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Homeless Veterans
New vs. Old SQUARES | Training Materials | How To Access
SQUARES is a VA web application that provides external homeless service organizations with reliable, detailed information about Veteran eligibility. Users submit identity attributes for homeless individuals (name, DOB, SSN, gender), and SQUARES returns information regarding their Veteran status and eligibility for homeless programs. The tool facilitates quick and simple access to care for homeless and at-risk Veterans.
New vs. Old SQUARES
A limited version of SQUARES was first made available in 2015. The updated version, available starting February 2019, contains several upgrades, including:
- Immediate and thorough eligibility confirmation, including information about military service and VHA enrollment
- 'Fuzzy search,' which can identify Veterans even if identifiers are entered with minor errors
- Batch inquiries, allowing providers to immediately identify Veterans from among their large client populations
With this version, SQUARES allows SSVF and GPD providers to offer critical services for homeless and at-risk Veterans without waiting for documentation or going to a VA Medical Center.
Training Materials
We strongly encourage you to take the 10-15 minute online SQUARES training course before applying for access or using the tool.
The following Quick Reference Guides may also be helpful:
- Requesting and Accessing Your SQUARES Account
- Conducting a Single Veteran Search
- Conducting a Bulk Veteran Search
- Summary of SQUARES Eligibility Information
SQUARES Managers should additionally make sure they have reviewed the SQUARES Manager Guide:
How do I request SQUARES access?
How you request SQUARES access depends on who you are:
VA Homeless Program Grantees (SSVF, GPD, CERS) and Other Contracted Organizations
Any staff member who works with Veterans at a VA homeless program grantee organization is authorized for SQUARES access. Each organization must select one employee to serve as SQUARES Manager. We will review Manager account requests and approve access if the applicant matches the program manager we have on file for your organization. If your organization would like someone new to serve as SQUARES Manager, have the documented program manager let us know via email at email@example.com.
Once the Manager is approved for access, he/she can use SQUARES to approve Standard User accounts for his/her fellow employees. Only Managers can approve Standard User account requests.
Managers and Standard Users both apply for access online. When completing this application, be careful to use your professional email address rather than a personal email (details).
In the application, you may see that your organization has separate listings for its different grant programs. If you would like to combine those listings under one Manager (or, conversely, if you would like to separate out a satellite office to its own SQUARES listing), let us know at email@example.com.
Once your application is approved, you can access SQUARES in your web browser at https://www.my.va.gov/SQUARES. Make sure you bookmark this page, and not the log-in page at access.va.gov. Some functionality may not work in Internet Explorer, so it is highly recommended you use Chrome, Firefox, or another modern browser.
Other External Organizations
For legal reasons, homeless service organizations that do not have VA homeless program grants must sign data use agreements with VA before accessing SQUARES. In this short contract, VA agrees to provide you SQUARES access, and you agree to use SQUARES data to materially advance the goal of ending Veteran homelessness. Please contact email@example.com to request a draft agreement. We may also request an email from a local VA colleague who can validate your role in the community's effort to end Veteran homelessness.
Once you return the signed agreement, you should be set up in SQUARES within a week. Then, simply follow the steps for grantee organizations, above.
VA Staff
VA homeless program staff access SQUARES via VA's internal Salesforce platform. You can request an account from the VA help desk, following the instructions below.
What if I have access to the old SQUARES?
SQUARES 2.0 discloses much more data than the old SQUARES tool, and so users must apply again, following the relevant instructions above. The new tool is also separate from — and does not replace — the HMIS Repository.
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Martin Luther King Jr., Wife Honored With Medal
Couple recognized for their efforts in passing the Civil Rights Act
WATCH: 'Preachers Of L.A.' Season 2 Sneak Peek
It's not over til God says it's over for this reality show
Library of Congress Acquires The HistoryMakers
The collection includes 9,000 hours of video content
WHAT YEAR IS THIS? Blackface at the World Cup
Even the "fun" FIFA World Cup produces un-fun events.
Stevie J Tested Positive for Cocaine and Marijuana
The "Love and Hip Hop Atlanta" star was tested after his arrest earlier this month
Kanye Completes Community Service
The rapper spent three hours at L.A. Trade Technical College
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1. formal No. Used to indicate a negative vote or to emphasize a point. It was an unethical, nay, downright abhorrent thing to do.
2. A negative vote. I plan to vote nay on this proposal.
3. One who has cast a negative vote. The nays overwhelmed the handful of yeas on this vote.
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Washington (AP)– Congress is pressuring the Obama administration to take a tougher stand with China over trade practices that they say have cost Americans millions of jobs.
The state always needs a villain. It is a safe bet that China will be the new scapegoat for American politicians. This will follow the form of misidentifying causes and promoting solutions that are wasteful at best and harmful at worst. The latest attempt to make people believe the state is working for them involves the currency issue.
China has kept the value of its currency low by purchasing US dollars and selling its own. This supply and demand allows the dollar to have relative strength making Chinese goods cheap for the US. Opportunistic politicians are imagining that this currency manipulation is the reason for American economic hardship. They claim that this weak currency gives China an unfair advantage. Curiously though, China like the US, also has a trade deficit. It imports raw materials then produces the stuff it sells to the world. If the US pressures China to stop lowering the value of its currency, then the costs of imports for China decreases. Any gains in competition the US imagines it could gain are swallowed by lower Chinese input costs due to its stronger currency.
These details seem to mater little to the American political class who's actions and rhetoric demonstrate total ignorance on maters of simple economics.


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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Monday that an unprecedented outbreak of malaria had affected all regions of this northeastern African nation, which has been mired in an armed conflict between government and opposition forces for two years.
The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection agency says that flooding, drought and displacement have drastically reduced food production in South Sudan. It estimates that nearly 3.9 million are severely food insecure.
Other urgent humanitarian needs in the world's most fragile state as of 2015, include health care, clean water, sanitation and shelter.
The world's youngest and one of the least developed countries, South Sudan has been suffering from decades of hostilities combined with frequent natural disasters and disease outbreaks.


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Stopping Gout Together › Forums › Help My Gout! The Gout Forum › Gout Research SLEEP APNEA
- This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago by P Mb.
February 26, 2019 at 8:35 pm #8825Ucatsexas .Participant
I just read in the NYTimes that there is a strong connection between gout and sleep Apnea. I have both and believe there is a connection.
"New research has found that obstructive sleep apnea — a disorder in which breathing stops and starts during sleep — is associated with an increased risk for gout, a common cause of painful arthritis.
Scientists studied 15,879 patients with apnea and 63,296 matched controls without, following them for an average of almost six years. Over that time, 4.9 percent of people with apnea developed gout, compared with 2.6 percent of those without the disorder.
Both disorders are associated with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and other conditions, but after controlling for these and other factors the independent association of apnea with gout was still evident. The study is in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
The mechanism is unclear, but reduced oxygen supply during sleep encourages the production of uric acid, and the accumulation of uric acid crystals in the joints is what causes the inflammation and pain of gout.
Apnea can be treated with continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, in which the patient wears a mask at night to allow easier breathing. There are drugs and diet restrictions used to treat gout.
The lead author, Milica Blagojevic-Bucknall, a lecturer at Keele University in England, said that this observational study does not prove cause and effect. Still, she added, "It's possible that people who use CPAP could reduce the risk or severity of gout."
November 1, 2019 at 10:56 am #9089P MbParticipant
Hi Ucatsexas,
Good post.
I was diagnosed with (mild) SA too – and suffer with gout.
I am *convinced* there is a link there that needs investigation.
'Better joints in the morning' was the first thing I noted after going onto CPAP: it was a dead cert that I'd had a good night on the machine.
Were I a doctor I'd do a mandatory sleep study when anyone presented with gout – and probably one or two other chronic conditions too:
For 'overweight people tend towards diabetes and gout' read 'overweight people tend to breathe less well at night, which encourages diabetes and gout' – perhaps?
Could be a research project in there 🙂
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You've probably at least heard of the OAuth and OpenID Connect standards. It's challenging to find a good overview of how they work. The specifications are great if you're building OAuth from scratch or suffer from insomnia. Many examples focus on just code, rather than concepts. In this talk, Micah digs into these protocols in simple English.
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Micah Silverman is a Principal Technical Platform Instructor for Okta. With 23 years of Java Experience (yup, that's from the beginning), he's authored numerous articles, co-authored a Java EE book and spoken at many conferences. He's a maker, who's built full size MAME arcade cabinets and repaired old electronic games: http://afitnerd.com/2011/10/16/weekend-project-fix-dark-tower/. He brings his love of all things Java to a conference near you!


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I believe that there are some sacred and ancient texts/manuscripts/diagrams that exhibit a holographic quality in that they are small pieces of a larger reality with enough information that you can reverse engineer the complete system if you look at it long enough.
I am certain you are aware of the work being done on the Torah in which it behaves as almost a holographic film in which information is encoded that can be unlocked if you have the key/code as with Michael Drosnin's work 'The Bible Code'.
I believe that the Mayan Calendar is such a text, and have been focusing my work specifically on the base 'Tzolkin' calendar which essentially makes up one of the 16 'months' (260 days each) of the solar cycle (~11.2 years in Earth time).
My introduction to the calendar
When I first started learning about the calendar, I was looking at some of Jose Arguilles' work, who I am deeply thankful for. I believe the academy has tried to kill the role of imagination in knowledge, calling it misinformed, and that on some level his work was a victim of academics not understanding the nature of receiving information in the way he did.
I depart from his configuration of the 8 Tzolkin grid matrix he proposed in one important way, which you will see below.
Using mathematics as the language to interpret the calendar
At some pointed I decided to focus purely on the grid (13X20) as a Mathematical entity. I came across Marko Rodin's work, and then of course, Randy's, and when I was watching this video I had an epiphany. It was specifically what Randy Powell said about 'mirroring'.
This is where I depart from Arguilles' work, in the arrangement of stacked grids. In Arguilles' concept he flips the grid over once on the vertical axis and once on the horizontal axis. I wanted to see what would happen if you just flipped the grid once on the horizontal axis, and then spliced the two together like a battery.
You can see above that the lower four Tzolkin and the upper 4 Tzolkin are not Mirrors. In Arguilles' Psi Bank, the top and bottom are flipped BOTH horizontally and vertically. In my work, although I tested Arguilles' set as well, I chose to only flip the grid horizontally.
Building the code to interpret the matrix grids
I have created a program to analyze all sorts of assortments of what happens when a matrix/grid get spliced together with their various mirrors in various ways (drool). It is still in it's infancy, but I wanted to present it here so that you can follow along what I am saying in this blog and play with it if you wish. I am also attaching some drawings, but want to explain what I did here.
The Tzolkin calendar is basically a 13x20 grid in which one starts at the upper left hand corner and counts from 1 to 13 moving downward in the columns and then to the right, over and over again 20 times so that in total there are 13 columns with 20 rows. I have been looking at the mathematical relationships in that grid as a stand-alone single unit, as well as in a larger matrix of quarter (4 Tzolkin) and half (8 Tzolkin) solar cycles.
There are three things I noticed in Randy's presentation that resonated with what I was doing.
- The first is that much of the information Randy was working with is contained in a similarly derived matrix of 15x3in mod9 (drawings also attached below) which I had also been playing around with.
- The second, is that if you 'mirror' any of the matrices onto themselves (photos below) by inter-splicing them in a syncopated manner, the order of the matrix is enriched, and the relationships of the numbers in that 'mirrored' matrix seem to contain recipes for the toroidal system it's matrix describes.
- The the third is the connecting principle between my work and Randy's.
- The conversion between my spliced matrix and Randy's donuts is essentially a 'pivot table' type of situation. Look at the base-9 matrixes that you create, and imagine that instead of looking at those as a grid of squares, you turn it 45 degrees and look at it as a grid of diamonds. The diamond grid essentially can be seen as two grids spliced together. The corresponding grids are connected through their points instead of their lines. So the initial grid that composes the mayan calendar, for example, when spliced together with it's mirror create a matrix very similar to the ones Randy is using to define Toroidal energy patterns.
- Secondly, the AHBA (mod9) original Vortex grid has a third number that is introduced that defines the height of the grid so that number is no longer associated with the second number of the matrix (in this case 9 because he uses mod9 numbering).
- And thirdly, in the grids Randy is using the splice is offset as seen in the video below:
The basic idea that was inspired by Randy's video was the interlocking of the grid and it's mirror together in a larger alternating grid.
I have indicated the two grids spliced together by giving them each a different color which you can see in the first series of grids.
The matrix building and evaluation tool above takes this spliced grid and feeds it strong drugs.
More specifically when I looked at different patterns of numbers in the grid I noticed that the patterns created by odd and even numbers seemed to correspond with rows that have repeating adjacent numbers.
I then ran some calculations and realized that there is a concept of 'scale' in the sense of music. That the top row of the original matrix has a series of repeating numbers in a certain order that is repeated in every row of the original matrix. This number series seems to operate in a similar way that a musical scale would, in that it defines the underlying order of a piece of music.
In the spliced matrix, there are sine-like waves that appear in specific sections between the rows of adjacent equal numbers. These sine waves can move forward or backwards relative to the order of the original scale, they can have varying wavelengths, and they seem to alternate direction at in the rows that are filled with repeating adjacent numbers. Not only that, those crests of waves seems to also function in switching the polarity of the wave. In the spliced matrix, polarity refers to whether the waves are using the original grid columns or the columns from the grid that I flipped horizontally and spliced into the original matrix.
In the 13x20 system, the scale is always the same: 1, 7, 13, 6, 12 ,5, 11, 4, 10, 3, 9, 2, 6, 1 (all 6 digits apart in a 13-base counting system and which connected in a circle seem to create a pattern similar to a coil winding) and which can be seen below regularly switching 'polarity' as they move from one crest of the wave to it's opposite. As mentioned above, note in the 13x20 grid based on the Mayan calendar is that each instance in which the polarity switches happens at either the low or high extreme of the wave.
((( The 13/20 grid with a scale pattern of 1, 8, 2, 9, 3, 10, 4, 11, 5, 12, 6, 13, 7 )))
I found these patterns to be extraordinary (as well as others that I would be happy to detail in future discussions). An order that cannot be accidental.
In the drawings on the 13:20 grid colored in, the blue ratio like numbers (some of which are incorrectly marked on the drawing I sent but correct in the tool I have linked you to above) represent fractions denoted by how many integers are between each number in the row. If you notice in the attachment here the ratios creates by these numbers all exist along a diagonal line of the Lambdoma Matrix of Harmonic Internals.
The tool I created goes beyond this mayan Tzolkin set (13/20) and can evaluate an infinite set of pairing of numbers (within the bounds of the bandwidth of my server) and also generates calculations of the harmonics generated in each row. Generally, the rows of repeating numbers have harmonics of 'zero' or 'infinity' where the sine waves change polarity and switch direction at theirs crests. But I do not want to spoil it for you, go see for yourself!
Moire Patterns: macro patterns that reveal micro patterns.
Ever drive under a pedestrian bridge? I was living in Portland Oregon when I was younger, which has a lot of them. The city of Portland is concerned enough about the visual beauty of it's structures, that instead of using the normal gate grating to prevent suiciders from jumping off them, they often use instead metal walls with repeating patterns (like circles or plus signs) cut out of them. When you pass under one of these bridges, although you may not be able to see the actual shape of the hole cut through the wall from your car, the pattern formed between the two grates will magnify the shape of the original holes being used in those grates.
So Moire Patterns seem to magnify an underlying reality. The trick is that when you move under the bridge, the patterns between the two grates continue to form and reform themselves as you go under.
I started seeing these matrices as a sort of Moire Pattern, but wanted to test my assumptions. In this case, I specifically wanted to know what would happen if I move the two spliced grids up and down with respect to each other. Would the wave forms remain in tact? If they do, my presumption is that they are magnifying and underlying reality contained in the original grids.
So I made an offset component that you can see on the jellomatrix tool I built. It turns out, the wave forms stay in tact.
This, in my mind, indicates that these spliced grids do reveal a phenomenological coherence that reveal something about the relationship between these two numbers used to form the grids, and the methods used to create the spliced grid itself.
Next steps are to understand better what this coherence reveals. Here is a more personal account of my Odessey with this math.
Building the physical model
At some point, it has become interesting to me to start running experiments in the physical world that are based in the mathematics I have described above. Interestingly, when the grid is modeled in the physical world, what ends up getting built is a system of co-mingled air-core (this could change) inductors.
These are created by starting with a donut shape that is empty on the inside (I have a plastic round pill container that I am using from the drug store that I bought because of it's shape). In this case I was modeling the 7 by 'x' coil. I believe the 'x' is filled in with pulse sequencing.
I started by using a long wire, and began wrapping the wire around the donut to create 7 wraps around the donut, at that point I kept wrapping the wire over and over again (in this case 10 times) in a way that traced the same pattern over the initial wrap. Then, with another wire and in between the 7 coils already wrapped, I wrapped another wire around the donut and also repeated it 10 times around.
And so the experimentation is beginning. I am working with attaching different components (like a variable resistor or a variable capacitor in series or in parallel) into the circuit in different ways, and am running sequenced pulses of DC current through the system and testing it on an oscilloscope.
I have another module that I have created that uses a fluorescent lighting tube as the donut shape, and works with the number 13 instead of 7.
And here is a video with me testing one of the coils (with the 13 geometry) using a tesla coil:
Understanding the results
What is interesting at this point in my search is to understand this system with a beginners mind. Any person who has tested applications of systems that have not yet been investigated or invented as it were, has the same problem, namely that of creating experiments on the system such that we are aided by the common understanding of these systems, but not enslaved by them.
I am looking for things that others overlooked, or that were scrapped up to a 'dirty signal' or 'a strange but unuseful result in a circuit that is avoided because it creates 'noise' in a circuit.
So instead of avoiding the noise, I am reading it.
And what I have been reading so far is interesting. What I am finding is that when even a small and consistent DC voltage/amperage is applied to the system, the coils seem to fill up with energy, and then burst, and then repeat the pattern over and over again. This burst can be seen on an Oscilloscope as an explosive increase in voltage that disturbs the other coil. And on a Gauss meter, it can be seen as a sizable and momentary pulse of EMF radiation.
I believe that these bursts of voltage/current/EMF radiation are significant. I am working with being able to control them both by timing the pulses of voltage through the system and by adding other electrical components in various orchestrations through the circuit. As I continue testing, I will be posting my results here, so check back!
Solving for the 3D: extrapolating the matrix into 3 dimensions creating a fabric that is infinitely scalable in 6 directions.
Wave Topologies encountered in the spliced Mayan Calendar by Ana Willem is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://jellobrain.com.


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How to Convert Cash Buyers to Private Lenders
All rightie, folks. Patrick here. Today we are answering the popular question: How do you convert cash buyers to private lenders? To do that, we first need to talk about and answer this question: Would a cash buyer potentially be a good source of private money? And, from my experience, the answer is a resounding […]Continue Reading »
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As a real estate investor, you know that there are hot neighborhoods, and there are up-and-coming neighborhoods that could prove to be extremely lucrative for you. The problem is where in the world do you find such places? And how? A few of the ways that have worked in the past might be to: Drive […]Continue Reading »
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'Planet Earth' Gets 4K Close Up
WASHINGTON—Viewers will get another chance to see some of Earth's natural wonders on their television screen, as The Atlantic reports that the BBC will debut six new episodes of its popular nature documentary "Planet Earth." Originally airing in 2006 in the U.K. and 2007 in the U.S., "Planet Earth's" HD footage helped promote the technology to the industry and consumers. This new season will offer the same opportunity but with 4K/UHD.
An iceberg with aurora southern lights was featured in the "Ice Worlds" episode of "Planet Earth."
"Planet Earth 2" has been shooting footage for the last three years using UHD cameras, drones and remote recording, according to TheAtlantic's report. With a minimal of actual 4K content available for the average consumer, "Planet Earth 2" could "serve as a similar native commercial for 4K televisions," wrote David Sims in The Atlantic.
There has been no confirmed release date for "Planet Earth 2."
Read The Atlantic's full story here.


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The family of Dwayne and Debbie Jansen has left its foot print — more precisely, 20 foot prints — on the athletic program at Oak Harbor High School.
For 21 consecutive years, at least one of the eight Jansen children has been involved in Wildcat sports.
It began when Jessica entered high school in 1996 and will end when Julie graduates this spring. Jon, Jake, Justin, Jennie, Jember and Josh filled the middle years.
DWAYNE AND Debbie estimate they've attended more than 700 Oak Harbor High School events, often with Grandma Looff and a couple of kids in tow.
The children attended Oak Harbor Christian School during their elementary years and were home schooled through middle school.
"Dwayne and I felt it was important that they have a public high school experience, which we also felt wouldn't be complete unless they participated in athletics," Debbie said.
Participate they did. Combined, the eight children competed in 14 different sports and earned 48 varsity letters.
Three (Jake, Jennie and Jember) earned college athletic scholarships.
In addition to being excellent athletes, all achieved academic letters and were members of the National Honor Society.
"The Jansen siblings have been successful in athletics because our parents have been exemplary role models," Jessica said. "My mom taught us the value of education from an early age and encouraged us to find the joy in reading books. My dad taught us the importance of perseverance and hard work through his own commitments to family and work."
DWAYNE AND Debbie didn't force athletics on the children, Jake said, they just pointed the way and "after a season or two, we took ownership and developed a passion for sports."
"Sports is a great outlet for energy," he added. "For their own sanity, I think our parents introduced us to sports to get us out of the house."
That passion was passed along from child to child.
"Each sibling set the standard for the next, and our expectation was to meet or exceed that standard," Jennie said. "I grew up with three brothers just older than me. Whenever I didn't want to or didn't think I could do something, I was never allowed the excuse of 'I am a girl.' I was always told, 'You're not a girl, Jennie; you're a Jansen.'"
ACADEMIC success was equally as important.
"Failure was not an option," Jake said. "But, my mom didn't just tell us to do our homework. If we didn't understand something, she worked with us until we did."
The lessons learned from athletics and the commitment to classwork are still paying dividends, according to the Jansen children.
"Sports teaches you to work toward a common goal, to accept wins and losses — like getting or not getting promotions at work — gracefully," Jake said. "It lays a foundation for life."
"(Tennis) coach (Horace) Mells instilled in me the lifelong love of playing a sport," Jennie said. "(Basketball) coaches (Brett) McLeod and (Fred) Burleson taught me that there are no restrictions, only abilities to be developed, and hard work will enable you to achieve your goals."
Athletics continue to play a role in several of the kids' lives. Jessica and Jennie are both teachers and coaches, and Jake helped with the Wildcat baseball program for three years.
"Sports can be an activity enjoyed over a lifetime — I still play sand volleyball with my sisters Jessica and Julie every summer," Jennie said.
WHEN JULIE finishes high school in June, Dwayne and Debbie will get a break from following their children around the state — but the journey is not over.
"Dwayne and I are already looking 10 years down the road when our oldest grandchild — Jake's son, Mason — will be in high school," Debbie said.
If Oak Harbor High School kept records for such things, it would be safe to say the Jansens would be on the top of the list for varsity letters and honor students.
Oh, and let's not forget, "J" names.
HERE'S A quick rundown of the Jansen children's athletic careers:
Jessica (2000 graduate of OHHS): Played varsity volleyball for the Wildcats and is now the junior varsity volleyball coach at King's High School where she owns a 134-6 record.
Jon (2003): Lettered in football and basketball. He is a career firefighter in Virginia Beach and a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Jake (2005): An all-league football and baseball player for Oak Harbor. Played baseball at Northwestern College (Iowa), where he earned all-conference honors. He is ranked among the top five in seven Northwestern school records, including first in career putouts (1,069) and second in career RBI (145) and doubles (47).
Justin (2007): Played football and golf as an underclassman and then focused on NJROTC activities (rifle team, orienteering and unarmed drill team). He took first in the 2006 state Junior Olympic three-position air rifle championships; he is also an Eagle Scout.
Jennie (2009): Earned 11 varsity letters (volleyball, basketball, tennis) and played volleyball for Northwest College where she was a three-time all-league player and played in two NAIA national tournaments. She also earned three conference and two NAIA scholar-athlete awards.
Jember (2013): She won 12 varsity letters (soccer, competitive cheer and track) and was a National Cheerleaders Association All-American. Jember helped the Wildcats place second twice in the state cheer tournament. She received a scholarship to Hawaii Pacific University and participated in acrobatics and tumbling and cheer.
Josh (2015): After playing three sports as an underclassman and becoming an Eagle Scout, he turned his attention to firefighting. He attended the Island County Recruit Academy his junior year, then earned his certification as a Firefighter I as a senior.
Julie (2017): Will have 11 varsity letters from three sports (volleyball, basketball and track and field) when she graduates this spring. She hopes to throw the discus for Northwestern College.


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Colorado Springs is a small town no longer. According to Mayor John Suthers, it's the 40th largest city in the nation, bigger than Virginia Beach, Va., and just behind Atlanta. It's grown nearly 10 percent since the 2010 census to around 460,000 residents.
And the Springs is popping up on all kinds of lists: Forbes ranks it No. 12 for business and careers, and Money magazine named it the top city in the mountains. According to U.S. News & World Report, it's in the top five best places to live.
So why is it that the same people are always showing up, volunteering on boards and committees, running for office and pushing the city forward? Where are all the other people who live, work and play here — those people who have a stake in what the city's future looks like, at the very least from an economic standpoint?
It's the Pareto Principle in action — better known as the 80-20 rule. In other words, in organizations, from business to committees to nonprofits, 80 percent of the output comes from 20 percent of the effort. American engineer Joseph Juran called it "the vital few and the useful many." But those "useful many" can easily become the "vital few."
Since Colorado Springs has grown so large, it would seem that new faces would make up that 20 percent of active participants in community life. City leaders, business owners, nonprofit executives should make it their business to work to improve that 20 percent, adding new faces as the city becomes larger, instead of relying on the steady few who show up and make a difference.
Some of the city's new residents might bring fresh ideas and a new perspective to the way the city operates.
Those people are vital to the city's success — people like UCCS's Stephannie Finley Fortune, who seems to be everywhere at once; Linda Weise, a mainstay in the nonprofit world; the RBA's Dirk Draper or Nor'wood's Chris Jenkins.
Some of the city's new residents might bring fresh ideas and a new perspective to the way the city operates. There could be a CEO of a defense company seeking ways to improve the community, wanting to find out how the city is working with the Department of Defense to keep military bases here. Or maybe the director of a newly formed nonprofit wants to know how to get involved locally. Millennials, in particular, want to feel connected and engaged in their community.
So how do the 20 percent swell their ranks to include newcomers? In some ways, it's up to those who want to help. They need to stand up, speak out and volunteer. Current City Councilor Bill Murray wanted to get involved — and started with volunteering on the Memorial Citizens Commission. He then ran for office twice before getting elected to his current position on the Colorado Springs City Council.
Young professional Jariah Walker ran for office as well, but also volunteers on boards, works for the city and is a voice for Millennials throughout the city.
When people seek opportunities to engage — they find them.
Colorado Springs is too big to be insular. Those already active in the community should reach out to others to get them involved — on city committees, volunteer boards or Business Alliance groups. More voices involved mean more creative ideas, more progress, more inclusion.
And that benefits everyone.


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Interview of MFA Nikola Poposki for "Standard"
Date: 03.06.2016
Journalist: Krasi Temelkova
1. Minister, what are positions and situation like after the postponement of elections in Macedonia?
What remains is for us to agree on a new election date. Elections are part of the political agreement that was reached last summer. The largest opposition party asked for elections, but afterwards they estimated that it would be better if elections aren't held this soon. There's no point in forcing elections on someone, especially if that same someone has requested elections to be held in the first place.
We will surely reach a domestic agreement on when to make the remaining step from last year's agreement, and that is elections. As with any other agreement, the most important thing is to use this time for vital reforms that will lead as towards the EU. This is a priority. Not because of the procedure, but because of the essence of those reforms, as a prerequisite for greater predictability in the country.
2.When can we expect elections to take place and is it possible to reach an agreement between parties on this issue?
I cannot actually pinpoint the date when the agreement on elections will be reached. We know that it is going to happen. The sooner, the better. It is more important to prevent the spiral of instability and to keep the focus on reforms which should be implemented regardless of anyone's opinion on the political situation. They are the one unifying factor. Parliamentary majority has a stable support and vision for moving forward.
3. Who won from the delay of elections and what kind of losses were brought on by this decision?
At first glance I don't see that anyone has won something. Practically we all lost; some more, some less. But as I said, you can't force elections on someone. Especially not someone who has requested early elections themselves.
4. Are you aware of people's protests?
Yes, and I would staunchly fight for everyone to have the right to express their own opinion in my country. Everyone has their point. Wisdom lies in the capacity to accept all opinions, critiques and standpoints, and to deduce what's best for the country.
5. How will this political crisis affect Macedonia's path towards the EU?
It undoubtedly complicated our path to the EU. The unfair delay of accession negotiations between the EU and Macedonia is being mentioned less and less. It is almost forgotten. A much more active topic is the drama related to the political clash within the country. Political clashes seem to be the number one regional sport. This unquestionably costs us a lot. I am personally convinced that this situation will be surpassed and we will come out stronger on the other side. But we must find solutions with domestic resources. No one from the outside will help us, unless we help ourselves.
6. When can we expect the Agreement on Good Neighbourly Relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia to be finalized?
How we reach this agreement is much more important that the agreement itself. Will this be a feat of strength or a fair agreement between partner countries? The current approach is encouraging. There are efforts on both sides to understand the concerns of the other in an open manner. Historically, a feeling prevails in Macedonia that when our neighbours want something, they are asking for our soul. And being a proud people we're not thrilled when we get this impression. I believe we can succeed. The deadline shouldn't be a priority, but rather our partnership within the EU. The depth of talks between people from working groups of both sides is a good sign for this process.
7. What is your opinion on the development of relations between the two countries during your mandate as Minister of Foreign Affairs?
Objectively, we've had plenty of dark periods when we felt that the only success for Bulgaria is to extort Macedonia. After numerous oscillations, I believe that at the moment we are perhaps in a phase when communications are at the highest possible level, at least in comparison to the last 5 years. Perhaps the political developments that occurred in both countries have made us wiser and more dedicated in the long-run on creating sincere friendships. This is the Balkans, not Scandinavia. But without keeping a cool head we will only distance ourselves further from Scandinavia in terms of mentality and economic standards. The latter is a bigger problem. That is why we need to be resolutely dedicated to building a good climate between our two countries and the region, since that will help us bring in investments and jobs. In this aspect, Bulgaria and Macedonia share the exact same interest.


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Lionsgate Invests in Pilgrim
Lionsgate, on the heels of a deal with Discovery Communications and John Malone's Liberty Global that swapped a 6.8% stake in the movie studio for $390 million, has made a strategic investment in independent producer Pilgrim Studios, a deal that will give the movie and television producer a solid foothold in unscripted fare for cable networks.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed but published reports put Lionsgate's investment at around $200 million.
Pilgrim produces 47 unscripted and scripted series across 27 networks, including Ghost Hunters (Syfy); Welcome to Sweetie Pie's (OWN); Fast N' Loud (Discovery); Wicked Tuna (National Geographic Channel) and The Ultimate Fighter (FS1). Pilgrim will continue to operate independently and keep its current management team headed by founder and CEO Craig Piligian.


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Despite a brief uptick during week 33, southern yellow pine lumber prices have remained relatively flat through the summer months and into late August. US housing data has mirrored SYP prices, as housing starts dropped 4.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1,155,000 units in July; single-family starts were up 0.5 percent to 856,000 units and multi-family housing segment dropped 15.9 percent to a 299,000 unit-pace.
The composite southern yellow pine lumber price for week 34 was at $377/mbf, which is down from week 33's temporary spike of $389/mbf. Week 34's price is 0.3 percent below its January 2017 starting point of $378/mbf, and 0.3 percent below the 2016 week 34 price of $378/mbf.
A closer look at some of the prices we have seen since the beginning of the year:
- 1Q2017 Average Price: $404/mbf
- 2Q2017 Average Price: $410/mbf
- YTD Peak Price: $440/mbf
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The Revolution of 3D Printing
Source: Exprinted.com
The emerging technology of 3D printers has opened doors beyond imagination. Industries have high hopes for this technology which some claimed that may reshape the world as we know it.
Even politicians have their own say on that "3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything" said Barack Obama, U.S. President.
3D printing technology is also used by scientists . While they have succeeded in printing some simple tissue using what is called "Bioprinters" , The replacement of organs is still an n open challenge for investigation and research .
Want to learn more about it, find links below:
Manufacturing, transport and medical industries set to be revolutionised by 3D printing
Impact of 3D Printed Prosthetics on Human Life
How 3D printing will reshape the world
Conceptual Artists and Designers Push Boundaries of Design at London's First 3D Print Show
Will 3D Printing Change Everything?


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If I did not have a mentor at such a crucial period in my life, I am not sure where I would be today.
And yet, you have until December 15 to enroll in Obamacare for coverage beginning January 1.
The health centers will serve uninsured and underinsured patients in Charlotte, North Carolina.
How to pay for cancer treatment and related costs
Addressing barriers to care, such as insurance coverage, could mitigate disparities in outcomes between white and Black men.
Amazon's Alexa Skills Kit is a health care game change.
Insurance companies can no longer implement harmful co-pay accumulator policies.
Alexa can now securely transmit and receive personalized medical information.
There are many unsung heroes along a patient's cancer journey, and patient navigators are some of them.
In fact, we borrowed $88 billion last year. Yet a new survey finds "a great political divide" in our satisfaction with health care.
A closer look at the Deep South's HIV prevention problem
Health care facilities serving people who use drugs are well-positioned to initiate hepatitis C testing. But 'they don't.
We will never end the HIV and hepatitis epidemics by preventing people with preexisting conditions from accessing care.
Expanded services at the remodeled facility are part of the mayor's Ending the Epidemic plan.
Another initiative of the Elton John AIDS Foundation will focus on HIV and hep C in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The Janssen Therapeutics funding aims to help African Americans living with HIV in the South and in rural areas.
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Ginger for Super Health
Ginger is a popular ingredient in cooking and It helps soothe or calm the muscles of the gastrointestinal system and alleviates nausea and morning sickness.
It is using as fresh, dried, powdered, or as an oil. It is a very common ingredient in recipes.
Ginger which has also been found to help switch on your body's heat-production systems, boosting the metabolism as you eat them and afterward.
For a metabolic kick-start first thing: Grate a touch of fresh ginger into a pint of warm water, add a pinch of cinnamon and cayenne pepper as well as the juice of half a lemon (this acts like 'dishwashing liquid' on your liver and is great if you have been over-indulging on the alcohol front) and consume before breakfast.
Ginger also calms the stomach, via a chemical ingredient called gingerol which helps with stomach contractions 'It also relaxes the system generally and is also a good circulatory tonic, says Rick Hay.
One randomised controlled study published in the journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine looked at the effects of taking a supplement containing ginger (along with other herbs and fruits) and showed that it reduced the time it took for insomniacs to fall asleep.
It is a great overall tonic for the nervous system too. A 2010 study published in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry found that ginger might bind to the brain's serotonin receptor which could have a calming effect on anxiety.
`Serotonin is the brain's feel-good neurotransmitter,' explains Hay.
If you've eaten a big meal near bed-time, take ginger tea made with half a teaspoon of grated ginger and a cup of water boiled for five minutes for better nighttime digestion and to help sleep.


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UMi Touch smartphone is an Android device released in 2016, March. It has dual sim options with both a Micro Sim and Nano Sim. Color options include Silver, Gray and Gold. Also you get a 5.5. inch display. UMi Touch price stars from Kshs 9,000 in Kenya.
UMi Touch has dimensions of 155 x 77 x 8.5 mm (length by width by height) and weighs around 167 grams.
With the 5.5-inch display, you get a resolution of 1080 x 1920 resolution. At the price point, it is rear to see a phone with such a resolution. The pixel density is 401 ppi, therefore you get clear and sharp image quality.
The UMi Touch mobile phone has a camera of 13MP. This primary camera has features such as HDR, Dual LED flash and panorama.
In the secondary camera is a 5MP lens. This can take videos at 1080p at 30 frames per second. To add to that, it also has LED flash which ensures you can take photos in low light conditions.
When it comes to the OS, it runs Android Marshmallow 6.0. therefore, you get User interface improvements and battery saving capabilities
In the processor, you have a Mediatek MT6753. It is clocked at 1.3GHz and has Mali GPU. With all these, you get fast performance from the smartphone.
UMi Touch comes with 3GB of RAM. This ensures that you can run multiple apps at the same time without the phone taking a performance hit.
When it comes to the internal memory, you get 16GB. This enables you to download and store multiple apps. If that is not enough, you can opt to increase the capacity up to 128GB using a microSD card.
What are the connectivity options?
With the UMi Touch, you get 4G connectivity, 3G, GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth version 4.1.
Coming to the battery, you get a 4000mAh capacity one. When on standby, this can last a maximum of 15 days.
UMi Touch Specifications
These are the specifications of the phone;
General Features
Announced: March, 2016
Dual SIM: yes Micro SIM + Nano SIM
Year: 2016
Design and Colors
Dimensions: 155 x 77 x 8.5 mm
Weight: –
Colors: Silver, Gray, Gold
Display Specs
Type: Color LTPS IPS screen, 16M colors
Touch: yes Multitouch
Display size: 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels
Pixel density: 401 ppi
Camera Specs & Quality
Camera resolution: 13 MP
Features: Face detection, Geo tagging, Autofocus, Panorama, Touch to focus, HDR, Dual LED flash
Secondary camera: 5 MP, LED flash
Video: yes 1080p 30fps
Technical Specifications
Operating system: Android OS 6.0 (Marshmallow)
Processor type: Octa Core
Processor speed: 1.3 GHz Cortex A53
Chipset: MediaTek MT6753
GPU: yes Mali-T720
Internal memory: 16 GB
Card slot: yes Up to 128 GB
Connectivity Options
3G: yes Up to 21.1 Mbps Download, 5.76 Mbps Upload
4G: yes Up to 150 Mbps Download, 50 Mbps Upload
GPRS: yes Up to 85.6 kbps
EDGE: yes Up to 236.8 kbps
WiFi: yes Wi-Fi Hotspot, Dual-band Wi-Fi
Bluetooth: yes 4.1
USB: yes MicroUSB 2.0
GPS: yes A-GPS, GLONASS
Battery Capacity
Battery type: 4000 mAh, Li-Po
Standby time: Up to 15 days
Other UMi Touch Features
Sensors: Accelerometer, Proximity
Music player: MP3, WAV, eAAC+
Video player: MP4, H.264
FM radio: yes
3.5 mm audio jack: yes
Additional features: Fingerprint ID, Corning Gorilla Glass 3, USB OTG


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August Regents to be held at high school; deadline to register extended
Because summer construction at the high school was finished earlier than expected, August Regents Examinations will be held at South High instead of Tanglewood Elementary School. As a result, registration for exams has been extended until this Friday, July 28.
If you are interested in taking an August Regents Exam, you MUST contact Ms. Shannon McNeil at 518-792-9987, Ext. 1, by 12 p.m. on Friday, July 28. This is the FINAL deadline to register for exams. No registrations will be accepted after 12 p.m. on Friday under any circumstances.
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Many people wrongly think that sponge is a sort of seaweed. This is not surprising, for sponge was once regarded as one of Nature's puzzles. One old writer imagined that sponges were made out of the foam of the sea. Another thought that they were worm houses, built by worms much as bees build honeycombs and wasps build nests.
The truth is that sponge is an animal. The dry material that we use as 'sponge' is a horny skeleton. When it is alive this fibrous skeleton of the animal has tiny cells plastered all over its surface in such a way that it forms a porous mass. The mouths and tiny pores on the outside lead into a network of tubes large and small. The cells that are set around the pores and mouths have little finger-like processes which all move together. A stream of water flows in at the pores and out again at the mouths. In this way food and gasses in the water are made to circulate in all the cells.
Some sponges reproduce their kind by growing buds on the parent animal. Among other species there are males and females, and the female sponges produce eggs that develop into single cells. At first these go swimming through the water but afterward they take root and form elaborate compound structures as described. There are sponges of all shapes, sizes and colors. Some are the size of pinhead, some as tall as a man; some are fan-like, some tree-like, some cup-like, and some basket-like; some are built on a horny framework; some are made of lime; some have glassy frame. Some are snow-white, some grass-green, some sky-blue, some red and some yellow. There are in fact many thousands of species of sponges!
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Germany's Federal Cartel Office is investigating Facebook's data collection practices pertaining to the manner in which the company tracks its users across the entire Internet and analyzes their browsing habits far outside the scope of its own social network, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing an emailed statement from the regulator. The authority is concerned with the practice and its implications for digital privacy, having confirmed it's currently in the process of weighing its options and will decide whether to sanction the social media giant. The probe itself is expected to be concluded in mid-2018 and may simply result in the FCO demanding a number of concessions and assurances from Facebook instead of hitting the Menlo Park, California-based company with fines.
The FCO is also investigating whether consumers have provided Facebook with explicit consent to be tracked as part of the platform's terms of use, according to the agency. The world's largest social media service already responded to the matter, claiming that the German regulator is making unfounded allegations in regards to how the company truly operates and adding that Facebook isn't the "dominant" website in Germany despite being the country's most popular social network. Should Facebook be penalized on the matter, such a development may force it to significantly change its advertising business model that relies on serving highly targeted ads to people based on a broad range of data, including the websites they visit outside of Facebook. The FCO gave no indications in regards to the direction in which its ongoing investigation is leaning but should share more details on the matter by spring.
Facebook has already been criticized by German authorities on several occasions in recent times and even provoked a direct regulatory intervention due to sharing user data with its subsidiary WhatsApp. That particular case still hasn't been resolved on a continental level but France is now conducting a standalone investigation into the matter, with the main issue being that Facebook and WhatsApp claimed they aren't technologically capable of matching their data libraries with each other during the 2014 review of their proposed merger, then doing so anyway after two years without even asking for explicit consent from users.


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Jacob Steele & Freddy Richmond
Oh YIKES, poor Freddy Richmond's eyes were bigger than his belly, he assured us he could take nine, long, throbbing, warm, inches of uncut cock, but as he unzipped Jacob's bulging pants and saw that fat, piece of meat flap up and slap Jacob's lean, smooth belly – he suddenly realised the enormity of the task in hand ( soon to be in mouth and in ass!) Jacob's a skinny, cute English lad with an almost freakishly oversized cock and he luvs showing it – its total boy-bait. Freddy's eager to suck it and tongue that impressive foreskin, tentatively peeling it back to lick the bulbous head of Jacob's rigid dick before licking up an down the length of the shaft. The boys kiss and snog passionately, then Freddy can put it off no longer and Jacob turns him around to lick his tight, teen-hole, getting it good and spit slick for his tool. Its a struggle at first but once our eager bottom boy has relaxed around the over-sized cock he's pushing back and riding it like a pro. Get ready for that cum shot sonny!!
Abraham Montenegro & Angel Garcia
We ve got a hot, spicy dish of Spanish hotties for you, lots of meat lots of spice. We re keeping them hairy and hung of course but these two handsome lads are a little bit younger – Otters rather than bears, but hotter than hades and revved up ready for cock and ass action – AND thats a fat, raw cock we're serving up steaming hot! Abraham Montenegro is a total top with a cute face, great, hairy body and fat, juicy dick, we've pitted him against mohawked stud, Angel Garcia and this fuck is a BIG dick, frantic, bareback FUUUUCK, with cutie Angel struggling to take such a length and all of us enjoying his valiant efforts. Once that monster schooling is in he's riding it like the nasty cock-pig he is as the hot lads, bump and grind there hips to arses and skin to skin becoming more and more passionate and frenzied as Abraham gets closer and closer to the vinegar strokes that threaten to flood Angel's aching hole with spunk ! Hold tight it s bumpy, bumpy ride.
Kayden Gray & Issac Jones
WOWEE, its not xmas but we decided to spoil with a double whammy of stunning gents, two of our all time favourites – Issac Jones – after an absence of 3 years and the evergreen gem with the colossal cock – Kayden Gray – HOT DAMN, talk about more meat for your pound and more bang for your buck. The guys are out jogging, Issac's behind Kayden admiring the firm give and jig of his arse and Kayden knows when he's being admired – he's had enough practice. The guys head for the woods and a after a brief snog and a grope Kayden suggests heading back to his place to finish what they've started. These stunning, hung, uncut studs fall through the door onto the sofa and proceed to strip each other off and suck on each others oversized cock. Isaac's is a juicy eight inches whilst Kayden's is a humungous nine, uncut inches of solid, girthy tool. Isaac's been out of the game but can't wait to spread his hairy, hard butt cheeks for Kayden's probing tongue and ass-busting cock. First he's getting it bent over like a dog, grunting with exertion as his sphincter stretches and retracts with each thrust, then he's clambers up to ride the pole (Luv watching Issac's had dick bob as he slams up and down on the stiff pork) Then they roll into the spoons position before Issac begs Kayden to let him skewer his arse on the dick, knowing it'll jab his Gspot until he's spraying his seed all over Kayden's thigh, and WOAH does it ever!! Then Kayden pushes him down, straddles his face and wanks out a monster load to mingle with the sweat, all over Issac's face. Just watching this frantic, furious passionate fuck had us all knackered – its a sexy workout in itself!!
Michael Gold
Poor Michael Gold, lured to an empty factory for some sleazy anonymous sex, but …no one turns up ( come on gents we've all been there!!) But this sexy, chav needs to blow a nut, so he tunes into some porn on his phone, sent by some sleazy chums, and slides his sweaty, eager hands down his own pants to fondle and fumble with his own burgeoning length of long-foreskinned cock. This over sexed lad is soon rock hard in his under pants, and pulls them down to reveal the pulsating length – and of course director – Dirty George – gets in there CLOSE so you can count the hairs on that veiny dick. Of course there's lots of foreskin play and close ups of butt hole and bulging bollocks. And of course when this guys body clenches and his nuts grip, and the cum starts to flow…we do't miss a drop. lick it up – spunkalicious !
Max Duran & Santi Noguera
Hold onto whats left of your arse Santi is cumming to town and this big, mean boy fucker is taking no prisoners. Luckily we've pitted him against the insatiable Guapo – Max Duran. Sexy Max will do anything to please his oversexed papi, and if that means standing on his head while Santi does a number on his hole – so be it. Max couldn't wait to get down and suck that dark, gristle dick and get it good and stiff to fuck his hungry hole, once Santi's revved up there's no stopping him. The top bloke spreads max's butt for us to have a good look as he slobbers all over it like a rabid hound. Max takes the full force of this big buggers furious fucking, as Santi slams relentlessly hip to hip, sliding his hot meat right up to the aching bollocks in max's tight, but increasingly sloppy fuck hole. the guys slam and pound until they're ready to blow ! Get ready gents Santi is cumming to town and this time its the bad boys who get presents !
Ricky Zumbajo
This straight lad is instant crush material. what other job can you have in which you get to ask straight boys to strip off, show off, play with their foreskins and wank out a creamy load of seed? This is Ricky's first time, he's as eager as he is unsure, he's only had one experience with a guy, during a 3some, so fair to say this cute, hung, uncut honey is totally virginal and UN-manhandled. He's a sexy, blushing, smiling stud with a big dick, a creamy load, and cute smooth buns. We spend particular attention with that long, rippling foreskin, we know you luv'em!
Macanao Torres & Fabian
Lets take the action outside, into the Spanish hills, its 100 degrees in the shade and rising. We shot with Macanao a few years ago and couldn't wait to get this handsome, hairy guapo back for more. This time he's in a sleazy, alfresco snog, suck, rim and fuck with stunning first timer Fabian. These boys are hot, hairy, unplucked, sweaty and completely uninhibited, with oversized, bloated, uncut cocks. Fabian is a piggy bottom, and luvs licking Macanao's hairy, smelly armpits and slurping on that big, fat cock, sliding it into his mouth until Macanao's bushy pubes are all over his face (wish we'd shot this in smell-ovision, these sweaty, musky, masculine lads are delicious). Macanao bends Fabian over a tree and thrusts his face as far as he can between Fabian's hairy butt cheeks and eats that juicy, puckered hole for all he's worth. Fabian is SO ready for that fat cock he's begging to feel that fat helmet pressing against his hole – he doesn't have to wait long. The guys fuck like animals until they're ready to shoot their juicy loads and all out in public, anyone could be watching…and we are !
Luke Tyler & Jack Green
WOWZER, this was our Pride weekend treat! we couldn't wait to get Luke (the-cum-geyser) Tyler, back for more and this time he's pitted against the super sexy, tanned hunk – Jack Green. Jack's a proper English man, well spoken, handsome, taut and hung with a long foreskin and a big appetite for MEN. The guys meet at the entrance to Luke's flat as Luke's out cruising for cock and Jack's jogging up a sweat – the lads head indoors and get straight down to snogging and feeling each others stiffening, uncut tools through the crotches of each others trousers. Luke stretches Jack's pert buns wide and pushes both index fingers inside to pull his arse open and get it good and ready for a rigid 8 inches of uncircumcised meat. The horny lads, buck, wrestle thrash and fuck all over the sofa, with Jack presenting his twitching hole to Luke and getting it ready for fucking. After pushing back for more and more dick Jack straddles and rides the throbbing meat until he can hold back no longer and squirts all over the place. The guys lie back and Jack braces himself for whats coming, get yourselves ready gents when Luke cums he really cums, even with 3 cameras and a wide angle we couldn't film how far Luke squirted that juicy, sticky, yumalicious load!


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I hope everyone had a wonderful fist week of the new year! I can definitely tell it's January. It's bitter cold. It's hard to find a parking place at the gym. And difficult not to step on someone in Zumba class. (Not cause I'm uncoordinated which has happened.Whoops! But because there are so many people in there.
As far as my quilting ventures go I pieced a bunch of fabric from my bits bin. Then cut out three tulips from my made fabric.
But now it's your turn. What great things have you started this new year?


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"The Main Chief Big White & 2 others i e the Big Man or Sha-ha-ca and [blank] Came early to talk, and Spoke as follows, after Smoking, Viz... We were Sorry when we heard of your going up but now you are going down, we are glad, if we eat you Shall eat, if we Starve you must starve also."
—William Clark, November 1, 1804
With his words of welcome, Chief Sheheke invited the Corps of Discovery to winter near the Knife River Mandan villages, north of today's Bismarck, North Dakota. French traders dubbed the chief "Big White" due to his size and complexion. Without the friendship and hospitality of the Mandans and other tribes along the journey, it is doubtful that Lewis and Clark would have made it to the Pacific Ocean and back.
Our Missouri River Corps of Rediscovery has also benefited from the tradition of friendship and hospitality as we retrace their route and move backwards through the journals to 1804.
Stormy weather and dripping rain greeted our return to the free-flowing river as we paddled downstream from Garrison Dam in search of Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. Lacking clear access from the Missouri, we docked our canoes at a private boat ramp and walked down the road in the rain. The landowner drove up moments later. We explained our mission, and Bill Marlenee offered a ride, then told us about this guy named Churchill Clark who carves dugout canoes. Such is the serendipitous nature of our journey that we would stumble into an unknown friend nearly a thousand river miles from home.
The Knife River site was settled around 1525. Lewis and Clark found two independent Mandan villages and three Hidatsa villages totaling up to 5,000 citizens. The Mandans and Hidatsa spoke different languages, but shared similar cultures and often lived near each other for mutual defense.
French Canadian trader Toussaint Charbonneau and his Shoshone-born teenage wife lived among the Hidatsa in Awatixa Village. Lewis and Clark hired him as an interpreter, bringing Sacagawea and her newborn son along as the newest and youngest members of the Corps of Discovery. A reconstructed earthlodge at Knife River is outfitted with the furnishings of the day to provide an enchanting glimpse into life in an earthlodge village.
Bill and Debra Marlenee invited our unexpected entourage to stay in their cabin, a greatly appreciated gesture on a cold, rainy night. Hot pizza for dinner and a hearty big breakfast of eggs, sausage, hash browns, and rolls didn't hurt either. How can we repay such kindness everywhere we go?
A solid day of paddling brought us to Washburn, where we found courtesy camping in the waterfront city park. Renewed hunger brought us to the Ice Burg for burgers, fries, and chocolate shakes, as if we have completely forgotten how to cook for ourselves. Our server, Kirsten Olson, gifted us her amazing homemade bacon and breakfast sausage for the trail.
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We toured the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and the reconstructed Fort Mandan. Having built my own home, it is difficult to conceive how the Corps of Discovery managed to construct the substantial fort in a matter of weeks, let alone make it livable to survive severe winter weather with temperatures dropping to 45ºF below zero. The river has since washed away the original site, so the replica fort was constructed closer to town.
Seven miles later, we camped at Cross Ranch State Park to hike the extensive park trail system. One "grandfather" cottonwood tree was alive here even before Lewis and Clark passed by. Wherever we go, we've enjoyed snacking on ripe chokecherries, buffalo berries, and now wild grapes.
We also stopped at Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site, so named for defensive earthworks built around earthlodge communities featuring a wooden palisade surrounded by a dry moat to deter attackers. Ground squirrels are now the primary inhabitants, dragging scraps of bone, pottery, and flint to the surface as they tunnel through old waste middens.
Preparing to get back on the water, we were approached by three guys on a pontoon boat, who shouted out, "Are you guys the Corps of Rediscovery?"
"Yeah, you found us," I replied, assuming they were tracking our progress online. But they had not heard of the expedition; it was just a lucky guess made in good humor. Shortly thereafter, we pitched our tents on the lawn at Clete and Lesley's riverfront home, joining them and guests Bill and Alexander from Montana for a big steak dinner with fresh corn, mashed potatoes, and a big green salad.
Clete's neighbor John happened to be a retired veterinarian. He gave Jubilee a courtesy distemper/parvo vaccination just before we piled back into the canoes. Chalk another one up to serendipity.
Paddling to the Missouri's confluence with the Heart River, we camped at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. The Fort was led by General George Custer before he marched his forces to their doom against the Sioux at the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana.
The park includes On-A-Slant Indian Village, established in the 1500s and inhabited by the Mandans until the 1781 smallpox epidemic killed most of the population and survivors moved north to join the Hidatsa at the Knife River site.
Finally back on the river, we paddled to Sugarloaf Recreation Area. Glenn, the park manager, was super helpful in giving us a good campsite. His wife cooked up a big lasagna in anticipation of guests that didn't arrive, so they gifted it to us. We are surely the most spoiled group to ever paddle the Missouri River!