I'm Gary Newbon, a TV presenter – predominantly sports – and I've worked for ATV (now Central) and ITV Sport covering numerous World Cups and Olympic Games. I joined Sky Sports in 2004 and have been involved ever since. I also run my own production company, Prime Ticket Productions, focusing mostly on sport. I moved to Birmingham in 1971, so I've come to know the city pretty well.
I occasionally drive, but mainly use the train.
I live in Solihull, so the commute into town is very easy.
Although driving's a nightmare, Birmingham is brilliantly connected from both rail and air. And of course, Brummies are just lovely people which is one of the city's great attributes. It's improved beyond recognition since I moved here and represents fantastic value. There's much to be proud of, not least its world class facilities. The theatre scene is thriving, Birmingham Royal Ballet is world class, Symphony Hall is a fantastic facility and the restaurant scene has exploded exponentially. It's like having a playground on your doorstep. I wish it had been like this when I moved here! Having said that, it is a shame to see restaurants closing. We seem a bit fickle on that front.
I love coffee. I buy it from an Algerian coffee shop in Old Compton Street, London, so when I'm at home that's what I drink. If I'm in town I'll head to Hotel du Vin.
A half-hour lunch break at my desk ain't for me. Lunch is more important than dinner. Champion jockey Tony McCoy once told me never to eat after 7pm and I stick to that. I've done business all my life over lunch. I'm a bit old -fashioned and like to look people in the eye rather than e-mail. I tend to go to Hotel du Vin where I'm an ambassador or Opus and Fumo which are particular favourites. I was very impressed with the new Sabai Sabai on Waterloo Street, too.
Last year I could hardly walk thanks to an old injury, but I've taken up pilates which has changed my life. Now I make sure I walk every day and stand upright. Birmingham's easy to walk around which is one of its strengths. I particularly like to stroll around the area down by the Mailbox.
I'm taken with Brindleyplace and the area round the Mailbox, but there are so many great places.
I'm not a great beer drinker. I'm more a wine man. I go to the Bubble Bar at Hotel du Vin and occasionally Loki Wine.
What drives me absolutely potty, and I'd change it in a heartbeat, is taxi drivers sitting around with their engines running and pumping out toxic fumes. I'd make that an offence. Also, there are too many people on the streets begging. I don't understand it. We have a good benefits system. The situation needs to change.


Courage (n): The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger and pain without fear.
A few days ago, I had a chance to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and it was quite a disturbing experience. Now, I have certainly watched my share of movies and PBS specials about the horrors of the Holocaust, but I had never been this close to it. The exhibits were appropriately stark and designed to engage all of one's senses.
Given my role at NFI, I have an "occupational hazard" of always considering history, even history as unsettling as the Holocaust, through the fatherhood lens. As I viewed the many pictures of fathers, often taken just moments before they and their families were murdered, I could not help considering how horrible it must have been for them. It is the essence of good fathering to protect, but these dads could not. Nonetheless, although they were overpowered, they refused to abandon their wives and children. They were courageous.
Interestingly, there was another group of fathers who are too often forgotten, but who were complicit in these crimes. They were the millions of fathers in communities across Europe who watched their neighbors get rounded up, but remained silent. They knew that absolute evil was happening in their midst and, yet, many did nothing. They lacked the courage to take a stand.
It's been said that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men (and especially good fathers) to do nothing. It is also worth remembering that each day every dad must choose between courage and comfort; for to be courageous is never comfortable and to be comfortable is never courageous. The Holocaust is a poignant and painful reminder of the consequences for any society when too many dads choose comfort and too few choose courage.


Abstract: Learning generic and robust feature representations with data from multiple domains for the same problem is of great value, especially for the problems that have multiple datasets but none of them are large enough to provide abundant data variations. In this work, we present a pipeline for learning deep feature representations from multiple domains with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). When training a CNN with data from all the domains, some neurons learn representations shared across several domains, while some others are effective only for a specific one. Based on this important observation, we propose a Domain Guided Dropout algorithm to improve the feature learning procedure. Experiments show the effectiveness of our pipeline and the proposed algorithm. Our methods on the person re-identification problem outperform state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets by large margins.


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FILE - In this Thursday, May 9, 2019 file phto, Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington. In 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said space is currently a $400 billion market, including satellites. Opening up spaceflight to paying customers, he said, could expand the market to $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is close to identifying just what a private individual will pay to go into space.
The company launched an auction early this month and will launch a civilian into orbit if all goes according to plan – for the price of at least $2.8 million.
Blue Origin has a best-case target of July 20 for the flight on the New Shepard spacecraft, with one of the six seats going to the winning bidder.
Anyone could place bids from May 5-19, and as of last week the process moved to the "unsealed" portion.
It's unlikely that $2.8 million will be the final number, though, as open bidding for the 11-minute crewed flight now runs through June 10, after which a live online auction will be held June 12, according to the company's website.
More than 5,200 applicants from 136 countries have entered the bid for the winning ticket, according to Business Insider.
The proceeds raised will go toward Blue Origin's Club for the Future, which emphasizes the pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
In order to thwart non-legitimate bidders, Blue Origin is doing identity checks and requests a $10,000 refundable deposit with partner RR Auctions.
The Bezos space company and Elon Musk's SpaceX have been wrangling for leadership in space exploration.
The Intercept reported that Blue Origin, for example, received $2.3 billion in funding (along with United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman) from the Air Force for space launch services, prompting a 2019 SpaceX lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Then, SpaceX won the fight with Blue Origin to acquire NASA funding last month for a contract to put astronauts on the moon.
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Final report of the MCMLA Annual meeting. "Included is a brief summary of the reports and complete reports from each committee, including recommendations which may be of value to future conference planners," by Eleanor Krakauer.
A draft of the MCMLA Publications committee report from October 2007 to October 2008.
The Advisor's report of tasks completed and plans for the next year.
The committee report for the annual meeting in 2008.
A brief desciption of notable accomplishments by MCMLA members in 2008.
The Honors and Awards committee's final report on the completed activities for 2009 to 2010 and a list of the 2010 MCMLA awardees.
The report includes a list of committee members and objectives for the time period of September 24, 2009 to April 24, 2010.
A brief report on the liaison activities for the Medical Library Association from Fall 2009 to Fall 2010.
Members of the MCMLA Research committee presented the annual report listing the objectives, goals and actions, and the budget for the year 2009-2010.
A list of Planning committee members and a report of tasks completed for MCMLA 2009.
Final report for "MCMLA2006." The meeting was held at the Crowne Plaza-St. Louis in Clayton, Missouri. The local arrangement committee consisted of Jackie Hittner as chair, Cheryle Cann and Kim Lipsey.
The Archivist's annual report of tasks completed and recommendations to store records in digital format.
A list of priorities for the 2008-2009 year. "One of the major responsibilities of the incoming chapter chair is to ensure that the Leadership directory is up-to-date and that committee chairs and members are in place. ..."
A brief description of notable accomplishments by MCMLA members in 2009.
All MCMLA members vote here.


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Q: Can't install ruby gem johnson I am trying to install on ruby 1.8.7 the johnson 2.0.0pre3 gem and I am getting this compilation error:
(stable)$ gem install johnson -v '2.0.0pre3'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing johnson:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/aaa/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for as... /usr/bin/as
checking for ar... ar
checking for ld... ld
checking for strip... strip
checking for windres... no
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for minimum required perl version >= 5.006... 5.012004
checking for full perl installation... yes
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for doxygen... :
checking for whoami... /usr/bin/whoami
checking for autoconf... /usr/local/bin/autoconf
checking for unzip... /usr/bin/unzip
checking for zip... /usr/bin/zip
checking for makedepend... /opt/X11/bin/makedepend
checking for xargs... /usr/bin/xargs
checking for pbbuild... no
checking for xcodebuild... /usr/bin/xcodebuild
./configure: line 3686: test: Xcode 5.0.2 Build version 5A3005: integer expression expected
checking for sdp... :
checking for gmake... no
checking for make... /usr/bin/make
checking for X... no
checking whether the compiler supports -Wno-invalid-offsetof... yes
checking whether the compiler supports -Wno-variadic-macros... yes
checking whether ld has archive extraction flags... no
checking that static assertion macros used in autoconf tests work... yes
checking for 64-bit OS... yes
checking for -dead_strip option to ld... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for mode_t... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes
checking for siginfo_t... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for the size of void*... configure: error: No size found for void*
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
    --with-opt-dir
    --without-opt-dir
    --with-opt-include
    --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
    --with-opt-lib
    --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
    --with-make-prog
    --without-make-prog
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=/Users/aaa/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p374/bin/ruby
extconf.rb:27: could not run configure (RuntimeError)
    from extconf.rb:23:in `chdir'
    from extconf.rb:23

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/aaa/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374/gems/johnson-2.0.0.pre3 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/aaa/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374/gems/johnson-2.0.0.pre3/ext/tracemonkey/gem_make.out

What can cause this?
Thank you!

A: It's failing because the code configure is using to determine the size of the type is invalid. It is the return without expression in line 7832 that makes configure fail. See bug #579689 for details.

./configure:
   ⋮
7829 int main() {
7830
7831                      int a[sizeof (void*) == $size ? 1 : -1];
7832                      return;
7833
7834 ; return 0; }
   ⋮

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Autumn is a good time to ready your car for the freezing temperatures and wintry conditions ahead. The winter months have the highest proportion of breakdowns, so make sure you are well prepared by carrying out some basic checks and stocking up on a few essentials for your car.
Top up the radiator with the correct mixture of antifreeze and water. While you are doing this a quick check of the oil won't go amiss! Windows are likely to get dirty in winter from road and vehicle spray, so ensure you use a good quality screen wash which won't freeze. One of the most common causes of breakdown in winter is an old battery, so check the age and replace it if necessary.
There are some checks that should be done regularly whatever the season. Tyres need to be checked every few weeks to make sure they are at the recommended pressure and that the tread is above 3mm. Your car should be equipped with items like a warning triangle, jump leads, torch, high visibility jacket and spare light bulbs, but it is worth checking these are still in place. Although vehicle First Aid Kits are not mandatory in the UK (unlike some parts of Europe) it is well worth having one for the benefit to yourself and other road users. If you have a kit, check that it doesn't have out-of-date items. If you have breakdown cover make sure the membership card or details are in the car ready for a roadside emergency.
If you know that there are likely to be freezing temperatures the night before you need your car, allow more time the next day for cleaning ice and warming up the car's heater. Have some WD40 handy for possible frozen locks – this is much better than using hot water which can freeze in the lock. Also have ready a windscreen scraper or some de-icer – avoid de-icing using hot water as it can freeze on the glass or even crack the window. If a heavy snowfall is predicted then some grit (or salt) and a shovel would be handy items to have ready and waiting in the garage.
If there is the likelihood of wintry conditions before a long journey then as well as your 'year round checks' you need to make sure you and your passengers have winter coats, boots, gloves and blankets in the car. A small shovel would also be a good precaution. Ideally take some hot drinks and food with you as well as a few boredom prevention items (magazine, games etc) just in case your gets stuck for a while! With worse case scenarios in mind you might also want to make sure you have any personal medications with you plus your mobile phone.
For more detailed information on winter driving, including an extensive checklist and advice on driving to suit conditions, visit the travel and transport section of the DirectGov website.


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Q: Angular events with multiple methods Working on a custom input component with ControlValueAccessor and cannot find guidance on the best way to access the input value. Since passing $event is a dubious practice is there a way to trigger two or more methods when an event is fired?
<input type='text' (input)="onChange($event.target.value); watchCity($event.target.value)" [disabled]="disabled" (onEnter)="onEnter($event)" (blur)="onTouched()"  />

Maybe there is a better way to get the value from inside the ControlValueAccessor component?

A: The syntax you have should work, but it is not very common.
You can call one function that calls both of the others.
HTML
<input type='text'
       (input)="onChange($event.target.value)"
       [disabled]="disabled"
       (onEnter)="onEnter($event.target.value)"
       (blur)="onTouched()"  />

Component
  onChange(value) {
    // do whatever else
    this.watchCity(value);
  }

Stackblitz is here: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-9wqhjp
Also, looking here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement I don't see an onEnter event for an input element?
And you mentioned something about a ControlValueAccessor. Are you trying to build one? If so, check out this: https://alligator.io/angular/custom-form-control/ for an example.


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DAF retains its place in top 100 for technician apprentices 23 November 2012
For the second year running, DAF Trucks has been recognised by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) and City & Guilds as a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer.
Congratulating DAF on the achievement, David Way, chief executive of the NAS, says: "Apprenticeships are the country's gold standard for vocational training. With more higher degree-level apprenticeships, rigorous new standards and new financial incentives for firms, employers can be confident that apprenticeships will deliver for them."
Managed by Skillnet and based at the City of Bristol College, DAF's apprentice programme has trained over 1,200 individuals since 1995.
Current and former students are now working as trainee or fully qualified technicians across the 130-strong DAF dealer network and a number have used their apprenticeship as a springboard to more senior management and supervisory roles.
"The trucks we sell are technically very sophisticated and represent a significant capital investment for their operators," says Ray Ashworth, DAF Trucks managing director.
"Keeping them running efficiently, cost effectively and safely is paramount for their owners," he continues.
"The hundreds of young technicians who have gone through our apprenticeship programme and who are now employed across our dealer network provide our customers with a clear measure of confidence that we can consistently deliver that level of support."
John Challen
DAF Trucks Ltd


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from utime import sleep_ms
# from time import sleep
# def sleep_ms(t):
#     sleep(t/1000)
from ustruct import pack
# from struct import pack
from urfb.clientmsgs import *

class RfbSession():

    # on fail raise; to prevent invalid session at parent
    def __init__(self, conn, w, h, name):
        self.conn = conn[0]
        self.w = w
        self.h = h
        self.bpp = 32
        self.depth = 24
        self.big = True
        self.true = True
        self.masks = (255, 255, 255)
        self.shifts = (16,8,0)

        # HandShake
        self.send( b'RFB 003.003\n' )
        if self.recv(True) != b'RFB 003.003\n':
            raise Exception('RFB rejected version proposal')

        # Security
        self.send( b'\x00\x00\x00\x01'  )

        # ignore instruction to disconnect other clients
        if self.recv(True)[0] not in (0,1):
            print('2b')
            raise Exception('RFB rejected security none')

        # ServerInit
        self.send(
            pack('>2H4B3H3B',
                w, h,
                self.bpp, self.depth, self.big, self.true,
                self.masks[0], self.masks[0], self.masks[0],
                self.shifts[0], self.shifts[1], self.shifts[2]
            ) \
            + bytes(3) \
            + pack('>L', len(name)) \
            + name
        )

        # we *may* be sent encodings (ignorred) and pixel format
        self.service_msg_queue()

    def recv(self, blocking=False):
        while blocking:
            sleep_ms(200)
            r = self.conn.recv(1024)
            if r is not None:
                return r
        try:
            sleep_ms(35)
            return self.conn.recv(1024)
        except:
            pass

    def send(self, b):
        if b: # None and b'' are False
            self.conn.send(b)

    def service_msg_queue(self):
        msg = self.recv()
        if msg == b'': #closed by peer
            return False
        elif msg is not None:
            dispatch_msgs(self, msg)
        return True

def ServerFrameBufferUpdate(rectangles):
    if rectangles: # empty list is False
        buffer = bytes()
        for idx,rect in enumerate( rectangles ):
            b = rect.to_bytes()
            if b is None: # done with this rectangle
                del( rectangles[idx] )
            elif b is False:
                pass # no update required
            else:
                buffer += b
        return b'\x00\x00' \
                + pack('>H', len(rectangles)) \
                + buffer

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What if economic recession and populism stifle innovation in the travel industry?
A.T. Kearney formulated four scenarios imagining the future of travel in its 'What If?' report. The first two, nicknamed Picasso and Dali, put forth fragmented and integrated worlds. The next scenario is the darkest one they imagined. Dubbed Bosch after the medieval Dutch painter, it takes an unvarnished view of human nature.
The key to understanding what this means for the travel industry lies in the impact of nationalism and populism on the global economy and on collaboration in the technology industry. Economic stagnation is the likely result of shrinking global commerce, and overall, the travel industry will also shrink. There is also a very real risk that data and technology become the arsenal for new trade wars between governments.
In this "Bosch" environment, there will be little collaboration possible over data sharing; consumer data will be kept within the country it is generated. The pace of innovation will slow in a world in which talent, ideas and funding cannot be shared across borders. Companies will struggle to build and maintain international footprints and there will be few global aggregators. Tech giants and sharing economy start-ups will face a regulatory backlash. Protectionism of domestic markets and heavier regulation will keep travel markets fragmented and in the hands of big domestic players. Fear of terrorism, including cyber-attacks, will make travel more cumbersome and costly.
Under the Bosch scenario tech giants, like Google and Facebook, will likely limit their involvement with the travel industry to their role as an advertising platforms. This will be good news for travel agencies. They will maintain their role in the industry free from the threat of disruption from technology giants. But, their role as intermediaries may decline as travellers seek trusted brands and book directly with well-known airlines and hotels.
To learn more about the Bosch scenario and the others identified, download the report What if? Imagining the future of the travel industry .


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Mask Night at the Bar
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It was nearly pitch dark in the bar, and an air of excitement was palpable in the quiet murmurs of the crowd. Frantic whispers broke out as the emcee stepped to the microphone and the house lights came up. Now you could see the large screens hanging from the ceiling in strategic spots along the room. Now you could see the pommel horse onstage, the examination table with stirrups, the loops and bars and stocks that permitted a variety of bound positions. Now you could see that everyone in the room was masked. The bar was small, really. About 25 tables closely circled the raised stage, none more than about 12 feet from the action.
"Alright, people," announced the emcee, "some of you know the drill. It's Wednesday night here in 'Nawlin's,' and that means fantasy match time! You can see what we have on-stage for tonight's fun. At your places, you'll find a pencil and paper. Now, we checked your ID's coming in, and you're all of age. So, take the next 5 or 10 minutes to write out your fantasy. Give us details! What is your most secret sexual desire? Do you want to do or be done to? Who do you want to do it with? If you just want to watch, that's fine, but if you want to really have some fun, start writing! We're going to read all your requests, and we'll vote on the best matches."
Across the room, small lamps were lit at each table. Behind the masks, eager partiers began completing fantasy forms. Name. Brief description of fantasy: Act, position, prop, dress, preferred partner. First time? Yes/No. Is there anything you absolutely will not do: describe.
"Are you really sure you're ready to try this?" Stephanie asked Steve. "You don't even know who these people are."
"Everyone has to wear a condom, there's no real risk," whispered Steve. "And I've been wanting to do this ever since we were here last year. I'm already hard just thinking about it. Are you sure you're OK with it?"
"As long as I don't have to get up there," sighed Stephanie. "I think it would be hot to watch you, though."
"Well, let's both hope I match, then," replied Steve.
"What name did you give?"
"Time's up for round one, folks," reported the emcee. "I need everyone's forms front and center. And just to get you all warmed up, Mandy and Glenn are going to entertain you while we check out the matches."
Mandy turned out to be an impossibly slinky blond, about 5'6″, with hips so narrow it was hard to believe she could even be real. Her breasts, though, were nicely rounded "B's," perfectly shaped—as everyone in the room could soon see when Glenn peeled off her tight t-shirt, baring them to the audience's view. He cupped them in his large hands from behind, teasing her nipples to stiff, pink points, and arousing himself in the process. Blond himself, shaggy haired, and well over six feet, he looked like a Viking. He was easily a foot taller than petite Mandy.
"I'd like to play with him," Stephanie hissed.
"So, fill out a form for the next round. Maybe you'll get lucky," laughed Steve.
Glenn's pants strained over the obvious bulge of his stiff cock. Mandy lifted his shirt up from the bottom and pulled it over his head, revealing a broad, furred chest. She darted out a pointed tongue and swirled it over his nipples, one at a time. Just then the video screens came on, showing a close-up view of the action. Glenn groaned as Mandy's tongue teased, and her hand slid down slyly to cup his package and stroke him gently.
Breath was held throughout the room as Mandy knelt, unbuckled Glenn's belt, unzipped his pants, and revealed the first pulsing erection of the evening. It was a beauty: nestled in a full bush of strawberry blond hair, it was thick, dark red, and a clear drop of fluid already oozed from the tip. He stepped out of his pants and stood proudly naked on the stage.
"Ooohhh!" sqealed Stephanie to Steve. "I knew that would be worth waiting for."
Mandy's lips and tongue explored the length and girth of the Viking's penis for several long minutes, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of taking him into her mouth. On the big screens, the shaft of Glenn's hard cock was slick with the moisture from her tongue.
Clearly frustrated, the naked Viking pulled Mandy to the center of the stage, stripped off her skirt and panties in one quick movement, and used a dangling pair of cuffs to fasten her wrists high above her head. He spread her legs wide and cuffed her slender ankles apart. Then he pushed a button, and raised the platform she stood on up about a foot—just the right height for the big man to penetrate her comfortably while standing.
Pulling a lightweight switch off a side table, he stood behind Mandy and whipped her smooth, rounded ass with it; with tingling strokes that made her fine cheeks nicely pink.
Then, moving around to kneel in front of the helplessly bound woman, he snaked out a surprisingly long tongue, swirling it very, very lightly over her prominent clitoris. pendik escort For an achingly long time, he teased her exquisitely, and she writhed, trying vainly to thrust her hips harder against his face and get the stimulation she needed to come. On the large screens, even the slightest flicker of that amazing tongue could be seen in magnified view, softly and relentlessly assaulting Mandy's defenseless clit. It looked as if it felt wonderful.
Finally, Glenn stood up, unwrapped a condom and unrolled it over his throbbing organ, and began to rub the rubber-covered tip very gently against Mandy's swollen clit. Her thighs were shiny with her own juices mixed with Glenn's saliva.
"Stick your cock in her!" Someone in the crowd yelled.
"Fuck her now! Fuck her good and hard!" Added a chorus of others.
Undaunted, Glenn kept up his slow, careful caresses, then began to push just the head of his cock into Mandy's dripping wetness. She was whimpering and trying to push herself against him, but with her arms and legs restrained, he was completely in control. Finally, he took his own pleasure: shoving himself in to the hilt and pulling completely out, in long, deep thrusts. Her hips moved with each fresh penetration, and his pubic bone ground hard against her clitoris. When she came, which didn't take long, she cried out and her whole body convulsed, and he groaned and came afterward.
"Oh my God, that was hot," moaned Stephanie. "You could do me right now, on top of this table!"
"Look at the guy in the red mask, behind us." noticed Steve. "He's already ahead of you."
Sure enough, the man had unzipped his jeans and was stroking his stiff cock. He startled when the house lights came up, exposing his public masturbation, but didn't stop until he spurted jets of come, which he wiped up with a tissue.
"Eewww!" said Stephanie. "No wonder the floor is so sticky."
"Alright, everyone, it's voting time!" announced the emcee. "We have three matches, and we need your help to choose the lucky winners for this round. But first, weren't Mandy and Steve terrific? Let's have a round of applause for some truly passionate fucking."
The audience was only too glad to release some of its pent-up tension in a burst of thunderous applause. A still naked Mandy and Glenn took a bow, then picked up their clothes and walked off stage.
"Thank you everyone. OK. Now I'm going to describe our three fantasy matches, and when I'm done, I'll give you a chance to vote on which one you'd like to see acted out on our live stage!
"Fantasy match number one would hook up a woman who wants to eat her first pussy on our stage with a woman who wants to be stripped, bound, and eaten out until she screams. We'll call it: 'Girls and Swirls.' Remember that one, now, when it comes to the voting. It sure sounds delicious to me.
"Fantasy match number two would pair up a man who wants to do the Chippendales thing and strip for us, with a woman who wants to fuck a male stripper's ass with a strap-on. We'll call this one: 'The Slicker Stripper.' Sounds kinky!
"And for fantasy match number three, we've got a guy who wants to give up his cherry for us and get fucked up the ass while strapped into our stocks, and a guy who's always dreamed of breaking in an anal virgin. He promises to be gentle. We'll call it: 'Buns of Lust.' I always like to see our customers trying out something new while they're here."
"Is that one yours?!" asked Stephanie.
"Oh yeah," groaned Steve. "Vote for me!"
"Are you kidding? I'm dying to see you take it up the ass."
"Here's how the voting works," explained the emcee. "This is our decibel meter. When I say your choice, scream as loud as you can. The biggest noise wins, so get ready to tell us what you want."
Match number one, despite a volley of applause and many shrieks, got a decibel rating of 12.2. Match number did a little better, with 13.4. But match number three was the clear winner, with a rating of 15.8. (Stephanie's loud screams probably helped).
"Alright everyone, you've made your choice, and I think it's a winner. It's probably every man's deep secret fantasy: to take a hard cock up the ass from a masterful partner. I'll need Jeff and John up here. Folks, a big hand for Jeff and John!"
While the clapping continued, Steve gulped, quickly arranged his erection in his pants so he could walk, and climbed the two steps to the stage. While he couldn't see "John's" face under the mask, the man's neat, upscale clothing was reassuring. He couldn't believe his fantasy was about to come true—and with a room full of witnesses to share the experience! John was about the same height as Steve, six feet, but where Steve was lean, John was solid, with broad shoulders and a thickly padded chest. Steve wondered what his cock would look like—and feel like—then shivered, realizing he would soon find out.
"So, Jeff and John," said the emcee. "This is a brave thing you're tuzla escort doing! You don't know us, you don't know each other, and you're going to get naked up here on our stage and have sex with each other. We're so glad you're here! Now, it's going to work like this. Jeff, your fantasy is to be taken. John, your fantasy is to take—so that means you're in charge. You tell Jeff what you want done, and he'll do it. Ready? OK!"
"Take off your clothes, I want you naked," commanded John. The room cheered as Steve, his face flaming red under the mask, unbuttoned his shirt and set it aside, tugged his t-shirt out of his pants and pulled it over his head, untied and removed his shoes, pulled off his socks, and then stood there, helplessly, in just his pants.
"Everything," said John quietly. "Take off your pants. I want to see your cock and get a good look at the ass I'm going to be fucking."
Steve unbuckled his pants and unzipped his zipper. He pushed them down his hips, revealing a hard cock tenting out his blue plaid boxers. He held his breath while he pulled off his shorts, and stood there, hands crossed to hide his genitals.
"Put your hands on your head and turn around," ordered John. Steve complied, excitement fighting with embarrassment in his mind, his stiff cock revealed now, bouncing as he turned. It was warm in the room, but he shivered nonetheless, knowing what was coming next, wanting and fearing it at the same time. But there was no going back. He had to go through with it. He had never felt so vulnerable and exposed. Only the mask hid his identity.
"Come here and get into the stocks," directed John. Steve had to bend over from the waist to fit his wrists and neck into the 3-foot tall stocks, which were, no doubt, designed for maximum exposure of their intended victim. His small, tight ass stood out embarrassingly, and his rock hard erection throbbed beneath his belly. John touched him for the first time while spreading his legs and locking his ankles into cuffs, just like Mandy. Steve was now completely immobilized, unable to change his mind or resist his coming anal violation in any way.
John now stood in front of Steve and unzipped his zipper. He reached into his shorts, withdrew an already-rigid cock, and instructed Steve to suck. Faced—literally—for the first time with another man's erect penis, Steve looked, shocked, at the organ that would soon penetrate his virgin ass. From this view, at least, it looked huge: thick and throbbing, with prominent veins and a large, rounded, nearly purple head. He involuntarily clenched his butt cheeks, and his own cock bobbed.
John bumped the large head against Steve's lips. Steve tentatively reached out with his tongue and slid it along the underside of John's shaft. The skin was warm and soft and incredibly smooth, and Steve could smell his musk. He knew how good even the light tonguing must feel, and John pushed the large head into his mouth. Steve swirled his tongue over the tip, pushing it into the hole at the end, and teasing the sensitive spot just under the glans. John let out a low moan and fed more of his cock into Steve's mouth.
As John began to thrust his hips, shoving his stiff penis deeper into Steve's mouth, Steve accommodated, having no choice in the matter. He was sucking his first cock—in public—and from the throbbing he felt in his mouth and throat, John wasn't going to last long. He could see one of the screens from his vantage point, could see himself, naked, spread eagled and bent over, his mouth obscenely stuffed with a stranger's swollen dick. It was an incredibly erotic sight. He wondered what Stephanie thought of it.
"I'm going to come in your mouth," announced John. "Because that way I'll last a lot longer when I stick it up your ass."
The crowd cheered, and began to chant, "fuck his mouth!, fuck his mouth!" in rhythm with John's thrusts. The first jets of hot sperm hit the back of Steve's throat, and he gulped, trying to keep up. Some of it dripped down John's shaft, and John scooped it up with a finger and made Steve lick it off. He'd tasted his own sperm, and it wasn't so bad, just sort of warm and salty. It smelled like fresh-mowed grass.
Now what? Steve wondered. John looked to be about in his mid 30s, so he probably couldn't get it up again for at least 10 or 15 minutes. What was he going to do in the meantime? Steve suspected he was about to find out.
Sure enough, John stood up, tucked his semihard penis back into his pants, and zipped up. Then he moved around behind Steve, who felt all the more naked since John was clothed. For a long moment, John just stood there, enjoying the view, while Steve shivered and all the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. John reached out one fingertip and ran it very slowly from the nape of Steve's neck down his spine, and between his cheeks, teasing his asshole. Steve's cock jumped.
John then took Steve by the hips with both hands, and began to knead and massage kartal escort his small, muscular butt cheeks. It felt wonderful, and Steve started to relax a bit. The man's large hands caressed his thighs, and gently cupped Steve's dangling testicles. "You've got one fine ass," said John. "I'm going to really enjoy this." With that, John dropped to his knees behind Steve and started to kiss and lick his upper thighs and his ass, first the outside, then, as Steve held his breath, spreading his cheeks apart and flicking the tip of his tongue against Steve's unprotected asshole. As Steve closed his eyes with pleasure, John's impossibly soft, wet tongue swirled around his anus and even thrust inside! It felt unbelievable.
Stephanie squirmed in her seat. Seeing that soft, wet, pink tongue swirling into Steve's most secret flesh was driving her crazy with a hunger that just couldn't wait for the hotel. She surreptitiously lifted her skirt and slid a hand into her panties to sooth her throbbing clitoris.
"Is that your guy up there on stage?" a deep voice whispered into her ear. "Yes," she managed. "I thought I saw him leave you here. Do you mind if I help you out, while he's up there? You look like you could use some help." Instead of answering, she pulled her hand out of her panties to give him access. "Put your ass on the edge of your chair," the stranger insisted. When Stephanie slid forward, he ducked under the table, grasped the waistband of her pantiess, and tugged them down around her ankles. He spread her thighs wide and held them apart with his strong hands. In the deep dark of the bar, he sucked her clit between his lips and thrust his tongue deep up inside of her and wiggled it around. The entire area around them was suddenly filled with her fragrance.
When Stephanie looked at the stage again, John's ass-licking had found a steady, slow rhythm that seemed to be driving Steve wild, judging by the way his hips were rolling from side to side, and his eyes were closed in ecstasy. John's cock was hard again, now, and he withdrew it from his pants. If anything, it looked even bigger this time. Stephanie wondered how something so big could possibly fit into Steve's little hole, but he liked to play with dildos and butt plugs, so she didn't worry too much about it. And that strange tongue on her clit felt so insistent and so warm and so wet… She held off her orgasm, wanting to wait until she saw that thick cock disappear into Steve's ass. Mmm.
Steve opened his eyes when John's tongue stopped its soft rimming. John stood up, walked around in front of Steve again, and held his stiff cock up to Steve's lips. "Kiss it," he ordered. "And then I'm going to fuck your virgin ass." Steve kissed the spongy head, and then John rolled on a condom and slicked up his erection with a generous dollop of lube. Moving around behind Steve, John spread additional lube around his anus, then stood close behind him, slowly running the rubber-covered head of his cock up and down his crack, teasing. Up and down, up and down, until Steve began to feel accustomed to feeling the pulsing manhood so close to his unprotected asshole. This was it—the moment he'd been waiting for. Now Steve could see on the screen that John was holding his dick in his hand, aiming it. And he could feel the cockhead against his butthole, gently pushing.
John took his time, but he was insistent. And as he pushed, he kept up a steady murmur of erotic talk. "I can't wait to bury my cock to the hilt in your virgin ass. I'm going to stretch you like you've never been stretched before. You've never had a real man fuck you, but you'll never forget this, I bet. God, I bet you're so tight…" The rubbery head pushed through his anal ring with a pop, and then John shoved, gently. Steve watched on the screen what he could feel between his legs—he was a virgin no more. A man's cock was solidly lodged in his rectum, and it felt incredible.
The crowd cheered as John's shaft disappeared between Steve's cheeks, and Stephanie, with the stranger's tongue trilling an impossible beat against her clit, and two fingers thrusting inside of her, cried out as her orgasm overtook her.
John pumped in and out of Steve's ass now with slow, rhythmic thrusts. With his arms locked into the stocks, Steve couldn't even touch his own aching cock, but he was beginning to realize that it didn't matter. The big penis thrusting into him was massaging his prostate. His cock was leaking a stream of clear fluid, and he was getting closer and closer. Looking through the mask holes to the screen and seeing the big shaft disappearing inside of him, and feeling John's balls slapping against his ass with each deep thrust, was the final spur he needed. One more thrust, and another, and he groaned out loud as his cock spurted and he came. In another few thrusts, John came, too, pulling off the condom and shooting his seed onto Steve's ass, then rubbing it in to his skin.
John slapped Steve's ass, said, "thanks, man, that was great," and released him from the stocks. Steve grabbed his clothes from the heap on the stage floor. "There we have it, folks, fantasy match round one," said the emcee. "Let's give Jeff and John a big hand!"
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More of Mark Scott? Surely Not
James Allan
Let me be blunt. If this Coalition government extends Mark Scott's term as the ABC's managing director for a year, or even for two minutes, then I will not vote for them, no matter how awful the alternative. Spoiled ballot here I come.
Remember, this is an ABC that blatantly does not meet its statutory obligation to be impartial. How many presenters and producers of the ABC's top TV current affairs shows are there with a right-of-centre pedigree? Zero. Nada. None. For Mark Scott that is not a problem. He brushes it off with insouciant ease. Of course, he mutters, all these ABC lefties (I paraphrase for him) are able to put aside their personal views and act impartially and so provide a down-the-middle unbiased picture – on climate change, boat people, spending restraint, are you laughing yet?
You can imagine that the ABC managing director would not be so unconcerned if every producer and presenter were a male; he would not be mouthing the line 'that these men are fully capable of presenting the daily news and politics in a way that represents women just as much as men'. No, Mr Scott would make damned sure that some women got hired. And if he didn't, the ABC board would demand that he did.
For wholly unrepresented conservatives (be they small government types or social conservatives, it matters not for both strains are absent) Scott does not lift a finger. He does nothing. He presides over a network that leans so far to the left (I steal this line from a British journalist) that it makes the BBC look like Fox News.
Well, this Abbott government that daily gets affected by the bias of the ABC (in terms of what news is run, what news is emphasised, who is interviewed, who is not interviewed, and so on) already looks pathetically weak when it comes to standing up to the ABC. Look at the UK. The Tories there regularly accuse the BBC of bias. Here, the Coalition barely utters a peep. It acquiesces in its own terrible treatment.
Now I know how it works, that the ABC Board will pick Scott's successor. And the minister in charge is Malcolm Turnbull. So that is no comfort at all, not with an ABC so lacking in impartiality that I don't want my taxes going to this billion-dollar-a-year behemoth. None a penny of them. But as there is no chance of the Abbott government doing anything remotely tough on this front, it can at least have the good graces to tell Mr. Scott and his three-quarters-of-a-million-dollar salary that hell will freeze over before he gets an extension.
Do it openly, Tony. Say why Scott's contract is not being extended. Demand that the board appoint someone who will make the ABC abide by its statutory obligations. That is the very, very, very least a Coalition government should do.
Jody – 7th May 2015
I'm in Europe and the complaints about BBC bias are exactly the same as they are in Australia about the ABC. Actually, the BBC World Service is a joke. My hubsand and watch it and are so fatigued by their (seemingly) daily feature "Inside Africa" and all the poetry contained therein, one begins to wonder if the BBC has any relevance at all today in the fractured world of media delivery platforms.
Q&A is a test case for the ABC's "unrepresentative swill". It has become the mouthpiece for fashionable, smug and morally vain university students and minority interests and, as such, is no longer credible (thank God) in terms of Australian values and the polity generally. In short, it has self-destructed on its own bloated sense of morality and importance. And I'll take that as a comment, thanks very much!!!!!!!!!!!
[email protected] – 7th May 2015
The most salient point in this article is where it refers to Malcolm Turnbull. Tony Abbott and his team are wary of Turnbull. They would be happy to be rid of him but don't know how without upsetting his lefty or duped supporters. Whow knows how he or his fans would react if he was dumped from the cabinet and as long as he is in his powerful position, both the ABS and Mark Scott are safe.
Bill Martin.
en passant – 7th May 2015
Peter, you really shocked me as I was unaware we still had an ABC! Suddenly, my mind went blank and the words of the Beatles song filled my mind, like – 'Father McKenzie, writing a sermon no one will hear' & 'Eleanor Rigby died and was buried: nobody came' seemed to sum up our ABC.
I have 20 stations saved on my car radio and none are ABC stations. Even the Classical Music station is gone as it too often began with "And now for an obscure piece – which was obscure because it was so bad nobody wanted to hear it …
TV I rarely watch and then usually only the History and Documentary Channels, or excellent dramas on 'Entertainment' or the 'Movie' channel. For this privilege of never watching 'free to air' and particularly the ABC, I pay $1,300/year.
If you are telling the truth and something called the ABC really is still broadcasting, then it is just a huge waste of money that serves no perceivable purpose. What is the demographic and quantity of its audience? For all the largesse I unwillingly, but apparently heap on the ABC, what is its market penetration? Let's apply a small ;value for money' test. I haven't looked it up, but if we add up the total revenues of 7, 9 & 10 and then add another $1.1Bn for the ABC (you are not kidding me are you, it really is still broadcasting, isn't it?) + SBS, I figure that that the ABC stations must have captured 25% – 30% of the market. If they have not, then we are paying too much for too little and it should go – NOW.
Like you, if the Liberals countenance keeping someone who has so failed to manage according to his lawful charter then my already shaky primary vote (on other issue) is not theirs. I will be voting for the third largest voting bloc in Oz – the 22% who give their dissenting vote to anyone but the Liberals, Labor or the Greens.
I will check now if you were joking, but I am not.
Ian Flanagan – 7th May 2015
as with numerous others I am not a fan of the ABC and without reading Andrew Bolt's column regularly I wouldn't know there was a program called Q & A. I have never bothered to familiarise myself with its content.
But there is a chink in my ABC armour. The number 1 breakfast announcer in WA is on the ABC morning radio and he never fails to delight and keep one entertained. That he's a former Federal liberal member of the house of reps makes him even more delightful and more entertaining though he keeps politics out of his program. The most hotly debated issue on his program is the frequency of his playing the song Day Trip To Bangore – he played it again today and drew the usual good natured grumbles. Unfortunately I still have to endure the ABC morning news
Geoffrey Luck – 7th May 2015
Sad to say, neither Tony Abbott nor Malcolm Turnbull could prevent the extension of Mark Scott's term, even if they wanted to. The Managing Director is appointed by the Board; the government has no say in the matter. On Jim Spigelman's record so far as Chairman, he sees nothing wrong with the way the place is run.
pgang – 8th May 2015
That's what I would have thought so I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Why does the board always escape censure when they are the ultimate arbiters of Scott's "nothing to see here" attitude?
OK, so they can't control who gets hired or fired. But they can control the funding. The ABC is a disgrace.
mct – 8th May 2015
Two points :
1. Q&A is still a very useful program. Not that I ever watch it, not that it has made any useful contribution to public life in living memory, but without it I would be deprived of the endlessly amusing Q&A thread on catallaxyfiles.com, which always brightens my Tuesday morning!
2. Yes, the Board appoints the MD. So simply, as Dan Andrews has done in Victoria hither and yon, request their resignations. Or appoint sufficient new members to ensure it has the numbers.
Count me out as a Liberal voter too. There is just so many times you can be slapped in the face and turn the other cheek. If Abbott wants to constantly pander to the left – he can do so. But without my support.
Anne Henderson on 'Menzies at War'
Christopher Carr
Steven Kates
Spring rolls and a fresh PM?
John Izzard


What a better way to kick off the new year then with Seven Days of Save The Dates. Lets start Day 1 with a photo Save The Date. A photo is a fun way to introduce your extended family and friends to your future partner. A Save The Date should also include the location ( city, and state) of your marriage, and the date. If you are having a destination wedding, include a wedding website address for hotel information and also fun things to do in the area.


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"How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much" ― Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya was a famous and important Russian journalist known for her investigative reports on human rights abuses and alleged atrocities committed by the Russian military in Chechnya. Covering the second Chechen war for seven years, Anna's reporting repeatedly drew the wrath of Russian authorities. Anna was no stranger to threats, violence, bullets or poison. During her career, she was threatened, jailed, forced into exile, and poisoned.
Anna Stepanovna Mazepa was the daughter of two Soviet diplomats of Ukrainian heritage, posted at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, where she was born on August 30, 1958. Anna graduated in journalism from the Moscow State University, where she met her future husband, Alexander Politkovsky, a TV reporter. After graduating in 1980, she became a reporter for the official newspaper Izvestiya, and later she worked for Aeroflot, the state-owned airline of the Soviet Union. In 1999, she joined the staff of Novaya Gazeta, where she worked for 7 years until her murder, and where she reported on the war in Chechnya. This region in the North Caucasus had a long history of hostility with its Russian overlords.
In the early years of post-Soviet Russia, there had been a war for independence that put Chechen rebels against Russian federal troops. The public pressure on Russian president Boris Yeltsin, fuelled by the new press freedoms available to media outlets like Obshchaya gazeta, led to a withdrawal of Russia's troops and a 1997 peace agreement that recognized Chechnya as an independent republic. Putin, Yeltsin's successor in 1999, ordered the deployment of more troops to sedate internal disorder within Chechnya between the government and Islamic extremists. There had also been a series of Moscow bombings in 1999 that were blamed on Chechen terrorists, but journalists like Anna Politkovskaya began to suspect that the tragedy had been instigated by hard-line Russian conservatives as an excuse to subdue Chechnya for good.
Anna exposed human rights abuses carried out by both Russians and Chechen separatists during the second Chechen war. From 2000, she travelled continuously in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, where she visited the hospitals and refugee camps, getting in touch with victims' families, interviewing people involved in the conflict, extremists fighters and Russian troops, reporting on the atrocities committed such as kidnappings, torture, rape, attacks, mass poisoning, mass killings, extrajudicial execution and other awful abuses, and strongly criticizing the pro-Russian Chechen administration. She was aware of the danger of her job, but she felt that her only commitment as a journalist was writing what she saw to let the whole world know the hidden truth of the war and government policy.
Her stories were critical of human rights violations on both sides, including the mystery surrounding a mass grave discovered near a Russian military base; the bodies were possibly civilian casualties, and land mines had been planted to prevent their retrieval. Anna had already made some prominent enemies, but in this case she was taken into custody and accused of spying on behalf of Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord. For three days in February of 2001, she was kept in a pit with no food or water. Later that year, she was forced to flee Russia for some time, when rumours reached her saying that a police captain, accused of human rights abuses in her stories, wanted her dead.
She had many enemies on both sides of the conflict, including Vladimir Putin and his Chechen ally, Ramzan Kadyrov (the prime minister of Chechnya and later its president). She often spoke about these men and their personal corruption, and once described Kadyrov as "a puppet, a coward armed to the teeth and surrounded by security guards".
In 2001, while investigating allegations that pro-Russian forces had abducted and tortured civilians in the small Chechen village of Khattuni, she was detained by Russian troops, interrogated, beaten and kept in a pit for three days; she was also forced to undergo a mock execution, which she described in her book A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya:
"A lieutenant colonel with a swarthy face and dull dark bulging eyes said in a business like tone: 'Let's go. I'm going to shoot you.' He led me out of the tent into complete darkness. The nights here are impenetrable. After we walked for a while, he said, "Ready or not, here I come." Something burst with pulsating fire around me, screeching, roaring, and growling. The lieutenant colonel was very happy when I crouched in fright. It turned out that he had led me right under the 'Grad' rocket launcher at the moment it was fired".
In September 2004, another group of Chechen rebels took an elementary school hostage in the southern Russian town of Beslan. The children had been assembled for a ceremony in the schoolyard, marking the first day of class for the year, when 32 masked men arrived and began herding the teachers, parents, and children into the gymnasium. On the third day, a battle erupted between Russian military forces and the hostage-takers, and more than 300 of the 1,200 hostages died. Upon hearing of the crisis, Anna immediately boarded a flight to Beslan in order to help negotiate a safer outcome. During the flight, after drinking a tea, she called the air stewardess as she was rapidly losing consciousness. She woke up in a hospital and found out that she had been poisoned. Anna issued frequent warnings about the threat posed to free expression by Putin's increasing power. A week after the regime's disastrous handling of the 2004 Beslan hostage crisis (which had seen over 187 children die as Russian security forces used battlefield weapons against Chechen separatists hiding inside a school), she wrote about information blackouts and journalists parroting the government line on the siege: "We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial – whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit".
On October 5, 2006, Anna was interviewed by Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFERL) about the ongoing human rights abuses in Chechnya, and particularly the increase in torture and disappearances under Kadyrov (whom she called a "Stalin for our times"). During the interview, she said: "I only have one dream for Kadyrov's birthday: I dream of him someday sitting in the dock in a trial that meets the strictest legal standards, with all of his crimes listed and investigated." She discussed an upcoming story for Novaya gazeta, an exposé on torture practices linked to a militia unit controlled by Chechnya's Putin-friendly prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, planning to file the story on Saturday, October 7.
That was the last interview she gave. Two days later, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was found shot to death in her apartment building in Moscow. She had been shot four times at close range in what was clearly a contract killing. She was 48 years old.
Her murder prompted consternation on an international level. It was condemned by press freedom organisations and governments around the world; there were demonstrations on Moscow's streets calling for justice. Heads of state from Europe issued official statements questioning her untimely death. Human rights activists around the world, called it a political assassination. Even the New York Times editorial page weighed in, remarking that she was one of a long line of recent suspicious deaths of Putin's foes, and the newspaper ventured that "it would be hard to imagine that Mr. Putin's Kremlin, swollen with oil riches and power, could not find those who ordered her murder or so many others." All this was ignored by the Russian authorities, who made no comment on the killing until Putin travelled to Germany on October 10, the day of her funeral. When asked at a press conference about the journalist's death, he said that Anna Politkovskaya was a "sharp critic" whose "influence over political life in Russia was extremely insignificant". If this was the truth, Anna would not have been killed.
Justice for Anna Politkovskaya was a long time coming; and when it arrived, it was not entirely satisfactory. After trials, acquittals and retrials, six men were eventually convicted of the journalist's murder: one was sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony in 2012; the remaining five were handed life sentences in 2014. Those who ordered the killing have not been identified.
Anna never wanted to leave her country. Her loyalty for Russia was of such importance that she sacrificed her reputation, freedom and, in the end, her life for the truth. She never gave up. Anna was a brave and genuine reporter, always ready to help out people in need and victims of abuses. Her weapon was her pen and her hunger for the truth together with her great honesty were more dangerous than a bullet.
Anna was the recipient of many prizes, including the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2001, the Index on Censorship Award for the Defence of Free Expression and the PEN American Center Freedom to Write Award in 2002. She was a recipient of the 2004 Olof Palme Award "for her courage and strength when reporting in difficult and dangerous circumstances." and (posthumously) the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2007. The Committee to Protect Journalists had named Anna Politkovskaya one of the world's top press freedom figures of the past 25 years in the fall 2006 edition of its magazine, Dangerous Assignments.
By Chiara Paganelli, WAVE Intern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/09/russia.media
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Not a locomotive, but a line car.
Originally built by D Wickham & Co Ltd in Ware, Hertfordshire, as a standard gauge Type 17 gang trolley, Works No. 1543, for the London & North Eastern Railway. It was despatched from Wickham's works on 27 June 1934 and was delivered to York, originally fitted with a JAP 1100 petrol engine (Numbered Number LTZ/D 38682/S). During its LNER and later British Railways career it had the running numbers 399 & 900492.
It was obtained from British Railways by 1961 and re-gauged for use on the FR. In 1961 it was reported that Lancs. & Cheshire Group were making slow progress on re-building the Wickham PW Trolley, but due to lack of space it might be necessary to complete the job at Boston Lodge.[1] It was equipped with a hand-wound klaxon for audible warning of its approach.
The following mileage data is from the relevant FR magazines.
1962-1965 – 2,404 Miles, 1966 – 2,353 Miles, 1967 – 2, 739 Miles, 1968 – 917 Miles, 1969 – 1,774 Miles, 1972 – 11 Miles, 1973 – 14 Miles, 1990 – 11 Miles
Total FR miles reported as 10,223 up to 1990 (1990 miles all towed). In 1966 it was given a general overhaul including a reconditioned engine and new driving axle. This was in anticipation of lots of work in connection with the relaying from Tan y Bwlch to Dduallt.[2]
This vehicle was notoriously said to be among the faster on the line and is reputed, in 1965, as travelling from Dduallt to Minffordd in twenty five minutes, including completing from Tan y Bwlch to Penrhyn Crossing in ten minutes, with Ron Lester driving. The respective current "timetable" times being approximately 40 minutes and 14 minutes.
On 13th January 1967 the Wickham Trolley was involved in a minor accident on Bakehouse Crossing Penrhyn when it hit a car, the driver of which thought the railway wasn't running, it being winter time. (Johnson 2004)
The Wickham eventually ended up out of use and stored at Glan y Pwll where it was on show during a event in 1998. An initial start on an overhaul / restoration was begun at Glan y Pwll but this was not completed and in late 2003 it was moved away from the line to a member's home in the West Country for restoration.
The vehicle made a triumphant return to the FR for the Quirks & Curiosities event from 30 April to 2 May 2010, fitted with completely new bodywork. In early 2017 it was back at Boston Lodge and moving under its own power.
The Wickham Trolley in use Penrhyn, extending the loop and re-ballasting; ex-RAFs in the background, 1966
Two photographs of the subsequent gravity works train can be found here
^ "Group News", Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Issue 014, page(s): 004
^ "Boston Lodge", Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Issue 035, page(s): 005
Johnson P (2004) Immortal Rails Vol. 1, Rail Romances, Chester, CH4 9ZH, p 149.
The Wickham at Boston Lodge, 16 August 1967.
The Wickham near Coed y bleiddiau, 1965. Left, back to camera, Will Jones.
At the Q&C event - undergoing long term restoration by Bob Edmondson
Wickham of Ware - a history of D.Wickham & Co Ltd, Railcar Manufacturers by Loxley Ford & James Cooper, The Rockingham Press, 2003
The Wickham Works List by Keith Gunner & Mike Kennard, Dennis Duck Publications 2004.
FR Locomotives
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Wickham Trolley
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Welcome to Melville Gardens, Beith.
Melville Gardens will bring 42 new semi-detached and detached family homes to the friendly and welcoming small town of Beith in North Ayrshire. The development enjoys a semi-rural setting,offering countryside views over the Garnock Valley. Show Home opening 7th July!


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Events Creative Mornings KL with Ivy Tan
Creative Mornings KL with Ivy Tan
We strive to embrace diversity and inclusion in our daily lives. Little did we know, we often fail to understand how it works and the difference between both. When we promote diversity, do we also practice inclusiveness? How do we become inclusive? Without psychological safety, it can be challenging for an individual, organization and the community to reflect true inclusive culture.
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Humility helps to avoid judging difference as inferior.
Compassion enables us to appreciate people who challenge our beliefs and values while veracity continues to question assumptions which can guide us to objectivity. How does one then becomes a culturally responsive member of the community? It is important to be familiar with the knowledge of individual and social biases, cultural values, and power structures. Understanding these concepts is essential to cultivating inclusion from within.
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Ivy received her Master's in Counselling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from the University of San Francisco in California and completed her undergraduate degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University. Following the completion of her Masters, Ivy worked in a non-profit community-based health service centre in San Francisco to provide comprehensive behavioural health services to adolescents, at-risk youth and low-income families where she conducted individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and case management services. She also served as a youth advocate and coordinated with probation officers under the Intensive Home Based Supervision Program and conducted early periodic screening, diagnostic and treatment for children under the age of 21.
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Memmert è una delle isole Frisone Orientali sulla costa tedesca del Mare del Nord. L'isola, territorio extracomunale, fa parte del distretto di Aurich nel Bundesland (stato federale) della Bassa Sassonia. Copre un'area di 5,17 km².

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The PD6088 Super Snooper Modbus® scanner displays up to 16 Modbus process variables (PVs) on the bus using its RS-485 serial input. The PD6088 can function as a Modbus master, slave, or snooper. As a Modbus master, the PD6088 can poll multiple Modbus devices for up to 16 Modbus process variables. As a slave, a Modbus master can write up to 16 PVs to the scanner for display. In snooper mode, it can sit anywhere on the Modbus network and display up to 16 PVs being polled on the bus. When connecting a scanner in snooper mode, no other Modbus devices on the network need to be reconfigured, making it easy to add additional local or remote displays to a Modbus network. Like all ProVu meters, the PD6088 includes UL / C-UL listing and CE marking, a NEMA 4X front, and AC or DC power options. Various math functions may be applied to the analog or Modbus inputs, such as addition, difference, average, and ratio.


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NBA postpones media sessions in Shanghai amid China rift
TIM REYNOLDS (AP Basketball Writer)
October 10, 2019, 12:20 AM UTC
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during the announcement of the The NBA-backed Basketball Africa League (BAL) at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar, on July 30 2019. - The NBA-backed Basketball Africa League (BAL) unveiled host cities Tuesday for its inaugural season, with Kigali, Rwanda, as the named host city for the first semi-final and championship games. Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Lagos, Nigeria; Luanda, Angola; Rabat, Morocco and a Tunisian city, Tunis or Monastir, were announced as the sites for BAL regular-season games. The BAL, featuring 12 club teams from across Africa, is set to begin play in March 2020. (Photo by Seyllou / AFP) (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images)
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday that the league is still expecting them to play as scheduled this week, even while the rift between the league and Chinese officials continued in ways that clearly suggested the two planned games in Shanghai and Shenzhen were anything but guaranteed.
The NBA called off scheduled media sessions Wednesday for both teams. At least two other NBA events to be held Wednesday before the start of the China games were canceled as part of the fallout that started after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey posted a since-deleted tweet last week that showed support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.
''Given the fluidity of the situation, today's media availability has been postponed,'' the league said. The sessions were not rescheduled Wednesday, though having them on Thursday - game day in Shanghai - remains possible.
Later Wednesday in Washington, a bipartisan group of lawmakers - including the rare alignment of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York - sent a letter to Silver saying the NBA should show the ''courage and integrity'' to stand up to the Chinese government. They asked the NBA to, among other things, suspend activities in China until what they called the selective treatment against the Rockets ends.
''You have more power to take a stand than most of the Chinese government's targets and should have the courage and integrity to use it,'' the lawmakers told Silver. The NBA did not have any immediate comment on the letter, and it was unclear if Silver had even seen the document.
In Shanghai, the mood surrounding the game that - if played - will feature LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and other big NBA names was anything but festive. An NBA Cares event that was to benefit the Special Olympics was called off, as was a ''fan night'' celebration that was to be highlighted by the league announcing plans to refurbish some outdoor courts in that city. And workers in multiple spots around Shanghai were tearing down large outdoor promotional advertisements for Thursday's Lakers-Nets game.
The teams are also supposed to play Saturday in Shenzhen.
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has joined the list of companies that have suspended ties with the NBA for now, only adding to the uncertainty surrounding the China games. Vivo was a presenting sponsor of the games, and on Wednesday there was no reference to the game in Shanghai on the list of upcoming events scheduled at Mercedes-Benz Arena. Other firms such as apparel company Li-Ning announced similar moves earlier this week, as the rift was just beginning.
Silver said Tuesday in Tokyo that he supports Morey's right to free speech. Several Chinese companies have suspended their partnership with the NBA in recent days, and Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said it will not broadcast the Lakers-Nets games.
''I'm sympathetic to our interests here and to our partners who are upset,'' Silver said. ''I don't think it's inconsistent on one hand to be sympathetic to them and at the same time stand by our principles.''
All around China, stores that sell NBA merchandise were removing Rockets-related apparel from shelves and many murals featuring the Rockets - even ones with Yao Ming, the Chinese great who played for Houston during his NBA career - were being painted over.
Effects are already being felt in NBA arenas, in a pair of games featuring Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association.
After the playing of the Chinese national anthem in Washington on Wednesday before Guangzhou's game against the Wizards, one fan shouted, ''Freedom of expression! Freedom of speech! Free Hong Kong!'' Another fan shouted for a free Hong Kong from the second level during the second quarter.
Minutes later, security approached one fan holding up a ''Free Tibet'' sign and another holding the Tibet flag. Security tried to take the sign, and the fan refused to give it up. Security then escorted them out of the seats.
A similar scene played out in Philadelphia on Tuesday, also during a Guangzhou game. There, two fans were removed by arena security for holding signs and chanting in support of Hong Kong. The signs read ''Free Hong Kong'' and ''Free HK.'' The sentiment was not different from Morey's since-deleted tweet last week of an image that read, ''Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.''
The 76ers and Wells Fargo Center, the team's home arena, released statements Wednesday confirming that the fan removal took place and explaining why.
''During the second quarter of last night's 76ers game, Wells Fargo Center security responded to a situation that was disrupting the live event experience for our guests,'' the arena's statement Wednesday said. ''After three separate warnings, the two individuals were escorted out of the arena without incident. The security team employed respectful and standard operating procedures.''
The NBA is not the first major corporation to deal with criticism from China over political differences. Mercedes-Benz, Delta Air Lines, hotel operator Marriott, fashion brand Zara and others also have found themselves in conflicts with China in recent years.
After Morey's tweet was deleted, Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said Morey does not speak for the organization. Joe Tsai, who recently completed his purchase of the Nets and is a co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has said the damage to the NBA's relationship with China ''will take a long time to repair.''
Reynolds reported from Miami. AP Sports Writers Stephen Whyno in Washington and Dan Gelston in Philadelphia and Associated Press writer Yanan Wang in Beijing contributed to this report.
More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports


For me are two clear paths: one for the book lover, and another for the ones who prefer video instructions.
I would suggest to start with this particular book, to obtain a good methodological introduction and a panoramic view of the plots and effects we can achieve with coins. Also, in the last chapters we have a great exposé of the variety of gimmicks, boxes and accessories (such as handkerchiefs, thumb tips) that we can use in our routines.
This should be our second book, in which we find an excellent recompilation of the techniques, effects and concepts from the greatest magicians of our time. In this book we are going to learn effects and a high effective array of techniques, some of them really creative ones, that will serve well in our coin magic arsenal. A highlight from this book is the study of the Retention Vanish Clip, one of the best vanishes (at least for me!) and the one I currently use in my performing repertoire.
We are going to have our Master Degree in Coin Magic from the hands of Mr Kainoa Harbottle in this inspiring and thrilling book.
I strongly recommend the study of the Fan Steal and the Deep Edge Grip, my particular favorites and the ones who gave a breath of fresh air to my repertoire.
He is a master in every magic area, but the best thing is that he is an excellent and wonderful teacher. Here we are going to learn the building blocks of a bridge that leads us to the land of EFFECTS, in which we can joyfully explore our new skills and have fun with our future four best friends.
This two volume saga is without a doubt the best video collection of coin magic I ever have the pleasure to see. David is also an excellent teacher and have this Hollywood Star touch that inspire us to be like him.
In the first volume we submerge a little bit more in this magical sea of silver dollars while reviewing the basics, in a fun and entertain way. After we learn a technique, David show a full routine, so we can learn the proper way to handle the props, routining and above all the PATTER, and the way we can enhance our magic with the right word in the right time. Don´t believe that some of the routines are just to explain the technique, EVERY ROUTINE of this dvd is workable, practical and WORTH LEARNING.
Well boys, now that you are part of the inner circle, prepare to drive, work, eat and even sleep with four coins in classic palm. Quick confession, in my insanity I scotch taped four coins to my palm to find out if I get used to the palm. As you have guessed, the only result I got was a mess in the morning, but a great lesson I discover that day. The reason my girlfriend doesn´t like to sleep with me.
Enough jibber jabber! Lets get to work. In the second volume we will find again the great Leonardo Di Stone with some great lessons in angles and managing spectators with a full set of incredible routines. Practice them all, except the hidden effect Smile Land, that one is actually impossible.
No Coin Magic education can be complete without one of the greatest coin workers of all time. Not my opinion actually, this being said by some guy called Dai Vermen, or Vermon or something to a young David in the Magic Castle of Los Angeles, in a warm spring of September, 1952.
As I said, ANY coin magic education is far from complete without studying or at least listening David´s words in the matter. In this volumes we have a master class with a great set of techniques, ideas, routines, original effects and more!
That's all folks! This are the two roads to the most painful blisters of your magic life!
That being said, a little help for those who made it this far, whatever path you choose, I recommend you the Best of BOTH WORLDS, don´t overlook Coins on Edge and Le Magie Des Pieces.
Don´t be lazy, and try them all, you will find some real gems there.
Best luck with your journey!
What a great post! I would add Roth's "Ultimate Coin Magic Collection" DVD's for students who want to study further.
Harry Loraynes' Magic Book was cited by David Stone as being very helpful for him when he first started out doing coin work.
I would put the David Roth book before Kainoa Harbottle.
Yes, the Kaufman book is a great one. But for a beginner, the Harbottle stuff is so difficult that it could discourage a person. Just an opinion, of course.
Your list is a good list of coin magic. but, in my opinion, it isn't a good list for beginners. To start in coin magic you will need to devote at the very least two years (or more) on coin sleights/moves and especially on palms. It takes a long time to have a NATURAL classic palm.
Start with doing finger palm vanishes and some others that don't require a classic palm.
Truth be told, a good finger palm vanish and an intelligent use of ramsay palm are very convincing!
well this is more a life path!! the way to start are the first steps i tell , but of course taht 1st steps are gonna be super hard to clim you need years!!! , on bobo, easy to master money miracles, and le magie des pieces vol 1, there you have how to start and there you have ALL the palm and concepts of a good basis on coin magic!
Eric Jones Metal series was an invaluable teaching aid for me. I don't think it gets enough respect. Likely on account of him partnering with Elusionist and them having the exclusive rights to it. They're a terrible company but his work is quite excellent.
To be fair to Mr. Pierri, he laid out the books in order of beginner, intermediate and expert. So comments to the effect that his recommendations are too difficult for beginners should bear that in mind.
I would second the recommendation of David Roth's "Expert Coin Magic". It is excellent and wonderfully illustrated. A must for the coin magi.
Bobo is filled with routines for people just like you. I know you can finger palm, anyone can. So start with basic stuff and it will get more comfortable over time. It is nice to know a few coin tricks that use quarters and such because they can be performed on the spur of the moment when someone says "show me a trick".
I'm not going to give any recommendations but I decided to go with David Roth's dvds. I did coin magic for several years back in the 90's but it's been so long that I'm starting from scratch again. I've only been at it a few weeks but I really the first dvd and I've progressed much faster with coins than I have with cards, I think due to Roth's simple, systematic approach.
For a complete beginner I would tend to go with luigimar's suggestion and read the Karl Fulves book. There is also a very good section on coin magic in Harry Lorayne's THE MAGIC BOOK that is well worth checking out. However the real Bible of coin magic is the Bobo book. After that you hardly need anything else!
I think Al Schneider books and DVDs are another great option.
This is a great post! Obviously you put some thought into it. I am sure that this will save some people a lot of headaches and time. I really enjoy when a post like this gets started. No insulting any one, no flaming topics. Just great advice and more great input from others.
I also highly recommend Bobo. And, for the beginner, Introduction to Coin Magic by Shigeo Futagawa.
Agreed! I had been working with Eric Jones' and David Roth's stuff as well as Bobo, of course. And then I branched out to Kainoa and others. But it wasn't until I read Al Schneider's On Coins that I developed the ability to perform truly deceptive coin magic with the simplest of transfers and vanishes.
Oh, and for a third penny - the DVD of the Bobo stuff, performed by Ben Salinas, is truly awesome.
That's the way I feel about cards:-P. I started with coins and it's always seemed to come naturally to me. But cards? I don't know what it is, but there are just some things with cards I can't seem to get. I just assume (being a coin guy) that it's going to take another several hundred hours of practicing .


Cambridge, Mass. – Several recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American mainstream. But they also highlighted another crisis: the failure of social scientists to adequately explain the problem, and their inability to come up with any effective strategy to deal with it.
The main cause for this shortcoming is a deep-seated dogma that has prevailed in social science and policy circles since the mid-1960's: the rejection of any explanation that invokes a group's cultural attributes — its distinctive attitudes, values and predispositions, and the resulting behavior of its members — and the relentless preference for relying on structural factors like low incomes, joblessness, poor schools and bad housing.
And why do so many young unemployed black men have children — several of them — which they have no resources or intention to support? And why, finally, do they murder each other at nine times the rate of white youths?
So what are some of the cultural factors that explain the sorry state of young black men? They aren't always obvious. Sociological investigation has found, in fact, that one popular explanation — that black children who do well are derided by fellow blacks for "acting white" — turns out to be largely false, except for those attending a minority of mixed-race schools.
An anecdote helps explain why: Several years ago, one of my students went back to her high school to find out why it was that almost all the black girls graduated and went to college whereas nearly all the black boys either failed to graduate or did not go on to college. Distressingly, she found that all the black boys knew the consequences of not graduating and going on to college ("We're not stupid!" they told her indignantly).
So why were they flunking out? Their candid answer was that what sociologists call the "cool-pose culture" of young black men was simply too gratifying to give up. For these young men, it was almost like a drug, hanging out on the street after school, shopping and dressing sharply, sexual conquests, party drugs, hip-hop music and culture, the fact that almost all the superstar athletes and a great many of the nation's best entertainers were black.
I call this the Dionysian trap for young black men. The important thing to note about the subculture that ensnares them is that it is not disconnected from the mainstream culture. To the contrary, it has powerful support from some of America's largest corporations. Hip-hop, professional basketball and homeboy fashions are as American as cherry pie. Young white Americans are very much into these things, but selectively; they know when it is time to turn off Fifty Cent and get out the SAT prep book.
ORLANDO PATTERSON. "A Poverty of the Mind." The New York Times, Section 4 (Sunday, March 26, 2006): 13.


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Steve Jones (født 3. september 1955) er en engelsk guitarist bedst kendt fra punk/rock-bandet Sex Pistols.

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