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I am 17 years old and I am a DD and I also have very noticeable breast symmetry. I would like to know according what, my breasts are going to be decreased when I have my breast reduction surgery done. I've always had big breast which are really uncomfortable for me and it is bad for my health, which is the reason I'm having surgery done. So I'm wondering how small are they going to make them, because I think I will look weird with too small breast.
How Many Cup Sizes Are Going to Decrease After Breast Reduction Surgery?
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Breast Reduction and Resulting Cup Size?
Thank you for the question.
Unfortunately, there is no direct correlation between the amount of tissue removed and the ultimate cup size that a patient will wear after breast reduction surgery.
Before undergoing the breast reduction procedure it is very important to communicate your size goals with your surgeon. Most patients, like you, wish to achieve a enough of a reduction to help with their symptoms while remaining proportionate with the remainder of their torso.
With the goal of improving communication with my patients I find the use of photographs of "goal" pictures (and breasts that are too big or too small) very helpful. I have found that the use of words such as "natural" or "C cup" or "fake looking" means different things to different people and therefore prove unhelpful. Also, as you know, cup size varies depending on who makes the bra; therefore, discussing desired cup size may also be inaccurate.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_breastreduction.htm
Normally after a breast reduction you will achieve a breast cupsize of approximately C.
Thank you very much for your enquiry, normally after a breast reduction you will achieve a breast cupsize of approximately C.
This does, however vary slightly according to your breast shape initially.
The important thing is to fully discuss the appearance you would like with your surgeon and may discuss and may explain if this is possible.
I wish you the best of luck if you do decide to go ahead with surgery.
Breast Reduction Size
Your Plastic Surgeon can make your breast whatever size you feel comfortable with. Usually when I do breast reductions, patients usually like to be around a C-cup.
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Cup sizes possible during breast reduction.
You can discuss various sizes with your surgeon and figure out what size will still be firm.
Learn more: http://www.bodysculptor.com/breast-surgery-chicago/breast-reduction/
How Many Cup Sizes Are Going to Decrease After Breast Reduction Surgery?
Even with photos posted, which you did not do. Very hard to advise. The decrease in size and achieving symmetry are the issues. I think at least a c cup is advisable. From MIAMI Dr. Darryl J. Blinski
Can you pick your cup size after breast reduction
There are ways to perform a breast reduction to approximate your desired final cup size. If you want something around a "B" cup, you design the surgery slightly differently than for a "D" cup. While it is impossible to guarantee a specific size, your surgeon should be able to get you in the ballpark.
Since you are still young, there are some addtional questions and issues that should be considered, including: is your breast size stable or are they still growing, do you plan on having children (breast feeding), and is your weight stable.
Good luck
Size Changes with Breast Reduction
Every patient is different, so it is impossible to predict final size without examining you and actually performing the surgery myself. My advice is to discuss with your surgeon your expectations and they will be able to give you an estimate of what you can expect with surgery.
Good luck.
Learn more: http://www.ShaferPlasticSurgery.com
Breast reduction
That is a difficult question without photos; however, if your breasts are too large and causing discomfort (physical and emotional), then the breast reduction should be done in a way that it will be a "fit" for your body.
Breast reduction and final size
Without an exam or at least photos it is impossible to predict the final cup size for you. I usually can estimate the volume to be removed when I examine a patient, but cup size is so variable.
Learn more: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
You are correct, it can look weird.
Breast reduction surgery is very effective in improving posture and comfort and is commonly done for those reasons. Your doctor can tailor the amount of reduction to suit your chest size so it does not look too small. Make sure you have this discussion with him/her and ask to look at some before and after pictures. Good luck.
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IT'S been less than a year since development began at Tralee but the first 30 house and land packages were put up for sale on Saturday, March 29. It follows the recent sale of the initial 120 standard residential lots.
The milestone comes more than 15 years after the Village Building Company began plans to develop 4000 homes south of Canberra Airport at Tralee.
The move led to a long-running stoush between Canberra Airport and Village which was only resolved last year. As part of the agreement there will now be 3500 homes built in Tralee Village eventually and various measures have had to be taken to address issues that could arise from living in that area like aircraft noise pollution.
Construction is expected to begin later in the year and houses are expected to be priced between $389,900 and $512,000. The first 30 homes will be a mix of three and four bedroom dwellings.
The community will be home to around 10,000 residents and there are also plans for two schools, a childcare centre and a health centre.
Village Managing Director Bob Winnell said the public's response has been great.
"There is strong interest in Tralee Village and we now offer great value for money house and land packages, in an exceptionally well-located area of Southern Canberra/Queanbeyan," he said.

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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 187509, 11 pages
Reconstruction and Analysis of Human Kidney-Specific Metabolic Network Based on Omics Data
1State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
2Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
3Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese University of Hongkong Joint Research Center for Bio-resources and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming 650223, China
Received 7 June 2013; Revised 23 August 2013; Accepted 26 August 2013
Academic Editor: Zhirong Sun
Copyright © 2013 Ai-Di Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
With the advent of the high-throughput data production, recent studies of tissue-specific metabolic networks have largely advanced our understanding of the metabolic basis of various physiological and pathological processes. However, for kidney, which plays an essential role in the body, the available kidney-specific model remains incomplete. This paper reports the reconstruction and characterization of the human kidney metabolic network based on transcriptome and proteome data. In silico simulations revealed that house-keeping genes were more essential than kidney-specific genes in maintaining kidney metabolism. Importantly, a total of 267 potential metabolic biomarkers for kidney-related diseases were successfully explored using this model. Furthermore, we found that the discrepancies in metabolic processes of different tissues are directly corresponding to tissue's functions. Finally, the phenotypes of the differentially expressed genes in diabetic kidney disease were characterized, suggesting that these genes may affect disease development through altering kidney metabolism. Thus, the human kidney-specific model constructed in this study may provide valuable information for the metabolism of kidney and offer excellent insights into complex kidney diseases.


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A recent report by the Center for an Urban Future highlighted the difficulty of small business in reducing energy costs. The report states:
At a time when small businesses need all the help they can get, one big opportunity to reduce costs has gone mostly ignored: becoming more energy efficient. Significant savings – up to thousands of dollars a year for even the smallest firms have been left on the table.
Businesses across the five boroughs now pay more for electricity than firms anywhere in the U.S. outside of Hawaii. Recent surveys find small firms citing high electricity bills as one of the three greatest obstacles to doing business in New York. Taking steps to make their operations more energy efficient – from upgrading their lighting systems to retrofitting the HVAC system and adding extra insulation – quickly pay for themselves and then some.
But despite the prospect of substantially reducing their monthly expenses, only a fraction of the city's small businesses have taken steps to make their operations more energy efficient. The city and state offer a number of energy conservation programs targeted at small businesses, but as we detail in this report, shockingly few firms in the five boroughs have taken advantage of them.
Through a joint initiative with Con Edison and National Grid I am working to educate small businesses owners to immediate cost savings programs that will help reduce their energy costs. By helping small business lower energy costs we are helping our local small businesses grow; creating more local jobs.
I will be hosting several evens throughout the district for small businesses owners to learn about these programs. A representative from Con Edison and National Grid will be on hand to help business owners with the paper work and answer any questions.
The events will be held on:
Thursday May 6th 7PM - 9PM
St Mary Gate of Heaven
104-06 101st Avenue in Ozone Park
May 13th 7PM – 9PM
Glendale Memorial
72-02 Myrtle Avenue in Glendale
Con Edison offers a program called The Power of Green - Save Money, Save Energy, and Help the Environment. This program offers businesses with an average monthly peak demand of less than 100kw free energy surveys; free energy conservation measures, such as CFL's (compact fluorescents) and water heater thermostats; and incentives up to 70% of installed cost for major heating, cooling, and lighting upgrades.
An example of the costs savings through this program is:
Installed Value (Material and Labor) $337.88
SBDI Pays $247.21
Customer Pays $90.67
Annual kWh Savings 1,909
Annual Lighting Cost Savings $286.42
Payback 4 months
National Grid offers ways to reduce energy consumption through the company's Three Percent Less campaign, www.powerofaction.com/efficiency. Using less is all about getting in the habit of making smart energy choices. National Grid's efficiency programs help businesses improve performance and contribute to a greener environment. Combining the latest natural gas technologies with the most efficient energy resources, National Grid provides a variety of innovative options for businesses seeking to reduce operating costs and enhance the bottom line. Additionally, updating old, inefficient heating equipment with clean, high-efficiency gas equipment will allow businesses to enjoy the cost savings of a cleaner and more reliable fuel that will help businesses gain up to 30 percent efficiency, take advantage of customized rebates and incentives as well as low-cost financing options through participating contractors.
Small businesses were simply not taking advantage of these great opportunities to drastically reduce their energy costs. Through this joint initiative we will work with our local Chamber of Commerce, Business Improvement Districts, and small business owners to increase the communities awareness of these programs, help businesses take advantage of these programs and save money.
Here's what people are saying:
"We're delighted that Senator Addabbo is taking the lead on an issue of such great importance to local small businesses," says David Giles, research associate for the think tank Center for an Urban Future and author the Center's February 2010 report Energizing New York's Small Business. "Small businesses in Eastern Queens and throughout New York City have so much to gain from becoming energy efficient. Small firms here pay double the costs for electricity than the national average, and prices will only continue to rise in the years ahead. But while even the smallest firms could save thousands of dollars by implementing efficiency measures, shockingly few small firms in the five boroughs have taken advantage of them. Clearly, more needs to be done to make it easier, and more cost-effective, for small businesses to participate in energy efficiency programs."
"The Myrtle Avenue BID and Ridgewood Local Development Corporation thank Senator Addabbo for hosting this event to highlight Consolidated Edison small business energy efficiency program. We are already working with Con Edison, Willdan and FCI in getting the word out within the Myrtle Avenue BID about this program. To date we have over 30 businesses that have expressed interest. We will continue to get the word out. We also want to acknowledge National Grid for supporting the Ridgewood LDC over the years" said Theodore M. Renz, Executive Director of the Myrtle Avenue BID and Ridgewood LDC.
"I am very excited to take advantage of these new cost savings that Con Ed has helped me realize. In these tough times it's great to find any ways to save money." said Fred Vaynman owner of Delta Signs and Flag.
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In October 2002, 1 year after I started my PhD in mathematics, a poster hanging on a wall of the Faculty of Science at the University of Zaragoza in Spain attracted my attention. It read something like, "Do you want to find a job? Then help us organise a job fair. ..."
The person behind this initiative was María José Villacampa, the vice-chancellor of the Faculty of Science, who invited us, science students of the University of Zaragoza, to take our future in our hands and organise the fair ourselves. I already knew of two fairs organised in Zaragoza, one by the students of the engineering department and the other by the department of economics. However, none had been organised specifically for the science students in Zaragoza, and as it turned out, in the whole of Spain. To start with I wasn't even convinced myself that companies would be interested in a job fair exclusively addressed to scientists.
"They lack confidence and self-esteem ?"
The misconception that if you are a scientist it will be difficult for you to have a career other than teaching or research is particularly rife in Spain. Worse, careers advisors often try to discourage high school pupils from studying any of the scientific disciplines, arguing that it will be very hard for them to find a job after graduation. "A job interview with a science graduate is usually a sad experience," we were later told by one of the representatives of the companies who attended our first fair in May 2003. "They lack confidence and self-esteem and are not aware of their capabilities."
So, when I read that poster, I thought it would be worth giving myself a chance. After all, sooner or later I had to face a question that had been present in my mind for the past few years: What are my alternatives if I do not want to teach nor research? What else are scientists good at in the "real world"?
Villacampa and another lecturer, Pedro J. Miana, encouraged the 20 students who attended the first meeting to set up a students' association and start considering the organisation of the first (and up to this day, the only) scientific job fair in Spain: Empleo-Facultad (or Job-Faculty). The faculty was to give us an office, with phones and computers, and offered to share their expertise and put forward the cash we needed to start going. But more important than all of this, they were giving us their interest. After all, we were all volunteers and newcomers. If they did not believe in us, who would?
There was one thing all of us in the organisation had in common: We'd never been involved in anything like that before. After discussing the different ideas that arose during our first meetings, we decided to split into several working groups, each being responsible for different tasks such as finding the equipment we would need for the fair, looking for sponsors and taking care of the finances, talking to companies, designing a Web page, and even putting together a CD with the CVs of all the students who submitted one to us, to then be sent to the companies.
So in between classes and during our free time we started looking for companies we thought it would be appropriate to invite, we designed information brochures and created a Web page, learning along the way how to use databases and publishing software, design Web pages, and much more. ... This was the beginning and there was a feeling that, with enough work, organising the fair would not be that hard.
That feeling changed when we started to contact the companies. We sent our information leaflets to 300 of them and waited for their response. But 2 months later, only three companies had shown any interest. ... There was obviously something we were doing wrong. Certainly, getting the companies to buy into our vision of a job fair organised by students was more difficult than we had initially thought.
Think about our own capabilities as scientists
We were told by the Faculty Council that they would simply stop our activities if, before Christmas, 3 months after the inception of our organisation and 5 months before the fair was due, we had not found at least 12 participant companies. So we had to learn how to talk to the representatives of the companies and the people in charge of recruitment, that is, how to sell our project. We made hundreds of telephone calls and in the process we got used to answering questions such as: 'Why would a company be interested in our fair?' 'What do the companies expect from us?' and 'What can we offer to them?'
That made us think about our own capabilities as scientists. We realised that a technological background, the ability to think in a scientific way, and our adaptability were all very attractive to employers. And what's more, our involvement in carrying this project through was providing more and more compelling evidence that we had a lot to offer as potential employees. We all started to gain confidence in the fair, our careers, and even ourselves.
As time went on, new issues about the infrastructure of the fair started to come up on a daily basis. We learnt to tackle each of the problems, act upon our own initiative, and work as a team. Some of the issues were related to financing. Although it was expected at first that the Faculty of Sciences would cover most of the cost, its resources were scarce. We had to come up with alternative sources of funding, and we managed to convince some public institutions to subsidise stands for small companies so that they only had to pay 70% of the fair fee, and not only large companies would be able to attend.
While trying to convince companies and institutions to support our event, we got to think about its importance to all of us and it made us believe in our fair all the more. We realised that the main reason for being interested in our fair was different for each company, so we had to use different arguments when talking to them. To some of the sponsors we stressed the fact that it was a JOB fair, to others that it was a SCIENTIFIC job fair or a fair organised by a YOUNG STUDENT ASSOCIATION, and to the remainder that it would simply have a LARGE attendance. ... This made us see each aspect of the fair as valuable, given that each sponsorship we got recognised it as important and rewarded it.
2500 students and 43 companies attended
Empleo-Facultad took place in May 2003, with the number of attending companies rising from 12 to 43 in the last 2 months. From the many formal compliments we received from company representatives, various authorities, and the approximate 2500 students who attended, it was a success. It provided a meeting point between students and companies and offered us a great insight into the different positions available to graduates.
It helped the student attendees realise an important fact: Our scientific background is extremely useful in many areas and makes us more able to adapt to very different career profiles. As a whole the fair helped young scientists learn more about themselves, their capabilities, and what they wanted out of a career. They also got a better idea of where to look for jobs, what to expect during a job interview or on the job and gained confidence--and I think we can go further.
For the members of the association the achievements of the fair were even greater. What we thought at first was a handicap, us students having to organise a fair ourselves, turned out to be to our advantage. We had proved to everybody that we could work as a team and see a project through by taking our own initiative and facing any problem that was thrown at us. The companies realised how much work we put in and valued it. They gave us valuable feedback on our CVs and those who finished their studies that year were all offered jobs.
For all these reasons we are currently preparing Empleo-Facultad 2004 with a renewed association. Empleo-Facultad 2004 will take place at the Faculty of Science, University of Zaragoza on 29 April, and this time our fair is also open to European companies. We want to tell student communities all over Europe that being involved in organising such a fair is an exciting and rewarding experience where you learn things that are not taught in class but that are really appreciated by companies.


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Hello, I am 25 years old and I would like to know if I am a good candidate for a thigh lift. The main reason I am interested in a thigh lift is because of the stretch marks on the back of my thighs. I have had most of the stretch marks for 11 years and new smaller ones keep popping up on the sides of my legs and butt. These marks really bother me and cover most of the skin on the back of my thighs. Please let me know if there is anything I can do. Thank you!!! SJ
Am I a Candidate for a Thigh Lift? (photo)
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Thighlift is not for stretch marks
A patient who might be a candidate for a thigh lift is someone who has lost a significant amount of weight and has loose skin in that area. A thigh lift is a surgery to remove excess skin, and is not a surgery to remove stretch marks. Your photos show good tone but not excess skin.
Not a candidate for a thigh lift
You primarily have multiple stretch marks of the lower legs and not sagging skin. You are not a candidate for an inner thigh lift at this time. There is no real effective treatment for stretch marks since it is due to a destruction of the underlying dermis.
Thigh lift
Thank you for your question about a thigh lift.
- A thigh lift is done for loose skin and muscle.
- So you are not a thigh lift candidate.
- Stretch marks are common on young women's legs - often from hormones.
- Various lasers like the ND YAG may help stretch marks.
- I suggest a trial of 2 treatments. Don't sign up for a package of treatments until you know it will work for you.
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Stretch marks
Am I a Candidate for a Thigh Lift?
I think that your thigh contours and buttocks are good, and I would not recommend a thigh lift. You do not have a great deal of skin laxity. There is not a great treatment for stretchmarks other than removing them with an incision. You would not be able to remove enough of the stretchmarks to warrant an incision. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Learn more: http://www.hughesplasticsurgery.com/Thigh-Lift.php
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All the well-known staples of the Batman story were included: Gotham City, Wayne Manor, the infamous Batcave, as well as most of the favorite Batman villains, such as the Joker, Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler.
Centered around the story of how Batman and Robin came to be and why they became crime fighters, "Batman Live" came across as the perfect blend of a Broadway show and a Cirque du Soleil performance that was very entertaining and family oriented.
The centerpiece of the "Batman Live" production is a 105-foot-wide video wall that looms front and center over the entire stage.
With its more than 2 million LED lights and ability to generate 4 trillion colors, the video wall carried the storyline forward with comic graphics while seemingly blending the actors and props onstage into the picture via the opening and closing of certain parts of the wall.
This allowed things like the Batmobile to appear to burst out from the Batcave onscreen onto the stage and for the actors to appear to walk into the action onscreen or to disappear.
Openings in the stage floor also allowed the actors to disappear under the stage and seamlessly reappear elsewhere.
Anyone who was raised on the older comic book version of Batman and reruns of the Adam West 1960s TV series would be quite at home watching this production.
Several times throughout the evening, I was reminded of the joy of reading the comic books as a child and the childlike wonder of seeing Batman triumph over evil.
For the generation raised on computers, large-screen TVs and smartphones, this show also had a lot to offer.
From the loud booms and explosions of the pyrotechnics to the fast-paced action onscreen and onstage, there was enough excitement to keep even the shortest attention span satisfied.
Even though the coliseum was about half full, the audience seemed to really appreciate the show and clapped loudly each time a famous character entered the stage.
Henry Meyer, 8, and Ruby Meyer, 11, along with their parents Erika and Tom, were among those in the crowd last night.
Both Meyer children had heard of the Batman character but neither was overly familiar with him or the story of his origins. Even though they knew little about Batman, they liked the show, each with different highlights they enjoyed most.
"I like all the confetti guns," Henry Meyer said at intermission after confetti had just been shot into the air surrounding the stage.
"I like all the flying people," his sister Ruby said of the acrobats that appeared throughout the show.
As for mom and dad, they, too, thought the show was good and not what they were expecting.
"My favorite part was the dressed-up audience members," Erika Meyer said with a smile. "I saw a grown man dressed up as Batman, and it wasn't an actor I'm pretty sure.
"It (the show) was more interactive than I was expecting," she continued.
"It's like a comic book come to life," her husband Tom added. "It's fast-paced and keeps your attention."
"Yeah," their daughter Ruby chimed in.
From the frenetic video trailer that advertises "Batman Live," I had expected a darker, more modern telling of the Batman saga similar to the recent movies.
While the look of Batman was definitely more 21st century and this Batman wore a metallic-looking suit much like Batman from the recent mega hit Warner Brothers movie "The Dark Knight Rises," the overall feel of "Batman Live" was much closer to the original comic books from the late 1930s and 1940s.
"You want justice, not revenge," a phrase the Bruce Wayne/Batman character repeatedly said to the Dick Grayson/Robin character about the death of Grayson's parents, echoes the sentiment of the original Batman comic well.
Wisely, the people behind "Batman Live" chose to keep more of the comic book feel to the Batman characters, which serves the characters better than the darker take on the Batman saga from the recent films. This approach also makes the show much more family friendly.
If you have a chance to catch one of the two remaining shows today, whether you're an old-time fan or are new to the world of Batman, do yourself a favor and go. You won't regret it.
And if you're an old enough to remember the Batman TV series, even though no "BIFF!," "BAM!" or "POW!" come onscreen, the onstage choreography will make you feel right at home.
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Two shows todayWhat: "Batman Live," a live-action arena show, features an original story and all of your favorite Batman characters.
When: 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. today
Where: Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.
Cost: $19.50, $39.50, $49.50 and $79.50. Tickets are available at the coliseum ticket office, select Walmart stores, www.ticketmaster.com or charge-by-phone at 1-800-745-3000. Parking is $4 per vehicle main lot and $8 per vehicle preferred lot.


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To find the value of XX, use the equation XX=GG-6.
Where GG was the ORIGINAL number of the golf hole behind you. This may require some specialized knowledge so I will tell you that the Mascoutin golf course used to be only 18 holes when I worked there. Today the hole behind you is "White 5." To determine what "GG" is determine what was the number of the hole when the course only had 18 holes?
To find the value of YY, use the equation YY=HH+25 where the road that you are parked on is called old highway HH.
For a bonus reward, go to the scenic view at 43 deg 56.610 N and 88 deg 57.101 W (note at the bonus location you will be at where we would "stop and smell the roses." I could not put the cache at this spot as you are prone to getting hit by a golf ball so watch your head and stay near the out of bounds markers when golfers are around). If you post the photograph I will send you a special prize (while supplies last). Muggle secret: If you see some golfers you can always pretend you are scavaging for golf balls in the high grass or trees. The area of the cache is prone to walkers and golf ball scavengers so you do not need to be in fear of looking out of place.
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I have a very hazy memory of my first visit to Fut Sai Kai vegetarian restaurant - it was in the late-60s, and I was a toddler then. Fast forward to today, 4 decades later, and one of Singapore's best-known and oldest surviving vegetarian restaurant is still going strong - its business definitely boosted by a rise in Buddhist devotees these days.
Lunched with 3 elderly very devout Buddhist and very dedicated vegetarian maternal aunts today. My first time back to the restaurant in my living memory since that Austin Powers era visit. What we had:
- Lo Mei, the restaurant's signature dish of braised assorted mock chicken, mock duck and mock "char siu". I don't know why Chinese vegetarians have a fascination for consuming mock "meats" constructed from various soybean products, which are supposed to closely approximate the *real* stuff. Anyway, this dish was uniformly bland - as with almost all traditional vegetarian Chinese dishes I'd had.
- Vegetarian egg puffs with asparagus and straw mushrooms. This one fared much better - the "egg puffs" were, of course, constructed from tofu skin wrapped around minced soft tofu. The egg puffs were nice but, again, the rather bland dish overall did not quite appeal to me.
- Stir-fried "kai lan" vegetables with fried beancurd rolls. It didn't taste that much different from the earlier two dishes. I think onions and garlic were also omitted from the cooking here, to accommodate the stricter vegetarians.
- Deep-fried spring rolls. I *love* spring rolls of any form, but even then, did not like the tasteless version here.
- Crispy wantons - this was the only dish I really enjoyed here: the wanton skins were aromatic & crisp, and the filling was caramelised mushrooms with a meat-like texture. Served with a sweet-sour sauce which imparted a nice tangy flavour to the wantons.
I now know why I'd not opted to return to this place - I find its dishes too uniformly bland and uninteresting. My aunts? They *loved* everything there! Well, this explains why Zen Fut Sai Kai, founded by a "mah cheh" (Cantonese matron, known in Singapore as much for their industriousness, as for their trademark long pig-tails and black-and-white garb) has survived through the past 4 decades, weathering family squabbles after the old lady passed on, and the ever-changing culinary scene in Singapore. Its other old rival, Loke Woh Yuen in Tanjung Pagar, closed down a few years due to rising rentals.
Address details
Zen Fut Sai Kai Vegetarian Restaurant (佛世界)
147 Kitchener Road
Singapore 208524
Tel:+65 6291 2350


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Richard J. Turman, M.P.P., Deputy Director, Center for Tobacco Products
Richard Turman currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this position, Mr. Turman is responsible for assuring that CTP accomplishes its public health goals for operationalizing the Center's vision and mission as it implements the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. He leads CTP's strategic planning initiatives and program implementation strategies and serves as CTP's leader for program performance monitoring and program and budget integration to achieve CTP's goals. He works closely with the Director and CTP senior leadership and with key FDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership and external stakeholders on matters that affect Center goals, policies, programs, and strategic initiatives.
Prior to joining CTP, Mr. Turman served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources at HHS. He helped to oversee a 200-person team responsible for developing and managing the Department's $900 billion budget, its more than 75,000 grants and more than 31,000 acquisitions, and its financial management, including maintaining HHS' ability to earn a "clean" opinion on the largest independent audit in the Federal government. From January 2009 through February 2010, Mr. Turman served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources/CFO, where he launched HHS' implementation of more than 40 Recovery Act programs totaling $140 billion, helped obtain and carefully spend $7 billion to respond to the H1N1 influenza pandemic, and prepare the first two HHS budgets for the new administration.
Mr. Turman previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget at HHS, as the Associate Director for Budget at the National Institutes of Health, and as Director of Federal Relations at the Association of American Universities. As a Branch Chief in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1995 to 2000, Mr. Turman oversaw the formulation of budgetary, legislative, regulatory, and performance management policies for HHS' public health agencies, including the FDA. While at OMB, Mr. Turman's work included important tobacco-related policy actions, including coordinating the President's Budget's youth smoking prevention proposals in FY 1999 and FY 2000, which concerned what became the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco industry and 46 states and tobacco litigation. Mr. Turman also served as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, where he was responsible for health, welfare, labor, and education appropriations issues.
Mr. Turman joined Federal service as a Presidential Management Intern in 1987, entered the Senior Executive Service in 1995, and while serving as one of HHS' most senior career officials, led HHS' successful transition from the George W. Bush administration to the Barack Obama administration. He was awarded the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive in 2009 and the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive in 2012, which are the highest and second-highest annual awards for career SES members, respectively.
Mr. Turman received his master's in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. in Economics and History from the University of California, Santa Cruz.


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My name is Ellie Winters, and I'm one of those unfortunate women you hear about on the news - but you never think my fate will ever happen to you. Not that I blame you for believing that. Honestly, I thought the same thing, until I became a statistic, a missing person who was assumed dead. Wrong place, wrong time.
Except I'm not dead. Not yet. I was kidnapped, shackled, beaten, and deprived of the basic necessities, and pretty much left to find a slow, painful demise. I'm hanging on, but just barely. I'm not even sure what I'm waiting for since there's no hope for me, nobody waiting for me. I had finally given up, resigned myself to my inevitable death, when the one man who could make me want to live again finds me more dead than alive. After so many months in captivity, I'm lost, hopelessly damaged. Is it even possible for me to come out of the darkness and into the light again?
Zane Colter challenges me to live again, laugh again, live my life again. But I'm not sure if I'll ever be the same woman I was before I was held captive by a madman. Yet, he doesn't give up, and I couldn't ignore the white-hot passion that sizzled between the two of us.
He's everything I've ever wanted, everything I've always needed.
Tender - but stubborn.
Logical - but understanding.
Sweet - but hot, demanding, and possessive.
As we fall into each other, both hungry for a passion we've never known, I wonder if I can be what Zane needs when I'm struggling to find myself again.
And when I'm finally healed, I'll have a choice to make: Do I try to hang onto him forever, or will letting go be my only option?
©2016 J. S. Scott (P)2016 J. S. Scott
Love listening to audio books.
"Great book and great narration"
This book is an erotic romance.
Love the book, so worth it.
Ellie has been kidnapped, beaten, starved and left for dead by the hands of a mad man. The man that took her life, was the same man that tried to kill her best friend, trick her into a marriage and take everything from her. Ellie did what she could for the sake of her best friend, but when an unexpected hero comes to save her in more ways than one, they both have past issues to get over before they can have a future.
Zane has always hid in the shadows of Ellie, giving her time biding his own time till the right moment but when she was taken, he was tied of waiting. He not only is going to be the knight in shining armor he is going to prove that he will never leave her no matter what happens.
"Love them series."
So good when is the next part. These men are so loving where are they.
"another great story by JS Scott! "
twists and turns with exciting storyline. great read!! next in series is a must read
"love me some alpha males!"
i love this series and each story gets better and better! J.S. Scott is one of the 1st authors i started reading on my kindle and i can't get enough!
"Another Happy Ending . . ."
Another Happy Ending . . . . . . . . . . . . Happy Love, 😅😚😙!. Enjoyable
"Tate saves her"
A madman took her to keep his lies. Zane never gave up and found her in the nick of time. A book full of healing after a terrible event that many wouldn't have survived. I loved this book of the series as it pulls so many emotions from you and has the HEA in the end.
"fairly good."
like the story. a little action but hot love making. love the familly bond. bravo.
"Zane and Ellie"
I have to start with the fact that I have read all of the J S Scott books and love the storytelling in them. Elizabeth Powers does a wonderful job putting voice to the various characters. Although the stories build on characters introduced as they go along, most could be read or listened to stand alone. Zane and Ellie's story though really builds on the previous story of Chloe and Gabe in Billionaire Unbound. Ellie is a sweet woman and Gabe is that science geek from high school who goes on to become immensely successful and hot to boot! I love their story and Elizabeth does a great job in voicing it!
"Love this series"
I can't wait for the next book in this series. I love this author. I
"Good Story"
Good Story which rich characters and a hot romance! strongly recommend along with the rest of the series.
"love these billionaire stories"
no i actually like to use both
Zane because he never gave up
still Zane
keep them coming please
brilliant story kept me hanging on in suspense for next chapter. really enjoyable book ta
"Brilliant story"
Yet another fantastic storyline to hear. Zane's story was so heart warming that some of it made me cry. Now I'm waiting to read and hear what happens to the twins Blake and Marcus. Please J S Scott don't make us wait to long.
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Egypt: Mohammad Mursi's diplomatic passport scrapped
Cairo: Egyptian authorities have revoked a diplomatic passport held by Islamist leader Mohammad Mursi, two weeks after he was removed by the military from power.
"This move comes upon an official request from the presidency and in compliance with regulations for holding Egyptian passports," said the Foreign Ministry on Friday. It explained that Mursi could no longer hold the passport because he "lost his [presidential] post".
The military toppled Mursi on July 3, one year after he took office, following massive street protests against his rule. The army has since taken the Islamist leader in its custody.
The country's interim rulers have repeatedly said Mursi is safe and treated well at an undisclosed location despite huge protests from his supporters demanding his release and return to power.
The Foreign Ministry also said that diplomatic passports have also been withdrawn from Mursi's family and his aides.
The step was made public as Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood was preparing for what it dubbed as "Friday of breaking the coup" or massive protests against his overthrow.
Mursi's loyalists, who have been camping in Raba'a Al Adawiya in north-eastern Cairo for more than two weeks, were on Friday joined by other supporters ferried to the location from outside Cairo to demand Mursi's reinstatement.
Other pro-Mursi worshippers left Cairo mosques after noon prayer heading to the Raba'a Al Adawiya rally.
Rival demonstrators were, meanwhile, gathering in central Cairo's Tahrir Square to show support for the army against what organisers call "terrorism" incited by the Brotherhood.
Armoured vehicles were positioned outside the nearby National Museum and parliament as volunteers manned checkpoints on the entrances to the iconic square to search participants in the rally also called to mark the 40th anniversary of the army's victory over Israel.
At least 21 people, mostly soldiers, have been killed in lawless Sinai in attacks believed mounted by pro-Mursi Islamist insurgents since his overthrow. A hundred others have been killed in clashes involving Mursi's backers, opponents and security forces in the past two weeks.
Fears were rife on Friday that Mursi's backers and opponents will engage in fresh street violence.
On the eve of the demonstrations, interim president Adly Mansour, in his first address to the nation since taking office on June 4, vowed to re-establish stability in the country and foil what he called attempts to "drag Egypt into chaos".


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Anyone looking for a Taito Operation Wolf?
I have a line on a complete, more than likely not working Operation Wolf. If you haven't seen the original dedicated cabinet before, check out the photos after the jump. Looking for someone who likes the game, has some space, and wants a deal / has an interesting trade locally to Indianapolis or surrounding cities. (more…)
Traded empty Jamma cabinet for a complete Atari Xevious
Just before we left for the Pinball Expo 2009 in Chicago, I had seen a post on RGVAC for a guy in Lafayette Indiana who was wanting to trade a complete Xevious for a different empty cabinet. Three weeks later and some leg work, we finally made the trade. (more…)
Finally got my 'White' Mr. Do!
In the midst of all of the craziness, a couple weeks ago one of those bootleg like white Mr. Do! machines came up for sale in the Chicago area! I have only heard or seen these Mr. Do! cabinets in New York, or in Massachusetts (and one in California that was hauled back many miles) so to see one come up on eBay for a relatively cheap price I knew it was now or never. (more…)
Maneater – Have the Roms ever been dumped?
Does anyone know about this one? I know Maneaters are hard to come by, but have the roms from a working PCB ever been dumped from this game? Does someone have a link to where they are hosted online? I have searched some of the more predominant Mame rom websites and didn't see anything at first blush. (more…)
Gaming Console Icons for Mame
One of the most time consuming aspects of building any Mame machine is collecting all of the "necessary" files. A short list of the digital files would include working game roms, bezels, cabinet photos, marquees and of course character art. The coolest Mame machines have all of the classic arcade artwork including icons of the different gaming console systems that will be used in the menus for selecting different emulators.
I came across a topic on the Arcade Controls forums (BYOAC) where a user had a collection of these icons that he had been editing on an on-going basis. I thought I would download the zip and take a gander at what I expected to be amateurish looking graphics. I was pleasantly surprised, check out a few of the icons of the consoles below;
I don't know where the console images came from, maybe they came from an include with a front end or maybe they were generated from photos. Source doesn't matter, there are a ton of console icons in this archive and here is the complete list of the gaming systems. All of the icons are at a fair resolution with transparent backgrounds (PNG files), great for use in Mame or even in a design for a website about video game news. You can download the icon collection here.
- Amiga CD32
- Atari 2600 Jr.
- Atari 2600
- Atari 5200
- Atari 7800
- Atari Jaguar
- Atari Jaguar CD
- Atari Lynx
- FM Towns Marty
- NEC TurboDuo
- NEC TurboGrafx CD
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Game Boy Advance
- Nintendo Game Boy Color
- Nintendo Game Boy
- Nintendo GameCube
- Nintendo N64
- Nintendo NES3
- Nintendo SNES2
- Panasonic 3DO
- Philips CDi 450
- Sega CD
- Sega CDX
- Sega Dreamcast
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Master System II
- Sega MegaDrive II
- Sega Saturn
- SNK Neo-Geo CDZ
- SNK Neo-Geo
- Sony PS2
- Sony PSone
Related Gaming Console Icon Links
These console icons are all over the place, but the quality lacks in comparison. A quick 5 minute search turned up a couple of websites for vector based icons of video gaming systems. These links contain a variety of images, from more modern systems like Playstation to consoles of the last 5-8 years like Game Cube, as well as some icons for game controllers and handheld gaming systems.
But again, someone created these icons with Illustrator or another vector package instead of using real photos. These are low res web images that would take some reworking, like cutting out backgrounds or re-drawing, to incorporate into your Mame system, ever more increasing your appreciation for the above icons.
- Max Themes
- Icon Archive – Consoles 1
- Icon Archive – Consoles 2
- Icon Archive – Handhelds and Controllers
- Shopping.com Consoles
Have any more websites with gaming console icon images with similar quality and preparation as the ones listed above? Did you generate images for your own Mame system of the individual consoles, or did they come with your front end? Did you find the original topic thread and can give me the link since I must have not bookmarked it? Leave a comment.
World's Largest Arcade Machine
The World's Largest Arcade Machine, verified supposedly by the Guinness Book of World Records, was a video I came across on the Klov forums tonight.
More ludicrous than anything else, I think that building the largest coin-operated machine in theory is pretty cool, but in reality it just looks stupid. You have to stand on a stool to play it, with hand sized buttons and a screen so large your retnas are fried before you can say "Sammy Davis Junior only got one eye."
The World's Largest Arcade Machine measures 14 feet tall, has a 75 inch screen, weighs 1300 pounds and I think in the video they say it's 9 feet wide. What a colossal waste of space. They have a tiny little motherboard in it that plays 150 games and the style arcade game makes most of us collectors, with a taste for true art, die a little inside. The World's Largest Arcade Machine is fashioned after the popular Mame machines of today, with the artless sides, and the generic lightning bolt, fire storm, or other combination of black veneer details that makes us think, "Big black waste of space anyone?"
It's like all of the entertainment value of a season of American Idol, 1 minute stretched out to make a year of shows and you wonder where the time went. My favorite part was the real "Coins", and the fact that although the largest game ever takes up more space than your guest room, the machine isn't capable of freeplay.
Pac-man back in downstairs living room
After I sold the R-Type today, I moved the historic Pac-man cabinet back into the main living room. I hope that in the next month I can work on it a little bit, installing the computer I have and finalizing the final details of my mame machine. It has been so long, what a nightmare. It would be nice to have it done by November, but who knows what the next few months hold.


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What would you get if you put Yelp, Angie's List, and Facebook in a blender? The result might look a little something like whodoyou, which mines content and advice shared on Facebook and other social network to provide recommendations for local businesses in the top 500 cities in the U.S. and more than 50 international markets.
whodoyou was founded in 2012 by former Microsoft Group Program Manager Yoav Schwartz and former Answers.com Chief Technology Officer Jeff Schneiderman, and the company recently raised $900,000 of angel funding from investors including former 888.com CEO Gigi Levy, OurCrowd Founder and CEO Jon Medved, Isaac Applbaum, Mike Granoff, former Facebook Director of Business Development Net Jacobsson, Hostway Founder HanJoo Lee, 18 Partners, and Ronald Lauder Ventures.
Applications for iOS and Android are currently under development, whodoyou said.
Schwartz said in a press release:
I found it frustrating when doing my own home renovation recently that all of the trusted referrals shared with me on Facebook, email, and by word-of-mouth were completely lost. There was no single location to capture — and share back out — all of this incredibly useful advice. So I decided to build a platform that would store all of these nuggets of gold. Now people can "reclaim" the advice shared on social networks. We are passionate about helping users find the professionals they need, recommended by the people they trust. It's a totally new kind of social local search.
Jacobsson added:
I was compelled by whodoyou's ability to scale. Angie's List adds 60,000 reviews per month, and it took it nearly 20 years to get there. whodoyou is now gathering more than 30,000 public recommendations per month, and it has been at this less than a year.
Readers: Where do you turn for online recommendations?


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Questions, Bitterness and Exile For Queens Girl in Terror Case
By NINA BERNSTEIN; William K. Rashbaum, in New York, and Souad Mekhennet, in Frankfurt, contributed reporting for this article.
Published: June 17, 2005
Slumped at the edge of the bed she would have to share with four relatives that night, the 16-year-old girl from Queens looked stunned.
On the hot, dusty road from the airport, she had watched rickshaws surge past women sweeping the streets, bone-thin in their bright saris. Now, in a language she barely understood, unfamiliar aunts and uncles lamented her fate: to be forced to leave the United States, her home since kindergarten, because the F.B.I. had mysteriously identified her as a potential suicide bomber.
''I feel like I'm on a different planet,'' the girl, Tashnuba Hayder, said. ''It just hit me. How everything happened -- it's like, 'Oh, my God.' ''
The story of how it happened -- how Tashnuba, the pious, headstrong daughter of Muslim immigrants living in a neighborhood of tidy lawns and American flags, was labeled an imminent threat to national security -- is still shrouded in government secrecy. After nearly seven weeks in detention, she was released in May on the condition that she leave the country immediately. Only immigration charges were brought against her and another 16-year-old New York girl, who was detained and released. Federal officials will not discuss the matter.
But as the first terror investigation in the United States known to involve minors, the case reveals how deeply concerned the government is that a teenager might become a terrorist, and the lengths to which federal agents will go if they get even a whiff of that possibility. And it has drawn widespread attention, stoking the debate over the right balance between government vigilance and the protection of individual freedoms.
It is not known what prompted the authorities to investigate Tashnuba, who says the accusations are false. But in a series of interviews -- her first -- she said the government had apparently discovered her visits to an Internet chat room where she took notes on sermons by a charismatic Islamic cleric in London, a sheik who has long been accused of encouraging suicide bombings.
An F.B.I. agent, posing as a youth counselor, first confronted Tashnuba in her bedroom, going through her school papers and questioning everything from her views on jihad to her posterless walls, she said. Sent to a center for delinquents in Pennsylvania, Tashnuba said she was interrogated without a lawyer or parent present, about her beliefs and those of her friends, mainly American girls she had met at city mosques.
As suicide bombings mount overseas, with teenage girls among the perpetrators, there is no doubt that the government's intelligence efforts are spurred by legitimate fears. The agent leading this investigation was a Muslim woman born in Britain who has voiced strong concern about radical clerics' influence on young immigrants there. And in Tashnuba, who wore a veil and talks of an ideal Islamic state, she met unsettling opinions and teenage defiance.
But Tashnuba says that she opposes suicide bombing, that her interest in the cleric was casual, and that the government treated her like a criminal simply for exercising the freedoms of speech and religion that America had taught her.
As she tells it, F.B.I. agents tried to twist mundane details of her life to fit the profile of a terrorist recruit, and when they could not make a case, covered their tracks by getting her out of the country. In fact, the court order of ''voluntary departure'' that let her leave requires a finding that the person is not deportable for endangering national security.
Tashnuba said she believed she was singled out precisely because she is a noncitizen -- allowing investigators to invoke immigration law, bypassing the familiar limits of criminal and juvenile proceedings.
''That gave them the green light to get me out of my family,'' Tashnuba said during her long journey with her mother and siblings to this teeming city where she was born.
This account is, in large part, her version of events. Some of it is supported by documents and other interviews, but it cannot all be corroborated because a court has sealed the case record at the F.B.I.'s request and barred participants from disclosing government information. The government has declined repeated requests to present its side.
'Alarm Bells' for F.B.I.
Two former F.B.I. agents, presented with the known details of the case, declined to discuss it specifically, but spoke of the pressures and practices that shape such investigations today.
Pasquale J. D'Amuro, who headed the New York F.B.I. office until April, said that since 9/11, agents have had to err on the side of suspicion. More potential threats are being reported, he said, and every one must be thoroughly investigated through whatever avenues are legally available, including enlisting immigration authorities as soon as a noncitizen is under scrutiny.
''The alarm bells are going off,'' said Mr. D'Amuro, now the chief executive of Giuliani Security and Safety, a consulting company. ''And we have each and every time to run those threats to the ground, whether it ends up to be a bogus threat or proceeds to some type of prosecutorial action.''


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- May 16, 2012, 1:35 PM
Bombardier Aerospace recently opened a new office in Shanghai. It is home to the Bombardier Commercial Aircraft teams working with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Bombardier Aerospace's supply chain organization in China, and it also serves as the headquarters for the Bombardier Commercial Aircraft sales and marketing team for China and North Asia. The Shanghai Regional Support Office team, supporting Q-Series and CRJ operators, will also be based there.


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• Today's Woot! is a pair of World Series of Poker Wireless Plug and Play 15-in-1 TV Games. We have no idea if they are worth the twenty bucks or not, and we're not the least bit embarrassed to say so.
Highlights from Dealhack
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(Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Personal Firewall, and a year of updates for your PC.)
• 20 Questions Handheld Game $13 at Amazon
(Can a thirteen buck ball of electronics figure out what you are thinking? Probably.)


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18-year-old redhead Misti Winters, who hails from the lone star state of Texas, is making her first visit to New York and a friend has introduced her to Master Rick Savage. Of course, we're not sure the person will still have "friend status" once the wicked Rick is finished with Misti's young body. Outdoors in the back yard, Rick finds Misti on a swing set. After a brief introduction, Misti lowers her blouse to reveal her firm girlish boob and an incredibly hard nipple. Rick reaches from behind his camera and gently pinches the nipple causing Misti to shudder. Almost immediately, the nipple distends and WOW, does this teenager have long nipples. Rick exposes her other tit and pinches her other nipple. The nipple pinching goes on for several minutes, with our 18-year-old getting quite excited. Deciding to take the nipple play to the next level, Rick brandishes a small, rawhide genital flogger and begins a nipple flogging. Misti's excitement level just continues to rise. The nipple flogging becomes harsh and Misti's hand is now rubbing the crotch of her "Daisy Duke" cutoffs, telling Rick that she is getting seriously wet. After a sound nipple thrashing with the wicked little flogger, Rick brandishes a pair of sturdy nipple clamps connected by a chain. Misti is intrigued. She's never indulged in bondage or B&D before. As Rick screws the clamps tighter and tighter on her nipples, Misti appears to be in a state of bliss. Rick pulls up on the chain, stretching her long nipples skyward. The camera zooms close for an amazing view of young Misti's elongated nipples. Misti's hand is busy fingerfucking herself underneath her scanty cutoffs. Like a dog on a leash, Misti is now lead into the house by Rick gently pulling on the chain and clamps attached to her nipples. Time for this 18-year-old's introduction to rope bondage. With the fierce nipple clamps still biting her nipples, her hands are bound behind her back, her ankles are tied together, knees tied together and rope is used to pull her elbows closer together. Now... Misti is wearing ridiculously sexy jean cutoffs. The legs are cut SO high that her shaved pussy is visible beneath the front of the cutoffs. Basically just a seam of blue jeans passes between her shaved pussy lips. SO, Savage attaches a rope to the belt loops, runs the rope through an eyebolt in the ceiling, and now her cutoffs are hoisted deeply between her pussy lips. Savage remarks, "Misti...you are basically getting fucked by your pants." After gagging our young girl, Savage adds one more piece of twine to his bondage masterpiece. The twine is tied to the chain between the nipple clamps and is also tied to the overhead bolt, thus stretching our young redhead's nipples towards the ceiling. For her next rope bondage position, a totally naked Misti is laid on her back on the floor. Her wrists are bound to her ankles. Rope around her waist, passes between her completely bald pussy lips and is affixed to the eyebolt in the ceiling. Rick tugs on her crotch rope several times causing our young lady to gasp repeatedly. A ball gag is stuffed into Misti's mouth. Her nipple play continues as Rick now beats Misti's hard nipples with his rubber flogger, pausing occasionally to pinch them with his fingers. Flogging, pinching, flogging, pinching. Rick grabs a finger full of nipple and pulls it upwards. Then, the nipple coup de grace - twine is tied directly on each nipple and hoisted up, attaching to the eyebolt in the ceiling. The view of the stretched, bound nipple is utterly amazing. Rick tweaks Misti's nipple pain by plucking on the twine tied to her nipples like he's playing a harp. And occasionally, he plucks the rope between her totally shaved labia. Misti is groaning, whimpering. The rope bondage itself has become the game. For her next taste of B&D, a naked, ball bagged Misti is dressed in very steep, high heeled patent leather boots and introduced to another form of rope bondage - shibari. The ancient art of Japanese rope bondage. Rick's camera zooms close on a nipple while he uses long, steel tweezers to pinch, pull, twist and poke our 18-year-old redhead's tender nipples. The camera also zooms tight on Misti's shaved twat so we get a close up view of the thick rope biting into her cunt. Our girl's nipple play continues as Rick uses a large, leather flogger to beat her nipples and occasionally whack her in the pussy. Again the camera zooms close on her nipples so we can see them dance when the very tips of Rick's flogger hits the bulls eyes. Not wanting Misti to feel her ass is being neglected, Rick's flogger also administers a dose of butt punishment. 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MARY MARTIN NIEPOLD | PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN, is the founder of The Nyanya Project. During a visit to Kenya in 2006, Niepold became aware of the vast number of African grandmothers caring for grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS and discovered that there was no source of help for these women. She founded The Nyanya Project with her own funds and contributions from friends, and returned to Kenya in May, 2007, to initiate programs. Projects to aid grandmothers responsible for AIDS orphans were established in Kenya and Tanzania.
In 2009, she was named a 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow, a national prize honoring initiatives for social good started by people over 60 as "encore careers." In February, 2012, she was a speaker at the TED-X conference in North Carolina and has been featured in many magazine and newspaper stories about her work with African grandmothers. She has been a freelance writer, editor, coach and consultant for 30 years. She was a feature writer and editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer for 14 years, Executive Editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and has assisted in the editing and writing of several books, including Dr. Mitchell Gaynor's Nurture Nature/ Nurture Health: Your Health and the Environment and Jan Fontein's The Art of Southeast Asia: The Collection of the Museum Rietberg. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Wake Forest University. She is the mother of two and grandmother of five.
MIL NIEPOLD | VICE PRESIDENT Mil is the President and Founder of The Mara Partners, a mediation and facilitation company that specializes in convening multi-stakeholder dialogues around complex social issues. TMP covers a wide range of projects ranging from designing efforts to eliminate child labor and trafficking in the cocoa sector of West Africa to programs to end child marriage in Ethiopia. Previously, she was Senior Policy Advisor at Verité for nearly 14 years, Mil led a number of new initiatives including Verité's work on women in the workplace (with UNIFEM and Calvert Social Investments) and multi-stakeholder initiatives, with a focus on programs to implement the Harkin – Engel Protocol on child labor in cocoa production.
Mil has extensive experience working with governments, including those of the United States, Côte d'Ivoire (First Lady Dominique Ouattara), Ghana and France, among others. Prior to joining Verité, as Strategic Advisor to Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Mil developed a conference of female heads-of state on the issues of global security and the role of women's leadership (partnering with The White House Project and The Council of Women World Leaders). Mil holds degrees in International Affairs and European Studies from George Washington University and L'Institut des Sciences Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France, as well as a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, UK. She is fluent in English and French, is the author of two children's books and is the daughter of TNP founder, Mary Martin Niepold.
BEVERLY JOHNSTON is a local philanthropist and community activist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2006, she founded the Blessings Project Foundation and serves as its Board President. She earned her Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Illinois and her Masters in Social Work from Columbia University. Previously, Ms. Johnston served as director of Client and Volunteer Services for Crisis Control Ministry in Winston-Salem and as case manager at Burke Rehab and New York Hospital.
LANCE PIERCE is Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Ceres, a network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups who work with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. He previously served with the Union of Concerned Scientists as Director of the Climate & Energy Program, and at Harvard Business School as Project Director in launching the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.
Pierce has worked in the private, public, and non-profit sectors in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR). In CSR he has worked with Agence France Presse, the World Bank, and served as Director, Corporate Issues Management for Fortune 20 food and consumer goods holding company, Altria Group. Prior, he was a corporate consultant with some of the world's leading companies in investment banking, real estate, media, and US Government agencies, and an international development consultant to United Nations agencies and leading NGOs.
His credits include co-authorship of Harvard Business School cases with leading HBS faculty on corporate sustainability and leadership transition, producing documentaries for public television, and quotes in the New York Times, Reuters, and other major media. He holds an MA in Anthropology from New York University and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
FREDERICK SUMAYE is the former Prime Minister of Tanzania. He was Prime Minister from the first multi-party elections in November, 1995 until December, 2005. After leaving office, he completed a year as a mid-career student in the Edward S. Mason Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1972, Prime Minister Sumaye obtained a Diploma in Agricultural Engineering from Egerton College in Kenya. He has served as Head of the Rural Energy Department (CARMATEC -Arusha); was a Member of Parliament for Hanang Constituency from 1987 – 1994; and served from 1994 – 1995 as Minister for Agriculture. He and Mary Martin Niepold met in Dar Es Salaam in June, 2007. Based on his many years in government, Prime Minister Sumaye is dedicated to alleviating the suffering caused by HIV/AIDS in Africa.
EDWIN G. WILSON is Provost Emeritus at Wake Forest University. He has a doctorate in English from Harvard University and has held the positions at Wake Forest of assistant dean of the undergraduate College, acting dean of the College, dean of the College, provost (the university's first), vice president for special projects and senior vice president. As an administrator, he is likely best known as provost, a position he held from 1967 until 1990. Dr. Wilson co-wrote Wake Forest University (NC) (College History Series). He received Wake Forest's Medallion of Merit in 2004. He is very active in the community and has been closely associated with the Piedmont Opera Theatre, the Winston-Salem Arts Council, the North Carolina Arts Council and Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He has also served on the Board of Trustees at Winston-Salem State University.
JENNIFER JAMES | SECRETARY/TREASURER is the founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good. Through her work with Mom Bloggers for Social Good she has forged partnerships with some of the largest nonprofit organizations and NGOs in the world.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Jennifer currently writes for the Gates Foundation and blogs frequently for ONE.org. She has traveled to Kenya and visited with Dr. Jill Biden at the White House as a member of the ONE Moms, was invited by the Gates Foundation to attend TEDxChange in Berlin, and is a recent recipient of the National Press Foundation Global Vaccines Press Fellowship.
Her affection for Africa runs deep, and she is particularly impressed by the quality of the Nyanya Preschool in the Kibera slums of Nairobi. "It is far superior to all of the other childcare centers I have seen there, and those include preschools supported by major international NGO's. I've never seen anything in Africa so clean and beautiful."
GRETCHEN EFFGEN is Director of Business Development at Zipcar, a mobility solutions provider that enables simple and responsible urban living. With a background in international business development, Gretchen's career spans the public and private sectors both domestically and internationally. Gretchen holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Tulane University. A mother of two and resident of Boston, Gretchen is passionate about creating sustainable assistance and introduced TNP to Generation Rwanda (formerly Orphans of Rwanda) which educated our staff members, Simon Mvunabandi and Kassim Mbarushimana, both of whom guide our work with grandmothers in Rwanda.
Gretchen talks about her alliance with TNP: "Mary's work with The Nyanya Project has been enormously inspiring. Where as many would see a sad and terribly wrong situation and wish they could do something, Mary chose to take real, measurable action. With training and resources, the nyanyas have a chance at a sustainable livelihood and the ability to provide for their grandchildren. I am so very proud to be a part of this organization's development; we've provided training, a means for a livelihood, and jobs where they didn't exist before."
DR. BETSY GATEWOOD is former Director of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University and an internationally acclaimed scholar of social entrepreneurship. In 2004 she was named Director of the University Office of Entrepreneurship & Liberal Arts at Wake Forest. She served as the Jack M. Gill Chair of Entrepreneurship and Director of The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Indiana University from 1998 to 2004. She was the Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center Network, an organization providing training and consulting services to entrepreneurs and small business owners in the 32 counties of the greater Houston region, from 1989-1998. Dr. Gatewood founded and served as director of the Center for Business and Economic Studies at the University of Georgia from 1983-1989.
Dr. Gatewood founded and served Wake Forest University's Center for Enterprise Research and Education (CERE), that has launched major studies of sme's in Nicaragua and is currently creating partnerships for further study in Rwanda. She is a member of the "Diana" project, a research study of women business owners and equity capital access, which won the FSF-NUTEK International Award for scientific work of outstanding quality and importance in the field of entrepreneurship. She has supported our efforts and recommended student interns for TNP for the last three years.
EUGENE NYAGAHENE | is the founder/ CEO of Rwanda's Tele10 Group, a television and digital information company delivering international television throughout the country that he launched after the Tutsi genocide in 1995. Nyagahene is Rwanda's leading entrepreneur, having created various businesses that address post-genocide reconciliation in his native country. In his family's community of Cyingwa, Eugene has put capitalism to work for social good by creating a coffee company where profits are shared amongst all of the residents and workers, Tutis and Hutus. Their coffee is sold worldwide and $1 of each pound sold goes back to the community. He is a leader who has helped transform Rwanda into one of Africa's most developed countries. He knows first-hand how to help his country to overcome devastation and grow into one of the most socially and economically transformed countries of our era today.
Nyagahene is especially appreciative of the role of grandmothers in African societies. "My grandmother led the family, which is typical in Africa. She was tough, strong. If grandmothers had been remembered, there would have been no genocide." He is assisting TNP in the development and marketing of products generated by TNP's new agricultural programs where grandmothers are trained to grow peppers, mushrooms and honey.
KATE BABB SHONE is Vice President of Public Relations, Fragrance & Beauté, at CHANEL. Kate has worked extensively in the beauty and fragrance industry, having spearheaded public relations programs for Avon,Lancôme, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, and others. Well known in the industry, Kate is particularly passionate about empowering women. "Women drive culture all over the world. When we help strengthen women, all of us are stronger. I love the fact that The Nyanya Project creates self sufficiency."


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How YouTube celebrates it's 7th birthday…
24.05.2012 von Martin Meyer-Gossner
Kategorie: Commercials, English Content, Sales
What happened on the 21st of May 2005? Right, YouTube was "internet-born". Those days 8 Mio. videos got watched on the platform. Obviously, the platform used this date to celebarte it's birthday number 7 now. YouTube produced a video to showcase the positive development that led them in a position which seems to be unique today.
What we all wanted to know is what traffic and engagement is happening on YouTube. The following video offers some little but important insights on the YouTube activities, and the users working with and watching it. The most important video stats are as follows…
– With over 4 billion videos, YouTube marks a unique position in views per day
– Some amazing 72 hours of video uploaded every day
– The Kony video got around 30 million views in one day
Surprisingly enough, we hear nothing about the Leanback opportunities which were launched quite a while ago. Nor do we see some intelligent videos series that showcases the portfolio of any HiFi retailer or a cloths company as a storytelling media that promotes products in a modern way.
Well, there is plenty of opportunities to grow for YouTube. It becomes clear why YouTube is pitching big way these days to get more professional content like web series on the platform, so the people might use it for their "leanback" times.
One statement in the video is a good take away for companies: "The power of simplifying the process as a solution!" is a statement some more companies should focus on when professionalizing their business…


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– The latest video from Great North Wrestling and WWE Legend Lanny Poffo features Lanny talking about "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig and drugs in wrestling:
– Vickie Guerrero isn't the only wrestling star going to college right now. Former WWE Diva Maria Kanellis has been going for some time now and noted on Twitter this weekend that she's getting her associates in art and a certificate in graphic design before transferring. She hopes to have both of those by late 2014 and then her bachelors in late 2016.
– Jim Ross continues to tell fans he will not be in attendance for tonight's RAW from his home state, which gives you a good idea of where he stands with WWE these days. Ross says he will be watching and live tweeting but will not be backstage.
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Day 11 at the LegislatureFeb 25, 2014 The Associated Press
CHEYENNE -- Developments at the Wyoming Legislature on the 11th day of the 2014 Budget Session:
80 MPH SPEED LIMIT: The House for the third time approved a bill that would allow increasing the speed limit to 80 mph on certain stretches of interstate highway. The bill went to the Senate.
FISHING: The House for the third time approved to a bill that would call on the state game commission to set regulations allowing people to fish with the use of artificial light. The bill went to the Senate.
INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATIONS: The Senate voted down a bill that would have changed state law regarding the process for evaluating people hospitalized for mental health reasons. The Senate voted it down after hearing criticism from some Senators who objected to lengthening the amount of time a person could be held before their detention was reviewed in court.
FIRES: The House for the third time approved a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for a person to abandon a fire they were responsible for.
EXONERATED INMATES: The Senate for the second time voted to approve a bill that spells out how the state would compensate people who have served time in prison before they're exonerated by DNA evidence.
GRAND TETON LAND: The Senate for the second time voted to approve a bill that would authorize the state board of land commissioners to exchange parcels of state land within Grand Teton National Park for parcels of federal land elsewhere.


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PAUL ADAMS is never far away from a laugh. It is often a loud, outlandish laugh that gets people around him smiling too.
There were not many, though, on Sunday, until Rory Kleinveldt walked in and nonchalantly smashed his first three balls to the boundary to take the Cobras home in a nerve-wracking semi-final against the Titans.
"Look here, all semis are tense affairs, hey. It was no different against the Titans. There were some moments in that game which could have swung it either way. But that's finals cricket. It's a battle of the key moments, and Friday at the Wanderers is going to be no different," Adams told the Cape Times yesterday.
Adams is certainly on the money in terms of the pressure that both teams will be feeling tomorrow in the 1-Day Cup final at the Bullring. The Cobras, as defending champions and with their plethora of national stars, are undoubtedly the favourites, and that pressure of expectation can sometimes derail a team's ambitions.
In contrast, the Highveld Lions are a group of young players who could be overawed by the big occasion. They also carry the failures of previous Lions teams who have not won a single franchise trophy over the past five seasons.
"It's all about keeping calm, sticking to your processes, and staying cool under pressure. And that begins with me. The guys feed off my energy and they look at me for guidance, so I can't be walking around like a nervous wreck," Adams said.
"It's about trusting your systems, bringing that over to the players.
"But I'm really happy with the mental space the guys are in, they certainly are in a good space."
The Cobras coach is certainly leaving no stone unturned in his preparation. It is nothing entirely different from normal procedure, but Adams has had sports psychologist Mary-Anne Dove around the team during the playoffs.
"Mary-Anne is a very valuable member of our squad. It's not just during the finals that she is here. She regularly has one-on-one meetings with the guys, and also just watches them during training, in regards to their intensity and focus.
"We then have an informal chat about things, but it's not anything new. She is simply another set of eyes that pick up things I might miss while I'm throwing balls or hitting catches."
Adams had further reason to smile yesterday. The injured Justin Kemp seemed to be responding well to treatment, showing great signs of encouragement for the Cobras. He bowled a lengthy spell in intense heat at the Newlands nets, with his hamstring looking like it should be fit enough to carry him through the final.
Although the Cobras have Proteas Test star Vernon Philander on standby, Kemp has played a significant role during the middle overs this season. He bowls a difficult length to get under because of his height, which has troubled batsmen all around the country. He has claimed 13 wickets at 25.38 thus far, and has conceded under four runs to the over.
Young Lions batsman Quinton de Kock, who enjoys scoring freely, especially on the Highveld, was particularly bogged down during the league game earlier this season, which led to his rapid demise.
Meanwhile, Stuart Hess reports from Johannesburg that the Lions are sweating on the fitness of their two new-ball bowlers. Hardus Viljoen and Chris Morris have both been laid low with injuries.
Viljoen's right ankle is the reason for concern, while Morris suffered a grade one tear of his left quad muscle at a practice match the Lions held under lights at the Wanderers on Tuesday night.
Lions coach Geoffrey Toyana described Morris's chance of playing in the final as "50/50," with an assessment to be made after practice this morning. "The doctor says he may be able to play, but we have to see. We'll give him four overs at practice (this) morning and if gets through those with no discomfort, he'll play," said Toyana.
Meanwhile, the Lions will still stick to the players who have served them splendidly during this 1-Day Cup campaign. They are sweating on the fitness of their pace spearhead Hardus Viljoen, as the rain currently permeating in Johannesburg has given the Lions no chance to test his bruised heel that has kept him on the sidelines during the latter stages of the competition.
To compound coach Geoff Toyana's woes Viljoen's new-ball partner Chris Morris is also now struggling with an injury.
though, will not be utilising his national Test players Imran Tahir and Thami Tsolekile in order to maintain the balance of his side. Proteas Test opener Alviro Peterson, who will also lead the side, is the only change Toyana is expected to make to his starting XI.


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PAY) 52-Week High: $55.89 52-Week Low: $30.10 Book Value: $11.54 Price-To-Book: 2.88 VeriFone is anticipated to report better third-quarter earnings after the market closes on Sept. 5, 2012. The consensus estimate is currently 62 cents a share, an improvement of 22 cents (35.5%) from 40 cents during the same period last year. Eight of the 13 analysts covering the company give a buy recommendation. The average analyst target price for PAY is $46.27. The trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is 18.4, the mean fiscal-year estimate price-to-earnings ratio is 14.9, based on earnings of $2.32 per share this year. The current proportion sold short based on the float is an uncomfortable 9.4%. That's a considerable amount of smart money betting VeriFone faces more downside pressure. If shorts are wrong, VeriFone is a short-squeeze candidate. Background: VeriFone is a global leader in secure electronic payment technologies. VeriFone delivers solutions that add value to the point of sale. VeriFone is specifically designed to meet the needs of vertical markets including financial, retail, petroleum, government and health care. VeriFone trades a recent average of 2.9 million shares per day with a marketcap of $3.7 billion. PAY Earnings Per Share data by YCharts
I use SEC.gov, Zacks.com, WSJ.com, Tradestation, and Reuters for my data. PE is generally adjusted PE based on an average number of shares. At the time of publication, the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time. This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Florida Gators running back Mike Gillislee added to Maxwell Watch List
Florida senior RB Mike Gillislee has been added to the Maxwell Award Watch List, announced today by the Maxwell Football Club.
Gillislee is the SEC's second-leading rusher, totaling 402 yards on 69 carries through the Gators' first four games. He also has five rushing touchdowns, ranking sixth in the SEC in scoring among non-kickers.
Gillislee now has 214 carries for 1,322 yards and 15 touchdowns in his career. Gillislee had 56 carries through the first three games, equaling the total number of carries that he had during the 2011 season.
Gillislee had his first career 100-yard rushing game in the season opener against Bowling Green, totaling 148 yards on 24 carries (6.2 avg) and scoring two touchdowns. He scored two touchdowns at Texas A&M, becoming the first Gator to rush for at least two touchdowns in two-straight games since Tim Tebow in 2008 against Georgia and Vanderbilt. Gillislee recorded his second career 100-yard game and second of the season with 18 carries for 115 yards (6.4 avg) in the win at Tennessee.
The original Maxwell Award Watch List was comprised of 65 players who were selected based on their performances during the 2011 season. As the 2012 season has progressed, the Club selected several additional players that warrant attention because of their noteworthy play.
Here are the other players added to the watch list:
David Ash, Texas QB; Kollton Browning, Louisiana-Monroe QB; Colby Cameron, Louisiana Tech, QB; Seth Doege, Texas Tech QB; Brett Hundley, UCLA QB; Nick Florence, Baylor QB, Kenny Hilliard, LSU RB; Jawan Jamison, Rutgers RB; Stefphon Jefferson, Nevada RB; Jordan Lynch, Northern Illinois QB; Marcus Mariota, Oregon QB; Taylor Martinez, Nebraska QB; Chris Thompson, Florida State RB


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QUEENSBURY -- A Gansevoort man was arrested May 6 for allegedly drunkenly breaking into a church.
Daniel J. Manning, 23, of River Crest Road was arrested at about 1:15 a.m. after the Warren County Sheriff's Department received a report of a suspicious vehicle in the vicinity of Whispering Pines Apartments on Weeks Road in Queensbury. Inside the vehicle, officers saw electronics equipment, musical instruments and several pieces of lawn and garden equipment.
Police checked the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Church, which is also on Weeks Road, and found that a rock had been used to break into its utility shed and that items had been stolen from the church.
Police believe Manning stole the items while intoxicated.
The total value of the stolen goods is estimated at more than $1,000.
Manning failed field sobriety tests and was charged with third-degree burglary and driving while intoxicated, felonies.
He was arraigned in Queensbury Court and remanded to Warren County Correctional Facility in lieu of $30,000 cash or $60,000 bond.
The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are possible, police said.