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India Inc may soon get an opportunity to equip country's skilled manpower as per the industry own standards, reports Chetan Chauhan.business Updated: Apr 04, 2007 23:22 IST
India Inc may soon get an opportunity to equip country's skilled manpower as per the industry own standards.
The Task Force on Vocational Education is expected to suggest green field projects in the area of vocational education to provide skilled manpower to meet the industry demands in wake of India's booming economy. The report is likely to be submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by end of this month.
The Task Force is understood to have suggested a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for the Greenfield projects to be set up in main industrial towns of the country. As per the model, the state governments would provide land to the interested corporate sector for setting up the green field projects whereas the Centre would provide a loan to them for establishing the centres. In return, the private player will admit a certain number of students sponsored by the government at subsidised fees.
Government officials say the corporate setting up the vocational education school will be free to decide on the courses to be run, the curriculum and the fee structure for students except those sponsored by the government. A particular green field project can be given permission for a specific industry, an official said.
The task force is also expected to recommend a similar approach for upgrading 1,396 government-run ITIs in the country. In the area of fast changing technology, an official said, most ITIs have outdated equipment and run old courses that are of no use to the industry, a fact brought out before the government by the industry in various submissions. "This needs to change and the government will help in bringing this change," the official commented.
The PPP model will transfer the functional control of these ITIs to private sector whereas the government will continue to regulate fees and admissions. "The new management will get total financial and academic autonomy," an official said.
Finance minister P Chidambaram, in his budget speech, has announced an interest free loan of Rs 2.5 crore to the private management of each ITI for upgradation and revision of courses. Under the new PPP mode, 300 ITIs would be upgraded every year.
Once the task force submits its report, the Ministry of Labour is likely to approach the Cabinet for the change in policy and allowing skill green field projects with private sector. The Ministry of Labour is working on a Cabinet note for new policy direction, an official confirmed.
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Fund-raisers like the Shop 'n Save T-shirt Days are part of the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) campaign in support of Special Olympics Illinois. The Illinois LETR is the single largest year-round fund-raising vehicle benefiting Special Olympics Illinois. This intrastate relay and its various fund-raisers have two goals: to raise money and to increase public awareness for the athletes of Special Olympics. Each year, more than 3,000 officers in Illinois run more than 1,500 miles carrying the Flame of Hope through the streets of their hometowns and deliver it to the State Summer Games in Normal.
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After holding a special meeting with members of the Lewiston Garden Club on Monday, the Village Board of Trustees appears to have found an answer to the question of what to do when festivals end on a Saturday evening and Center Street remains closed all night.
Mayor Terry Collesano suggested the Garden Club committee utilize the village's small bus for the 2011 GardenFest, and use it as a means of transporting patrons from off-street parking lots to Center Street's business district.
"We'll have shuttle service," Collesano said.
"This could be a good gesture on your part," he told Garden Club committee members Claudia Marasco, Barb Carter and Barbara Landree.
"If that would help, I think we'd be happy to do that, right?" Collesano asked the board.
Members agreed, and said the bus could be driven down the middle of Center Street, which would remain open to accommodate safety vehicles.
"We're going to have the festival; we just want to iron things out," Trustee Ernie Krell said.
The Garden Club representatives had agreed to meet with the board following comments made at the Oct. 18 municipal meeting. At that time, trustees and village Police Commissioner Al Soluri questioned closing Center Street for GardenFest, and wondered what impact the closing would have on restaurants and stores.
"Many of our festivals are on Center Street, and they deserve to be," Collesano said Monday. "But yours is a little unique, because I think you need more room to spread out."
He indicated Academy Park would be a logical place to hold the Saturday-Sunday event.
Carter disagreed.
"We're doing this to showcase the village -- not just Academy Park," she said. In fact, she said the Garden Club's sole purpose in hosting the festival is to call attention to Lewiston.
"For the amount of money that we make, (it isn't) worth our while," Carter said. "We do it for the village."
Collesano conceded the point.
"All right, I'll take that," he said. "Everybody wants to use Center Street. ... But, we want to utilize that park."
Carter said Center Street is the safest spot to hold a festival.
"It's a real safety issue," she said of patrons navigating congested sidewalks, as they did in previous festival years. Now, "There is no traffic on the street, and they have room to walk."
Deputy Mayor Bruce Sutherland agreed Center Street is the ideal location for a festival, but said more effort is needed to ensure Lewiston businesses profit in the process.
"It is definitely better with the street closed. ... But, Saturday night was like a ghost town (last time)," he said.
"We're just trying to make it a happy balance," Collesano said.
The Garden Club members said overall sales generated via the festival's daytime hours more than make up for any nighttime losses.
Moreover, "Lewiston is not a place you go through; it's a place you go to," Landree said. "But there has to be a reason."
The Garden Club estimates GardenFest has netted $25,000 for Lewiston since the event's inception in 2005. The club, itself, has spent upwards of $7,000 this year on village beautification projects.
Sutherland called the Garden Club a "wonderful organization," and GardenFest a "wonderful festival."
"We're just trying to see if there's something else we can do," he said.
The Village Board said shuttle service could be a solution that benefits all parties.
"That would be a home run," Trustee Vic Eydt said.
Village Clerk Anne Welch said the board would need permission from the state Department of Transportation to run the trolley. Center Street is a DOT road, and can't be closed without the agency's permission.
The 2011 GardenFest is scheduled for June 25-26.


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What's In Your Backpack?
Paula asks her young son a question. She's noticed some interesting behavior from him and wonders what's up. Her son's answer is precious and humorous … but it leads Paula to ask the question again … of herself.
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Enjoy this special guest post from Paula Pust, Aphesis staff member Debbie Bochman's honest and encouraging sister!
So … I have this adorable little seven-year-old son. He's growing in his ability to get himself ready for the day, including getting his backpack filled with water bottle, lunch, swimming goggles, and all the important stuff of being a kid who spends time at the YMCA. Since he's learning responsibility, of course I've tried to back off in my need to hover over him as he does this daily task.
Except when …
This morning, for instance. When I asked if he had his backpack ready, he had an unusual look on his face . Hmmmm … mom's antenna goes up! He then offered to run to the fridge downstairs and get my pop for the day—sweet, yes. But my antenna is still up because he insisted on taking his backpack WITH him to do this task. Interesting choice. Of course, when he returned with my Diet Coke in hand, I had to ask, "So, Kyler, look at my eyes. I need you to answer this question honestly" (not that I ever don't want him to answer me honestly, but you get it). "Is there anything in your backpack that you wouldn't want me to see?"
LONG pause … then "Well, Mommy … there WASN'T before, but now there is …"
He proceeded to pull out of one pocket a Coke, then he unzipped a second pocket and extracted a Dr. Pepper and a Diet Coke. Seriously?
It made me smile, though. As I reflected on this beginning to my day, I got to wondering: what's in MY backpack that I don't want others to see? And do I sometimes act under the guise of helping someone else (getting their "pop" for them) when actually I have a hidden agenda of my own?
Thank God for mercy.
"The LORD is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. The LORD is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation." (NLT)
Mercy and compassion, slow anger and fullness of unfailing love, even though I don't deserve it. Hallelujah, what a savior!


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Kevin Ryan reclines in a designer chair in his Park Avenue office, wearing a Luciano Barbera suit and a vintage Rolex watch. A picture of Mr. Ryan with President Obama is on the wall and an ornate Oscar de la Renta gown hangs from the door.
This is not a man who would blend in among the sneaker-clad start-up ranks of Silicon Valley. Yet Mr. Ryan, chief executive of the Gilt Groupe and a founder of several prominent Internet companies, is one of the technology world's most influential people, with a career trajectory that mirrors the rise of New York's tech scene.
Mr. Ryan and Dwight Merriman run a start-up factory called AlleyCorp, after Silicon Alley, a nickname given to New York's answer to Silicon Valley. It has churned out companies that have almost nothing in common, from e-commerce to publishing to database software.
When asked about this start-up grab bag, Mr. Ryan smiled and said, "Are you saying I have a focus problem?"
Gilt.com, which sells luxury goods like designer clothes and vacation packages, is considering going public next year. Business Insider, another AlleyCorp company, is a blog publisher with 19 million readers a month, run by Henry Blodget, the infamous former Internet stock analyst. And 10gen, which makes MongoDB, open-source database software that is used by companies like Disney and Foursquare, was valued at $500 million by venture capitalists who invested $50 million in May.Continue reading the main story
These companies contribute to New York's growing role as an Internet hub, particularly for the new generation of online media and retail companies. Last year, 256 New York tech start-ups raised $2.2 billion in investment, up from 149 and $1.3 billion five years ago, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
"Silicon Valley is on their fifth generation," Mr. Ryan said. "We're on our second or third generation of New York entrepreneurs, combined with a bigger and better infrastructure to support it, so the scene is just mushrooming."
Mr. Ryan made his name during the first tech boom as chief executive of DoubleClick, the digital advertising company that Google bought for $3.1 billion in 2007.
"He doesn't fit into the Valley mold as much, but he's definitely one of the most prominent people here," said Chris Dixon, a New York tech investor and entrepreneur. "He went off and did this thing that entrepreneurs fantasize about, starting multiple companies and having them be really successful."
Other veteran entrepreneurs are doing variations on the idea of a factory for start-ups, including Evan Williams and Biz Stone, two of Twitter's founders, who now run a start-up lab called Obvious, and Craig Walker, who developed the technology that became Google Voice and now runs Firespotter Labs. Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, started a similar company called Milk before joining Google in March.
Mr. Ryan compares his formula to dating — try out a bunch of start-ups and see what sticks. He and Mr. Merriman started the companies and then hired people to run them when they began to take off. In the case of Gilt, Mr. Ryan hired Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson as co-founders, then returned to run it himself once it became big.
He now spends most of his time at Gilt but splits 10 percent of it between Business Insider, where he is chairman, and 10gen, where he is a board member. Mr. Merriman is chief executive of 10gen.
Two other AlleyCorp companies, ShopWiki for comparison shopping and Panther Express for delivering content over the Web, were acquired, but not at prices high enough to make the deals profitable.
Mr. Ryan's ideas are not novel. He borrowed the idea of flash sales at Gilt from vente-privee.com, a flash-sale site in France. Business Insider followed blog networks like Gawker Media, and 10gen's software is similar to Oracle's MySQL.
"Hardly anything is a really brand-new idea on a global scale," Mr. Ryan said. "What makes companies successful is a different version of something."
He considers his greatest skill to be hiring the right people. And increasingly, those people are in New York instead of the Bay Area.
When tech meant only hardware and chips, Silicon Valley, home to Stanford's computer science department and large swaths of land for big factories, was the obvious epicenter. But today, a new tech company is more likely to be in retail, media or advertising — all industries based in New York.
"If you want financial journalists, the reality is there are more in New York," Mr. Ryan said. "If you want people who know fashion, there's got to be 10 times more in New York. If you want to be selling to ad agencies, you're in New York."
He added, "You're already seeing huge sectors of the Internet dominate in New York, not competing with San Francisco but dominating."
Mr. Ryan does not venture to Silicon Valley very often, mostly because he says it is not relevant to his businesses, even for raising money, which he said had changed since the first tech boom in the 1990s.
Of the 16 rounds of financing he has raised for his companies in the last five years, just two came from a West Coast venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital.
If he did show up in Silicon Valley, he would certainly stand out. Unlike founders in the mold of Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Ryan, 48, is married with three children in junior high and high school. Then there are his suits. The Internet world in New York is slightly more formal, he said, and the valley's hoodies and jeans would not fly at New York cocktail parties.
"For me, the jacket, tie-less look goes anywhere," he said. Also, unlike most tech entrepreneurs, Mr. Ryan does not know how to write software code. Mr. Merriman, who was co-founder and chief technology officer at DoubleClick, provided the technical brains for the companies, Mr. Ryan said.
His ambition extends to his personal life. He trains for triathlons and plays competitive table tennis (people who work at Gilt warn new employees to stay away from Mr. Ryan at the table). There is also his borderline obsession with Halloween. A couple of years ago he dressed up as a flash sale, wearing no pants and a flasher's overcoat that he opened to display pictures of things Gilt offers, like watches, underwear and stays at a Paris hotel.
After spending a few years on Wall Street and working in finance and operations at Disney, Mr. Ryan landed at United Media when the Internet was taking off. In 1995 he started the Dilbert Web site, which took off quickly because early users of the Web were often Dilbert fans.
"When I was here in 1996, everyone was asking me, 'Why aren't you in San Francisco? Why aren't you in Boston?' " Mr. Ryan said. "Today, no one asks that."Continue reading the main story


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Hello! It's color challenge week at CAS Colours & Sketches and we have a bright and cheery color combo to work with.
This color combination seemed pretty gender neutral to me so I decided to use it for a birthday card that I can donate to Send a Smile 4 Kids. The current challenges at AAA Cards and Less is More seemed interesting, so I've combined them with the CC&S challenge. I started off by working with scrap paper to create a mask that divided my card into thirds on a diagonal. I put the mask in place on my card front and centered a stencil in it. Then I masked off portions of the stencil with washi tape so I could brush ink in the three challenge colors, keeping the colors separated from each other. Once I got the colors all done, I removed the masks and stamped the sentiment with black ink. The card still looked like something was missing, so I scored a trio of lines both above and below the inked portion of the card.
We'd love to see what you can create with this week's colors! Share your card at the CC&S website by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, March 26, 2018. Thanks for stopping by today!
Stamp: So Much to Say (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Pure Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie (Stampin' Up); Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: Fresh Dots Small stencil (Dylusions); stencil brushes (Claritystamp)
13 Responses to "CAS Colours & Sketches #264"
Fabulous use of one third and the embossed lines really add the perfect finishing touch. Thanks for playing along with AAA Cards.
Such a festive card. Thanks for sharing at Less is More!
What a bright and colourful card! Great take on the challenge theme! Love those embossed lines too! Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards!
LOVING your card. Angles, colourful polka dots and CAS perfection. Awesome combo of challenges too. Hugs Bev x
Awesome card! Love the randomness of the polka dots (adding that stencil to my wish list). Love the scored border lines – nice touch!
Great card! The scored lines add a lot of interest and I love this design with the angular strip in the middle -very eye catching! Perfect combining of challenges, well done! Thanks for joining us at Less Is More!
What a fab card – LOVE the colours deployed too
WOW!!! That is fabulous!
Your scored lines make a great frame for the spots and sentiment. Love what you did with the colours. x
Love the score lOne a along the colorful dots! CAS perfection!
FUN birthday card Patricia! Perfect for anyone. And you did a great job of combining the challenges – I love the way you angled the design.
Fun, fun use of this week's colors, Patricia! Your scored lines are such a simple, yet effective way to add dimension!
how fun! thanks for playing along at AAA Cards!
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I have to admit to a certain lack of energy in the first week of September. It's not that I haven't done anything, since I have revised some of the poems from earlier in the summer. It's also because my day job is very busy right now. I did manage to get a chapbook manuscript together from the poems and I'll be revising and shopping that. Still, I feel tired and drained.
I probably do need to take a day or two to breathe, but I'm not sure when. In any case, I'm still writing and am also turning my attention to prose again, which also took a break during the challenge months. I'm hoping to get the essay on failing at judo ready in the next month as well as one on Mt. Fuji. I'm also thinking of another draft I started before the challenges on my first few days living in Japan.
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Let's shift from content to context, and see how using an access and registration concept instead of the traditional "opt-in" increases the size of your email list at a rapid pace. You'll hear about the intersection between perceived value and actual value, the psychological impact of "velvet rope syndrome," and a case study that shows an increase of 400% in email subscriptions with an access approach.
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Lesson 4: How the Access Approach Accelerates Your Email Marketing
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This is lesson four: How the Access Approach Accelerates Your Email Marketing. Before we get into this, I got to tell you that this free course is sponsored by the Rainmaker Platform. You can do all of the technical wizardry that we discuss in the next few episodes yourself without a developer and even without a designer, if you so choose. Check it our for yourself at RainmakerPlatform.com.
The Psychological Impact of 'Velvet Rope Syndrome'
Back in 2001, I read a book … actually several books that were all about generally the same topic. The one that sticks in my mind is called The Age of Access by Jeremy Rifkin. There were others, such as The Experience Economy, that touched on the same subject. That was that we were moving away from ownership concepts to access concepts, that we would pay for experiences more than we wanted to own things.
This book did a really good job, for being so early on, of predicting the subscription membership concepts, such as Netflix, Dollar Shave Club, even software as a service. But more than that, I think it predicted the rise of things like Airbnb and Uber, where you don't need to own a car when you only need occasional access to it. You don't need to own a home in Laguna Beach or Des Moines, Iowa, if you just need to stay in one for a while — you get the idea.
This was a topic that I had become fascinated with really early on, and it had some interesting influences on me — not only with the way I think about paid products, but also our content marketing. There's an aspect here that was really interesting to me over the years. You could call it 'velvet rope syndrome.'
People value membership from a psychological standpoint. The membership experiences they have, in a way, spark a little exclusivity because those on the outside don't have that same experience.
That's a hint of scarcity there. I don't want to overplay it because it's very subtle. In fact, if you ask your prospect if they were influenced in that way, by access to your free content instead of some other concept, they'll tell you that it had no affect on them at all.
Of course, we're not aware of most of the reasons why we do what we do. We generally decide at an emotional level, and then we rationalize it with our logical minds after the decision's already made. It is an influence that I've thought a lot about, and this velvet rope thing does have some merit.
I really started thinking about it differently around 2012 or so. This was after social media went mainstream. This was also the time when we had a lot of freemium software as a service out there, where you basically could register for a version of the software. Or of course, you could register for Facebook or Twitter, and you had to do that in order to access the experience that was being offered. Even though these are free services, I think the access aspect of it provides a psychological incentive that tells us this is something good.
Even beyond that, I think the fact that we have become used to the idea that we must register with an email address in order to have access to anything that's really good on the Internet, even if it's free, has a bigger effect than just psychological in the sense that, that's just the way things are.
The Intersection Between Perceived Value and Actual Value
Around that time, around 2012, my hypotheses was that people are used to registering. They know they have to give an email address to enjoy the access that they're being provided, and that's a positive experience in the minds of your prospects.
On the other hand, after 10, 15 years of unscrupulous email practices out there by certain people — not everyone, certainly — the whole opt-in to our newsletter thing from a service provider such as yourself gives the perception of, "I'm about to be spammed, and I don't want to be spammed."
Again, it's not fair. I doubt any of you are spammers, but we're talking about perception here. Perception is everything. My hypotheses at that time was that we could create a space that is behind a member wall. It's free to access, but that registering for this valuable information would act in a way that was more valuable, or at least perceived to be more valuable, than an opt-in concept.
If you look around today, it's fairly common among journalism sites. For example, the Harvard Business Journal, you get four free articles, and then you're prompted to register for free. Very smart. They're not hitting you with a payment wall like some newspapers do. I think that's a mistake. What they're doing is getting an email address so that they can communicate with you on a regular basis with new content, but also to make offers to buy the subscription. That's exactly what we're doing here. You'll be in good company with the Harvard Business Journal and people like that.
We've been doing this since 2013. It's worked so well, I think, because we over-delivered with actual value — we've been talking about that the entire course — but we also enhanced the perceived value. I can hear some of you out there saying, "Well, if the actual value is so great, what does it matter about perceived value?"
It matters a lot. I've seen time and time again where there's really good information just not being 'sold' correctly because people don't realize you have to sell free in this day and age if you're asking for an email address. This is similar to a social network or an application that I have to register for enhances the perceived value, and then you back it up with actual value.
Why You Need to Get Prospects Out of the Inbox
Here's another thing. Even if you don't buy into this free pay-wall concept that I'm giving you here, you want to get them out of the inbox. You should not publish, in my opinion, full body emails as your content. You should sell them opening it with your subject line and then sell them on clicking a link. Again, through our testing, I think the perceived value is less when they know you're sending them to a freely available piece of content on the web, even if you have a hard-to-guess URL.
I'm going to continue to try to convince you that the access model is best. But at minimum, keep in mind and make note that you do want to get them to click out of the inbox into an environment that's not cluttered with their to-do list, effectively.
Case Study: 400 Percent Increase in Email Subscriptions with an Access Approach
Some of you have heard me talk about this. In 2013 over at Copyblogger, we switched our entire email strategy. We went from an opt-in newsletter concept that promised one of those free courses where we send you a link and the lessons are just out there, accessible from the link in the email address, and we went to a content library concept.
The idea was that we could take a lot of our prior content, repurpose it into a better format in the form of ebooks that were available as PDFs, but also for the major ebook readers, and that, that would be our new call to action.
What happened exceeded even my expectations. We saw a 400 percent increase in opt-ins from the new strategy. That was not just short term. It persisted for years. I don't know the exact percentage today, but we get hundreds of new email subscribers every single day on autopilot. It's kind of amazing, which allows us to then implement sequences that highlight various products of ours.
For you, of course, you're going to want to attract as many of the right people as you can with your opt-in offer — your registration and access offer, I should say — then, of course, convert them into clients.
That was our content library stacked with tons of high-value ebooks. Continues to work well from an opt-in percentage. What we've found since then is that a more persuasive approach — meaning not just how many people sign up, but how many people actually buy in the near term — is with an online course approach. It's more perceived value. It's more actual value. Most importantly, compared to other strategies that may get you an email address but don't convert them to a client, you've got more influence.
Benefits of the Logged-In Experience
Finally, here's the last thing from a technological standpoint why you really want to consider a membership concept — beyond all these psychological and value perceptions that we're creating. From the standpoint of marketing automation, having someone who logs in as a member adds a crucial element to the marketing automation mix. And you're hearing a lot more about people talking about the 'identity level' these days.
Typical marketing automation relies on cookies. You get set with a cookie, and that tells the software that you are this certain person. But what happens when you access this site from a new device? There are tracking links that you can use, but people go around that stuff all the time when they're on a different device. You have no idea what they're doing at that point.
They could have been doing serious exploratory searching from an information standpoint that tells you, "Wait a minute. This person is more qualified, from a lead scoring standpoint, than other prospects," and yet you don't know that. That defeats the purpose of what we're trying to accomplish with marketing automation — which is determining what experience that prospect is looking for and then delivering it.
Cookies still have their place in part of marketing automation, but when you combine that with a registration and access standpoint, when they log in to interact with the content that you've provided for them, you can not only track the progress that they've made — for example, through an online course — you can also see what other behavior they may do on your general site, in general.
Think about that, the logged-in experience. It's better from a psychological standpoint. It's better from an influence standpoint, and it's better from a technology standpoint so that you're not seeing people fall through the cracks.
Of course, all of this is easily done with the Rainmaker Platform. I won't give you too much of a pitch. Head over there, and try the free trial yourself at RainmakerPlatform.com.
Again, I promised you that I wasn't going to teach you anything that couldn't be done in other ways outside of the platform. I'm going to put together a list of plugins that you can use if you have a WordPress site that you can get all of this done as well. I'm going to do that at the end of the course because, frankly, I haven't built a site with WordPress in a couple years because we use our own technology. So I'm going to make sure I get the best current recommendations out there, and I will share that with you.
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Neil was excited. It was Friday night and he was expecting his wife Carla home at any time. Friday was the night Carla went out alone straight from work and, as it was now quite late, Neil was eagerly anticipating her return when she would inevitably relate the story of her evening's adventure.
At 11.30pm, he hear the unmistakable sound of a key in the front door. He tried to clam himself as he waited patiently for his gorgeous wife to enter the lounge. Just when he thought that he could take no more anticipation, the lounge door opened and Carla entered. She dropped her leather brief case on the floor and without saying a word shrugged off her overcoat. She was still wearing her tight fitting business suit, the jacket and short skirt a matching pin stripe and the outfit complimented by black seamed stockings and black high heels. Neil groaned inwardly. She looked so sexy in these clothes. He watched her with bated breath as she seemed to deliberately take her time, teasing him as she slowly kicked off her high shoes and flexed her stockinged toes as she stood.
Neil's patience finally ran out. "So? What happened?" he blurted out
"All in good time, lover," she said seductively. "Let's go to bed where we can be more comfortable. I've got a story to tell you that will make your toes curl and your cock throb!"
Neil jumped from his chair and taking her hand, virtually dragged his wife up the stairs to the master bedroom. Having already showered earlier, he dropped his robe and jumped straight into bed as Carla headed for the bathroom. More waiting, driving him nearly crazy as she washed, brushed and flossed away the city from her body, again seemingly in no hurry. Eventually she appeared before him, framed in the bathroom doorway. She had stripped ready for bed, but had left on her black seamed stockings and lacy garter belt. She knew how these items turned him on. Her shoulder length auburn hair seemed to shine as it was illuminated from behind by the bathroom light and Neil felt his already hard penis twitch beneath the covers. Carla was holding a pair of black lace panties in her hand and threw them towards him.
"Here, you can hold these while I tell you all about what happened this evening."
As she came and sat on the bed, pulling the covers back so they could both see each others bodies, Neil couldn't help but put the panties to his face and inhale deeply. Her scent was all over them, the rich, heady aroma of an excited woman. Carla sat at the foot of the bed facing him, a wicked smile on her face. With Neil sitting at the other end of the bed he could see every contour of her beautiful body in the half light that emanated from the bathroom. Carla stretched out her long, stockinged legs towards him. By pointing her toes she was just able to lightly touch the tip of his throbbing erection. Neil gasped at the sudden stimulation and closed his eyes as she began to relate the events of the past few hours.
"It all started when I left my office," she said. "I was a little thirsty and tired and wanted a drink, so I called in at The Metropol Hotel just down the street from my office building. The place was almost empty, so I ordered a Manhattan and sat up at the bar chatting to the bar tender. I had noticed a younger looking man sitting by himself at the opposite end of the counter. I caught his eye and he smiled. He looked quite attractive in a rugged sort of way. As I finished my drink it was replaced by another, the bar tender saying that the gentleman at the end had paid for it. I looked over and gave him a sexy come-on' smile and he walked over towards me. He said his name was Richard and he began chatting me up. I tried to listen to what he was saying, but all I could really think about was what his body was like under his designer suit; how strong was he, what was his cock like. Things like that."
Neil was still basking in the beautiful sensations that he was feeling as Carla gently and slowly ran her stocking covered toes over his shiny cock head. His eyes were open now and he could see that his wife was looking directly into his eyes as she casually tugged on one of her hard pink nipples.
"Anyway," she continued. "He was younger than I had first suspected, only about nineteen I guess, so I thought that I had better make the running. My imagination had been running riot for the last few minutes and all that I could remember of what he had said, was that he was staying in the hotel with a colleague and they were only in town for one night. By this time I could feel myself getting wet with anticipation. I wanted him and I wanted him quickly! His conversation seemed to be flagging, so I took my opportunity and asked him directly. I looked straight into his eyes, I wanted him to see the passion there. I said simply: Richard, would you like to have sex with me?'"
Neil groaned again. He adored to hear about Carla's Friday night conquests, and this one was turning him on to a huge extent. His cock twitched again and seemed to grow another inch under her gentle caresses, his lust fuelled by the fact that she was now touching her exposed vagina with her free hand, slowly dipping a finger deep into her moist depths, rubbing her stiff clit and then bringing the finger to her lips to taste her own passion. Her toes kept sliding over the head of his penis now slick with pre-cum. Her fingers moving faster and faster inside her pussy, Carla's breathing became more rapid as her body shook with orgasm. Calming herself with amazing self control, she prepared to continue with her narration.
"Richard seemed a little shocked at my forwardness, but he quickly got over that when I squeezed his thigh! He said that using his room at the Hotel might be difficult because his colleague was up there finishing off some paperwork. I seemed to shock him again when I told him that I was unconcerned, and that his friend could join in if he wanted! I've never been whisked off my feet so quickly, and I soon found myself in Richard's room being hungrily kissed by him as his friend watched from the sofa. Richard soon had his tongue in my mouth as he kissed me passionately. His hands were all over my body, feeling me up through my clothes. His friend, Gary, seemed content to just sit and watch as I felt my nipples harden even more under my jacket as Richard squeezed them. He seemed to sense that I liked to play a little rough, and put his hands on my shoulders forcing me down to my knees in front of him. In a matter of seconds he had hauled out a rather large cock and was feeding it forcefully towards my mouth."
Carla stopped for a moment. She had been masturbating slowly while she talked and now needed to concentrate her efforts on achieving her second orgasm. Neil had also taken things into his own hands, so to speak, and was gently squeezing the head of his slick penis. He didn't want to go to fast and cum before she had finished the story and had to stop several times in order to regain his composure. Carla had no such problems, and Neil watched in fascination as she bit her lower lip, eyes tight shut as the second climax washed over her. When at last her lithe body stopped twitching, she returned to casually playing with her swollen nipple as she persisted with her tale.
"His cock felt huge in my mouth as I sucked and sucked on it. He was holding my head in both hands, bucking his hips backwards and forwards as he fucked my face. I could feel the wide head of his cock bump against the entrance to my throat and licked up and down his shaft with my tongue. I cupped his huge balls in my hand. They felt so tight, so full. I knew that he was going to give me a huge load of cum at any moment. Whilst he fucked his cock down my throat, his friend Gary had decided to join in and was quickly stripping my clothes off. As he got me down to my panties and stockings, I felt Richard's cock swell in my mouth. He fucked my throat harder and harder and then released a huge load of cum into my mouth. It tasted so good. I tried to swallow it all but there was too much, and it started to trickle out of my mouth and splash down onto my naked tits."
Again Carla interrupted her monologue. "Mmmmmmm thinking about it now is making me so horny, so hot, look my cunt's so wet. Can you see my lust baby?"
Neil could only look and nod. His head was spinning with his excitement. He doubted if his cock had ever been this hard. His hand squeezed tighter in an effort to bring himself back under control. Carla's sexy toes weren't helping as they tickled playfully under his tight balls.
"Please! Go on honey," he cried almost in desperation. "Finish the story. I need to cum so badly now."
"Okay," she continued. "Where was I? Oh yes. My lips and face were wet with Richards cum. My nipples were so hard they were standing out nearly an inch from my tits and were glistening with the splashes of semen that had dropped onto them. Gary was pulling at my panties trying to get them off. He was muttering about sinking his hard meat into my juicy cunt. I told him that I wanted him to fuck me, but that I wanted to keep my panties on (this was for you!) He seemed a bit confused and frustrated, so I stood up and bent over the back of the sofa, pulling my already wet panties to one side and giving the two boys their first glimpse of my juicy, shaved pussy. I couldn't see either of them as I had my back to them, but I heard Gary lowering his zipper and the next thing I knew his hard cock was being thrust deep in to my cunt."
Neil was quickly reaching the point of no return. He knew that his balls would betray him before very long and he begged his wife to complete the story.
"He fucked me hard from behind. He was rougher than his friend and maybe a little bigger as well. He grabbed hold of my hair and pulled my head back sharply, ramming his dick deeply inside me. I could feel all the contours of his shaft as he plugged me; every vein, every bulge. My hair felt like it was being pulled out of my head, but the pain only increased my passion and just before he shot his load I orgasmed with a huge shudder. The shaking of my body as I climaxed was obviously too much for him because with a moan he pulled out of my sopping cunt and squirted jet after lovely jet of his hot cum over my upturned ass. He pulled my wet panties further to one side to expose my asshole, and gathering up his cum with his finger, he finger fucked my butt until I came again."
Whilst she described the finger fucking of her ass, Neil exploded. He had timed it perfectly and his own orgasm was as powerful as he could ever remember. Carla's toes were still tickling the underside of his balls as he erupted, his cum streaming from the end of his penis and coating her stockinged feet and ankles as it landed there.
"With all that lovely cum on my mound and tits and some still in my ass, I simply pulled my panties straight, put on my skirt, Jacket and shoes and kissed them both goodbye. I left the room without another word."
Oh that was so good honey," said Neil with a sigh. "I can't wait to hear about your next adventure!"
"Well, you just get that cock of yours hard again quickly, lover. I'm going to clean up a bit, and then I want you to fuck me to another orgasm before I fall asleep!"
As Carla walked into the bathroom, she could not keep the secret smile from her face. She wondered what would happen if Neil ever found out that she made it all up. She had never even been unfaithful to him! She thought of herself as a good story teller, and if it kept their marriage interesting, then why not indeed!
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One also really enjoyed the Vietnamese Oolong that was purchased while traveling there. It was simple but very addicting. Sound like your Oolong might have been a bit more floral.
Traveling in Vietnam must have been an invaluable experience!
And it always feels special to buy tea in country of its origin, right from the hands of its producers, I think.
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Yes, you definitely feel more connected with the whole process when you get tea from the source.
I have yet to try any Vietnamese oolong but I've liked the green and black teas I've tried from Vietnam. I've noticed, among the ones I've sampled, and also green teas from Laos that I've tried, that there's a certain quality or aroma they have in common...whether green or black. Have you noticed anything like this?ReplyDelete
It's reminiscent of the way Darjeelings always have a certain "Darjeeling" quality to them, whether green, black, white, or oolong.
Vietnamese oolong is definitely worth a try!
Yes, I've noticed that all, or at least most Vietnamese teas I've tried have something in common, whether they are black, oolong or green. This is similar to, for example, teas from various provinces in China, e.g. Yunnan or Meng Ding... there is also something that unifies them in their unique character. I think it's mostly influenced by the climate specifications and the way tea is traditionally processed in these regions; therefore, vast majority of teas from smaller countries like Vietnam and Korea are similar and, in bigger tea producing countries like China or India, teas from specific regions are similar (for example Darjeeling, as you've already mentioned it, or Assam).


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Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven, was enjoying a leisurely measure of those things that pleased him most: solitude, peace, and quiet.
The best plans were the simplest, he reflected as he poured himself a single finger of brandy, and his brother's suggestion that Westhaven hide in plain sight had proven brilliant. The unmarried heir to a dukedom had a nigh impossible task if he wanted to elude the predatory mamas and determined debutantes of polite society. He was in demand everywhere, and for form's sake, he had to be seen everywhere.
But not this summer. He smiled with relish. This summer, this stinking, infernally hot summer, he was going to remain right where he was, in the blessedly empty confines of London itself. Not for him the endless round of house parties and boating parties and social gatherings in the country.
His father had too free a hand in those environs, and Westhaven knew better than to give the duke any unnecessary advantage.
The Duke of Moreland was a devious, determined, unscrupulous old rogue. His goal in life was to see to it his heir married and produced sons, and Westhaven had made it a matter of pride to outwit the old man. There had already been one forced engagement, which the lady's family had thwarted at the last minute. One was more than enough. Westhaven was a dutiful son, conscientious in his responsibilities, a brother who could be relied upon, an heir more than willing to tend to the properties and investments as his father's power of attorney. He would not, however, be forced to marry some simpering little puppet to breed sons on her like a rutting hound.
And already, the pleasure of days and nights uncluttered by meaningless entertainments was bringing a certain cheer to Westhaven's normally reserved demeanor. He found himself noticing things, like the way his townhouse bore the fragrance of roses and honeysuckle, or how an empty grate was graced with a bouquet of flowers just for the pleasure of his eye. His solitary meals tasted more appealing; he slept better on his lavender-scented sheets. He heard his neighbor playing the piano late at night, and he caught the sound of laughter drifting up from his kitchen early in the morning.
I would have made an exemplary monk, he thought as he regarded the bowl of roses on the cold andirons. But then, monks had little solitude, and no recreational access to the fairer sex.
A modest exponent thereof silently entered the library, bobbed her little curtsy, and went about refilling the water in the several vases of flowers gracing the room. He watched her as she moved around without a sound, and wondered when she'd joined his household. She was a pretty little thing, with graceful ways and a sense of competence about her.
The chambermaid paused to water the flowers in the hearth, reaching over the fireplace screen to carefully top up the wide bowl of roses sitting on the empty grate. Who would think to put flowers in a cold fireplace? Westhaven wondered idly, but then he realized the chambermaid was taking rather too long to complete her task.
"Is something amiss?" he asked, not meaning to sound irritated but concluding he must have, for the girl flinched and cowered. She didn't, however, straighten up, make another curtsy, and leave him to his brandy.
"Is something amiss?" He spoke more slowly, knowing menials were not always of great understanding. The girl whimpered, an odd sound, not speech but an indication of distress. And she remained right where she was, bent over the hearth screen, her pitcher of water in her hand.
Westhaven set down his brandy and rose from his wingchair, the better to investigate the problem. The girl was making that odd sound continuously, which pleased him not at all. It wasn't as if he'd ever trifled with the help, for God's sake.
When he came near the hearth, the chambermaid positively cringed away from him, another irritant, but her movement allowed Westhaven to see the difficulty: The buttons on the front of her bodice were caught in the mesh of the hearth screen. She wasn't tall enough to set down her pitcher, leaving her only one hand with which to free herself. That hand, however, she needed for balance.
"Hush," Westhaven said more gently. He did have five sisters, after all, and a mother; he understood females were prone to dramatics. "I'll have you free in no time, if you'll just hold still and turn loose of this pitcher."
He had to pry the girl's fingers from the handle of the pitcher, so overset was she, but still she said nothing, just warbled her distress like a trapped animal. "No need to take on so," he soothed as he reached around her so he could slide his fingers along the screen. "We'll have you free in a moment, and next time you'll know to move the screen before you try to water the flowers." It took an infernally long time, but he had one button forced back through the screen and was working on the other when the girl's whimpering escalated to a moan.
"Hush," he murmured again. "I won't hurt you, and I almost have your buttons free. Just hold still—" The first blow landed across his shoulders, a searing flash of pain that left his fine linen shirt and his skin torn. The second followed rapidly, as he tightened his arms protectively around the maid, and at the third, which landed smartly on the back of his head, everything went black.
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Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring 2012 New York Fashion Week.
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It wouldn't be New York Fashion Week without wondering just what Marc Jacobs has up his heavily tattooed sleeve. In a whizz-bang fashion switcheroo, he moved his Marc by Marc Jacobs show earlier in the week and his signature collection later, for a reason people are still in a TIZZ-AY about. (Is he possibly taking over Dior? Is he leaving his signature line? Does he just want to change it up from time to time like any normal person is allowed to?) The Marc method—or, at least how we view his collections every Fashion Week—is to watch the big collection first then guess what the sister line, Marc by Marc, will look like. They almost always reference each other in some way—the luxe collection carrying the main theme (polka dots, pencil skirts, forest green, jungle cats, what have you) into the everyday line. But with the tables turned this year, we have no idea what to expect. If the Marc by Marc collection is any indication, though, the spring MJ gal is going to be stocking her wardrobe with colorful yet MINIMAL pieces (much like Elle Fanning, who arrived wearing a bold, fire-engine red shirt and matching shorts). Oh, yes, and she will also need bird prints, stripes, and a plastic sun visor (obvs).
Marc seemed to reflect upon his roots with this easygoing collection. The was a touch of the '90s going on (we ADORED the shiny, high-waisted pants and black strapless top, which were very Last Days of Disco), and the designs were quiet, the cuts pronounced (like the various uses of peplums, especially on the striped black and red Parisian number), and there were no loud patterns like with the safari-esque motifs that ran heavily throughout his fall collection. It looks like a wearable collection (if a tad basic and not as playful as last season), but still, Marc has a way with catalyzing TRENDS, so perhaps his vision of a more pared-down, utilitarian spring is what's in order. Still, there were bits o' FUN, people. Like, VISORS! And AWESOME-TOWN multi-colored hightop sneakers. The soundtrack was everyone from the Beastie Boys and Santigold song "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" to Britney Spears. There were covetable oversized bags and 1940s-style swimsuits, too, and darker separates that pair easily with the everyday wardrobe. But we can't help but feel as if something was missing in the somewhat, well, basic basics. Guess we'll have to wait for the next show and see.
Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring 2012.
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Elle Fanning at the Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring 2012 New York Fashion Week.
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The starting gun has gone off! pro-beam is pleased to announce the successful welding of the first ITER parts on the K6000 in Burg.
All present were waiting to see the results after opening the door of the huge chamber K6000 in Burg. After long and intensive preparations, it had finally happened: the first component at the heart of the ITER reactor, namely the vacuum vessel, was welded in vacuum with an electron beam.
There was great elation when a clearly excellent and clean weld was seen. Later X-ray inspection proved that the weld was outstanding and met all the quality requirements. Electron beam welding had thus justifies the trust placed in this technology and played its trump cards – energy-saving and deformation-resistant welding combined with high welding speed. Many people including engineers, inspectors and machine operators were involved in this success.
They readily took on overtime in order to make the impossible possible and gain this successful result. The combined achievement of this milestone for pro-beam was celebrated accordingly. But nobody is resting on their laurels because all are aware that it was only the first two seams out of a total of 2800 electron beam welded seams required on this ITER project before pro-beam is finished. We are pleased to provide you with this exciting intermediate information.


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Joe Jonas Gets Engaged…
on October 16, 2017 at 5:29 PM
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Congratulations are in order for Joe Jonas and British actress Sophie Turner, who announced their engagement on social media Sunday (Oct. 15).
"She said yes," the DNCE frontman captioned an Instagram photo of Turner's hand with her new engagement ring. The Game of Thrones actress posted the same photo with the caption, "I said yes."
Jonas, 28, and Turner, 21, began dating last year and have since traveled to London together to meet her parents and spent Thanksgiving with the Jonas clan at the California skiing destination Mammoth Mountain.
Source : Billboard


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Thinking about getting a new TV for Sunday's game, or maybe just want to know what the best popcorn might be? Here's some recommended items WOGA compiled for the consumer in preparation for THE BIG GAME on Sunday! Enjoy these recommendations and enjoy the football game!
• Television — Wirecutter.com says the 55-inch TCL 55P607 is the best for most people because it's the best value. It produces images with more detail, brightness, and color than most TVs that cost hundreds more. • LINK
• Beer — Coors (regular) topped Consumer Reports' recent taste test of beers, blowing away nine brews including Budweiser and Bud Light. Name Tag and Big Flats — store brands from Trader Joe's and Walgreens respectively — beat out top-sellers Corona Extra and Budweiser.
• Potato chips — EatThis.com says Original Lays potato chips and Ruffles Original are the best chips. For healthy eaters EatThis likes Lay's Oven Baked Potato Crisps — about 120 calories in 18 chips.
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