyone every indiscreet and true detail of what she saw down there--to recreate the fusty smell of reed lamps burning in the underworld, the cold touch of the blind, white salamanders she kept for company, the self-gratifying caresses of a powerful god.
But Persephone had a good reason to self-censor her report: she was not free of Hades, after all. The deal was that she would return to him for four months every year. And it's hard to tell the truth about Hades when you're still bound by a contract, a sense of restraint, even love.
When Carolyn Forché selected my manuscript, Various Modes of Departure, as the winner of the 2003 Kore Press First Book Award, and said I'd written my poems with "horrific grace," I already knew that I'd broken my contract with Hades. I'd told too much. I'd written about the physical and social decline of family members, the denouement of love and shameful episodes of our lives. Some things were just too private to put out there--not for me, but for them.
My mother died six months before the book came out in September 2004, and so I never had to face her and explain how it was that I could tell the topside world that her husband had lost his mind, had gone from being a war hero to a lost soul in diapers. To me, what I saw in the hidden realms was poignant, and demanded to be told in the light of day. To my family, these revelations might seem insensitive and self-indulgent. To my southern mother, who did not air her dirty laundry for more than 80 years, my self-expression would have seemed malevolent, unholy and seditious.
These were poems ultimately meant for strangers, people who lived on the bright green surface of the earth, unfamiliar with the burrows or subterranean villages where they might actually run into any of us at the grocery store.
It's been two years since one documentation of where I've been and what I've left was sealed into print as a small book of poems. The terrain I reported from was personal, and didn't demand truth-telling. It was not, after all, necessary reportage from Rwanda or Darfur. And even as I work on a second book, I realize I am still under contract to the people I love.
And continually, I ask myself, What else really must be told?
Deborah Fries is Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Image: "Daughter" Original monotype (c) 2006 Deborah Fries
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What, indeed, do we talk about, and what do we keep secret, at least until those we love can no longer be hurt by our truthtelling?
At the Sewanee Writer's Conference last week I did a reading of a story that will cause anxiety to my mother, should the day arrive that she reads it. The irony being that I'm doing all I can to publish a collection of stories that will include that particular piece. So if all goes well, in a wierd sort of way, she will read it.
The story contains a grown daughter, and a mother, and a father. The latter character being based almost exactly on my father, who died six years ago. While the two women aren't at all autobiographical, the emotional truths are as real as my own. Never, in the thirty years since the events of my childhood that inspired this story, have my mother and I discussed these truths. We both know the facts, but we don't know the sorrows behind them.
By posting this now, by revealing I have published a story (it's in the current issue of The Florida Review) that I've kept secret from my mother, I do take the risk, I suppose, that she'll learn about it. She doesn't believe in the internet, thinks it's all too much trouble, never goes online. But that doesn't mean that word couldn't filter back to her. Perhaps a part of me wants to be outed. I'm with you, Deborah. I don't know how Persephone could have managed the silence. If in fact she actually did.
- Simmons B. Buntin said...
Beautiful post Deborah, and a great way to start of Kore Press's new blog.
Excellent article, and rather disturbing thoughts on the whole writing process.
I teach undergraduates, often conducting courses on literature and gender. The notion of silencing, of self-censorship, is one that is powerfully present in so much of the discussion of women's texts.
I suspect, at the end of it all, Persephone didn't keep it all quiet, really. She just found some sneaky, subversive way to get it said. That's my suspicion.
I'm glad to see the start of this blog, and will be stopping by often for updates.


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Of course, then Willow fell backward off of a swing and completely lost her flipping mind and I had to walk back home with not just one hysterical child but two, because my toddler, duh, can't handle abrupt transitions, and I thought to myself, "God, Bryan Park is across the street! I can't even cross the street without utter chaos being the result!"
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I want to send a big "Thank You" to my colleagues Matt, Adam, and Dave for inviting me to be a part of our new podcast, The Collision, last week. I had an excellent time chatting it up with Matt and Adam and I give those guys and Dave a ton of credit for using what might otherwise be well deserved time off (i.e. Sunday nights) in the name of continuing to offer our readers additional original content. In case you missed it, I encourage you to click here to listen to Episode 4 and click here to add The Collision to your RSS feed.
In this week's Top 5, you'll find a slew of new assets for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, video interviews with Jason Segel, Emily Blunt and more for The Five-Year Engagement, the first images from Django Unchained, a stellar first trailer for Lawless, and a recap of all of our CinemaCon 2012 coverage. Check out a brief recap and link to each after the jump.
1. New Trailers, Posters, and Interviews for G.I. JOE: RETALIATION
When you combine the considerable amount of explosions on display in this latest trailer with director Jon M. Chu's admission to Steve that G.I. Joe: Retaliation will include a 9-10 minute sequence of "dialogue free, kick-ass ninja action", it leaves very little room for me to consider whether or not I need to see the film. Based on those two things alone, the answer is "yes, yes I do". In case you need a little more convincing, though, perhaps this interview with Dwayne Johnson, these new posters, or this international trailer will help do the trick.
2. THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Interviews with Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, and More
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of my favorite romantic comedies of the past five years or so. As a result, I'm excited to see Jason Segel and director Nicholas Stoller reunite alongside an outstanding comedic cast for The Five-Year Engagement. Even though Matt cites the pic for pacing issues in his own review, I'm more than prepared to dish out my own box office dollars with the hopes of taking in something that is 2/3 as memorable as Sarah Marshall. If you feel similarly, be sure to learn more about The Five-Year Engagement by checking out Steve's video interviews with Segel and his lovely co-star Emily Blunt, Alison Brie, and the aforementioned Nicholas Stoller.
3. First Images for Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED
Although I'll admit to being less of a Tarantino fan than some, I would be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to his latest effort, Django Unchained. The director has assembled an excellent cast that is, in my opinion, made all the better by Leonardo DiCaprio playing the villain (a reviled plantation owner named Calvin Candie). While these first images from the pic may not provide us a ton of context, they do support my theory that villains are always just a little more villainous when rocking a goatee.
4. First Trailer for Director John Hillcoat's LAWLESS
With the film set to premiere in just a few weeks at this year's Cannes Film festival, the first trailer for director John Hillcoat's prohibition-era crime drama, Lawless, hit the interwebs this week. The film stars Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy, and Shia LaBeouf just to name a few and features Pearce posing the question "Do you have any idea what a Thompson sub-machine gun does to a mortal?". In short, it's most likely going to be awesome.
5. All of our CinemaCon 2012 Coverage
While it may be hard to associate Las Vegas with work, the site's front page can assure you that Steve has spent the past week putting in long hours to bring you a wide variety of coverage from CinemaCon 2012. Sure, a highlight of the coverage certainly includes a video blog recap of Warner Bros.' presentation of footage from The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit in 48fps, and more. That said, you would probably just do well to settle in for a few minutes and click here for all of our coverage as I'm confident that you'll find at least a couple items of interest that you may have missed.


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