lay the groundwork for a summit as early as next month between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

In his weekly call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, insisted neither Moscow nor Washington was ready to issue a formal statement with details but did confirm media reports that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton would visit Russia next week.

"As far as we know, such a visit will indeed take place. This is all we can say at the moment," said Peskov in comments carried by the Interfax news agency.

Both Trump and Putin have long expressed interest in a formal summit but the sudden push for a July meeting seems to have gained traction in the wake of what the White House argues was a successful meeting earlier this monthwith North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Singapore.

In a replay reminiscent of the scramble to arrange the North Korean summit, Bolton and Russian officials will seek to hash out logistics, including the date, time, and location as well as any potential joint communique to come out of a meeting with the Russian leader.

(Both Russian and U.S. media report Austria would be the desired host country, either before or after Trump's visit to the NATO summit in Brussels July 11.)

Trump, observers note, is hemmed in by an investigation into contacts between his presidential campaign and Russian government agents on the road to his 2016 election win.

Putin, too, has previously acknowledged that allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. elections, charges the Russian president vehemently denies, starkly limit options for


a productive summit.

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The U.S. president has repeatedly seemed eager to defy both his critics and foreign policy expectations when it comes to Russia — recently even angering traditional U.S. allies at the G-7 summit in Quebec, when he argued Russia should be reinstated to the Group of Eight countries, despite being kicked out for its annexation of Crimea.

For that reason, Russian political observers suggest most Kremlin officials saw a Trump-Putin summit, in whatever form, as a win, "aExtra, extra: Cards' offense gets on a roll

SEATTLE -- With the Mariners threatening to sweep, the Cardinals capped their visit to Seattle by clobbering a franchise-record 13 extra-base hits to turn a game that was tied through six innings into an 11-6 victory on Sunday.

Not since 1940 had this team tallied 13 extra-base hits in game. It happened three times previous to that, as well. The total also matched the Safeco Field record, set by the Indians in 2004. All 11 of the Cardinals' runs were directly linked to one of those extra-base knocks.

SEATTLE -- With the Mariners threatening to sweep, the Cardinals capped their visit to Seattle by clobbering a franchise-record 13 extra-base hits to turn a game that was tied through six innings into an 11-6


victory on Sunday.

Not since 1940 had this team tallied 13 extra-base hits in game. It happened three times previous to that, as well. The total also matched the Safeco Field record, set by the Indians in 2004. All 11 of the Cardinals' runs were directly linked to one of those extra-base knocks.

"I think you're seeing what we always thought we had in this group," said Matt Carpenter, who tripled, homered twice, and is now hitting .400 over his last 18 games. "It's as good of an offense as I've ever played with here in St. Louis."

The six home runs hit on Sunday matched the team's single-game high for the season and fell one short of that franchise record of seven, set in 1913 and again in 1996. Withwhole career in the minors, I think you're probably just being overly optimistic. But I think this is more realistic because it's guys who have done it."

Before the deluge of home runs started on Sunday, the Cardinals used five doubles and a triple to take a 5-3 lead against Seattle's James Paxton. Four of those doubles came consecutively in a four-run fifth that pulled the Cardinals out of a two-run hole.

The homers started an inning later, with Carpenter hitting the first. Back-to-back blasts by Jedd Gyorko and Tommy Pham in the seventh pushed the club back in front after Kevin Siegrist served up a game-tying blast. Pham also finished with a multi-homer game, the second of his career.

"On this team, it seems like they come in bunches," said


from the Bristol Robotics Lab.

All these details made the project challenging. The early part of the project was done in computer simulations, and it took the team about three years before the real robot swarm made its first shape. But the robots’ limitations also forced the team to devise clever, robust mechanisms to orchestrate the swarm patterning. By taking inspiration from shape formation in biology, the team was able to show that their robot shapes could adapt to damage, and self-repair. The large-scale shape formation of the swarm is far more reliable than each of the little robots, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Potential for real world applications

While inspiration was taken from nature to grow the swarm shapes, the goal is ultimately to makenon-vegetarian, still I became the president of the party," he said.

In the last three years, incidents of `cow vigilantes' indulging in violence have been reported from many parts of the country.

A recent order by the Union government banning sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets fuelled the debate on beef ban afresh.


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The media and pundits went wild when Donald Trump expressed his hope that Russian hackers might find those 30,000 emails that Hillary Clinton and the State Department claim are lost forever from her bootleg private server.

Trump later said he was making a joke. Well, it may have been in poor taste but Trump’s “joke” is really not a joke at all.

Regardless of who actually broke into and leaked those DNC files that embarrassed the Clinton campaign on the eve of the Democratic convention and forced the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Trump was pointing out a sober reality: as a nation we have become increasingly defenseless in the face of what cyber experts call Advanced Persistent Threats in the cyber sphere, particularly Russia but also China.

ThoseThe Dowager Countess will be delighted. The third series of the British costume drama Downton Abbey opened to a record audience of nearly eight million viewers in the US, the biggest ever audience for its stateside broadcaster, PBS.

Downton Abbey was watched by 7.9 million people on Sunday night, nearly double the 4.2 million who watched the opening episode of series two.

The season premiere, which featured the wedding of Matthew and Lady Mary Crawley, delivered public service broadcasting network PBS its highest ever ratings, making it the second most-watched network in its timeslot, beaten only by CBS.

Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess, left, and Shirley MacLaine.

Downton's big numbers came in spite of a controversial decision by PBS to air the Julian Fellowes drama more than three months after it


screened in the UK.

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It is a sign of Downton Abbey's US appeal, because PBS's primetime shows are typically watched by around two million viewers.

The first episode of season three also featured the first appearance by Oscar-winning US actor Shirley MacLaine.

Series three finished in the UK at the end of last year and was followed by a Christmas special which was deemed lacklustre by some critics but had a consolidated audience of more than 10 million viewers.

Paula Kerger, PBS president and chief executive, said: "Downton Abbey continues to enthrall audiences nationwide, and this season is especially riveting with the addition of Shirley MacLaine to the cast and the lively interaction between her and Maggie Smith.

"I'm so pleased that audiences have returned to Downton Abbey to continue to enjoy someof the best drama on television."

Winner of seven Emmy awards in the US, Downton is nominated for three awards at the Golden Globes this Sunday (Monday AEST).

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My sister sent series three of Downton out from the UK for my Xmas present. I watched ALL episodes pretty much back to back on Boxing Day eating Lindor balls form the fridge. Bliss.

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Wow. I bet no one else thought of doing that.

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January 09, 2013, 10:16PM

And we are still waiting for it to be aired here in Australia ...... Channel 7 you sux

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January 09, 2013, 4:43PM

Tony Abbott should be happy. The irony of him saying he prefers to watch this instead of football- except the football wasn't screened on


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“Brigitte” was the name used by Jeferson Aquilino Escalona Escobar, a transsexual who was brutally beaten and suffocated on the Nueva Granada avenue in Caracas, an event that caused his death a week later.

According to media reports, on Friday, August 30, Brigitte left home to work and since then her family and friends did not hear from her again. Her disappearance caused alarm. She was the second of 10 children.

After leaving for work, Brigitte did not return. Hours later – Saturday, August 31 – members of the Fire Department of the Capital District found her lying unconscious on the ground, showing signs of suffocation and punches. Her attackers robbed her, they took everything they could, money, cell phone, chains and wallet.

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The GAO conducted the report for Sens. Claire McCaskill and Elizabeth Warren, who were biting in a statement, with Warren calling it "predatory and counterproductive" to tap into "the sole source of income for millions of seniors." Among the findings they highlight: More than 7 million Americans over age 50 have student loan debt, but there's been an explosion among the 65-and-up set, which has seen their federal student-loan debt leap from more than $2 billion in fiscal year 2005 to almost $22 billion 10 years later. That debt is held by 870,000 seniors, which works out to an average of about $25,000 each. The maximum possible reduction is 15% of their Social Security benefit payment, and the average monthly garnishmentAuthorities discovered the body of a 2-year-old girl in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, three days after they said she was kidnapped by a woman who speeded off with the girl in her car.

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Dougherty said Sharena Islam Nancy, 25, remained in custody on charges of kidnapping, interference with custody of children and concealment of whereabouts of a child.

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Bader presented the idea of an art installation using umbrellas on the beach to DIFFA- Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS. They liked the idea and Absolut Vodka was quickly secured as an underwriter.

The canvas umbrellas were donated by a company that wanted anonymity. From the western edge of the community to the former Talisman 250 six foot wide, bright pink umbrellas lined the beach at the dune line.

Pink the color associated with gayness ( as Bader put it) , festive times, and the idea of the umbrella elegant yet awkward – firmly planted in the sand and scarcely moving in the strong late August breeze. Ten teams of volunteers were on hand to plant and remove the umbrellas each day.

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The Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck

Location

The wreck lies in ninety feet of water on a rocky bottom off the point of a small island located just offshore from Cape Gelidonya, which forms the western end of the Gulf of Finike, the major gulf on the south coast of Asia Minor. The cape is known today, and was known in antiquity, as a dangerous point for coastal shipping.

The Wreck

Very little of the ship itself was preserved because of the rocky bottom on which it settled and the strong currents in the area which prevented the wood of the ship from being covered in the marine silts necessary for the preservation of ship timbers in submarine environments. Most of the archaeological remains consist of the ship’s cargo, whose distribution on the bottommonopoly of the trade in oxhide ingots. George Bass feels that the Levantines, whether Syrians or Canaanites, could equally well have trafficked in such ingots. The balance of our evidence suggests that the copper of the ingots themselves was mined on Cyprus where, Bass feels, production of the ingots themselves was managed at various times under Minoan and Syrian control. After ca. 1400 B.C. and the collapse of Minoan palatial civilization, Bass feels that control of ingot manufacture passed into the hands of the Syrians, but others feel that the Minoans may have been replaced in this role, as they were in so many others, by the Mycenaeans. Vassos Karageorghis, the director of the Cypriot Antiquities Service, feels that the copper industry on Late Bronze Age Cyprus was


such ingots analysed, one analysed by Bass was of bronze (87% copper, 7% tin) while two others analysed in 1976 were of pure copper. It has now been suggested that all of these ingots were actually of pure copper, Bass’ bronze analysis having somehow resulted from a confusion of samples in the laboratory. None of the ingots of this type bear markings. Plano-convex ingots are common throughout the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age and are normally of pure copper. Early examples of Middle Bronze Age date are known from Acemhüyük and Alaca Hüyük in central Anatolia. Although similar in terms of metallic composition to the oxhide ingots, bun ingots are smaller, hence more portable, and were probably cast more simply within the base of the smeltinganalysed by Pulak, while the Minoan weight system prevalent throughout the southern Aegean in Neopalatial times has been treated in depth by Petruso. Further analysis of the distribution and interpenetration of different metrological systems during the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean will no doubt provide valuable insights into socio-economic conditions within this region in the years to come.

Scarabs

Five scarabs found in the cabin area were probably used as charms or talismans, or perhaps as seals, and presumably belonged to one or more members of the ship’s crew. In date they range from the Second Intermediate Period (1785-1567 B.C.) through the late 18th or early 19th Dynasty (late 13th century B.C.). Some of them were obviously several hundred years old by the time of the wreck, but


the latest suggests a date for the wreck in the late 13th century B.C.

Cylinder Seal

A single cylinder seal, arguably the property of the ship’s captain, was found in the cabin area. It is an heirloom of the 18th century B.C., probably made in Syria.

Conclusions

The ship loaded with metal ingots and bronze scrap which was wrecked off Cape Gelidonya sank around 1200 B.C. or a little later. It was nine or ten meters long and probably served both as a carrier of raw materials and as a sort of itinerant smithy, the merchant-captain being both a supplier and a craftsman who dealt in finished goods to order. The course of the ship has been argued to have been east to west, from Cyprus into the Aegean, but neither thisLH IIIB. Within the Peloponnese in this period, amber is found only in the Argolid. Amber now appears for the first time in northwest Greece, in Aetolia and in Epirus.

During the LH IIIC period, there appears to have been a minor revival in the popularity of amber, with more than sixty pieces known from a total of fourteen sites. The distribution is now broad, including Rhodes, Alalakh in Syria, Crete, Egypt, and the western island of Kephallenia. From late LH IIIC and in “Submycenaean” contexts, only nine pieces are known from just three sites on Salamis, in Elis, and in southern Italy.

The quantity and concentration of amber at just a few sites in the LH I and II periods is striking. Renfrew has suggested that amber reached the


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Rarely in italian medical journals have been discussed the social and economic problems related to dialysis much less the ones related pediatric dialysis. On the contrary, we believe that these problems hold a great importance due to their obvious consequences on the family structure, society and most of all on the psychophysical development of the affected child. Present structures of pediatric centers in Italy have been studied along with the available facilities, their spreading over the national territory and consequent transport problems. We also provided data regarding social and scholastic rehabilitation of the little patients as well as the effects of followed treatments on the family economy. Through these we can say that at the moment in Italy the 50%only of the children are treated in pediatric centers, which are still unequally distributed with a major concentration in the North, followed by the South and the Center Italy as last. However, it is important to notice that in every Center the child is seen as an individual and many efforts are done to reach his complete welfare. This purpose justify the presence, besides the specialized medical and nursing staff, of many dietitian, psychologist, teachers, play teachers, social workers. Results of a good recovery are evident in the sphere of the little patients, at school as at home, even if it is still difficult to evaluate a following complete integration in the work world. Still far away from solution is transplant problem in Italy: centers are insufficient and


By Bill Wrightfor the Sprint InvadersDONNELLSON, Iowa (June 21, 2012) – It was a clean sweep for Matt Sutton of Macomb, Illinois Thursday night at the Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa. He led every lap for his fourth career victory at the 3/8-mile oval in Brockway Mechanical & Roofing Sprint Invaders competition.

Sutton won his heat, then drew a starting spot outside of row one for the Dash. He went on to win that, and drew a one for the feature, setting himself up on the pole.

Tyler Blank shot to the lead on the first try at a start, but it was called back when Matt Krieger tipped over.

Sutton protected the low side on the second attempt, and pulled away. Things went green until a spin by Haroldbe injured by this conduct "by paying more for x86 microprocessors purchased directly from Intel than they would have paid and would pay in the future in the absence of Intel's unlawful acts, including paying more for personal computers and other products in which x86 microprocessors are a component, as a result of higher prices paid for x86 microprocessors by the manufacture of those products." (D.I. 49 at ¶ 245.) In connection with their Sherman Act claim, Class Plaintiffs request the Court to enjoin Intel from engaging in the violations alleged in the Amended Complaint.
Class Plaintiffs also raise a variety of state law claims, including: (1) a claim based on Section 16720 of the California Business and Professional Code for Intel's alleged participation with other co-conspirators in "a


to honor the god Neptune, and to which all of Rome's neighbors were welcome.  They came from far and wide, sometimes entire families, to attend and participate.

On the king's signal, Romans began abducting the young women in attendance much to the shock and horror of their guests. Later, the women are brought before him where he assures them that he and the other men of Rome intend to honorably marry them and that they won't be sexually exploited in any way. This eases their fears.

The cities of  Caenina, Crustumerium, and Antemnae petition Tatius, king of the Sabines to lead a joint attack in response to the kidnappings.  Their goal was stymied by Rome's own diplomatic efforts and the other three cities eventually concluded that Tatiusof their treatment by king.

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Archaeologia by A. Kiessling (1860-1870) (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4) and V. Prou (1886) and C. Jacoby (1885–1925) (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, supplementum)
Opuscula by Hermann Usener and Ludwig Radermacher (1899-1929) in the Teubner series (vol. 1 contains Commentaries on the Attic Orators, Letter to Ammaeus, On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes, On the Character of Thucydides, Letter to Ammaeus about Thucydides, vol. 2 contains The Arrangement of Words, On Imitation, Letter to Gn. Pompeius, The Art of Rhetoric, Fragments)
Roman Antiquities by V. Fromentin and J. H. Sautel (1998–), and Opuscula rhetorica by Aujac


Family of murdered DJ Carl Beatson Asiedu make emotional appeal as £10,000 reward is offered

The family of a talented DJ murdered five years ago have made an emotional appeal in a bid to trace the man believed to be his killer.

Carl Beatson Asiedu, died in the street after being stabbed in the heart in the early hours of August 1, 2009, after he performed a set at the Club Life nightclub in Vauxhall.

Detectives are keen to trace Jeffrey Okafor who they say they believe is responsible for killing 19-year-old Mr Asiedu, the Metropolitan Police said.

It is believed Okafor fled to Nigeria after his death and police are offering a reward of £10,000 for information leading to his arrest.

Detectives are also launching a Facebook appeal in the hope thatsomeone is able to provide information on Okafor's whereabouts, police said.

Talented DJ: Carl Beatson Asiedu

He was a known Facebook user before the murder and officers believe that he is still using this or other social media as a means of communicating with friends and family back in the UK.

Police believe Okafor is hiding in Nigeria having fled the UK on August 17 2009.

He was last captured on CCTV boarding an Air France flight at Heathrow Airport using his brother's passport, police said.

Mr Asiedu, who performed under the name of DJ Charmz, was well known on the clubbing scene.

The victim's father John Asiedu has spoken of his heartache.

"Five years have passed since Carl was murdered," he said.

Appeal: Jeffrey Okafor at Heathrow Airport

"I still feel the pain and get a


Dec 6 2011 DORI HARTLEY is considered the first FRANK-n-FURTER to perform during the movie. She was part of the legendary group at the WAVERLY Theater in NYC that is responsible for starting audience participation. Even though she has not performed as FRANK in many years, she is still fondly remembered by fans all over the world. She is also a professional artist, whose work reflects her vivid imagination in all things ROCKY HORROR and other things in pop culture.

Fan Club President SAL PIRO recently did an interview with Dori. We hope you enjoy it and check out her work. dorihartley.com/printsforsale.html SAL PIRO: Dori, what have you been doing since you retired from performing at ROCKY?

DORI HARTLEY: Around the time I stopped doing the floor show, I startedJournal publications from Zagreb University Medical School in 1995-1999.
To analyze a five-year publication output of the Zagreb University Medical School in scientific journals, especially in the journals covered by the Current Contents (CC), bibliographic database of the Institute for Scientific Information. Medical School of the Zagreb University is organized in 10 preclinical, 6 public health, and 17 clinical departments, with 359 faculty members. Research activity is important for the academic promotion, with the number of publications (especially in journals covered by CC) and their impact as a key element. Bibliographic data on the published papers by the authors affiliated to the Zagreb University Medical School in the 1995-1999 period were searched in the CC and Biomedicina Croatica databases, according to the official faculty name list. The collected data


Europe, on the other hand — or more precisely the eurozone, the 18 countries sharing a common currency — did almost everything wrong. On the fiscal side, Europe never did much stimulus, and quickly turned to austerity — spending cuts and, to a lesser extent, tax increases — despite high unemployment. On the monetary side, officials fought the imaginary menace of inflation, and took years to acknowledge that the real threat is deflation.

Why did they get it so wrong?

To some extent, the turn toward austerity reflected institutional weakness: In the United States, federal programs like Social Security, Medicare and food stamps helped support states like Florida with especially severe housing busts, whereas European nations in similar straits, like Spain, were on their own. But European austerity also reflectedbecame president of the European Central Bank in late 2011. Indeed, Mr. Draghi’s heroic efforts to provide liquidity to nations facing speculative attack almost surely saved the euro from collapse. But it’s not at all clear that he has the tools to fight off the broader deflationary forces set in motion by years of wrongheaded policy. Furthermore, he has to function with one hand tied behind his back, because Germany remains adamantly opposed to anything that might make life easier for debtor nations.

The terrible thing is that Europe’s economy was wrecked in the name of responsibility. True, there have been times when being tough meant reducing deficits and resisting the temptation to print money. In a depressed economy, however, a balanced-budget fetish and a hard-money obsession are deeply


deposited has a large surface area. As the pressure of the material gas in the process chamber 1 is increased, the material gas provided in the plasma space 9 becomes notably nonuniform. Accordingly, when depositing the thin film on the substrate 5 having a large surface area, in general, the pressure in the process chamber 1 is reduced. However, by reducing the pressure in the process chamber 1 so as to deposit the thin film on the substrate 5, the deposition rate of the thin film is also reduced (i.e., deposition time is increased).
In consideration of this, it has been suggested to employ a method for depositing a functionally gradient thin film having a concentration gradient of an elemental composition along a thickness direction of the thin filmor a frequency of the high-frequency power applied to an electrode by a high-frequency power source during a thin film deposition process, and Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2000-204475 discloses a method for depositing the functionally gradient thin film having a concentration gradient along a thickness direction of the thin film by sequentially varying a temperature of the substrate.
However, in such a method which controls parameters for the thin film deposition, it is not easy to accurately control the parameters. Further in the film deposition process, quality of the portions of the film varies according to variations of the parameters and there is a time lag between a variation of the parameters and a variation of the quality, and therefore differences in quality among the portions of the


rotary electrode; and performing a second film deposition after the first film deposition by sliding the substrate along a second sliding direction opposite to the first sliding direction.
In one embodiment of this invention, the substrate is slid along a rotation direction of the cylindrical rotary electrode through a plasma space in which the plasma is created between the cylindrical rotary electrode and the substrate.
In one embodiment of this invention, the substrate is slid along a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the cylindrical rotary electrode through the plasma space in which the plasma is created between the cylindrical rotary electrode and the substrate.
In one embodiment of this invention, a thin film is deposited on the substrate under fixed conditions from a beginning to an end of therotary electrode being rotated by applying high-frequency power thereto; introducing two or more types of material gases into the process chamber; performing a first film deposition by rotating the cylindrical rotary electrode so as to form plasma between the cylindrical rotary electrode and the substrate for depositing the first thin film while sliding the substrate into the process chamber along a first sliding direction which is identical or opposite to a rotation direction of the cylindrical rotary electrode; and performing a second film deposition after the first film deposition by sliding the substrate along a second sliding direction opposite to the first sliding direction.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for depositing a functionally gradient thin film comprising the steps of:


by rotating the cylindrical rotary electrodes included in the plurality of process chambers along their respective rotation directions while sliding a substrate through the plurality of process chambers along a first sliding direction which is a prescribed direction; and performing a second film deposition after the first film deposition by sliding the substrate along a second sliding direction opposite to the first sliding direction.
Thus, the invention described herein makes possible the advantages of providing: (1) a method for easily depositing a functionally gradient thin film having a concentration gradient along a thickness direction of the thin film; and (2) a method for depositing a functionally gradient thin film having an elemental composition in which different types of elements are complexly distributed along a thickness direction of the thinJames's Other Theory of Emotion', approves James's later account for its focus on how emotions relate to creativity and the self, and advises the reader to throw away the early theory, as a reductive piece of hardcore scientism. The suggestion, shared by many of his biographers, is that James has made a radical turn in his thinking and by the end of his career gave up on his 'tough minded' naturalistic theory, in favor of a richer and more 'tender minded' philosophical outlook.

My goal here is to challenge this suggestion. In what follows I defend the idea that a sharply drawn line between James's early approach of emotions as 'feelings of bodily changes' and his later explorations in the field of mystic emotion is implausible. I will go


structure behavior in such a manner that it conforms to the organism's needs; first-person experiences are crucial for survival, according to James.

This Darwinian focus on consciousness as a first-person experience shows unexpected parallels with the project of phenomenology, a philosophical movement that emerged in Europe in the late nineteenth century. The similarities are so striking, that according to Linschoten ([@CR9]), Edie ([@CR2]), and many others, James could be considered to be a proto-phenomenologist. Interesting historical data to illustrate the link can be found in Spiegelberg ([@CR14]). During his years as a student in Europe, James became friends with the German psychologist and philosopher Carl Stumpf, who later would recommend James' *Principles* to Husserl. The founder of phenomenology was deeply influenced by it and developed some of his ideasin the grip of a pessimistic mindset that he himself called the illness of the 'sick soul'. He was fully aware that mystical emotion may mysteriously create new centers of personal energy; therefore, he always silently hoped that a God would speak to him, in some dark night. In *Varieties*, he examines experiences of melancholy, anxiety, and depression more in detail. James has his own emotional symptoms in mind when he describes a 'worst kind of melancholy', in the guise of a memoir given to him by an anonymous Frenchman:

'I went one evening into a dressing room in the twilight to procure some article that was there; when suddenly there fell upon me without warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of


being safe and at home in the world; on the other hand a sense of being disconnected, of loneliness and feeling insecure. Healthy-minded individuals are positively attuned to life, they seem to be blind for all the negative aspects, they accept suffering and death as unproblematic and never lose their optimistic attitude. The sick soul however feels anxious and isolated, (s)he is a natural born pessimist.

For biographical but also for philosophical reasons, James' sympathy is with the 'sick soul', who in his view has a deeper, more realistic sense of life than his optimistic counterpart. It is the sick soul who may experience profound shifts in how he or she feels attuned to the world; shifts that give a lot of insight into the foundational meaning structures ofway or another.' (Tolstoy, in James [@CR7], 133) He feels as if he is at the bottom of a dark pit. The world has turned into an evil place in which he can never be at home anymore.

What saves Tolstoy from suicidal despair is a mysterious religious awakening, accompanied by a sudden explosion of positive energy, and the overwhelming sense that all is ultimately well, even though the outer conditions have remained the same. Afterwards, he feels like reborn; the world has regained its color and meaning. He returns to the simple faith of the Russian peasants and completely changes his way of life.

Severe depression, as in the case of Tolstoy, is an existential condition that blocks one's possibilities to find meaning in the world, and to be


evolved as important ingredients of a successful coping strategy in times of distress. Living in the age of science and modernity makes us all prone to become sick souls, in James's view. And the world picture of scientific materialism only adds to sadness and pessimism, it can offer us nothing but the perspective of meaninglessness and the death of the planet as ultimate horizon. As he puts it: 'For naturalism, mankind is in a position similar to that of a set of people living on a frozen lake, surrounded by cliffs over which there is no escape, yet knowing that little by little the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disappear, and to be drowned ignominiously will bethe human creature's portion. The merrier the skating, the warmer and more sparkling the sun by day, and the ruddier the bonfires by night, the more poignant the sadness with which one must take the meaning of the total situation.' ([@CR7], 124).

Mystical experience presents a vision of the universe that is in harmony with our human need for connectedness. It cannot offer a proof for God or eternal life, but at least allows for the possibility of a more meaningful reality that may be hidden from everyday consciousness. Therefore, James has never the intention to debunk mystical engagements as mental illness or mood disorder. Much to the contrary, being a pragmatist, he takes the possible truth of supernatural orders quite seriously: they may be real since they produce


Thursday, April 13, 2017

For the last 4 decades, Israel has been challenged by the rise of ballistic arsenals in the Middle East. If, at first, the country kept relying on its traditional offensive doctrines, it eventually developed missile defense programs in the early-1980s through U.S.-Israel cooperation and then in the 2000s with the building of its iconic Iron Dome. This Israeli experience in missile defense reveals crucial lessons on the military adaptation to both new threats and new remedies that have direct implications for the United States and its allies.to the board of health having jurisdiction in the health
district where the private water system is located. The written notification
shall state the violation of Chapter 3701-28 of the Administrative Code upon
which the person desires to base a claim. The director shall send a copy of the
complaint to the water systems contractor and the board of
health.

(c)
The director, with the assistance of the board of
health, shall investigate the validity of the allegation, and may consult with
the aggrieved party, board of health, and the private water systems contractor.
The director may hold an informal meeting with the aggrieved party, the private
water systems contractor, other technical experts, or board of health at the
request of any of the parties involved to work towards resolution and
correction of the violation.

(d)
If the director
concludes that no rule violation


party to the bond shall be forfeited if
the aggrieved party denies the bond company or its agents access to the private
water system to perform actions necessary to correct the violation or
violations. The bond claim shall be withdrawn due to lack of response within
sixty days from the aggrieved party after notification from the department, the
private water systems contractor or the surety on the proposed corrections of
the violation or violations.

(6)
The surety
company shall give written notice to the director within thirty days of payment
on a claim against a registration bond. The notice shall specify the name of
the registered contractor, the name of the aggrieved party, the amount of the
claim, and the date and manner in which the claim was paid.

(E)
The
director shall publish annually a list of names and addresses of allto act in the business or businesses for which a registration is
held; or

(j)
Having more than one bond claim within a three year
period where the director determined that there were violations of this chapter
and that damages did occur.

(3)
The private
water systems advisory council created by section
3701.346 of the Revised Code
shall meet at the behest of the director to advise the director on the
suspension, revocation, or denial of a private water systems contractor's
registration.

(4)
Procedures for the revocation, suspension, or denial
of a registration by the director shall be in accordance with Chapter 119. of
the Revised Code. Pursuant to that chapter, the private water systems
contractor is entitled to a hearing upon request made within thirty days of the
mailing of notice of the action on the registration. The date set for the
hearing shall be within


Like a brooding rock star, pinot noir grapes live on the edge. Fickle and thin-skinned, they are prone to sunburn, which is why the grapes thrive in cool climates such as Oregon's Willamette Valley.

The American Viticultural Area (AVA) runs from Portland in the north to Eugene in the south. In 2002, the 5,000-plus-square-mile region was divided into six specific AVAs. Together, they reflect some of the most serious pinot noir production outside of Burgundy. As tempting as it is to crack open these bottles with some fantastic, truffle-topped dish, I'd plan to age any one of these at least five years.

Domaine Drouhin 2010 Willamette Valley pinot noir: French winemaker Véronique Drouhin has crafted a wine with dried cherry and violets on the nose and palate. The cool 2010Always Faithful

Always Faithful  (also known as Blanche Sweet in Always Faithful) is a 1929 American Pre-Code short film produced by The Vitaphone Corporation in conjunction with Warner Bros., which distributed the film.

The film marks the sound film debut of veteran film actress Blanche Sweet who began her screen career in 1909 as a teenager working for D. W. Griffith. It is preserved at the Library of Congress who recently restored it for showing at the National Gallery of Art.

Cast
Blanche Sweet - Mrs. George W. Mason
William B. Davidson - George W. Mason
John Litel - Wayne
Charles B. Middleton

See also
Blanche Sweet filmography

References

External links

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footing part of the bill to help Bloomberg’s push to enact gun control measures at the state and federal level.

Brina Milikowsky draws a salary as both a policy adviser to Bloomberg’s office and Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a relationship that some critics find unsavory.

"It’s clearly unethical for Mayor Bloomberg to use a taxpayer-funded staffer from his office to promote his anti-Second Amendment group’s lobbying," Ken Boehm, co-founder of the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog group, told the Free Beacon in July.

New York City officials are well known for their poor compliance with state public record laws. A Village Voice reporter sued Bloomberg’s office after it denied a routine records request seeking emails between the mayor’s office and Bloomberg’s recent appointee for schools chancellor.

The NewAdvance to the Rhine

In the previous update, we rolled out the first fully urban tank map. Continuing the theme of highly complex tank battles in urban conditions, a next update will include a new map: The Crossing of the Rhine. The basis for this map is the famous tank battle at the cathedral in the war-ravaged city of Cologne.

The Crossing of the Rhine map is not a completely accurate recreation of Cologne, but rather a generalized recreation based on battles in German cities in the final stage of the war. Nonetheless, players will see many recognizable places: the magnificent Rhine, the famous Cologne Cathedral and more of the old city's sights.

In the center of the map there stands a monument surrounded by ruins. Each team has the ability


(CNN) If the reaction to Monday night's "Chernobyl" finale is any indication, Jared Harris could be in the mix for this year's Emmy Awards for the first time since his acclaimed run on "Mad Men."

The HBO limited series, called by some one of the most harrowing series of the year, aired its last of five episodes, bringing to a conclusion a tale that highlighted the missteps and mismanagement that led to the tragic 1986 nuclear disaster.

In the finale, Harris's Valery Legasov and others testify at the trial of three men who are accused of causing the accident.

Legasov uses his time to explain the men's shortcomings and, more boldly, the flaws in the country's whole nuclear system -- a huge embarrassment for officials.

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"I have been helped with scholarships anda machinist at Lockheed." "Objection." "Relevance, Your Honor." "Well, Your Honor, Mr. Doe is a character witness and an eyewitness in the death of Donald French." "How Mr. French lived is relevant in how he subsequently died." "I'll allow it." "Mr. Doe, did Don French marry?" "Yes, sir." "The beautiful Miss Janet Kreedameyer of El Segundo, the love of his life." "They had one son, Eric." "What happened to his wife and son?" "Eric was, uh, killed in the first Gulf War." "His beloved Janet was taken from him in October of 2004." "So, his nephew Jordan and Don's house on Fillmore road are all that's left of his legacy, correct?" "Yes, sir." "Does it strike you as ironic that Donald French was wounded in one of the


Str8 to the Gym

Rob slept in very late on Monday, since he had the day off. He had been chatting online with numerous Orange County women until nearly dawn, hanging out mostly in the AOL OCstr8f4OCstr8m chat room. By the time he awoke and threw on his gym clothes, he barely had time to down a bagel and a glass of orange juice. Rather than stopping off at Starbucks for a cup of coffee, as he had planned, he headed straight to the gym. Knowing that he would miss his caffeine rush, he instead had popped a Ripped Fuel capsule just before bolting out the door. He knew the MaHuang extract was certain to give him the extra energy he would need for the next few hours.

Rob arrivedat the gym a couple of minutes before noon. As he sprinted to the front door, a rumbling of thunder confirmed that the mid-winter rainstorm was increasing in intensity. Rob slid his gym card through the scanner at the front desk, unwilling to wait for the employee on the telephone, who temporarily faced the opposite direction, to turn around and do it for him. Swiftly, he made his way to the locker room, deposited his gym bag inside his preferred locker, and made a beeline for the aerobics floor, arriving just in time for the beginning of the warm-up stretches. The elevating effect of the MaHuang was just hitting him, and he was psyched for the class, especially when he saw who was poised at the front of


the room.

Of all the step aerobics instructors, brown-haired, green-eyed Shauna was Robs favorite. Besides having a perfect, tight body and a gorgeous face, she had an extremely motivating personality which greatly complemented her music and routine. Rob had been wondering, since it was Presidents Day, whether Shauna would be teaching the class or might have taken an extended weekend and gotten a substitute. He was happy that she was there, because whenever he watched her go through her routine, as he copied it himself, he always felt a oneness with her that seemed to be the next best thing to actually experiencing intimate contact with herwhich, unfortunately, was not likely to occur anytime soon, as she had a boyfriend and he a girlfriend.

As the stretching portion of theclass progressed, Rob realized how sparsely attended the class was. In fact, as he turned to look at the treadmills, lifecycles, and stairmasters, as well as into the mirrors on the side walls in which he could see the remainder of the gym hidden from direct view, he could see that only about one-tenth of the normal noon gym crowd was present. Apparently, most of the regulars are out-of-town, he figured. Momentarily, he felt dejected that he and his girlfriend, Candice, had had a stupid argument three days before, thereby wrecking their plans of spending the entire extended weekend together up the coast in Santa Barbara. Of course, he thought to himself, then I wouldnt have the pleasure of getting an eyeful of Shauna for an hour and


on a treadmill, or find some other distraction to calm himself down. But today, with hardly anyone around to notice, he allowed himself the rare sensual fantasy of rubbing his hand over Shaunas rippling midsection, as well as over other forbidden parts. His gym shorts tented accordingly. He hadnt been with his girlfriend since four nights prior to that, nor had he even relieved himself since then, hoping his girlfriend would reconsider her refusal to spend the weekend with him. She hadnt, and his potent libido, amplified even more by the storm raging outside, had gone into overdrive.

During the final cool-down segment of the class, Rob closed his eyes and thought about body-surfing in the brisk ocean water, which he had in mind to do later that afternoon.This mental picture helped him to return to a relaxed state of mind, enabling him to stand up without any detectable swelling in his shorts. Walking toward the locker room, Rob realized that the strenuous aerobics class had not seemed to claim any of his energy. If anything, along with the MaHuang he had taken earlier, it seemed to have increased his vigor. He felt as if his 5' 8", 150-pound frame could lift the world, so he resolved to work out on machines and with free weights for awhile. The ocean can wait, he decided; anyway, if I jumped in the ocean right now, I think Id end up swimming all the way to Catalina Island, even in the rain.

As he rounded the end of the wall


separating the aerobics floor from the other portion of the health club, he scanned the workout area. Remarkably, there was barely more than a handful of people, mostly guys, working out. He recognized all of them as hard-core regulars, and one person in particular stood out to Rob, as he often did. That was Trent, who had just positioned himself on a bench, preparing to press the largest plates available, two on each end of the long, thick barbell. He was dressed in a loosely draped, skimpy steel-blue tank top and coal-black gym shorts. On his head was his trademark set of earphones, connected to a small yellow cassette recorder hooked onto his weight belt.

Trent evidently had been there for awhile, because his muscles clearly were pumped upto a greater than normal bulk. Rob had been in wonder of Trent for years. Trent, though about 5' 9" and around 165 pounds, appeared to be the strongest guy, pound for pound, at the gym. At 30 years old, Trent could have passed for 25 and had more strength and endurance than most 20-year-olds. (Rob had seen Trents age on his drivers license once. The license had been sitting at the bottom of the unlocked locker Rob normally used, but he had found that Trent already had placed his things inside. Rob had wondered sometimes why Trent never used a padlock to secure his locker, as there had been thefts in the locker room, and figured he was just a trusting type.) Trents ardent, even fervid workouts


sometimes gave Rob the mental boost he needed to do a few more repetitions or even an extra set as he worked out with weights or on machines.

Rob sat at the biceps machine and proceeded to execute a standard set of twelve repetitions. Looking directly ahead, he had a clear view of Trents own salient biceps and pectorals, all like mighty rounded pyramids, as he pressed the iron weights up and down in a continuous, fluid motion. The muscles throughout Trents body were not gigantic, as were those of many of the bodybuilders at the gym. However, they were very solid and extremely well-defined. Rob had overheard Trent tell a buddy once that he was not a serious weight trainer but did it merely for recreational enjoyment. Robthe rungs above his head, he sat up and looked straight ahead, in fact directly at Rob and, seemingly, right through him. For a few seconds, he moved his head and tapped one foot to the beat of whatever he was listening to in his earphones. The two had conversed a few times in the locker room and sauna (and Rob had found Trent to be one of the most amiable and quick-witted persons he knew), and they sometimes had said hello or had given each other a thumbs-up gesture in passing.

Notwithstanding this, at the moment, Trent seemed not to even notice that Rob was there. Then Trent stood up and walked over to the water fountain. Rob always had perceived that whenever Trent was at the gym,


his total focus was on his workout. Occasionally, he would remove his headset and speak with someone who approached and talked to him. But rarely was it for any significant length of time; before long, he would replace it and progress to the next workout apparatus. Of course, if anybody ever was in distress with too heavy of a weight, Trent was the first on the scene to give aid; but, having done so, he immediately returned to his own routine.

Rob began his second set of biceps curls as Trent leaned over the water fountain for a long drink. Turning, Trent wiped his mouth with the back of one hand. He glanced at Rob and then looked ahead as he slowly strode back to the bench, pausing halfwayto simulate a single basketball shot at the top of a mid-air jump. Rob noted something which he hardly had stopped to consider before: how extraordinarily handsome Trent was. His piercing, cobalt-blue eyes were in stark contrast to his short, straight jet-black hair. Normally clean-shaven, the contour of a dark, thick beard and moustache were present on his striking face, indicating that he probably had not shaved since the morning of the previous day.

Rob was unable to visualize anyone elseman or womanwith such a good-looking, symmetrical face, combined with a conspicuously developed body. He considered Trents collection of beau ideal attributes to be unique. Furthermore, he found himself strangely drawn to them. Frankly, it wasnt the first time, although whenever he had had that feeling in the past,


he immediately had thought about something elseanything else. He wondered what would happen if he focused intently on Trent and allowed his thoughts to persist unchecked. But that would not happenit could not. He methodically continued his curls.

Sitting back down on the bench, Trent faced Rob again. Then, to Robs surprise, Trent nodded. It was not a gesture in time to the beat of his music; it was a single, deliberate motion. It seemed to be a sign of acknowledgment, which Rob seldom had observed in the past. Boy, this guy sure is unpredictable, Rob mused. He nodded back. Then, with no discernable change in expression, Trent lay back down, tapped his stomach alternately with the fingers of each hand, took a few deep breaths, and reached upto grasp the ponderous weight bar with both hands.

After his third set of curls (plus four) on the machine, Rob used his towel to wipe up his residual perspiration from the seat and back of the machine. Then, after making a brief detour to the water fountain, he walked across the room to the free weight area. After placing his sweaty towel on an unused bench, he retrieved a 25-pound dumbell, sat down, and began to do some more curls. Following a set of fifteen repetitions with each arm, he set the dumbell on the floor and stood up to take a break. The entire wall above the free weight racks was mirrored. As Rob looked into the mirror, he noticed Trent lying on the bench about four


feet away from his. He had not even noticed Trent walk over.

Trent was rendering a series of flies with a total of 150 pounds of weight, a 75-pound dumbell in each hand. This appeared to be an exercise of nonobservable effort for Trent; he made it look so easy. As he set down the weights on either side of him, Trent sat up and immediately made eye contact with Rob. This time, he raised and lowered his eyebrows, again with perceptible intent. Rob instinctively smiled back, after which Trent arose and walked back a few steps to the waist-high iron railing separating the free weight area from the rest of the room. Sitting atop the railing, almost directly behind Rob, Trent bobbed his head up and down slightlyand patted the railing with his hands, apparently in time to the beat of his music. Then he removed his earphones and hung them around his neck. Does he want me to go talk with him? pondered Rob.

Within seconds, however, Greg, a good buddy of Trents, appeared and sat beside Trent. Rob had seen Greg and Trent spotting each other with weights on occasion, although Trent typically did all of his weight lifting alone. From Robs previous observations, Greg was about the only guy at the gym with whom Trent would take the time to have conversations exceeding one minute, sometimes for quite lengthy periods of time. Rob knew that the two previously had been employed together and figured that Greg somehow had gained Trents confidence, something Rob


suspected not many people were able to do. As Rob sat down to do a second set, he overheard Trent and Gregs conversation as he recurrently glimpsed them in the mirror.

Greg began, Hey...ya havin a good three-day weekend, pal?

Hmm...coulda been a lot better if Monique hadnt gone off to Palm Springs, Trent responded pensively. Rob had seen Trents girlfriend, Monique, with him once and remembered how stunningly good-looking she was.

Well, its pourin out there right now...probly doin the same where she is. So how come ya didnt go with er, man? Greg inquired with a backhanded whack to Trents bulging chest.

Ha...you know..., Trent shook his head briefly, one of those stupid girl trips...no guys allowed.

Oh yeah, laughed Greg. Joanie was invited to go on that one, but shelights flickered on and off a few times, then remained off. After several seconds, an emergency generator kicked in and the power returned.

Whoa, that was a close one...thought it was n earthquake for a coupla seconds there! exclaimed Greg.

That was fierce! agreed a wide-eyed Trent, again turning toward Greg. This kinda storm is pretty common in the Midwest, but not out here...wow!

Yep! replied Greg as he slid off the railing and onto his feet. Listen, pal...I better split home to make sure Joanie n the kids are OK. Theyre not used to thunder like this, and theyre probly scared shitless.

Trent stood up as well. Youre not gonna lift, huh?

Nope! replied Greg, already on his way toward the locker room. I know how Joanie is...shes a wimp. Im not


even takin the time to change clothes. Catch ya later! Greg jogged the remainder of the way to the mens locker room and then disappeared inside. Before long, he reappeared with his gym bag, gave Trent a backward glance and wave, and bolted out the door.

Trent stood facing the front door for a few seconds, scratching his bushy left armpit. Then he turned and looked at himself in the mirror, adjusting the volume on his cassette player. Rob, who had just put away his dumbell, studied Trents reflection. The look on Trents face seemed to disclose abandonment, almost forlorness. Rob sensed that Trent might have wantedeven neededsome consolation. However, a moment before Rob could advance toward Trent to offer him a friendly word, Trent took a step towardhis bench. Straightaway, Trent sat down, replacing his headset and dropping his hands to grip his weights again. Rather than stop to speak to him, Rob continued past Trent on the way to the locker room. By that point, he didnt seem much in the mood to work out anymore, and he figured Trent wasnt in a frame of mind to talk.

Rob thought it funny how the two of them were in a similar situation, being without their girlfriends for the weekend, and how Trents apparent disconsolation had seemed to rub off on him. The violent electric storm outside certainly did not help either; if anything, it just made Rob frustratingly horny. Several paces prior to reaching the locker room entrance, Rob glanced back across the room at


Trent, expecting to see him performing his astounding feats of herculean strength. Instead, Trent seemed to be looking at him, although Rob considered that he probably was just looking at the torrent of rain out the front door.

Rob removed his sweaty gym clothes, unlocked his locker, folded his clothes loosely, and put them, along with his sweat towel, into his gym bag. Then he took his bath towel off the hook, re-locked his locker, and headed for the shower room. After rinsing off with warm water for a few seconds, he turned off the shower, hung his towel on a nearby hook, and walked over to the plate glass sauna door, adjacent to the shower room door. Ignoring the sign which indicated that trunks must be worn inthe sauna, Rob entered naked. Nobody else was in the shower room or in the sauna; he had the place all to himself.

Rob was quite familiar with the wide, two-tiered wooden benches located on opposite sides of the room. In one corner, diagonal from the door, a newspaper was laying on the top level. Having left his Sports Illustrated magazine in his gym bag, he sat down and picked up the paper. Momentarily, he realized that he was sitting in Trents preferred spot. Then he conjectured that Trent probably would be working out for another hour or so, having surmised from the conversation between Greg and him that Trent had the day off. In fact, Rob supposed chances were excellent that nobody else would be coming into the


sauna while he was there, since the gym was practically deserted when he left it.

Rob located the papers sports section and skimmed through the headlines. Then, as a low rumbling of thunder penetrated the wall, his thoughts turned to his girlfriend, Candice. Setting the paper next to him, he thought about her fiery eyes when she had told him to go blow himself after their argument on Friday. She turned him on big time when she was angry, and he had wanted to have his way with her while she was giving him a piece of her mind. But, obviously, that had turned out to be impossible, as she had proceeded to walk out and slam the door behind her. He pictured her ravishing face and shapely bodyin his mind. Closing his eyes and rubbing his right hand over his opposite, pumped-up upper arm, he imagined that it was she who was touching him there. Then the voluptuous image of Shauna entered his mind. Momentarily, he muttered, Sorry, Candi babenow its Shaunas turn.

With his left hand, Rob began rubbing his fingers through the thick brown hair on his chest. Two fingers found his right nipple, and he massaged it between them until it was turgid. In his mind, Shauna had sucked it into her mouth and was nipping gently on it with her front teeth. The same two fingers on his right hand massaged his left nipple until it was hard as well, as the imaginary Shauna had moved over to work on the opposite


side. Rob was finding himself becoming very turned on. Gradually, he moved the fingers of his left hand down the dark line of hair above his navel to the mass of tangled hair on his stomach, which he kneaded firmly. He pictured the image of Shaunas sharp, pink nails and gasped softly as they continued scratching lightly down the trail of hair beneath his navel to his pubic area. From there, they scratched the inner thighs of his hairy legs, down one and up the other, over and over again.

Rob opened his eyes and looked down at his hardening tool. Already it was 5½ to 6 inches in length and was on its way to expanding at least another inch as the enticing image of Shaunas alluring facelooked up at him, her tongue gliding sensually over her flawless lips. He closed his eyes again, leaned back, stretched out his legs, and spoke to Shauna, Go ahead, babe...this time, its all yours. Her glistening lips kissed the swelling glans of his shaft as his forefinger and thumb felt the first drop of lubrication on the tip and spread it teasingly over the entire head. He reached back up and massaged his solid pectoral muscles, moistening his hand and fingers with the sweat which had accumulated on his abundant chest hair. Then, forming a loose fist, he brought the end of it to the helmet of his now fully stiff rod and gradually descended the length of it in a purposefully controlled stroke. Mmmm..., Rob instinctively responded,


as he next slid his clenched hand and fingers slowly, ever so slowly, up the full length of his staff to the tip, then back down again. The thunder outside boomed again, and the wall Rob was leaning against vibrated. Yeahhhh...thats it, you fine babe...thats it....

A sudden, distinct creaking noise jolted Rob to an upright sitting position. Familiar with the sound of the outer shower room door opening and shutting, he impulsively grabbed the newspaper at his side and positioned it in front of himself, focusing his eyes on an upside-down photograph of Michael Jordan. After a couple more seconds, head still downturned, his eyes cautiously turned to the right to scope out the scene. Through the door he clearly could see Trent standing with a blue towelwrapped around his waist, looking directly at Rob. They maintained eye contact for a few seconds; then Trent disappeared from sight. A few seconds later, Rob heard a shower turn on.

Rob stared at the smooth rocks in the wooden heating unit, shaking his head. Then he audibly chided himself. You stupid dumb-shit! Whyd ya have to go do that in here? You couldve whacked off in the shower and gotten your dumb butt outta here before.... The sound of the running water stopped. After what seemed an eternity but was only a handful of seconds, the door opened and Trent emerged, absent his towel. Like Rob, Trent rarely wore anything in the sauna room; today was no exception. He paused for a second, then nodded briefly at Rob.


It flashed through Robs mind again that he was sitting in Trents usual place and that he probably should move down a few feet. But then Trent stepped up and took a seat on the upper level almost directly across from Rob.

You lookin at the sports section there? Trent inquired, his low, deep voice approximating the resonating frequency of the room.

Uh, no...no...be my guest, Trent replied, turning the paper right-side up. He fumbled through it, separating the sports section from the rest of it, and stepped down to ground level to hand it over to Trent. He then returned to his previous location and began to scan the first article he saw: Interior Design in Five Easy Steps, something in which he had absolutely no interest. He figuredpage describing cloning, and folded the page in half so the article was at the top. Not having even finished the first paragraph, though, another peal of thunder sounded outside, reverberating through the walls and increasing Robs arousal again. His thoughts drifted back to Shaunaher luscious body pleading to be released from her two-piece workout ensemble, her eyes, her hair...her lips. Man, shes driving me crazy! he obsessed. I wonder if shes sitting in the girls sauna right now...shaving under her arms...and along those silky legs.... He tried to resume reading where he had left off, but he could not eject the image of Shaunas curvaceous body, moist lips and lapping tongue from his mind.

Rob felt his boiling blood begin to rush into his crotch area again. Casually,


he looked over at Trent, who scratched his bristly cheek and continued to read. Trent also had folded his paper; and with his legs spread widely apart, everything below his indented bellybutton was visible. Although Rob had seen Trents naked body many times before in the showers and in the sauna, he had not paid much heed to it. Now he did, realizing that he never had discerned how notably hairy were Trents arms and legs. Then, inadvertently, his eyes converged on Trents genitals. Even completely soft, his penis was pretty longmaybe 6 inchesand remarkably thick. The shaft and head were perfectly symmetrical and flopped straight down over his scrotal sac, inside of which his two large, well-defined balls were of equal size and hung at the samelevel.

Without inhibition, Rob allowed himself to take in the whole physique of Trent: his exceedingly handsome, virile face; his muscular, tight, chiseled body; and his well-proportioned, hairy arms, legs, and genitals. This guy really is a specimen of masculinity! He must have been dealt an extra Y chromosome or something, Rob marveled. How could anybody, female or male, not be captivated by this? As he continued to gaze at Trent, unwittingly he pictured him and Monique together, naked, embraced in a deep kiss and with Trents stiff pole shoved inside her. Some of the blood drained out of Robs brainmuch of it seeming to go directly to his own stiffening poleand he experienced a substantial rush of dizziness. He could not recollect ever having felt this way before


while looking at a man.

At that moment, while unfolding his paper to turn a page, Trent casually looked up at Rob, who still was staring at him. Trent stared back for a few seconds; then his eyes seemed to be drawn like magnets downward to Robs 7-inch soldier, standing at full attention between his legs. Realizing only then that he was completely hard, Rob blushed and looked back down at the paper he still held. Man, thats it! Im gonna go take a cold shower and get the hell outta here! he mentally reprimanded himself.

No longer than half a minute passed, and Rob stole a furtive glance at Trent. Not only was Trents attention still fixated between Robs legs, something else was happening: Trents member itself was stirring.It had lengthened about an inch and had thickened a bit, and the wide mushroom-like cap had begun to arc slightly upward. As soon as this became plainly evident to Rob, his mouth became dry, he felt his heart pounding in his chest, and he became momentarily dizzy again. This time he did not look awayhe could not, entranced by Trent and every aspect of his impeccable manliness. Deep inside, Rob felt an instinct he did not realize he had: the compulsion to bond physically with the male person sitting a few feet in front of him. Somehow, it made more sense than anything ever had before.

Feeling as though a strong aphrodisiac was circulating throughout his body, Rob reflexively grabbed his rigid cock and stroked it a couple


of times. This resulted in a further lengthening and upward pulsing of Trents hardening cock. Trent reached down and cupped his balls, his thumb and forefinger partially encircling the broad base of his prick. Again, Robs eyes met eyes as blue as his own, and immediately there was an inexplicable understanding between the two men which transcended ordinary intelligence and cognition. Then each pair of eyes focused again on the targets protruding from the hairy bushes in front of them.

Continuing the slow, deliberate strokes on his dick, Rob saw that Trent began to match his every movement. As Rob gradually increased his momentum, so did Trent. With his free hand, Rob rubbed up, down, and around his sweaty chest and stomach; Trent did the same. Within a minuteor so, it felt as though the heavy air was saturated with male pheromones and that testosterone molecules were rebounding in a superheated frenzy off of all the surfaces within the room. Finally, Robs heightened sexual state compelled him to stand up and step down onto the floor, only a couple of feet directly in front of Trent.

Pausing, Rob looked toward the glass door, estimating the line of view into the sauna of somebody who suddenly might appear on the other side. Rob motioned for Trent to scoot down a few feet further. Trent complied. Then Rob slid the newspaper Trent had been reading over next to him, after which he reached behind himself and, after retrieving his own paper, laid it on the bottom tier in front


of him. Trent nodded, and Rob knew he had been successful in conveying to him the idea of quickly covering up with the newspapers in case they suddenly heard someone about to intrude into their man-space.

Rob proceeded to stroke his hard cock again with his left hand, and Trent followed suit. Slowly, almost cautiously, Rob approached Trent even more closely. He felt like a kid about to place his hand into a forbidden cookie jar. Observing no change in Trents demeanor, Rob reached over and rested his right hand on Trents left knee. There was no reaction from Trent, so Rob began to rub Trents hairy thigh. He rubbed it up and down repeatedly, around the outside, then over his knee, along the inside, and all the wayup to his groin. Again, there was no resistance, so Rob moved his hand underneath Trents scrotum so that he was cupping it. Trent shuddered and, closing his eyes, ceased his stroking and placed both hands at his sides. Rob supposed that Trent never had had another mans hand on his genitals and may have had to stop handling his dick so as not to ejaculate from the stimulation. Moreover, Rob never had felt a set of balls other than his own. They were warm, firm, and wet. They felt so good that he almost unloaded on the spot, and he had to remove his other hand from his dick to prevent himself from doing so.

With one hand, Rob gently began to knead Trents scrotal sac, and with


his other hand he reached up to feel Trents chest. The black hair was straight, unlike the wavy hair on Robs chest. Although Trents chest hair was not as dense as Robs, there was a nice abundance of it, and Rob rubbed his fingers through it gingerly. Rob was not surprised to feel pectoral muscles denser than his own, partly because he fully expected all of Trents muscles to be hard and partly because Trent was a few years younger than he. He rubbed over the full extent of them before progressing to Trents right nipple. Again Trent shuddered as Rob lightly pinched and massaged the nipple, making it become rigid and hard. Then he did the same to the other. Trent licked his lips once. Progressing toTrents stomach, Rob observed a firm and well-defined six-pack. He outlined each ripple with his fingers and then pressed hard against Trents abdominal muscles, massaging them with the heel of his hand.

Looking further down, Rob noticed that a shiny, clear droplet of liquid had oozed out of the slit at the end of Trents near-stiff cock. He withdrew his hand from Trents solid stomach and scooped the sticky globule onto his forefinger, a thin thread stretching from it back to the piss-hole. He examined the bit of pre-cum on his finger and then brought it to his lips, where his tongue licked it off. It tasted salty and sweet at the same time, and the intense thrill of what he had just done brought back the feeling of


lightheadedness for a few moments. He would not have traded this unique moment for the opportunity to be in a shop of find chocolates, all able to be sampled freely.

Still massaging Trents balls with one hand, Rob then wrapped as much of his other hand as he could get around the base of Trents beautifully sculpted, thick tool and gently squeezed it. It felt like granite. Slowly, he moved his thumb up the underside of it, as though bringing toothpaste to the opening of a tube, until he reached the top. He was rewarded with another discharge of gleaming pre-cum, more than the first time. As it began to dribble down the front of the throbbing shaft, Rob approached it and licked the stream all the way backup to the opening. Then he flicked the slit with the tip of his tongue, enjoying every bit of this super-studs man-juice.

A clap of thunder caused Trent to open his eyes, which he affixed once more on Robs. An expression of rugged camaraderie was exchanged between the two, and then Trent closed his eyes again. Rob decided that he wanted to give his new bud every bit of pleasure he possibly could stand. Since this was Robs first intimate experience with a man, and presumably it was Trents as well, he wanted it to be an encounter well worth remembering for both of them.

Rob knelt on one knee on the first step, bringing his face close to Trents ball sac. I almost could see these looking up his


shorts while he was doing bench presses, Rob recalled. Now, here they are in front of my face. He inhaled Trents musky manhood deeply, then again. Whether it was due to the stark excitement of the risk they were taking, or simply to the arousal he felt being stimulated by Trents man-smells, Rob knew he readily could have given a couple of jerks to his own engorged prick and jettisoned his entire load in seconds. Instead, he chose to prolong his ecstasy, even though he thought his balls might explode if denied a release for too long. Carefully, Rob extended his tongue and licked Trents sac from bottom to top on one side, then the other, repeatedly washing the sweat beads off of the crinkled skin. Trent gaspedtwice quickly, and his rigid cock quivered.

Gently, Rob took Trents right testicle onto the tip of his tongue and drew it into his mouth. Trent immediately winced, took a sudden deep breath, and laid one hand on Robs head. But Rob was very careful not to pull too hard, nor did he allow his teeth to come into contact with Trents skin. I wonder if hell trust me to do this like he trusts guys around his unsecured locker, Rob hoped. Trent gradually lowered his hand again, although he continued to tremble and take brief, short breaths as Rob did the same thing to his left testicle and then to both of them at once.

As Rob withdrew his mouth from around Trents balls, he found that he had


been rewarded with the most bountiful flow of pre-cum yet. Eagerly, he bathed the full length of Trents boner with his tongue, savoring every bit of the tangy nectar. He could not remember ever having been so turned on. I cant believe what Ive been missing out on all my life, he thought. At the top, he swirled his tongue around and around the swollen bulb, bringing a low Mmmmm... from Trents throat. Then he engulfed more than half of Trents cock into his mouth, the tip pressing against the back of his throat. Ohhhh, moaned Trent softly. Rob felt like he was going to gag on this titanic piece of man-meat, so he pulled back about an inch, paused, took a deep breath, and relaxed. He didntknow how, but he wanted to eat all of Trents choice tube steak.

After a few seconds, Rob eased his head back down. Feeling Trents cockhead at the back of his throat again, he relaxed his pharyngeal muscles, took a slow, deep breath, and continued his downward movement, feeling the head slowly snaking its way further and further down. He paused again, successfully suppressing the gag reflex, then continued. Little by little, inch by inch, he finally found that his nose was pressed against Trents bush, having successfully swallowed his entire 8½-inch cock. Trent moaned again: Ohhhh, yeahhhh, man...that feels so gooood on my dick.... Rob closed his eyes and cleared his mind, afraid his own enlarged balls were going to empty their cargo uncontrollably, even though he wasnt


even touching his dick. For the time being, the ecstatic sensation inside his balls subsided somewhat.

Next, Rob slowly drew his head backward, feeling the hardness of Trents pipe and its thick crest rubbing against his throat and the inside of his mouth on the way out. At the same time, he grasped the shank, sliding his hand up its full length as it emerged from his mouth. Bringing the beefy log all the way out, he massaged the slick head briefly with his fingers and then went down the full length again, this time a little more quickly than the first time. As he did this, he tickled and gently squeezed Trents balls. Rob knew what felt good to himself, so he tried to duplicate the same feelingsthat whenever he massaged his own prostate gland while jerking off, he usually shot a bigger than normal load. Removing his left hand from Trents sweaty balls, he extended his middle finger along Trents perineum and inched it between his firm buns, all the way under him until he found his tight hole. As he pressed on it, Trent jerked and tensed up. Relax, man, Rob encouraged. This is gonna be the best climax youve ever had. Just relax. Trents heavy breathing continued, but his tension lessened a bit.

Rob paused. He withdrew his finger and then soaked it with the sweat from underneath Trents ball sac and rubbed some of Trents pre-cum along the length of it. Then he continued his deep sucking of Trents dick as he


replaced his hand underneath Trent and gradually began to work the first segment of his slippery finger up Trents ass. Trent winced again, apparently in mild pain, but he allowed Rob to continue. Robs longest finger went up, up, up, until finally he found the bulge of Trents prostate gland. He applied a little pressure to it. Removing his mouth from Trents trembling cock, he asked, Feel good?

Yeah...sure does! came the frenzied reply, then, Oh, shit...I really need to get off bad! Trent automatically reached for his cock; but Rob seized his determined hand and gently pushed it aside, after which Trent sternly commanded, OK then...do it for me, man...just do it! I cant take it anymore! Trent again had his eyes closed and his mouth mostly open,his brawny chest heaving rhythmically.

As Rob gently massaged Trents quivering prostate, he grasped Trents pulsating cock with his fist. Slowly at first, he sucked the full length of the tortured cock into his mouth and then jacked it all the way up to the tip as it came out, over and over, continuously prodding the acutely aroused studs prostate with his finger. Before long, Trent locked both of his hands on the back of Robs head and involuntarily began bucking his pelvis up and down, jamming his cock down Robs throat as he thrust upward and Robs finger up his ass as he sat back down. Yeahhh, oh yeahhh...! he panted. Rob knew that every movement Trent made resulted in intensifying ecstasy for him and that he rapidly


was reaching the point of overload. Trents respiration rate increased dramatically, and his movements became faster and faster as sweat poured off of his face, chest, arms, and legs.

Then, just when Rob thought his own balls surely were going to erupt forcibly in the intensity of the moment, Trent exclaimed, Oh, shit, man...thats it...Im cummin, man...Im gonna shoot it...Im gonna shoot right now...! At that moment, Rob felt a noticeable swelling of Trents prostate, followed by a contraction as it pumped its first load of fluid into Trents scrotum. At the same time, Trents ball sac retracted closer to his body, and he howled,  Ohhhh, yeahhhh...!  Rob, his finger still inside Trents tightly constricted rectum, felt the hot juice rising inside Trents burning cock with hisother hand.

Breaking Trents tight hold on his head, but maintaining a firm jacking motion on Trents cock, Rob stood up above Trents bursting piston just as an immense ejaculate of semen, as thick as a piss flow, blasted straight out of it. It was as if Trents hose were connected to a sperm bank. The first jet rocketed almost to the ceiling and came down all over Robs hair and left ear, followed by the second eruption which fired directly onto his cheek and mouth, then a third spurt which rammed into his neck. Four...five...six...seven...each shot coincided with a contraction of Trents prostate, and load after load of white-hot spunk was deposited onto Robs hairy chest, stomach, arm, and hand. The last stream of cum, continuing to emerge