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The scene opens with Greg getting toasted to for getting the promotion by his best friend, Trevor. Kiera excuses herself and Trevor comes into the bathroom and feels Kiera up. She slams him against the wall. The scene changes to 2012. Kiera and Carlos are going home and he asks her to dinner. She declines. Alec tells her to go and be social. However, he gets a call and can't make it because a friend needs him. Later, Carlos escorts his "friend", Alesha, home and she tells Carlos that she was out as a reporter and not a social call. He asks her if she is alright and she straddles Carlos. He kisses her. The next morning, Kiera is walking when Kellogg drives up and gives her two coffees. She asks what he needs and he says that he has codes to satellites and with her help, will be able to stay ahead of Kegame and Liber8. Carlos pulls up and Kellogg leaves. Carlos and Kiera respond to a dead body report. It is Carlos' friend.
Carlos talks to Dillon and says that he wants to take lead on this. He agrees. Kiera notices that Carlos is hiding something. Meanwhile, Alec is doing his chores and asks for Julian's help. However, Julian calls him a traitor and tells him to do the chores himself. Carlos goes up to his friend Jim Martin and tells him that Alesha is dead and that he was arguing with her last night. Jim says that he didn't kill her. Carlos says that he will try to protect him in this. Jim says that he is worried about the upcoming election. Carlos gets to the station and says that the woman is Alesha Fuentes and that the cause of death was strangulation. Betty says that Alesha was always criticizing Nelson Barnes, the Union President. Dillon says that Jim could lose the upcoming election if Ashley had any dirt on Jim. Carlos says that they should talk to Barnes. Dillon tries to pull Kiera off the case, but she says that Liber8 could be involved somehow. Alec tells Kiera that he is getting close to fixing her suit. She tells him not to break it. Alec sees that he is making even more progress then he had thought.
On the road, Kiera asks Carlos why he didn't tell her that he knew the victim. He says that he knew Alesha since he can remember and says that she and her family were on the same boat as him and his family. Carlos thanks her for staying on the case and Kiera says that she may have stretched the truth a little bit. Carlos and Kiera get to Barnes' office. He says that Alesha was trying to dig up dirt on his campaign finances. Barnes points the finger at Jim and says they should be looking at him. Carlos suggests that Barnes can make people go away and Kiera ends the meeting. Later, Alec tells Kiera that the suit is repairing and upgrading. He drops a substance on the suit and it absorbs it. Alec realizes that it fixed it. Betty comes up and shows Kiera that Alesha got in a car. They are waiting on the resolution of the picture. Alec works on it and she finds out that Carlos picked Alesha. She goes to Alesha's apartment and uses a Bio-Scanner. She sees the prints that were caused by Carlos, including that of the bed frame. There is an unknown print on the desk.
Kiera gets into Carlos' car and sees that he went to see Jim. She takes Carlos outside and questions him about it. Carlos says that he didn't do anything and that Jim is a friend who can help the world and not destroy it. Kiera tells Carlos that he will keep Jim out of this. She goes over to Jim's home and Sarah, his campaign secretary answers the door. Kiera asks to talk to Jim and he says that he hasn't spoken to Alesha for months. Jim's wife, Heather, comes up and Alec says that he doesn't trust them. Kiera tells him that she knows that he was with her the night she was killed. Jim says that Ashley had financial fraud claims. Heather says that she was at a fundraiser. Kiera remembers when Trevor's wife came in and told her that she and Greg had a fling before her wedding. Kiera is mortified and she says that she would never spy on Greg.
Back in 2012, Kiera notices that the print on the cup at Alesha's and the print from Heather, are a match. She tries to question her, but Sarah tells her that she has to leave. Kiera tells Alec that Jim was having an affair with Alesha and Heather knows about it. She says that she might have a suspect to exonerate Carlos. However, at the same moment, Betty finds out that Carlos was the one who picked Alesha up that night. At Kiera's place, Kiera finds out that the piece to the Transportation Device is missing. She knows that Kellogg took it so that he can hold it as leverage. She says that she is going to have to get it back. Betty goes up to Carlos and shows him the picture. He says that he didn't kill her and Betty believes him. Carlos says that he will tell Dillon. He goes into Dillon's office and tells him the news. Dillon gets angry and says that he wants his badge and gun. Carlos is suspended indefinitely. The next day, Kiera asks if Alec can analaze codes from a cellular array on the building. He says that he can simulate the data and hack satellites. Kellogg talks to Kiera and she asks for the satellite codes and he gives them to her. Carlos watches a news report of Jim hiding behind the fact that he is involved with Carlos at all to protect his campaign.
Alec works on getting the layout of the building so that Kiera can look at what happened. She sees Carlos leave when he said he left. However, she sees the figure of a woman sneak in and strangle Alesha. At the same moment, the same masked figure sneaks into Carlos in the shower. She tases him, but he manages to fight her off. He cuts her right arm and she runs off. Kiera comes over and Carlos is just recovering. They find that there is a noose in the living room. Whoever wanted Carlos dead, they were going to stage it as a suicide. They have an idea as to who the woman is. They go to Jim's and ask Heather to show her right arm. She has no cut. Kiera looks at Sarah and Alec tells her to ask about the $10 Million that was added to Jim's campaign. She says that she hired some investors in the campaign and says that she didn't know that they were going to kill anyone. They try to get her to say who it was that she hired, but she says that they will kill her if she talks.
Kiera takes Sarah into custody and Jim and Heather go off to the results rally. Carlos tells Jim that they are done. Alec asks what is going to happen to Sarah and Kiera says that she is going to get away because there is no evidence tying her to the murder. Carlos comes up and tells Kiera that Jim won the election and that he got his badge back. Kiera remembers back when she told Greg that she knew about the affair. She says that they have the technology to know everything about a person. Greg tells her that he didn't want to lose her and says that he loves her and swears that he will never keep a secret. Back in 2012, Kiera says that there is something about the killer and they realize that Liber8 could be involved. At the same moment, Jim is introduced to Heather's "friend". It is Kegame. The person who killed Alesha was Jasmine Garza. The episode ends.
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The people of Colonsay, like many communities large and small, have always shared a love of books and literature, joining in book groups and participating in fringe poetry sessions at the music festival. At a community meeting in June 2011, the idea of a book festival for the island was tentatively mooted, and ten months later, at the end of April 2012, we were welcoming our first six authors and an eager audience.
Now in its fifth year, the festival is, we think, still one of the smallest and most remote literary events in Britain, held on the beautiful island of Colonsay in glorious springtime. In 2016 again, the festival will take place over the last weekend of April – the 23rd and 24th – and this year we are delighted to be welcoming another fantastic line up of authors.
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actaully we spit up/ divorce and before that she had blown the motor in it and she got rid of the mustang.
Hey I noticed you haven't made any updates in a long while, you still working on the pony?
How's school going? I'm getting on a plane to meet my dad in KC tonight and drive to Sturgis for the rally there. Quite a few MAA people going it seems.
I've got the 3.8l and a friend has got a pair for me but I have been putting it off as I want to put headers on because they are built stronger and the flanges are welded on both sides. This is the third one I have broke as my stock cats catch on high speed bumps with the Eibach lowering kit. Its not to bad to drive right now just a bit loud when you first start then it seals itself, I've got 175,000 miles on the 02 now.
You guys are making a trip in June?? When and how long?
HI MOMMA!!!! ABSOLUTELY 500 PONY IS GOING ( Hubby asked me told me about it all this morning and the excitement has begun)!!!!! I am sorry to hear about your health issues, is there anything that we can help with? And yes of course the kids are being kids - who think they are adults lol. School is almost done. I am hoping for a 4.0 grade average to end my freshman year. OOOOOO the shirts sound awesome.... hey , do they have to be polo or can I send a t- shirt and tank top? How would I get them tohim and see the design?! I am so excited yeeehhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaawwwwwwwww
Hey Kids.......... Tango One and the Silent One is working on a special logo for Team XI to put on shirts. He has someone in CA working on it now. I bought a couple of polo shirts for me and Charlie to send over to have then done. He is going to let us know the cost of putting them on the shirts as soon as he gets the price from his friend. Probably by middle of next week he should know. I bought my polo's at Macy's for $9,98 each. With several colors to choose from. They are nice quality shirts by Karen Scott and washed up real nice. They even have them online too. The mens shirts start at $20.
Hi There Stranger. So good to hear from you. I am so proud to hear you have gone back to school. The kids sound like are doing what kids do. Drive their parents crazy. Sorry it took so long to answer back. I have been back in the hospital again and am having a kinda hard time. I hope to get back to work after next week. We are in almost daily contact with Tango One and the Silent One. They were here just a couple of weeks ago for him to be installed on the board of directors for the Mustang Club of America. We are planning a short trip to Mustang OK in June. Is that a possibility for the 500 Pony? Take care and hope to hear from you soon. Love and Prayers, Momma Pony
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An Eastern Carolina Marine is in trouble with the feds after they say he made bomb threats on a U.S. Airways flight on Memorial Day. That Marine is a flight line mechanic.
Cpl. Ivan Bugakov is charged with false information and threats involving aircraft. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tucson says Bugakov was on a flight scheduled to leave Tucson when he became loud, unruly and belligerent. The plane taxied back to the gate so the 24-year-old could be removed. While leaving, the feds say the Marine told the flight crew and fellow passengers that there was a bomb onboard.
Bugakov, according to a news release, told airport police that he had a bomb in his carry-on luggage. Passengers were removed from the plane and re-screened while bomb detection dogs were brought to search for explosives. None was found.
Camp Lejeune says Bugakov is assigned to HMLA 167 at New River and is a flight line mechanic.
If convicted, the Marine faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.
Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits--drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder.
With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is hitting back at President Barack Obama.
During a campaign stop in Grand Junction on Tuesday, Romney called Obama the "outsourcer-in-chief," in response to accusations that as private equity executive Romney helped send jobs to China and elsewhere.
Romney branded Obama an "extreme liberal" who is trying to raise taxes on businesses.
The former Massachusetts governor held a town-hall-style meeting at Central High School in Grand Junction.
It's the same school where president Barack Obama held a town hall almost exactly three years ago, when he was selling his health care overhaul.
Romney was also in Aspen on Monday for a private fundraiser.
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The Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, sells, resells and services wired and wireless automated identification and data collection products.
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It's industry is growing faster than the economy. It introduced a new product suite. It entered the warehouse speech recognition market.
AIDC with RFID patents, aids JIT with less manpower (enough acronyms?)
Waiting for RFID boom; seeking stocks to grow with it; hoping IN is the leader.
When the overly optimistic FOMC says that household spending will be "constrained" by sluggish income growth, ongoing job losses, lower household wealth, and tight credit AND Shanghai stocks hit a seven-week low, then you know this bear market rally is finally over!
P/e is one of the highest I've seen for this mkt cap ..
In retrospect the past although was in the midst of the industrial war, also signifies easier times, yet harder times. A culture with many hyprocricies. To unravel the mental flip sides to this one must have a greater understanding of now as much as then! One who can bridge the gaps with words all can understand and have a true meaning surely outperforms the rest! You'll know that person when you can hear with out a doubt they are it! Hopefully this unspecified time is around the corner! Maybe closer than you think!
I think this is yet another case where the hype has gotten in front of the fundamentals. Yes, RFID is most likely the future. The internet was the future in 1999, and the hype raised stocks to insane, 3-digit-PE levels (which is where this company is now). We've almost reaped the promise of the internet, but by now the NASDAQ is sitting at half of its all-time high and thousands of tech companies have gone bankrupt.
I try to learn from history, so I may endeavor not to repeat it.
A little B2B and RFID all wrapped up in one. As the new school of supply chain management continues to develop, Intermec is well positioned for big profits. As the wireless revolution finally warms over the corporate sector (read your Economist), they'll see how much $ they can save by tagging and tracking all of their inventory. IN will help them. And then they'll spend tons of dough on 'optimizing' their supply chain, and IN will help them again. Unless IBM scoops them up first. That's what I'm betting on.
I think RFID will finally gain traction, and Intermec will profit greatly fromthis.
RFID will catch on.
Wall Street is expecting a turnaround - a strong No. 2 in both the printing and scanning segments of the industry; with a projected 92% jump from their depressing 2006 earnings and a solid 34% increase from ore 'normal" 2005 earnings per share
Price is consolidated now and the wireless market is only getting larger. RFID is gaining use in untapped markets. IN is due for a runup for the next couple of years.
Intermec is the leader in the RFID space imho. The R&D and ability to deliver put SBL out of the competition (and SBL's own failures no doubt). IN would appeal to large institutional investors whenever RFID fires off as a hot topic. That gives plenty of opportunity for the fool investors buying in anywhere in the current low 20's. A perfect IRA/401k pick.
Intermec, formerly Unova, is involved in designing, developing, integrating and selling wired and wireless automated data identification and collection equipment and related support services, broadly classified as Automated Data Systems (ADS). The products and the services by the company are used in industries like manufacturing, logistics, supply chain management and retailing.
With revenues from product segment being the maximum, its other two segments include
Service segment catering to support and service rendered and Intellectual Property (IP) settlement segment dealing with IP related royalties and settlements. Net revenue for the nine-month period October 2006 increased by approximately 3% as a result of $23 million revenue realization from IP settlement. The product segment weekend a bit whereas the service segment picked up by close to 4% during the same period. The company performed moderately across all parameters reflecting the consistency of business model.
The technological advances made in the areas of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), innovations in storage and ease of use has increased the scope of automotive data identification and collection processes. More and more sectors are using it, with drugs and health care sector leading the way. The future prospects look bright, as automated data identification and collection is set to replace human involvement in all aspects of inventory management in almost all the sectors. Since the company is also financially strong and better positioned in the market, it can leverage these factors positively.
Earnings cc will not provide much hope for bullish case, further sell-off to 17. Weak 4th qtr. (due to tough competitors). Look for huge bound in 1Q to 2Q as sales improve. LT target $35
A key player in the RFID player who owns key patents. An major reason is that it's now a Value pick. Share price had taken a hammering due to lower Q3 revenue forecast. If it's a good pick a few weeks back, it's a Great pick now.
This stock floats between highs and lows like the tide. It is a short term play but must be wacthed closely.
Own key patents in rapidly growing field of RFID. Recent acquisitions at a high premium of several key RFID players. Potential to become the QCOM of RFID space.


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The University Choir is a mixed ensemble of approximately 85-100 singers. The group performs a wide range of musical styles and literature. Its social functions provide an excellent opportunity for students to become acquainted with others with similar interests.
Le Choeur de Femmes is a select ensemble of treble voices which number from 30-45. Students in this organization are challenged to achieve musical results much more quickly with advanced literature.
The Chamber Choir is the most advanced of the choirs. Students are required to demonstrate music reading skills as well as vocal technique and training. This group of 40-50 singers has been invited to perform for a number of State and Regional conventions of music educators and choral conductors. The group tours Wisconsin High Schools each year.
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Fixing education policy.
With President Bush's approval rating hovering in the 30s, just about everyone has an opinion on what George W. has done wrong in the last seven years. But not everyone can explain what the next president must do to fix it. So we've called in some experts to tell us. Fixing It is a 10-part series to be published over the course of this week with contributions from some of our favorite writers, offering detailed policy prescriptions for the next president, whomever that may be, on how to quickly undo some of the damage. One of our contributors wryly describes the series as "News You Can Use. If You Happen To Be President." Read the other entries here.
Identifying what needs to be fixed in the field of education is easy: the No Child Left Behind Act, currently up for reauthorization but stalled in Congress pending the next election. The elaborate law requires schools to test the bejeezus out of elementary- and middle-school students in reading and math, to test them again in high school, and to sprinkle in a few science tests along the way. Schools posting consistently poor test scores are supposed to be punished so that they'll clean up their acts and allow NCLB's ultimate goal to be achieved in 2014. The act imagines that essentially all students across the country will be "proficient" in that year, meaning that they'll all pass the battery of standardized tests required by the NCLB. Hence the act's catchy title.
NCLB was enacted in 2001 with huge bipartisan support, though many Democrats in Congress have since disclaimed if not denounced it, presumably having had some time to read it. The act is at once the Bush administration's signature piece of education legislation, its most significant domestic policy initiative, and the most intrusive federal education law in our nation's history. The federal government provides less than 10 percent of all education funding, yet NCLB drives education policy in every school district in the country. In short, it's a big deal. It's also in need of repair. No one—conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican—doubts that.
That's the easy part. The hard part is how to fix it. Let's start with what not to do.
• Don't scrap it. Some reformers advocate scrapping the whole thing and starting anew. Well-known education author/activist Jonathan Kozol recently went so far as to stage what he termed a "partial" hunger strike (others mercilessly called it a "diet") to protest the act. Efforts like Kozol's, designed to torpedo the act, are rash. NCLB has big problems, but its core ideas—creating high goals for all schools, ensuring accountability for meeting them, and focusing attention on disadvantaged and minority students who are too often ignored—are worth retaining. That's why both the New York Times and writers for the National Review have praised the basic idea of NCLB.
• Don't stop all testing; stop stupid testing. Most of the problems caused by the act stem from its ridiculous test-and-punish regime. Specifically, the act promotes the heavy use and misuse not just of tests, but of stupid tests. This isn't a reason to abandon all testing; it is a reason, however, to come up with better tests and better ways to use those tests to judge schools.
There are three problems, in particular, that need addressing.
• We don't know enough about school quality. Current test results don't tell us all we need to know about schools. Far from it. Students are tested in reading and math and a little in science. Reading, math, and science are important, but so are social studies, history, literature, geography, art, and music. Instead of telling us how schools are doing in these other subjects, NCLB is turning them into endangered species by pushing schools—especially those that are struggling—to downplay if not ignore subjects not tested. Many tests that are given further narrow the focus of education by relying on multiple-choice questions that reward memorization and regurgitation rather than analytical and creative thinking.
•What we think we know may be wrong. The second problem is that looking at just a sheet of test scores is a lousy way to judge school quality. Standardized test results tend to track socioeconomic status. As a teacher once remarked, the most accurate prediction you can make based on a student's test score is her parents' income. Teachers and schools with middle-class kids will invariably look better than those with poor kids if the only measure is how many students in a particular year pass a test. What we can't tell from scores alone, because they don't tell us where students started or how much they progressed over the year, is the value that a particular teacher or school has added to a student's education. Basing teacher and school evaluations on a snapshot of a year's test scores makes about as much sense as judging investment advisers based on how much money they are managing instead of the gains they earn for their clients.
• NCLB creates perverse incentives. The third and most fundamental problem has to do with perverse incentives. Schools must show annual improvements on test scores or face increasingly severe sanctions and the stigma of being labeled as failing. NCLB couples this punitive scheme with utter laxity regarding the standards and tests themselves. States get to develop their own standards, create their own tests, and set their own passing rates. Imagine if the EPA told the auto industry it would be fined heavily for polluting too much but let automakers decide for themselves what counts as "too much" pollution. That's basically how NCLB works.
It didn't take states very long to figure out how to play this weird little game: Avoid failure by lowering the bar! And that's exactly what some did, either by making the tests easier or simply lowering the score needed to be considered "proficient." As a result of shenanigans like these, most state tests are not very hard to pass. That many schools still post poor scores is a sign of how far we still need to travel, but it's important to recognize that, at a very basic level, this whole thing is a sham. NCLB, despite lofty rhetoric to the contrary, is not about equalizing opportunities in poor and rich, city and suburban schools; it's about making sure kids can learn some of the basics. No less, for sure, but also no more.
So what can the next president do to fix this mess? Propose an amended NCLB for reauthorization and make sure the new version contains at least three key changes:
• Standardize the standards. It's time to create national standards and tests in at least reading, math, science, and social studies/history. National tests in the past have been nonstarters politically, but they have always polled well, and some politicians are starting to come around. The reality is that the current federal-state compromise isn't working and doesn't make sense in a shrinking and flattening world. Why should we expect less of a student in Mississippi than in Massachusetts? Do fractions and algebra matter in North Carolina but not North Dakota?


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Gong Li -- also credited as Li Gong -- was still in acting school when she got the lead role in the 1988 film Red Sorghum. She was an international hit and starred in many Chinese films throughout the 1990s, including The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). She made several films with director Yimou Zhang, with whom she had a personal relationship until 1995. She has also appeared in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, starring Michelle Yeoh) and Miami Vice (2006, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx).
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Greinke was supposed to be out eight weeks after surgery. But Friday, surprisingly, he's pitching for the Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. If all goes well, Greinke could be back with the Dodgers next week.
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Overview: Three Responses to Mark Regnerus's Study of Children of Parents In Same-Sex Relationships
Jim Burroway
June 11th, 2012
For those of you returning from the weekend, you may have missed the release of a new study published in the July issue of the journal Social Science Research. That study claims to show "numerous, consistent differences, especially between children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents." If true, these results would up-end some thirty years of established scientific research which had previously shown that gay and lesbian parents are, on the whole, just as good parents as their straight counterparts. The study received one-sided coverage in the Deseret News and the Washington Times.
If you haven't already done so, I would recommend you read my analysis of Mark Regnerus's study, "How Different are the Adult Children of Parents Who Have Same-Sex Relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study" (Social Science Review 41, no. 4 (July 2012): 752-770.)
Later yesterday morning, I learned that the July 2012 issue of Social Science Review also includes three commentaries on Regnerus's paper and a rejoinder by Regnerus. That same issue also published a related paper by Loren Marks reviewing and identifying several weaknesses of the past thirty years of social science research about gay parents. I probably won't be able to review Marks's paper until later in the week. The three commentaries also remarked on Marks's paper, but I will concentrate this overview on their observations about the Regnerus paper.
Commentary #1: Paul R. Amato, of Penn State's Department of Sociology. Amato, like the other two commenters who we will review shortly, commended the Regnerus paper for its strongest feature: the use of a large, national probability sample. As I said yesterday, this is an extraordinarily rare achievement in social science research, and it is why Regnerus's paper is so important. Amato reviewed Regnerus's data and for the most part verified Regnerus's finding that Regnerus's sample of children of Lesbian Mothers (with all of the issues surrounding the construction of that sample I noted yesterday), did indeed depart from the Intact Biological Family sample.
Amato used a different statistical method to come to that conclusion, a method known as "effect size." A very brief description is in order. Effect size is, according to this paper, "a simple way of quantifying the difference between two groups that has many advantages over the use of tests of statistical significance alone." Traditional statistical tests, like those Rengnerus used, identify the statistical significance of two measures, meaning that they measure whether the similarity or difference between two measures can be explained by random chance — sort of like two numbers that fall within the same margin of error. If they can't, then they are said to be statistically significant. Effect size, on the other hand, estimates the strength of an apparent relationship between two populations based on the standard deviation of results of the control population. This is important because if the control population has a high degree of variability, then even a large differences in the averages between the two groups might not mean anything since there would still be a large overlap.
I know that's not enough of an explanation to make you (or me) an expert on statistical significance and effect size. But the important thing to keep in mind is that in social science and medical research, it is increasingly recognized that both calculations should be performed. Traditionally, only statistical significance is calculated (as Regnerus did in his paper) and many authors today still only rely on statistical significance tests to evaluate their data. But some journals are beginning to require effect size calculations alongside statistical significance measures, and statistical software packages are beginning to include effect size in their libraries. But calculating effect size has not yet become a standard standard practice.
So, getting back to Amato's paper, he ran some effect size calculations and, as I said, he confirmed Regnerus's finding that children growing up in lesbian households (as aggregated in Regnerus's sample with all of its problems — and I want to keep reiterating that) differed from children growing up in intact biological families with "a moderately large effect size." However:
The choice of comparison group makes a difference, however. Comparisons of offspring with lesbian mothers and offspring from heterosexual stepfamilies revealed a mean effect size of only .15. When children with divorced or continuously single mothers served as the comparison group, the mean effect size was only .19. I would describe these effect sizes as weak.
What is the most appropriate comparison group? This is a difficult question, given the heterogeneity of gay and lesbian families with children. Consider lesbian couples who have children through sperm donation, or gay couples who have children through surrogacy. Is it reasonable to compare these children with the children of continuously married heterosexual parents? Or should children in the heterosexual comparison group be limited to those born via sperm donation or surrogacy? What about lesbian mothers or gay fathers with children from former marriages or unions? Should these children be compared with those of heterosexual parents who are married, cohabiting, remarried, divorced, or never married? The fact that same-sex marriage is now allowed in several states adds another level of complexity to the problem. Perhaps in future studies, married same-sex parents should be matched with married heterosexual parents.
Which pretty much echoed my concerns yesterday.
Commentary #2: David J. Eggebeen of Penn State's Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Eggebeen echoed many of Amato's sentiments. First, he praised the sophistication of Regnerus's raw data set, which represents a significant advance over previous studies. However:
Nevertheless these data are far from ideal. A larger sample does not translate into a sufficiently large sample. Given some of the complexity of the family lives detailed above, a sample of 163 young adults who report a lesbian mother and 73 who report a gay father are frustratingly inadequate for doing anything but broad comparisons across family characteristics.
Eggebeen also cautions against jumping to quick conclusions about what the data means:
Finding a significant number of negative correlates of well-being for children with gay or lesbian parents, even if they are derived from simple models, invites thinking about some possible mechanisms. It is hard to imagine explanations that point to the quality of parenting per se. Parents, regardless of sexual orientation, are equally motivated to provide the best care possible for their children. It is reasonable, however, to posit that gay and lesbian parents and their children face challenges that may make parenting more difficult.
He concludes that Regnerus's study has the potential to address the shortcomings of previous studies, but with an important caveat:
The analyses in the Regnerus paper are provocative but far from conclusive. These very preliminary findings should not detract from the real importance of this paper, the description of a new data set that offers significant advantages. Whether the New Family Structures Study has the possibility of unsettling previously settled questions depends in equal parts on richness of the information collected, as well as the willingness of scholars to make use these data.
Regnerus's larger data set and variable list will become publicly available in the fall so that other researchers to perform their own sets of calculations and comparisons.
Commentary #3: Cynthia Osborne, of the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs. Osborne, like the others, also noted the heterogeneity (i.e. the large in-group differences) of the Lesbian Mother and Gay Fathers groups:
To increase the sample size of children who experienced a same-sex parent, Regnerus included respondents in either the LM or GF comparison groups if they reported that their parent ever had a same-sex relationship. Although this decision has a lot of merit, it makes comparisons across groups somewhat of a challenge. Because the LM group is comprised of young adults who experienced multiple family forms and transitions, it is impossible to isolate the effects of living with a lesbian mother from experiencing divorce, remarriage, or living with a single parent.
She also questioned the decision of what to use as an outcome variable verses a control variable. For the straight populations, the control variables included divorce parents, step-parents, adopted parents, single parents, etc. Among the outcome variables were questions about sexual molestation, forced sex, and whether the family received welfare. She wondered what the data might look like of those were used as control variables rather than outcome variables, since each of them can have a strong effect on childhood outcomes. But while there are all sorts of comparisons that might be made, assigning a cause for the outcome cannot be done based on the data at hand:
Importantly, one cannot clearly link having a lesbian mother (or gay father) with any of these outcomes. As stated earlier, the group is comprised of young adults who experienced multiple family structures, not only a same-sex parent household (indeed, some of the respondents never lived with the mother's same-sex partner). It is quite possible, for example, that many or most of the negative outcomes result from the divorce of the young adult's biological parents that preceded the mother's same-sex relationship. …
…The concern for Regnerus is not Type II errors (saying something is NOT significant when it is), but the possible attribution of differences to living in a same-sex household rather than to experiencing multiple family structures in childhood, one of which happened to be a same-sex parenting relationship.
Osborne emphasized that researchers in this particular field — those who focus on children of same-sex parents — bear a particular responsibility for how their research is presented to the public:
The focus on children of same-sex parents seems, then, to be driven more by the sensitive political and social issues surrounding same-sex relationships than by evidence that this family structure is increasing rapidly or, for that matter, harmful to children. Because the topic is so politicized, scholars must pay even more careful attention to the presentation and interpretation of their findings. Although scholars are trained to use great care to disentangle the causal versus selection effects of family structure and child well-being, we understand that true causation can never be determined because we cannot randomly assign children to various family structures. Consumers of research on children of same-sex relationships, by contrast, may not always have the same training or be so careful in their interpretations. The results of scholarly studies are often scrutinized by pundits and legislators to support their pre-existing ideas of differences or "no differences" across groups.
…Regnerus (2012) finds substantial differences across groups and uses great care to note that his descriptive analysis does not imply causation and that the LM respondents may have lived in many different family structures. Still, the rigor of the study may lead some advocates to claim that growing up with a same-sex parent causes harm and should, therefore, be illegal.
I think we can bank on Osborne's concern coming true. I'm willing to lay odds that we will see it coming true today.
Mark Regnerus's Rejoinder. Regnerus's response was brief. His first comment was to reiterate Amato's and Osborne's concerns about the political rammifications of the study:
I recognize, with Paul and Cynthia, that organizations may utilize these findings to press a political program. And I concur with them that that is not what data come prepared to do. Paul offers wise words of caution against it, as did I in the body of the text. Implying causation here—to parental sexual orientation or anything else, for that matter—is a bridge too far.
Regnerus acknowledged that "the sample size of respondents whose parents report a same-sex relationship is substantial but not large enough to explore some of the more fine-grained distinctions that may well be present." He also said that he is already planning to use the detailed dataset in future studies, and invited other researchers to mine the data when it becomes publicly available in the fall. Finally, he ends with this paragraph defending his emphasis on biologically intact heterosexual families:
As each of the three explicitly or indirectly notes, family instability—whatever the sources—is often a top culprit in predicting dysfunction in the lives of children, and the data analyses in my article likewise point in this direction. In fact, the most significant story in this study is arguably not about the differences among young–adult children whose parents who have had same-sex relationships and those whose parents are married biological mothers and fathers, but between the latter and nearly everyone else. Contexts of instability—whether in gay or straight households—appear suboptimal for children's healthy long-term development. While much is made in the scholarly literature about "resilient" youth—those who thrive despite the odds against them and in lieu of an optimal family context—resilience is, on average and perhaps by definition, not normal. Moreover, even resilient children would likely prefer to have engaging parents who are not simply in their lives but in their households. Adults of good will, and most family scholars, typically agree on this. Whether some relationship arrangements are more systematically prone to disorganization than others is an important and empirically-testable question.


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Dear Connie,
I know the counselor said we shouldn't contact each other during our "cooling off" period, but I couldn't wait anymore. The day you left, I swore I'd never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first
one to make contact. In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride's cost me a lot of things.
I'm tired of pretending I don't miss you. I don't care about looking bad anymore. I don't care who makes the first move as long as one of us does. Maybe it's time we let our hearts speak as loudly as our hurt.
And this is what my heart says: "There's no one like you, Connie." I look for you in the eyes and breasts of every woman I see, but they're not you. They're not even close.
Two weeks ago, I met this girl at Flamingos and brought her home with me. I don't say this to hurt you, but just to illustrate the depth of my desperation. She was young, maybe 19, with one of those perfect bodies that only youth and maybe a childhood spent ice skating can give you. I mean, just a perfect body. Tits like you wouldn't believe and an
ass that just wouldn't quit. Every man's dream, right?
But as I sat on the couch being blown by this stunner, I thought, look at the stuff we've made important in our lives. It's all so superficial. What does a perfect body mean? Does it make her better in bed? Well, in this case, yes, but you see what I'm getting at. Does it make her a better person? Does she have a better heart than my moderately attractive Connie? I doubt it. And I'd never really thought of that before. I don't know, maybe I'm just growing up a little.
Later, after I'd tossed her about a half a pint of throat yogurt, I found myself thinking, "Why do I feel so drained and empty?" It wasn't just her flawless technique or her slutty, shameless hunger, but something else. Some nagging feeling of loss. Why did it feel so incomplete?
And then it hit me. It didn't feel the same because you weren't there to watch. Do you know what I mean? Nothing feels the same without you.
Gosh, Connie, I'm just going crazy without you. And everything I do just reminds me of you.
Do you remember Carol, that single mom we met at the Holiday Inn lounge last year? Well, she dropped by last week with a pan of lasagna. She said she figured I wasn't eating right without a woman around. I didn't know what she meant till later, but that's not the real story. Anyway, we had a few glasses of wine and the next thing you know, we're banging away in our old bedroom. And this tart's a total monster in the sack. She's giving me everything, you know, like a real woman does when she's not hung up about her weight or her career and whether the kids can hear us.
And all of a sudden, she spots that tilting mirror on your grandmother's old vanity. So she puts it on the floor and we straddle it, right, so we can watch ourselves. And it's totally hot, but it makes me sad, too. Cause I can't help thinking, "Why didn't Connie ever put the mirror on the floor? We've had this old vanity for what, 14 years, and we never used it as a sex toy."
Saturday, your sister drops by with my copy of the restraining order. I mean, Vicky's just a kid and all, but she's got a pretty good head on her shoulders and she's been a real friend to me during this painful time. She's given me lots of good advice about you and about women in general. She's pulling for us to get back together, Connie, she really is.
So we're doing Jell-O shots in a hot bubble bath and talking about happier times. Here's this teenage girl with the same DNA as you and all I can do is think of how much she looked like you when you were 18. And that just about makes me cry. And then it turns out Vicky's really into the whole anal thing, that gets me to thinking about how many times I pressured you about trying it and how that probably fueled some of the bitterness between us.
But do you see how even then, when I'm thrusting inside your baby sister's cinnamon ring, all I can do is think of you? It's true, Connie. In your heart you must know it.
Don't you think we could start over? Just wipe out all the grievances away and start fresh? I think we can. If you feel the same please, please, please let me know. Otherwise, can you let me know where the remote is?
Love, Chuck
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- Cut-to-Length Carbon Quality Steel Plate from India, Indonesia and Korea (2012)
- Tin and chromium coated steel sheet from Japan (2012)
- Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from Italy, Malaysia and the Philippines (2012)
- Carbon steel products from numerous countries
- Honey from China (2012)
- Stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan and Spain (2012)
- Brass sheet and strip from France, Germany, Italy and Japan (2012)
- Fresh garlic from China (2012)
- Fresh and chilled Atlantic Salmon from Norway
- Polyester staple fiber from Korea and Taiwan (2012)
- Represented domestic industry in circumvention reviews of small diameter graphite electrodes (SDGEs) from China, wire rod from Mexico and honey from China.
- Represented U.S. companies in appeals of various trade remedy cases before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving activated carbon, pasta, polyester staple fiber, carbon wire rod, hot rolled carbon steel, honey, garlic, stainless steel bar, stainless steel wire rod, grain-oriented silicon electrical steel and wire decking.
- Represented various U.S. companies in charges of unfair trade practices in foreign markets before courts in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia. Products involved include live swine, bovine meat and other food products.
- Participated in defending challenges to U.S. trade remedies before the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO involving steel products from Europe and DRAMs from Korea.
- Represented U.S. companies in challenges before NAFTA panels involving a variety of products from Canada or Mexico, including swine, pork, stainless steel flat-rolled products and carbon steel wire rod.
Export Controls and Compliance
- Provided export compliance training, counseling and licensing assistance to a high technology company with over 20,000 monthly export shipments of electronic products, software and related technology, including a high percentage of exports containing encryption.
- Assisted the European subsidiaries of a large U.S. company with over 24 foreign affiliates in the review of all products for export and re-export license requirements and related commercial and military export controls in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland.
- Advised an international manufacturing company with $4 billion in annual revenue concerning numerous potential export control violations, analysis of potential voluntary disclosure, document retention policies and processes, improvements to their compliance system and related issues. Coordinated 35 U.S. and foreign site visits to conduct export compliance reviews. Conducted in-person advanced export compliance training seminars for compliance managers.
- Assisted a large multinational telecommunications company in connection with the protection in Europe of encryption software against unauthorized disclosure in violation of U.S. and EU export control laws.
- Prepared and implemented a customized compliance system at a large e-logistics provider with international operations.
- Drafted content for Commerce and State Department export compliance modules for a major e-learning training provider.
- Assisted with preparation, implementation and training for a customized compliance system at a major electronics supply company.
- Drafted an EU Export Control Compliance Manual for a large company with products having military, dual use and nuclear applications; and advised the company on supplementary export control obligations arising in individual European countries.
- Acted as advisor to U.S. pump and valve industry associations regarding export control issues.
- Advised Fortune 50 retailer regarding export compliance issues. Drafted and designed web-based compliance training programs.
- Prepared a voluntary self disclosure (VSD) involving 200+ ITAR-controlled exports of technical data - resolved with a warning letter.
- Conducted an internal compliance audit and prepared a VSD for a radar system and laser guidance system component manufacturer. The matter involved more than 80 reported violations and was resolved with a warning letter. Provided remedial training and process improvements.
- Prepared a VSD and implemented an export compliance system for a Patriot Air Defense System missile component exporter.
- Conducted a compliance audit, prepared a VSD, and designed and implemented a compliance system for a missile propulsion and explosives manufacturer.
- Prepared a VSD under ITAR and implemented compliance system improvements for a major valve manufacturer and supplier to the U.S. Navy.
- Prepared an export compliance system for a major submarine component manufacturer.
- Provided export compliance advice to numerous defense-industry clients, including: an aircraft fighter jet component exporter, a missile nose-cone manufacturer, leading composite materials defense products manufacturers and a start-up defense services/training company.
- Provided ITAR classification advice to a battlefield fuel cells manufacturer.
- Provided commodity jurisdiction advice to a military and commercial vehicle component manufacturer with $5 billion in annual revenue.
- Provided commodity jurisdiction and compliance advice for a military/intelligence electronics manufacturer.
Represented a global and diversified Fortune 200 conglomerate including:
- Completed a customs compliance assessment for the clients' largest importing group.
- Assisted our client's largest importing group in becoming a validated C-TPAT member.
- Advised on classification and marking ruling requests and NAFTA verification matters.
- Conducted internal reviews, established import/export compliance programs, and provided on-site training for the company's business units.
- Conducted an intensive multi-country internal investigation for a major oilfield equipment company, including extensive document review, interviews and legal analysis. Subsequently, we represented this company in the SEC/DOJ settlement of Iraq Oil-for-Food payments alleged to be in violation of FCPA anti-bribery and accounting provisions. We also settled Oil-for-Food payment charges brought in the Netherlands in conjunction with local counsel.
- Counseled and conducted an internal investigation for a major U.S. tobacco company regarding several FCPA matters. As part of this engagement, we conducted multiple training sessions and established an FCPA compliance system for the company.
- Trained and counseled the U.S. Valve Manufacturers' Association of America and Hydraulic Institute (U.S. pump manufacturers' association) regarding FCPA matters. As part of this engagement, we conducted FCPA training and coordinated best practices approaches for industry members.
- Provided FCPA compliance training in India to U.S. companies doing business there.
- Advised multiple large companies regarding foreign subsidiary and foreign intermediary liability issues under the FCPA.
- Represented a European joint venture in an internal investigation of possible violations of the FCPA and money laundering statutes. The investigation was conducted in 30 jurisdictions, including the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia, and required compliance with the data protection laws of several European countries.
- Represented a French joint venture partner in connection with simultaneous administrative and criminal proceedings in France and the United States involving possible violations of the FCPA and French laws prohibiting bribery and money laundering.
- Assisted a leading manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in an investigation of possible FCPA violations involving construction contracts in the Middle East.
- Counseled numerous publicly traded companies regarding FCPA due diligence in proposed mergers and acquisitions.
- Conducted internal corporate investigations regarding payments to government officials in Asia and Europe.
- Represented companies in SEC investigations concerning compliance with records and bookkeeping provisions of FCPA.
International Dispute Resolution
- Represented leading global dry grocery manufacturer before the USTR, avoiding the imposition of prohibitive tariffs on imports of Irish oats into the United States.
- Represented the domestic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin industry before the ITC in successfully opposing a requested waiver of the competitive need limitation sought by Indonesian producers of PET resin under the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.
Market Access
- Represented a plasma collection and therapeutics industry association on market access issues and foreign regulatory matters in Asian countries including China, Taiwan and Japan.
- Represented a U.S. household goods manufacturer in negotiations with the Taiwanese government.
- Represented U.S. outdoor power equipment manufacturers in negotiations with French and EU government officials regarding the application of the EU Machinery Safety Directive to U.S. exports.
- Represented the U.S. automobile industry regarding access to the Japanese market.
- Advised a U.S. automobile company on Eastern European tariff issues.
- Represented the U.S. pork industry with respect to market access issues in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
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Tantra (Sanskrit: तन्त्र, the Yoga of Shagging with Intent)[1] is the Asian philosophy of sexual ecstasy associated with physical enjoyment as a pathway to enlightenment. According to some, Tantra is based on the Sanskrit scripture "Kama Sutra". The discipline is commonly identified with the practice of experiencing throes of ecstasy through rituals associated with the tantric motto "From your mouth to God's ear". Tantra deals candidly with sacred sexuality, in which males withhold ejaculation within their groin until the couple or triple all reach Spiritual fulfillment. Then, of course, the males ejaculate all over the place and as far as possible.
Tantrism has influenced Hindu, German, Dutch, Japanese, American, Hippie and other art forms, various randy and ricky traditions, and, in the 1970s, finally gained a mainstream audience through the documentary films of Tibetan Buddhist tantric masters Linda "Looselips" Lovelace and John "Sherlock" Holmes.
Western Tantra
In the western world, people think that Tantra refers to either a sexual encounter with revved up results or to flavored ancient Indian pee. In fact, most western writers try to separate Tantra sex from its core of experiencing one's consciousness as a unified whole associated with both the all-seeing eye and the void of nothingness. Assuming they know it all, they try to fit Tantra into their limited belief system (B.S). These know-it-alls then pass their little knowledge to other know-it-alls, and soon everybody knows-it-all without knowin' nuttin.
Tantra defined
The Sanskrit word Tantra derives from 'tanu', meaning body, and 'tra' meaning to expand, spin out, weave, shag, and ultimately become liberated from material bondage. Tantra takes the approach that one should not reject the body and its desires, but actually embrace them, your neighbors them, and your babysitters them on the road to enlightenment. Tantra shares the view that sexual intercourse can be a sacrament and a means of spiritual transformation.
The common view of sex by most western men is that you become stimulated and within seconds are ejacualating, solely for pleasure's sake. In sacred tantra, ejaculation control is cultivated, and adherents go beyond sex into a new realm of "mystical awareness".
In other words, Tantra sex expands consciousness, and allows your perception to include the all and the void at the same time. It weaves together the polarities of male (represented by either the Hindu god Shiva, or the American comedian Chris Rock), and female (embodied by the Hindu goddess Shakti or the latin singer Shakira), into a harmonious whole.
"Sexual energy is also a powerful tool for creating health," says Christiane ButterCups, Mad.Doctor., author of "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Then Woman, Do My Laundry and Cook My Damn Dinner Already, Bitch!"
"By using sexual energy consciously, we can tap into a true source of youth and vitality," the 87-year old Buttercups explained and demonstrated, hanging from her knees from a chandelier, a can of lubrication in one hand and her remaining ounce of sanity in the other.
How Is Tantric Sex Unique?
In the West people may go through their whole life viewing sex as a source of recreation rather than as a means of transformation. The goal is to reach orgasm like a dog in heat rather than to pleasure and connect with their lover.
Their boring sexual acts have a distinct beginning and end, a climax somewhere in there (yawn), and last for about 10 or 15 seconds, ah, no, not seconds, minutes, ahem, minutes. Given that women can take about 20 minutes just to warm up and reach full arousal (longer than they need to put on their makeup!), this type of sexual experience can be deeply unsatisfying for them, their more sensitive partners, and even for their normal partners who are fast asleep and already dreaming by this time.
In the Tantric model the sexual experience is seen as a dance with no beginning or end[2]. A dance that keeps a divine focus on the present moment of exquisite union. For this reason, it is meditative, expressive, intimate, and more costly if you're paying for it.
Leading teachers of Tantra say that even men who experience premature ejaculation can learn to extend their lovemaking. One of the most well known advocates of Tantra is the musician Sting[3], who blames it for his fulfilling sex life--although he does give shout-outs to vodka and his credit limit. So, bottom-line, the magic of Tantra is available to anyone.
Beginning Tantric Sex Techniques
The following exercises will help connect you with your body and your partner in profound ways. As you move through these steps, do not focus on intercourse as the ultimate goal. Instead, simply enjoy giving and receiving pleasure using gentle touch, loving words, and two or three of those sex toys with the feathers and knobs.
Communicate with your lover to discover what they find most arousing (for some, Beach Volleyball takes them half-way there already). Try to spend at least two weeks[4] practicing the Tantric Intimacy Exercises (TIE) without engaging in intercourse. For many, experiencing these erotic exercises with no pressure to "go all the way" helps release sexual guilt, builds trust, and reawakens sexual desire.
Create an inviting atmosphere
Whether you meet in your bedroom, living room, that downstairs closet that the babysitter likes best, or another space in your home, creating a sacred space will relax you and your lover and bring you into the moment. Candles, fresh flowers, erotic art, ginger snaps, tantalizing aromas, or a photo of Hulk Hogan can transform any room into a temple of sexual delight. Even something as simple as dimming the lights, playing erotic music, and breaking out the hand puppets will help create a welcoming environment.
Dress provocatively. Wear your clown hat and that little nose horn. Or wear nothing at all. And remember, nuttin says lovin' like something from the dungeon!
Tantric Intimacy Exercises
Many reptiles use ritual to develop intimacy, so begin your journey with a ritual. This may be something as simple as feeding each other delicious foods or sharing a glass of wine or a bowl of ganja in the nude. You can choose a home in the neighborhood to Toilet Paper and then run down the street screaming like baboons. Or, since water relaxes the body and is a symbol of sexuality[5], take a bath together[6] and splash some on each other.
But do take time to seduce your lover with massage, poetry, dance and play. Most importantly, take time to communicate and openly share what you adore about each other.
When you're done going gay, sit quietly, cross-legged like crabs (large crabs, not the ones you found while bathing together), and face each other. With your hands on your knees, palms facing up, take soft but deep breaths. Gaze into your partner's eyes--but beyond the eyes, into the soul[7]. This may feel awkward at first, but sustained eye contact is essential for building intimacy. If you fall asleep, keep your eyes open so that your lover thinks you are still staring at them. It gets really funny when you both fall asleep and start snoring, but are still looking at each other. This really freaks out dogs and cats, who will wake you up with their yelps of fear.
Copping a Feel
Now experiment with erotic touch to fully appreciate your partner. Put your left hand in, and shake it all about.
Then share your desires. For example, lovingly ask your partner to caress your shoulder, clitoris, penis, breast, tonsils, or any other legal erogenous zone. Encourage him or her to apply more or less pressure, to stroke in a specific pattern, or to expertly use their tongue, eyeball, big toe, or incredible "pleasure chest". Thank your lover with words and/or monkey sounds. There will be a test on this.
Moving Toward Sexual Bliss
As you finally transition into sex, the idea is to maintain a state of sexual ecstasy for as long as possible[8]. Tantric lovemaking is not result-oriented, but timeless, unstructured, and long-winded.
Keep it slow. A long, slow build-up helps men control orgasm and piques women's arousal. According to one Tantric teacher, the longer you linger in this process of building energy, the longer men can resist ejaculation.
Different sex positions add to sexual pleasure and balance male and female energies. When lovers release themselves from gender roles, they are free to engage in deeper, more intimate sex. Men realize their sexual potential through surrender, by being soft and open, gentle and vulnerable. Women, in turn, can direct, initiate, and drive the fleshmobile either on automatic or stick. As you experiment with different positions, some male-dominant, some female-dominant, explore your capacity to be strong and gentle, generous and receptive, Amos and Andy, Yin and Yang, and Hansel and Gretel.
In the midst of all this monkey business, remember again that you are a creature that breaths. Since quick breathing or panting creates arousal, which speeds you toward orgasm, take long, slow, deep breaths from the belly, exhaling gradually. Taking turns breathing creates even more closeness. If you get any closer you're going to have to start sharing the remote, so watch it.
Multiple Orgasms for Men
Tantric sex distinguishes between orgasm and ejaculation, although they often occur at the same time. Men are capable of having orgasms without ejaculating[9], and ejaculatory control is what makes it possible for Tantric lovers to capture an orgasm's magical energy. By holding back, men can experience a series of "mini-orgasms" (especially when they drive the babysitter home in the "mini-van").
This does not mean that they are never to ejaculate, like Humprey Bogart, but that they can control their climax and wait for awhile. The essence, say Tantric experts, is to catch a wave of energy and to surf the edge without going over. A proven way to do this is to. . .
. . .pump the PC muscles. That's right, pump them! The pubococcygeal (PC) muscles--your ultimate sex muscles--run from the pubic bone to the tailbone ("Dem bones Dem bones gonna. . . dance around") and are used by Mother Nature to stop the flow of urine. Kegel exercises are the best way to tone the PCs, contracting them three times a day, 20 to 25 repetitions.
This simple exercise can be done anytime, even at work or school. Just let the people around you know when you're doing them, so they can either stand around and watch or jump right in and do some themselves. And don't overdo it. After a few days of conditioning, try to extend the squeeze, holding each contraction for two seconds. Gradually work up to 10 seconds. Once your PCs are in top shape, you can ride the orgasmic wave without cumming all over your partner's face too soon.
And relax[10]. Although it sounds paradoxical, it's important for men to stay relaxed during high states of arousal. If you feel an orgasm is close, take a slow, deep breath, and stop long enough for your arousal to subside. Take this time to talk to your partner about other women you would like to tantra, or to take another toke[11] And by experimenting, you'll discover how much "time out" you require before catching the next wave.
Put it all together now: Thrust slowly, allowing arousal to build gradually. Before your excitement mounts, relax, tighten your PC muscles, and take a deep breath. Resume, relax, hold, breathe. Near the crest, open your eyes, clamp down on your PC muscles and take a deep breath to experience the joy[12] of orgasm without ejaculating. Since these techniques take practice, expect quite a few "wipe outs" before you achieve mastery.
From that point on you can wear your "King of the Cock" tee-shirt (which comes free with this article) and, wearing it, can approach any fine lady, point to your stuff, and whisper in her ear in a deep seductive voice: "I can control my urine."
Freeing Female Orgasm
It is often said that a woman's most powerful sex organ lies between her ears. Since desire can be short-circuited by fear, guilt, stress, and a host of other distracting thoughts, women often need to concentrate on feeling rather than thinking when making love. Taking breaks to pleasure each other, manually and orally, is a great way to ward off any lingering diversions, to coax one or more orgasms, and to pass the time before the pizza arrives.
Clitoral stimulation
Women require stimulation of the clitoris and labia--the inner lips surrounding the clitoris--during sex to reach orgasm. If they don't get this they will bitch and moan, and eventually leave you for the guy who fills your bags at the local market. Prolonged clitoral touch, with a gentle, patient hand, is, for many, the key to sexual ecstasy. Women should use sounds, positive words, and a laser pen to guide their lover, and show their partner how to stroke them on their girly parts "just so".
The sacred spot
The G-spot, about the size of a pea or a quarter (a Canadian quarter), is referred to in Tantra as the "Sacred Wow". This potent erogenous zone is located about two to three inches up on the front side of the vaginal channel. When your lover is aroused, slip your ring finger into her vagina allowing your fingertip to brush against the inner wall. If you still have your ring on your ring finger, especially if it's your decoder ring, she may become unaroused and may not stick around, so watch it Romeo!
Other Tantric benefits
Lovers who practice Tantra may emerge from it scarily psychic, and become more acutely aware of their own and other people's hang-ups, blocks, and behavorial patterns. They can also learn to direct sexual energy through the body's "chakras"--its energy centers--which creates feelings of ecstasy, enhances health, and drives the fake psychics crazy.
"Tantra, a school of many courses and levels of study, contains unlimited potential for spiritual gain, sexual delight, and worldly success. It always releases a particular kind of beneficial energy, sort of like a good pipeful of hashish or a pitcher of well-made margaritas," the babysitter told me about an hour or so before I dropped her off last night.
- ↑ "Tantra In Volume" by North, Peter, p. 49
- ↑ Sort of like a really good old-timey rave
- ↑ And how do you think he got his nickname, ladies?
- ↑ American men, yeah, yeah, two minutes is fine.
- ↑ And comes in handy if you develop sexually induced dehydration.
- ↑ To check for crabs, lice, and those pesky AIDS blotches.
- ↑ The thingy that's us
- ↑ For American guys, where three minutes is unheard of, try for four bucko, try for four
- ↑ Or without taking a woman to dinner!
- ↑ Yeah, just relax Dude!
- ↑ Taking timeouts during lovemaking for another toke or two is valuable advice you'll get almost nowhere else, you lucky bastard.
- ↑ ". . .now hear the word of de Lord"


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A while back David Cronenberg dropped the bombshell news that there were plans for an Eastern Promises sequel, Stephen Knight was already writing a script, and there was even some interest from Focus Features in getting it made. Instantly, fans of slicked back hair, tattoos, and vodka shot grimaces rejoiced at the possibility all over the world. But "script being written" is a long way from "actually being made" in the life of a potential project, so how's the progress on this one going these days? Turns out, pretty dang good.
Vulture is reporting that not only is the first film's star, Viggo Mortensen, looking like he's ready to come back and make the sequel, but French actor extraordinaire Vincent Cassel is currently in negotiations to return as well. Mortensen and Cassel teaming up for anything has to be seen as great news. Report that they're working together on a straight-to-video Gone Fishin' sequel and it would be exciting. But this? This could be one of the rarest things in the world: a non-superhero sequel that movie fans actually want to see.
According to this report, the story for the second film is planned to pick up right where the first left off, with Cassel's incompetent character thinking he's had the good fortune of inheriting a criminal empire, but not knowing that his right-hand man (Mortensen) is actually an undercover agent. That's a tense situation that sounds likely to explode. And, if we're lucky, maybe it will explode in an even crazier naked steam bath knife fight than the one that happened in the first film. They do always say that sequels need to go bigger.


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