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Whenever Elizabeth Sheehan drives into Boston, she makes a mental note of how many shipping containers she spots near the harbor. “There’s a wall of them, and some haven’t moved in months,” says the Massachusetts resident. If Sheehan gets her way, many of these surplus metal boxes will soon be transformed into clean, efficient health care centers outfitted to serve the most vulnerable people throughout the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia. That’s the idea behind Containers to Clinics (C2C). Sheehan, a physician’s assistant with a decade of health care experience in the developing world, founded the nonprofit in hopes of “delivering lifesaving medicine and health care to the last mile.” She has seen what happens when there is no access to basic medical care. “The most vulnerable populations—rural women and children—die in droves,” she says, often from treatable illnesses like diarrhea and pneumonia. The prototype C2C design, developed in collaboration with sustainable building specialists and public health experts, combines two retrofitted containers in an “L” shape. One side contains private, well-lighted examination rooms and basic diagnostic equipment; the other houses a pharmacy and medical laboratory. Solar-powered fans keep the metal boxes from overheating, and a canopy offers shade for waiting…

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Global Thermonuclear War!

A fast-action, high-strategy game with full color graphics, exciting animation, and realistic sound effects. Features include HAL™ speech synthesis (without special hardware), option to play as enemy or defender, and top ten score display.

Action begins with you at the controls of the Defense Command Computer. A random error causes the Computer to secure your nation’s defense for full scale nuclear attack. You have 30 seconds before the first ICBM is launched at your enemy’s capital. Decipher the secret code for aborting missile launch or prepare to fight World War III.

At launch, you discover the computer has deleted all targeting data for your weapons. Presented with NORAD style strategic displays, you watch the

trajectory of the missile track across the globe as you frantically retarget your weapon systems and prepare for your enemy’s attack. Do you strike before or after the enemy launches its first wave? Do you target for military, industrial, or civilian targets? Perhaps some combination? You watch enemy strikes against your homeland and the casualties grow to staggering proportions as you attempt to deter or conquer the enemy before you are completely destroyed. The war has begun and your nation’s destiny, even the destiny of the world, is in your hands.

Ask for Global Thermonuclear War™: $34.95 at your local dealer or order direct. Visa, MasterCard, Money Orders, Checks accepted (Calif, residents please add 6-1/2% sales tax), foreign orders add 15%, U.S. currency only. Dealer inquiries invited.

Global Thermonuclear War™ is available for your IBM PC or XT (64K, disk drive), Apple II + or Ile (48K, disk drive, DOS 3.3), Commodore 64 (cassette or disk drive), Atari 400 and 800 (48K, disk drive). Joystick play optional in each version. TRS-80 version to be released soon.

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A Minister Discusses SELF-GRATIFICATION

Self-gratification is an important aspect of an individual’s development. Eliminating misinformation and guilt about this practice is important preparation for a healthy sexual relationship in marriage.

by the Rev. H. Walter Yoder

An ordained minister, Rev. Yoder is secretary of the Michigan Association of Religious Counselors. Recognized as a distinguished pioneer and leader in church marriage counseling, he was recently hailed as “Man of the Month” by the churchman’s publication, “Pastoral Psychology.” *All case names are fictitious.

ALMOST every magazine today bears evidence of people’s strong feelings and great concern about self – gratification.

A pastors’ journal carries the request of a college pastoral counselor for an article on “masturbation” because “it is a major problem of my college students.” Sexology publishes a constant barrage of questions from troubled young people and parents about this same problem.

Fifteen years of intensive counseling experience has revealed to the author some of the reasons for the very ^reat importance of self-gratification in individual lives.

Gary Anderson* gratified himself sexually rather often, but he also deeply deplored the act and felt continuously guilty about it.

Gary had found his way into the practice accidentally. As a young boy he had discovered a gratifying sensation in rubbing certain parts of his body. He had always practiced it alone and had very little knowledge of what part the practice played in the lives of other people. This encouraged the sense of aloneness and difference.

Several times he read references in some book or heard some chance remark which he assumed referred to self-gratification and which led to a guilty feeling on his part. As usually happens among people who experience desire and who also have powerful repressive forces working, Gary developed a great deal of conflict and guilt.

Helen Williams belongs to a some-what different group of people troubled about masturbation. As a child she became aware of agreeable sensations in touching and rubbing her clitoris and continued the practice as a relief of tension.

She had no name for the act and was not aware of any further significance in it. For her it was simply soothing and provided relief at times when she was tired or tense.

One day, however, she was caught in the act by an older sister whom she greatly admired. The older sister expressed great horror and hostility. Her mother was called and her father informed and she was given a severe scolding.

The hostile looks on the faces she loved and the distasteful terms used to label her acts made her feel unclean. A great deal of energy in her life is now used in repressing her desire for self-gratification. The tension formerly released in this way often turns into resentment and angry explosions.

Still another kind of experience is illustrated in the case of Harley Smith. Harley was initiated into the practice at an early age among a gang of boys. Curiosity then led him to experiment himself.

This learning of the practice took place in a group and therefore did not seem to him to be unusual or different. However, Harley soon heard the practice of self – gratification described as a “childish” one. Some of the reading and instruction which he had made him feel that continuing the habit is a sign that he is “immature.”

As a result he is torn between his ambition to grow into a fully rounded and mature adult and his continuing desires for this form of sexual expression.

While most popular literature has gotten beyond the stage of predicting horrifying consequences of masturbation, much popular literature does condemn the practice by labeling it “immature” This arouses a somewhat different conflict, but in a way a more severe one, for the young person whose great ambition is to become a mature adult.

For Bill Brown the practice has still a different kind of meaning. He grew up in a family which made a very sharp distinction between the premarital and marital status. All sexual feelings and expressions were to be accepted in the married state, but great restriction was placed upon any acknowledgment of such desires or feelings or acts before marriage.

As he grew up and began to experience sexual feeling and desire, it was channeled into his feeling that any form of sex expression must come only in marriage. Even though he is too young to enter into marriage, he feels that he must get married immediately and seeks to find some girl who will marry him.

Masturbation has a very repulsive meaning to him and therefore all such stimulation or desire that might be released in this form now feeds into his mad rush to become married.

Something of a combination of the last two persons is represented by Amy Gray, a college student who has the freedom to know something about her own sexual experience and feelings. Since she felt that masturbation is regarded as an immature form of sexual expression, she therefore concluded that sexual intercourse was the only mature and acceptable release of an individual’s sexual feeling.

Not finding other avenues of satisfying release of these feelings, she has been led into a life of promiscuity. However, she is not personally ready for the experience of intercourse and inevitably finds it dissatisfying and frustrating. Instead of examining the reason for this she plunges on from affair to affair.

To each of these cases the practice of self-gratification has had a different meaning. However, they all share something in common. Each of them feels the impact of the sexual drive toward creation and growth. Each of them also has become snagged, though in different ways, in his sexual development.

In all cases, troubled feelings about self-gratification were an important factor in this snag in their growth. Whether because of lack of information, hostile and resentful attitudes, condemnation of the act as “immature,” or whatever the cause may be, a very real problem has occurred and it may involve a good deal of guilt and suffering on the part of the individual.

When fear, hostility, hurt, and embarrassment are linked with the feeling of exposure and vulnerability that comes with the growth of new sensitive feelings—particularly in the area of sex—there is a temptation to “cover over” or to neglect working through the problem.

The mature and responsible person, however, when he begins to experience the awakening of sexual desires, will study the available knowledge about sexual growth and development. When questions and conflicts arise he will seek out the help of a counselor so that he can find the channel and the means of sexual expression which will be helpful to himself and harmful to no one.

He will not want to approach the sexual relationship with another with the idea of dumping upon another his sexual conflicts. Rather he will try to prepare himself so that he can not only handle his own life well but also enter into the added satisfactions of marital relationships as a privilege and as a bonus in life.

Competent leaders in this field have tried to make clear, as this magazine has, that it is not the act of self-gratification,which might be of harm but only possibly the feelings or attitudes that go with it- They agree with this statement made by Lester Dearborn, former head of the Association of Marriage Counselors: “Masturbation, according to the best medical authorities, causes no harm physically or mentally. Any harm resulting from masturbation is caused entirely by worry or by a sense of guilt due to misinformation.”

Leaders in the field feel also that it is essential to make clear that the sexual drive is an important part of a larger creative drive which can enhance and enrich life.

One significant channel of expression during the course of an individual’s sexual development may be the practice of self-gratification. It is important then for that person to understand its meaning and how it fits into his creative growth. All feelings of fear and guilt and anxiety and hostility connected with the act of self-relief must be studied and resolved.

Since self-gratification deals with strong personal feelings, it very often precipitates or reveals underlying attitudes of the personality. Resolving conflicting feelings about self-gratification is at the same time working through basic feelings about sex itself and constitutes an important preparation for a healthy sexual relationship when marriage takes place.

The whole series of ads is like this. Just bizarre.

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In World War I, anti-aircraft fire against slow, low flying planes, could be managed by optical sighting and correcting from observed air bursts. Today’s supersonic planes, flying at great altitudes must be tracked by radar and the guns directed by complex computers.

The Navy Bureau of Ordnance and Ford Instrument Company perfected the first successful naval anti-aircraft gun director (Mk 19) back in 1926 and Ford Instrument Company has been one of the outstanding leaders in this field ever since.

Precision equipment for the exacting problems of computers and controls for both the military and industry, has been the specialty of Ford Instrument Company since 1915.

Ever since Hannibal C.: Ford built the first gunfire computers for the U. S. Navy forty years ago, Ford Instrument Company has been a leader in applying the science of automatic control to American defense and peacetime industry. For more information about Ford’s products, services, and facilities, write for free illustrated brochure.

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Long time PlayStation developer Insomniac Games is going multiplatform. Yes folks, you heard it right. Famed for its highly successful Resistance and Ratchet & Clank game series on the PlayStation platform, the developers has officially confirmed that

Earlier in the week we covered Microsoft’s agreement with Australia’s Foxtel that will see pay TV content streamed to Xbox 360 consoles. Now Sony has announced that PS3 and PSP owners in the US will now be able to access programming from premium cable TV network HBO on their consoles. Using the PlayStation Network’s (PSN) video delivery service PS3 /PSP owners can now purchase shows from HBO’s popular lineup, including True Blood, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight of the Conchords, to name just a few. ..
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Baron Wells prides itself in designing and developing all their pieces in New York. The materials and the craftsmanship all echo what the city is all about. So much so that Baron Wells was commissioned by the Ace Hotel to design their employee ties, completing a very stylish ensemble for the whole team. For Fall/Winter 2010 moves towards a full out collection complete with shirts, ties, slacks, and jackets.

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Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough got perfect scores for their Argentine tango and jive, making them this year’s winner of “Dancing With the Stars”.

Figure skater Evan Lysacek and partner Anna Trebunskaya were second while reporter Erin Andrews and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy landed on the third place.

Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls and partner Derek Hough had dominated the competition throughout because they get perfect scores most of the time.

During the finale, Scherzinger performed a high-energy jive as her final dance that earned a perfect score of 30 and inspired head judge Len Goodman to say, “There can only be one winner of ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ It should be you.”

Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called Scherzinger’s “like a beautiful masterpiece come to life.”

Nicole said that the personal lessons she learned during the season are more important than the trophy. “This has been probably the greatest reward personally, this whole personal journey,” she said. “I’ve learned so much about myself. I’ve learned so much about Derek Hough. He’s made me a better person through this.”

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Shanghai new residential housing prices are reported to have fallen by 16% week on week for the period ending May 23rd, to 19,204 yuan per square meter.

We won’t even attempt to annualize that percentage, but clearly it’s a sharp drop if representative of the trend to come.

This is based on data from Youwin System and 1lszp.com via Capital Vue:

Capital Vue:

Transaction area rebounded 27 percent week-on-week to 76,000 square meters.

Total transaction volume in Shanghai increased 36.06 percent week-on-week to 1,981 units, according to statistics from Midland Realty Research Department.

New supply of housing available for sale decreased 23 percent week-on-week to 158,600 square meters.

Perhaps this is why the government appears* to have become gun-shy in regards to further tightening vs. the housing market.

*If reports about no second home taxes are correct.

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Audi is offering the option of a factory-installed WLAN hotspot on its new A8. The system will enable front and rear seat passengers to tap into Internet access at up to 7.2 Mbit/s by dropping a data-capable SIM card into the car’s Bluetooth phone or by pairing your existing phone…
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After a successful season of the series Dancing with the stars”, the show had ended last night having a showdown between the last two performances of Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek.

Recently Julie Chen, the wife of the CEO of the network stated that although she has not been keeping up with DWTS, she picked Nicole Scherzinger to win it and walk away with victory.

As said, Nicole Scherzinger and her partner, Derek Hough won!

ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews and her dance partner Mark Chmerkovskiy placed third runner up. The couple was eliminated after the first dance when the three finalist couples performed for the night.

Chen also made a comment on the popular singing reality series, American Idol. She said that she has no idea who will be the next judge on the said show. The show’s long time host Simon Cowell will be leaving DWTS and planning to host ang judge another, title “The X Factor”.

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What’s a real estate speculator to do once the government clamps down on housing investment?

Look for the next available property bet.

One example of this is Wenzhou, a city in China’s wealthy Zhejiang province.

Ever since the government restricted purchases of residential homes in mid-April, local property punters have shifted their focus to real estate alternatives — such luxury apartments and more importantly, commercial real estate.

China Daily:

“Though recent tightening real estate policies have made property investment riskier, it is still a comparatively safer bet than stocks. And because of the strong inflationary expectations, you have to find a place to put your money,” Wang said.

Wang’s thinking is quite typical among Wenzhou investors, regarded as the most astute business people in China. Industry experts estimated that Wenzhou’s private capital could be around 600 billion yuan. Due to limited investment channels, quite a number of them still chose property as their primary investment tool. But this time, they are looking to commercial properties and high-end residential projects.

Lu Yin, director of Zidoo Group Co Ltd, the developer of the BDA Plaza in Beijing’s Yizhuang area, said enquiries from potential buyers had increased by 40 percent after real estate tightening took effect.

Commercial real estate is trading at lower prices per square meter than residential housing in Wenzhou according to China Daily. Combined with the prospect of steady yield, it’s thus being regarded as lower risk by many wealthy individual investors. Regulations will likely have to be tightened here as well, in order to put out the inevitable speculative fire.

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Honda Motor Co. has taken a look at China’s technology and massive resources and now plans to develop electric car batteries in China, according to Honda CEO Takanobu Ito.

In Southern China, Ito told reporters that a breakthrough is required to be able to carry the zero-emission cars into the mainstream. Ito had been in Southern China to announce a plan to raise Guangqi Honda’s annual production capacity by a third to 480,000 units. Honda is likely to lag behind rivals Nissan Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., which has partnered with electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. Ito forecasts that electric cars would be able to go mainstream in 10-20 years. For the next several years, Ito said that Honda will be concentrating on hybrids and other fuel-efficient vehicles. Honda is mulling over plans to bring electric cars in limited numbers to the US, Europe and Japan; however, it has yet to find a strategic partner that would commit to developing batteries for the vehicles. Honda actually already has a joint venture with Japan’s GS Yuasa Corp to work on lithium-ion batteries for hybrid cars. Honda and GS Yuasa have an agreement that if the need arises, they could work on electric car batteries as well. GS Yuasa is in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. for the development and production of electric car batteries.

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Homebrew coder Lino is back in the DS homebrew scene to release a new version of fb4nds, a simple Facebook client application for the Nintendo DS. The latest update of the homebrew has added some new features,

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is one of the more underrated sporty utes in my opinion–if you can get your head around the notion of a sporty ute in the first place.

I like the curvy sheetmetal; it looks cool and aggressive. The FX50 is a solid driver, too. The structure is robust, the V8 has great power–this thing is fast!–and sounds like a hot rod. And where the old FX suspension could beat you up, this car feels softer. Not too soft, but softer nonetheless. The sport mode didn’t do much for me; it just seemed to make the ride harder without helping the handling. Just one mode in a properly setup suspension would be better. I could also easily live without the lane-departure warning.

The dash reminds of the Infiniti G series and boy, are there ever a lot of gadgets to play with. The room in the back is decent.

2010 Infiniti FX50

Base Price: $59,265

As-Tested Price: $65,625

Drivetrain: 5.0-liter V8; AWD, seven-speed automatic

Output: 390 hp @ 6,500 rpm, 369 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm

Curb Weight: 4,575 lb

Fuel Economy (EPA/AW): 16/15.5 mpg

Options: Sport package including continuous damping control with auto and sport modes, rear active steer, sport-style front seats, driver’s seat with power bolster adjustment and thigh support for driver and front passenger, dark-tinted headlights, side air vents, lower side trim, solid magnesium paddle shifters ($3,000); technology Package including lane-departure warning, lane-departure prevention, intelligent cruise control, distance-control assist, intelligent brake assist with forward collision warning, front precrash seat belts, rain-sensing front windshield wipers, adaptive front lighting system, auto-leveling front headlights ($2,900); aluminum roof rails crossbar ($325); vehicle alarm impact sensor ($135)

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