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January 21, 2019
Time for too much of the seductive house-baked bread...
January 7, 2019
Insults on the Menu
Perhaps you were still in your high chair dribbling...
December 17, 2018
Best Bites 2018
I tried to recall the last time I'd bitten into a noodle...
December 10, 2018
Christmas Vibrations
I wanted a real tree, tall and dripping needles, smelling...
December 3, 2018
Unfinished Tastings
I'm shocked how many restaurants I loved…have closed.
Insatiable, The Book
From time to time I will post roundups or lists of my favorites restaurants, food shops or dishes. I'll tell you where I really go. What's worth a splurge. Where you'll find chefs late at night. Breakfast Priorities. Favorite haunts of other food writer friends. Ice cream Worth the Detour. Watch for more.
January 7, 2019 | Favorites
Easy Ramen
Kaitlin Hill gets the secret to Easy Ramen from the obliging shop keeper in a noodle shop...
November 14, 2018 | Favorites
Buttermilk Biscuits
A foolproof and quick easy recipe for buttermilk biscuits from Hillary Davis you can crank out at whim. They're rustic, with lots of crags to hold pools of melting butter
August 14, 2018 | Favorites
Grilled Peach Salad
For my first course, I picked a grilled peach salad. I had assembled something similar when working in a Greenwich Village restaurant and remembered the "oohs" and "ahs" that greeted the charred peach dish that looked impressive but was secretly quite easy...
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Bone Broth Makes a Splash on the Upper West Side
Our Insatiable Emily Johnson sips and dips into the Brodo company concept…
June 4, 2018 | Favorites
Dovetail Will Close and Reopen With a Brand New Identity.
The small Michelin-starred space on West 77th will be reborn with a new chef.
March 6, 2018 | Favorites
Black and White Cookies
But where did this iconic cookie come from? And more importantly, will I ever meet Jerry Seinfeld?
September 6, 2017 | Favorites
Evapiggie Goes To: Croatia
A one-way ticket to summer in Croatia...
May 8, 2017 | Short Order
Diet Guru says Eat What You Really Want
Slimming Is Easy But Not Quite Easy Enough
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Nutella Stuffed Donuts: I Donut Go On Diets
Losing My Fear of Frying...
February 12, 2017 | Recipes
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As Valentine's Day approaches, you might want to start planning a seduction. That's where these little chocolate cakes fit in. You might want this recipe for a sweet that is easy but impressive, romantic but deceptively unfussy. Like me, you might plan to dazzle a loved one, a longtime companion or a new, not yet committed fling with something special; but, I would never recommend sweating over a hot stove to do so.
August 5, 2016 | Recipes
Mixed Berry Pie Soothes a Batttered Heart
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June 28, 2016 | Favorites
Orange Fruit Soup
As I confessed in my memoir, Insatiable: Tales from a life of Delicious Excess, dinner and dancing were my drugs of choice…that's why I am able to remember the Seventies so vividly.
March 10, 2016 | Favorites
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I love donuts and grew up hanging out at my local Dunkin's. My three-year-old Teddy, on the other hand, is fairly new to the donut game and he's already obsessed. This recipe has everything that I'm into as a mom: it's a treat, but not as unhealthy/sugary/processed as the store bought stuff. And, I think, more delish. I ate half the yield...
January 21, 2016 | Favorites
Warming Winter Soup by Lauren Bloomberg
This soup was created in a refrigerator/pantry cleaning effort. Feel free to swap what you have at home. Vegetarian? Go for veggie stock. Want to use up the last onion? Let it take the place of the leek and shallot. I never remember to soak beans overnight but please, if you're the organized type, do so.
October 26, 2015 | Favorites
Pie Crust by Benjamin Baird Deutsch in a Blueberry Pie by His Mom
We used Ben's excellent crust that got him a story in Newsweek years ago for a recent Sunday dinner but we dropped the pie...
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Raspberry-Horseradish Jam
I suggest serving this jam with goat cheese and crackers. Or center a small round of brie on a sheet of phyllo dough, pour half a jar of this jam on it and close. Bake it and serve warm in delightfully messy wedges
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Bacon and Baby Kale-Stuffed Pork Roast
With the world's easiest pan gravy and a few small flourishes, this stuffed pork dish is perfect for entertaining. The bacon in the stuffing adds smokiness and the pomegranate seed garnish gives a pop of bright sweetness for the perfect balance of flavors. I seal the seam with toothpicks and cook everything in one pan.
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Pucker Up, Squash!
Conquer your zucchini before it conquers you...
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One of the Fed's most ardent hawks may have a way out for the doves.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC on Friday, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser for the first time called for the Fed's current stimulus program, or quantitative easing, to be capped.
This would solve several problems for the QE supporters, he said, including the apparent inability to even discuss reducing the amount of QE without a major disruption in the markets that potentially worsens the economy.
(Watch: Plosser's 'plan B' for bonds)
When the Fed announced QE2, "we said we were going to buy $600 billion and then we're going to stop and see what the economy looks like and then make another assessment," Plosser said. "I'm actually leaning to believe maybe that's a better way to get us out of this box of fine-tuning and adjusting."
The Fed prompted major market disruptions twice in the last three meetings: It surprised markets in June by announcing a timetable for reducing QE and rocked them again in September when it defied expectations for tapering the asset purchases.
(Read more: By not tapering, Fed actually increased stimulus)
Plosser pointed out that the Fed ended both of its previous QE programs without such disturbances.

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Some areas are making hay while the sun shines and the rains fall, but others just never had a chance, according to aTexas AgriLife Extension service specialist.
"We've had a better year than last year, but that isn't saying a lot," said Dr. Larry Redmon, AgriLife Extension state forage specialist in College Station. "We had great winter rains and some in the spring, but then the rains shut off for the most part.
"There are some areas that have had 8 to 10 inches this summer, but it is not widespread."
Dr. Travis Miller, associate department head and AgriLife Extension program leader in the Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences department, said the state overall continues to face drought, with notable exceptions along the Gulf Coast and parts of Northeast Texas.
"While showers along the coast and in North Texas eased drought conditions and greened up hay meadows, conditions are worsening over most of the southern and western parts of the state, where livestock producers are continuing to supplement cattle with hay and feed and are struggling to maintain water supplies," Miller said.
He said nearly 90 percent of the state ranges from abnormally dry to exceptional drought.
Redmon said some producers have already made one hay cutting and are ready to make another. These producers have taken care of their grass, applied fertilizer and had timely rains, so they won't be buying hay, he said.
"But just down the road, there may be producers who didn't get the timely rains and the grass simply hasn't had a chance to recover from last year," he said. "So it really depends on the management level of the property and whether it has received rain as to whether an individual made hay or has to buy it."
Looking around the state, Redmon said, North Texas seems to get a rain "almost whenever it wants one." In Southeast Texas and the Houston and coast areas, good rains have fallen and producers are growing some hay. East Texas has had good rain in some spots and is in good shape.
But, up in the High Plains, it's been a tough year, he said. Same goes for Central Texas, West Texas and South Texas, where it has been spotty.
"Some of these areas look much like it was last year, so no matter how good of a manager you might have been, you just didn't get the rain to make the hay," Redmon said.
"I'm afraid as we get closer to autumn, we will see more and more of those big 18-wheelers rolling into the state, but not nearly to the extent we saw last year," he said. "There are people cutting hay, good hay and plenty of it, but they might not be nearly as interested in selling as they have in years past."
Redmon said some producers have hay to sell in the state, but it won't be anything near a 'normal' year, and it won't be enough to supply hay needs across the state. "But it is much better than last year.
"As I drive across the state, I'm able to see hay bales sitting in the field. Last year, you could drive anywhere and not see bales of hay."
In addition to some areas not seeing the recovery of their grass, other areas have suffered through tremendous grasshopper infestations this year that have been just like a heavy grazing by cattle, he said.
"It has been a really tough year for areas of the state."
Redmon categorized hay into three categories: high quality alfalfa hay, grass hays that can range in quality and then the lower-quality stalk or straw hay.
Alfalfa hay could be bargain
Alfalfa hay is used primarily by the dairy and horse industry, he said. However, a lot of the lower quality alfalfa hay, the early cuts, does not go to either of those markets.
"This could be a good buy for the beef market, using it instead of the 20 percent crude protein cubes," Redmon said. "It is much less costly than buying the cubes. These square bales will come from Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico, primarily."
At the opposite end of the spectrum is straw or stalk hays from wheat, rice, sorghum or corn. This hay is lower in cost, but also lower in nutritive value, he said.
"This can be bought and used, but you need to know what you have so you can make up for the missing nutrients with the appropriate supplement," Redmon said. "This is sort of the hay of the last resort."
In the middle are the typical grass hays: prairie hay from South Dakota or Nebraska or the Bermuda or Bahia hays. The quality will depend on the stage of maturity when it was cut, and it can be just as low in value as the wheat straw or as good as alfalfa, he said.
"Forage testing is absolutely necessary," Redmon said. "If you don't test, you may think it is better than it is, and that can cause your cattle to crash in the middle of the winter. Or, you may think it is a lower value than it really is and cause you to buy extra supplement when you don't need to be spending that money."


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She went on a woman's retreat for her birthday this year (do you blame the woman for wanting to take a break from me for a couple days?) and her cell has no reception where she's at so this is the first time in our ten year marriage I was unable to wish her a happy birthday on her birthday.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY my lovely wife. How I was ever lucky enough to marry you I will never know but I sure am glad you did.
From the majority of my time spent building .NET, then my RC airplanes and now my rock cover band...
The best birthday gift she could get is two days away from me. LOL.


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The following is a direct quote from Robert A. Heinlein's novel,
Stranger in a Strange Land, Putnam, 1961, page 294 of the hardback edition, admittedly reproduced here without permission … and I think it speaks volumes to the phenomenon of bullying.
To set the stage, Valentine Michael Smith, a man raised on Mars by Martians and with no complete understanding of human society, and Gillian Boardman have left Jubal Harshaw's enclave and struck out on their own, learning about the world and how it works, and more importantly, how people work. On this particular day, their travels have taken them to a zoo, where Jill is feeding peanuts to capuchins in the monkey house:
She tossed one to a monk; before he could eat it a larger male not only stole his peanut but gave him a beating. The little fellow made no attempt to pursue his tormentor; he pounded his knuckles against the floor and chattered helpless rage. Mike watched solemnly.
Suddenly the mistreated monkey rushed across the cage, picked a monkey still smaller, bowled it over and gave it a drubbing worse than the one he had suffered. The third monk crawled away, whimpering. The other monkeys paid no attention.
For those who know the story, you also know Mike Smith's reaction to this tableau: he laughs, nearly uncontrollably, then later explains to Jill later that the laughter came out of him because it hurt, and laughing was the only way to make the hurt stop.
I disagree with Heinlein's assertion that the hardest laughter is the result of a "wrongness," of an injury or harm done to another, but not in the scene which gave rise to Mike's reaction. I'd place a hefty wager that Heinlein himself saw such an event at one time or another, and it further informed his understanding of social interaction in man or monkey.
It's a fact: people dump on each other. There is a pecking order to how the dumping is done. The more powerful or privileged take their frustrations or anger or whatever out on those less empowered, and the process can propagate down that order until the least of that order has taken the cumulative punishment of the sequence before it. Worst of all, like the capuchins of the above vignette, it happens mostly to the screaming indifference of those around the incident. The perpetrators do it because they CAN do it, and because they know what the response will be, or more appropriately, what it WON'T be. After all, this is SOP, Standard Operating Procedure, and to interfere with it is to interfere with the putative "natural order."
I suppose you can accuse of me generalizing here, and maybe I am … but that scene from Heinlein's Stranger has stuck with me for a long time, especially since I was once on the business end of that pecking order, frequently at or near the bottom of it, with no recourse for my own anger and frustration … and I thought this story needed telling.
So here it is.
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Loren, your telling of this tale evokes incredible sadness and rage as I read it. You wrote, " since I was once on the business end of that pecking order, frequently at or near the bottom of it, with no recourse for my own anger and frustration … and I thought this story needed telling."
A profound YES! Silence has no redeeming qualities. Speaking out against such experiences, standing with others who feel too weak or helpless, and taking charge of our own lives as best we can are the only things I can think to do. There may be other things that would help, but I don't know what they would be.
Feeling scapegoated, helpless, unsupported, and without recourse surely cannot lead to a healthy, happy, productive life. Your words make this powerfully clear. Thanks Loren.
This pecking order is Dominator Culture, courtesy of our reptile brain. Much of society runs like this, but not all. Riane Eisler also describes Partnership Culture, where equals cooperate, in The Chalice and The Blade. Dominator Culture is destroying the planet, as far as I'm concerned. Not only do the 1% take from the 99%, they take from the Earth without thought of consequence. I think our only future as a species, in a sustainable world, will be to embrace Partnership and reject Dominator culture.
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Thanks Loren. I finally got around to reading this. I've heard of SiaSL over the years, but I've never read it.
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Guess What The Most-Hated Word In Australia Is?
It's only five little letters, one short syllable and isn't negative in the slightest, but Oxford Dictionaries have officially confirmed the most-hated word in the English language.
We don't even want to type it, and we apologise in advance.
It's "moist".
The legendary word wizards launched an online campaign to figure out, once and for all, which of the thousands and thousands of words in the English language was successfully sending shivers down our spine and giving us the heebie jeebies every time it was spoken.
And although the #OneWordMap tactic had to be prematurely terminated thanks to "severe misuse" - welcome to the internet, folks - "moist" was the clear winner after more than 10,000 submissions.
Apparently, after plenty of research, our distaste for the word actually has scientific grounding; 20 per cent of the population hate it because of its association with bodily functions.
Just in case you were still curious, the top five looked a little like this:
1. Moist
2. No
3. Hate
4. Panties
5. Like
So, like, there you have it. No need to be concerned; we all get our panties in a twist about the word "moist".
Haters gonna hate.
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Felt great to run again after taking the last three days off. Saturday and Sunday were by design, to let the shin splints calm down a little and I also had a lot of grad school work to do. Yesterday... well... chalk that one up to laziness, as the wind was cold and biting and we've been spoiled with spring temperatures lately.
Still windy today, but warmer out. Quite nice, actually. I was probably a bit overdressed. I hit a hilly route on the back roads near the school and felt more in sync as the run went on. Good run.
Looking forward to a 50k run with the Trail Monster gang on Saturday!
Ran 10.1 miles @ 8:14/mile pace.
Paved roads.
Very hilly.
Lower-mid 40s, sunny, windy.
Long pants, fleece jacket, short sleeved shirt.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Back At'Em
Posted by Jamie Anderson at 4:21 PM
3 comments:
- Damon said...
Where are you running 50K? Is it the Fells Race? I ran it last year, but can't make it this year because I have one weekend of ski instruction left.
The next weekend, on 4/4, I think I'm going to drive to MA and run either at the Fells or on the DRB course. I'll probably do 20-25 miles or so at one of those places.
- Sonriserunning said...
Downeastrunning and I were commenting during hill repeats how strong you are--cranking out the miles at a good click--strong! Sorry about the set-back--hope you're able to crank out those miles.
- Jamie said...
Damon - it's a Fat Ass that Ian, our Trail Monster leader, is putting on at Bradbury State Park. Small and low key.
Eric - Thanks man!
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) The news wasn't surprising to Nick Foles.
Or anybody else, for that matter.
After all, the Eagles rookie quarterback had practiced with the first team all week, and the starter at his position, Michael Vick, hadn't even touched the field since he left it with a concussion six days ago.
So, when Philadelphia coach Andy Reid on Friday officially ruled Vick out of Sunday's game vs. Washington, and named Foles the starter, there weren't many out there shocked by the expected proclamation. Certainly not the third-round pick from Arizona who has been preparing for his first NFL start his whole life.
``We've had a great week of preparation, a lot of hard work, and it definitely has sunk in,'' Foles said. ``I'm ready to go.''
Eagles fans certainly hope so.
When Foles and Philadelphia take the field Sunday in a matchup of disappointed 3-6 teams, there will be plenty at stake. Any chance of getting back in the NFC East race depends on this team making a run. Reid's future - and perhaps even Foles' as a full-time starter - also depend on it.
No pressure, or anything.
``We have a great group of guys here, great coaches. I feel great. I felt great ever since I got here. I felt like it's a home. We have fun together. We have fun out there at practice together and in the locker room,'' Foles said. ``It's a great environment to play in, it's a great environment to go to work in. I feel comfortable in everything and I'm ready to go play for these guys.''
Vick, meanwhile, will be resting this weekend, and spending time in ``in dark, quiet places,'' according to head trainer Rick Burkholder, who spoke to reporters at the Eagles training facility on Friday.
``He has too many symptoms for us to even exercise him,'' Burkholder said. ``He's not even close to playing this week.''
Reid finally made the announcement official after the team's final practice of the week, confirming a decision that had been in the works since Monday. It was only because Vick had not completed the league-mandated concussion testing earlier in the week, that Reid did not officially rule him out earlier.
``That was one of his goals, obviously, to stay healthy all season. He's a very considerate guy, and he feels like he lets people down, and his teammates down,'' Reid said of Vick. ``And that's not the case, he's hurt. But he's one of the most competitive, toughest guys I've been around.''
Vick completed just six passes for 70 yards vs. Dallas before leaving. The Eagles lost, 38-23.
``The one thing that we look at is that we want to see whether his cognitive function is down. We do that through impact testing. He did take an impact test today,'' Burkholder said. ``He's below baseline, so that's another indicator that he's not ready to play.''
Foles was 22 of 32 for 219 yards with a touchdown and an interception vs. the Cowboys. Those numbers weren't enough to help the Eagles avoid their fifth straight loss, a first in Reid's 14 seasons.
``He's comfortable with what we've been running,'' Reid said of Foles. ``It's the same things we were doing in training camp. He's good with it.''
That said, Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg has tightened the playbook a bit this week for Foles, a third-round draft pick out of Arizona, who became something of a fan favorite in Philadelphia during an impressive run through the preseason.
``He will see some things that he hasn't seen before, and how he reacts to those things will be key,'' Mornhinweg said Thursday. ``That would be the two biggest things right at the front of my mind that we've talked about.''
In a dreary season that has fallen well short of expectations, seeing if Foles can show enough flashes to become a franchise quarterback has put some snap back in the Eagles' year.
``Come game day, I don't know what it's going to be like because I've never experienced that but I assume there will be butterflies and nerves,'' Foles said. ``I'm going to keep working hard, keep studying the playbook, watching film, so the more you know about something the more the nerves go down. Just preparation. Keep working until game day.''
Foles, equipped with a strong arm and the ability to move around in the pocket, threw for 553 yards in the preseason, with six touchdowns and two interceptions. He finished with a quarterback rating of 110.1.
All that said, putting the season in the hands of a rookie - whether it's forced or not - could create more problems. But Reid, as he has been throughout this season of discontent, is unfazed.
``I worry about right now. What we can control. What I can control, and that's getting this football team better,'' Reid said. ``Anything that you add into that mix is a distraction and you can't afford that in the National Football League.''
Vick has been inconsistent - at best - the last two seasons. After helping to rally the Eagles from a 4-8 start last season with four consecutive victories to close the year, he has thrown for 11 touchdowns with nine interceptions this season.
``He has to get better is what he's got to do right now,'' Reid said. ``That's it. Concentrate on that right now, and that's the most important thing.''
Vick's quarterback rating at the time of the injury was just 79.2.
``Right now, he currently has symptoms. He's had symptoms all week since the game. He's had a headache, which has gotten better during the week. He's foggy. He's not very alert right now in terms of he just doesn't have that energy,'' Burkholder said. ``He's tired all the time, he's slept a lot, and he's not getting rid of that fatigue. I would consider him heavy eyed.
``When I talk to him, he's just not the Michael Vick that I know when he's healthy.''
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Christian Bale has paid a visit to the victims of last week's tragic shooting at a Dark Knight Rises midnight showing in Aurora, Co.
The 38-year-old actor, who portrays Bruce Wayne/Batman in the film, took it upon himself to pay his respects and give well-wishes to the survivors.
"Mr. Bale is there as himself, not representing Warner Brothers," a rep for the studio told the Denver Post.
"Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them," Christian previously said in response to the shootings.
Dark Knight Rises actress Anne Hathaway also released a statement about the shootings this week, saying: "My heart aches and breaks for the lives taken and altered by this unfathomably senseless act. I am at a loss for words how to express my sorrow. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families."
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So this is a little weird even typing this out but here we go! I have a friend that tells me she loves it when her boyfriend cums in her. Me personally, I just do not see the appeal of getting chummed inside of. Perhaps this is because I have zero desire to have a child. Also, I have a medical issue that gives me a minimal chance of ever having a child.
I am more curious to your responses and that is why I am asking here.
So I pose the question. What is going through your head when you say to your guy, "cum in me!"? Even if your on birth control. Which my friend is on by the way.
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Just the kind of information I'm looking for on an atheist website. I must admit, though, that I am curious, as a clueless old man who didn't know what a dildo was until I was in my 40's, if "chummed" is common nomenclature among the young, these days?
RE: "if "chummed" is common nomenclature" - that would certainly explain why I haven't been catching any fish --
Never to old to learn Dale. Knowledge is power, and fun. Won't tell you what I was learning when I was in my forties. The one thing I know that is 'chummed' is what is known called in Australia as 'burley' - stuff to attract fish, but especially sharks, and somehow I don't think this is what you are talking about. The other is very English, a chum, a friend, as in 'old school chums' etc.
All very innocent :)
It isn't true at all that it is rarely achieved in western adult countries. Nor is it true that very few woman enjoy it. I have personally known many woman who enjoy anal sex and will have an orgasm almost immediately when they have it. They always say the first time wasn't so great but afterwards they loved it.
You haven't talked to many woman about it if you think it is rare that they enjoy it.
@Michael - It isn't true at all that it is rarely achieved in western adult countries etc.
Ha, ha. It starts as a females question "Do you let your guy cum inside you" etc. etc. Women of the female species answer truthfully, nicely and gently. Another bloke comes into it, as Unseen did, and I think he was trying to be funny, which, actually, sometimes he is.
Nothing is said by the women about anal sex or blow jobs - funny that.
Why do you think that is?
Then another bloke comes in, and actually gives second hand information "I have personally known women who enjoy anal sex etc etc. You haven't talked to many women about it if you think it is rare that they enjoy it" etc. etc
I have received private emails from a number of men, saying how their women enjoyed anal sex, and had mind blowing orgasms. Wonder how many of these women are still around.
I have said somewhere before, men would be very surprised at what women do talk about after a couple of vino's, as was the original question. How many people did a double take, thinking it could actually have been spam. Ha,ha. You just haven't been to the many varied women's groups I have, and THAT is where you get the true information, straight from the cum's mouth, so to speak. Not from somebody trying to please the bloke she happens to be with at the time. And I, over many years of women's groups, know what all these women have reported, that is all. Not one has said they enjoyed anal sex. That is not to say no women do enjoy anal sex, but very few, and I have not come across any. One of the things a man may not understand, is that when a woman is in a monogamous relationship, she wants to please her bloke. She, personally, herself, will not bring up anal sex. She will want to please her bloke, go along with it, certainly not have an orgasm. She can ooohhhh, ahhhhh, all she likes, not a real orgasm, just wants it over with, then tell him what a stud etc. etc. he is, boost his ego, 'This has been the most awesome sex I HAVE EVER HAD' etc. etc. pat him on the head, and there you go. For Michael, is he in a relationship now, with a woman who has an orgasm with anal sex - or have they all moved on? The women who do have anal sex on a regular basis is a prostitute, as she gets paid three times the going rate, and good for her, and the woman, where there is a diamond necklace at the end of it. One would think there hasn't been a male who has never heard of male manipulation going on. Sorry, lads, that is the way it is. To all the blokes who reckon they give their women the most fabulous, mind blowing orgasm, just think of the movie "When Harry Met Sally'.
One doesn't need to be Meg Ryan to fake an orgasm. Back to the drawing board, boys.
My first reaction to posts like that is misbelief that the original poster is who she claims to be. There are far too many men in women's disguise on the internet (meaning that usually men post stuff like that just for trolling). But I must admit, the account looks pretty authentic to me. And the answers sure are. So, I'll throw away scepticism and jump on the thread's train from off topic to fun.
I am in a long relationship and always came in my girlfriend (who is on birth control), because everything else seems unnatural to me. Sure, she sometimes likes to watch "it happen", but that's what hands and the mouth is for. It is our "goal" to orgasm together (and I can recommend it to everybody), and it would just ruin the moment if I had to pull out. Two questions to the girls who prefer him to leave his stuff outside: are you really so cruel to take him out just before he is getting at it? And would you ruin your own orgasm to make sure that his stuff stays outside?
Also a question to Sophie: you say you have a medical issue that gives you minimal chances of ever having a child. Then, I don't understand why you are so afraid of getting pregnant in the first place, up to a grade that imho makes you miss a great part of the joy that we atheists can have with sex (don't get me wrong, I can understand that women might find "it's" consistency displeasing, and that is sadly why my girlfriend would answer your topic's question with "not orally", but I think not caring about this in the first place during regular sex would be beneficial to your sex life!).
Yannick, FYI, Sophie is really a she - she's been with us for quite some time now, but I can understand your caution.
Are we hearing from our gays on this one?
Er... no comment - It's not really my subject matter
"subject matter"? - how un-colloquial! I would, considering your nationality, have expected, "not my cup of tea" --
I believe they took that a couple of steps further in Boston --


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WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – Senior Laura Wacker (Brooklyn, N.Y.) racked up 10 goals including the game-winner to lead the MIT women's lacrosse team to a 16-15 victory over Eastern Connecticut State University on Thursday night. Her scoring performance broke the MIT record for goals in a game as the previous mark of nine was set by Tracy Sadowski '99 in 1997. In addition, Wacker surpassed the standard of 142 career goals which was established by former teammate Casey Flynn '10.
A solo effort by Wacker opened the scoring after 40 seconds elapsed while the Engineers increased their cushion on goal by senior Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) that was set up by sophomore Emma Kane (Garden City, N.Y.). The Warriors responded with four straight goals which put them in front, 4-2, midway through the half. An unassisted marker by Wright was matched by Eastern Connecticut but Wacker produced three of the next four goals to even the score at six with 7:05 on the clock. An exchange of goals ensued as the hosts claimed an 8-7 edge going into halftime as they found the back of the net with one tick remaining.
MIT rattled off five unanswered goals early in the second stanza as Wacker and freshman Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.) alternated the scoring attempts. The Warriors countered with a four-goal spurt that tied the game at 12 at the 13:09 mark. The back-and-forth scoring resumed until Wacker converted a feed from senior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) and then buried the game-winner to give the Engineers a 16-14 edge with 3:08 remaining. Eastern Connecticut controlled the ball down the stretch and eventually cut its deficit in half with 29 seconds to go. Following a timeout by MIT, freshman Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.) secured the ensuing draw and did not relinquish possession as time expired.
DiDio finished with two goals, four groundballs, four draw controls, and three caused turnovers while Wright tallied two goals, four groundballs, and three draw controls. Schott posted one goal, one assist, four draw controls, and three caused turnovers as Kane earned a pair of assists. Freshman Kristyn Berretta (San Diego, Calif.) tacked on a goal while McShane recorded five groundballs. Sophomore Lyndsy Muri (Ashland, Mass.) generated two caused turnovers as freshman Paige Kennedy (Eastchester, N.Y.) came up with six saves.
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Lancers try to unseat 4-peat champ Cats as Girls Bi-County opens Tuesday
The past few Bi-County Tournaments have seemed like something of a foregone conclusion, with Oregon-Davis topping the pile four straight years. With four-time tourney MVP Gabbi Minix and the rest of that dynasty long gone, however, this year's 34th annual girls tilt could be the end of an era.
Just not if the Bobcats have anything to say about.
"After the game the other night against Argos we talked about how somebody was always going to want to knock us off, whether it's a regular-season game or whatever. Now we're going to play a tournament that we've won for the last four years, and we're going to get everybody's best game, and they understand it," said OD head coach Terry Minix. "They obviously don't want to be the group that stops that run, so they understand. We've got a good group of young girls. They're motivated by just being around the last couple of years and seeing it."
As the tourney opens Tuesday night, Culver will travel to Bremen, while Argos hosts John Glenn, Triton heads for New Prairie, and OD takes the court at LaVille. The winners of the Culver-Bremen match-up will take on the winners of the Argos-Glenn match-up at 6:30 p.m. at LaVille Thursday, while the winners of the Triton-New Prairie contest and the Lancers-Bobcats game will face off in the other semifinal at 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Lancerland.
The Lancers-Bobcats draw is a repeat of the Bi-County championship game the past two years, and while OD may have lost virtually all of its players from the 2010 championship squad, LaVille head coach Kevin McCullough isn't expecting any dramatic drop-off from the Class A, No. 4 Bobcats.
"The thing that Coach Minix and his staff are able to do, they are very good coaches and teach very fundamental basketball, but they teach their girls to play without fear," he said. "They might have a few more turnovers this year, but they're playing with young kids. They go out there and they expect to win, and they're fearless when they're out there. That's the thing I think I appreciate the most about them."
The LaVille-OD game represents a classic clash of size versus speed, as the bigger, stronger Lancers (7-6) match up with the smaller, quicker Bobcats (10-3).
"Size is always a problem with us. That's why we play the style that we play," Minix said. "We're going to get up and down the floor and press you all over the place. They have the size and they had more size on us last year as well. We don't worry about other teams' size and all that stuff. We just worry about what we're capable of doing... They're going to pound the ball down low, and we're going to see which team wins: the speed or the size."
Speaking of size advantages, no one in the Bi-County field enjoys a more significant one than Culver, which boasts a pair of strong frontcourters in 6-1 senior Gwen Zehner and 6-3 senior Patrice McBee. Bremen (6-8) is coming off a solid win at Glenn over the weekend, but the competitive Lions will need to put their best game together if they hope to avoid a second loss to Class 2A, No. 8 Culver following a convincing loss there in early December.
"Bremen and Argos are in our bracket. We played both of them, so we have stuff on them; we had success against both of them, so that's good," said Culver head coach Tony Scheub. "We haven't John Glenn, but with the way they're playing they have a chance to get past that first game."
"The girls are excited," he added. "I'm looking forward to being in that atmosphere. It seems like every game on our schedule is a big game; this is the Bi-County or this is a conference game or this is a rival. I love that intensity that comes with each game. I'm excited as a coach."
While the state-ranked Cavaliers and Bobcats are the frontrunners at this year's tourney, the rest of the field looks fairly well balanced between Argos (6-8), New Prairie (5-9) and Triton (6-7), and while the Trojans may have a slight record advantage on paper, head coach Adam Heckaman said his team can't afford to overlook anyone.
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Ann Coulter Defends Alec Baldwin
When Ann Coulter steps in to defend you, it's undebatable that you've done something vile.
Alec Baldwin, who is lying low after possibly calling a photographer a "cocksucking fag," trotting out his gay hairdresser to "prove" he's not a homophobe and being suspended by MSNBC, is now receiving support from Ann Coulter.
"They shouldn't have suspended him. In defense of Alec Baldwin, the photographer, he's not actually gay," Ann said on right wing radio Monday. "This was just a curse word. It was like using the f-word and, frankly, a lot of these paparazzi photographers deserve it. It's not something Alec Baldwin said in a calm moment on television. He has been harassed horribly by photographers and now this stalker, and he's trying to protect his family and he curses. That is what happened."
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UNESCO: Education at the 7th World Social Forum
January 2007 - UNESCOs Education Sector is co-organizing three workshops at the World Social Forum (Nairobi, Kenya, 20 -25 January). The workshops, jointly organized with partner NGOs and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, will address literacy, girls education and civil societys influence on education.
Contact: Sabine Detzel, Focal Point for the Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All
The workshops:
- Innovation in literacy: Approaches and practices, registered by the International Council for Adult Education.
- Time for Action on Girls Education: Empowering to reduce vulnerabilities to HIV, registered by Education International.
- Strategies for Strengthening Civil Societys Capacity to Engage Governments on Education Policy, registered by the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education.
UNESCO will also have a stand at the Forum, featuring education publications from UNESCO and its partners in the Collective Consultation of NGOs on Education for All. UNESCOs Social and Human Sciences Sector will organize a parallel event with the Kenyan government to bring NGOs together with ministers and academics at the interregional level.
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The Internet of Things has arrived—and not a moment too soon.
Recent results from the Accenture Digital Consumer Tech Survey confirmed that consumers are craving more devices. However, the research shows that consumers are not just looking for 'more' devices, but rather 'smarter devices'—including fitness monitors, smart watches, and wearable digital glasses—that actually improve everyday lives.
Consumers expect their devices to enhance their daily routines by simplifying menial tasks, thereby helping them achieve the coveted 'quantified self' persona. This phenomenon makes The Internet of Things—a scenario where all objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data through the Internet—indispensable. Without a sophisticated digitally connected network of people, things, and data, these prized smart devices would not be able to deliver on their full potential.
For example, French startup Kolibree SAS unveiled its Connected Toothbrush at the International CES 2014 show last month. The new brush utilizes a smart digital sensor to detect tartar amounts being removed throughout each brushing session. The accompanying smartphone app also records total brushing activity allowing consumers to improve their oral hygiene habits one stroke at a time.
Further evidence of the arrival of The Internet of Things came from Belkin International, Inc., also at International CES 2014. Traditionally a manufacturer of consumer electronics specializing in connectivity devices such as routers and modems, Belkin hailed it's their collaboration with Crock-Pot to unveil their WeMo Slow Cooker. Belkin released their WeMo technology back in 2012 to offer affordable home automation, but their announcement this year further shows that the Internet will indeed be full of new 'things'. Consumers can now control their crockpot remotely from their smartphone, ensuring that dinner will be ready on time even when the diners run late.
Finally, more proof that The Internet of Things is not only here but will be an integral part of our lives was revealed by Google Inc.'s acquisition of smart thermostat maker Nest. Google is betting big on home automation and consumers' need to keep their devices under control 'remote control' that is.
We can only imagine where The Internet of Things will take us in the near future. A science fiction-inspired refrigerator that texts us a shopping list on demand won't be such a far-fetched idea after all. The Internet of Things is open for business.


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Bill Iffrig was a few yards short of the finish line at the Boston Marathon when the 78-year-old runner was knocked to the ground by the first of two blasts. A Boston Globe photographer shot several pictures of the fallen Iffrig with police and race assistants nearby, and the images soon appeared around the world.
Astonishingly, Iffrig was helped to his feet, apparently uninjured, and finished the race.
"I was heading for the finish line," he told ESPN's Steve Levy. "The shock waves must have hit my body and my legs just started going like noodles … I wasn't unconscious … so I made an attempt to get up. As I did that, one of the assistants came over and gave me a hand, and walked me on over to the finish line so I could finish."
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"I wondered [if] it might be a terrorist plot, or something," he told CNN's Piers Morgan about the blast. "The way it went off, this big bomb going off … that doesn't happen every day."
Iffrig has run 45 marathons, according to the CNN report. After finishing his third Boston Marathon yesterday, he walked about six blocks to his hotel and was reunited with his wife.
His main concern? That this horrific crime would ruin the Boston Marathon. "Everyone else is out there having fun, and someone is out there trying to destroy the whole thing. Terrorists, or whoever they are, I just don't have much use for it."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwqjRyPPxw
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The 42-year-old ex-MTV reality star was arrested on June 19 on suspicion of felony corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant ... as first reported by Andrew Blankstein of the L.A. Times.
Puck was locked up at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail -- where he's being held on $30,000 bail.
Puck is scheduled to face a judge on July 6.
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Tohoshinki will appear on the August Issue of Rolling Stone Japan.
Tohoshinki (also known as TVXQ/東方神起) will be the first Korean singers who appear on Rolling Stone Magazine as the cover.
Mika Nakashima (a Japanese singer) first appeared as the cover of Rolling Stone in 2008, and since then Rolling Stone choose professional and talented Asian artists to appear as the cover for Rolling Stone Magazine, now it's time for Tohoshinki!! ^^
You can pre-order the Rolling Stone Magazine on HMV Japan.
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Eike Batista, Brazil's Former Richest Man, Loses More Chunks Of His Empire
Brazilian entrepreneur and no longer billionaire Eike Batista is little by little losing his fortune, once considered by Forbes to be the largest in the southern hemisphere and seventh in the world. In the last month, the entrepreneur sold part of his shares in oil company OGX (BVMF:OGXP3); gave up control of logistics business LLX (BVMF:LLXL3); and sold part of his shares in mining company MMX (BVMF:MMXM3).
These deals are the latest attempt by Batista to keep his business afloat. Batista's holding company, EBX, is in trouble. Oil company OGX, one of the holding's six main businesses, revealed in July that its only working oil field could stop producing in 2014. The company's shares dropped 27 percent since. Batista's fortune has been likewise dropping. Estimated at $34.5 billion as of March 2012, it has declined to the point that he no longer is a billionaire.
As OGX's shares started declining, Batista managed to amass billions in debt and personal liabilities. His fortune dropped even more after Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala converted an initial investment in EBX into debt. Mubadala restructured the $2 billion it had invested in March 2012 and no longer has equity in the company, reported Bloomberg. Batista's net worth is now just $200 million -- and the Bloomberg Billionaire Index no longer includes him.
(Although Batista's fortune is now 0.5 percent of what it used to be, it is still light years ahead of most Brazilians. According to the OECD Better Life Index, Brazil's median household income locks in at $10,225 a year.)
Batista reached an agreement to sell LLX to U.S.-based private equity fund EIG Global Energy Partners. LLX will issue new stocks worth 1.3 billion reais (around $596 million) that will be bought by EIG, turning it into the controlling shareholder. Batista will retain a share of the capital but will not be part of management.
In another attempt to stave off collapse by selling assets, MMX Mineraçao e Metálicos is selling most of its Sudeste "superport," a huge facility handling iron ore off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, to a joint venture of Dutch commodity trading company Trafigura and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala. The deal will give the buyer a 65 percent stake in MMX Port Sudeste, which is still under construction, for $996 million. To finance the completion of the port, which is slated to be finished mid-2014, $400 million will be pumped into the company; the rest is MMX debt that will be taken on by the buyers.
Earlier this month, Batista sold part of his shares in OGX, reducing his participation in the company to little more than 50 percent.
OGX, once Batista's crown jewel, is also waiting for the decision of two state-owned banks to finance $460 million of its debt. Bloomberg reported that the company might file for bankruptcy this month after missing a $45 million interest payment on its bonds maturing in 2022.
The fall of OGX, which gave Batista two thirds of his wealth in under five years since it was founded, shows just how much the Brazilian tycoon has lost in a matter of months. But he is not without hope. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Batista said he hoped to make a comeback, "like PayPal's founder or Tesla Motor's had in their day."


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Locksmith '16 Helps Wrestlers Start Fastby Jocelyn Hopkinson '15 • January 3, 2013 Share:
The tenth-ranked Wabash College wrestling team has had a strong start to its season after recording a whopping 21 top-eight finishers at the Indiana Little State Meet Dec. 1 at the University of Indianapolis. A week later, the team traveled to Chicago for the North Central College Invitational and the Little Giants came home with first place.
As the results from the Indiana Little State Meet suggest, the early accomplishments have been due to a collective team effort. One of the key contributors has been freshman Tim Locksmith, who has posted a 9-2 record through his first 11 collegiate matches.
"He's definitely a wiry and lengthy guy," Coach Brian Anderson said about the 5'10, 133 pound Locksmith. "I tell coaches all the time he has to be one of the biggest '33 pounders in the country. The bigger you can be in the weight class is obviously a huge advantage."
Any success by a freshman raises eyebrows, but what's even more intriguing about Locksmith is the adversity he's dealt with already. A shoulder injury suffered in high school has reared its ugly head and is holding him back.
"I'm not at my best right now," he said. "I don't want to make excuses but I have shoulder issues that are bothering me. I tore my labrum and rotator cuff in my junior year of high school and it required some extensive surgery."
Anderson admitted to seeing some difficulties too. But he also has a lot of excitement for when Locksmith is fully healthy.
"His two losses are to the returning national champion and the guy that took third and he was in both of those matches," Anderson said. "To see a freshman with a banged up shoulder do those kinds of things, it helped drive us to the decision we've made for the next three weeks to rest and rehab him. I know if he's 100 percent, he's one of the best in the country, hands down."
Locksmith isn't the only injured Little Giant and he's not the only one to get some rest over winter break. The team decided to withdraw itself from a meet at the University of Indianapolis on December 15. Wabash's next meet isn't scheduled until January 5 at Knox College.
Locksmith has had success with the bum shoulder before. The injury occurred the week before districts his junior year. The Kissimmee, FL., athlete showed some real grit and wrestled through the post season to finish in sixth place at the state championships.
"In retrospect, I sometimes regret not getting it looked at because I probably caused more damage to it," Locksmith admitted. "If anything, I proved to myself I can work through adversity. I was wrestling with one arm through districts and state."
Locksmith finished in third place in healthy sophomore and senior seasons and qualified for state as a freshman.
"He's tough on top and when you get a guy that long and lengthy on top, it's almost like you have a blanket on top of you and can't get it off," Anderson said. "He's a leachy wrestler when he's on his feet. He stays low to the floor so he's tough to score on, and if he takes your wrist, you're not going to get it back. It's kind of like having a pair of vice grips on the end of his arms."
The freshman also has a grip on the reason why men go to Wabash. He's focused on his academics and aspires to be a craniofacial surgeon when he graduates with a Bio-Chemistry major.
"My dad is a doctor and he's always had me interested in the medical field," Locksmith said. "He talked to me about The Smile Train organization which sends doctors to impoverished areas and fix cleft lips in kids for free. That seems like something really nice that I would like to do; I could make a living and be happy with what I do."
Anderson added that his freshman knows why he's here. "His maturity level is very high for a freshman, on and off the mat. He's still a goofy college kid that's fun to be around, but he takes his academics very seriously."


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NEW YORK — Earlier this year, restaurant owners gathered before the City Council to lament ever-increasing fines levied against their businesses under the letter-grading system. After hearing the testimony, members of the Council vowed to do something about it.
Speaker Christine Quinn said recently that the Council would, indeed, do something about it — by working to pass legislation this fall that would reform the system of issuing letter grades to restaurants.
It is one of many policy priorities of the Council that could spark conflict with Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration in the months ahead. This year will also mark the last legislative hurrah for Council members who won't be able to run for re-election in 2013.
Interviews with the legislative directors of some key Council members, and Council members themselves, highlighted some of the other possible ways that lawmakers will be contributing to potentially contentious policy discussions surrounding paid sick leave, gun violence and police reform.
But addressing restaurants owners' complaints about the letter grading system is expected to be a top priority.
"We have heard a lot of complaints from restaurateurs about skyrocketing fines," Quinn said last week. "In the first year or so of the grading system, we had something like three quarters of all restaurants getting an A. But we saw fines go up." She said it was difficult to fathom how that was possible.
She said that the legislation that the Council would introduce in the next month or two would help create a system that is "clear," "understandable" and "focused on public health, not revenue generation." She emphasized that the Council would not be "trying to undo letter grading."
A major policy innovation of the Bloomberg administration, the letter grading system — where the Health Department gives an A, B or C according to how restaurants score during inspections — went into effect in July 2010.
The Council spent the better part of the year bucking Bloomberg by passing laws that he opposed and then overriding his vetoes. The mayor even sued the Council when it overrode his vetoes of prevailing and living wage bills.
Another potential conflict with the Bloomberg administration could arise if the Council were to pass a bill requiring some employers to give their workers paid sick leave.
Quinn first shelved the bill in 2010, arguing that it would destroy small business; when it was reintroduced into the debate earlier this year, she again referred to the flagging economy in her refusal to bring it to a vote.
But paid sick leave (Intro 97-A) is a priority of Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who previously told the Gazette that the full Council was "going to get a bill." It has a veto-proof majority, but some changes to the measure are expected in order to get Quinn to sign off on it.
After a summer of high-profile shootings, including outside the Empire State Building, gun violence continues to be a subject of interest for the Council.
This past week, a resolution was introduced into the Council in support of state legislation that would strengthen gun laws, including creating a 10-day waiting period for firearm purchases; the creation of universal background checks; regulation of ammunition sellers; and more.
The Council's own Task Force to Combat Gun Violence, co-chaired by Councilman Jumaane Williams, also is continuing to work on assessing programs to target neighborhoods where shootings are prevalent.
"We are hopeful and excited to be talking about some developments soon," said Williams' spokesman, Stefan Ringel.
The Council earmarked $4.8 million for anti-gun violence initiatives in its discretionary budget earlier this year. Some of that money has been directed toward setting up programs modeled after the CeaseFire model that has been nationally recognized for reducing shootings in other cities. The model calls for approaching gun violence as a public health threat.
Another potential source of discord between the Council and the Bloomberg administration could center around efforts to pass legislation that would create new oversight and regulation of the New York Police Department.
Introduced in response to police monitoring of Muslims and the tactic of street stops that critics say unfairly targets Latinos and blacks, the package of legislation that supporters refer to as the Community Safety Act.
The package includes a measure that would prohibit "bias-based profiling by law enforcement" (Intro. 800); another would require police to "provide notice and obtain proof of consent to search individuals" (Intro. 799); and a third would establish an inspector general independent of the NYPD with the authority to review police policies and make recommendations (Intro. 881).
Councilwoman Rosie Mendez said that Council members met with Commissioner Ray Kelly over the summer to voice their concerns about stop-and-frisk and other policing practices.
"We're not in agreement," she said of the meeting with Kelly, in a phone message.
The NYPD has stridently opposed calls to increase regulation or oversight of the department, arguing that plenty of safeguards currently exist.
Supporters of the Community Safety Act plan to hold a rally in front of City Hall on Sept. 27.
Last week, the Bloomberg administration said the city's agencies would need to save $2 billion over the next 18 months. The budget office had been counting on hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from the sale of 2,000 new outer-borough taxi medallions, but the plan got held up in court.
Council members and their staff said that dealing with the budget gap would be an ongoing issue for the next several months.
Councilman James Vacca, the chair of the transportation committee, said it was unlikely that the Council could get involved in the medallion sale legislatively.
However, he said that if the mayor loses the court case, "We may have to involve the state, and go back to the drawing board."
Photograph by William Alatriste, of the City Council


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A Dream of Kings, 1969
Mixed media on artboard
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The Lomasney Collection consists of over 800 hand-painted film posters originally displayed in the The Royal Hawaiian Theater in Honolulu from 1930-1980s. Painted by artist John J. Lomasney, and spanning 50 years of cinematic history, the posters were called a "treasure trove of art" by the New York Post. The Lomasney Collection was acquired by tennis legend John McEnroe and displayed in his Soho, NYC gallery. Mr. McEnroe donated this astounding collection to Lifebeat, Music Fights HIV/AIDS to support their HIV prevention efforts.
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Volume 1 of the catalogue, covering the years 1956 to 1974, was completed in May 2012. Volume 2, spanning 1975 to 1986, came out in December 2013. Volume 3, ranging from 1987 to 1993, was released in January 2016. Volume 4, documenting 1994 to 2004, launched in July 2017. All four volumes were published by Yale University Press. Volume 5 is currently being prepared and will feature works made from 2005 through 2010.
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To the Editor:
I would like to respond to Mr. David Rourke's letter to the Warwick Beacon on May 1 titled, "Time to Lower the Drinking Age?" His letter alluded to the arrest of Gov. Chafee's son, who was charged after he entered a liquor store, put alcohol on the counter but left and said he had no money and would be back after he received a phone call. Gov. Chafee's son and another 18-year-old friend were later stopped and a search by authorities revealed two cases of beer and a bottle of Jagermeister. Mr. Rourke argues that the drinking age should be lowered to age 18, as was the legal age in Rhode Island during the '70s. He asks, since teenagers can go to war and die for their countries, then why can't they have a beer? He said that the arrest "saddened" him.
The arrest of Gov. Chafee's son is a great example as to why the drinking age should remain at age 21! The brain's frontal lobe, which is in charge of decision making, does not fully mature until the mid 20s – this medical evidence was taken into great consideration when the state and federal governments were trying to determine a feasible drinking age for our country. Lawmakers "met in the middle" and chose the age of 21 because they figured that adults at 21 had enough brain growth so that future damages due to alcohol would be minimized. Since some of the brain's most crucial development occurs between the ages of 18 to 21, we should be thanking lawmakers that they took this finding into account and for looking out for our well-being when they made this law!
There has been debate in our country about teenagers at 18 being able to sign up to die for their country but not being allowed to drink. This is one of the weakest arguments I have heard about lowering the drinking age to 18. First of all, think of the responsibilities of a 21-year-old versus an 18-year-old. A good deal of "social growth" occurs during that period where someone at the age of 21 has a lot more to lose than someone at 18, right? Oh yeah, alcohol and young kids getting behind a wheel have not been a great mix in our country, have they? I'd much rather have a sober driver, but if I had to choose between two drunks, one aged 18, the other aged 21, I'd probably take the older, more experienced driver and put my fate in their hands rather than someone who hadn't been driving for too long, like the 18-year-old. Oh, and for those people actually in the military and serving overseas – they have the legal right to drink in other countries with a lower legal drinking age. I see this as a loophole to our standards – but unit commanders have the authority to reset the age to 21, at their discretion. Also, the military is trying to de-glamorize alcohol use among younger service members to promote a healthier lifestyle and higher military bearing. Remember that 18-year-old kid who was behind the wheel of a car? Now imagine him putting rounds down range, or launching a tomahawk while under the influence!
Others argue that lowering the drinking age would reduce the enticement of alcohol so that our teens would not be as experimental at such young ages. I have a sneaky suspicion that kids in the U.S. would push the envelope even farther by trying to get access to alcohol at an even younger age. If you make the legal age 18, kids are going to experiment at 15, etc. Then folks would complain that other countries (like most European countries) foster a drinking culture at a young age, some as young as 13 or 14. Also consider that it is a crime to be intoxicated in public in most of Europe and Asia, and that a DUI will result in jail time, even for the first offense. Oh yeah, if you hit somebody in Japan, and that person is not able to work, you have to pay their current wages for the rest of their life! What do you get for the first DUI in the United States? The judge takes his money, you get a bunch of fees, but you move on. No jail time – and you can probably still get your license back after a reasonable amount of time – not so in other countries. Why is DUI and alcohol related death in young people so common in our country? Other countries understand and enforce the consequences while we keep trying to find exceptions, excuses, whatever it is for our underage kids to "just have one drink" – and now we've showed them that it is acceptable because older people allow it to happen.
Even though this letter is a platform to embrace and enforce the drinking age of 21 in Rhode Island and the U.S., let's keep the facts in mind. Gov. Chafee's son is going to get a "slap on the wrist" and everyone is going to forget about this in a few months. Our epidemic in alcohol as a killer of young people in our country is not going to end until we start enforcing the standard or giving harsher punishments for even the first-time offenders, especially those who are drinking and driving. I am appalled that there is a double standard being accepted just because the governor's son was involved. Do you think you would get the same treatment at age 18? The only thing "sad" about the arrest is that nothing more was done about it than enforcing a $500 fine; and that's only a drop in the bucket for the governor.
B. Pearson
San Diego, Calif.