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I was even more stunned when I saw parents clapping on their performance????? I was about to recover from this shock and I learnt that they learned those steps and song at their school. I was dumbfounded. These kids have been hearing this song on TV almost every day and learnt it better from their classmates. The reason being, their pre-school was making them perform on same song during their Annual function!! Now, I don't want to name those branded pre-school but what kind of culture these pre-schools are incepting at the name of fun??? Away from home, pre-school is the only place which has major impact on a child's psychology.
Years ago, Gurukul was the source of education in our country. It was one of the most vital aspects in building a child's character. Learning and Knowledge linked with concentration, sincerity, dedication and loads of hard work. But, times changed and we started adapting concept of "Fun into learning" from West, who said and believed it is 'Fun to Learn". However in our endeavor to learn from the West, unfortunately we started copying their evils even in the education arena. So, in India Fun to learn has converted into Fun and Learn.
Is balance missing in your child?
The fun part has to be included to make children expressive and multi-skilled which are important too, yet most important aspect is to preserve the innocence of child. I am a little disappointed to see that the balance is missing. Why can't our child enjoy the ramp walk on a nursery rhyme like "Twinkle Twinkle little star… or humpty dumpty"? Something that has suitable lyrics and music for the little ones.
Continuing this imbalance, Let's expect The high school students enjoying the beer parties!
Today's Pre-Schools are miserably failing to imbibe values in a child as it seems that Fun & Learn have divorced each other. As a result of that, I was miffed at the above incident and if this imbalance continues, I will not be surprised if we hear stories of high school students enjoying beer parties in future? What are the schools doing to our children? What kind of environment are we providing to our little ones? Will we be able to preserve their innocence?
Did you as parent ever asked or thought about these serious Questions before choosing a Pre- School for your little one?
Be a alert parent and carefully select your child's Pre School.
Shanti Juniors, Yes We assure the balance!
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Roshaante Anderson Is the Trans, Intersex King of OnlyFans
Trans men who've had bottom surgery are rare in adult content. But British model Roshaante Anderson, who shakes his dick for intersex awareness, is ready to let you into his world
This year, we're swapping out the typical 12 days of Christmas for something even better: 12 days of sex workers who should absolutely be on your radar. Whether they're breaking new ground on OnlyFans, using their platform to call attention to issues like racism and immigration or shattering our ideas of who's "allowed" to make porn, sex workers are both reimagining what sex work can be and changing the world — one swingin', phalloplastic dick at a time.
On a sunny fall day back in 2018 — when he was just 23 — British model Roshaante Anderson used the lunch break of his hospitality day job to upload a quick video diary about transitioning as a trans man. Reclining in the car with his phone angled up toward his gold-toothed smile, he humorously quipped about testosterone receding his hairline before taking on more serious subjects like how bottom surgery is no cakewalk. The result, "Regrets on Transitioning," has since been viewed on YouTube more than 370,000 times.
Of course, not everyone's watching solely for the candor. Many click because, to paraphrase a top YouTube comment, Anderson is "fine as hell." With his countless tattoos, honeyed voice and chiseled jawline, he has the charisma of an archetypal "bad boy" with the sweetness of a guy you'd take home to your parents.
Thirsty new followers proliferated as Anderson began to branch out from YouTube confessionals to skits, story-time videos and, to the joy of all the "horny on main" users in his comment sections, sexed-up teasers for his OnlyFans. Equal parts sex and comedy, his channels offer raw, uncensored insight into the life of a post-op trans man, an experience rarely documented online, in porn or beyond.
Now 25, Anderson spent his childhood moving between different cities in the U.K. with his parents and two siblings, who he often jokes are attached to him at the hip. "They used to be extremely homophobic, but now, as long as you're a good, well-established person who knows what they're about, they open their arms so wide," he tells me. He otherwise keeps details of his youth to a minimum, but he describes a happy, sometimes horny adolescence. "I was one of the class clowns, so school was very simple for me," he remembers. "I did have some cheeky times where I'd be caught in the bathroom with a girl or something!"
His life changed at age 11 when he began developing masculine traits like facial hair and a deepening voice. A trip to a London gender identity clinic with his mom confirmed that he was born intersex — an umbrella term for anyone whose sex doesn't fit into the strict either/or boxes of "male" and "female" — but his light-hearted nature meant he took the news in stride. His parents had raised him as a girl until this point, but after a period of not really identifying with any gender, he began medically transitioning to male at 16.
Around the time he started transitioning, Anderson stumbled upon the YouTube page of another trans guy who shared video updates of his life on testosterone. "I thought it was so cool that this guy had video footage of himself and his transition," Anderson tells me. "I thought it would be really cool for me to do something like that — not the stereotypical timeline videos, but ones where I could speak my truth."
The resulting videos became what he calls his "personal therapy," a long-running video journal that allowed him to track not only the physical changes he was going through, but his emotional progression, too. Still, it wasn't until a few years later that he made the decision to start sharing his evolution on YouTube. To his surprise, it seemed to immediately resonate. "I started getting loads of views and people rolling in, hanging on my every word," he says. "I was like, 'Okay, I'm going to make a flipping statement!'
Nestled in amongst the horny comments, however, is feedback from what he calls "the little analyzers." They look at every nook and cranny of his body and say things like, "Oh, I can tell it's a woman, you can see his narrow shoulders through that jumper!" Annoyed but ultimately emboldened by these intrusive comments, Anderson decided the ultimate "fuck you" would be to tell the story of his body in his own words, with every part of it on full display. So he decided to whip out his dick for a video entitled "Naked Phalloplasty" in October 2018.
The five-minute clip opens with a butt-naked Anderson shuffling backwards in his front room, his muscular, tatted-up body in full view of the camera. He poses briefly with his junk completely visible, breaks out his trademark smile and then shuffles into a more SFW camera position. He explains his decision to undergo phalloplasty, which involves taking a skin graft — often from the thigh or another inconspicuous area — to surgically create a penis.
The video's caption states "for educational purposes only," but instead, the full-frontal clip cemented his reputation as a self-aware sex symbol. "Oh my word, that video just skyrocketed," he laughs. "I got respect from everywhere. Even if you want to say anything bad about the video, it's difficult because people are like, 'Well, I couldn't do that!'"
Anderson says the DMs asking him to join OnlyFans quickly piled up, and he happily obliged. "It took me all of five seconds to decide this is what I wanted to do," he chuckles. "Now I do all sorts of stuff on there: solo videos, duo videos, a cheeky wank [jerk off] in the woods — you name it. I'm a very free person!" Whether fucking his girlfriend with a strap-on or pumping his balls to get his dick hard — some men with phalloplasties use a specialized internal pump to get erections — his OnlyFans is a filthy, glorious buffet of adult content.
He also understands that, in the wider context of porn, guys with phalloplasty are hugely under-represented. If trans men are cast at all, they usually haven't had any kind of bottom surgery, and perform as "bottoms" in gay scenes, without much diversity to speak of. Thus, Anderson sees OnlyFans as a chance to dispel myths around trans sex lives. In fact, his dream is to eventually fuck for a living full-time. "If I'm not a porn star by next year, then I don't know what's going on," he jokes. "Actually, let me give myself until 2022 — we're in a pandemic!"
It would be no small feat. Buck Angel has been one of the only recognizable names in trans male porn for years, but he hasn't had bottom surgery. Known as "The Man With a Pussy," he only showcases a specific facet of trans male sexuality that doesn't necessarily represent the full spectrum (also, his views on what it means to be trans have also meant he's effectively canceled). Anderson offers a different take, one he jokes is more mechanical. "Even with the [phalloplasty] pump, it's all mechanically done because you've got to compress the balls," he says. "I think it's so cool for people to see that as their potential life."
Reading about phalloplasty is one thing, but witnessing Anderson swing his meat around with joy and maintain a hot, healthy sex life with his long-term girlfriend is another. For trans guys specifically, seeing him fuck freely could be the brief moment of affirmation they need, especially given the international shit-show that is trans mainstream media representation.
It's been a rough ride, though, and Anderson's not trying to sugar-coat that. He can now say with confidence that he absolutely loves his dick ("He's not the biggest and he's not the best, but to me he's the best!"), but he's also honest about the years of surgeries it took to get to a point where he could enjoy it, let alone showcase it on OnlyFans, where he charges $20 a month for a window into his world.
In a nutshell, there are two main options for bottom surgeries: the aforementioned phalloplasty and metoidioplasty, which uses existing genital tissue to create a penis that can become erect on its own. "Normally people get one or the other, but I had both at the same time," he explains. "I wanted to keep the T-Dick [the enlarged clitoris some men get from taking testosterone]. I didn't want it going anywhere — I wanted the natural boners, too, I love them!"
Anderson accessed his surgeries after years of waiting (lengthy wait lists for trans-specific surgeries are common in the U.K., forcing many to go private) through the country's National Health Service. But he was met with a long and painful string of complications, which have ranged from nerve damage in his arm to a fistula under the base of his penis. "Because I went through all that hell, I can save other people from going through it," he says of a recent video, in which he summarizes these issues. "Or if people are wanting these surgeries, which is completely fine, I can arm them with as much knowledge as possible before they hand over their money and sign over their body."
Speaking honestly about his experiences has earned him some backlash from the trans community, however. "I'm saying something different to what people want to hear," he explains. "People want to hear that surgery changed my life, that it made everything so much better — I would have loved to have been one of the people to say that." But in his eyes, honesty is key — especially given the lack of information out there for trans guys and intersex people more generally.
Of course, for every in-depth confessional on YouTube, there's a mischievous clip of Anderson swinging his dick around with a grin on his face, or busting myths about being intersex. "I have a high sex drive to the point of being a nymphomaniac — my sex organs overwork," he tells me. "Mine is 24/7. Wherever I go, I've always got a semi or a boner, guaranteed. It's so annoying, can you imagine? When I'm around family, it can get awkward!"
His fans, on the other hand — some devoted YouTube followers keen to see his paywalled content, others horny voyeurs less interested in education and more interested in his extended sex scenes — have no complaints about his sex drive. One even bought him a selection of strap-ons, and another sent him hundreds of dollars on his birthday. "I get the best messages ever," he gushes, telling me that some subscribers tip him just for chatting.
So far, Anderson has used his OnlyFans income to treat his family and friends ("I thought, 'Fuck it,' I want to be selfless for once") and to buy a new car. But like most of us, he's been feeling the strain of 2020. "I've got no new drip, I'm not looking nice and fashionable," he says half-jokingly, "but I don't want to let it get me down."
That seems unlikely. Throughout our hour-long chat, he talks excitedly about new ideas for spoken-word art projects, videos and live-streams, often veering straight from one train of thought to the next. But wherever these ideas take him, he ultimately remains committed to shaking his junk and sharing his story — all in the name of trans awareness and education.
Jake Hall
Jake Hall is a freelance journalist, fashion features editor and author. Their debut book 'The Art of Drag' is scheduled for release in May 2020.
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OCI SPONSORS KIDS FOR WISH KIDS FUNDRAISING PROGRAM
February 22, 2012|General HR, HR Technology, Marketing and Public Relations
Denver, Colorado — OCI, a data integration and software services company, has committed to sponsoring Rock Canyon High School's Kids for Wish Kids fundraising program for the second consecutive year.
Students of Rock Canyon High School in Douglas County, CO. granted nine wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions through last year's Kids for Wish Kids fundraising program. Rock Canyon High School's fundraising efforts last year totaled over $40,000 in donations and broke the national record for donations to the Kids for Wish Kids program by a high school.
Kids for Wish Kids is a branch within the Make-A-Wish Foundation that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Students on its Student Council, who are responsible for the fundraising, manage this program at Rock Canyon High School.
This year, Rock Canyon High School students are fundraising again for the Kids for Wish Kids program and OCI has made its second annual contribution to the cause. OCI is proud to once again sponsor such a deserving program.
"We are proud to once again contribute as a sponsor to this worthy cause that the students of Rock Canyon High School have such incredible energy in supporting", said Archie Anderson, OCI's President. "As a father of Rock Canyon High School students, it is a joy to observe how enthusiastic these kids are in raising money for the wish kids. As a business leader, it's just one small thing that we can do to contribute back to the communities in which my OCI colleagues and I live and work."
About OCI – OCI is a data integration and software services provider that helps companies make better-informed decisions about their risk management, employee benefit, and technology dependent programs. Visit us online at www.oci.com
About Kids for Wish Kids – Kids For Wish Kids is a branch within the Make-A-Wish Foundation that enables students to discover philanthropy by selecting their own fundraising project and managing it from start to finish. Students develop leadership skills, build self-esteem and learn about teamwork while working towards a final goal — making a difference in the life of a child who is fighting overwhelming odds. For more information visit colorado.wish.org/ways-to-help/fundraising/kids-for-wish-kids/.
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I Finally am the guy… (Sorta out of character)
Operation: Sharkfist/Mission: Ignition or How I learned to stop worrying about your feelings and love myself A.K.A My Master Plan
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Mehtal Gear
This game released to mixed reviews. It's not like this game is top tier amazing but I cannot say it is a bad game. The problem is… I played this game the wrong way for a while. However, after plugging about 10-20 hours into it, I think I can give some impressions. Apparently… 10-20 hours is more than enough time to get through the plot. Like I said, I'm playing this game the wrong way.
See… I heard a crazy rumor that it was a survival game… and it is… for single-player sadists. I thought… like in most survival games, I thought they would drop me into a world and I could just fool around with the "story" just being breadcrumbs to give me some sort of arc. I also thought the structures you place in the open world would stay put after I leave and they don't.
TL:DR – Stick to the glowing circles on your map.
After I smartened up and tackled the tasks in front of me, I started to get the hang of things.
Oh yes!… There will be menus
The time you spend going through menu/craft screens should be noted because if you ignore the tutorials for them you will spend a lot more time than needed trying to figure out what to do. The passing of time will make your hunger, thirst and even oxygen levels deplete rapidly…even in the menus.
The menus however are easy to navigate… sort of. A lot of the items blend together because of the font and you may spend precious seconds looking for some wolf steak.
The game itself has its flaws but once you start playing it the way it was designed, there is some rewarding gameplay here. It is however a tough grind. A grind I don't have the energy for some days. Some days you're up for tactically taking on a horde of zombies and other days you want to play Skyrim in VR… OK, most days *I* want to play SkyrimVR… or Monster Hunter World. Are you playing Monster Hunter World? I was… still kind of into it.
Metal Gear Survive is less fun than the games I mentioned above because of the risk and reward involved. MGS has too many scenarios where you will deviate from your path because you spot a shed for looting and it will be empty. Hunting trips yield low rewards if they take too long because you end up needing to eat your catch and then go hunt even more. However, if you can power through the opening few hours, once you acquire the pot at the campfire to bottle water, sustaining yourself becomes a lot easier.
Other than that… the game plays the way you would figure. You have a "Base of Operations" which you will have to expand and defend. You will do this gradually over time. At first you will just have a few work benches to use but quickly expand to farms and water storage in no time. Pretty soon, sustaining your health is not such a pain in the ass.
However, you will most likely have to adopt an offensive method of playing that compliments your defense. Some weapons, like machetes can't be used on the other side of a chain link fence but spears and arrows can. At first, the player is restricted to only being able to hold two of each secondary item but can hold more as they progress.
Then there is.. "The Dust"
The dust is a giant fart cloud that covers way too much of the map and obscures your vision a lot. You will spend a lot of time in the Dust. You will not like the Dust. I am not your King. Fast travelling helps but unlocking a fast travel point requires a lot of work and a bit of planning every time… and then it will go to shit and you'll have to improvise. Unlocking a fast travel point has the player power up a generator and defend it for a various amounts of time. Every single defense requires effort. Allowing the zombies to overpower you is very dangerous. You can however almost instantly build defense to put some distance between and even do damage to the oncoming horde. It can be fun but eventually feels like too much effort to unlock a fast travel point. Sweet loot, maybe. But a fast travel point seems a little much. Especially because the plot excuse for doing so is powering it up attracts the zombies en mass but when it is on, the area surrounding it is basically a safe zone with some common/uncommon respawning items.
All in all I actually want to play more of this game but most likely on the weekend when I can focus. This isn't a game that lends itself to quick pick-up and play sessions. The combat can also be frustrating.
I'm sorry to report that this isn't the Metal Gear game you're looking for but it is a good use of the engine and an interesting spin in the franchise. Some have remarked this is a cash grab. Those people are assholes. This is the franchise with two Metal Gear Ac!d games in it. MGS at least is an action game.
Unless your curiosity is really peaked… you may want to skip this game for now.
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Daniel returns to try on the suit. "The left sleeve is too short" he complains. The tailor says "Raise your right shoulder and drop the left shoulder and you'll look great." Daniel does and, sure enough, the two sleeves meet properly at the wrist.
"The left pant leg is too long" cries Daniel. "No problem" says the tailor. "Lift your left hip and walk on your toes." Sure enough, both pant legs break beautifully just above the ankles.
Let me be clear. I think Blend is grand and am learning to appreciate its power. I desperately want to facilitate the best possible UX. I know I can't design the visuals worth a damn. I realize the people who can are not programmers and shouldn't be asked to become programmers. I get it. I will do what it takes to make Blendable Views … including adjusting my posture.
But I'm not happy with show-stopper arguments like "It won't work in Blend." That may be the reality today but it need not be my future.
We should be honest about the consequences of saying "it won't work in Blend". Make no mistake, we're twisting and contorting our architectures to satisfy the present state of the tooling.
Worse, we're encouraging the tailor!
Sometimes I believe he thinks it's a good thing for us to slouch and droop uncomfortably down the street. He actually thinks it's a good thing to build View first, to inscribe code in the XAML, to block access to design-time APIs, to resort to Behaviors for simple programming tasks. He can't believe I need to inject dependencies in the ViewModel … perhaps because that means he'd have to confront his own inadequacies.
I should get over it. Yet my hackles go up when I detect that smug, dismissive tone.
Hey, if you have to say "it won't Blend" that's an admission of failure. It means you're not where you should be. I can deal with that. But stop sounding triumphant … as if what I want to do is stupid because it won't Blend.
Yes, please make the tooling great for the designer. But the developer is the customer too … never forget that. The tooling should change to suit me … not the other way around.
My usual contrarian view: We're spending way too much time worrying about factoring things so that designers can make them pretty (which has limited value) and far too little time collaborating with the subset of designers who understand interaction design trying to make users happier and more productive.
Changing cosmetics late in the cycle of development is easy, or at least it is in an app that's properly designed with factored styles. Changing the interaction pattern is much, much harder. Blend is not usually the best tool for that, either. Good interaction patterns are not just transition effects and such; they always require logic to implement the users' needs and wishes.
This excessive attention to architecting so that designers can make things pretty is only making it easier to put lipstick on the pig. I think it's a better investment to make sure we're not creating a pig that needs prettifying.
MVVM is a framework where the view is the responsibility of a designer. Designers express themselves using tools instead of code. The current tool for Silverlight design is Expression Blend. If the framework breaks Blend, then the designer is blocked. And if we don't get designers on board, we'll end with more of the same non-usable, ugly apps.
The problem mostly comes down to the fact that most of the time Designers and Developers think they know what the client wants based on their own opinion rather just asking the actual end users. And when I say "end users" I mean the people actually using the app, not some Manager who hasn't done any real work in the last five years.
Sorry, but what the hell is wrong with UI-centric development?? The issue with most software I've seen is that there is way too little regard to the UI, as if developers forget that software is only as good as the number and contentment of "users" that use it! I think Ward's description of the tailor more closely resembles user experiences with software UIs built by "software engineers", and now he's a bit bitter about being on the receiving end of "we can't do it that way because…". 😉 How many times have you told a user that excuse because of the "architecture" or chosen toolset?
IMO Microsoft took a step too far with Blend in that it wanted to delegate all UI to the designers which creates a gap that can be difficult to bridge.
UI designers are nothing new, but typically ignored until it's too late. There have been plenty of attempts to try and bring them in near the end of the development cycle with things like skinnable / theme-able applications and such, but the reality is that like testers, UI designers should be involved right from the start. IMO a UI designer should be working in nothing more than UI prototyping tools and discuss with developers and BAs, "can we make this function like this?" BA (or customer) asserts it fits with the business requirement, developers have to be the tailors.
Eventually, like I told Glenn this morning, there is no one solution who fits everyone's needs, at least not at the moment. Thankfully we can choose to use the implementation that we want in the applications that we build. Ours happen to be very design and UX intensive.
Ward … I don't think its that it won't work in Blend that is the issue. I think its more about allowing for design centric and UI centric development. But you know how I feel already.
Nice Post. I agree that "it doesn't work in Blend" isn't the best argument against MVVM architecture. I think there are still many iterations of the Tool(s) in question and how they do work together versus how they should work together. I think there are too many teams duplicating effor across too many tools and the messaging has become muddy. Keep up the critiques, they should be addressed and you pose them well.