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Late Nite FDL: Principia Wingnuttia
(Tonight's guest poster is Gavin M. from Sadly, No!)
Above: A very good sign
It's sometimes good to sit back in your chair, hook your thumbs under your overall straps, and savor the blessings that so grandly accrue to us as Americans, or as citizens of the other advanced countries or Canada.
Wealth isn't always one of them, certainly, and dignity and sobriety are seeming less golden lately, with the gathering chance that we'll spend our final days, perhaps in June or something, as green Day-Glo skeletons frozen in eyeless, crabbed screaming postures on a blasted, glassy doomscape. And not to completely minimize that, but life is full of satisfaction, and there are many gifts that modern life grants us daily that would make us the pride and envy of our ancestors.
Specifically, never since humanity clustered nightly around sod fires in the Afar and told jokes about afarensis or erectus, or whomever the funny guys with the little heads were, has there been such an impossibly fecund, pollen-blown, juice-engorged garden of comedy and hominid folly by which to be entertained and brought closer to perfect understanding of Creation. But let's not go too wide here.
It speaks to the genius of the sons and daughters of Goethe that the highest of human faculties in our modern times is named in German. But it was an American who innovated the beautiful parallel term, Podenfreude, to denote the joy felt in reading the bad writing of others. It is named after John Podhoretz, and more about him anon. My own innovation is Hindenfreude, which combines the awed, stomach-dropping feeling of watching a spectacular disaster, such as an exploding Zeppelin, with the experience of reading John Hinderaker.
I sit here with thumbs hooked in my overall straps, typing by scorn alone, awash in the joy of living except for one thing: I'd wanted to craft a basic overview of Wingnotology on the Internet, but it's simply too broad, and I'm wrestling two separate premises. In brief, and most simply: A consolation for being who we are, in the age we inhabit, is making fun of the grand clown-parade of upper-case-'C' Conservatism that is to our discourse what the Sophists were to Plato's — or (more accurately) what the cargo-cult movements have been to Melanesia. Pretense aside, the important and genuine corrolary is that it's through the wackiest, most fumbling of conservative writers that contemporary Conservatism best reveals itself for what it is.
(Clockwise from top left: Justin Darr, Pastor Swank, Jeff Gannon, that one Powerline guy who isn't Hinderaker, Charles [LGF] Johnson, Marie Jon, that other Powerline guy who isn't Hinderaker, Kaye Grogan, John "Assrocket" Hinderaker.)
There's a music writer whom I know slightly named Douglas Wolk, whose most insightful insight, to me, was in a review of an '80s hardcore EP by a band called Unity. This was a few years ago. I'd had the record at some point, and remembered it as being competent, but a bit goofy – not a record you'd care much about either way. What Wolk said was that you can often learn more about a genre of music by studying the bad records than the good ones. The reason is that you can see mistakes of judgment and technique that lay bare the artist's intentions. The artist can't hide from you as successfully as a craftier, more practiced and opaque artist would be able to. Most good art is in a sense alike in that it's able to speak to something more intrinsic than base culture, something cross-platform or common to the human condition. (Neil Young calls it 'the spook'; a great song has the spook in it.) Most bad art is concerned with trying to be a successful example of itself, or of a genre or movement — with trying to operate its own cultural tools correctly. Bad art struggles to express its difference.
Apropos the Unity record, you can appreciate that most vividly in the band's stylistically-constricted tucka-tucka, habbada-habba performances, but there's also a bit of it in the record sleeve. You see an idealized straight-edge good-guy bursting through a wall with bricks flying marked, 'hate,' 'racism,' 'sexism,' and also some oddly context-specific signaria like 'apathy,' 'fascism,' and 'negativity.' To skim over the context — which at a certain point with these records takes a near-curatorial interest to understand — 'fascism' was, of course, not a real social movement in Southern California, circa 1986. It was a term that certain people in that scene used as shorthand for a whole panoply of irksome things, many of them petty, and nearly all of them collapsing, ultimately to 'that which is not-us.'
Yet only the doofier, less acute bands (and 'zine writers, and so forth) employed it literally — as (for instance) a brick in a wall that you'd want to bust down while waving your fist and yelling. It was like the line in Repo Man where the one punk kid is dying after botching a holdup. He's like, "…Uck! I blame society." That was funny to punk kids then because of course we all blamed society – and relentlessly, with headachy concentration — but you didn't say it in so many words like that, for God's sake. Tres louche! No class. What a tool!
Such also obtains in the honorable and worthy field of wingnutology — and by extension, American politics, in their current Conservo-sozzled form. Ken Mehlman won't say that Christianity should be the official state religion, or that all taxes should be abolished for the wealthy, or that the US should invade France, or that Muslims should be put in concentration camps, or that divorce should be outlawed, et cetera et cetera ad nauseum. Brit Hume, Tony Snow, and Bill O'Reilly won't say these things. Instead, they inhabit those notions, tinkering and playing with them (and often discarding them summarily when they become dissonant with the real, economic understructure of Conservatism), while presenting a massaged, 'reasonable' set of opinions in public that agree with every detail of the wingnut credology as though by ongoing, daily accident.
The base knows what they mean, by long exposure and consanguinity, while the message is too code-wordy and opaque to reveal the intentions behind it to saner listeners, who would immediately recognize such notions for what they are. In short, the high-end Conservatives know that they can't get away with saying what they really believe, but to a large degree they no longer have to. People have been remarking on this fact lately, and David Neiwert's analysis in a previous Late Nite column can perhaps stand in for others of different tenor (and insight).
But when you delve down deeper into the barrel, you begin to find conservatives who will voice the forbidden tenets, and who couple them quite plainly to the Republican agenda — and the further into the barrel you go, the bonkier and whoopier and (most importantly) plainer the messages become. The nuttier winguts often parrot the talking points and the message wackily off-key, while expressing the meaning vividly and nearly 100% correctly, nearly all the time. They're nearly an ideal source of insight.
(Greg Sheffield's 'Gaggle': Foundation-financed, and busting boldly through a wall with a brick labeled, Communism!)
A example that we've paid much attention to at Sadly, No! is the recent trend toward veiled calls to genocide against Semites of the non-Jewish variety, as in this now-famous epistle from Instapundit Glenn Reynolds:
Civilized societies have found it harder, though, to beat the barbarians without killing all, or nearly all, of them. Were it really to become all-out war of the sort that Osama and his ilk want, the likely result would be genocide — unavoidable, and provoked, perhaps, but genocide nonetheless, akin to what Rome did to Carthage, or to what Americans did to American Indians. That's what happens when two societies can't live together, and the weaker one won't stop fighting — especially when the weaker one targets the civilians and children of the stronger. This is why I think it's important to pursue a vigorous military strategy now. Because if we don't, the military strategy we'll have to follow in five or ten years will be light-years beyond "vigorous."
(Front row [l-r]: Glenn Reynolds, hysterical anti-Semite (pro-Jewish variety) Pamela of 'Atlas Shrugs.')
There are of course others like this. Stephen 'Vodkapundit' Green recently issued a rewrite of Reynolds's statement, and a secret font of the Cartago-delenda-est, look-what-they're-making-us-do argument toward genocide is science-fiction author Dan Simmons, whose influentia April, 2006 'Message from Dan' was recently scrubbed from his site, but is still available via the magic of Google .
John Podhoretz is higher on the ladder of respectability, but exactly at the margin of civilized discourse — a well-placed pundit (and the groomed-from-childhood son of neocon solon Normon Podhoretz) who wanders off -message in astonishing ways and writes like someone yelling at you on a subway platform. Here's an ejaculation of his from NRO, concerning whatever the last Star Wars movie was.
(Podhoretz: "Moby Dork," or insert own caption from infinitude crowding all other information from Akashic record.)
Evidently 25 years into the Star Wars empire, George Lucas decided he just doesn't like war. Now he tells us. The whole confusion is reminiscent of the last Matrix movie, which is all about a noble truce between our heroes and the computers that have been using all of humanity as batteries. So that a few people could survive to have orgies in the underground city of Zion, billions of people had to remain in the Matrix. Inadvertently, both Lucas and the Wachowski brothers (who wrote and directed the Matrix movies) reveal with their brainless anti-Bushism the essential cowardly vapidity of pacifism.
Sharp observers note a pattern in Podhoretz's weird explosions that has something to do with war, war, hooray! warring, Graah! having wars, and there being lots of wars. Alicublog's Roy Edroso watches as Podhoretz shakes his head with a wub-wub sound and returns to feigning sanity:
When challenged chapter-and-verse by Star Wars obsessives from the outlands, Podhoretz shrugs and, in the time honored Jonah Goldberg "anyway it's late and I have to walk the dog" manner, says, "It's almost impossible to wade through all the nonsense on the Web to get to the bottom of this, and to be perfectly honest, I have no interest in doing so."
Podhoretz is of course currently calling for an attack on the Imperial Matrix Darth Vader of Iran, for the sanest reasons he can muster from day to day. But the real wonderfulness is to be found even deeper in the barrel. Powerline, for instance, is a never-diminishing font of illogic and unreason that perfectly illustrates the thinking, from issue to issue and item to item, of the 'intellectual' arm of the Bush personality cult. Townhall.com is a daily cavalcade of C-list semi-professional GOP liars and propagandists, all searching for a politically-correct angle on the daily talking points that their fax machines spit out. Townhall pundits will fumble with three or four ridiculous rationalizations for every one that later makes it into the mainstream press as an 'official opinion.' It's like watching a play in rehearsals.
And then there's Pastor J. Grant Swank, Jr., Kaye Grogan, Doug Giles, and Marie Jon. If you truly want to know what the credulous mob of conservatives — the core of Bush's diehard 30% — feels in its bones, and what it's prepared to believe and say in order to stay true to its autonomic rubber-mallet reflex-notions, Swank is probably your man of first referral — meaning, the worst (and therefore best) conservative writer in America. Swank's latest call to reason has vanished from the Internet, as seems to happen all too often to the really super-good wingnut pieces, once found by those who can best appreciate them. For this reason, we always save a copy, and indeed here's an excerpt. (Swank produces up to five column-length pieces per day, so a shortage is not anticipated.)
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Feb 13, 2006
The United States must head off the annihilation of all mankind by Iranian killers. That means bombing Iranian nuclear sites.
If crazed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets ahead of the freedom game, we're done in.
Nothing will stop that Allah fanatic from bombing the world. He anticipates the return of his messiah when the world is in flames. This is the first time that a nuclear power has been wedded to a cultic creed. It has to be stopped or there will be no future to the world.
Free people have no other choice right now.
The world peace community has never before been faced with such threats as coming from millions of insane cultic Islamics. They mean business. Obviously with the numerous suicides, they don't care if they die. Therefore, the Iranian President will doom his own with nuclear destruction in order for his males to inhabit Allah's eternal orgy. To hell with the females.
And so on, etc. It's not possible even to skim all of the interesting wingnut spew that comes out every day. And I'm aware of time, now, and of diminishing page-space; so there's a steeper outramp than I'd otherwise like. This-all, in any case, is why otherwise sane people (and in that I would include myself) would wage war on crackpots and loonies via the Internet to the exclusion of other intellectual interests — of which I'm sure I would otherwise have some. Because, like Bill Cosby always says in that junkyard he hangs out in, with those kids (I think it's in Philadelphia): If you're not careful, you might learn something before you're done.
And as Kaye Grogan always crows, "That's just my opinion!"
-Gavin M. is the Vyvyan character in the overseas cult sitcom that is Sadly, No!
(Brad R. is Rick; Mike is played by Seb. Now introducing Retardo as Neil.)
Previous posts in the series:
Right Wing Racism: Steve Sailer by Armando
Educating Wolfie by Pam Spaulding
Let's Go Real Far Right… by Matt Stoller
Tramsmitting Extremism by David Neiwert
The Fork in the Road — The Right and Race Online by Steve Gilliard
Late Night FDL: A Thin Candy-Coat of Legitimacy by TBogg
What Lies Beneath by Matt O.
Breaking The Code by Digby
Racist Crusaders Advocate Holy War: The Connection Between Racism, RedState, and the War on Terror by Red Dan
Matt O. has also been compiling racist quotes from right-wing websites over at The Great Society.


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Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate in response to Republican legislation that would neuter the ability of the state's Circuit Courts to find bills unconstitutional."Scott Walker has spent the past two years concentrating on power grabs -- not on Wisconsin's economy -- and with predictable results. Millions of dollars have been spent defending laws that offend Wisconsin's Constitution, while not creating a single job.
"This legislation is the mother of all power grabs and those who still believe in the balances ingrained in our Constitution should oppose it."

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The new free Design Museum Collection app for iPad launched last week, soon to be followed by iPhone (available 3rd May) and Android (available 5th June) versions. As you'd expect from an institution committed to "better design, better use of scarce resources, and more innovation", the interface is quite neat. There's something strangely compelling about being able to swipe your way through images in a checkerboard style. So far, I've spent almost as much time playing with the randomly ordered images and scrolling through them both vertically and horizontally as I have actually exploring the content.
When you do finally click through to a specific object, it's supported by:
- a large image, which you can isolate and zoom into
- some descriptive text. For a handful of objects, I have to take responsibility for this, since it seems to have come from the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibitions and catalogues that I once edited
- a short video clip (under a minute) putting the object in a broader context. These snippets are presented by the Design Museum Director Deyan Sudjic or the Head of Learning Helen Charman.
- a supporting quote from another design luminary
- a set of additional images, which can be scrolled through, isolated and zoomed into
- information about the object's category, type, date, designer, manufacturer, place of origin and colour
- the opportunity for users to add the object to their favourites list, share comments and distribute information via Twitter and Facebook
The layout is clean and consistent throughout, so you always know what you're going to get.
Once you're bored of playing with the checkerboard browsing interface you can get more serious by exploring the objects through a range of filters, which are accessed by pressing a simple funnel icon. The option to browse by category (architecture, furnitire, graphics, product or transport) appears automatically. Unfortunately the myriad other options – to browse by type (for instance bicycle, bulb, camera, car or chair), date (using a slider control to choose a start and end date) and more (designer, manufacturer, place of origin, colour and material) – were unbeknown to me until I watched the Museum's launch video below. Nothing on screen hinted that scrolling in the thin left-hand menu bar would reveal them. This is a shame, since exploring the collection in this way helps you to make connections between different entries and ultimately understand the objects themselves to a greater degree.
Aside from the navigation options hidden under a bushell, I have two other minor gripes:
- the long line length and lack of margins makes all the text quite difficult to read
- given that the hidden navigation uses the tags included at the bottom of each object entry I was expecting to be able to click on any of these terms to see other objects tagged in the same way. Instead, you have to go back to the hidden navigation to find, for instance, other objects by the same designer, or from the same period, dampening your motivation to explore those all important connections.
Perhaps these are issues that can be addressed in version 2? For now, this is an appealing and accessible free app that opens up the Design Museum's extensive collection to anyone. Until 2014, when the Museum is finally able to display its permament collection in a new Kensington home, this may be the only way to discover, talk about and share some of the key designs that have shaped our world.
The Design Museum Collection App was designed by TwentySix, with films by Dezeen.


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A decade ago, American organizations were largely unaware of the predicament they faced. The initial wave of Baby Boomers (many of whom occupied senior leadership roles) was set to begin a mass retirement. Many organizations were completely unprepared. Then something curious happened. The recession hit and many would-be retirees stuck around. In one somewhat morbid sense, the recession turned out to be a blessing in disguise. By now, succession planning routinely takes generational demographics into close consideration. Generational-oriented training is mainstream.
So how does your organization or team address generational dynamics from an awareness perspective? Are you at least having the conversation? Given how many employees find themselves at odds with colleagues of different generations, it's worth thinking ahead. Here are some ways to make the conversation a productive one.
Have the Conversation
Believe it or not, many organizations resist holding generational training discussions in the first place. HR fears someone will be offended. Finance doesn't want to pay for "unproductive" time. It's important to understand what's at stake. Generational mindsets and preferences about work and leadership are extremely unique to this era, especially given the technology advances of the last few decades. Baby Boomers will continue to retire en masse. Millennials have now become the largest generational segment in the workforce and are starting to creep into senior leadership roles. (Actually in these cases it's more of a dash). At any rate, they have significant influence. It's a great risk to put this conversation off.
Represent & Involve Each Generation
When comparing and contrasting generational themes, don't leave anyone out. Better yet, solicit perspectives from each. Share the floor. Generate quality interactions. Make the goal better understanding and collaboration. Don't let one group lecture the other. Do look for ways to build stronger connections.
Bring Out the Best
Are Millennials entitled? Are Baby Boomers out of touch? If that's the extent of the conversation, be prepared for damage control. Focus on the good. Each generation has an incredible list of traits, perspectives and preferences to contribute. No one likes a lecture. Every segment is important.
Make it Fun
If you can't find the humor in generational differences, you're doing it wrong! Most diversity topics are off-limits for poking fun. This one is a little different. Do it tastefully, but give it a try. Each generation has its share of quirks. If you're nervous, try a video to get the conversation (and mood) going. (This is one I've used before).
Keep it Up
Once you've held your first event, don't call it quits. Keep the conversation and the momentum going. Ask for input from your team. Implement some of their ideas. Be willing to adjust your style at times and ask the same of them.
At the end of the day, the team with the best talent wins. If your organization can't attract and retain the top talent from each generation, you'll be at a sharp competitive disadvantage. Invest the time and planning now to hold productive, meaningful and engaging generational discussions. Everyone will be better for it.
Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Receive his ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter.


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Miloň Kališ
Costumes: Jan Růžička
Stage director: Jana Kališová
Chorus master: Pavel Vaněk
Choreography: Jaroslava Leufenová
National Theatre Orchestra
National Theatre Chorus
Ballet of the National Theatre Opera
Premiere: February 21, 1998
The operatic story loosely based on Dumas's novel La Dame aux Camélias about the sick courtesan Violetta and her vain desire to extricate herself from the conventions of society has been tugging at audiences' heartstrings for more than 150 years. Verdi's moving music romantically idealises Violetta's ill-fated love for Alfredo and addresses the spectator not only with its theatrical eff ectiveness but also, and primarily, profound and emotive lyrics.
The opera is staged in Italian original version.
Czech and English subtitles are used in the performance.
Approximate running time, including intermissions:
2 hours, 40 minutes, two 20-minute intermissions.
Photo: Hana Smejkalová


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Our community is growing and growing while many people get along in many things. Some to there own likes and stereotype. Some are also addicted to things like computer, addiction through drugs. What if we go to spend our time to music and make some good noise. Through ukulele a Hawaiian instrument . This page advocates the use of this musical instrument to develop people's interest to a greater feat while building a community together.
As they said, a community with noise makes a community split. But if a community with a good noise that harmonizes makes a better world for each other. Then what would be a better way to do that is to bring closure to musical instrument like Ukulele. Not only can we build a better community to togetherness we can as well enjoy, please and develop interest of people to a greater acknowledgement.
A life without music
Music will always be within us all. When you stomp your feet while clapping your hand and makes a good sound that makes your head bobble. A person is influenced by his own stereotype and makes his day get working with the type of music each play. Some gets smarter when hearing a classical music, some cries when hearing a sad song remembering the days of past. So life without music is a music without sound and its dull.
This page encourages people of any age to bind together the community with music specifically the use of Ukulele. Not only are we saving our young's to wrong addiction but encouraging them to be develop from a greater feat while doing the former.


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Languages change. Modern English stretches back to roughly the time of Shakespeare; before that was Middle English, Chaucer's language. Middle English was not so different from what we speak today. But before Middle English was Old English, and that was a very different creature.
Old English was what the Anglo-Saxons spoke before William the Conqueror took over the island in 1066, before some Norman dog put an arrow in poor King Harold's eye at the Battle of Hastings. Old English was a rough, Germanic language, the stuff that was around before the influx of French (with its Latin roots) turned it into Middle English. Most of the long words used by today's bureaucrats and businessmen come from Latin or French through Middle English, whereas many of our shorter, more basic words are Old English.
We got "precipitation" from the Norman Invasion; but Old English gave us "rain."
And the very oldest surviving poem in Old English is Cædmon's Hymn, a song praising God, composed by a man who couldn't read or write. Here it is in its entirety:
Nu sculon herigean heofonrices weard,
meotodes meahte and his modgeþanc,
weorc wuldorfæder, swa he wundra gehwæs,
ece drihten, or onstealde.
He ærest sceop eorðan bearnum
heofon to hrofe, halig scyppend;
þa middangeard moncynnes weard,
ece drihten, æfter teode
firum foldan, frea ælmihtig.
This is it. This is the earliest poem we have that's written in anything we could still call "our" language.
To the modern reader, of course, it's almost completely gibberish; we no longer even recognize all the letters. But this is English. In its earliest, most primal form, this is English. Even today, you can pick out bits that remain virtually unchanged after thirteen centuries: "æfter" for "after," "ælmihtig" for "almighty," the same three letters for "and."
Old English fascinates me for a lot of reasons. Partly I'm intrigued because Tolkien loved it, and his love for it permeates The Lord of the Rings. Partly I'm intrigued because Old English is the language of Beowulf, England's original epic. But mostly I'm intrigued because I, myself, am deeply in love with modern English, and Cædmon's Hymn is its cradle.


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(Ruth Meinking interviewed for Creative Thought Magazine 9/2014)
Ruth Meinking, RScP Emeritus, at the Center for Spiritual Living in Colorado Springs, CO, is right where she has been for the past 23 years, having serviced under the leadership of five different ministers. For most of that time she has concurrently served as a counselor in private practice.
"I am always learning, always on a journey," she says. "There is no arrival. My purpose is to experience God in myself and in others and to enable people to live their best life, not just a mediocre life. This is not a pipe dream, it's real."
Ruth has serviced on the Sunday platform, led meditations, created special services and ceremonies, and prayed with many people. She has taught most of the curriculum classes, including one on Ernest Holmes, and has taught the practitioner course three times. Ruth has been honored with Emeritus status twice, first in 2011 at 20 years of service, and again this spring at 23 years by Rev. Norm Bouchard, senior minister in Colorado Springs.
"I love the variety of opportunities to create experiential process and sacred space", Ruth says. In August, Ruth, along with Rev. Norm, presented an experiential workshop at the center. Entitled "The Big Love", it was designed to help the 'child within' become unencumbered by the past. "We get sidetracked from our true nature and believe we are not good enough, that we are being a sinner and we are going to hell. This workshop is about remembering the truth of who we are, and healing the part of us that has been broken into believing things which are not true about our Divine nature."
Ruth grew up in Kansas with a traditional Midwest foundation, the best of which has stayed with her over the years. "We were very rooted in the values of community, family, and the outdoors. There was a collaboration in my family and a sense of really shoring each other up, helping each other on their paths."
The other side of the coin, though, was the stereotypical conventional religious message she received, which struck Ruth as very oppressive and hypocritical. Unraveling those messages and feelings took many years. "I felt like I had a beautiful, strong, personal relationship with God, but it was not happening there", she recalls.
By the time Ruth entered Kansas University in Lawrence, KS, she had all but abandoned her Lutheran roots. A profession who held a weekly meditation class invited her to come in and check out what he was doing. "He played classical guitar and did chanting. It was so different than what I grew up with", she recalls.
Armed with a degree in Cultural Geography, she moved to Colorado in 1982 to seek employment. She ended up joining Digital Equipment Company and rode the ups and downs of that boom-and-bust industry for several years. One day a co-worker came in absolutely glowing from a weekend workshop she had attended, Ruth recalls. Ruth wasted no time in checking it out, and that was her introduction to Science of Mind. "It was a great fit for me, very timely. I was just hungry for that and can still remember how healing it was to open and embrace it. When you hear the truth, you know it's the truth", she says.
Ruth took one class after another. "Taking classes helped deepen the experience of my personal application of Science of Mind." When she had taken everything leading up to the practitioner class, she decided to take that too, though she did not fully grasp how much her life would change by stepping into the training. "I didn't have a clue until the second year of training when everything came to light," she says. It was during that class that she opened up to her passion and to a deeper level of commitment.
Ruth quit her job in the computer field and focused on completing her practitioner training. That Fall she enrolled in a three-year master's in counseling program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "I feel like one of the gifts I have is creating safe and sacred space for people, and being present with them as they find the courage to change. I can feel where people are coming from, and I meet them there. I hold the truth of people's wholeness. Sometimes, I may be the first person they speak to who has ever seen and spoken to their wholeness."
Ruth loves working with people and teaching classes. Teaching the practitioner class is particularly enjoyable. "It's so rich and real, and the active self-inquiry that takes place is very powerful. A lot happens when people feel emotional closeness. It's about staying open and being willing to do what it takes to stay conscious and to cultivate consciousness."
Ruth lives with Rich, her husband of 28 years, and they have three children. Ruth has a variety of favorite spiritual practices, most of which she starts outdoors, going for a walk or a bike ride, paying attention to what she sees. "I do better if I move before I sit." Meditation, prayers and reading come next.
She has built an outdoor labyrinth at her mountain home, and has helped in building several others from different-sized stones arranged in beautiful patterns. "Walking the labyrinth is a different experience each time. One way is to walk into the middle contemplating "What do I want to release?" The middle is a symbol of our core, our center. Going forward from there, ask, "What do I want to embrace?"
Ruth considers her journey a mostly joyful one, all part of her path of growing, deepening, and defining her faith. "We can welcome change, even when it smacks us between the eyebrows. We can learn to ask, "What was that?" and apply unconditional self-love instead of judgment or fear."


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Leiston Airfield Roll of Honour Nov 1944 - May 1945
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy,forget in time that men have died to win them"
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Walnut wood and sterling silver bracelet by Ema Fernandes Jewelry, photo courtesy of Ema Fernandes via Elle.com
Laser-cut cork bangle by Anthony Roussel, photo courtesy of Anthony Roussel via Elle.com
Krystof Strozyna embellished slinky dress, photo courtesy of Devon Jarvis via Elle.com
This is a whittled down selection of several 'tree hugger' fashion items that were featured on Elle.com on April 28. Gorgeous and luxe, though not necessarily sustainable in terms of materials, if at all. It seems to me that *treehugging* to the core entails a conscious and informed use of environmentally and socially beneficial materials. I so want to see these Alexander McQueen designs crafted out of bamboo, Ingeo, or Tencel.
Marshall McLuhan was no fool, and our global village should be populated by informed consumers who know the difference between tree hugging and season-to-season designer hugging.
Faux-grain silk jacket by Alexander McQueen, photo courtesy of Devon Jarvis via Elle.com
T-strap heel by Charlotte Olympia, photo courtesy of Devon Jarvis via Elle.com
* Tree Hugger style ideas were compiled by Kate Lanphear for Elle.com
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"Next Service Station 56 Mi" was the last sign I saw before entering the unknown, the desert of the Los Padres National Forest. I didn't think twice about heading in, but I'll definitely be more prepared the next time.
So, I'm a Philly boy, usually doing my riding in the cold hills while heading north, through the Poconos, the 'Gunks (that's local for Shawangunks) and Adirondacks. But an opportunity arose to go to Los Angeles, I knew I had to ride a bike while out there, and I wanted it to be a Harley. Figured that would be a nice change from my Triumph Thruxton.
I enjoyed some absolutely epic riding on the Sportster 1200, up the Pacific Coast Highway, through the Angeles Crest Forest on SR 2 and winding up and down mountains of San Bernardino Forest. Those rides all deserve their own separate stories. I have a point though, and I'm determined to get to it.
Here I am, sitting on my Sportster 1200, at what the sign indicates is the last gas station in 56 miles. I trust the sign. I fill up, which I'm sure provides some laughs for the locals. This California environmental stuff is not as easy as it looks. You California residents know what I mean, with the pump collar thing.
With the Sportster refreshed, I ride off onto what looks like the most beautiful, deserted road I've seen. It's hot, but the kind of dry hot you don't realize, because the sweat evaporates before you ever feel it.
The ride is just what I'd hoped for. Winding up and down the mountains with breathtaking views around each turn that become almost unreal, due to their abundance. Steep cliffs, alternating from side to side while sweeping through corners on the hot, sticky asphalt. Not a single car to be seen the entire time. The only encounter is a fully loaded BMW GS with panniers and topcase that flies by me. I instantly attribute that to my sightseeing pace, but it's probably more than that.
As the mountains begin to fade in my mirrors, I realize I can see further and further in front of me, with nothing of interest catching my eyes. That's when I look down at my odometer and realize I've gone 55 miles. So, one more should bring me to that "Service Station." To my surprise, I look up and see a truck stopped on the side of the road. This truck driver has to know the service station ahead, so I roll up in front of the truck, shut off the nice rumble I've become accustomed to, and the guy hops right out. We exchange howdys, I explain my situation, and he smiles at me with a grin containing fewer teeth than gallons I have left in my tank.
"No worries," he says. "It's just up the road a piece, on your left. About a mile or so. But be careful, after that, it's another hundred or so."
"Great, thanks! I gotta get going. Have a good one." No clue why I have to get going so bad, but I guess I am starting to get a little antsy about this gas situation.
I'm off. Half a mile, three quarters, nothing. One mile, nothing. Two miles, an old house. Four miles, I see the very last foot of a mountain, and as I come around it, my field of vision opens up to flat earth, as far as I could see, and I even had my glasses on. Okay, I'm at 59 miles and I have obviously screwed up and somehow missed the only gas station around. There's no way I'm making it an additional "100 or so" with an uncertain gas station in my future and an unknown distance this Sporty tank wants to carry me. I'm guessing a range of around 130 miles.
I'm heading back.
You have got to be kidding me. Right in front of me, about three miles back, is a red building I guess I'll call a barn, a house and a sign that says, "Next Service Station 56 Mi." This is it! But what the heck is it? I walk up to the house, trying desperately to avoid noticing the cow skulls, hanging chicken bones, shot gun shells, and iron bars that block the windows and doors. I knock. Nothing. I knock again with more enthusiasm, then regret the volume. I hear some shouting in the distance and can't even tell if it's coming from outside or in. Something tells me this is no longer a gas station. And, if it was, what were they going to do? Bring out an old water jug with gas in it and I just throw 'em a few bones? I think I'll test the Sporty's tank range.
If my memory, and math, serves me well, I'm at about 62 miles and I have 56 miles to go, so, no sweat, that'll leave me at, what, something like 118 miles? I'm sure the Sporty can handle that. Oh, wait a second. I forgot, I've been stopping and starting to take pictures an obscene number of times. And I guess I could have been a bit more frugal with the fuel, but come on, there's no one around for miles, who wouldn't be absolutely ripping it?
I'm off, again. This time, I need to be careful. What's that called? Hyper-miling, yea that's what I'll do! So I get going, maintaining a steady 47 mph or so in fifth gear, almost lugging it. But wait, there's more! Maintaining a steady speed of around 50 mph means I'm absolutely dragging pegs and almost putting knees down while I "hyper-mile" my way to safety. These roads are twisty!
I'm close, I can feel it. Also, I'm watching the miles tick away as I swear my odometer was counting down to an unknown zero. I'm oblivious to the heat, the roadrunner zipping across the road in front of me, or the giant boulder I could have sworn came crashing down as soon as I passed under one of the last tunnels, but I'm very aware of those miles ticking away. I feel a lurch. I tell myself it's a hiccup. There it is again, and that's no fluke. I'm running real low. The Sporty is thirstier than I am.
I'd be switching to reserve right now on my Triumph, but I reach down instinctively and grab nothing but air. No petcock on the Harley. It's all downhill from here, so I kick it down to neutral and let it roll. Just as I begin hearing what I know will be the last final coughs of the motor turning over, I see the big, beautiful 76 ball rising over the horizon.
I have seen the most beautiful sights, endless landscapes, and roads any rider dreams of, but seeing that 76 ball pop up was top-notch.
I couldn't have timed it better. As I pull up to the empty pump, the bike shuts off, and I'm laughing hysterically, trying to avoid eye contact with the attendant who thinks I'm nuts. It's the small victories that feel the best. That wasn't the end of my day's ride, it wasn't the greatest riding of my California trip, but it's the part I'll remember most.


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What a beautiful woman. Really – in every sense of the word. She was beautiful in appearance, beautiful in conduct, beautiful in spirits and wow, what a beautiful mother, wife and daughter.
There are so many people these days who ask the question "why do bad things happen to good people?" This will not be the focus of this article. Rather, I would like to share with my readers the essence of a remarkable person.
Jennifer was niftar (passed away) at the age of 39 after a thirteen-year battle with cancer. According to her doctors, she should not have lived those thirteen years, but Jen had other ideas. Jen was my niece, my wife's brother's youngest daughter. It was almost thirty years ago, though it seems like yesterday, when our families got together in Niagara Falls. In my mind's eye, I can see Jen jumping up and down on the bed. In fact, I believe we even have a picture of her doing so, somewhere in one of our many albums.
Jen was a fighter who would not take "no" for an answer. She knew what she wanted and went after it. She fought the fight of life, against all odds. In doing so she leaves behind a remarkable legacy. She met her husband when she was 31. Because of her cancer treatment, it was suggested that the only way they could have children was by harvesting her eggs and using a surrogate mother. Jen's life reflects challenges with rewards. When the harvested eggs did not take and the surrogate mother could not become pregnant, they decided to apply for adoption. The adoption agency was overwhelmed with the wonderful traits of Jen and her husband and they soon became the proud parents of a little girl. Shortly thereafter the surrogate mother became pregnant with the last harvested egg and they became the proud parents of a little boy. Now they had two infants five months apart. The children were her life and for her everything revolved around them. In fact, when Jen went into the hospital for the last time, though she was already critically ill, she insisted on being able to leave in order to take her daughter to school for the her first day of kindergarten. That was the kind of parent she was.
Why am I sharing this story with my readers? Because Jen deserved the tribute and you deserve to gain from Jen's story. Her loss is our loss and her attributes should become our attributes – that of living a better life as a better spouse, child and parent.
Jen loved music. At her funeral, her sister, a doctor, remembered her through Bette Midler's song "Wind Beneath My Wings". How appropriate these words are as they reflect Jen's love of others and of life.
"So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings."
One of my favorite old songs is "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkle. I can't help thinking of this song as I remember Jen. Hers were the attributes of love, being there for your friends when times get tough, relationships and caring.
"When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you "
In her death, Jen's attributes can be a lesson for each of us. Here are some of the descriptions of Jen given at her funeral. She should be a mentor for each of us:
- "UNSTOPPABLE. And this, of course was the theme of HER life."
- "She came to my side and got me out of trouble on a regular basis….and this was the theme of OUR relationship"
- "No hurdle too big for her"
- "Gives you the shirt off her back"
- "Love and pride of her family"
- "Thinking of others"
- "Fun"
- "Determination, tenacity, and her will to slay the dragon"
- "Conviction, drive, determination, and inner strength"
- "Persuasive in getting what she wanted"
- "Message of love and a physical representation of hope, beauty, and pride"
- "Confidante"
- "Tenacity"
- "Great mother"
- "Didn't question the wonderfulness of being here on earth"
- "Celebrated life and fought for it like nothing you've ever seen"
- "We all learned to live each day to the max and celebrate EVERY occasion"
- "To know, know, know you is to love you"
- "Fought a valiant fight"
- "It is what it is."
- "Knew how to live life to its fullest and taught everyone else around her how to do just that"
- "Her kids were her number one priority. Family was number 2. After that she had a long list"
- "The key lesson that Jen taught us was to always try and not dwell on what is wrong with your life, but what is right with it. To plan your life and live it to the fullest, just like she did."
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." –Henry Van Dyke.
My hope for my family, and you, my readers, is that you will be inspired by Jen. Learn to love like Jen did. Love your children, your spouse, but equally, and maybe more so, love yourself.
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Earlier this week, 14-year-old Sarah Crank lit up the Internet — and sparked a contentious debate — for asking Maryland lawmakers to defeat a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. Prohibiting gays and lesbians from marrying "would be the best birthday present ever if you would vote no on gay marriage," Crank said in her testimony and explained, "I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on."
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Mine definitely was. My Husband gave me exactly what my heart needed. And that was the freedom to to whatever I wanted, with no expectations. I got to roll out of bed at 8:00 (which is sleeping in for me!), spend the morning with my kids and Husband, soak up some beautiful sunny weather, and then enjoy a special dinner with just my sister & my Mom. I felt totally content all day!
And this morning? I woke up another year older. THIRTY TWO. I am 32 Years Old now. So weird. I remember when I used to think that being in your 30's was old. But now that I'm living in my thirties, I have never felt better, and never been happier! It's true what they say, things do get better with age :-)
^^ Here's a photo of me and my Husband and I on Saturday night. We went out to Palisade for dinner to celebrate my birthday, it was so freaking yummy. It sits right on the Marina in Elliott Bay and has such a gorgeous view! After dinner, we drove to Kerry Park to watch the sunset. The view of Seattle is exceptional!
So, cheers to another year of getting older, wiser, and happier! :)


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A big change is about to be seen at Beat The GMAT website, that's what the founder announced yesterday. Change in which manner and to what extend is still a suspense for everyone as the announcement doesnt reveal much as what to expect. Though I'm not among everyone because I got a mail from BTG to sneak peek the new Beat The GMAT site.
According to Eric, it's a major, major, MAJOR change for BTG. And I can sense that this change and transition means a lot to him. As a part of BTG team, we're looking forward to this transition.
Apparently all other online GMAT forums seem to have changed their skin recently! Changes in fonts, colors, background, the width of website, navigation bar (the top bar you usually see at any website) and overall UI (User Interface).
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- Pagalguy.com (the portal as well as forums)
- GMAT Club (Home page changed but not forums)
- Score Chase (still as confusing as earlier but changed UI for sure 😉 )
- And there are some more MBA admission related websites who've made changes in UIs
They all have changed, but I'd say, it's a minor change, just a little bit changes in UI, that's it. But when I talk about Beat The GMAT it's a big change! yeah as founder said, it's a major major MAJOR change.
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My imaginary friends ask me, "Why are you giving advice to the GOP? You're not of the GOP."
Two answers: I'm so old that I remember sane GOPers–like Eisenhower! Second, I like to help people. Why, just this evening, I was behind a guy in line at the grocery store who had beer, a bag of potatoes, a whole chicken, and carrots. He didn't have enough cash for the spuds. So I covered it. He was wearing a Green Bay Packers hat. The Packers beat my Raiders in Super Bowl II. That was not block to doing the right thing. I gave him a fist-bump, and he went on his way, with a bag of spuds, which, being of Swedish extraction, I worship.
Dear GOPers,
Here is an example of a short con. A man rings your doorbell one morning, and he's dressed sparklingly as some kind of landscape professional. He has a box of what look like sprinkler-parts. He says he's stranded and needs 10 dollars, cash, of cab fare, and he's willing to leave the "parts" as collateral. You're sleepy, he looks impressive, you don't really care, whatever. You give him the 10 bucks and take the "parts." About 20 minutes later, your spouse informs you that you're an idiot. The guy is running a short con. You think, okay, lesson learned, 10 bucks.
The long con keeps you coming back and coming back–chiefly with this bullshit: Hey, we got unlucky (a hurricane), the enemy is everywhere (Governor Christie!, gays, hippies, people with less than ivory skin!), Obama is still a radical Muslim spy from Mars (be afraid!).
Thus, on Fox, Dick Morris, whom I call Morris Dick, blabs about how he got certain demographics wrong. If a contractor built a house for you, and the whole main floor were out of plumb, and the contractor said, hey, my plumb-bob had a knot in it, would you believe him or her?
In the Wall Street Journal, Rove blames Hurricane Sandy on Obama's victory. First of all, WTF happened to the WSJ? Make that a mantra, my Republican friends: WTF WTJ? Secondly, if a lot of rain and wind can disrupt several billion of dollars (10 or 20 per cent of which goes to a dough-necked huckster), then what, exactly, were you spending your money on? Ask your spouse, "Honey, was I conned?"
Not literally (emphasis: not literally), take Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and so many others out, attach cement slippers, and invite them to take a dip in Lake Erie.
Seriously. YOU'RE PAYING HARD COLD CASH for this shit?
The short con is the fault of the con artist.
One last piece of advice: Mitch McConnell is part of the long con. What has he helped you to do? What is HIS net worth? If you were in a poker game in Las Vegas, would you trust a short, "mild mannered" Kentuckian with perfect hair and oyster-shell spectacles? Of course not.
My GOPer friends, don't allow yourself to be pimped one more time. Imagine you are out of cash, and imagine I just paid for your bag of spuds.


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Oxenhope 10-09-2009
Curlews still on the Move (c) 2009
NW F2, 5degC, 65km, 7ok clearing 2ok, QNH 1007 rising quickly.
An improving morning with skies clearing and visibiliy improving..... Snow cornice on Ingleborough and also a covering on Whernside but none further east. Several small groups of Curlew coming in from the east during the visit totalling 15. Two flocks of Golden Plover totalling c150 moving very high NW... tried to photograph them but so high I couldent even find them in the viewfinder! Three Oystercatchers in the in-bye along with a large group of Lapwing totalling 61. Just a few Pied Wagtails and a single Grey about but not a single pipit on the moor or seen on the move.
Moving Birds:
Curlew 15 > W
Lapwing 21 > NW
Golden Plover c150 > NW
Pied Wagtail 4
Grey Wagtail 1
Oystercatcher 3
Lapwing 61 + a few spread out on the in-bye.
Starling 210
Goldeneye 3
Later in the morning at Leeshaw a group of 32 Curlew were in the top fields. Two different Cormorants were on the water.
Gilstead, Glovershaw col, Reva Hill and Sandwith Moor beyond (c) 2009


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The total number of good downloads almost equals up to total number of bad downloads in the Android Market. Nearly 60,000 apps are available for Android devices. High Quantity doesn't mean High Quality. There are nearly 19 apps that are waste of time.
The apps are varying from worse to danger. Some are ambiguous and undeveloped apps.
Type N Walk: This application is available at free of cost. By using this you can type while you are walking. This app allows you to see what is in front of you while you are typing. This application is using the android phone's camera and overlay the text messages over the view while you are typing and walking, So that you may fall into a pit which is outside the viewing area of the camera.
Flight Deck– Artificial Horizon: This application is available for free. This application developer says that I am a private pilot and I designed this app as a back-up artificial horizon while I am flying. This uses the in-built orientation sensor in the android phone in order to provide the pitch and yaw info in real-time. Nice.. If you all the time wanted to be died in a plane crash.
Car Safety: if you have met with an accident the emergency alarm in your android phone will blow up. If this doesn't happen within 1 min, car safety will be sending SMS with the GPS coordinates and the address where accident took place to a pre-determined number. Doesn't works in the sleep modes at few phones. It uses the accelerometer of the Android's phone to identify whether you are met with an accident. If I have drooped my phone the alarm may go off and the messages may sent and this makes some unnecessary troubles. Also this application will be sucking off your battery life.
Pocket Agent: Available at free of cost. This app allows you to contact your agent, view insurance policy information, submit a claim, check balances of State Farm Bank and Mutual Fund accounts, etc. you have to create online, protecting your account with password to file claims with the app. If you did mistype the password 3 times then the app will be locked and invited to make a call to a toll free number to reactivate it.
Instead of doing this you can simply make a call to your agent and you cna discuss.
Time Bandits
My Perfect Egg Timer: available for free. This will calculate the accurate time for boiling the eggs. By taking in to the account of the diameter, temp, and hardness of the egg the app starts an egg timer once the egg is in the boiling water. When the egg is about to be done you will be insisted to take off the egg from the water. This is really a waste of time. You can simply put the egg in a container which consists of water and boil it and take it off within few minutes
GTD Timer: Available at free of cost. Are you getting distracted easily? Or having a long list of jobs but not knowing how to start? The Merlin Mann's idea might help you. Work for 10 min with full focus in completing a single task. Then have a 2 min break. This application will be timing you for 10 min and then for 2 min.
Try and install a real timer application like MultiTimer which also does the same thing, plus a lot more.
USA TV Guide: this application is also for free. This is claimed to be a time zone based three day TV guide. Actually, it simply opens up the Google Mobile page with the Spanish language.
Wow, if you converse Spanish, now you can look for a real TV guide.
Share your Board: This app available for free. This application is for capturing, processing and sharing up whiteboard data. Save each idea which is popping up during meeting, a brainstorming conference. With this application you can photograph and simply share the whiteboard from your office conference.
Alternatively the same thing can be done in a Android Phone. It is called camera.
eScrap Free. This provides the scanning documents with your phone camera. Functions: brightness, Fix geometry, contract. Share the docs with other apps. Limit of the free version: doesn't support large size. Scanning is limited to 800 x 600 pixels
Actually this application has very less functionality than your phones in built camera and camera app. This is a negative point.
Getting Down to Business
Howtask: Free. This is like a To Do App. You can make a task, label it and assign a date for it. You mail the task or you can modify it or you can delete it. .. and that is all. The 1st task is to install a good app like Gtasks.
Second task: Uninstall the HowTask.
MyLetter-Handwriting on Phone (free): Exercise the MyLetter to make handwriting letter, MMS, notes, etc. full of your personal style. i.e. if your personal style is unreadable and childlike. The interface is uncomfortable and the resulting letter is in just a .png image with poor quality of words..
Why just make a letter on a paper and photograph it and mail the image?
Business Cards (free): shoot a picture of your business cards. Systematize them by organization and persons. The business cards can be zoomed. Find them. Mail them by email. You can also do the same thing using the inbuilt camera in your Android phone.
If you need a constructive way to systematize business cards, Google Goggles can pull out text from the business cards, and then add info to your contacts.
Beauty in the Eye of the App?
Skin Cleanser app: this app is available at a cost of $0.99 which utilizes a explicit sound frewuency and wavelength (yellow colour) form the Imperial Topaz gemstone to aid clean the skin of dark spots, acne scars and sun spots.
Ultimately, an expedient option to soap and water!
Acne cleaner: This is available at a cost $0.99. This uses explicit sound frequency and wavelength (blue colour) from the Lapis Lazuli gemstone to aid clear and detox the skin.
Move over, Proactiv.
Baby ESP Trial (1 week free trial) assists you "track when your baby Sleeps, eats, poops (ESP)."
If you require an Android application for that, possibly you must employ a nanny. Just a notion..
Beauty Weight Test (free): "Women's Health is your cause for health, weight loss, fitness tips… can pass this baby- blocker test. Um, okay. It affords you with a chart which matches your (metric system) weight and height to let know you if you are overweight, thin or "ideal."
Eye Brightener: This is available at a cost of $0.99. this uses a explicit frequency and a wavelength ( magenta colour) from the Rose Quartz gemstone to assist decrease the dark circles and bulging eyes.
I deduce it beats holding actual stones on your eyes.
Odds and Ends
Facebook for Android: This app is available at free of cost. This makes it easy for you to share your info with your friends. From your home screen you can share your status updates. Check your inbox, upload images etc.
Actually this functions less than web browser version of Facebook. Just make a bookmarking of the Facebook URL
Man Up! (Enhance Male Power): This is available at a cost of $1.99. Just by hearing and listening to special brainwaves you can cure sexual dysfunctions which are caused due to stress.
Conceivably you and your mobile phone are spending a bit too much time in concert.
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