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This 3-piece cutlery set makes the sweetest gift for little ones. A cute storage case... more details
This 3-piece cutlery set makes the sweetest gift for little ones. A cute storage case encloses this cutlery set, making it perfect for travel. The set includes a small spoon, fork and chopsticks with textured tips - all illustrated with Hello Kitty graphics. Made in Japan!
- 0.6"H x 7.1"W x 3.1"D
- Set includes fork, spoon and set of wooden chopsticks
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This is an amazin thing to buy if your just starting out using chopsticks it's also really kawaii
Love the style
Can't wait to use these, I wanted these because it came with a case. I have another set I found at Walmart or Target, don't remember, no case but they looked nice. It's cute and small. The chop sticks are a little small for me but love it anyways. Love Hello Kitty. ^_^

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Hey, I just bought Vice City again, and the sound when people are talking in cut scenes is crackly, does anyone know why this is? also on the mission when you go and see kent paul in the malibu club, theres wasnt anyone else in the club at all, exept me and kent paul....and that women he's with you tell to get lost, is that a grx issue or was it like that on the ps2 version aswell?
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Busy Parent Briefing: Rare Northern Lights Sighted Across the Midwest and Southern U.S.amywindsor
The aurora borealis is rarely seen outside of the arctic regions, but last night people across Canada and the midwestern U.S. as far south as Georgia were treated to quite a show. To make the event even more noteworthy, the more uncommon color of red was on display.
USA Today reports that the spectacular show of Northern Lights was brought about by an immense solar storm that took place on Saturday and took two days to arrive here. The display was seen across Canada, the northern U.S., Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, and other locations.
The Northern Lights occur when charged particles blown away from the sun during solar flares interact with the magnetic field in the Earth's atmosphere. Solar wind is responsible for pulling the shapes out into the familiar windsock shape that is associated with the phenomenon.
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These photos were taken by Phil Dubois on October 24, 2011 in Maine, U.S.A. See his flickr account here.
While growing up in Missouri, I was treated to exactly ONE showing of the aurora borealis and I will never forget it. Nor that I would've missed it had my father not spotted it first and told me to get outside to enjoy it. The show was spectacular and seemed as close to anything "magical" that I had ever experienced.
I think if there was anything to happily waken children for in the middle of the night, it would be one of these rare displays. Good luck catching one!
To further sate your aurora borealis fever, watch this video of northern lights displays collected from NASA time lapse photography.
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This followed reports that the House of Representatives plans to reconvene on Sunday. That might allow time to prepare for the so-called fiscal cliff, the set of tax hikes and spending cuts set to start in January unless lawmakers can make an alternative arrangement.
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The Republicans have the majority in the House, while the Democrats rule the Senate. Earlier, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it looked like the US was headed over the cliff, putting the blame on Republicans opposed to tax cuts.
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Under the proposed letter of intent, Immanuel will transition its role as a sponsor and its governance responsibilities of Alegent Health to CHI. This includes Immanuel Medical Center and its affiliates in the Omaha area. CHI will establish a strategic collaboration with Immanuel to expand the retirement housing, programs and service needs of seniors and their families throughout Nebraska and Iowa, including skilled nursing, assisted living, adult day care, senior wellness and Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE). Details of the collaboration are under development.
The decision by the Immanuel Board to transition its sponsorship of Alegent Health to CHI followed a discernment and strategic planning process that highlighted the need for senior services.
"Immanuel and CHI share a strong heritage and common purpose of serving the health needs of people and communities we serve," said Kevin Lofton, president and CEO of CHI. "We have been blessed as partners in sponsoring Alegent Health in the past. We applaud Immanuel's courageous decision to meet the unmet needs of seniors and their families.
"We look forward to working with Alegent Health with a sense of excitement and great possibilities," Lofton said. "Alegent will have unlimited access to the services of a nationally recognized health system, including population health management; leading clinical practices; the CHI Institute for Research and Innovation; and industry-best practices, such as insurance and risk management, and proven methods to reduce expensive infrastructure.
"We also look forward to partnering with Creighton to help educate the next generation of providers and expanding education and research opportunities throughout the country," added Lofton. Alegent Health and Creighton recently announced a long-term strategic affiliation, which includes the planned acquisition of Creighton University Medical Center from Creighton University and its clinical partner Tenet Healthcare.
The decision by Immanuel to transition its sponsorship reflects a growing national trend toward specialization and consolidation in the wake of national health reform. While Immanuel will improve and expand its senior services in Nebraska and Iowa, CHI will bring national resources and expertise to an already strong regional health delivery system, which now includes acute-care facilities in Nebraska and Iowa.


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The mutual fund industry is pushing for the return of the entry load. Even as Sebi does not deny the possibility of reversing the ban, there is a need to evolve better mechanisms to reward distributors and not burden new investors with levies
Having already seen various models being designed by the regulator and market players to remunerate the distributors, the mutual fund investors may again see a change in the way the industry charges them to keep themselves and the distribution community afloat. Four years have passed since the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) banned entry load on mutual fund sales and while the industry continues to languish on the growth front ever since, the discussions to reintroduce the entry load refuse to die down. The regulator too seems to have kept its options open to bring it back in order to boost growth and penetration of mutual funds in the country.
Last week, while speaking at the Express Groups Idea Exchange in Mumbai, UK Sinha, chairman, Sebi, did accept that banning entry load was a mistake and it has affected the industry and its growth. Sinha, however, did not deny the possibility of a reversal of that decision.
I would wait for the investment climate to improve and watch for some more time before taking a call on the same, said Sinha when asked if the regulator is looking to bring back the entry load for mutual fund sales.
Till July 31, 2009, mutual funds could charge entry load. That meant distributors received a direct commission of up to 2.5 per cent from fund houses for all investments into equity funds and up to 1 per cent for investments into debt funds.
As the industry failed to grow after entry load was banned, Sebi, in August 2012, allowed mutual funds to charge an additional expense fee of 0.3 per cent if they manage to get at least 30 per cent of their total sales from beyond the top 15 cities.
Sinha is thinking on those lines even though he accepts that his decision to allow additional expense charge works out to be equal to that of the entry load that existed in the past. We have tried to rectify the same, said Sinha.
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Thirty-eight prominent Catholic university professors and other scholars, editors, fellows, and retired military personnel have signed a plea at IraqRescue.org calling for "the United States and the international community [to] act immediately and decisively to stop the ISIS/ISIL genocide and prevent the further victimization of religious minorities."
Over the past several months the Sunni militant group ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria / Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) has marched throughout Iraq, stopping short of Baghdad. More than 1,700 Iraqis were killed in July alone, according to The Wall Street Journal.
President Obama announced on August 7 that he had authorized limited airstrikes in addition to the provisions of food and water that were airdropped for the 10,000 to 40,000 Yazidi civilians driven out by the escalating conflict, as reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Iraq's Christian communities are some of the oldest in the world, dating back to the first centuries of Christianity. The estimated 450,000 still remaining in the country have fallen under severe persecution with ISIS calling for all Christians "in the militant-held city of Mosul to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death," as reported by CBS News. The Christian Broadcasting Network reported that the terrorists are "beheading children and burying people alive."
Pope Francis condemned the atrocities in his Sunday Angelus, covered by the Vatican News Service:
The news reports coming from Iraq leave us in dismay and disbelief: thousands of people, including many Christians, driven from their homes in a brutal manner; children dying of thirst and hunger in their flight; women taken and carried off; people massacred; violence every kind; destruction of historical, cultural and religious patrimonies. All this gravely offends God and humanity. Hatred is not to be carried in the name of God! War is not to be waged in the name of God!
The signers of the IraqRescue.org plea have called for President Obama to expand the airstrikes and provide full air support to the forces opposed to ISIS/ISIL. They emphasize the gravity of the atrocities by pointing out that they believe all other options have been exhausted:
We, the undersigned, are Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. We are conservatives, liberals, and moderates. We represent various religious traditions and shades of belief. None of us glorifies war or underestimates the risks entailed by the use of military force. Where non-military means of resolving disputes and protecting human rights are available, we always and strongly favor those means. However, the evidence is overwhelming that such means will not be capable of protecting the victims of the genocide already unfolding at the hands of ISIS/ISIL.
The signees represent a sweeping demographic of views, and include many influential Catholic leaders and professors from Catholic universities: Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University; Gerald Bradley, professor of law at University of Notre Dame; Dan Robinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University; Thomas Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project and visiting associate professor at Georgetown University; Robert Lieber, professor at Georgetown University; Anthony Esolen, professor of English at Providence College; Patrick Lee, professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville; Michael Strokes Paulsen, professor at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota; and many others.
The plea concludes by saying that the current threat is not only to the Yazidi civilians and those immediately in harm's way, but also to "Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan," and urges recognition "that justice as well as compassion demands that we take the steps necessary to end the ISIL/ISIS campaign of genocide and protect those who are its victims."
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Ms. Andre Dates My Dad Ch. 08byjeffrey214©
Ms. Andre paused in her telling of the story, to see how I was doing. I was lying on my back on the bed, shaking with arousal, sweat was dripping on my brow and my penis was extremely stiff and pointing toward my navel at a 45 degree angle. Ms. Andre had the palm of her hand atop my testicles and her flat fingers lay against the underside of my stiff and throbbing member. Her hand was just holding firm contact between my spread thighs and making slow circular movements.
"Do you feel like you might ejaculate soon, Jeffrey?" she asked calmly.
"Not the way you're touching me," I gasped, "It feels good but isn't pushing me to spurt. I really need to spurt, Ms. Andre, please let me spurt..." I moaned and begged for her mercy, but to no avail.
"Oh, Jeffrey," she said, "You know I can't do that. This is just a session of arousal for you – to help your treatment be effective. I'll just keep the soft slow circles going so you have nice sensations in your genitals, but you won't be ejaculating any time soon, honey. I know it's hard for you, dear, and that's why I'm telling you a nice story to keep your mind off the sensations in your penis."
She smiled happily as I writhed and moaned under her hand, struggling to increase the contact in the hope that I could cum. But she knew just how to make a boy mad with arousal, and yet not allow him to spurt the semen that was boiling within.
For my part, the story she was telling wasn't taking my mind off of my penis. On the contrary, it kept me thinking about being exposed and erect and her hand on me and her promise that I would not be allowed to spurt. She was driving me crazy on purpose of course, and I knew it. I couldn't help but submit to her and let her do with me what she wanted, but at the same time I really wanted to ejaculate. It felt like I was filling up with arousal and semen and I might soon burst.
Ms Andre looked at me lovingly. "I see your mind working, Jeffrey, and I think I can guess what you're thinking. Any boy would have the same thoughts in your position. I know you need to spurt honey, and you're feeling like you'll explode. But that's a good sign that the treatment is beginning to work. I'll just keep giving you this nice massage, and I'll tell you more about young Gregory and how he became such a good slut boy..."
Irene let the boy finish vacuuming, and then told him, "Craig, it's time for your milking, honey."
Craig looked at her with wide eyes, realizing that it was now 'that time', and he wasn't as prepared to handle it as he had thought. He started to blush and look down. His hands went naturally to cross in front of his pretty pink pouch.
"None of that, dear," said Irene, "You know boys should keep their hands at their sides. Now come on over here and we'll get you ready. Just stand by the dining table, and I'll get you organized in a moment."
Irene smiled to herself as she collected the things she'd need. She retrieved the sample cup, the lotion, some baby oil, a nice dry towel, and two small pillows, and then put them all at one end of the dining table. She knew that leaving the boy standing there, hands at his sides and waiting to be milked, would give him time to think about his milking in the Dr.'s office, and that he was about to be milked by his Aunt.
He would feel again the mixture of embarrassment at his completely and lewdly exposed he was to the three women attending his milking at the clinic. He'd remember how helpless he felt as Dr. Jordan took his semen so completely, while saying things that made his tummy quiver in arousal and surrender. And he'd think about his Aunt – that she was about to milk him as the doctor had done, and all these emotions would fill him again with a sort of dread anticipation...
These were good thoughts for a boy to have, she mused.
When she was ready, Irene said, "Ok, Craig, let's have you slip your panties down to your ankles, dear..." She loved saying 'panties', because she always saw a bit of embarrassment cross his face whenever she did so. The boy hesitated a moment, and she just stared at him with a serious expression, which caused him to begin to slip his pouch panties down. They pooled at his ankles and he stood like a good boy with his hands at his sides, waiting for her next instruction. She enjoyed how compliant he was already becoming as she took a moment to enjoy the view of his large and shaved-clean genitals.
"Good boy," said Irene, smiling. She knew she should help the boy increase his submissive feelings during each milking session, and she had a delightful idea of what to make him do next...
"Craig," she said calmly, "I think it will be a good exercise for your development if you were to show your cooperation with your milking program formally. So I have decided that you will ask me to milk you. I want to hear you say 'Aunt Irene, would you please milk my penis now and make all my semen come out into the sample cup?' Now stand up straight, look me in the eyes, and ask me."
She crossed her arms under her breasts and stood, waiting for him to say it. After a few moments, she looked at her watch and said, "Don't dilly-dally, Craig, we're on a schedule here..."
The boy was blushing bright pink, and Irene thought it was just darling. Finally, with all his courage, the boy overcame his intense embarrassment and said, "Please milk me, Aunt Irene, so that all my semen comes out." It wasn't perfect, but it was good enough for her.
"Good boy," she said, "You may step out of your panties and put your panties on that chair."
"Yes, Ma'am," he whispered, still blushing as he obeyed her.
"Now then, let me tell you what we're going to do. I'm going to have you on your hands and knees on the dining table, with your thighs spread nice and wide for me. Then I'll put the sample cup under your penis, and I'll begin to massage your penis to coax out your semen." She paused to gauge the boy's blushing response. No argument, she thought, how wonderful! She also noticed that his delightfully long penis was beginning to twitch and thicken in anticipation. She knew the boy couldn't help it, and enjoyed that he was even more embarrassed about becoming erect as she watched.
She took her time to enjoy a few throbs of his penis, as he stood still – pinned under her gaze. Then she motioned for the boy to get up on the table and he did so in a delightfully awkward fashion. She guided him to be positioned at the very corner, with his left knee just at the edge of the table. Irene enjoyed guiding his movements with one hand on his tummy just against his stiffening shaft, and her other hand on his cute bottom. She noted how compliant the boy was to her touch, and how nicely his growing penis and heavy testes hung downward now, so easy to touch and control.
She put the little pillows under his knees for added comfort, and made sure he spread his thighs a little wider, to increase his complete vulnerability and surrender to her will. Just right, she thought, as she made a big show of positioning the large sample cup beneath the swelling pink head of his penis.
"My, my, Craig," she said in a soft warm voice, "It looks like your penis is getting nice and stiff for your Aunt Irene. Are you feeling ready for your milking?" He nodded almost imperceptibly, because he was so embarrassed that he couldn't hide his arousal. That was another thing Irene thought was so nice about male genital anatomy – it was completely honest – they couldn't hide their arousal, and they couldn't fake an orgasm. It was so enchanting to watch a boy become stiff and erect, and then to watch his sweet boy-juice spurt as moans and writhes...
"I need you to answer my questions with real words, honey," she said, as she made sure he could see her pouring baby oil into her hands and rubbing them together. She began to ever-so-lightly apply the baby oil to his scrotum, being very careful to tease the boy with maximum effect.
He stuttered, "Oh!" when he felt her hands begin to massage his testes.
"Answer my question, dear, do you feel ready for your milking now?"
"Yes, Ma'am," he whispered, as a little shudder went through his body.
"Good boy," said Irene as she began to apply the oil to the shaft of his stiff penis. "You need to communicate and let me know how you're doing with your milkings, dear. You should always tell me when you feel ready. And sometimes, when it's not milking time, if you feel you need a testicle massage, like this, you only have to ask and I'm sure I or someone else would be willing to help you." She smiled in satisfaction as she watched the boy's body tense and squirm a bit as she fondled his big testes. She took her time because she wanted Marg to arrive long before the excited boy would be allowed to spurt...
Irene decided to start very slowly, and invest some quality time to 'imprint' the boy with all the different words and phrases she had been rehearsing in her mind since she had read the instructional email.
"Ok, Craig, I'm going to start milking your penis soon, so I'll need you to remain calm and relaxed, breathe deeply, and stay very still for me. That's my good boy. Aunty is going to give you nice slow strokes down your penis to help get you nicely stretched out, and after a while, we'll have some nice big spurts and get a full flow of semen into the sample cup. Does that sound nice, dear?"
"Yesss..." he whispered, "...Ma'am... Uhhhhh.... Ohhh..."
Irene took a gentle grip at the base of his shaft, and worked her oily hand slowly downward, all the way over the head of his penis just as her other hand began to repeat the 'milking' action. "Can you feel Auntie's hands beginning to milk your penis, Craig?"
"Oooh... Yessss.... Ooooh..." he gasped.
"That's it, good boy," she said to encourage him, "It's good for you to make lots of sounds and noises to express how you are feeling during your milking time. And it is especially good for you to use words to express yourself. I know, why don't we practice a few phrases together? Would you like to do that with me?"
She stopped all hand movement and waited for his response. Immediately, he rasped, "Yes, Ma'am."
She resumed the slow stroking and said, "Repeat after me, dear; 'oh, thank you Aunty Irene for milking my penis'. Can you say that for me?" She counted to three and then stopped her hand movements.
This got the boy's attention, and he quietly whispered, "Thank you Aunty Irene for milking my penis." His face and neck were again flushed a deep red. He was so embarrassed for saying such a thing out loud, but then he relaxed a little as Irene resumed her hand-over-hand motions on his now very stiff and throbbing penis.
She marveled at the size of the boy. He truly had a magnificent penis, so much bigger than she had ever seen before. She loved how big and stiff it felt in her small hands – she could not touch her fingertips together when her hand was around the delightful girth of his erect shaft. "Good boy," she said.
She continued to slowly stroke him as she began to talk – to imprint his vulnerable mind – with the 'right' kind of words to impress upon him his need to surrender control and let his submissive nature come forth.
"Aunty Irene is rubbing her boy's penis... Aunty is going to help her boy make a nice big cum in the sample jar... Auntie's boy needs to make nice big-boy spurts, don't you dear?"
He whispered "Yes".
"My good boy is naked up on my milking table with his thighs nice and wide and his penis and testicles nicely displayed so Aunty can milk him... Such a good boy to be so cooperative with his milking time... And you like being milked, don't you Craig?"
She waited a moment, and then stopped her hand movements. Immediately the boy whispered, "Yes, Ma'am." Irene smiled in triumph.
"Does Auntie's good boy like being naked for Aunty? Does my good boy want to make Aunty proud with nice big-boy spurts? Does my good boy like how it feels when Aunty milks his penis?"
To all these things, they boy responded, "Yessss..." to Irene's great delight.
Just then, the doorbell rang, and Irene suppressed a grin as she completed the strokes already started and then took her hands from the boy's penis. He actually pouted!
"Oh, I wonder who that could be?" said Irene, "You just wait right here, honey, and I'll go see who it is. Don't you move at all. Do you understand me?"
The boy shuddered but said, "Yes, Aunt Irene."
"Good boy," she winked, and walked a few steps to the front door.
Craig could hear her conversation at the door. There was another woman's voice. He heard his Aunt say, "Well, I suppose it would be alright for you to come in and help me. It's such a chore to milk a young boy like this because it can take a very long time."
He looked and saw Irene returning, followed by her friend Marg whom he had met before. Marge's eyes were big as saucers, drinking in the view of the naked and vulnerable boy on hands and knees with his thighs spread and his enormous genitals in clear view. He was embarrassed anew, and hid his face so he wouldn't have to look Marg in the eye. He struggled with the desire to jump from the table and run away, but another part of him just surrendered to the situation and decided that since she'd already seen him, there was no point.
"Hi Craig," said Marg happily, "I see you're in the middle of having your milking session with your Aunt Irene. Do you mind if I join you?"
Craig couldn't do anything else, so he said, "Um... I guess... if Aunt Irene's ok with it..." and hung his head in defeat. He knew the woman was looking at his erect penis, so fully displayed between his thighs, and he had never felt more naked and vulnerable.
Aunt Irene took up her position again, put more oil on her hands, and began to the slow downward strokes that felt so good but weren't enough to make him spurt. She smiled and winked at Marg, and began to fill her in, mainly for the boy's benefit.
"Well, Marg," Irene began, "I have received a milking schedule from the doctor for Craig. He will need to be milked like this several times a day, according to the strict time schedule, so that we get all of his semen out and keep his juices flowing. This motion I am doing right now is designed to help stretch his penis out nice and long, and eventually we'll have him spurt for us. Why don't you put some oil on your hands and get ready to take a turn? That would help me not to get too tired. In the meantime, you can massage his testicles while I continue the milking strokes on his penis."
"That sounds marvelous," said Marg happily. The leaned over to whisper in the young boy's ear, "Would you be alright if I massage your testes, dear? Do you think that would help you to have a good milking?"
He grimaced with embarrassment, but whispered, "Yes, Ma'am."
"Ah, that's so nice. Your Aunt Irene said you were a very good boy, and I can see that." Marg quickly oiled her hands and took up position directly behind the boy, marveling at how big and full his testicles looked. She licked her lips and took a testicle in each hand, gently massaging them and enjoying the feel of his velvet pouch and fully firm testes.
Craig moaned softly and his hips wiggled involuntarily at the increase in sensations between his legs. He couldn't believe that he was having his first milking at home with now two women attending to the health of his genitals. He had to admit that he was becoming ever more aroused, not simply from the stimulation, but because of his completely vulnerable predicament, and the way the women were treating him. It was as though they felt that milking him of his semen was a completely normal and natural thing to do. And he was beginning to hope it was...
Irene carried on with the 'imprinting' portion of the milking program. "Craig's penis is very stiff now, Marg; you should slip your hand beneath him and have a good feel of it." Marg did so, and allowed as how his penis was very nicely erect and suitable for a proper milking. "Yes," said Irene, "His genitals are very suitable for milking, and that's what the doctor has ordered."
The two women smiled at each other over the bottom of their charge, and mouthed things like "wow" and "so big" to each other silently. Irene had Marg trade places with her and the close friend began to give Craig the downward slow strokes. Irene coached her friend a little, helping her to get the technique mastered. Marg had to keep reminding herself not to go too fast lest she shorten the session overmuch.
Irene took up the task of massaging the boy's testes, enjoying the feel of them in her hands very much. She said, "You know, Marg, now that you're having your first practice at milking Craig, I was thinking..."
"Yes?" said Marg.
"Well, since Craig needs regular milkings many times per day, I was hoping to engage the help of several of my friends to sort of 'share the burden'. Would you be interested in milking Craig for me from time to time?"
"Oh, certainly," Marg said, "I'd be happy to help in any way I can. I want Craig to be a very healthy and properly developed boy too."
"That's very nice of you, dear," said Irene, "So can I put you down for the afternoon milking? If you're home, I can just send Craig over to you and you can milk his penis as you're doing now. You'll just have to measure his semen properly and let me know so I can record his output in the schedule."
"Oh, that will be no problem, I'm sure Craig will give me nice big spurts, won't you Craig?"
The boy had been moaning throughout the women's conversation, becoming a bit overwhelmed by the sensations and the devastating embarrassment of their chat. He nodded, and moaned more.
"Good boy," said Irene, "I think it would now be a good time to speed up just a bit, so that we can bring my good boy's semen spurting out."
"Ok," said Marg, as she doubled the speed of her strokes, quickly eliciting new moans and wiggles from the aroused boy. "He has such a fine penis; I'm looking forward to watching him spurt."
"Me too," said Irene, gauging the boy's heightening arousal and smiling at the tell-tale sign of his testes pulling up to his body. "He's going to spurt for us, Marg. Be sure to keep his penis aimed right in the center of the sample container."
Marg nodded, lost in her concentration on the boy's big penis, and ready to see his semen start spurting out. In a matter of moments, the boy's body tensed and he gasped, "Ahhhhh!!!... Ooooh...."
Irene immediately began talking him through his ejaculation to imprint him thoroughly. "Yes, good boy, make a big spurt for us... ah! Well done! Good spurts! Yes, keep spurting dear boy, that's right, spurt it all out for us... Yes, yes, that's it! Oh, such a good boy making such good spurts! That's good, just another spurt honey, yes, nice, and another, just a little more, one more big push, that's my good boy, yes, very nice, very nice!"
After his last spurt, the boy wobbled and Irene gently supported him to keep him from falling over. She caressed his back and bottom, and gently rolled the palm of her hand on his testes, as she instructed Marg to 'milk' his shaft firmly, but to leave his sensitive glans alone. Both women were pleased to see the additional pearly drops of semen form at the tip of his penis and drop into the sample cup.
Irene looked at how much the boy had produced and was proud of him and herself that he had had such a thorough milking. She decided that he would benefit greatly from many of her friends' help with his milking, and Marg was chief among them.
After Marg had expressed what appeared to be the last available drop from the exhausted boy, Irene took the sample cup and set it on a nearby counter. Returning to the boy, she helped him to lie down on his back and rest. The two women stood together and looked at the spent boy, so cherubic in his automatic sleepiness, with his eyes closed and his chest rising and falling with deep even breaths.


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The 26 Olive Grove Rooms reflect the Tuscan feel of the property removing you from the stock standard hotel room; the wooden queen sized sleigh bed with fluffy duvets and European pillows, 2 comfortable cane chairs and a 2 & half seater lounge (inner spring sofa bed; often used as twin or family rooms) have a warm "guest house feel" and enjoy the afternoon sun.
These larger sized rooms overlook an open grassed area onto the pool, dam and bush land setting through a line of young Olive trees. Often at sunset and sunrise you will get the opportunity to see the kangaroo's grazing at your front door, the horses beyond the trees, the wild ducks and water hens fluttering in the dam...
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2nd Pregnancy and Early Pregnancy Symptoms?
Has anyone on here got pregnant and had earlier symptoms with their 2nd pregnancy. I believe I ovulated and then 5dpo may possibly have been having pregnancy symptoms ever since. I've been cramping off and on also sharp pain near ovaries at random times, nauseated off and on, bloated, constipated, lower back pain, headaches, tender and full feeling breasts,mood swings, change is discharge, and tired. AF is not due until the 28th so i'm waiting until it gets closer to test......
Posted: 05/24/2013 by dy14daze2
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Soooo....Did you end up getting pregnant??? I have the same exact symptoms now, just so full!!!!!! Haven't tested yet want to see what period does...It's to come Christmas!!posted 12/23/2014 by nataliemarie901
I agree and congrats thejandjadventure! I woke up today with severe breast tenderness and tingling (amongst a handful of other symptoms). I tested on the 23rd and got a negative. I'm going to test again closer to the 28th when AF is due....i'm with you I just have a gut feeling!posted 05/25/2013 by dy14daze2
I believe that you are more in tune with the changes in your body and your "mother instinct" after you have already had one child. I don't have any scientific data to back this up, just a personal anecdote. I had a similar feeling this month, very moody a little crampy and extra sensitive sense of smell. I took a test at 7 days PO and it was negative, took another at 9 days PO because I wasn't convinced and it was negative again. I could have sworn I would get a positive because my symptoms were so pronounced. I just took one last one 11 days PO and it was positive!posted 05/25/2013 by thejandjadventure
Thanks blshepard1 and congrats to you.....See I would think it was upcoming AF symptoms if they would have just started but they have been going on since the 15th.....posted 05/24/2013 by dy14daze2
Once you have a baby you are more aware of the signs of pregnancy. You could be, but it could also just be your up coming period. (The symptoms are too close to tell).... I know with this pregnancy (my 3rd and I am 7wks) I had NO idea.... None... It was a weird circumstance any way, but thinking back now I did have all of the symptoms weeks before I actually found out. In fact, my family was asking me if I was pregnant when I would have been about 3-4wks and I laughed it off..... 4 wks later- Find out I AM, haha good luck!posted 05/24/2013 by blshepard1
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The Thameslink Project, within the scope of which Hering staff constructed modula® railway platforms for the Elstree & Borehamwood station in spring 2011, once again led us to Great Britain, to the town of Bedford (around 50 km to the north of London) in August. Our assignment here on behalf of Network Rail (main contractor: Carillion, sub-contractor: Aspin) was to respectively extend an island platform and a side-boarding platform by 30m each. Due to the fact that lines were only closed down for very limited times, a special foundation system, which was developed together with the Aspin company, was used here.
The prefabricated support whalers were laid on previously driven in profiles made of tubular steel. The pile driving operations and also a large part of the prefabricated part mounting were preformed with the aid of road rail excavators provided by the Aspin Group. A device manufactured by Colmar with an extendable counterweight and a lifting force of up to 9 tonnes was particularly impressive. The mounting of both railway platform extensions, including jointing, was performed by the Hering crew in two shifts over just one weekend. The remaining work to be performed on the railings and gutter covers was performed on another weekend.


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With "2 Days in New York," Julie Deply's hilarious and romantic follow up to her wry comedy "2 Days in Paris," opening in select theaters today (it's also currently available on VOD), we've decided to share with you 10 of our favorite romantic comedies (though some of our choices are questionably classified as such) set on the island of Manhattan. This list is by no means definitive, so we invite you to share some of your picks below.
"Annie Hall"
"Annie Hall," the romantic comedy that proved Woody Allen was an auteur of the highest order and did the unthinkable by beating "Star Wars" for the Best Picture Oscar in 1997, still holds up to this day as arguably Allen's best and most widely accessible film to date. Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Oscar for playing the titular role, a nutty yet totally loveable lounge singer with a fear of initimate relations (she needs to smoke up before sex in order to relax) and the hots for Alvy (Allen), a Jewish comic armed with a earful of self depricating wit. Prior to "Annie Hall," Allen had established himself as one of the country's most promising funnymen thanks to "Bananas" and "Sleeper." "Annie Hall" was the one to prove he could balance drama with the laughs, the perfect combination for any classic romantic comedy.
"The Apartment"
Old is gold in "The Apartment," Billy Wilder's black and white classic that pairs two of Hollywood's most iconic stars, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, for a romantic dramedy that still packs a bite despite being over 50 years old. Lemmon's character, C.C Baxter, to achieve ascension in the corporate world, lets four company managers use his Upper West Side apartment for their marital affairs, which isn't as simple an arrangement as it seems. At the same time, he nurses a love for the elevator operator, played by none other than a wry and wonderful MacLaine. Also starring Fred MacMurray, the film was nominated for ten Oscars at the 33rd annual Academy Awards and won five of them including Best Pictures and Best Director.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
No one captures the wealth, glitz and glam of New York's Upper East Side than Audrey Hepburn in her critically acclaimed role as socialite Holly Golighty in the 1961 rom-com classic, "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Directed by Blake Edwards, this film is largely responsible for making an icon out of Hepburn (it also earned her with an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress). Based on Truman Capote's novel, the comedy follows a socialite's race to the top and all the men who come under her charming ways (these include an ex-mobster, a South American millionaire and her real love -- a struggling writer and neighbor played by George Peppard).


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Taking pride in purity
Africa | Uganda's pro-abstinence campaigners launch a World AIDS Day campaign all their own
KAMPALA- It's Thursday afternoon and early-season rains have come. Students at London College should be indoors and in class but instead several thousand are outside filling the campus with chants and cheers, dancing to a live performance by reggae gospel artist Papa San.
Astounding Westerners committed to condom distribution, the students have come to celebrate abstinence before marriage and faithfulness within marriage-a part of Uganda's AIDS treatment success more often up for ridicule than for applause and break-dancing. It's rarely the sort of cause to draw a weekday crowd-but as speakers step to the microphone and the band plays on, even principal K.L.S. Mukiibi at one point joins in the dancing, crying "Abstinence Now!"
Participation by the principal of one of Uganda's largest and most prestigious secondary schools was "a miracle" for organizer Martin Ssempa, a Kampala pastor who heads Uganda's Global Alliance for Prevention, or GAP. Two years ago at London College (actually a high school), students attended what they thought was an abstinence rally only to be shown skits featuring a cartoon character named Kikosi. Kikosi was a condom. And the event-sponsored by U.S. condom supplier Population Services International (PSI) and funded by the U.S. government-had little to do with teaching teenagers to abstain from sex and more to do with teaching so-called safe sex ("Abstaining from abstinence," April 30, 2005).
Students who competed to win a prize at the event were awarded a T-shirt that read, "Protect the Condom." Some students complained. Ssempa, whose focus is promoting sexual purity as a way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among students, realized PSI had taken "a warmed-over condom character and rebaptized it as an abstinence program just because the funding was available."
The strategy was classic during the first round of funding under President George Bush's emergency plan to prevent AIDS, a plan that has boosted by 67 percent U.S. aid to Africa on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. This year a stipulation that one-third of spending on prevention go to abstinence-until-marriage programs becomes law. PSI and other lead public-health providers in Uganda, in a gold-rush frenzy for the new money, retooled their images to win abstinence grants, yet declined to work with or subcontract to groups in Uganda already doing abstinence-based education.
Along with the students, Ssempa complained, too, and finally was heard last year by key U.S. lawmakers. He wound up testifying before Congress on abuses he witnessed in what he believes is a condom makers' racket. "Western manufacturers are the ones making money off condoms; Ugandans don't make money promoting condoms," he said.
As one result, PSI is no longer fronting abstinence programs in Kampala, and GAP within the last year secured $40,000 in U.S. abstinence-education money. That's a small sum compared to the $12 million PSI received in the first round of funding, but it's enough for Ssempa to publish a newspaper promoting abstinence. He distributes the paper on Kampala's high-school and university campuses. And at this year's London College event, rally-goers received T-shirts saying, "Abstinence Pride." The slogan is part of a new strategy to fight what Ssempa calls the "abstinence stigma" Ugandans face from the West. Abstinence workers have played defense too long, he says, and it's time to run offense.
"Abstinence stigma is a condescending attitude on the part of some, largely Western media and Western activists who come in and have told us abstinence doesn't work. They ridicule abstinence education and being-faithful programs. They ridicule virgins. They paint a picture of those who abstain as backward, religious fanatics, and this is creating such a hostile culture that if you are a young person who has been abstaining, some of your friends begin to discriminate and isolate you," Ssempa told WORLD. "But we know it's worked for us."
With placards saying "Stop AIDS . . . fight abstinence stigma!" GAP launched a 30-day campaign late last month to culminate on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. Thousands attended a kick-off march downtown, supported by private donors and keynoted with a four-day concert tour by Papa San-whose popularity on the "world music" scene is well established in Africa and the Caribbean.
At the closing concert, held at an outdoor stadium on Kampala's largest campus, Makarere University, Papa San drew 30,000 on Oct. 29. For over three hours, the performer laced jam sessions with his testimony, along with remarks from Manhattan pastor Tom Mahairas, who directs the New York-based urban youth ministry CitiVision and is a former drug user.
When Papa San became a Christian six years ago, he too dropped the sex-and-drugs culture but kept his reggae roots, writing lyrics to reflect his new faith and recording alongside gospel artists Kirk Franklin and Cece Winans. He told WORLD he performed in Kampala nine years ago and dreamed of returning to the capital with new music and a new message, but never dreamed of the response. Recent Ministry of Health figures indicate that 60 percent of Ugandans ages 15-24 have not had sex-a figure backed by the popularity of Papa San at Makarere and the unpopularity of Kikosi. U.S. AIDS activist Billy Schneider said, "One day Uganda might give back to Americans what we are trying to give to you. America is not abstaining." Schneider, a former heroin addict who has lived with AIDS for nearly 25 years and as a Christian for over 20, was in Africa for the first time to speak on God, AIDS, and abstinence.
Ssempa's own involvement with the cause is both personal and public-minded. In 1987 near the beginning of Africa's AIDS epidemic, Ssempa's niece Mary died of the disease. By 1994 he had lost his sister Florence and brother Fred to AIDS. "They left me orphans to take care of, and I loved them very deeply," he said.
The deaths brought on a spiritual crisis for Ssempa, himself promiscuous, he says, with one child out of wedlock already and "on my way to death." Then he met a young woman who was "into abstinence." He agreed to attend a small-group meeting with her. "These were intelligent, good-looking people going to the best schools in the country. I thought they'd be old women. They actually loved God and they were abstaining. That shocked me. I kept going back and I got convicted about my clubbing lifestyle and my promiscuity. I thought I was going to die. These people had purpose in life. Then I made a commitment to Christ."
Ssempa, convicted about the need for spiritual and behavioral change to combat AIDS, joined church groups that performed dramas about AIDS, efforts eventually combined under the nationwide campaign of first lady Janet Museveni. That was before anyone coined the term "ABC," which has come to stand for Uganda's approach to AIDS-Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms. It was also before Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate fell from over 30 percent to about 7 percent.
The campaign was very straightforward then, according to Ssempa: "The culture was saying, 'What's the problem?' The problem was promiscuity. 'What's the solution?' Stop it. 'Single?' Abstain. 'Married?' Be faithful. It wasn't 'ABC'; it was just that." When outside groups began introducing campaigns that featured condoms, "it was a very quiet thing. Now people like to say that condoms were a major feature of our strategy. Those are the people reinventing history."
Ssempa isn't afraid to do battle with groups who oppose his strategy: Human Rights Watch, Family Planning Association of Uganda, UNFPA, and others. And they return the favor. Human Rights Watch devoted a full section to Ssempa and "his charismatic brand of fundamentalist Christianity" in a March 2005 report titled, "The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda."
With World AIDS Day and Ssempa's own AIDS advocacy nearing the 20-year mark, he is encouraged by "the beginning of a balance" between behavior intervention and condom intervention. "From the 1980s to early '90s we were using local resources to fight HIV/AIDS, then money comes in the mid-'90s with an agenda, an agenda heavily leaning towards condoms. So while most of the population was supportive of abstinence, there was a great shift in applications." With the Bush administration's emergency plan and its new money, he said, "you begin to see a change. But it's a bitter war."


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Manuel a hurricane after deadly Mexico flooding
ACAPULCO, Mexico The toll from devastating twin storms climbed to 80 on Wednesday as isolated areas reported deaths and damage to the outside world. Mexican officials said another 58 people were missing in a massive landslide in the mountains north of Acapulco.
The storm that devastated the Pacific resort over the weekend regained strength Wednesday and became Hurricane Manuel, taking a route that could see it make landfall on Mexico's northwestern coast. It would be a third blow to a country still reeling from the one-two punch of Manuel's first landfall and Hurricane Ingrid on Mexico's eastern coast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Manuel was hugging Mexico's coast late Wednesday and was about 5 miles from the village of Altata. It called Manuel a small hurricane that is expected to produce between 5 and 10 inches of rain over the state of Sinaloa.
Sinaloa state civil protection authorities said some areas were already flooding in the towns of Escuinapa, El Rosario and Mazatlan. At least 60 families were evacuated from the village of Yameto, authorities said. The affected area is mainly small fishing villages.
Outside Acapulco, federal authorities reached the mountain village of La Pintada by helicopter and evacuated 334 people, many of whom are hurt, one seriously, said Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong,
Osorio Chong said at least 58 people are missing in the coffee-growing village where many homes were buried by a landslide, adding that there is a risk of more landslides. Officials have not yet seen any bodies, he said, despite reports from people in the area that at least 15 people had been killed.
He said the landslide went right through the middle of the village.
"Several two-floor houses and the church were completely buried," Osorio Chong said.
Mayor Ediberto Tabares of the township of Atoyac told Milenio television late Wednesday that 15 bodies had been recovered in the village. Tabares told the same television station earlier in the day that 18 bodies had been found.
Atoyac, a largely rural township about 42 miles (70 kilometers) west of Acapulco, is accessible only by a highway broken multiple times by landslides and flooding.
Ricardo de la Cruz, a spokesman for the federal Department of Civil Protection, said the death toll had risen to 80 from 60 earlier in the day, although he did not provide details of the reports that drove it up.
In Acapulco, three days of Biblical rain and leaden skies evaporated into broiling late-summer sunshine that roasted thousands of furious tourists trying vainly to escape the city, and hundreds of thousands of residents returning to homes devastated by reeking tides of brown floodwater.
The depth of the destruction wreaked by Manuel, which first hit Mexico Sunday as a tropical storm, was highlighted when the transportation secretary said it would be Friday at the earliest before authorities cleared the parallel highways that connect this bayside resort to Mexico City and the rest of the world.
Hundreds of residents of Acapulco's poor outlying areas slogged through waist-high water to pound on the closed shutters of a looted Costco, desperate for food, drinking water and other basics.
Many paused and fished in the murky waters for anything of value piling waterlogged clothing and empty aluminum cans into plastic bags.
"If we can't work, we have to come and get something to eat," said 60-year-old fisherman Anastasio Barrera, as he stood with his wife outside the store.
Forecasters said Manuel had top sustained winds of 75 mph (115 kph). A hurricane warning is in effect from La Cruz to Topolobampo in Sinaloa.


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I see the SHANU show is taking a break next year i wonder if it is todo with publicity
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Nick Dargene is in his fourth season as volunteer assistant coach with the Hawkeyes.
Dargene played collegiate tennis for Monmouth University in the NEC conference. He played at the No. 2 and 3 singles positions and the No. 1 and 2 doubles spots. His team awarded him the Most Improved Athlete Award his sophomore year. Dargene was also honored as NEC Athlete of the Week during his sophomore season.
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The Universal chief and CAA co-founder will address aspiring actors, directors and writers from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television on June 15
Ron Meyer, Universal Studios President and COO, will deliver the 2012 commencement speech for UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, the school announced on Wednesday.
Meyer, co-founder and former president of CAA, will address the graduates, faculty, family and friends June 15 on the UCLA campus.
"Ron is a leader of extraordinary skill and vision," dean Teri Schwartz said in a statement. "His industry insights, experiences and values should be of enormous inspiration to our graduating students. He is one of the most respected and distinguished executives in the entertainment industry and we feel so fortunate that he will be with us on this very special day."
This year's ceremony is dedicated to the school's founding dean, legendary director and producer Gil Cates, who died last year.
Also being honored are Penelope Spheeris, a director and screenwriter, and Shirley Jo Finney, a director and actress. They will receive the Distinguished Alumni Awards. Spheeris' directing credits include "Wayne's World" and "The Little Rascals." She also wrote for "Rosanne."
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Spotted Sand Bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus
The Spotted Sand Bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, whose common Spanish name is cabrilla de roca and whose local name is pinto and/or cabrilla, is a species in the family Serranidae, the Sea Basses, known as serranos in Mexico. Globally, there are only nine species in the genus Paralabrax, of which five are found in Mexican waters, all in the Pacific.
The Spotted Sand Basses have moderately elongated bodies and are characterized by an overall white appearance. They are covered with numerous orange, black, and brown spots that coalesce to form dark vertical lines along the rear of their belly. They have a dark line that runs from their eye to their gill cover and six or seven faint dark lines on their sides. Their anal, caudal, and soft dorsal fins are densely spotted. A key to identification is the third dorsal spine, which is very elongated and three times longer than the second dorsal spine. They have pointed heads with large mouths.
The Spotted Sand Basses are found in sand adjacent to rocky structures at depths up to 300 feet; this depth was established by a fish that we caught. They reach a maximum length of 46 cm (18 inches) and weigh up to 2.2 kg (5 pounds). They are a eurythermal species and are therefore able to tolerate water temperatures in excess of 90oF (32oC) and as low as 45oF (7.5oC). They feed on small fish during the day and are a significant predator of reef fish. In Mexican waters they are found along the Pacific side of the Baja, throughout the Sea of Cortez, and along the coast of the mainland south to Guatemala.
The Spotted Sand Bass is similar to and can be confused with the Barred Sand Bass, Paralabrax nebulifer (dark blotches on upper two-thirds of body and tail base; third dorsal spine two and a half times longer than second spine); the Goldspotted Sand Bass, Paralabrax auroguttatus (dense orange spots covering head, body, and fins; third dorsal spine three times longer than second spine); the Kelp Bass, Paralabrax clathratus (yellow spots covering forehead; third and fourth dorsal spines of equal length); and the Parrot Sand Bass, Paralabrax loro (orange spots and lines covering head; seven dark bars on the sides; third dorsal spine three times longer than second spine).
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I would love to have the social zimlet working for facebook integration too. I followed the steps to add the api, and facebook said 'success' but the account never appears in my list of accounts. Its a great idea, and I can really see it taking off, and as far as zimlets go, has the potential to become a really important part of users day to day interaction with zimbra (given the habit forming nature of twitter and facebook!).
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Electronic Case Filing (ECF) is the case management used in the Federal Judiciary for all United States District Courts throughout the country. ECF provides a new, easy-to-use, on-line electronic case filing feature, which will allow you to file and view court documents over the Internet. ECF was developed to enhance the accuracy, management and security of records, reduce delays in the flow of information and achieve costs savings for the judiciary, the bar and litigants.
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The rapid solution of surface interpolation and other regularization problems on massively parallel architectures is an important problem within computer vision. Fast relaxation algorithms can be used to integrate sparse data, resolve ambiguities in optic flow fields, and guide stereo matching algorithms. In the present paper, an alternative to multigrid relaxation which is much easier to implement is presented. This approach uses conjugate-gradient descent in conjunction with a hierarchical (multiresolution) set of basis functions. The resulting algorithm uses a pyramid to smooth the residual vector before the new direction is computed. Simulation results show the speed and its dependence on the choice of interpolator, the number of smoothing levels, and other factors. Also discussed is relationship of this approach to other multiresolution relaxation and representation schemes.
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Herculez Gomez's career took a brief stop in Seattle in the summer of 2003 before he became star for the U.S. national team and Mexico's Santos Laguna.
Life, these days, is pretty good for Santos Laguna forward Herculez Gomez.
World Cups. Scoring titles. Nearly 70,000 followers on Twitter.
Stardom, however, came late for the 31-year-old Mexican-American, and his torturous career across North America even included a brief stop in Seattle in the summer of 2003.
Ten years later, Gomez was able to reflect on that short stay here that began when he was loaned to the lower-league Sounders by the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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He did so after a successful return to the area with Santos on Tuesday, when he scored the lone goal in the first leg of a CONCACAF Champions League semifinal against Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field.
"It was probably one of the best summers that I have ever had," Gomez recalled. "It was like 50 straight days of sunshine, plus-70-degree weather — which is unheard of in Seattle — so I had a blast.
"I was proud to be a Seattle Sounder."
Sentimentality, though, doesn't mean Gomez has taken it easy against the Sounders; quite the opposite.
The U.S. national-team member has dominated Seattle with four goals in three CCL games the past two years, including three in a 7-3 aggregate win in the 2011-12 quarterfinals. He has nine goals in nine games overall against MLS teams.
"He seems to do well every time he comes here," said defender Zach Scott, Gomez's teammate during the 2003 loan. "It's great to see it come kind of full cycle. He's one of those guys who has worked really hard in his career, some ups and downs, and finally it looks like all ups for him."
Other Sounders have tracked Gomez' progress from afar over the past decade, too, as he hopped around MLS before igniting a late-blooming career in Mexico, where he tied for the league lead in scoring with 10 goals in 2010.
Sounders FC's Marcus Hahnemann came to know Gomez through the U.S. national team.
"I always thought he was a super-nice guy," Hahnemann said. "When I remember him coming in, you think: 'Oh, what a great kid. He's going to do really well.' … It's one of those things where you especially want the U.S. guys to do well when they go all over the place — though maybe not so much against us."
Gomez also has history with Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid, who managed him with the Galaxy, and assistant Brian Schmetzer, who was in charge of the 2003 Sounders.
The relationship with Schmid ended sourly, though Schmetzer said: "We all liked Herculez. He was a good guy, never caused us any problems."
Where Gomez has recently ruffled some feathers in the Sounders community is on Twitter, where he likes to think of himself as an "entertainer." Troll or pest, even in a good-natured manner, might be a more appropriate description.
Last month, he "congratulated" Seattle on the one-year anniversary of a CCL road game at Santos Laguna — an embarrassing 6-1 loss.
Another tweet read: "Just caught up on the Bachelor, can't believe Catherine won! Seattle has finally won something besides the #USOpenCup .. #Felicidades."
Gomez vowed the jesting would stop if he got a fancy all-down pillow from Pacific Coast Feather, a company owned by the family of Sounders FC co-owner and general manager Adrian Hanauer.
The pillow arrived a couple weeks later — a response that left even a jokester like Gomez laughing — but the banter has continued, naturally.
Even still, Gomez said the reaction he got from Sounders supporters Tuesday was positive: "Fans were pretty appreciative, and I think they know that when the 90 minutes were over, I became a national-team player again. They let me know how they felt, and that was pretty special."
• Midfielder Brad Evans aggravated a calf injury in last week's game and could miss Tuesday's second leg of the CCL semifinals. Johnson (hamstring) traveled to Mexico, but his role is yet to be determined.
• Forward Obafemi Martins, who left the team to seek treatment for a knee injury, is expected to return in the next few days, but it is uncertain if he'll be available for Saturday's MLS game against New England.
• Danish forward/midfielder Philip Lund has received his P-1 visa and has been added to the active roster.
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PMEA District 9 Band occupies Montrose
The PMEA District 9 Band Festival was held on Friday at the Montrose Area High School Auditorium, with student performers from 35 public, private and college preparatory
District 9 includes schools in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming Counties. There are 12 PMEA districts and six regions.
To earn a spot in the district band, tenth grade through twelfth grade students
auditioned for a seat in the competitive band several months ahead of time, and upon arriving at Montrose auditioned again for their seat rank at Friday's concert, as well as an opportunity to move on to the Regional Band Festival which will be held in March.
The host director was Suzanne Bennici of Montrose Area School District.
In her message, Bennici said, "Over the last few days, our school has been filled with talented and enthusiastic musicians…an experience like this is possible through the cooperation and support of many people. I would like to thank everyone who in any way helped to make this event a success."
She noted, "After the music of today's concert has faded, please remember the hard work and dedication that these students put forth to reach this level. Continue to support these and all children's pursuit of a well rounded education that includes music."
The concert began with the National Anthem and then the traditional concert march, "Salute to PMEA" by A.D. Davenport.
Guest conductor, Cheryl Boga was welcomed to the stage. Boga is the conductor and director of performance music at the University of Scranton, and founder and musical director of the World Premiere Composition Series there. She is responsible for all of the performing band, choir, orchestra, and string and brass groups at the university.
Boga is particularly noted for her dedication to the performance of new music and to the performance of composer Vaclav Nelhybel's works.
The program featured a moving new composition called "An American Elegy," which incorporates the Alma Mater of Columbine High School, where a tragic school shooting occurred.
The sacred choral piece, "O Magnum Misterium," by Marten Laauridsen, was transcribed for band performance by H. Robert Reynolds.
"The Heart of the Morn" by H. Owen Reed featured soloist Ashley Distad of Montrose on the flute.
The traditional tune "Greensleeves," also known as "What Child is This," was familiar to most audience members, who were appreciative of its expressive melody.
The most difficult piece was "Trittico" by Vaclav Nelhybel. Two movements of Trittico, which Boga described as "apocalyptic and intricate."
"Even before we lost rehearsal time due to weather, I was second guessing myself as to whether two movements of Trittico were more than what this band could handle. Even Wynton Marsalis labeled this among the top 10 most difficult band compositions ever written," Boga said.
However, the students rose to the magnificent, complex task, receiving a standing ovation and call for an encore. Boga had the 10 percussionists come to the front of the stage for special applause, noting that each of them were precise, musical, disciplined, and a host of other positive adjectives, including "fun."
For the encore, Boga chose "Over the Rainbow" from the score of the Wizard of Oz, but first called upon three students, the "jazziest" of their instrument sections, to come forward as soloist: Tony Bennici, cornet 1 of Montrose; David Mirarchi, alto saxophone, of Valley View; and Chris Lewis, tenor saxophone, of Wallenpaupack Area.
The three musicians took turns improvising at the lead while the band played along in accompaniment; the two saxes often playing in tandem, then giving Bennici a solo turn, with a brief session of all three talents playing separate riffs at once.
Students from Susquehanna County schools participating in PMEA District 9 band included:
Blue Ridge: Kyle Rivenburgh, clarinet.
Elk Lake: LaAnna Farnelli, French horn; Allyssa Hewitt, clarinet.
Forest City Regional: Katie O'Neill, flute.
Montrose Area: Ashley Distad, flute; Krista Quinn, clarinet; Ian Norton, baritone saxophone; Tony Bennici and Donnie Arnold, cornet; Samantha Bennici, Jessica Bulkley, Felicia Quinn, French horn; Sean Quinn, Chris Ricci, baritone horn.
Mountain View: Keegan Ficcaro, bassoon.
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I've tried all different settings, and I keep getting that ring around the inside of all my Jupiter images. Anyone have any idea of what could be causing this? This time around it isn't perfectly round which I'm assuming is caused by atmospheric disturbance.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Bharti telecom to immediately hear its appeal against the High Court order yesterday preventing it from providing 3G services in seven circles.
The HC had yesterday on a plea by Reliance Communications lifted a stay which allowed Bharti to operate 3G roaming pacts. The order was to come into effect in three days. This order is expected to hit subscribers in seven circles.