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- Group Stories : The Trapeze Club
It was a long day and I had not had any dinner yet. In fact, I had nothing to eat since lunch. I know that I shouldn?t be eating this late. It was now 10pm. Fortunately there was a small neighborhood bar not far from our rehearsal location. I have eaten there once before and the food was ?better than marginal? and they had a fairly reasonable selection of wines by the glass.
I walked in and to the bar area. It was fairly empty except for a two couples and a brunet with long hair with her back to me. She looked familiar so I walked up to the stool next to her and sat down. I was correct; she was Holly a second soprano in my choir. She was new to the choir and has only been to a few rehearsals.
?Hello Holly,? I said smiling looking at her. I think I startled her as she was finishing up a glass of white wine.
?Hello?, she replied wiping her lips with a napkin.
?Who you mind if I sit here and keep you company??
?No, please. I would welcome company? she replied.
Holly was about five foot four with long light brown hair. I guess her age to be about 47. She was thin and attractive in a conservative way with lovely blue eyes. She was wearing a cream colored top and loose fitting khaki slacks.
?My name is Jack,? I was not sure if she knew my name or not. ?I am in the baritone section.?
?Yes I new that.? She said with a smile. ?Grabbing some late dinner as well??
?Yes. No time to eat before rehearsal.?
The bartender came over at that moment with Holly?s salad and ask me what I wanted to drink. I responded that I would have the steak tips medium rare and a glass of the house ?cab?.
?Can I get you another glass of wine?? I asked Holly.
?Sure, yes that would me nice. Yes thanks.? She responded. She seemed a bit nervous and shy.
I asked the bartender to bring her another glass of white wine she was drinking.
We chatted over dinner. Holly had moved from Columbus Ohio six months earlier. She was a fourth grade school teacher. She had no children was divorced for 10 years. Throughout our conversation she looked down at her salad avoiding eye contact. Her voice was quiet and it was difficult to hear her at times over the sound of the bar TV. She was finishing her third glass of wine and I had just finished my steak tips. I asked her if he would like another drink. She rolled her eyes up and looked down again at her finished salad and smiled.
?I probably shouldn?t, but OK. Thank would be nice.? This time she smiled at me and looked into my eyes for a couple seconds before looking at the back of the bar. I noticed that she really had lovely eyes.
I order the fourth glass of wine for her and another for me, my third. The bar was empty except for the two of us. It was about 11:30.
She took the first sip from her freshly refilled glass and asked quite suddenly, ?Jack are you single??
?Divorced. 8 years. I have 2 girls 17 and 20. They live with my ex back in Connecticut.?
She giggled, smiled, and some of the wine sloshed over the rim of her glass.
?What?s so funny?? I asked.
?Well, to be honest, I thought you were gay.?
I laughed. ?You know not all men who sing in the choir are gay. I fact there are at least four of us who are straight.? I paused slightly, ?I think.? I added with a broad grin.
She laughed again. She did have a very nice smile and beautiful eyes.
?An honest mistake.? She said. ?You are way too cute to be a straight baritone.?
?Well thank you. I think?? I replied with a smile.
?And you look like such a boy scout.? She added with a laugh. Her eyes twinkling.
?Hey, wait one minute. I am not a boy scout.? I said with a mock distain. ?If only you knew me better you would think differently.?
With that the conversation took a more personal turn. We were both a little buzzed by the wine and conversation flowed openly.
Holly had broken up with her last boyfriend a year prior and that was one of the reasons for her move to Florida to start a new chapter of her life. She dominated this part of the conversation and her initial shyness was melted away by the alcohol. Her husband was abusive and had many affairs. He belittled her looks and barely touched her during the course of their 17 year marriage. Her last boyfriend had not been much better. He was a workaholic and had a prostrate problem that left him basically impotent. She shared that she was very sexually frustrated but had trouble meeting ?nice men?.
?Like you.? She ended with more than a bit of a slur.
?Remember I told you that I was not THAT nice. No boy scout here.?
?Come on. I don?t believe you.? She continued.
Then I made what should have been a mistake, but the wine was taking through me. ?Well have you ever been to a nude beach??
She shook her head no.
?I have.? I added. ?Have you ever made love in a public place?
Again she shook her head.
?I have.?
?Well that is not really all THAT bad.? She added, again slurring her words.
I had to keep my voice down to keep the bartender from overhearing. Unfortunately the wine had fully control of my tongue. ?Well have you ever had sex with multiple partners at the same time? And have you ever been to a swingers club??
Now I knew I shocked her. Her mouth was open, her head steady and her eyes were fixed on mine with a serious look.
A couple seconds later she whispered, ?Really??
?I probably should not have shared that with you.? I said, at the same time I was thinking that if this got around the choir it would not be good.
?I am not judgmental.? She said in a low serious tone. How did you get involved in something like that??
Well ?in for a penny, in for a pound?, I thought. I spent the next half hour and another glass of wine each telling her about my swinging experience to date. My last serious girlfriend was an experienced swinger and it had always been a fantasy of mine, so she introduced me to it. We had gone to the Tr*peze Club in Fort Lauderdale it was well known as one of the nicest clubs in the States. Holly continued to listen in fascination; I, however, began to feel uncomfortable sharing all the details with her.
During the entire conversation her face was stoic and I couldn?t read her thoughts.
The bartender came over and indicated that he needed to close up and asked us to settle up our tab. The tab was much higher than I expected. All those drinks added up.
?I don?t think you should be driving home. Can I call you a cab?? I asked Holly as we walked out the door. She was definitely staggering.
?No need.? She said, having trouble speaking and I had a hard time understanding her. ?I live just down the block from here.? She continued.
I walked her home. She lived in a nice little condo on the fifth floor. I helped her open the door with her key.
Just before entering her apartment she said in very slurred speech, ?Jack can you take me there.?
The wine was making my mind a bit slow. ?Where?? I asked.
?You know? that Topessie Club.? And with that she pulled me to her and pressed her lips to mine and kissed me longingly. Her tongue pushed past my lips and mingled with mine. She was having trouble standing and she almost fell though the threshold.
I caught her and helped her though the doorway. ?You need to get some sleep. You have school tomorrow and I think you will not be too please with me at 5:30am when you need to get ready.
?Stay?? she whispered. She was nearly passing out.
?Not tonight. Thank you.? I said in a soft voice. I guess there was some boy scout in me after all I thought. ?Can I get a rain check??
She shook her head yes, her eyes were half closed, and I walked her into her bedroom. I got her on top of the bed and she immediately pasted out.
I locked her front door and left. Walking back to my car, I considered my options and decided that a cab would, in this case, definitely be the better approach.
20 minutes later I was in my own condo. I quickly strip off my clothes, took 4 aspirins and as much water as I could drink, and fell face first onto my bed. I had my own meetings the next morning and I was sure that I was not going to like my ?wake up call? either.
The next morning I was suffering a bit. I generally don?t drink that much and the alcohol effects me more as I am getting older. I thought about the night before and wondered how Holly was doing. It was 8am and she would hopefully be already in school. I hadn?t thought to get her phone number the night before so there would be no way to reach her. I liked Holly and hoped I hadn?t stepped across the line. What people say and do after several glasses of wine, is not always a reflection of their true personality and nature.
I would have to wait until rehearsal next week to talk with her again.
I thought about Holly and our conversation all that next week. She was really my type, sweet and innocent with a sensual side which I don?t think she had ever fully explored. And she did have those lovely eyes and a great smile.
Thursday final came around again. I came from an earlier business meeting so I was a bit late and the rehearsal had already begun. I waked in and saw Holly sitting with the other second sopranos in the third row. She looked up at me and then she immediately looked back down at her music. No smile crossed her face.
?Nuts?, I thought to myself. Sober reality has set in. I think I made a mess of this opportunity.
I sat down with my section and pulled the music out of my bag and began to sing with the rest of the choir. I occasionally looked over at Holly but I could not catch her eye during the rest of the rehearsal.
After the rehearsal ended, I looked over at Holly and she was chatting with a couple other women in her section. I decided that maybe the best course was to walk to my car and go home rather than waiting to talk with her.
I left the rehearsal room and was almost to my car when I heard ?Jack, do you have a second?? form behind me.
As I turned I saw Holly finishing her short run to catch me at my car.
?Hello Holly.? I said. ?I wanted to say hello to you after rehearsal, but you looked like you were involved in a conversation and I didn?t want to interrupt.?
?Oh no. We were just talking about one of the concert dates coming up. I wanted to break a way and catch you before you left.? She looked around her to see if anyone was in earshot and lowered her voice. ?Jack, just wanted you to know how embarrassed I am at my behavior last week. I had a bit too much wine and wanted to let you know that I hope I did not say anything that you found?? she searched for the word. ?Inappropriate.?
?Absolutely not!? I responded with a board smile.
She immediately broke into a wide smile and her eyes twinkled in the reflection of the parking lot lights.
I continued, ?And I hope I had not stepped over the line in my conversation. I also had a lot to drink and shared some things that maybe I should have kept unsaid.?
In response she gave me a hug and kissed me on the cheek and whispered in my ear, ?I am very glad you?re not a boy scout.?
She remembered. I hugged her back and said, ?Would you like to have dinner with me on Saturday??
She pulled back slightly and looked into my eyes and with a wonderful grin replied, ?I would really love to.?
We exchanged phone numbers and I walked her to her car and watched her drive a way. I was really looking forward to Saturday evening.
Saturday did not come quick enough. I arrange to pick up Holly at her condo at 7:30pm. I went to her door and knocked. She opened the door gave me an immediate hug and a lingering kiss.
?You keep that up and I am not sure we will get to dinner.? I said though my broad smile. That kiss nearly made me dizzy.
As I recovered, I noticed just how absolutely beautiful she looked. She had a cream-colored sundress on with strappy high heeled light brown shoes. I don?t remember seeing her in a dress before. She had amazing legs; absolutely terrific calves.
?Wow you look great!? I said as I eyed her from head to toe. ?I am certainly a lucky guy to have such an attractive date.?
She blushed and looked down. ?Come on let?s go? she said.
She picked up very large bag which served as a purse and locked the door. As we went to my car I was a bit puzzled. The rest of her outfit was so perfect. ?Why carry such a large bag?? I wondered.
I had made reservations in a lovely little seafood restaurant just North of Fort Lauderdale near the beach. We had a wonderful meal and a bottle of wine. We talked about her childhood, music and traveling. She had not traveled as extensively as I had, but we shared a number of the same overseas destinations.
As we waited for our bill she leaned over the table and held my hand and said. ?Jack you know that club you told me about? I really want you to take me there.?
I was struck speechless for a couple seconds. I replied, ?Sure, if you want to. We can go there sometime.?
?Tonight.? She shot back quickly. ?Let?s go there tonight.?
I looked into her eyes. She was serious.
?Are you sure?? I stammered. ?It is a bit of a? for someone who has never done anything like??
She squeezed my hand and lean over to plant another of those heart stopping kisses on my lips, followed by her delicately probing tongue.
?I am VERY sure.? She said as the waiter arrived with our check. ?I need to powder my nose. I will meet you at the car OK??
I nodded and she got up and went to the ladies room which was located near the entrance. I gave the waiter my credit card to pay for the meal.
He returned with my card a few minutes later. I wrote in the tip and signed the receipt. I got up from the table and cross over to the front door. Holly was not there. I went out the door and headed to my car which was parked nearby. She was not there either. I turned around and began to head back to the restaurant. As I looked back at the front door my heart almost stopped.
There was Holly in a tight short light-brown metallic sexy dress. The hem went up revealing two-thirds of her thighs. The dress top was tied around the back of her neck and the strips of material in the front barely concealed both of her breasts, and plunged down below her belly button. She had those same sexy strappy shoes on but they looked completely different with this outfit. She was still carrying the large handbag in one hand but over her shoulder was a small evening purse on a long brass colored thin chain.
?Well how do I look?? she did a slow 360 turn modeling her new outfit.
The back of the dress was also cut down far enough to almost show the crack in her ass. She looked so hot. Very hot!
?You look fucking good. Pardon my French.? I said starring at this incredible vision.
?Good. I am glad. I wanted to look sexy for you.? She said with an impish smile on her face.
She walked up to me and embraced me and kissed me deeply. During the embrace I noticed two things. First, she was either wearing thong underwear or none at all and second, her lovely breasts I now guessed were about a ?C? cup and strained to slip out of their thin metallic strip retainers.
?Let?s go?, she said handing me the large bag which I understood now must contain the cream colored dress.
I put the bag in the trunk of my BMW and off we went to Sample Road.
In the car I had to explain that the Tr*peze Club was A BYOB place. Which meant I had to stop at a wine store, and I bought a couple bottles of Champaign and another bottle of red and white wine.
All the way to the club Holly kissed my neck and put her hands between my legs teasing my cock and causing it to expand in my slacks. She was slightly buzzed but certainly not drunk.
We pulled into the parking lot to valet my car and I turned to her and said, ?Are you sure? You can still back out now.?
She responded with a smile and by simply getting out of the car as the valet opened the door.
There were two Bentleys, a Rolls and a Lamborghini parked just outside the front door. It took a couple minutes to check in. My membership had elapsed several months prior and I need to renew my membership. Being a Saturday night, is was very crowded already.
The hostess at the front dress put labels with my membership number on the bottles we brought with us, they attached plastic bands wrist to our wrists, and we entered the club.
The only downside with the ?Trap? is they allow smoking unlike a regular restaurant. So there was a bit of smoke in the air. We found two seats at the back bar and gave the female bartender our two bottles of Champaign and the wine we brought.
I asked for two glasses on Champaign and we sat down and began to watch the crowd. It was a mixed group; all ages, body types and nationalities. The dance floor was full and 4 flat screen TVs around the dance floor area were displaying a porno film. A female actress (Could you really call them actresses? I wondered.) was sucking on a white guys massive 12 inch erect cock.
The TV located at the front bar had some sports station on and a couple guys were watching it as their wives talked and interacted affectionately behind them.
Holly immediately drained her first glass of Champaign and asked for another.
?Slow down.? I said, while stroking her back. ?It is no fun if you fall asleep.?
?Still just a bit nervous I guess?, was her reply.
?Let?s dance.? I suggested.
Holly put down her second glass of Champaign and followed me onto the dance floor. We worked our way to the center and found a place to dance. It was some kind of Latin song I did not recognize.
Holly was an incredible dancer. On the dance floor she told me she had taken dance for years and had considered, at one time early in her life, going into dance professionally. Her well sculptured muscular calves made sense to me now.
She turned around and put her back against my chest and we continued to danced to the music, all the time my cock grew harder against her nice firm ass. My hands moved slowly from her shoulders, delicately over her breasts, down her tummy and to each side of her belly button. She turned her head to kiss me and I heard her release a slight moan.
In front of Holly, an attractive woman with shortish gray hair in her late 40s or early 50s was dancing with a slightly overweight woman in her mid 30s. The woman with the gray hair was watching Holly with interest. At one point, when Holly and I turned to dance facing each other, the grayed hair woman brushed against Holly?s back suggestively.
We finished dancing a couple more songs and headed back to our drinks at the bar. I asked Holly if she was having a good time and she responded by taking a mouthful of Champaign, kissing me and exchanging the bubbling liquid between our two mouths. Again she surprised me.
I kissed her neck and felt up her thigh. Well, mystery solved. She was wearing a micro thong and she was already very wet.
After another couple sips of Champaign I asked, ?Have you ever been with another woman??
She reacted in surprise, ?Of course not.?
?Ever think about it?? I continued.
She looked in my eyes with a serious look which broke into that impish grin and replied, ?Of course.?
She winked at me and took another shallow of Champaign.
Just then the woman with the gray hair appeared next to us with a handsome man in early 40s with blond hair and an amazing suntan.
?G?dye? he said holding out his hand. ?I am Paul.? in what I immediately recognized as an Australian accent ?and this is my wife Barbara.? he motioned to the very attractive slightly older woman in the grey hair.
?Nice to meet you. My name is Jack and this is Holly.?
We exchanged handshakes and kisses on the cheeks. Paul and Barbara were from Sydney and were in South Florida on Holiday. He was a CFO for a medium sized firm producing some kind of medical filters. Barbara, as it turned out, was also a teacher, but for secondary school students.
Paul and I continued to chat about finance and politics. Barbara made it clear she was there to dance ?not learn about the stock market? and grabbed Holly?s hand and headed for the dance floor. Paul and I continued to talk. I kept an eye on Holly as well. She was very sexy and a great dancer. After a couple fast songs the DJ played a slower tempo song and she and Barbara danced in couple fashion. I watched as Barbara?s hands brushed down Holly?s back down to her ass.
Paul winked at me and said, ?Very attractive girl. You are a lucky guy.?
?I can say the same about you. Barbara is a very attractive lady.? I replied.
We toasted those observations with a couple glass of Champaign and we watched the girls come back hand and hand to the bar.
It was now about 12:30 am and Paul looked at his watch and said. ?It is about time for us to head to the back. Will you be joining us??
Holly looked at me with a slightly puzzled expression.
?In a few minutes.? I said. ?It is up to Holly.?
Paul smiled and kissed Holly on the cheek. Barbara came up to me and kissed me full on my lips and gave me her tongue. I watched Holly?s reaction. There was no surprise; more like fascination. Barbara then went up to kiss Holly. She kissed Holly full on the lips passionately using her tongue. Holly reciprocated putting her right hand behind Barbara?s neck to hold her as they kissed. Well that is another surprise I thought.
After Paul and Barbara had left, Holly turned to me and asked, ?Where did Paul and Barbara go? What is in the ?back???
?Well that is where the private and group rooms are. That is where most of the ?activities? happen.? I explained.
?Not here?? she asked.
?There might be some limited activity in the main club room later, but not normally very much.?
Holly took the last swallow of her drink and said, ?Well let?s get to the back then.?
Holly took my hand and lead me to the back of the club were there was a double door to a back room. Where men and woman were walking around with white bath towels rapped around their bodies. I told one of the attendants we need a locker and he lead us back to an area with benches and metal lockers similar to what you might find in any gym locker room. He opened a locker door and left. We were surrounded by 5 other couples in various stages of disrobing.
?What happens next?? Holly asked as she looked around the small area.
?Well we take all our clothes off here. You can leave your shoes on if you want.? I answered. ?We put them in this locker.?
She kissed me on the lips and whispered in my ear, ?Here goes.?
She reached behind her neck and untied the back of her dress. She slowly allowed the straps in front of her breasts to fall and I watched her as she pulled the tight dress bottom over her hips and ass, and down her legs. She stepped out of the dress and I stared at this very attractive woman in a cream-colored mini thong. Looking into my eyes she used both hands to pull down the thong down her hips revealing a waxed pussy with just a two inches long half inch wide tightly groomed landing strip.
?Disappointed?? she asked with a serious expression. ?I had this done today especially for you.?
I smiled broadly and said, ?You are an incredibly beautiful and very sexy lady. I am very lucky.?
She smiled back and then said, ?OK your turn. Let?s see what you got.?
I quickly stripped and put my clothes in the locker along with my shoes. When I finished she noticed my half erect cock and step close to me and took her hand and grab it gently and she whispered in my ear. ?I get that first. Agreed??
I kissed her deeply on the lips and replied, ?Yes, and I have you first. Agreed??
?Absolutely.? She moaned as I gently touched her nipples with my finger tips.
We put our towels on and locked the locker with our clothes and went into the back of the club.
In the back area of the Tr*peze there is another bar. Everyone in this area, except for the staff, were rapped in white bath towels. I guided Holly over to a stool at the bar and asked the bartender to have our two remaining bottles of wine (white and red) sent from the front bar to this bar. I gave my membership number that would identify the bottles.
In the area next to the bar there were large modern leather chairs with couples seated on them. TV monitors continued to broadcast porn.
We both watched the couple nearbywhere a half bald man in his mid thirties received a blowjob from his black girlfriend. While another man reached under her towel to play with her.
?Amazing? Holly said as she sipped from her plastic cup of water. The club wisely did not glass in this area of the club.
?The most important rule.? I said to Holly as I held both of her hands in mind. ?You do ONLY what you are comfortable with. If you don?t want to do something, simply say ?no? and let me know.?
?I will. Thanks Jack.? She leaned over and gave me a kiss.
Holly noticed a couple coming from an area behind the bar area and to the right.
?What is back there?? she asked
?That is the group room. An area for multiple couples to mingle together.? I answered cryptically.
?Can we take a look??
?Sure.? I said.
We adjusted out towels and when to the group room. In this area there were about eight large beds/mattresses laid next to each other down the room. There was a narrow space at the foot of the mattresses to walk and couches stretch parallel to the mattresses for people to sit and watch the activities in front of them. There were about six couple on the mattresses and another 10 couples on the couch watching.
Holly led me down the aisle and we stopped in front of Barbara and Paul. They were on the mattress and Barbara was on her back head toward the wall and Paul was fucking her missionary style. They did see us come in and Holly chose two seats on the couch right in front of them.
I had not noticed how ?built? Paul was. He wore a loose fitting shirt in the bar and it did not reveal is muscular upper body. Barbara also had nice legs but not as nice as Holly?s. I was pretty sure she had breast implants as she sported a couple very large breasts that were uncommonly firm for her age.
We watch them fuck for several minutes, and they changed positions. Paul was now fucking Barbara from behind doggy style. Barbara placed her palms against the wall in front of the bed as Paul pounded her from behind. During this period Holly had reach under my towel and began to stoke my increasing growing member. They had not notice us watching them yet. I at the same time was gently caressing Holly?s inner upper thigh making short temporary side trips to rub the lips of her wet soaking pussy.
Barbara and Paul changed positions again. This time Paul was on his back on the bottom head toward the wall. Barbara put her pussy on Paul?s face and began to massage is 8 inch member. She looked up and saw me and Holly across from them on the couch watching them. She smiled and beckoned us to join them with her curled pointing finger.
Holly did not need a second invitation. She let go of my cock and grabbed my hand to lead me to the spot on the mattresses next to Paul and Barbara. I pulled off our towels and laid them on top of the mattresses and laid down parallel to our new friends. Holly was between me and the Barbara and Paul in the 69 position.
Almost immediately Barbara began stroking Holly?s thighs while sucking her husband cock. I turned sideways and began kissing Holly deeply and slowly.
Paul noticed Holly next to him and said, ?Glad you two could join us.? He then began to touch Holly?s left breast with his right hand.
Holly moaned softly as Barbara began to probe Holly?s pussy with her fingers. I moved down Holly?s chest kissing her breasts and licking her nipples which were becoming very hard.
Holly got up and assumed a position similar as Barbara was on Paul. Her wet pussy hung just over my face and I greedily began to lick her juices from the outside of her lips. At the same time Holly began to lick the end of my penis. She would kiss the tip and push her lips right over the head sucking briefly, and pull back to continue the pattern. Each time she would take me a bit deeper. At the same time Barbara had taken put her hand around the bottom of my cock and was stroking it and fondling my balls. This was making me so hard and crazy that I was sure if she kept this up I would not last much longer.
I rolled Holly over to her side and pulled her up to kiss me.
?I want you now. I want to feel your pussy around my cock. Right now.? I said into her ear.
?Fuck me now. Please fuck me.? is all she said in response.
I didn?t need any more encouragement. I put Holly on her back and I positioned myself on top of her. I looked into her eyes and kissed her.
Holly?s hands were both holding my swollen organ and positioning it for entry.
?Now Jack. Take me.? She said as she pushed the head of my cock between her pussy lips.
I slid into that wonderful wet, tight, hot pussy and slowly began to move back and forth; in and out. Holly closed her eyes and began to moan again softly. Barbara had changed positions and was now rubbing and kissing Holly?s breasts. Barbara moved up Holly?s chest and neck and began to kiss her deeply on the mouth. Holly put both of her hands around Barbara?s neck and returned the passionate kiss.
Paul was busy having his cock sucked by a female oriental twenty-something with long back hair. I assume the young woman was from the couple I saw to his left when we sat on the couch earlier.
I was concentrating on enjoying each long stroke inside Holly. Holly now had her legs over both my shoulders and this allowed me to penetrate deeply with each stroke. Her moans became a bit louder and all of a sudden her body shuddered, she shook her head back and forth several times, and gasped. I knew she climaxed.
I slowed down my pace and made a couple slow deep thrusts to extend her sensitivity.
I leaned over to kiss her on the month deeply.
?Happy?? I asked.
?Yes? she said softly as she open her eyes. ?Now it is your turn.?
?No hurry I said. Women have a least one significant advantages over men.? I waited a couple seconds and added ?multiple orgasms?.
Holly laughed and kiss me deeply again.
I withdrew my cock and I new that I could not stretch this out much longer. I turned Holly over to keel on the edge of the bed as I entered her doggy style. Barbara positioned herself in front of Holly, Barbara?s pussy on the mattress in front of Holly. As I began to take Holly from the rear, Holly bent her head down to put her head between Barbara?s legs. Holly began to lick Barbara as Barbara pulled the nipples on her own breast. Paul was now fucking the young oriental girl while she sucked the cock of her male partner.
God this was great. I continued to fuck Holly doggy style for another couple minutes until Holly had another orgasm. Now it was time to finish this session off.
I with drew from Holly?s pussy and position myself on my back. I whispered to Holly. ?I want you to ride me ?reserve cowboy?.?
?What is that?? she asked with a puzzled look.
?You get on top of me facing my feet. Your ass toward my face.?
?No problem.? She smiled and positioned herself accordingly.
As we began to fuck, a handsome Hispanic man from the couple that was on our left began to play with Holly?s breasts. As Holly continued to ride me in my pleasure, the handsome Hispanic man knelt on both sides of my legs just in front of Holly?s. His erect 6 inch cock in front of Holly?s face. Holly began to stock his member and then took it in her month and began to give him a blow job as she continued to ride my throbbing cock.
Just when I thought it could get any better, Barbara positioned her pussy over my face and I began licking Barbara?s pussy as Barbara stroked and kissed Holly?s back.
Well that was it. I felt Holly?s third orgasm and seconds later I simply exploded inside Holly. I kept cuming for several seconds. I experienced some absolutely amazing after shocks.
The Hispanic man left Holly and both Holly and Barbara cleaned the cum off my cock with their tongues.
Holly snuggled against me, and kissed me on the mouth. I could taste my cum in our kiss.
?Wow that was great.? I finally murmured.
?Yes it was.? Holly said her eyes twinkling in the dark room.
After a few more minutes I suggested we leave.
Holly responded, ?Do we have to go so soon??
?No. We can stay here as long as you want.? I answered, but I have to go to the men?s room. Can I get you a drink on my way back?
?Sure.? Holly replied. ?Don?t be to long.?
?Hold my spot.? I replied.
I went to the men?s room there was a bit of a wait and stopped by the bar to get a couple drinks. I made my way back to the group room, where Holly was fucking the handsome Hispanic man she was pervious sucking off earlier. Lucky I am not the jealous type. I laid down next to Holly as I watched this handsome stud in his 30s fucked her while his girlfriend fondled Holly?s breasts and kissed her.
She noticed me lying next to her and looked at me a little concerned. I smiled back and nodded my head to let her know that I was OK with this. In fact, watching Holly fuck this guy was giving me another hard on. Normally I don?t recycle this quickly.
Barbara was relaxing on the other side of me and noticed my erection. Paul must have gone to the bathroom or for drinks because he was not there.
?I can?t let that go to waste.? She said in that cute Aussie accent.
With that she went down on me sucking my rod and making me even harder. She pulled out a little bag and took a condom from a pouch and opened it.
?I hope you don?t mind. We insist on condoms.? She said and unrolled the rubber down on my cock.
?I fully understand.? I said in return.
She positioned herself above me and lowered her pussy on my cock. She was not as tight as Holly but had a great body. Actually I loved her gray hair which I find very sexy in a woman. She kissed me deeply and continued to ride me cowboy style, finally cuming a few minutes later.
?Damn your good? she said.
I watched as Holly had yet another orgasm. The Hispanic man with drew his cock and took off the condom he was also wearing. His equally sexy partner took his cock in her hands and a couple strokes later caused him to cum all over Holly?s stomach.
?I think you like this the best.? Barbara said as she reversed positions to face my feet.
?Yes.? I moaned, ?I like that position the best?.
?Good.? she responded.
Unlike Holly, Barbara sat squatting on me straight up, moving up and down with her legs. Damn that felt good.
Holly seeing this positioned her pussy on my face this time facing the wall and her back to Barbara who was moving rhythmically up and down on my cock.
Holly looked down at me and she said in a low voice, ?Give it to her. Give it to her. Give it to her.? She kept repeating this over and over to the cadence of the rhythm of Barbara up and down motion.
I licked Holly?s pussy and she had another orgasm. Just then I felt the juice move from my balls to my cock, and then explode in the plastic shield.
?That?s it.? I expelled though clinched teeth. My cock pulsed a couple more times as Barbara rode me.
?Well that is about it for me.? I said finally after Barbara lifted herself from my softening cock.
?We can go now.? Holly said kissing me deeply. Smiling she added ?When can we do this again??
I smiled and said, ?As soon as you want.?
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Then moving to Japan where religion seems to be replaced with a more general institutionalized superstition, it's really nothing that particularly sets me apart. So being an atheist is not any particular dramatic statement or carries with it any form of controversy for me. On rare occasions some Japanese person might ask me if I'm Christian because I'm from Europe , but a "No, not really" is usually enough to end that topic. I'm generally not particularly outspoken about it either, as long as religious beliefs can be put aside I don't particularly mind if anyone has (moderate) religious faith in any direction (hey, no one likes the extremists anyway).
Ok, I know that the people who said/wrote "pray for Japan " did it out of the goodness of their hearts with nothing but good intentions and I waited to post this until the dust had settled a bit. I also realize that some people in the US use "pray" as a more general well-wish without any deep rooted religious intent, but still I much would have preferred a message like "I give cash for Japan" which is actually really helpful, or hey, if that fails why not just a simple "support Japan"…?

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Homemade beer and barbecue will arrive in Cranston this spring with the opening of Brutopia Brewery and Kitchen, the city's first brewpub.
"Beer and barbecue is probably the best combination in America," said Umberto Sorbo, owner of the Sorbo Restaurant Group.
"Really, it's about elevating the Rhode Island beer culture," said Sean Larkin, the establishment's brewmaster. "Cranston, I thought, deserved its own opportunity to have a brewery."
Brutopia is currently being constructed at the former home of Sharx Bar and Grill at 505 Atwood Ave., with a planned opening in late April. Along with Larkin, executive chef Wayne Gibson will develop and oversee its offerings.
The establishment will be part of the Sorbo Restaurant Group, which includes the English Cellar Alehouse, Succotash, Coco Pazzo in Providence and La Gazzetta in Miami, Fla. It will feature high-definition televisions and an outdoor garden.
Finding the right kind of food to complement the brewing operation was the primary focus as the project got underway.
"We wanted something that worked amazing with beer," said Sorbo, noting that steak was considered before barbecue was chosen.
Brutopia's menu will be prepared using various hardwoods and an artisan hickory pit smoker, providing a rich Southern barbecue flavor. Larkin said he has already written recipes for the in-house brews, and a bar featuring "an eclectic selection of small-batch bourbons" will provide another unique feature.
Larkin said Brutopia is dedicated to exploring the "relationship between beer and wood, and the relationship between bourbon and wood."
Larkin's experience in the local brewing scene is extensive. For the last 14 years, he has served as the chief brewing officer for Trinity Brewhouse in Providence. He has also worked with Narragansett on the creation of new brands and quality control and holds creative rights to Narragansett Fest, Narragansett Porter and Narragansett Bock while working with the company on new seasonal styles.
"That sort of kicked off my consulting career," he said.
The winner of 12 awards at the Great International Beer Festival and a world cup medal in 1996 for his Russian Imperial Stout, Larkin also started Revival Brewing alongside founder and CEO Owen Johnson and creative director Jeff Grantz.
"That sort of broadened my horizons and what I was doing," he said.
Larkin has since formed the Rhode Island Brewer's Guild, a means through which brewers can connect and support one another. Brutopia, he said, will have 12 faucets, with six – and at times seven or eight – dedicated to the in-house offerings and the other serving to showcase other locally made brews.
"It shows solidarity," he said, describing his approach as "celebrating the occupation."
Larkin said he will train a new brewmaster at Brutopia over the first year, as Revival develops plans for its own brewhouse in Providence. Revival, he said, remains his "first and foremost" pursuit, while his roles with Trinity and Brutopia allow him to foster the growth of others in the business.
"This was a great opportunity for me to set up a brewhouse," he said of Brutopia. "More or less, it's sort of spreading out our brewing crew."
A Providence native, Larkin also speaks of his approach in broader terms. In an industry sometimes mired in competitiveness, and in a state still struggling economically, he said promoting his industry in unique ways benefits the larger community.
"We need to be supportive of products that are manufactured in Rhode Island or close to Rhode Island," he said. "There's a bigger picture at hand, which is creating jobs for brewers out there and promoting beer culture…I'm happy with the project."
Sorbo said the hope is to eventually distribute Brutopia's homemade beers. He praised both Larkin and Gibson – calling the latter a "Rhode Island staple" – and said he is thrilled with the final product.
"It's very unique, and it represents a real brewpub," he said.
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Bochy is slumping, too
There's no denying it. The Giants are struggling.
Giants fans are celebrating the fact that Aubrey Huff is no longer hitting below .200. They can't say the same for Cody Ross or Miguel Tejada. In fact, the 6-7-8 hitters in Thursday's lineup were all hitting under .200 (Ross, Tejada and Eli Whiteside).
But not only are the Giants hitters in a slump, so is manager Bruce Bochy.
The skipper has not made solid contact when trying to put on plays to help a lineup struggling to put runs on the board.
On Tuesday, we saw Bochy more animated than we're used to see him, when he angrily kicked a dugout step when the Giants failed to get a runner home from third with no one out in the ninth inning of a 6-6 ball game.
Or maybe he was upset with himself for not putting on a play.
Here's how it went down.
Leading off the top of the ninth, the Giants had a rare combination of speed with Emmanuel Burriss and Darren Ford leading off.
The problem with these two speedsters is that they first must get on base. But Burriss and Ford both accomplished that feat — by hitting the ball a combined 75 feet.
First Burriss reached on a swinging bunt. Then he stole second base.
Ford tried to bunt him over to third, which he did. But his bunt was so good, it allowed Ford to reach first.
So now the Giants had runners on first and third and no outs. Bochy let Rowand swing away to get a run home. Not a bad strategy as Rowand was one of the hotter hitters in the Giants lineup during the road trip.
But Rowand popped out in foul territory to Mets first baseman Ike Davis.
Then came Miguel Tejada — he of the sub-.200 batting average. Instead of putting on a play like a suicide squeeze or safety squeeze, utilizing Burriss' speed and Tejada's ability to put a good bunt down (we've seen it a couple of times this season), Bochy let Tejada swing away.
He popped out. The only surprise there is that he didn't strike out.
Then after Mike Fontenot (the most feared No. 3 hitter in the majors) walked, Buster Posey popped out to end the inning.
Then came Wednesday. The Giants had Nate Schierholtz on third and Tejada on first with one out and Cody Ross at the plate.
Ross had worked the count full when Giants announcers Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow had this exchange:
Mike Krukow: "Well, do you start Tejada (from first base)?"
Duane Kuiper: "I do not."
Krukow: "You're bettting on contact. And Cody Ross already has swung through two fastballs. That's what you're looking at if you're Bruce Bochy."
Makes sense. Except Bochy must have been in the toilet during those first two whiffs by Ross because he sent Tejada.
Ross swung and missed for strike three, Tejada was hung out to try and Schierholtz tried to make something happen by breaking to the plate. But he was thrown out.
So Bochy has been aggressive when he should have been conservative, and conservative when he should have been aggressive.
Fortunately, those two previous situations came in Giant wins.
Let's hope that a return home this week helps the Giants break out of their hitting slump. Because Bochy's batting average is not so hot right now either.


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Ted Dog
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Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2005, 10:56
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Dvd .iso version 1.05
Using the remasterCD script here is a DVD-only v1.05 multi-session iso to burn using normal puppy. Change into the download directory and type this.
change /dev/hdb to your burner, found in CD/DVD wizard.
growisofs -Z /dev/hdb=DeVilDog.iso
or use this as a script
BURNERDRIVE="/dev/`cat /etc/cdburnerdevice`
growisofs -Z $BURNERDRIVE=DeVilDog.iso
It does not use cdrecord hince those strange error msgs from normal puppy and its error resulting in only one session saved do not exist.
EDIT: changed to point to newer improved version - Ted Dog 10/9/05
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Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2005, 11:00
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Ted, I really want to try it out, but all I get are pictures of cows and goats.
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Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2005, 11:04
Post subject: opps try again
Ok changed the name to the one listed, please try again
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Ted Dog
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 13:03
Post subject: adding developer squashfs to DeVilDog v1.05
from the download directory (or /mnt/home ) containing usr_devx.sfs
type this command to add to existing burned DVD disk
growisofs -M /dev/`cat /etc/cdburnerdevice` -D -R -J usr_devx.sfs
you can also add usr_more.sfs (if you got one)
growisofs -M /dev/`cat /etc/cdburnerdevice` -D -R -J usr_more.sfs
add this to rc.local
---------------------- rc.local ----------------
ONECD="/dev/`cat /etc/cdburnerdevice`"
mount -t iso9660 $ONECD /mnt/home > /dev/null 2>&1
cp /mnt/home/*.sfs /livecd/
if [ ! "`ls /livecd/usr_devx.sfs 2> /dev/null`" = "" ];then
mkdir /.usr_devx
echo "Mounting /livecd/usr_devx.sfs file on /.usr_devx..."
losetup /dev/loop3 /livecd/usr_devx.sfs
mount -r -t squashfs -o noatime /dev/loop3 /.usr_devx
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
if [ ! "`ls /livecd/usr_more.sfs 2> /dev/null`" = "" ];then
mkdir /.usr_more
echo "Mounting /livecd/usr_more.sfs file on /.usr_more..."
losetup /dev/loop4 /livecd/usr_more.sfs
mount -r -t squashfs -o noatime /dev/loop4 /.usr_more
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
umount $ONECD
fuser -k -m /usr
umount -r /usr
mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/root/.usr=rw${USRDEVX}${USRMORE}:/.usr_cram=ro none /usr
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 13:30
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Hey Ted, thanks. I downloaded it and it works beyond my expectations. For convenience I burned it in Windows with a program called Record Now, because that program has always worked for me. I burned a mini (8 cm) DVD+RW, booted it with option 5, configured it, did some things, shut down, then rebooted and the stuff I had done was still there. Then I sent a few emails and shut down. When I rebooted all the emails I had sent were in the sent folder.
I'm now in my third boot of this DVD and it's saved everything from the first two sessions except your iso, which I had transferred from Windows' NTFS partition to the "My Applications" folder in Puppy. I don't see why the iso wasn't saved. The folder I put the iso in was saved but the iso wasn't.
I burned some folders from Windows' NTFS onto the multisession DVD using TkDVD (checking the "Add Session to Disk -M" option in TkDVD's "Advanced" window), and the folders show up when I mount the DVD. I haven't rebooted it yet to see what happens.
Watch this space for more exciting developments.
Thanks again Ted, and Barry.
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Ted Dog
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 13:42
Post subject: TkDVD is missing the -D command
this could cause some problems. Since you are on a DVD+RW what the hay it is easy to reuse. You do not even need to erase it (shortens the rewrite count a lot)
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Ted Dog
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 13:47
Post subject: TKDVD settings
uncheck all but the -M and use -R (not -r)
resulting like this
growisofs -M /dev/dvd -J -R -graft.....
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 21:06
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Ted, what does the code, that I'm supposed to add to rc.local, do? To put that another way, why do I need it?
- Thanks
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Ted Dog
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 21:20
Post subject: adds the use of developer tools
-Short answer Not if you can wait.
using your feed back the corrected tlDVD, burnISO2CD, added those changes in rc.local into sysinit-cd where it logically belong fixes are coming into version two of DeVilDog.iso I was trying to fix that dang cdrecord bug for non-DVD users and I am stuck
-now for those who can't wait if the above code is added and *.sfs files are in the same directory as usr_cram.fs, then like magic make,cc and the rest of the developer tools work. So you can compile smallish programs in RAM or in linux, vfat, flashdrive straight off the DVD.
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Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2005, 21:26
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Thanks, I guess I can wait.
I have plenty to occupy me till then.
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Puppy Master
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Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2005, 19:38
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Ted Dog,
I'm testing version 1.
It's nice not to have those error messages!
Okay, a bug...
Nothing can be deleted.
Your rc.reboot-cd does not save 00files.backup and 00files.deleted to the DVD so they aren't there on next boot.
The problem is, I deleted a file, and it is back on the next boot.
Which means that the size of files in /root is going to keep growing and
growing ...very bad since it is only in a ramdisk.
I will also have a look at the script this afternoon.
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Puppy Master
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Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 20:05
Post subject:
Ted Dog, building on your invaluable experience with growisofs, I have
updated rc.reboot-cd and rc.sysinit-cd, now all working, file deletion also.
Ted Dog, you examined this problem of sessions with growisofs.
Using cdrecord -toc, it shows two tracks, the original live-cd, and when
folders are saved at end of each session they just become track 2.
In other words, track 2 just keeps growing until dvd is full.
It seems, growisofs -Z creates the live-cd first track.
However the subsequent saving of each session with growisofs -M goes
into track 2.
The growisofs docs don't say this?
They do say the the commandline options in both cases, that is when
burning the first time with -Z and subsequent times with -M, that all
other options must be exactly the same.
...which they aren't.
The first time, we a building a bootable dvd, so have extra parameters.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
I would, if possible, like to get it down to all be on one track.
With current situation, there are still some seek errors at shutdown,
due to the 2 tracks.
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Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 21:18
Post subject: cdrecord not really used in combination with growiso
I removed active use of cdrecord (I suspect some how it is bad without scsi or without K2.6 series) with in rc.reboot-cd script. Also note Knoppix states that unionfs was to buggy in their early use but it seems to work ok here.
The cdrecord commands found are hold overs (lazy on my part)
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Puppy Master
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Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 22:04
Post subject:
There are two tracks though.
The "disktype" program confirms it.
I hunted around on the Internet, found a vague reference that confirms this.
It suggested the only way to get just one track is with a DVD-RW (I'm using
DVD-Rs) and to put it into "overwrite format" by doing this:
# dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc
then when you do growisofs, firstly with -Z then save sessions with -M,
it is all in one track. ...or so the info implied.
DVD-Rs and normal DVD-RWs are in "sequential format".
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Ted Dog
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Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 22:57
Post subject: Testing in DVD-RW drawback
I enjoyed only having one reusable DVD to do development. It has been used from version 1.02 on (with earlier growiso tests) I bought a newer DVD (dual layer) for my main linux box, and had trouble reading the DVD-R mini second track burned on winXP box at my folks house. It sound like the same issue you raised. I'll try burning a new mini after a format to see if that was it, I was ready to return this new DVD drive.
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See also: Vestibüle
Early 17th century from French vestibule ("entrance court"), from Latin vestibulum, from vestiō ("I dress") (English vest) + -bulum ("location") (English -ible), from vestis ("clothing"), from Proto-Indo-European *wes-ti(h₂)-, from *wes- ("to be dressed") (English wear) + Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom ("instrumental suffix") (English -ible).
vestibule (plural vestibules)
- (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building. [from the 17th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 9,
- Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
- 1913, Vestibule (Porch), article in Catholic Encyclopedia,
- The purpose of the vestibule, at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
- 1929 April, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror, Chapter VI, published in Weird Tales,
- Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule door.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 9,
- (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
- 1912, Electric railway journal, Volume XL, Number 14, page 556,
- The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.
- 1912, Electric railway journal, Volume XL, Number 14, page 556,
- (medicine, anatomy, by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. [from the 18th c.]
- 1838, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 17-18, page 333,
- The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.
- 1920, Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal passageways, and olfactory organ in man; a genetic, developmental, and anatomico-physiological consideration, page 73,
- The Vestibule (vestibulum nasi). — The paired vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.
- 2001, René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment, page 79,
- The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule.
- 1838, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volumes 17-18, page 333,
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a passage, hall or room
body cavity
vestibule (third-person singular simple present vestibules, present participle vestibuling, simple past and past participle vestibuled)
- (transitive) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brander Matthews to this entry?)
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Borrowed from Latin vestibulum.
vestibule m (plural vestibules)
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- "vestibule" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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Chicago rowing coach and charity founder Jenn Gibbons finished her 1,500-mile rowing journey around the perimeter of Lake Michigan today, about a month after she was sexually assaulted in her boat during the trip.
"Thank you for welcoming me to Chicago," a grinning Gibbons told dozens of supporters outside of the Chicago Yacht Club.
Before she docked her boat, Gibbons took a moment to wave a flag of Chicago given to her by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, which drew cheers and clapping.
She quickly tied her rowboat to the pier and then embraced her teammates with a group hug.
Following the assault, Gibbons docked her boat for almost a week as she spoke with investigators about the incident.
To make up for lost time, she decided to bike more than 500 miles from Manistique, Mich. to Muskegon, Mich., until she was back on schedule, hitting 80 to 90 miles on average per day.
Gibbons said she had only biked about 30 miles in one sitting before and had to quickly learn how to navigate her bicycle, which she named Liv 2. Her teammates and friends back in Chicago provided moral and emotional support, especially those who joined her on the biking adventure, she said.
"Certainly there were people that would say to me ... that I don't have to keep going, that I can go home," she said. "But then I think I just got kind of defensive ... once I decided to keep going, it was what I was going to do."
Gibbons, 27, was recently named one of 20 inspiring women by Today's Chicago Woman magazine. She departed June 15 in her bright yellow vessel, planning to stop in 10 port towns to raise money for her charity Recovery on Water and highlight the role exercise plays in the fight against breast cancer.
Before she left, she packed 210 dehydrated meals and hundreds of Luna bars into her boat, the Liv. She was in the cabin of her 700-pound rowboat while it was tied to a dock early in July when she was assaulted. Details of the attack, in an area along Lake Michigan in Schoolcraft County, Michigan were withheld because the investigation was ongoing.
Though shaken, Gibbons worked with detectives and reached out to the news media to help find her attacker. Her primary concern, she said, was starting the healing process and finishing what she had begun.
"I've trained enough physically, spiritually and mentally," Gibbons said two days after the assault, by phone. "Every single day I have had ups and downs. I'm constantly improvising. I've trained well. This just requires pushing through an obstacle that's bigger than the rest."
Gibbons posted a statement on her Facebook page and on the site row4row.org vowing to continue her journey. Within hours she had 60 missed phone calls and had received hundreds of emails. Support came from a wide range of people: friends, strangers, breast cancer survivors and victims of sexual assault, she said.
"Because this has been such a public thing from the start and I have an audience, I think it's important that I share (what happened)," she said at the time. "When I do share, people have been able to relate and gain some kind of strength or inspiration from what I've been going through. And it helps me share too."
While she continued her trip, Gibbons said she would make some changes to ensure her safety, including that she no longer would travel alone.
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Israeli army chief Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday said there is no alternative to another major military ground operation in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
"From time to time, we face rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and we understand the continuing buildup from the Sinai region," said Gantz. "I believe that the state of Israel cannot continue to live under the active threat of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Sooner or later, there will be no escape from conducting a significant operation."
Gantz's remarks came just hours after Israeli aircraft struck two Palestinian terror cells en route to carry out attacks along Gaza's border fence. Gaza-based terror groups responded by firing rockets at communities in southern Israel early Wednesday morning.
Lawmaker Shaul Mofaz, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said he approved of the targeted airstrikes, but warned that a more substantial response to the mounting threat emanating from Gaza cannot be sidestepped much longer.
"Israel needed to respond differently to the violence coming from the Strip," said Mofaz. "Not to occupy Gaza, but to act in a way that would cause terrorist organizations to think twice before firing long-range missiles."
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Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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Location: israel
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:46 pm
Post subject: finger food and appetizers
i love parties where all the food is "finger food", a wide choice of various small bites, savoury and spicy , a feast of imagination and tastes.
Easy to eat, infinite variety. lots of fun to prepare.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:26 pm
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And lots of dip dishes, I love a party with dips and fingerfoods too!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:47 am
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I love doing finger-food parties: deviled eggs, meatballs, stuffed mushrooms, celery with flavored cream cheese, pita with homemade hummus, vegetables and assorted dips, chocolate covered strawberries...
"La cuisine au beurre est toujours meilleure."
- Julia Child, 1912-2004
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:33 pm
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So nice to hear from other finger food afficionados. I will be very grateful of any original, new or grandma recipe, to add to my repertoire. I'll be also happy to share mine
Does anybody know about "the" ultimate cook book of appetizers and finger food? Thanks
Chocolate as a religion , I buy that, "no more war, more chocolate". (personally I prefer a good herring and vodka, but chocolate is ok too)
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Location: Paris
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:35 am
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Good morning!
Dinatoir! My favourite!! I love all the little morsels of flavour and being able to taste everything. Every now and then my husband and I do this for a casual dinner instead of cooking a main meal.
Last thursday we had blinis with creme fraiche and salmon roe, blinis with homemade guacamole and tomato slices sprinkled with cracked pepper and sharp cheese, crusty fresh baguette with foi gras, cashews, macadamias, hazelnuts and pecans with brie, conte and another cheese which I can't remember the name of. All of this washed down with a bordeaux speciale.
I have quail eggs for this week and will also do some tiny new potatoes and fill with creme fraiche, finely diced proscutto and herbs. Might do some lovely fresh asparagus spears as they look so fabulous at present. Smoked salmon is also calling my tastebuds, so might have to bring out some lemon and capers to go with it. Oh my mouth is watering. This may have to be the public holiday feast instead of midweek pick me up.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:53 am
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I was sure the topic was dead, and therefore i'm so happy that you, debbie, brought it back to life.
I'm compiling recipes for a book of fingerfood and appetizers, hoping to get a food editor I happen to know interested in it ( dreams are allowed, in between a blini and a glass of Bordeaux!!).
I will be so grateful for any ideas, recipes, from all the corner of the world. Your blinis with guacamole and sharp cheese are already noted, Debbie. Thanks. Sometimes, instead ob blinis, I serve the salmon caviar on little potato and sweet potatoes "latkes" which are small fried "cakes", They can be eaten solo, or with creme fraiche , or with apple
puree and a sprinkle of sharp cheese.
no more war, more blinis and caviar!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:36 pm
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De rien.
Potato, yum! I should have been of Irish descent I think. I could eat potato at every meal.
Those little potato cakes are nice with a pinch of fresh grated nutmeg added to them and then topped wth creme fraische and spring onion and sashimi salmon.
I actually made some potato cakes for a dinner party that I had a few weeks ago. Instead of small and for nibbles I made them larger and served them as a side dish to the chicken meal. In the mix I put fresh rosemary (chopped very fine so it doesn't peirce your mouth) and some really sharp cheese with a few pinches of dorrigo pepper (an Australian native bush spice).
The French guests raved about it and I had put the same pepper on the chicken breasts with a few other Australian spices and herbs and cooked them with a smear of olive oil in a frypan. As always I had cooked way too much for the number of guests, and thought we would be eating leftovers the next day (which is sometimes the best part of the meal, after the flavours have developed overnight). The husband asked if there was seconds and everyone proceeded to eat every bit of what I had cooked! Pretty good considering that I had served up huge oprtions the first time around. I felt appreciated that night!
The chicken can be cut into small peices and cooked the same way, then skewered onto toothpicks or a few peices on a long skewer and served as nibbles.
Pork loin wrapped in proscuttio and baked with apples on skewers is also really tasty as nibbles. Can also be cooked whole, carved and served with veges for a main meal.
My mouth is watering again and it is nearly midnight.... Any more recipes or ideas just email away to me.
Let me know how you go with the book. I expect to be able to buy a signed copy when it is published.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Canton, TX USA
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:03 am
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Lots of good finger foods already suggested. I especially like tiny turnovers, or any type of pastry enclosing a filling. Phyllo, shortcrust, American biscuit-type dough or yeast dough. Any filling. 1-2 bites. With sauce of some kind for dipping. Oh, and the little Asian rolls like Clotilde made with rice-paper wrappers & spicy peanut sauce is yummy! Another type I like are little kebabs, either meat, veggie, or a combination.
Good luck with your book idea, Simona!
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Location: israel
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:56 pm
Post subject: finger food
thanks for the encouragement, I write down every bit of information.
Debbie, If and when this book will be printed, I promise you a signed copy, but, my signature will unfortunately the only thing you may be able to read. The book will be in ...Hebrew.
No more war, more finger food!
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:07 pm
Post subject: Re: finger food
Finger food .... yummy. A nice one is mini Yorkshire puddings (I am English originally so grew up with Yorkshire pudding!) topped with a thin slice of rare roast beef and then with some horseradish cream. Delish, and very English!!
Mmmmm ...
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:15 pm
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Simona, I firmly believe that food is an international language! I have cook books that I cannot read the "method" for making the dish, but can read the ingredients and devour the pictures.
I sincerely hope that you find a great publisher and your book is a huge success. Don't forget to tell us all when it is happening. What an exciting time in your life!
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Ontario, Canada
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:59 pm
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Too often people serve appetizers and then you don't have room for dinner. In the summer we often have "pot luck" parties where I just ask everyone to bring an appetizer; we always end up with more than enough food.
My latest favourite are Thai spring rolls with peanut sauce (someone else mentioned those) and also shrimp chips with peanut sauce. I buy the shrimp (or prawn) chips at an oriental supermarket & fry them up myself. A co-worker recently gave me homemade shrimp chips but I haven't had time to gry them up yet. I took a Thai cooking class & got the recipe for the peanut sauce. I will have to look through the archives and get Clotilde's recipe.
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:04 pm
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Oh...my friend did this recipe for stuffed mushrooms a few weeks ago, but instead of using chevre with herbes she used a goat cheese with cranberries & cinnamon!!! Now I never would have thought of that flavour combination but they were to die for!
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Olmert consents to Muslim prayer tower
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JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given permission for Jordan to build a large minaret adjacent to a mosque on the Temple Mount to call Muslims to prayer at the holy site, WND has learned.
The minaret will stand at a site on the Mount where Jewish groups here had petitioned to build a synagogue.
A minaret is a tower usually attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to the five Islamic daily prayers.
Temple Mount in Jerusalem
There are four minarets on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The new minaret will be the largest one yet. It will be the first built on the Temple Mount in over 600 years and is slated to tower over the walls of Jerusalem's old city. It will reside next to the Al-Marwani Mosque, located at the site of Solomon's Stables.
Aryeh Eldad, a Knesset member from Israel's National Union party, last year drew up plans with Jewish groups to build a synagogue near the Marwani Mosque. The synagogue was to be built in accordance with rulings from several prominent rabbis, who said Jews can ascend the Mount at certain areas.
A top leader of the Waqf – the Islamic custodians of the Mount – told WND Olmert's granting of permission to build the minaret in the synagogue's place "confirms 100-percent the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) belongs to Muslims."
"This proves Jewish conspiracies for a synagogue will never succeed and solidifies our presence here. It will make Muslims worldwide more secure that the Jews will never take over the Haram al-Sharif," the Waqf official said.
Sources in the Jordanian monarchy and the Waqf told WND Olmert earlier this month gave Jordan's King Abdullah official permission to build the minaret. The sources said the minaret will rise 130 feet above the ancient walls of Jerusalem.
A senior Olmert adviser today confirmed to WND the Israeli prime minister told Abdullah he will allow the minaret's construction.
The adviser said he could not speak on the record because Israel has been waiting for an "opportune time" to officially announce permission for the new minaret.
In October, King Abdullah announced plans to build the fifth minaret, although at the time the Jordanians reportedly did not have Israel's permission to commence construction. Abdullah said the minaret would bear the symbol of the Jordanian monarchy.
The Temple Mount's first minaret was constructed on the southwest corner in 1278; the second was built in 1297 by order of a Mameluke king; the third by a governor of Jerusalem in 1329; and the last in 1367.
Prominent Israeli archeologist Gabi Barkai of Tel Aviv University blasted the new minaret plans.
"I am against any change in the status quo on the Temple Mount. If the status quo is being changed, then it should not just be the addition of Muslim structures at the site," Barkai said.
Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the international department at Israel's Temple Institute , told WND Olmert's decision to allow the minaret "is repugnant to anyone who knows what it is to be a Jew."
"The decision and Israel's general attitude toward the Temple Mount is the manifestation of spiritual bankruptcy in the country's leadership. Olmert is turning his back on our Jewish heritage while the rest of the world looks at us with amazement at how we can be so insensitive to our own spiritual legacy."
Al Aqsa Mosque built by angels?
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. For Muslims, it is Islam's third holiest site.
The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.
The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's "presence" dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site.
The temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays.
The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact.
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark the place where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven.
Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night from "a sacred mosque" – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to "the farthest mosque," and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque later became associated with Jerusalem.
Most Waqf officials deny the Jewish temples ever existed in spite of what many call overwhelming archaeological evidence, including the discovery of Temple-era artifacts linked to worship, tunnels that snake under the Temple Mount and over 100 ritual immersion pools believed to have been used by Jewish priests to cleanse themselves before services. The cleansing process is detailed in the Torah.
According to the website of the Palestinian Authority's Office for Religious Affairs, the Temple Mount is Muslim property. The site claims the Western Wall, which it refers to as the Al-Boraq Wall, previously was a docking station for horses. It states Muhammed tied his horse, named Boraq, to the wall before ascending to heaven.
In an interview with WND, Kamal Hatib, vice-chairman of the Islamic Movement, which will take part in the podium installation ceremonies, claimed the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by angels and that a Jewish Temple may have existed, but not in Jerusalem. The Movement, which works closely with the Waqf, is the Muslim group in Israel most identified with the Temple Mount.
"When the First Temple was built by Solomon – God bless him – Al Aqsa was already built. We don't believe that a prophet like Solomon would have built the Temple at a place where a mosque existed," said Hatib.
"And all the historical and archaeological facts deny any relation between the temples and the location of Al Aqsa," he continued. "We must know that Jerusalem was occupied and that people left many things, coins and other things everywhere. This does not mean in any way that there is a link between the people who left these things and the place where these things were left."
Al Aqsa official: Jewish temples existed
Last June, in a widely circulated WND interview, a former senior leader of the Waqf contradicted his colleagues, saying he has come to believe the first and second Jewish Temples existed and stood at the current location of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
The leader, who was dismissed from his Waqf position after he quietly made his beliefs known, said Al Aqsa custodians passed down stories for centuries from generation to generation indicating the mosque was built at the site of the former Jewish temples.
He said the Muslim world's widespread denial of the existence of the Jewish temples is political in nature and is not rooted in facts.
"Prophet Solomon built his famous Temple at the same place that later the Al Aqsa Mosque was built. It cannot be a coincidence that these different holy sites were built at the same place. The Jewish Temple Mount existed," said the former senior Waqf leader, speaking to WND from an apartment in an obscure alley in Jerusalem's Old City.
The former leader, who is well known to Al Aqsa scholars and Waqf officials, spoke on condition his name be withheld, claiming an on-the-record interview would endanger his life.
He told WND "true" Islamic tradition relates the Jewish temples once stood at the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
"[The existence of the Jewish Temple at the site is obvious] according to studies, researches and archaeological signs that we were also exposed to. But especially according to the history that passed from one generation to another – we believe Al Aqsa was built on the same place were the Temple of the Jews – the first monotheistic religion – existed."
He cited samples of some stories he said were related orally by Islamic leaders:
"We learned that the Christians, especially those who believed that Jesus was crucified by the Jews, used to throw their garbage at the Temple Mount site. They used to throw the pieces of cotton and other material Christian women used in cleaning the blood of their monthly cycle. Doing so, they believed that they were humiliating, insulting and harming the Jews at their holiest site. This way they are hurting them like Jews hurt Christians when crucifying Jesus.
"It is known also that most of the first guards of Al Aqsa when it was built were Jews. The Muslims knew at that time that they could not find any more loyal and faithful than the Jews to guard the mosque and its compound. They knew that the Jews have a special relation with this place."
Temple Mount: No-prayer zone
Currently, even though the Jewish state controls Jerusalem, the Waqf serve as the custodians of the Temple Mount under a deal made with the Israeli government that restricts non-Muslim prayer at the site.
The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area.
Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.
The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered "sensitive" by the Waqf.
During "open" days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.
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When Daylesford storyteller - and former ABC Ballarat employee - Anne E Stewart visited Iran for an international storytelling conference, she didn't know quite what to expect. But she was thrilled to find a place with a passion for storytelling to match her own.
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"I've travelled a fair bit with my storytelling and it was the most astounding, interesting place I've ever been."
She says the country's love of stories was obvious by the media attention given to the 16th International Storytelling Conference, that was held in the historic city of Tabriz.
"We were on all sorts of media, there were huge posters all over the town."
Anne says many people in Australia could learn from Iran when it comes to embracing the power and educational value of storytelling, that is also obvious in Indigenous culture here.
"I have come back refreshed, I thought, 'what a great way to teach kids language, translating stories and listening to different cultures', so I'm really excited about where we might move on."
But Anne says she did struggle with conforming to meet the strict social expectations of women.
"I think I may have made a few faux pas. Nobody ever told me not to shake hands with a holy man. I know that sounds very ignorant, but there were so many different things with the women totally covered, us having to stay covered, not being able to approach men.
"So that was quite different for me, and I found it a bit hard sometimes."
She says she's now looking forward to her next storytelling trip.
"I've been to quite a few places in my time, I'm just looking now for where I might like to go next."


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As a student at Point Park University, Seongho Cha performed with Ashley Walton in Lisa de Ribere's "Eau de Vie"
Seongho Cha, a 2006 graduate of Point Park University's dance program, will be performing with the international company of Shen Yun 2012, the classical Chinese dance and musical experience, at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh Feb. 15-16.
Seongho Cha has been the recipient of numerous honors, including second place at the 2009 NTDTV International Chinese Classical Dance Competition and a gold medal at the National Ballet Competition of Korea. Cha was born in South Korea. He has been dancing with Shen Yun as a principal dancer since 2008.
Performances of Shen Yun 2012 will be at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 15-16. For ticket information, visit trustarts.org.
Read Cha's Shen Yen artist profile. Watch a video of Cha produced by Anaheim Ballet, where he was a principal dancer.
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