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Though there is a clear distinction between a concept of character and a concept of glyphic representation, in natural language processing, depending on the field of operation, same text stream often requires different operational domains. Representative two domains are as follows:
Search and Retrieval, sort, natural language processing, machine translation.
A person's name, a place name, a geographical dictionary, a biographical dictionary, historical/geographical description.
A different methodology applies to a different field, however, the appearance-based processing domain is often misunderstood as a simple font typeface issue within the character-based processing domain. The requirements in the appearance-based processing domain will not satisfactory be fulfilled by ordinary font typeface settings in higher level protocol and even worse, there still be a strong demand on the appearance-based processing domain for plain text. The Unicode Standard Variation Selectors is a great step toward the solution to the issues with appearance-based processing domain, however, the requirements in this domain with Han ideographs involve further enhancement of the Unicode standard due to the nature of diverse usage of variations as common practice.
To resolve the problems and requirements above, it is essential to introduce a new mechanism in Unicode Standard.There need be a single comprehensive and definitive variation set and base characters definition as the well maintained standard which all whom need to resolve the problems in appearance-based processing domain, including national bodies who use ideographs and include ideographs in their national standards as well as all different research and study purposes, if we have to go with single set of variations as currently defined in Unicode 4.0 standard. On the other hand, huge comprehensive variation collection does not fit with the needs of whom only requires target specific smaller but efficient set of variations due to the cost of system and effectiveness, in both data processing and rendering, as too much is as bad as too little. There had been several attempts in academic field and national standard field to address the issues of the appearance-based processing domain, and the study shows it is practically too costly to develop such comprehensive one-fits-all set, if not impossible to develop. The studies show the fact that the taxonomy of ideograph variations are diverse due to its historical and geographical background. One taxonomy classified based on particular set of historical document may not necessarily suitable for the use with other historical document written in different geographic region and/or in different era. Requirements vary depending on the parties needing own variations and often are conflicting among them.
Variation Collection |
Ideograph variation selector, proposed to be allocated in plane 14, can also change the visual appearance of the preceding base character as variation selector does, however, sequences involving those characters are not defined in the file Standardized-Variants.txt in the Unicode Character Database. Instead, the meaning of such a variation sequence is defined by an outside agreement between producers and consumers, called a Ideograph variation registry.
The ideograph variation registry consists of two information.
File 1 contents: Adobe;Glyph Collection A;http://www.adobe.com/... JustSystem;Glyph Collection N;http://www.justsystem.co.jp/... File 2 contains: U+4E00 U+IVS17;JustSystem U+4E00 U+IVS18;JustSystem U+4E00 U+IVS19;Adobe U+4E01 U+IVS17;Adobe
Registration Authority works as an arbitrator of name space
management as well as the central directory to find out the
registered Ideograph Variation Selectors.
The registration authority only guarantees that for any given Unicode Han
character NNNN, there is only one registered sequence NNNN + IVSn. That is,
uniqueness of the *sequence* is guaranteed.
The registration authority does not test or guarantee that two sequences
S1 and S2 have distinct or distinguishable glyphs.
To make sure that piles of "garbage" don't get registered, the
registration authority first qualifies the submitters in some way. Once
qualified, a submitter can submit any number of sequences. The work of
identifying, cataloging, and sequencing is done by the registrant, not by
the registration authority. The registration authority just checks to see
that the sequences are unique.
The registrant is strongly recomended to maintain pictures
of variation in some form they register and any relevant reference
information so that the variations they register can be identified
by whom interested in.
Ideograph Variation Registrant can choose the method of registration from two ways.
Any systems do not recognize this variation selector and variation set identifier sequence can ignore them and use its system default behavior.
The other properties for Ideograph Variation Selectors are:
general category Mn canonical combining class 0 bidirectional category NSM no decomposition mapping no numeric value not mirrored no case mapping
The definition of base character has been one of the biggest problems for the earlier versions of Ideograph variation selector, because defining single set of base characters itself is yet another controversial thesis which many reseachers study in academic field. However, it is no longer essential to identify which character is worth for being base character. Allowing mutiple variation collections identified by Variation set identifier eliminates the dependency on the single definitive set of base character and variation collection which require the absolute accuracy with universal validity.
The base character in a variation sequence using Ideograph Variation Selectors must be a Ideograph(CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH *, and COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH, including them in plane2). NON-CHARACTER and RESERVED in plane2 are excluded.
[2003-11-5] Idea to allocate variation sequences in relatively wider code space is introduced for eliminate statefull variation collection in IVS ad-hoc meeting during UTC. [2003-8-28] The idea of using existing variation selector by changing property instead of creating separate set of ideograph variation selector is the contribution form Rick McGowan, Kenneth Whistler.
[2003-8-29] The idea of using end tag instead of leaving the end of ideograph variation collection unspecified is the contribution form Rick McGowan.
[2003-8-29] The idea of separating registration authority discussion from this proposal is the contribution form Mike Ksar
[2003-9-16] The idea of inclusion of the use of URI as normative part of this specification instead of separate specification for the case that skipping registration authority is the contribution from Takayuki K Sato
[2003-10-23] Kenneth Whistler suggested to spell out clearly that the Variation collection identifier using Tag Character is also a higher level protocol implemented in plain text.
[2003-10-23] Kenneth Whistler suggested to split this proposal into two; One for IVS semantics change proposal only, one for the rest, in order for advancing this proposal to UAX/UTS/UTR.
Hideki Hiura, OpenI18N.org, Sun Microsystems,
Tatsuo Kobayashi, Justsystem
Yasuo Kida, Apple Computer
Eric Muller, Adobe Systems
Ken Lunde, Adobe Systems
Michel Suignard, Microsoft Corp
John Jenkins, Apple Computer
Rick McGowan, Unicode Consortium
Kenneth Whistler, Sybase
Mike Ksar, Microsoft Corp
Richard Cook, UC Berkeley
Tom Bishop, Wenlin Institute, Inc.
Dirk Meyer, Adobe Systems
John Renner, Adobe Systems
Deborah Goldsmith, Apple Computer
Yasuhira Anan, Microsoft Corp
Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corp
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I suppose that I should have seen it coming. As much as I was enjoying the racist and cruel, but curiously touching repartee between Colin Farrell (as Arturo Bandini) and Salma Hayek (as Camilla Lopez), it was obvious that their banter could not sustain an entire feature-length picture. Movies this rich with homages to Old Hollywood either intend to say something about the films they reference (Far From Heaven) or co-opt an Old Hollywood formula for its own plot (Moulin Rouge!).
Ask the Dust is an example of the latter sort, and for its second act it unfortunately chooses to appropriate the guise of an insipid melodrama. Still, Ask the Dust is an attractive film, and some say that the entire venture was doomed to failure from the start, so perhaps we should regard it, like Kevin Crust, as "a disappointment, but with much to recommend and be glad about."
I've not read Ask the Dust (in fact, to mine own discredit, I had never even heard of John Fante before seeing this film) so I cannot testify to the extent to which it is unfilmable. I can say, though, that there is a disjointed, impressionistic quality that suggests much has been left out. The sun-drenched neo-noir of the first act gives way to soft, warm, sensitive tones in the second (which, I understand, takes great liberties with the source material) in a transition that is not prepared for and is difficult to process.
The song "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" provides period flavor in the first half, but in the second half it has apprently been used as a template for the film's dialogue, which includes lines like, "Don't let go. Don't ever let go." There is a self-deprecating quality to the first half (Bandini refers to himself as "A lover of man and beast alike" in a tone varies from joyful to bitingly sarcastic depending on his fortunes) that is replaced by misguided sincerity in the second.
I can see how one half or the other might appeal to someone, but not both. The first act is clearly more to my taste, and it does offer some real treats. Caleb Deschanel's cinematography is sumptuous, tactile. There is a skinny dipping scene in the ocean that more closely approximates the texture of an oil painting than any other film I can recall.
At the same time it has the effectively haunting, other-worldly quality of the swimming scene in Gattaca. The film opens with a wonderful reductionist-noir tableau: an ashtray jammed with cigarette buts and orange peels. Farrell's staccato voice-over dialogue and the bizarre courtship scenes between Bandini and Camilla in the café have this same quality about them.
After the film settles into a romantic idyll, though, these pleasures become few and far between. Instead, they are replaced by one cliché after another: the happy couple romps on the beach with their dog, Bandini teaches Camilla to read, they make love for the first time. It's tired, predictable. As David Edelstein succinctly put it, "in period love stories, there's no such thing as an inconsequential cough."
There are pieces of a great film in Ask the Dust. It successfully invokes a Los Angeles of yore, some of the dialogue is quite striking, there are visual moments that fall nothing short of stunning. But these pieces are cobbled together with schmaltz, with half-hearted attempts to engage issues of race, with fuzzy-headed invocations of the creative process. "A disappointment, but with much to recommend and be glad about." Indeed.
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Maillol was indignant. Of course he realised that, by urbane modern tastes, his women were rustic, stocky, compact. But the point of his art wasn't sexual craving so much as spiritual well-being. The viewer is supposed to think of the Golden Age, not a rendezvous.
Art is far from a reliable barometer of past sexual preferences because although the bodies of women of child-bearing age have been a relatively constant subject throughout its history, an enormous variety of different ideals have been projected on the female form.
Even when it comes to the goddess of love, the ideal isn't single-tracked, according to Plato, for whom there were two distinct Venuses: Venus Coelestis and Venus Naturalis, one for the libido, the other for more rarefied emotions.
It is with trepidation, therefore, that one should re-visit the nudist canon with Dr Tovee's vital statistics in search of further confirmation, among the lovelies of the past, of the findings of his researches among 40 lusty Newcastle undergrads.
The earliest two reproductions in Kenneth Clark's classic study, The Nude, are of the "Venus" of Willendorf, a paleolithic carving of such extraordinary ampleness that the supposedly ideal hip to waist ratio of 0.7 is inverted (and more!), and a Cycladic doll, who with her waif-like torso would not be out of place next to Kate Moss on the catwalk. But who's to say that the maker of either image sought an accurate depiction of a normal woman, let alone a desirable one? Reproduction is not the only urge in art, any more than in sex.
Even if artistic images were to be treated as neutral documentation, it is unlikely that the "optimum body-mass index" would reveal a common, biologically-determined ideal. For artistic ideals to reflect sexual libido we'd need to believe that nudes are drawn from life, or at least from longings based on experience. We'd also need to believe that the patron's libido overrules the artist's ideals, which is no more likely than a shopper's needs influencing a couturier's designs (according to Giorgio Armani, incidentally, Claudia Schiffer's proportions are "graceless").
As Kenneth Clark says, the nude is not so much a subject as a form: it can be filled with any number of preoccupations, aesthetic, sensual, intellectual. Flesh and its amplitude can likewise have symbolic meanings which transcend the changing shape of shapeliness: Courbet's earth godesses, more Rubenesque than Rubens, are as much about politics as lust.
In the final analysis, it's as likely that art should influence sexual
tastes as the other way around. The depicted nude establishes an ideal to be sought after in the real world.
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Ibovespa Caps Fourth Monthly Gain as Gerdau Leads Steelmakers Up
Ney HayashiThe Ibovespa posted a fourth monthly advance, its longest winning streak since 2009, as Gerdau SA led steelmakers higher after reporting quarterly earnings that exceeded analysts' estimates.
Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA climbed after HSBC Holdings Plc raised its recommendation on the steelmaker to the equivalent of buy. Retailer Magazine Luiza SA jumped after reporting third-quarter net income that was 52 percent more than Banco Itau BBA SA had forecast. Plane builder Embraer SA dropped after its earnings trailed analysts' estimates.
The Ibovespa climbed 0.2 percent to 54,256.20 at the close of trading in Sao Paulo, pushing the gain this month to 3.7 percent. The real slumped 2.1 percent to 2.2376 per U.S. dollar at 5:33 p.m. local time. Steelmakers gained as a weaker currency made imports more expensive and the industry more competitive.
"A weaker real is giving a boost to some stocks, such as steelmakers," Luis Gustavo Pereira, a strategist at Futura Corretora brokerage in Sao Paulo, said in a phone interview. "Steelmakers fell quite a lot in the first half of the year, but the latest news about them has been more positive, and there's probably room for further gains."
Gerdau added 4.7 percent to 17.67 reais. The company posted adjusted net income of 595.1 million reais, which compares with the average estimate of 441.4 million reais, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Usiminas, as Usinas de Minas Gerais is also known, advanced 1.7 percent to 11.88 reais, extending this month's increase to 13 percent.
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Embraer dropped 0.8 percent to 16.35 reais. Magazine Luiza jumped 5.6 percent to 9.50 reais.
The Ibovespa earlier dropped as much as 1.1 percent after oil company OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA plunged on its bankruptcy protection filing. Shares sank 24 percent, extending this year's slump to 97 percent, as trading volume surged to 3.5 times the three-month daily average. While the stock will still trade in Sao Paulo, it will no longer be a member of the Ibovespa benchmark starting tomorrow, BM&FBovespa said in a statement. The index will be rebalanced after OGX's removal.
Trading volume of stocks in Sao Paulo was 8.11 billion reais today, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with a daily average of 7.61 billion reais this year through Oct. 22, according to the latest data available from the exchange.


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August 31, 2005 - Despite objections from several members of the community and the council, the Oro Valley town council has reached a decision on how to spend money expected to be generated by an increased bed tax.
At its Aug. 24 meeting, the majority of the council decided to stick with the plan proposed by Councilman Terry Parish to use the money from the increase to support both regional and local tourism promotion, economic development and the town's parks, both current and future.
The council unanimously voted to increase the tax collected from stays at its hotels and resorts from 3 percent to 6 percent earlier this year. The increase is expected to generate about $450,000 annually, according to town finance staff estimations.
Under Parish's proposal, a majority of the bed tax revenue would continue to go into the tourism industry, fulfilling the rest of an economic development agreement with the Tucson Hilton El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, which gets a 2-percent tax rebate through August of 2011. One percent of the revenue will go to the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau to help it continue to promote the entire region as a tourist destination.
The rest of the money will be distributed between two programs in the town that Parish said are vital to the future of Oro Valley.
Under his plan, 1.5 percent of the tax will go toward funding the development of the Naranja Town Site, a 200-acre regional park site that the town owns but does not now have the funding to build and maintain.
The remaining percentage of the tax will go to Oro Valley's economic development department to increase its marketing efforts.
One half percent of the tax will be earmarked for the town's parks and recreation department to help it maintain the town's existing parks. Parish said it seems that the town's parks department is often one of the last to get funding and this additional money should provide a dedicated source of revenue.
Both the economic development department and the parks and recreation department are expected to bring prioritized lists of how the money will be spent before the council for approval.
The final proposal was adopted by the town council at the Aug. 24 meeting by a 4-2 vote.
Councilman Kenneth "K.C." Carter and Councilwoman Paula Abbott objected to the proposal, both wanting to rework the numbers so more money would go toward the parks and recreation department and the completion of the Naranja Town Site.
Carter also opposed the proposal because, he said, he thinks it is bad business for the town to promise a fixed percentage of the money to various interests and thinks the town instead should have placed caps on the amount given to each of the areas listed in the proposal. He said as the town continues to bring in new hotels there will be more money generated by the tax and he thinks that if a percentage is used to determine how the money is divvied up too much money could end up being spent on promotions and marketing.
He wanted the council to look at the bed tax allocations again as early as June to see how much was actually being doled out.
Parish said the money levied from the increased tax "will not be nearly enough to fund the Naranja Town Site," which is why he did not propose using it that way. And a majority of the council members agreed that waiting until 2007 to take another look at the allocations would give the council more data to examine than if they looked at it six months after the changes were put into effect.
A handful of residents, including several members of the political committee Stop Oro Valley Outrageous Giveaways, a group opposed to several tax sharing incentives on the books in the town, spoke against the proposed allocation of funds, saying that sending money to regional agencies may not be the best way to promote the town and that the money should be limited to projects that are specific to Oro Valley. Several of the members also criticized the tax-sharing agreement in place with the Tucson Hilton El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort, saying the privately owned company should be able to promote itself without the use of public dollars.
One resident in particular, Chris DiSimone, spoke harshly of the Metropolitan Tucson Convention and Visitor's Bureau saying that he had done business with the agency and had been disappointed and he did not believe the town should be contributing to it.
"To give any more money to this underperforming organization is a disservice to Oro Valley," he said.
But the majority of the council members disagreed with this point of view. Gillaspie called the agreement with the Hilton an investment in the community, not a "giveaway," because of the business it generates within the town.
Tim Booth, general manager of the Hilton, said $360,000 that comes to the hotel in bed tax generates about $750,000 in sales taxes that go back to the town each year. Booth also defended the visitor's bureau, saying the agency is well respected both locally and across the nation.
In other business:
* The town disbanded its economic development think tank after accepting its final recommendations.
The group was composed of 11 members, representing various businesses and industries and including several "citizens at large."
The members of the group were thanked by the mayor and council for their eight months of work to examine the town's economic development policies and procedures.
The council will review the recommendations at its Sept. 28 meeting and decide at that time which, if any, of the suggestions it will move to put into effect.
Although the think tank will no longer meet, its members agreed that issues of economic development and sustainability should continue to be discussed and so recommended that the town form an economic development advisory committee to be appointed by the council in the same way other committees are appointed.
The recommendations of the think tank also include the continued use and expansion of the existing incentive policies; the creation of a small business advisory council; an expansion of the town's ombudsman efforts; and the annexation of specific properties, including the Westward Look Resort, the Omni Tucson National Golf Resort & Spa, the Foothills Mall and the state lands to the north and west of the town. The town is pursuing the annexation of the Westward Look, after being asked to initiate the procedure by resort representatives.
The think tank members also want the council to consider several new revenue sources that could address the town's financial health. One suggested option, a bed tax increase, already has been approved by the council. Another, a 4-percent utility tax, is expected to be discussed by the council in the coming weeks. Other recommendations include a 4-percent telecommunications sales tax, a project-specific secondary property tax, as is being proposed to construct the Naranja Town Site, and the creation of franchise agreements with Tucson Electric Power and Southwest Gas Corporation.
* The town will begin planning the new municipal service center that for years was a source of contention for the town, first for neighbors who wanted the site moved from a West Calle Concordia residential neighborhood and then by a local home-building company that owned land that was being condemned so the town could build the center on the property.
But town officials say the controversies have been laid to rest and they are ready to move forward with the multimillion dollar project.
The 24-acre site is in Rancho Vistoso, south of Rancho Vistoso Boulevard and east of Innovation Park Drive.
In the 2005-06 budget, $6 million is allocated to purchasing the land and beginning construction on the site, according to the town's Finance Director David Andrews.
Andrews said that the town plans to do a master plan of the site and that some buildings will be constructed as soon as possible but that there will be land left to build on in the future.
In June, the town council asked the town staff to prepare a scope of work for a consultant to be hired to plan the future site construction.
The first step in the project will be to master plan the site and then to move all of the public works and water utility operations from the Calle Concordia location.
In the future, the staff involved in developing the scope of this project suggested the town consider building additional facilities on the site for the public works department, including a vehicle repair and maintenance area, offices for the engineering division's design section, offices for the traffic engineering division and offices for the storm water division of the town. Staff also suggested that the administration and engineering offices of the water utility be relocated to the new site from the current La Cañada location.
Also included in a list of future possible uses at the service center are a slew of uses for the police department, ranging from training facilities and classrooms to weight training areas, weapons storage, a firing range, a substation, an impound lot and a crime lab. Police Chief Danny Sharp said Oro Valley is being considered as the possible location of a Southern Arizona Crime Lab, a project that would be complete through a partnership with the town and the Arizona Department of Public Safety. There is no DPS crime lab in Southern Arizona and one is needed to speed up evidence processing, Sharp said.
The master plan will address the immediate needs of the public works, water utility, transit and police departments, but the council has asked that the consultant hired to do the work also look at the town's general plan and its projected needs for all town departments to determine if any other operation should be moved to the new site.


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As far as I read it, the Supreme Court declared that you can't pass a law forcing people to teach creationism.
That is different from declaring it is unconstitutional to teach creationism, which is what the great-grandparent says.
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Doing with Less: The Ethics of Diminshed Resources
Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), December 1991
Topic: Philanthropy and Fundraising, Development, Social Services, Fundraising and Philanthropy, Religion
Name of Publication: Journal of Jewish Communal Service
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Affectionately known as the "vegan queen-bee" by friends, and dubbed "The World's Coolest Vegan" by Herbivore Magazine, Sarah Kramer is the vegan godmother of all things cruelty-free.
Raised as a vegetarian in a decidedly un-veggie-friendly Saskatchewan, Sarah eventually hopped a train out west and never looked back. Today she is a fore-runner in vegan awareness, but still lives a relatively quiet and happy life in Victoria BC with her husband Gerry and their adorable dog Fergus. Together they own both Sarah's Place, a vegan curio store, and the Tattoo Zoo, a vegan friendly tattoo shop.
Sarah's vegan empire began as a simple idea; in 1998 she was low on cash, so she (and her co-author at the time Tanya Barnard) photocopied, hand-bound, and gave out a homemade indie-style zine full of recipes for friends and family one holiday season. How punk rock!
They received an overwhelmingly positive response, which spurred the realization that her aims to change the world could become a reality in the most fun way: writing cookbooks!
The seed that was planted by that zine soon grew into what it is today: "the vegan bible" How It All Vegan!, Sarah's best-selling cookbook. It has sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide, and is a popular favorite of vegans from all over. From there sprouted its sequel, The Garden of Vegan, and then a third book, La Dolce Vegan!
While traveling on various book tours, Sarah realized the problem of finding vegan food on the road still had to be addressed. How does a vegan stay healthy while traveling? Thus was born Vegan à Go-Go!, a pocket-sized, travel-friendly compilation of the most popular recipes from the first three books, plus 25 exciting new recipes. It's a fun and pocket-sized necessity for any jet-setting vegan.
Sarah's cookbooks and other projects have grown to become a staple in vegan or vegan-curious households across the globe, as they're easy to follow and are full of personality. Today she's selling books like (animal-product-free) hotcakes! How It All Vegan! won the 2003/2004 VegNews Veggie award for the Best Veg Cookbook, and Sarah also won their award for favorite cookbook author in 2005. La Dolce Vegan! received an M-Award in 2006 for "favorite book."
In 2012 Sarah released GoVegan! w/Sarah Kramer an iPhone/iPad app for those who are vegan curious. The app includes 50 delectable animal-free recipes from Sarah's various cookbooks plus 10 brand new ones, along with original videos and audio tips from Sarah, an emailable shopping list, and a whole lot more.
Sarah is passionate in her work and notorious for her inspiring message. She has appeared on national Canadian TV shows like Canada AM. and W-5. Some of her British Columbia television appearances include New Day Live, Breakfast Television, and Go Magazine. Even Fergus, the Kramers' famous dog, has been sighted on America's Funniest Home Videos.
Sarah has spoken as a guest on numerous radio stations such as CBC, NPR, Vegan Freak Radio, and Animal Voices Radio about animal rights, food, and other vegan issues. She has also written articles for Herbivore Magazine and VegNews, and has done live cooking appearances at food festivals and vegetarian conferences throughout Canada and the United States.
Her website is also a great place to contact Sarah, follow her blog, and find like-minded vegans in various forums like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Sarah's unique message is that "being vegan" is not just about food. It's not about policing what others are doing or aggressively bashing people over the head with ideals. Rather, it is a positive and compassionate lifestyle choice that each individual has to make for his or her own self. In making choices as small as buying non-leather shoes or vegan food, each person is contributing to the cause. One person can make an impact!
Sarah believes that it only takes one tiny spark to start a fire. She has a pack of matches and is ready to burn! With Sarah at the top of her game, it's hard to imagine what she could possibly do next or where things will go from here.
"What Mick Jagger is to rock 'n' roll, Sarah Kramer is to the vegan lifestyle."
―Bust magazine
."No more healthy food that tastes like sawdust; with these dishes, Sarah has managed to make vegan food fun, tasty, and sexy! What more could a hedonist like me ask for?"
―Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go's
."Sarah Kramer. The coolest vegan ever? Sarah is the kind of vegan that gives us hope for the future. She's smart, funny, laid back and strikingly easy to talk to. She gets out there in the world and takes care of business without losing her sense of humor and perspective on things. Why isn't THIS the image that pops into peoples head when they think of vegans?"
―Josh Hooten, Herbivore Magazine
"Vegans who are this much fun could make Ted Nugent into a convert. More Sarah for everyone!!"
―Shoshana Sperling, The Monkey Bunch
"Kramer shows off her glam-punk style throughout the books and takes an informal, heart-felt approach to her writing…. [Her] recipes are approachable and fun."
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Hundreds of tonnes of oil could still be inside an offshore pipeline which has been leaking for a week.
The estimate was revealed as Shell continues to try to stem the flow on the seabed near the Gannet Alpha platform, about 112 miles east of Aberdeen.
Since the leak started last Wednesday, more than 200 tonnes of oil has spilled into the North Sea, making it the worst single leak in the region for more than a decade.
The initial large leak was stopped the following day, but it later emerged that a smaller flow from the same source had been detected.
That leak was described as being in an "awkward" place surrounded by marine growth.
Shell technical director Glen Cayley said the company's pipeline maintenance programme had let it down, according to a report in the Press and Journal newspaper.
"We are talking about hundreds of tonnes of additional oil in the pipeline that we need to preserve and keep there," Mr Cayley told the paper.
"Until we have completely eliminated the leak and secured this pipeline, I would say there is still risk."
He added that work is continuing to figure out how to fix the breach.
Environmental groups have sharply criticised Shell for its handling of the spill, complaining about a lack of timely information.
Shell, in its last update yesterday, said the rate of leakage from the secondary breach had declined to one barrel a day.
The total spilled so far is estimated to be about 218 tonnes, which is equal to about 1,300 barrels. The overall amount of oil discharged into the North Sea in 2009 is 50.93 tonnes.
The oil sheen on the sea covers an area of about 16 square miles (41 sq km), estimated somewhere between one and 10 tonnes in volume.
The firm said the oil is not expected to reach land.
Dr Richard Dixon, of environmental charity WWF Scotland, said: "We are finally getting a fuller picture of the scale of this crisis as each bit of information is dragged out of Shell.
"What the company first dismissed as minor is now not only the biggest North Sea spill for a decade, it has the potential to go on for weeks or months, and there could be at least the same amount of oil to leak as the 200-plus tonnes that has already escaped."
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Indigenous peoples cannot be 'deleted' from the new global development goals, UN experts state
GENEVA / NEW YORK, 21 July 2014 – The new United Nations sustainable development goals must not be a step backwards for indigenous peoples, a group of UN experts* on indigenous peoples has warned today. Their call comes after a meeting held by the open-ended Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals last week in New York to draft a set of goals which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September.
"Indigenous peoples face distinct development challenges, and fare worse in terms of social and economic development than non-indigenous sectors of the population in nearly all of the countries they live in," they said.
"However," the experts stressed, "they can also contribute significantly to achieving the objectives of sustainable development because of their traditional knowledge systems on natural resource management which have sustained some of the world's more intact, diverse ecosystems up to the present."
The group of experts noted with concern that all references to 'indigenous peoples' have been deleted in the latest zero draft document on the sustainable development goals, which is currently being discussed by the open-ended Working Group, even though the term had been included in earlier drafts.
"Using the term 'indigenous and local communities' undermines the gains achieved by indigenous peoples regarding their assertion of their distinct status and identity as peoples and the rights accorded to them under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other international instruments," the experts said.
The term 'indigenous peoples' – they noted – has been consistently used in the Johannesburg Declaration of 2012 and the Rio+20 Programme of Action (2012), called 'The Future We Want', not to mention a wide range of national constitutions, laws, and policies.
The experts urged UN Member States in the open-ended Working Group to listen to the proposals made by indigenous peoples' representatives in this process and to ensure that 'indigenous peoples' will be used consistently in the outcome document.
"It has been widely acknowledged that indigenous peoples have not been accorded the attention they deserve in national development processes and efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals," the experts said.
"The new Sustainable Development Goals present a unique opportunity to remedy these shortcomings and the historical injustices resulting from racism, discrimination and inequalities long suffered by indigenous peoples across the world," they underscored.
For the UN experts, the issue of free, prior and informed consent in the Post-2015 Development Agenda must be addressed consistently with the minimum standards established by the UN Declaration. "The Sustainable Development Goals are an opportunity to gain agreement on measurable commitments regarding free, prior and informed consent," they stated. They also called for the disaggregation of data across all indicators in order to enable a better assessment of the status and conditions of indigenous peoples with regard to the goals.
"We urge States to affirm that the human rights-based approach to development should be a key framework in achieving sustainable and equitable development and this should, likewise, be clearly stated in the outcome document of the open-ended Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda," the experts concluded.
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Ms. Dalee Sambo Dorough, the current chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which advises the UN on indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. The Permanent Forum is made up of sixteen independent experts from all of the world's regions.
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Then, I turned to First Class and for a second thought that I had revolved a full 180 degrees and somehow ended up back in Economy. But no, there was the air stewardess, pointing excitedly at my complimentary newspaper - as far as I could tell the only perk not available to those I'd left behind.
I was expecting something a little more ... esoteric, something more in keeping with our position of the airline's most valued customers: perhaps a monkey with a jewelled necklace would come out and dance an amusing jig; or we'd be given temporary diplomatic immunity, allowing us to return to Economy and drive a car at high speed up and down the aisle.
But no, nothing like that. I spent the rest of the journey trying to understand what the extra pounds 40 or pounds 50 was going towards, and when it came to me I let out such a yell of astonishment that I was asked to return to Economy.
It's the curtain. You're paying for the curtain. You're paying so that the people in Economy can look at the curtain and imagine what it would be like to be behind the curtain. Of course, when you're behind the curtain, being behind the curtain isn't that big a deal. But when you're not behind the curtain, being behind the curtain seems like something to aspire to.
The curtain isn't just an airborne phenomenon. On the ground, it's used to separate VIPs from common folk at parties and gigs, and even if the atmosphere in the VIP lounge is tense and awkward, as it so often is, people will humiliate themselves by getting into arguments with the bouncers to gain admittance. ("I just want to check if a friend of mine's in there. Look, this is my girlfriend, she'll stay out here until I come out. I tell you what - hold on to my foot and I'll just lean in to have a look. All right, open the curtain and just let me smell the air. I just want to smell the air. Oh, wait, there's - JARVIS! JARVIS IT'S ME! Damn.")
I conducted a little experiment in my home to test the power of The Curtain. First I removed the door from my bedroom and replaced it with the purple curtains from the front room. Then I invited a friend over. I spoke to him for a little while in the sitting room, then said "well, nice talking to you" and went through the curtains into my room. After about half an hour, my friend entered the bedroom with a drink. For the next hour I ignored him, but so excited was he to be in the VIP lounge that he stubbornly remained there, even though there was obviously a lot of "bad feeling".
For the second part of my experiment, I invited a group of friends to a party in my home. This time, I placed the curtain so it surrounded a very small corner by a lamp in the sitting room. I placed a sign outside the curtain saying VIP Lounge. When the guests arrived, naturally they all wanted to go into the "Lounge". I let them all in, after the customary arguments, and soon there were about 12 people bunched together, bulging against the curtain, and no one left in the rest of the room.
Then I took the sign that said VIP Lounge and placed it on the inside of the curtain. Immediately people started asking me if they could re- enter the sitting room. At first, I refused, and watched as people starting realising that life behind the curtain wasn't that great after all. It was very cramped, and there was no access to drinks or the toilet.
At last I relented and allowed my friends to re-enter the sitting room. Everyone started spreading out, lounging around, generally having a good time. Then I placed a sign outside the curtain again. Almost without realising it, people started drifting behind the curtain. Soon, the sitting room was empty again.
In this manner, I was able to keep a steady flow of people going from tiny cramped space to sitting room all night.
I soon tired of this, along with the ceaseless chatter and unusually- shaped heads of my friends, but no one was in the mood to leave. The excitement of constantly being denied and then allowed access to the VIP lounge was making them as frisky as a group of overweight Dickens characters. So, finally, I put the VIP sign beside the front door, and everyone happily trooped out.
I don't feel bad about using my friends in that manner, because I know that even now, some of them imagine themselves to be wandering around the massive VIP area. It's my little gift to them. But they're not getting back in the house without a laminate, I can tell you that. And there will be no exceptions.
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I could live with that man...he makes every wednesday brighter and thank goodness for you he stays a "little" bit under control. I have to admit i love the theme music. I caught my head moving a little bit. all my CSI cracked me the he** up, a parting a gift...You do need saome prayer. i dont know how you do it!
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I just got an android phone for christmas and am having a blast. I haven't blogged in soo long, maybe this will help.
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a funny v day gift if u have the right person
one of my teenage sons friends has a reputation of smoking something not so good for him. Now seriously he is a great kid and he doesn't smoke pot, but for whatever reason his friends tease him about it constantly. so i made this for my sons friend as a joke. I took a fry box template put some loose candy in the bottom for weight then wrapped smarties in white paper to make it look like a cigarette. LOL...the box says it all. i didn't want to offend anyone so i didn't post this idea at my other scrapping sites.
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so for the girlfriends i took some plastic containers that some scrapping embellies came in covered them in rose paper and filled them with loose candies like tootsie rolls, bubble gum, life savers. then I made flowers by using a flower template, curling the edges a little bit and adding a dum dum as the stem. i used a leaf template as well. then i put 4 to six of the flowers in the "vase" I made. The loose candy kept the sticks upright and then i put tem in a plastic bag and tied with ribbon. a little cheesy, but it was free (i even had the candy left over from a school project).
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Ok so we are tight on money right now and the boys wanted to give their GF's something for Valentines Day. It is a little cheesy, but I thought I would post what we came up with.
ok so my daughter had to make a valentines box. i used a priority mail box and she striped it with red crepe paper, used my colluzzle stencil to cut out popcorn and glued popcorn to it to make a popcorn box.
My first blog
Honestly, I doubt i will be blogging much. I thought...sure...give it a try. But seriously with 4 kids all of their activities, a BF who keeps me busy and 821 layouts left to go in my scrapbooks, when will I find the time. Years from now my grandchildren will google me and find this be like Granny you never did anything. Actually, it is because I do too much that I don't have to time to write about it. Maybe that is why I scrapbook. A picture says a thousand words right?
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My friend Angry Black Lady has this up at her place, but I feel a veryvery powerful need to have it up at my own, too.
(Heh! He is so getting into it at the end there!)
This one goes up there with "Waldheimer's Syndrome", where you can't remember if you have been a Nazi.
I still think calling Mitt "The Jerk Who Will Ignore The 47 Percent" has more staying power…
I'm late to the party as always, but…I actually can't quite find this funny. If the other side did it I'd think it was obnoxious and a little insensitive. God only knows if I were Obama right now I'd be saying worse–"Romnesia" is probably the mildest of all the remarks he's been biting his tongue on for the last few months (years)–but I feel like it's a cheap shot, whether the content is justified or not. Come right out and call him a liar, that would suit me better.
I wish this Obama, and the one at the 2nd Debate, were present much more in the last four years. We are now starting to see a tend I have long suspected. Romney, in the debates, had a far easier task than Obama. Romney didn't have to be good, only good enough—good enough for the 6-8% of white, mostly middle aged suburban and middle-upper middle class "swing" voters. The voters who supported Obama in 2008 but feel pounded by the economy and want change. I think they had been waiting to see if Romney could hold his own next to Obama in the debates. Romney has met that test, with great help from Obama in Debate 1 and, even when bested by Obama in Debate 2. In this context, Obama's challenge was much higher, probably too high for most candidates. He had to use the debates to show Romeny as an unacceptable alternative to these swing voters. That did not happen.
Now, Obama faces another incredible challenge–to overcome the loss of these voters, he will need a turnout among his base that exceeds the unprecedented 2008 levels. It is possible, but, as of today, there is little evidence of it. In fact, in almost every survey shows Romney supporters more intense and more likely to vote.


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I've got a number of blog posts in the pipeline waiting to be finished but this one is more urgent the others, as the subject contains something which is happening tomorrow night in Manchester! The second Manchester Girl Geek Dinner will be held tomorrow night, 25th July 2008 at the University of Salford. Looks like some excellent talks lined up, especially Gemma's session on how to engage young people in Geekery - I managed to capture the imagination of a female work experience student for a couple of hours last week but how can we maintain it is my question, especially as I feel the curriculum for Key Stage 2 upwards is very poor in IT. For more details and to register please go to - http://www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk/email/registration.php and here are some details Gemma sent through:
When: 25th July 7pmWhere: Salford University, University House Who can attend: Girl Geeks! A lady who has an interest, or is involved in the Science, Engineering and Technology industries. Blokes can come too, but you need an invite from a Geek Girl.Cost: Around £15What:For those who haven't been before, it's dinner, wine, talks from inspirational women, networking and discussions afterwards.Dress up as much as you like, for those of us who like to wear pretty dresses (I am!), or if you're more comfortable in jeans that's fine too.Currently we have two talks planned, if you want to get involved and speak about women in engineering, science and technology, please do get in touch.The talks:Gemma Cameron - How to get young people interested in Geekery!Rachael Hoyle - winner of the Advanced Apprentice of Year Award. Rachael will be delivering an extremely interesting talk around the stigma of women in engineering. This will cover how ethics and equality are the dominant factors in employment, and whether this is damaging the industry, rather than encouraging diversity.Links:www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.ukhttp://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/859931http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22778411401
In addition to this great event, I was reading a post on the Girly Geekdom Blog which was advertising the first Girl Geek Dinner in the North East - well Leeds is almost the North East :p. More importantly the Dinner is being held on 13th August at The Study @ The Living Room on Greek Street, Leeds. Confirmed speakers include Lydia Machell, a Freelance Music Software Developer and Lorna Mitchell a Developer, Consultant and Trainer for iBuildings in Leeds. For more information and to register for this event please view the Blog post - http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com/2008/07/girl-geeks-to-make-some-noise-in-north.html
It's great to see the Girl Geek Dinners this side of the M25 and I hope this is the first of many more events in both localities.
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Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to set up an urban counter terrorism training centre (UCTTC) in suburban Goregaon near Mumbai which would act as a quick response team and impart training to commandos.
According to a government resolution (GR), the training centre would be set up on 98.6 acres of land at Aarey Colony in the western suburb.
A decision to this effect was taken in the wake of rise in terror activities in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nashik, Nagpur and other major cities in the state, the GR said.
"Considering the rise in terror strikes, the government was contemplating to set up a centre, which would act as a quick response team. The counter-terrorism centre would impart induction training, in-service training to the commandos and also conduct refresher courses," it said.
"The move to set up the UCTTC is part of the state government's exercise to strengthen the police force and to make it more advanced," the GR said.
The UCTTC would also impart various types of training to the commandos in Force One and Quick Response Team (QRT). Force One is a specialised counter terrorism unit to guard the Mumbai metropolitan area, which was set up after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The chief of the UCTTC would be an officer of the rank of Additional Superintendent of Police and he would work under Special Inspector General of Police. However, Director General of Police would decide on making various appointments and on the working system in the centre, it said.
"Officers, who have the knowledge of advanced weapons and also of handling explosives, would be recruited in the centre. Personnel from National Security Guard (NSG), Para Commando, Army, state police and also officers from the state reserve police force would be taken on deputation in the centre," the GR said.


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Apple is continuing its campaign to stem the tide of negative reviews and criticism of Final Cut Pro X.
As Macworld reported last week users of the newly-released video editing suite have been posting dozens of negative reviews on the Mac App Store. Many of the comments likened Final Cut Pro X to a mere upgrade of iMovie and bemoan the removal of features and settings available in previous versions of Final Cut Pro.
The list of complaints is a long one: There's currently no multi-cam support, no export-to-tape feature, no support for EDL, XML, and OMF files, no apparent support for third party plugins just yet, and FCP X users can't import their current Final Cut Pro 7 projects.
Last week, Apple posted more than a dozen new Knowledge Base articles detailing various quirks of the Final Cut Pro X.
It has now also released a new FAQ page and Features page designed to provide more background information on the new features in Final Cut Pro and answer some of the criticisms.
"Final Cut Pro X is a breakthrough in nonlinear video editing. The application has impressed many pro editors, and it has also generated a lot of discussion in the pro video community. We know people have questions about the new features in Final Cut Pro X and how it compares with previous versions of Final Cut Pro. Here are the answers to the most common questions we've heard," the FAQ page states.
Users of Final Cut Pro 7 who want to import their projects into the new version will be left disappointed. "There is no way to "translate" or bring in old projects without changing or losing data. But if you're already working with Final Cut Pro 7, you can continue to do so after installing Final Cut Pro X, and Final Cut Pro 7 will work with Mac OS X Lion. You can also import your media files from previous versions into Final Cut Pro X," the FAQ reads.
The FAQ also promises multi-camera support will come in the future and that third-party plugins will be available as soon as they are updated. "Because Final Cut Pro X has a modern 64-bit architecture, third-party plug-ins must be 64-bit too. Final Cut Pro X already supports 64-bit Audio Units plug-ins. For motion graphics, third-party developers can build effects, titles, transitions, and generators as templates in Motion 5 for use directly in Final Cut Pro X. Developers can also build 64-bit FxPlug 2 plug-ins for Motion 5, and integrate those plug-ins into templates that can be used in Final Cut Pro X. These templates, together with any associated FxPlug 2 plug-ins, will work in Final Cut Pro X even if Motion is not installed on the computer," the FAQ says.
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Be sure you live your life, because you are a long time dead.-Scottish Proverb
Pilot profile location is IDAHO you "JACK" are in OHIO. Shows how LITTLE you know or bother to find out about IDAHO. FARMS in Unincorporated areas with private water supplies the State has not legislated UPC minimum standards for plumbing or building standards for structures or residences on PRIVATE BUILDINGS on FARMS. They are excluded from STATE mandated minimum Building Code standards.
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Does that mean they are also exempt from NFPA 54 part of which is the code that covers venting of gas appliances rather than the UPC?
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the whole issue of chinese drywall was off gassing that smelled like rotten eggs. and was only imported during the housing boom of about 5 years ago. it would have no bearing on your plumbing and since your house is 19 years old it wouldn't be a factor at all. this person is just trying to grasp at any straw to make themself look knowledge able. of the chinese drywall imported it was used in about 100,000 homes which isn't a great amount if you consider the amount of homes that were built during that time period. and these homes were mainly confined to the south east. I will not comment on plumbing it isn't one of the trades that I have first hand knowledge in.
I didn't realize we had a change in the poster who was being responded to. but the location the of the poster still would make chinese drywall a non issue.
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Yup........those of us who are "down on the farm" are just a bunch of Clem Kadiddlehoppers. We desparately need those "brilliant" city folks to tell us how ignorant we all are...... whle we produce the food that they conveniently grab off the shelf at the supermarket.
What's that old saying about biting the hand that feeds ya? I'm too dumb to remember.
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The State of IDAHO has not adopted NFPA 54 as a minimum code standard. They have adopted the IMC and the IFGC more recently, but not in time for the 2004 build date of Pilot's home (they're only now trying to get the legislation fixed to upgrade to 2006 from 2003 they didn't get 2003 in place in time for 2004 construction. However, the STATE of IDAHO EXEMPTS PRIVATE FARMS with non-public water supply from the Building Codes, and furthermore in UNINCORPORATED areas of COUNTIES PRIVATE FARMS are additionally EXPRESSLY EXEMPTED IF they have NO CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES.
It is very obvious that NONE of the recent posters have any familiarity with IDAHO. It is also obvious "havanagranite" has not even the remotest knowledge about the History which has been documented on the CHINESE DRYWALL issues OR how FAR BACK the IMPORTS GO. It goes FAR BEYOND KANUF's purchase of a singular plant. Gypsum wall board has been manufactured in CHINA for longer than the German Company's activities there AND IMPORTING it to the USA. The corrosion of copper in these cases is well documented.
Pilot's home was built in 2004. Chinese Drywall imports have been documented back to 2001. Imports have been documented and traced via west coast ports of entry, via Canada, via Texas, Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Virginia. It has been located in 35 States including Idaho, Montana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, California, Washington, and many others. Cases are filed in State level and Federal District Courts against builders, contractors, distributors, and Manufacturers. USG has been named in several as they were alledged to have been distributing it. Much 1/2" is not labeled or marked. Substantial amounts of 5/8" is also unmarked as to origin.
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In researching the building code in Idaho (I used Yahoo no Google) it appears to me they have the same exemption for building codes that was in force in Ohio. That is an exemption for agricultural buildings Idaho 39-4116(4). I believe, as was in Ohio code, that this does not exempt from the code residences, tenant houses, farm hand living quarters, or buildings open to the public on farms and ranches. If I'm wrong please provide code section.
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A boy and a girl, school, and a horny bunch of kids.
This is more of a love/sex/fantasy. It's my first story, so I'm just seeing if it's worth carrying on
A young girl of only fifteen, years before i'd became sexually active. As a fairly pretty girl with glossy deep brown hair to below my shoulders, promising blue eyes. A well sculpted face, and what someone once described as 'above average lips' my body was well developed, slim and curvy in all the right places. A cup size of a 32D was always a plus in my appearance, after learning i could catch boys eyes i'd often use it to my power.
When I was alone, I would long for some attention and end up sneaking into my brothers room and flick through his collections, as I stroked through the pictures of men and women sharing passionate scenes. I'd pleasure myself, my pussy was often well shaven. And it mostly remained in a 'neat' state, the sensations i were begining to feel now were more arousing and powerful than when i was a younger girl. Biting on my lip, i'd feel up my placid body, and run my hands finally down to my naked slit and stroke and work at it until orgasm. Although, feeling that wasn't enough now. It could get fantasy's running through my head dirty fantasy's the type young girl's shouldn't think about.
A new school year, new people. Now a year 11, I was pretty lonely after not having a boyfriend for over a year. I always felt they tied me down, or something like that. Was it wrong to like sex so much? I couldn't help but push that thought to the back of my mind as i saw him, the new sixth former at my school. A boy of about six foot, longish red hair and brilliant blue eyes. His body skinny, yet in a way muscular. His eyes met with mine and i couldn't help but stare. Something of a trance took over my body as the sound drained from the continuous rush in my head, Who was he? I had to know.
Day's past, weeks even and nothing of his identity had been clear to me. Still, he'd seem to make frequent efforts to walk past me at least three times a day, and pass me a small smile before walking on again. Unless he was just walking, normally... I mean, I'd often make an excuse to walk past him, and purposely hitch my skirt up and press out my boobs a little more. Still no luck. But after seeing him by a class room i was going to after school i thought the chance was mine. Finally ruffling my hair, (My hair was always messy It made the style more voluminous and sexy) I pumped up my lips and checked my make up, undoing my shirt buttons a little so my cleavage could be seen under my tie I staggered down the corridor, before only inches away from him, i eased past making it obvious he could stare at my breasts made it a little more erotic. I walked in and did what i had to do, speaking to the teacher before walking back out, leaving my hand behind so it brushed his leg. I turned sharply and bit my lip, "Sorry" I breathed before giggling slightly. Flirting never hurt anyone right? As I walked away I turned to see his reaction, before gasping a little and widening my eyes. He was following me! I turned again and smiled, he smiled back. I reached the bottom of the stairs, and leant against the cream statue of a former head master, to make sure he was following. He was. He finally reached me and placed one hand over the top of my shoulder so he could lean his body near mine, over the statue too. I felt my breathing get faster and heavier, and my eyes diverted upwards to his. "I'm Jack" He spat, his voice sounded angry and I raised my eyebrows, maybe he didn't like me? "Sapphire" I smiled innocently before turning my attention out the window, he took none of it and moved his hand to cup my cheek and place my eyes with his.
The next thing i knew he was pulling my hand away and dragging me to the old boys toilets, no one used them now accept the cleaner. After school. Before i could resist his lips were on mine, as hard as nails. I kissed back as much as i could but then pulled away for a second, breathing deeply I opened my eyes again. His tongue swirled around my mouth now short of breathe I panted back at him. I didn't lack experience, i didn't. Proving this my arms wrapped around his body and I pulled him back to me slamming our bodies against the wall. My lips met his again, this time more passionately. He began undoing the buttons of my shirt, exposing my chest a little more before slipping his hands into my bra. His hands were cold but this made me more turned on and my nipples were shortly enough solid. I bit my lip harder than before as he played his hands around my breasts, twirling his fingers around my nipples. I let out a soft moan as he grimaced back at me. The thrill of not knowing who he was and the fact, we could get caught at any moment made this even better. I ran my hands under his shirt, and felt up his little pecks before letting his mouth trail to my breasts, his tongue clasped around my nipple and I gasped. It felt so good, so right. My breathing began hot and i felt myself get wetter below, before his body slammed against mine. Our hips worked together, feeling his bulge stiffen turned me on a little more. Thinking of his cock drove me crazy. I wanted it, I wanted to scream it.
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2009-09-20 16:11:26
What r u talkin bout????!!!! I liked it! But I don't think u shud hav made the characters not kno each other- it makes the girl look like a slut, unless that was what u were going 4? Also more dialog- even if this is a porn website with sex stories, that's just it- they're still stories, and all stories need at least a half a page to a page of dialog, even if they r sex stories. Otherwise, i liked it! But in my opnion develop the characters a lil bit more. The main thing about this story was that it had that "Love at first sight" thing goin on, n that's what I liked about it in the first place that made me wanna keep reading- good job though! I think it cud even turn into a series!
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2009-09-20 12:32:05
no don't bother with sequel, this one is crap
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Fortune from my fortune cookie I had after dinner tonight:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
I Have Returned.
In case you noticed, I've been missing for a week now. And in case you're thinking I was on some wonderful tropic vacation, you could not be more wrong. I was home alright. Home with two boys sick with the dreaded H1N1, swine flu. And let me tell you, last week sucked.
Last week sucked big time.
The boys are fine now, but last week was a whole different story. Headache, fever, body ache, sore throat, coughing, tired. They were miserable and it's always terrible to see the boys sick. But they had exactly enough energy to argue over who had more couch space, who got to choose the next television show, who was the sickest. Be happy I spared you of a week's worth of "boy B has a fever of 103.5 today" and "boy C has a fever of 102 and won't stop asking me for McDonald's" and "when in the hell is this swine flu going to leave my house". We watched movies, "Full House" marathons, we played video games, we watched game shows (who knew you could find an episode of "Family Feud" on at any given moment). I was subjected to a 1st grade spelling test (which, according to my son, I failed miserably). My friends on Facebook became my lifeline. They humored us by playing along with our game show questions, they offered to leave Starbucks on my porch. It was a very long week for all of us.
But I'm back now, the boys are back at school, H1N1 has left our home, every surface in the house has been saturated with Lysol.
It is so good to be back.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
3:33 p.m.
Ridiculously busy day today. So just for fun, I asked my son to pick a time, anytime. I then set the alarm on my phone to go off at that time. The plan was to stop what I was doing when the alarm went off and take a photo wherever I was at that point in the day.
He chose three o'clock in the afternoon.
As it turned out, in my fascinating life, I was at Walmart flying through the aisles with my oldest son at 3:00 p.m. And I did not hear the alarm over him repeatedly telling me we needed to hurry home (his sleepover guests were scheduled to arrive at 4:00). The photo above was taken in the parking lot at 3:33. The exact moment I checked my phone and realized not only had I missed the alarm, I had missed 3 phone calls as well.
Yes, it's a very fascinating life I lead.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Corn Maze 101
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, on Tuesday I was a chaperone on my son's pumpkin patch field trip. I also mentioned the corn maze.
I need to elaborate on the corn maze.
Ariel view of the awesome maze. I tracked down a farmer and asked how it was created.
Here's the rundown.
- Corn is planted in a criss cross X pattern.
- Drawing of the maze is created on paper.
- The farm actually has a surveyor working on the property who is able to translate the drawing into the field of corn.
- GPS devices are used to map out the maze.
- The appropriate corn stalks are then removed from the desired paths. If done early enough in the season, this is an easy task. If they wait too long, an ax needs to be used to cut down the stalks. I got the impression the ax was used more often than not.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Little Things.
- Yoga. The day started off with the best yoga class ever. I mean ever. Made me remember why I need to continue to go. And why I need to go more often.
- Sunshine. The rain stopped, the sun came out, the air warmed up. It was wonderful.
- Candy corn. Officially cracked open bag number 4 today. I so love candy corn.
- Clean house. The house is clean. Until the boys came home from school, anyways.
- Chicken nuggets. All 3 boys are buying lunch tomorrow. Such a rare occasion to not pack a single lunch.
- Survivor and Grey's. Both new episodes.
- Short list. Totally tackled the to do list. Not completely, but crossed more off than I have in months.
- Soak. I love a good soak in a perfectly hot, bubble bath.
- Fresh. Freshly laundered sheets.
I need more days like today.
I loved this day.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Lessons Learned from a Fall Field Trip.
Chaperoned my son's field trip to a pumpkin patch today. And what a perfect day for the trip. Couldn't think of anything I would rather do then spend the beautiful fall day with my little guy and his classmates.
And of course, there was much to be learned today.
- I learned that if you scratch a farm dog in exactly the right spot, he will pee all over an unsuspecting 6 year old. Can I mention how relieved I was this child wasn't riding home with me?
- Prickly burrs grow in pumpkin patches. Something I wish we had learned before we let loose a group of 1st graders into a field to find a pumpkin.
- Prickly burrs also grow in corn fields. Again, something I wish I knew before I spent 15 minutes removing the burrs from the pumpkin expedition.
- There is one strand of corn silk for each kernel on an ear of corn. Did not know that.
- If there is one cat and one person with cat allergies on a 100+ acre farm, the cat will indeed find and stalk that one person.
- This rule also applies to bees and children terrified of them.
- I learned that the inside of a green pumpkin is orange, the inside of a white pumpkin is white.
- Soybeans eaten directly out of the shell taste horrific. Trust me, they need to be roasted first.
- If you've watched or read "Children of the Corn", you'll find corn mazes a lot less charming and a lot more frightening. Stupid, scary movie.
- Speaking of children and corn, if you are responsible for 5 boys in a corn maze, chances are they will all choose different paths in the maze. Some will even make a path of their own (at which point the map becomes completely useless).
No bee stings, no allergic reactions to soy nuts, all children returned safely home.
A very good day.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Cool Bottle with a Mysterious Lid.
That's pretty much the reason for this week's selection in my "Cheap Wine with a Pretty Label" series.
See for yourself.
I'll keep it short but sweet this week. Bought the wine because I was curious as to how I would get it open. Screwed off, by the way, and there was also a cork under that silver cap. Voga Italia is a very tasty Merlot in a cool, sleek, slightly curved bottle. Loved the wine, loved the modern design, loved the way the half empty bottle looked (the glass is clear instead of the usual tinted red). Most importantly, loved that it didn't make my face break out into a nasty rash (whew, not allergic to wine after all).
All this and under $10.00. Told you I'd keep it brief.
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Well guessing that you're talking about your '54 Chevy truck with an '80 C-10 chassis and 350 SB engine, the first guess I'd make based on the limitted info is that something is shorting to ground with the turn signal wiring, and when you turn on the turn signal the short drops the system voltage enough to shut off the ignition or something.
But it sounds odd though as you describe getting good showings at car shows, and it looks clean so here's questions that would be helpful: You've described that you used the frame and motor from the C-10, how did you do the wiring? Is this a problem that started recently or has it been there all along? Do the turn signals work properly when the motor is not running? Has anything been changed recently? Does the turn signals affect anything else, like the radio? Does the radio do anything if you run the radio with the engine off and the turn signals come on? Or you could check the brightness of the headlights, do they dim when you turn on the turn signals? Usually a short to ground tends to make the wires hot and melt insulation, do you smell anything burning? |
By golly I thought everyone knew exactly what I was talking about. Sorry about that. Yes, it's the 350sb. The wiring was replaced using a Highway 15 Wiring Kit when I did the build but I didn't do it myself. I honestly don't know when it started. The turn signals and the four-ways work the way they should. And I don't smell anything burning. I'll have to check out the radio and headlights and stuff like that but I'll have to get back to you on that. Thank you for your interest and good questions.
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Arter was from Hanoverton, Ohio, the son of a farmer. Despite his father's determination to have his son follow in his footsteps, the lad made his way to Cincinnati where he made a living as a flower painter and by teaching others. Then in Paris he studied under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, who taught hundreds of young, aspiring Americans at the Académie Julian. In the Paris Salon of 1888 Arter exhibited Interior: Picardie. Love Letter and Brazier followed in 1890. Another work, entitled Leaving Mass at Scheveningen, was on display at the Salon of 1891. Arter went on to set up studios in Venice, London and New York. He spent twelve summers in Italy and became known for his portraits, including those of Pope Pius X and the King and Queen of Italy, who decorated him. According to Edna Maria Clark (Ohio Art and Artists, 1932), flowers and Venetian and Japanese scenes were his specialty. In a short article on Arter, "A Painter of the Orient," Metropolitan Magazine 7 (May 1898): 555-559, John T. Taylor described how the painter worked en plein air in Italy. "It is to his steady out-of-door work in Italy that Mr. Arter attributes the luminous quality which appears in his pictures. Not until he had spent his first year there, working entirely out-of-doors, he says, did he grasp the meaning of atmosphere." Arter also traveled to Japan. At the National Academy of Design between 1884 and 1897, Arter re-exhibited some of his paintings from the Paris Salon, as well as some genre works, such as Love Me, Love Me Not!, Water Carrier, Net Mender — Interior, and Healing Buddha. The painter was living in New York in the 1890s. He died in Alliance, Ohio on December 29, 1923.Submitted by Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D. R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago


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