text: Denon DP-200USB Fully automatic turntable with USB port and built-in MP3 encoder Zoom Front Convert your LPs to MP3 and store them on a thumb drive (not included) Photos Videos Item# 033DP200US Review Summary 15 people say Out of Stock Ship date unknown Contact us Reserve yours risk-free Call Email Chat Email me when available Free Crutchfield lifetime tech support Free Shipping Your price $249.99 Add to cart + Add to wishlist Buy this item and earn up to 250 Rewards points See more offers and ways to save Special Financing Available x By buying this product you'll earn up to 250 Rewards points. When you sign up for a Crutchfield account, you'll be enrolled in Crutchfield Rewards. You'll earn one point for every dollar you spend on gear from us. You can turn your points into Rewards Cards that you can use toward future purchases. You can sign up for an account now, or after you complete your purchase (you'll get credit for the points either way). Sign up for a Crutchfield account Overview Details Customer Reviews Q&A Articles & Videos Accessories Our take on the Denon DP-200USB by Loren Barstow Converting your vinyl records to MP3 files just got a whole lot easier with the Denon DP-200USB. Simply insert a thumb drive into the front-panel USB port and press "Record." This fully automatic turntable converts your music to MP3 and saves it to the thumb drive no PC required. You can also transfer your records directly to a USB-equipped MP3 player for immediate on-the-go listening. After you transfer your vinyl to the thumb drive, you can edit the files on your PC using the included Trans Music Manager software. This flexible program lets you manually split tracks as you see fit, or you can take advantage of the automatic option that splits tracks when it detects brief periods of silence. It can also tap into Gracenote® to retrieve album and track information. A manual option lets you enter in your own information if you prefer. Adding convenience doesn't mean sacrificing quality the DP-200USB includes a dynamically balanced tone arm and a cast aluminum platter for stable rotation. Stereo RCA outputs and a switchable phono preamp let you connect the DP-200USB to any audio system with an auxiliary or phono input. See more info on this item Highlights:automatically converts LPs to MP3 (192 kbps)USB port for a thumb drive or MP3 player (a direct connection to a PC is not possible)built-in phono preamp with bypass switchfully automatic belt drive operation33-1/3 and 45 rpm playback speeds (45 rpm adapter included)front-mounted controlsbalanced tone armincludes moving magnet cartridgecast aluminum platterhinged dust coverincludes Trans Music Manager softwaresplit tracks manually or automaticallymanual and auto MusicID RecordPC requirements: Windows XP/Vista/2000wow & flutter: 0.15%attached RCA audio cable14-3/16"W x 3-7/8"H x 14-1/8"D (16-3/8"H with dust cover open)warranty: 2 yearsOur 60-day money-back guarantee Hands-on research from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) What's in the box? | In-depth notes Product Research What's in the box? Download owner's manual DP-200USB Turntable with attached 6.5' power cord and 3.5' stereo RCA cable Platter Rubber mat Adapter for 45 rpm records Plastic dust cover (installed) Head shell with cartridge (installed) Trans Music Manager CD-ROM software Owner's Manual Warranty sheet Warranty Registration card "Denon Service Network" sheet Notes on EQ switch and drive belt Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team — they open the box, verify contents, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. We stay on top of new products and technologies to help people make informed choices. Features Supplied Software Features Overview: The Denon DP-200USB is a fully automatic turntable which can convert your LPs to MP3 files and record them to a USB Flash Drive. You don't need a PC nearby during recording. The supplied Trans Music Manager software includes automatic and manual track splitting functions, and will allow you to obtain artist and title information through your PC. Note: The included Trans Music Manager software is only compatible with Windows operating systems (not Mac). Fully Automatic Operation: The turntable is fully automatic with front panel controls. Once you have set the speed (33-1/3 or 45 rpm) and record size (30 or 17 cm), you can press the Start button, the turntable will start and the tone arm will automatically move to the lead-in groove on the record. When the record has finished playing, or when you press the stop button, the tone arm will automatically return to its rest and the turntable will shut off. Manual Operation: The turntable also allows manual play, so you can lift the tone arm and place it on the record wherever you want. The automatic return function will return the tone arm to its resting position when the record has finished playing. Built-in Switchable Preamp: The turntable includes a built-in phono preamp, allowing you to connect the unit to an amplifier or receiver without a phono input. If your receiver has a phono input, and you prefer to use it, a small switch under the turntable platter turns off the built-in phono preamp. 33-1/3 and 45 RPM Compatible: The turntable will play at 33-1/3 and 45 rpm speeds. An adapter is included for playing 45 rpm records. Platter: The DP-200USB turntable features a professional aluminum die cast turntable platter for high inertial mass and stable rotation. The platter is driven by a DC servo belt drive motor. Note: Before playing, the drive belt must first be placed on the driving roller of the DC servo motor. MM Cartridge Included: The DP-200USB features a Moving Magnet (MM) stereo cartridge with a replaceable stylus. After approximately 400 hours of playback, Denon recommends the stylus be replaced with a DSN-84 stylus. Audio Output: The turntable has a hardwired output cable with left and right RCA connectors. These connectors plug directly into your receiver or amplifier. Supplied Software Trans Music Manager: The DP-200USB turntable includes the Trans Music Manager software on CD-ROM. You can use Trans Music Manager to perform the following functions: File Splitter: for marking track numbers Auto MP3 Splitter: detects the silent part between tracks and automatically tags tracks accordingly Manual MP3 Splitter: manually tags tracks as you wish (helpful for live recordings) MusicID: (powered by Gracenote MusicID Music Recognition Service on the Internet) Auto MusicID Record: automatically records music information, including titles Manual MusicID Record: allows manual editing of music information, including titles File Deletion: for music library maintenance System Requirements: When using Trans Music Manager, your computer must have the following minimum requirements: Operating System: Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 Hard Disk Space: minimum of 30 MB free space USB Port: compatible with USB 2.0 Review this product Submit a review and you will be entered to win a $150 gift card Crutchfield Great Gear Giveaway Official Sweepstakes Rules Denon DP-200USB Reviews Average Customer Review: 15 people say: Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. 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Submit the URL of your YouTube™ video review or product demonstration. e.g., "http://www.youtube.com/v/o79TWHh598U" 500 characters left Pros 500 characters left Cons * Agree to Terms By checking this box you agree your review becomes the property of Crutchfield, that you are over 18 years of age, that you own or have owned this product, and that you are located within the United States or its territories. Please see our Review Guidelines for more information. We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) 5 out of 5 Denon DP-200USB Written By Don M, Rixhmond, Va on Monday, February 17, 2014 I like this turntable. It has a USB on front (some are in the back). It is automatic and so lifts and returns. I have listened to the mp3 files created with the USB and they sound good to me. If you want to convert or play your LPs, then this might fit your need. It did mine. The only problem is, you have to train your children to not bounce around when it is playing. Pros: Easy to use. Does what it promises. Like that it has a switch to use with either a preamp or without one. USB is in the front of the unit. Cons: bouncing children. 1 out of 1 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 3 out of 5 DENON DP-200USB Written By CraigM, Boise, ID on Sunday, January 26, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Turntable works great, except it is not compatible with Apple products. You have to contact Denon and they will tell you to obtain a program compatible with Apple products. It only has software for Windows. Pros: Works well, simple to use. Cons: No information included for Apple products, and you have to obtain software for Apple products in order to make it work with iTunes, etc. There is quite a lag time from when you turn on the copying program with USB before recording actually begins. As you play a record, you can't just stop and start the copying, you have to play one song, then stop the copying, then turn on the copying, wait for the red light to begin blinking and then set the tone arm down on the song to be recorded 2 out of 3 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 4 out of 5 Denon dp 2000usb Written By Bill L., new windsor N.Y. on Friday, January 24, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Excellent product Pros: Easy to operate Cons: Can't run with stylus in storedsetting..for cleaning lps. 2 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Great turntable Written By Dean, Onalaska, WI on Friday, January 24, 2014 Great sounds, simply set up and very nice analog to digital recording Pros: Simply, sounds great, easy recording Cons: None 2 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Love it Written By Jodie, Annapolis MD on Friday, January 17, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This is exactly what we have been looking for. Both my husband and I have albums from our college years (many years ago) and this is perfect for listening and digitizing music we already own. Neither of us are audiophiles--just regular music listeners who want to hear our old stuff-- and we are happy. Looks great. Works well. Pros: Can digitize sound. Connects to husband's old component unit. Cons: Doesn't have an arm with a lift. That has to be done manually. 3 out of 4 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Happy Customer Written By JohnK, Cape Cod, MA on Saturday, September 21, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Denon Makes it Easy! Pros: Generates MP3 very easily, Nice action for the money. It works great! Cons: none 3 out of 3 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Bringing my Vinyl back! Written By PaulB, Houston, Tx on Sunday, June 23, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) After a long time without them and paying again for the same music on iTunes I decided to look into a turntable option. This turntable does everything nicely that I need. Having a Mac proved to be the hardest part to overcome but once I found the right software (for me) it became a rather easy. I'm now bringing back the music I saved for 40 years and turning it into my library in iTunes. LOVE IT! Pros: Quiet, you don't have to run anything but the turntable to record, and literally everything is included except for the thumb drive. Cons: Wish it had Apple OS instructions. I used a lot of blog material to figure out the small differences to make things work. 6 out of 6 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Great turntable Written By Anonymous, Huntsville, AL on Saturday, April 20, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This turntable makes my 40 yo records sound like new. Pros: Great sound Cons: Can't plug my IPhone directly into it, I use a thumb drive. 4 out of 4 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 4 out of 5 Denon DP-200USB Written By MarkK, Chicago on Saturday, March 03, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) The Denon DP-200USB is a fantastic turntable that does what it is supposed to do; convert your vinyl to MP3. The built-in MP3 converter is very convenient and works well. The only concern I have with the turntable (and it is a BIG concern in my opinion) is with the software that comes with the turntable. While the Track Splitter works well, the Track Identifier software only identifies about 1/4 of the songs on an album. The other 3/4 you must label yourself if you choose to have something more descriptive than audio### where ### is a number between 001 - 999 (not very discriptive!). Hey, it does what I want it to do ... convert my old vinyl to MP3. I just wish track labeling was easier. Pros: Converted vinyl has great sound, providing your vinyl is in good condition. Of course if your vinyl is beat up you do hear crackling on your converted MP3. Cons: Track Labeling software functions poorly at best. 26 out of 27 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Easy Conversion Written By Joe, New Orleans, New Orleans, LA on Saturday, March 03, 2012 This system works really great though you might want to be prepared to separate tracks manually and to input most of the file data yourself. In a little over three weekends of time I have added 750 songs worth of LP's to my iTunes library (roughly 66 albums). Most of my LP's are in good shape so record noise is a minimal issue. Manual track separation is much faster, and more accurate, than the automatic feature. The quality of the digital file and sound reproduction is top notch! I have a number of 1/2-speed mastered discs and, maybe it's just my imagination, but they seem to exceed the dynamics of the standard CD version of the same album. Well worth the money if you are dedicated to preserving those LP's you may not be able to find in a digital format. Pros: 1. Ease of Use 2. Quality of sound reproduction. 3. Recognized by, and plays in my iTunes library. Cons: 1. The instructions and HELP files are not detailed enough, but then again, it's not that difficult to figure out. 2. Doesn't accommodate 78-rpm (of which I have a small collection). 13 out of 13 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Denon DP-200USB Written By Anonymous, Port Washington NY on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) the turntable works perfectly. No regrets !! The service from Crutchfield was perfect and appreciated. Their follow up and care is superb. thank you 8 out of 8 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Denon DP-200USB Written By MichaelJ, New York, NY on Monday, March 28, 2011 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This turntable does everything I want it to do. It's extremely light, has a small footprint, and easy to dub discs to the thumb drive. While I have little use for the switch that enables the pre-amp, a friend of mine, after seeing my turntable, was looking for something just like this. She'll be purchasing in the future...from Crutchfeld, of course. 13 out of 13 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 4 out of 5 Denon DP-200USB Written By Mike A, Little Rock, AR on Saturday, February 05, 2011 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I am definitely enjoying my Denon DP-200USB turntable. I have quite a collection of 33LPs that I have been wanting to digitize for some time and the DP-200USB is making that pretty efficient. I have converted more than a dozen LPs to CD now and I have the process down fairly well. Operationally, everything is conveniently located on the front of the turntable: the USB port and port on/off switch; the 'record' on/off switch and the automatic turntable start/stop buttons. I am using the DP-200USB with a Denon bookshelf audio system that has AUX connections but no Phono input, so it is great that the turntable has a switchable internal pre-amp. The one feature I would have liked to have would be a 'que' to allow raising and lowering the stylus manually, but I am well pleased with the DP-200USB and consider it a great investment for my needs. My computer is a small notebook so the USB jump drive works much better than trying to plug in a turntable! The Trans Music Manager software that is bundled with the system is fairly easy to learn and use, though the documentation could use a little more work-- The software has worked really well for me overall. 21 out of 21 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 4 out of 5 This USB Turntable is a "Groove"! Written By Bob C, Carbondale, IL on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This unit really works & works well. I have at least 75 LPs in great shape that I haven't heard in years. After only one recording to an 8g flash drive, I am sold. The recording is flawless! The set up is easy and a snap to use. It does have a stylus guard but lacks a tone arm clip for security. Other than that I have no reservations and Crutchfield's service is second to none. 12 out of 12 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 3 out of 5 You get what you pay for Written By Tom, Boston, Ma on Monday, October 19, 2009 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Initially I was disappointed in the quality of this turntable, because of my impression of other Denon products I've owned. It's very lightweight, and made of cheap materials, but it does what I need, which is play and convert LP's. I did find that the turntable sounded better when using an external phono preamp instead of the built-in (my A/V receiver does not not have a phono input). As usual Crutchfield purchase and shipping was smooth and fast. 86 out of 94 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 1 question already asked I currently have a 6 year old Denon receiver and I wanted to make sure I could connect the turntable to the receiver so I can play it through my home speakers. If it can connect does it come with the cables to do so? [ Todd Dec 10, 2013 ] 1 answer This unit does come with a pair of RCA cables to connect this to your receiver. Purchasing a pair of upgraded cables could result in better sound quality. [ Jeff Staff Dec 11, 2013 ] Add accessories for the Denon DP-200USB Add Accessories Add a Warranty Many systems lack the phono input needed to hook up a turntable. Separate phono preamps not only make it easy to connect to these systems, they also tend to offer better performance than the phono preamp circuitry built into many amps and receivers. See all categories & accessories Many systems lack the phono input needed to hook up a turntable. Separate phono preamps not only make it easy to connect to these systems, they also tend to offer better performance than the phono preamp circuitry built into many amps and receivers. Phono Preamps Protect your investment from power surges and interference. 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text: Estimate Production Costs with IP Calculator Tool allows corn producers to estimate their Identity Preservation costs for next year. Compiled by staff Published on: Dec 10, 2004 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print Harvest is winding down and producers are looking ahead to next year. A free online calculator is available to help with estimating your production and Identity Preservation (IP) costs. "This is the time of year when growers are beginning to think about their planting and harvesting needs for next year," says Ken McCauley, a member of National Corn Growers Association's (NCGA) Corn Board. "This tool can assist them in figuring out the costs of doing business and ensuring that the identity of their product is maintained from its origin to its final use." The IP calculator allows growers to review and customize basic farming operation factors and values, customize information about their individual farms and enter information about the IP system they are considering. The tool will calculate and analyze the grower's estimated costs using the information submitted. The costs are grouped by category and are broken down per acre and per bushel. McCauley also reminded growers that NCGA's web-enabled "Know Before Your Grow" and Insect Resistant Management Learning Center are available to assist growers in the pre-planting decision making process. The IP calculator is available to all growers free of charge.

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My name is Ulan McKnight. I came to Burning Man for the first time last year (2012). This was a transformative experience for me. I was amazed by all of the public artwork. In college I studied mechanical engineering but never took a job after school in it. As such, I haven't really built anything using my engineering studies for over 20 years. Within 6 hours of getting to Burning Man I knew I was going to build a mutant vehicle.
Then I hung out for a day with Ian who's crew built Movement of Jah People. I was so inspired by their kindness that I promised Ian I would return next year with a vehicle I had built so we could ride around together. Our crew is well on our way.
I can't wait to see everyone up at the Playa this year
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A rescue on the tracks. Surveillance cameras are rolling when a woman stumbles off a SEPTA platform and lands directly on the tracks below.
The terrifying accident happened just after rush hour this morning on the Broad Street Line.
A good Samaritan just happened to be walking by when the woman fell.
The women is at Temple being treated for facial injuries, cuts and bruises.
And SEPTA says with the help of a good Samaritan, everything worked the way it was supposed to with the rescue.
Surveillance shows the woman repeatedly backing up and then falling right onto the tracks at SEPTA's Philadelphia station at Broad and Lehigh.
It's unclear what caused her to fall. SEPTA cameras captured the woman running along the middle of the platform when she sees a train coming.
Everything appears to be fine as she stands under the passenger waiting area for another train. Then suddenly, you see the woman turning in circles several times before backing up to the edge of the platform and falling onto the tracks.
A man in the white shirt walks up, looking for a train, and spots her.
He uses the yellow SEPTA box to call for help. Then jumps onto the tracks to be with the unconscious woman until help got there.
Then the happy ending. Police and fire crews arrive on the scene within minutes, bringing the woman to safety.
While SEPTA is praising the man who helped, they warn never get down on the tracks.
"We think it was very brave to do so, but he doesn't really know our system. We have a third rail down there, we have power down there, and he doesn't know when the next train is coming," says Jerri Williams of SEPTA. "So the safe thing to do is to let SEPTA handle it.
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Finger Lakes Anniversary Adventure
28 Oct
What a crazy month and a half it's been. Between work, family and friend commitments I've had barely any time to think! Now that things are slowing down a bit for me, I can finally start to look through all my photos and reminisce about what I've gotten to experience recently.
One of my favorite highlights of the past few weeks was Jim and my trip to the Finger Lakes in New York to celebrate our Anniversary. We celebrated our 5th Anniversary this past October 4th. Usually we try to plan a trip someplace warm to celebrate, but this year we decided to switch things up a bit. The Finger Lakes seemed like the perfect combination of fall perfection and romanticism, so off we went!
Most of the hotels in the area were pretty expensive and looked liked they hadn't been renovated since the 80′s, so I finally decided to try out AirBNB to what our options were. After some searching, I found the perfect space. It was a converted chapel deep out the countryside. It's loft layout reminded us of the spaces we'd love to afford in Brooklyn. It also had the most gorgeous views outside it's huge windows. The property itself was amazing, with a wildflower field to the east and a quaint pond in the back. Best part was we had the entire place to ourselves, which made for a wonderfully private and unique vacation.
Our first day we decided to check out Taughannock Park and hike to it's famous namesake waterfall. It's the tallest, single-drop waterfall east of the Rockies and it's even 33 feet taller than Niagra Falls.
The entrance to the park is on Seneca Lake, which is absolutely stunning.
The hike itself was relatively short. It was around three quarters of a mile to the falls each way. The trail leads along the streams and river the waterfall becomes, which later empties into the lake.
During our walk, we were actually able to hike the dry riverbed, which was one of the coolest parts of the hike. The falls themselves were breathtaking. It was so gorgeous, especially with all the trees turning colors all around.
On our way back to the chapel from the hike, we came across the Ithaca Antique Mall and just had to stop. Jim and I LOVE thrifting. It's one of our favorite pastimes. The Antique Mall was so large, we actually returned a second day to finish going through everything!
We didn't leave empty handed. I got some great vintage clothing finds, and Jim also bought me the coolest op-art, black and white vase for our living room.
On our second day, we originally had plans to go vineyard hopping but since it was pouring out we scrapped that. After some quick internet sleuthing, I learned the local Museum of the Earth has one of the largest fossil collections in the country, and I just HAD to go. People who know me well know I'm obsessed with dinosaurs and fossils. When I was a child, when I grew up I had plans to become a paleontologist. True story. Too bad I hate dirt and getting dirty, so those plans quickly changed once I learned what was involved with the profession.
Jim being the awesome husband he is took me the to Museum of the Earth on our actual Anniversary. That's love, people. That's love.
The rest of our free time on the trip was spent in Ithaca, exploring the town and stuffing our faces. Who knew Ithaca had such great vegan selections? I didn't. Some highlights on the food scene were Waffle Frolic's Vegan Waffle Dog, which was a vegan hot dog dipped in waffle batter and fried. Oh-My-God it was so good! We also had a great veg friendly meal at Saigon Kitchen, where I had a bowl of Pho the size of my head and loved every second of it.
For our Anniversary dinner out, we went to the grand-daddy of all vegetarian restaurants, Moosewood Restaurant. While the decor and menu itself were a little disappointing (both were a little dated, especially after what I'm used to in Brooklyn), it was such an experience to get to eat at the very first, seriously respected vegetarian restaurant in the country. I mean, I make recipes of theirs for Thanksgiving EVERY year. I'm so glad I got to experience it first-hand for myself.
We were only there a little over three days, but we got to see and do so much on this trip. I can't think of a better way I would have liked to celebrate this special anniversary with my favorite person in the world.
I love you Jim Feld.


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Thursday, April 24, 2014
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WASHINGTON — The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.
This Oct. 18, 2012 file photo shows Edith Windsor interviewed at the offices of the New York Civil Liberties Union, in New York. The fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters in three states backed it, the justices meet Friday to decide whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the idea that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of a couple's sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and defeated a ban in a fourth, the justices met Friday to discuss whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the claim that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of sexual orientation.
The court also could duck the ultimate question for now and instead focus on a narrower but still important issue: whether Congress can prevent legally married gay Americans from receiving federal benefits otherwise available to married couples.
There was no announcement about the court's plans on Friday. The next opportunity for word on gay marriage cases is Monday, although the justices also could put off a decision until their next private meeting in a week's time. That will be their last meeting until January.
Any cases would be argued in March or April, with a decision expected by the end of June.
Gay marriage is legal, or will be soon, in nine states — Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Washington — and the District of Columbia. Federal courts in California have struck down the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but that ruling has not taken effect while the issue is being appealed.
Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approved gay marriage earlier this month.
But 31 states have amended their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriage. North Carolina was the most recent example in May. In Minnesota earlier this month, voters defeated a proposal to enshrine a ban on gay marriage in that state's constitution.
The biggest issue the court could decide to confront comes in the dispute over California's Proposition 8, the constitutional ban on gay marriage that voters adopted in 2008 after the state Supreme Court ruled that gay Californians could marry. The case could allow the justices to decide whether the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection means that the right to marriage cannot be limited to heterosexuals.
A decision in favor of gay marriage could set a national rule and overturn every state constitutional provision and law banning same-sex marriages. A ruling that upheld California's ban would be a setback for gay marriage proponents in the nation's largest state, although it would leave open the state-by-state effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry.
In striking down Proposition 8, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals crafted a narrow ruling that said because gay Californians already had been given the right to marry, the state could not later take it away. The ruling studiously avoided any sweeping pronouncements.
But if the high court ends up reviewing the case, both sides agree that the larger constitutional issue would be on the table, although the justices would not necessarily have to rule on it.
Throughout U.S. history, the court has tried to avoid getting too far ahead of public opinion and mores. The high court waited until 1967 to strike down laws against interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had them.
Some court observers argue that the same caution will prevail in the California case.
"What do they have to gain by hearing this case? Either they impose same sex marriage on the whole country, which would create a political firestorm, or they say there's no right to same-sex marriage, in which case they are going to be reversed in 20 years and be badly remembered. They'll be the villains in the historical narrative," said Andrew Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University. Koppelman signed onto a legal brief urging the justices not to hear the California case.
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As a mother I spend an extraordinary amount of time worrying about my kids' well-being. Are they happy? Are they healthy? Do they feel loved?
As a soldier of the mom army, I voluntarily enlisted to protect and serve my children for all the days of my life. Sure, that's the job I signed up for, but there are days when my worry for them is all-consuming. Days when small worries become larger-than-life fears. Days when I wonder who growing up is harder on -- me or them.
I could easily draft a lengthy list of fears that I have for my kids, but when I really stop to examine them, I begin to realize that maybe these fears are nothing more than the challenging life experiences they need most to become strong, intentional, courageous individuals.
Allow me to focus on four of my greatest fears for my sons and why it may be time to let them go:
Unhappiness: While the definition of happiness is surely subjective, I worry for the day when my kids lose grasp of self-satisfaction and positivity. But logic reminds us a little rain must fall in every life, and as an unparalleled motivator for change, unhappiness has the power to force my children to stop and reevaluate choices they've made and the directions they're heading so they can get back to what defines their personal happiness.
Poor health: I've worried about the health of my children from the moment they took their first breath and I'll continue until the moment I take my last, but healthy habits and a positive outlook are the only tools we have in maintaining good health. I suppose since regular heaping doses of worry are proven to do more harm than good, I'll instead focus on serving as an example of healthy living and positivity.
Failure: There's nothing more heartbreaking than watching your kid pour their heart and soul into something only to fail. But life is full of failures big and small, and it's what we learn from those failures that strengthen character and ultimately yield personal triumphs. Do I wish for my kids to fail? Of course not. What I do wish for are opportunities for lessons to be learned.
Heartbreak: Every heart may be tender, but young hearts are even more so. If I could hold my sons' fragile hearts in my hands, I'd shield them from every discomfort and pain imaginable. Unfortunately, love takes practice and their delicate hearts will be practiced on and hurt because they have to be before they're strong enough to persevere and wise enough to choose better.
If the greatest fears I have for my sons are nothing more than uncomfortable life experiences, perhaps they ought to be recognized for all the enlightenment they can bring. If I've done my job as a mother, I've given my kids the tools and support they need to not only face these inevitable life experiences, but come out on the other side better off for them.
Mommyfriend goes by Lori Garcia in real life and is a Shine Parenting Guru. She writes at www.mommyfriend.com where she's busy finding perfection in imperfection daily. When she's not fussing with her bangs, she's shaking her groove thing for Babble.com.


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IL Congressman Shimkus recovering from heart procedures
MARYVILLE, Ill. (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Shimkus' office says doctors performed two medical procedures on his heart after he noticed his heart was beating with an abnormal rhythm.
The Republican congressman's office say doctors in St. Louis earlier Tuesday performed an electrophysiology test and a procedure known as an ablation. An ablation is a non-surgical procedure used to correct an abnormal heart beat.
Shimkus' office says doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
Shimkus is at home in Collinsville and will miss all House of Representatives votes this week. He plans to return to a normal work schedule the week of July 15.
The 55 year old Shimkus represents Illinois 15th Congressional District. He's been a member of Congress since 1997.
Governor Nixon signs legislation dealing with children
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation allowing parents more time to give up newborns, requiring screening for a heart defect and dealing with mandatory reporters of child abuse.
Nixon held a bill signing ceremony Tuesday at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
The legislation will permit parents up to 45 days instead of the current five days to give up their babies. And starting in 2014, screening for critical congenital heart disease will be required for infants.
Another newly signed bill seeks to close a loophole for child abuse reporting. Mandatory reporters suspecting child abuse or neglect currently must "immediately report" or "cause a report to be made." That means reporters can pass the information to another person in their organization. Information will now go directly to state officials.
IL Senator Durbin wants energy drinks to stop marketing to kids
The Democratic senator from Illinois sent a letter Monday to the CEOs of Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster asking for an explanation for the companies' sponsorship of sporting events that target children.
Durbin says the companies have often claimed they do not market their drinks to youngsters. But he says he is aware of multiple situations that contradict their claims.
Durbin cites several examples in his letter, including a high school football tournament and a motorcycle race for children as young as thirteen endorsed by Red Bull.
Durbin says his letter stems out of growing concerns during the past year about the potential health risks posed by energy drinks.
Early number sense plays role in later math skills
WASHINGTON (AP) - We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math - and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on.
The findings have specialists considering steps that parents might take to spur math abilities, just like they do to try to raise a good reader.
This isn't only about trying to improve the nation's math scores and attract kids to become engineers. It's far more basic.
Consider: How rapidly can you calculate a tip? Do the fractions to double a recipe? Know how many quarters and dimes the cashier should hand back as your change?
About 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lacks the math competence expected of a middle-schooler, meaning they have trouble with those ordinary tasks and aren't qualified for many of today's jobs.
"It's not just, can you do well in school? It's how well can you do in your life," says Dr. Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Institutes of Health, which is funding much of this research into math cognition. "We are in the midst of math all the time."
A new study shows trouble can start early. University of Missouri researchers tested 180 seventh-graders. Those who lagged behind their peers in a test of core math skills needed to function as adults were the same kids who'd had the least number sense or fluency way back when they started first grade.
"The gap they started with, they don't close it," says Dr. David Geary, a cognitive psychologist who leads the study that is tracking children from kindergarten to high school in the Columbia, Mo., school system. "They're not catching up" to the kids who started ahead.
If first grade sounds pretty young to be predicting math ability, well, no one expects tots to be scribbling sums. But this number sense, or what Geary more precisely terms "number system knowledge," turns out to be a fundamental skill that students continually build on, much more than the simple ability to count.
What's involved? Understanding that numbers represent different quantities - that three dots is the same as the numeral "3" or the word "three." Grasping magnitude - that 23 is bigger than 17. Getting the concept that numbers can be broken into parts - that 5 is the same as 2 and 3, or 4 and 1. Showing on a number line that the difference between 10 and 12 is the same as the difference between 20 and 22.
Factors such as IQ and attention span didn't explain why some first-graders did better than others. Now Geary is studying if something that youngsters learn in preschool offers an advantage.
There's other evidence that math matters early in life. Numerous studies with young babies and a variety of animals show that a related ability - to estimate numbers without counting - is intuitive, sort of hard-wired in the brain, says Mann Koepke, of NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. That's the ability that lets you choose the shortest grocery check-out line at a glance, or that guides a bird to the bush with the most berries.
Number system knowledge is more sophisticated, and the Missouri study shows children who start elementary school without those concepts "seem to struggle enormously," says Mann Koepke, who wasn't part of that research.
While schools tend to focus on math problems around third grade, and math learning disabilities often are diagnosed by fifth grade, the new findings suggest "the need to intervene is much earlier than we ever used to think," she adds. Exactly how to intervene still is being studied, sure to be a topic when NIH brings experts together this spring to assess what's known about math cognition.
But Geary sees a strong parallel with reading. Scientists have long known that preschoolers who know the names of letters and can better distinguish what sounds those letters make go on to read more easily. So parents today are advised to read to their children from birth, and many youngsters' books use rhyming to focus on sounds.
Likewise for math, "kids need to know number words" early on, he says.
NIH's Mann Koepke agrees, and offers some tips:
-Don't teach your toddler to count solely by reciting numbers. Attach numbers to a noun - "Here are five crayons: One crayon, two crayons..." or say "I need to buy two yogurts" as you pick them from the store shelf - so they'll absorb the quantity concept.
-Talk about distance: How many steps to your ball? The swing is farther away; it takes more steps.
-Describe shapes: The ellipse is round like a circle but flatter.
-As they grow, show children how math is part of daily life, as you make change, or measure ingredients, or decide how soon to leave for a destination 10 miles away,
"We should be talking to our children about magnitude, numbers, distance, shapes as soon as they're born," she contends. "More than likely, this is a positive influence on their brain function."
EDITOR'S NOTE - Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.
Health officials: 1 in 50 school kids have autism
Health officials say the new number doesn't mean autism is occurring more often. But it does suggest that doctors are diagnosing autism more frequently, especially in children with milder problems.
The earlier government estimate of 1 in 88 comes from a study that many consider more rigorous. It looks at medical and school records instead of relying on parents.
For decades, autism meant kids with severe language, intellectual and social impairments and unusual, repetitious behaviors. But the definition has gradually expanded and now includes milder, related conditions.
The new estimate released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would mean at least 1 million children have autism.
The number is important — government officials look at how common each illness or disorder is when weighing how to spend limited public health funds.
It's also controversial.
The new statistic comes from a national phone survey of more than 95,000 parents in 2011 and 2012. Less than a quarter of the parents contacted agreed to answer questions, and it's likely that those with autistic kids were more interested than other parents in participating in a survey on children's health, CDC officials said.
Still, CDC officials believe the survey provides a valid snapshot of how many families are affected by autism, said Stephen Blumberg, the CDC report's lead author.
The study that came up with the 1-in-88 estimate had its own limitations. It focused on 14 states, only on children 8 years old, and the data came from 2008. Updated figures based on medical and school records are expected next year.
"We've been underestimating" how common autism is, said Michael Rosanoff of Autism Speaks, an advocacy group. He believes the figure is at least 1 in 50.
There are no blood or biologic tests for autism, so diagnosis is not an exact science. It's identified by making judgments about a child's behavior.
Doctors have been looking for autism at younger and younger ages, and experts have tended to believe most diagnoses are made in children by age 8.
However, the new study found significant proportions of children were diagnosed at older ages.
Dr. Roula Choueiri, a neurodevelopmental pediatrician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, said she's seen that happening at her clinic. Those kids "tend to be the mild ones, who may have had some speech delays, some social difficulties," she wrote in an email. But they have more problems as school becomes more demanding and social situations grow more complex, she added.
Judge overturns Missouri's contraceptive law
U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig cited a provision in the U.S. Constitution declaring that federal laws take precedence over contradictory state laws. Missouri's Republican-led Legislature overrode the veto of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon last September to enact a law that appeared to be the first in the nation to directly rebut the Obama administration's contraception policy. The Missouri law required insurers to issue policies without contraception coverage if individuals or employers objected because of religious or moral beliefs.
Fleissig had issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri's law last December.
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166 … Tony from Boston is bare naked. (2-13-12)
Tony has a nice hang going on here, and a nice trim. The picture is a little blurry, but he either has hairless balls or he shaves them. No doubt they would rest nicely on the palm of your hand, though you might be tempted to give them a squeeze. Tony, I hope you're staying warm up there in Red Sox country.
165 … Lu is out of his pants. (2-12-12)
Among other things, Lu has got some nice legs. In fact, considering what we see of him, he makes a great masculine package.
Here Lu has pulled his foreskin back off his glans, as if things between his legs weren't already tempting enough.
A close up. Nice trim. Very handsome penis. Love the way his balls are hugging up close to his body.
Now we're getting down to business. Lu is obviously a "grower". It makes your hands itch to get involved.
164 … A dashing Russian has gotten naked. (2-12-12)
I can't post his name because my computer doesn't deal well with the Russian alphabet. It doesn't matter … he's an exquisite Russian example of manhood.
Great rear-view, even if it's a little out of focus. I think when the Beatles sang, "You're back in the USSR; you don't know how lucky you are", they were thinking about Russian men. Well, maybe not, but that's what some of us think about hearing that tune.
What a beautifully proportioned man.
163 … Tom is completely naked. (2-10-12)
Tom is a bi-married guy, 47 years old and thoroughly enamored of female particulars. His wife holds exclusive rights to his impressive penis. But that's not to say there have been no adventures from days gone by.
Goodness … consider me distracted.
Anyway, Tom considers himself kinky. He's had the pleasure of helping, with hands and mouth, a small collection of cocks to explode in climax and loved every second of it.Thus his passion for semen. He is enchanted by the texture, the look and the taste, and considers an ejaculation a visual climax to sex.
Tom prefers smooth shaven men. He is fascinated by every detail of both male and female genitals. My guess is he has this and probably a lot more in common with a good many of the men that are looking at these pictures.
162 … MK from the UK has dropped his pants. (2-8-12)
Unzipped and peeking out, ready for some fresh air. MK's penis is crowned with very nice glans.
This is better, the pants are down, more room to stretch and stiffen.
MK and his little companion have been together 48 years, enough time to have had any number of exploits. Makes you wonder what kind of ideas the two of them have had over the years.
161 … Dave has pulled down his pants. (2-7-12)
Look what's no longer tucked away in those Hanes. Simply exceptional. You wonder why, when a man looks so inviting, when one's imagination is set free by the mere act of a man pushing his pants down, that male nakedness is so controversial. Dave has given us a fine example of masculine splendor.
160 … Ray from the UK has gotten naked. (2-6-12)
Meet Big Ben, Ray's penis. Ray's penis, like the rest of him, has been around for 63 years. Oh, the stories this handsome presentation of manhood could tell.
Looks like Big Ben is getting some ideas. Wonder who he's going to share them with. Ray has been shaving his balls for years … makes 'um more appealing for oral sex, which makes it more fun to be a man. Very handsome indeed.
159 … Nile has gotten naked. (2-4-12)
Now here is a gorgeous man … long slender body, beautiful skin color, exotic long hair. Just looking at Nile is enough to give you an eye-gasm. The tattoo on his back is homage to his participation in the furry fandom.
Nile says this about his tattoo: "My natural cat like body structure and attitude [makes] the leopard print tattoo seemed fitting."
Something every man has and Nile's is very nice, compellingly darker than his skin color and protruding from a rich swathe of black pubic hair.
If Nile only knew how many guys would like to be holding that for him, girls too.
Nile was intrigued by his visit to Enlightened Male. He found it refreshing and decided to step outside his comfort zone and send these delightful pictures. No doubt you see it the same way I do … I'm glad he did.
158 … Looks like Nick is naked. (2-4-12)
Something long and hard is coming into to this picture, something that is casting a long shadow. It looks like it's coming out of a bush. Nick has got a hold of it. Is it wild or dangerous? Perhaps there have been those that have come in contact with it and think so, I wouldn't know. But it looks like Nick has it subdued, at least for a while.
157 … FK has stretched out naked on the bed. (1-31-12)
Stretched out on the bed, his handsome penis resting luxuriously on its side, his balls resting comfortably between his legs. How tempting can some things get? FK said nothing about himself. We don't what part of the world he lives in, or if he's waiting for a man or a woman to get in bed with him. He could be your neighbor. We'll have to use our imagination, and mine is running wild.
FK wrote back to let me know he's from Michigan. Looks like something happened in the meantime … his soft, cuddly penis got stiff! Hope he's keeping some fortunate soul warm on these cold Michigan nights.
156 … Ron in Florida has gotten naked. (1-27-12)
We're certainly getting a run of good looking men here. Can you imagine walking into your bedroom and seeing Rob posing like this on your bed? In his mid-forties, he still looks like a kid, albeit a very appealing kid. His wife of ten years allows him to explore his bisexual side. She's probably thinking boys will be boys. Rob is crazy about her and wishes all wives were as accepting as his. Well, maybe some day, my friend.
155 … SP has dropped his pants. (1-27-12)
Some things just make you want to get up close and personal, and SP has plenty of it. He has decided that he's ready to show the world what very few have ever seen. I say it's a good day for those who have happened to stumble in here.
This is what happens when SP starts having naughty thoughts. Too bad we don't know what he's thinking. Whatever it is inspired him to get out of those pants. Love that slight curve to the right.
154 … JJ, from Las Vegas, just stepped out of the shower. (1-26-12)
JJ is straight. He does have, like so many of the straight guys that visit Enlightened Male, an appreciation for the male body. No doubt you are feeling some appreciation for his body right now.
JJ has that kind of body that guys, given a chance to look like someone else, would pick him to look like. JJ identifies with GOYS, the fraternity of men who recognize the natural instinct for men to bond in an intimate way without guilt or shame.
153 … Graham, from the UK, has gotten out of his pants. (1-25-12)
Just how many good looking, well hung Englishmen are there? Graham is a male masterpiece. What a masculine landscape of hair!
Looks like Graham has decided to show off. Who wouldn't with equipment like this? Makes me glad England is a U.S. ally. We could end up in the same foxhole one of these days. Hmm.
152 … Johnathon from Ohio is naked. (1-25-12)
Maybe because this image is black and white is what makes it seem so dramatic, dramatic in the sense even that a straight guy might have second thoughts. Maybe you would like to know what it would feel like to have Johnathon's intimate parts in your hand? No doubt more than a few would. Johnathon has presented a temptation that would be very hard to resist.
151 … Ross has dropped his pants. (1-23-12)
Ross is in his late 40s … from what I can see of him, he looks more like 25. That's not a bad rocket for a guy his age, not to mention those loveable pink balls. He likes women (something he has in common with a great many men), but he's also fascinated by other guy's erections, which every few months he goes out and does something about. Hmm, so maybe you're thinking that's why Ross looks familiar.
150 … TM has gotten naked. (1-23-12)
We haven't seen many images like this here at Drop Your Pants. That may be our loss. But in TM's case, the circumstances behind the pictures are captivating.
You may be thinking TM's clitoris is a bit larger than usual. You may be thinking TM's legs are hairier than girl's legs are suppose to be. There is a reason for this. I'm currently working on a piece that will feature TM and will post a link here when it's finished. You will be fascinated.
149 … Dk has gotten out of his clothes. (1-20-12)
Bet it's as nice to hold as it is to look at. It's almost as if it's waiting for a little attention.
Very nice … pink, plump and sassy, and the recent haircut is quite appealing. Dk didn't say a word in his email, so I don't know a thing about him, except he has quite a handful between his legs.
Look out! Let's move out of the way and give this fellow some room. This new freedom, unrestrained by clothes, is a good time to stretch out in the fresh air.
148 … Ric, from the Delaware area, has gone out to the garage and gotten naked. (1-19-12)
Ric is a model working in the Washington DC area. He also loves learning how to fly on a trapeze. If that's not enough, he also does a little acting, but there is no acting involved in the condition of his penis. No doubt some of us are envious.
This is what I call an achievement. Nice indeed.
Where does Ric get these outfits? I'm wondering if my wife would like see me in one. But to look this good, you'd probably need Ric's body.
I wonder if the ring would pass for a swimsuit on a public beach.
If we all had Ric's libido, Viagra would be in trouble. Not to worry…Viagra is too big to fail. The government would bail them out.
My goodness! Someone has turned Ric into a walking Picasso. Then again, Picasso never used a canvas this interesting.
A closer look at the more three dimensional part of Ric's body. He's a very good looking and well endowed man. Great pictures.
147 … Pa from Montreal has gotten naked. (1-18-12)
Here is a young man that knows how to pose for a picture. What a great body! If the photographer was a male, I bet PA wasn't the only one with an erection. Much to my regret, and probably everyone else's, he sent only one picture. Be nice to see him in other poses, but maybe it's too cold in Montreal this time of year to stay naked for long periods.
146 … Paulchen is buck naked. (1-18-12)
Now I love this! Shaved and trimmed, the foreskin gathered over the glans, hiding and protecting them. Very nice.
Lookout! Paulchen's tool has gone from sweet and innocent to adventurous and determined.
Nice clear shot from a different angle. Just how big can that little guy get?
Paulchen's been eating his Wheaties. He's has a tiger in the tank that's out on the prowl.
145 … Don't Forget Me, 42, is down to his underwear, and then some. (1-15-12)
Who wouldn't love living in this beautiful body … flat belly, muscular chest and legs, not to mention an interesting bulge? 'Don't Forget Me' is bi-curious, having had only one adventure with another male many years ago. Alas, as they always do, the urges buried inside tend to increase with age. 'Don't Forget Me' fantasizes about getting naked with another man, playing with each other, touching and being touched, but he doesn't know how to proceed, or where it would take place for that matter. Makes me wonder how many men are treading water in the same pool.
So this is what was causing that bulge! A temptation if ever I saw one. Now it's been set free, inspired and excited by all those naughty thoughts (and the kitten doesn't even notice). What a smooth, glistening sheen on the glans. 'Don't Forget Me' may not realize it, but if they knew he was curious and available, he'd have a number of equally curious guys lined up around the block.
144 … Alan, 18, from Michigan, has gotten naked. (1-15-12)
A young man's body with a nice landscape of hair, yet what's dangling between his legs is silky smooth. Alan, just now eighteen years old, is still a virgin. He also knows he is bisexual. It's not hard to imagine the adventures ahead of him.
What a fine looking young man. When he's out on his own, Alan wants to be a bit of a nudist. He loves to listen to music all day and aspires to be a world class DJ. Circumcised at birth like so many of us, he is trying to restore his foreskin.
Alan hopes his photos aren't too explicit. Well, Alan … no, they're not. In fact I think there are hundreds of guys out there that are going to appreciate your creative, wonderfully intimate photography; and perhaps more than a few that would love to join you on your future adventures. Stay warm up there in Michigan.
143 … Emanuel has opened his fly. (1-15-12)
Look what was hiding in there! This shy little guy has decided to peek out at the world around him.
I believe he's ready to stay out for a while. What a handsome fellow.
Ahh, a nice stretch in the fresh air.
Emanuel has decided to strip naked, and why not. It's just more comfortable that way, more invigorating. Nice how smooth and shiny his foreskin keeps his glans, and no doubt very sensitive. Makes some of us a little envious.
142 … Luke, from Melbourne, Australia has dropped his pants. (1-13-12)
If Søren (below) has started a stampede to Denmark, looks like Luke may get one started to Melbourne. Maybe some of those handsome guys from New Zealand. Makes you wonder if all those southern Aussies are this good looking.
Great trim. And love the way Luke's balls are hugging his body, even though it's high summer there in Melbourne. Maybe he has the air conditioner on high.
141 … Søren, from Denmark, has gotten naked. (1-13-12)
Seems there is no end to the temptations that come this way. What a well-designed man: the unique display of veins, the foreskin that fits like a glove, the smooth pink balls … all of it crowned by a landscape of well-trimmed hair.
Stand back and give this beautiful man room!!!
Be careful, Søren, or else you'll be tempting a lot guys to move to Scandinavia.
140 … Chris has taken off all his clothes. (1-11-12)
Goodness! This is one of the most inviting things I've ever seen.
I'm beginning to think there is no end to the well-shaped men out there. I love the way Chris' penis lays over on its back like a little puppy.
Here Chris is exposing the shadowy mysteries below his balls. Question is, if he was desert, where would you begin?
139 … Drew, 34, from Melbourne, Australia has stripped naked. (1-10-12)
As innocent as a small bird hiding in its nest. Or is it? Drew is straight, which means there may be a number of women in Melbourne that have had some experience with this handsome fellow.
Looks like Drew is thinking about one of those girls right now.
Yep, he is. I'm guessing he snapped this picture, put the camera aside and headed straight over to her house. Bet a huge Australian smile greeted him. I'm just wondering how he got this back into his pants.
138 … Jay, 44, has dropped his pants. (1-10-12)
A most pleasant surprise. There is something about a hairy, masculine man that sets tingles racing across one's skin.
A handsome centerpiece protruding from a landscape of well-trimmed hair that makes your hands want to take hold of it.
There is Jay's pants down around his ankles. His penis looks quite happy to be free and is enjoying the fresh air. Jay says he is curious. Does this mean he would like to feel this magnificent erection in another man's hand, perhaps be close enough to breath the smell of another man's skin?
137 … Riaan has gotten naked. (1-7-12)
Riaan has used laser treatments to remove his pubic hair. He's as smooth as a man's skin can be, which allows one to focus on his magnificent penis without distractions. In this picture, it's pointing at you.
What a fine diameter. Can you imagine how good Riann looks in a speedo?
I think what I like best about male parts is there are so many variations of perfect. No wonder Riaan wanted to share his privates on Enlightened Male. Seems a crime against nature to always keep them hidden in a pair of pants.
Just what I thought, an accommodating handful.
Ahh, resting like an innocent kitten. Whoever Riaan shares this with is one fortunate person.
136 … John has dropped his pants. (1-7-12)
My word! That's the stiffest penis I've seen in a while. The workings of a penis are eternally fascinating, soft and pliable one minute, hard as a rock the next. John's is certainly a good example of the latter. He's a bi-married guy that has a wife who understands his need for a same-sex relationship.
135 … D has dropped his pants and released a real prize. (1-6-12)
Here's a young man that would make John Wayne blush with modesty. I would call him a Real Texan but D is from Europe.
D says eight and a half inches. He's the first guy I've ever heard that doesn't exaggerate. He simply doesn't have to. D is just now coming to terms with showing his penis in public, though he admits liking the stares and winks in the locker room.
Perhaps you heard the gasp the first time I opened D's email. Call it the gasp heard around the world. He's quite a guy and I thank him for sending these terrific photos.
134 … Will, 38, has gotten completely naked. (1-6-12)
Don't you love the red hair? Here is a man that is obviously in great shape (it's been eons since my waist looked like Will's). I wonder is he going to share his shower with anyone.
And it looked so innocent in the last picture. What happened? Now it's tall and proud and reaching skyward. Will has never before shared a photo. I'm glad he decided to do so for Enlightened Male.
133 … Ben has lowered his pants. (1-6-12)
Talk about a handsome, handful of a man, Ben fills the bill. I'm wondering if the feeling of fresh air caused the erection, or if Ben is thinking about something naughty.
Since sending the first shot, Ben has gotten his pubic hair waxed, stripped naked and has sent these additional pictures.
Smooth as a baby's butt. Magnificent erection.
Pointing upward. His smooth balls are hugging his body. Very nice.
A different angle. What a great shape and size.
132 … Sach has unzipped his pants. (1-6-12)
Obviously a very appealing man. Enthusiasm for penises this size is not uncommon here at Enlightened Male (all sizes when you get down to it). I tried to clear up the photo with little success, but Sach's intentions certainly come through anyway.
131 … 315 has slipped out of her panties (1-4-12)
I've been wondering where all the women were. 315 has stepped forward, a pioneer, an adventurer, a beauty.
What you see here is one of the most tempting things on Earth, and 315s is exceptionally hot. She is 18, from upstate New York (brrr), blonde hair and blue eyes. She dresses sexy when she goes out in public to make men and women wonder how she is in bed. She prefers sex without a condom so that she can feel the smooth texture, thickness and length of a man's penis. 315 thinks everyone should be proud of who they are and what God gave them.
130 … Gai has gotten naked. (1-2-12)
Maybe you're wondering why we haven't seen him in the movies.
129 … Barney has decided to get naked. (1-3-12)
If ever there was a beautiful man… Well, my opinion anyway. Seems Barney has always been a little modest. He believes his penis is on the small side. Compared to what? A mule?
So it's a new year and Barney has decided he's going to bare all at a nude beach. Way to go, my friend. No doubt you'll draw some admiring eyes. But wait until spring. You know what this cold weather can do to a man's ego.
Thanks to Barney for sharing these sexy pictures, and I hope he has tons of fun on that beach adventure.
128 … Fox, 23, from Canada has gotten out of his pants. (1-3-12)
Fox is sitting down. Wouldn't you like to be sitting across from him? I wonder what you would be looking at.
Very nice. What a great pair of balls. This is boy perfection.
This is what Fox said in his email: "I've always wanted to go to a nude gathering or something, simply to marvel in the different types of cocks. I love comparing with other guys, not just to see who's bigger but I really like seeing the different shapes and colours as well. I always thought I was just an average guy, but then I realized, there's no such thing as average! There's such a huge mosaic of different types of bits."
From a different angle. Looks like it's lifting and leaning toward you.
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Last weekend, San Miguel County athletes raced onto the state meet podium in droves, ultimately harvesting a whopping 31 medals, with six team members claiming state champion titles and both girls and boys teams earning second-place overall trophies.
It was the team's finest showing on the statewide stage, coach Keith Hampton said following the three-day event, which saw the best athletes from Colorado high schools converge upon the immense Jefferson County Coliseum in Denver.
"To have six event champions out of 37 total events represents a pretty good percentage, especially considering all the teams we were up against," Hampton said of his highly decorated squad.
The team started the meet with a big win in the 4 x 800 meter relay race, in which Ty Williams, Jeff Williams, Nathan Loomis and Dylan Newell flew across the finish line just three seconds off the state record to take first, while Lindsey Stindt launched the best long jump of her career to take second in the that event.
Jeff Williams and Jo Bush also claimed a couple of bronzes in the boys and girls 800-meter run to put Telluride's foot firmly on the doorstep of a podium finish.
"Those performances definitely got us off on the right foot" to earn the points necessary for a team podium finish for both the girls and boys, Hampton said.
The competition's 3200 and 1600 races saw defending state champ Ty Williams claim victory once again, despite battling illness that day. Loomis and Newell came up with surprise finishes in the 3200 as well, garnering more points for the team.
Saturday's points accumulations put Telluride-Norwood in striking distance of their closest competition: Akron on the girls side, and Hoehne for the boys. Track and Field powerhouse Lyons, meanwhile, had pulled ahead in both the girls and boys points races to take what would become an insurmountable lead.
With Telluride-Norwood in contention for the silver in both the girls and boys team points race, Saturday was an important day for these athletes to shine; and shine they did, with Stindt claiming a double victory with wins in two hurdles events. Bush came out strong in both the 400- and 200-meter dash events, where she set a new school record in the 400 and earned herself a silver and a gold. Emy Ludwig, meanwhile, fought hard in the hurdles to win top-ten finishes, further bolstering Telluride's girls' points cushion.
The girls 4 x 400 relay team blasted through a stoic performance to keep ahead of Akron in the point totals, putting them in second place overall by the end of the meet.
The boys' 4 x 400 and 4 x 100 relay teams kept pace with their competition as well, with runners Jared Balkind, Connor Cuarter, Jarron Ragsdale, Slator Aplin, Loomis, and Jeff Williams maintaining winning momentum and earning points for their team – also enough to secure their silver place finish in the team rankings.
"To come away with two second-place trophies is huge," Hampton said, noting that his athletes feel an especially strong sense of accomplishment when claiming victories on the state level, considering that their team has no track or other facilities at which to train and their training season is relatively short.
He adds that while the team will certainly miss graduating seniors Ty Williams, Ludwig, Stindt, and others on the starting lines next year, he feels confident that TNT's strong group of upcoming athletes will continue to carry the torch for Telluride-Norwood Track.


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The Seventeenth day of our invasion campaign into the land of Holiday's Past finds us in an unglamorous moment with Marlene Dietrich, on the edge of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, December, 1944. Sixty-four years ago this week, the Berlin-born actress was in the midst of a tour near the front lines of the Allied invasion forces. Fortunately, she was a girl who did not scare easily. If Dietrich had been caught by the Axis, things might have gotten uncomfortable, since she was an avowed enemy of the Reich and had become an American citizen in 1939.
With great pride in her reported Prussian military ties, Miss Dietrich had refused all offers from Adolf and his flunkies to return to Germany to work at the renowned studio UFA. Despite their ardor and the blandishments they offered, Dietrich, who saw the handwriting on the Weimar walls, took her chances after bringing "Lola Lola" to life in two versions of The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel (1930). She chose to work in the United States with some of the best, her mentor, Von Sternberg, then Lubitsch, Mamoulian, Borzage, Wilder and others in such films as Morocco (1930), The Song of Songs (1933), The Garden of Allah (1936), Desire (1936), Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1960). Some were classics, and some were just outlandish, but the woman created an aura we will not see again, celebrating her separateness from the Hollywood herd. Even if she never quite mastered the pronunciation of her "r"s in English, she was always eager to lend her glamour to any situation that enabled her to "see what the boys in the back room will have..." Surprisingly earthy off screen, given to bursts of hausfrau enthusiasm for nurturing her many lovers and friends, even if Marlene apparently neglected her only daughter, Maria, while all this was going on.
All that fades away in retrospect today. On a lonely road through the Belgian forest, just after the battle ground to an exhausted end in January, the lady pulled up on the back of a jeep to a small bunch of American survivors on the side of the road. To their utter disbelief, Marlene Dietrich applied a bit of makeup, whipped out her musical saw, (which she played with surprising feeling), and, despite where and when they were, transported a small squad to another, more civilized and captivating time and place. Dietrich was, according to all reports, seductively funny, bawdy and artful, singing "Falling in Love Again" and the German song "Lili Marlene" in such a way that all those listening, no matter their language, understood the meaning.


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Jen Bervin, Pablo Manga, Janet Passehl, Zachary Sifuentes, Mariangeles Soto-Diaz and Harvey Tulcensky are the artists on exhibit in "Lines of Poetry," the new show at Diane Birdsall Gallery, 16 Lyme St. in Old Lyme.
It will be up from Saturday, Jan. 26 — the opening party is from 5 to 7 p.m. — until Saturday, Feb. 23. An "artist's dialogue" will be on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m.
Curator Karen Schiff says the common thread in the show is "artworks at the intersection of writing and abstract drawing. Textiles and landscapes emerge as sub-themes. Artists explore language, poetry, line, and the aesthetic impulse with distinct and often subtle results."
This artwork is by Soto-Diaz.
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Kim was born on July 11th, 1975, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a neighborhood immortalized by Spike Lee as the tension-filled setting for his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing. Kim's childhood and adolescense were characterized by unrelenting misery and a total absense of security and stability. Her parents divorced when Kim was still a preteen. Her relationship with her father was volatile and charged with tension. When her father moved to another state, Kim was essentially left homeless. She began living with her mother again, but money was so scarce that Kim and her mother occasionally lived inside the family car.
Kim's luck began to change dramatically when she met the man who would become her lover, mentor, and friend, a fat, charismatic drug dealer and larger-than-life father figure named Christopher Wallace who rapped under the name Biggie Smalls. B.I.G. took an immediate liking to the diminutive MC and made her a core member of a group he was putting together called Junior M.A.F.I.A. (for Junior Masters At Finding Intelligent Attitudes).
From the very beginning of her career, Lil' Kim's life has all the makings of a hip-hop soap opera: beefs, betrayal, infidelity, and sexual competition gone awry. The melodrama began when former friends B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur had a falling-out after Tupac became convinced that B.I.G. and Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs were involved in a shooting/robbery that left Tupac wounded but hungry for revenge.
Combs and B.I.G. tried to deflate a conflict that somehow got blown up into a media-promulgated coastal rivalry, but Tupac continued his attacts not just on B.I.G. but also on Lil' Kim. In "Hit 'Em Up"s most notorious lines, Shakur bragged about fucking Notorious B.I.G.'s wife Faith Evans, which must have been especially painful for Kim, whose high-profile affair with her mentor made her arguably the most famous mistress in hip-hop history.
Kim's already stormy relationship with Notorious B.I.G. grew even more complicated and stressful when she became pregnant with B.I.G.'s seed. She gone public about having the pregnancy terminated.
In 1996, Kim released her first solo album, Hard Core. The album's title boasted a cheeky double meaning, referring both to the disc's overwhelming sexual explicitnes and to Kim's rugged, violent lyrics. Kim was hardly the first female rapper to flaunt her sexuality, but Hard Core nevertheless took raunchiness to X-rated extremes. Men all over the world were fascinated by a rapper who could spit hardcore gangsta shit and star in their most perverted sexual fantasies. Kim was smartly and lucratively marketed as a down-to-earth round-the-way girl who'd do things in bed that would make porn stars blush.
Hard Core went double platinum and scored three hit singles: "No Time" (with Puff Daddy), "Crush on You" (with Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s Lil' Cease) and "Not Tonight" (Remix). Kim turned the "Not Tonight" (Remix) into a raucous celebration of female empowerment by inviting Left Eye of TLC, radio personality turned rapper Angie Martinez, Missy Elliott, and Da Brat to contribute verses.
On March 9, 1997, B.I.G. was killed in Los Angeles at the age of twenty-four. B.I.G.'s death cast a long, dark shadow over Kim's otherwise thriving career.
The year 1997 was the best of times and the worst of times for Kim. She should have been ecstatic over the runaway success of Hard Core, but whispers began circulating that she wouldn't be able to make it without B.I.G. Haters insisted that without her Svengali behind her she would recede into obscurity. Such hate speech exemplifies hip-hop's innate sexism: if a female MC is spitting hot verses, heads assume there must be a dude ghostwriting for her, but if an estrogen-fueled MC kikcs nothing but garbage, heads assume she's writing her own lyrics.
The similarity between B.I.G.'s and Kim's flows and lyrics only fueled talk that B.I.G. was writing Kim's lyrics and that she would flounder in his absense. so the stakes were extremely high for her first disc since B.I.G.'s passing. Needless to say, she did nothing to quiet talk that she was crassly exploiting B.I.G.'s legacy when she named her second solo CD Notorious K.I.M. Then again, if anyone in rap had earned the rights to call herself "Notorious" it was the 4'11" dynamo born Kimberly Jones.
Notorious K.I.M. proved that Kim's gift for provocation was as sharp as ever. On the single "How Many Licks," a female answer to Too $hort's classic sex rap "Freaky Tales," she invites convicts to masturbate to her image, rapping "This verse goes out to my niggas in jail/Beatin' they dicks to the XXL magazine/You like how I look in the aqua green? Get your Vaseline." Kim was out to prove that female rappers can be just as nasty as male MCs, but she fell victim to hip-hop's vicious double standard.
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Church's homeless overflow program comes to an endFargo, ND (WDAY TV) - It is a staggering reality. People living on the streets spent 3,751 stays this winter in overflow housing. Nearly half in churches in the metro that agreed to deal with the dilemma. We first told you about this new program last fall. It ended this week.
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