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Liege, Belgium: Five-time winner Lance Armstrong will saddle up for Saturday's Tour de France prologue knowing that his bid for a sixth, record-setting victory might be one he would rather forget.
Armstrong, and not Germany's five-time runner-up Jan Ullrich, is still the favourite to win the race and overtake the record of Spaniard Miguel Indurain, the first five-time consecutive winner, when the July 3-25 race begins here.
However, the 32-year-old American is likely to ride off the prologue's time trial ramp next Saturday in an ominous shadow for the first 6.1km, and possibly the remainder of the race.
A potentially damaging book published recently in France carries allegations from a former masseuse of the US Postal Service team that Armstrong talked about and used the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin).
The book also quotes former New Zealand professional Steven Swart, who said that riders, including Armstrong, at their former team Motorola used EPO to keep pace with the peloton as the drug took a grip of racing in the mid-1990s.
Armstrong and his team vehemently deny the allegations contained in LA Confidential - The Secrets of Lance Armstrong, and tried, unsuccessfully, to have inserts in the book warning readers that it was defamatory.
His lawyers fear the allegations could seriously tarnish the image of a man who has never been punished for a doping offence.
Although he tested positive for a corticosteroid at the Tour de France in 1999, Armstrong was not punished by the Tour organisers or the sport's authorities because his team explained that he had unwittingly used a cream for saddle sores.
Armstrong has a lot of popular support after winning the hearts and minds of cancer sufferers and sports fans alike since winning his first Tour in 1999, only 18 months after recovering from what is commonly a fatal form of testicular cancer.
Whether the furore over the book - coupled with Armstrong appearing to be less serious about riding since beginning a relationship with musician Sheryl Crow - can deflate his hopes of a historic sixth win are up for debate.
Some, like the Quick Step team's respected manager, Patrick Lefevere, believe it will make the Texan more determined.
"A lot has been made of his new girlfriend and the fact that he's seemed more relaxed off the bike, but I think that will be offset by another factor: the book," Lefevere said. "I think that Lance is very angry, and it will be his rivals at the Tour who feel the full brunt of that anger."
Ullrich, the 1997 Tour winner, may not be alone in hoping to beat Armstrong this year.
The German bounced back from an annus horribilis in 2002-2003 to give Armstrong one of his toughest Tour campaigns before finishing runner-up for the fifth time last year, missing the yellow jersey by barely a minute.
This year Ullrich seems more sure in his chances.
"I'm not going to the Tour to get another second place," Ullrich said this week.
There's talk of Spanish climber Iban Mayo, who beat Armstrong on the Mont Ventoux time trial at the recent Dauphine Libere stage race before claiming overall victory, challenging in the general classification.
The little Euskaltel rider has improved his time trialling this season, and his chances increase with the absence from the race of Alexandre Vinokourov of T-Mobile and Spain's three-time podium finisher Joseba Beloki.
Another American, last year's fourth-place finisher Tyler Hamilton, will have the unstinting support in the mountains of his Spanish teammate at Phonak, Oscar Sevilla.
All will have to be watched, admitted US Postal team manager Johan Bruyneel. But, he added: "The most dangerous obstacle to Lance is Ullrich."
Armstrong's physical coach, Chris Carmichael, said however that the five-time champion was on schedule. "We did a final pre-Tour field test the other day. It's the last major test for Lance and is a solid indicator of his preparation," Carmichael wrote on Armstrong's website.
"I reviewed the data and I can tell you he is exactly where he needs to be and I have the utmost confidence that Lance will win his sixth Tour de France."
Tour de France director Jean-Marie Leblanc, meanwhile, said he was confident Armstrong would silence his critics.
"He's so professional, he works hard . . . It was Armstrong who first went out to preview the crucial stages on the race, which is something that his rivals are all now doing," he said. "He maybe isn't a more naturally talented rider than Jan Ullrich ... But Armstrong has won five Tours through his mental strength, his temperament and his hard work."


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text: I just think that it is really premature to draw big conclusions from one tiny competition. Neither is Joubert back just because he didn't fall all over the place, nor are Jeremy or Alissa out of the game just because they had some problems. Jeremy's SP score is still criminal though, as is Kostner's to a lesser amount. Which is my conclusion - stupid judging system! I am all about the artistic side of skating - but falls are falls and a Triple-Toe - Double-Toe stays the simplest combo in the elite skater's arsenal (provided there were no accidental singles), no matter how elaborate everything around it.


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PS3 Slim Made Faster With Firmware 3.0
Now faster than before thanks to a firmware update.
Did you snag yourself a new PS3 Slim? You should check to make sure that you're running the latest firmware, which is currently at version 3.0.
Comparisons of the PS3 Slim running the older 2.8 firmware and latest 3.0 firmware find clear loading time advantages with the newer system software. Check out the comparison videos embedded below:
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Earlier this week we showed you the loading time differences between the new PS3 Slim and older PlayStation 3 model. While the final speedtest comparison between them has yet to happen, it seems that the PS3 Slim is the one to get if you want to be loading your games faster.
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dtempleThe last speed test was between PS3 Slim running 2.76 and PS3 Fat running 2.80. That was an unfair comparison. The loading time difference on Batman Arkham Asylum between the slim and the fat was due to the slim not playing the intro clip that displays "Playstation 3" on the screen. My fat, running 3.00, does not display that screen when you start a game, meaning it has identical loading time to a slim for games.
The fat was 7 seconds faster loading a blu-ray movie.
So far, the slim has proven to be equal or slower in everything, but I'm not complaining since the system has a lot lower power consumption and price. I do, however, thoroughly enjoy playing emulated games on my Linux partition using my Dualshock3 thru bluetooth - something a slim can never do.
warezmesometimes load times and reading to different DVD media comes down to the DVD reader. If Sony is anything like Dell they may may use 2 or 3 different manufacturers for their drives. Some drives just suck, others are not to bad, and some depend on what media or firmware they have loaded as to how they will perform.
kawininjazxI can't complain about load times. When I toss in Modern Warfare on my porky PS3, I'm online and playing in no time. I don't care if it takes a few more seconds, like the other guy said, I can go grab a beer while I'm waiting.
As for price, I got my $399 PS3 for $269 shipped with the Sony Playstation credit card promotion last December.
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- by bluesky49601/27/13by Anonymous01/27/13
Good story
I would have liked it better without the verbal abuse. I understand the dom and sub roles but anyway - that's just me.
I too felt the need to try it with a black man, and while it was good, it wasn't great. He picked me up in the showers of a YMCA hotel in NYC. I had never seen anything like what was swinging between his legs in the shower. Without exageration it had to be almost a foot long limp, but when it got hard it wasn't as big.
That was alright with me since it was still huge, but the problem was that he never really got hard (and it wasn't my fault because I sucked him and rimmed him for over a half hour). It stayed at like half mast and he had to pretty much pour it into my ass. Took a lot out of it for me because I wanted him to drill me hard, but it was more like having jello jammed up there.
I'm glad you enjoyed your experience though, and it was a hot story.by Anonymous01/27/13by Anonymous01/28/13by Anonymous01/29/13
I wanted to try after watching some big cock porn.Why did women like big cock,i needed to find out.I placed an ad,the one that appealed most was a guy one hour away.We agreed to meet,said he was 9 inches,also thick.At a hotel,we got on,went back to his place.We didnt muck around,we got undressed,he was thick,he asked had i been fucked before,no,late starter,i was 46,he was 51.He put on a dvd,i watched as a guy took a huge cock in his bum,he stroked his cock,my 6 inches looked so small.He applied lube to his cock,stroking,then told me to get on my knees.I did,he squirted lube into my hole,i felt one finger,2 move around in me,then 3,wow,i was perspiring.He pulled them out,straddled me,the big head against my hole,pressure,i tried to relax and i opened,the head moving into me,i yelped,he stopped,more lube,i was so stretched,he kept pushing,i was dripping sweat,then he eased out.I couldnt take the whole head.He sat down,more lube on his cock,then told me to sit on it,slowly.I opened up again,the head sliding in but it just wouldnt go,then his hands on my hips,pulling me down,down,the head went past my entrance,i screamed,he held me there and the rest of that big cock slowly slid into me until i was sitting on his thighs.He let go,i moved forward,only a little then back down,until i was rocking halfway up his cock and back down.The third time caused my cock to shoot cum into the air,squeezing him and grabbing me he fucked up into me,his hot cumm drenching my insides,sliding easier in and out until he was completely emptied.I tried to collapse off him but he held me there until he was ready,then as i climbed off, cumm dripped from me.i went home,my arse was sore for 2 days but i knew i wanted more.by Anonymous01/30/13by DrMikeHunt02/03/13by handle24702/12/13
More to come soon!
Glad you guys are liking the story. I liked taking that dick. More to come soon.
It was happening again. A few days after my meeting with Reggie, I sat horny one night slowly rubbing my finger around my recently opened asshole that took his thick 9.5 inch cock. I'd promised myself that I wouldn't call him again. I'd seen a side of me I'd never seen before. I was stretched and power fucked into becoming a slut for huge black cock. I'd not only taken the big cock in my throat and ass, something I'd promised Reggie could taje before even seeing his cock, but I also asked and begged for it. I arched my back like a receiving whore and was proud to have brought that cock to a messy climax all over my face and mouth. I cleaned off all the excess cum from his cock like proud slut that would give everything to be seeded.
Now it was time to find another adventure to satisfy my new urges!by Anonymous02/15/13by Anonymous03/10/13
You lucky slutty BBC fuckslut
Your performance with Reggie made my white little tgirl pussy all wet. I wish it was me getting pounded balls deep by Reggie's BIG BLACK 9.5" COCK.
I'm a white blonde bubble butt tgirl fuckslut living in Vegas and I love teasing BIG BLACK 12" COCKS until they are rock hard and dripping wet with precum. I love to lift up my hot pink mini skirt and grind my hips into a big black stud's crotch. I love the feel of that hot pulsating rock hard BIG BLACK 12" COCK against my frilly hot pink panties. Black studs love white buble butts and many of them come to Vegas to get their BIG BLACK 12" COCKS serviced.
I got addicted to BIG BLACK 12" COCKS when I starter watching IR porn as a teen. I knew then that this is what I wanted to be , a BBC tgirl fuckslut. I have never had white dicks.
There is no greater extasy than being ravaged balls deep by a BIG BLACK 12" COCK, so I know the extasy you felt while Reggie was pounding your tight white ass with his BIG BLACK 9.5" COCK.
I have some suggestions for your next BIG BLACK 12" COCKS adventure. Ask Reggie to pimp you out to 3 black studs and relive my night of total BBC extasy.
I had picked up 3 big black studs in the courtyard of the casino and asked them to come over to my place in about an hour. This gave me time to get dressed up in my BBC fuckslut hot pink outfit. I wore hot pink crotchless pantyhose, long silky shiny stockings tied to an 8-garter waist cincher garter belt, silky frilly thong panties, my shiny hot pink full mini skirt and my thigh-high 6" hot pink BBC fuckslut boots.
I have a special room at my place which I call my "BBC FUCKSLUT ROOM". I have a mini stage in it with several red spot lights and floor fans along each edge. I love to have the fans because they blow my hot pink mini skirt up when I dance next to them. This is why I only wear "full" miniskirts.
The doorbell rang in less than an hour and I was shaking with lust as I let these 3 big black studs in. They saw me in my BBC hot pink fuckslut outfit and I saw lust in their eyes. I got them some beers and asked them to sit down in front of my stage for a BIG BLACK 12" COCK fuckslut show. I turned on all of the spotlights which were aimed at my white bubble butt and all of the fans. I purposely walked to one of the fans before beginning to dance and turned my back to them, bent my knees, put my hands on my knees and let the fan blow my hot pink mini skirt up around my waist. I turned my face towards them with my pink lipstick BBC fuckslut lips open and gave them the "Please fuck me balls deep with your BIG BLACK 12" COCKS" look. They howled like wolves!
I turned on my favorite disco music, but not too loud because I always moan when I tease-dance for some BIG BLACK 12" COCKS. I tell them that "I love getting fucked by BIG BLACK 12" COCKS". After a few songs when I was gyrating my hips over a fan with my hot pink full mini skirt blowing up around my waist I noticed that all 3 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS were now rock hard and dripping wet with precum.
I invited them on stage as I put on my hot pink BBC fuckslut slave collar. It has 4 D-rings on it to which I attach 4 chain leashes. I do this because I like it rough when Im'going to be fucked by BIG BLACK 12" COCKS.
I fell to my knees and begged them to gag me balls deep with their BIG BLACK 12" COCKS. But first, since I had been a nasty BBC teasing fuckslut I begged them to slap my white BBC fuckslut face with their BIG BLACK 12" COCKS and drag their big black balls all over my face. My face now had some wonderful black precum on it. I asked them to take their turns standing legs spread in front of me and to grab the two chain leashes on the sides. I almost cummed as the 1st big black stud put the head on my tongue. I begged him to slowly slide his BIG BLACK 12" COCK balls deep by pulling on the 2 chain leashes. I grabbed his ass cheeks and pulled myself in to make sure that I felt the head of that BIG BLACK 12" COCK deep in my throat. He pulled out when I gasped for air and I begged him to brutally deep-throat fuck my BBC teasing fuckslut face. I had begged the other 2 big black studs to brutally slap each of my white bubble cheeks. The sound and feel of those 2 big black hands slapping my BBC fuckslut bubble butt while being face fucked balls deep by a BIG BLACK 12" COCK was pure and total extasy. I repeated this with the 2nd and 3rd big black studs.
After this exquisite fantasy I started to beg them to fuck me balls deep with their BIG BLACK 12" COCKS. On my stage I also keep a modified workout bench dubbed as my "BBC FUCKSLUT BENCH". I asked the 1st big black stud to lay on it as I straddled him. I pulled up my hot pink shiny latex miniskirt and slowly lowered my white buuble butt on his BIG BLACK 12" COCK. I let it slide between my tight bubble cheeks until his black precum lubed up my tgirl pussy. As his head entered my bubble butt ass I squirmed and swayed my hips and enjoyed the extasy of feeling his BIG BLACK 12" COCK slowly impale me balls deep.
(Have you guessed what this 3 BBC fantasy is going to be yet?).
The third big black stud had already told me to my great delight that he wanted to cum down my throat. My modified "BBC FUCKSLUT BENCH" was high enough to accomodate this BBC fantasy. And now the moment I had been waiting for all evening.
As I straddle the 1st big black stud balls deep, I begged the 2nd big black stud (I love to beg for BIG BLACK 12" COCKS) to slowly impale my tight white bubble butt ass with his rock hard BIG BLACK 12" COCK. I slowly swayed my hips to one of my favorite slow diso songs titled Pillow Talk by Sylvia.
My total BBC fantasy was near. I was now being ravaged by 2 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS balls deep up my bubble butt ass. My 6" thigh-high hot pink BBC fucslut boots allowed me to properly straddle the 1st big black stud while my hips slowly swayed while the 2nd big black stud pounded my bubble butt ass balls deep.
This evening's total BBC fantasy was about to be realized. I moaned and begged the 3rd big black stud to stand legs spread in front of me and grab the 2 side chain leashes and to pull on them until his BIG BLACK 12" COCK was down my BBC fuckslut throat. I had previously begged him to brutally face fuck me and he did so to my great BBC fuckslut pleasure.
This evening's BBC fantasy had now been realized. As I had begged them to do I was now being brutally ravaged balls deep by 3 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS simultaneously. I looked around the stage at the large mirrors and remembered that I had remotely turned on my 3 multi-angle cameras before my BBC fantasy started. The big black studs had insisted on wearing black thugs ski masks for this video. I had agreed because it added to my excitement.
These were indeed true big black studs because this fantasy went on for almost an hour. Everytime I came up for air I would moan to them " C'MON YOU NASTY BIG BLACK STUDS FUCK ME WITH YOUR BIG BLACK 12" COCKS".
I screamed in total extasy"FUCK ME, FUCK ME, FUCK ME. WITH THOSE 3 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS". "I'M YOUR WHITE BUBBLE BUTT BBC FUCKSLUT"
Finally to my great delight, a miracle happened. All 3 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS cummed at the same time. I could feel the 2 BIG BLACK 12" COCKS throbbing as they filled my bubble butt ass with their wonderful black cum. The third big black stud face fucking me had pulled the 2 chain leashes and my face was against his 6-pack when he exploded deep down my throat. In those last few moments I trembled and shuddered in absolute BBC extasy as my little tgirl pussy cummed in my silky hot pink frilly panties. I almost passed out from BBC extasy.
I profoundly apologize for this extremely long comment but I wanted you to know the extasy that awaits you on your next BBC adventure
Maybe I should join this website and write my own real BBC fantasies realized over the past 20 year or so.
Continue writing and I will look for and respond to your next BBC adventure...hopefully soon. Don't forget that the big black studs love slutty hot pink outfis.by smokedance05/12/13by candy4blacks106/06/13by Anonymous08/08/13
great story..
Thank you for writing this story ... it really got me dripping pre-cum myself .. i especially liked the end when Reggie pulls out His great big dick out of your asshole and cums on your face and tongue and then pushes His dick down your throat ... I LOVE it when a black guy fucks my asshole then pulls out and cums in my mouth --nothing turns me on more ..by wicked_annabella10/07/13by Anonymous01/24/14
definitely true
Black guys just seem to love turning white guys in to BBC sluts. I have had a couple of black guys dominate me and just like your story they really seem to get of on making you their total bitch. They know that once they slap that BBC across your face that you will just keep taking it no matter how much you choke and gag. When they have you pinned down and are driving their BBC deep in your ass they know that you are unable to resist no matter how much it hurts.
As you lay there totally exhausted and covered in cum from the throat and ass fucking that you have just endured they will cock slap you a couple of times and stuff it back down your throat just to emphasise that you are their bitch and will be any time that they say.....and they are right.by Lucky165006/21/14
I never had black cock before but would love to try one for sise. The biggest cock that, i've had was 8" thick cock and he was white. He was the one and the biggest cock but now, I love big cocks. I now have these fantásy of sucking and getting it in the ass by a black cock and reading your story, I really want it now. I want to feel his hot cum shooting inside my ass. I'm so horny wanting a hard cock. I'm a married bi bottom latín male, wife is not aware that, I love cock.by Anonymous10/22/14by Anonymous11/09/14
please i need a BBC !
I desperetly need to be fucked by BBC, i think i will go to
USA and do a minor crime in front of some police men so they can catch me and send me to Jail where i'll quickly become a quen for black inmates.
hmmmmm they will love my white round ass, i look so feminine with my long hairs ...by Blk_Cuckold04/21/15by Crazy8787505/29/15by Anonymous06/01/15
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This was a hot story and made me want to tell someone this true story. I answered an ad to give a guy head when I was kind of drunk. I'm a tall hottie in my prime and this was really not my style which made it extra fun. in a trashy way. I get to his apartment in the far side of town. There was the yellow porch light. I parked and cut my lights off right away. The door opened just a crack. I got out of the car and walked to the door... he was average build with more belly than I expected. He was in a robe and it was hanging open. His big uncut dick was pink and brown just like the pics. He leaned against the door frame and dropped a pillow on the doorway. "Kneel down. It's okay."by Anonymous06/25/15by Anonymous07/19/15by Anonymous09/15/15
I love BBC
I absolutely love being with a black man and sucking and getting fucked deep and hard by them I'm a bi married white guy the longer and thicker the better my email is email@example.com I live in upper NY my ultimate goal is to be gangbanged bareback by at least three BBC's or a lot moreby Anonymous09/17/15
I can relate
I had a similar experience when I was a teen, I had started to date Ralphy. He was Puerto Rican like me. Now his cock was only eight to nine inches long but it was fatter than my wrist. I was definitely not a virgin but I had only had sex with one other boy before him. Unlike Ralphy Tony was a black boy and had a much longer cock it measured out to eleven and a half inches but it was much skinnier probably two inches tops. On top of it I only been with Tony three times and each time I was on top so I controlled the pace. Ralphy literally was the first to fuck me. The first time I saw his massive cock I panicked and for the first three month we dated I only would suck his cock, I would not let him fuck me. Some time on the forth month we were at a party with some friends that knew we were together so we were making out he paused and took me by the hand and walked me outside to the porch where we could talk in private. He looked me face to face and asked me how I felt about him and I told him I loved him I really did hell he was the only boy I had ever been sort of out in front of mutual friends. He then asked me if I was a virgin and I was honest with him and told him I had had sex with one other boy. He looked crushed but then asked why I would not have sex with him. I blushing said I was scared of his cock. He chuckled and asked me if that's all, I shook my head yes then he kissed me and promised me to be very gentile and take his time. I went home with him right then I told him I wanted to make love but to please to take his time. At his house we undressed he took me into his bed and spent what must of been hours kissing, sucking my dick and me his, and he fucked my ass with his finger, then two, then three he used plenty of lube. After a long while he was driving me wild I needed to feel his cock so I pulled him up as I tried to roll over on to my stomach. He stopped me from rolling and said that he wanted to look me in the eyes as he fucked me so I lay back on my back and spread my legs. He knelt between my legs lubed his cock really good and locked my knees with his elbows, he lifted my legs up and aimed his cock at the entrance to my ass. He looked at me and asked if I was ready I nodded yes and he pushed in. The head of his cock pushed past the wet outer ring of my ass. The pain was instantaneous my head and eyes rolled back as I took the deepest breath I have ever taken. But he held right there on till he felt me relax and asked me if I was okay before he plunged more of his cock inside me. Again my head and eyes rolled back but this time I let out a cry from the shearing pain. My ass was on fire it felt like my ass was being ripped open. He held him self in that position for what seemed like an eternity. I tried to relax through the pain and as I relaxed the hold my ass had on his cock he pushed what was left in one shot dropping his entire weight on me I cried and took a bite on his shoulder to muffle my screams, again he held his position but it was pointless now he had completely impaled me with his cock and there was no way for me to run I was his finally. After a long while the pain started to be replaced by the feeling of fullness so I tried to relax he sensed this and started to move slowly and very shallow at first. I was still in pain but not as much as at first after a while the pain was less and less I found my self running my hands down his back. He started to take longer strokes as I caressed his back I was getting into it it started to feel amazing. I was kissing him deeply when he pulled out almost completely out then with no warning drove the entire length of his massive cock in one thrust. He made me take a deep breath I grabbed him by the face and told him to fuck me. He looked me in the eye smiled told me he loved me and took me like a beast. I don't know how long it took as he went for what looked like hour's but after some time I felt his cock swell inside me he stiffened up and I felt him fill my ass with his cum. He collapsed on top of me his cock twitched inside me but he stayed inside me as he kissed me when he finally pulled out of me I felt so empty. I looked down at my stomach and saw cum he had literally made me shoot my load from fucking. It was the first time but not the last we dated for two years and we fucked two or three times a week until he moved away.by Anonymous12/18/15by Anonymous12/23/15by subrbnchgobttm12/29/15by TOM46903/06/16by Anonymous03/09/16
First BBC
I was relatively new to cock sucking. I came late to the party. I am a sexy
Senior. It as Sunday night. I hadn't been able to find anything all weekend.
So I decided to try an ad on Craigslist. "Submissive panty man looking for BBC
Soon I got a response . Senior black man home alone. Wife out of town. Come right over. It was only about ten minutes away.
When I rang the bell a handsome older black man opened the door with a robe on.
When I stepped in the robe opened up showing about 7-8 inches of soft black meat.
I followed him down the stairs to the family room. He sat down on a reclining chair,
And he ordered me on my knees. I dropped down and took his manhood in my mouth. I could not believe how big it was once it started to get hard. I put my hand
On the shaft as I sucked the head. He said "no hands" so I went back to sucking no hands. He took both hands and grabbed my head forcing mor and more of his cock
In my mouth till I was gagging. He laughed . He soon was starting to moan while calling me a white slut. Then without wearing he he started shooting a Hugh load.
I tried to swallow as much as possible. Some leaked out the corners of my mouth.
When he collapsed in the chair I finnaly let his meat withdraw from my mouth cunt.
I took my finger and scooped up what had leaked out with my finger and licked it
From my finger.
I know now that after I swallowed his seed that I was now a black mans cum sucker for life. I am thinking of getting a J of spades tattoo so any black man knows he owns me.by Anonymous04/30/16
Fantasizing about massive black cocks gang banging me
The story brought great images to mind. I wish it was me. I am SOOOO JEALOUS you got to experience this and I have not! My white cock is rock hard and my boy pussy is twitching and hungry! Here's how I'd like my first time with a BBC to happen - It would be awesome to have 50 or more big black cocks, all at least 12" long, gang bang me. First each BBC would fuck my face, stretching open my throat before cumming and filling my stomach. That way each BBC can fuck my boy pussy deep and hard for a really long time before cumming for a second time up my now stretched out ass. While the first BBC gives my face and throat a good pounding, my ass would be mercilessly fucked by a huge black dildo in anticipation of all the BBC fucking my boy pussy will be forced to take over the next 20 hours or more. When the first BBC starts to ruthlessly fuck my stretched pussy balls deep, the second BBC would pound my face and throat. This would continue until I had serviced every BBC in my both my fuckholes and had taken a nice big load of that sweet cum down my throat and up my ass from each. Finally, they would team up and brutally DP my boy pussy until I had serviced them all again, but instead of cumming up my ass this time, they would make me lick clean their cocks and DP suck them off so they could fill my stomach again with their sweet black cum while the next 2 BBC start fucking my now permanently destroyed ass even harder than the previous 2 BBC had just done. Before I would be allowed to get some rest, I would be forced to lick up all the cum that leaks out of my freshly and permanently destroyed boy pussy off the floor. That would not be the end of my first BBC gang bang though. The next day would be round two. For round two, they would force me take everything they did to me in the previous day all over again now that I should be able to take anything the biggest BBC tells me to do for his pleasure (my BBC Master). Come the next weekend, I would be forced to come back and take on over 100 massive BBC's in a gang bang that would start Friday afternoon and not stop until Sunday night or early Monday morning. All these gang bangs would be filmed and posted free on the web for the world to see so that I will be totally humiliated. That will make sure I never can stop coming back and being forced to do more. But I will have no desire other than to come back and do whatever gives my new BBC Master pleasure. I will finally be what I have deep down desired to be for a long time - a BBC slave/whore to the biggest black cock in the group. I will get to live my life only to please my BBC Master and any BBC Sirs he forces me to serve by doing everything that brings my massive BBC Master pleasure. His pleasure will be my only desire for the rest of my life!by Anonymous06/06/16
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I was to young to be in the ABS but porn was always on my mind so I snuck in late and made my way back to the theater. I was so excited that I pulled my 6 incher out and stroked it just like most of the others were doing. I saw guys giving guys BJs right in the open and thought it was weird. An hour later a large black man walked in and sat right next to me.
"where's yo daddy boi ? You out alone tonight lookin ?"
"I'm just checking out some movies to see which ones to buy" I told him to try an avoid a confrontation.
"Ya think ya can suck a cock like that titless slut on screen ? I bet you can. Ya like Big Black Cock ?"
I had to answer something so I just said "NO" and then I noticed he already had his oversized cock out and was flopping it around. 9 or 10 inches, fat and not even hard. I couldn't quit looking at it and was in awe as he got harder. His head started to come out of his foreskin and it was dripping wet.
"Ya like poppers ? Here take a couple hits" he said as he handed me a vial.
My questioned look was his clue that I didn't know WTF was going on so he instructed me. WOW was my head fuzzy and he had ahold of my dick too.
"Stroke my NIGGER cock boi." he said as he pulled my hand over to his crotch.
I couldn't touch my fingers around the base but could just under the crown.
"Want some more poppers before ya Suck my Big Black NIGGER Cock ? Gonna show you what ya little white mouth is good fo." he said as he pushed the bottle to my nose.
I couldn't believe what was going on or how fast it was going but I was pretty sure I was turning into a COCKSUCKER as I inhaled the poppers deep and held my breath till my lungs almost popped.
"Git down on ur knees n suck me off bitch boi. Daddy's gonna feed ya some nut juice just like all y'all white bois like. Lick my balls too."
His cock was laying on my forehead as I tonged his balls it was so big and felt heavy too. He started bouncing it on my face.
"Now show me how good a COCKSUCKER you are. Suck my big NIGGER cock bitch. That's it boi, lick it n suck it." he groaned loudly as I tried to do what the girls in the movies did. Then he pushed my head down hard and started choking me on his cock.
He pushed me back aginst the seat behind me and stood up with his big cock waving in my face. I grabbed it and sucked it back in my mouth getting it to my throat entrance before gagging again but he wasn't having any of my "I can't take it" attitude as he grabbed my head in his big hands and forced himself deep in my throat. After a few minutes of him skull fucking me he pulled out and told me to git up and follow him. We went into another theater that was showing gay movies and he told me to get ready for some much needed training.by Anonymous08/14/16by Meniwannafuk01/16/17by Anonymous03/17/17
Yes, to black cock and verbal abuse
The last man to use me was a black friend of mine; and we still talk and are planning another meating! I love his cock; the feel, the taste the sight of it moving in and out of my white mouth. I am coaxing him to be more dominant; letting him know that even thought I am his friend; I am also his to use; his white boy cock sucker. That he can call me his sissy white faggot, his queer white boy, and I will lick, suck and kiss his black body parts as directed. His pleasure is my pleasure.by Anonymous05/08/17by kneelnakedforbbc05/19/17
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Loved how Reggie shot his load of cum all over your face and then smearing it all around. Thanks for being willing to share. I love stories about black men dominating white men and boys, and degrading verbal abuse just makes it hotter. Judging by the comments on this story (and others) there seem to be quite a few white guys who are really turned on by black cocks fucking white mouths and asses. Really love when a black man asserts his dominance by shooting cum all over a white guy's face and then makes the white guy wear it on his face. Even better when a white guy submits to several black guys who fuck all his holes and cum on his face. I think it's perfectly natural for whites to submit to dominant black cock. The rules are simple. White sucks black and black fucks white.
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Nestled away, about an hour drive east of Kansas City, stands a city bursting with pride in its people, values, and hometown spirit. Warrensburg, the perfect combination of progressive thinking and small town hospitality, is a little piece of heaven that thousands call home!
Warrensburg's humble beginning took place when Revolutionary War veteran Martin Warren took to the western frontier and came upon a Garden of Eden in which he placed his homestead. Active during the Civil War, the town grew constantly and became home to the nationally famous Old Drum Court Case in which the dog was declared man's best friend. Whether you're sipping a cappuccino at Java Junction, shopping for shoes at Brown's Shoe Fit Company, or taking a lunch break at Heroes Restaurant, you can see glimpses of the city's heritage throughout the newly renovated look of the historic downtown Warrensburg's streets.
Warrensburg has blossomed from the days to include a thousand existing retail establishments with exciting growth on the horizon. Warrensburg is home to a variety of businesses including hotels, numerous business offices, and a multitude of restaurants including Applebee's, Copper Coyote, and Rib Crib. Extensive commercial growth in the north created the Santa Fe Trail and Northtown Plaza strip malls. Whether it's a small, intimate boutique with friendly, individualized assistance or a major discount store, the Warrensburg business community offers it all.
At the heart of our vibrant and expanding community stands the Warrensburg Community Center, a 6.2 million dollar structure that provides citizens with one of the finest indoor recreational facilities in the nation. The aquatic area features a large indoor water slide, six-lane lap pool, water basketball, water volleyball, a therapeutic spa, a zero depth entry leisure pool, bubble benches, family locker rooms, and much, much more!
The gymnasium comes complete with six basketball hoops, allowing two full-court basketball games to be played simultaneously, and can also be used as a full size volleyball court. The state-of-the-art fitness center comes complete with weight training machines, electronic exercise bikes, treadmills, steppers, free weights, and personal trainers are available to assist people with their fitness program. People may also choose from a wide variety of aerobic classes and can use the indoor track for a walk, jog, or run.
While expansion is invaluable and is important to any progressive city, educating its youth for the future plays a major role in keeping Warrensburg ahead of neighboring communities. During the summer of 1999, the elementary schools were entirely revamped to make air conditioning available to every classroom. The Warrensburg High School includes a theater and agricultural center. A separate vocational school serves the Johnson County area. The district excels in a multitude of sports for both boys and girls, and has one of the lowest drop-out rates in the state. The district cooperates with UCM in developing quality educational programs, and students can earn college credits while still in high school.
Founded in 1871, University of Central Missouri has been serving the Warrensburg community for generations. This highly esteemed university includes a 5.5 million dollar football complex, an enlarged and remodeled baseball stadium, newer amphitheater and bell tower, and the incredible 30 million dollar library, named in honor of James C. Kirkpartick, who served as the Missouri Secretary of State for twenty years.
UCM has helped make Warrensburg the regional center for culture, arts, and music. Clint Black, Sinbad, Adam Sandler, Clay Walker, Robert Kennedy Jr., famed High School principal who inspired the movie Lean on Me, Joe Clark, and even the former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbechev have given presentations at the university.
A friendly neighbor lives next door to the east of Warrensburg named Whiteman Air Force Base. Whiteman's proud history dates back to its activation in 1942 as the Sedalia Air Field and is now the current home to greatest bomber plane in history, the B-2 "Stealth Bomber." Thousands of military individuals are employed by the base while many choose to make Warrensburg their home. The "Wings over Whiteman" annual air show presents an unparalleled display of aerial skill and exciting tactics as the Stealth Bomber, T-38 Talon, Cobra Helicopters, and the A-10 Tunderbolt II (otherwise known as the Warthog) roar across the sky.
Centrally located in the Show Me State, Warrensburg is only a short drive away from a wide variety of vacation locations and other recreational opportunities. The State Fair sits a short 25 mile trek away in Sedalia, while an hour west lies the excitement of the world class city of Kansas City. If people prefer the stars in the sky to the Plaza Lights, the great outdoors of the Lake of the Ozarks is a quick 90 minute hike south, and Truman Lake is less than an hour away.
The historic lake and resort of Pertle Springs has brought vacationers to Warrensburg for decades. This featured area near Lion's Lake has a swimming pool, golf course, hiking trails, and is the perfect setting for a relaxing picnic while watching the sun go to sleep. Some people may choose to view the various flower arrangements in a glorious botanical garden located west of town at Powell Gardens. Others hike, camp, and fish in the 3,000 acre Knob Noster State Park located just minutes east. Whether it's enjoying a professional theatre presentation at UCM, viewing the air show at Whiteman or laying beside the lake counting stars, the people of Warrensburg enjoy the very best!
The City of Warrensburg uses the city manager governing system and focuses its attention on providing services to the community including: police, fire, sewer, streets and parks. There are 30 full and 3 reserve police officers protect the community as well as 2 volunteer police chaplains while 24 full-time and 24 part-time firefighters stand-by in case of a fire. The City works in partnership with the Greater Warrensburg Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center, Warrensburg Main Street, Inc. and Johnson County Missouri Economic Development Corporation to promote business growth downtown and in the City's commercial and industrial area. The Main Street, Inc. program is in place revitalizing the historic downtown area. The population of over 18,000 warmly welcome the three percent annual growth that takes place in Warrensburg as more and more people bring their lives, dreams, and families to our loving and caring city.


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'Hairspray' — wonderful
I would just like to congratulate the cast, crew and orchestra of the DCT production of Hairspray.
The cast was of the highest professional caliber. Their voices and acting ability were superior in quality.
I attended a performance of Hairspray years ago at Fair Park, and for me, this was so much better.
Congratulations on a performance well done. If you missed it, you really missed a stellar, upbeat, high-energy performance.
Song and laughter made for a delightful day. Thanks, DCT.
Carol Foley,
Robson Ranch
Leftist morality
Reason and history teach us that all human beings are mixed bags, with varying mixtures of positive and negative qualities.
Although most of us are fairly equal mixtures, there are extremes. Hitler is deservedly despised, but he loved dogs. Washington, our greatest national leader, had slaves.
Reason and history, therefore, teach us that it is moral and proper to evaluate others individually, considering their unique combinations of positive and negative qualities.
Unfortunately, leftist morality thinks in terms of groups, not individuals, dividing these groups into those considered virtuous because of past suffering, and those considered wicked because of real or supposed crimes.
Members of groups considered wicked must be criticized, even when individual actions are praiseworthy or reasonable. Members of groups considered virtuous mustn't be criticized, even when individual actions are destructive or criminal.
For example, how can leftists rationally oppose voter intimidation by white skinheads, as they should, but excuse voter intimidation by Black Panthers?
How can leftists be outraged by an imaginary Catholic or Republican "war on women" here, while all but ignoring the very real, sometimes lethal, "war on women" in many less-advanced countries?
Why are some disruptive students, who prevent others from learning, to be excused because of their group?
No, individual actions must be judged by the same standards, regardless of group membership.
Regardless of group, let's support largely decent individuals and oppose largely indecent individuals.
Let's reject leftist group think this November.
Let's support our American ideals of reason and individual responsibility.
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Police shoot pit bull near elementary school
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs Police shot a pit bull Thursday morning near Scott Elementary School, saying the dog was posing an immediate threat to school children.
Two aggressive pit bulls were running loose near the school around 8:00 a.m., police said. Officers responded and instructed children to leave the area.
Officers say they pepper-sprayed the dogs but they continued to act aggressively. One dog was shot in the street and the second was captured and taken away by the Humane Society.
No injuries were reported.
The dogs did not have identifying information and the owners have not yet been found.
We're working to get more information about this incident and will keep you updated on KRDO.com and NewsChannel 13.


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Dag Thompson, 36, who sold cars at Kadena air base on the island of Okinawa, raped the women on separate occasions in 1998 and 2004 after breaking into their homes at night.
The verdict came as the two countries failed to agree on plans to reduce the number of troops on the island, home to 20,000 US servicemen. The talks will continue in Washington next week.


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ABC Affiliate To Broadcast NYC LGBT Pride March
Adam Lambert On Freddie Mercury: He Would Be Out And Proud Without Giving A F**k
Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Oakley, Tom Daley React To Manchester Bombing
RuPaul Says Psychic Told His Mother He Would Be Famous Before He Was Born
Taiwan High Court Approves Gay Marriage
Texas Senate OKs Gay Adoption Bill
Bills which seek to legalize gay
marriage and constitutionally prohibit it were introduced Thursday in
State Representative Faye P. Hanohano,
a Democrat from Puna, is the sole sponsor of a bill which seeks to
make Hawaii the 10th state to legalize such unions.
House Bill 1109 states its purpose as
"to recognize marriages between persons of the same sex in the
State of Hawaii. It is the intent of the legislation to extend to
same-sex couples the right to marry and to receive all the same
rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of marriage as
opposite-sex couples receive under the laws of this State."
Two years ago, lawmakers approved civil
unions for gay and lesbian couples after a protracted fight which
began nearly 18 years earlier with a Hawaii State Supreme Court
ruling which favored marriage equality advocates but allowed
lawmakers to decide on a remedy.
A bipartisan group of 15 Hawaii
representatives also introduced a resolution calling for a
constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.
A Senate version is sponsored by Senator Mike Gabbard, a Democrat.
Two more bills were filed by Rep. John
Mizuno, a Democrat from Kalihi. One seeks a constitutional amendment
which would extend marriage to gay and lesbian couples, while the
other would put in place an amendment limiting marriage to
heterosexual couples.
Mizuno told the AP that he's opposed to
marriage equality but wants voters to decide the issue.
"I'm not afraid to let the people
decide," he said.
According to a Public Policy Polling
survey released in late 2011, 49 percent of Hawaii voters support gay
nuptials, while 40 percent remain opposed.
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War crimes by both sides in the horror of Iraq
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Surely if Abu Ghraib and now the marine caught on film killing an unarmed man in Falluja teaches us anything it is that war brutalises all who endure it ("A marine takes aim, and shoots his prisoner dead", Herald, November 17). Can we truly understand the extreme stress the marine was under? Should we be appalled by his actions or by the administration that ordered him into such a nightmare?
I am not trying to exculpate this soldier, but sitting at home after commuting, with the threat of higher interest rates hanging over our heads, worrying about train timetables, can we really comprehend what it is to be in Falluja this week? Let's all reserve our judgement. For what our judgement is worth.
Matthew Martin, Redfern, November 17.
The US marine and his unit caught on film shooting an unarmed, wounded soldier will, no doubt, be made an example of in an attempt to portray them as renegades. The soldiers' blase attitude toward the killing, however, suggests that this type of incident is rather more routine than criminal to them.
As a child, I remember grappling with the concept of soldiers being ordered to attack and kill people but still being expected to retain enough empathy for them to "play by the rules".
Debra Uren, Glenbrook, November 17.
No doubt there will be the usual outrage from the usual suspects over the misdeeds of one US soldier. As usual, they will not mention the atrocities committed by the insurgents within Falluja; the bodies of foreign workers found beheaded and mutilated. No mention will be made of the hijacking of Islam by these miscreants and the use of mosques by snipers.
More importantly, no credit will be given to the thousands of Americans who are putting their lives at risk in order to rid Iraq of those cowards.
Peter Maresch, Lane Cove, November 17.
Just another bad apple?
Scott Poynting, Newtown, November 17.
The cold-blooded shooting of an Iraqi insurgent by US troops is just one of many war crimes committed in Falluja by the coalition. The blowing up of mosques shown in recent television pictures is another.
Add to that the capture and destruction of Falluja's hospitals, and the blocking of Red Crescent aid convoys trying to bring urgent food and medical supplies to Falluja. These acts all breach the fourth Geneva convention.
The Australian participation in the war on Iraq is in effect hoisting the Australian flag over the war crimes perpetrated by the coalition. It's time we left Iraq as it's clear our participation is not doing any good for the Iraqi people.
Lester Ranby, Newtown, November 17.
I'm grieving for a woman I knew nothing of five weeks ago. Her terrified face in those video releases will remain in my memory. All the macho posturings by the "liberators" could not save Margaret Hassan.
Joan Brown, Orange, November 17.
What sort of "freedom fighting" involves killing a female humanitarian worker? What do they gain? Media attention.
Are they working on the principle of brand recognition or are they relying on the media's free pass system, that any cruel or murderous action performed by a "freedom fighter" is ipso facto the fault of whoever he's fighting against? Why don't the media ever mention their deliberate attacks on aid workers and other non-combatants are war crimes?
In this battle for Western public opinion terrorists are aided by the media's failure to apply the standards of international law equally to both sides of the conflict. As long as terrorists get away with blaming others for their own actions why on earth would they stop?
Judith Rona, Bondi, November 17.
It seems many of your writers have a problem with the word "liberated" (Letters, November 17. I have a problem with people who would cut the head off another human being. And videotape it. And put it on a website.
Ask the prisoner who was in the hands of Syrian captors in Fulluja, and who was rescued by US forces, what his spin on the word "liberated" is.
I'm sure he, Webster's and the Macquarie Dictionary will be in complete agreement.
Larry Mounser, Waverley, November 17.
Litany of complaints plague health system
I find Ross Gittins's contributions to the health debate tedious ("Only radical surgery will halt the bleeding", Herald, November 17).
Until such basic factors as the unrealistic expectations promised by all politicians since 1972; the removal of the majority of nursing training from hospitals; the commercialisation, over-utilisation and degrading of general practice; the restriction of medical student and post-graduate specialist training; the effects of ill-informed judicial decisions on medical practice and indemnity; the marginalisation of informed medical input into decision making and planning; as well as the devastated morale of many hospital health workers are addressed, his economic and managerial proposals have absolutely no prospect of improving the situation.
Robert D. Wines, Whale Beach, November 17.
Ross Gittins rarely fails to make perfect sense and his excellent article on the radical changes needed to save our health "system" have nailed it again.
Kim Smith, Rozelle, November 17.
Lone dissenting voice
Good on you, Paul Gibson ("Steep descent leads to a nasty turn for Carr", Herald, November 17): the voice of the people in an otherwise spin-littered government.
Matthew Dorahy, Epping, November 17.
Good news day
What excellent news on page 10 ("Ethiopia debt forgiven", Herald, November 16): "The Federal Government has forgiven Ethiopia its $7.9 million bilateral debt to Australia." This action truly empowers Ethiopia to face its social needs and should have been in bold type on the front page. Well done, Australia.
Joy Cooper, Faulconbridge, November 16.
A guilty conscience
Does our society accept that it's OK to act in a way that knowingly risks the lives of others and not be penalised in any way ("Speedcam flaw put fines under a cloud", Herald, November 17)? That the law is fair game, and it's our job to find loopholes even when we admit that we're guilty? Is this the society that we have become: that it's OK to drive 41kmh above the speed limit through the Harbour Tunnel so long as you can get away with it?
Sharon London, Cremorne, November 17.
The 48-character code on the RTA speedcam photos does in fact contain symbols but not numbers. The symbols are in the form of numerals which allow the idea of numbers to be represented. So what's the problem?
Ed Lewis, Mt Riverview, November 17.
Saying the unthinkable
Poor Colleen McCullough ("Pitcairn men were following custom, says McCullough", Herald, November 16). She dared to say the unthinkable - that other societies have beliefs and practices that, while acceptable to them, we find abhorrent and criminal.
While we're on the topic of despicable practices, how dare Muslims practise female circumcision and polygamy? And surely someone should step in and stop the Paduang women from placing rings around their necks. What's wrong with these people? Don't they understand that the world would be a better place if everyone was just like us?
While it may be hard to accept, what McCullough was trying to say is that we judge the behaviour of other societies through the prism of our beliefs.
Barry Henson, Cronulla, November 17.
Colleen McCullough has obviously entered the Germaine Greer phase of life: boring, irrelevant, and making desperately stupid statements in order to buy another hit of the publicity drug.
Lewis Winders, Sheffield (Tas), November 17.
Experts ban is overdue
Your story ("Ban looms for expert witnesses who clog up courts", Herald, November 17), identifies that an inquiry is to be conducted with a view to preventing litigants rolling up to court with their expert witness, who offer their evidence for hire. And not before time.
For example, in criminal cases where forensic examination of documents is required, the Crown inevitably turns up with a serving police officer to give evidence of handwriting analysis. How is that for a conflict of interest?
There are no prizes for guessing whether that evidence supports the Crown case. But the courts, year after year, find no difficulty in accepting that type of evidence.
The sooner that this is stopped the better.
Joe Weller, Lewisham, November 17.
Try before we buy
Among the notable stuff-ups in defence procurement over the years have been the F-111, the Collins Class sub, and the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar. Now the F-35 looks like being another bottomless pit to pour cash into ("Defence hole appears as new fighter lags behind", Herald, November 17).
The common factor each time is that we have tried to buy something off the drawing board. The obvious solution is to let someone else do the development, and when the plane, ship, sub or whatever is working properly, ask them to add a few more units to the production line for us.
It really is obscene that defence can spend cash like drunken sailors, when social security is busily clawing back a few miserable dollars in "sit-down money" from the Aboriginal community.
S.E.P. James, Edgecliff, November 17.
A blow to humanity
The granting of the first licence to a public institution to allow stem cells to be extracted from Australian human embryos for medical research may one day prove to be a glad day for diabetics looking for a cure ("Diabetes unit wins first stem cells licence", Herald, November 17). For their sake, I hope it does. But I fear it is another sad day for our society.
Sacrificing one human life to alleviate the suffering of another is a well-intentioned but fatally flawed double standard. All human life is God-given, even when created in a laboratory. The fact the embryos being used are "excess" is irrelevant - their redundancy does not cancel their real humanity.
Claire Smith, Mosman, November 17.
True art should require skill, and charge our emotions
I first saw a copy of Turner's Temeraire on a cigarette card 63 years ago, when I was about eight. The painting has haunted me ever since, with its sublime dignity, mystery and beauty. Each time I have gone to London, a viewing of the original at the Tate Gallery has been a must.
I feel no such compulsion to view Cy Twombly's absurd scribble ("Blue Poles II: a modern gem or a load of Pollocks", Herald, November 16), except perhaps as an opportunity to marvel at the utter decay of sense that such purchases represent, and the inane squandering of public money.
I prefer art and literature that has some semblance of genuine skill, requires the expenditure of real effort, and conveys some intelligent benefit to the viewers and readers. Cy Twombly, James Joyce and their unintelligible ilk just don't make it for me.
Ken Chant, Werrington, November 17.
I am not one of Greg Graham's elite (Letters, November 17), but his unconscionable suggestion that the AGNSW purchase the art he likes leaves me cold. A gallery of floral works that match the lounge? Noice!
Leonard Cox, Strawberry Hills, November 17.
I wonder if Greg Graham has seen the Twombly triptych in person? And I wonder who should be the judge of what impresses "on a purely visual level"?
I'd like to think that art can and should affect us emotionally, tell us stories, fire our imagination, teach us to see differently ... but then I also think sparrows are as beautiful as peacocks.
I'd recommend Mr Graham go and sit in front of the work for a while, give it a chance to impress, reveal its subtleties.
Justin Moon, Erskineville, November 17.
I couldn't agree more with Greg Graham. The last time I went to the NSW Art Gallery there wasn't a single painting of dogs playing poker.
Not even a sad clown with those huge eyes. Mr Capon has a lot to answer for.
Craig Sheppard, Newport, November 17.
Something to chew over at deep fine-leg
Garry Smith (Letters, November 17), where does that leave Australia's cricketers? Gum-chewing among players is as much a national sport as the game. Perhaps they could take a lead from Shane Warne and chew on diet pills instead?
Niall O'Sullivan, Alstonville, November 17.
Smokers, gum-chewers and urban 4WD drivers - the average Australian's axis of evil?
Mark Edmonds, Ainslie (ACT), November 17.
Open and shut case
Patrick Snowden (Letters, November 17) has a flawed memory when criticising the standard of rural gates. In the best traditions of Tom Sawyer he watched with the disdain of city folk as his brother and nephews, of good country stock, toiled for two days last summer erecting his new picket fence. When I left, the gate was in perfect order.
Peter Snowden, Orange, November 17.
Comic stripper
I just can't believe it but in today's Herald, there is Ginger Meggs's mum showing cleavage. Is this yet another sign that the end of the world is imminent?
Brian Millett, Yass, November 16.
Well, they should know
At the entrance to a University of Sydney department is a sign warning all that, due to corrosion of copper pipes in the building, the tap water is unfit for drinking. The department? The Human Nutrition Unit.
M. Mercurius, Summer Hill, November 17.
Better in hindsight
If only I'd realised my parents were talking about my staring at computer screens when they told me to stop it or else I'd go blind ("Warning on terminal blindness", Herald, November 17).
Norm Neill, Leichhardt, November 17.
Worth the wait
John Chesworth (Letters, November 17) must have been so busy complaining that he did not hear the public apology made to the audience, explaining that one of the principal players had been caught in a traffic jam and there would be a slight delay. Anyway, a late start was a small price to play for such an inspired performance.
Jean Miskin, Lane Cove, November 17.
Pretty poor effort
Our children will ask what we did to limit global warming. Will we reply that we stopped hosing our driveways and said "no" to plastic bags?
Catherine Walsh, Ashfield, November 17.
A happy ending
Bianca Nogrady (Letters, November 17) is pleased with the non-fairytale ending of Sex and the City. Allow me to express my satisfaction that it has ended.
Doug McLaughlin, Bonnet Bay, November 17.


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Oracle ECM: Rated a "Leader" In Gartner Magic QuadrantOctober 20, 2009 - 6:57pm — bex
Oracle UCM rated highly in Gartner's latest
mystic grid magic quadrant. They were ranked as leaders, along with IBM/FileNet, EMC, Microsoft, and OpenText. You can see the article for yourself, to compare Oracle versus the rest of the leaders. Here's what they say that's positive:
Oracle has been expanding its ECM market footprint while building content management functionality into its enterprise business applications. Oracle ECM Suite includes document management, WCM, records management, imaging and process management. Though it does have transactional content management functionality — including synergies with its own ERP and CRM applications — Oracle is widely considered to be more of a collaborative and contextual content vendor.
- Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) is a mature, well-integrated product suite that provides "productized" integrations with Oracle applications. With Oracle Fusion Middleware, it has integration with a broad set of complementary technologies, such as BPM, BI, portals and enterprise search.
- The size and capabilities of Oracle's sales force, product development and support organizations give it significant opportunities to grow its content management business and increase its market share. Sales incentives for performance in these areas appear to be helping to build momentum.
- Customer loyalty is high — Oracle customers often ask first whether Oracle already offers, or will soon deliver, products in any particular ECM component category.
And now for the inevitable negatives...
- Although Oracle has presented a cohesive vision for content as part of infrastructure, it has been less clear in its vision for collaboration and social software offerings (Oracle WebCenter and Beehive, for example) and their ties to UCM. All were developed using Oracle Fusion Middleware, but integration is still needed, and Web 2.0 capabilities across the products need to be rationalized. Oracle's next-generation portal product, WebCenter, is promising but immature, and its collaboration product, Beehive, is a work in progress with no clear ties to content management at a time when most ECM vendors are adding richer collaboration and support for Web 2.0 in their core platforms.
- Other vendors are commonly chosen for invoice automation and ERP integration in preference to Oracle's products. Oracle intends to close this gap, but its delivery of a compelling imaging and process management solution is late.
- Oracle's customers don't consider that it has created the same sense of community around content and collaboration as several other leading ECM vendors have.
The complaint about imaging and process management being late is apt... however, I think that Oracle's IPM solution will dominate Oracle shops soon, especially when combined with Oracle's Business Intelligence solutions. The complaint about community kind of hits me hard, because I know a lot of people who have tried for years to build a solid community... Hopefully this "ding" will ensure these teams have the resources they need to get things done.
Regarding point number one, I'm actually nonplussed. A coherent "collaboration" strategy would be nice... but frankly, I'm hesitant for Oracle to jump on the E 2.0 / Web 2.0 / Collab 2.0 bandwagon and be nothing but a follower. I have yet to see anybody put together a true "collaboration" tool, that doesn't immediately devolve into co-blaberation. At the moment, I'm thinking that Oracle could do something completely different... They could blend together the identity management tools from Sun and Oblix, along with the analytics tools from Siebel, along with the standards (email, ECM, enterprise search, social software) and create something fundamentally different than what anybody else has.
Or at least, so I hope...
Frankly I'm a little surprise to see MS in the spot they are. I think several parts of the MS strategy break down under larger deploymets. According to the graph they have a better completeness of vision, which I just can't see, especially with the WCM and URM offerings from Oracle.
Either way, interesting stuff. I haven't looked at the past quadrants, but it feels like theirs more names on the diagram, which is interesting considering the constant discussion about market consolidation. I'll have to snoop aroud on that.
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Microsoft is in their position mainly because they own the desktop, and they are slowly replacing desktop collaboration with SharePoint. You are correct that large scale deployments fall apart, and there are a lot of negatives to SharePoint... but they do have a very complete business model for making it grow into something. It's not there yet -- and who knows if it will ever be there -- but for some cases it's good enough.
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Gartner Identifying Interesting ECM Trends
Thanks for the post Bex.
Gartner has also identified some interesting and conflicting(?) trends in ECM.
Trend 1 - The ECM as Infrastructure trend seems to point to a greater consolidation focus. IBM, MSFT and Oracle seem to me to be the stronger players here.
Trend 2 - Federation of CM systems - has tension with trend 1 but CMIS and other Standards may make this an option where consolidation is not practical.
Trend 3 - Web Channel, Alternative Delivery Models and User Simplicity - I don't think this is as much an emerging trend as an ECM necessity. The need to secure adoption is vital before any kind of efficiency or ROI can be gained. Simplified Sophistication is the key. "Boring is Beautiful" anyone?
Trend 4 - Application Specificity and the power of MidMarket buyers - I think this is huge. It's not as much about CEVAs as it is about composite, content-aware user experiences. The push for solution and application templates for either quick rollout (turnkey-light) or development springboards is a major shift. It positions the bigger platform vendors and their partners very well while leaving the niche vendors in a scramble. It seems that simple integration adapters aren't enough to deliver the value. Solution templates built on top of the integration adapters are needed. The more of these that the vendors and their partners can bring together in a catalog the better methinks.
Trend 5 - The Rising Importance of Metadata - This, I think, is the truly evolutionary trend in this space. As metadata is leveraged beyond search and retrieval, as taxonomy gives way or makes room for auto-classification, tagging, folksonomy, as analytics are applied to unstructured information a huge resurgence of ECM-at-the-Core solutions will appear. Some of these will have familiar names like Knowledge Management. Others will have new concepts like predictive persuasive delivery, next best action analysis (with supporting content) and real-time or just-in-time answer delivery. This is the space where the niche or visionary players have the most opportunity I think since the bigger players will generally take a conservative approach and then buy leadership in this space rather than develop or earn it.
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when you put the spring in, did you have to push the axle shaft/spring holder down?
the spring does look awfully small.
when you put the spring in, did you have to push the axle shaft/spring holder down?
the spring does look awfully small.
bit difficult to know what the exact problem is but heres a guide on another make but basically the principle is the same
i get a rather nice knocking/grinding noise from my rear end, it could be a trailing arm bush as plenty of people have to me thats what mine is :S (whether it is or not i have no idea, cant be bothered to look) mine is lowered 120mm all round and i have no problems with rubbing or scrapping at all, i would check the adjusters in the top of the springs are in centrally and not pushing the springs out at an angle
Mine sat low on the drivers side front and back and I started to wonder if the car had chassis issues but I have been assured it is 100% sound. Then I came on here and found there were loads like it, and loads with coilovers
hi everyone
so after the last conversation with the seller,when they said its def the ryt springs for this kit and that there is nothing else they can do, i jacked up my car again and turned those springs upside down again.i mean the normal way in my opinion, with the adjuster in the top.i've still got some of those knocking noises,but i quess i just have to leave it as it is.and maybe next time buy something a bit of a better quality stuff
thanks guys for all the answers and suggestions.your help is really appreciated
someone must have a picture of there e36 on budget coillies with the spring compressed?????????????
Those springs look identical to my FKs TBH, but I get no knocks or scrapes. I just wonder if new, or maybe thicker, lower rubbers might help - what condition were the old ones in?
Just as a comparison, mine look like this with the rear wishbone jacked up...
the rubbers on mine were ok.i dont think they've ever been replaced but looked normal
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Talbot worked on the composition of "The Open Door", one of his best known photographs, for at least three years. The image is engaging both for its vernacular subject matter and its deep, inviting shadow. Talbot himself expressed its appeal: "We have sufficient authority in the Dutch school of art, for taking as subjects of representation scenes of daily and familiar occurrence. A painter's eye will often be arrested where ordinary people see nothing remarkable. A casual gleam of sunshine, or a shadow thrown across his path, a time-withered oak, or a moss-covered stone may awaken a train of thoughts and feelings, and picturesque imaginings."
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Final Fantasy XIV: ARR Interview With Producer Naoki Yoshida, "We Could Consider Free-to-Play" But Never Pay-to-Win
Posted on Wednesday, February 12 @ 18:48:26 PST by Daniel BischoffI got a chance to sit down with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer/director Naoki Yoshida to talk about the upcoming PlayStation 4 port of the game. Yoshida spoke through a translator and I shared the interview with an editor from GamesRadar. These interviews can sometimes be difficult given the time constraints and intermediary, but Yoshida was genuine, likable, and forthcoming about all things Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
I even made a smart-ass comment about Yoshida's very cool metal rings and whether a player could potentially find the Ring of Yoshida in-game. The producer/director behind one of the more popular MMOs in recent memory played it cool.
FFXIV will launch a beta later this month for PlayStation 4 owners both in the United States and Europe, but notably on the console's launch day in Japan as well (they hope). Final Fantasy XIV's rebirth has come a long way, but Yoshida clearly believes it has a healthy life ahead of it as a subscription-based MMO. Even with my limited experience in MMOs, it was clear that Yoshida believed passionately in delivering the best possible experience and felt grateful for players who have subscribed and are enjoying the game so far.
Read on for the developers responses to a number of different topics surrounding the MMORPG genre.
On choosing between Final Fantasy XIV's variety of interfaces on PS4
I like to use my PC gaming mouse and keyboard at home. But I'm the producer of the game, so I need to see what the gaming experience is like for the end-user. I play on the controller as well to make sure that players don't feel like they can't keep up on GamePad. I have to make sure the user interface works for every option, so at the office I use the console options. During this media tour I'll use my laptop computer with a controller plugged in to relax.
Player bases are different in each region. In Japan, many players play on the console, there isn't the same culture around the PC. The percentage is higher on console, but as players get deeper into the game and play higher-level content those player switch to PC. In terms of America, the percentage is 50-50, an even split between PS3 and PC. In terms of Europe, the PC version has more players.
The Final Fantasy brand has gained its popularity through players on console and while many are familiar with it on console, not many have experienced an MMO on console. Knowing that A Realm Reborn would come out on PS4, console players have been eagerly waiting both for the PS4 version and to upgrade from PS3 to PS4.
The original Final Fantasy XIV was promised as a subscription MMORPG. The Elder Scrolls Online will release as a subscription MMO soon as did Star Wars The Old Republic, but there's a big reason MMOs want to start with subscribers. Once you reach a certain number of subscribers it's a stable source of income. With micro transactions it depends. The item can sell well and give you a spike in sales but that doesn't mean the item will continue to sell well.
With an MMORPG, updates are very important so we have to hire skilled designers and programmers and keep them to provide you with the best gameplay experience. To have that stable income and revenue is important and it helps the team stabilize too. It's difficult to gauge the ups and downs of micro transactions, so it's better to have a subscription based MMO. I believe that MMO producers like me are the nice guys, we just want to keep people playing rather than focus on nickel-and-diming people.
With regard to switching to free-to-play, the MMO business is very risky and a lot of investment is needed to build, maintain and continue a game, so you need investors. When investors see subscriber numbers dropping, they might demand their money back so that has probably driven the decision for other MMOs to switch models. We're not fixated with a subscription model for A Realm Reborn, but I do feel that players can be assured that their game is stable in this way. To get as many people in the world to play the game, having it available for free is an effective method. We'd need to gauge the response and the needs of the market but we could consider free-to-play.
There are people already subscribed to the game but they still ask for us to sell them certain items. The needs of players are changing and it's not a difference of which business model is right or wrong, but our goal is to cater to the needs of the players.
I would consider in terms of items, optional things that would change the aesthetics like your skin color or your race but not your stats. If it's like the Ring of Yoshida, it's cool but it can cross the line and help you clear end game content and help you beat certain monsters. That has the risk of people calling the game pay-to-win. That's not something I want to do.
Unique items would be cool but it would be something aesthetic and totally optional and given out for free even as sort of a moment or in memoriam.
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