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Eric Decker's perception of New Jersey wasn't good. Overcrowded and too much traffic, he thought. He probably watched too many episodes of "The Sopranos." Then he arrived for Super Bowl XLVIII and practiced in Florham Park at the New York Jets' facility. Now he sounds like he's ready to do chamber-of-commerce-type endorsements for Gov. Chris Christie.
"I think New Jersey is under-rated," the former Denver Broncos wide receiver said Friday on a media conference call, his first group interview since signing a five-year, $36.25 million contract with the Jets. "I got to spend a week out there and it's a beautiful place."
No doubt, Decker will score points among the locals for his "under-rated" comment; the hard part will be convincing them the state's newest millionaire isn't over-rated.
Even though he's ninth in the NFL in receiving yards over the last two seasons (2,352), Decker arrives with a stigma. Fair or not, the perception of him is that he's a product of Peyton Manning's brilliance. Any receiver can put up gaudy numbers in a Manning-orchestrated system, right? Obviously, Decker doesn't feel that way.
"Did he help? Of course he helped, he's a future Hall of Famer," Decker said. "But I also think I'm a good football player, and I think my skill set is an asset that can help the team win football games. That's why I'm here in New York."
You can look at it the other way, too: Before Manning arrived in 2012, Decker managed 44 receptions and nine touchdowns with scatter-armed Tim Tebow at quarerback. So there's that.
Decker said the Broncos didn't make an offer to keep him, claiming he took no offense because he understands the salary cap world of the league. He reportedly had two other visits lined up (he wouldn't name the teams), but he said the Jets "felt like home," mentioning he liked the "culture" around the organization. He agreed to terms Wednesday night and celebrated at dinner with Rex Ryan and other staff members. In New Jersey, of course.
So he goes from the most prolific passing offense in history to the 31st-ranked passing offense, led by a still-developing quarterback, Geno Smith.
"I think this team has a lot of potential," Decker said. "It's a young football team. I've always felt like I've played the underdog role throughout my life, throughout my football career -- now, high school, college. I'm motivated to help this team win football games. To me, that's the most important thing, joining a culture that wants to do that. I enjoyed my time in Denver, but I'm excited about this opportunity."
Being around Manning for two years is bound to be a positive. Manning is obsessed with preparation, and Decker hopes to bring that mentality to his new team.
"My goal is to take the knowledge and preparation I've learned the last four years, with some great coaches and a great quarterback, and share that with my teammates," he said. "You win football games between Wednesday and Saturday. The preparation we did as an offense in Denver can be done in New York."
Decker isn't the only celebrity is in his family. His wife is Jessica James, a country pop singer, and they star together in an E! reality series called, "Eric and Jessie: Game On." The second series begins March 30. The Jets go from "Hard Knocks" (in 2010) to "Eric and Jessie." Decker claimed the opportunity to play in the No. 1 media market had no bearing on his decision.
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The Three Brothers
There was once a man who had three sons, and no other possessions beyond the house in
which he lived. Now the father loved his three sons equally, so that he could not make up
his mind which of them should have the house after his death, because he did not wish to
favour any one more than the others. And he did not want to sell the house, because it had
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and then they all set out.
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thought to himself, 'Without doubt the house will be yours!' The barber shaved the best
men in the kingdom, and he, too, made sure that the house would be his. The fencing-
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troubled by them, for he thought to himself, 'If you are afraid of a blow you will never get
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beginning to rain, he drew his sword and swung it in cross cuts above his head, so that
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The Feminist's Valentine's Day
In some ways, pop culture is the ultimate change agent. While there still remains a tricky gauntlet of normative Valentine's Day expectations to run each February — with ads literally demanding "buy her stuff or she won't sleep with you" — some recent alternative traditions have done an effective job of muddying the pink overload. These are the very serious V-Day and the deliciously absurd "Galentine's day."
Much of the contemporary shift in Valentine's Day tradition is due to Eve Ensler, the activist and playwright (with Jewish heritage) whose "Vagina Monologues" went from subversive art project to expected staple of the college theater calendar. And the play's parent institution, VDay, during which we're reminded that love and violence shouldn't be conflated and that gender-based violence is a worldwide scourge, gets so much media attention that at least in activist-minded circles, it's become almost as big a deal as that other day for which it is named. I know that every February 14th I will read and think about gendered violence as well as about "ten classic songs poems" or "six things to give her this Valentine's Day."
This year, Ensler's V-Day project, "One Billion Rising," features a worldwide explosion of flash mobs, dance performances and other kinds of movement to express solidarity with victims of rape and violence. At the same time as they protest violence, dancers and participants will express their joy about being alive and their bodies. It's a complicated balance to strike, and perhaps Ensler's consistently straightforward approach has a slight edge of schmaltz to it — but that direct appeal to the heartstrings is exactly what has enabled her almost as much as any other activist in recent memory to truly shift cultural conversations, in hopes of a time where women are "cherished, safe, and free."
Another, newer and sillier Valentine's tradition occurs each year on the 13th. Called "Galentine's Day" it was created by Leslie Knope, fictional local government guru on the TV sitcom "Parks and Recreation." Knope gathers her female friends together the day before Valentine's Day and they celebrate each other over a meal of breakfast foods. A lovely occasion for friends to fete each others strength, independence and love for waffles, Galentine's Day, now an internet meme in its own right, is the sitcom holiday that's gained the most traction in real life since Festivus.
Different as these two newish holidays are from each other, I believe both of their popularity testifies to the need to respond to the absurd commercial Valentine's Day push. Many of us don't mind a day that ostensibly celebrates love, but we also hate the pressure to spend it in a certain way — and, more importantly, to spend money in a certain way. Sometimes it feels like the entire Wedding Industrial Complex stuffed into a single day of the year and topped with a giant teddy bear and too much sugar.
And so in different ways, these satellite holidays both point out the absurdity of fetishizing chocolate and jewelry — and the importance of celebrating the reality of women's lives.
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Property Location
With a stay at Hotel Pullman Madrid Airport & Feria in Madrid (IFEMA), you'll be minutes from Madrid Congress Centre and close to Real Madrid City. This 4-star hotel is within the vicinity of Prado Museum and Plaza Mayor.
Make yourself at home in one of the 179 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have hair dryers and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop-compatible safes and desks.
Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and wedding services. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the area shuttle (surcharge).
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include a business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary at scheduled times.
Hotel Facilities
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- Smoke-free property
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Red Meat: Unsafe at Any Feed?
Red meat has gotten a bad rap of late, but the newest study to skewer marbled food flesh might be the most damning yet.
Following 110,000 people over 28 years, researchers at Harvard University confirmed on Tuesday that consumption of red meat in any form increased the odds of dying during the study. Adding a three-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat daily (imagine a steak the size of a deck of cards) increased the odds of dying by 13 percent, whereas an extra daily serving of processed meats like salami or bacon bumped chances up to 20 percent.
Scientists also found that swapping out steaks for the occasional fish, poultry, nuts, legumes, low-fat dairy, and whole grains had a significant impact on health—a 7 to 19 percent lower risk of dying during follow-up. As Dean Ornish, M.D., of UC San Francisco writes in an additional commentary: "In other words, what we include in our diet is as important as what we exclude, so substituting healthier foods for red meat provides a double benefit to our health."
But is beef really all that bad?
To point out the obvious, not all red meat is made equal. Grass-fed cows that graze on open pastures are not fattened on cornfeed, and their meat has less overall fat, more omega 3s, and other "good" fats. Not only is grass-fed meat better for the planet than meat from grain-fed cows (grass consumes less energy), but it's also more humane and natural. As Michael Pollan wrote in The New York Times in 2002: "A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. ...humans may not be well adapted to eating grain-fed animals."
Then again, beef will never be better for you (or the planet) than a salad. The bottom line is, if you like red meat, learn to enjoy it in moderation. In most Asian cuisines, beef is used in broths and to enhance flavor, never as the main course. As this study shows, replacing the centerpiece steak with a more balanced diet incorporating a variety of grains, vegetables and fish can pay dividends later in life. Said lead researcher An Pan to the Los Angeles Times: "If you want to eat red meat, eat the unprocessed products, and reduce it to two or three servings a week. That would have a huge impact on public health."


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New Online Ninjago Game
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I've had this issue as well, it's quite annoying. I had to manually edit the save files so I would skip said missions. :/~Mentos Fruit
I heard of this a long time ago. Also, I tried it out but I can't get past some of the story missions. The game screen just freezes for me after clearing a few waves of enemies. I forgot what the missions are called though.
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Mark Driscoll Needs a Prophet of His Own
Mark Driscoll should take some of his royalties and hire a full-time prophet. Not a friend but an opponent. Not a pushover but a person of incisive intellect. Maybe not even a man but a woman. Someone like Deborah, who exercised enormous power among Israel's early judges. Like Huldah, whose prophecies led to intense reform.


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18 CFR 12.34 - Approval of independent consultant.
§ 12.34 Approval of independent consultant.
At least 60 days before the initiation of an inspection under this subpart, the licensee must submit to the Director of the Office of Energy Projects for approval, with a copy to the Regional Engineer, a detailed resume that (a) describes the experience of the independent consultant; and, (b) shows that the consultant is an independent consultant as defined in § 12.31(a).
[Order 122, 46 FR 9036, Jan. 28, 1981, as amended at 49 FR 29370, July 20, 1984]


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DAR helps Osborne Boundary Oak
The Daughters of the American Revolution have adopted the Osborne Boundary Oak as a community service project. At the March meeting, members of the Hugh Rogers Chapter DAR voted to assist the Bethel Rural Community Organization in raising funds for future maintenance of the Osborne Boundary Oak. The tree is of special interest to the chapter because it is a living witness to the Rutherford Trace march, which passed by the tree in 1776.
The tree recently received maintenance, and, in the process, several limbs were pruned. One large section, too heavy to move, remained on the ground at the site. Dr. Doris Hammett, who has championed the cause of the tree for 35 years, secured approval from N.C. Department of Transportation to have the section cut up and used in fund-raising efforts to benefit the tree.
Hammett and the Bethel Rural Community Organization welcomed the involvement of DAR in overseeing the wood cutting process. Carol Litchfield, DAR community service chairman, went to the site March 7, with Mike Morey, an experienced wood carver who leads a wood-carving group at the Haywood Senior Resource Center. Brady Brookshire, a resident of Bethel, who works for Cope's Tree Service, provided his skill with the chainsaw. Morey offered suggestions on where to saw the section of wood in order to get the best pieces for woodcarving. Brookshire sawed the wood into a variety of shapes and sizes and Hammett took pictures and shared her knowledge about the tree.
"DAR is pleased to be involved with this project," said Litchfield. "After the wood pieces have seasoned for a few months, we will make them available for use in wood carving, wood crafts, artistic displays, garden additions, and educational efforts focusing on the history of the tree. Proceeds from the sale of items made from the wood will be used to help cover the cost of future care and maintenance of the Osborne Boundary Oak. It will be a great opportunity for people to own a piece of history while also helping to preserve this living part of our heritage."


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Paris, France (AP) – Reza Pahlavi, whose father, the shah of Iran, was toppled from power 31 years ago, said Thursday the international community must step up its support for Iran's opposition movement and stop focusing on the country's nuclear program.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Pahlavi said nations such as the United States should not "even bother" with a new round of sanctions regarding Iran's nuclear program, if punitive measures merely maintain the status quo.
Instead, he suggested the kind of encouragement that helped end South Africa's apartheid system and influenced the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Pahlavi, 50, said that should include dialogue with Iran's opposition, which has kept up periodic street protests in the country since the disputed June presidential elections despite a fierce crackdown.
He also said the opposition needs outside technological support to beat government eavesdropping and Internet crackdowns in Iran, and to "stay connected" with the outside world.
"The world is facing a regime today that is totalitarian, racist, fascist, and yet what has been done about it?" he said in Paris during a visit from the U.S., where he lives outside Washington D.C.
"To this day no one has officially said ... enough is enough," he said.
As he spoke, Iran celebrated the birth of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and the overthrow of Pahlavi's father, the late Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
The shah's son said Western leaders must reach out to Iran's opposition movement, but instead they have displayed "bashfulness," "hesitancy" or even "passivity."
He criticized what he called President Barack Obama's tepid outreach to the Iranian people and their exiled opposition.
He noted that 40 Nobel Prize winners appealed to Obama and other world leaders this week in a New York Times ad to let the Iranian people "know that we are on their side."
"I never thought I would see the day when Joan Baez sings ... in Farsi," Pahlavi said, referring to the folk singer's recent version of "We Shall Overcome" _ sung partially in the Iranian language. "For God's sake, it has become an international cry" going unheeded by world leaders.
Pahlavi recommended "tacit" dialogue with Iran's opposition and diplomatic outreach to isolate the regime.
Iranian officials claim foreign powers are behind the country's reform movement, but Pahlavi insisted that is not correct.
Western nations are pressing for a possible fourth set of U.N. sanctions on Iran for its failure to comply with U.N. resolutions aimed at guaranteeing it cannot produce nuclear weapons.
Pahlavi said a window of opportunity may slip away while the world is "dilly-dallying" over sanctions, instead of focusing on issues such as human rights abuses in Iran.
"External sanctions against the regime do not suffice. You have to bring into your calculation ... an element of pressure from within," he said. "And the only way (to) do that is by strengthening the hand of the people inside the country."
If sanctions are "going to be all you're going to be doing while keeping the status quo, don't even bother," he said.
Pahlavi said he wants to see a peaceful transition, via civil disobedience, to a parliamentary democracy with a "clear separation of religion from government."
He said he favors a referendum so Iranians can choose their form of government, and he predicted change could come "within a matter of months _ if not maybe a couple of years tops" _ if society is "empowered" and dialogue not limited to the regime.
"Nothing bars the world from having a line of dialogue with the opposition and that, strangely, has been absent," he said.
The level of support that Pahlavi or other exiled opposition movements have inside Iran today is unclear. Three decades after the Islamic Revolution, Iranian youth, the majority population, has never known the country as a monarchy.
Last month, authorities hanged two men convicted of belonging to outlawed monarchist groups and plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime.
Reza Pahlavi, whose father, the shah of Iran, was toppled from power 31 years ago, said Thursday the international community must step up its support for Iran's opposition movement and stop focusing on the country's nuclear program.


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A recent regulation issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), purportedly designed to prevent housing discrimination, would effectively increase discrimination and require that mortgage lenders, insurers, and landlords abandon economically sound business practices.
And if that were not bad enough, HUD's regulation also violates the principle of equal protection under the law, enshrined in our Constitution by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Specifically, the controversial regulation would require the application of a legal theory called disparate impact to housing practices.
In short, disparate impact liability allows plaintiffs and government agencies to allege discriminatory practices — in this case, against mortgage lenders, insurers, and landlords — based on statistical analysis.
Take the case of mortgage lenders. Even if lenders utilize nondiscriminatory standards to assess credit risk, such as debt-to-income ratios, lenders can be charged with discrimination if the data indicate different loan approval rates for different groups of consumers.
Accurate risk identification is essential to lending and a successful housing market.
Risk-based lending and insurance underwriting that happen to result unintentionally in statistically different outcomes does not amount to discrimination.
Predictably, this rule will result in a perverse regulatory scheme. Lenders, insurers and landlords would effectively be required to make poor economic decisions and intentionally discriminate among different classes of borrowers just to protect themselves from becoming entangled in the regulation's pretzel-like logic.
For example, lenders could relax their loan approval standards to ensure there's no disparate impact violation.
This would revive the economic insanity of providing loans to those that have no ability to pay.
Moreover, this regulation could encourage landlords to lease based on the race, ethnicity, sex, or some other characteristic of the applicant rather than his or her credit worthiness.
Such a practice would unequivocally violate the principle of equal opportunity and protection under the law, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
To demand equal outcomes is to demand that entities engage in intentional discrimination, the very thing the Fair Housing Act and this regulation seek to prevent.
HUD's disparate impact regulation will result in very real economic costs to the average, middle class American.
The Justice Department has already used disparate impact claims against several mortgage-originating banks, which has resulted in settlements to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars.
The costs of litigation and settlements could strangle the availability of credit, thereby cutting off the lending that potential homeowners depend on.
The net result: It will become more difficult for families to buy a home.
To address some of these common-sense concerns, I offered an amendment to the HUD appropriations bill last year that would have prohibited funds from being used to implement this rule.
This amendment would have preserved sanity, fairness, and certainty to the mortgage-lending market. Though it was passed by the House, the Senate did not take up the bill and thus it did not become law.
The Obama Administration's regulation is intended as a tool to force the housing market to produce equal outcomes and claims the judicial muscle to enforce this demand.
As a result, lenders, insurers, and landlords that wish to avoid litigation will be forced to engage in risky lending practices and provide loans to those that have no ability to pay them back.
The federal government should be encouraging sound business practices, not punishing those that utilize them. We have seen what risky lending practices can do to our economy.
It appears as if the Obama Administration has learned nothing from the not too distant past.
Garrett, a Republican, represents New Jersey's Fifth District in the House of Representatives.


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I had something akin to PDL (I believe it was laser genesis- what I had didn't hurt or make my skin peel at all) and it helped greatly with the color and somewhat with the texture but I would like to see if I could get rid of it completely with dermabrasion or micro d. I use cortisone 10% cream and I can see it smooth out with that but I know if I use it everyday it thins the skin so I don't. It's obviously in the place I smile. Would anything help smooth it totally? Or will it just go away?
Hypertrophic Scars (Healed 1 Yr). Have Had Laser Genesis, Can I Now Use Dermabrasion?
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Cheap 300 Pipe Threading Machine
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I bought this nice 300 machine knock off on ebay. Price was only $1500 and it works as well as my real Ridgid 300 machine. Has anyone else tried these Chinese threaders?
Hope it continues to do so. Cheap is okay if you are only using it around the house for small jobs. I have bought Chinese big ticket items in the past and the longevity just wasn't there. Trying to get parts was also a hassle. I had a 4 wheel drive Rhino tractor at $7200 that lasted 3 years. The company went out of business (or at least quit selling in the U.S.) and no other parts fit it. Ended up selling it for parts for a few other unlucky souls that bought them.
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Daniel Part Two - Chapter Five
Chapter Five - A Slap In the Face This chapter is dedicated to the exquisite Jenn LeBlanc who helped me this past week with a project of mine. Buy her book The Rake and The Recluse, an illustrated romance here. Follow her on Twitter @jkleblanc
"Oh, God…Eleanor?"
Daniel could barely breathe from the shock. Eleanor…naked…kneeling on his bed…grinning at him like she knew a secret she wanted to tell him…
"Nope, just me. God's some other guy. And He doesn't put out."
Daniel took nearly ten whole seconds to process Eleanor's words and another ten seconds to process her existence.
But it only took one second to get to her. He slid across the bed and took her in his arms, holding her so tightly to him she feigned choking.
"Missed you too," she said when he pulled back to stare at her face. "What's up? I mean, other than the obvious."
"You…what are you doing here?"
"You sent me a postcard from Tierra del Fuego. Least I could do is stop in and say 'hi.'"
Daniel took her face in his hands. Her eyes shone black as night and her body molded into his.
"Hi," he said and took ownership of her mouth with a kiss so ferocious he knew her lips would be swollen for a day from it. And he didn't care. If this is how she returned the favor of a single postcard…he wished he'd sent her a thousand of them.
His hands roamed her body, sliding down her back, grasping her bottom, digging deep into her soft skin. The kiss she returned with equal ferocity as she reached between their bodies to open his pants.
"Are you sure?" he asked and wished he hadn't. If she said she wasn't sure, he didn't know if he could stop.
"Hello, naked here. Did you think I stopped by for some Blackjack?"
"The game is Poker."
Eleanor laughed and her laugh filled the room, the apartment, the building, the whole city, and even his heart that for so long had sat empty.
Weaving his fingers through her hair, he kissed her again. And again. He couldn't get enough of her mouth, of the taste of her lips, the tease of her tongue against his.
"I can't believe you're here," he said into her ear and while there bit her earlobe.
"I heard you laugh on the stairs. I didn't know you were in town. Kingsley didn't want to tell me."
"What did you do? How did you know I was here?"
Eleanor laughed again, low and throaty and vaguely sinister.
"I beat it out of him. He kind of liked it."
"He would. But what about-" Her owner, he tried to say but she cut him off.
"Are you going to keep giving me the third degree, Sir? Or are you going to beat me and fuck me like your life depended on it?"
Breathing in, he inhaled her scent—lilies, orchids—the subtle essence of every hothouse flower he could name graced her skin. She'd always seemed like a hothouse flower—something beautiful and wild yet thrived best in captivity.
If only he could keep her.
"I think my life does depend on it."
"Well…" she slid her hands over his bare shoulders and met his eyes. "Then we should stop wasting time."
She took him in her hand and stroked gently. Burying his mouth in the crook of her neck, he groaned as the hands he'd dreamed of for a year and half did everything he remembered they could. With her slim nimble fingers she traced the length and width of him, gently caressed the sensitive underside, reached into his pants and cupped his testicles while he groaned with the abandon of a submissive.
"You have to stop or I'll come in your hands," he warned her.
"Oh no. What a tragedy."
"It might be."
"Daniel," she said with playful exasperation, "if you came in a cup I would drink it."
Daniel kissed her because it was either that or laugh so hard he fell off the bed. He'd almost forgotten what a dirty mouth she had. No, he hadn't. He remembered everything about her. Including how much she loved trying to shock him.
"Why bother with the cup?"
She nodded her agreement. "You ask a very good question."
Eleanor pushed him onto his back and he went willingly. Maggie always started at his lips and would kiss her way down his chest and stomach before going down on him. Of course Eleanor had to do everything backwards. She wrenched his jeans off and threw them against the wall with the flourish of a matador. She pushed his legs apart and kissed the inside of his ankle. She kissed the soft indentation right under his quad muscles before dipping her head and biting his inner thigh—hard.
"Eleanor, behave yourself."
"Yes, Sir," she said, giving him a pout. "Oh, you mean really behave myself. Yes, Sir."
She wrapped her lips around him and caressed him with her tongue. God, she behaved beautifully. With torturously light licks and kisses, she focused her attention solely on the head. Reaching down, he clasped her wrist that rested across his hip. He twined their fingers together. Real…she was real and warm and there and God, she was sucking his cock like she missed him as much as he missed her. He couldn't let himself believe that she had though. She'd picked her owner over him and she would do it again. He'd seen the love in her eyes during the chess game. Why she was here now, he didn't know and he didn't care. All he could do was let go and enjoy it.
He let go.
Eleanor sat up on her knees and licked her bottom lip.
"You're right. Cup is pointless, Sir." She crawled up his body and collapsed on his chest.
He wrapped his arms around her and held her to him.
"I still can't believe you're here."
"I am. And you are. But I can't stay long."
"Are you on furlough?" he asked. "Or are you AWOL?"
"Let's call it shore leave as there's some seaman involved."
Daniel chuckled as he pinched her shoulder.
"You've been spending too much time with Kingsley."
"Truer words have rarely been spoken."
She turned her face up to his and Daniel tasted himself on her lips. The mix of his salt and her sweetness set his blood to boiling again. Pushing her onto her back, he pinned her wrists to the bed.
"I know you'll go back to him tonight." Daniel dipped his head and lightly sucked on each nipple before kissing his way back to the hollow of her throat, "but you'll take my bruises with you."
Helpless underneath him, she panted.
"Yes, Sir."
He dragged her from the bed by her wrists and left her standing at the footboard.
"Kneel," he ordered and she went down onto her knees.
He could only stare at her a moment and drink in the sight of the women he'd longed for…kneeling at the foot of his bed…her back a blank canvas waiting to be painted with welts…nothing in the world moved him as much as the sight of a woman on her knees before a man she adored. Although Eleanor was the one on her knees, it was him who worshipped at her feet.
From under the bed he pulled a large case much like the ones Kingsley kept in all his townhouse bedrooms.
"Hands on the top rail," he said and Eleanor reached up and grasped the metal footboard.
Daniel stood behind her as he handcuffed her wrists to the railing.
"I have very fond memories of this bed," he told her as he pushed her hair off her back. "Maggie and I bought it together. She made sure to lay down and test the strength of the footboard and the headboard. The very gay furniture dealer was slightly horrified."
"I wish I'd known Maggie, Sir."
"You remind me of her in so many ways." Daniel knelt behind her and kissed the back of her neck and her shoulders as he ran his hand down her side and across her stomach.
Only when he said the words did he realize how true they were. Eleanor's spirit, her sense of humor, her wild streak that gave him such pleasure to try to tame…so much like Maggie.
"I'll take that as the compliment I know it is, Sir."
Daniel didn't answer. He merely pressed his lips to the center of her back between her shoulderblades and let them linger there a moment. He turned his head and bit her, hard, in the center of her back.
She flinched and released a gasp of pain.
"Just marking my target," he whispered in her ear before standing up and grabbing a stiff riding crop from the case.
He counted in his head a full sixty seconds before striking her the first time. She flinched and the metal of the handcuffs rattled against the metal of the footboard. Music to his ears.
A welt six inches long and the color of fire burned across her pale skin. A second time he struck her and a third. At ten she finally broke and cried out. At twelve he stopped.
He dropped to his knees behind her and pressed his chest to her burning back.
"Did you enjoy that?" he said into her hair.
"Hurt like fuck, Sir. Loved it."
He reached up and unlocked the cuffs. She'd warned him she couldn't stay with him long and he didn't want to waste a single precious second of his short time with her. Slipping an arm around her back and one under her knees he lifted her up and carried her to the bed. Just to hear that laugh again he tossed her unceremoniously across the covers, grasped her ankles and dragged her hips to the edge of the bed.
Now he went down on his knees for her, spreading her thighs wide and opening her with his fingers. His lips sought her clitoris and he sucked lightly on it. Her back arched and she pressed harder into his mouth. No woman he'd ever been with tasted quite like her…so sweet and tart at the same time, the scent of her more potent than any drug.
She moaned as he pushed his tongue into her. For the rest of his life he'd remember the feel of her heels digging into his back, the warmth of her thighs against his face. A mostly incoherent plea that included the words "inside me" and "now" escaped her lips even as he drank every last drop of her.
Daniel stood up and lifted her legs over his arms as he pushed into her. He wanted to go slow, to savor every second of her. But he couldn't. He shoved in hard and deep with thrusts that left him gasping for air.
Eleanor stretched her arms out to each side and her head fell back in a posture of utter surrender. Sliding his hand up the center of her body, he held her by the throat as he pushed into her again and again.
His fingertips found her clitoris and gently teased it. She responded just as he knew she would, as he remembered she would, grasping at the sheets with desperate fingers, hips raising, her whole body going stiff for a brief eternity before her inner muscles began to spasm, clamping so hard around him they nearly pushed him out of her.
As Eleanor relaxed under him, Daniel only thrust harder. Not many other women could handle this sort of force, but as much as he begrudged her owner for keeping them apart, he couldn't deny the man had Eleanor well-trained.
He held off as long as he could, not wanting to let go of this moment, of this chance to be inside her again. Daniel moved his hand from her throat to her face. Threading his fingers through the hair at the nape of her neck, her forced her to look at him, to meet his eyes. He pulled out of her and straddled her hips with his knees. When their eyes locked he finally let himself come on her stomach.
As the tension slowly drained out of him, Daniel collapsed on top of Eleanor and gathered her to him. He sighed and closed his eyes as she lightly scratched his back. The simple mindless gesture of affection so painfully reminiscent of lovemaking with Maggie nearly did him in. He squeezed his eyes shut tighter and tried to imprint this perfect moment into his mind forever.
"Are you going to fall asleep on me?" she asked, tracing his ribcage with her fingers.
"No. I'm just afraid if I open my eyes, I'll wake up and this will all have been a dream."
"If I'm involved, there's a decent chance it's a nightmare. You might want to wake up."
Daniel shook his head and slowly opened his eyes.
"The only nightmares you're in are the ones when I wake up and you're still gone."
Eleanor sighed heavily and Daniel finally moved off of her. Pulling back the sheets, she scrambled under the covers. He stripped out of the rest of his clothes and joined her in his bed. He could think of at least three body parts he'd happily sacrifice to be able to find her in his bed every night of his life.
Daniel lay on his back and Eleanor draped herself across his chest.
"You know I inherited a ludicrous amount of money from Maggie, right?" Daniel asked. By ludicrous he meant somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty million dollars when he last checked.
"Your bedroom is bigger than the house I grew up in. I had a hunch."
"We could leave…go anywhere. You'd never have to work a day in your life again. You could-"
"Leave him?" she asked, and looked up at Daniel. "No, I can't. Or I can, but I don't want to."
"You say that but still, you're here-"
"I'm here because we had a great week together, Daniel. And I missed you and Kingsley said you still missed me." She sat up and pulled her knees to her chest. "But it was one week. Just seven days."
"You're a Catholic, right?" He rolled onto his side and propped his head on his hand. "Don't you think the entire universe was created in seven days?"
"If you haven't noticed already," she said, giving him a pointed look, "I'm a very bad Catholic."
"Or a very good one, depending on who you ask."
"Oh, He tells me all the time what a bad Catholic I am. But that's only because He loves punishing me. I totally deserve it." A smile as bright as the morning crossed her face. "He'll do terrible things to me for enjoying myself so much with you tonight. I can't wait."
Daniel caressed her naked leg.
"You really do love Him." It wasn't a question.
"Of course I do. He's my best friend. But don't tell anybody I said that. Kingsley likes Blondie to keep his big bad priest rep intact. Admittedly, he is six-four, a sadist, and sort of terrifying. Well, pretty incredibly terrifying if you aren't me or King."
"You call your owner Blondie?"
Eleanor grinned. "Of course. Just not to his face. Well…not very often."
Daniel laughed because only laughing would keep him from grabbing her, holding her down, and keeping her there until she wanted him as much as he wanted her.
"It's not fair, you know," Daniel said. "I could give you so much more than he could. And yet-"
"Daniel, let me ask you something. Are you going to spend the rest of your life living in the past?"
Her question surprised him enough that he rolled up and leaned back against the headboard to face her.
"I'm not. Not anymore. Look…if he died, what would you do?"
Eleanor pursed her lips and hummed.
"In this scenario has he died of natural causes or did I finally break down and murder him in his sleep? Either is equally likely."
"Natural causes."
Slowly Eleanor inhaled and exhaled. For once she seemed to be taking the conversation seriously. She grabbed a pillow and pulled it to her, clutching it as if for comfort.
"I would die too. Not physically. But there's no way this Eleanor could go on without him."
"Is there another Eleanor?"
She smiled and nodded.
"Horrifying thought, I know. I guess to survive I'd just think of my life in terms of acts in plays or something. Like how the old movies were so long they used to have intermissions. Eleanor…Part One, I guess, she would die with him. But Eleanor, Part Two would wait for the curtain to go up and she'd step out on the stage and put on one hell of a show."
"I can believe that."
Eleanor leaned forward and dragged a hand through his hair. He'd gotten it cut earlier that day and felt he finally looked like himself again. The only question now was when would he feel like himself again.
"Maggie's dead. She's been dead for over four years. And I remind you of her and that's why you wanted me so much. Maggie's dead and Daniel, Part One is dead. Maybe you let her go. I don't know. But I know you haven't let him go. Maybe it's time for Daniel, Part Two to step out on the stage."
He felt the truth of her words in his heart. They hurt more than his crop on her back had hurt her. And as the truth always hurt he knew her words were true.
"I don't know who he is," Daniel half-whispered the confession.
"Daniel, Part Two is everything Daniel, Part One was. But wiser, smarter, and a lot sexier. Seriously what have you been doing for the past year? You're so cut I could slice myself open on your quads."
Daniel laughed, almost blushing at her erotic appreciation of his body.
"Mountain climbing…trekking through rain forests…stomping all over South America."
"Sounds like hell on earth."
"I loved it."
She shuddered in feigned horror. So much for all his fantasies about her being his traveling companion on all his wilderness sojourns.
"So tell me, what did you love most about being Daniel, Part One? And don't say anything that has anything to do with camping."
Grinning, Daniel contemplated the question. Not that he really needed to think about it. He knew the answer immediately.
"Maggie. No question."
"Because she was your sub? Your property?"
"Because she was my wife. I loved being married. I loved going out with her and saying to someone, 'Meet my wife, Maggie.' Loved it when she introduced me as her husband. Men have this bad reputation about being afraid of marriage. I wasn't. Marrying her was the best thing I ever did."
Eleanor looked at him without smiling.
"Now tell me…what was the worst part of being Daniel, Part One."
Once again he knew the answer in an instant.
Eleanor didn't seem the least shocked.
Daniel slowly exhaled as he adjusted the pillow behind his back.
"She was thirty-nine when we got married. Turned forty on our honeymoon."
He saw realization dawning in Eleanor's bright green eyes.
"God, Daniel…fuck. You wanted kids, didn't you?"
It seemed like a betrayal of Maggie's memory to even say it aloud. But with Eleanor, he couldn't hold anything back.
"I did. She didn't. Her career was her life. I finally worked up the courage to suggest adoption…it didn't go over well. And the next week, she had her yearly physical and..."
Daniel nodded. "Sort of a moot point then."
Eleanor inched closer to him and raised her hand to his face. With fingers both gentle and knowing, she traced his jawline, his lips, his forehead.
"You know, even if I left him, or even if he died and I was free…" she paused and seemed to steel herself. "Daniel, I never would have had your children."
His eyes flew open wide.
She shook her head.
"I don't want kids. And I don't really want to get married. Crosses my mind sometimes but it's not really my thing. And even if I'd said 'yes' when you asked me to stay…six months, a year later maybe I'd be gone. And I wouldn't even have left you for him. I would have left you for me."
"Why are you-"
"Saying this? Because it's true, and you need to know it. What you and I had was perfect. But it's easy for something to be perfect when it only has to be perfect for seven days. What you and Maggie had was a marriage. What he and I have is also a kind of marriage. But you and me? That was just a honeymoon."
Her words sank into him like the blade of a heavy knife.
"You're as much of a sadist as he is, you know." Daniel hoped she couldn't hear the agony behind the joke.
"I've picked up a few tips from Him on pain infliction." She exhaled and smiled. "But I'm really not trying to hurt you. I want to help you. You have to let me go. You know I'm not what you really want. You loved being a husband. You want kids. You're not going to get that with me."
He said nothing, only stared past her. The bed shifted and out of the corner of his eye he watched her get dressed. She dragged her skirt over her hips, slipped into low heels, and buttoned up her blouse without once wincing or flinching from the welts he'd inflicted on her. Twenty-five years old and the girl was already an old pro.
"You know you'd make a helluva Dominatrix," Daniel said as Eleanor came back to the bed.
She crossed her arms over her ample chest and raised one eyebrow.
"You think so?"
"Last time you told me I should be a writer."
Daniel shrugged.
"You could always do both."
Tilting her head to the side she hummed a moment and tapped her chin.
"I've heard worse ideas. But forget about what I should do. What are you going to do?"
"Let you go…if that's what you want me to do."
"Doesn't matter what I want you to do." She ran a hand through his hair again and he felt the affection in her touch, the respect. But no love. Not the kind of love he wanted or needed. "What matters is what you want. What do you want to do?"
Daniel released a mirthless laugh.
"Your owner asked me the very same thing the day I buried Maggie."
"I hope you have a different answer."
He paused before answering.
"You're right. I do want to get married again. I want somebody to have kids with. God, I don't even care if they're mine or hers or adopted or foster kids. I just want a houseful of children. Always have."
"You're only thirty-eight." She touched his cheek. "And rich. And you're about as sexy as it gets. There are women in this world who'd let you knock them up just to have your DNA inside them for nine months."
He sighed and shook his head.
"I'm going to miss you. And when I stop missing you, I'm going to miss missing you," Daniel said and prayed that made sense to her.
"I don't love you. But I sort of wish I did. I hope that helps."
"It does a little. But just a little."
"I have to go now. Slumber party with the King."
Daniel nearly groaned aloud at the surge of envy that rushed through him.
"Doesn't Kingsley have enough subs to keep him company?"
"Yeah, but they're all shit. Dumb bitches who think owning a copy of Basic Instinct makes them kinky. Anya's the only good female submissive he's brought home in two years and she's off-limits."
"Anya? A good submissive? She's the most temperamental woman I've ever met. Loathed me on sight."
Eleanor looked genuinely taken aback by that.
"Really? She's about the sweetest person I've ever met. Too sweet to be hanging around with deviants like us. Of course, I could say the same to you. Was she bitchy to you?"
"Hmm…interesting. Sounds like she's got a crush."
"Doesn't act like it."
"Exactly my point. She's nice to everybody…but you? Wonder why."
Daniel left the bed and grabbed his jeans off the floor.
"Doesn't matter. Off-limits, like you said. Stupid auction."
"Very stupid auction. The girl is fucking terrified out of her mind about it. Even Kingsley told her she didn't have to do it. But she's determined to go through with it. Last virgin in one of Kingsley's auctions walked off with two-hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. King showed me the receipt. And that chick wasn't even half as beautiful as Anya."
Daniel whistled. Hardly pocket change.
"I hope somebody can talk some sense into her."
"You should try."
As he zipped up his jeans, he gave her a stern stare.
"You know I'm the Dominant in the room. Not you."
Eleanor cocked an eyebrow at him and he saw a smile twitch at the corner of her mouth. Raising her chin, she strode toward him and stopped only a foot in front of him.
"Is that so?" she asked with quiet menace. "You're the Dominant here?"
He took one step forward so only inches separated them. He gave her his very best The Ouch stare.
"I am."
Without any warning, Eleanor's hand shot out and slapped him quick across the cheek just hard enough to sting, just light enough to be insulting.
"Then act like it."
She'd slapped him. Actually slapped him. He'd slapped Maggie a thousand times just like that—quick and wicked, hard enough to get her attention, not hard enough to actually hurt. A perfect Dominant's slap.
"I will."
Daniel pushed Eleanor against the wall and yanked her skirt up to her hips. She'd admired the extra muscle he'd acquired trekking through South America so he put it to good use. With a swift rip he tore her panties off. With one more shove he had her off her feet and pressed against the wall with his cock buried deep inside her.
He didn't kiss her. Nor did he whisper erotic words in her ears. He merely fucked her as hard as he could and took pleasure in her submission to him. With every merciless thrust of his hips into hers, she flinched in his arms. Her fingernails dug into his shoulders. Her legs tightened around his waist. Pushing hard he came inside her marking her one final time.
Eleanor clung to his shoulders even as he pulled out and lowered her to the floor.
"Okay." She panted the word as she straightened her skirt with shaking hands. "You're the Dom in the room."
"That's better."
"But you should still talk to Anya."
Daniel laughed out loud. Maybe someday he would find a woman to love him and marry him and have children with him. But no woman in the world would ever compete with Eleanor for her ability to make him laugh.
"Yes, Mistress."
Eleanor finished straightening her clothes, took a deep breath, and nodded.
"I'm going now. Before you fuck me to death."
"Worse ways to die."
"It's how I plan to go out." She left his bedroom and headed for the front door. Opening it, she paused and looked back at him. "I will miss you. I did miss you…for a long time. I never thought I'd be tempted to leave him. Not until you."
"I promise I'll stop loving you," Daniel said. "But don't expect me to ever stop hating Him."
"I don't know if this will make you a little more kindly disposed to Him…but me coming here tonight…Daniel, whose idea do you think this was?"
Daniel looked into her eyes and knew the answer. The same person whose idea it had been to send her to him in the first place. He didn't speak. Neither did she. She merely gave him one last smile before walking out of his apartment and out of his life.
For a few minutes Daniel did nothing but wander aimlessly through his apartment. It already felt so empty without her. What did he do now? He raised his hand to his face and remembered how his cheek burned after Eleanor had slapped him.
You're the Dominant here?…Then act like it.
Act like it. He could do that. And he knew where to start. Going back into his bedroom he found his wallet and dug through it until he found Irina's business card. Grabbing the phone, he hastily dialed the numbers on the card.
A familiar voice answered after two rings.
"Irina, it's Daniel. Please don't ask me why I'm asking. And no, it's not what you think."
"I'm intrigued already," said the beautiful Russian. "Ask and it's yours."
"Can you tell me where Anya lives?"
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Last summer, Nike Inc. was hoping it had put to rest questions about labor practices in its overseas factories. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young had just released a mildly critical report on conditions in the sneaker giant's 350 plants around the world, and Nike had pledged to make improvements. But in early November, Nike was blindsided by a San Francisco human-rights group, which leaked a confidential Ernst & Young audit of a Nike plant in Vietnam. The E&Y report painted a dismal picture of sweatshop conditions that Andrew Young apparently never saw.
Nike's may be one of the most publicized cases of botched monitoring, but it is far from unique. Its high-profile embarrassment, however, underscores the need for a comprehensive, standardized auditing system that could be used industrywide.
NEAR A DEAL. The good news is that one may be at hand. On Nov. 24, Nike and a half-dozen other apparel makers will meet with human-rights and labor groups to hash out guidelines for a monitoring system. The assembly is part of a Presidential task force on sweatshops that has already issued a code of conduct for U.S. companies. Now, it is close to agreeing on procedures for auditing their overseas factories and those run by subcontractors to ensure the code is upheld.
The plan under discussion is similar to what human-rights groups say is the best monitoring program now in existence--one that Gap Inc. set up at an El Salvador plant in 1996. There, the retailer has bypassed the paid consultant route, relying instead on an outside group composed of local church, university, and labor leaders who interview workers off-site and mediate their complaints with management. The apparel task force plan wouldn't go that far, but by mandating that such groups be used as advisers it would be tougher than one announced in October by another group of retailers, including Toys `R' Us Inc. and Avon Products Inc.
The task force is still fighting over how much control companies would exercise. But they have agreed that a monitoring association with a governing board of industry and human-rights and labor groups should accredit auditors, and then companies would choose which one to hire. The group also has agreed that auditors such as E&Y must work with local human-rights and labor groups to try to avoid the problems of the Nike audit.
Making sure that third-party auditors get the complete story is essential. In Nike's case, for example, E&Y turned up serious violations of Vietnamese labor and environmental laws. But it missed others, including forced overtime and verbal and physical abuse by managers, according to Transnational Resource & Action Center (TRAC), the San Francisco human-rights group that issued the report on Nov. 7.
TOO CLOSE. According to TRAC, E&Y missed those abuses in part because it failed to hold interviews with workers away from the factory. Dara O'Rourke, a TRAC researcher who made three visits to the plant as an environmental consultant for the U.N., spoke with half a dozen employees of Tae Kwang Vina Industrial Ltd., a Korean subcontractor.
TRAC also says E&Y mistakenly certified that the plant was in compliance with the Vietnamese minimum wage of 19 cents an hour on a 208-hour month. E&Y's figures show the factory pays workers $45 a month for 267 hours a month--20% below the minimum, says O'Rourke. Nike spokesman Vada Manager says he can't explain the discrepancy. E&Y declined comment.
U.S. companies must do a more credible job of monitoring to convince concerned consumers that imported clothing and toys are not made under Dickensian conditions. While the apparel task force doesn't seem prepared to go as far as Gap--which itself has refused to extend its system to other plants--its approach can work. Companies would give up more control than they might like. But critics wouldn't actually get to see an employer's dirty linen. If an association governed by both sides oversees monitoring, it would strike a balance that would help eliminate sweatshop conditions such as those in Nike's Vietnamese plants. And from the point of view of the companies, having a seal of approval from a Presidential task force that includes human-rights and labor groups is an easy route to a credibility that has thus far eluded most.


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I know that T. rex gets all the dinosaur press, but this one was too good not to mention. Researchers estimate that an adult Tyrannosaurus generated a bite force of between 35,000 and 57,000 newtons. For the record, that's about four to six times more force than an alligator's bite. It's also more powerful than any other dinosaur's measured bite, for that matter, including Allosaurus, Carnotaurus and, wow, even Giganotosaurus. Adult bite force was disproportionately greater than that of juveniles, which suggests a shift to different — and much larger — prey in adulthood. Via io9.