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This week, we'll explore the topic "Overwhelmed? Only by Love!" through readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, songs, prayer, questions, discussion, and the sharing of personal experiences.
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· When frustration, anger or even grief overwhelm us how can we pray to instead be overwhelmed by the gifts supplied by Spirit such as peace, love, and joy?
· Can we as God's children who ". . . in him we live and move and have our being" be surrounded by anything but Divine Mind?
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GOOF: Dr. Hayward says that Renault's blood is AB negative. Later, Cooper uses this to rule him out as the killer when it doesn't match the blood found at the crime scene. HOWEVER, later in the second season the killer's blood is revealed to be...AB negative! Ooops. (See also Episode Sixteen)
Ben Horne's line about going to clean his "little Elvis" just after he had apparently slept with Catherine would not have made it past the censors so the director has him pull out an actual Elvis figurine from his pocket to deflect some attention away from his sexual innuendo.
This episode takes place on: Tuesday, February 28
Notice the map of Tibet now hanging on the chalkboard in the conference room.
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This episode takes place on: Monday, February 27
Notice that there is still work being done at the Sheriff's Department lobby (See Episode One).
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In the scene where Albert Rosenfield arrives in Twin Peaks, we can see that Lucy is reading a book about Tibet. Earlier in the episode, Cooper has given a long speech about the country.
GOOF: Near the end of the episode, Catherine says to Pete: "What did that FBI man want today?". However, it is now Sunday night and Cooper visited with Pete the day before. This is a mistake in the editing. The scene was scripted to appear in the first act of the show (Which takes place on Saturday night).
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This episode takes place on: Saturday, February 25
Jill Rogosheske, who plays Trudy, the waitress at the Great Northern Hotel, is married to writer/producer Robert Engels. Trudy appears in many episodes, and also acted as the on set pianist for when the Icelanders or Leland break into song at the Great Northern.
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IMPROVS: When Agent Cooper initially examines Laura's corpse with Sheriff Truman and a medical assistant, the room's fluorescent lamp is buzzing & flickering due to a real-life malfunction. David Lynch loved the eerie effect and kept it in, giving the assistant an extra line about the light's "bad transformer". When Cooper asks the assistant to please leave later in the scene, the line is misheard by the minor actor who instead replies "Jim"(his real-life name). Cooper awkwardly restates his request and the assistant then responds appropriately...pleasing Lynch with yet another unscripted gaff.
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This is a recipe that I adapted from Jack Czarnecki's A Cook's Book of Mushrooms. It originally called for button mushrooms, but you can use other small mushrooms. It's good served over basmati rice. Don't skip the fresh cilantro! That really makes it. If you want to add some heat, throw in some hot chiles. It's also good with shrimp thrown in.
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- 3 cups coconut milk
- 1⁄3 cup oil
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 inches fresh ginger, grated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon ground cardamom
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
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Fashion can be damned hard work. Sometimes it feels like designers intentionally make the pursuit of style difficult. You expect to feel vaguely humiliated in a changing room, but I'm leant against a carved wooden banister in the gloomy hallway of a 19th-century apartment building on the rue des Petits Champs during Paris Fashion Week, panting. I'm only halfway up the steep and winding staircase that leads to the vertiginous showroom for new and, to the world at large, unknown label Aggugini and my thighs are complaining. I haven't even made it to the clothes and I feel a failure. Who would choose such a difficult location, high above the hectic streets of Paris, when exhausted fashion editors are shuttling between catwalk show locations on a tight schedule? The answer is Paolo Aggugini - Kinder to his many, many friends - and he knows exactly what he's doing.
When I reach the faded grandeur of the apartment that's been converted into the Aggugini showroom for the duration of Fashion Week, Team Kinder - a flurry of PR and sales representatives and a model dressed in little more than a well-fitted jacket - are amused. The stairs - ha, ha - yes, it's a bit of a climb, isn't it? One British fashion editor staggered through the door shoes in hand this morning, her heels defeated by the climb, apparently. A red-faced envoy from British Marie Claire puffs in behind me to prove the point. Pant, pant. The fashion editor of the Financial Times is hot on her heels.
The truth is, fashion insiders will climb, probably even crawl, to see Kinder's designs. They've admired his work as the Zelig of fashion for years - he's spent two decades as a ghost designer (the style equivalent of a ghostwriter) creating internationally lauded collections for Calvin Klein, Costume National and at Versace after Gianni's death in 1997 - so news that he's launched his own label has caused a stir. Comme des Garçons's Rei Kawakubo came in person to view his first solo collection in 2007 - and then stocked it at her fashion emporium, Dover Street Market. Madonna has already been seen wearing a dress from his spring/summer 08 debut Aggugini range, as has editor of British Vogue Alexandra Shulman. If you know and love fashion, you know and love Kinder.
Stylist Arianne Phillips, who's dressed the likes of Courtney Love, Madonna and Justin Timberlake as well as receiving an Oscar nomination for costume design, declares herself a massive Kinder fan: 'I find that his creativity, ingenuity and sophistication in fabrics set him apart. I appreciate his wit, style and irreverent classicism.'
'He's got an incredible track record,' says Harriet Quick, fashion features director at British Vogue, 'and he's well known at parties and events because he's fabulously opinionated and discursive. When he left the big fashion machine and set up on his own, people wanted to back that. And his clothes are lovely - they don't date, and the fit is perfect: they show off a woman's body. They don't scream or shout status, but they feel like the real deal.'
The man is fretting when I arrive. The slim, slight 42-year-old looks young for his age and has a quiet voice and an accent that hints at his Milanese childhood, even though he's lived in London since the Eighties. He wonders whether he should have staged a catwalk show rather than a static showroom presentation. 'Why would people say, "I'm going to buy a luxury brand from Mr Nobody"? What works in fashion at the moment is screaming. The louder you scream, the more people pay attention. I should have done a big show with dresses with big bows and things on the models' heads.'
But if he'd done that, he would have missed the chance to personally charm his customers. He watches the latest visitor, a rather tall, rather beautiful blonde called Serena as she peruses the rails.
'I'll send you the sketches for that - you can copy it,' he calls as she holds out a dress for a better look. She rolls her eyes.
Once she's chosen items to buy, he tells one of his team to order a size 38 - 'Hey, that's Serena's age as well.'
'Kin-der!' The various women - and they are all women - in the showroom tut and cluck over him.
When the room has quietened and there's no one here apart from a PR, the clothes and some tired-looking ormolu cherubs on the bookshelves that line the apartment's walls, he talks me through his collection. He explains that he always has a story in mind, as it helps him see designs clearly. 'Tell me a story and I see it. Since I was a child I made pictures in my head when I listened to music - I loved it when MTV came out... I've worked with Vivienne Westwood and she has the clearest visual ideas. At the beginning of the season she tells you her story: "There's this girl, she's got a 16th-century ball gown in taffeta. She's going to the toilet, but the dress got caught in her knickers..." she really visualises it, she can tell you the colour; it's perfect.' Kinder's spring/summer 08 collection was inspired by a Twenties wedding photo he found in a New York flea market, and considers what would have happened if Coco Chanel had married Sid Vicious. The story for autumn/winter 08 is more personal.
'My grandmother's grandmother was from a noble Italian family. When Garibaldi swept through Italy, she ran away with a revolutionary. Her family had no money, so she went with this guy who was cool and wanted to look after her. I imagined her sleeping in her ball gown and wearing his military jacket, the clothes getting more and more distressed as they travel. So her clothes get rough at the bottom...' he pulls out a skirt from the rail that fades from raw silk to a panel of chiffon at its hem for me to admire. 'It looks messed up, but feels nice when you touch it. I've taken these boiled tweed jackets that look scratchy and made them really casual, and I've found all these vintage glass buttons - dead stock from the turn of the last century.'
He fingers the buttons lovingly, beaming at his work - and so he should. Kinder is a master craftsman, blending ideas and imagination with exceptional technical skill in fit and detail. He names his clothes after his friends rather than celebrities, and is more interested in a woman's everyday needs than the red carpet. He's made tailored jackets with sleeves cut like a motorcycle jacket so you can drive in it and still look good. He considers how women move their legs while they sit and cuts trousers and skirts accordingly. 'I'm drawn to very expensive materials, dyeing them and distressing them with stone and enzyme washes. I am Mr Nobody, but I hope that when people see the details, they won't care. I want people to touch my clothes and feel the luxury.' He pinches the arm of my cardigan, rubbing the fabric to demonstrate. He's too much of a gentleman to mention that the cardigan is piled wool and from Zara.
'Looking at how people touch my clothes gives me an idea of if they care. I work so hard on finding the right thread for stitching, the right lining, and I used to think: "Why am I doing this? No one will notice." But they notice - and it feels good.'
His confidence takes a sudden dip.
'Well, everyone tells me that this looks great, but no one would say straight to my face that it's crap.'
But it is great, I reassure him. If it were crap a good friend would have told you.
He considers this. 'Crap's never too constructive, but I see what you mean. I think I'd have questioned that opinion if someone had said it. I might have pretended that I wanted it to be crap.'
Kinder's own life story would make good material for a collection. His mother taught him to sew when he was eight 'and she made sure I could cook so I would be independent'. He became a punk at 14. 'It was all DIY stuff, make it yourself. I was interested in social behaviour and I realised the clothes were important, that a tight-fitting jacket and good shoes change your posture.' He moved to London, the epicentre of punk, and eventually started working in the mid-Eighties at Kensington's clothes emporium Hyper Hyper for Leigh Bowery. 'He was an extremely sensible person,' says Kinder, 'very methodical even in his approach to his own body modification. If he'd pursued design seriously, he'd be massive today.' When his British friends started talking about studying at Central Saint Martins, he applied, too. 'They told me I had to draw designs and make clothes from them. Well, I already had clothes, so I got a friend who was good at art to draw over my ugly sketches. When I went to the interview, the tutors tried to make me do a fine art degree, so that was a mistake.' He sold clothes that were meant to be college course work at Hyper Hyper.
After that, he worked with everyone who's anyone, John Galliano, Paul Smith... 'Savile Row was good for learning technical skills; at Westwood it was creative. At Calvin Klein I learnt to manage a team. I've worked at all the different stages of the process; there's very little I don't know.' Within the fashion industry, Kinder's probably best known for his work at Versace during the house's Nineties heyday.
'I signed a lot of contracts not to talk to you about my personal relationship with the Versace family,' Kinder says, and it's not clear if he's joking. 'I had a great time. They were amazing at looking after people they liked. If you worked late, you couldn't eat sandwiches. A chef would bring a tablecloth, silver plates. A sandwich would do, you know. The drawback was that because they're family, they act like family. There's screaming and shouting and you get sucked in. You act like them.' He says Donatella was catnip for his parents, though. Coming from an academic background, they had been unconvinced by his career choice, considering his assertion that he'd learnt to dress people at college to be something they managed for themselves most mornings. 'They came backstage and Donatella said to them, "Your son is so much trouble, but we can't do without him." They were impressed that someone they'd seen on TV said that!'
We retire to the couch, which is draped in a Union Jack flag, and Kinder solemnly passes me a satsuma to eat. He's still removing bits of pith from his when mine has been reduced to peel, which I try and hide in a tissue.
Despite his success at the fashion houses, it's now time for him to go it alone. 'I was tired of other people's things,' he says. 'When I was working for one designer, I watched the models coming down the catwalk, and thought, "If I went to a club and they were there, I'd leave." I want to do my own thing now. Even if nobody buys it, at least I've done something I like.'
He looks over at his rails of clothes again, considering this. It's time for me to leave for the Eurostar, and Kinder courteously asks if I'd like to stay the night and says that he's happy to take the couch.
The next time we meet, a few weeks later, it's in a flat that's even nicer that the rue des Petits Champs apartment. Kinder's place in London feels quite French with its dark-wood parquet tiles and floor-to-ceiling windows. The ornaments in the flat include cat and mouse skeletons posed in a glass case, a single ermine fur pinned to an antique table, two sets of Russian dolls, a print from Marilyn Monroe's last nude photo shoot and an autographed photo of Paul Simonon. He shows me round the glass-walled guest room at the top of an ornate spiral staircase where I can stay if 'I ever have a row with my husband' and the master bedroom, one wall of which is covered in mirrors, reflecting his large bed and the painting of two women kissing above his headboard. He explains that he nearly lost the flat when he asked the previous owner if she worked in the sex industry. In his defence, this area of west London is well known for prostitution.
Kinder likes sex. During his time at Versace, he also edited a magazine called DV in 2001-03 dedicated to 'fashion and sex, my two favourite subjects'. The glossy title was inspired by Sixties French magazine Lui, which was shot by Helmut Newton and featured the likes of Brigitte Bardot. Kinder's version had David LaChapelle, Rankin and Vincent Peters as photographic contributors; articles by Sophie Dahl and Oliver Peyton and images of Pamela Anderson. Kinder's editor's letters were very amusing, too. Showing he pays as much attention to a woman's pubic hair as to the way her arms move when she drives, the way she crosses her legs, the spring/summer 2002 issue editor's letter included the following direction for a model in one of the magazine's shoots: 'If she'll peel that's great. But keep it sophisticated... she's got an Adolf? Whatever happened to normal? Can we fill it with make-up? Then I'd rather see it clean than with a George W. Just remember, we gotta see those Manolos.'
He plans to relaunch DV soon. 'I'm doing it again because the distributors have had so many requests. I'm going to make it a big, chunky annual - like a Pirelli calendar. It's going to be dedicated to luxury.'
Before Kinder shows me out, we admire the view across the Georgian square outside his windows. He points out a building across the way which is obscured by scaffolding and covered in plastic sheeting.
'Do you see the holes cut in the sheeting?'
I do. 'The builders cut those so they can watch when I have models over for fittings,' he explains. 'Until the girls came, those builders over there, they thought I was just some fag designer.'
That's a mistake that only a fool would make.


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East Molera Trail to Post Summit is a 9 mile out and back trail located near Big Sur, California that offers scenic views. The trail is rated as moderate and primarily used for hiking.
hikingSaturday, July 30, 2011
one of the easer trail in BIg Sur. Saw a Boar and some deer in the morning


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Pablo had a big surprise as he and Randy set out for their weekend fishing trip. Randy stopped to pick up Steve ..... he was coming with them. Steve was Randy's former therapist who had only recently been introduced to sex with men by Randy and Bob, then been punished by Mark for putting his cock into Jamie's ass. The remarkable thing about Steve was that he looked exactly like Randy. They were like twins.
Now the three men were at their secret spot at the lake, and Steve had gone for a swim to wash off the grime of the city. Randy had his arm round Pablo as they sat on the small beach watching Steve swim.
'You really like Steve, don't you sir,' Pablo asked.
Randy laughed, 'Sure I do, kid. A man who's the image of me ..... what's not to like?' He became more serious. 'Listen, kid. I want to explain something. Now here's the deal. Steve has to learn how to be with a man. I'm gonna let him fuck you, but not like he tried to fuck Jamie .... that was pure lust. He's gotta know that there's a lot more to it than that ...... affection, warmth, respect. It's called making love. I can't teach him that ..... but you can.'
'Me, sir?'
'Yeah, and you'll learn something too. See, kid, with an ass like yours you're nearly always gonna be the one who gets fucked. But the guy on the bottom, if he's a young stud like you, can control the top guy, show him the way, make it real special ..... special like you always make it for me.'
'Thank you, sir. But I'm not sure I know how to do that.'
'Just be yourself, kiddo. You're my boy, my son. I know what you're made of. You can be good for Steve. And you're sure gonna have a hell of a time getting fucked by that gorgeous son-of-a-bitch. Just remember this: whatever you do, I love the hell out of you, kid .... and you belong to me. Here, help me unload the boat.'
A few minutes later the rowboat was in the water and Steve was walking out of the lake, his gleaming muscles streaming with water. Randy jumped into the boat and called Billy in after him. 'Now, Billy and I are going fishing. In the middle of the lake I'll throw a line in the water and then doze for an hour or so. I'm leaving you two alone. You have my full permission to do whatever you like with each other.'
Without another word he pushed off into the lake and the two men were left alone on the beach, in silence. They gazed at each other uncertainly. 'Well,' said Steve at last. 'That was a surprise. So here we are, just the two of us.' His ruggedly handsome face broke into a smile. 'Hi Pablo. So what now?'
The two men had not yet found the balance between them. Looking so much like Randy, Steve was definitely in the 'master' category. But he was brand new to all this .... groping his way in a new world. Pablo, however, was Randy's adopted son and knew he was loved and protected by the big construction boss. So, although he naturally addressed Steve as sir, Pablo was the one with the confidence, the one who had been given a mission by Randy.
So it was Pablo who took the lead. The characteristic crooked grin charmed Steve as the boy said, 'How about a beer, sir?'
'I see you know how to take care of a man,' Steve smiled.
'You don't know the half of it, sir ...... but I hope you'll find out.'
Steve pulled on an old pair of boxers while Pablo, still in his shorts, got two beers from the cooler. They lay on their stomachs on the grass and drank in silence. Then Steve turned to face Pablo and said, 'Tell me about the house, Pablo. I made a false move there, fucked up big time, and got the punishment I deserved. So help me understand the cultural dynamic there.'
'Excuse me, sir?'
Steve laughed. 'Sorry, kid, that was therapist lingo. What I mean is, how does everyone fit in there? How do things work?'
'Oh, that. Well, sir, maybe I should go back a ways, tell you some of the history.'
As Steve listened he became engrossed in the story, engrossed in the boy and his charming enthusiasm. Pablo talked fast, and each time he turned to look into Steve's eyes Steve found himself falling under the spell of this young boy, with the exotic brown face and perfect, naturally beautiful physique. The attraction wasn't exactly sexual, not yet, even though Steve felt a stirring in his groin. It was the kid's warmth and youthful eagerness that attracted him. Underneath that was a confident virility that marked him as no ordinary boy.
Pablo had in the back of his mind the task Randy had set him, but he was really taking his advice of just being himself. He liked this new man, Steve, and was turned on by him. He was really handsome, like a more gentle version of Randy. Naturally Pablo talked a lot about Randy and it was clear to Steve that the boy worshipped him. As Steve admired Pablo's youthful, masculine self-confidence he could easily see why he and Randy were such a perfect match.
Eventually the flow of talk ended and so did the beer. Pablo stood up. 'Could we go for a swim, sir?'
'That'd be great,' Steve said. He stood up and was about to shed his boxers, but left them on when he saw Pablo run into the water wearing his thin surfer shorts. The two men swam out a way, then back, and when their feet touched sand Pablo playfully doused Steve with water. The fight was on as they tussled in the water, holding each other as they rolled over the wet sand. Pablo was surprisingly strong and the muscles of both men flexed in friendly combat as they streamed with water.
Steve was gasping. 'No more, kid ..... you win. Truce?'
'OK, sir.' They both stood up and instinctively looked down at the bulge in each other's wet shorts. It could have been an embarrassing moment but Pablo started to giggle, then threw himself face down on the grass. Steve stood over him, mesmerized by the sight of the boy's ass. The thin beige shorts were still soaked and clung to the perfect mounds of his butt. The thin fabric was almost transparent and Steve had an overwhelming desire to cup the globes in his hands.
But he resisted the temptation and flung himself down beside the boy. After all their exertion there was a breathless silence as Steve ran his eyes down the smooth brown skin of Pablo's back, ending at the perfect ass. He couldn't hold back any longer. He ran his hand down the boy's wet back and rested it on his ass.
'You have the most beautiful ass I've ever seen, Pablo. Is it OK for me to do this?'
'Of course, sir. Randy said whatever we wanted.'
'How about this?' He moved his hand up to Pablo's face, cupped it behind his head and pulled the face toward him. 'I've never done it like this,' he said. 'God, I want to kiss you, boy.'
'I want you to, sir. Please.'
Their lips met gently, tentatively at first, then with increasing pressure as they tasted each other's mouth. Steve ran his tongue over Pablo's lips, then eased it inside his mouth. His cock was now rock hard. He eased his body against Pablo's and held him close, their chests touching and their hard cocks pressing against each other through the thin, wet fabric. They rolled over the grass, Pablo loving the feel of the strong arms around him and the sight of the dark, chiseled features that were so much like Randy's.
They kissed gently for a long time, then Steve ran his tongue down Pablo's neck, down his smooth back to his waist. Pablo flipped over onto his stomach and Steve rested his cheek against the wet shorts covering the beautiful ass. He took a deep breath and exhaled in a long, satisfied sigh. After a while, he suddenly flipped Pablo over onto his back, and leaned directly over him, their bulging cocks resting against each other. Steve gazed into the boy's eyes.
'God, I want so much to ....... I dunno ..... to hold you, Pablo, be with you ...... I don't know ...... I can't explain it.'
'You want to make love to me, sir.'
Steve smiled into his eyes. 'That's it ...... that's what I want. I've never done that with a guy before. But you're such a beautiful kid.' He frowned slightly. 'I want to fuck you too, but not like I did with Jamie. I don't want to hurt you, Pablo. You have to want it ...... really want it.'
'He does, believe me,' a deep voice said, just as Pablo's face was slobbered over by a long wet tongue. Randy and Billy had come back. The hour had flown by and the two men were so engrossed in each other that they had not heard the boat pull up.
'Thought you two would be finished by now,' Randy said. 'Still, don't let us interrupt you. Pay no attention to us. We're just gonna sit way over here and watch. If that's OK with you?'
It sure was. Steve felt more comfortable knowing that he was not doing anything with Pablo behind Randy's back, and Pablo was eager to demonstrate his sexual prowess to his master. So they did as they were told and again became so absorbed in each other that they lost the awareness of anyone watching.
They went back to their passionate embrace and finally Steve breathed, 'Pablo. I'm so turned on. I've got to have your ass, kid. My cock is so hard I've got to be inside you.'
Pablo smiled, broke free and stood up. Lying on his back Steve pulled off his own boxers and his cock sprang up, rigid. Pablo turned around with his back to Steve, his ass on clear display through his shorts. He glanced up at Randy with his crooked grin and Randy smiled back. They both knew that this is where Pablo would take charge as Randy had said he would.
On the ground Steve gazed up at Pablo's back, and the bulge of his ass under his shorts. He gasped as he saw Pablo untie his shorts and begin to lower them very slowly. They slid down from his waist, gradually revealing the mounds of his ass, until finally they dropped round his ankles.
'Aaaah,' Steve gasped as he looked up at the stunning, naked ass. 'That is incredible. God, it's beautiful.'
Moving slowly, Pablo bent his knees and lowered his ass toward Steve's cock until he was able to support himself on his hands on the ground, on either side of Steve. Finally he felt the head of Steve's cock resting against his crack. He paused, and again looked up and caught Randy's smile as his master gave a nod of encouragement.
Steve was going wild, arching his hips upward in a frenzy trying to enter this boy's amazing ass. 'God, I want your ass, boy. I want to be inside you. I want to fuck you, boy. Please .........' Randy smiled with satisfaction. The master was begging his boy!
Pablo had mercy on the pleading man and lowered his ass gently down onto the rigid shaft. As the cock slid inside him, inch by inch, he heard a deep moan behind him as Steve felt the inner heat of the moist ass. Pablo sighed with pleasure as he came to rest, sitting on Steve's prick; he felt the rod all the way inside him. He rose up and fell back, each time causing gasps from the man beneath him.
Then he did something he had never done before. Balancing on his hands he spun round on the spindle of Steve's cock until he was facing him, with the rod still deep inside him. Steve's head thrashed from side to side as he felt the boy's ass revolve round his cock. Then he looked up and saw Pablo facing him, smiling. The boy fell forward, placing his palms on the muscular chest, and he began twisting Steve's nipples in his fingers.
Steve went into a state of ecstasy he could never have imagined. He felt that prefect ass rising and falling on his cock, felt the exquisite pain in his nipples as the young man worked them hard. He had no control over his words. 'Oh, my God. That's fucking incredible. So fucking beautiful. That's it boy, you're fucking my cock. It's on fire. Work my chest, man. You fucking son-of-a-bitch. Rip my tits, sir.'
His body began to spasm and he sobbed, tears pouring down his cheeks. Pablo was awestruck by the sight of the dark, rugged face reduced to a passionate frenzy of begging, pleading. Steve was hypnotized as he gazed up at the beautiful boy rising and falling on his cock, torturing his nipples. His body was ablaze as he felt the pain in his chest and the extraordinary sensation in his cock.
Calmly, the boy asked him, 'Do you want me to make you shoot?'
'Oh yeah. Please fuck my cock, sir. You look so beautiful. Work my nipples, my chest is on fire. I'm so deep in that gorgeous ass. Oh, God. Make me cum, please, sir.'
Pablo glanced up at Randy and said, almost imperceptibly, 'Okey dokey.' He raised his hips up high so the cock came clear of his ass. Then suddenly, dramatically, his ass fell back down on the rigid shaft, which penetrated his ass, all the way over the inner sphincter, coming to rest deep inside. He clnched his ass muscles hard.
'Aaaaah!' Steve screamed as he felt his cock erupt deep inside this magnificent boy. 'Oh, God. I'm cumming. I love you, boy. I love you!'
Pablo watched the face thrash, wild-eyed, saw the body arch and flex and felt stream after stream of hot juice stream inside him. He grabbed his own cock and it took only a few strokes for him to shoot a massive load of creamy juice over the man's heaving chest, up to his neck and over his face. In a trance Steve looked up at the boy and moaned, 'Thank you, sir.'
Regaining his breath Pablo gazed down at the sinewy, cum-soaked body, at the wild, tear-stained face, and was awestruck at how he had reduced this man to a sobbing wreck. The man had the same rugged looks as Randy so it felt like he had conquered his master, made him beg, call him sir. Pablo looked up at Randy who was smiling at him, shaking his head in disbelief and admiration.
'That's my boy,' he said.
'Now I understand,' Steve said. Half an hour had passed and he and Randy were standing, looking down at the ground. After all his exertion Pablo was tired. He had curled up with Billy and fallen into a deep sleep. Lying on his side, with Billy's back pressing into his chest, he had his arm over the dog and his face buried in his fur. 'Now I understand how you came to love this kid, enough to adopt him. He's something special.'
'Yeah,' Randy breathed. As he watched a smile play over Pablo's sleeping face, watched the beautiful, smooth body rise and fall gently with his steady breathing, tears came to the big man's eyes. 'Yeah, he's special alright. I never thought I could love a kid like I love him. I'd do anything for him ...... defend him with every ounce of my strength.'
They sat for a while talking softly, and eventually Billy stirred. Without waking Pablo, the Doberman stood up, stretched and whined a little.
'What's up, pooch?' Randy said. 'Need some exercise? Wanna go for a walk? Hey, Steve, let's take him for a walk through the woods. We won't wake the kid. He's bushed. He'll sleep for a long while yet. Come on, Billy.' He threw a small blanket over the sleeping boy.
Eager to run, Billy followed the two men eagerly into the thick forest. Randy and Steve were now wearing jeans, boots and T-shirts as they were going through some dense undergrowth. It was a warm, lazy afternoon and the two men chatted easily while Billy ran around them, sniffing the ground, poking into bushes.
In a way it was a bit like the therapy sessions Randy had with Steve when they first met. He talked intimately about his life, how it had changed when he met Bob. Steve listened with rapt attention, feeling closer and closer to this amazing man as the time flew by. Suddenly the trees cleared and they found themselves on the gavel track leading to the road.
'Jesus,' Randy said, 'We've walked a long way. Lost all track of time.' Then he stopped and frowned. 'What's that? Under that bush there.'
'Well what do you know? It's a motor bike,' Steve said. 'Looks like we've got company somewhere.'
Randy felt a shiver of apprehension run through his body, a stab of fear. 'I've seen that bike before,' he murmured. His mind flew to the sleeping boy by the lake.
Steve sensed his unease. 'What's up buddy?'
'Not sure,' said Randy frowning. 'I just have an uneasy feeling. Probably just my imagination. No need for you to worry. Look, you take your time and bring Billy back along the track. I'm gonna go the short way through the forest. It'll be faster if I'm alone.'
Steve was about to question him, but Randy had already spun round and disappeared into the trees. He felt his heart beating fast as he crashed through the undergrowth, brambles tearing at his shirt. His uneasiness intensified to an irrational fear as his mind went to Pablo, fast asleep, alone, vulnerable. Braches brushed and scratched his face as he tore through the trees, until at last he saw the clearing up ahead. He crashed through the last of the trees ....... and froze in his tracks.
The voice was guttural, heavily accented. 'So it is you. Remember me, asshole? The name's Hans.'
Hans! ....... the tall, handsome, muscular blond German with the sneering face and harsh accent. He was the construction worker Randy had once worked with ...... the guy who had brutalized him and Bob in those first days in the motel room, the guy Randy had fought with, thrashed and humiliated. They hated each other's guts.
The thug had evidently surprised Pablo while he slept, overpowered him and tied him to a tree using the ropes lying on the ground that had secured the boat in the truck. The boy's arms were pulled taut behind the tree and his ankles tightly cinched. Worse, he had another rope round his neck that Hans was twisting tight.
Randy growled, 'Leave the kid alone. He has nothing to do with us.'
'Wrong, asshole,' Hans snarled. 'He has everything to do with us. It's my lucky day. Here I am riding my bike on the highway and you overtake me in your truck. Recognized you right away. Took me a while to find your boy here, but here I am. I've waited a long time to get even with you, mother-fucker. You banged me up real good last time. Now it's your pretty boyfriend here who's gonna pay. And there's nothing you can do.' He gave the rope another twist.
Pablo was wide-eyed with terror, but he managed to gasp. 'I'm sorry sir ...... I was asleep ...... I fought, sir ......but he.....'
'Shut up, kid,' Hans snarled. 'I want your master here to watch you suffer.'
Randy's mind was racing. His only hope was Hans's physical vanity. He remembered that he hated to be put down, ridiculed. 'Go ahead, stud,' he sneered. 'Shit, anyone can work over a kid like that. Any coward can do that. That's not a real man's work.'
'Shut up, asshole.' Hans was rising to the bait.
''Course, I know you wouldn't dare to take on a man your own size again, especially the stud who whipped your ass last time. You're scared shitless of me, Hans, and that's why you've taken on a boy.'
'Fuck you, man,' the guttural voice growled. 'You got lucky last time. I can drop you any time.'
Randy held out his arms. 'So prove it, big guy. Prove you can beat me and the boy's all yours.'
There was a heavy silence as Hans glared at Randy. The challenge was one his pride would not let him refuse. He moved away from the tree and the two men stared at each other. Randy pulled his T-shirt over his head and dropped it to the ground. The tall, muscular blonde did the same.
Stripped to the waist, the two bodybuilders circled each other warily. The same height, weight and sinewy build, they matched each other in looks and strength. They had always been competitive in the past, each one out to prove he was the better man. Pablo watched in horror, knowing his fate would be decided by this fight between the rugged, dark demon and the handsome, ruthless blonde.
They continued to circle, each getting the measure of the other. Then suddenly Hans made his move. With a bull-like roar he threw himself forward and clamped his arms viciously round Randy's waist, lifting him off the ground in a brutal bear hug. Randy howled as he hung helplessly, feeling the powerful arms tighten round him. His naked torso flexed and his arms flailed as he tried to twist free, but Hans's hands were locked solidly behind him.
The pain in Randy's back was excruciating as he felt the arms crushing him mercilessly. Desperately he tried to swing his fist at the sneering face but Hans was able to duck back each time. Randy felt the life being squeezed out of him and then, instinctively, he opened his arms wide and smashed the inside of his forearms against the thug's face. Hans howled in pain and his arms loosened a bit. Randy smashed his face again and Hans gave up. He released the body and threw it down.
The big construction worker crashed to the ground on his back, dazed and winded. Before he could re-gather his strength he saw the massive body lunge forward and felt the boot as it smashed down on his stomach. Randy had flexed his abs hard but the pain was still agonizing and he doubled over with a scream. He looked up and saw the boot again, this time coming down to his face. With a lightning reflex Randy reached up, grabbed the boot and twisted with all his strength. Hans lost his balance and crashed to the ground beside him
Both men were winded and rolled dazed on the ground. Randy regained his wits first and threw himself on top of the muscular blonde. Their bodies clamped together in a vise and they churned over the ground, down over the sand, into the water, two shirtless musclemen locked in combat. Their gleaming torsos strained and flexed and fists flailed as they traded blow for blow, frantically trying to weaken the other and gain the advantage. They were in deeper water now and Hans managed to raise his knee and crash it hard into Randy's balls.
The strength went out of him and Hans clamped his hands round Randy's neck, pushing his head under water. Pablo shuddered and held his breath as the seconds went by and the massive stud held the struggling body under the water. Pablo knew Randy couldn't survive much longer. But suddenly a fist flew out of the water and crashed into Hans's face, sending his reeling backward onto the beach.
Randy sprang forward and in an instant had clamped his legs round Hans's waist in an inescapable scissor-lock. He pushed down hard on the abs and the German screamed as he tried to push himself free. Randy reached forward and grabbed Hans's neck pulling it toward him, stretching the body so Hans screamed in agony. He was growing weaker, nearing unconsciousness when, in a last, desperate move, Hans raised his arm and smashed his fist down on Randy's throat.
Randy gasped and clutched his throat, choking, the pain in his wind-pipe agonizing. Hans sprang free and leapt to his feet. In a quick series of moves he hauled the choking man to his feet, stood behind him, brought his arms round his chest, and locked his hands behind his neck in a perfect full nelson. He leaned backward so Randy's feet left the ground and, with Hans clamping him from behind, felt himself being whirled round helplessly like a rag doll.
He was in a daze, losing all sense of balance, spinning out of control. He knew he had to get out, now. Flexing his arm he slammed his elbow backward into the side of Hans's stomach. Again and again he smashed with his elbow until he felt the arms grow limp around him. Hans staggered backward and let go, sending the muscular body spinning over the ground.
Randy pulled himself to his knees, raised his head and looked up at Pablo. The young man was straining at his ropes, desperate to help his master, wild-eyed with fear. Randy knew he had to protect him, save him. He was his boy, his son. Filled with the rage of a protective animal he leapt to his feet and rushed at Hans. His fist smashed into the blonde's handsome face and Hans staggered backward. The onslaught was merciless as blow after blow rained onto the man's jaw.
The shirtless blonde was reeling, spinning round under the rain of blows. He staggered back toward the water and finally crashed to the ground. Randy was on him in a second, kneeling over him with his hands clamped round his throat. He squeezed hard and watched as the man's eyes opened wide in helpless terror. Hans felt he was being choked to death.
Pablo finally relaxed. His master was winning. He watched as the thug's body became limp. He was beaten. Then, suddenly, all Pablo's hope was crushed. In his final moments of consciousness, his hands lying limp in the water, Hans grabbed a handful of wet sand and with the last ounce of his strength smashed it into Randy's face, grinding the sand into his eyes. Keeping his grip on Hans's neck Randy could not shield his eyes and he felt the fingers gouging them, filling them with wet sand, crunching it into his face. He was temporarily blinded.
With a howl he sprang to his feet and brought his hands to his eyes, trying to rub away the sand. He could see nothing, he was disoriented ..... and then he felt the fist smash into his jaw. He reeled backward, blindly swinging his fists, but it was hopeless. He heard the guttural voice taunting him.
'You're finished, man. I'm gonna beat the shit out of you. You're all mine,' and a fist crashed again into his face. 'I can take my time with you, asshole .... torture you slowly. You're blinded, fucking helpless.'
Desperately Randy threw a punch in the direction of the voice but it went nowhere. 'Admit it, stud, you're beaten, finished. Hans has won. Maybe if you beg for mercy I'll go easy on your boy. This is it, man. I've been waiting for this a long time. This is the beating you deserve.'
There was nothing Randy could do except stand there and try to withstand the onslaught. Hans toyed with him, crashing his fist into his face, pausing, then hammering him again. Pablo was sobbing as he watched his master take the beating of his life. The beautiful man stood there, stripped down to jeans and boots, his naked muscular torso gleaming wet, bruised and battered, his handsome, rugged face flying from side to side as the merciless fists landed again and again.
Still blinded, Randy was helpless. He tried to say on his feet but felt the fight go out of him. His knees buckled and he knew he was finished. He was dimly aware of the sneering voice. 'OK, stud, let's put you out of your misery. This is it, man. I am the best.' Hans hauled back and smashed one last mighty fist into the helpless face. The muscle god arched upward, spun round, staggered backward, and the earth shook as he crashed to the ground face down in the water.
Minutes went by, minutes that were pure terror for Pablo as his handsome tormentor worked on him, wrenching his nipples, grinding their mouths together in a repulsive embrace.
His master lay motionless. The beautiful, half naked muscleman sprawled beaten in the water, his bruised, rugged face turned to one side, so mercifully he could still breathe. He had been thrashed senseless by the victorious, powerful blonde. Semi-conscious, his muscles throbbing with pain, he fought to regain his senses. Gradually he became aware of small waves lapping at his face. The cold water helped clear his head and, more important, washed his eyes. He raised his hand painfully to his eyes and rubbed them. The sand had been rinsed away.
He opened his eyes and, though they still stung, he could see blurred images. Slowly, agonizingly, the bruised and broken bodybuilder, stripped to the waist, in soaking jeans and boots, dragged himself from the water, crawling painfully up the beach. His aching muscles flexed and strained in a desperate attempt to keep moving.
Then he heard the sound ...... the sound of pain, of desperation, the agonized cries for help. It was his boy. His memory returned. Hazily he saw the boy tied to the tree, saw Hans put his hands behind Pablo's ass and probe it with his fingers.
The shock jolted him back to life. He had to save his boy. He focused on the thug's broad muscular back and a shot of adrenaline and pure hatred shot through his body. Energy flowed through him and he pulled himself to his feet. He paused, swayed, trying to regain his wits and his balance. Again he saw the muscles of the back rippling as Hans mauled his boy's ass.
It was the cry of a wounded lion springing into action. 'NO!' He leapt forward, gripped Hans's shoulder and spun him around. Hans was thrown off balance as he heard Randy yell, 'You fucking animal. I'm gonna kill you. You hurt my boy, asshole. My boy!'
Hans felt the first blow to his face, then the next, and the next. Helplessly he raised his hands to defend himself, but this was an inhuman machine, a mass of bruised muscle bearing down on him. He was dimly aware of the blazing eyes of the demon as the fists hammered him, one after another, relentlessly. All Randy's strength and fury returned to him as he thrashed his rival. No man could take punishment like this. Hans's handsome face spun from side to side, his muscular, naked torso shuddered. In his last moments he managed to beg.
'No, no ....... please ....... no more ...... I give up, man ...... let me go ......I'm beaten, man.'
'You bet your life you are,' Randy growled and landed one last massive blow. The back of his fist crashed against the side of his face and the huge muscleman spun round, then fell backward as if in slow motion. His body slammed to the ground unconscious.
Randy ran to Pablo, quickly untied him and held the limp body in his arms. Pablo sobbed into his master's shoulder as he heard the voice he loved. 'It's OK, kiddo. It's over. You're safe.'
'What the fuck........?' Man and dog burst into the clearing and Steve looked down aghast. Randy and Pablo were on their knees touching each other tenderly. Enough time had gone by for them to begin a slow recovery. Pablo was holding a wet T-shirt, dabbing at the cuts and bruises on Randy's face. Randy was running his fingers over the face of the boy he loved, the boy he had almost lost. There was a whine and Billy launched himself at the pair, wildly slapping his tongue over Pablo's face.
Steve stood there trying to make sense of the scene. 'Jesus Christ, what the fuck happened? Are you OK, man? You look as if you took a hell of a beating.'
Randy looked up and managed a grin. 'Yeah, but you should see the other guy ..... over there,' and he jerked his head toward the big body stretched motionless on the ground. Steve knelt and ran his hands over Randy's body. Randy winced but said, 'It's OK, buddy, I already checked. Just a lot of aches and bruises ....... nothing broken. Don't worry, I'm a tough son-of-a-bitch. I've taken beatings before and come back for more.' He was regaining his energy and stood up, pulling Pablo up with him.
As they explained what had happened Steve shook his head in amazement. 'So, what now?' At that moment they heard two sounds simultaneously ...... a man's low groan and a dog's growl. Hans was moving, and Billy was watching. Regaining consciousness Hans turned over onto his back and looked up at the three men. But what riveted his attention more was the Doberman, standing just feet away, baring his teeth in an ominous snarl. Fear brought clarity to his mind and he looked up at Randy.
'Keep your dog away from me, man.'
'It's not my dog, it's my boy's. And somehow I doubt he's in a mood to help out, eh boy?'
'No, sir.' He looked down at the groveling man. 'One word from me and Billy attacks.'
'You know,' Randy said. 'In my world when someone fucks up we make the punishment fit the crime. Now let's see, Hans. You tied up my boy, abused him and were then gonna fuck him. You know how that feels to get fucked, Hans? No, I thought not.'
Hans stared wildly. 'No man. You can't do that. Not me. I don't do that. Please, sir. Not my ass.' Hans knew from before that Randy's retribution could be terrible, remembered how he had been beaten and left naked, hogtied, hanging from a hook high on the wall.
But Randy ignored his pleading. He pulled off Hans's boots and with one heave ripped the wet jeans off him. He looked down with satisfaction at the now naked muscleman groveling before him then dropped to his knees in front of him and growled, 'You move a muscle, lift one finger, and the dog will rip you're your throat out.' Hans looked in terror at Billy's snarling face, saliva dripping from his jaws.
Randy unzipped his own pants and pulled out his rock hard cock. His erection was caused by the blood of hatred that coursed through his veins, by his overwhelming need to punish this man. He growled, 'This is what you were gonna do to my boy, asshole. But you lost, Hans. I thrashed you again. Seems the last time I broke your body wasn't enough. So now you're gonna get fucked. Pity your first time has to be a dry fuck. So much more painful.
He leaned forward, pushed Hans's legs backward and with one massive thrust drove his thick, dry cock into the bodybuilder's ass. The scream echoed round the lake as Hans's face jerked wildly, his blonde hair flying, his eyes wide with terror. His agonized body shook uncontrollably as the pain in his ass shot through his whole, massive body.
Pablo knew how rough Randy could be when he fucked but he had never seen anything like this fury. He watched the bruised body rise and fall over the tortured blonde, hammering, pounding the ass like a piston. Randy's eyes blazed at his enemy and obscenities poured from his mouth. 'You fucking worthless piece of trash. I'm gonna rip that ass to shreds, man. You hurt my boy, asshole. This is what happens to any prick who hurts my boy. Let me hear you scream, big guy.'
And they did. They heard the wild screams of agony, howls of pain, the pleas for mercy as the beautiful, sculpted body writhed and shuddered from the merciless onslaught. His agony was endless. His muscles flexed and bulged, streaming with sweat as he looked up at the dark, raging demon torturing him. He had never felt such pain in his life and he felt himself drifting from reality. Randy knew the time had come ..... he didn't want the man to lose consciousness. His body arched, and one last time he plunged his cock into the ravaged ass, feeling his explosion of cum deep inside him.
As the tortured bodybuilder shook and spasmed, screaming with pain, Randy pulled out of him and shot to his feet. Coming round to his head he reached forward, grabbed his ankles and pulled his legs back, wide and high in the air, exposing his shattered ass. Eyes blazing he turned to Pablo. 'You're turn, kid.'
Pablo had never seen his master like this, a heaving tower of violent rage. He did not dare disobey him. He fell to his knees and, as he gazed upward at the magnificent muscle god, standing astride the man he had tortured, the boy's cock grew hard. He put the head of his cock against the bruised asshole and forcefully pushed it inside, eliciting another howl from the broken man.
Pablo held Randy's gaze as he followed his lead and fucked the muscleman's ass harder, more savagely, than he had ever fucked before. Hans stared up at the boy in despair and the handsome faced begged. 'Please, no more. I can't take any more. Please end it. Please cum in my ass. Please, sir, I beg you. Fuck my ass, sir. Shoot your load in my ass.
Pablo looked at Randy. 'Has he had enough, sir?'
'OK, kid. Finish him off.'
So Pablo did. He smiled at Randy and with a shout of triumph pierced the tortured ass one last time, watching the beautiful stud scream, writhe, spasm ..... and fall back motionless.
Steve had been watching this brutal punishment in a state of shock and awe, and now the three men were gazing down at the broken muscleman who lay a sobbing wreck.
'OK, Steve,' Randy said. 'You can join us in a ritual of our group. Whenever an asshole hurts one of us the others show him what degradation is. Like this.' He pointed his cock at the handsome, blonde face and a stream of piss began to pour down on him. The others joined in and soon the pitiful, shattered ruin of a man was drowning in three jets of hot, rancid urine.
It poured over his face, into his mouth and over the shuddering muscles of his spectacular body. He moaned in the humiliation of abject squalor. Reflexively he swallowed and tasted the sour, acrid taste of the urine of three men. When it was over he lay still, utterly defeated, broken, his bruised, sculpted muscles pouring with steaming piss.
'Get up,' Randy snarled. Slowly, painfully, the bodybuilder dragged himself to his feet and stood swaying, dazed. Randy reached down to Hans's shredded Levis, pulled out his wallet and keys and picked up his boots. 'Take these, and get out of my sight. And if I ever lay eyes on you again, I'll kill you. I swear it.' The broken, naked muscleman stumbled away and disappeared through the trees.
Randy went to the truck, found his cell phone and pressed a speed-dial number. He was calling Mark, their buddy the cop. 'Hi, Mark. Sorry to interrupt your weekend with Jamie ...... yeah, fine ..... everything's great. We did hit one spot of bother though and there's something you can do for me. Can you make a phone call to your cop buddies?'
'Do you know any guys in the Highway Patrol out this way, in the Angeles Forest? You do? Great, perfect. Ask them to look out for a big, blonde, muscular guy on a motor bike .... German accent. He should be riding the Angeles Crest Highway in a few minutes. He'll be covered in bruises, have a sore ass, and stink of piss. They can probably arrest him for 'indecent exposure.' ...... Oh, didn't I mention that? He'll be butt naked.'
TO BE CONTINUED in 'A Trial Of Strength - Part 66'


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Technology Enables Life-Saving Care
Published: September 12, 1982
One could not, and would not, attempt to dispute the point Dr. Manlapaz makes in his article (''Technology Can Breed Neglect,'' Aug. 22).
Modern medical practitioners not infrequently are unable to ''see the patient for the wires'' (tubes, catheters, etc.). On the one hand, it is easy to see the apparent ''neglect'' of the patient for observation of electronic monitors, but on the other hand, the data displayed by the monitors, when integrated by the clinician, enables life-saving care unavailable in the past.
One example is in the practice of cardiac anesthesiology. Advances in monitoring techniques have enabled the safe administration of anesthesia to critically ill patients so that these patients may survive the stresses of their open-heart surgery. These techniques have been directly applicable to patients with other life-threatening illnesses and injuries in the operating room, emergency room and intensive care units.
The tendency to ''over-monitor'' (by past standards) has brought increases in our knowledge and improved quality of care. How? Intermittent evaluation of various physiologic parameters often ''misses'' changes which may be of significant magnitude but brief duration.
An example of this is 24-hour Electrocardiographic (Holter) monitoring which ''picks-up'' abnormalities that might not occur during a routine EKG.
Another example (pertinent to Dr. Manlapaz's specialty of neurosurgery) is the continuous assessment of two parameters (arterial blood pressure and intracranial pressure) that determine blood flow to the brain (cerebral perfusion pressure). This flow cannot be quantitated clinically by looking at the patient. By making these measurements the clinician can detect and remedy deleterious events before they could be detected by traditional, noninvasive means.
The good we reap does exact a price, that of potential harm and discomfort. The clinician must balance the potential risks and benefits to his/ her patient.
I may be naive, but I doubt that clinicians would abandon their bedside skills for remunerative reasons. I think it more likely that younger practitioners are not being taught basic bedside medical and nursing skills with the same emphasis as the more ''advanced'' techniques. This bias in education (whether intended or not) will carry into their practices later.
The impetus for writing this letter was not to concur with Dr. Manlapaz's concerns (which I do), but to disagree with his example of overused technology - analysis of arterial blood gases (ABG).
ABG yields critical information that cannot be ascertained by examining the patient. The partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide and the acidity-alkalinity (pH) of the blood can be determined accurately in no other way. The other techniques currently available for clinical use can supplement, but cannot yet substitute for, ABG.
Dr. Manlapaz decries the ''automatic monitoring'' of ABG in patients receiving mechanical ventilatory support (''respirator'' is a misnomer, commonly used but inaccurate nevertheless).
I cannot dispute the inadvisability of ''automatically'' monitoring any parameter, especially when the risk is greater than nil. However, adequacy of ventilation (whether machine-supported or not) requires, by definition, demonstration of normal pH and levels of carbon dioxide - data available only from ABG. Adequacy of oxygenation may be inferred on clinical grounds, but proof (again) requires ABG. The sequelae of inadequate ventilation and/or oxygenation are too rapid in onset and too grave in consequence to leave to other than the ''gold standard'' of assessment.
ABG should be periodically, but not automatically, assessed on all mechanically ventilated patients. The benefits heavily outweigh the risks in this case and, without any doubt, justify the costs.
Efforts to control costs are certainly desirable and are becoming unavoidable. Allocation of finite sources is becoming necessary in medicine, but this triage based upon financial rather than medical grounds must be made by clinicians and not by comptrollers alone. It is easy for financial managers to select high-visibility ''targets'' (high-cost, high-income) without full appreciation for the services rendered and thereby threaten the quality of care (an anathema to administrators because it cannot be readily quantified).
Another example that comes readily to mind is the CAT scanner. In the very recent past it was extraordinarily difficult to obtain approval from a regional health planning agency to purchase one (approval only, not funds). The CAT scanner is almost irreplaceable now in the care of head-injured patients. The CAT is virtually all benefit and no risk (almost no risk but certainly magnitudes lower in risk than cerebral angiography or pneumoencephalography).
Many new uses outside of intracranial disease are being pursued with great contributions to patient care accruing, and yet we almost lost this unique tool through misguided efforts of well-intentioned but ill-informed people.
Health care professionals must inform as well as treat the public.It is our responsibility to adopt appropriate technology, apply it for the greater good and to do so in a fashion preserving the humanity of our patients and ourselves. SHEPARD B. STONE, M.P.S., P.A., Physician Associate-Anesthesiologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital


text: The approximate outline of the current deposit projected to the surface is shown in Figure 1. Much of the SEC Guide 7 mineralized material within the deposit is located on claims owned by Gold Acquisition Corp., Pershing Gold's wholly owned subsidiary. The rest occurs on private lands and mining claims that Pershing Gold acquired in April 2012 when it purchased the interests of Victoria Resources (US), a subsidiary of Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX:VIT-V) in a 2006 Mineral Lease and Sublease with Newmont USA Limited, doing business in Nevada as Newmont Mining Corporation ("Newmont") (NYSE:NEM). The leased lands and claims are subject to an Area of Interest ("AOI") with Newmont. The approximate in-situ resource boundary shown in Figure 1 illustrates that Pershing Gold's strategic consolidation of the lands and claims surrounding the Relief Canyon Mine has given them exclusive rights to lands inside the currently defined boundary of SEC Guide 7 mineralized material associated with the Relief Canyon deposit.Figure 1: Map featuring the approximate outline of the current gold deposit compared to the current pit boundary is available at: https://media.globenewswire.com/cache/19459/file/17778.pdf Pershing Gold has drilled a total of 127 holes (approximately 61,100 feet) since initiating its work at the mine in the fall of 2011. The SEC Guide 7 mineralized material estimate by Pershing Gold is based on data from these holes plus the 588 holes that previous owners of the mine drilled. The Company's mineralized material estimate uses a cutoff grade of 0.0046 opt Au, and is based on 67 plan views spaced 20 feet apart. Historic production at the Relief Canyon Mine included recoveries of silver at a ratio of one part gold to three parts silver. Silver is not included in the current SEC Guide 7 mineralized material or 43-101 resource estimates because the database for most of the historic holes does not include silver assays. Silver assays are planned for holes drilled in the future so this information can be added to the silver assay data from the holes Pershing Gold has drilled to date. Any identified silver resources will be included in future mineralized material and resource estimates.


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When I saw the Red Kiss on Rufus' Guide to Food & Spirits, I knew I had to try it out. First, it incorporates Cherry Heering, which I have in my liquor cabinet, and with which I recently told you I am eager to experiment more. Secondly, it features vermouth in a starring role, which is unusual in American cocktails (of this century, at least) — and Boozehound has me convinced that vermouth gets a bad rap.
I have to say, right away, that this is one of my favorite new cocktails that I've tried in a long time. It's nicely balanced, and, as long as you've treated your vermouth right (by which I mean, you've stored it in the refrigerator* and not let it languish too long), it's nice and mellow.
* Most people don't, and I didn't until recently, when I read that vermouth is really a kind of wine and should be treated as such. It really does make a big difference in the flavor!
Perfect for sipping on a Friday night at home, as I did last week while the hubby was out seeing Zero Dark Thirty with the guys. No bother — I just called my evening Zero Cocktail Thirty and had myself a little a party after Nora was in bed. Wild times, I tell you!
- 1 oz dry vermouth
- ½ oz cherry brandy, such as Cherry Heering
- ½ oz gin
- Combine all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.


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Chen Si Qi 陈思琪 is a rising and hot Asian model and Internet celebrity from Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, East China. Also known by her English name Art, Chen Si Qi was born on October 1st, 1996. Chen Si Qi is half Chinese and half Russian. Check out her photos below to see if you like newly featured Asian babe Chen Si Qi!
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Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free Street, Portland, Maine
For more information: 207-828-1234; kitetails.org
Ready to get crafty? At American Girls Craft Club, we'll learn about different American Girls through crafts and snacks. Today we'll make a kite that will really fly – just like Felicity would have used. For a snack, we'll make "Johnnycakes" from scratch. Feel free to bring your favorite doll or stuffed animal!
This is a drop-off program; best for ages 6+.
$22/member, $25/visitor. To register call 828-1234 x231 or stop by the front desk by 5pm Sunday, June 29th.
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A 16th century Inn with all the warmth of a traditional country home full of character blending in beautifully with comforts and excitements of the modern world. The Chilli Pepper is situated in Cotswold the rural picturesque village of Broadwell and is within easy reach to many attractions of the local attractions. Bedrooms vary in both size and decor, and are located above the main Inn as well as in modernised stables adjacent to a pretty courtyard with ample car park facility and surrounded by open green fields. Why not use the Chilli Pepper as a base to explore the lovely surroundings and experience all the Cotwolds has to offer, attractions and activities include, Horse Ridding, Polo, Great Walks, Cycling. Cotswolds wild life park, Cheltenham Races, Historic sites, Famous Gardens, Clay Pigeon shooting, shopping and much more! From our property you also have direct access to Darcy walk. The guests are welcomed to a home from home. Complimentry cooked breakfast with scrambled eggs included in room price, as well as an extensive breakfast and dinner menu on offer for our guests.
London - Road: Take the M40 towards Oxford stay on A40 towards Oxford and Cheltenham, At Burford roundabout take A361 towards Lechlade, pass Cotswold Wild Life Park, after 2 miles you will see sign to Broadwell, turn left towards Broadwell, follow signs to Broadwell until you see sign on the left KIings Lane, turn right on to Kings Lane, this brings you directly in to Broadwell, turn left and we are on your left pass the red phone box
You can check in from 14:00. You need to check out by 11:00.


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Spacious waterfront home with beautiful views overlooking Crystal Pond. Part of Crystal Pond community. Outstanding kitchen and dining area with gorgeously detailed tiled floor. Both sliding glass door in dining room and sliding glass door in master bedroom lead to HUGE back deck and beautiful view. 3 bedrooms on the 1st floor including a master bedroom with full bath. Brand new built - finished Basement with 2 bedrooms and 1/2 bath, W/D hook-ups and walk-out basement. Large driveway with plenty of parking, spacious 2 car garage. Also available as a COMMERCIAL lease to own!
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PHILADELPHIA - A young Penn men's basketball team has had a long time to contemplate the direction of this season -- a school-record 24 days, in fact. An ambitious early-season slate did nothing for the team's confidence, as a series of hot teams put the Quakers at 1-6 heading into the exam break. Penn looks to regain some of its swagger this week at the UCF Holiday Classic, but it won't be easy as the Quakers open the tournament with the host Knights from out of Conference USA.
GAME 8 Penn (1-6) at UCF (6-4)
UCF Holiday Classic 1st Round
Orlando, Fla.
Monday, Dec. 29, 2008 * 7 p.m.
TV: None
Radio: WXPN 88.5 FM (Brian Seltzer, Vince Curran)
Penn Game Notes (PDF)
UCF Game Notes (PDF)
Quaker Notemeal...
The six teams Penn has lost to this season are a combined 52-17, a 75.0 winning percentage (UNC 11-0, Drexel 3-6, Penn State 11-2, Albany 8-4, Villanova 11-1, Navy 8-4).
Penn has five players among the top 17 scorers in the Ivy League;; no other team has more than four in the top 20 (Brown 4, Cornell 3, Dartmouth 3, Yale 3, Harvard 1, Princeton 1).
Through seven games, Penn has had five different players lead it in scoring (Tyler Bernardini vs. UNC, Monmouth and Albany; Kevin Egee vs. Drexel; Jack Eggleston vs. Penn State; Harrison Gaines vs. Villanova; Brennan Votel vs. Navy) and four different players lead in rebounding (Eggleston vs. UNC, Penn State, Villanova and Navy; Votel vs. Drexel and Villanova; Conor Turley vs. Monmouth; Zack Rosen vs. Albany).
Bernardini has reached the 20-point mark twice this season, giving the sophomore eight such games for his career. He leads Penn with five double-figure scoring games so far this season.
Rosen, a freshman, leads the Ivy League in assists per game (5.60) and assist/turnover ratio (3.55); he is seventh nationally in assist/turnover ratio. In his first four collegiate games, Rosen had 25 assists and just three turnovers (all against No. 1 UNC).
Sophomores Eggleston and Gaines have scored in double figures in three of Penn's last four games, averaging 12.8 and 11.5 ppg, respectively, during that span.
Votel, a senior, entered this season with one double-figure scoring game as a collegian; he has three such games already this season, with 17 points at Drexel and 14 against both Monmouth and Navy. He also fell one rebound shy of a double-double against both Drexel and Navy.
After scoring in double figures in each of Penn's first four games, Egee -- also a senior -- has been held to a combined 14 points the last three contests.
Penn vs. UCF
The Quakers and the Knights are meeting for the first time in men's basketball.
Taking it a step further, Penn is entering uncharted waters with this entire tournament field; the Quakers have also never met either Campbell or Chicago State, the other teams in Orlando this week.
Penn has a 7-8 all-time record against the teams that currently comprise Conference USA. The last time the Quakers played a Conference USA team was the 2006-07 season opener, when they lost to UTEP 67-66 in the BCA Invitational at Syracuse, N.Y.
Marshall ... 0-1
Memphis ... 0-1
Rice ... 1-1
Tulane ... 3-1
Tulsa ... 0-1
The Penn men's basketball program is making its second trip to Florida in as many years; last year the Quakers came to the Sunshine State for regular-season games against Florida Gulf Coast and Miami.
Break's Over
Monday's game is Penn's first since December 5; the 24-day break was an in-season record for the program, which dates games to 1897.
Notemeal From Navy...
The loss snapped a seven-game win streak Penn had over the Midshipmen, dating back to the 1989-90 season.
The game was played at The Palestra on the eve of the Army-Navy football game, which took place this season at Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Philadelphia Eagles).
Senior Brennan Votel became the fifth different player to lead Penn in scoring in a game, with 14 points; he also had nine rebounds, nearly getting his first collegiate double-double.
Notemeal From Villanova...
Sophomore Harrison Gaines became the fourth different player to lead Penn in scoring in a game, with 14 points.
Sophomore Remy Cofield made his first start of the season, and just the second of his collegiate career.
After missing the first five games due to a shoulder injury, junior Andreas Schreiber saw his first game action of 2008-09; he had two points, a rebound, a steal and an assist in 14 minutes.
Download: UCF vs. Penn Game Notes.pdf


text: 11 photos $26,000 1.15 acres 125 N Stephenson St., Cedarville, IL 61031 - Lee County 1.15 acres Cedarville, IL This is part of a larger parcel from a sale previous to this owner. It has 1-3.5 lots approximately per a previous subdivision plat. Please see aerial in associated docs. Improvements include - driveway from Stephenson St. to the property. It also has a non-developed alley to the property. Electric is at the lot line, sewer is at the lot line, gas is at the driveway entrance on Rt. 26. Water has to be ran from under Rt. 26 or from Oak St. These would be at the buyers expense.


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Richland Center City Council May 2nd Meeting
The Richland Center City Council met for regular business on Tuesday night, May 2nd.
Richland School Board May 1st Meeting
The Richland School Board met for the first time with its new look on Monday night as Jane Williams gaveled in the meeting as president.
15th Annual Howl & Meow Celebration
The Ocooch Mountain Humane Society will host its 15th annual Howl & Meow Celebration this Sunday, May 7th, at the Richland Center Community Center. Held each year, the event offers interesting and informative sessions for people and their pets. The community is invited to attend and participate in the activities which will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The high point and major fundraiser for the Ocooch Mountain Humane Society is the mascot contest held each year. Other events at the annual Howl & Meow event include: a plant sale; games for dogs from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM; a kitten shower; a t-shirt sale; music; food and refreshments.
Drug Take Back Day
More than two thirds of people who have abused prescription painkillers got them illegally from a friend or family member. That's an alarming statistic that could - in part - be avoided by properly disposing of unused or unwanted medicines that languish in home medicine cabinets. Local residents can do their part to help curb drug abuse in their community by participating in the biannual Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29th, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Bridge Restriction South of Lone Rock
Starting immediately and continuing indefinitely, the Highway 130 Bridge south of Lone Rock has a number of restrictions.
WRCO Radio is proud to promote "Think Local." Each week we will feature another local business that helps improve the community in which we live. This week's featured local business is Wallace Cooper & Elliott.
River Valley Teaching Awards
The River Valley High School in Spring Green has earned a pair of recent awards.
WRCO Radio is proud to promote "Think Local." Each week we will feature another local business that helps improve the community in which we live. This week's featured local business is the Partners of the Richland Hospital.
2016-2017 Schools of Recognition Awards
State Public School Superintendent Tony Evers has announced 178 Wisconsin Title 1 School of Recognition awards for the 2016-17 academic year – including a handful of schools in our area. School of Recognition is an honor that acknowledges success in educating students from low-income families. To be eligible, schools must received Title 1 funding to provide services to large numbers or high percentages of economically disadvantaged children and meet other achievement criteria.
Sheriff Jim Bindl on the Jakubowski Arrest
WRCO's Aaron Joyce sat down with Richland Center Sheriff Jim Bindl on Monday to talk about the arrest of Joseph Jakubowski, the wanted fugitive from Rock County, this past Friday.


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Week 6: Haiku Deck
Haiku Deck is a fun, free, and easy way to create and share beautiful presentations from a web browser (on any computer) or on an iPad with the Haiku Deck app. Rather than starting with a blank page (think PowerPoint), there are plenty of nice themes and layouts that can make a simple presentation look schmancy!
Haiku Deck offers literally millions of free, Creative-Commons licensed images that can be used as backgrounds for your presentations. You're sure to find one that's JUST RIGHT for your project.
Sharing your presentation is easy-peasy. Haiku Deck stores your presentation online. You can share it via web link, embed it onto a webpage, or share via Social Media.
See how it easy it is here ...
Getting Started
- Create an account at haikudeck.com
- Using the tools on the left, select a format, background image, layout, and add notes.
- Need help? Click the HELP button in the upper right corner for a quick overlay of the tools. (See the screenshot below.)
- When you're finished, share it out!
Want to see a real-life Haiku Deck presentation? 14 Reasons to #LOVETEACHING is one of many inspiring decks found in the gallery.
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If you're interested in using Haiku Deck in your classroom, you may want to check out the Ultimate Haiku Deck Resource Guide. It has lots of great ideas and suggestions.
The current recommendation for student use is to create one class account and have all of the students share the account. If you choose to go with this option, I encourage you to monitor closely as students would have access to delete or change other presentations. Haiku Deck also restricts accounts to students 12 years old and older, due to the possibility of inappropriate images in their search results. I think this could be a great tool for students, but because of these issues, they would need to be carefully monitored while they are working on their presentations!
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