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The sequel to "Sweet as Sugar" Nathan Akechi is the first born son to Maverick Akechi and his wife Scarlet. Now that Nathan is a grown man he finds that his tastes in the certain places falls under his family's curse. When he meets Kathleen because of an incident he knows his life changed. He needs to protect her from her situation But also he needs her next to him. He will do anything to keep her there.
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"Dad, how are you so relaxed?" Nathan asked as he and his father were standing out of the rooms that their respective wives were in getting checked out by the other new doctors."I don't think you really want to know." He laughed as he looked at his son. "But your mother has a way of handling things that helps me. We found a way to help the stress after you were born.""You're right. I didn't want to know." Nathan said as he saw the way his father's face was when he said it. He knew there was something more to them than just being a parent, and he really didn't want to know. Though he did understand that his parents were also people. The thought was still slightly weird to Nathan as he looked at his father."You may find it does help with the tension." Maverick laughed.
The day of the huge event came and went. The wedding was a huge success. Everyone thought the two were the perfect pair. They were finding themselves and meeting the other's desires more and more. Though they were also finding the other person as well. They were the perfect balance for each other.Sophia had announced her own pregnancy, and then Nathan looked at his dad. He now understood all the worries and everything that came with their wives begin pregnant. Maverick had to laugh when his son asked how he was doing with all of it."Well, you know, trying to understand it all." Maverick laughed. "They are both close enough that I may just die from worry if I have to think to much on it. My wife and my daughter pregnant at the same time. Not only did I think we were done after Mark, but I also thought I would have some time before I became a grandfather. Now there is about a two-week difference from becomi
He did as he was told, and then she began to disrobe as well. One piece of clothing for every step she took towards him. Everything but her panties and her bra, which she had taken to wearing a larger sports bra instead of a normal one because her tits had gotten swollen and much larger than they already were. Nathan almost licked his lips when she was moving closer, knowing he would like whatever she had thought of as his punishment for doubting himself and her to a point. He looked at her as she eyes different things around the room and then continued to the wall and picked up a few pieces of rope off the pegboard they hung on.Kathleen had become intrigued by rope play from the beginning. She then had found new ways to tie him up and still be able to use him as her personal toy. He had enjoyed it more than he cared to admit. There was something about knowing she could do anything to h
Nathan watched her as their house began to fill up with presents and wedding things as well. She seemed to be happy enough though there was something missing in her mind. She would go and sit and look out one of the windows for hours on end. He knew it was because of him and his distance lately. He wanted to punch himself for making her feel that way.Though when they were alone in the confines of the playroom or in their own bedroom, she met him on every level. He knew she still was everything he needed. His father's words echoed in his head as he walked towards her. "Kathleen?" he said, and she quickly blinked her eyes to clear them, and she turned his way and smiled."I didn't know you were home." She said as she stood up. "I will go and start on dinner.""Kathleen, wait." He said as she tried to get by him. "I think we need to talk.""I see," Kath
Days turned into weeks. It seemed the day was never going to come. Nathan learned to adjust his favorite practices, so they would not put her or the baby in jeopardy. He loved watching her grow more and more. Her dress had been specially made to hide her growing abdomen. Though he was glad only his father and mother knew about the baby right now, they were also getting to be too much as they also doted on Kathleen.She had become everything to Nathan. When he needed her to switch her role with him, she did instinctively. Though at the same time, he was trying to steady himself that she would change again. He wouldn't be the most important thing to her after the baby was born. He was trying to get himself ready for the changes, but he was also wondering if this was why people like them often turned to cheat.Maverick could see the changes and moods in his son. "What is wrong with you?""What, dad?" Nate asked as he look
"Are you doing this because you want to or because my mother asked you to?" Nathan asked later as they were in the playroom finishing up with each other. This was the time they both knew there was nothing between them. This was a place of honesty and nothing else."Because I want to, Nate." She said as she looked at him. "I don't regret marrying you the way we did last night, but your mother or father is right.""With?" Nathan asked. She untied her wrists and helped her step down off the platform."The fact that I am not from your world. The fact we are married doesn't mean too much to them. With this wedding, your parents want to show everyone that we are as strong as them." She said, and she found herself wrapped in his arms."You know, though, in three months, this guy will be making his appearance through your clothes?" Nath
"I have to say you really are, dad." Nathan laughed. "But you and mom will have a grandchild soon enough.""That I wasn't expecting." He said as he sat back in the chair. "Go home, Nate. Ask her and then call your mother either way. I might hold off on telling her about the newest addition.""Why?" Nathan asked."Because your mother is happy with being a mother. I am not sure she is ready to be a grand anything." Maverick chuckled. "However, I did tell her about last night, so she is concerned. Not just for you but Kathleen as well. Maybe it is time they meet."Nathan Akechi walked into his house to find his wife showing his mother around the house. "I was supposed to call you," Nate said as his mother put out her cheek for him to kiss. He did without hesitation. He looked at Kathleen, who seemed okay with the fact his mo
Nathan woke up from what he would consider a short nap. He had felt her give way, and then he collapsed himself. Though he knew he had to get to the office, he didn't want to leave her right after he had married her. He kissed her cheek. "I love you, honey." He said, and she smiled in her sleep and blinked her eyes open. "I have to go in and deal with my father; otherwise, I would stay at home in bed with you all day.""I know." She said as she smiled at him. "Come home when you can.""I will." He said, and he got up and went to get dressed in one of his suits. He would at least look the part when he got there. He honestly didn't know how his father was going to be this morning. Not many people told him no. He had not only done that he acted impulsively and married Kathleen. This was going to be an interesting morning meeting.The
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Nathan and Christian Akechi stood in front of the house they lived in with their parents and siblings. The darkness of the night was surrounding them as Nathan gripped his shoulder where the injury was. He didn't want to do anything but go inside. He knew his parents would flip out if they knew he got hurt. His mother Sophia would call out the doctor, and everything would blow up from there.He shook his head as he looked at his younger brother. "You can't tell anyone about this."Christian looked at him and shook his head. "You know I won't say anything unless I am asked straight out. How you handle that, all of this is up to you.""Thank Chris," Nathan said as they walked to the front door hoping their mother was somewhere deep in the house and not hovering near the front door. Though she never really did that it would be Nathan's luck that today she would be there.
Nathan woke up in a different room, and he heard the beeping of a machine going off behind him. He looked around and saw a strange woman sitting in the chair next to him. He had to look her over again. He did know her from somewhere, but he couldn't place where. His head was still fuzzy, and he had no idea where he was."Don't move." She said softly as she looked at him. "You're in the hospital at the university.""Who are you?" he forced himself to say as he looked her way."Kathleen Williams." She said with a small smile. "I am a student nurse at the clinic you walked into and then promptly passed out. Right before you did, you asked if I could stay with you. As you can see, I did. Do you have anyone I should call? Your parents maybe?""What happened to me?" Nathan asked."You have a small stab wound in your shoulder. It loo
"What about the clinic and doing whatever you had to do there?" Nathan asked as he looked at the woman who looked like she had been put through the wringer since he last saw her a few hours ago. She walked more into his room, and she was shaking her head slowly."He got to me even now." She said, and that made Nathan look at her closely."Who is he, and what did he do?" Nathan asked as his voice deepened slightly. He knew that was one of his things that was ingrained into him from birth to protect women at all costs. He had watched his father watch over his mother like a lion and knew there was very little that his father wouldn't do to protect his wife. He looked over this woman, and though she was a stranger to him for the most part, she had stayed with him and waited until he was awake. She had watched over him with no reason too other than he asked her too when he was out of his
Waking up in the hospital is never fun, Nathan thought as he tried to blink open his eyes. However, the small pressure on his hand was what he was focusing on. Had something happened with his arm, and he didn't know it. He finally got them open, and he looked around.On the bed was a crown of blondish brown loose curls on his hand. He thought back to the night before and remembered everything. Though he knew almost instantly with a clear head, he had made the right decision, he was still shocked at what he had done. He knew the story that his parents started off together as something very much like what he had just entered into. The fact was people loved to talk, and when he was old enough, he listened to everything. He was like his father at finding things out. A master of secrets for others as well as himself.At the first time he had been caught going to the dens, his father almost admitted it as well. To him, they were a shining ex
Though it really didn't seem all that hard in his mind, he knew things would be interesting throughout the day. He knew what he wanted and what he needed for a place to live, but he had never really thought about living on his own. The more he thought about it, though, the more he liked the idea more and more. It wasn't just because he had her now. Though it wasn't like he could move her into his parent's house though they would probably welcome her with open arms and try to make her into one of the family. He knew they would like her but they would also overwhelm her. Right now he thought that should be his job.Nathan looked her over again. He knew he had to be on his best behavior to be able to mold her into what he wanted her to be. He was willing to bend to a point. He didn't want her to be his next dom or even a sub for him. He wanted someone who could read what he needed and could change for him. He knew now what his father had mea
Kathleen felt like she was a deer caught in headlights. She was still reeling from the night before and the deal the two of them made. She had joked with a few friends about getting a sugar daddy would make all her problems disappear, and here she was with exactly that, except he wasn't some creepy old man. This was someone her own age. This was someone she was attracted to right from the start. This could be very messy.He had just told the nurses she was the one who controlled him, and he was hers to have. Though his erection was nothing but a bodily function to her until he moved her hand to it, now it was something more. This whole thing was something more. It was something she didn't know. It could make or break the deal the two had. She didn't know what to do for a few moments."Before anything happens, I have a few questions," Kathleen said softly."It is rather had to think with your h
"Undo your button on your pants." He said softly. "While you suck my cock like that, I will reward your pussy." She let go of his cock with one hand and undid the button to her pants. His hand found its path as he ran a finger down and slipped under the top of her panties. He only felt soft skin, but he realized there was more of a problem. He couldn't move down and further. Her pants were too tight.She continued to work slowly on his cock, which was wonderful and torture at the same time for him. He reached behind her and pulled her pants down enough that everything was exposed to him now. She gasped slightly as he did that, and the cool air of the hospital hit her skin on her ass. His hand, however, found its place nestled in between her legs quickly. Running his fingers slowly through her slit only to find it silken and wet already. His prim and proper nurse to be was rather naught
Nathan waited as long as he could before he knew he had to speak. She was still lying on him, and he was still buried in her deep. "Honey, as much as I don't want you to, you have to get up and redressed. It's been a while, and you know they will be coming in here soon." His deep whisper filled the air around him as he began to feel life in her again. She moved slightly and then lifted her head to look at him. He brushed the hair off her face. "I wish I could just keep you there.""That was different." She said softly as she moved gently off of him. She couldn't help her movements as they were slightly jerky and off-center. She managed to get to a standing position and then looked down as she grabbed her pants and slipped them on, and sat down in her spot right before the door opened. She looked at Nathan with a speaking glance, to which he only chuckled slightly."Told y
Walking out, he was a little unsteady on his feet. He gave her the keys to his car. He looked at her and smiled as she looked at them like they were a foreign object. "First, we need a place." He said with a grin. "I happen to know a realtor.""I will bet that you know a lot of people," Kathleen said."As a matter of fact, I do," Nathan said as he pulled out his phone. He dialed a number and started talking as they headed to the other side of the campus. He was listing what he wanted and then looked at her as he stopped talking. "Do you have any requirements for the place?""What? No," she said, looking at him, which made him smile."That is it for now. We will be there in twenty minutes or so." Nathan said as he looked at Kathleen. "Ready?""Who was that?" Kathleen asked."My cousin on my mother&rsquo
They walked into the office and saw the other woman standing there waiting on them. She smiled at Nathan and nodded to the woman next to him. "So Nate, who is this?" She asked with a sly smile forming."Denise, I would like you to meet my assistant Kathleen," Nathan said as he smiled and took a more relaxed stance."Assistant?" Denise looked him over and nodded. "Okay then. So down to business.""Did you have something that we could look at? As much as I would like to sit around and a small chat with you, I can't afford to waste time today. I have a lot to do." Nathan said, and his cousin looked at him closely."In a rush? "Denise asked, "That isn't like you.""I have things to do, Denise." He replied."Nathan, you don't rush things. Do your parents even know you are looking to m
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The history of Lean – part 2
Since the 1400s, innovators like Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Honoré Blanc and Eli Whitney have developed new ways to eliminate waste in manufacturing. By reducing waste, processes become Lean and manufacturers are able to meet and sustain higher quality standards more safely and efficiently. Although Whitney, Ford, and Toyota are commonly credited for the concepts that make up Lean, its rich history has many contributors whom we will uncover as we tell the story of its history.
Marc Isambard Brunel
After Eli Whitney popularized the idea of interchangeable parts, other innovators set out to apply this, and the concept of continuous/standard flow to mass production. This was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel, Henry Maudslav, Simon Goodrich and Samuel Bentham in Hampshire, England during the culmination of the Napoleonic War.
During the War, the Royal Navy needed pulley blocks of various sizes for its ships in quantities of 100,000 or more. Until this point, they had been made by hand, causing them to be inconsistent in quality and design, as well as costly and time-consuming to produce. Brunel and his team devised an innovative solution to this challenge.
In order to produce the pulley blocks quickly in such high quantities, Brunel developed a system of 43 machines that were broken into three series, each designed to make a range of block sizes. They were laid out on a production line, so each stage of the work progressed to the next in a natural flow.
The machines would make markings and indentations on the blocks to ensure alignment throughout the process. The result was a series of identical products that could be easily interchanged. One of the many advantages of this new method was the increase in labor productivity because this streamlined process didn't require as much handwork by workers. By 1808, its production capacity reached 130,000 blocks per year.
These men were some of the early pioneers of the age of mass production. Their innovation is regarded by many as a key part of the British Industrial Revolution.
Eli Terry
Eli Terry was a clockmaker in the early 1800s who used interchangeable parts to make his clocks. He believed that they could one day become a household item. Through his implementation of interchangeable parts, he made that vision possible.
In 1806, Terry accepted a contract for the production of 4,000 clocks, known as the Porter Contract. Terry completed the order in three years. This became the first example of mass production of interchangeable parts in America.
Terry had discovered that he could produce clock wheels and plates using a milling machine. By incorporating this machine into his clock-making process, he was able to produce a dozen of each item simultaneously. He then used jigs and templates to ensure uniformity. He put the parts together in an assembly line format, something Ford became famous for 100 years later.
Before Ford was around to take credit for the assembly line, a man named Thomas Blanchard was actually widely known for the idea. Though Blanchard was only really responsible for popularizing its use, his many other innovations give him widespread credibility in the industry.
Blanchard was an American inventor who lived and worked in Springfield, Massachusetts. During his lifetime, he was awarded over 25 patents for his creations. By 1822, perhaps his most amazing innovation was completed. Blanchard had devised a set of 14 machines that made it possible to mass produce complex shapes like gunstocks for rifles.
A block of wood was placed in the first machine, the lever was thrown, and the water-powered machine automatically removed some of the wood using a profile tracer on a reference piece. This meant that the 14 machines could make a completed item with no human labor in a single piece flow. The items were moved from one machine to the next, one at a time. Through this innovation, waste was eliminated and the production of complex items was standardized. Blanchard was truly ahead of his time.
Throughout the 1800s, Lean concepts such as interchangeability of parts, just-in-time production, standardized processes and continuous flow became commonly-used ideas. By the 1850s, all of the American armories were making standardized metal parts for standardized weapons. However, a lot of labor was still required to perfect the parts because machine tools at that time could not handle hard metal. However, as the industry and the world progressed, Lean moved with it until the 1890's when its history was changed by a female innovator.
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George Takei is an American actor and author. He is also an activist.
Takei is perhaps best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu on the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six other Star Trek movies and one episode from Star Trek: Voyager.
His Facebook page attracted over 10,000,000 followers in 2018 after he started it in 2011. He is a champion of LGBT rights and has won numerous awards and honors for his efforts in the field of human rights.
George Takei's net worth is approximately $14 Million as of June 20, 2022.
George Hosato Takei is a Los Angeles native who was born on the 20th of April 1937. Takei is the child of Japanese-American parents Fumiko Emiko Nakamura, and TakekumaNorm Takei.
In 1942, the family was forced into living in Santa Anita Park's horse stables before being sent to Arkansas' Rohwer War Relocation Center.
Takei's Hollywood career began as voiceover work for the English-dubbed Japanese versions of the Japanese movie 'Rodan! The Flying Monster in the late 1950s and 'Godzilla Raids Once More' in 1960.
He made his big-screen debut in 'Ice Palace' in 1958. He was offered the role of Hikaru Sulu, a physicist on Star Trek. He has re-enacted it numerous times.
Takei ran in 1973 for Los Angeles City Council. He came second to David Cunningham Jr.
He has appeared in many stage productions including "Fly Blackbird!", "Aladdin", and "Equus." He also participated in Dustin Lance Block's "8" in 2012 at L.A.'s Wilshire Ebell Theatre. Takei became the spokesperson for Human Rights Campaign 2013
Takei appeared in 'Allegiance' at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre from 2012 to 2016. He published a graphic novel called 'They Call Us Enemy' in 2019 which won an American Book Award.
Here are some highlights from George Takei's career:
Mulan (Movie, 1998)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Movie, 1979)
Free Birds (Movie, 2013)
A spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign (2013)
They Called Us Enemy (Autobiography, 2019)
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Now that we know everything about George Takei and how he became successful, let's see some of the lessons that can be learned from him.
1. Our History
Our history is curved towards greater equality, which is expanding to more and more people.
2. Humanize It
Humanizing an issue is the best way for people to relate to it. Music and music can reach the heart more effectively than words.
3. Smile
People like to start their day with a smile or a giggle.
Favorite Quotes From George Takei
People often forget that stereotypes don't necessarily make you bad, because they are false. Stereotypes can be harmful, because they may not always be true. If we judge someone based on stereotypes, it is allowing a gross generalization of our thinking to take over.
Comedy is where comedy really shines. It is easier to find that gasp in a drama. But it's difficult because you still need that emotional pitch. It is so satisfying to perform drama and get that sigh from the audience. As a comedian, however, it can be very frustrating when the laugh doesn't come. It's horrible and makes you feel like you're dead.


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Zoe Quinn on Surviving Gamergate and the Rise of the Alt-Right
The game developer at the center of a large-scale harassment campaign opens up about her experience and how to fight online abuse today.
by Katelyn Burns
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One of the precursors to the rise of the alt-right was a massive, coordinated harassment campaign masquerading as a pseudo-political movement called Gamergate. At its core, the Gamergate movement survived by constantly churning out targets for trolling and abuse. Real or perceived slights would run through Gamergate channels and spill over into real world outcomes like lost jobs, death threats, and stalking.
At the center of Gamergate harassment was one woman: game developer Zoe Quinn. For Quinn, Gamergate was personal. An ex-boyfriend essentially created the movement as a way to exact revenge against Quinn for escaping their abusive relationship.
In her recently-released book titled Crash Override, Quinn details her experience with Gamergate and the systemic causes driving the rise of online abuse. Broadly spoke with the game developer about her book, the rise of the alt-right, and surviving Gamergate.
Quinn, second from the left, speaking on the "How Women-in-Games Initiatives Make a Difference" panel in 2016. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
BROADLY: I've seen you and others saying that you tried to warn people about Gamergate before it folded in with other hate groups to give birth to the alt-right. What was it like watching it all unfold from your perspective?
ZOE QUINN: The thing that was hard wasn't the abuse and the hate as much, in comparison to people who could have done something and chose not to, either because they didn't take it seriously or they thought, "Oh this will just blow over, don't feed the trolls, blah blah blah" and it's like: No, you actually have to fight back. It should be familiar to anyone who's been paying attention since the election because that mechanism is so similar.
And yeah, most hate groups are going to seem like they're totally asinine because they're saying stuff and it's like: No duh, it's not true that white people are automatically superior to everybody else, that's an asinine belief. But just because it's asinine doesn't mean it can't hurt anybody.
This whole "sunlight is the best disinfectant" wisdom, like if you just spotlight the horrible things that people will just know that it's bad and ignore it—it doesn't work in an era [like we're in]. It's not like these people are ashamed of what they're doing, they're proud of it, so you're just operating as an advertisement for them.
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What do most people who've never experienced large-scale online abuse most misunderstand about the issue?
A big thing that a lot of people don't understand unless they've been targeted with this stuff is that it's not just confined to the internet by any means. It's escalated into phone calls, in-person stalking, and people trying to camp outside where I live and they would threaten me. It also started offline with an abusive relationship and once I finally got away from him, he turned to the internet as a way to [get revenge]. And that's extremely common these days for people who have been through domestic violence issues.
The delineation between online and offline abuse is less and less sense as we get more and more connected and more and more people are starting to live their lives online. I'm a weird case in that I'm an independant game developer and there's not really an offline version of what I do, so it's happening in my workplace.
It feels like we forgot the wisdom of the early '90s of treating stuff we read online with skepticism and knowing that stuff can be disingenuous online. There are a lot of people who are disingenuously trying to manipulate the news about somebody to ruin their careers. So many employers will Google you before even offering you a job interview and that has nothing to do with whether you work online, either. If you're somebody who doesn't have much of an online presence, then stuff from people who want to ruin your life might be the only stuff that comes up and [employers] don't usually know enough to question that. And even if they do, there are probably many other candidates that don't don't have a nasty search history like that.
There's plenty of stuff that does escalate into real world violence, especially considering people [like] Elliot Rodger and Dylann Roof, who have gone on mass killings [and] have an online presence to match. When you're targeted, you don't know whether it's somebody who's just trying to mess with [you]—which is already not cool—or it's somebody who's actually serious about all of this stuff.
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Given your experiences, you may be the most qualified person on the planet to help victims of online abuse. What motivated you to start your nonprofit harassment support endeavor, also called Crash Override?
When they started targeting me, I found the channels [where] they were coordinating abuse in, and I was just kind of silently recording it for a very long time because it very quickly spread to targeting other people. They were targeting other people for real or imagined connections to me. I would see that they were starting to look at someone, and I would try to get ahead of that and warn the person and try to help them lock everything down. I had been doing that for a very long period of time and after talking with other people who've dealt with the same kind of abuse and trying to reduce the amount of stuff that a lot of us were being attacked with, I decided to try to make something more formalized and open to people that were targeted by stuff other than Gamergate.
When stuff with me happened and blew up into something so big and public, a lot of people were reaching out saying, "I feel like you're the only person who would understand what I've been through" and they would tell their stories. It was super clear that I was not a new or special thing which I kind of already knew, but when you actually talk to people and hear their stories, it feels a lot more real. I decided to try to make the thing that I wish was around when I was first being targeted, rather than just wishing things were different.
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What have the long term effects of Gamergate harassment been for you, personally?
It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past. People would only know about it if I told them about it. It's not something that's threatening to pop up again at any point, outside of PTSD or any cognitive effects.
I will effectively never get away from my ex-boyfriend now. Gamergate will always be something different to me than anybody else because my entry point to it was somebody doing it to me, as opposed to somebody trying to fight an ideological war or some stranger or some weirdo trying to build their brand or make a shitty point, [whereas for me] someone you dated deciding to create something like this as revenge. That's such a weird fucking thing.
One of the things that my friends were saying when this was happening to me was, "Why is this happening to you? You're like a big freakin' goofy dork, like it doesn't make any sense." Like, I'm a comedian. The fact that all of this will be centered around me like I'm this weird political figure when the last game that I released was a "Waiting for Gadot" loading screen joke. I's so absurd, all of this is so absurd.


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Drama ensued in Ikot Uduak community, Calabar Municipal local government area of Cross River State when a village Head, Her Highness Efio-Awan Asuquo Asibon allegedly jumped into graves being dugged for a couple in the village.
The village Head stopped the burial of the couple late Mr and Mrs Ekpe Okon Effiom on the ground that they are non-indigenes of the community. According to one of the sons of the late couple, while digging the grave, Her Highness Efio-Awan Asuquo Asibon jumped inside the grave and stopped the people from digging it.
While narrating the incident, the son of the late couple, Bassey Okon Edet, pointed at the corpses and said, "That is the corpses of my father and mother and the compound is where my grandfather bought and later transferred to my father, Ekpe Okon Effiom. We have the agreement and documents of the land.
"The Village Head, Efio-Awan Asibong, who lives close to our compound wanted to sell our land but because my father was alive, she couldn't do it. And she didn't make any attempt to eject my father. My father lived there and gave birth to 11 children (10 male and one female) and we'd lived here for many years and also given birth to children."
Bassey further said, "When my father died, all of a sudden, Asibong said she wants to take over the compound. She'd sold part of the land to someone who had already built a pharmacy store there. Now, when we wanted to bury our parents, the woman (Asibong) said we shouldn't bury them here, stating that we are not from here.
"We sought help from the community leaders and others who said we have to bury our parents in that compound, but the Village Head insisted that we can't bury our parents because they are not from here.
"She said her mother gave my father the land for free, but it was a lie because the document that my father bought the land is there. The land document was written and signed in 1954. While digging the grave, she jumped inside the grave and stopped the people from digging it.
"Even if she wants to have the compound, she should have, at least have sympathy on us and other children by dividing the compound into two halves and not for her to say she'll push us out and use a bulldozer to bring down all the structures that we've erected," he said.
When contacted, the Village Head, Efio-Awan Asibong said that the people are her tenants, explaining that they don't have any document to the land and vowed that if they bury the corpses, she will exhume them.
"One of the deceased sons came to me and I showed him a place (their family compound across the road) to bury his mother and father and he agreed, but his family rejected it and he didn't come back to tell me, instead they came with the people and insisted they must bury their parents as they started digging their graves.
"I earlier brought people to help dig the graves for them where I originally showed them, but when they started digging the grave, one of them, Clement Ene, went and drove the boys digging the graves away and said he gave me N60, 000.
"I later called him and returned the N60, 000 back to him and told him to carry the corpses to either Goldie Cemetery to bury them there, but they refused. They are my tenants; I gave them a letter over 6 months ago to go to Calabar Municipality Council to show that we have agreed to bury someone here.
"After they collected the N60, 000 they gave to me, they agreed to carry the corpses to bury elsewhere, but they turned around and left. They don't have any documents concerning this land. If they agree that they bought the land, then ask them to show you the agreement and the person that signed it. "There's an agreement between us and everyone we give land here, but where is theirs? If they had buried their father and mother, we would have gone to court and get an order to exhume the corpses," she stated.
Meanwhile, one of the tenants, who pleaded anonymity alleged that the Village Head wants to sell the land.
"She claimed the deceased are not from the community, but the children to the deceased said their father bought the land and they have the document," he added.
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Two Catholic missionary nuns became pregnant while working in Africa
by ebenewsNov 6, 2019News0 comments
Pope Francis has launched an investigation after two missionary nuns became pregnant while working in Africa continent
The two women, who belonged to separate religious orders in Sicily, are expecting children despite their vows of chastity.
One of them, a mother superior, found she was several weeks pregnant while the other woman discovered the news when she complained of stomach upset.
Both nuns are now facing an uncertain future in their profession and the scandal has caused 'consternation' among the clergy.
One of the women, aged 34, discovered her pregnancy when she went to the hospital with stomach pain, according to the Italian news agency
Her religious order has not been found out, but reports say she belonged to a convent in Sicily's Nebrodi mountains.
She has now moved to Palermo to prepare for the birth of her child.
The nun may now choose to give up her monastic life altogether and focus on raising her child, it is believed.
In a second case, a nun who was originally from Madagascar was discovered to be several weeks pregnant.
The nun was a mother superior – a senior monastic – and had been caring for the elderly at an institute in Ragusa.
She has already returned to her home country, according to reports, but the double scandal has caused concern among the church hierarchy.
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'There is consternation at this news,' a church source in Rome, where the Catholic Church has its headquarters, told the news reporter
'It appears that both women were back in their home nations and obviously had some form of a sexual encounter.
'An investigation has been launched. They both breached strict rules of chastity but the welfare of their children is most important.'
Earlier this year Pope Francis admitted that many nuns had been sexually abused, calling it a 'serious, grievous problem'.
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'We have to fight this to bring this to an end, and also the service of religious sisters: Please: Service yes, servitude no,' Pope said on his papal plane in January.
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Über (German pronunciation: [ˈyːbɐ], sometimes written uber /ˈuːbər/) in English language publications, is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across". It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages. It is also distantly cognate to both Latin super and Greek ὑπέρ (hyper), through Proto-Indo-European. It is relatively well-known within Anglophone communities due to its occasional use as a hyphenated prefix in informal English, usually for emphasis. The German word is properly spelled with an umlaut, while the spelling of the English loanword varies.
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Magnolia Gardens housing complex, 1943 Marie Foster St., a joint project of the Jonathan Daniels Community Development Corp. and Olympia Construction, should be opening in mid-January, according to Joyce Kendrick, executive director of the JDCDC. But with a big if &045; if the weather patterns producing rain that have slowed down construction this fall do not return.
Kendrick said that Olympia is in charge of construction of the complex, designed for qualifying low- and moderate-income families and singles beginning their careers. It will have 48 one-, two- and three-bedroom units. JDCDC will handle the program side, Kendrick said, including receiving applications.Interest from prospective renters has been strong, with an average of 50 calls a day to JDCDC in September when completion was expected in October. Still, there are about 25 calls a day, she said.
While JDCDC is receiving applications, the admissions process will be handled by an independent management firm, Kendrick said. In addition to the housing units, the center will have a learning center with library, and space for other activities such as health/wellness and financial and computer literacy programs, and leadership programs.
Kendrick stressed that the role of Magnolia Gardens is to provide safe, affordable rental housing for individuals and families who would not otherwise have it, and to provide residents with the skills to become homeowners should they so desire.
For example, classes on topics such as financial literacy, credit counseling, good neighbors, a safety workshop, maintenance tips and fire-prevention tips are all envisioned, she said.
What we want here, she said, is a real community atmosphere and to overcome any stigma associated with renting, while at the same time providing people with a healthy environment and skills to strive toward owning their own home.


Make open data sharing a no-brainer for ethics committees.
The ideology of open and reproducible science makes its ways into various fields of science. Neuroimaging is a driving force today behind many fields of brain sciences. Despite possibly terabytes of neuroimaging data collected for research daily, just a small fraction becomes publicly available. Partially it is because management of neuroimaging data requires to confirm to established legal norms, i.e. addressing the aspect of subjects privacy. Those norms are usually established by institutional review boards (IRB, or otherwise called ethics committees), which are in turn "governed" by the federal regulations, such as 45 Code of Federal Regulations Part 46 in US.
Flexibility in interpretation of original regulations established in the past century, decentralization of those committees, and lack of a "community" influence over them created the problem: for neuroimaging studies there is no commonly accepted version of a Consent form template which would allow for collected imaging data to be shared as openly as possible while providing adequate guarantees for subjects' privacy. In majority of the cases, used Consent forms simply do not include any provision for public sharing of the data to get a "speedy" IRB approval for a study. Situation is particularly tricky because major granting agencies (e.g. NIH, NSF) nowadays require public data sharing, but do not provide explicit instructions on how.
To address this problem we decided to collect Sample consent forms which have been previously approved by ethic committees in different institutions. Such samples could serve a basis for introducing similar ad-hoc consent forms at other institutions so they fulfill the desires of any particular committee, while allowing public sharing of collected data.
Analysis of those might allow us to distill an Ultimate consent form (or a set of those for different use-cases and jurisdictions, and/or guidelines) which would be compliant with all regulatory statues, while allowing for open sharing and access to the neuroimaging data.
If regulated by the same federal/state laws, there is really no objective reason why there could be no consensus among IRB committees within the same jurisdiction. Although somewhat a utopian statement, we hope that with examples/precedent cases and possibly your enthusiastic involvement we cold achieve our goal.
Data must be de-identified before distribution. We will collect information on existing and possibly establishing an ultimate easy to use pipeline to standardize anonymization of neuroimaging data to simplify data sharing.
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In response to last week's commentary opposing the proposed Purple Line, Richard Parsons, vice chair of the Suburban Maryland Transportation Alliance, describes why it should be built.
As Gov. Larry Hogan weighs his options on the Purple Line, and opponents ramp up their efforts to defeat if, it is important to keep our focus on this project, not sweeping generalizations about transit in general that have little bearing on this case.
With construction slated to begin later this year, and significant transportation and economic development benefits at stake for our entire region, there is a strong case to be made for the Purple Line.
Gov. Hogan and his team are right to look for additional cost savings, but their decision on the Purple Line itself should be based on its merits, not the questionable arithmetic and general philosophical aversion to transit that underlies some of the arguments Randall O'Toole and others are making recently.
The naysayers are ignoring certain key facts, but the governor and his team need to look at the whole picture.
To begin with, the Purple Line is nearing the end of a marathon federal approval process that has taken decades. Cancelling this project now – when it is literally at the finish line — would have drastic financial consequences for the state of Maryland, including the loss of roughly $900 million in federal funds already committed to the Purple Line.
The federal funds are specific to this project, and would simply go away if it's cancelled, to be spent on other transit projects in other states. This is a point even the opponents have conceded.
What they don't seem to grasp is that this would not only hurt our local economy, by shifting thousands of construction jobs and billions in economic development out of our region, it would also hurt taxpayers.
The Purple Line won this $900 million in federal funding because it outperformed all other transit projects in cost-effectiveness. So why should Maryland's governor turn down these federal funds so they could be spent somewhere else, on a less cost-effective project? The money will still be spent, just less effectively.
What opponents are also missing is that it's not just this federal funding we would be losing.
In his commentary, Dr. O'Toole gets his math wrong when he states (incorrectly) that Maryland would have to spend $1.5 billion to secure this $900 million. In fact, the State's funding share for the Purple Line is $300 – $500 million. The balance is other project-specific funding the state would leverage through a public-private partnership, and that additional $900 million in private funding also goes away if the Purple Line is cancelled.
Thus, a large majority of the project's funding – $1.8 billion of the $2.4 billion total – would not be "saved" if the Purple Line is cancelled, only lost. When you look at the whole picture, the state's $300 – $500 million share looks a lot better from a financial investment standpoint, and it's leveraging more than three and a half times as much from other sources.
There are other major economic downsides from cancelling the Purple Line.
It would undermine the state's credibility among investors in future public-private partnerships, which we will need in order to address other critical transportation bottlenecks. If the Free State pulls the plug now on its first major public-private partnership, after several top transportation firms have already sunk hundreds of millions into their Purple Line bid proposals, how likely would those firms be to take on similar risks in the future, once Maryland proves to be a less reliable partner than Virginia?
The Governor's decision will also have a major impact on local real estate markets and property values and, here again, cancelling the Purple Line will prove costly.
Hundreds of millions in private sector investment has already been made in properties along the approved alignment. O'Toole and other skeptics can make all the vague references they want to about other markets where light-rail did or didn't foster economic development, but we don't have to speculate about the Purple Line's effects.
At least 31 large-scale economic development projects are already in the pipeline as a result of this project. This isn't theory, it's a fact. The nearly $10 billion increase in the local property values, and major expansions in our economy and tax base, are not just projections, they're already being felt. All of this is at risk if we pull the plug.
Even if the financial and economic cases for the Purple Line were not strong enough to win the day – and they are – the transportation benefits are more than sufficient.
For starters, the Purple Line's regional "network effects" are compelling: Joining the two ends Metro's Red Line with the Green and Orange lines, MARC lines and local bus lines.
It transforms our current disconnected set of rail lines, all of which run into DC, into a robust suburb-to-suburb network that matches current commuting patterns. It will attract over 28,000 new riders to the region's transit system, not just the 17,000 new transit riders along the Purple Line corridor that O'Toole includes in his calculations. In this highly-congested inside-the-beltway corridor, not many other options exist, and the daily ridership forecast of 69,000 riders is likely to be met or surpassed, based on previous forecasts in this market.
When it comes to travel time savings, the arguments opponents are advancing suffer from massive problems with selective use of data. True, the travel time savings from Bethesda to New Carrollton are not much, but end-to-end riders are a tiny fraction of the total riders on the Purple Line. Far larger numbers will be going from Bethesda to Silver Spring or College Park, or from College Park to New Carrollton, and for these riders the travel time savings are huge.
Trips from Bethesda to Silver Spring go from 39 minutes on Metro to just 9 minutes on the Purple Line. Bethesda residents could get to the University of Maryland's College Park campus, without sitting in Beltway gridlock, in just 39 minutes using the Purple Line, which includes new stations on-campus. That same trip would take 56 minutes by Metro, and you'd have to catch a shuttle bus to get to campus. Going from College Park to New Carrollton would take just 16 minutes on the Purple Line versus 56 minutes on Metro.
Those are the very real travel time savings O'Toole and other opponents conveniently omit when they focus only on the insignificant share of Purple Line riders who travel end-to-end.
When it comes to congestion relief, it's true that the Purple Line has a relatively small impact on congestion levels region-wide. Obviously, we need a lot more capacity throughout the region, but the Purple Line does have a positive effect on congestion in the corridor it serves.
The number of failing intersections in the morning peak period drops from 9 to 3 with the Purple Line, and from 15 to 9 in the evening. In a corridor with few other options, any new capacity helps.
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Alternate Leaf Pagoda (Dogwood) (Cornus alternifolia). Small tree that can be grown as single or multi trunked specimen. General crown form is oval to round but it has a unique horizontally layered branching structure. Flat clusters of small white flowers in spring. Small blue-black berries readily eaten by birds. Does well in full sun or shade. Does not tolerate hot dry sites.
American Holly (flex opaca). Dense, pyramidal in youth, opening up with age. Plant in moist, well drained soil. Full sun or partial shade. Many cultivars. Foliage provides cover for songbirds and ma mm el 5.
American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana). Also known as blue beech, musciewood, and ironwood. Small, medium to slow growing tree with beechlike leaves and silver bark. Not a showy bloomer. Upright rounded canopy, grows to 20 feet, some grow taller.
American Wild Plum (Prunus Americana). Hundreds of fruiting and non-fruiting varieties available. Rounded vase shape with dense canopy. Flowers appear before leaves, in May.
Crab Apple (Malus). Homeowners should pick a variety that is both upright in form and bred for disease resistance. Gorgeous in bud, flower, and fruit, although dropped fruit can be messy.
Eastern Redbud (Cercis Canadensis). Native woodland tree functions nicely as a street tree, growing to 15 to 20 feet when pressed into curbside duty.
Flowering Cherry (Prunus). Classic variety around Washington's Tidal Basin is Yoshino, fine for street use and rarely grows to more than 20 feet. Kwanzan, with magenta-pink double flowers, is another stalwart. Snow Goose is white-flowered and upright, grows to just 20 feet.
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida). Like the redbud, this native tree is unlikely to reach great spreading age if planted at the roadside. It is particularly suited to front yards near power lines. An alternative is the more upright and larger kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).
Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus). Slow-growing tree (to 20 feet) that prefers moist, fertile soils and full sun. Excellent specimen tree or in groups and borders. Limited wildlife value.
Japanese Tree Lilac (Syringa reticulate). Upright, this tree form of lilac blooms in early June with white flowers. Although it isn't particularly fragrant, it is a sturdy tree suited for street use.
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba). Can grow up to 35 feet, leaves do not do well in strong windy areas. Dark green, oblong, drooping leaf that can grow up to 12 inches long. Flowers mid to late spring.
Persimmon (Diospyros ebenaceae). Can be multi stem or single stem trunk. Glossy, simply, leaves up to 7 inches long and 4 inches wide. Flowers mid to late spring.
Silverbell (Halesia Carolina). Clusters of bell shaped white flowers in early spring. Good tree for shady corners or woodland borders. Requires high acidity. Can grow to 40 feet.
Snowbell (Styrax americanus). White bell shaped flowers in late spring and early summer. Narrow leaves. Attracts nectar insects and fruit birds. Needs wet soil.
Sourwood (Oxydendrum aboreum). Can grow to 25 feet. Drooping 10 inch long fragrant white flowers in mid June to late July.
Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana). This small native magnolia grows to 20 feet with attractive gray-green leaves. White blossoms appear in late spring. It likes moist conditions, but can endure drought once established. An alternative is the Galaxy magnolia, which is stouter and symmetric but still upright and short enough for street use. Its pink blossoms appear in early spring.
Trident maple (Acer buergerianum). This Asian maple grows to about 20 feet with great fall color. An alternative is the paperbark maple (Acer griseum), which is slow-growing with beautiful peeling cinnamon bark but is hard to find and somewhat expensive.
Washington hawthorn (Crataegus phaenopyrum). This heattolerant species of hawthorn grows to about 20 feet in a street setting. Princeton Sentry is an almost thornless variety, A suitable alternative is the Winter King variety of green hawthorn, which is sharply thorny. Dense thorns make excellent nesting sites for songbirds. Should not be used in high traffic areas.
Important Note: This list was compiled from several sources that identified understory trees suitable for our location and does not reflect the personal interest of the Citizens' Committee. Please contact the Citizens' Committee if you would like further information on the sources relied upon to compile the list. Please choose your trees with care, considering your location, the growth habit shape, consequences of fruiting trees, etc. The Oakmont Special Taxing District is not responsible for the health and maintenance of trees selected from this list. Trees not on this list are not eligible for the Oakmont understory tree reimbursement program.