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-- Remote access to Windows apps from iPads, Androids, laptops, Chromebooks, etc., improves quality of learning and collaboration for students and teachers
DROITWICH, England, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, today announced that Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect has enabled Futures Community College to improve access to teaching and learning resources, and to accelerate BYOD adoption. Pupils and teachers taking advantage of the solution's HTML5-based zero RDP client component, AccessNow, can now enjoy instant, browser-based access to Windows-based educational and work applications from any device and any location.
Futures College's IT challenges began five years ago with a requirement to find a way to meet the government's push for a wider use of IT in education, and was even more pronounced as they lacked sufficient funds to replace their 600 aging and low-performing PCs. The College's initial requirements were met by Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView solution for application access. The new AccessNow technology further extends the functionality of PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView and enables a true BYOD deployment.
"We needed a stable and uniform platform for providing access to Windows applications, desktops and services for teachers and pupils. We revamped our IT strategy and sought a flexible ICT solution that would meet our then current needs, but also provide plenty of options for the longer term," recalled David Nettleship, network manager at Futures Community College. "Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect gave us what we wanted for about 40% of the cost of deploying a similar Citrix solution, plus it was much easier to manage and maintain."
"PowerTerm WebConnect accelerated the performance of the college's old PCs, which instantly improved the quality of teaching," said Nettleship. "Our pupils were no longer frustrated by slow PCs; they could engage in lessons fully and complete IT-based tasks during lessons more successfully. And thanks to PowerTerm WebConnect's zero client option, AccessNow, our teachers and pupils can engage in school work and prepare lessons from their personal devices, as well. This is crucial as we predict that the number of their pupil or teacher-owned devices may increase by as much as 50% over the next three years."
Brian Berns, Ericom Software's President and COO commented: "We're thrilled that PowerTerm WebConnect has proven to be a consistently high performing access solution for the college, and also has enabled them to keep pace with changing trends in IT and education, such as BYOD. Our AccessNow zero RDP client technology provides students and pupils with simple and flexible browser-based access to Windows-based applications and virtual desktops, from iPads, Androids, laptops, and any other device using an HTML5-compatible Web browser." Berns added, "Ericom AccessNow runs entirely within browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and any other HTML5-supported browser. It requires no installation of software on the end-user device, significantly reducing IT and helpdesk support costs."
Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect.
- Enables IT staff to publish Windows applications and desktops to user devices supporting an HTML5 browser, including Mac, iPads / iPhones, Android devices Chromebooks, Windows and Linux PCs and laptops, and other devices
- Support for on / off-campus browser-based, remote access to hosted Windows applications and desktops
- Same look and feel on all supported device types, reducing training and help desk costs
- Simple, easy and inexpensive to maintain; does not require any infrastructure for deployment, upgrades or patches; simply put new version on the server
- Includes Ericom's RDP compression and acceleration technology for improved user performance
- Comes with Ericom SSL Secure Gateway (no SSL VPN deployment needed)
- Works smoothly with existing SSL VPNs
To learn about Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect and AccessNow zero client technology, visit: www.ericom.com
Download Customer Story: www.ericom.com/Story_Futures_Comm_College
About Ericom
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualization and RDP Acceleration Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA. Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 7 million users. For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit http://www.ericom.com
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» Features
Publication Date : 16-11-2012
Xi Jinping, 59
The chemical engineer from Tsinghua University replaces Hu Jintao as general secretary of the Communist Party and commander-inchief of the People's Liberation Army. He has worked mainly in coastal places, like Fujianm and Shanghai. His wife is folk singer Peng Liyuan. His father is late revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun.
Li Keqiang, 57
Li rose up the Communist Youth League and is retiring leader Hu's protege. The Peking University old boy was the former party chief of north-eastern Liaoning, holds a doctorate in economics and is fluent in English. He is likely to take over from Wen Jiabao as premier.
Zhang Dejiang, 66
Zhang is an economics graduate from North Korea's Kim Il Sung University. The Jiang Zemin man helmed north-eastern Jilin before coastal Zhejiang and Guangdong. Made vice-premier in 2007, he took over Chongqing, after its former leader Bo Xilai, fell. He is expected to head the ceremonial legislature.
Yu Zhengsheng, 67
The former construction minister is close to the family of late leader Deng Xiaoping and also Jiang. His last job was party boss of Shanghai. His political career has, survived his brother's defection to the US in the 1980s and he is now expected to be China's top political adviser as head of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Liu Yunshan, 65
Liu was trained as a teacher in Inner Mongolia and worked as a Xinhua reporter in the region. He rose through the ranks doing propaganda work for the Communist Youth League. His big break came in 1993 when he was made viceminister of the party's central propaganda department. He is likely to run the party's secretariat and be appointed vice-president.
Wang Qishan, 64
Wang is the son-in-law of former vice-premier Yao Yilin and is close to former premier Zhu Rongji and Jiang. He has helped solve a banking crisis in Guangdong in the 1990s and the Sars outbreak in Beijing in 2003. He was Beijing mayor before becoming vice-premier. He is the new anti-corruption czar of the party.
Zhang Gaoli, 66
Zhang was born poor but worked hard for 14 years in the oil business. The Jiang Zemin ally was party boss of Shenzhen before leading coastal Shandong and cracked down hard on Falungong. His last portfolio was as leader of Tianjin port city. He is expected to, become executive vice-premier, assisting Li in the State Council.
» Other Features
● TOKYO: Soaking in Japan's autumn colours
● SINGAPORE: A day in the life of Tuas View dorm
● BANGKOK: Trapped in political limbo in southern Thailand
● TAIPEI: Manga gateway to Japanese culture for Taiwan youths
● TOKYO: Worried about using chopsticks? Join a seminar
● HONG KONG: No romance in the real world of Suzie Wong
● SEOUL: Fast fashion meets designer names
● CHIANG MAI: All roads lead north
● CHITTAGONG: Lured into risky sea trip
● TACLOBAN CITY: SUPERTYPHOON YOLANDA: Tale of 2 Taclobanons
● SEOUL: Debt behind Korea's notorious suicide rate
● SINGAPORE: Have halal, will travel
● SINGAPORE: Is that cake on display fresh?
● BEIJING: Changing for clear skies
● SEOUL: 'Misaeng' syndrome grips South Korea
» Most Viewed
● JAKARTA: Jokowi steals spotlight during Singapore visit
● BEIJING: Other countries feel the pain as Xi cracks the whip
● SINGAPORE: New Asian wealth seeks strategic philanthropy
● TOKYO: M-6.8 earthquake hits Japan's Nagano Prefecture; 39 injured
● TOKYO: Abenomics on campaign front line
● NEW DELHI: Sun's finally shining on India's climate change fight
● KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia X may need more funds, say analysts
● HANOI: Vietnam eyes law to give foreigners right to purchase homes
● TACLOBAN CITY: Sign of confidence in Tacloban: Opening of SM store
● KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia woos back the Chinese
● TAIPEI: Chinese star wins big at Golden Horse
● HONG KONG: 95% SMEs affected by 'Occupy', says survey
● TOKYO: Shinzo Abe's midterm performance will be judged in lower house election
● SINGAPORE: Beauty ads accused of using ugly tricks
● SINGAPORE: An 'under happy' lot

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Submitted by acohill on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 09:41
In what has become a kind of ho-hum announcement, Apple smashed sales records again, with 3 million iPads flying off the shelves in the first weekend. To put this in perspective, the original iPad took a month to sell one million. It took three months for iPad 2 to hit 3 million--and three days to sell 3 million of the iPad 3.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 07:56
This story from MIT's Technology Review says that the amount of data we are storing is
The answer is more cloud storage, and the cloud, to be efficient, is going to have to move closer to the data. It is extremely expensive to drag data across the public Internet to get to a large data storage facility like Apple's, Microsoft's, or Amazon's, compared to a short trip across a locally-owned modern fiber infrastructure straight to a local data center. Akamai has made a business about putting data closer to users, but Akamai caters to the one way data direction (down) of major content providers like CNN. The next frontier is affordable two-way data storage, and communities that have affordable fiber coupled with local well-designed data and colo centers will find it easier to attract and keep businesses and jobs.
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 09:30
So on the one hand, the new 4G networks are going to solve all our bandwidth problems without any of those pesky fiber cables running everywhere. On the other hand, Apple roles out a new tablet device, and the very same super fast networks are likely to collapse under the strain.
Somebody needs to get their story straight. But read the whole article, as it provides a good explanation of why wireless is not going to solve our bandwidth problems. We need wireless for mobility access, but it cannot and will not replace the need for fiber at home and at work.
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 09:06
The buzz that Apple will introduce an Apple TV sometime this year continues. Speculation about the product includes claims that it will incorporate Siri voice recognition so that you can just talk to it and eliminate the remote control. Other theories include the idea that it will look and behave much like an iPad, and that it will essentially be a big iPad, with the ability to run most iPad apps.
If Apple does introduce a new "TV" device, I am pretty sure it will:
Oh, and one more thing....it will place enormous demands on existing broadband networks, creating even more problems for existing DSL and cable providers.
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 08:58
Comcast has announced its own streaming video service, called Steampix, to compete with Netflix. It only costs $4.99/month, but if you have Comcast's triple play package, you get it for free. Comcast, because it owns the network infrastructure, can dish out streaming video more efficiently and for much less cost than Netflix, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. But the fact that Comcast is doing this seems to me to be a tacit admission by the cable giant that a lot of people can't be bothered to watch "TV" anymore. I think it is time to start putting "TV" in quotes, because really, it refers to a technology that is long gone.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 09:10
"My DSL is worthless on the weekends." Exact quote from someone I talked to yesterday. She lives in a rural part of Virginia, and DSL is her only broadband option. So many people are now routinely streaming bandwidth intensive video content that the local DSL Access Module (DSLAM) is overloaded and can't handle the demand. The local incumbent has a monopoly on broadband service, so there is no incentive to spend more to improve the backhaul from the DSL switch down the road from her house. Her service is better on weekdays because most of her neighbors travel to school or work during the day, and she does much of her work FROM HOME. But as the price of gas climbs past $5/gallon, living in a rural area and commuting long distances to work is going to become a luxury of the wealthy unless the bandwidth is there in rural communities and back roads to allow some folks to work from home. The rapidly rising cost of gasoline and the just as rapidly increasing demand for bandwidth on antiquated copper-based networks is about to create a perfect storm in rural communities that don't have a strategy for increasing the affordability and performance of broadband.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 08:04
The city of Wilmington, North Carolina uses its fiber network to turn the lights off at sports parks at night. Cameras have been placed at every sports and recreation field, along with remote control light switches. A single city employee can quickly check the cameras to see if anyone is still at a field, and if not, a couple of mouse clicks turn off the lights. The city expects to save $800,000 per year on electricity costs. That will build a lot of fiber.
But wait...there's more! Here is the most interesting part: "...an employee can do this from home..." From home. Read that again: from home. And here is why we need fiber everywhere, not just at the city or county admin building. The technology enables more people to work more efficiently wherever they are, not just while they are in the office. If you want your employees to be able to access dozens of video streams from home, guess what? You need business class broadband throughout your community.
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 14:53
The popular Broadband Communities Summit (April 24-26, Dallas, Texas) has an extensive track of speakers and sessions devoted entirely to open access and community broadband networks. Right now the conference is running an early bird registration special. A list of the Open Access sessions are below.
Open-access networks are built to support multiple providers that offer dozens or even hundreds of services. Instead of collecting revenue for two or three mostly low-margin services, network operators can accrue revenue directly or indirectly from every service offered to customers on the network. Though most of these will be niche services, many have high profit margins. This session will discuss key differences in open-access network architecture, introduce alternative business models and show how those business models can create attractive opportunities for service providers.
A community's rights of way constitute a valuable asset that it can use for economic development and revenue enhancement. Too often, city officials manage this asset in a reactive way, simply responding to requests from telecom providers and other utilities for right-of-way use. Find out how leading-edge communities proactively plan and manage right-of-way usage in order to attract ultra-broadband providers, encourage economic development and fully exploit their assets.
The first open-access networks in the U.S. were launched into uncharted waters – no one knew whether or how they would work from a business or technical standpoint. Those starting out today can benefit from the experiences of the pioneers and choose strategies that have been proven successful.
Though most fiber-to-the-premises networks can be configured to support multiple service providers, there are preferred ways to design networks specifically for open access. Learn about new technologies for all aspects of deployment and operation – ranging from conduits to optoelectronic equipment to solutions for network management and provisioning – that have been specifically designed to make open-access fiber networks cost-effective, manageable and easy to implement.
Many of the middle-mile fiber networks being constructed today are open to multiple providers - some of them, though by no means all, because of requirements imposed by government funding. In this session, deployers and operators of middle-mile networks will share what they have learned, from both a technical and business standpoint, about making open access work in the middle mile.
Rural communities that have been bypassed by both private and public broadband programs are left to their own devices when it comes to obtaining broadband. Some are now proving adept at what might be termed do-it-yourself or "crowd-sourced" broadband strategies. This session will present case studies of rural coalitions – ECFiber in Vermont and B4RN in northern England – that rely heavily on local resources to raise capital, organize projects and even deploy fiber. Can these new models make FTTH practical and affordable in rural settings?
Submitted by acohill on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 14:32
Apple's stock price is $494 at 2 PM today. Apple is now worth more than Microsoft and Google combined.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 16:07
Read this report of a recent visit to an Apple store and how technology is changing the customer experience. Apple has spent a lot of money to focus on helping customers, rather than just ringing up sales at an old-fashioned check out counter. And if you look at Apple's stock price, it is obviously paying off.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 15:09
Those of us that have reasonably decent broadband connections at home and at work often forget there are still large parts of America that are still on dial-up. Design Nine just completed the first part of a USDA-funded Community Connect project in Grayson County, Virginia. Grayson County some of the most rugged terrain on the East Coast, and is home to Mount Rogers (elevation 5,729 ft), one of the highest peaks east of the Mississippi River. The Wired Road received the USDA grant to help the rural community of Grant, Virginia get better access to broadband. No reasonably priced fiber was available near the community, so Design Nine engineered a complex, multi-point 300 megabit microwave link from Galax, Virginia, where The Wired Road has its main network site.
The project renovated the historic, 100 year old Grange Hall in Grant, which included major improvements to the building, as well as a radio tower, a fiber link from the tower to the Grange Hall, and the design and implementation of a ten seat computer lab designed specifically to support distance learning and business people who needed broadband access. The computer lab has been extremely popular, and is saving local residents time and money, as they no longer have to drive long distances to get broadband access.
The second phase of the project is nearing completion, and will bring fiber to the home connections to 100 homes in Grant. Network connectivity on the fiber network is being provided by the 300 megabit radio link, which is capable of supporting TV service in the future.
Submitted by acohill on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 13:55
Now this is a good idea--a replacement AC outlet cover that includes two USB ports. There have been some replacement duplex outlets around for a while, but they require a little more work, as you have to re-wire them into the outlet box. This RCA wall plate is simple--unscrew the existing wall plate, replace it with this one, and you are done. You have two USB ports and 1 AC port. I will note that the replacement outlet devices preserve both AC outlets.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:18
I had to read the first sentence of this article twice because I thought it must be a joke:
Teens, after being friended by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles on Facebook, have moved to Twitter to get a little more privacy.
Trading Facebook for Twitter? Really?
Apparently those teens have not studied Twitter very carefully, as all tweets are entirely public; so public, in fact, that Twitter recently agreed to hand over all tweets to the Federal government and DHS, which now apparently monitors tweets for subversive activity. DHS recently denied two British tourists entry to the U.S. because of a couple of jokes they had posted on Twitter. Apparently re-posting a quote from the TV show Family Guy now marks you as a terrorist.
It may take a while longer, but I think people will eventually begin to understand that posting every trivial thought and picture from your life online is not the way to gain privacy.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 14:00
A guy named Jake Reilly dropped all electronic communication, including the phone, for ninety days, calling it "The Amish Project." This story is really interesting, as he ran into all sorts of logistical challenges, some of them amusing. For example, he'd meet a girl in a bar, she would give him her phone number, and he'd have to explain he could not call her. And the girl would think he was lying to avoid telling her he did not like her. To keep in touch with friends, he resorted to putting sticky notes in the elevator at work and leaving chalk messages on the sidewalk in front of their office or their home. Perhaps most telling, he realized that Facebook was an enormous drain on his time, and that by staying off it, he had a lot more time to actually visit people in person and talk face to face.
Read the whole thing.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 15:39
Via MuniNetworks, some Georgia legislators are getting substantial campaign contributions from the incumbent telephone and cable providers to pass a law making it illegal for communities to create competitive broadband infrastructure. The big win in North Carolina last year, where the legislature did pass such a law, has spurred similar efforts in Georgia and South Carolina.
Submitted by acohill on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:49
The City of Danville, Virginia is beginning to see some big wins with their steady expansion of the City-owned open access fiber network. Back in the early 2000s, the City Utilities Department had begun installing fiber on City utility poles. Danville Utilities provides electric power throughout the City and large portions of three surrounding counties, with a total service area of nearly 500 square miles, and the fiber was an early smart grid initiative that provided the Utilities Department with better management of substations and power use.
In 2006, the City retained Design Nine to help develop a business plan and network architecture that would open the City fiber to commercial use. This led to the first municipal open access fiber network in the U.S. in 2007, and was arguably the first Gigabit municipal network; true Gigabit circuits were available on day one of operations--the nDanville network is active Ethernet.
Funded with revenue from anchor tenants like the City and the K12 schools, the network has expanded slowly, but from the beginning, the fiber network was part of a larger economic development strategy to re-invent the City, which had seen the loss of thousands of textile jobs in the late 90s. nDanville fiber has sharply reduced costs for connected businesses, especially in the medical community, and a commercial supercomputer facility is coming online in downtown Danville--the location determined in large part by where nDanville fiber is available.
The whole story is here.
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 11:48
The truly awful SOPA and PIPA bills have been stalled, but Rep. Darrell Issa of California has introduced OPEN, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, in the House. OPEN has been written more narrowly to target only offshore counterfeit and bootleg sites, and does not give the Federal government the expansive powers to arbitrarily shut down any site; SOPA and PIPA managed to eliminate both due process and free speech in a single bill.
If you click through to this article to get more information, the interesting stuff is at the end, where writer indicates that the bigger picture is that Silicon Valley (i.e. Internet techies) are really in a war with Hollywood (i.e. 20th century film and TV distribution models). The Internet is enabling lots of competition with the traditional Hollywood film and TV studios and distribution companies, and SOPA and PIPA were going to help shut down any perceived competition.
I do not think it is quite that convenient a meme. Instead, I think Hollywood is at war with itself, and right now, the dinosaurs of that industry still have the upper hand. Movie and TV content producers and developers that embrace new distribution forms (which the dinosaurs don't like) have much to gain.
But as I have been saying for years, traditional TV is already dead. Hollywood is still in denial.
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:49
I just stumbled across SmartFlix, which is the education and training version of NetFlix. You can rent a wide variety of training and education DVDs by mail, just like NetFlix. They have many different topics available, ranging from the mundane (cooking videos) to the more sophisticated and esoteric: welding, machine lathe operations, and knifemaking. A lot of the skill-related topics (e.g. welding, machining, etc.) used to be offered as courses in high school and community colleges, but some time in the past twenty years, most of those "live" classes were eliminated. And today, many U.S. manufacturers can't find anyone who knows how to weld or run a lathe.
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 09:53
Apple's announcement yesterday of an improved iBooks application for iPads and iPhones may seem like a kind of ho-hum sort of thing, but it is potentially as big a deal as the introduction of the iPod was a few years ago. Remember that there were all sorts of digital music players on the market prior to the introduction of the iPod; they were uniformly awful to use. The iPod set a very high bar for usability that resonated with customers.
The iBooks announcement was less about the bookshelf app itself than about the accompanying application called iBooks Author. Apple is giving this application away for free, and it sets a new standard for the ease of creation of ebooks. iBooks Author makes it much easier for textbook authors particularly to embed multimedia content in an ebook.
Apple has cleverly paved the way for the sale of millions of iPads that will replace conventional textbooks in both K12 schools and in higher education.
But while that is interesting and brilliant, it's not the real story.
The real story is that iBooks Author allows writers and teachers to create ebooks and sell them directly through the iBooks store without the services of a publisher. Uh oh. Text book publishing is extremely lucrative, with very high prices for the books, and very low royalties paid to the actual authors of the books. Now, text book authors can, albeit with a bit more work, cut out the publishers completely and reap much larger income by selling directly to students via Apple's iBooks service.
Submitted by acohill on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 09:40
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Notice that they are saying a single channel of live HD requires AT LEAST 5 Meg of bandwidth. Roku does not say, "...up to 5 Meg," or "...5 meg when no one else in the neighborhood is sucking all the bandwidth down watching a movie." They are saying, "...if you want to watch live events in HD, you need 5 meg of bandwidth per stream." By per stream, that means if two of you in your home are watching two different live events, you need 5 Meg x 2 = 10 Meg of bandwidth. That will never happen over DSL, and even on cable networks where they are now advertising wildly inflated bandwidth promises ("...up to 15 meg with SuperIncredibleGinormousCableBoost technology...."), just a few people trying to watch an HD broadcast in the same neighborhood are going to slow things to a crawl.
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Women Self-Pleasure - 8 Tips To Increase You Pleasure and Satisfaction
Self-pleasure is good for you and is considered to have actual health benefits. Self-pleasure is great as well girls; you get to do it by yourself, on your own terms, you can also experiment to find out what you like and what turns you on. Unfortunately growing up many women are raised with little information about our genitals, sex and self-pleasuring does not really come naturally for everyone. The secret to bringing each woman to orgasm is different. Women can climax through clitoral stimulation, vaginal penetration or G-Spot stimulation. There is no wrong way self-pleasure we are all different. Here in this article we will just try and point you in the right direction ladies.
1. Setting the mood
If you are going to get the most from the experience you must give yourself plenty of time. I would advise that you give yourself at least half an hour. Get yourself in a relaxed mood; take a bath or pour yourself a generous glass of wine. It is as much about state of mind as it is about technique ladies. Next make sure that you can't be disturbed. That means turning off the mobile/cell, locking the door and if you have children send them round a neighbours. Then get yourself in a position you feel comfortable and relaxed in. Women generally start out on their backs, legs bent and spread apart, with their feet on the ground. Make sure that you have plenty of support and cushioning.
2. Fantasize/romanticize for self-pleasure
This is your alone time and recalling a past sexual encounter or elaborate on a favourite sexual fantasy can really set the mood. If you need a little of bit of help getting started then read an erotic story, look at a sexy publication or even indulge in a bit of adult entertainment. Ladies this is you time anything goes as long as it get the pulse racing.
3. Explore all parts of your body
It amazing but a lot of women really don't know their own bodies at all. Experiment and run your hands all over your body and if some thing feels good then linger there and just enjoy the feeling it creates. Look at your genitals in a mirror (especially if you are unfamiliar with it) and caress the different parts to see what feels good to you. There are the inner and outer labia, your clitoris, your vagina and your perineum.
4. Don't be afraid to play around to find what is best for you
Ladies get those fingers working; use one or two fingers and start to stoke different parts of you vulva and remembering to stimulate your clitoris and labia. Find the rhythm that works for you this means experimenting with pressure, speed and motion. I suggest placing fingers either side of the clitoris and stoking up and down, or placing two fingers on the clitoral hood and rubbing in a circular motion.
5. Life is about surprises
Unless you are willing to open up your mind girls and let yourself be comfortable with your own skin and trying everything you will not get the most from your own body. When self-pleasuring try different types of touch: stroke, tickle, knead or why not even try gently pulling your genitals. Anything goes ladies. Use one or several fingers, the palm of the hand even your knuckles. Don't be afraid it will only take you to a better place.
6. It is a long and winding road
The thought of reaching that climax is all part of the fun. The thought of riding the wave will build the anticipation. You can add to that by enhancing the excitement yourselves girls. Learn to hold on to your sexual excitement by building up and then reducing temporarily the stimulus. Listen to what your body is telling you. Your own body will tell you when you have the right tempo or when a certain tickle feels good.
7. Remain relaxed
As the sexual energy starts to build it is critical to let it take you and not to fight it. Breathing deeply rather than holding your breath will help as will rocking your pelvis as in intercourse will help. I would also suggest rhythmically clenching and releasing your PC muscle (if you are looking for vaginal penetration then a dildo will help).
8. Ride the wave
When the climax starts please continue to stimulate through the orgasm. The body start to get more sensitive so lighten up during those first receptive seconds but keep going to enjoy the pleasurable aftershocks. The first orgasm may feel like a blip or a explosion however the more you practice the more range you will develop and understand.
Self-pleasuring is obviously a very personnel thing. It is though something to be embraced and practice will only lead to a better orgasm as you find what works for you. Experimentation through self-pleasure will not only lead to personnel self satisfaction but can only benefit your sex life as you work out what you like and then pass on that information to your partner.
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With the running of Saturday night's MAV TV 500, the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series season has come to a close. Tony Kanaan finally got his well-deserved first win for Chip Ganassi without waiting throughout the long offseason to wonder when that elusive victory would come. It finally did, but under the backdrop of Will Power winning the series championship. Neither driver clinched their respective victories in dramatic edge of your seat excitement. Kanaan led the final fifty-three laps while Power pretty well had the suspense ended for him when Helio Castroneves was assessed a drive-through penalty on Lap 218 for a pit-entry violation. The penalty put Castroneves a lap down, and it was pretty much over with after that.
Random Thoughts On FontanaPosted in IndyCar on September 1, 2014 by Oilpressure
Fontana PreviewPosted in IndyCar on August 29, 2014 by Oilpressure
Wasn't it just a couple of months ago that the Verizon IndyCar Series was kicking off at St. Petersburg? Just as things seem to be on a roll, the series heads into the season-finale at Fontana – just a couple of nights after the final NFL pre-season football games took place. Oh well, as odd as it feels – I think I beat that horse to death on Wednesday.
Be Careful What You Wish For…Posted in IndyCar on August 27, 2014 by Oilpressure
The taste of crow is very unappealing, but as we approach the Verizon IndyCar Series season finale this Saturday night – I'm afraid it may be a big part of my Labor Day diet. For years, I've been beating the drum in favor of ending the season on Labor Day weekend. The thought was that it was a losing battle to try and go up against the NFL regular season, which starts the Thursday after Labor Day. It's quite possible that a race going up against the NFL on their opening day, may actually register a 0.0 rating – and yes, that's possible.
Random Thoughts On SonomaPosted in IndyCar on August 25, 2014 by Oilpressure
When I had heard that there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Sonoma in the wee hours of yesterday morning, I was afraid that would be the only excitement to come out of that region all day. Instead, we got a fairly entertaining race, by Sonoma standards.
Sonoma PreviewPosted in IndyCar on August 22, 2014 by Oilpressure
Those that have been longtime readers of this site know that the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma is one of my least favorite races on the Verizon IndyCar Series schedule. In fact, the only thing that keeps it off of the bottom, is the fact that it takes place on a natural terrain road course instead of a temporary street circuit. Therefore, Belle Isle still sits at the bottom of my personal and very unscientific ranking system.
Is A Penske Championship A Certainty?Posted in IndyCar on August 20, 2014 by Oilpressure
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Random Thoughts On MilwaukeePosted in IndyCar on August 18, 2014 by Oilpressure
A couple of weeks ago, I drew the ire of more than a few when I said this was a championship that no one seemed to want. Of course, I was exaggerating at the time. Why would a driver not want to win the championship? But at that time, no one was emerging as a clear-cut front-runner. That is no longer the case.


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Two Blue Headed Pionus babies playing and enjoying life.
Beautiful capture, so cute and innocent :-)
So snuggled keeping each other warm :) cute shot , well done !
Talk a bout cute, nice capture.
Is that a lump on the bigger ones top part of the wing ?
No Amanda thats food in the crop. Just his position is making the crop bulge there. They were perfect babies.
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So beautiful!
New life is so innocent and truly beautiful. I thank you for seeing that. Rob.x
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I love bubby birdies, they're so cute! Some people think they look like aliens but to me they're gorgeous =) Great shot!
And me. Well said. I hate it when people go " oh arnt they ugly" I will always argue for them. How beautiful they are. :)
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wondorous capture so beautiful !!
Many thanks. Baby birds are so sweet. :)
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Awwwwwwwwwwwe….so cute… they are just so innocent. :)
So so true. Babies eh.!!! :)
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This is adorable. (:
To get that comment it makes the picture so worth taking. :)
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Many are probably unfamiliar with the place but it is one of the most interesting ancient. Cities and it WAS a city, in the world and I believe only little is known about it. It dates back to the time of the Assyrians and Hitties , Persians etc. but I surmise it may dateback even further.
DERENKUYU was uncovered when a passageway was found behind a cave revealing what is a multi level underground city extending to a depth of approximately 60 m, it was large enough to shelter approximately 20,000 people together with their livestock and food stores. Equipped with air shafts . It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and the world and is one of several underground complexes found across Cappadocia. It was opened to visitors in 1969 and to date, about half of the underground city is accessible to tourists.
Its literally a maze and since im claustrophobic I didnt get very far down. Not to mention these massive multi ton circular round stone doors , the same ones on Indiana Jones, idk what theyre called but the sight of them from below being underground imagining they would roll closed was enough for me to happily run out.
It is a strange and amazing place. Ill be back again soon enough. Hopefully somewhat intoxicated this time..
So ive read a ton on it, recently it was in an ancient aliens episode. Naturally, a good place to connect aliens to.
Anyway, does anyone have other thoughts on its origins?
Aside from its occupational records, there doesnt seem to be a definitive on who actually made it. One theory is the one being that some of the first Christians have sought refuge there. Of course they werent the first though.
A pic from the inside and one of several stone doors ( which would indicate having to have means of protection in other words hiding out from someone, something )
,what it looks like amassed
And there Is in fact a small village above it.
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Vietnam War veteran Warren Fisher sits in the shade at Massabesic Lake park in Manchester on Monday, with his newly acquired CPAP machine. (Mark Hayward/Union Leader)
The 62-year-old, who lives in a campground just outside Manchester, has struggled with anger issues, depression and suicidal thoughts.
Fisher said he's been waiting 19 months — since December 2012 — for the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester to provide him with a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine.
Fisher tells a story that jibes with tales of VA incompetence we've heard this year, stories about people dying while waiting for care, about the resignation of the Veterans Affairs secretary, and about something so bad that it prompted an unworkable Congress to actually do something and pass reform legislation.
"That's my medicine, and I scream for medicine," Fisher, who goes by the nickname Fish, said this week during an interview at Lake Massabesic park. He spoke on Monday, hours after the VA finally provided the machine he had asked for 1 1/2 years ago.
"Your emotions go up and down," he said. "It affects your mood. When you're tired, everything pisses you off; when you're super-tired, you're pissed off even more.
Fisher served in the Coast Guard in Vietnam. He said his gunboat often shelled enemy positions, and another problem includes hearing loss.
To review Fisher's medical file is to understand the complex cases the VA deals with.
Recent records show three or four visits to the VA each month for the past two years.
"There could have been a breakdown in communication. We're not saying it did (happen), we're not saying it didn't," said Will Gagne, staff assistant to the director of the Manchester VA. Gagne said he could not speak about a specific patient, but he spoke in hypotheticals and generalities.
The medical information on the fax is entered into a patient's file, but sometimes there's no indication why the information was needed, Gagne said.
In November 2013, he was brought to the VA after he got fired and said he wanted to die. The following April, he had suicidal thoughts when his girlfriend left him.
"I was concerned about other (health) problems," Fisher said. "I kept on waiting (for the CPAP machine)."
Although Fisher visits the VA a lot, he does not come across as someone who over-doctors and doesn't take charge of his health. In the last two years, he's lost nearly 80 pounds, and at 6-foot, 2-inches, he's a muscular 210 pounds.
His life may be turning for the better.
A stepdaughter has moved to New Hampshire with her children to be close to him. He's taking an anger management course at the VA. He went back to work recently. And on Tuesday night, he slept four to five hours — a little longer than usual, although he said the sleep was erratic.
"People at the VA, in their defense, they're overwhelmed. It's all about money, budget cuts," Fisher said. And the country has changed from the late 1960s, he said, when gas was cheap and everyone pitched in to help each other.
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What is Psychosis? Symptoms of Psychosis
Psychosis manifests itself through a range of symptoms that affect an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Symptoms of psychosis are frequently separated into "positive" and "negative" symptoms. "Positive' symptoms are thoughts and feelings that are "added on" to how a person usually thinks and feels (e.g., slightly suscipious become paranoid) and feels and "negative" symptoms are things that are "taken away" (e.g., reduced motivation or reduced intensity of emotion).
Positive Symptoms
Some of the positive symptoms include:
Delusions (Fixed false beliefs that are resistant to reason or actual facts)
Such as:
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- being followed or monitored
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- certain sights or sounds are specifically directed towards the young person or communicating a hidden message (e.g., the television announcer is personally criticizing you)
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- having one's thoughts broadcast so others can hear them
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Hallucinations involve seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling or tasting something that is not actually there. The most common type of hallucination involves hearing things - such as voices or particular sounds. These hallucinations can be so real that the individual may not realize that what they are hearing is not actually there. Some people hear voices coming through their ears and other people hear the voices inside their head. The content of the voices could range from critical to friendly and may even tell people what to do. It is often the odd behaviour that happens as a result of the hallucinations that gets noticed. At times the person might be observed talking to themselves or making odd gestures as if someone is in their presence. These can be frightening experiences and can vary in intensity from person to person.
Disorganized Speech or Behaviour
The speech of individuals with psychosis may be disorganized in such a way that the person moves quickly from one topic to the next, or to the point where the person's speech may not be understandable.
The behaviour of individuals with psychosis also may be disorganized. The person may have difficulties performing activities of daily living (e.g., cooking, self-care) or display inappropriate behaviours or responses (e.g., laughing while describing a personal tragedy).
Negative symptoms
Negative symptoms reflect a decrease in, or loss of, normal functions. These symptoms are often less evident than positive symptoms and require careful assessment.
Some examples of negative symptoms include:
- reduced display of emotions
- not speaking very much
- difficulties in thinking or coming up with ideas
- decreased ability to initiate tasks
- lowered levels of motivation or drive
- loss of internal mental richness
Other symptoms
It is also common for other symptoms or problems to occur along with the psychotic symptoms.
There can also be changes in mood, thought, and communication: for example, fear, anxiety, sadness, need for self-protection, anger and irritability, and distrust towards others. During this time, a person may have more difficulty concentrating, keeping organized, and may find it more challenging to communicate to other people the way they normally do.
Some examples of other problems that may occur include:
- depression
- anxiety
- suicidal thoughts or behaviours
- alcohol and/or other drug use problems
- difficulties functioning
- sleep disturbance - for example staying up all night
- cognitive problems such as difficulties with memory, concentration, reasoning, etc.
Once treatment is initiated, acute psychotic symptoms should lessen and will usually fade away completely. However, some symptoms, especially negative symptoms, may linger. Even after the psychosis has responded to treatment, problems such as depression, anxiety, decreased self esteem, social problems and difficulties with work or school may continue or start for the first time and require further support and treatment to help promote a full recovery.


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You're doing great! I do great for a few days and then I blow it by snacking too much. I did this last year when I trained for the half marathon too. SIGHReplyDelete
Congratulations! I'm glad to hear about your success and your excited feelings about continuing onward!! Keep it up!! :)ReplyDelete
Losing two pounds is already a great progress. It's good that you just keep pushing and never give up!ReplyDelete
I'm sure your daughter is proud to see you making the effort to take care of yourself. It is a good example you are setting, that if we are persistent, we achieve our goals.ReplyDelete
2 pounds off are a good thing. And I bet it's so rewarding to see them dissapear, acknowledging all the hard work you do in that regard.ReplyDelete
You have such a positive, inspiring attitude and I really like it. Congrats on the weight loss, let's keep pushing forward :)ReplyDelete
Hi, I just found your blog. I have read through several of your posts and am so glad I did. You're very inspirational.ReplyDelete