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Eli heard his name get called out in the yard, just as he was trying to get a pass through Big D. He along with D turned their heads to the guard, and found Anthony standing at the gate. Shit. He handed the ball off to Big D. "Sorry Cruz. Gotta find another man."
"No worries," the short guy said and went to find another man to play some two-on-two.
Eli headed over to his brother, pissed he was being called away from his yard time. "What now?"
Anthony grinned. "You have a visitor."
Visitor? Not visitors? Eli wasn't sure how he felt about that. If it was visitors, Eli would have been jumping for joy to see his family. He missed the kids. He missed Sam. Fuck, but he missed Sam more than anything. Still, one visitor meant that it wasn't Sam and the kids. Probably Mom or…or Grant. Fuck, but he would hate for it to be Grant.
Anthony led him to the visitor's center, patted him down, and opened the gate. Eli's heart pounded in his chest, and tears prickled at the sight of Sam.
He rushed over to her. They were allowed one hug in the beginning and one hug at the end—that was it. No kissing. But dammit, Eli wanted to break that rule.
Still the hug was all too short when Anthony called him out on it. Fucker. Eli sat, still smiling at his gorgeous wife. "Man, I have missed you, babe."
"Well, maybe if you hadn't gotten in a fight, I would have come sooner."
Eli turned his head and glared at his brother. The fucker told her! He turned to Sam, pissed as ever. "He shouldn't have told you that."
"And you shouldn't have gotten into a fight. That's the whole reason you're in here, Eli!"
"I know," he gritted his teeth. She was going to guilt him like this? Really? "Look, can we not do this. I've been waiting to see you for weeks. I don't want to fight. I miss you a lot. Do you know how hard it is not to touch you right now? It is killing me, Sammy."
Sam wiped away tear. "I know, Eli. I know. I just…I wished you hadn't gotten into trouble, because I wanted to see you last week. I needed to. I still do. I have…news."
Eli cocked a brow. "News? What kind of news?"
Sam bit her lip and lowered her gaze. He followed her gaze, and he could just make out her hands on her stomach. Oh shit. "Sam?"
"I'm.." she sobbed and took a long deep breath. "I'm pregnant, Eli."
What. The. Fuck. She cheated on me? Fuck. Fuck!
"I'm sorry, Eli. I've been wanting to tell you. I've been needing to tell you. I didn't know how, and now…now, I just can't keep the secret any longer."
Eli gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. He should have known she wouldn't stay faithful. "Who? Who the fuck is he?"
Sam looked abashed, stunned, maybe even offended. "Eli, I didn't—"
"You're pregnant, Sam. Unless you saved some of my sperm that I don't know about, then you—"
"Eli, no! It's not like that!"
"Yeah, and I wasn't born yesterday. What the fuck, Sam? I thought… I…" Shit his heart shattered. How the fuck could she do this to him?
"Eli, I'm fifteen weeks pregnant."
Eli blinked. Fifteen weeks? He did the math, and yeah, okay that was about the last time they had sex. Shit, that was fucking forever too! "You sure it's mine?"
"Eli, I've only ever been with you."
He gave her a nod. He believed her. He tried to give her a smile, but another thought nudged him. One he also didn't like. She lied to him. She lied to him for months! "You kept this from me all this time? Sam, what the fuck!"
"I tried telling you. I just…I didn't want to tell you over the phone, and I didn't want to tell you with the kids around. I'm not sure how Derek or Bailee are going to take it."
"That's why they're not here, huh?" Eli wasn't sure how more pissed off he could get. Well, at least she didn't cheat on him. Still, she kept this from him, and now kept the kids from him. She lied to all of them!
"I was afraid, okay," she cried. "I wasn't even sure what I was going to do when I found out."
"Oh well, that's just fucking perfect. You're keeping the baby."
"Well, duh."
She was getting pissed off at him too. Crap. Eli was pretty sure their time was running out, and he was not going to end this visit with her pissed off at him. "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant, or well, how I meant for that to come out. I was asking, if you were keeping the baby, and it just came out wrong. I'm sorry."
She cried more. "I'm so sorry, Eli."
"For what?" Now he was just fucking confused. Why was she sorry?
"You're missing out again."
He went to reach over and hold her hand but stopped himself. He knew his visit would be over if they made any kind of contact like that. "Listen, don't be upset. If anyone should be upset, it's me. I did this to myself, Sammy."
"You're going to miss so much," she cried.
"Then you're going to have to just visit me more often, and the kids. All three of them." He tried to smile, but he couldn't. She was right, he was going to miss out on so much, and that pained him.
"Are you happy about this?"
"I don't know. I want to be. I love my kids. I love you. I just…" he shrugged. "Are you?"
"I'm getting there."
The visit ended too fast after that, and Eli headed out of the room, followed by Anthony. "She's pregnant."
"Yeah, I know."
Eli whipped around to face his brother. The fuck? "You know! What the fuck? She told you?"
"She wanted to tell you, but you got yourself thrown into the SHU."
"Fucker. That's all your fucking doing. You could have kept your fucking mouth shut."
Anthony ignored that outburst, and instead pushed Eli to keep walking. "Keep walking inmate. Come on."
"Asshole." Eli kept walking. He wasn't going to get thrown back in the hole, even if he wanted to deck Anthony for telling Sam about him and the fact that he knew about Sam before Eli did.
Once inside the yard, he faced his brother again. He still didn't know what to think about everything, but he did know one thing…he needed someone there for Sam. "Promise me, you'll look after her and the kids?"
"I already am. So is Grant."
Eli nodded and left to find his friends, and noticed that Tony was leaning on the table. Him and Kellogg were in deep conversation. Ah shit. This cannot be good. Tony had been trying to get Kellogg into the "business," whatever the fuck that meant.
He stopped in front of his friends, eyeballed Tony, and then grimaced over to Roy and Nance. "She's pregnant."
"Oh shit," Nance said. "Is it…is it yours?"
"Yeah." Eli sighed. At least he knew that much.
Tony smirked. "You sure? You sure that C.O. isn't doing your girl? Cause if I was him…"
Eli clenched his fists together. "Shut the fuck up, Shitball. I ain't talking to you."
"It's Meatball."
Kellogg stood and got between Tony and Eli before he could deck Meatball in the mouth. Kellogg pointed to the chair at the table. "He ain't worth another week in the hole, Eli. Sit down, and calm down." He turned to Tony, "And you can get the fuck out of here. Our business is through. You have my answer."
"Suit yourself, Kellogg."
Eli sat. He tried not to let what Tony had said bother him. He glanced over to his brother and…no, Anthony wouldn't do that to him. He believed Sam. He had to. She was all that he had. She was pregnant with his kid, and that's all there was to it.
"what if he's—"
"Stop," Roy demanded. "Don't listen to that Italian Spaghetti Slurper. You know that wife of yours loves you, and as much as I hate that fuck-wad of a brother of yours, I know he wouldn't do that to you."
"Listen to Roy," Nance added. "Stick up the ass or not, I've heard him talk about his family to the other guards. He adores his older brother."
"Ignore Meatball, Eli. He's just jealous. I mean, while you have a fucking hot wife, he has… well, Eun. I mean, even I wouldn't let him near my dick if he begged me."
Nance snorted. "And we all know Eun loves to sucks cock."
Eli appreciated his friends right then. And while Eli tried to laugh, and he did try…his mind kept thinking about that baby of his.
What the fuck was he going to do? Life sure as hell fucked with him. Eli hated knowing he was going to miss out on Derek and Bailee growing up the next few years, but to miss on the first few years of another child's life? Eli couldn't even think how much that was going to hurt him. It already started to pain him the more he thought about it.
Life sucked.
12 thoughts on "Chapter 3: Visiting Eli"
Eli…you got one more time to say or think something stupid! I can't with you right now!
Oh, but you will… LoL.
Trip says:
Wow Eli it costs $0.00 of your money to spend at the commissary to not be a piece of shit. 😛
Bahahahaha. OMG I am dying at this comment. Yes, he could learn how to keep his foot out of him mouth.
Eli – why???? How can you think the worst of your wife? Please get over that crap – fast or you're gonna miss more than a couple of years.
Tony's good at manipulation. Ask Maladi. And to be fair, he's in prison, and that does happen. Still, he should know better!
This is so hard for me! I love them all! Poor Eli. The seed of doubt has been planted. Anthony is doing his job, but he could cut him some slack, at least in the visitors room. What is family for then?
Spaghetti slurper. 😀 I laughed a lot on Tony's account this time. I'm almost afraid to see what you did to Eun. Is he Tony's sexual slave now? Oh dear. I think it was Jess or CE who said that Tony is overly heterosexual. Can't see him using Eun like that. But anything can happen in prison I guess.
IT WAS YOUR IDEA! You said Tony would spark that idea in his head. All of it was your idea. (Okay, Eun and Tony was mine. LoL.)
And OMG the Spaghetti Slurper insult I found online, and just died. I was like, oh that's just perfect. And Eun is Tony's faithful lackey. I just have Nance and Kellogg talk shit, because who doesn't talk shit about their enemies? Besides Eun has long hair, and from behind he could look like a chick to Tony. Bhahahahaha.
I'm assuming Tony strokes Eun's long hair and pretends it's Beryl instead.
Hahahahahahaha omg Eun sucking off Meatball 😂😂😂 Love it.
Poor Eli. Poor Sam. My poor heart 😭
It's the best, isn't it? LOL
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I ALMOST GOT MUGGED INSIDE A NYC BUDDY BOOTH!!!
By Guest LOVEHANDLE,
November 5, 2000 in The Lounge
Guest LOVEHANDLE
Let this be a warning to all my friends who like me are into the
buddy booths scene located near the Port Authority in NYC. Once in awhile, I go there during lunch hour and scores for a couple of bucks (the most I paid is 20!) for an j/o and a rimming session with a regular in one of the buddy booths. This particular one is located accross the Burger King restaurant and is very open to all activities: watchers couldn't care less what happens inside the booth for as long as that red light is on!!!
This particular afternoon, I hired a supposed regular and we discussed fees: He said $20 which is the usual going rate and we went at it. This Latino asshole, who had a two inch dick (similar to a baby!), did not get hard and did nothing! As soon as I had cum and wanted to leave and gave him his supposed fee which is $20, he demanded $120!!! He said he does not do such for $20! And that I should know better! And to add insult to injury threatened to hit me, for a 10 minute of no effort (I had even fucked an escort before for a $100!)
He thought I would just say yes, but I did a little scene and told him I couldn't give a fuck if he cannot figure out what the difference between a $20 and a $120, but that he is getting shit!
I bolted out of the booth leaving the bastard half-naked and screaming! And mind you, he has accomplices, but I am not that small either!!! So if you are into this scene, be forewarned!!!
I have heard of such cons and but still fell prey to such assholes, but I don't think I would want to be seen in that location ever again!!!
Lucky 1 post
trilingual 1 post
adriano46 4 posts
MiamiLooker 1 post
Guest Kenneth
Forgive my stupidity but what the hell is a "Buddy Booth"?
Is it a bathroom, a video booth, ?????
Guest njguy
I also was a victim of this guy and feel its important to let guys knowwho he is and give a description predator...His name changes so forget that..he's short 5'6"
to 5'7" and built (not thin) light facial hair...shaved head an always wears a baseball cap...tells you he needs money
mentions his girlfriend still claims to be straight even after you come in his mouth....and whatever price he quotes...he ads $100 to it afterwards and claims you didn't hear im correctly...THE other distinguishing mark is a very small teardrop tatoo near his eye..EWARE of this guy and tell anyone else you know who ikes those hot PR boys on 8th Ave.
Guest regulation
If there were an award for Sleaziest Story this one would certainly get my vote.
this was a WARNING
Personally I meant for this to be a warning to others....as I am sure the original post was intended...It was NOT intended as
amusement...nor to offend you! I hope people will read it and head the warnings to stay away from this guy...If you find it sleazy...so be it! I thought this message board was a place for the HONEST exchange of information...and...not a place to be judged for " who's sleazy and who's not! "
adriano46
RE: this was a WARNING
NjGuy,
I agree with you, and thank you too for opening this line. I also do not think it sleazy... Some of my hottest moments were in such boddy booths around 45th street (now closed) with construction workers from NJ!
I used to cruise the same area, and often had some serious problems with some of these guys... especially with a pair of PR brothers (real life brothers) who shook down clients badly. One is very strikingly handsome but with a noted gap in his two front teeth - avoid him at all costs.
Plus, in recent years the number of these guys on speed and worse has increased tremendously. AND I find the new owners/watchers in these places - mostly Indians or Pakistanis - very uncooperative and downright mean and worse. Giuliani really messed up things here, and there has not flourished another area (that I know of) where one can go for this type of action in the NYC area.
Guest curtain
>Giuliani really messed
>up things here, and there
>has not flourished another area
>(that I know of) where
>one can go for this
>type of action in the
>NYC area.
If Giuliani has made it tougher for people to have sex in public places that is to his credit. It is a pity so many people believe that being gay means one approves of such trashy behavior. The best way to avoid being cheated by sleazy hustlers is to have nothing to do with them.
Not that I am trying to condone such behavior! Imagine the surprise of my teacher nuns if they found out that I am a willing victim of such an abominable misfortune! And to you my friend "REGULATION", (are you sure you're not with Pat Buchanan?)
but forgive me for not entertaining you enough, but don't you think you have made the wrong click on the mouse and accidently came to HOOBOY's site? Such shame...
Who gives a shit what you think? This is as free a forum as your ass, so get over it! In other words my friend... get a life! If this is the kind of adventure I wanted to live, then so be it. It sure beats the hell out of Thelma and Louise's.
Capisce!
MiamiLooker
Kenneth asked and no one responded, so I'll ask it again: What is a buddy booth???
Guest NWDixieboy
Buddy booths are two video booths where you can press a button and have a partition between the walls ( usually glass) be removed.
Guest Tex
LAST EDITED ON Nov-11-00 AT 01:23PM (EST)[p]What's your offensive comment REALLY about, Curtain? If the subject matter of this or any other thread bothers you, why not just move on to the next one? Can't you understand that warnings such as those detailed in this thread could literally save someone's life?
I think we have VERY differing definitions of sleaze.
You obviously owe us an apology. Otherwise, forgetaboutit!
When we do postings in here, it's actually addressed to:
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN". Therefore, I had to tell the story, not an anecdote, to serve as a warning to the people I care about: us gays. So if this does not concern you and trashing the topic and thinking that it is so "uncalled for and unheard of" for a gay guy to hang out in buddy booths, then that is your problem. It happened to me, thank God I wasn't hurt, and then I should move on. But I care. So for those of you who have so much hang-ups and issues in life that cannot handle them on their own, I pity you. We maybe be queer, but we are still a bunch of fun-loving people who only wanted happiness in life. If you choose to live your life different from mine, who the hell cares? I sure don't. Remember I didn't post this thread in a general AOL chat room to expect hugs and kisses, I posted this at HOOBOY's site to warn the people of my kind: WHO LOVES TO SUCK DICKS AND FUCK ASSES!
>And to you my friend
>"REGULATION", (are you sure you're
>not with Pat Buchanan?)
>but forgive me for not entertaining
>you enough, but don't you
>think you have made the
>wrong click on the mouse
>and accidently came to HOOBOY's
>site? Such shame...
>Who gives a shit what you
>think? This is as
>free a forum as your
>ass, so get over
>it! In other words
>my friend... get a life!
> If this is the
>kind of adventure I wanted
>to live, then so be
>it. It sure beats
>the hell out of Thelma
>and Louise's.
>Capisce!
Sorry I missed the rule that says anyone is free to express his opinion on these boards unless YOU disagree with it! I'll try to remember it in the future.
Seriously, I don't care what you do to yourself. I guess I do care, just a bit, that people like you serve to validate the most negative stereotypes that straight people have created about gay men. It's behavior like yours that gives Buchanan and his ilk the ammunition they need to bash the rest of us. So if I were one of his supporters, I guess I would want you to keep doing exactly what you're doing.
Guest CZ
Lovehandles, there are plenty of Hooboy regulars out there who, like myself, appreciate the heads-up you posted at the top of this thread. Sharing this kind of information is what this site is all about.
While thanking you for this tip, let me add two things.
It strikes me as both sad & funny that Regulation so often carries on more like Church Lady than someone who frequents a site devoted to male prostitution. While I'll admit there are gradations to sleaze in the sexual arena, someone--anyone--who pays for sex (if indeed R even does that) really oughtn't to be so quick to judge his fellow-sinners. Now R (whose chosen handle already tells us a lot) may be far too fastidious to cruise the streets & tearooms & arcades, and his sense of propriety & decorum may be far too developed to condone sex in public places--and that's fine. For him. He should accordingly ignore a thread once it's plain that the subject matter is beneath him, and move on to other topics (stuff like "Should I Use My Designer Sheets When Receiving an Escort?" and "Shouldn't an Escort Send A Thank-You Email for a Big Tip?") that accord better with his high-minded view of the sex-for-money scene.
Lecturing his fellows on sexual politics serves no purpose. Besides, Reg is woefully naive if he thinks the Establishment he seems so eager to propitiate makes any distinction between a piss-elegant queen and a sleaze hound: unfriendly straights find both types of gay guys an abomination unto the Lord & condemn them with equal fervor. Let's not do their dirty work for them, I say.
And while it might have been more appropriate for Lovehandles to have posted his original alert in the 'street hustlers' forum, I for one am glad it popped up here--where many, many more of us would be much likelier to read it.
Second comment. With regard to the inquiry about buddy booths, the guy who posted this description left out one important detail. Even though this preposterous mechanism was developed during the mid-80s to allow guys in adjoining booths to 'get together' while safely separated (prison-style) by a plexiglass wall, it's true & current use completely subverts that intention.
These days, many (if not most) of the panels are jimmied up 3 or 4 inches to make a kind of 'letter-box-shaped' glory hole. (Management either does this or allows patrons to make the adjustment on their own.) Since Lovehandle's bad experience took place in a single video booth he was sharing with the hustler, he probably should have left 'buddybooth' out of the description.
I hope I can add something in as reasonable a manner as possible, without taking anyone to task, insulting or belittling anyone. Collective memories can be relatively short and history rewritten relatively quickly. I think it's worth mentioning here that, in NYC at any rate, it was pressure from within the gay community as much or (I would say) more than from outside it that led to closing the bathhouses and tightening the reins on sex clubs and backrooms. As noted above, Guiliani ran with the ball, but we ought to remember who threw it in the first place, more than a decade ago.
So while I'm in agreement with CZ's nicely written post with regard to the importance and value of sharing information like the warning that begins this thread, and the impropriety of a rush to judgement, I differ regarding the usefulness of discussing sexual politics on a forum like this one. And I don't think it's fair to toss off opinions like the one expressed by Regulation as doing the dirty work of right-wing enemies of gays & lesbians. It's only by engaging in a dialogue (one that would benefit from calmer, less insulting and dismissive discussion from both sides) about these issues that any sort of consensus might be reached. Sometimes I think we are so programmed to view the world as antagonistic to our very existance, that we are too quick to cry "traitor" when there is dissent within our ranks.
Guest MrB
>I hope I can add something
>in as reasonable a manner
>as possible
You did :-)
To Midnight, thanks for a reasonable post. You seem the only one here prepared to admit that there is more than one point of view in the gay community about the desirability of encouraging sexual activity in public places. The truth that the others don't want to admit is that many, perhaps most of us these days are opposed to it both for reasons of public health and because we are tired of allowing the fringe types who engage in such behavior to define all of us in the minds of the public.
To Tex, let me make sure I understand you. You are saying that paying some Puerto Rican kid twenty bucks to suck your penis in the back of a video store is in your mind a healthy expression of gay sexuality? And that anyone who expresses disapproval of such behavior is being "offensive?" I am wondering what sort of home you grew up in where you learned such a thing. I am trying to picture you sitting at the kitchen table with your parents while they explain to you about using "buddy booths" to get off. This is not easy for me to imagine.
To CZ, why do you disparage people for saying that there are healthier ways to express one's sexuality than in the back room of a store? You seem to be saying that if one hires an escort this means one has no right to draw any lines at all when it comes to sexual behavior. What lines, if any, do you draw? And when people hire prostitutes under the shoddiest and sleaziest of circumstances do you say that they have no responsibility for what happens? Do you really think that most straights make no distinction between Barney Frank and a street hustler? That would be like saying that whites see no difference between Dr. King and Al Sharpton.
Oops. You're right, Curtain. My comment about differing definitions of sleaze makes no sense. Sorry. I probably intended to write that we must have differing opinions of the sinfulness of sleazy behavior. Nevertheless, I enjoyed your version of conversations that took place around the our kitchen table during my youth. Thank you. Your description is much more functional than the shit I actually had to hear.
Your previous post was offensive because your tone was overly judgemental.
Anyway, I don't belong in this thread. I'll simply have to worry about this subject matter tomorrow. I'll have to forfeit to you, Curtain. Please consider me politely excused.
Guest albinorat
Goodness! Thank heavens I can't fit in your average buddy booth (as I understand the term). Why, my belly would have crushed that little PR and if he gave me 'tude I'd have promptly sat on him.
I think all (well, most) of us have had our outtings in public. The most transcendant experience of my youth was behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art at sunset in the gathering shadows with a mightily hung Italian-American youth who was into EVERYTHING and was very nice too (I was 15, he, maybe 17). And when I used to come to New York to go to the Opera (I was a very twisted little fuck) as a teenager, I used to know all the tea rooms on all the subway lines. It cost a nickel to have all the sex you could get up for (that's plenty when you're 16). Who knew thirty four or so years later it would cost $200 PLUS and you'd have to BOOK appointments in advance?! Is that progress, I ask you?
I once wept so hard when a Vice officer tried to arrest me and threw myself around his knees (I had just seen Giulietta Simionato do the same thing that afternoon as Santuzza at the Met) he fell over backwards into a puddle of urine and I ran like hell just as a train was coming. Who would miss out on something like that?
I must say, I took a dim view of some of the post liberation back rooms when the easy going homo New York I remembered as a youth had turned into a murkier place, nastily competitive, clone filled and too druggy for my taste. But my goodness, the backroom of the Anvil! I once saw in the dim light of the porn flick the most sleek and beautiful dick of my entire life there. And the Stud!
Let's not get into STD's; it would have been nice had the 24/7 orgy that was NY in the 70's been balanced by some social structure that emphasized inter-personal relations and a certain responsibility. But then again, that was asking a lot and who knew, really?
I voted for Giuliani (the only time I ever voted repulican in my life; I even voted for Hillary Clinton, the lone queen in Chelsea to do so) but then he hit Rounds (the inept Dinkins hit the wilder Cowboys). I have never forgiven him. Yes it was druggy around the edges but it was the best employment agency in city history and was a lot safer than the West side bars.
And one of the writers above lamented the disappearance of the NJ construction workers from the porn shops (most now closed and or supervised by horrific beings from some subcontinent or other). I was able to entice a few to my place for wild manly encounters -- sometimes. But in a way, I'm glad there are still opportunities out there. That I at 50 may have aged (and grown --if you get me) out of seeking them out, there are people for whom that is the most realistic outlet for sex. So the cautionary note that started this thread seemed most appropriate and valuable to me.
I've been signing things Albo, hope no one mistakes that for the dog food.
To Albinorat:
Whatever happened to "different strokes for different folks?" I won't judge your sex life if you don't judge mine. (Which, incidentally, is lacking. Who knew these escorts were going to raise their prices as soon as I moved to NYC?)
You go, Albo! I myself remember those far-away (and not-so-far-away) days of collegiate afternoons in the subway tearooms, relieving my frustrations at midnight in the Rambles instead of working on my term papers (and the occasional wild game of hide-and-go-seek with the NYPD), and, more recently, the pre-Giuliani video establishments. Can't tell you how many happy hours were spent on my knees at a certain underground spot on 8th Ave. near 42nd St., and I'm definitely NOT Catholic! In the midst of all this, there was the inevitable bad experience, but one learns to be cautious and carries on!
As for all the judgementalism going on in this thread, I find it hard to believe. I mean, chacun a son gout! As for public sex, have our uptight friends ever spent an observant afternoon walking through certain verdant parts of Central Park and observed what some of the heterosexuals are up to on those blankets? But does the mayor go on a scorched earth campaign by burning down the Park and selling the smoldering remains to Disney? I want the same rights to do stuff in public, if that's what I'm into, as those exhibitionist straights. Not more, not less, just the same!
And thanks so much for listening! :-)
Albo,
Wonderfully written. Brought back memories of my high school youth, taking in the film "Mondo Cane" in a dark, dingy 42nd Street theatre, and while watching this (at 15) having the first hand ever grope my thigh... unfortunately, then, I was so frightened, I ran out of the theater, turning back to see a quite handsome guy in his mid-20's trying to catch me!
Came a long way before I had the courage to try it again... when the ADONIS existed on 43rd (or was that 44th?).
But more to the point, your observations are well-taken.
I think what bothers me most about the "proprietors" of the video establishments still left is their harrassing guys mercilessly. One wants to scream "GREEN CARD CHECK!" If they want our money...
Thanks Adriano and Trilingual. Mondo Cane! Now there was a movie! But I have to admit I got my first hand job from my cousin at the original Parent Trap (we were 11, I think, but he was pretty good at it, I'd never had sensations like those before. Do you think Halley Mills turned him on that much?) so I kept going back to Parent Trap but the most that happened was an old geezer offering to buy me popcorn because I looked hungry (Huh? to quote the asshole above. I was writing about sex in the open dear).
Mondo Cane was big in Philly and I got fondled quite a lot there but there was a French film where the hunky hero got hog tied with wire -- really -- every twist of the wire was shown -- never happens in b&d porn that way. I got jerked off more than Bill Clinton during a crisis. They say paraphilias start that way. What do you think?
Oh! The Rambles! Wonderful experiences when NY was NY, the reason I came here (in several senses). I never felt as good at the trucks or on that old building on the Piers where the floor fell through one night and some unlucky gay bros went falling into the Hudson (Jesus Christ the way the Vice descended on those poor guys!).
But it's true all that's gone now. And it costs so much. Thanks for writing guys.
Guest allansmith63
albo dog food??
albo, my man - isn't the dog food "alpo"?
only a humble canajun question....
A. :-)
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Here we are at the Ponte di Naso in the province of Messina.
The water is warm and inviting. Everyone seems to enjoy it!
A great way to while away the hot summer afternoons in the shade of a beach umbrella.
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Eventhough I am missing the sensations of a sandy Ozzie beach!
But in Italy everyone goes to the beach, even these holy cows had come down to the beach!


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poseablemonster
Re: yep, pretty disgusted with humanity right now....
I dunno...if my family could make millions off people gawking over my dead body, I'd say, "Go for it." Then again, I'd be dead so I guess I wouldn't care one way or the other.
pull my finger...
Re: NEWS OF THE WORLD - Current Events (May Be Disturbing, No Politics Please)
From what i understand, his body won't be there...just the rest of the Jackson's performing while running MJ's final rehearsal videos in the background. 10 grand, FOR THAT??? Hell, you could probably drive down to the local Burger King and see Tito for FREE...
Unknown Primate
Legend of Wildcat Creek
On the news today, the Jackson's attorney said that the family was wanting the event to be "low-key & not over-hyped, to show respect"!
" Perhaps he dimly wonders why, there is no other such as I. "
LundyAfterMidnight
Quote from: Unknown Primate on July 06, 2009, 07:29:39 PM
The Jackson family hasn't been "low-key" & "not over-hyped" since 1969!!
"Well friends, that's all there is to life: just a little laugh, a little tear." - Prof. Echo (Lon Chaney, Sr.)
Anton Phibes
I wish they would hurry up and put him in the ground. Sorry to seem rough, but this guy..... was just a guy. There are far too many more impoortant things going on in the world and America right now. He also was eccentric and non conventional in every sense of the word. Yet Al Sharpton says there was nothing strange about Michael Jackson, but there were few things he did that weren't strange. Tired of the media's hypocrisy. For years, MJ was nothing but a curiosity and weirdo to them. "Let's see what the weirdo is doing to get on tv this week" kind of thing. Now, they are all going on about how he changed history as we know it, and speaking as if they always loved him. I call this band wagon jumping myself. Its ridiculous. The country needs to move on. We have troops getting shot at in Afghanistan right now (my nephew, Marine, among them), the President is under the impression that if he throws enough money (ours!) at a problem, it will go away, North Korea wants us dead, the economy is in the toilet, and 6.5 million jobs have been lost since January in the US alone. Michael Jackson dying, while understandably upsetting to his fans, is just not the big deal they are making it out to be. People die. That's the thing about life...no one gets out alive.
Wicked Lester
You won't hear me until it's too late!
Quote from: Anton Phibes on July 07, 2009, 06:14:13 PM
Good post Anton.
MJ= 80's/90's BIG popstar. World as we know it = F'D Which is more important?
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Deputies said the man got into an argument with her about undercooked potatoes and burnt bread. He went to the bedroom and began eating, and authorities said the woman then threw a phone at him.
Deputies said Mulcahy became belligerent in the back seat of the patrol car and told them that she "burned the bread she was cooking because she was so intoxicated." She was in the Lee County Jail on Wednesday pending a $1,500 bond.
Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.
What these mysterious vibrations say about future earthquakes is far from certain. But some think the deep tremors suggest underground stress may be building up faster than expected and may indicate an increased risk of a major temblor.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, monitored seismic activity on the fault's central section between July 2001 and February 2009 and recorded more than 2,000 tremors. The tremors lasted mere minutes to nearly half an hour.
Unlike earthquakes, tremors occur deeper below the surface and the shaking lasts longer.
During the study period, two strong earthquakes hit _ a magnitude-6.5 in 2003 and a magnitude-6.0 a year later. Scientists noticed the frequency of the tremors doubled after the 2003 quake and jumped six-fold after 2004.
Tremor episodes persist today. Though the frequency of tremors have declined since 2004, scientists are still concerned because they are still at a level that is twice as high as before the 2003 quake.
The team also recorded unusually strong rumblings days before the 2004 temblor.
Results of the research appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The work was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey and National Science Foundation.
"The fact that the tremors haven't gone down means the time to the next earthquake may come sooner," said Berkeley seismologist and lead researcher Robert Nadeau.
Nadeau first discovered tremors deep in the San Andreas Fault in 2005. Before that, the phenomenon was thought only to occur in Earth's subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives beneath another.
USGS seismologist Susan Hough found the latest observations intriguing, but said it's too soon to know what they mean.
"We don't have enough data to know what the fault is doing in the long term," said Hough, who had no part in the research.
An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it _ an Iraq war veteran _ claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.
A day after the parade, police returned the flag and the man's protest _ over a liquor license _ continued.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is considering legal action against the village of Crivitz for violating Vito Congine Jr.'s' First Amendment rights, Executive Director Chris Ahmuty said.
"It is not often that you see something this blatant," Ahmuty said.
In mid-June, Congine, 46, began flying the flag upside down _ an accepted way to signal distress _ outside the restaurant he wants to open in Crivitz, a village of about 1,000 people some 65 miles north of Green Bay.
He said his distress is likely bankruptcy because the village board refused to grant him a liquor license after he spent nearly $200,000 to buy and remodel a downtown building for an Italian supper club.
Congine's upside-down-flag represents distress to him; to others in town, it represents disrespect of the flag.
Hours before a Fourth of July parade, four police officers went to Congine's property and removed the flag under the advice of Marinette County District Attorney Allen Brey.
Neighbor Steven Klein watched in disbelief.
"I said, 'What are you doing?' Klein said. "They said, 'It is none of your business.'"
The next day, police returned the flag.
Brey declined comment Friday.
Marinette County Sheriff Jim Kanikula said it was not illegal to fly the flag upside down but people were upset and it was the Fourth of July.
"It is illegal to cause a disruption," he said.
The parade went on without any problems, Kanikula said.
Village President John Deschane, 60, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam, said many people in town believe it's disrespectful to fly the flag upside down.
"If he wants to protest, let him protest but find a different way to do it," Deschane said.
Congine, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq in 2004, said he intends to keep flying the flag upside down.
"It is pretty bad when I go and fight a tyrannical government somewhere else," Congine said, "and then I come home to find it right here at my front door."
Umm, if I saw some dude flying the flag upside down, I'd be pis*** too, that is disrespectful to the American flag.
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 11, 2009, 01:16:58 AM
Depends what statement he is trying to make. He does have that right.
I know this town. I have relatives up there and I lived in Marinette for awhile. I can see how they would get pissed considering the type of people they are. A village in upper WI. You do the math.
I do think he should have taken it down for the one day. He knows how these people are and he shoulda known it would spark something.
Don't want this getting political. Just tossing in my 2 cents since I have relatives there.
« Last Edit: July 11, 2009, 09:47:35 AM by Wicked Lester »
I heard about this statue being stolen a couple of weeks ago on the news. At the time they were hoping it was a prank and the perps would return it...Here's what ended up actually happening. We really don't need people like this wasting the oxygen on the planet.
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/07/09/statue-of-liberty-replica-beheading-probed-by-nypd/
Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.
It was those cameras that captured images of the masked men who shot the wealthy couple to death in a break-in executed with chilling precision.
Authorities made three arrests over the weekend, plus another arrest announced Monday evening, but the mystery around town only deepened, when Sheriff David Morgan said that as many as eight people in all may have been involved and that the crime appeared to have "numerous motives," though robbery was the only one he would mention.
"Mr. Billings was well-to-do. He was an entrepreneur and he opened his home to the community. You are asking me to speculate on a motive. That could have been one reason," Morgan said, likening the killings to the 1959 slayings of a Kansas farm family that were chronicled by Truman Capote in the book "In Cold Blood."
The video from last Thursday showed three armed, masked men arriving in a red van, entering through the front of the house and then returning to the vehicle. Others dressed in what the sheriff called "ninja garb" went in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
The sheriff would not say what, if anything, was stolen.
Some of the nine children in the house at the time were sleeping, but several others saw the break-in, authorities said. One left the house and went to get a neighbor, who called 911.
"I think you'll find this particularly chilling and here's why: We have a team that enters at the rear of the home and another that enters at the front of the home," Morgan said. "It leads me to believe this was a very well-planned and methodical operation."
Morgan said, however, that there was no indication anyone had unlocked the door for the intruders, explaining, "I believe it was a matter of course in this community that they felt comfortable enough to leave the door unlocked." He also said he knew of no connection between the men under arrest and the Billings family.
The Billingses owned several local businesses, including a finance company and a used-car dealership. They lived in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola, near the Alabama state line, in a house set deep in the woods. They had 16 children in all _ 12 of them adopted.
In a 2005 story in the Pensacola News Journal, the couple said they wanted to share their wealth with children in need, but didn't imagine their family would grow so large.
"It just happened," said Melanie Billings, who was 43 when she died. "I just wanted to give them a better life."
The surveillance system was installed to help the couple keep track of their children as they wandered through the large house and yard, said Susan Berry, principal of Escambia Westgate School in Pensacola, which some of the children attended.
Tips from the public led police to the van on Saturday. Day laborer Wayne Coldiron, 41, turned himself in on Sunday, and Leonard P. Gonzalez Jr., 35, was arrested the same day in a neighboring county. They were charged with murder and home invasion. Gary Lamont Sumner Jr., 30, was arrested Monday in Okaloosa County on a murder charge and will eventually be returned to Escambia County. Morgan said he hopes to make another arrest on Tuesday.
Authorities also jailed Gonzalez's father on a charge of evidence tampering. Police said the 56-year-old tried to paint over and hide damage on the van.
The elder Gonzalez told investigators that he was the getaway driver and waited in the van while the others broke into the house and burglarized it, according to court papers. Authorities said he also told them several other men were involved.
Byrd Billings, 68, was a man with big twinkly-eyed smile, Berry said. At one school function, his big hand enveloped hers, leaving a neatly folded check for the school in her palm. She wouldn't say how much the check was for, but she couldn't believe how big it was.
"They weren't only generous with their children," Berry said. "They were generous with everyone that touched their children's lives."
When Melanie Billings picked up her children from school, she would stretch out her arms, and "the kids would run to her, the ones that could," Berry said. "They would go as fast they could with their arms in the air for Mom to take them."
For one daughter's prom, the couple created a Cinderella scene. The girl's dress was white, her date wore a white tuxedo with a pink tie, and the couple emerged from a white limousine.
"The beam on Byrd and Mel's faces, and on the parents of the young man, is something I'll never forget," Berry said. "It was picture-perfect."
Ashley Markham, an adult daughter of the victims, said she plans to carry on with her parents' legacy.
"My mother always told me some people grow up wanting to be doctors or lawyers or teachers. She wanted to be a mommy," Markham said in a statement. "Her lifelong dream was loving her babies and being a voice for them."
A funeral service has been planned for Friday morning at the Liberty Church, with visitation planned for the night before.
The Spangler
The last two posts completely broke my heart.
Masked suspects, some dressed as ninjas, stole a safe and other items during a deadly break-in at the sprawling Florida Panhandle home of a couple known for adopting children with special needs, authorities said Tuesday.
Melanie and Byrd Billings were shot to death Thursday in their nine-bedroom home. Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan hugged their sobbing adult daughter, Ashley Markham, at a press conference Tuesday to announce that three more people had been arrested, bringing the total to seven.
"It is my honor today to tell you, Ashley, and your family, we have found them and they are in custody," Morgan said.
Investigators had said previously that there were many motives for the crime, but prosecutor Bill Eddins said Tuesday that robbery was the main one. He would not say what was in the safe or what else might have been taken from the house.
Nine of the couple's 17 children were home at the time and three saw the intruders but were not hurt.
Morgan said investigators were still looking for at least one more person in the case and at least one of the suspects in custody may have done work at the Billings home. He has previously said the suspects had no direct connection to the victims.
Several of the suspects were day laborers who knew each other through either a pressure washing business or a car detailing group, Morgan said.
The arrests started Sunday with 56-year-old Leonard Gonzalez Sr., who was originally charged with evidence tampering but will be charged with murder, authorities said. He is accused of driving a red van seen on surveillance video pulling away from the Billings home and then trying to paint over it.
His son, 35-year-old Leonard P. Gonzalez Jr., was also arrested Sunday along with day laborer Wayne Coldiron, 41. Both were due in court Tuesday to face murder charges.
Another day laborer, Gary Lamont Sumner, 31, was arrested on a murder charge in a nearby county Monday after he was pulled over in a traffic stop. Morgan said investigators have placed Sumner at the scene, though he would not provide details.
Three more people were arrested Tuesday _ a juvenile whom police did not identify; Frederick Lee Thorton Jr., 19; and Donnie Ray Stallworth, 28, who was arrested in Alabama but lives in Florida.
The break-in was captured by an extensive video surveillance system the Billings used to keep tabs on their children.
Surveillance video showed three armed, masked men arriving in the red van, entering through the front of the house and then returning to the vehicle. Others dressed in what the sheriff called "ninja garb" went in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
Morgan said, however, that there was no indication anyone had unlocked the door for the intruders, adding that people in the community felt comfortable leaving their doors unlocked.
The couple owned several local businesses, including a finance company and a used-car dealership. They lived in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola, near the Alabama state line, in a house set deep in the woods. They had 17 children in all _ 13 of them adopted.
Tips from the public led police to the van on Saturday.
Here's some offbeat news.....
A 51-year-old man told a police officer he was naked in a northern Indiana cemetery because he had taken off his wet clothes after checking on his in-laws' grave and then wanted a closer look at some flowers. The officer was off duty and jogging through Rice Cemetery in Elkhart Sunday afternoon when he saw the naked man get into a truck and drive away. The officer later tracked down the Mishawaka man from his license plate number.
The man said he had been golfing all day and that he undressed in his truck because his underwear was wet. He said he left his truck naked to look at the flowers because he did not have his glasses.
He was arrested on a preliminary misdemeanor charge of public indecency.
And in other news today...............................
A man has been charged with public intoxication after authorities said he was walking along Highway 11 with a pair of panties hanging out from his unzipped pants. According to The Daily Post-Athenian, 31-year-old man told deputies he had been at a pool party and stole them from a nearby home early Sunday.
A search revealed the man had stuffed some 40 pairs of female undergarments into his pants, although he had thrown most of them to the ground as a deputy approached.
The owner of the garments declined to prosecute but the man was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.


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A memorial to Second World War French airmen was unveiled in York Minster on Monday, 24 October, attended by Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Linton-on-Ouse and RAF Leeming, as well as dignitaries, French veterans and the heads of the RAF and the French Air Force.
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A memorial to Second World War French airmen was unveiled in York Minster on Monday, 24 October, attended by Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Linton-on-Ouse and RAF Leeming, as well as dignitaries, French veterans and the heads of the RAF and the French Air Force. The event commemorated the war efforts of two Free French heavy bomber squadrons at RAF Elvington. It was marked with a flypast of 16 aircraft including 9 RAF Tucano aircraft, a French Rafale fighter jet and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster bomber.
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In This Article Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535-1700)
Tune and Source Catalogues
Multinational Studies
English Metrical Psalmody
Musical Studies
Textual Studies
Scottish Metrical Psalmody
Welsh Psalmody
Christian Hymnody
Instrumentation and Orchestration
Early Modern British Metrical Psalmody (1535-1700)
Timothy Duguid
LAST MODIFIED: 19 March 2013
The Book of Psalms has always played an important role in Christian belief and worship practice, but the 16th century saw a renewed emphasis on this book of the Bible. In Britain, the practice of singing poetic settings of the psalms has been traditionally connected with Presbyterian or Calvinistic worship practice, but British metrical psalmody was actually rooted in Lutheran devotional practice. The earliest editions of metrical psalms printed and circulated in both England and Scotland appeared in the 1530s and 1540s, and they were based on Lutheran texts. Within this context, Thomas Sternhold would begin to write versifications of the psalms. He printed a selection of these psalms in 1547, dedicating them to his employer, Edward VI. Although it contained only thirty-six psalms, this volume would have a dramatic impact on the future of British psalmody and, more broadly, English-language liturgical music. Modified versions of his psalms would continue to appear in print in England until 1828, and his texts popularized Common Metre (8.6.8.6)—a verse that continues to dominate English-language liturgical music today. After Sternhold died, his printer enlisted the help of John Hopkins to add to Sternhold's psalms, and the resulting collection would become the most printed edition during Edward's reign.
The reinstated Roman Catholicism of Mary I forced many Protestants to flee to the European mainland in the mid-1550s, where they edited and expanded the Sternhold and Hopkins psalters. In addition, the exiles introduced tunes that either originated in or were similar to the tunes from the Geneva psalters. After Elizabeth I succeeded Mary in 1558 and reestablished Protestantism, the exiles returned home with their modified psalters. While English and Scottish versifiers would produce complete editions of all 150 psalms in 1562 and 1564, respectively, Welsh versifiers would not complete a metrical psalter suitable for liturgical use until 1621. By that time, English—and to a lesser extent Scottish—metrical psalmody had undergone a significant transformation. Although the texts remained largely unchanged, the English sang their psalms to an increasingly consolidated set of tunes that featured newer Common Tunes, which could be paired with most of the texts in the psalter. As part of the English national church, Welsh versifiers focused their efforts on compiling a set of texts that could be sung in Welsh churches to these English Common Tunes.
The metrical psalms were not only the domain of the learned and godly but also were the songs of the people. Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, literate and nonliterate joined together in singing them at home, work, school, and church. Although they were poetically unexceptional, these psalms were so engrained in society that Scots waited until 1650 to adopt a new psalter. The English would continue with the Sternhold and Hopkins psalms through the rest of the 17th century, when they slowly began to be replaced by the versions by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady. Therefore, the Sternhold and Hopkins psalms and musically related Prys psalms of Wales dominated early modern British metrical psalmody, providing the scope and focus of this article.
The best introduction to the musical, textual, and historical issues surrounding metrical psalmody is Temperley et al. 2001 as it considers the developments throughout Europe and how they influenced each other. In many ways, John Calvin's Geneva probably had the most significant influence on British metrical psalmody. Garside 1979 introduces Calvin's theology of music that influenced so many in Britain. Maxwell 1931 explores how these beliefs found expression in the liturgical practices of Calvin's Genevan churches and how they influenced other Protestant exile communities throughout the European mainland. Calvin's views also resulted in Les Pseaumes 1562 (cited under Continental), of which Douen 1878–1879 and Pratt 1966 offer helpful textual and musical examinations and analyses. The discussion in Weeda 2002 on the influence of the Geneva Psalter throughout France and the more general discussion about 16th century society found in Pettegree 2005 provide invaluable context for considerations of the impact of the psalters in Britain. These set the context for Leaver 1992–1993, as it considers the creation of the Anglo-Genevan psalters, the predecessors of both the English and Scottish metrical psalters.
Douen, Emmanuel Orentin. Clément Marot et le psautier Huguenot. 2 vols. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1878–1879.
Although some of its conclusions have been challenged, this was the first study to take a close look at the origins of Les Pseaumes 1562 (cited under Continental). Douen spends significant time inspecting the psalter's texts and tunes and examined how later composers used these psalm settings in their own compositions.
Garside, Charles. "The Origins of Calvin's Theology of Music: 1536–1543." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 60.4 (August 1979): 5–35.
Garside studies the development of Calvin's philosophy of music, challenging the commonly held belief that Calvin hated music. Garside's article shows that Calvin distinguished between the simple musical forms that were appropriate for liturgical music and the more complex forms that were allowable for domestic use.
Leaver, Robin. "John Bale, Author and Revisor of Sixteenth‐Century Metrical Psalms." Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie 34 (1992–1993): 98–106.
Apart from Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, William Whittingham probably had the most significant impact on the metrical psalms that would be adopted in England and Scotland. In this article, Leaver considers the possibility that Whittingham had help in compiling and creating the Anglo-Genevan Psalters.
Maxwell, William D. The Liturgical Portions of the Genevan Service Book. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1931.
The foundations of Scottish liturgical practice were laid in Geneva and Frankfurt. Maxwell compares the Liturgies of John Calvin, Valerand Poullain, and the Frankfurt exile church.
Pettegree, Andrew. Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614613E-mail Citation »
A study on Reformation culture, and the assimilation of Protestant ideas by the general populace. This is a general introduction that covers preaching, music, drama, art, print, philosophy, and theology.
Pratt, Waldo Seldon. The Music of the French Psalter of 1562: A Historical Survey and Analysis. New York: AMS, 1966.
This melodic analysis of the tunes in Les Pseaumes 1562 (cited under Continental) was very much ahead of its time (See Duguid 2011, cited under Multinational Studies). Pratt places the psalter squarely on the divide between the modal compositions of liturgical music before 1500 and the tonal compositions that characterized music after 1600.
Temperley, Nicholas, et al. "Psalms, Metrical." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie, 2d ed. London: Macmillan, 2001.
This general overview and history of metrical psalmody covers the France, Germany, and the Low Countries of the European mainland; England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Atlantic Archipelago; and various churches in North America. Also available online by subscription.
Weeda, Robert. Le psautier de Calvin: L'histoire d'un livre populaire au XVIe siècle (1551–1598). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2002.
A consideration of the genesis and eventual impact of Calvin's Psalter on 16th-century Genevan and French life. He examines their role in liturgical, domestic, public, and educational experiences of people in Geneva and in various places throughout France.
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In the Four Girls Mountains, the yellow leaves of the larch and birch had been overblown. But in the rGyalrong (rGyalmorong or Queen Valley) district on the lower reach of the river, the colored leaves such as the pear, walnut and willow become beautiful.
I told before, but the Queen Valley is the ancient name of the upper reaches of the Daduhe River in the Trans-Himalayas.
And it is the place where many peoples of the Shanshun what was recorded as the Queendom in Sui-Shu (a history book of the Sui period 581-618 in China) moved in for long times.
In November, the stone-piled houses and high towers what is inherited their peculiar culture shine out on the colored leaves. Above all, the Damba where four steep rivers join to the Daduhe River is beautiful most.
The Damba is in the autonomous prefecture of Tibetan where it is take about 9 hours by public bus from the Chengdu. From several years before, many hotels and road are provided and the tourists are increasing rapidly.
There are many highlights but only three places to have easily access by car are introduced here.
The first is the towers form groups in the Supo where it take about 10 minutes by car from the Damba town.
Many towers in the scattered stone-piled houses on the mountainside and is overlooks from the roadway on the opposite shore.
The second is the colony of the Jiaju where it take about 20 minutes by car.
The colony consisting of many scattered houses in wide slight slope is overlook from the roadway on a mountainside.
There are many guesthouses what possible to have a meal, observe inside and take photographs by putting on folk clothing, too.
The third is the colony of the Buke what it take about 20 minutes by car.
The colony in the ravine what is mixed the steep river and the level ground along the riverside is overlook from the roadway near a way in.
The ravine of the Buke is called Geshizha River.
In the deep ravine, beautiful colored leaves went on and on along ravine.


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import java.awt.Dialog;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Window;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Map;

import jdbreport.model.ReportBook;
import jdbreport.model.io.LoadReportException;
import jdbreport.service.JDBReportService;
import jdbreport.util.Utils;
import jdbreport.view.DefaultErrorHandler;
import jdbreport.view.ReportDialog;
import jdbreport.view.ReportEditor;

/**
 * @version 3.1.3 23.10.2016
 *
 * @author Andrey Kholmanskih
 *
 */
public class JDBReport {

	static {
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	/**
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Andy Murray announces retirement from tennis in tearful speech
Andy Murray plans to retire from tennis this year. Picture: AFP/Getty Images
Chris McCall
Published: 06:59 Updated: 08:50 Friday 11 January 2019
Sir Andy Murray has revealed he plans to retire from tennis after this year's Wimbledon - but admits he may be forced to quit the sport even earlier.
In a tearful press conference at the Australian Open this morning, the Scot explained why he plans to call time on his career.
"I'm not sure I'm able to play through the pain for another four or five months," he told the assembled media. "I want to get to Wimbledon and stop but I'm not certain I can do that.
READ MORE: Tennis stars pay tribute to 'role model' Sir Andy Murray
The 31-year-old, who has been battling a long-term hip injury, still intends to play his Australian Open first-round match against Spanish 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut next week.
But he candidly admitted this could be his last tournament as a professional player.
"I'm not feeling good, I've been struggling for a long time," he added.
READ MORE: Sir Andy Murray: The highs and lows of the Scot's incredible career
"I've been in a lot of pain for about 20 months now. I've pretty much done everything I could to try and get my hip feeling better and it hasn't helped loads.
"I'm in a better place than I was six months ago but I'm still in a lot of pain. I can still play to a level, but not a level I have played at."
The three-time Grand Slam winner had surgery on his right hip last January and has played 14 matches since returning to the sport last June.
"The pain is too much really," he said. "I need to have an end point because I'm playing with no idea of when the pain will stop.
"I'd like to play until Wimbledon - that's where I'd like to stop playing - but I'm not certain I'm able to do that.
Colin Fleming still hopeful Murray factor can inspire next generation
"I have the option of another operation which a little bit more severe - and involves having my hip resurfaced - which would allow me to have a better quality of life and be free of pain.
"That's something I'm seriously considering now. Some athletes have had it and gone back to competing but there's no guarantee of that. If I had it, it would be to have a better quality of life."
His announcement prompted a wave of support from the world of tennis. Billie Jean King, who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, tweeted: "You are a champion on and off the court. So sorry you cannot retire on your own terms, but remember to look to the future. Your greatest impact on the world may be yet to come. Your voice for equality will inspire future generations."
Murray, originally from Dunblane, has become one of the highest profile sports players to hail from Scotland. His victory at the 2012 US Open made him the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament.
He ended the UK's long wait for a homegrown winner of Wimbledon when he won the 2013 Men's Singles final against Novak Djokovic, who he has faced in no less than seven Grand Slam finals.
Murray won on Centre Court again in 2016 when he saw off Milos Raonic to become the first British male player since Fred Perry in the 1930s to win multiple Wimbledon titles.
Last year the Scot finished second to England's World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore in a poll conducted by the Radio Times to find the greatest sports personality of all time.
The poll, which received over 11,000 votes, was held to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
Murray is the only sportsperson to lift the coveted sports personality trophy on three occasions.


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Forward "Locomotive" and the Russian team CSKA Moscow in an interview with TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak has commented on the situation around the players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev.
Smolov believes that Kokorin and Mamaev should be punished for their actions. But the fact that players with Oct be detained in jail, the striker considers "unreasonable, harsh, and cruel." In addition, Smolov urged not to make of this story "demonstrative flogging".
"I believe that if I was in that moment with them, this would not have happened," concluded the striker.
Kokorin and Mamaev are in jail as defendants in three criminal cases under articles "Hooliganism" and "Assault". They will stay in custody until at least February 8th. Smolov has acted with words of support to both players after their detention.
In early October the players staged two fights in Moscow. In the first case, Kokorin and Mamaev attacked the driver leading the First channel of Olga Ushakova. After that they went to one of the cafes of the capital, beat official of the Ministry of industry and trade Denis Pack and CEO of the US Sergey Gaisin.
Smolov played with Kokorin in the same club — Moscow "Dynamo", and as a player of "Krasnodar" forward played with Mamaev. All three were involved in matches for national team of Russia.


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i tried to use this code
<form action="" method="post" name="test_fn">
    <input type="text" name="input1" value="ON">
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="ON">
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
    setTimeout(function(){test_fn.submit();}, 0);
</script>

but not work. how can i do that ? for submit form using javascript (have input type="submit" inner form )
thank

A: First you should change your input submit name.

When you name the button submit, you override the submit() function on the form,so it will become "submit is not a function"

<form action="" method="post" name="test_fn" id="test_fn">
    <input type="text" name="input1" value="ON">
    <input type="submit" name="btnsubmit" value="ON"> //Changed submit name here
</form>

then can call submit by your form name like this
<script type="text/javascript">
  setTimeout(function(){document.test_fn.submit()}, 0);
</script>

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