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HOT Topic: How Does a Volcano Become An Island? by Linda Tagliaferro
The world's largest island that is almost entirely made up of active (still capable of erupting) volcanoes is Iceland, a country in the north Atlantic Ocean. Iceland formed millions of years ago from underwater eruptions.
With Iceland's notorious Eyjafjallajokul still spewing a plume of ash all over western Europe, volcanoes are a real, um, hot topic just now. Linda Tagliaferro's newest, How Does A Volcano Become An Island? (Perspectives) (Raintree, 2010), offers an timely, absorbing, and informative look at the role of volcanic activity in the creation of Earth's landforms.
Tagliaferro opens with "What's Inside Earth?" a chapter which covers the basics of geology, including the planet's inner and outer core of molten iron, the mantle, and the crust, of which only a small part constitutes the solid portion of our world. From this basis the author moves to a discussion of the movement of tectonic plates, the consequent earthquakes they may cause, and the rise of earthquakes at certain weak spots in the crust, with special attention to the Ring of Fire, noted dormant and currently active volcanoes, and the development and study of underwater volcanoes by the submersible ROVs, (Remotely Operated Vehicles). The textbook types, shield volcanoes, cinder cone volcanoes, and composite cone volcanoes, are described and their role in constructing islands such as Iceland, Sicily, and the Hawaiian chain are introduced, amplified by full-color photographs on each page.
The author then turns her attention to the development of plant and animal life on volcanic islands over time, as birds drop seeds, coconuts float up on cinder cone beaches, and stowaway plants and animals ride flotsam on ocean currnts until they fortuitously wash up onshore. The Galapagos Islands and their exotic lifeforms, such as the marine iguana, giant tortoises, up to six feet in length and living 100 years or more, lava gulls and waved albatrosses, are given special coverage. Iceland, with its newest volcanic islet, Surtsey, dating back only to 1963, is discussed, with photos of its new inhabitants--seagulls, grasses, and, yes, dandelions. Historic eruptions, such as that of Earth's most memorable modern island volcano, Krakatoa, are also described.
The final chapter, "How Else Do Islands Form?" briefly covers islands produced by the flooding of lowlands, coral atolls, and offshore barrier islands. Appendices include a glossary of the terms introduced in boldface in the text, a bibliography ("Find Out More"), books and a trio of "hot" websites for further research, and a complete index.
With a crisp and highly readable and informative text, plenty of diagrams and color photos which illustrate information as it is presented, and useful backmatter, this latest title in Raintree's wide-ranging Perspectives science series is particularly useful for curriculum support, research, and browsing by students intrigued with the volcano currently in the news.
Labels: Geology, Islands, Nonfiction (Grades 3-6), Volcanoes, World Geography


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Bassist Cris Kirkwood likes to irritate guitarist brother Curt by using a Boss Bass Overdrive pedal in his touring rig. "It sounds like a horsefly stuck in a screen door," Cris says. Photos by Jaime Butler
When did you first learn to play bass, Cris?
Cris Kirkwood: In the early-to-mid '70s. I started with guitar lessons, but all I remember about that is that the guy used to put his hand on my knee and tell me that he really liked me, and that I shouldn't tell anybody. Then I took some piano lessons from an old guy who would doze off in the middle of the lessons. I would sit there really quietly and wait for him to wake up and then I'd play the last few notes of the piece that I'd supposedly practiced, which I hadn't. Neither instrument caught my attention. At that age, all I wanted was a monkey, which I eventually got, and I named him Abner. He eventually wound up on the back patio with his right arm missing, which was one of the great mysteries of my life. When we were reading A Clockwork Orange in English class, we were assigned to go see the film. It was a double feature with Deliverance. The banjo sequence just lit up my little noodle, so I wound up getting a banjo and taking some lessons. That was probably '73. Shortly after that, I decided that bass looked cool. Fingerpicking was kind of like playing banjo, there was one less string, and they were farther apart.
At what age did you become aware that bass was different from a 6-string guitar?
Cris: I understood the difference as a kid because of The Beatles. One of my earliest memories is walking along between my grandmother and my mom, holding their hands, as they were singing "I Want to Hold Your Hand." I just thought basses were neat, so just like I had to have a monkey, I had to have a bass. I decided to learn, went to Arizona Music Center, and rented one for a while. I had my eye on a Music Man, the first year they came out. I just thought they were bitchin' looking. When I went to buy one, the guy grabbed a black Jazz Bass and said, "This'll have more resale value." I thought, "Okay ... whatever the hell that means." I eventually used that on our first 7-inch and our first album. I found puberty to be unsatisfying and high school to be extremely alienating, so I got into some [heavier] rock music.
It took me getting laid to understand what rock and roll and some of these bands like Led Zeppelin were about: love and having sex. My younger self was thinking about bitchin' instruments, a thorough knowledge of them, an applicable technique, and a background in theory, so that you could play whatever your imagination came up with. Then I realized no, that's hard. That's like math. I love Phil Lesh—a guy with a real schooled musical background who actually knows what he's doing. Then the lysergic element adds something too, but he has all of his musical knowledge to bring to it.
I was really into Jaco [Pastorius]. The first time Curt and I ever smoked grass together was before seeing him play with Weather Report. The first time we ever worked with a producer [on Forbidden Places], Pete Anderson said "Let's use an egg shaker on this thing." He actually brought in a studio percussionist and it was Alex Acuña, who was playing drums the night we saw Weather Report! I told him about that night, hoping he'd break forth with the "Oh, let me tell you about Jaco …" stuff, but instead he goes, "Man, that was like 50 years ago! I can't remember five minutes ago."
Another bass player I completely love is Dusty Hill. He's such a different player from Lesh and McCartney. He only stomps on the groove, hits the cool riffs with the guitar player, and then just stomps right back onto the groove. There's no improvisational element involved. I really loved Mike Mills from R.E.M., John Taylor from Duran Duran, and Tina Weymouth. She had a different sense of things and played cool bass lines that had movement.
You started as a hardcore band, but between Meat Puppets and Meat Puppets II there was a radical shift. What happened?
Curt: Just curiosity. I always have the feeling that you should change from record to record. You do one thing and move to something else. With painting, if you use oil paints, watercolors, charcoal, or whatever, the medium is one thing, but the message really shouldn't be the medium. Same with music. I figured that my ideas could be conveyed many different ways. Stylistically, I didn't feel like being bound to anything, so that's why Meat Puppets II turned out the way it did. Punk rock shows were fun, with everybody in the mosh pit, but they'd also spit, and throw crap at you. That influenced me to challenge the audience, and even find who our actual audience was.
Cris: Curt started out writing completely straightforward guitar things. Then, around the time of Meat Puppets II, he just started writing lyrics that were far out, and he blossomed into a songwriter. Then he just kept doing it album after album after album. It's allowed me to make records for years, and be the Meat Puppets and whatnot. It let us keep going. He's just a composer. It's always neat to watch the songs come out of the guy.
Curt Kirkwood has been rocking this 1981 'burst Les Paul '50s reissue (complete with epic cartoon-animal stickers) for about 20 years. Photo by Jamie Butler.
Did you feel like you were part of an emerging desert scene, along with Giant Sand and Sun City Girls?
Curt: I knew those guys, but I was just doing my thing. I went to school for a year at U of A, so I met Howe Gelb, in '78, when he was still with Giant Sandworms, and I knew the Bishop brothers [of Sun City Girls]. I didn't really feel too connected to anybody, though we played with Sun City Girls, Killer Pussy, JFA, and other area bands. I think it was more the point of view of people from other parts saying, "Oh, it's desert stuff." I had never been to New York City, or the East Coast, until '82, when we started touring. I did notice it was different from Phoenix, which was the middle of nowhere.
At some point you started experimenting outside of typical Meat Puppets territory. You used a guitar synth on Mirage, right?
Curt: Yeah, they were new, looked cool, and seemed like fun. So we bought a Roland 700 series guitar synth and used OctaPads for drums, just to see what we could do with them. We even used them a little bit on tour. I didn't use that for the whole guitar sound. I had a Jackson at the time, and I played the Ibanez Roadstar that I used on Up on the Sun.
Cris: There was a period where I got far enough away from the need to pretend like I was, you know, Keith Richards or whatever, and I was actually playing a seriously not-cool looking Steinberger. I was really into that new string sound, and I'd change them nightly back then. These days there's just so much good TV that I have a hard time getting to the music store. I don't even know what brand I use. James Jamerson didn't change his strings, you know? Then again, I guess you don't need to change your strings if you're James fucking Jamerson!
Curt, is it true you retired the Les Paul for a little while? What made
you decide to do that?
Curt: My original Les Paul got stolen, so I got a '72 goldtop, which I still have, then I got the Jackson and the Ibanez. I did Meat Puppets II with the goldtop, and then I did Up on the Sun with the Ibanez. I was into Prince and Duran Duran at that time. I was kind of experimenting.
Due to legal issues, there was a period of several years when the Meat Puppets continued without Cris, but eventually he returned to the band. Did the break introduce a new dynamic?
Curt: Playing with him is like riding a bike. He had to get his chops together a little bit. He'd been playing in prison, but he hadn't done live shows. Playing with new people had been cool, and it gave me some perspective. Even back when Derrick, Cris and I were starting with cover songs we just had a mind meld, and an off-the-cuff way of doing stuff. That element slowly disappeared, though not altogether. There are things you just can't go back to.
Where did you record Rat Farm?
Curt: At Yellow Dog Studios, here in Austin, on South Congress, in the middle of the shopping strip. There are a lot of places to eat. You're not stuck! Dave Percefull, who recorded Rat Farm, started it a few years ago. He had a place in Tulsa, and worked at Abbey Road, basically commuting to London, but he started his own thing. He had the little gizmo that binds Pro Tools to the 24-track, CLASP, and I wanted to check that out. John Plymale mixed it.
Curt Kirkwood's Gear
'81 Gibson Les Paul sunburst ('50s reissue)
50-watt Soldano with 4x10 cabinet, 100-watt Marshall
Boss DS-1 Distortion, Fulltone OCD, Chandler Tube Driver, Dunlop Slash Wah, Morley Echo/Chorus/Vibrato, Maxon Analog Delay, Boss RE-20 Delay
Strings, Picks, and Accessories
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings, Tortex Purple (1.14 mm) and U.S. quarters for picks
Cris: This is how we prepared: I asked Curt, "Hey, do you want to send me some of the songs?" He said, "Nah, it's no big deal." I went down to the airport, got on a plane, and flew to Austin on a Thursday. Friday, I went to Curt's house and he showed me some songs, then Saturday we went into the studio. That probably just meant there would fewer curlicues and noodly bass lines.
As far as recording guitars go, do you have one that you go to most of the time?
Curt: I've had a lot of guitars over the years. I used my '65 Telecaster on almost all of Huevos. Sometimes I'll just use whatever's sitting around in the studio. Too High to Die is mostly my '81 '50s reissue Les Paul sunburst that I use on 90 percent of Rat Farm, too. I played it through a 100-watt Marshall, which has a cool, crunchy sort of sound. It's got [Genalex] Gold Lion tubes in it, which are just awesome.

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More about New sources of growth
The global economy has grown spectacularly over the past 50 years, despite several crises. Average living standards have improved worldwide. The ways we produce and consume have been transformed radically, and more people than ever have access to the basic necessities of life. But if progress is to continue to improve people's lives, several challenges have to be met. We cannot neglect the environmental impacts of wealthier lifestyles. Millions of people are still living in poverty, without enough to eat and without decent housing, healthcare or education. Climate change also compels us to find new sources of growth and cleaner ways of managing existing ones.
We asked a number of OECD experts from different policy backgrounds-economics, science and technology, development, agriculture and energy-to answer this question:
What issues and new means to address them are the most important for continued growth?
New, greener sources of growth?
Giuseppe Nicoletti , Head of the Structural Policies Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department
Tensions between economic growth and the environment are putting strains on key global public goods such as water and the climate. Risks to development are rising as growth continues to draw on and erode the value of natural assets (consumption) at rates in excess of regeneration (saving). Depletion of natural capital is occurring at a more rapid pace in the developing world, but much of the demand which drives this depletion resides in the developed world.
These tensions may undermine the ability to sustain future growth for at least two reasons: substitution of physical capital for natural capital is increasingly costly -- for example, more costly fishing fleets to catch increasingly scarce fish; and change doesn't necessarily follow a smooth, foreseeable trajectory - things can shift suddenly and catastrophically , such as species depletion associated with unsustainable fisheries management.
The world economy will in part react spontaneously to these tensions, through increased prices or changing consumer preferences, for example. But this reaction would take a long time and would be insufficient to avoid the welfare losses associated with environmental degradation, because traditional economic tools, such as clear property rights or pricing mechanisms, are lacking or incomplete for many environmental goods and services such as climate or biodiversity.
In addition, current policy settings are either inadequate to deal with such imperfections or can even accentuate the tensions, especially in developing countries, for instance, through the widespread use of fossil fuel subsidies (an issue which also applies to developed countries, as discussions at the G20 showed). There are also the traditional difficulties of dealing with low-probability and high-impact risks, and in implementing policies whose downsides are immediately apparent, but whose benefits are only seen in the longer term.
However, the growing recognition that we are in a "second best" world provides opportunities for policy reforms which generate both economic and environmental benefits.
More fundamentally, aside from these win-win policies, shifting towards green growth would require measures to mimic or create missing markets, by using the likes of carbon pricing, taxation, setting standards, regulations, and so on. It also means better informing consumers about environmentally friendly options and facilitating innovation that would put the economy on a resource-efficient or low- carbon trajectory, thereby breaking our current dependence on "dirty" demand patterns and technologies. These policies would have a cost, but would increase the welfare of current and future generations.
W e should also harness the growth potential that arises from environmental concerns through environmentally-related innovation, and environmental goods and services industries.
Such a strategy would recognise that the quality of growth is at least as important as how fast we grow. In other words, the objective should be to refocus the growth heuristic to better incorporate things like natural capital, the value of ecosystem services or the costs of environmental damage. This also implies paying more attention to the implications of green growth policies , or the lack of them , for the distribution of income and wealth.
As the OECD has emphasised since the financial meltdown in 2008, the current crisis provides an incentive to change course and overcome some of the barriers to better policy. Governments recognised the need to develop new sources of growth when they adopted the OECD's Strategic Response to the Crisis in 2009. They must do more to make this dynamic happen. Some of the stimulus plans included "green" procurement, for instance. In 2011, as budget deficits are being reined in, instruments such as green taxes and innovation spending must be encouraged. Green growth could set us on a new path, if we recognise that there is no fundamental conflict between sustained growth and the environment, provided the right policies are implemented.
OECD work on green growth
OECD's Strategic Response to the Crisis, 2009
Human ingenuity and the entrepreneurial spirit
Andy Wyckoff, Director, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate
Over half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list began during a recession or bear market. Downturns can breed innovation and entrepreneurship, and spark new and much needed sources of growth. There is, at the same time, heightened risk aversion and a scarcity of finance that limits the capacity of the innovation system to deliver.One of the essential lessons in the OECD Innovation Strategy issued to governments in May 2010 is that countries that harness innovation and entrepreneurship as engines for new sources of growth will be more likely to pull out of and stay out of recession. Governments can help by creating the environment and safeguarding the drivers of innovation, even in difficult times.
In the end, human ingenuity and the entrepreneurial spirit are the essence of innovation. While scientific and technical know-how is essential for advancing knowledge, more is required. Innovation also relies on broad and relevant education that builds entrepreneurial skills, initiative and creativity, and teaches individuals how to work as part of networked teams. Courses need to be adapted to equip students with the capacity to participate in the creation, diffusion and adaptation of innovations, where learning and applying new skills becomes necessary throughout their lives.
Science is vital to innovation, especially to generate "step changes," such as the invention of the transistor or the first vaccine. Fundamental R&D is mostly undertaken and funded by governments, and provides the foundation for future innovation. The Internet, which owes much to public investment, is a case in point. Governments should especially avoid cuts in basic R&D directed at social challenges, such as neglected diseases like malaria or renewable sources of energy. Tackling these can generate a double dividend of economic growth and improved welfare.New and young firms-frequently the offshoots of universities or large established businesses-are increasingly important and tend to be the source of radically new, disruptive innovations that upset existing business models, and boost both productivity and employment. Data from the US shows that firms less than five years old accounted for nearly all increased employment in the private business sector over the last 25 years.
What can governments do to nurture more of these "gazelles"? For a start, policies must do more than simplify administrative procedures for starting a business; they should promote an environment that enables firms to grow. They must provide portability of social benefits, such as pensions and health insurance, to encourage would-be entrepreneurs to take the risk of setting out on their own. Policies must also facilitate access to risk capital, which is all too scarce in the current environment. Securing a solid infrastructure for innovation is also critical: high-speed broadband, for example.Policies to foster innovation will only deliver full results if they take into consideration the wide scope of activities that innovation brings together. Technology is important, but what counts at least as much is how to harness new, and sometimes unintended, knowledge in more productive ways. Kenyan mobile company Safaricom began offering its prepaid customers a service for sharing minutes. Quickly, the sharable minutes became a form of alternative currency as customers began using them to send money to relatives or pay for services, such as taxi rides. Safaricom launched a nationwide banking service that allows Kenyans to send money via SMS without the need for a bank account.Policies that focus only on R&D miss out on such potential. The success of policy relies on enhancing the performance of the system as a whole and ironing out the weak links that can hurt performance.
This global aspect will become even more important in the years ahead, as new global players such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa shift the topography of ideas, and how they are traded and invested. For economies around the world, a good dose of innovation can deliver a double win. It can help drive a sustainable recovery, and deliver progress on social and environmental goals.
The OECD Innovation Strategy
Adapting to a new economic landscape-a window of opportunity for the developing world?
Mario Pezzini , Director, OECD Development Centre
Over the last decade, the global economy has been undergoing some profound changes. The economic centre of gravity has shifted east and south to such an extent that by 2030, according to OECD Development Centre calculations, developing countries will account for nearly 60% of world GDP. India and China have received a lot of attention, but in fact improvement in economic performance has been shared among a large number of developing countries.
Whereas the 1980s and 90s were very much lost decades for most developing countries, registering low, stagnant or even negative growth rates, in the 2000s there was a sharp upturn in their economic performance. Even after the global financial crisis, the prospects for the majority of developing countries are much better than they have been for many decades-underpinned by better macroeconomic management in developing countries and more dynamic south-south trade, investment and co - operation. Although progress in human development has been uneven, there have also been some major unsung successes in terms of, for example, the reduction in infant mortality or the expansion of primary education.
In reality, a new window of opportunity is opening up for global development. At the OECD Development Centre, we are following closely these new dynamics in the global economy, monitoring trends in south-south cooperation and investment, and exploring how policies and development strategy can be adapted to the new global environment in order to harness the ir benefits. For example, there is an increased focus on flows of development finance that go beyond traditional aid-remittances, private flows and domestic resource mobilisation (taxation)-to be leveraged to increase living standards in developing countries.
Despite a positive outlook, the challenges are still numerous. As this new global economy evolves, it is crucial that the poor living in more vulnerable developing countries are not left behind. At the same time, it is important to recognise that less than a quarter of the 1.3 billion people living under $ 1.25 a day live in low income and vulnerable countries-because of improving economic performance, the vast majority now live in middle income countries. This has major implications for policymakers, putting issues such as social protection and redistribution policies at the top of their agenda. The 2011 edition of Perspectives on Global Development will look at the social implications of this new economic landscape. Focusing on social cohesion , it will explore what it is that makes us feel part of a society or keep s us excluded from it , and what the paths to upward social mobility are .
OECD (2010), Perspectives on Global Development 2010: Shifting Wealth, OECD Development Centre
OECD Development Centre
Feeding 9 billion people in 2050
Carmel Cahill, Senior Counsellor, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate
For most of human history, a large majority of the world's population depended on the land to earn a living, yet few people could be sure of always having enough to eat. Now, in the OECD countries hardly anybody is a farmer, yet the main nutritional problem is obesity; we throw away up to a third of the food we buy, and more agricultural crops are used to produce biofuels. The same is starting to happen elsewhere too.
This has only taken a few decades. The main reason is innovation, and not just in farming technology and methods. Farm structures have been transformed, and there are now much fewer, but much bigger farms. Policies have changed as well, to encourage farmers to adopt new ways of working. New markets to trade what farmers produce have emerged, thanks to better communications and transport. Richer consumers have boosted demand.
Unfortunately, some of the old problems have yet to be solved. Almost a billion people are still hungry, and the cost of food is a major worry for many. It's not that food isn't available-agricultural production continues to outstrip population growth-rather that people are too poor to afford it. Even under the most conservative assumptions regarding demographic, socio-economic and environmental trends, the demand for food will expand significantly in the foreseeable future, at the same time as the land available to produce it is placed under greater strain from urbanisation, environmental degradation and other factors such as the demand for biofuels. Climate change presents new challenges, and water supplies in some parts of the world are increasingly under stress.
This doesn't mean the world faces a food shortage any time soon. Trends can be influenced. Farming has always been resourceful and inventive. Science and technology are exploring new solutions to the physical challenges. Changes in policies and practices can encourage a shift towards sustainable means to produce and distribute enough food to satisfy the expanding demand without destroying the planet's resources. If the broader challenge of bringing development to the poorest countries and reducing poverty can be met, food security will follow.
OECD work on agriculture
Will peak oil be a guest or the spectre at the feast?
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
The Copenhagen Accord, increased funding for low-carbon technologies as part of fiscal stimulus packages, and the G-20 and APEC commitments to eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies are important steps forward, but they fall well short of what is needed to meet climate goals. This is one of the many messages that resonate from the 2010 edition of the IEA's World Energy Outlook .
The central scenario in this year's Outlook -the New Policies Scenario-takes account of the policy commitments that have been announced by countries around the world. It sees world primary energy demand rising by 36% between now and 2035. Emerging economies, led by China , responsible for 36% of the increase , and India , 18% of the increase , are responsible for the vast bulk of the growth.
Fossil fuels remain the dominant energy sources in 2035, though their share of the mix decline. Although these projections represent a tangible improvement on past trends, they point to a likely temperature rise of over 3.5°C in the long term, which experts tell us would have unacceptable implications for the planet.
In order to have a reasonable chance of achieving the Copenhagen Accord's goal of limiting the temperature increase to 2°C, the concentration of greenhouse gases needs to be stabilised at no higher than 450 ppm CO 2 -eq. The WEO-2010's 450 Scenario sets out a roadmap for how the energy sector needs to evolve to meet this objective. It assumes vigorous implementation of Copenhagen Accord pledges to 2020 and much stronger action thereafter.
The measures that would need to be adopted-including improving vehicle efficiency, increasing deployment of electric vehicles and expanding the use of biofuels-would have important repercussions on the oil market. For example, oil production peaks at 86 mb/d just before 2020 in the 450 Scenario, as a result of weaker demand, falling briskly thereafter. Oil prices are lower than would otherwise be the case. Nonetheless, the main oil resource holders continue to benefit from growing oil exports and increasing oil-export revenues, as oil production in most non-OPEC regions is set to decline.
The message is clear: if governments act more vigorously than currently planned to encourage more efficient use of oil and the development of alternatives, then the growth in oil demand might begin to slow down soon and, as a result, we might see a fairly early peak in oil production. That peak would not be caused by resource constraints. But if governments do nothing, or little more than at present, then demand will continue to increase, supply costs will rise, the economic burden of oil use will grow, and the global environment will suffer serious damage.
International Energy Agency: www.iea.org
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Nov. 11, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT men's soccer team received six postseason selections as announced by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) on Tuesday. The total was the highest for the Engineers since 2003 when they recorded eight awards.
Forward Zachary Kabelac was tabbed for Rookie of the Year honors, becoming the Cardinal and Gray's fourth recipient. He currently ranks second on the squad in scoring, tallying 10 goals and eight assists for 28 points. Sophomore forward Christian Therkelsen and senior defender Nitin Perumbeti, both All-Conference Second-Team picks last year, joined Kabelac on the First Team. Therkelsen paces MIT's attack with 15 goals, eight assists, and 38 points while Perumbeti anchors a defense with a 0.79 goals against average and that has surrendered 17 goals this season.
Senior goalkeeper Tom Caldwell and freshman midfielder Max Stein-Golenbock represented the Engineers on the All-Conference Second Team. Caldwell has compiled a record of 11-3-2 and an Institute-record nine shutouts this season as Stein-Golenbock bolstered MIT's attack with two goals and four assists for eight points.
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Records of marriages in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, can be found through various websites and online databases. Some provide an index with basic details, which is helpful. However, several provide full transcriptions of the records, including parents of the bride and groom, while others offer the actual microfilmed images of the records.
Here is a listing of free websites with Milwaukee marriages:
[1] FamilySearch.org – find IGI and other marriage records.
[2] The beta version of the new FamilySearch with many records, including Milwaukee marriages, fully transcribed.
[3] Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records, with a bride and groom matching system, from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
[4] Milwaukee Marriages, Additional, 1822-1876, based on records found in the Milwaukee County Courthouse. You will find an online index to search by bride or groom at the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society website.
[5] These same Milwaukee marriage certificates and documents — created between 1822 and 1876 and found at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in the 1960s — were microfilmed. These are now online.
> Learn how these marriage records were saved and put online.
> Search these marriage records here.
[6] Marriages are part of Milwaukee Family Pages at Links to the Past.
NOTE: images of marriage records in the database in No. 5 are found for
> Mr. Martin Friedrich Bruss and Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Gerschwitz, 1850 [no legal impediment, name of pastor]
> Joachim Speich and Marianna Stocker, 1857 [family details]
> Sherman A Bradley and Hannah M Church, 1859 [family details, see middle column]
> Sherman A Bradley and Hannah M Church, 1859 [basic details]
> Henry Moore and Annie Augusta Church, 1875 [family details]
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12-hour pause in battle takes hold in Gaza as talks continue on longer cease-fire
A 12-hour pause in hostilities in the Gaza Strip went into effect early Saturday after Israel and Hamas agreed to the lull following Israel's rejection of a plan for a seven-day cease-fire put forward by Secretary of State John Kerry.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that both sides were holding fire and that there were no rockets launched at Israel in the first half hour after the pause went into effect at 8 a.m. local time.
An army statement said that it would continue its operations to locate and destroy tunnels dug by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during the pause, and that it would respond to militant attacks or rocket firing at Israel.
In the hours before the lull went into effect, Palestinians reported shelling in the central Gaza Strip and the deaths of 16 people in a strike on a family home.
In the West Bank, thousands took to the streets to protest the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and eight people were reported killed Friday in clashes with Israeli forces and in a shooting by a Jewish settler.
The pause was intended to allow for removal of dead and wounded from areas of combat, enable Gazans to buy food and seek medical care, and give time for the repair of electric and water lines damaged in the fighting, which has left large parts of Gaza's population with no running water and a spotty power supply.
The announcement of the pause came after a day of intensive diplomacy in which both sides appeared to be holding out for better terms than Kerry's seven-day cease-fire proposal offered. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued no comment on reports his security cabinet had rejected the plan, and Hamas did not respond to the proposal.
Hamas wants international guarantees for the lifting of border closures imposed on Gaza by Egypt and Israel, while Israel is seeking assurances for "demilitarization" of the Gaza Strip and ridding it of Hamas's rocket arsenal and tunnel network.
Hamas officials have also rejected a reported element of the plan that would leave Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip during the cease-fire period, allowing them to continue uncovering and destroying tunnels built by the militant Islamist group.
Fighting continued in Gaza on Friday, with new fatalities from Israeli bombardments and the reported Palestinian death toll climbing to more than 860, with more than 5,700 injured since the start of the Israeli offensive July 8.
The United Nations said that about three-quarters of the dead were civilians, 192 of them children, who were being killed at the average rate of 10 a day.
The Israeli army said that it had killed about 240 militants in ground operations. Thirty-seven Israeli soldiers have died, and three civilians have been killed in Israel by rockets launched from Gaza.
Fresh salvos of rockets were fired at Israel on Friday, including some in the area of Ben Gurion International airport, where U.S. air carriers that had suspended flights to Israel resumed normal service following the lifting of a flight ban by the Federal Aviation Administration.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who joined Kerry at the Cairo news conference, called for a "seven-day humanitarian cease-fire extending over the Eid period, beginning with an extendable 12-hour pause." Ban was referring to Eid al-Fitr, the approaching holiday marking the close of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Kerry said that there was no agreement yet on the week-long cease-fire plan because "we still have some terminology . . . to work through."
"We are working toward a brief seven days of peace," Kerry said. "Seven days of a humanitarian cease-fire in honor of Eid, in order to be able to bring people to try to work to create a more durable, sustainable cease-fire for the long run, and to work to create plans for the long haul."
"Gaps have been significantly narrowed," he said. "It can be achieved, if we work through some of the issues that are important for the parties."
Kerry said he would travel to Paris on Saturday, where he is scheduled to meet European counterparts and the foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar, through whom Washington is working to persuade Hamas to agree to the cease-fire plan. The U.S. considers Hamas a terrorist group and has no contact with the organization.
Kerry said that no final proposal was submitted to Israel, and he discounted the Israeli security cabinet's rejection of the current terms of the plan. "Let's make that clear," he said, "there's always mischief from people who oppose certain things, and I consider this one of those mischievous things."
Hard-line members of Netanyahu's cabinet have criticized Kerry's proposal, calling for expansion of the Israeli military operation in order to strike a harder blow at Hamas, eradicating its tunnel network and destroying more of its rocket stockpiles in Gaza.
Maj. Gen. Sammy Turgeman, the head of the army's southern command, said that military forces had destroyed "at least half of the enemy's attack tunnels," some of which led across the border to Israel. The army said that it had uncovered 31 tunnel networks so far.
As ground fighting in Gaza continued, the Israeli military announced that Sgt. Oron Shaul, a soldier missing in action who Hamas claimed it had captured, was dead, but it acknowledged that it did not have his body. Hamas had given Shaul's name and military identification number, suggesting that it had seized his remains after the explosion of an armored personnel carrier hit by an anti-tank rocket in fierce fighting on Sunday.
Fresh protests against the Israeli offensive erupted in several areas of the West Bank.
A Jewish settler in a passing car opened fire on a march in Hawara, south of Nablus, killing a man and wounding four, and another man was fatally shot during clashes with Israeli border police, according to reports from the town.
A border police spokesman said that "hundreds of rioters" at Hawara hurled stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at security forces and passing motorists. Soldiers and border police fired tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets to disperse the crowd.
At Beit Ummar, south of Bethlehem, three Palestinians were killed by army gunfire, Palestinians said. A military spokeswoman confirmed that there were "disturbances" and said that the incident was under review.
One of the dead was Hashem Abu Maria, 45, a father of three who worked for the rights group Defense for Children International-Palestine. A statement by the group said he was participating in a march in solidarity with Gaza when he was struck by a live round fired by soldiers during clashes with local youths.
In street confrontations at the al-Arub refugee camp north of Hebron, a Palestinian was shot and killed. A military spokeswoman said he had tried to seize a soldier's gun.
A teenager was reported killed in street clashes in Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem, and another Palestinian was fatally shot when thousands marched on an Israeli checkpoint near Jenin in the northern West Bank.


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Dr. Carpenter is a pediatric hematology oncologist and Outpatient Clinical Director of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation. He treats children who need a transplant for leukemia, lymphoma, and other malignancies as well as non-malignant disease including immunodeficiency disorders and bone marrow failure syndromes. He has particular expertise in graft-versus-host disease and long-term follow-up. He is also part of the Adult Long Term Follow-up team.
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In 1995, Paul Carpenter, MD came to the United States from Sydney, Australia for a hematology fellowship program at the University of Washington. He began working at Fred Hutch. His intention was to get more oncology training and return home.
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In 2001, Dr. Carpenter joined the Long-Term Follow-up staff. His research focus is on acute and chronic graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), the amelioration of long-term complications associated with GVHD therapies, and the prevention of relapse after transplant in the context of continued immunosuppressive therapy. He has lead several protocols at the Hutchinson Center, one of which was the development of a new antibody treatment to treat GVHD that had not responded to standard therapy. Results were good after its Phase 1 trial and this was later further explored in a national multi-center Phase II clinical trial.
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As it is helpful to learn from and build upon the efforts of others, the Department is seeking out and sharing promising practices. Service-Learning (SL) Promising practices are activities, projects, strategies, and approaches that have been shown to be effective through experience and have led to positive outcomes for youth. The Department believes Service-Learning deserves serious attention as a powerful educational practice that addresses many of the components necessary to build strong learning environments. Of equal importance, SL offers a unique resource for the revitalization of our communities. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service's Learn and Serve America:
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Amid increased violence in the restive Sinai, a month-long curfew and an increasingly fervent government crackdown on supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, Egyptian authorities on Thursday extended a state of emergency for another two months, giving the government broad powers to arrest dissidents.
Presidential spokesman Ehab Bedawy said in a statement that the decision was taken in light of "developments and the security situation in the country."
The government's use and, opponents charge, abuse of emergency law helped spur the January 2011 uprising that led to the fall of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. But when Egyptian authorities resurrected it on Aug. 14, the public welcomed a stronger military hand in domestic affairs. Earlier that day, security forces opened fire on Morsi supporters who'd been staging a sit-in since June in Cairo's Rabaa district, killing as many as 1,100 people, the apex of months of instability and divisiveness after elections that were supposed to bring about revolutionary change.
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An armed group, Ansar Beit al Maqdis, or Partisans of Jerusalem, claimed responsibility for the attacks in a message posted on its Facebook page. The same group said it was behind an assassination attempt last week against the interior minister, when an explosive detonated near his convoy in Cairo's western Nasr City district.
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How do I know if I am sensitive?
Posted 08 July 2008 - 12:59 PM
I can remember an incident when I was very young, but it was dismissed as a freaky dream. My younger sister and I used to share a room and a bed. One night I had a dream that my sister and I heard something and went outside and into the woods behind our house. There was a fire glow and as we got closer we heard native american chanting...and saw indians dancing...we watched them for a long time...until they realized we were there...we ran back into our house and shut the door...at that moment, my sister and I both awoke and sat straight up in our beds...I was holding her hand...we had the same dream. We told our mother about it, it was dismissed as a just a dream...a few years later, a new subdivision was being built behind our house, but construction was halted for a time. We saw a report in the local newspaper that a small indian burial site had been found and was being moved so that the local construction would continue...this upset me very much as we have quite a bit of native american geneology in our family.
I never really thought about it again until about 7 years ago. My husband and I were renting a house. The house behind ours gave me a really eerie feeling and I always kept all of the blinds shut on that side of the house and I would not go into the back yard. My best friend and I were looking at some photos taken the weekend before, and she noticed orbs in my photos...I never noticed them before. We pulled out all of my photos and noticed that all of my photos taken after my grandmother died had orbs and anomolies in them. We had them checked and they were actual anomolies...not caused by lights or anything and most of them taken by different cameras. I still didn't think anything of it...just passed it off. The anomolies started showing up more in my pictures as well and a arc of light on my forehead in one of them...we also had these photos checked, but no one was able to tell me what the arc of light meant. Strange things had been happening in the house...I would just explain them away, until other people started noticing...tv going off and on, windows being opened in the house...my friend's car radio being turned off, dog freaking out. My friend's husband and another friend of ours decided to sneak over to the abandoned house behind ours and see what was there...they peered through the windows and I did not believe what they saw...it scared them to death. Pictures of death on the walls, pentagrams, livestock skulls...I made them go take a picture. A few nights later, there was a break in to my son's room. His dad was on the road, so he was sleeping with me...Our dog instantly started going crazy and I let him out of the room and raced to stay behind him...he tried to get through the door of my son's room...when we finally got the door open, things were moved around and the window was open. I called the police out and they thought I was crazy...no footprints outside the window, no fingerprints on the window...nothing. They tried to tell me that my son who was sleeping next to me opened the window...he was only 5 and there were special locks on the window that he could not open. After this incident, my best friend convinced me to set up a tape recorder by my bed...I could not listen to the recording by myself, so she came over...we could hear people talking right by my bed, stuff being banged around, doors closing and opening...and through it all you could hear me breathing in deep sleep. In this same house, i caught a glimpse of a man walking behind me while i was brushing my hair...not long after we moved...my friends were freaked out and would not come around anymore. We moved down the street to another house, and all of the bad things subsided, but I still felt uneasy...and cautious. I didn't have very many experiences in this house...maybe because I was trying to forget about it and ignore it. I did however have a photo taken of me...and in the photo was what was explained to me as a "ghost writer". I don't really know much about this, but in the photo next to me was an orb...but the orb looked like it had something in it....we scanned it in and blew it up...the orb said "Hi Robin"...just as plain as day....we again sent this photo to be examined....they were eager to see it... I was told things like that are not caught very often....It scared me so bad that I got rid of the photo.
We lived there for about 4 years before finally purchasing a house out in the country. I love it out here, it's peaceful and quiet...not many people around. I work from home which is nice and things seem to be normal, but I keep wondering.
since we have been in this house...almost a year, I have had a nagging urge to get back to nature...nagging to go back to roots. My son and I raise rabbits...we also have chickens, and grow a garden. I love being outside, but a lot of times when I am outside I feel like someone is looking at me from far off, but none of our neighbors are outside....all at work...no one around. Like I said, I work from home...I call clients for the company I work for. I check on them to make sure their work was done to their satisfaction...but I seem to pick up something from each client, if they seem sad...then I am instantly sad....if they are sick, I start to feel very nauseated...by the end of each day, Tue-Thurs, I am emotionally drained and a lot of times will now have a migrane by the end of the day. I now dread my work days.
Also, as I said before, We live in the country and raise animals...I can tell when something is going to happen to my rabbits....I can tell if one is going to die. I can also tell when it's going to rain, but that has always been attributed to my rheumatoid arthritis.
So now I am wondering....am I sensitive? Were these things coincidences, or have my sensitivites switched to nature instead of abandoned houses???
If anyone has any input, I would sure appreciate it...I know I am not crazy, but would like to know what it is.
Posted 08 July 2008 - 05:05 PM
Edited by Robinhood, 08 July 2008 - 05:06 PM.
Posted 25 July 2008 - 09:41 AM
BTW...These were just a few of the major examples of things that have happened...I would just like input because I have already figured out that ignoring it doesn't work...the feelings are still there. So now I am just wondering what I am supposed to do with it???
Hi Robinhood,
I will make one suggestion to you, Find a good medium or sensitive and they will show you how to control your gifts. Never try to master them on your own. Seek the advice and you will learn. It is very important to be guided with a good tutor. That way you will enjoy and find your true potentual from your gift.
best regards
Posted 21 August 2008 - 12:57 AM
BTW...These were just a few of the major examples of things that have happened...I would just like input because I have already figured out that ignoring it doesn't work...the feelings are still there. So now I am just wondering what I am supposed to do with it???
Hi Robinhood,
I will make one suggestion to you, Find a good medium or sensitive and they will show you how to control your gifts. Never try to master them on your own. Seek the advice and you will learn. It is very important to be guided with a good tutor. That way you will enjoy and find your true potentual from your gift.
best regards
Not really true...I was 13 when I found out I was a sensitive...I had no one to help or teach me...now I'm 17. I mastered them myself, whether or not I've completly mastered them or not I'm still not sure...but 4 years of being by myself and finding out that 3 of my best friends are sensitives as well....I have taught 2 of them...the third has taught himself like I did. The 2 people I've taught, now are learning to control what they have...so far the 2 I've taught are able to sense something wrong with anyone around them now. Also we have a great connection with each other. There has been a couple cases where I have actually heard the others thoughts. This is something very new to me and never really believed in hearing others thoughts....but now it seems that I can...but its only randomly, for now any ways, but I plan on trying to develope this power. But right now I have a problem....We all sense that something is wrong and all of us are worried. One of my friends has a neice and she is a major sensitive and she is only 3. She has told me things I didn't even sense, until three days later. She has helped me save the life of my bestfriend...now she has said to her that the ghosts are going to get her....all of them. That is what she had said and I'm a little worried about that because I have had my own personal run in with bad spirits. My other friend is wanting to bring my girlfriend into this, ( b/c she is a sensitive ), but I don't feel right about that. She hardly knows anything, and if brought into it knowing that little when something is wrong can make her a prime target....she already has the problem in her house that lights will turn on and off, and doors that were locked open. Her lights have come on once before with me over there. I sense something but it don't seem to be a threat....more like a kid playing jokes than a threat. So many things have popped up in my life with in these last 4 years. You don't always have to have someone teach you...not all people have someone who can teach them. But I want a little input on what to do in my situtation...if you have any.
Posted 21 August 2008 - 10:30 AM
It does sound like you've got some things going on (of course, only you can find out the extent of the sensitivity through study and prayer... so none of us are going to be able to say "yes, you're sensitive"... though I've had a couple people walk up to me and tell me I've "got the sight" during my lifetime... always an absolutely surreal experience let me tell ya).
There are a few things you can do. You can ask God to turn it off if you don't want to see. Even a couple years ago I would have told you that I wished I'd known that one. Now I have accepted it and am in the process of learning -- something that will take the rest of my life, and yours, if you decide to follow that path. You can find a local medium who will take you under his or her wing and help you advance beyond what you could do yourself (there is training that does really rely on prior learning... you can do a lot yourself but you, at some point, need to go through "psychic college" if you're ever going to use your gifts for the greater good). You can just accept it and not try to learn anything but not freak out when it happens, secure in the knowledge that this is something you have and at some point you're going to be called on to use it for the greater good. Or, you can continue to try to ignore it (not a good idea, as I'm sure you've already learned). None of these options are written in stone. You can always change your mind about what you want to do at some point in the future.
Something I would recommend for you right now is to look up Echo Bodine (www.echobodine.com) and find some of her books either at your local bookstore or library. A very good one is "A Still Small Voice"... which will help you learn about intuition and sensitivity. If you'd like to do some things on your own, "The Key" is a good place to start with that. I recommend her both because I know of her and she has an excellent reputation AND because she's a Christian and has struggled with the whole question of "traditional" Christian viewpoints and psychic abilities and has a lot of good insight into the whole thing.
I do know the conservative Christian upbringing thing. I remember when I was about 7 or 8 and it became obvious to my father that I had inherited the "family curse" trying to convince me that it wasn't real without actually coming out and saying "I know you see things and that's against God's word". I also remember being in a Christian youth group and being told (without the tellers knowing about me, personally) that any psychic ability was one of Satan's tricks and that to do anything but deny it would be tatamount to signing a deal with the devil for my immortal soul. I also remember losing Christian friends because it "slipped out" and they figured it out.
I didn't have the knowledge or ability to tell them then... but since I've come to understand that prophets and miracles aren't some far-off fairy tale from biblical days and when the Bible was completed, miracles no longer occurred. They are realities today and even though I shrink from the idea of being a prophet... those of us with sensitivities have some small portion of the same abilities that true prophets do. Somewhere along the way it's gotten perverted and people have taken that power away from God and ascribed it to satan... which is a shame... that people can't believe God would continue to give us gifts of the spirit but that, instead, demonic forces are waiting to spring on us at every turn and are more powerful than God Himself. True sight is of God. Be assured of that. It is a gift given every single person in varying degrees. What we do with it is up to us and our free will... and we can use it for God and the light or we can use it for darkness.
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The town looks very much like Poble Espanyol in Barcelona, but this time it's genuine old-time architecture, not an imitation.
Locals earn their living only by providing tourist services; no commercial agriculture is done in Alquezar.
Many weekend travellers come to town for a relaxed stay among the rocks for old folks and beginner-level activities for families. Also there are daily bus excursions with old folks visiting Alquezar for several hours: tourists see the Collegiata, eat at the central square and leave. Excursion buses arrive at the central square.
Weekday travelers are mainly French, with a few Belgians, Netherlanders and Italians mixed in.
Maps of the town are freely available in the tourist office and at several stands around the town. Most traveller-oriented businesses can be found on the map.
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By bus: From Barbastro (Access to/from Lleida). Check time table [7]
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The town is small enough to be fully accessible by foot.
There are several free parking lots around the town. Some hotels have their own private parking space.
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Alquezar is the main starting point for canyons in Aragon. Canyoning operators expect customers to drive by their own car from Alquezar to the start of canyon. Operators include:
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There's nothing unique to the town or region to be bought in Alquezar.
Only chorizo sausages are worth buying as local souvenir (the same as elsewhere in Spain); cheese is made of sheep milk and is not really distinctive. Other local grocery items available are honey from Barbastro (many varieties up to Eucalyptus), wine, and olive oil (as cheap as €30 for 5L).
Some local versions of Kukuxumusu are available.
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Stewed rabbit, partridge, and veal dishes are the best bet in most local restaurants.
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Sangria sometimes tastes like glintwein on the rocks, although it shouldn't by the traditional recipe.
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Although the town is a base camp for multiple types of outdoor activities, it has no resident doctor or hospital. Outdoor activity operators advise travellers to head to Barbastro which has a national hospital.
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It was a typical hot summers day. I was walking back from university. I walked past the same park that I walk past everyday… and as usual there were a bunch of sexy, sweaty looking skaters. I always got a boner when walking near them.
Anyway, I'm 20…tall, dark short hair and brown eyes. This one skater looked particularly sexy…he had spiky blonde hair, clean shaven, with shaven legs. He had a white singlet on and khakis pants. He had a thick gold chain around his neck, and he had a nice figure. He saw me staring at him, and skated over.
"what the fuck you looking at?". I shrugged my shoulders. He then whispered in my ear "you want me to fuck you don't you – I've seen you looking at me before". I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was straight, with a girlfriend. But this guy had me so hot. I opened my mouth and said "no". He knew I was lying….he could see my cock pressing against my jeans. He told me to follow him, and not say a word.
I walked a few meters behind him….we turned up at an old run down apartment. I followed him up three flights of stairs. "this is my room"…we walked in…it smelt of beer and piss. My cock was oozing already. We went into his room….he pushed me down on his double bed. The apartment was small, and his room was a mess. He lit up a joint, and proceeded to smoke it…I was getting high just on the fumes! He then sat on my thighs and pressed my nose into his sweaty chest, then pushed my face into his armpit.
"suck it up you fag" he ordered. I did. And loved it.
"so wadda ya like? It up the ass? Sweat? Or cum?"….I said "cum". I've always loved cum….when I masturbate, I always lick it up.
He said "good". He then left the room and came back with a black Great Dane. "this is my dog – his name is Balls".
I gulped. "get down on the floor". I did as this sexy blonde teenager ordered (i guess he was around 18). I knelt on a used condom, and a pair of smelly boxers. "suck his cock". I nervously knelt under the great dane and sucked the little red cock that stuck out….butsoon it was huge. Infact about 9 inches….and red hot. We got up on the bed, and the skater removed my clothes. He removed his. His cock was gorgeous, and so was his body. The dog was humping my mouth now…and bits of pre cum were squirting everywhere.
"let him squirt all over your chest…yeah….ohh yeah….rub that cum all over you….fuck, yeah". The skater said his name was Marcus. Marcus's cockv was purple and fat….and oh so hot. He rammed it down my throat. The dogsvcock was growing fatter too….so I quickly masturbated it close to my face. I was dripping with dog cum…from my face down my tanned chest.
"yeah you little faggot, lick that cum, rub it all over your chest". I did! Then the dog came…his fat red penis blew a huge wad of cum over my face, then my chest…it just kept cumming….wad after wad of sticky watery dog cum.
"oh yeah!!! That's the shit…drink his cum….suck Ball's cum…oh yeah baby, fucken EAT IT". I did as I was told. Marcus's heavy balls were smacking my wet chin, and then his cock erupted all down my throat. His sperm mixed with the dogs as it dribbled down my face and stomach. Marcus's stomach and sexy golden chest was also covered in doggie cum. The dog jumped off the bed, and Marcus lay on me…sucking my mouth. Our tongues twisting….he rubbed our cum soaked bodies together. Then he wanked me off…and I came in his hand. He smeared it over his face and french kissed me again. All I could smell was sweat and cum…and I was loving it!
Marcus was again hard…he turned his stereo on, and loud heavy skater music played. "get between my thighs fag"….I did. I licked his smooth shaven thighs. He had tattoos up his legs. "now suck my balls and cock".
Within seconds he was cumming again. "oh fuck, oh yeah, oh fuck" his sweaty smooth legs pinned me down hard as he filled my mouth with his delicious cum. We spent the rest of the afternoon fucking in his bed. He was so hot. Then I went back to my house, and wanked myself stupid. When my girlfriend got back, we had the best sex ever as I imagined my afternoon with Marcus and his Balls.


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January 16, 1987, Section D, Page 19Buy Reprints
Ray Bolger, the loose-limbed song-and-dance man who became known to millions as the Scarecrow in ''The Wizard of Oz,'' died yesterday of cancer in Los Angeles. He had his 83d birthday last Saturday and lived in Beverly Hills.
Among his many roles on stage, screen and television in a career than spanned six decades, none captured the public imagination more than his appearance in the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland that sent him, along with the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) and the Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), on a journey along the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy, the girl from Kansas uprooted by a cyclone, in her search for the Wizard (Frank Morgan).
The last survivor of the four, Mr. Bolger also outlived their nemesis, Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, who died in 1985. The film, in which the Scarecrow's lean, seemingly straw-filled body is propelled by long legs that bend with the wind, is a perennial favorite on television, being shown worldwide at least once a year.
The Broadway stage was Mr. Bolger's first and abiding love. Born Raymond Wallace Bolger in Boston on Jan. 10, 1904, he began acting in amateur theatricals and at one point was dismissed by an insurance company after being caught dancing in a hallway. He Started at 19
His got his first paid acting job at the age of 19 with a repertory company and soon was appearing in vaudeville with Gus Edwards. There followed Broadway appearances in ''George White's Scandals'' (1931), ''Life Begins at 8:40'' (1934) and, in 1936, the musical ''On Your Toes,'' in which he won acclaim for his dancing in the number ''Slaughter on 10th Avenue,'' choreographed by George Balanchine.
Soon he was in Hollywood appearing in such musicals as ''The Great Ziegfeld,'' ''Rosalie'' and ''Sweethearts'' as well as ''The Wizard of Oz.'' But he was inevitably drawn back to the Broadway stage and in the years after World War II he was a regular in the Little Bar at Sardi's, where show-business luminaries gathered.
In 1948 he opened in the musical ''Where's Charley,'' a vehicle that made him as celebrated on the stage as he had already become in film. In the remake of the hoary stage play ''Charley's Aunt,'' he created his most memorable singing number, ''Once in Love With Amy.'' Long after the three-year run of ''Where's Charley,'' he was called upon to sing the lilting ballad and to perform the soft-shoe-dance routine accompanying it almost every time he appeared on television. A Comedian First and Last
Mr. Bolger, who was 5 feet 10 1/2 inches tall, was so thin that in his solo performances in the spotlight he appeared to be much taller. His legs were so flexible he appeared to be disjointed - even disembodied - as he leapt into the air to punctuate a song-and-dance number. Indeed, many who watched him in later years were unable to shake the image of the straw-stuffed Scarecrow flopping about on boneless legs as he lurched down the Yellow Brick Road.
Although he won his greatest acclaim as a dancer, Mr. Bolger considered himself first of all a comedian. For that reason, he was parcticularly gratified by the success of the farce, ''Charley's Aunt,'' the starring vehicle that was produced by his wife, Gwen Rickard, whom he had met in 1924 and married five years later. She remained a strong force in his career until it ended less than three years ago with an injury that removed him from the performing stage.
In mid-1984 he suffered an injury to his right hip that necessitated his receiving an artificual joint. ''I stepped down from the stage and there was nothing there,'' he said afterward. ''I tried to do another show, but I was not up to par and I had to cancel.'' A 'Dancer in Self-Defense'
His last performance was in 1985 as a narrator in ''That's Dancing,'' an anthology that included a Scarecrow dance that had been cut from the final version of ''The Wizard of Oz.''
Early in his career he decided that comedy was his metier and that his gift for dancing was mainly a vehicle to enable him to win the comic roles he sought.
''I was hired as a comedian in my first show,'' he said many years later. ''I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.''
Over the years he danced and sang his way into many shows, including ''Keep Off the Grass'' (1940), ''By Jupiter'' (1942) and ''Three to Make Ready''(1946) During World War II he organized U.S.O. shows that toured American military and naval bases around the world.
Among his films were ''The Harvey Girls'' (1945), ''April in Paris'' (1952) and ''Babes in Toyland'' (1961).
He became a familiar figure on television, beginning in 1952 with his debut on ''The Comedy Hour,'' followed in 1953 by ''The Ray Bolger Show,'' which appeared weekly on ABC. In 1956 he did the NBC-TV series ''Washington Square.''
In 1979, departing from his light-hearted appearances, he made a dramatic appearances as a somber dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church in ''The Runner Stumbles.'' Frequent Returns to the Stage
With all his work in film and television, he continually returned to the stage, appearing in one-man shows and song-and-dance concerts.
In a sense, these concerts were a return to his first attempts in show business. As a teen-ager in Boston, where he attended public schools, he danced on street corners. After brief jobs as an insurance agent and a vacuum-cleaner salesman, he got a job dusting the studio of a noted ballet instructor of the time, Senia Rusakoff. But he was not drawn to classical dance.
He learned the acticg craft with a repertory company headed by Bob Ott, to whom he later gave credit for schooling him in the comedy. Soon his long, rubbery legs propelled him into a style of dance that he was later to make his own, characterized by the swooping steps that seemed to carry him across a stage in one or two bounds.
Leaving the Ott troupe, he went into vaudeville on his own, playing small towns in New England and the mid-Atlantic states before he finally arrived in New York, where he landed a job dancing at movie houses in the Paramount chain between films. It was there that Gus Edwards found him in 1926 and put him on the Broadway stage.
Among the awards Mr. Bolger received were the Tony award in the 1948-49 season and two Donaldson awards for best performance. In 1980 he was elected to the Theater Hall of Fame.
Surviving is Mr. Bolger's wife, the former Gwen Rickard. The couple had no children.
Mr. Bolger died at the Nazareth Nursing Home in Los Angeles. A funeral service will be held on Monday at the Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills.