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"The Sambia people are a tribe of mountain-dwelling people whose society is well-known by cultural anthropologists for its ritualised acts of male homosexuality. Among their more widely-recounted practices are semen ingestion and oral-anal contact, especially between males of inter-generational age."
I scanned down the rest of the page and then through the remainder of the chapter. Nothing. There was plenty of information about ceremonial fellatio between the males of the tribe, and there was even a picture of a battered earthenware bowl showing, fairly unequivocally around its edge, men engaging in anal intercourse together, but there wasn't a single additional comment, note or reference on the fact that these tribes-people liked licking each other's butts.
I slammed the book closed and put it back on the shelf. I was getting nowhere here.
It had become clear that, while the internet was teeming with links on rimming, filtering out the snippets of potentially useful information from the myriad of spurious and pornographic websites was nigh on impossible. So I had decided to retrace the footsteps I'd left decades ago as a schoolboy and headed to the town library to research the subject using the simple sword of the card index and the trusty shield of the Dewey Decimal numbering system.
And yet the abundance of books on the shelves had proven to be equally frustrating. References to male-on-male rimming, although often tacitly and ambiguously worded, could be found in almost every section, especially in anthropological studies which had just been browsing. Even dear sweet Enid Blyton's back catalogue could throw up the occasional oblique reference to the practice ("From his vantage point, Julian could see Uncle Quentin and Mr Forbes skulking from the pantry, looking shamefaced and with their eyes darting around furtively. The stains around his uncle's mouth were, he observed, patently not chocolate").
However, I wasn't interested in finding out that the practice existed - I was well aware that it did. Nor even that it was enjoyed between men from all walks of life and of all sexual persuasions. I had, after all, discovered without very much room for doubt that such an interest existed in myself, and I was just about as average a guy as you could hope to find.
What I wanted to know was what could entice heterosexual men to do such a thing to one another. It was on that point - an extremely pertinent point from my perspective - that I was drawing a definitive blank.
Seeing my frustration, the librarian, a tall dark-haired man who I'd noticed watching me for a while, walked over and asked if he could help.
"I'm doing a bit of research," I said vaguely, loath to reveal the topic which I could imagine a man in his position being appalled by. Smiling, I added, "I... er... don't seem to be getting very far."
I noticed his name on his badge. Silas P Langley. Chief Librarian.
"The card index is a bit out of date," he said, glancing at the list of numerical shelf locations I was working my way through. "All the books we've bought recently - from about 2002, actually - are only recorded on the computer system."
His voice was a little camp and that, coupled with the way he was fiddling with his tie for some reason, gave me the impression he was probably gay. Perhaps the topic of my research might not be so surprising to him. He might well have nuzzled his face between the occasional pair of buttocks himself.
"Each book has been scanned, so you can search them for specific words or phrases," he went on helpfully. "That might speed things up a bit."
"I assumed I had to be a member to be able to log on...?"
"Not at all." He added, with a rather pointed smirk, "I operate a policy of open access."
I'm sure you do, I thought.
"Well, that's very helpful. Thank you," I said.
"What is it that you're researching?" he asked. "Perhaps I can point you in the right direction to... you know... get you started off...?"
The sly look on his face made me wonder whether I was being hit on.
"It's... er... for my son," I lied. I didn't like to drag Jake into this but I felt the guy needed to know that I had managed to father offspring, albeit a few years ago, and so was likely to be straight. In spite of my fledgling interest in certain anatomical areas of my own gender, I was far from ready to be chatted up by a gay guy.
"It's for his... sociology project," I went on, fully aware that sociology was the last subject Jake would ever study. "It's about sexual tastes and... er... why people are drawn towards certain... well... practices."
"Which practices in particular?" he asked with a half-smirk and one eyebrow raised. I wondered how long he'd spent in front of a mirror perfecting such an expressive look.
"Homosexual practices," I answered, hoping to knock the wind out of his insinuatory sails with my directness.
He nodded, his smirk broadening a little and his eyebrow arching a little higher. He didn't seem at all thrown by my admission; if anything he seemed encouraged by it.
I wondered if perhaps this is how gay men flirt together.
"That's still quite a wide net to cast," he said, softening his expression into a smile. "Can you be more specific?"
"I think my son was asked to look into certain... er... taboo practices. Acts which were, at the time, culturally unacceptable... and... er... what motivates men to do that kind of stuff."
He nodded, still smiling. "I think the history section would make a good hunting ground." I followed him over to the right area and he pulled out a large volume from one of the shelves.
"Why don't you have a look through this," he suggested, "and I'll see what else the computer can drum up."
"I don't want to take up your time," I said, after thanking him. "You probably have a lot of other things to do."
"It's no problem," he said with a rather affected flick of his eyebrows and handed me the book. "In any case, we're pretty quiet today."
As he walked back towards his desk in the reception area, I noticed that his backside was nicely muscular - no doubt the result of an exercise regime far stricter than I could ever keep to - and I momentarily considered where flirting back with him might lead.
The book he'd given me had the snappy title, "British Sexual Offences during the Late Victorian Era: 1872-1901". It was primarily a collection of court proceedings from around the country, most of which concerned young women who had been caught soliciting. There was, however, a whole section summarising "Offences between Men" and it was to this that I turned after I had taken the book over to one of the reading desks, complete in time-honoured tradition with its own green-shaded lamp.
Leafing through the cases, it seemed that most of them were for what were referred to 'unnatural crimes' between apparently consenting men who had had the misfortune to have been witnessed indulging in surreptitious sexual encounters. While the details of their ill-fated trysts were usually unforthcoming, the tone of the accounts being condemning rather than descriptive, I was interested to discover whether any of these unfortunates had been caught rimming, and, if they had, what on earth the incredulous judiciary of the day would have made of men committing such an act together.
The accused in these pages came from professions as diverse as blacksmiths, soldiers, cigar-makers and coffee-shop proprietors, as well as solicitors and men of the cloth. Their brief unions seemed to have been formed with complete disregard of the strict class codes of the time: a school master had been caught with a coachman; a village rector with a butcher's apprentice. Often the men were punished for their 'indecent and abominable conduct' together and it was time and again noted in the court summaries that the facts of their cases were 'unfit for publication'.
But not always.
Occasionally the surviving records were rather more lurid and sometimes there were just enough tantalising details for me to recognise that occasionally - very occasionally - the men had been witnessed indulging in acts substantially more intimate than plain old buggery.
I found a case from the Central Criminal Court of two men who had committed what was described as an 'infamous crime'. One of the men was a labourer called William Beevers, the other a soldier serving in the Scots Fusilier Guards. The shameful deed had taken place in the overcrowded terraced house in which Beevers was a lodger, part of a long-since demolished and redeveloped area of London near Westminster. It had been witnessed by 'a very respectably dressed woman named Mary-Ann Piper' who was a fellow lodger in the house.
Mrs Piper had been asked by the landlady to sit up late to make sure that another lodger, a man with the wonderfully Dickensian name of Theophilus Craze, did not abscond from the house without paying his rent. She had positioned herself on the landing between the first and second floors but had not seen Craze, him having retired to his room and presumably gone to bed. Instead, late at night, she had heard Beevers let himself into the house accompanied by the guardsman, and had crept to the top of the stairs to see them down below in the hallway behaving towards each other in manner which she described as 'very indecent'. They had then gone to the back kitchen and had closed the door behind them while the intrepid Mrs Piper had tiptoed downstairs to listen in on their 'lewd conversation'.
Eager to assure herself of what was taking place between the men, she had peered through the keyhole and had seen the labourer committing an 'abominable act' on the soldier. She had then crept back upstairs to the landlady's chambers and had told her what was happening, only to return to the scene of the crime in time to hear the tinkle of a few coins being given to the soldier before he departed the house.
When questioned in court about what exactly she had seen, Mrs Piper had replied simply that it was 'the thing which a woman will not do to a man'. This piqued my interest. Clearly, she could not be referring to sodomy because surely a woman cannot, rather than will not, do that to a man, no matter how adept and versatile she is. I wondered whether Mrs Piper could have been of such a delicate disposition that she might regard oral sex as beyond the faculties of a woman. Or, for that matter, masturbation.
I read on, intrigued.
Mrs Piper had been asked whether the soldier had found the act which was being performed on him agreeable. She had replied that she could not tell because he had been turned away from her and she could only see that 'his britches were hitched down at the rear'. Beevers, however - who she could see very clearly - had been in a state of 'some agitation'.
She had then been asked to more specific about which parts of the labourer she could see through the keyhole. "His face", she had replied, "in all its sinfulness... doing that which any godly person would find deplorable. And his lower part in his hand... so appallingly inflamed."
At that point the judge, Chief Justice Levene, had declared that the matter should be thrown out of court and ordered that neither man's record should be tarnished by these allegations. There was, he decreed, "no evidence of sexual impropriety which warrants retribution by this court, but merely an inappropriate choice of setting on the part of Mr Beevers to express the unfathomable curiosities which nature saw fit to endow him with". Case dismissed.
I read the passage twice to make sure I had fully understood its meaning. The judge was basically saying that if the labourer had been seen penetrating the soldier, he'd have banged them both up. But he was not prepared to accept that rimming - which was, I assumed, what the meddlesome Mrs Piper had been alluding to - was a homosexual act. What he'd said suggested he regarded it as a natural biological impulse between men; an innate urge which was so distasteful it could not even be openly discussed, but which it would not, nevertheless, be appropriate to punish.
Chief Justice Levene had been, I suspected, a man very much after my own heart.
It didn't answer my question as to why men were drawn to do such things to one another, but it was fascinating to discover that at least one judge was sufficiently enamoured with the practice to be able to rule, even within the deeply repressive atmosphere of a Victorian court, that it did not warrant punishment.
I flicked through the rest of the section and found only one case which was in any way comparable. This involved a cab driver and a gentleman who had been caught together in a 'shocking position' in the alleyway behind a public house. Two female witnesses had attested to the 'vileness' of the gentleman's conduct as he "knelt low to indulge himself behind the driver who had assisted him by lowering his attire". And yet, as with the case of the labourer and the soldier, the case had ended with neither man being punished.
I glanced back up to the top of the page. Chief Justice Levene had, once again, been the presiding judge.
Silas the Chief Librarian interrupted me with a printout of a few further books which matched my enquiry.
"Has that one proven useful?" he asked.
I shook my head. "It gives examples but it doesn't explain why men are compelled to do this kind of stuff. In a way, the danger of incurring so severe a punishment makes it even more curious as to why some men were still willing to take the risk."
He smiled. "I suppose, the more intense the sense of gratification, the greater the gamble someone will take to achieve it."
"At the risk of death? Capital punishment was still routinely meted out for some of these crimes at this time."
"Homosexual sex has, it would seem, an appeal which exceeds such concerns."
I smiled. "It must be pretty good, huh?"
He grinned at me. "I've heard it has its own... singular charms."
"The question I'm trying to find an answer to," I explained, trying to steer things back to the task in hand, "is whether there's a natural desire in all men to experience physical intimacy with one another. That's the crux of it."
"You mean, that's the question your son is trying to find an answer to," the librarian corrected me with a smirk.
"That's right," I agreed, feeling my cheeks colour a little. My ears have a tendency to turn scarlet at such times. "My son... yes, of course."
The librarian looked down his list and drew a cross next to the name of one of the books. "You could try this one. The author comes across a bit pompous at times, but he tries to answer questions about why people are attracted to certain things."
"Have you read it yourself?"
He shook his head. "I've only flicked through it. It's quite a popular book for guys who are... well... struggling with certain issues."
He threw me a knowing look and I realised he thought that's what I was. I had to admit that I was indeed struggling with certain issues, but not the ones he was probably thinking of.
Nevertheless, I went over and found a copy of the book he'd suggested and took it back to the lamp-lit reading desk to leaf through it.
The author, Thomas Franklin, was an American doctor and a long list of letters denoting his various qualifications followed his name on the cover of the book. I wondered if that was a good sign.
I glanced down the contents page and went straight to the section entitled, "Why are some men gay?"
Disregarding the first half of the chapter in which he spouted his views about the genetic and cultural bases of homosexuality, I was drawn to the subheading, "Gay men and anal sex."
Maybe there'd be something useful here.
First off, though, he seemed to be of the view that all gay men practised anal sex. I was sure that wasn't true: there'd been an item about it on 'Embarrassing Bodies' on Channel Four. The immaculately coiffed presenter - who'd seemed like the kind of guy who would know about such things - had said that some gay men don't enjoy anal sex in either role and instead prefer an eroticism centred on each other's penises. He'd had a name for it but I couldn't remember what it was.
Nevertheless, I read what Thomas Franklin MD FCFP MRCS MB BCh BAO thought about why gay men supposedly find bottoms so deeply erogenous.
"The fetishization of the male rear is the gay variant of the heterosexual male's fascination with feminine curvaceousness. The voluptuous shape of a full pair of buttocks, especially in younger men, is directly comparable to the rounded swell of a woman's bosom. Indeed, the potent sexual appeal of the breast-like shape, inherently found in males of all cultures, is intensified in gay men by the inclusion of the anus between the buttocks - a hole which lends itself with relative ease to penile penetration."
That's all very well and good, I thought, and it certainly helps to explain how my interest in women's breasts has been so effortlessly widened to include a fascination with other men's backsides, but it doesn't even begin to enlighten me as to why I'm attracted to putting my face down there.
I read on.
"American gay culture seeks to beautify the male rear and glossy magazines targeted at young gay men depict models flaunting their buttocks, and sometimes their anuses, in overtly provocative poses. Such a focus on the male behind as a breast-substitute and thus an object of sexual titillation has had the effect of promoting many gay men to experiment with the practice of analingus."
Analingus? The 'anal' part must obviously refer to the anus and 'lingus' part - if my schoolboy Latin served me correctly - to the tongue. I figured the guy must mean rimming.
"In this, the heterosexual male's natural desire to stimulate the breasts of a woman with his mouth and tongue is transferred in the gay male to equivalent practices using his partner's backside. Some men prefer generalised oral contact with the whole buttock region in a direct mirroring of the heterosexual norm, while others prefer to lick the anus itself in a more specialised and uniquely-homosexual variant."
Uniquely-homosexual my arse, I thought, and then smirked at my unintended pun.
But seriously, this guy had no idea what he was talking about. He clearly had no concept about what was so exciting about the taste and smell of a man down there. About what made it so arousing, even to a straight guy like me who had never previously thought my own gender in a sexual way.
I scanned down the rest of the section to see if he mentioned anything relevant to men like me, but he just kept labouring the point about the backside being the gay version of a woman's breasts.
I wasn't buying it. If I wanted to work my mouth over a pair of breasts, surely I'd direct all my efforts into a finding a woman who'd let me. I would hardly go sniffing around another bloke's arse to see if it was workable as a substitute.
No. This guy was way off the mark.
I looked up and saw the Silas the Chief Librarian peering over the desk lamp at me.
"I can see from your face that one wasn't any good," he said.
"Not hugely, no." I passed him his list back. "Are there any others on here which might be better?"
He ignored the list and handed me a book he'd found using the computer search.
"Try this one," he suggested. "This book was cited about half a dozen times using the keywords I put in."
"Which keywords?"
"Oh, you know," he said, grinning rather salaciously. "Homoeroticism... clandestine pleasures... secretive male encounters... things like that. Just the kind of keywords to get the computer's juices flowing..."
And not just the computer's, I thought.
"That was very... er... inventive of you."
"No problem," he smirked. "Once you get going, such things just sort of roll off the tongue, don't you find?"
I smiled. This guy really was out to get me.
"I can't say I've had a lot of experience..."
He raised his eyebrows before suggesting, "Well, perhaps you're about to make a few discoveries..."
How far was I prepared to go along with this? Was I really interested in this guy? I realised that there was a distinct possibility that my visit to the library could give my research a far more - how should I put it - participative direction.
I glanced down at the book, playing along with his banter. "Perhaps I am," I smiled. "Let's see if I can come across an interesting passage..."
He beamed at me. "Well, if you need any more help... you know, a hand with something, or whatever... I'll be over at the desk." And then he walked back over to the reception area, his arse flexing most invitingly in the back of his trousers as he did so.
He was making it quite clear that he was interested in me sexually, and I wondered again what would happen if I were to be more direct in my reciprocation. Might this really be an opportunity for me to see how it would feel to get sexual with another man? Might he let me rim him so that I could see if I was as excited by doing it to him as I had been with Guy? Not here, of course, but maybe we could meet up later, after he finished work...?
It might be risky to approach a gay man for such a thing: he'd be far more practised than me and might expect me to do things with him that I wasn't comfortable with. Even worse, he might seek commitment from me that I wouldn't be prepared to give.
On the other hand, though, his experience and knowledge could prove invaluable in helping to answer the questions that were currently troubling me. Better still, he'd almost certainly be no stranger to the pleasures of rimming and would probably enjoy having a novice experimenting on him. And with the arse he was showing off, it looked like I'd be in for rather a treat.
While I mulled it over, I looked through the book he'd given me. It was by a female author called Carolyn Ashbrook and purported to cover all aspects of sexuality.
Finding both 'rimming' and 'analingus' absent from the index, I instead took up the trail leading from 'anal sex' and turned to the relevant pages.
Ms Ashbrook explained that, in her view, we find other people's buttocks attractive because they provide an indication that they will make worthwhile partners if we're in the mood for baby-making.
"In humans, fat on the breasts advertises reproductive health," she wrote, "and available resources for pregnancy and nursing. In other primates, the buttocks have also been recruited as billboards for this advertising function with males as well as females attracting mates by displaying their rears as indicators of their fertility."
Tell me something I don't know, I thought. Jake and I had watched a Robert Winston documentary about this very subject a few years ago. (I'd found it painfully embarrassing to have so many nude bodies paraded on TV in front of my son. Jake, however, had insisted I didn't change channels; it wasn't every night he got the chance to ogle a succession of breasts under the pretence of it being for educational reasons.)
I glanced further on through the chapter.
"Some men enjoy not only anal penetration but facial contact with the buttock area and sometimes with the anus itself."
Ah, here we go.
"The pleasure in such activities, like enjoyment of exhibitionism discussed earlier, is derived entirely from its negative connotations. As humans we have been taught to be ashamed or embarrassed about our anuses and so the act of having intimate contact with that area of another person challenges this psychological taboo. Doing something which society has condemned as disgusting and humiliating brings its own titillating appeal. The added fact that putting one's face close to another person's bottom has a bestial connotation - dogs, to name just one example, sniff each other's backsides - no doubt serves to enhance the excitement of participants."
It seemed I had finally unearthed a plausible explanation as to why rimming might appeal to me. I liked it because, in effect, I wasn't supposed to like it. I was - quite simply - being contrary.
It was an attractive suggestion, but it seemed over-simplistic and too convenient. Had such thoughts passed through my mind when I nuzzling into Guy's undercarriage? Had I been thinking about how... well... 'naughty' I was being? Was that what had excited me?
I didn't think it was that straightforward.
I put the book down and looked over at the reception area. Silas the Chief Librarian was behind the desk, bending over a chair to look at something on the computer and showing off that very attractive backside of his.
As if drawn towards him like a wasp towards a pot of jam, I wandered over to the desk.
He glanced up at me as if he had expected me to appear and smiled.
"Was that one any good?"
"It was interesting," I conceded, "and had a few ideas in it I hadn't really thought of. It's given me a few suggestions to... er... give my son."
"Ah... your son... that's right," he smirked, his voice laden with sarcasm.
He stood up and walked over to me.
"I've... er... a few more books out back," he quietly informed me. "In the storage area... maybe you'd be interested...?"
I nodded. I knew where this was headed, but hadn't expected him to be so up-front.
"Sounds good. Do you want me to watch the desk while you fetch them for me?" I asked with a look of affected innocence.
"I thought you might like to come out back and look for them with me...?" he smiled. "I'm sure the desk will survive being unmanned for a while."
I smiled back. Things might be the on verge of getting very interesting.
Did I really want this, I asked myself. What might I be getting myself into?
Before I could dissuade myself, I hastily replied, "Sounds good to me."
I followed him through a door behind the reception desk and down a short corridor. This opened out into a long narrow room tightly packed with storage shelves piled high with a disarray of books. It was much colder in here and the lighting was weak and cast long shadows.
He turned to face me, his back against the end of one of the shelves.
"We might not have long," he said. "Some old biddy is going to be calling down the corridor any minute now for me to check a Danielle Steel back in."
"So where should we start?" I asked.
"What exactly is it that you're after?"
"Whatever it is you have in mind," I offered.
He walked over to me and put his hand on the front of my trousers, found my flaccid penis through the material and raised his eyebrows, probably surprised by my generous size. Gently massaging it between his finger and thumb, he whispered, "Something like this?"
He continued rubbing at my organ, feeling it slowly stirring to life through my trousers, and smiled at me. "I knew you'd be up for it... the second I saw you!"
"I'm not sure that I am... I'm pretty new to this..."
He threw me a sceptical look and then smiled. "How about I show you the ropes, then?"
He grabbed my right hand and put it against the front of his own trousers. His cock, unlike mine, was already stiff but felt much smaller than mine was even in its softened state.
He held onto my wrist and worked my hand against his excitement, making slow masturbatory movements back and forth along his length.
"There," he whispered appreciatively, his breath hot against my face and smelling of stale coffee. "That's how you do it."
I wasn't sure I was enjoying this - it felt awkward to be so close to another man and touching his crotch like this - but I went along with it, enticed by the possibility that he might at some point turn around.
I worked up a steady rhythm on his organ, rubbing and squeezing it through his clothing, as he vainly tried to awaken mine by doing the same.
After a minute or so, he pushed my hand away and undid his belt and fly. Yanking down the front of his baggy boxer shorts, he pulled out his cock which arched upwards with its deep red head fully exposed. It was perfectly formed, but much smaller than those I was used to seeing. Perhaps I'd looked at too much porn and now had unrealistic expectations about what men kept in their underwear.
He put my hand back onto his cock and I wrapped my fingers around it. He directed me to make a jerking motion up and down it and muttered, "Yeah, that's it..."
On my side, my cock continued to refuse to co-operate. I quite liked the sensation of his fingers playing with me through my trousers, but not enough for me to become aroused by it.
Perhaps to try and stir my interest, or more likely for his own enjoyment, he pushed my head down towards his erection and commanded me to suck him.
Anticipating that this might give me a route towards his backside, just as it had with Guy, I complied and knelt down in front of him. I took him into my mouth and gentle tongued the head of his cock. It had a sharp, curious taste and oozed a warm dribble of salty liquid into my mouth.
He groaned in gratitude and grabbed my head, working himself in and out of my mouth as I sucked him.
I reached around and felt his backside. It was large and round: very inviting. That was where I wanted to be: right between his firm, meaty buttocks; not slurping away at his dick like some backstreet whore.
I hitched my thumbs over his belt and pulled the seat of his trousers down. He muttered something, perhaps in encouragement, and I went back up to do the same with his boxer shorts.
Now his backside was exposed, the skin silky smooth and the cheeks flexing in time with gentle thrusting of his cock into my mouth. I worked my fingertips into his cleft, feeling the coarse hairiness inside, and swept them up and down, becoming more excited by the alluring warmth of his crack and promise of what lay in store just out of reach.
He started jabbing himself more forcefully into my mouth, his breathing quickening, as I tried to pleasure him as best as I could.
I was more focussed on his bum: pushing my fingers deeper towards the prize I was yearning for and feeling myself slowly stiffen at the slight wetness I was finding as I closed in on it.
He pulled back from me and announced, "I want to suck your cock."
I stood up. "I don't know..." I was flattered that he'd ask but I'd never really enjoyed the sensation of a mouth around my organ.
"Come on," he asserted. "Pull down your trousers."
Jesus. For a camp guy he was surprisingly dominant.
"I don't want to do that," I said. "Like I said, I'm kind of new to this."
"Bullshit!" he snapped. "You're well up for it!"
He lunged towards me and I pushed him away. Was this really turning nasty? We were in a pretty isolated part of the library - if it came to it, could I take this guy? He was younger than me and quite well worked out, but with his trousers halfway down his thighs, I'd have the advantage of being more lithe.
He came back at me and tried to grab my waist. I slammed the palm of my hand into his sternum and forced him away from me.
This was getting far too physical for my liking. How on earth would I explain it if I were to emerge from my visit to the library with a black eye?
"I don't want you to suck me," I insisted, more firmly.
This time he held back. His cock was still erect; more or less undiscouraged.
"Okay," he said. "What do you want to do?"
I felt like I didn't really want to do anything now, other than make a bid for the doorway, but the prospect of him turning around and letting me taste him was still too potent for me to easily dismiss.
"I want to rim you."
"I want to rim you," I repeated.
Having never said the word 'rim' out-loud before, at least not in this context, I half-expected him to laugh in scorn and tell me nobody called it that or that I was pronouncing it completely wrong.
But he didn't. He just stared at me in surprise.
After a second or so, with his cock starting to droop, he asked, "Is that what this has all been about? You've had your eye on my arse?"
He seemed disgusted; as if I was asking him to participate in something obscene.
"I wouldn't say it's 'what this has all been about'... I mean, I was actually looking for a book... but yes, I'm only really interested in rimming."
"Oh God," he almost spat. "I know how to pick them."
"I thought you'd like the idea," I argued. "With you being... you know... gay..."
"Oh right - so you assume all gay men are into each other's arseholes?" he sneered, pulling up his shorts and then his trousers. "What you see in internet porn isn't necessarily an accurate depiction of what gay men really enjoy, you know..."
He did have rather a point.
"I just thought..." I stammered.
"There's a line to be drawn," he cut in, zipping himself up. "And I draw it a long way short of the brown hole. Sorry but what you're asking... ugh... there's no way I could ever do that."
I was going to point out that I was asking to do it to him but, as he seemed determined to draw our encounter to a close, I headed for the doorway which led back out to the corridor.
"Yeah," he said with satisfaction, as if he was propelling me from the library himself. "Get the hell out of here, you dirty sod."
"I'm going!" I snapped back. "There's no need to get abusive."
He finished doing up his belt and followed me back out in the reception area. An old woman was standing at the desk looking around for service but, as far as I could tell, she didn't have a Danielle Steel book with her.
As I was leaving through the double doors, I heard Silas the Chief Librarian greet the woman as if nothing had happened. "Good afternoon, Mrs Padbury! Isn't the weather awful! And what can we do for you today?"
I got outside and spent a few seconds recovering myself under a bus shelter which offered some protection from the cold October drizzle.
"Well, that went well," I thought to myself sardonically.
Clearly, I mused on the way home, rimming isn't as prolific among gay men as I'd assumed it to be. Hooking up with a gay guy wasn't necessarily going to give me a taste of what I was fantasising about; it might not, in fact, deliver anything more than a humiliating expulsion from a public building.
However, I'd learned a few snippets from the books Silas the Chief Librarian had shown me and so at least had come away with some clue as to the appeal of what had transpired to be a decidedly minority interest. I realised I had probably also come away with a lifelong ban from the town library, but... well... such is life.
Next story: Adam and Steve


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Wingate by Wyndham Calgary
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Just a thought I've had a couple times:
What do you guys think about speeding up the free throw shooting process?
I'm not a big fan of all the ticky tack fouls that get called now in the modern NBA, but I guess we will have to live with it. But one really annoying by product is how much it slows down the game.
Is there a way to solve this to some degree? How about an automatic 1.5 points if you get fouled? Or, you could have everyone in the league shoot a hundred free throws just before the season starts and whoever is fouled gets that percentage. (So, a 90 percent or so shooter like Danny would be awarded 1.8 points. A Foster like player would get .09 points if fouled.)
Okay, before you flame me, my real proposal is simply speeding up the free throw shooting, particularly the first free throw (in doing tivo, I've noticed the second free throw happens pretty quickly.)
I'm thinking, the refs could make it a point to get the ball to the line very quickly. The shooter then gets, say, eight seconds to shoot. If the refs get the ball to the line quickly, it could be the difference of, say, 15 seconds rather than 30 seconds. Half the amount of time.
I think it would make the NBA a lot easier to watch.
Edit: You know, they did something similar when they eliminated a jump ball at the beginning of the 2,3, and 4th quarter. And college does or did that arrow thing. And, way back, they used to do a jump ball after EVERY basket. So fiddling with the free throw shooting issue may not be as radical as we think.


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Enchantment of the Seas 08/11 New England/Canada Cruise
Destination: Canada & New England
Embarkation: Baltimore
This ship is the perfect size. We have been on a mega-ship and found it to be way to large. Our large stateroom with window was forward on Deck 4 which proved to be an excellent location. Frederick our attendant was the best. The cabin was always clean and he was there in the morning to open my door when I was carrying two cups of coffee.
The Meet and Mingle should be called Seat and Single. The turnout was good but most folks sat down and kept to themselves. Name tags would have helped or at least pass the microphone around and have people introduce themselves. There were free drinks, snacks, and few door prizes. The whole event lasted about 20 minutes.
We never dined in the MDR, instead we opted for the Windjammer for all our meals. We were not disappointed.
The shows were great for the most part. We More usually arrived about 40 minutes prior to the show and did not have an issue finding seats. However, most seats were taken with about 20 minutes prior to showtime. John Blair was the cruise director and we thought he was very good. His wife Katrina was the events coordinator and we found her to be good as well. Our favorite show was the tribute to the Temptations! Amazing! Bobby Arvon (he sang the Happy Day's song) was real good as well. 70's night in the Centrum was a blast to watch.
The ports were amazing. We did our own thing in all of them except Halifax where we took a ship's excursion of Peggy's Cove and the Titanic graves. I personally feel the gravesite visit is a little disrespectful since lots of visitors were trampling across graves or sitting on the head stones. I'm not sure this part of the tour serves any value other than a chance to say "wow". Peggy's Cove is a must see.
In Portland, ME we did the land/sea tour with Portland Discovery. Both parts were great with the sea part taking an edge. Value was great. In Bar Harbor we did the 2.5 hour Oli's Trolley tour to Acadia. Simply amazing. Also the town itself is a shopper's paradise. We did our own thing in Saint John; this was probably our least favorite port. In Boston we did the HOHO trolley. We rode the whole route at first to get an overview of the city. BTW, I was born here and got to see where I lived till age 5 on Commonwealth Ave and where my father went to school - MIT. After, we got off at Faniul Hall, grabbed something to eat, shopped, and saw the Paul Revere house. Great city and we are planning a return visit by train in the near future.
The weather was amazing. Rained for 5 minutes yesterday at sea. All ports were sunny and warm except for Bar Harbor which had a lot of fog most of the day. In fact, the tender boat had trouble finding the dock. Captain Anders was great! A few times we saw whales near the ship and harbour seals in the ports.
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In a less politically-correct era the English could speak their mind more clearly; and what they said indicated that it was the foreigners on their doorstep who troubled them most. Obviously, these were the people who presented the greatest threat to their island identity. Remember that "island identity" contains the notion of being insular, closed in on oneself, turning one's back on others. But how to deal with neighbours well placed to stab you in the back?
The fact is that the English are constantly in denial about their own identity, and the French show us what we really are - or could be if we let ourselves go. They're a kind of sibling, cast in the same mould as us, but showing how the same genes can express themselves in alternative ways.
Given this common background, the English, in spite of themselves, tend to give way to what Freud called "the narcissism of minor differences". We make a great deal of what distinguishes us from the French, for fear of seeing our prized identity lose its uniqueness by being revealed as just another set of shared human traits.
But in cultivating an apparent distinctiveness, we have developed a very buttoned up view of ourselves. We like to believe we are good sportsmen, abiding by the rules of fair-play. We celebrate the chivalrous character of the English male, deferential and solicitous about his women-folk. We worship hygiene and cleanliness, and have problems with sex.
In short, the English are in denial about their real selves. And when the French give expression to the persons we'd really like to be, we hate them for it. Henry VIII, that colossus among English Kings, doubtless thought he should keep something in reserve when meeting the French monarch at the "Field of the Cloth of Gold", in 1520. But François Premier, ruler of a country four times bigger and richer than England, did the sensible thing and went for broke. Same goes for Louis XIV : no beater about the bush he, calling himself "the Sun-King" and pursuing a foreign policy intended to leave no one in any doubt as to the glory that was Gaul. Speaking of which, the General de Gaulle did just the same thing.
This all seems a bit shameless to us English, a bit too "in yer face" for our liking. A retired, formerly high-ranking diplomat recently declared that the French have the finest, most sophisticated and well-informed diplomats in the world - but because they are so doggedly devoted to French interests, they are impossible to work with. Excuse me, but do we really want our diplomats to be finessed at every turn and walked over by the opposition?
Take the French resistance to American influence. Since the War they have done everything within their power to insist that France has a global role to play, that Europe has its own history, traditions and potential future. They have had an independent cinema and foreign policy, sought to defend their language, favoured the euro as a bulwark against the mighty dollar, and so on. And while the English have been obsessed with fending off the Gallic rival at the back door, Uncle Sam has come in the front door and they have sleepwalked into becoming an offshore subsidiary of USA inc. And our kids talk like they were on "Friends".
The trouble with the French is that they do things so well. And before you say that they're good at surrendering, just pause for thought over the alleged benefits of belligerence and war-mongering.
Underneath it all, you can hear the half-stifled murmur running through the English brain : "Wish I could do that". Be like Thierry Henry, design the Citroen DS, have a TGV, be upfront about what attracts them to women, drink plenty without falling down, cook and eat well - without putting on weight.
Professor David Walker is head of department at the University of Sheffield's department of French.
Franco-British enmity appears to go with the territory. Harold's ordeal at the Battle of Hastings was being woven into a celebratory tapestry for display in France while Domesday administrators roamed the country identifying prime taxation targets. The countries clanged and jousted through the Hundred Years war (1337-1453), bickered over Calais and went to war over the Revolution.
In more modern times, the countries have been fighting on the same side but the anti-French mentality of the British, possibly forged in these early territorial and political disputes, appears to have mutated into "scatter-gun" contempt for the French and their cultural identity. Prejudice in the post-war period has tended to be articulated in scornful observations about military ineptitude and cravenness, sexual licentiousness and poor hygiene.
The British notion that the French don't wash may be attributable to France's relatively late modernisation. By the early 1950s British and American consumers, enjoying the new prosperity of a leisure culture, were able to mechanise and rationalise their open-plan domestic space with fridges, gas and electric ovens, electronic gadgets and keep it all clean with the newly affordable upright model of vacuum cleaner.
In France, recovery from the war was slower. The acute shortage of urban accommodation in France which continued well into the 1950s meant that migratory population from rural areas and overseas were compelled to live in squalid overcrowded conditions. Most Paris apartments did not have running water or inside sanitation. In rural areas, most dwellings still had flagged floors. The contrast between the two domestic environments must have been startling for the British visitor of the 1950s and early 1960s. And there were more visitors.
The baby boom and the consequent expansion of education at all levels meant a greater extent of cultural interchange. Young Britons were coming to France on educational exchanges and were living in the cheapest and least salubrious accommodation lacking even the basic sanitation. It is not hard to see how the myth of the "dirty French" was disparagingly communicated back to the Albion.
At the same time, in the immediate post-war France sought to purge itself of the "stain" of shame of the "dark years" of Occupation by setting about a programme of moral, political and cultural purging. Renewal was not possible while collaborators held positions of influence in French cultural and political life.
The idea that moral weakness had contributed to military defeat was an idea inculcated in the French by the Nazi puppet administration, Vichy but, at the same time, the notion that moral fortitude, military strength and resilience and national pride should be so closely interwoven in mentalities of the time might suggest an origin for the Francophobic rantings of British tabloids today, which are invariably focussed on military performance as indicator of moral worth.
Dr Wendy Michallat is a researcher and teacher at the University of Sheffield's department of French.
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Sometimes I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm a member of the media. I love journalism. I love reporting. And I love writing. But I hate how some of my fellow members of the press repeatedly rehash the same "news," that wasn't really news in the first place, year after year, in the interest of the Almighty Page View. It's part of The Game these days, I get it. But I still hate it.
Case in point: A story that's circulating throughout the blogosphere this morning about Google's Eric Schmidt using a BlackBerry.
Guess what? Eric Schmidt has been using a BlackBerry for years. He's not hiding it. In fact, he's been very honest about why he uses a BlackBerry: The keyboard. That's it. Plain and simple. Nothing here to see, ladies and gentlemen, please keep moving.
But every year or so, some media outlet presents the story as news and as some sort of scandal, as if Schmidt's admission that he actually likes using a BlackBerry is akin to some lurid sex scandal involving young children, jello and a caged animal or two. Then countless other websites just run with.
Shame on you, Mr. Schmidt! How could you do this your beloved Android?!?
Nearly four years ago—four years—I wrote a blog post about how it's no big deal that Google's Schmidt uses a BlackBerry. Hit this link if you want to know why. Or maybe I should just repost that entry as if it was brand new and something to get all excited about. I'd probably get more traffic than I will from this post…


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Some American Miiiverse users are very racist towards our Japanese brothers.
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Megagunstarman 4 years ago#41
I'm not changing this until a new Jet Set Radio is announced. Started 10/13/11
Lord_Kagato 4 years ago#42
HellsingOrg posted...
I have seen many posts where a Japanese person will go on the American Miiverse and post something like "Hello from Japan!"
American teenagers (and some adults) are very immature, racist, rude athiest-extremists (different from being just plain athiest, mind you). Of course they find it funny.
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Arcadia__person 4 years ago#43
Lord_Kagato posted...
HellsingOrg posted...I have seen many posts where a Japanese person will go on the American Miiverse and post something like "Hello from Japan!"
How the hell did you go from "harro my fren" to "atheist-extremists?" Only atheists say racist things?
"Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit." -Skies of Arcadia
Arcadia__person 4 years ago#44
Toadster9001 posted...
EternalWolf posted...There is a difference between racism and adapting to your environment. If a chinese kid moves to america then the kids here are going to give him s*** to see how he reacts. Some will embrace it, some will cry. However the same american kid that cause him a racial slur loser(or whatever) is likely bullying american kids as well.
What a stupid post. "People are mean, deal with it." You are seriously channeling Michele Bachmann on bullying right now, and really, knowing that Bachmann holds a particular viewpoint is all you should need to know to realize it's idiotic.
"Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit." -Skies of Arcadia
DifferentialEquation 4 years ago#45
F31Leopard posted...
Uh oh. You're going to crush the creams of the weaboos on this board who think that all they do in Japan is watch anime and that when they move there someday they'll be instantly loved by everyone for their knowledge of crappy jrpgs and their collection of limited edition gundam action figures.
I want to move to a nice, quaint house in the suburbs with the T-Mobile girl and make lots of babies with her.
Nice_Kirbyfan9 4 years ago#46
From: Lord_Kagato | #042
immature, racist, rude athiest-extremists
One of these things is not like the other.
If you disagree with the views expressed in this post, feel free to put me on ignore.
ADHDguitar 4 years ago#47
Nice_Kirbyfan9 posted...
From: Lord_Kagato | #042immature, racist, rude athiest-extremists
Yeah, racists aren't always immature!
I KEED. I KEED. But yeah, dragging one's theological beliefs (or in this case lack thereof) into this is NOT A GOOD IDEA.
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gamebuyer22 4 years ago#49
niels200683 posted...
It's funny how caucasian people are more sensitive to racism to others than the ones supposedly insulted.
Get it right!!! Its Liberal white people that get offended haha. Im an american of italian descent and every single italian in every form of media is a stereotype. Do i care?? Hell no. Nintendo made an italian stereotype their most famous character. Everyone can cry me a river over stereotypes. While i agree if someone from Japan says hi you shouldn't respond with something stupid when you don't know the person. Though i think they were just being funny. Stereotyping does not mean you are racist. Plus some truth in sterotyping.
EternalWolf posted...
Wow....just wow. This post has to be one of the most idiotic, half baked things I've ever seen posted on Gamefaqs. So when someone bullies a person of another ethnicity and/or country, it's just a form of discipline and good old fashioned kidding around? Furthermore, if they're bothered by that, it's their own fault and they should be the ones changing their behaviors or posting habits?
You're completely clueless, man. COMPLETELY. Wow. *shakes head* The scary part is that there are more people in this world who feel the same way as you.
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Our penultimate day in Thailand and again we went our separate ways to do what we both love doing - Katherine to shop in a scrap-booking shop and me to ride a bicycle. Luckily the starting point for both was in the same vicinity.
My bicycle trip was with ABC - Amazing Bangkok Cyclist. My guide was Apple and I was the only customer for the day as the other people had pulled out at. That made the trip a bit faster but that was ok as we had an appointment to meet my friend Lee on the other side of Bangkok.
The first half of the ride was on the Bangkok side of the Chao Praya River. We wound through little alleyways and busy roads and stopped to look at the life of ordinary Thai people. There are a lot of backyard businesses - people making shoes, selling desserts etc. At the halfway point of the tour we hired a long-tail boat to cross the river. While crossing I knocked my camera so it wouldn't open and close. This was a bummer as the Samut Prakan side of the river was beautiful and deserved a few photographs. There are planning restrictions on this side so there are no high-rises, only houses in swamps and boardwalks through the trees that we rode over. When we had finished exploring this side of the river we crossed back and returned to the ABC offices using a direct route.
I made my way back to Soi Rambuttri for a freshen up and to collect Katherine and head off for the other side of Bangkok to meet my Thai friend Lee. Our meeting place was KFC in the Central Plaza, Lad Prow. It's a huge place and I used my Thai at an information booth to ask for directions to KFC. I understood the answer so was pleased with myself. It was lovely to catch up with my friend.
And finally on our last day we shopped ourselves silly at Chatuchak Market. Again, I think I may have come away with the best bargains of the day. We returned to our hotel to collect our bags, take showers and catch a taxi to the airport. The flights home were long and uneventful. It's great to be away but even greater to know my home is in a country as beautiful as New Zealand, even if it was 30 degrees cooler than Bangkok!
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ON Thursday, May 22, voters head to the polls to deliver their verdict on Worcester City Council. Our ward-by-ward coverage continues with a look at Rainbow Hill.
WORCESTER'S Rainbow Hill ward is regarded as safe Labour territory - with a strong track record for the party.
It has a history of returning Labour councillors to the Guildhall, and expectations are high that it will do the same this month - especially with a high-profile candidate defending it.
Councillor Paul Denham is one of the city council's most experienced politicians, and currently chairs the licensing committee, one of the most crucial roles up for grabs each year.
The committee finally agreed to bring in a cap for taxi driver numbers back in February after years of gripes from the public over spiralling numbers of cabbies.
Cllr Denham is also in line to become the new Mayor of Worcester providing he retains Rainbow Hill, making the potential reward for re-election all the more sweeter.
Last year he was elected to Worcestershire County Council for the first time, winning Rainbow Hill, which gives him an added advantage for the district poll.
In 2010 he got 1,126 votes, compared with 686 from the second-placed Conservative challenger Kate Dixon, who now works for Worcester MP Robin Walker in his office.
The electoral turnout will be very interesting in Rainbow Hill this year as it took a huge tumble in 2012, the last time it was contested.
In 2010 it hit 56 per cent, a very high figure, but fell to just 22 per cent two years ago, with around 1,200 fewer people taking part.
Cllr Denham can expect a tough challenge this year with five other candidates up against him including the Tories, UKIP and BNP, as well as left-wing party Trades Unionists and Socialists Against the Cuts.
What makes the contest all the more intriguing is that David Barlow, a name familiar to anyone who followed Worcester politics in the 80s and 90s, is standing for the Greens.
Mr Barlow was a councillor from 1985 to 2004 and even the leader at one point, but for the Labour Party.
He quit the party in 2011 after 30 years of membership to join the Greens, citing their "progressive" policies.
His presence on the ballot sheet means the contest could come down to how much support he is able to attract from older voters who remember his name.
If UKIP pick up votes that could also have an impact.
* Your Worcester News has set up a section on our website which features all the candidates' profiles - we will also be using it to provide a LIVE results service on May 22.
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I have been associated with Worcester for much of my life, having attended school in the city and now living near the city centre for the past 33 years.
I am now retired but was employed in senior marketing management of national brands, both within the UK and abroad.
I subsequently taught economics and business studies in local colleges. I was a member of Worcester City Council from 1985-2004, where, in addition to being leader, I chaired several committees.
I also served as a county councillor (Hereford & Worcestershire) from 1993 to 1997.
In addition, I chaired South Worcestershire PCT throughout the whole of its 5-year existence.
Having terminated my membership of the Labour Party, I joined the Greens in 2013 because I believe the party offers exactly the kind of credible, progressive policies I have always supported and from which the Labour Party has drifted away.
I have lived in the Merrimans Hill area for some three years now and live with my partner and two children. I have been a full time dad for the past four years and studied accountancy at a local college.
I intend to set up my own bookkeeping and accountancy business.
I want to represent the local residents in issues that affect them. The future of Perdiswell, over-subscribed taxi ranks, town centre parking, to name but a few, all affect residents. I want to be that candidate that breathes new life in to the Council and gives the people a voice for change. Vote for UKIP to make a difference.
It is an honour to be elected to serve residents as their local councillor, and I have done my best to represent Rainbow Hill ward at the city council for 14 years.
People who have asked me for help with Bedroom Tax, parking, potholes, housing and lots of other concerns know that I always work hard to sort things out.
For the 13 years, Rainbow Hill ward was left behind by the Tory city and county councils, but we now have a Labour council that is making a difference.
Your Labour city council invests in affordable housing and supports schemes to reduce youth unemployment and give young people the skills and qualifications needed to get a decent job.
Supporting shops and businesses is the best way to make sure jobs are available, and I am proud to be part of a Labour council that is doing that.
I'm standing for the BNP in Rainbow Hill because of the other parties backgrounds.
Labour are infested with war mongerers, and we believe the Tories lied about our EU referendum.
The Lib Dems are pro EU, contrary to the British people's views. UKIP are not what they seem.
Green Party policies will put up your taxes.
It only leaves the BNP to stand up for local people.
Vote for the other parties and you will get cheated by them.
Only the BNP will put British people first for jobs, housing and healthcare opportunities.
I believe that being a councillor offers the opportunity to make a difference to the local community, by helping to shape, direct and monitor the services which affect local people's lives.
If elected I will work hard on behalf of the residents of Rainbow Hill; I will endeavour to look after their interests at all times.
I am a former public sector care worker and have lived in Worcester for over two years.
I am standing for election as part of TUSC because I'm sick of people losing their much needed services and struggling to get by in insecure jobs.
We live in a wealthy country where the rich are getting richer all the time. To them money really is no object.
Those services that aren't being completely removed are being privatised so that New Labour and the Torys' mates can profit by attacking the the already modest pay and conditions of people who work tirelessly to provide them.
UKIP are just another bankers' party who want to carve up public services and attack employment rights.
The main parties have helped them by blaming immigration.
This red herring helps them avoid facing the reality that they are ALL responsible for causing the biggest global financial crisis since the 1930s.


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Whether we serve God outwardly in some way, or inwardly in meditation, we still serve Him by offering our thoughts and energy into His river of love. Both are matters of self-giving.
Our work should be a conscious, loving service to the Lord. It should be a devotional offering to Him.
That person alone who understands the path in terms of self-offering can attune himself to God's grace. For grace, too, is a self-offering, on God's part, of love. By giving of oneself, the heart's chalice becomes emptied and cleansed, making it possible thereby for God to fill it.
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NEW YORK (Apr. 5)
An article on "The Agonized American Jews" in the new issue of Look magazine has been scored as "superficial" and "terribly distorted" by Dr. Joachim Prinz, past president of the American Jewish Congress, who is extensively quoted in it. "They misquote me terribly," Dr. Prinz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today, adding that on the basis of previous experience with Look he assumed he would see the text of the article before publication. The three page piece, by senior editor Gerald Astor, appears in the magazine's April 20 issue, out tomorrow. Dr. Prinz said Astor did not tape-record their three-hour interview. The rabbi advised the JTA that the printed version of his remarks about the Jewish Defense League was "milder than I meant." He is quoted as saying: "The Jewish Defense League is something Freud would have described as psychopathology. It is sick, ludicrously ineffective, trying to imitate a philosophy of violence that is not only inimical to Jews but utterly alien. It grew out of a sick reaction to the black revolution. Auschwitz created the slogan of the JDL, 'Never Again.' It is based on the assumption that if the Jews had done something about Hitler, six million wouldn't have died. The assumption is entirely false. What Jews did learn from Auschwitz is that the home of Beethoven and Bach could kill with impunity."
Another passage said by Dr. Prinz to be improperly reported is Astor's sentence that "Even Prime Minister Golda Meir, much to his (Dr. Prinz's) distress, attempted to draw a parallel between Communist efforts in Indochina and in the Middle East." The Look writer, Dr. Prinz charged, omitted the substance of his argument, which is that the two wars are "of a different quality," one involving American intervention and the other involving Soviet intervention. Rabbi Prinz endorsed the section of the article quoting his condemnation of American Jewry, which he said was taken from the text of a recent speech. In the passage he declares: "In terms of Jewish culture, American Jewry is a disaster area. It has not attracted anybody of intellectual stature. The most mediocre people lead. The most illiterate Jewry in the world is in the U.S.A. Our kids know about Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham jail but not about Jeremiah's letter from jail in Jerusalem. I'm quite desperate about American Jewry." Astor also reports that Rabbi Prinz in the interview warned that American Jews must not be forced to place their stamp of approval on every action by Israel. According to Astor, Rabbi Prinz told him that American Jewry "must acknowledge Israel as sovereign over itself, not governed by U.S. Jews. And Israel must acknowledge the independence and integrity of American Jewry." Rabbi Prinz was also quoted as saying: "Because we are close to Israel, we must not be forced to accept every move of Israel as prudent or acceptable. Israel must not be come the manager of American Jewry, but only of its own affairs." Dr. Prinz, who is nearly 69 and is recuperating from an operation, told the JTA by telephone from his New Jersey summer home that he would send a formal letter of complaint to Look.


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Meijer announced that it is opening a new concept store in the Chicago suburb of Melrose park that will provide a tailored grocery offering and a broad variety of general merchandise.
Called Meijer Marketplace, the new store will be 96,000 sq. ft., about half the size of Meijer's largest supercenters.
"Meijer Marketplace is a dramatic step for us as we work toward bringing everything that's great about Meijer to a more diverse group of customers," said Hank Meijer, co-chairman and CEO of the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer. "The Chicago market continues to be a very important growth area for us, and our new Meijer Marketplace concept will bring yet another unique offering to our Chicago-area customers."
Meijer said its grocery offering will include a focus on Hispanic and Italian foods to better serve the ethnically-diverse community nearby.
In addition to grocery, Meijer marketplace will offer a full-service pharmacy offering a variety of national and Meijer brand health and beauty products, the company reported.
General merchandise departments will include electronics, seasonal items, toys, sporting goods and a pet department, with numerous national brand products throughout the aisles, Meijer reported. The store will maintain a flexible layout that allows Meijer planners to bring in new items based on customer feedback.
Chicago has become a hotbed for retail activity, with Walmart breaking ground on the first of its Chicago-area stores and CityTarget opening recently at the Sullivan center. Though Meijer should expect some competition from Walmart and Target, its location of Meijer Marketplace in Melrose Park is far enough away from each retailer that it can cement its place as the go-to destination in that community.


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Omega-3 and Quality of Life in Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Patients
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified April 2013 by Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, October 6 University.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
October 6 University
Tanta University
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, October 6 University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: April 5, 2013
Last updated: April 10, 2013
Last verified: April 2013
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The study aims at evaluating the effect of omega-3 on patients suffering recurrent oral aphthous ulcers
|Recurrent Mouth Ulcers
|Drug: omega-3 Drug: placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Therapeutic Effect of Systemic Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids On Quality of Life in Patients Suffering From Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Unresponsive to Topical Therapy.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Canker Sores
Drug Information available for: Omega-3 Fatty AcidsU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, October 6 University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- quality of life [ Time Frame: six months ]Measurement of oral health related quality of life (OHR-QoL),this parameter was carried out at baseline, and at 6 months of the study using the Arabic version of oral health impact profile-14 (OHIP-14) questionnaire.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Pain associated with the ulcers [ Time Frame: Six months ]The measurements for treatment effectiveness included evaluation of pain associated with the ulcer(s) by means of visual analogue scales (VAS).
- Duration of ulcers episode [ Time Frame: Six months ]The time needed for the ulcer to heal
- The monthly number of ulcer outbreaks [ Time Frame: Monthly for six months ]The number of ulcers appears monthly in the mouth
|Study Start Date:
|April 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: isopropylmyristate oil
placebo Soft gelatinous capsules filled with isopropylmyristate oil
Drug: placebo
soft gelatinous capsules filled with isopropylmyristate oil
Other Name: isopropylmyristate oil
Active Comparator: experimental
omega-3 1 gram three times daily for 6 months
Drug: omega-3
polyunsaturated fatty acids(PUFAs) 1 gram three times per day for 6 months
Other Name: fish oil
Detailed Description:
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the administration of omega 3 improve the quality of life in patients suffering recurrent oral ulceration and improve associated symptoms of pain in addition to reduction of ulcers episode.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years to 70 Years (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female patients older than 13 years of age
- Presenting with 1 to 3 aphthous ulcers (less than 48 hours' duration) with a size no greater than 5mm in diameter.
- History of recurrent minor aphthous ulcer for at least one year with a frequency of at least one outbreak every one month.
- Normal sense of pain, without anesthesia or paresthesia.
- Willingness to participate and sign the informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
1- Concurrent clinical conditions that could pose a health risk to the subjects including serious heart, liver, or kidney dysfunctions.
2- Pregnancy and lactation. 3- Ulcers as a manifestation of systemic disorders such as Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease, Behçet's syndrome or serious anemia.
4- Treatment with systemic steroids, immunomodulatory agents, antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (except occasional use for headaches) one month prior to the study entry.
5- Treatment of the current ulcer with any topical or systemic medication. 6- Attendance of any other clinical trials prior to 3 months of study entry.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01831453
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01831453
|October 6 university
|Cairo, Governarate of 6 of October, Egypt, 11348
Sponsors and Collaborators
October 6 University
Tanta University
|Principal Investigator:
|Amr M Elkhouli, ass prof
|October 6 University
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Keywords provided by Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, October 6 University:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 17, 2017
Hjorth E, Zhu M, Toro VC, Vedin I, Palmblad J, Cederholm T, Freund-Levi Y, Faxen-Irving G, Wahlund LO, Basun H, Eriksdotter M, Schultzberg M. Omega-3 fatty acids enhance phagocytosis of Alzheimer's disease-related amyloid-β42 by human microglia and decrease inflammatory markers. J Alzheimers Dis. 2013;35(4):697-713. doi: 10.3233/JAD-130131.
|Responsible Party:
|Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, Associate professor, October 6 University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01831453 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Dr. Amr Elkhouli 1962
|Study First Received:
|April 5, 2013
|Last Updated:
|April 10, 2013
Keywords provided by Amr Moustafa Elkhouli, October 6 University:
recurrent aphthous stomatitis
quality of life
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stomatitis, Aphthous
Oral Ulcer
Mouth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 17, 2017


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Manhattan Beach came through with another terrific game on the second day of the Little League Baseball Western Regional Senior Tournament.
Manhattan Beach was led by starting pitcher Trevor Franklin's command of all his pitches in a 3-1 victory over Northern California Rocklin on Wednesday afternoon at Jay Littleton Ballpark in Ontario.
Franklin pitched 6 2/3 innings of four-hit ball having thrown 95 pitches. Due to a little league pitch count limit of 95, Franklin was taken out of the game one out short of a complete game.
"I wasn't mad at all, we got the win, so that's all that mattered to me," said Franklin after being pulled with one out to go in the game.
Franklin's stellar pitching performance didn't come without some adversity though, as Rocklin loaded the bases in the first inning off two singles and a hit batter with none out to start the game.
Franklin bore down and pitched his way out of the jam with three straight fly-outs through the heart of the Rocklin batting order.
With two out in the top of the third Franklin found himself in the middle of another jam. Blake Eaton came to the plate and walked. The following batter, AJ Sauer, promptly drove the ball to the outfield for an RBI double to put Northern California up 1-0. Next up was Ryan Smith who was hit by a Franklin pitch. Southern California head coach Carlos Rojas decided it was time to make a mound visit to his star pitcher.
When asked what Rojas said to Franklin on the mound he responded that "it was time to refocus, that's exactly what I told him that he needed to focus, get back in the groove here, and he did, striking out the next guy."
In the bottom of the fourth Manhattan Beach loaded the bases with two singles and a hit batter with one out. Will Proctor came to the plate and drove a deep ball into the outfield for a two-run double to put his team up 2-1. After a runner was caught stealing at home as part of a double steal, Robert White produced an RBI single to go up 3-1 and never look back.
When Franklin had to be taken out of the game, a Manhattan Beach relief pitcher came into the game and hit his first two batters faced. Following a balk which moved runners up to second and third, Rocklin starting pitcher Sam Curtis stepped up to bat with two outs and the tying runs on base.
Curtis grounded out to third to end the game and save the victory for Franklin.
Franklin finished with one run given up, one walk, and four strikeouts to his line. He produced 10 fly-ball outs, along with six ground-ball outs to his measure.
"I wanted to throw strikes and get ahead in the count," said Franklin about his game plan coming in. "I had my fastball today which was pretty live today, and my curveball I got later in the game, but my changeup the entire game was working."
The victory put Manhattan Beach at 2-0 to start off the tournament thanks in large part to Franklin's tough mentality.
"Our coaching staff was talking about his ability to fight through adversity, ya know, bases loaded with nobody out, a lot of guys would just fold and say `oh here we go again,' not him as he's challenging hitters, getting little fly balls and getting out of the inning," said Rojas.


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We have learned that the injury to Darius's arm is more severe than thought. We have learned that the barbed wire ripped and tore the brachioradialis muscle. The doctors of IWA are unsure of Darius return, or if he will ever be able to use his arm once more.
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These are very tasty bars. They remind me of a good fudgy brownie with a coconut crackle crust topping. We really enjoyed the outstanding flavor of the bars. I found the bars difficult to cut because the coconut portion fell apart easily. Made for Pac Spring 08.
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- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- Combine eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl; beat at medium speed of electric mixer until thick and light lemon colored. Stir in flour and oil just until blended.
- In a separate bowl, combine coconut and 1/2 cup of the batter; set aside. Stir chocolate into remaining batter. Pour chocolate mixture into a greased and floured 8-inch square pan. Dollop coconut mixture on top. Swirl coconut batter into the chocolate batter with a butter knife or narrow metal spatula.
- Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack; cut into bars.
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JPMorgan Now Long Gold. A Game Changer?
Gold Silver Worlds
June 10, 2013
The latest futures positions report (Commitment of Traders, COT) shows the continuation of a pattern that started after the gold and silver price rally in August 2012. Especially the gold market is turning upside down. Why? Because of the gigantic spread between the speculators (increasingly short, although it somehow stabilized past week) and the commercials (increasingly long, although it stabilized as well past week). The below chart reveals this point; commercial positions are in green (close to net zero), speculators are in blue and red (also moving to net zero). As readers see, today's positions are comparable to the ones at the end of 2008, right before a major upleg in the price of gold and silver price started. Does it mean that we are about to witness the same bull run? It could be although the big difference between now and then is that QE only started then while QE seems to becoming increasingly ineffective right now. Otherwise stated, the central bank has created +2 trillion US dollars between now and then, while other central banks across the world have created similarly huge amounts of money to combat deflation. Chart courtesy: sentimentrader.com.
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The fiscal impact of potential local option taxes in Massachusetts
This paper examines the potential impact of local-option taxes on meals, general sales, income, and payroll on revenue-raising capacity in Massachusetts municipalities. It finds that, while new local-option taxes would generate considerable additional revenues from untapped sources, revenue capacity is not evenly distributed across municipalities. Indeed, local-option taxes are likely to exacerbate fiscal disparities, because municipalities with low existing revenue-raising capacity often lack the tax bases for new local-option taxes. Policymakers could consider increasing equalizing state aid to offset these fiscal disparities. If more aid is not forthcoming, this paper proposes that the state change aid formulas to reflect differences across municipalities in local-option tax capacity, and to better target fiscally distressed communities. These strategies - explored in the Massachusetts context - could also be useful in other states.
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Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson drama re-ignited this weekend.
At L.A. club Trousdale Friday night, Lohan, 23, threw a drink at her DJ-ex, 32.
Asked why Lohan tossed the drink at her, Ronson shrugged her shoulders and told a TMZ cameraman, "I don't know ... she's an angry human being."
Lohan had a rough week.
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ACEP13 is the official interactive mobile app for the ACEP13 Scientific Assembly annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 14-17, 2013.
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