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Indonesia's Mt. Merapi shelters overflow with restless evacuees, flights canceled
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Scores of women and children sit on thin reed mats in Wonokerto evacuation shelter, one of dozens set up at the base of Indonesia's most active volcano. Groups of college students from around Java move around the room urging them to get up and sing, play games, or scribble in coloring books – anything to keep the disaster victims active.
"We're concerned about their morale because they become bored easily," said Rani Sitimaharani, a student volunteer from the Yogyakarta Care Alliance. "We also try to help the children forget about what happened with the eruption, to help them with the trauma."
But many of the disaster victims prefer to keep their eyes on a television news program discussing the volcano that has put them in the auditorium of the school-turned-evacuation-center, forced international airlines to cancel flights to nearby airports Tuesday, and hindered aid work.
One week after Mount Merapi unleashed its first blast of searing gas and debris, evacuation centers have reached capacity. Ongoing eruptions have sent more people fleeing the volcano's slopes, raising concern among rescue workers about morale and next steps. The death toll from the volcano eruptions is now at 38 people, and the tally of evacuees has been raised to nearly 70,000.
Villagers here say they're bored of sitting still. Mainly, they say they are worried about their homes. Despite the danger of another eruption, and the possibility of inhaling hazardous gas and ash, many villagers, mainly men, return to their farms during the day to check on the crops and livestock they depend on for their incomes. A few women have started joining them recently, looking for something to keep busy.
They bring reports back with them. "I heard that my house has been destroyed," said Parmi, one evacuee. "I'm afraid to go back because there is nothing."
Volunteers and aid workers worry about morale at the camps, which are quickly becoming hot and overcrowded. Adequate supplies of clean water and sanitation are also problems. Workers say some camps have only five toilets for every 1,000 people.
At Wonokerto, soldiers hand out medicine to tackle minor ailments they worry could sweep through packed shelters and become big problems. The government called in the military Saturday to keep people from going back up the mountain, but villagers say they've grown up on the volcano and understand its dangers.
They say they can tell when an eruption is coming, but few were prepared for the deafening crack that accompanied the latest major eruption Monday, the third major explosion amid multiple explosions in the past week.
Scientists say the force of that blast helped relieve built-up pressure inside the volcano's crater. But they also say Merapi could continue to belch hot gas and ash for weeks, stretching refugees' patience and the government's ability to provide aid.
The plumes of smoke and ash have also forced at least two airlines to cancel flights. The Associated Press reported that Malaysian budget airline AirAsia and Singapore's SilkAir suspended several international flights to Yogyakarta and Solo, both within 20 miles of the crater and popular hopping points to the famed 9th century Borobudur temples.
Both airlines reported they expected to resume operations soon.
Meanwhile, another set of rescue workers complain that it has taken days for aid to reach the remote Mentawai Islands, where a tsunami sparked by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake slammed into the sparsely populated island chain last Monday, killing more than 430 people and leaving 15,000 homeless.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has assured the National Disaster Management Agency that he would provide the money and equipment to help the country recover from dual natural disasters that hit the country within 24 hours of each other.
Some politicians are discussing the idea of permanently relocating people who live in proven danger zones, such as coastal areas. But the idea has gained little traction, particularly since it was tried before on Mount Merapi.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. Officials say there are currently 21 other active volcanoes around the archipelago.
After Merapi's eruption last Monday, scientists noted an uptick in volcanic activity in several locations around the country. Mount Anak Krakatau located between the islands of Java and Sumatra has released nearly 100 short blasts each day over the past week, and officials continue to monitor another volcano in north Sumatra that came to life in August after lying dormant for 400 years.


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AMHERST - If there is a poster child for global warming, it may be the vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro, which were predicted to disappear as early as 2015 in a widely-publicized report a decade ago.
However, the famed snowcap is stubbornly persisting on the African peak and may not fully vanish for another 50 years, according to a University of Massachusetts scientist who had a hand in the prediction.
The 2001 forecast was indirectly part of key evidence for global warming offered during the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," which warned of the threats of rising global temperatures. In it, former vice president Al Gore stated, "Within a decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro" due to warming temperatures.
"Unfortunately, we made the prediction. I wish we hadn't," says Douglas R. Hardy, a UMass geoscientist who was among 11 co-authors of the paper in the journal Science that sparked the pessimistic Kilimanjaro forecast. "None of us had much history working on that mountain, and we didn't understand a lot of the complicated processes on the peak like we do now."
"The glaciers are still shrinking, and in the next decades they will almost certainly disappear, but it will probably be on the order of three or four decades, maybe five," Hardy said recently. "But we don't know for sure. It might be in only two."
Mount Kilimanjaro, immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's 1936 short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," sits on the plain of Tanzania, creating the highest point on the continent at 19,341 feet. An inactive tropical volcano, the mountain lies just 220 miles south of the equator. Yet, because of its great elevation, the temperatures on its peak are bitterly cold and glaciers flow down its slopes.
No one contests that the glaciers have retreated. Photographs show they have shrunk in area by more than 80 percent since 1912. In fact, glaciers from the Alps to the Andes have retreated dramatically since 1900.
However, in February 2001, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, Lonnie G. Thompson, a geoscientist from Ohio State University and the lead author of the paper that would appear in Science the following year, presented the preliminary findings of the researchers, who had extracted ice cores from Kilimanjaro's glaciers to assess their retreat.
The prediction, made amid growing alarm and controversy about global warming, garnered headlines around the world, largely because of the literary fame of the mountain.
Even though Thompson and Hardy warned at the time that their data was not complete enough to say exactly why the Kilimanjaro glaciers were retreating, the prediction galvanized those who believed drastic action needed to be taken to halt rising global temperatures.
"Science is and always has been a work in progress," Thompson said. "As scientists, we publish the data based on our best understanding of that data at the time. That is the way science works."
"When we went to Kilimanjaro to conduct this research in 2000, there had not been any studies conducted on those ice fields for 30 years," he said.
Hardy says that since their initial visit to the mountain, the researchers have made periodic return trips to collect data. They found that although the glaciers cover less and less area, they are not losing thickness at the pace expected, and it is the thickness that will allow the glaciers to persevere for longer.
"Since 2000, we've lost about 30 percent of the ice area as of 2009, but the thickness of at least the main glacier, the northern ice field, hasn't changed a great deal. It was 50 meters thick then and now it's on the order of 45 meters thick," he said.
Lack of long-term data concerning the thickness of the glaciers is what undermined their forecast, Hardy said. "Before 2000, we had no reference for how to treat the thinning other than by looking at historical photographs."
H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow and head of environmental programs at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank based in Texas, said the Kilimanjaro prediction "is just one in a number of global warming scare stories that scientists have had to recant or at least modify in the face of substantial counter evidence."
"The Kilimanjaro predictions were suspect at the time they were made. Critics noted that there was abundant evidence that the snow caps on Kilimanjaro had been in retreat decades before greenhouse gas emissions began to rise dramatically in the middle of the century," he said.
"This doesn't prove that humans aren't contributing to global climate change, but it should call into question the confidence we can have in such claims," Burnett said.
He worries that "costly, big government programs" to quell global warming will do more harm than good, "especially since the costs of these programs are felt now, and fall hardest upon the poor and those least able to absorb higher prices and lower employment in order to maybe stave off a small portion of distant-in-time harms."
Representatives for Al Gore declined to comment on this article.
Thompson said that despite the recalibration of their prediction, the larger issue has to remain in sight.
"The real message here is that these ice fields will disappear. Whether it is in 10 years or 30 years is not the issue. The fact they will disappear within a few decades, as will many glaciers throughout the tropics, is the real concern," he said.
"The opinions of global warming doubters will change on a dime depending on whether it is cold winter or a hot summer. The only opinion that matters is nature's. Nature has a way of humbling us all. It still remains to be seen just who that will be" in the end, Thompson said.

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Patrick Matthew (20 October 1790 – 8 June 1874) was a Scottish landowner and fruit farmer. He published the principle of natural selection as a mechanism of evolution over a quarter-century earlier than Darwin and Wallace.
Appendix B[edit]
- There is a law universal in nature, tending to render every reproductive being the best possible suited to its condition that its kind, or organized matter, is susceptible of, which appears intended to model the physical and mental or instinctive powers to their highest perfection and to continue them so. This law sustains the lion in his strength, the hare in her swiftness, and the fox in his wiles. As nature, in all her modifications of life, has a power of increase far beyond what is needed to supply the place of what falls by Time's decay, those individuals who possess not the requisite strength, swiftness, hardihood, or cunning, fall prematurely without reproducing — either a prey to their natural devourers, or sinking under disease, generally induced by want of nourishment, their place being occupied by the more perfect of their own kind, who are pressing on the means of subsistence.
- There is more beauty and unity of design in this continual balancing of life to circumstance, and greater conformity to those dispositions of nature which are manifest to us, than in total destruction and new creation... [The] progeny of the same parents, under great differences of circumstance, might, in several generations, even become distinct species, incapable of co-reproduction.
Appendix F, part II[edit]
- Throughout this volume, we have felt considerable inconvenience, from the dogmatical classification of plants, and have all along been floundering between species and variety, which certainly under culture soften into each other.
- Geologists discover... an almost complete difference to exist between the species or stamp of life, of one epoch from that of every other. We are therefore led to admit, either of a repeated miraculous creation; or of a power of change, under a change of circumstances, to belong to living organised matter, or rather to the congeries of inferior life, which appears to form superior.
- The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organised life may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousand-fold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of existence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting only the situations to which they have superior adaptation and greater powers of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed.
- The circumstance-adaptive law, operating upon the slight but continued natural disposition to sport in the progeny (seedling variety), does not preclude the supposed influence which volition or sensation may have over the configuration of the body. To examine into the disposition to sport in the progeny, even when there is only one parent, as in many vegetables, and to investigate how much variation is modified by the mind or nervous sensation of the parents, or of the living thing itself during its progress to maturity; how far it depends upon external circumstance, and how far on the will, irritability and muscular exertion, is open to examination and experiment. In the first place, we ought to investigate its dependency upon the preceding links of the particular chain of life, varieties being often merely types or approximations of former parentage; thence the variation of the family, as well as of the individual, must be embraced by our experiments.
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- In your number of March 3rd [1860] I observe a long quotation from The Times, stating that Mr. Darwin "professes to have discovered the existence and modus operandi of the natural law of selection," that is, "the power in nature which takes the place of man and performs a selection, sua sponte," in organic life. This discovery recently published as "the results of 20 years' investigation and reflection" by Mr. Darwin turns out to be what I published very fully and brought to apply practically to forestry in my work Naval Timber and Arboriculture, published as far back as January 1, 1831, by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, and Longman & Co., London, and reviewed in numerous periodicals, so as to have full publicity in the "Metropolitan Magazine," the "Quarterly Review," the "Gardeners' Magazine," by Loudon... and repeatedly in the "United Service Magazine" for 1831, &c. The following is an extract from this volume, which clearly proves a prior claim. [excerpt follows]
- Darwin's reply: I freely acknowledge that Mr. Matthew has anticipated by many years the explanation which I have offered of the origin of species, under the name of natural selection. I think that no one will feel surprised that neither I, nor apparently any other naturalist, has heard of Mr. Matthew's views, considering how briefly they are given, and that they appeared in the Appendix to a work on Naval Timber and Arboriculture. I can do no more than offer my apologies to Mr. Matthew for my entire ignorance of his publication.
- Matthew's response: To me the conception of this law of Nature came intuitively as a self-evident fact, almost without an effort of concentrated thought. Mr Darwin here seems to have more merit in the discovery than I have had; to me it did not appear a discovery. He seems to have worked it out by inductive reason, slowly and with due caution to have made his way synthetically from fact to fact onwards; while with me it was by a general glance at the scheme of Nature that I estimated this select production of species as an a priori recognisable fact – an axiom requiring only to be pointed out to be admitted by unprejudiced minds of sufficient grasp.


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Touring and travelling tips
One of the best parts of summer is having the time to do some of the things you really enjoy. This can mean long bike rides, playing football, golfing, camping, hiking, and all kinds of fun activities. Whichever ones you and your family are involved in, you'll have more fun and be safer if you prepare ahead of time and try not to overdo it.
To stay healthy, it's important to take precautions. Some examples are:
- While walking and taking in the sights, be sure to drink plenty of water to stay hydrated. Don't wait until you start to feel thirsty – the need for water starts before you're aware of it. On average, try to drink a cup (240 mL) of water about 15 minutes before starting out, and then, depending on how hot it is and how fast you're walking, drink 4 to 8 ounces (120 mL to 240 mL) every 15 to 20 minutes. Consider keeping a sports drink handy to help replenish lost electrolytes from excess sweating.
- Stay out of the sun during the hottest times (usually between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.) and cover up when in the sun.
- If cycling, wear a proper bicycle helmet.
- Stretch before and after physical activities to avoid muscle cramps and soreness.
If you're driving places, be sure your children are buckled up in an approved car seat or booster seat. Don't forget to buckle up yourself!
If you take prescription medications, be sure to have enough on hand when you travel, plus a bit extra in case of delays. If you're travelling by air, don't pack your medications in your check-in luggage – luggage may get delayed or lost. Many people recommend not packing them in luggage at all, no matter how you travel, in case your bags get lost or stolen. Be sure to keep the medications in their original containers, especially if you're crossing borders. Not only is this the safest thing to do to avoid medication mix-ups, it also shows border inspectors what medications you're carrying with you in case you're questioned about them.
For some families, travelling and touring means camping and hiking. Enjoying the outdoors can have a few risks, however; take some simple precautions so you won't have to cut your vacation short.
Bug bites:
- Mosquito bites, although not serious for most people, can be uncomfortable. Prevent bites by using insect repellant or oil of lemon eucalyptus on your skin, placing citronella candles around you, and covering as much skin as possible. Avoid being outside at sundown, when mosquitoes are at their worst, and stay away from areas of stagnant water – breeding grounds for mosquitoes. If you do get bitten, antihistamine pills or lotions can help with the itch, as can applying a cool compress to the swollen area.
- Stinging insects are a common outdoor problem both at home and away, and unfortunately, they aren't deterred by insect repellants! Wasps love sweet food, so keep foods and drinks covered while outside and don't wear sweet-smelling perfumes or hairsprays. Bees travel in a straight line back and forth from their hives; avoid getting in their line of flight. Don't allow children to disturb nests or hives – many children have been stung after throwing rocks at nests. If you do get stung, check to see if the stinger is still in the skin (bees sting only once, leaving their stingers), but don't pull it out because this allows more venom to escape. Gently scrape it off with a flat object like the dull edge of a knife or the edge of a credit card. For pain and swelling, try taking a pain-relief medication like acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Avoid using antihistamine creams or lotions that are applied to the skin as they are generally not helpful and can make the area more sensitive. If the bitten area swells up quite a bit and turns red and antihistamines don't help, consider seeking medical attention.
- Deer ticks are a major concern in some parts of North America because they can be Lyme disease carriers. Found most commonly in the American Northeast, Midwest, and West, these ticks hide mostly in shady, tall grass, although they can be found in shrubs, lawns, and gardens as well. To avoid being bitten by a tick, wear long pants tucked into socks or boots to keep ticks off your legs. Wear closed-toe shoes (no sandals). After your hike, check your body for ticks, especially the insides of knees and elbows and the neck just below the hairline. If you find a tick, don't panic! Don't grab at it or squeeze it off. Instead, using small tweezers, grab the tick by the head and pull it out, then kill it by placing it in alcohol. Don't cover it with anything or try to kill it while it's on the skin, as this could release more toxin. Once the tick is removed, watch the site for a rash – it can begin up to one month following the bite. If you're concerned, call your doctor.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2024. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/healthfeature/gethealthfeature/Summertime-and-Your-Health


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Good morning. This weekend, we commemorate Veterans Day, a day when America honors every man and woman who has worn the uniform of our military. In Veterans Day celebrations across our Nation, we remember those who have served in previous wars, those who are serving today, and those who did not live to become veterans. Especially in a time of war, we see in our veterans an example of people who stepped forward to serve a cause larger than themselves. This weekend, I ask you to take a moment to thank our veterans for their service and express your appreciation for the sacrifices they have made to preserve our freedom and way of life.
One freedom that defines our way of life is the freedom to choose our leaders at the ballot box. We saw that freedom earlier this week, when millions of Americans went to the polls to cast their votes for a new Congress. Whatever your opinion of the outcome, all Americans can take pride in the example our democracy sets for the world by holding elections even in a time of war. Our democratic institutions are a source of strength, and our trust in these institutions has made America the most powerful, prosperous, and stable nation in the world.
As a result of this week's elections, the Democrats now hold a majority in both Houses of Congress. After the elections, I called the Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate to congratulate them on the victory they achieved for their party. On Thursday, I had lunch with Congresswoman Pelosi and Congressman Hoyer, and on Friday, I met with Senators Reid and Durbin. We had good discussions. I told them what I have told the men and women in my administration: We must put these elections behind us and work together on the great issues facing America.
The elections will bring changes to Washington. But one thing has not changed: America faces brutal enemies who have attacked us before and want to attack us again. I have a message for these enemies: Do not confuse the workings of American democracy with a lack of American will. Our Nation is committed to bringing you to justice, and we will prevail.
Iraq is the central front in this war on terror. I look forward to listening to ideas from the new leaders of Congress on the best way to support our troops on the frontlines and win the war on terror. I also look forward to hearing recommendations on the way forward in Iraq from a bipartisan panel led by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton. In the meantime, I have made an important change to my national security team. On Wednesday, I accepted Don Rumsfeld's resignation as Secretary of Defense and announced my intent to nominate Bob Gates to replace him. Bob is a proven leader who has served six Presidents, four Republicans and two Democrats. As a former CIA Director and the current president of Texas A&M University, he has experience leading large and complex organizations, and he has shown that he is an agent of change. As Secretary of Defense, he will provide a fresh outlook on our strategy in Iraq and what we need to do to prevail.
Bob replaces the longest serving member of my Cabinet, Don Rumsfeld. History will record that on Secretary Rumsfeld's watch, the men and women of our military overthrew two terrorist regimes, brought justice to scores of senior Al Qaida operatives, and helped stop new terrorist attacks on our people. America is safer and the world is more secure because of the leadership of Don Rumsfeld, and I am deeply grateful for his service.
The message of this week's elections is clear: The American people want their leaders in Washington to set aside partisan differences, conduct ourselves in an ethical manner, and work together to address the challenges facing our Nation. This is important work that will demand the hard effort and good faith of leaders from both sides of the aisle, and I pledge to do my part.
Thank you for listening.
NOTE: The address was recorded at 12:15 p.m. on November 10 in the Cabinet Room at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on November 11. The transcript was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary on November 10 but was embargoed for release until the broadcast. The Office of the Press Secretary also released a Spanish language transcript of this address.
George W. Bush, The President's Radio Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/271920


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The "Halo: Reach" multiplayer beta is set to be the definitive Xbox LIVE event of the spring and will run from May 3 through May 19. The beta will be accessible via the "Halo 3: ODST" game disc (an Xbox LIVE Gold membership and Internet connection are required to play).
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- Stunning technical advancements. "Halo: Reach" takes a massive leap forward through all-new engine technology designed to take full advantage of next-generation graphics, audio, special effects, AI and animation while continuing to expand on the campaign, cooperative and multiplayer sandbox in a way that only "Halo" can.
- The definitive multiplayer experience. "Halo: Reach" builds on the success of its predecessors, setting a new standard for competitive gameplay, customization, variety and community integration.
- Unparalleled feature suite. "Halo: Reach" expands on the industry-leading suite of features found in "Halo 3," including four-player cooperative campaign play, split-screen support, saved films, screenshots and exciting new surprises that have yet to be revealed.
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Normally I get to the gym Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and try to lift a little bit more weight than I did the time before.
Today everything has gone wrong and I am not going to be able to make it to the gym.
Biologically speaking what is happening to me now?
Are my muscles shrinking rapidly and my skeleton imploding completely trashing any hopes I have of lifting again? Or is it fairly harmless and my muscles will stay the same and may even benefit from the extra rest?
How many times would I have to miss working out before it starting to seriously set my progress back?


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Hollywood accounting is the practice of big studios of making successful movies into what looks like a financial failures on purpose and through questionable accounting tricks. The goal is to show no profit despite the movie actually being profitable, in order to not having to pay anyone who negotiated for a cut of profits.
This practice has been going on for a long time, and certainly pretty much everyone in the industry must be aware of it, but at least the lawyers and agents that negotiate the contracts.
So why does this practice still continue? Why is there apparently no wide-spread, effective boycott by movie makers and actors, why do people still accept a percentage of profits as payment, as opposed to a percentage of gross earnings?


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(More Than) a Few Words On Being 13 and 100% Ready for Sex
Heather Corinna replies:Im 13 and a vigin and my boyfriend is 13 and not a vigin, and we're 100% ready 2 have sex, but the problem is that hes in south carolina and im in minnsota. Wen I lived in sc he went 2 my skool and we never talked. But there was a girl that would always say bad stuff about him, like hes slept wit every girl in the skool and hes such a bad guy, blah blah blah. so 1 day i messaged him on myspace and i gave him my number 2 txt me. i wanted 2 hear his side of the story. we got 2 no each other and we fell in love. im just worried that hes not done with his cheating ways, n that after we have sex hes gunna leave me. 1 of his ex's says that hes telling her that he doesnt love me and that he wuld cheat on me, but it depends on who. and that hes jus using me. idk wat 2 believe anymore!! i love him with all my heart and we believe were soulmates!!! ive never felt like this b4. and he says the same thing. my question is: how do ik he is gunna change and not leave me? and how do ik hes not jus tellin me wat i wanna hear? he says that im gunna b perfect in bed, but im jus so worried that im not gunna b as gudas he hopes. how do ik i'll b good? i really need 2 no!! im desperatly confused and dk wt 2 do!!!! my mom says he means wat he says 2me and that she's been threw sumthin like this. my heart says to stay with him and my gut says that stay with him but yor gunna get hurt. i jus dk. i really need help!! Thanks Heather!!!
I can't make these choices for you, and I think it's really important you make and own your own choices in relationships and in sex once you start choosing to have them be part of your life. What I can do for you is to try and give you some extra information and perspective, based on what you've said here, that I think you might need and would be good to consider when you're making these choices.
A lot of what you're saying suggests that both of your expectations, about sex and also about this relationship, are probably unrealistic. When that's the case, it's so hard to make good choices. In your profile here at the site, you talk about how you want to have sex just to get it over with, but that you want it to be very "romantic, memorable and special." Those two things are usually at odds with each other, and from the sound of your question here, you're much more invested in that big stuff than you are in just "getting sex over with." People who earnestly want to just get sex over with don't tend to ask the things you're asking.
What I'd like to do is go through some pieces of what you've posted here and give you a reality check around them. Hopefully, what perspectives I can add to what you're asking and what you're already thinking, feeling and wanting will help you get more clarity around all of this and help you make the choices that are most likely to result in what you really, really want.
We're 100% ready to have sex
I'm not sure anyone can know we're 100% ready for sex with anyone we haven't had that kind of sex with before and/or when we haven't had sex with anyone, period. Until we've been having that kind of sex with that particular person -- or have at least had some kind of sex with them, and have been interacting with then in ways that give us real cues about how it might go, which does mean time spent together in-person -- we just can't predict a lot of how it's going to go, what it could be like, how we're all going to feel about it, or what the outcomes are going to be, positive, negative and neutral. If we're also not in touch with the overall and general possible realities and outcomes of something in general, we can't say we're ready because we can't know all that we'd possibly need to be ready for.
I've talked about this in a few columns in the past, but one thing we know about sex and age that's very well documented is that the younger someone is, the more unrealistic their expectations of sex tend to be. In other words, what you expect sex to be like, to go like, to require of you and a partner at this age is probably a bit more off base than your expectations two years from now, a lot more off-base than your expectations will probably be four or five years from now, and way, way more off-base than your expectations will probably be ten years from now. That's because in all those years, you'll learn not just more about sex and relationships, and about other people, but you'll find out and learn a lot more about yourself, including what you really want and need in sex and in love, what you can and can't deal with, and what you being ready -- not anyone else, just you, uniquely -- really looks and feels like. In your teens and twenties, a lot of development happens pretty fast sometimes, so even just a difference of one year can be a lot bigger than it seems like it might be.
My guess is, particularly given your age, that you're probably not ready for some of those potential outcomes of sex, and that he might not be either. If only the good stuff is being talked about, or the sexy stuff, and not any of the tough stuff, that's another clue that one or both of you probably aren't ready, because if you were, you'd know those things need to get talked about, too. For instance, you're probably not ready to handle a pregnancy. You're probably not ready to handle having sex, then having this relationship tank right after you've been so vulnerable and exposed. You or he may not be ready to handle taking safer sex seriously, which includes not just always using condoms, but each of you getting tested for STIs, something that if he hasn't done yet having already been sexually active, which he probably hasn't, gives you a big clue he's so not ready.
You also might not be ready to handle even some outcomes you think you might want, like your boyfriend winding up very attached to you... maybe too much for your comfort. Or your own feelings being stronger...but him not reacting well to that and running scared. Or him indeed finding out he thinks you're great in bed... and deciding that means that he only wants a sexual relationship with you, not something romantic after all. Even just managing having sex we really enjoy, and a sexual relationship that's awesome can be tough to fit into the rest of our lives in a way we don't blow the other important stuff, and that's a lot harder when we're a lot younger than it is a little later down the road.
I love him with all my heart and we believe we're soulmates! I've never felt like this before, and he says the same thing.
Here's the tricky thing about the idea of soulmates. Really, until we've lived a whole life, if there is such a thing as soulmates, or we feel we had one or more than one, we probably won't be able to know who ours were until we're old and grey when we can look back at many decades of life. I don't mean to harsh your love buzz. I'm glad that you are experiencing such wonderful feelings, feelings I think matter and are important whether or not you're soulmates, and whether or not this relationship lasts two weeks or fifty years. I think you should enjoy and value those feelings.
But when people say they believe that they're soulmates, especially when they haven't spent a lot of time together in their lives, when they haven't been though some big life challenges together to know how they do or don't help each other when the chips are seriously down, it's usually mostly because they want that to be true. If that's something you want -- maybe even something you feel you need -- then you want to walk here, not run. Because if you rush in too much, throw your whole heart in, take big risks and find out that isn't true, it's going to hurt like hell when it really doesn't have to. People who believe in soulmates generally have the idea that those people have been together in lives before and/or will be important to each other for the whole life they're in, and maybe even past that. That's a long time. If someone really is going to that important for that long, and is somehow deeply linked to us that way, then it seems to me that there's no hurry at all, and those folks have got all the time in the world -- literally! -- to get to know each other over time, to build a relationship over time, and to take plenty of time in all their choices together.
Both of you may not have felt this way before. However, chances are good that you will both not only probably feel this way again in your lives, with other people, you'll probably experience feelings a lot deeper and more enduring than these, not because you're shallow people or anything, but simply because the more life experience we gather, the more we grow, the richer and more complex feelings of love (and lust!) can tend to become.
What's most common is for romantic relationships when we're very young to be relatively short, or, if they last for more than a few weeks or months, for our feelings and interests to change well before adulthood. That doesn't mean they're not a big deal or not important: a relationship lasting a long time, or a lifetime, isn't automatically more important or more valuable just because it did. There are an awful lot of people in long-term relationships that are really crappy, after all. It just means that both of you having these feelings for the first time doesn't mean they're the last time you'll have them, are the last people you'll have them with, or that this is as big as it gets. Believe it or not, these feelings can get a whole lot bigger.
How do I know he is going to change and not leave me? How do I know he's not just telling me what I want to hear?
You don't. You can't know either of those things now. What you can do is take some more time to see how things pan out not just over weeks, but over months and years. You say you texted him because you wanted to hear his side of the story, but you also say you're worried that he'll "return to his cheating ways." Does that mean that he verified that some of what had been said about him was true? If it does, then he's got a pattern to change. That's something he'll need to take real time with to work on on his own, not something that'll be magically fixed just by loving you a lot. If he has tended to make commitments he doesn't honor, some of the work he'll need to do is to stop being so quick to make those kinds of commitments, taking more time to make them and not making them until he really knows he can honor them. Time that, from the sounds of things, he hasn't taken.
It's crystal that it's important to you that a person you have sex with is loyal to you and also doesn't ditch you; that you're not likely to feel comfortable with a sexual situation where you're not strongly sure that's not going to happen. That's something that's important to a lot of people, and also something that informs a lot of people's decisions about who they have sex with and when they have any kind of sex. Some people are comfortable just going on hope and a prayer and seeing what happens, feeling capable of managing any rough emotional fallout. Other folks need more than that, or know they either aren't up for handling that kind of fallout, or really want to try and avoid it.
You sound like the latter to me, and I'd honor yourself in your own wants and needs there. If you want and need those things, and it sounds like you do, take good care of yourself in that by taking the time to be pretty darn sure you're going to get those needs met. You also seem to be saying it's possible this guy has treated other partners poorly in the past, and it certainly sounds like more than one girl has not had a stellar experience with him. While sometimes people just talk trash, it's always sound to figure you can't know what's trash and what's truth in this kind of situation until you take more time to see how this person actually behaves over time.
He says that I'm going to be perfect in bed. How do I know I'll be good? I really need to know!
This is another one of those things you can't know, but I'd also think about why it's so important to you to "be good in bed." Being sexual with someone is an intimate thing to do with them, and when we're getting that close to somebody, it should be okay to be as human as we are, including sucking at things sometimes or not knowing what the heck we're doing. If you feel like you have to be perfect or worry you won't perform up-to-par, remember, this isn't supposed to be a performance. Sex -- the first time or the 201st -- is supposed to be an experience, and one where, ideally, all that's expected of you is that you be yourself, you let the other person be themselves, and you both treat each other with care.
Just so you know, I think the whole idea of "good in bed" is stupid. I don't think you're stupid, or stupid for thinking that means something, just that it's a stupid idea a lot of smart people get fooled into thinking is something other than stupid. Someone being a good lover generally has to do with things magazines don't talk about and movies don't show us: things like being a good communicator and a good listener, like being creative and imaginative, like being respectful and thoughtful and kind, like being willing to make a fool out of yourself, like being comfortable and confident in your own skin and around other people's bodies. All of that stuff? All of that stuff tends to be what most of us do without trying too hard when we care about and have confidence in ourselves, care about and have confidence in other people, and when we are really invested in ourselves and other people and they're really invested in themselves and us.
That feeling of just wanting to get first-time sex over with often comes from wanting to just get worries and anxieties like this over with -- Will I be good? Will someone else think so? Will a sex partner stick around after I had sex with them? Will I get my heart broken? Will I even like sex? What if I don't? What if I do? Here's the thing a lot of people thinking that way don't know yet: once you start having any kind of sex, if you're still thinking the same way about those things -- something that won't change just because you had sex, but only if you change the way you think about it -- those worries usually stick around or get even more crazymaking. On top of that, being sexually active brings with it a host of new things to worry about you aren't worrying about yet, or things you have to be concerned with because they're real and happening, not imagined or not happening yet. So, having sex to try and get rid of those worries is not exactly the smartest strategy most of the time, especially since having sex involves opening yourself up to a bunch of risks.
Here's the good news: you can chill those worries and anxieties, without taking any risks at all you're not ready to deal with, by changing how you think about this and by taking the pressure off by not getting involved with sex with someone else just yet. If you're WAY worried about being good in bed, that tends to be because you're not in the right space in your life or your own personal or sexual development to be secure enough in yourself to have sex with someone else. So, you don't have to. Which means you don't have to be concerned about this at all right now. I'm not trying to be a brain surgeon, nor am I doing any brain surgery, so it doesn't matter whether or not I'm good at it. Get it?
When you are in a space where sex is the right thing for you and someone else, when you are in a relationship you feel pretty secure in, when you feel more secure with yourself, and when you've taken more time to develop, think about and explore your own sexuality (the one you have all by yourself and can explore in your own head and heart, and with your own hands), you won't worry as much about this stuff. I promise. You'll feel a lot more relaxed, and it'll all seem like less of a huge deal. Some of why some of these worries probably feel so big is that you're just not ready for the place you're thinking about putting yourself in. I think your worries are trying to tell you something important that can help you make your own best choices.
While I know that long-distance relationships can be a bummer when you feel very strongly about someone and miss them, in this case, I actually think it's probably a good thing. I'm saying that because I don't think you two leaping into bed right now would be so great for you or be like you think it would. I strongly suspect you'd not get what you want and need in it, that it'd be way more likely for things to happen you really didn't want or weren't able to handle now than later. It sounds like in person, you'd have a hard time not being impulsive. There are also some cool parts of long-distance relationships I think you can take advantage of right now.
A lot of deep communication that's not easily distracted by strong sexual feelings tends to happen when things are long-distance, for instance. I'm not talking about texting or IMs. I'm talking about long phone conversations and letters, things we put real time and effort in. Ideally, in that kind of communication you two will be talking about more than wanting to go to bed together, who is going to be good in bed, or sussing out if someone's rep is or isn't factual. You can also see if both of you feel strongly enough to keep up with letter writing, to really put some creativity into your communication, and to find out how deep all of this really is for both of you(or isn't). Long-distance relationships also mean we have to take things more slowly, which is a good thing if we're otherwise inclined to jump into the deep end before we have any idea of how to swim. It sounds like you need more time, and it sounds like you have that time.
I want to add that while it's great you're able to talk with your Mom, and great that she supports you in your feelings, she isn't psychic. She can't know that this guy means what he says, and whatever her previous dating experiences were can't tell her that. It sounds like she may be projecting some of her own stuff here, and also like she just doesn't want you to be upset, but I'd not put too much stock in her feeling that this guy must be on the up-and-up because someone she dated was. She didn't date this guy (at least I certainly hope not!), so she can't know his deal. That's something only he, you and your mother can find out over time based on this relationship, not her past relationships.
I'll leave you with some extra links that I think might help you out, but what I'd suggest is that you just. Slow. Down. You keep saying you just don't know about all of this. That's okay: you don't have to know. But since you don't know now, do yourself a favor and don't put yourself in a position where you have to. I know it's hard to slow things down when feelings are intense, but I think you'll feel a whole lot better, and be better able to decide what's right for you with your choices in this relationship, including any sexual choices, if you do. What you have here isn't running so you have to chase it (and if it is, you know it's not going to be a good deal). You can take plenty of time not only to make decisions, but also to just enjoy all the good stuff in this and see how it goes and where you're comfortable taking it, step by step.


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I am having to do a lot of thinking about who I am going to nominate for this year. There are so many great student, class, teacher and new blogs out there but I have to get it down to just one in each section. So here we go:
Best new blog or best student blog
This student has only been blogging since February this year and she has established a great blogroll with many return commenters to her blog. She is extremely creative and this is seen in her many and varied posts. She took part in the recent September student blogging challenge and wrote 33 posts over the three month period. Most of these were her own choice rather than just those suggested by the blogging challenge. She is extremely quick at responding to comments left on her posts and she has many long conversations with her readers. Congratulations on being nominated by me – Amy of the creative mind!
Best new blog or best class blog or best group blog
I'm not sure which category to put this one in either. A group of 6 students are organizing their blog ready for the new school year in 2013. This is actually a class blog but totally run by students. The teacher is there in the background but all posts and comments are being written by the students who are all administrators of this blog. They are all grade 5 this year but will be the mentors for any classes at their school who wish to start a new blog next year. Congratulations on being nominated by me – FEASTS – acronym for their names!
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This one was also very difficult to decide who to nominate but this teacher always writes extremely informative posts relating technology to how it can be used within the common core curriculum and in the classroom. She reflects upon her learning all the time and has many conversations with her large following of readers. Comments are quickly added to with her special way of writing. She is always there for both the school district she works in but also for her large PLN who follow her blog all the time. She is also a great tweeter and always has many links in her blog posts to allow her readers to follow up the topic by visiting other writers as well. Congratulations on being nominated by me – Tracy Watanabe!
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This teacher is an inspiration to her students. As well as teaching in the library about skills needed in this digital world, she has students creating book trailers, writing book reviews, connecting globally with other readers. She presents at conferences and always reflects on what is happening in her digital world. She has a strong PLN who thoroughly enjoy her postings. Congratulations on being nominated by me – Julie Hembree of the Bulldog Readers!
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Again there are so many to choose from but as an educational blogger I couldn't go past #comments4kids Will Chamberlain developed this hashtag so teachers and other educationalists could visit great student posts to leave comments for the students. I use this hashtag often when I read a great post by a student who is in the student blogging challenge or on one of the blogs at the eSchool blogs I run. Congratulations on being nominated by me – #comments4kids
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I accidentally came across this blog late last year and have since had it in my Google reader. The author writes many posts about all topics relating to educational technology and mobile learning. I don't really know how he also has time to teach. Congratulations on being nominated by me – Med Kharbach from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Inside The United States' Secret Sabotage Of Iran
First in a three-part series
For years, the United States has been trying to stop Iran's nuclear program and change what it says is Iran's bad behavior in the Middle East and beyond.
The United States has used economic sanctions, censure by the United Nations, diplomatic engagement and the threat of military action to accomplish these goals — all with little or no success.
At the same time, other, unacknowledged activities have been under way. They have included cyberattacks, assassinations and defections. As it turns out, these efforts have had some success.
'A Covert War'
Covert action is meant to stay just that — covert, clandestine, in the shadows.
And in Iran, it did, for quite some time. But in the last year, much has become known about intelligence operations in Iran, says Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official who is now an analyst with the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution.
"There's little doubt that there's a covert war under way against Iran," he says. "There are at least two players in it: the United States and Israel."
And often, it appears, those players work together.
That was especially true with the Stuxnet worm. The computer virus, apparently developed in Israel with the help of the CIA, was launched in 2009. Sometime the following year, the worm found its way into the computers that control Iran's most important nuclear facility, the uranium enrichment operation at Natanz.
The worm told the gas centrifuges that enrich uranium to spin too fast. Many broke and destroyed other centrifuges — nearly a thousand of them.
The impact of the worm spread even wider, says Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California who writes for the website Tehran Bureau.
"In fact, not only it destroyed a thousand centrifuges at Natanz — it also forced the government to actually shut down the enrichment facility for a few days," Sahimi says.
That was last year. Computer security companies got wind of it, in part because it may also have affected companies and equipment outside of Iran. And the story became public.
Other Viruses On The Way?
Computer security experts believe the original worm was programmed to mount multiple attacks. That may have occurred, but only up to a point, says David Albright, head of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.
"This idea of multiple destruction was built into the planning of the program, and Iran thwarted it just by the simplest of steps — which is panic and shut down everything until you get a sense of what's going on," he says.
Given the success of the Stuxnet worm, it's likely its creators may be constructing Stuxnet 2.0 right now — or other viruses targeting Iran.
Iran may have had to buy new computers to replace those that were affected, and it can't be sure that new computers won't be sabotaged.
In fact, nothing that Iran buys on the international market that could be used in its nuclear program is safe from sabotage, Sahimi says.
"To say the least, probably the uncertainty whether there is a virus somewhere that they haven't detected, that causes a lot of problems for them," he says.
Sabotaging Equipment
Among those problems, the Russians who are finishing the Bushehr nuclear reactor — Iran's first — stopped their work to ascertain whether it had been infected with the worm.
And this worm isn't the first instance of sabotage, Albright says.
"It's one of many efforts that I think are under way to try to constrain Iran from being able to basically, in a sense, either outfit its centrifuge program or to try to actively disrupt it and break things," he says.
Among the parts of the centrifuges that have been sabotaged, according to Albright, are motors and vacuum pumps. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency discovered equipment at Iran's nuclear facilities that had passed through one of the U.S. national laboratories, Albright says.
"So you had a case where the U.S. government, at least, what it was doing was buying equipment on the open market and apparently modifying it in some way," he says.
Then the equipment was apparently delivered to front companies that in turn sold it to Iran.
It could have been used for sabotage, or if it was bugged equipment, it could provide information on the location of secret nuclear facilities in Iran.
Building Paranoia
In any case, Iran's leaders are certainly worried about what they might face next, says Riedel of the Brookings Institution.
"One of the benefits of these kind of programs is that over time it builds paranoia and fear inside the Iranian nuclear program — that they have to be extremely careful that anything they buy may turn out to be a self-destructive pill once it's ingested inside the Iranian program," Riedel says.
In fact, just last week, one of Iran's key nuclear officials disclosed that another computer virus had hit Iran.
The Iranians are calling it the "Stars" virus. They say they have taken care of it.
So far its existence has not been confirmed by computer security specialists outside of Iran. Nevertheless, the effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, through cyberattacks or other methods, is certain to continue.


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text: HALF-HOURS WITH FAMOUS MAHATMAS. No. 1 YOGI MAHATMA SRI AGAMYA PARAMAHAMSA GURU SWAMIJI is a certain Punjabi lala, who, on account of his tremendous voice and ferocious temper, has well earned for himself the name of The Tiger Mahatma. My first acquaintance with His Holiness was in November 1906, when he paid his second visit to England. I had seen his name in the daily press, but before calling upon him, I had read up what I could about him in his book: "Sri Brahma Dhara," in the preface of which he is praised as follows: "He seeks to do good, he accepts money from no one, and lives a very simple, pure life ... I ... was much impressed by his great breadth of mind, his sweet charity, and his loving kindness for every living thing. ... These teachings ... breath love and kindness, and dwell upon the joys of pure clean living." Forewarned is to be forearmed, and I had read the same type of "puff" on many a patent pill box! On entering 70, Margaret Street I was shown upstairs and ushered into the den of Tiger Sri Agamya. Besides himself, there were three people in the room, two men and {284} a woman, and as I entered one of the men, an American, was saying: "O Mahatma! I haven't the faith, I can't get it!" To which His Holiness roared out: "You sheep are! ... I no want sheep! ... tigers I make ... tigers tear up sheep, go away! ... no good, get intellect ... get English! ... no more!!" The three then departed, and I was left alone with the Blessed One. Neither of us spoke for about ten minutes, then at length, after a go or two at his snuff-box, he gave a loud grunt, to which I replied in a solemn voice: "O Mahatma, what is Truth?" "No Truth! All illusion," he answered, "I am that Master, you become my disciple; I show you all things; I lead you to the ultimate reality ... the supreme stage of the highest ... the infinite Ultimatum ... the unlimited omniscience of eternal Wisdom --- All this I give you if you have faith in me." As faith is exceedingly cheap in this country, I offered him unlimited oceans of it; and at this he seemed very please, and laughed: "Ha! ha! You make good tiger cub ... you tear sheep up ... all is illusion!" Then after a pause: "De vouman," pointing to the door, "is no good!" And the, without further hesitation, he entered upon a veritable Don Juan description of his earthly adventures. This I thought strange of so sober-minded a saint, and so put to him several questions concerning the Vedanta Philosophy, and its most noted exponents, to see what he really did know. "Do you know Swami Vivekananda?" I asked. {285} Ha, he replied, "he no good, he my disciple, I am the master!" "And Swami Dayanand Sarasvati?" I continued. The same answer was vouched to me, although this latter teacher had died at the age of seventy, forty yeas ago. Thinking it about time to change the conversation, I said: "O Thou Shower from the Highest! Tell thy grovelling disciple what then "is" a 'lie'?" "Ha!" he replied, "it is illusion, this truth that has been diverged from its real point ... an illusive spring in the primo-genial fermentation of 'fee-no-me-non,' in this typo-cosmy apparent to the sense which you call 'de Vurld'!!!" With this, and promises of oceans of blissful reality from the highest eternality of ultimate ecstasy, he bade me sit in a chair and blow alternately through my nostrils; and, if I had faith, so he assured me, I should in six months' time arrive at the supreme stage of the Highest in the infinite Ultimatum, and should burst as a chance illusively fermented bubble in the purest atmosphere of the highest reality. The next occasion on which I saw the Mahatma was at a business meeting of his disciples held at 60, South Audley Street. His Holiness called them tiger-cubs, nevertheless seldom have I seen such a pen full of sheep. A man from Ilfracombe proposed this, and a man from Liverpool second that; at last a London plumber arose, and with great solemnity declared: Gintlemen, hi taik hit 'is 'oliness his really 'oly, hin fact gintlemen hi taik hit 'e his Gawd; ... hand so hi proposes the very least we can do for 'im his to subscribe yearly towards 'im folve shillins!" ("'ear, 'ear" from a comrade in the corner). However, the sheep wouldn't have it, and the {286} little man sat down to ruminate over lead piping, and solder at twopence a stick. During the summer of '07 I had little time to waste at number 60, and had almost forgotten about the Mahatma, who, so I had been told, had let England for America, when I received a card announcing his return, and asking me to be present at a general meeting. This I did, and as usual was more than bored. After business was over the Mahatma entered the room, all his sheep locking round him to seek the turnips of his wisdom. On these occasions he would ask questions and select subjects upon which his disciples were supposed to write essays. One of these, I can still remember, was: "How to help the helpless hands"; another was: "What is dis-satisfaction, and what is true satisfaction?" And the answer was: "Love fixed on mortal things, without the knowledge of its source, increases vibration and creates dissatisfaction ('mortal things' is good!)." In his book, "Sri Brahma Dhara," which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. "Love," he writes, "is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all disorder" (it seems to be so even in his exalted position). "This force of love --- in the state of circumgyration in the extended world --- is the cause of all mental movements towards the feeling of easiness or uneasiness: but the mind enjoys eternal beatitude with perfect calmness, when the force of love is concentrated over the unlimited extension of silence" ('silence' is really choice!). {287} "Virtue," he defines as: "the bent of mind towards self-command" (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really "take the cake!" "there are three kinds of animate creations in the world," he writes: "They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ..." Another gem: "how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?" Answer: "If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born"(!) At one of his male meetings --- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed --- he related to us his pet story, of how he had "flumoxed" the chief engineer and the captain of the liner which had brought him back from America. He informed them that coal and steam were absurd; what you want, he said, is to have two large holes made in the sides of you ship, then the air will blow into them and turn the wheels, and make the ship go. When the captain pointed out to him, that if a storm were to arise the water might possibly flow into the ship and sink it, he roared out, "No! no! ... get English! ... get intellect! see! see! de vind vill fill de ship and blow it out of de vater and take it across over de vaves!" --- Since this now becomes public property there probably will be a slump in turbines! It was towards the close of last October, when I received from a friend of mine --- also a so-called disciple --- a letter in which he wrote: "There was a devil of a row at 60 last night. M: pressed me to come to his weekly entertainments; so I {288} came. He urged me to speak; so I spoke. He then revealed his divine self in an exceptionally able manner; I refrained from revealing mine. His divine self reminded one rather of a 'Navvy's Saturday Night, by Battersea Burns.'" He further urged me to go and see the Mahatma himself on the following Sunday; and this I did. I arrived at 60, South Audley Street at seven o'clock. There were already about twenty sheepish-looking tigers present, and when the Mahatma entered the room, I sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a Hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, I thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him. The Mahatma opened the evening's discussion by saying: "Humph ... I am Agnostic, you are believers. I say 'I don't know,' you contradict me." And during the next hour and a half more Bunkum was talked in that room that I should say in Exeter Hall during the whole course of the last century. At last it ended, and though I had made various attempts to draw His Holiness into argument, I had as yet failed to unveil his divinity. He now started dictating his precious philosophy, and in such execrable English, that it was quite impossible to follow him, and I once or twice asked him to repeat what he had said, and as I did so I noticed that several of the faithful shivered and turned pale. At length came the word "expectation" or "separation," and as I could not catch which, I exclaimed "what?" "You pig-faced man!" shouted His Holiness, "you dirty fellow, you come here to take away my disciples ... vat you vant vith this: vat! vat! vat! vat! ... You do no exercise, else you understand vat I say, dirty man!" And then turning to {289} his three head bell-wethers who were sitting at a separate table he sneered: "X----" (my friend present at the previous revelation of his divinity) "Send this pig-one ... eh?" "I don't know why ..." I began. "Grutch, butch!" he roared, "you speak to me, you co-eater! ... get intellect," he yealled, "get English," he bellowed, and up he sprang from the table. As I did not wish to be murdered, for he had now become a dangerous maniac, I rose, keeping my eyes on him, and taking up my hat and stick, which I had purposely placed just behind me, I quietly passed round the large table at which his terror-stricken fold sat gaping, and moved towards the door. The whole assembly seemed petrified with fear. At first the Blessd One appeared not to realize what had happened, so taken aback was he by any one having the audacity to leave the room without his permission: then he recovered himself, and at the top of his tiger-roar poured out his curses in choicest Hindustani. On reaching the door I opened it, and then facing him I exclaimed in a loud voice in his native tongue: "Chup raho! tum suar ke bachcha ho!" With gleaming eyes, and foaming lips, and arms flung wildly into the air, --- there stood the Indian God, the 666th incarnation of Haram Zada, stung to the very marrow of his bones by this bitterest insult. Beside himself with fury he sprang up, murder written on every line of his face; tried to leap across the table --- and fell in an epileptic fit. As he did so, I shut the door in his face. Aum. SAM HARDY. {290}


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Trivium Cancel Handful of U.S. Shows After Frontman Matt Heafy Blows Out Voice
One of the occupational hazards of being a metal singer is the possibility of throat problems. Unfortunately, that's what happened to Trivium's Matt Heafy at this past weekend's Rock on the Range festival.
After blowing out his voice, Heafy has been ordered by his doctor to shut it down for a couple weeks, meaning Trivium will have to cancel some upcoming shows, including their Rocklahoma gig.
Taking their place on the bill at Rocklahoma are We Are Harlot, the new band featuring Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria), Jeff George (formerly of Sebastian Bach), Brian Weaver (Silvertide) and Bruno Agra.
Heafy posted the following message to the fans, which he titled 'Bittersweet Homecoming:'
My family and friends worldwide and namely in the USA,
I always call for each of you to give their all - as you always do - and
in turn we in Trivium return the favor with everything we've got.As it turns out, I quite literally gave everything I could have given just
yesterday at Rock On The Range in Columbus, Ohio.I am reminded once again that I am but a mere mortal (not saying that I
ever think or believe otherwise, only that at times, on stage, one does
feel pretty powerful); my voice blew out by the end of yesterday's set.
My doctor¹s orders are that I need two weeks of rest before resume singing
and as a result Trivium will cancel our remaining shows this week.I have cancelled one show previously due to vocal issues, and this time
even with the numerous precautions I take every single day on the road to
ensure the greatest performance for those who keep me alive, my voice
still gave out.My apologies to all our friends who were hoping to see us in Birmingham,
Baton Rouge, Memphis, and Pryor. My condolences to the Trivium road crew,
local promoters and most importantly, my brothers in arms: Paolo, Corey,
and Mat.I'll do everything I can do make my vocals back to 100% before Europe, and
know that we will come back and make up shows in: Salt Lake City,
Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Memphis, and Pryor. I don't know when, but you
are not forgotten.Sincerely,
Matthew Kiichi Heafy
Trivium are scheduled to begin their run of European shows and festivals on May 31 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. They are also part of this summer's Mayhem Festival, which begins July 5.
Their latest album 'Vengeance Falls' was released last year and debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 album chart and has spawned the hit single 'Strife.'


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Google Mobile-Friendly Updates as of 21st of April
Google is globally rolling out our mobile-friendly update as of 21st of April. They're boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results.
Now searchers can more easily find high-quality and relevant results where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling.
Some important facts:
This update:
- Affects only search rankings on mobile devices
- Affects search results in all languages globally
- Applies to individual pages, not entire websites
If your site's pages aren't mobile-friendly, there may be a significant decrease in mobile traffic from Google Search.
But have no fear, once your site becomes mobile-friendly, Google will automatically re-process (i.e., crawl and index) your pages.
Recource: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/rolling-out-mobile-friendly-update.html
You can check if your website is mobile friendly with Google's Mobile Friendly Test tool page.
It is not too late. If your website is not mobile friendly, then please contact Sumico Net today


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The tablet category was abuzz with various launches trying to compete with iPad's stronghold on category. HTC needed to develop a campaign that would demonstrate its unique product benefits and enable consumers to engage firsthand with HTC Scribe™ Technology, as well as overcome consumer hesitancy to engage with tablet devices outside the established leader, iPad.
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Communication Objective:
Demonstrate how HTC Tablets let YOU make your mark.
Advertising Objective:
Establish the HTC series of Tablets in the competitive tablet space.
Demographic Target:
On the go A18-49 (skew 18-34 young professionals), $70-75K average HHI, single, college educated.
The campaign needed to focus on the unique HTC tablet attributes, particularly the HTC Scribe™ (pen) Technology, to establish this new product among the target market though interactive and engaging OOH across key markets while balancing effectiveness and efficiency.
Station dominations were selected to maximize impact among the target audience when they were in a "mobile mindset" in select heavy transit markets. Station dominations provided a pervasive presence in high foot traffic locations, a presence difficult to replicate in other OOH environments. HTC was also able to use multiple creative messages across the various static placements to fully surrounding the target.
Digital interactive transit and cinema lobby kiosks were selected to provide a hands--on "trial by out-of-home" experience that allowed consumers to replicate the product experience. The interaction experience allowed consumers to take photos of themselves and their friends and use the touchscreen kiosk to draw on those pictures using a virtual pen as a stand in for the HTC Scribe™. The end result could be saved and sent directly to their email for sharing and use on social media. All elements were opt-in to ensure privacy was respected.
Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco
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September 1 - October 2, 2011
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Rail Station Dominations, Digital Interactive Transit Kiosks (San Francisco only), Digital Interactive Kiosks in Cinema Lobbies
All elements ran the entire time contracted, with added value override on San Francisco interactive kiosks for 3 weeks. Overall there were 88,108 individual activations and 126,985 photos taken with an 18% email opt-in rate for cinema and 11% email opt-in rate for the transit units. Both of those rates are well above the typical online conversion rate for PPC ads of 8.4% (MarketingSherpa 2012 search marketing benchmark report).
The planning team was able to find a convergent solution to directly answer the clients' need: "trial by out of home" uniquely engaged consumers allowing them to have the HTC tablet experience in a fresh, new and memorable way. This strategy also gave users the ability to share their unique creation layered with an additional social/earned media element, and enticed word of mouth as well as product discovery around the device launch. This is the type of experience that simply cannot be replicated with any other media format.


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OMA National Results
FMF/KTM Factory Team rider Russell Bobbitt added another win to his collection as he crossed the checkered flag to take the victory at the Tuscumbia, Ala., OMA National.
Bobbitt had a flawless day. He nailed the FMF holeshot and pulled to an early lead out front. At the end of the first 8-mile loop he had a 10 second lead over the 2nd place ride of Paul Whibley.
Russell Bobbitt (KTM OMA) says: "I had a great start and just tried to ride a smooth race out front. Whibley began pressuring me from the very beginning and we remained close all day."
Despite the pressure from Whibley, Bobbitt never made a mistake and was able to hold the lead from the beginning to the end of the 2 hour plus one lap race. When the checkered flag flew, Bobbitt crossed the line 12 seconds ahead of Whibley.
Russell Bobbitt says: "It feels great to get a win here today. I completely changed my program after not performing where I wanted to be last season in the National Enduro Series. I have been racing nearly every weekend leading up to the start of the National Enduro Series and it feels good to get a win before heading to the first round. A lot of my competitors were here today and it is good to compete against them and take home the win."
With his pre-season races complete, Bobbitt will head to Salley, SC this coming weekend for the opening round of the AMA National Enduro Series. Bobbitt, a 3-time National Enduro Champion, has only one goal this season: to win!
Overall Results OMA Round 1:
1) Russell Bobbitt - KTM
2) Paul Whibley
3) Jordan Ashburn
4) Jimmy Jarrett
5) Nick Fahringer
6) Scott Watkins
7) Kenneth Gilbert
8) Shane Kilmek
9) Brett Zofchak - KTM
10) Michael Williams
11) Jeremy Smith