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Selian culture, represented in its modern form by the dominant Ephyral state, has had fluctuating traditions of sexual norms and accepted behaviours over its millennia long history. The rise of the Freehold in the 17th century saw the restoration of Classical virtues, including with regards to sexual expression. Though these were seen to relax in the early 20th century, the reforms of the 1940s during the Great War against Russia saw again the restoration of prior beliefs and attitudes, adopting the mentality in both the collective psychology of the Ephyral people and in law what constitutes acceptable and immoral behaviour regarding sexual activity.
The rise and spread of the Abrahamic faiths, particularly the three dominant religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, has resulted in a curious state of affairs by which these traditionally more conservative structures where sexual license is concerned regard the strictly regulated Ephyral as practitioners of sexual liberty and abuse. However in truth, Ephyra's self-regulating society places considerable ostracism on those who violate its norms, and when those violations become crimes, are harshly punished. Sexuality is not excluded from the concept of ancestral tradition however, the kolos of Ephyra, the lens through which many citizens determine right and wrong. Modesty, and its more extreme sibling shame, form immovable crutches of sexual morality where men and women both are expected to govern their sexual endeavours strictly and as befitting their station. Fear of prosecution for certain irredeemable acts also serve as regulation. Even the men of the highest station, Senators, are not immune to the consequences of violating the kolos of sexuality, and may be ejected from the Senate to face prosecution if the act is severe enough.
The virtues of modesty, alongside self-discipline and control, elevate the concept of restraint and the management of sexual pleasure, particularly as a form of masculinity. As the art of masculinity in Ephyra is the assumption of responsibility and to govern, a lack of control over one's most basic urges signifies in this man a reduced moral 'manhood'. This concept of masculinity through control and aggression (in the pursuit and defence of honour) is manifested publicly primarily through the fields of politics, enterprise, and warfare. Though the exercise of sexuality is done privately, a man's reputation in this regard may lend itself to his overall favour or be cause for disrepute. For women, a far stricter concept of chastity and modesty is socially enforced. Women who aim to draw the attention of men in appearance or through behaviour are held in contempt, and where men do possess a freedom of sexual exercise in certain permitted non-marital relationships, women do not possess any such outlet. The entirety of an Ephyral woman's sexuality is to be exercised within marriage, and only with her husband. All else is an act against religious and sexual purity. This is perhaps a consequence of the long-standing inequality in sexual acts between men and women, where men typically take the dominant penetrative role over a submissive, passive female partner. Consequently a mistrust of unchecked female sexuality and its power to lead men astray is prevalent in Ephyra, and women are kept in guardianship to father and husband both, whose role it is amongst many others to safeguard her sexuality from other men who might seduce her, and to prevent her from seducing men, all for the purpose of protecting her and her family from shame. However, where the concept of shame may be rigorously enforced as a negative upon women, the concept of chastity is strongly promoted positively even as a means of personal quality which actively displays a woman's moral virtue and her self-control, fidelity to her husband, and obedience to her father. This is maintained through layered and modest dress and the avoidance of public interaction with unrelated men. Ephyral women are expected to be strong moral bastions for themselves, familial honour, and for their children (particularly daughters) to imitate and revere, and their actions to the contrary bring communal disapproval on her family as a unit. As a result, a free expression of female sexuality is invariably a source of shame, and is familially and socially regulated.
Sexuality is not universally condemned nor praised, but compartmentalised through a social ambivalence into negative and positive expressions. Ephyral religion and the state both promote sexuality in the form of marital intercourse for the creation of more citizens; sons to defend the Freehold and drive its public sector, and daughters to repeat the process of their mothers and bring forth the next generation, fathered by men of honour and virtue. An active, passionate, and erotic sex life between a married man and woman is no source of shame in the Freehold, and is instead upheld as the highest formation of love within a marriage to produce the highest stability and fecundity. Religious beliefs are prevalent enough that rituals combined with more modern medicines are employed for heightened sexual experiences within this moral relationship, or to seek treatment for fertility. Prostitution in the Freehold is both legal and widespread, though technically only accessible to males. In this, they are expected to demonstrate restraint in the frequency of their consorting with woman for whom lust is their trade. Though legal, prostitution is no desirable profession for those who perform it. It carries with it the stigma of infamy, one whose body has been made public through means antithetical to the concept of upstanding citizen behaviour. Their protections are minimal, and prior rights permanently rescinded.
The use of personal or household slaves in sexual manners is not uncommon either, but again held to the same standards of self-control and regulation. For citizen men, sexual access to freeborn women of non-citizen status is dependent only upon their consent, where citizen women may be protected or held to account if seduced or has turned adulteress. The patriarchal nature of Ephyral culture places superiority on age, and homosexual relationships between men occur with some regularity. Their social acceptance however is not based on a dichotomy of heterosexual and homosexual, and indeed no such words exist in the Ephyral language, but rather a dichotomy on power. There is no social consequences for a citizen who, assuming all other moral criteria are met, acquires sexual pleasure from another man, so long as he as a citizen does not allow himself to be penetrated, nor his younger, inferior partner a citizen himself. Attraction to youths of late teen years is not an unusual phenomena amongst men universally, and in Ephyra is regarded with a degree of commonality subject to standards of Ephyral kolos. So long as he does not pair himself with another citizen's wife or daughter - or a citizen male - then this exercise of sexuality is restricted only by moral censure on his state of self-control.
On such a note, the true dichotomy of Ephyral sexuality outside the weight of moderation and restraint relies not on the actual biological sex of the partners, but the positions which they take, known as the penetrator-penetrated binary, otherwise realised as the dominant-submissive, and the active-passive. This rigid assessment of sexual expression is accurate for the Ephyral. Whilst the actual social standing and relationship of any given partners brings severe weight to the sexual activity's moral validity one way or the other, it is through the habitation of these 'positions' that sexual norms are realised. This is viewed through the dominant masculine, and the submissive feminine.
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Literary and artistic sexuality
Themes of sexuality have long been prevalent in literary and artistic sources, dating back as far as the Ancient Period of Selia, and more recent innovations within the timespan of the Freehold itself. Literary sources both ancient and modern cover sexuality primarily in the contexts of law, examining cases brought by litigants surrounding matters of illicit seduction, adultery, or more severely crimes of abduction and rape; medical texts which have over the centuries developed in their understanding of reproductive biology and the hypothesised nature of sexuality; political discourse, with sexuality and alleged malpractices being a favoured weapon by politicians to disparage their opponents, mostly through allusion to effeminate and submissive practises; and finally creative works, with poetry, novels, and other works of pleasurable reading referencing in vague or even explicit terms sexual feelings and encounters between real or fictional individuals.
The sexuality of the past is understood primarily through the lens of today, with the Classicalist philosophy on sexuality developed by the first Archon of the Freehold having been directly inspired by the works of a number of Classical Period philosophers and writers, and reinforced to this day by social custom. In literary works, a difference is noted between informative or accepted reading versus items considered scandalous, such as explicit 'sex manuals' written by infamous courtesans, high class prostitutes who retired with wealth and splendour, which are regarded today as glorified smut, not fit for consumption especially by citizen women, who are feared to be lead astray by the so-called allure of a 'free' life of prostitution. Sex however featuring in higher classes of novel, poetry, and theatre concern it in themes subsidiary to romance, war, or intrigue, and not as the topic into itself. Many of these rejecting attitudes however come from the aristocracy in historical senses, and it is understood that more indecent and provocative works were the subject of entertainment amongst citizens of lower wealth classes, particularly in the past.
With sex deemed an impolite topic for public conversation, so to is it deemed largely improper for higher literature, but it nevertheless has its market and finds its popularity amongst citizens and non-citizens alike.
In art, sexuality has long found its dominance. The Selian Renaissance, rediscovering old techniques for the shaping of stone and the use of paints, did not take long to see the return of many a piece decorating the male and female body, quite to the shock of many and curiosity of others. Erotic paintings then and today line the walls of brothels and pleasure houses and other establishments of sensuality, and can be found amongst the possessions of wealthier citizen families; particularly old pieces worth fortunes. Rarely are these displayed openly however, and are more likely kept in the secluded bedroom, away from the eyes of anyone but the household head and his wife.
Statues have long presented the most accurate and detailed representations of the human form, however, Selian and Ephyral views on nudity have long discouraged the display of citizen men and women deprived of their clothing. Despite this, it has been done, focusing however on presenting them in heroic or defiant themes, or as gods and goddesses to transcend any notions of weakness and defeat inferred from having been stripped.
Religious traditions, inseparable in many ways from the operations of the state, both support and give strong regulation to the sexuality of the Ephyral through ritual and myth, be they exercised as public cult to major deities, or in private homes as ritualised magic. Contrary to being entirely advocated for supported, sexuality is subject to ambivalence by the state, which aggressively compartmentalises legitimate and illegitimate exercise of sexuality, tying them inextricably to the stability of the state and society with the support of religious traditions. One of the most vital of these organisations is the cult to Lysara, goddess of home, hearth, and the family, the latter being the social blocs the state is perceived as being made up of. Lysara's priestesses are renowned not just in Ephyra but across the world for their famed vows of perpetual virginity on pain of death. This perpetual virginity exists in the Ephyral psyche as the truest manifestation of pure female sexuality, the controlled exercise of which is considered the foundation of social order, as only through faithful female exercise can future citizens of the state be born. Female sexuality is subject to patriarchal control to safeguard it, so that young women enter marriage as virgins and exercise their sexuality in a legitimate and endorsed environment. The perpetual virginity of Lysara's priestesses represents a complete absence from infidelity, and all sexual exercise, embodying the perpetual potential for the furthering of the state. Accordingly, they cultivate the fire of Lysara, a burning flame in the heart of her temple in the capital which represents the collective hearth-fires of all families of the state. This fire has become further linked with the sexual purity of the cult, and allowing the fire to be extinguished is one of the few acts a Lysaran virgin can commit that exceeds the grave act of allowing herself to be sexually used.
Marriage itself as a social institution is regarded as the direct consequence of sexual desire manifested properly, a sexual desire to procreate which operates as the very heart of the Freehold's ability to self-perpetuate, and a duty taken on by all its citizens to create the future of the Freehold through the legitimacy of marriage. Marriage produces children, and the basis for a household, the building bloc of the family which is the focus of Ephyral society. This unity of man and woman for the objective of procreation is also represented in divine mythology, with many of the major gods and goddesses being organised into monogamist pairs. Isaks, the chief god of the Ephyral state, associated with the sky as an all-encompassing perpetuity, and lightning as a sign of divine power, is wedded to the goddess Rhea, who acts as the patron of marriage and childbirth. This binding of powerful man with fertile woman is considered a theme of marriage, with the qualities expected of a husband derived from the traits of Isaks, and likewise with a wife to Rhea. Veleys too, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sexual desire, and the patron of women and girls, commands a position of importance in Ephyral worship, as it is through her cult private and public that magic concerning fertility and sexual enjoyment between a husband and wife are typically performed. The patron of man, Nalarion, again represents a uniqueness of gender expectations, as he commands the sphere of war, honour, the military state, and conquest, including that of sexual conquest (often associated to Ephyral imperialism). Nalarion and Veleys are often represented as wedded to one another, their aspects of femininity through the traits of beauty, fertility, and love meeting and tempering the warlike impulse of man, who in turn conquers her and between them a synthesis of a strong marriage is born.
Sexuality features heavily in myth including themes of gender norms, bestiality, incest, divine impregnation, rape, and love, relating both to gods and mortals alike. The gods are seen as adherent to their own equivalent of sexual morality as part of Ephyral kolos, custom, holding themselves and each other to the same account and discipline expected of the people to maintain the divine peace. Representations of negative sexuality, such as adultery, lust, seduction, as well as positions deemed in and of themselves offensive, also feature heavily as negative reinforcement, with these characters often associated to poor outcomes in life. The maintaining of this divine peace with the gods through adherence to expectations of purity, and to marry and produce more citizens, is advocated by the state as a duty of all citizens alongside their other roles, women as dutiful wives and nurturers, and men as warriors and builders of the state.


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Dundee Design Festival – Call For Designers
Dundee Design Festival will take place from the 25th – 28th May 2016 and there are several ways that you can get involved!
Applications are welcome from designers, businesses and design collectives for the first Dundee Design Festival. The festival is a four day celebration of design in Dundee marking the city's first full year as the UK's UNESCO City of Design.
An exhibition of local, national and international design will fill the floor of a former industrial building and a programme of events will feature forums, talks and practical workshops led by designers.
At an evening Information Session hosted with Creative Dundee, Festival Producer Siôn Parkinson shared his vision for the festival and how you can get involved. A video from the evening is now available along with the slides from the presentations below.
We want to tell the story of how brilliant design impacts on every aspect of our daily lives, and showcase the breadth of design practices that have found their home in the city from digital to product to public sector design.
If you would like to see your work included in the exhibition or if you would like to propose hosting a workshop, a demonstration or give a talk we would like to hear from you.
To Apply
Please follow this link to the full application form which details eligibility and further information. DIDF Application Form 2016
Download the form to your computer and complete it ensuring that completed forms are returned by email to firstname.lastname@example.com by the deadline of Friday 26th February 2016.
If you would like to discuss your idea please get in touch with our Festival Producer Siôn Parkinson via our email address above.

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WHEN SHOULDN'T YOUR CPA AMEND YOUR TAX RETURNS? HOW TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS! By Jeffrey Brooks, CPA, CFP, MBA FOR JBrooks Wealth Advisors, PC, a CPA and CFP firm. email@example.com
I always try to follow the Golden Rule when I make a decision that affects one of my clients. The CPA profession is a great profession that has been built on the ethical foundation of putting the client first.
Recently I received an amended partnership statement of income and loss (called a K-1) from an individual tax client. The amended K-1 had a lower income number. The client asked me to amend their tax returns.
Technically when the K-1 changes, you're supposed to file an amended tax returns for Federal and state.
I agonized with the decision whether to amend or not because the tax savings was less than my fee to amend the tax returns.
This is how I made a good decision that was in the best interests of my client:
1. How much time did I have to make the decision? I did not want to make a snap decision or always having to "sleep on the decision". Fortunately, I had plenty of time to decide whether I should advise the client whether to amend the tax returns and pay my fees. However, I had other clients who needed my help so I did not want to spend too much time.
2. Next, I defined the problem. The client would get an additional refund of $85 but my fee for amending the tax returns would be $275. I was ready to advise the client that they should not pay me the money to amend the tax returns. Before, I did that I wanted to make sure the client would not get in trouble for not amending the tax returns when there was an obvious change due to the change in their tax.
3. So, I gathered the facts and listed the pros and the cons.
4. After reviewing the ramifications to the client of not amending the tax returns, I looked at the "odds" of a future problem with the IRS and state versus the fee savings for the client by not amending the tax returns.
5. I recommended that amended tax returns not be filed. I said "although I cannot promise that the IRS would never question why an amended tax return was not filed, the odds were extremely low that this question would ever be raised. Economically it is not in your best interest to pay me for filing amended tax returns".
How to learn from past mistakes is what I call my "lessons learned". Here are a few of the lessons learned:
• Never work on specialized areas where my firm does not have the expertise. For example, we have rarely prepared Form 706 Estate filings of Assets and Liabilities. Because we have rarely prepared these non-income tax returns, we would spend many hours of study and still not understand everything that needs to be known to prepare an accurate return. Clients appreciate it when you are "straight" with them and refer them to someone else.
• When a decision is not simple, I have learned to discuss the issues with a person I respect. From these discussions, I have gained different perspectives that have altered or even changed my decision by 180 degrees.
• It is impossible to force a bad decision into being a good decision. No one is always right. When you make a decision that in hindsight is a bad decision, admit it, get started on fixing it and learn from it. What I do, is I write down and vocalize out loud what I learned and what I will do next time.
• Keep focused in the present instead of regretting what went wrong. That is easier said than done. When you're self-talk criticizes you for the past, say "No one is perfect and all I can do is live in the present!" or invent your own Mantra!


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We are getting ready for our first TVDCTA Show for 2017! Mark your calendars for April 2 – that is the closing date for entries. You can enter online, or print out the order form and mail it in. The show is going to be at Steel Prize Stables on April 8.
We are pleased to announce our judge will be Meris Gregis ("L" Graduate), and a Ride-A-Test will be available for each test.
If you are interested in volunteering we want to hear from you! There are many opportunities to be helpful and earn volunteer hours. This year we will only have 2 TVDCTA sanctioned schooling shows, so don't miss out on a chance to be involved! We are encouraging the stables in our area to put on their own shows, and the volunteer hours earned at these shows will also go towards the year end awards.


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Nunavut artist exhibits at Toronto fashion show
"I think it's in our genes"
TORONTO—Inuit designers have proven there is no limit to the ways you can use sealskin.
One of the latest fads in northern fashion: Martha Kyak's fringe necklaces. The Pond Inlet-born and Ottawa-based designer's feminine fringes are popping up on Inuit women at events north and south, featuring a delicate array of sealskin strips tied together with hint of bling.
"It happened by accident," Kyak laughed, during an interview during Indigenous Fashion Week in Toronto.
Kyak had made a sealskin dress with a fringe around its neck last year, which was being modeled during a photo shoot at Nunavut Sivuniksavut, where she works as an instructor of Inuit history and Inuktitut.
The dress split up the back as it was being modeled. Instead of fixing it, Kyak cut the fringe off the front of the dress and decided to attach it to a necklace—which quickly drew compliments.
"It kind of took off from there," she said.
Kyak has since come up with her own name for them: "fur sreal," a play on a few different phrases, including surreal.
And she brought a bunch of the fringe necklaces with her to exhibit at Indigenous Fashion Week, one of Canada's foremost events for Indigenous designers, held this past weekend in Toronto.
For their delicate look, there is something much fiercer behind the design, Kyak noted, however accidental their creation was.
"I was making one of those fringes on a mannequin a few days ago," she said.
"I thought, these are like warrior necklaces. This is our right as Inuit to wear these. We've been disrespected and muzzled for so long, so this is a very quiet way to make a statement and say: this is us, as Inuit."
"I think it's in our genes"
Kyak was raised the youngest of 11 children in Pond Inlet. Like many Inuit girls, she grew up watching her mother and grandmother sew.
Kyak's grandmother became blind as an adult but continued to sew, using her hands to measure fabric.
"I would always ask her if she wanted help and she always refused," Kyak said. "The only thing she needed help with was threading the needle."
Her grandmother's skill brought her to one conclusion: "I think [sewing] is in our genes."
When Kyak had children of her own, she started sewing more often out of necessity, but she also credits that time in her life as a period when she developed her creativity as a seamstress, when she started adding intricate designs and embellishments to her work.
She eventually opened her own shop in Pond Inlet, called Kisutaatvik, where she sold clothing and jewellery for more than a decade.
After a divorce, Kyak moved her daughter and son to Ottawa in 2010.
"To make ends meet, I started painting and sewing," she said. "I started selling those items on Facebook and it just evolved from there."
Today, Kyak still sells most of her work through Facebook, but she also now sells it through her own Inuk Chic page. More recently, Kyak has started selling her in-demand printed fabrics through Amazon.
Kyak is one of six Inuit designers and artists who exhibited their work at this year's Indigenous Fashion Week, a three-day event that features the country's top Indigenous-made fashion, textiles and crafts through workshops, exhibits and runway shows.
Nunavut's Victoria Kakuktinniq of Victoria's Arctic Fashions also showed her work at the event, along with Nooks Lindell, Emma Krueger and Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt of Hinaani Design.
"It's an Indigenous event, and it's good to connect and help each other—you need that," Kyak said.
"Sometimes you feel so alone in this business. As a designer, it's important that we help one another."


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Recent data from a review of nine US cancer registries indicate that the incidence of childhood and adolescent melanoma has been increasing in the United States at an average of 2% per year.
"Whereas melanomas in older children and adolescents (≥10 years) behave similarly to adult melanomas, those in younger individuals are thought to have a different etiology," Jeannette R. Wong, MPH, of the radiation epidemiology branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics of the National Cancer Institute, and colleagues wrote. "Unlike adults, more girls are affected than boys, and whites are at a higher risk than other racial groups."
To assess potential causes underlying the increased number of melanoma cases, Wong and colleagues used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to examine trends in melanoma incidence among 1,230 whites diagnosed between aged 0 and 19 years.
The researchers investigated trends by sex, stage, age at diagnosis and primary site, as well as ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation exposure levels.
Wong and colleagues calculated age-adjusted incidence rates, annual percent changes and 95% CIs for each category of interest. Incidence trends also were assessed using joinpoint and loess regression models. Additionally, SEER registries were categorized with respect to low or high UVB radiation exposure.
Results indicated that females aged 15 to 19 years and those with low UVB exposure exhibited significantly higher incidence rates than males, younger children and those living in SEER registries categorized as high UVB.
"While overall trends were similar for both genders, melanoma incidence in boys is specifically increasing on the skin of the face and trunk, but only on the lower limbs and hip for girls," Wong and colleagues wrote.
The only decreased incidence trend the researchers observed was among 15- to 19-year-olds in the high UVB exposure group from 1985 from 2009. Loess curves indicated similar patterns.
"Despite increasing rates, we note that malignant melanoma survival rates have increased since the 1970s," the researchers wrote. "Five-year survival is currently nearly 100% for cases diagnosed in localized stages vs. 82% for cases diagnosed in regional or distant stages. These data emphasize the importance of early detection."
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Kettering University faculty and graduate students have developed a new, more efficient way to view how a vehicle body vibrates in order to help create better body designs in the future.
Dr. Javad Baqersad, Mechanical Engineering faculty member, in partnership with graduate students, is using a pair of high-speed cameras to measure noise and vibrations of a vehicle without adding sensors to the body in a way that gives a complete visual of the entire vehicle at once, something that has never been done before, he said.
Baqersad and the graduate students use Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technology to process images and formulate a result. DIC is a 3D, non-contact optical technique to measure contour, deformation, vibration and strain on almost any material.
"When you use camera system of usually two cameras you can only see some part of a structure. There is a limited field of view. We use a method to stitch the dynamics photos together and find mode shapes of the structure - the shapes of the structure and its resonance. When you want to measure the vibrations you can apply this method. You can optimize your design and geometry so we have less vibrations. Recent developments have spurred widespread interest in producing vehicles with improved NVH performance," Baqersad said. "The main idea was how to dynamically stitch those shapes together. Putting together to make it whole to get the full picture. If there's somewhere we see a lot of movement we can add a joint or change the geometry to optimize the shape and decrease the noise.
"Currently none of the car manufacturers use this technique. With this technique, we will be able to use just high-speed stereo cameras and obtain the mode shape of the entire vehicle."
The researchers started with a fender, then moved to a muffler and now use a donated Corvette to get a full vehicle picture. To determine the amount of vibration and movement of each panel, the team first placed track points or a speckled pattern on the Corvette. Using a reference photo the data processing software is able to measure movement and vibration.
The vibration characteristics of a structure are conventionally obtained by exciting the structure using an impact hammer or a mechanical shaker and measuring the response using accelerometers. However, using accelerometers for vibration measurement may induce mass loading effects and does not provide the full-field response of the structure. DIC has provided a solution because it provided the full-field response of the structure, is a non-contacting technique and does not induce any mass loading effects.
The mode shape of every field of view is then obtained based on the excitation force and measured response using the digital signal processing theory. The mode shapes of individual fields of view are stitched using a minimum of three reference points in the region common to the adjacent field of view to obtain the mode shapes of the entire structure.
Baqersad has contacted General Motors to see if they can apply their method within the company, and he is in the process of patenting the process. So far, three professional papers have been published on this project, and there are more in the works.
Vanshaj Srivastava '18, a graduate student working toward his master's in Automotive Systems at Kettering, has been working on the project for a year and a half.
"It's a totally new thing I'm working on. It's really interesting to see that various parameters and deflection patterns we get for each vehicle body panels. We are moving toward a more innovative approach," Srivastava said. "It's really exciting to work on something that's still being accepted in the industry."
Srivastava, an international student from India, studied automotive design engineering as an undergraduate. Coming to Kettering for his graduate studies made sense for him and what he wanted to do with his career.
"The University already had a really big name in the auto industry. Kettering has the best facility and an elite group of professors which attracted me right away," he said, adding he's had opportunities to work on unique techniques like this project. "Currently in industry people are using the non-contact technique, but they can't form a full picture. This is another approach that is more robust and precise and takes less time to get a precise picture.
"This can really help design teams to make design better. My favorite part was getting to work with a GM Corvette. It's really rare to work on a sports vehicle. Getting hands-on full vehicle analysis was quite a good experience."


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Well I have been back in my bench shirt for three weeks now. The First week was making sure I did not rip anything off. Second week was trying to get a little more weight in my hands, and the third was to actually push it a bit to see how my body had responded to tuning back up.
Bench on 8/7 with straight bar and a doubled up light band: Worked up to 225 off a 2 board for an ugly single. I put the shirt on from here on and did 2 board work with 275 X 2, 315 X 2, 365 X 1, 405 X 1, 425 X 1. Things felt pretty good for the first time with 500+ in my hands. The bands with no weight on the bar felt like it was around 185-225 lbs. It moved well off the board and had a struggle a bit for the lockout, but it came eventually.
Incline Bench with the Badbell Rhino Flex bar: 1 plate X 10, 1.5 Plates X 8, 2 Plates X 4 sets of 6-8. The Rhino Flex bar is a pretty cool bar. We just got it so I have been testing it out a bit and I like it. It definitely has some good whip to it and it made my chest and triceps work harder for sure.
Spoon press with fatbells: 4 sets of 10-12 with moderate weight.
Band pull aparts: 4 sets of 15 with monster mini.
Rope pushdowns: 3 sets of 15 superset with external rotator cuff work.
My wife's birthday is Aug 15th so we took some vacation at Holden beach in North Carolina as a part of her celebration. We had a great time hanging out relaxing. We went into Wilmington and shopped at some great local shops and found some new places to eat and tried a few new beers at some local bars. We had a great time and now it is back to the normal work and training.
Since I had been in a shirt for three weeks (and sore as shit from hitting golf balls at the driving range on vacation) I took a deload workout on the bench.
Triceps extension with light band: 6 sets of 12-15
Incline Chest Press on hammer machine: 3 sets of 10
Chest Fly on cable machine: 3 sets of 12
EZ bar triceps ext (reverse grip): 4 sets of 15
Getting back in the groove.


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THE BAIRD/STR Hotel Stock Index witnessed a significant 5.3 percent increase in April to 4,886. The year-to-day performance through the first four months of 2019 was up 20.1 percent.
In a change from the previous month, the Baird/STR performed better than both the S&P 500 and MSCI US REIT Index, which was up 3.9 percent and down 0.4 percent respectively. The hotel brand sub-index jumped 7.3 percent from March to 7,521, while the Hotel REIT sub-index increased 1.4 percent to 1,615.
"Hotel stocks outperformed their respective benchmarks in April and both sub-indices finished higher for the month," said Michael Bellisario, senior hotel research analyst and vice president at Baird. "Industry fundamentals in April rebounded to a level that was more in line with expectations after weaker-than-forecasted performance across the board in March, which allayed some investor concerns about slowing growth trends; also, hotel earnings for the first quarter generally have been better than feared so far, which also has led to higher stock prices."
It's surprising but reassuring to see investor sentiments on the hotel stock index remains on the bigger picture, said STR President and CEO Amanda Hite.
"After a weaker-than-expected March, preliminary data for April looks uninspiring, due in large part to the anticipated decline in group business around Easter. Overall, we continue to be optimistic that RevPAR growth will continue despite diminished pricing confidence," she said.


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I had dinner at a friend's house last night, and I have to say, I was so glad to be back in the kitchen again. This study-abroad-without-kitchen-priveledges thing is killing me. My friend made a caprese salad, and I roasted some veggies (shittakes, zucchini, onion, green pepper, and garlic) and served them over fresh pasta. Delicious. And it was great to chop things again. =)
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Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination is a bipartisan coalition of municipal leaders dedicated to securing inclusive non-discrimination protections for all at every level of government. Openly gay Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell is part of the program, which is one part of Freedom for All Americans — a campaign aimed at winning comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination protections nationwide. So far, Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination includes 320 mayors in 48 states and the District of Columbia, along with 20 participating mayors in Michigan.
Since Hopewell was elected to his sixth consecutive term in Nov. 2017 after running unopposed, he became the city's longest-serving mayor. Hopewell was a member of the Kalamazoo City Commission from 2003 to 2005 and was vice mayor from 2005 to 2007. A lifelong resident of Kalamazoo, Hopewell has a long history of involvement in the city's business community. In March, he announced he will not seek re-election in 2019. Below is BTL's Q&A about his involvement in Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination.
Why did you join Mayors Against LGBT Discriminations?
There are many compelling reasons to oppose discrimination against our fellow humans, whether they are members of the LGBTQ community or any other ethnic or minority group. As the mayor of a community there are also very practical reasons. Cities and towns are faced with complex challenges that require complex solutions. To be successful you need to leverage the unique strengths, skills, experience, perspectives and energy of many different people. Not bringing people to the table because they aren't from where you're from, don't look like you or because of who they love is illogical and makes problems harder to solve. Each person has much to offer their communities and not allowing them to be a full part of the solution is doing a disservice to the people who I was elected to serve.
As Mayor, I strive to act in a way that is reflective of the community I want to live in, one that respects and appreciates what each person has to offer and supports them in their pursuits of happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.
What makes your city inclusive and welcoming, and why is that important?
Kalamazoo is a special place. For a mid-sized city, we are lucky to have residents from all over the globe and from all types of backgrounds. Like all communities, we are not without our challenges, but the spirit that is shown in finding solutions and helping one another is inspirational. Kalamazoo welcomes refugees and their families and shows compassion to those in need. Our universities attract students from all over the world who share their culture and experience with other students and the City. We celebrate traditions and cultural events of those that have come to Kalamazoo from abroad because it brings us together and helps us learn from each other. All of these influences make this community appreciate and celebrate diversity in a way that I am extremely proud of.
As mayor, what role do you play in challenging discrimination and making your city more inclusive?
Public officials and community leaders set an example for others to follow. I strive to use my position not to lecture about what we have to lose when we discriminate, but to demonstrate what we have to gain when we look past our superficial differences and realize that we are all on the same team. It is easy to talk about the negative impact of discrimination, but I believe that to change attitudes, actions speak louder than words.
In our recently completed strategic vision, one of our 10 goals is strength through diversity. Our staff work to include everyone in planning efforts, events and opportunities. We want everyone to feel welcomed, empowered and able to realize their potential in whatever they chose to pursue. We also launched Shared Prosperity Kalamazoo, which seeks specifically to remove financial and other barriers that often disproportionally affect minority communities.
Where does your city need to improve, and how can that happen?
Our work to improve started with the approval of our Imagine Kalamazoo Master Plan and strategic vision last year. Our community reaffirmed our work to continue building a welcoming and inclusive city. Everyone is welcome to participate in our city, but we need to reach out and let everyone know that not only can they participate (but that) we want their participation. We want to know what your ideas are, what are we doing that you love? What do we need to do better on? We need to let people know that meetings and events in our city are not just for people with connections, they are for everyone and we want everyone to know that and get involved. That is the message we must send loudly and clearly.
What is your vision for your city 10 years from now, in terms of being a welcoming place to live, work and operate a business?
Kalamazoo in continuing to move in a positive direction with regard to inclusivity. As we continue to institutionalize diversity and outreach in our government and public organizations, we will have a stronger city in 10 years and will have gotten there as a result of the efforts, ideas and energy of many different voices. Our community will continue to welcome members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants, refugees, international students and show compassion to individuals in need. Our city will be an example for others to follow, demonstrating that these values are not a threat to our security, economy, or way of life, but are the true values of our country. If some folks have forgotten that, we will do what we can every day to remind them.
You were born and raised in Kalamazoo. How has Kalamazoo changed over the years in terms of being an inclusive city?
Kalamazoo has been trending in the right direction as long as I can remember. We continue to realize that there is much more that connects us than what separates us. I believe this has been true all over the country as well. The more we interact with and work together, the more we realize that diversity is not a threat. Kalamazoo voters made a statement when they emphatically approved a non-discrimination ordinance in 2008 that grants protections in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations to the LGBTQ community. These cultural changes often don't happen as quickly as we would like, but we are still moving forward.
You released a statement in 2015 referring to the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling as "an important step forward for our country and community." What was it like performing marriages at such a historic moment?
I felt extremely proud of our country for taking a huge step in the right direction, allowing all members of our community, including myself, to marry who they love. The first ceremony I performed was held in Bronson Park. The couples I married were friends of mine, and many community members attended simply to witness a historic moment in our City. It was very special and long overdue.
You recently announced that you will not be seeking re-election in 2019. Do you think it will be important for future mayoral candidates in Kalamazoo to include LGBTQ rights as part of their platform?
I do. As an elected official you are representing the entire city. You are representing those who voted for you and those that did not. Each person's rights must be protected and each person's perspective should be considered. In addition to the clear moral reasons to support the rights of each person and oppose discrimination, by not recognizing what any group has to offer you are limiting the talent that is available. All over the world people are facing serious challenges at the local, state, regional or national level. Solutions exist, but they will be harder to find when we are limiting the most important resources: the ideas, energy and talent of our people.
For more information about Hopewell visit his site here.


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Happy Earth Day everyone! Remember to love and protect your planet. Also, don't let any falling red stars go unchecked.
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Played some more Monster Hunter and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon myself. Not as far in either game as I would like to be, but I've been busy. Yes, busy, and totally not doing marathon runs through Doctor Who...
Anyway, unofficial topic for the day: What are your favorite games in which the Earth (planet?) gets destroyed?
inb4 anyone else posts:
Also, did anyone else find it weird that FFVII apparently took place on Earth, or did Sephiroth telprot (spelling intentional) everyone to Earth just for that attack? Seriously, wtf.
It's not even CLOSE! This looks nothing like Earth ever in the history of forever or the future.
If you disagree, then I urge you to go cuddle a cactuar.
In all seriousness, though, I'd cuddle the shit out of that cactuar.


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Bikepacking Events 2019
Not yet decided what challenges to take on in 2019?
Here are some bikepacking challenges that we will be providing with live GPS tracking:
May // Mainfranken Graveller 2019
June // Taunus Bikepacking 2019
June // Around Norway
July // Bikepacking Trans Germany 2019
July // Bikepacking Franconia 2019
August // Eifel Graveller
December // Across Andes
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Your biggest goal in 2016 is to cut mean-time-to resolution. Every minute counts when it comes to solving ticket issues. But did you know your ITSM data already holds the information you need to speed up resolution times – you just need the insights to unlock them!
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With a stay at Holiday Inn Columbus N - I-270 Worthington in Worthington (North Columbus), you'll be within the vicinity of Polaris Fashion Place and Magic Mountain Fun Center. This hotel is within the vicinity of Sharon Woods Park and Westerville Mini-Golf. Don't miss out on recreational opportunities including an indoor pool and a fitness center. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access and complimentary use of a nearby fitness facility. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Worthington? This hotel has facilities measuring 3888 square feet (350 square meters), including conference space. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite. Make yourself at home in one of the 231 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include safes and desks, and you can also request cribs/infant beds (complimentary).
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Celebrate Chinese New Year (Jan 25) with Reto this year! Reto takes a trip to Shanghai to learn the new foods of china - from postickers to a Chinese Egg Cake! Come and see what the food of Shanghai is like.
These classes are great for a date, a girls' night out, or just Greensboro foodie fun! Each class includes hands-on instruction and a full meal. We will have a complimentary red and white wine.


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Blood, Iron, and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Christian Wolmar describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents, as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network.
Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched – and destroyed – by the unrelenting construction and how they had a vital role in civil conflict, as well as in two world wars. Indeed, the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.
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- David C Robinson
- 31-05-2015
Terrific Listen
A gripping and educational history of the growth of railroads worldwide and their future potential.
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- Andy
- 10-04-2010
a mile wide, an inch deep
The author opened the book explaining the limitations of what the book covered. He delivered 100% on the promised limitations. Wolmar provides a good survey of the development of railroads around the world, but too little detail on the specifics.
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- Mr. Adrian Mcmenamin
- 23-12-2012
Fascinating, but maybe too broad
This is a fascinating book and gives a real insight into the social and political impact of the railways, but maybe it suffers a little from being too broad and too fond of a travelogue style.
The author's claim that railways were the most important invention of the second millennium is possibly too great a reach - after all the railways came as a consequence of the industrial revolution - but he certainly makes a very strong case for their fundamental impact on all aspects of human society. It is just, through his desire to cover all the continents in a similar depth and to come right up to the present he misses an opportunity to give us a deeper perspective.
Well voiced and easy to listen to.
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- Lord Peridot
- 09-11-2017
The author does a wonderful job here of writing up the history of all the world's railways in a single volume. Thats a big undertaking and of course not every branch line in Patagonia is described in detail. But for non-Patagonians the coverage and selection of material seems admirable, remarkable even given its scope. Wolmar has a lively personal style done full justice by the reader, Tudor Barnes. Railways are a hugely important part of world history over the past two centuries and as the author reminds, rumours of their demise are certainly exaggerated. Picturesque and full of surprises, this is a great book for anyone who appreciates railways past & present.


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How architects can generate support from contractors and material specialists
In a previous blog, we described how architects can defend their design successfully by generating support from clients. As mentioned in that article, convincing a contractor or material specialist to implement a design is equally important. Contractors and material specialists, however, have slightly different motives when it comes to implementing an architect's design: in general, the aesthetic aspect is less important to them.
In this article, we therefore address the two aspects that are specifically relevant to these parties: material specifications and sustainability. We'd like to suggest how architects can defend their design through these two angles.
1) Defending a design through material specifications
When an architect selects a certain material/product — let's use tiles as an example here — and adds it to the tendering document, it doesn't necessarily mean that this product will be implemented in the construction. The contractor or tiler may opt to select another product. This switch often has to do with pricing, availability, or a relationship — meaning that the contractor or tiler has worked with a certain manufacturer for many years and wants to do continue doing so.
Architects can prevent this switch by being highly specific about the properties of the tile: the more specific the material is described, the harder it is for a tiler or contractor to propose a similar alternative. Think about describing length, width, thickness, flip/wear resistance, as well as sustainability product information.
An illustrating example is how a floor tile of the same size, thickness, and even color may differ in its breaking strength or wear resistance. Even if some properties are similar, others may make a huge difference. Not specifying these properties may lead to a material choice that does not fit the intended application area, for example high traffic areas.
2) Defending a design through sustainability
We talked about the importance of sustainability and green buildings labels for clients already. It is that same importance that will help convince contractors to implement the sustainable design of architects. Here's why: if sustainability is important for the client, it's important for the contractor. As a matter of fact, the contractor has most likely received sustainability requirements from the client, so it's in their best interest to produce a building that's eligible for a green building label as well.
If a contractor switches a certified green building material for a material that is not, (s)he decreases the chances of acquiring a green building label. Why? Because certified building materials earn green building label points — and non-certified materials do not. This difference represents a valid argument for architects looking to convince a contractor to use the materials defined in the specification.
Even more so, green building certification institutions randomly carry out checks to see if materials included in the specification are actually used during construction. This poses a real risk for contractors looking to swap products.
Also on the matter of sustainability and green building labels (and a bit on material specifications as well): if materials own the respective certifications and are listed in sustainable material databases, it's easier for executing firms to use them if a green building label is intended. Providing a contractor or tile material specialist with this information will reduce their workload for collecting the necessary documents, thus reducing the risk that another material will be used. For instance, architects can specify that a tile is Cradle to Cradle® certified and that it contributes to the acquisition of a green building label.
If you would like to learn more as to why green building labels are highly relevant to architects we would like to suggest our new whitepaper on the topic. You can download a free copy here.


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Like an iron fist smothered in maple syrup, Canada is sticking it to brands with the toughest email marketing law in the land. And if your company deals in the Great White North, it may apply to you.
Effective July 1, the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) requires businesses to obtain permission to send emails, text messages and possibly social media postings to customers or prospects.
Two Varieties of Consent: Implied or Express
Implied consent requires documented proof of a relationship with a consumer. For example, Jasper in Nova Scotia ordered a batch of squeegees last May and gave you his email address.
Express applies mainly to prospects, or any customer you can't prove you've done business with in the last two years.
To gain the golden stamp of approval, you must dish out opt-in messages and compete with a flurry of others doing the same thing.
While mega brands like Ford entice customers with freebies – a chance to win a free Mustang – small businesses and non-profits don't have the same resources.
Some experts believe companies will see opt-in rates of less than 20 percent without the help of an agency or digital marketing plan.
Whether you're a global brand with customers up north, or considering business ventures there, it's best to have an agency (and lawyer) on your side. Or risk stiff fines – up to $1 million per person, and up 10 times that for companies found in violation – and an email list worth less than a can of spam.
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Best Maternity Dresses for the Holidays
It's party season, and if you're pregnant you might be looking at your closet with last year's shimmery sequins and fitted dresses thinking, "Nope. No. Nuh-uh."
Luckily there's more than one way to look festive — and stay comfortable — regardless of what trimester you're in. We've rounded up looks for all sorts of parties you might be attending from now until New Year's. Happy shopping, mama!
Your Friend's Festivus Soiree
The Annual Family White Elephant Gift Exchange
This blouse can carry you through the rest of your pregnancy, and pair it with the Nordstrom leggings for an easy and fun holiday party look.
Maternity 3/4 Sleeve Shirt
Faux leather leggings go perfectly with your uncle's cheesy dad jokes.
Mama Faux Leather Maternity Leggings
Imagine yourself avoiding questions about the baby's name while wearing this sweet dress.
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Your Office Holiday Party
A sleek, sexy dress that hugs the bump.
Pietro Brunelli Olga Ponte Maternity Dress
Style in the most comfortable form ever. Throw your hair up and heels on.
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Directions: In the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi 15 Ngo Quyen.Phone: (+84) (0)24 3826 691
MetropoleHanoi has taken control of Bamboo Bar's TNH web presence.
Contact Bamboo Bar
12 Dong Me Street, Me Tri Ward, Từ Liêm, Hanoi
I would love to rate this bar with 5 stars, considering the prices(almost 1 mill vnd for 4 cocktails), but some inconsistent service let it down.
I went here on a whim, mid-week, in the late evening with a good friend. I'd never been before and was impressed with atmosphere and decor; the lighting, loungy chairs, blankets provided (very cute and comfy surprise addition), slowly rotating fans and the provision of insect repellent upon request. It reminded me of Bali.
We went for the cocktails - the martinis. I ordered the Apple and Cinnamon martini followed by the Charlie Chaplin. My friend ordered the same but in the reverse order. Her Charlie Chaplin martini came on a circular wooden server with the glass and a shaker. The waiter then walked off and she didn't really know what to do with it.. then the waiter returned and gave it a shake then poured.. all good- delicious! When I got my Charlie Chaplin (admittedly, at 'last drinks') I just got it in a glass- none of the same presentation or hesitation. I think that given the kind of establishment this is, this small detail deserves removal of one star. Now, on to the Apple and Cinnamon martini. Gorgeous!!! The aroma and taste of the cinnamon was intoxicating and thoroughly enjoyable and the apple came through well without being overly sweet. Delicious cocktail and would easily come here to indulge again.
By the way, the bathrooms come close to the best in Ha Noi. Almost returns the lost star... if only they had a hand dryer, not just paper towel.
Regardless of the drinks (which were sadly not as spectacular as i had hoped, given the prices) this place is worth a look, especially if you come in through the main doors of the hotel and get to nosey through the rather opulent hotel on your way to the bar. Too fancy-pants for my liking but probably a good place to show visitors a different side of here or as a temporary retreat from the noise and chaos.
Expensive, normal, this is the metropol hotel. Now if you can afford it, this is a very quite place when they do not have construction work and I used to go on sunday morning for breakfast/brunch, for French people is very nice, you can get croissant and other French products however the best is the French newspaper, magazine of the week that you get to read for free. If you are lucky and quiet, you can get the chance to access also to the swimming pool but do not tell because they used to allow it when you had breakfast but now that it became rich and famous I am not sure they will allow it.
While prices at Bamboo are truly on the high end, both the bar and Metropole Hotel are among the best in their class. As with several bars in the major hotels in town, the Bamboo can be a real oasis of calm where you can relax and nurse a drink. And like most establishments, it just takes a while to get to know the staff.
Located in the Sofitel Metropole complex the bamboo bar offers a hideaway from the hussle and bussle of Hanoi life. The bar staff appeared slightly arrogant and quite slow to take patrons orders. The drinks menu offers a resonable selection of beverages at 'mini-bar' prices all quoted in $USD (+5% servie charge +10% VAT). With drinks ranging from 92,000 VND (Halida) to 1,472,000 VND (glass of bubbly) a corporate credit card is almost an essential accessory for this bar.
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Amber Rose SlutWalk 3rd annual event, on October 1st took place at the Pershing Square Park, Los Angeles, CA.
The come as you are occasion had many people asking questions when they saw hundreds of women and men dressed in what conservative people would call: risqué. Although there were people in jeans and a t-shirt, that didn't stop wanderers from asking what provocative freak show was happening on Sunday afternoon.
The different attire of the diverse group of confident, free-spirited people helped escalate the SlutWalks' impact on the change it is trying to make for victims who have been abused.
Amber Rose is not the founder of SlutWalk, she is a helping hand to help build a bigger stage for the touchy subject that most people (predominately women) are afraid to talk about.
The first Slutwalk was April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Canada. After a Toronto police officer told a group of young women, they should avoid dressing like sluts to prevent sexual assault.
The women were infuriated by the police officer's remark and decided to create a protest in hopes to bring a global end to rape culture, victim blaming, sexual assault, slut and body shaming and gender equality.
Little did the founders know, their turnout of 3000 people would become a worldwide event over the years, hosted in over 200 countries annually on different dates and times. While each country has its unique feminist awakening, each SlutWalk is different, with one thing in common: stop shaming and victimizing people (predominately women) for being their authentic selves.
To get more people to come forth and get help from being abused, the SlutWalk has turned into an empowering charitable event for individuals not to feel ashamed or alone for being in an abusive situation.
Unfortunately, many people are not aware of how many men and women are victims of some form of sexual harassment every day. According to the CDC ( Centers for Disease Control and Convention), victims are still afraid to report being raped out of fear of shame.
Now, six years later, the nonprofit event had a great turnout with lots of people interacting and empowering one another to be the best version of themselves. Special performances by well-known and upcoming artists kept the crowd entertained. While sex-positive venues welcomed guests to shop and explore companies that supported people to be happy with their sexual preferences and identities as well as be free from the everyday conformity of what it means to be a beautiful human being.
The Amber Rose SlutWalk also held a motivating educational segment on women's rights and equality from professionals of psychology, sex & relationships, and tech.
Adult and Child Psychiatrist, Dr. Gettings said, "96 of Americans believe we men and women have equal rights. 80 percent of us believe we have equal rights in our constitution and we do not. The reality is that women and girls still do not have equal rights in the United States of America and we need them right away."
America still has a long way to go for women to gain equal rights in the country. While the SlutWalk is relatively new to California, the speakers encouraged Angelenos to go back into their communities to help women and girls push harder for their rights and stop allowing men to treat them as property and more like humans instead.
With more people becoming aware of the rape culture, slut and body shaming, gender equality, victim-blaming, and sexual assault, it is only a matter of time before men and women of every race and sexual identity will unite and strive to make a difference in society for today and future generations.


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If you are a fan of the lovely Samantha Akkineni, then we have some awesome news for you. In an exciting development, a photo from for her latest shoot is creating a buzz on the social media for all the right reasons. In it, she can be seen alongside her husband/noted actor Naga Chaitanya. And, as expected, the two make a good pair indeed. Sam looks simply cute while Chay looks his dashing self. There chemistry is hard to miss. That is how you make an impact!
In case you did not know, Sam and Chay tied the knot last year and began a new chapter in life. The wedding was a two-day-long affair and proved to be nothing short of an extravaganza. The two first tied the knot as per Hindu traditions before walking down the aisle according to Christian traditions.
Prior to their big day, Sam had said that their love story was a case of love at first sight.
"I fell in love with him the moment I met him on the sets of Ye Maaya Chesave, and we have been there for each other ever since. Nothing is more real in my life than him right now," she had said.
On the work front, Chay is currently gearing up for the release of Savyasachi. As far as Sam is concerned, she currently has Rangasthalam and Irumbu Thirai in her kitty. Rangasthalam is a romantic-drama and will see her act opposite 'Mega Power Star' Ram Charam. The film has created quite a buzz courtesy its teasers and could turn out to be a hit. As far as Irumbu Thirai is concerned, it is an action-thriller and has been directed by PS Mithran, In it, she will be seen alongside actor Vishal and 'Action King' Arjun.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars, Genre: Humor/ Vampires, Pages: 285, Level: Easy
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Betsy Taylor thought entering the world of the undead was a big adjustment. Being a new bride isn't much easier. The blush has only been on for two months, and Betsy has a lot to do: set up the new house, finish writing thank-you notes, and raise BabyJon, her half brother and legal ward. Just another happy American family adjusting to marital bliss.
Betsy's husband, Sinclair, has been perusing the Book of the Dead, and Betsy's visited by a ghost who's even more insufferable, stubborn, and annoying in death than she was in life. She not only blames Betsy for her condition but insists she fix it. It's all just a prelude to the fun and games awaiting Betsy and Sinclair when a pack of formerly feral vampires, hungry for blood and power, pays a visit to the happy couple.
Again, another entertaining addition to the Undead series. As with its predecessors, I listened to the audiobook while working out and doing household chores. These books are great for that because your full attention is not necessary to keep up with the story.
There is no intellectual value here; the series is purely for entertainment. The main character is still just as self-centered and airheaded as always and it is funny. The narrator is wonderful and nails Betsy's character.
Just as with the others, if you listen to the audiobook, you may not want to have it on speaker if there are kiddos around. There is a lot of profanity and some graphic sex throughout the series.
I definitely recommend the entire series so far if you are interested in a light read, vampire comedy.
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As the mother of a "Veronica" it was to my delight to find the song Veronica by Elvis Costello. Her father and I sang that song to her as a lullaby and I still hold it dear to my heart. Also a favorite song of ours was "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler, which also features the name Veronica. [Read more...]


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Seems like a fairly simple thing to answer doesn't it? The challenge arises when one tries to have a meaningful conversation about fears. In my head, there are two primary types of fear, irrational and rational. Now there are many rational fears that almost everyone will understand such as a fear of pain or death but those aren't very interesting in my opinion. A fear of death or pain, in my mind is very rational inversely, an extreme reaction to snakes and spiders is, at least in my mind, irrational (don't get me wrong here I'm no fan of them but it isn't debilitating).
So I'm here to discuss a subset of my irrational fears that are almost indistinguishable from my rational fears. For one because they helped establish some of my more fundamental behaviours and to this day guide my path.
Let's start with one that might seem perfectly rational at first glance.
I have a fear of being wrong...
Everyone has this at some level but I think that in itself is where half the problems with communicating these things lies.
Now while could spend ages writing about managing this fear and harnessing it for good (i.e. in pursuit of my personal goals and ambitions) this isn't the most interesting aspect.
To put it bluntly - "I do not trust my interpretation of my own emotions"
In my mind I have a constant narrative with myself. Occasionally it slips out but for the most part it is just a mechiasm I use to attempt to keep track of my mental state and to somewhat predict and comprehend the emotions of those I interact with. Please note that I didn't say "keep a track of my emotions" and that is where the problems lie.
This part will get rather vague but that's true of lots of my writing 😀.
I have a handful of useful mechanisms for determining my state. Some are fairly understandable even from an NT point of view these ones are kind of like my intuitive emotional understandings and are comprised mostly of things like sadness, ambivalence, motivation etc. In that list there is little or no Intuitive emotional reasoning for the 'happier' emotions which is annoying.
The part of my mental state monitoring is comprised of little self tests. At the simplest level just checking how much my hands are shaking at any given time and a more extreme version involves attempts to recall arbitrary events in the past (which the ease and accuracy of recall is checked and compared by questions to peers/family/friends).
When posed the question, internally or externally,"How do you feel about X" the process I have to go through is akin to multidimensional analysis with an attempt to quantify the effect on my state given changes to the limited observables.
I'm sure that most people who've done multivariate analysis before can see where the difficulties lie here. None of the variables are independent of any of the others.
In the past it has been noted by a variety of different people that my emotional response to things is very hit and miss... Sometimes I get it right and others I get it very wrong and adjust over time. I have no self check mechanism because it is built using the same technique so it comes from other people.
This is why I fear the accuracy of my personal emotional interpretation.
So it's difficult to fully comprehend what impact this has had on me without examples.
First example is one of the biggest things in my life at the moment...
Gender Identity - Why do I not feel comfortable when I apply the label of 'Man' to myself
In terms of the earlier discussion I am in serious need of expert opinion in this matter. I am very fond of being at equilibrium and please believe me that I wouldn't have sought the advice and support from my close friends in this matter if I felt that not asking the question was in anyway the best approach and would definitely have stopped the moment I found an answer that satisfied my curiosity.
However I now question my thought processes and feelings around this point for a variety of different reasons: 1) I'm depressed again so I must look to changes in my life to identify potential causes and while yes this has been a period of great change (Work pressures, new flat, DIY, lodger etc.) the biggest personal change has been with the gender experimentation. 2) I question everything, it's not helpful or beneficial for me to do so but I question everything in order to gain fuller understanding of myself. 3) I'm no expert in this field so my interpretation could be wrong. 4) I was very lonely at the time. I believe that I am clever enough to use this subconsciously as a tool to meet new people in an effort to not be lonely anymore. 5) It is reminiscent of the way my ASD manifests itself in a fixation. Not exactly the same but related.
Now all these thoughts are valid. I'd not be an advocate of freedom of the mind if I said that because these thoughts exist they are wrong and continue. It is this uncertainty that is driving me towards the specialist support/therapy that I believe can furnish me with something more resembling the truth.
Romantic feelings towards others.
I've said this many times to people as I feel it is important enough that they deserve to know.
I do not, in general, feel sexual attraction to people. While having spent most of my life identifying as male has imparted the ability to be crude and comment on the physical appearance of others I would never say I've been aroused by it without an additional factor.
Trust is my additional factor. It is this factor that makes relationships difficult (both platonic and romantic). My biggest fear is misreading my own feelings towards others because despite being able to feel attraction to someone I trust that is not the same as having romantic feelings towards them.
If I don't post this now I'll never do it so it's going to stay like this and I might make another post related to it.


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Our people: Master Corporal Vicky Fortin
News Article / March 13, 2020
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By Second Lieutenant Leo Zhou
"I find it challenging, but a good experience, to be out of my trade and learning something new," says Master Corporal Vicky Fortin about working as a Financial Services Administrator (FSA) despite being a trained Human Resources Administrator (HRA). "Down the road, it will be helpful to have knowledge in both trades."
Master Corporal Fortin is posted to 12 Wing Shearwater, Nova Scotia's 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron (MH Sqn), located in Patricia Bay, British Columbia, just north of Victoria. As an FSA, she handles unit claims, temporary duty (TD) bookings, office bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable support, and budget management services.
Since arriving at the Squadron in July 2019, Master Corporal Fortin has learned how to do her new job quickly and is mentoring a Private in the section. She sees similarities between him and when she was a Private, and wants to be the best example she can be. "Being a good leader is so important to me," she says, "because I know I have a direct influence on him."
She says she enjoys her work at 443 Squadron, which is a high-tempo unit. Due to its location—across the country from the rest of 12 Wing—the Squadron processes the highest number of TD claims at the wing for pilot and technician training. "We need to be very switched–on, and the team needs to be ready at all times," Master Corporal Fortin says. "Our job is to get people out the door no matter what."
Before joining the Canadian Armed Forces in 2012, Master Corporal Fortin was working as an Administrative Clerk in an engineering office. Because of her private sector experience, she found the switch to military HRA easy.
She says the most rewarding part of the switch was the physical aspect of the military. "I was most attracted to the physical fitness part," she says. "The military gave me the chance to learn about how my body can be pushed, and learn more about a healthy lifestyle." That's something she's hoping to pay forward. "When people see that you are in good shape and you eat well, they ask you about it. I hope to inspire people to do the same."
After Basic Military Qualification, Master Corporal Fortin did her three-month Qualification Level 3 course at Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ontario, before being posted to Edmonton, Alberta.
She says her deployment to Ukraine on Operation Unifier in 2017 was a "big milestone in my career and life." Though it was sad to say goodbye to family and friends, she believes the strong sense of teamwork brought everyone together during her deployment. In Ukraine, she was doing her HRA job, processing claims and helping out as required. She felt prepared for the work she did while overseas. "During training, we are taught to do things a certain way; on deployment, I was really able to see why we are trained to do things that way, and how important it is."
In her free time, Master Corporal Fortin enjoys working out and singing in the Squadron Band. The Band practises at the Squadron Mess during lunch time, and was the entertainment during the unit's Christmas party. She also volunteers to sing the national anthem during parades and sports events because "music brings people together."
She loves to travel, and is enjoying her posting.
"Victoria is amazing," she says, "You can go out every day and see something new. I don't like to stay in the same place for too long, so postings every four or five years is perfect." Her husband, a Royal Canadian Navy cook on board HMCS Regina, shares her love for travel; together, they are willing to go anywhere the military needs them.
After reaching the next rank, Master Corporal Fortin plans to apply for an Out-of-Canada (OUTCAN) posting. In the future, she hopes to work in succession planning, as a career manager, or as a career advisor for HRA. "I take pride in what I do for a living, she says, and I'm looking forward to seeing what other amazing opportunities the military will bring me."
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Sunnyside Village Breaks Ground on New Medical Center
Sunnyside Village has broken ground for the construction of Sunnyside's new and expanded health, rehabilitation, and memory care center. The two-story, 44,326-square-foot structure will add private room accommodations for rehabilitation patients and long-term skilled nursing residents. The Sunnyside Therapy Center will also reside in the new building and will feature state-of-the-art equipment, including an indoor therapy pool. The new and expanded health and rehabilitation center will feature: 50 private and 10 semi-private rehabilitation and nursing rooms; 18 private assisted living memory care rooms; inpatient and outpatient therapy center open to the public; state-of-the-art physical and occupational therapy gym; indoor therapy pool; and more. The new building site is located on Sunnyside's existing property next to its current health and rehabilitation center. The project is designed by SFCS Architects and overseen by General Contractor McIntyre, Elwell, and Strammer. The overall project cost is estimated around $20 million with the new addition expected to be complete in the fall of 2019. The renovation of the existing health center building and memory care portions are slated for completion in 2020.
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In celebration of Callender Graphics 30 year anniversary we're taking you back to 1989
What is your favorite numeral design?
What number is your favorite visual design?
- Tarot cards inspiration imagination creativity intuition brainstorming enlighten
- Do illustrations of famous thinkers of our time in my own 10 different styles of art depicting what their contribution what was
- enlightenment – : insight, understanding, awareness, wisdom, education, learning, knowledge; illumination, awakening, instruction, teaching; sophistication, advancement, development, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness; culture, refinement, cultivation, civilization.
- Try to imagine a color that you have never seen. It's impossible our brains don't allow our brains only allow us to see enough to survive in the world reproduce and find food and avoid becoming food for someone else.
- What attributes do you look for in a designer what turns you off the most about working with designers
- Do you think the hardest client to ever please if you were to be hired for some design work would be yourself – as the client?
- why is six afraid of seven
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A "fatberg" is a mass of solids, that cannot biodegrade, that has congealed in a sewer system. Fatbergs are made mostly of fat and cooking grease, which is formed around sanitary napkins, condoms and non-biodegradable wipes which are flushed down the toilet and never degrade. The largest fatberg ever found was discovered in the London sewers in 2017. It weighed more than 120 tons, and was longer than 250 meters. The fatberg was so huge and so disgusting that the Museum of London requested a chunk of it and currently have it on show for citizens of London!
Here are some tips from a septic service in Bethel, OH for avoiding a fatberg in your own pipes or septic system.
Don't flush anything but the "normal" stuff down the toilet
Do not flush wipes, diapers, feminine hygiene products, condoms or pet waste down the toilet. Many people do, assuming that once these things make it to the sewer they'll be fine, but that is simply not the case. These things never biodegrade, and they act as a natural attractant to all the fat an oil that's floating around in the sewer or your septic tank. It's never ever okay to flush any of these products down the toilet!
Properly dispose of food and fat before washing your dishes
Always collect your used cooking oil in a lidded container, let it cool and throw it away in the garbage can. Never try to let old cooking oil go down the drain. Some people think there's a genius workaround to this rule. They think all they have to do is run hot water before and after dumping the oil, and this will keep the oil from clogging the pipe, but this doesn't work. Trust us, you're not the first person to think this will solve the problem, but it doesn't. The oil just goes slightly further down the pipe and then hardens there.
Another thing to remember is to be careful if you have a garbage disposal. This will help you get rid of solid waste more easily than you might otherwise be able to, but it should only be used for waste that is biodegradable or otherwise compostable. A garbage disposal will not make it possible for you to get rid of fat or oil.
Contact a septic service in Bethel, OH
As a provider of septic service in Bethel, OH, even if we've never seen a fatberg on the level of the one found in London, we've still seen our share of enormous and unpleasant fat and grease deposits over the years. If you want to keep your pipes healthy for years to come, remember to follow all of our suggestions here for protecting your pipes. If you're currently having an issue with a clog in a pipe, or a slow drain, and think it might have to do with a fatberg of your own, do not hesitate to call. Draining issues should never be taken for granted, and a totally stopped drain should never be left to sit. You'll end up compounding your problems. That's why it's so important to find a septic service provider that you know you can trust.
At Gullett Sanitation Services Inc. in Bethel, OH, we've been providing the area's most reliable septic services for over 75 years, making us one of the longest lasting and most resilient businesses in the area. If you want to know what makes us different, give us a call today!


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