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Kateri Tekakwitha — to be canonized on Oct. 21 — called the area of Auriesville, N.Y., home for most of her life.
For the last 127 years, so does the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs (National Shrine of North American Martyrs, MartyrShrine.org).
It was on the grounds of this shrine that three Jesuit missionaries from France — Father Isaac Jogues and his companions, René Goupil and John Lalande — became the first North American martyrs to shed their blood for the faith. (Their feast day is Oct. 19.)
They came to bring Christ to the Indian tribes in Auriesville, then known as the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, and were martyred in 1646.
Ten years later, Kateri Tekakwitha was born on these grounds to an Algonquin mother and a Mohawk chief.
Visitors come to find spiritual peace at this shrine in upstate New York, 40 miles west of Albany. The beautiful Mohawk River Valley curves gently along the gateway to the Adirondack Mountains.
From the shrine's heights over the valley, the sweeping panorama is magnificent. It must look much the same as it did to the first organized pilgrimage in 1885. That year, the first Mass was celebrated here on Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption and the anniversary of Father Jogues being brought to this location as a captive.
So many pilgrims came to visit that when the three martyrs were canonized in 1930, the current church — the third one here — had to be built. It was finished in 1931 and called the "Coliseum." The name purposely recalls the early Christian martyrs.
One of the first circular churches in this country, the Coliseum seats 6,500. With standing room, it holds 10,000. Spacious as it is, it has rustic warmth.
It should be filled on Oct. 21 as the shrine celebrates the canonization in Rome of Kateri with a 2pm Mass.
The Coliseum abounds in symbolism: 12 aisles and 12 seating sections represent the apostles; 72 doors represent the 72 disciples Jesus sent out to share the Gospel; and three tiers in the ceiling and roof recall the Holy Trinity.
To evoke the area's heritage, the stockade walls are the reredos for the altars and represent the palisades of Ossernenon. One altar is dedicated to Kateri.
The Coliseum is quite a contrast to the original 1885 chapel, which remains on the grounds and is so tiny that pilgrims had to stand outside during Masses. The second chapel, from 1894, was renovated a century later and now includes the Chapel of Kateri Tekakwitha, where weekday Masses are offered.
Outdoors, devotional sites are plentiful. A statue of St. Joseph the Worker stands in a lovely garden right outside of the Coliseum.
Farther along, a statue grouping memorializes St. Isaac Jogues carving the name of Jesus on trees as two Mohawk children bow their heads at the Holy Name. And a large statue of the Sacred Heart overlooks the Mohawk River, beckoning travelers and pilgrims to come to the shrine.
Our Lady of Fatima also watches over the river and sweeping panorama. The statue by American sculptor Frederick Shrady is from the same mold as the original that's located in the Vatican Gardens.
Another testament to early Indian converts is "Theresa's Rosary," named after a 13-year-old Huron girl who was captured with Father Jogues. She was forbidden to pray but did so under her captors' noses by forming a rosary on the ground with stones.
Several other statuary shrines are short strolls from each other on the lovely 400-acre park-like grounds, which are covered with seasonal flowers and a profusion of trees. A prominent one is the lovely marble statue of Kateri, the "Lily of the Mohawks."
Pilgrims are always reminded this is holy ground. The moving Calvary scene marks the place where Isaac Jogues and René Goupil preached about God and prayed rosaries. Near it is the newer René Goupil Memorial Chapel.
In the holy, historic "Ravine" is the oldest statue on the grounds, which presents Our Lady of Martyrs.
A wide path curves downward into this expansive clearing encircled by forested walls. Somewhere within the Ravine is the unmarked grave where, in 1642, Father Jogues buried René Goupil. Because the saint lies somewhere here, this place is a natural reliquary. A statue depicts René making the sign of the cross over the head of a Native American boy kneeling at his feet.
The hallowed beauty of the place beckons prayer, where the faithful also can pause to reflect at other shrines. At one, the figure of Jesus reposes in the sepulcher. The stone grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes is another of a number of places throughout the shrine's grounds where our Blessed Mother is honored and venerated in special ways and titles.
Fittingly, too, near the Coliseum, the faithful can meditate on the Seven Sorrows of Mary in another outdoor setting with new circular mosaics from Vatican City.
The shrine grounds offer much more, including a candle shrine, visitor's center, cafeteria and two museums.
Surely the new saint will be drawing many pilgrims who have never been to the shrine before. Among them will be Kateri Lang, named after the holy Indian maiden.
"I'm confident and hopeful that soon I can go and make a small pilgrimage there," says the recent graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.
A fitting Oct. 21 visit would be to walk where Kateri walked and recall her final words: "Jesus — Mary — I love you." These words resound everywhere and in every place at this beautiful shrine.
St. Kateri — and the North American martyrs — pray for us!
Joseph Pronechen is the
Register's staff writer.
The Life and Faith of the 'Lily of the Mohawks'
St. Kateri's mother, father and baby brother died of smallpox, an illness brought by the European settlers.
At the age of 4, Kateri also came down with smallpox, but survived. However, her face was left with pockmarks, and her vision was affected. She was adopted by her father's family.
When Kateri walked, she held out both of her arms in front of her to compensate for her poor eyesight. As a result, her adoptive father gave her the name "Tekakwitha," which means "she pushes with her hands."
At the age of 20, Kateri was baptized after receiving instructions in the Catholic faith from a Jesuit missionary. She was given the baptized name of "Kateri," which is "Catherine" in the Mohawk language.
She was one of the first Mohawk Indians to respond to the Gospel message brought by the Jesuit missionaries.
But her life wasn't all happy post-conversion: She was harassed by her own people for her beliefs. When Kateri refused to work on Sundays, her family refused to give her food.
In order to practice her faith openly, in July 1677, she escaped with the assistance of two friends. They fled 200 miles to the Catholic mission of St. Francis Xavier in the village of Kahnawake, on the northern shores of the St. Lawrence River, near present-day Montreal. The Christian community was known as "The Praying Indians."
On one occasion, Kateri traveled to Ville-Marie, which is now Montreal. While there, Kateri and her widowed friend Therese met European Catholic religious sisters who ran a hospital. Inspired by the sisters' example, Kateri, Therese and another devout friend asked their Jesuit spiritual directors for permission to found a religious community for Native American women on a nearby island. The Jesuits believed that it would be dangerous for the women to live alone and considered them too immature in the faith to form a religious community.
However, Kateri was allowed to take a private vow of perpetual virginity on March 25, 1679, the feast of the Annunciation. From that point on, Kateri strove to live like a nun within her own home. She lived a life of austerity and practiced many penances. For example, during the winter months, she would walk barefoot on the ice while praying the Rosary.
Kateri died at the age of 24. She was buried on Holy Thursday, April 18, 1680. French tradesmen, impressed with her radiant beauty, made a coffin for her. Her body has since been exhumed and placed within a sealed marble tomb at St. Francis Xavier Mission.
Pope John Paul II beatified Kateri in 1980.
Because Blessed Kateri was baptized at the Mohawk Indian village on the north shore of the Mohawk River, it was decided that should be the site of her national shrine, where she lived for 10 years, between the ages of 10 and 20. Coming to the Fonda, N.Y., National Kateri Shrine (KateriShrine.com) and reflecting on her life where she lived so long ago is a special experience, too — the faith of the "Lily of the Mohawks" is still very much alive here.
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A funding boost for cycling looks set to benefit visitors and residents in the South Downs National Park.
The Government's announcement to invest £62m in cycling in England was welcomed by the South Downs National Park Authority.
The announcement, made on Wednesday January 30, includes a fund of £12m in potential funding for rural areas covered by National Parks and will be made available to local authorities working in partnership with National Parks.
Chief executive for the South Downs National Park Authority, Trevor Beattie, said: "There is huge potential to improve cycle routes across the South Downs National Park and we are very excited about the opportunity this fund presents to create new and safer routes, both for commuters and people cycling for pleasure.
"Situated in the most populous area of England and as the closest National Park to London we are keen to encourage greater use of both public and sustainable transport to and within the South Downs National Park.
"We will be working closely in partnership with Sustrans, local highways authorities and other groups and organisations to take full advantage of this new funding."
Transport minister and Lewes MP Norman Baker announced details of a £62m investment in cycling on Wednesday January 30 in the largest ever allocation of funding for cycling to date.
The funding is designed to make travelling on two wheels more attractive for people throughout England.
As part of the funding, Lewes Station will receive a brand new £250,000 cycle hub for 200 bikes, including maintenance and repair facilities.
Eastbourne Station will benefit from a £300,000 cycle hub for up to 250 bikes including a maintenance and repair facility.
Over the last 12 months the government has announced £107m will be made available for cycling during this Parliament.
This is just one of a number of recent good news stories for cyclists in East Sussex.
This week it was announced by East Sussex County Council that the Kingston to Lewes cyclepath had been given funding and could be ready as early as April.
Last year the A27 cyclepath between Lewes and Firle was completed.
And the cyclepath between Falmer and Lewes Road, Brighton, is currently under construction.
It is currently causing a lot of delays for drivers, but hopes are high when finished the bus and cycle lane will encourage more people to cycle to work.
But drivers have expressed concerns reducing the road to one lane will lead to congestion, based on the affect of the roadworks, which have also reduced Lewes Road to a single lane.

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I wrote about issues I was having with Instagram in June of this year.
My main concern was that people are using their site as a collection of others' photos. But I did also address the fact that once you upload a picture to Instagram, you give them full permission to do whatever they want with it.
This is from their original TOS: (Proprietary Rights in Content on Instagram)
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It seems in the broad lawyer language that Instagram is presenting that they have the OPTION to use, sell, distribute your images in ADVERTISING. Does that mean they will? Will Instagrams TOS trump any state law? It remains to be seen.
Instagram is a free service.
Instagram is now owned by facebook. It makes good business sense that facebook would monetize them, and do it in a way that would only benefit facebook. Do I think that is fair? Heck no. Am I ready to give up on Instagram? Not yet.
They still have lots of issues. They still have thousands of users who are in constant violation of their TOS, and they are very slow to enforce policy. (if at all) However, as far as I can tell they have had the ability to use our images since the inception of their services, and have yet to do anything and is blatantly harmful to one of its users.
Should users boycott and demand changes? Well, I guess thats up to you.
Its always, always a good idea to know and understand the TOS for any social media outlet you use. (Right now, Google+'s policy states that they cant sell certain images, so its worth looking into if you want a "safer" social sharing site)
We still get the pleasure of viewing others pictures. I adore the talented and creative people that I follow on Instagram, and for me my time there is often browsing others work. Sometimes I dont even glance at my own account!
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AHi, new to this site so this is my first post. I have been getting started on cakes and novelty cakes and would like to know if the crumb coat and final coat before fondant is the same basic buttercream recipe? And if madeira cake is the best recipe to use? Many thanks for your help
AThe type of buttercream will depend on your taste, or what works easier for you. If you're starting out, then maybe an American crusting buttercream will do the job just fine, if you like how it tastes. Other people will work with Swiss Meringue BC (SMBC) or Italian Meringue BC; other bakers will even use chocolate ganache and have great results.
As for a "best" recipe, there are a few as well, Madeira can be fiddly, but once you manage to bake it to perfection is a good carving cake. Mud chocolate cake is also an option when carving.
You will find plenty of recipes and reviews of them here; perhaps for those questions use the "Recipes" section of the Forum.
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The project your making will dictate (to an extent) what kind of cake you'll want to use. As stated above by MFD, a more dense cake will work better for carving, for example.
Generally, if you have a proper, internal support structure you can use whatever recipe you want as long as it can hold the weight of the icing and fondant. And there's personal preference, I enjoy working with (and eating) mudcake, you'll need to experiment and find something that works for you.
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I really like using a meringue icing like Italian (IMBC) or Swiss (SMBC), they require a bit more work but very fluffy and delicious! I use ganache often as well. There's also American BC that's made with powdered sugar, popular in grocery stores and generally costs less to make.


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Before long I was rock hard and now she sat up and then knelt over me sitting on my lower stomach my cock resting at her back.
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Back when I was 18 I had been at work for two years and I worked for a builders firm that built one of houses, I was a painter and decorator and as well as painting the new homes they built, anyone could hire us to decorate there home, I was still learning the trade but the bloke I worked with Jack was taken ill one day and we were going to start decorating a house from top to bottom, so this was going to be my first ever job by myself.
So Monday morning I loaded up the van and away I went it was August and very hot so by the time I had taken all my gear up to the top of the house which was three flights of stairs I was sweating and the woman that lived there was well in her 70's so she did not go upstairs that much so I started work and put on Radio Caroline and started to remove the wallpaper I was getting hotter and hotter and by dinner time the sweat was just pouring from me and as I was singing alone to the Radio I did not hear the old woman call me so she had trudged up the stairs to give me a can of ice cold beer and she had made me a sandwich.
When she came into the comm she made me jump and by now I had taken off my T-shirt and just had my decorators whites on that are like bib and braces so most of my top half was visible, and she just stood there looking at me and then said Oh My what I nice body you have there dear, I brought you a beer and sandwich and if I had know I was going to see a sweaty man's body I would have brought my dinner up so I could have looked at it longer, never mind she said I just hope it still as hot as this when you get down stairs to work, she put the beer and sandwich down and smiled as she turned and went out, I shouted out thanks very much for the beer and food, Oh your more than welcome she replied.
This went on for the whole week and in the end when she came up at dinner time she had started to bring her dinner with her to, so she would sit down and we would talk but she would not take her eyes of my top naked half, she told me that her husband had died some 8 years ago and she might be 73 but she still missed his company and she winked at me and added specially between the sheet and laughed.
Sorry to hear that I said but I am sure there are other things you could use with a smile, but it's not the same as a hot hard dick inside you she said and with that she smiled and left me to get back to work, after three weeks I had moved down to the next floor so she often popped up with a cupper and still the sandwich and beer at dinner and every day she would talk more and more about her husband and what they got up to in there younger days, she always brought sex into it somewhere and she was always looking at me with a glint in her eye.
After a week I helped her move things from her bedroom into the room I had just finished so I could decorate in there, when I first walked in I was surprised to see a real old four poster bed, Wow I said never seen a real one of these before only on the TV, Oooooooo yes she said I have been tied to those posts many a time and we both laughed but as she went by me she made sure she touched my bottom sliding her hand across my cheeks, I did not say anything as I thought she was just messing about, so when all of her items had been moved I got ready to start work, when she came up with or dinner that day as she came into the room she shut the door behind her and then locked it, what you lock the door for I asked, looking a bit nervous don't you worry about that she smiled and gave me my dinner and beer, as we sat there and ate she was sitting on a chair across the room from me and I noticed that she had opened her legs just a bit wider and as we ate they opened up a bit further and further in the end I could see right up her dress and I did not know if what I thought I was seeing was true but I was sure she had no knickers on.
I was only 18 so only been with a few girls about 3 or 4 I think so even thou she was 73 seeing up her dress have given me a hard on that I was not aware of, she looked me in the eyes and said Oh I see that you are liking what you see then want to see some more, I looked down and saw the big bulge in the front of my whites and took a big gulp and my mouth dropped open, she put her plate down and stood up and without another word she UN-buttoned her dress and it slipped to the floor and she stood there naked, her tits were saggy but her over all figure was not that bad for someone in their 70's and what I could not take in was that her pussy hair was grey I had never thought about it before but it seamed like pussy hair turns grey to and she did have a long thick bush of hair, well she said as I just sat there looking at her V V V veryyyy nice I stuttered and now my hard cock was getting even harder.
She walked over to me and pulled me up out of the chair and un-done my shoulder straps she popped open the button fasteners and the straps fell down to my waist where she un-done the side buttons and my whites fell to the floor and I was just standing there with my pants on and a bloody big bulge in the front, Oh my word she said as she placed her hand on the bulge what a big prize I have here fell twice the size of my dear departed husbands dick.
With that she pushed them down over my hips and they joined my whites on the floor. Dear god she said as my 9 inch cock sprang out and it is about 6 inches thick to, oh my oh my oh my she said like a 5 year old in a sweet shop and put her hand out and curled her old fingers round it and she lead me to the bed and turned me round still leading me by the cock and then pushed me back and I just fell flat on my back onto the bed, I still could not believe this was happing to me, but here I was laying on this really old four poster bed and she move round the side and took one hand and then I saw silk cords looped round the posts she took my arm and tied it at the wrist then the ankle when she had finished I was tied fully to the bed in a start shape and my cock sticking up like a flag pole maybe I should have had a white flag flying from it as a surrender flag as now being tied there I could not do anything to stop this lady doing what ever she wanted with me but to be honest deep down I did not want to stop her.
She knelt on the bed between my legs that were now stretched wide across the bed, and she curled her bone fingers round the bottom of my shaft then the other hand round the top half she kept saying oh my oh my as she held on to my twitching cock and then she slowly started to move her hands up and down my shaft and with each downward motion she pulled the foreskin back over the swollen and she just stared at it and she said in all my years I have never never held or see a cock with a foreskin and yours son is beautiful oh how it slides back and forth over that big purple head and she lent forward and licked some pre-cum from the top of it, her tongue touching my cock made it jump in her hand and she gave a really big smile as it did, soon she was sucking on the head and she was loving it licking around it and pushing her tongue into my cock slit as far as she could get it.
Then she started to run her tongue up and down the full length of my hard shaft and licked my balls, I could not get over that a 73 year old would do this but hell she was giving me some feeling that any of the other woman I had been with has ever given me that's for sure, she sucked one of my balls into her mouth and moved her tongue round it as she sucked on it I had to lay my head back and close my eyes as she was given me shear pleasure she was now moving her hand up and down my shaft again as she sucked one ball then the other.
When she got up she turned herself round and knelt over my head and as I lay there tied to to bed all I could see was this grey haired pussy getting closer and closer to my face and as she bent over me to take my cock back into her mouth her pussy lips seamed to open and I could see her inner lips and her clit and then her cunt touch my lips and at first it was very dry but after I started to lick and spit on it she was starting to moan ever time my tongue passed over her clit and inner lips as I licked she was grinding her pussy hard down onto my face and she was moaning harder and harder and I just hope we did not have a heart attack as she came as I would be really stuck if she did but I need not have worried as she climaxed into my mouth and her juice did not taste that bad as it ran down my throat, on and on she sucked and then it was my turn to cum and I push upwards a far as I could with being tied to the bed and shot my cum into her waiting mouth and as she tasted it she had another small climax, she was licking and sucking my cock for all it was worth trying to get out as much cum as she could.
I thought she was going to untie me now but Oh no she had other idea once she had got her breath back she got of me and looked at me with a big grin saying O O my I forgot how good spunk could taste and by god you sure pump a lot in one go there son she said, she went over to get herself a drink leaving me where is was then she lay down beside me resting her head on my arm and she started to lightly trace her finger tips over my chest just touching me and then ran the tip of her finger nail over my hard nipples this made me shiver and shake as the feeling of pleasure ran though my body, having this done to me and I could feel her breasts against my side it was only 15 minutes before my dick started to show signs of life and was on the rise again,as we lay there she took hold of my cock and started to jerk me off again.
Before long I was rock hard and now she sat up and then knelt over me sitting on my lower stomach my cock resting at her back, she lent forward and one of her tits brushed across my face and I licked it and it was her time to shiver, and she took something from under the pillow and then I saw it was a tube of K Y gel, had she been planing this all along I wondered , then I thought who gives a shit and she put some gel on my cock and eased some inside her, she lifted her self up high on her knees and then started to lower herself down on my cock and at first she had to push down quite hard and then her pussy lips parted and my cock found her hole and in it slipped, once the cock head was in she held herself there just letting her tight cunt get used to my girth and then slowly very slowly she moved down on my cock she was about 3/4 of the way in when she stopped and she was panting for breath, and under her panting I could hear her saying Oh Oh YES oh Christ Yes and then down she went some more until there was about a inch left and she just pushed herself hard down onto it our bodies hitting together and she let out a OH OH CHRIST OH CHRIST YES and she looked down at me and said OH you Beautiful boy what a cock you have , I have never in my years felt so full as I do now.
After sitting on my cock still for a while she started to move she placed her hands over my nipple and this helped her move her body up and down on my length it was not long before she was taking herself up to the top of my cock and then fully down once more, every so often I felt her pussy give a small shiver and knew she had yet another small climax on and on she went I tell you for someone of 73 she was going bloody hard and fast on my cock her body slamming down onto mine then she let out a cry as she came big time, her body shaking as it ripped though her it travelled all though her body she was panting hard and fast but still did not stop pounding on my shaft then I felt my own cum working it's way up my shaft and then exploded deep within her, YES YES she said fill me fill me up son fill me up, and I just kept on pumping my cum deep within her, she told me later that she had never felt a man cum like that since she first had sex with her husband and how wonderful it felt to feel that again it warmed me inside she said I could feel each and every spurt of it OH Oh thank you son by the way she said what is your name I can not keep calling you son It's Dave I said. Ok Dave she replied thank you for today you have made one very old woman happy she untied me and lay with me for a few minutes before going off leaving me to dress I got back to work after about half an hour she brought me another cold beer as she handed it to me with a big grin from ear to ear you earned this extra one today Dave that's for sure, well if I had know that's what it would have taken to get another beer I would have done that a couple of weeks ago and we both laughed.
The following day I hung the wallpaper and was just getting started on the painting when she came into the room and said Hey Dave fancy earning another beer extra cold beer I did not say a word this time I just turned to face her un-done my whites and let them fall to the floor and it was her that had the surprise as I had not pants on and she got her clothes of as quick as she could, I think it's my turn to tie you to the bed today so she climbed onto the bed without a word and just stretched out so I tied her hands up and then her legs and like she had done to me I knelt between her legs and placed my fingers onto her hairy pussy and pulled her lips apart and I got closer to look at it I could see the grey hair covering her pussy mound and as I pulled it apart I could see her inner lips beneath and her moist hole waiting for my cock to enter but first I was going to give this cunt a bloody good licking and sucking and as I got so close I stuck my tongue out and it touched her clit which looked a bit wrinkly but as it harden under my tongue it soon became smooth, I sucked this 73 year old clit into my mouth making her gasp as I did so and she was trying to pump her pussy up into my mouth as much as she could and I started to lick her cunt she was now moaning for me to stick my tongue into her hole and lick her out, I never thought I would ever hear a 73 year old lady say such things but hear she was telling me to tongue her, bit her clit, she was going mad with desire as I continued working on her pussy then she raised her body as much as she could and she climaxed and her juice dripped from her and she was now panting for breath, I moved away from her pussy and sat over her chest making sure I kept my weight on my legs so I did not hurt her and I placed my cock between her saggy tits pushed them up and they folded round my shaft and I held them there while I fucked her tits, I stop for a minute and placed a pillow under her head and now when I pushed forward the head of my cock popped into her open mouth, this old woman wanted more and more and me being only 18 wanted to give it to her.
I carried on fucking her tits until I shot my first load of the day all over her face and into her mouth she was trying to get as much of it with her tongue as she could so I lent forward and untied her hands and she wiped her face with her fingers and then licked the cum from them smiling at me and saying oh oh very nice Dave very nice indeed.
I lay between her legs and lower myself until my face was level with her tits and I went to work on her nipples as I say her tits were saggy but her nipples did get hard still when I sucked them and bit on them she kept telling me to bit them harder and really suck then hard she had her hands free now and put them on my head and pushed it hard down against her tits and said come on suck it you can suck harder then that and then bit it dig those teeth into my nipple and I did she arched her back and she climaxed again, I kissed down her body yes she had wrinkles running back and forth her skin and to some they might never have fuck this woman but beauty is not just about looks this woman good fuck I learnt that yesterday and she was going for it today to now be honest how many 73 year old do you know that still want sex at 73, and then would climax two or three times, and even more tell you to suck and bit her nipples hard, so kissing a few wrinkles was not that bad considering the sex we where having was great, as I was saying I was kissing down over her stomach and game to her pussy hair once more sticking out my tongue I ran it down though the hair until I hit the slit and push my tongue inside once again she raised her body to push against my mouth and she pushed my head hard down into her dripping cunt, soon she was on the way to another climax I did not know how many orgasms this woman would be able to take at her age so I pushed my head away from her gripping hands and asked where the gel was she got it from under the pillow as before and I smeared it all over my now growing cock and and push some into her pussy with two of my fingers, she was already gasping for breath as I finger fuck her and when she was well lubed up and my cock was fully hard I started to kiss back up her body stopping of at her breasts then up her neck until our lips met and once more she surprised me by pushing her tongue into my mouth I though it was just going to be a lip kiss not a full blown snog , but as we kissed I pushed my hips upwards and felt my cock nudge her hairy lips and then pop inside her lubed hole and with a gentle glide I pushed the whole 9 inches into her and as it entered her she breathed in until it was fully home and our bodies were as one, and then she let her breath out as she said OH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSsssss and I started to fuck her pulling fully out of her before pushing back hard into her she place her arms around me and as she got closer and closer to cumming the more she was digging her nails into my back I had never had a woman / girl do that before and I found it so bloody erotic feeling the pain of her nails along with the pleasure I was getting for having my cock inside her.
On and on I pounded into her then without warning I pulled out of her she looked at me as if to say what the hell, but I got off the bed untied her legs and told the to move round and get on all fours and as soon as she did I was up behind her and planted my cock back into her love tunnel once more, holding onto her hips I started to pull her back against me as I thrust inside her and then I had am idea I bent over and picked up the gell and just placed some on my finger and as I got back up and started to fuck her hard again her ass hole was just in front of me and without telling her I just placed my lubed finger on her ass hole and pushed all in one movement and over half my finger slipped into her and she screamed OH OH what the fuck are you doing Dave that was the fist time I had heard her use that word, sorry sorry I said I though you might like it OH Christ I do she said I just wondered what the hell it was I have never had that done so you don't want me to stop then Oh the Fuck no she said and with that I started to finger fuck her as I rammed my cock into her she came twice more before I finally filled her deep insides with my warm cum holding her fully back onto me as my cock pumped it's load and she just let out one big sigh as she felt it warming her insides.
We got dressed after that and I went back to work and got my extra can of beer, we fucked each day for the rest of the week, my work mate Jack returned to work the following Monday and I though our sexy get together's would stop but as I left that Monday night she pressed a small note into my hand which read if you still fancy that extra can of beer why not come back say 7O'Colck, their I was a 7 knocking on the door and she answered it with not a stick on and I made love to her there in the hall getting her to kneel on the floor and rest her elbows on the stairs and when she came that time she screamed the place down.
I continued to go there and have sex with her twice a week for nearly three years until she sadly past away, I was gob snacked when I found I was left the house in her will saying that as I have given her some great times in her last years it was only fit that I had it.
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By MELINDA WILLIAMS
For almost 16 years, Sherry Boyd has held the reins of the town of Pulaski's Finance Department, but come June she's ready to hand them over to someone else.
Boyd said she has known for a couple of years that she wanted to retire this year, but it wasn't until about the past six months that it became definite in her mind.
"I've enjoyed working here," Boyd said of her time as finance director. "I enjoy accounting. It's like working a jigsaw puzzle, making sure everything fits together and that the end result is the picture it should be."
She added, "I've made some good friends. I'll miss my staff and fellow department heads and the town manager (John Hawley). We've (department heads) all been together now for almost 11 years and that says something about (Hawley's) management skills."
Boyd took over as finance director in August 1997 when former director Wade Bartlett moved to another area. She had been finance director in Fishkill, N.Y. before relocating to Virginia.
During her time as finance director, Boyd has worked under the leadership of three town managers and four mayors. Some of the biggest changes she has seen since taking the job are in the area of technology, where there have been various upgrades to the department's software and hardware to improve the staff's ability to handle the required workload.
She said the financial programs are more user friendly now and "they're providing us with information that, previously, would have required a lot more manual work. The programmers who are writing the software are getting a lot more feedback from the users to see what we need to do our job."
But the job can be rather stressful, as well. Constant changes in regulations and accounting requirements make the job harder. She doesn't really see any point in many of the changes, adding, "It's just a lot of paperwork."
Although technology also is supposed to reduce the amount of paper used, she doesn't see where there has been any reduction. "Some people can look at their little screens and read, but a hard copy is best I think. To be able to sit and read it and make notes," she said. "Besides, computers can crash."
So, what advice does Boyd have for her successor?
"Not letting the stress of the job get to them," she said. "Have a good understanding of what needs to be done before making any decisions or taking any action."
Most of all, she recommends the new finance director "Have a sense of humor. That's key … being able to relax at some point throughout the day. There's always something you can laugh about in the course of a day; even when it's a bad day."
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Gray Waters Print
Artist Kimberly Bloks work evokes nostalgia for lazy summer days and the familiar landscapes of childhood. Taken on the shore of Lake Michigan as a storm moved in, the photograph captures the moody vista and dream-like scene. Printed in the US and framed in Portland, using archival paper to withstand the test of time while ensuring the highest print and color quality. Complemented by a four-inch matte navy, cube wood frame.
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Mission Matters
Santa Clara Snapshot: 1962
She led the way: Mary Somers Edmunds '62 becomes the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree from Santa Clara—despite the fact that more than a few of her classmates chipped in $1 each to pay her $250 not to walk in commencement. Photo courtesy Mary Somers Edmunds
- 1st woman to speak at commencement at Santa Clara: Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- 15 percent is the limit for the number of freshmen and sophomores who can receive failing grades—until 1961–62, when the flunking limit is removed
- 25 cents is the recommended donation for receiving anti-polio vaccine as part of the "K.O. Polio" campaign in September
- 73-year-old Jesuit Bernard Hubbard dies. He earned the moniker "the Glacier Priest" for his explorations in the arctic—and exploits that included rowing the Bering Strait in a kayak.
- $2,000 damage done to O'Connor Hall by "one fine, young freshman" who plugged all the drains of the 2nd-floor showers and ran the showers full force
- 8,000 seats in planned Buck Shaw Stadium, with construction begun in summer 1962
- $150,000 signing bonus for Bob Garibaldi '64 to join the San Francisco Giants after his sophomore year—and after being named MVP in the College World Series
- 350,000 volumes will fit in the soon-to-be constructed Orradre Library
Summer 2012
Table of contents
The Makers
What does it mean to teach the arts—and to create art in all its forms—here and now? By that, we mean here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching out to the rest of the world.
Respect the game
Now they're the subject of dreams-may-come true movies. But in the beginning, they were women who just wanted to play soccer.
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People, prosperity, and the planet
A new fuel cell design brings top honors to student engineers.
In the zone
First Julie Johnston '14 was freshman of the year. Then All-American. Now the Under-20 World Cup is calling.
Truth, justice, and coping with atrocities
Legal scholar Beth Van Schaack tapped for State Department post tackling war crimes—from Cambodia to the former Yugoslavia.


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CABARET Performance on NBC's Today Postponed Due to Inclement Weather
A live performance featuring the cast of Broadway's Cabaret was set to air this morning on NBC as part of the Today show's 'Best of Broadway' series. Due to the inclement weather in the New York area, BWW has confirmed with the network that the performance has been postponed and will be rescheduled.
The series continues tomorrow, Friday, May 9 with a performance by the cast of Broadway's Mamma Mia!
Roundabout Theatre Company's production ofJoe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb's Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret, starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming and Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams, officially opened on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Cabaret features a book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. It is based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
The cast also includes two time Tony nominee Linda Emond as Fraulein Schneider, four time Tony nominee Danny Burstein as Herr Schultz, Bill Heck as Cliff, Aaron Krohn as Ernst and Gayle Rankinas Fraulein Kost, co-directed by Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (director) and Academy Award nominee Rob Marshall (co-director/choreographer).
The Cabaret Kit Kat Klub boys & girls are: Will Carlyon, Kaleigh Cronin, Caleb Damschroder,Benjamin Eakeley,Andrea Goss, Leeds Hill, Kristin Olness, Kelly Paredes, Jessica Pariseau, Dylan Paul, Jane Pfitsch, Evan Siegel, and Stacey Sipowicz.
The design team includes set and club design by Robert Brill, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Peggy Eisenhauer and Mike Baldassari and sound design by Brian Ronan. Patrick Vaccariello is the musical director.
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LAS VEGAS — The presentations at the annual DICE Summit are meant to be something like the videogame industry's version of TED talks, big-think speeches meant to inspire gamemakers with new ideas. This year's DICE Summit began on a considerably different note, with a pair of speakers who had no end of gloomy predictions.
"The only thing that saved Hollywood is that Sylvester Stallone is too old to make Rocky movies and Mel Gibson is too crazy to keep making Lethal Weapon movies," said Wedbush Securities managing director Michael Pachter during a debate session called "Hot Topics" Wednesday evening.
Game publishers, he said, have no such incentive to stop cranking out sequels: "I think we'll be playing Call of Duty 37 years from now; they'll be up to two [games] a year by then."
DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) is the game industry's first big conference of the year. Geared toward gaming executives, and put on by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the gathering is normally characterized by an upbeat, optimistic tone.
This year, not so much. Pachter, a financial analyst who covers game-industry stocks, predicted that game publishers would start to die off and leave only a few major ones behind. "You'll end up with two big publishers, Activision and [Electronic Arts]," plus the game hardware makers, he said, noting that Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two and Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft may also be able to stick around.
As an example of a publisher in serious jeopardy, Pachter named THQ, which recently went through massive layoffs and saw its CEO's salary cut after disappointing financial results.
The ever-growing cost of producing big-budget videogames has the effect of "stifling creativity," Pachter said, since publishers won't take a risk on a non-sequel if it costs too much. One exception, he said, was Take-Two's relationship with its Grand Theft Auto development unit Rockstar.
"There are enlightened publishers. They let their developers tell them what they're going to make," he said, naming Take-Two developers Rockstar, Sid Meier and Ken Levine (BioShock) as examples of creators who have "free rein."
"They do come up with really interesting new [ideas] and it's working for them," Pachter said.
Free-to-Play Eating Consoles' Lunch?
More firebombs were thrown at DICE by Gabriel Leydon, the CEO of Addmired, a company that makes games that are free to play and supported by in-game purchases.
Leydon was convinced that his company's business model would mean the death of the Xbox, and made no bones about his disdain for the game console business.
"The console market is fueling the free-to-play market through their abuses of the consumer," he said. The "abuses" Leydon described were the continuing churn of sequels, "online passes" that make games more difficult to sell back, and the possibility that new consoles may lock out used games entirely.
Leydon said that because free-to-play games don't make money unless people continually play them, the designers of these games are motivated to keep people playing in a way that console developers are not.
"If you have legions of developers making games that have to have [players'] time to make money, how do [players] have time to play anything else?" he said.
While Leydon's debate opponent Perrin Kaplan, a public relations executive formerly with Nintendo, agreed that mobile games were a threat to traditional handheld gaming, she disagreed that free-to-play games would "eat the lunch" of consoles. A game like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is worth paying up front for because of its high quality, she said.
"That's the exact same argument that coin-op [gamemakers] used for 15 years," Leydon quickly shot back, noting that he had worked at Atari in the late eighties. "We can make prettier games. We're gonna keep ratcheting up the prices of what we're making to provide an alternative experience to the less-friction platform."
Towards the end of the session, Kaplan asked perhaps the important question about free-to-play game design.
"Is it profitable?" she said.
Leydon paused his rapid-fire delivery for a moment. "It can be," he said. Another pause. Then: "And you can also throw your money down a black hole, too."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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After we questioned the screening process of Portfolio Night the folks from ihaveanidea wanted to clarify a few things, and contacted us with a more detailed description of how they decide who attends. Seeing as we're an equal opportunity blog, of course we agreed to post it (plus we were way afraid that the drummer from Burn Back would come after us if we didn't):
When someone is unsure of their work and sends it in, it goes to the editorial staff at ihaveanidea. It gets reviewed by us, who in addition to running ihaveanidea also work in advertising or have experience in it. We then let the student know if we feel they would benefit from the event.
Most times we encourage them to come out. But there are some instances when we advise the student that there is just far too much work needed on the portfolio to attend the event–and then we explain to them where those weaknesses are and suggestions on addressing them. At the end of the day a Creative Director can only do so much in the 15 minutes they will spend with each student. We try to ensure that the students who attend are the ones who will benefit the most from those 15 minutes, whether it be in suggestions to make a good book great, or a possible job offer.
So there you have it, and although we don't agree with a screening process at all, we'd like to point out that 15 minutes is plenty of time to dispense life-changing career advice. Really, how long does it take to say "Is there a reason you printed your ads out backwards?" (6 seconds) or "Have you considered a career in copywriting instead?" (5 seconds) or "Don't worry about your book, advertising is really more about the ability to drink heavily throughout the day. Wild Turkey?" (10 seconds)


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Name: Pine Tree Fairy™
Description: All felt; 11.5" tall; fully jointed; hand painted features; mohair wig; silk organza wings; felt costume; holding all-felt pinecone.
Date of Release: 2010
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That there are too many superhero movies being made is sort of obvious, but it's still nice to hear Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) say it, because Hollywood people are usually full of sh*t and terrified of offending anyone. Matthew Vaughn isn't, and that's probably why he makes better movies.
"[Superhero movies have] been mined to death and in some cases the quality control is not what it's supposed to be," Vaughn said. "People are just going to get bored of it."
"I've always wanted to do a big-budget superhero film and I think we've kind of crossed the Rubicon with superhero films," Vaughn said. "I think [the opportunity to do one], it's only going to be there two or three more times."
"Then," he added, "the genre is going to be dead for a while because the audience has just been pummeled too much."
"It is a crowded room," Vaughn said "It's too crowded."
I like how he says that like it's a bad thing. It's obvious for people like you and me, but if you've ever noticed when you're going out to bars or clubs, stupid people like the ones that are the most crowded, because otherwise they can't tell they're having fun. It's the same with movies. Vaughn is currently in pre-production on X-Men: First Class. He had been in talks to direct the third X-Men, which would've been awesome, but they went with Brett Ratner instead, and the rest, as they say, is Cheeto-stained history.
Vaughn didn't shy away from slagging on Ratner's film: "As it happens, I could have made something a hundred times better than the film that was eventually made," Vaughn told the Daily Telegraph. "It sounds arrogant, but I could have done something with far more emotion and heart." [via LATimes' HeroComplex]
Arrogant? No. I think what you meant was "demonstrably true."


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Midsize near-luxury market — prior to a dozen years ago, this category did not really exist. With the exception of a few European models, all luxury sedans were big old land barges. Then, in 1986, Honda launched its Acura luxury division, along with its new flagship model, the Legend. In the decade since, almost every upscale manufacturer has seen the need for an entry-level midsize luxury model as the demand for upscale products continues to expand.
Aided by the solid stock market and inexpensive leases, Americans are looking for greater variety and want midsize models with more power, more comfort, more accessories, and more frills. Completely forgotten are the lean and thrifty compacts and bare-bones midsize models that prevailed after the gas shortages of the 1970s.
The key outgrowth of concerns over better fuel economy is the excellent crop of thrifty six-cylinder engines that power all the vehicles in this category; two decades ago, buyers would have demanded V-8s. At the same time, manual transmissions have almost disappeared. Automatics have become smoother, with extra gears to ease the shift points and keep the engines economical yet powerful.
Made in America
Designed in Honda R&D studios in Torrance, Calif., and manufactured at the Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio, the 1999 TL debuts as the second Acura model (after the CL) to be completely designed, engineered and manufactured in the United States. The only people that are likely to be dissatisfied with the '99 TL are those who paid full price for the '98 version, since Acura has adjusted the price downward by almost $3,000.
"The TL has undergone such a significant transformation, it completely redefines the near-luxury category," said Rich Thomas, Acura's executive vice president and general manager. By incorporating some of the excellent Accord components into the TL, Acura gets the benefit of all the ride and interior comfort features of Honda's best-selling car. Longer overall, with a wider track and more interior room, the TL's front-drive platform features significant advances in torsional and bending rigidity.
The Car Connection Consumer Review
This was a lovely car, but it died before its time.
Used Acura TL1,317 cars
Used Toyota Camry34,513 cars
Used Nissan Maxima12,597 cars
Used Volkswagen Passat12,351 cars
Used Audi A63,688 cars


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Time Reversal
Magic 2011 — Mythic
Time Reversal is legal in the following formats:
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Magic 2011 — Mythic
Time Reversal is legal in the following formats:
French Commander
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Instant // Sorcery
Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.
Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library, then draws seven cards.
Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
: Put Startled Awake from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Gain control of target creature if its toughness is 2 or less. If Welcome to the Fold's madness cost was paid, instead gain control of that creature if its toughness is X or less.
Return up to two target cards with cycling from your graveyard to your hand.
Scry X, where X is the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control, then draw three cards.
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Part the Waterveil.
Awaken 6� (If you cast this spell for , also put six +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)
Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.
Converge � Draw X cards, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Brilliant Spectrum. Then discard two cards.
Draw two cards.
Awaken 4� (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .)
Draw three cards.
Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Put target permanent on top of its owner's library.
Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.
Draw three cards. If you control no artifacts, discard a card.
Choose one or both �
� Create a token that's a copy of target artifact.
� Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.
You may cast a card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, then discards a card. You return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand, then draw a card.
When you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, exile Dark Intimations from your graveyard. That planeswalker enters the battlefield with an additional loyalty counter on it.
Choose target artifact or creature. You get (four energy counters), then you may pay an amount of equal to that permanent's converted mana cost. If you do, gain control of it.
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
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Research Topics
Chi Hua Tung
Affiliation: National Chiao Tung University
Country: Taiwan
Detail Information
- Kappa-alpha plot derived structural alphabet and BLOSUM-like substitution matrix for rapid search of protein structure databaseChi Hua Tung
Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Genome Biol 8:R31. 2007..3D-BLAST searches more than 12,000 protein structures in 1.2 s and yields good results in zones with low sequence similarity...
- Protein structure database search and evolutionary classificationJinn Moon Yang
Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan
Nucleic Acids Res 34:3646-59. 2006..8 GHz) processors, our method searched more than 10 000 protein structures in 1.3 s and achieved a good agreement with search results from detailed structure alignment methods. [3D-BLAST is available at http://3d-blast.life.nctu.edu.tw]...
- fastSCOP: a fast web server for recognizing protein structural domains and SCOP superfamiliesChi Hua Tung
Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30050 Taiwan
Nucleic Acids Res 35:W438-43. 2007..These results suggest that the fastSCOP is robust and can be a useful server for recognizing the evolutionary classifications and the protein functions of novel structures. The server is accessible at http://fastSCOP.life.nctu.edu.tw...


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SARASOTA - An Ocala man has turned himself in after admitting to the robbery of a 7-Eleven store in which he told the clerk he would "pay you back later."
21-year-old Fabian Morrison has been charged with Armed Robbery.
According to the Sarasota Police Department, Morrison walked into the 7-Eleven on 17th Street and U.S. 301 early Wednesday morning and walked behind the counter, telling the clerk "Bro, I got something to tell you."
The clerk saw that Morrison had a stick in his possession when he told the clerk "Give me all you got."
Morrison received an undisclosed amount of cash, but before he left he approached the counter and told the clerk: "Don't call the cops. I'll pay you back later, bro. I'm really ****** up."


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The trial of the Russian dissident punk band Pussy Riot, accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hate, continues to attract international attention.
In a recent show of solidarity, Madonna told fans at Moscow's Olimpiysky Stadium:
"I know there are many sides of this story and I mean no disrespect to the church or the government, but I think that these three girls — [Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich] — I think they have done something courageous, I think they have paid the price for this act and I pray for their freedom."
Three members of the band Pussy Riot are currently on trial after their band performed an anti-Putin song in the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow last February.
Nadezhda said in court today the trial's proceedings were "a political order for repression [that met] the standards of Stalinist troikas," in other words, Stalinist repression, according to the Khaleej Times.
Alyokhina, in her statement to the court, said "I am not afraid of your poorly concealed fraud of a verdict in this so-called court because it can deprive me of my freedom," she said, according to Reuters. "No one will take my inner freedom away."
Defense lawyer Violetta Volkova said the three women were on trial "for their political beliefs," according to the Moscow Times.
While Pussy Riot's trial holds the world's attention, it's worth redirecting that limelight onto some relevant story lines.
Russian Parliament has passed harsh legislation that could serve as ammunition against western NGOs, activists, bloggers and dissidents, the New York Times reported.
The Investigative Committee, the government's investigative tool for dissidents, has opened criminal cases against the anti-corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny.
Meanwhile, 13 anti-Putin demonstrators are charged with hooliganism, as Pussy Riot is. Those protesters face a maximum sentence of ten years, if convicted, the New York Times reported.


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VOORHEESVILLE — Since 1982, Serendipity Day Care Center has cared for children from infancy up to 5 years of age. Six years ago, Serendipity opened the Big Dip, a before and after-school care program for children in kindergarten up to the fifth grade.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
MaintenanceNet Acquired By Cisco For $139M
Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet has been acquired by Cisco, in a deal worth $139M, Cisco said late Tuesday. MaintenanceNet develops cloud-based software used by companies to manage the renewal of service contracts and maintenance contracts, automatically handling quoting, notifications, and also online renewals. Cisco said the move would help it partners capture high-volume and low-dollar sales opportunities that may risk being overlooked. MaintenanceNet is led by Scott Herron. The company had raised a total of only $12M in funding from Express Ventures and Kayne Anderson.


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Germanwings tragedy evokes labor and employment concerns regarding mental health (Part 2)
Different labor and employments concerns arise in relation to mental health dependent on the industry in question.
Bracing for workplace violence
When the news first broke of the mass shooting on a crowded street in front of the Empire State Building last month, the first thought that went through most people's heads was that another act of terror had occurred in Manhattan.
The 11th annual SuperConference
Reports from the premier conference for the in-house bar.
SuperConference 2011: Day 2 Highlights Slideshow
The momentum kept going for Day 2 of SuperConference. From informative keynote panels in the morning to lunchtime roundtables and myriad breakout sessions throughout the day, attendees had access to some great insight from their peers and colleagues. Check out InsideCounsel's slideshow of the Day 2 highlights, starting on the...
SuperConference 2011 Session Highlights: Day 2
The second day of SuperConference 2011 started with two keynote panels—"Corporate Governance" and "Judicial Roundtable on e-Discovery"—which offered attendees insight into the general counsel's evolving role. The day continued with a variety of informative, engaging sessions. Below are some highlights of the sessions conducted on day two of the conference.


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Just Sports for Women, a sassy but well-organized Web site that's devoted exclusively to women in sports, will help turn Olympics-addicted couch potatoes into better informed and motivated athletes.
For starters, triathlete Sally Edwards shows how to prepare for one of those grueling races in the "Personal Best" page. Edwards was part of a team that raced across America in honor of the late Judy Flannery, a world champion triathlete from Chevy Chase, Md., who was killed in a training accident last year.
For those seeking a kinder, gentler approach to working out, the "Ask Our Experts" area is quite a resource. A team of sports psychologists, a nutritionist and an Olympian are among those ready to help you.
If you want to make pals, or share stories with other athletic divas, various chat rooms like "The Locker Room" and "Game Time" are ideal. It's good to see a sports site on the Web devoted to more than just sports scores or Dennis Rodman's latest hair color.
-- Mary M. Remuzzi can be reached at mmr(at)washpost.com
-- GETTING THERE: Jog over to "Just Sports for Women" at http://www.justwomen.com.
I had a job recently developing an intranet site for a big computer company. Staff members wanted a page of links to related materials. So I mocked up a prototype of the page. I used some dummy URLs. I used "http://.com. Ooops. I got a frantic phone call from the company asking if I knew that I had included links to pornographic sites on their page.
By the way, I did a who-is search and discovered that every x combination from three x's dot com to 23 x's dot com are now registered domain names.
-- Russell Aminzade can be reached at aminzade(at)sover.net
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Gone are those days when shopping meant walking around in & out of stores for hours on end looking for the perfect dress, top or any other accessory! The advent of internet has opened new avenues for shopping. Now we can shop just by a click! You can shop anywhere you want & all you need is internet connectivity. Today more and more people are getting attracted towards online shopping which provides greater convenience and better prices than any other shopping method.
Here are few tips on shopping for eye glasses online to save yourself a whole lot of cash.
1. Google search: Surf Google to find companies that deal in eyeglasses business. Read their reviews, ordering process, guarantees polices, pricing, shipping costs, etc., this will help you in making an informed comparison and choosing an online retailer that provides you the best price and quality. If you find doing this on your own an arduous process, then there are a number of comparison websites for e.g. Top ten reviews which have already made these comparisons to make your life easier.
2. Measure Up carefully: If you have an old pair of eyeglasses that fits you well then it is advisable to take the measurement from them. One should take the measurement carefully as a difference of even a single millimeter can result in glasses that are uncomfortable to wear.The most important measurement is the total width of the glasses from one arm to the other. Take your time and measure carefully! .Some online vision care sites will ask for your pupillary distance. The easiest way to measure your PD is to ask a friend to hold a rule just above the center of your eyes and measure the distance between your pupil centers'. Alternatively, ask your optician – they are obliged to provide the PD measurement as part of your prescription, so don't hesitate.
3. Discount and voucher coupon: Discount or voucher coupons are best way to save money when buying online. These coupons are available from different sources like internet, mailers, newspaper specials, magazines, etc. When purchases are not really urgent, maintain a wish-list and keep up-to-date about the available products. This will help a savvy shopper take advantage of these coupons, when they are featured, resulting in huge savings.
4. Buy in bulk: This is yet another method that will results in significant savings. There are many online stores that provide you an additional discount if your purchase exceeds a certain number. So, ask your friends or relatives to find if someone else also needs eyeglasses. If yes, you can place the order for all in the same single order to save everyone a whole lot of cash.
5. Brand name is not everything: It has often been seen that usually people pay too much attention to brand names and let it influence their purchasing decisions. While big brands sometimes do have amazing styles, more often then not, you can find similar styles and great quality unbranded frames at a quarter of the cost. So while making your final decision, do your research and look out for cheaper alternatives available that are just as good as the branded option.
6. Look out for daily deal websites: "A deal of the day "is a type of business where one product is sold per day at a discounted rate. Look out for those online retailers that provide daily deals. The savings on these sites can be up to 70% off the retail price or even more.
Author By line: This post has been written by Global Eyeglasses, a leading retailer of online prescription eyeglasses, prescription sunglasses and regular sunglasses. With prices starting from $19 and 2000+ frame styles, global eyeglasses offers versatile range of trendy eyeglasses that stand apart in terms of quality, durability and style.
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