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Indigenous Activists in Peru Defend Collectively-Owned Lands
"The government has declared open war on indigenous people and the demonstrators will stay there until the problem is solved. They prefer to die there, they aren't afraid."
By Milagros Salazar
Inter Press Service, August 19, 2008: Defending the state of emergency declared in three provinces in Peru to crack down on protests by indigenous communities against a law facilitating the sale of their community-owned lands, Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo said the government was safeguarding "the rights of the great majority of Peruvians."
Since Aug. 9, indigenous demonstrators have been demanding the repeal of two decree laws that promote private investment in their territory, and the reestablishment of a clause from the 1979 constitution — which was replaced by the new constitution in 1993 — which stated that communally owned land in indigenous territory could not be sold or embargoed.
They are also demanding that the government and Peruvian legislation comply with International Labour Organisation (ILO) convention 169 (which was ratified by Peru), that makes it obligatory to consult with indigenous communities prior to any project or works undertaken in their territory.
Over the past 10 days, protesters in several provinces have blocked roads and oil and gas installations and reportedly took police officers hostage.
The 30 day state of emergency declared Monday in parts of the northern Amazon jungle provinces of Amazonas and Loreto and in Cusco in the south bans public gatherings and suspends free transit. In addition, the army can be sent in to break up protests.
In a late Monday press conference, Prime Minister del Castillo responded to criticism of the decision to declare a state of emergency. "We are not provoking native communities but safeguarding areas that are of strategic importance for the country," he said, referring to a gas pipeline in northern Peru and the Camisea gas project.
After talks between the administration of Alan García and protesters stalled on Friday, the government announced that it would not engage in dialogue again until the protests were called off. But native leaders said Monday that the demonstrations would continue.
"The government has declared open war on indigenous people and the demonstrators will stay there until the problem is solved. They prefer to die there, they aren't afraid," said the president of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), Alberto Pizango, accompanied by several "apus", or indigenous chiefs.
Environment Minister Antonio Brack alleged that the indigenous protesters were being manipulated by an "international movement" that he said is inciting Aguaruna Indians in Peru and Ecuador to try to form their own independent territory.
"They are being stage-managed by a group of lawyers who are deliberately misinforming them," said Brack, who was sent to Loreto for talks with native leaders on Friday, but failed to secure results.
Pizango said his association is urging Congress to revoke the decree laws that were approved by the executive branch under special powers granted by the legislature for the implementation of the free trade agreement signed with the United States.
Under one of the decrees, a mechanism created in the 1990s, which allowed indigenous communities to sell or lease collectively-owned land to third parties if approved by two-thirds of the members of a community assembly, was modified to permit sales with the votes of just 50 percent plus one of the assembly members.
Roger Nájar, the new chairman of the parliamentary committee on Andean and Amazon peoples and the environment, told IPS that on Tuesday, in the first session of the new legislature, lawmakers would study two draft laws aimed at overruling the decrees in question.
"We want to provide a solution to the fair demands of these communities, because the government continues to act arrogantly, without any ability to dialogue," said the legislator.
Nájar said he had received no response to two letters he sent to the Council of Ministers asking that the indigenous peoples' demands be addressed.
Pizango, meanwhile, said that if Congress showed a willingness to take up the issue, the groups would study the possibility of calling off the protests.
On Sunday, an Aguaruna Indian and a police officer were seriously injured in clashes between protesters and the police at the Aramango Hydroelectric Plant in the province of Amazonas, according to the local La República correspondent. Other press reports mentioned 12 people injured — eight police officers and four demonstrators.
"The underlying problem is that the government is attempting to portray indigenous people as just another group of poor people, without admitting that they have a different way of life, a different cultural viewpoint," anthropologist Oscar Espinosa at the Pontificia Catholic University of Peru told IPS.
"The authorities think they can calm the demands of indigenous people by building schools or medical clinics, but the pending debt to the indigenous population is much more complex than that," he added.
"They should not be seen as inferior because of their attempt to block the influx of private investment into their territories," said Espinosa. "The problem is that Peru has a hard time seeing cultural differences as something positive, as part of the country's wealth. Peruvian society sees them instead as an obstacle."
Vice President Luis Giampietri argued that "some non-governmental organisations that are active in these issues are inciting people to do these kinds of things, which in the end are subversive activities, because they are undermining the foundations of democracy.
"How have they achieved the miracle of being able to bring together, in one place at the same time, communities so widely dispersed as the jungle peoples? That will have to be investigated," said Giampietri.
But the protests did not come out of nowhere. Indigenous communities have repeatedly expressed their opposition to the two decree laws.
And while the two decrees are the main irritant, indigenous associations have a list of 38 laws and provisions that they would like to see repealed on the argument that they undermine indigenous rights.
"Peru, which in past decades (in the 1970s) was in the vanguard with respect to indigenous issues, is now in last place on the list," said Espinosa.
In the professor's view, the country has been backsliding on the question of indigenous rights, to the point that there isn't even a specific law on the issue, only one 1978 provision on native communities that should incorporate, for example, the latest international instruments safeguarding indigenous peoples' rights.
Nor is there any strong state institution that represents them, he added.
The National Institute for the Development of Andean, Amazon and Afro-Peruvian Peoples (INDEPA), which would normally be in charge of indigenous affairs, has been partially dismantled and is still in the midst of a process of "reorganisation" by the government, two years into García's term.
"These protests might end in dialogue, but the problem will continue, because there are no government policies that value and respect indigenous people," said Espinosa.
The government ordered military overflights of the protest zones and deployed some 1,500 army troops to Bagua.
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Q: How do I remove the hover effect of menu separators? In my salient WordPress theme, this is the css for my menu.
header#top nav > ul > li > a {
    font-family: Arial,sans-serif;
    text-transform: capitalize;
    letter-spacing: .5px;
    font-size: 17px;
    line-height: 23.8px;
}

I have this code for menu separator "|". I want to remove the hover effect for the menu separators i.e., when I hover the mouse only menus should change the color and not the separators along with menus also.
media="all"
header#top nav > ul > li > a::after {
    content: "|";
    padding-right: .8em;
    padding-left: .8em;
}

Edit: Adding :hover code
a:hover {
color: inherit;
}

header#top nav ul li a:hover,
header#top nav .sf-menu li.sfHover > a,
header#top nav .sf-menu li.current_page_ancestor > a,
header#top nav .sf-menu li.current-menu-item > a,
header#top nav .sf-menu li.current-menu-ancestor > a,
header#top nav .sf-menu li.current_page_item > a {
color: #27CFC3;
}

.sf-menu li ul li a:hover, .sf-menu li ul li.sfHover > a {
color: #27CFC3;
background-color: #272727!important;
}

A: Just make sure the ::after rule is declared after the :hover rule and specify its color.
EXAMPLE

a{
    color:black;
    text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover{
    color:red;
}
a::after{
    color:black;
    content:"|";
    padding:0 5px;
}
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A: my problem solved. I just added color property in my menu-separator css code:
media="all"
header#top nav > ul > li > a::after
{
content: "|";
padding-right: .8em;
padding-left: .8em;
color: #008daa!important; //I inserted this line. It works perfect now!
}

Color property overrode all the hovering changing color properties.
Thank you very much for all of your immediate support.

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Q: ASP.NET / IIS Remote Debugging - DEBUG verb I'm looking for details on the DEBUG HTTP verb.
It's clear to me that this is used for remote debugging - though I'm not even sure if it's for IIS or ASP.NET...
If I want to access this interface directly - i.e. not through Visual Studio, but sending these commands manually - what do I need to know? What are the commands for it?
I'm also interested in misuse cases, if you have any information on that...

A: Just for completeness, consolidating here the answers from what-is-the-non-standard-http-verb-debug-used-for-in-asp-net-iis: (thanks @Mark, @Jørn).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937523

When the client tries to automatically
  attach the debugger in an ASP.NET 2.0
  application, the client sends a HTTP
  request that contains the DEBUG verb.
  This HTTP request is used to verify
  that the process of the application is
  running and to select the correct
  process to attach.

The DEBUG verb is used to start/stop remote debugging sessions. More specifically, a DEBUG request can contain a Command header with value start-debug and stop-debug, but the actual debugging is done via an RPC protocol.
It uses Windows authentication, and DCOM to actually do the debugging though (obviously, if you're allowing RPC traffic, then you've got bigger problems) or of any exploits. UrlScan does block it by default, though.
However, poking an ASP.NET website with the DEBUG requests can be used to reveal if the web.config has <compilation debug="true">. The test can be performed with telnet, WFetch or similar, by sending a request like this:
DEBUG /foo.aspx HTTP/1.0
Accept: */ *
Host: www.example.com
Command: stop-debug

Depending on whether debugging is enabled or not, you will get either 200 OK or 403 Forbidden.
It is generally accepted that you should never have <compilation debug="true"/> in a production environment, as it has serious implications on the performance of the website. I am not sure if having debugging enabled opens any new attack vectors, unless RPC traffic is enabled as well, in which case you have more serious problems anyway.

A: If you want to do remote debugging, I would suggest utilizing debug.writeline and the tool from sysinternals DebugView. This allows you to 'listen' for debug statements either on your location machine or on a remote machine, provided you have the necessary access.
I cannot directly answer the part about DEBUG http as I am unfamiliar with it.


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Director General forced to resign from police watchdog
Posted byNeil Wilby December 3, 2022 December 5, 2022 Posted inMiscarriages of Justice
In a short statement made late on Saturday 3rd December, 2022, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman said: "I have accepted Michael Lockwood's resignation as Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
"I took immediate action upon being made aware that Mr Lockwood was the subject of a police investigation into an historic allegation, and instructed my officials to ask him to resign or face immediate suspension from his role.
"Home Office staff are working at pace with the IOPC's Unitary Board to put in place temporary arrangements for the organisation's leadership."
On the IOPC website the previous day Michael Lockwood had said, presumably in an attempt to deflect the real reason:
"It is with great sadness that I have decided to resign as Director General of the IOPC for personal and domestic reasons, and this will be effective from today.
"It has been an enormous privilege to serve as Director General and to have led the organisation for the past five years. I am proud of the progress we have made and I am grateful to all our staff, the Unitary Board and external stakeholders for all their support."
There should be an immediate Home Office investigation as to how Lockwood and the IOPC were allowed to deceive the public in this way.
In extraordinary circumstances, he was the first Director General to be appointed to the IOPC. A candidate of outstanding ability, credentials, reputation and relevant experience had been overlooked to accommodate a former local council chief executive who came with baggage,
Prior to joining the IOPC, Lockwood was chief executive of the London Borough of Harrow, and before that was an accountant with a background in auditing. He had no policing background.
The 'achievements' to which Lockwood refers would be a complete mystery to most, if not all, of those who form the miscarriage of justice fraternity in England and Wales. Wherein he was viewed as just the latest in a long line of time-serving, policing sycophants to occupy senior roles in the IPCC or IOPC.
The most notable watchdog 'achievement' being that there are now, on the admissions of chief officers, many hundreds, if not thousands, of miscreant officers lurking in the ranks of the police service.
The IOPC replaced the discredited Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in 2018. That brand had simply become too toxic as it was engulfed in scandal upon scandal, particularly relating to the treatment of families bereaved at the hands of the police. These include, amongst many others, those close to Christopher Alder, Jean Charles de Menenez, Sean Rigg, Ian Tomlinson, Mark Duggan, Anthony Grainger and, of course, the 97 Hillsborough families where not one single police officer has been convicted of any offence or faced any complaint sanction.
In 2013, a House of Commons Home Affairs Committee report found that the IPCC was "buried under the weight of poor police investigations" leaving the public "bewildered by its continued reliance on the very forces it is investigating". It took over four years for the Government to act and dissolve the IPCC. Regrettably, many of the officers responsible for its appalling reputation, and ultimate demise, simply transferred across to the IOPC where it was "lessons learned" business as usual.
In June, 2021, the same Select Committee branded the IOPC "a law unto themselves" and highlighted the dual role of Michael Lockwood as both Director General and the Chair of its Unitary Board. The joint roles were described as "unusual" and MPs questioned the watchdog's accountability as a result.
The IOPC press office has declined to comment further on the Director General's resignation. In particular, regarding how long, and how many of the senior management of the IOPC had known about this allegation, before it became public?
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Research and Development (R&D) – How to claim R&D tax benefits
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Tax deductions are granted to encourage pervasive R&D in Singapore and to build innovative capabilities of our people and businesses. The R&D scheme has benefitted many businesses. In 2018, about 520 companies claimed enhanced R&D benefits. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) comprised the majority of R&D beneficiaries, making up 85% of R&D claims.
Based on the R&D claims processed, 83% of SME claims were granted full R&D benefits, with another 6% of the claims adjusted by IRAS on the approved expenditure.
1 Please note that you need not submit any information/ supporting documents with the Income Tax Return (Form C-S/ C) but you are required to prepare and retain proper documentation from the start of the R&D project and present it to IRAS upon request.
Companies filing Form C: Please complete the Research and Development (R&D) Claim Form (YA 2018 and before) (188KB) or Research and Development (R&D) Claim Form (YA 2019 and onwards) (234KB) and submit it together with the company's Form C.
Companies filing Form C-S: Please retain the completed R&D Claim Form and submit it to IRAS upon request. The relevant documents/ information must be retained for a period of at least five years from the relevant YA. These documents/ information should be submitted to the Comptroller of Income Tax upon request. For more information on record keeping, please refer to Business Records That Companies Must Keep.
2 IRAS may consult IPOS International Pte Ltd (IPOS-I), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (a statutory board under the Ministry of Law), in its review of R&D applications.
3 For more information, please refer to Technical Advisory Panel and How the referral process works.
A taxpayer must maintain proper documentation of its R&D projects, so that it can substantiate its R&D claims to IRAS when requested. Please maintain such documentation from the start of the R&D project, rather than as an after-event.
Some information that will help to substantiate R&D claims:
Examples of information / documentation that can substantiate R&D claims
Explanation of how the R&D project goes beyond the current state of technology and knowledge
Records of enquiries / research done on the current state of technology / knowledge and the results
Press statements, marketing materials or website information stating that the product is new in Singapore
Award of a patent resulting from the R&D
Technical Risk
Explanation of the scientific or technological uncertainty involved and why it could not be readily resolved by a competent professional before the start of the R&D project
SIE Study
Records of challenges and why they could not be resolved without undertaking a SIE study
Design of your experimental process, including your potential solution
Record of steps taken to improve the chances of success for subsequent attempts
More examples of helpful documentation can also be found in the e-Tax Guide on Research and Development Tax Measures (1.59MB) and Documents to Prepare when Filing Form C-S/ C.
Smaller businesses may not always formally document the steps of their R&D projects. In such cases, IRAS is prepared to accept other forms of documentation that the business has to substantiate its claim. Such documentation may include (but are not limited to) working papers, email discussion, test result scripts etc. SMEs can contact IRAS if they need clarifications on the requisite documentation.
IRAS has set up a Technical Advisory Panel ("Panel") to advise IRAS and enhance IRAS' ability to review R&D applications and expenditures on automation equipment for the purpose of R&D tax benefits and the Productivity and Innovation Credit ("PIC") scheme. The members of the Panel are Dr Lee Kwok Cheong (Chairman), Prof. Chou Siaw Kiang, Dr Zhou Yi, Dr Ong Kheng Chuan Peter, Mr Chew Chee Bin, Mr Sherman Tan, Dr Josephine Kwa, Prof. Chiew Sing-Ping, Prof. Freddy Boey and Dr Sze Tiam Lin.
R&D cases will be referred to the Panel when:
Taxpayer requests for the referral specifically; or
IRAS rejects the R&D claim after two rounds of review and the taxpayer wishes to pursue the claim.
For cases referred to the Panel, a summary of the project, taxpayer's views, IRAS' evaluation, supporting documents provided by taxpayer and IRAS' correspondence with the taxpayer will be submitted to the Panel for review.
While the Panel will generally advise IRAS based on the documents provided, the Panel may request for further clarifications from the taxpayer on the R&D claims before providing technical advice to IRAS. In such instances, IRAS will usually collate the questions and seek clarifications from the taxpayer.
The Panel can also request to meet the taxpayer to seek further clarifications directly on the R&D claims. The meeting is solely for clarifications on R&D claims and is not an arbitration session. If the taxpayer is unable to meet the Panel, IRAS will continue to liaise with the taxpayer on the clarifications sought.
With the technical advice from the Panel, IRAS makes the final decision on the taxpayer's claims for R&D tax benefits and PIC scheme.
To provide upfront certainty for R&D claims, IRAS has implemented a Pre-claim Evaluation scheme for large and complex R&D projects. This is a structured evaluation process which allows taxpayers to submit details of their R&D projects to IRAS for evaluation before the commencement or during the conduct of the projects. Large and complex projects are defined as those projects with estimated R&D costs exceeding $15 million.
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A Conversation Between Cuck-Queens
Dear ugly people. Please don't read this story and leave your vomit at the end. This story will offend your tender sensibilities — offend your pure and precise knowledge of right and wrong. It will bring near to your conscious minds those deep longings you have so successfully repressed (except when reading my stories). It will do to your emotions what my other stories have done and cause you to reveal to your enemies, as you scream at me, all of your pathetic, emotional hang-ups. And they will laugh at you again. Please, just go away.
I had met Peg at a party last year and for lots of reasons we had become good friends. We live near each other and belong to the same club and neither of us works and we like to shop and do lunch together and … well we fit together very nicely. But, without a doubt, the most important thing that we both have in common is that both of our husbands are voyeur-cucks. That is what we talk about most of the time. How to keep them satisfied and happy!
Our husbands are both very successful businessmen in their mid thirties. We live well. We can afford to play well. And we travel a lot. We need to be away from home for our husbands to safely enjoy their favorite diversion — their pastime — their hobby — or what ever you want to call it – watching Peg and me get fucked! Recently we had been vacationing together in Nassau and had double fun.
It was a lazy weekday afternoon and Peg and I were sitting under an umbrella by the club pool, off to ourselves, enjoying a fruit punch (with a little vodka to relax us). We weren't saying much until I brought up our favorite subject.
"It's funny," I said, "but neither of us knew our husbands were cucks when we married them."
"It's not funny at all, Trish," Peg said, "they didn't know it themselves."
"What do you mean? How can a guy not know that?" I asked.
"Well," Peg said, "they repress it. It comes out gradually. Remember how it started?"
I thought about that for a moment. Peg just sat there waiting for my answer. Ed and I had been married about ten years ago. Everything was normal for a year or so. He had always admired my figure in a bikini. About a year after we were married we were on vacation in the Caribbean and he got this thing about nude beaches. We went to a few and, somehow, I got the feeling that he was showing me off. I couldn't remember exactly why I felt that way, but I did. I explained this to Peg.
"You were right. He was showing you off. That's the way Gerry started with me. He wanted me to wear a really small bikini and he talked about nude beaches and we did a couple."
"Yeah the bikini," I remembered. "He wanted me to wear small tight ones and he liked white. I told him my nipples and beaver showed through when they got wet, but he said not to worry."
Peg laughed. "Gerry too. A white bikini was what I had to wear. I finally got to where I didn't care if guys stared at me — I just got used to it."
"And it was always on vacation," I said, "never here at home. They were ashamed of it with their friends. They only did it with strangers."
"Right. Never at home! Especially never around business associates," Peg said. "But on vacation — always. And I remember I had a special set of dresses, just for vacations. Did you?"
I had to laugh at that. "Did I ever! Vacation dresses never to be worn at home. Short skirts — I mean thigh high! And spike heels — like stilts! And cleavage! Half of my tits hanging out!"
Peg laughed. "And we'd go to the hotel bar with the late crowd — sit at the bar — never at a table. Gerry always got me a little drunk. Always very low lights. He'd sit me on a stool with my miniskirt half way up my thighs. The bastard always made me wear hose with a garter belt and the tops of the hose were usually visible when I sat on the stool. Some guy would always join us at the bar sitting next to me. Gerry would talk to him real friendly-like. The next thing you know the guy would be rubbing his knee against mine and that was the moment Gerry picked to head for the men's room!"
"What did you do?" I asked.
"At first I'd fight 'em off if I hadn't had too much to drink. Then later I'd let 'em cop a feel of my leg. What the hell? I figured that was what Gerry wanted to see when he came back. After a few vacations that canlı bahis was what he did see. Me – with my knees about a foot apart and the guy stroking the inside of my thigh, working his way up."
"What did Gerry do when he saw that?" I asked.
"He'd lean over to the guy's ear and say something about getting a booth. And the three of us would go back to the darkest booth in the place and I'd sit between the two of them and the guy would spread my legs and get his hand between 'em and slowly work his way up to my pussy. Then Gerry would pull my pants down for him so he could get at it."
"Then what?" I asked. Her story was almost exactly like mine, except that by the time I got to the guy-groping-me-at-the-bar stage I was not wearing any panties. Ed made me take them off before he took me into the bar. Sometimes the guy got to my pussy before we got back to a booth. Early on I had just quit wearing panties most of the time on vacation.
"Well, the guy would usually play with my pussy for a while. I'd be mostly drunk. Playing with my pussy always turns me on so I'd get dripping wet — so wet that Gerry could hear the squishy sounds of the guy playing with me. Usually I'd come. Gerry and the guy would laugh when I did, and say 'She's about ready' or something like that."
"Did you take the guy up to your room?" I asked.
"Yeah, after a few months we always ended up in our room with me getting fucked and Gerry watching the guy fuck me. It was gradual. It was two years into our marriage and over a year from the first nude beach till I was getting fucked regularly on vacation. Of course it's been happening all the time ever since."
"Did you enjoy fucking strangers?" I asked.
"Well, yeah I did actually. It's a hell of a lot better than fucking Gerry and having him always wanting me to whisper in his ear about the last guy I fucked. I'd get a little drunk and just lay back and enjoy it. Most guys were always good for two loads. But after a year or so I decided if I was gonna fuck strangers I wanted to pick 'em out myself."
"So I just told Gerry we were gonna do it different. He started to argue and I told him to shut up — if he wanted to watch me fuck we were gonna do it my way. That was the biggest turning point in our marriage. He got real tame and listened. I told him he was gonna stay in charge of making money and I was gonna take charge of spending it — including the fucking. From then on he took orders. I told him what to do and he did it."
I was curious because Ed and I had reached a similar point early in our marriage. I had taken charge of the fucking. I asked Peg to explain what happened.
"I made Gerry stay in the room. I'd go down to the bar and look around for a guy. The way I dressed they were attracted like flies to honey. They swarmed around and I had my pick. We'd dance and I'd let 'em play with my ass. Then I'd pick a guy and we'd go back to a booth and it was pussy time — I'd quit wearing pants by then. Then I let 'em know they could come up to the room and fuck me but they had to let my husband watch. God! That was funny — you should have seen some of the looks I got."
"Did most of them do it?" I asked.
"Yeah — almost always. But then guys began to ask to fuck me the next day without Gerry around and so I started to do that. That was even more fun! The fucking was better without him watching. "
"Did Gerry know?"
"Hell yes he knew! We'd be on the beach taking the sun and about two o'clock I'd get up and tell him to stay and enjoy the sun. Then I'd tell him I was going upstairs to get fucked. You should have seen the look on his face. He'd get an instant hard on and at first he begged to go with me and watch. I broke him of that bad habit real quick."
"When I told him I was gonna get fucked, he'd just lay there on the beach, playing with his dick. Jesus! That was fun. That's when I found out how much fun it was to torment him. His sex needs made him helpless. I discovered that I had total control of his sex life and OMG it was fun. And you know he wanted it that way! It turned him on!"
"My experience with Ed went a lot like yours with Gerry," I said. "I quit wearing panties on vacation way before you did so my pussy was easily available at the bar. Ed and I did the dark booth thing and early on Ed would ask the bahis siteleri guy if he wanted to fuck me. But just like you I got fed up with some of the creeps I ended up fucking and laid it on the line just like you did. I was surprised at how easy it was to take over. Ed became real nice and tame and he took orders. As long as I let him watch me fuck he'd do anything I told him to do. And just like Gerry, taking orders turned him on!"
The waitress came by and Peg and I ordered a fruit salad — we'd split it. I was surprised at how similar our experiences had been.
"Do you think our husbands are wimps?" I asked.
"I don't really know," Peg said. "They're not wimpy in business. Both of them are very aggressive, dominant businessmen. They only get wimpy with sex. They have this need — I guess you'd call it a fetish — to watch their wives get fucked and that makes 'em wimpy."
"You mean it's a fetish just like the guys who want to smell dirty panties or feet or whatever? There are a lot of fetish people out there." I said.
"Yeah. Like those women who are fascinated by big cocks," Peg said. "That's the silliest thing of all, I think. I can see a big cock but if it's dark and I don't see it I can't tell how big it is in my pussy — I just feel it going in and out and rubbing my clit. Hell my GYN guy puts this big metal thing in me and spreads it out wide. That thing is bigger than a donkey dong and I can't feel it as big — I just see it as big. It's all in your head — a pussy is designed to let a baby go through it — no dick's gonna hurt it."
I laughed so loudly that the people at the next table turned to look. "Damn it Peg! You have just shattered the illusions of millions of men and women all across the land."
"Well I hope so. I've fucked a lot of guys Trish, and cock size only matters to my hubby — he takes it very seriously — I don't. One guy said to me once, 'I may be little but I'm wound tight' and he was a damn good fuck – as good as anybody else — better than most."
We sat quietly sipping our fruit punch and the waitress brought the fruit salad and two forks. There was whipped cream on top of the salad.
Peg chuckled. Then she twirled her fork in the whipped cream and held it up for my inspection. She had a quizzical look on her face. I knew exactly what she was thinking and I started to laugh. With no explanation she laughed and asked a simple question.
"When was the first time you made Ed do it?"
I laughed with her. "You're a bitch Peg — you're a horny bitch – but you're a funny, bitch. You're asking me when was the first time I made Ed eat creampie?"
Peg nodded. "Right. The first time."
"It's hard to remember exactly. I think it was in Hawaii — we were at the Halekulani . Ed had been watching me fuck guys for over a year and there was this big, heavy hung, Hawaiian stud — young — maybe nineteen – I think he played football. He only fucked me once and then left right away. I was laying on the bed with his cum dripping out of my pussy — he had pumped a massive load like young guys do and I could feel it dripping out."
"Ed was standing at the foot of the bed just staring at my pussy. I knew what he was looking at. And more than that, I knew at that very moment what he wanted to do. I spread my legs wider, raised my knees, and lifted my ass up to make that dripping, hairy pussy look appetizing. Ed just fell like a cut-down tree right between my legs, his face in my bush, and started to suck that cum right out of my pussy. He was moaning and sucking and making squishy sounds and working his tongue in and out and he kept doing it for almost half an hour. I took his head in my hands and guided him and encouraged him. I made sure he did my asshole because a lot of cum had run down there."
"What did you say to him?" Peg asked.
"You know exactly what I said," I chuckled. "You horny bitch — I'll bet you say the same thing to Gerry. I said, 'Clean it up Baby — get it nice and clean.' And the more I said it the more he turned on. He was humping the damn bed sheet — his pants were still on – and he shot off in his pants — it was a real mess. From then on I didn't let him eat cum until he got his pants off."
Peg and I burst out in raucous laughter and everyone around the pool turned to look. They probably figured we bahis şirketleri were telling dirty jokes.
"Did you feed him creampie when the stud was watching?" Peg asked.
"You know," I said, "I kinda felt bad about that at first. It really is humiliating so I never made him do it. Then one night, a stud ordered him to do it and he did. Ed got his dick out of his pants and started jacking off while he was sucking out the stud's cum and that was about the fastest I had ever seen Ed come. That was the first time I realized just how much being humiliated turns a cuck on. Ed never said it — but it was just obvious. So I started humiliating him more. It's kinda hard to do that when you love 'em so much, but they like it, and they need it, and so you just do it for them. What about you?"
"It's the same with Gerry. It started gradually but after a couple of years he was eating creampie like a veteran — and without being told! I mean, when the stud rolled off he was right there cleaning up my pussy so it was ready for the stud to fuck again after he rested."
Peg continued. "I think some studs like to make cucks do that because it gives them a more masculine feeling or something. But how masculine is it to be just a performer? The way I see it the stud is an actor — he's just fucking you so the cuck can watch — you wouldn't be fucking him otherwise. You're a rich bitch! Just like your cuck. Hell — the stud's just some beach bum or bar bum you picked up because hubby wants to watch a dick get shoved into you. You know what I mean?"
I did know what she meant and I had to admit that I had never thought of it that way at all. Ever! I had seen us cuck-queens as degrading our husbands but Peg was adding studs to the list of people we were disrespecting. They were performers who couldn't get laid on their own and needed a cuck-queen doing a favor for her husband for them to make out. That was a twist! A real twist! Somehow I didn't think studs would like it.
"Do you ever … well … cuck him … ah … when he's not around?" Peg asked.
"You mean like you fucking some guy when he was on the beach playing with his dick?"
"No. I mean when he doesn't know anything about it." Peg said softly looking me in the eye.
I paused. This was dangerous territory. But we were very good friends. "This is very private," I said.
Peg nodded. "Private for me too."
I thought how it had started. As Ed's life as a voyeur-cuck evolved, fucking me became less and less important to him. And my enjoyment of him fucking me became less enjoying to me. He always wanted me to whisper in his ear about the last guy I had fucked — or that big Hawaiian dude — or somebody.
Then about five years ago my mother got sick and I spent almost a month with her till she got well. I got horny. I was an expert at picking up guys in bars by this time so that's what I did. I fucked two or three guys and then found one that really rang my bell — or "curled my toes" as Peg always said. I fucked him regularly for the rest of the month. I had an off and on affair with him for about three years — meeting briefly at a small place nearby or going back to "visit mother."
There had been a few other guys since that affair broke up. Somehow, I needed them because I got no pleasure from Ed. My vibrator was my friend, but except for our vacations when I "got lucky" as I called it when I fucked a really great guy I was often very horny — just a performer like the studs.
Peg had patiently watched me think through what I was going to say. The sun was setting now and it was getting dark. I told her. When I finished, thinking and feeling sorry for myself, I explained to her simply and softly some of these — my most personal feelings. Somehow I felt better after I had unburdened myself. After I had said it all, I paused and closed with the most important thing.
"But I love Ed. I love him deeply. He's my husband and I wouldn't change him for the world. He can't help it. He has this fetish. Can you understand that — it makes no sense to me — except I feel it."
Peg said softly. "But it makes sense to me. Everything you have told me makes sense. I could tell you of the loss of pleasure from Gerry's love — the need for more than I'm getting from these substitute lovers he watches — my secret pleasures that would break the heart of the man I love, if he knew. I love him! I don't desire him! I give him pleasure, and he gives me none. But, love, giving without receiving, is still love. It's all I have now."
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Florin "Flocea" Marin (born 19 May 1953) is a Romanian football manager and a former football defender. Marin has a total of 456 matches as a manager in the Romanian top-division, Divizia A consisting of 166 victories, 103 draws and 187 losses.

Honours

Player
Rapid București
Cupa României (1): 1974–75
Steaua București
Liga I (1): 1977–78
Cupa României (1): 1978–79

Manager
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Liga II (1): 2008–09

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1953 births
Living people
Footballers from Bucharest
Romanian footballers
Association football defenders
Romania under-21 international footballers
Liga I players
Liga II players
FC Rapid București players
FC Steaua București players
FC Argeș Pitești players
FC Gloria Buzău players
Romanian football managers
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FC U Craiova 1948 managers
FC Dinamo București managers
FC Astra Giurgiu managers
FC Petrolul Ploiești managers
CSM Jiul Petroșani managers
CS Mioveni managers
ASC Oțelul Galați managers
FC Rapid București managers
ACS Poli Timișoara managers

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Britain, divided
What if a new border confirmed the UK's new reality: Leave and Remain voters live in two different countries.
Illustration by Matt Rota for POLITICO
By Rosa Prince
A country divided; that's how Britain has felt since last year's vote to leave the European Union. Remoaners versus Hard Brexiteers, all shades of gray abandoned. But what if Britain was literally, physically divided?
The Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish have spent the months since the referendum grumbling about London's approach to Brexit. Some even predict the union could be rent asunder as a result, with the Scots leading a domino effect of independence.
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History has taught us that attempts to redesign the map — from the Balkans to the Middle East — lead to bloodshed and brutality. The sectarian violence that erupted in the wake of British influence also left deep scars. Given Britain's colonial past, wouldn't it be fitting retribution if our divided island was forced to come to terms with itself by falling apart?
Of course, in reality, there is no Man from the Colonial Office hovering over a map of the U.K. with a red pen. But what would it be like if there were?
The two new states of Lohoco and Britannia come into being at the stroke of midnight, April Fool's Day 2019, two years and a day after former Prime Minister Theresa May signed Article 50 to quit the European Union.
The border crossings were supposed to close an hour later, but such were the traffic jams that most were forced to stay open until nearly dawn.
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Scotland gained its independence a year before the rest of the country split in two.
Whole towns have decamped from parts of Essex and Kent. Across the motorway lanes, they gaze at travelers heading south from Cheshire and Durham. The Welsh Valleys are emptying out; much of Norwich is on the move.
United Nations observers gathered at the Watford Gap Services on the M1 appear irritated that Starbucks on the northbound carriageway has run out of free-trade coffee. In the Northamptonshire drizzle, barbed wire fences are being built through farmland where cows used to roam freely. A group of coach drivers is complaining about the delays; the ordeal of having to learn new routes. The U.N. observers nod sagely.
David Davis, the new prime minister of Britannia, fought to retain the name "Great Britain," but was forced to back down due to the inescapable logic that his country is no longer formed of the Greater of the British Isles. But Britannia sounds grander, more historic somehow, he thinks. The passports are blue again too.
Lohoco, on the other hand, was named by a committee in Brussels, as reflecting its status as a fully integrated member of the European Union. It's an acronym, standing for "London and the Home Counties," which, let's be honest, is basically what the country comprises. For now, it nominally contains Northern Ireland, the southwest, Suffolk and Wales. Scotland gained its independence a year before the rest of the country split in two. (First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is due at the IMF later in the week, but that's another story…)
President Sadiq Khan — who came to power a year after May's hopelessly divided party was toppled toward the end of 2017 — thinks "Lohoco" has a jaunty air, like "Tribeca" in New York City or, more aptly if more prosaically, the "Benelux" countries.
Sadiq Khan became president of the new state | Leon Neal/Getty Images
Lohoco has bought the European Kool-Aid alright. A member of Schengen and the planned Joint European Armed Forces, the new nation will soon move to the same time zone as Paris and Madrid.
It is a strange place, this Lohoco, almost a city state. The mighty metropolis at its heart sits stranded, nothing to rule over, no one to influence. The great financial institutions are back, and almost as many Europeans have arrived as native Leave southerners have left, but something has been lost; its humor and sparkle have gone, perhaps.
The pound sterling ceases to be legal tender outside of Britannia the day after the new borders take effect. Such was the speed of the transition that the new Bank of Lohoco is not yet fully up and running when the new borders go up. Still, enough euros are already in circulation that the economy can function.
The Britannian pound is now pegged to the dollar, meaning it too is stable. Under a deal between Davis and Donald Trump, the first consignment of chlorinated chicken from Kentucky is due to land at Manchester Airport any day now. Food in the north is a little blander, a little more carcinogenic post-Brexit. But no one there is that surprised or bothered. Even the newly-arrived Leavers will soon learn to live without focaccia.
The skies over London buzz with planes arriving from Moscow and Beijing. Now the political situation seems to have settled down, the oligarchs are back seeking stable shores for their billions. There is a booming trade in luxury apartments, while young Lohocians get used to the idea of renting for the remainder of their long lives.
Sky Sports still has coverage of Premier League football on both sides of the new border | Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
The streets of the capital belch lorry fumes, the economy is booming, and the mood is all business. In the further reaches of Lohoco, it is strangely quiet though. The countryside feels empty; unwanted. Only a few aristocrats still work the land, turning loss into profit thanks to the plenty of Brussels while supplying the upmarket restaurants of Cheltenham and Chelsea. The seas along the south coast are all but empty of fish; the fishermen were among the first to flee north. Before too long, many other country-dwellers who originally considered themselves Remain will follow them across the border.
The new arrivals struggle to find work up north, as jobs are already scarce in Britannia. Prime Minister Davis' promised New Deal — a plan to build roads and other infrastructure development to replace the lost car industry — is expected to help. Plus there are plenty of openings at the Border Force. Patrols begin two days after Partition, when work starts on a permanent wall to replace the razor wire that went up at midnight on April 1.
Alcohol duty is high, particularly on imports of foreign wine and gin. VAT stands at 45 percent. Smartly uniformed Britannia guards with German Shepherds stand watch at customs checkpoints, although no one is coming over these first days because visa applications have yet to be processed. The scenes at the new crossing points in Peterborough and Shrewsbury stand in sharp contrast to the tranquillity of the invisible line dividing Derry and Donegal, a customs barrier along the Irish border post Brexit proving unnecessary after all.
With the first Saturday of the new status quo comes the start of the new, if truncated, football season. Next year, the 10 teams in each league will play each other twice, a neat solution based on the handy fact that the 20 clubs in the 2017-2018 Premiership are already neatly geographically split between Lohoco and Britannia.
The only hitch is the realization by millions of Lohocians that they can no longer listen to Manchester United vs. Manchester City on the Salford-based BBC Radio 5Live, which seceded along with the rest of the northwest. No matter, Sky Sports and the other channels have full coverage of both sides of the border. Britannians are content to listen to their league on the radio and aren't fussed about missing Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur.
The clubs of Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle were always booming, now cities from Birmingham to Norwich are packed out at night.
In fact, apart from "Coronation Street," there's not much worth watching telly-wise on Britannia's remaining channels. But most people don't notice — there's too much going on IRL.
The live music scene returns as if Northern Soul never went out of fashion. The clubs of Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle were always booming, now cities from Birmingham to Norwich are packed out at night. Pubs stay open late, despite the high price of booze. There is a party spirit in the air, not quite celebration or even elation. It is something more like the Blitz spirit; the hedonism of those who fear they are doomed.
Those Britannians who do have jobs spend the day yawning. In Lohoco the overpriced wine bars of London, Cardiff and Belfast are also doing well; elsewhere in the south, everyone settles down in front of "Bake Off" as usual.
And so it is on both sides of the border; life carries on. A re-ordering has taken place, an upheaval on a grand scale, but, for many, partition has been mere physical confirmation of a process that began long before Brexit, long before the referendum. We really are two countries now.
Rosa Prince is the author of "Theresa May, the Enigmatic Prime Minister" (Biteback Publishing, 2017) and "Comrade Corbyn" (Biteback Publishing, 2016).
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Number 358, 378 and number 393.
Can't wait to see these take to the skies and even better, can't wait to fly with them! So excited for SAS!
Things are moving nicely along... heard a small bird stating that the first A350 of SAS has been "started"... whatever that means.
This was the plane you returned on from Hong Kong to Copenhagen, Jan-Olav …business class, but I am very sure neither of these VIP's are sitting in your seat!
Mao Sun and Xing Er - Welcome to your new home in Copenhagen!
And very well done SAS for adding a bit extra livery to the aircraft for this special flight!
Ah, thank you so much for sharing these links.
I bet they were sitting in Business too, drinking champagne and sleeping softly in a Hästens bed with luxurious Hästens pillow and blanket.
Brilliant reply! I can already feel a cartoon coming on! But I'd better just make a note in case I'm totally out of ideas for a future birthday card or other auspicious occasion.
btw back in 2011 our Edinburgh pandas arrived in a Fed-Ex plane with extra livery though I didn't get to see it.


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Onthophagus subalternans é uma espécie de inseto do género Onthophagus, família Scarabaeidae, ordem Coleoptera.

Foi descrita cientificamente por D'Orbigny em 1902.

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subalternans
Coleópteros descritos em 1902