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What I would be the most keen to hear from Melodyne would be something a cappella oriented; perhaps in four to six voice harmony and sang at a moderate tempo so one could savor the harmonies and intonational nuance. Jacky Ligon - nonoctave forum

That message was the input for this piece, a short “
a cappella” composition for four voices at a moderate tempo tuned to a dodecatonic mode of Carlos Alpha.

This dodecatonic mode is the one obtained playing only natural and sharp notes on my
Carlos Alpha note layout for the Opal Chameleon but this piece was composed with my Halberstadt keyboard.

Watch the scrolling score (at reduced audio quality):

Because I am the only “singer” involved on the recording of this piece I had to take into account my vocal range, even though I knew I could stretch it with
I started playing with an
Omnisphere’s choir sound. Once satisfied with the composition I started dubbing my voice while listening to the MIDI tracks with headphones.

As you can see I recorded a few bars at a time trying to memorize notes I had just heard before starting each recording. I did not pay any attention to background noise that I discovered after the fact but with Melodyne I was able to substitute a few “offending “ notes with “clean” ones.
I am not a singer so I noticed I had to remember to breathe between notes because that positively affected intonation!
I recorded everything in one hour (I have to do something like that when there is no one else in the house) trusting Melodyne for fixing mistakes. I then started listening to each recorded track with the corresponding Omnisphere track in the background and started editing with Melodyne set to Carlos Alpha Dodecatonic. Editing pitch, attack time, amplitude and other parameters of single notes took a few days.
The final recording is not perfect but good enough to show Melodyne’s potentials. I chose to mix the Omnisphere’s tracks (low in the mix) with my vocal ones (adding a pinch of reverb) to increase thickness.


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Posted 03/05/2013 10:46PM

Dear Servite Soccer Family,

I hope you all are doing well.  Our Servite Soccer Team beat University City High School (San Diego) yesterday by a score of 4-1 in the First Round of the  CIF Southern California Regional.

Here are the details for CIF Southern California Regional:

Game Tomorrow!

Opponent: Canoga Park

Date: Wednesday, March 6 at 4:00 pm

Location: Orange Coast College Stadium (2701 Fairview Rd  Costa Mesa, CA 92626)

Note: This is considered our home game. Please come support your Friars

We would love to have your support at the game. Please pass this information along to your friends, family, faculty and alumni.

If you have any questions please let me know.

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It is now a solid month into the semester, and I can most definitely tell that this half of the year is much more difficult than the first half. Last semester, many of my classes were smaller and much more participation-oriented, which meant that there was a lot less reading involved. Since all my classes are huge lectures this semester, I have so much reading to do on a nightly basis. (Note to self: Take a mix of both small and large classes each semester.) Because my course load is much more rigorous, I have a lot less time to devote to working, getting involved with extracurricular activities and hanging out with friends. And, I'm SO tired.

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Though, I would have to say that balancing a job and classes is probably the most difficult aspect to the whole dilemma. Before I began working as a media intern for my school, I never really had an official job beyond being a babysitter and tutor, so the additional stress from having a job while trying to get my bearings as a freshman in college definitely proved as an adjustment. While I really love my job, sometimes I wish I weighed the pros and cons of working while in school more heavily. In hindsight, here are what I find to be both the positive and negative aspects of having a job while in college:

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1. Added Cash Flow: It's so nice to have a little extra money to spend when most college students have the reputation for being perpetually broke. Depending on the job you select, you may have the opportunity to work well above minimum wage. As a media intern, I'm expected to have some prior experience in the world of social media and blogging (I knew my addiction to Twitter would come in handy – follow me, @UndeniablyKatie!), so the pay is higher.

2. Discipline: I definitely feel that having a job helps me to prioritize, even when I'm not at work. When balancing work and classes, I know that I have to always be on top of things.

3. Work Experience: A lot of times, you can get at job at your school that pertains directly to your intended major. Going into the field of journalism, I realize that I can increase the likelihood of getting hired after college if I have a lot of experience in the field, so being a media intern is perfect for me.

1. No Naps: This may seem like a trivial matter to those of you who have yet to start college, but naps are essential for your sanity because they're, oftentimes, the only opportunity you'll have to catch up on sleep. I always have to squeeze working in between my classes, so I don't really get those odd breaks in the day like most people do.

2. Few Chances to Get Involved: Since I work about 10 hours every week, I consider my job an extracurricular activity in and of itself, and I don't really have the opportunity to be involved with as many clubs as I'd like. Plus, you also can't take as many credit hours as you'd like. I was originally taking 16 this semester, but I had to drop down to 13 because my schedule was too hectic.

3. Late Nights: All that reading and homework you have isn't going to do itself, and sometimes you won't be able to start it until after dinner if you have work and classes all day. It can get pretty rough some nights.

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This is a bit of a taster as I have never written out any of my stories for anyone else to read before, play nice, and If you like it I'll type out Saturday and Sunday for you. Any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is appreciated as always. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was 15 at the time, and I had long dark hair that James used to love running his hands though, I was 5''2 with a DD bust, wide shoulders and hips, and never had a lack of male, or female, attention. I did my paper round everyday of the week, and loved going on long bike rides and hikes with the family, but most of all I would look forward to going for my coastal walk with James, we were good friends for about 4 months before this weekend, and it is one I will cherish forever.
It started on the Friday in school, nothing special, just a bunch of Nerds in the back room of the library taking turns on the few computers and watching each other play games, normally when I got there, some one would take up two seats or move one out the room, they all knew that I had no problem sitting on a lap, or on the floor between their legs so I could use a lap as a pillow.
I would usually cosy up to James and make puppy dog eyes at Chris, making sure that if I were wearing a skirt it was well hitched up, and it was a very rare occasion that I would wear panties to school, however I would often wear my fishnet tights with the big diamonds that emphasised the curve of my well toned legs, I'd pull my top tight so that my breasts were well on display and I would thank the gods silently that mum would insist on getting two sizes too big, because this meant that I could have my cleavage on show, and this combo would drive him nuts! (Yes this Chris is now my husband)
About 10 minutes after I got comfy on the floor James asked if I would like him to meet me for my paper round in the morning, this was a regular occurrence, and then we could drop the bag off at home, and them proceed around the coast back to his. Because it's hard to talk to someone when you have your face buried in their crotch, I got up and straddled him, leaning forwards so our foreheads were touching, and said that I would love that, and that I had repaired the jeans we broke the weekend before sliding down the cliff face.
I could feel his face start to flush as he wrapped his arms over my thighs, resting his hands on my bum, which I thought was sweet. I'd let him calm down a bit and cuddle in to his chest, using his shoulder as a pillow and we'd carry on watching the brutal slaughter by the Pyro's of medic's and spy’s on the screen next to us, every now and again, softly kissing his collarbone and moving up his neck gradually so that I could nibble on his earlobe, I knew he loved this because he would pull my hips down and softly grind his hips against mine, careful not to make too much of a scene, I was feeling brave and altered his hand so it was on the underside of my skirt against my pretty much bare bum.
I felt incredibly triumphant as I felt the result of this grow along his thigh and press against me, he wasn't huge but it was enough I thought at the time, must have been about 6'', he brought me back to my senses as he used his unoccupied hand to pull my head down to his mouth and kissed me softly, not so sure of what he was supposed to do but I fixed that, this first moment of pleasure that we had together resulted in a chorus of whoops and cheers from the guys around us, as they fell about laughing and giggling, this may have been a norm for me, but for them, this was a momentous occasion, a girl, was enjoying video games, was showing off her ass, and was kissing someone, such scandal!
Unfortunately what the idiots forgot was that the librarian was just out side the door at her desk, so as soon as we heard the chair scrape across the floor, boys were flying left right and centre to tidy up and changed screens to look busy with work, I leapt off James and ran towards the door, smoothing my top and the front of my skirt out, but pulled the back right up giving everyone a brilliant view of my ass, just as she walked in 'I hope you guys realise that you are making a racket in here, and that if this continues you will all have to leave!' she scolded in her loudest whisper that only librarians seem to have, 'Yes miss' the guys chorused with various 'we'll behave's and 'I'm sorry's following, she turned to me and said, 'I thought you would have had more of a better influence on these young men, there is mess every where and paper on the floor...' as she continued her rant I had my arms behind my back stroking and squeezing my bum cheeks, I could feel every pair of eyes in the room on me and I loved it! 'Yes miss, I'm sorry, I'll whip these boys in to shape for you by the end of the year, and I really am sorry about the mess, we'll have it tidied up in no time at all!' I tried to make my apology more sincere by spreading my legs a little, bending over and picking up a few scraps off the floor, and at the same time giving all the guys a glorious view of my ass and pussy, with just a light dusting of hair and thin strands of string covering me, I was sure that this was something that a lot of them had never seen before in real life, she seemed happier at this, gave us one last warning and left.
As she shut the door the room erupted in to giggles and boys twittering, I got a small round of applause for sending the 'Demon Bitch' away, so I turned around, bowed low, and unhitched my skirt so I was covered at the back, but allowing my top to hang low enough to give every one a good eyeful of cleavage. I walked back to James, gave him one last kiss and he said 'I'll see you in the morning beautiful' and winked, this made me blush so bad, so much more than showing off! With a big grin on my face, I stomped my way out of the room with my big DM boots, wiggling my ass as much as I could and shut the door behind me.

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Here’s part 2, don’t know what happened with my profile the first time so I reposted it to the new profile. Hopefully they don’t delete me again.

First period is gone and second is already started, so I decide to take myself to the office to get a pass. Haven’t been to the office much cause I’m not in trouble much however apparently the new me gets some looks. “Student, take that hood off your head right now,” I hear from the offices. I pull it back to see the Principal Mrs. Jackson, an older Black woman, calling to me from her office. “Yes Ma’am,” I reply. She looks at me for a second and says,” Guy Donnelly, is that you? What happened?” “I had to walk today Mrs. Jackson,” she prefers to be called by her name,” and I’m gonna get a pass so I can get to class.” She gives me the once over and shakes her head,” Right, my office, now.”

I head into her office, setting my bag down and sitting in the chair across from her. “Close the door Mr. Donnelly.” She says staring straight at me. I quickly get up and close the door, then resume my sitting. She stares at me for a minute then begins,” I know that you’re not a troubled teen with a history Mr. Donnelly. I also know that you’re a good student and you keep some good friends. Now I saw your friend Derek and your girlfriend Heather get here on time this morning but you weren’t there, now you come walking in very late, looking like a hooligan and I’m expected to believe that you walked all the way here? You want to tell me the truth or do you want me to call home?” I take it in for a minute, either I get into trouble for keeping my mouth shut, or again I get to tell my biggest shame to my principal so she can tell my parents for me and I can get help. “Okay ma’am, first off Derek isn’t my best friend and Heather isn’t my girlfriend,” I begin with,” I tried to be a good guy Mrs. Jackson, good friend and good boyfriend. And I got screwed, well actually that was the problem, there was screwing but I wasn’t involved. People wanna take advantage of the fact that I tried to be the good kid, I’m sorry ma’am but I’m not, not anymore. I respect you and I’m not gonna go out and start to cause you trouble but I promise you this, one person here thinks that I’m gonna go with the flow and let them walk all over me and I’ll remind them what happens when you back the Irish guy in a corner.”

She sits there looking at me for a few minutes then takes a pad out of her desk drawer, writes on it and hands it to me saying,” Give this to your third period teacher and from now on, either take the bus or don’t take so long getting to school.” As I take the paper I grab my backpack and start to head out.

Third period I show up with my hood back up and hand my pass off to the new sub this week and take my seat in the middle of the class right next to my sister and Korinna right behind her. “Hey Guy,” Liz asks,” What the hell did you two talk about in the car?” I take my bag off and take my binder out,” She didn’t tell you?” Liz glances back at Korinna who is smiling to herself,” No, she’s been acting like this since second period.” I shrug and reply,” I just gave her all I had left, she’s really good at taking it and honestly I haven’t been better. You got a good friend there Liz.” Liz just stares blankly at me then shakes her head,”Yep, now I’m more confused.”

Class comes and goes with no homework again, lazy subs. I head off to lunch without Liz and Korinna, get in line and its sloppy joe's made from fresh cat or cardboard and goat cheese pizza. I settle for pizza with the 20 year old tater tots and milk, head off to an empty table and attempt to eat my meal. Not even through the tots and I see an all too familiar shape hovering by the chair across from me. “Can I sit down here,” Heather asks? I don’t even bother to answer. “Guy? Can I please just sit down here and talk to you,” she asks again. “Why?” I start to reply,” Is it going to make things better?” She sits down at 3 o’clock on the table and sets her tray down in front of her. “Listen to me for a minute,” she starts but I cut her off. “No, I’m not gonna listen to some stupid excuse I want to know one thing and then you can try to talk all you want, How long?” I demand. “I don’t know what you want me to say,” she stammers. “How long have you and douche bag been fucking each other,” I spit out with the subtly of throwing a brick into a duck pond. She stares at her tray and mutters,” Since last May.” I scoff loudly and start laughing. I start to see people looking around at me and her at the table and start laughing louder. Now she’s looking at me with the ‘What the hell is wrong with him’ look I’m getting from more people. I stop laughing and just look at her. “Okay, what did you want to talk about that was worth the last thing I ever wanted to hear from you,” I say chuckling. “Can we not do this right now please,” she asks looking around at the people staring. I raise my voice,” You came over here to me, YOU chose to try to talk to me now in the cafeteria cause I wouldn’t make it embarrassing.” I perch up on my seat putting my feet where my ass was and pull my hood back off my head. I can see I’m being watched and start to get self conscious of the situation, I’ve got almost the whole cafeteria looking at me. Then I look down at Heather and I see it again, fear.

“You cheated on me Heather,” I yell out to the people watching. “You cheated on me and have been for six months now! You said we should wait, it was something special and we should wait but you decide that instead you’re going to fuck around on me with my best friend! The two of you have been fucking each other and laughing your asses off at me for 6 months and you wanna explain to me something that will make all that shit better!” I can see the tears going down her face. “You want to talk to someone go find Derek, you wanted to play me and fuck him so now go fuck him you pudgy ass, music class, lying, cheating slut!”

I stand up on the chair and throw my arms out screaming,” Thank you second lunch period, Good Night!” I hop off the chair, grabbing my bag and stroll out of the cafeteria pulling my hood back up.

Fourth and fifth periods go by without any incident, Heather apparently didn’t show up for class and I haven’t seen Derek. As I’m heading to Studies class I figure I can do without homework period today so I check in with the teacher and head out to the Gym. I hit the gym to see that Coach Campbell has started his Girls basketball practice early, I head up to the top of the bleachers and pull my binder out.

“Hey Meathead,” no doubt that’s Coach Campbell yelling at me,” Why aren’t you in class?” I pull my hood back,” Sir, this is my studies period, my teacher knows I’m here and I’m just working Sir,” he always liked being called sir. He turns and gets back to yelling at the girls. I finish my work after about 25 minutes, and take up a hobby I didn’t do much of since high school started, girl watching. Running, practicing, it’s a wonderful thing to see, then I realize I’m being talked to while in my hood. “Hey, you’re Guy right, the one who outed his cheating girlfriend at lunch today,” this islander girl with a pony tail asks? I nod in response. “So she did cheat on you,” says a red head. I nod again. “Hey ladies, getting a drink doesn’t mean talking to the guy in the bleachers,” that voice I know to be Tracy, coach’s little girl. The two girls, leave and I watch them go, talking all the way back to the team. I hear the school bell but I can walk home again as far as the world is concerned.

I see Tracy head over as they girls break practice an hour after school gets out, probably got some choice words for distracting the girls. “Why come here,” she asks? “Decided to see how the gym was this period, didn’t know they had practice,” I respond smiling up at her, at 6’2” she’s still got an impressive figure standing over me, dark brown skin and a tight athletic build. “Yeah well we do and now I need you to help me some,” she states crossing her arms. “I’m not basketball material,” I joke but just stares at me. “You wanna help me or you wanna crack jokes, cause I get to run them through outdoor practice and you are gonna help me with a little side project afterwards,” She leans down and I can see her athletic bra in her jersey,” and you will want to help me.” After that she turns and started yelling to the rest of the team that they need to be outside in their running and who knows what else, I grab my bag and head out a different door after them.

I’m sitting in the grass watching the girls run, I take notice that they don’t wear the uniforms outside like they do inside, short gym shorts and tight t-shirts. I’m having probably the best afternoon I can when a shadow hovers over me. “What the hell happened to you man,” I hear Derek asking me. I stand up and whip around with my hood still over my head and face. “Seriously man, we’ve been friends since middle school, you’ve never once been an asshole like this to anybody,” Derek starts in,” I know what happened was fucked up but we just want to talk to you about it.” “No Derek,” I sneer back,” you want me to accept it, take it publicly now as opposed to secretly like I have been.” He steps forward now within arm’s reach,” I didn’t do this to hurt you, Heather and I it just became a thing that happened, she still loves you man,” he speaks but stops as I start laughing. “She loves me, yet she tells me she wants to wait till the right time for us both to lose our virginity all the while fucking you secretly,” I get out between laughs,” and now you’re here why?” He slumps his shoulders,” We’re friends man, all three of us, been friends since...” I decide I’m done listening,” Go back to the cheating tramp, don’t come find me again, neither of you talk to me again. I’m done with the two of you.” He stands shocked replying,” So you’re gonna throw away our friendship…,” I let him get that far, I take my hands and put my palm facing me, crossing my wrists, bending my elbows and slamming the bottom of my hands on either side of his throat with a straight thrust. I watch his eyes go wide as he hits his knees gasping and clutching his throat. “Here’s what I always thought was funny,” I whisper kneeling down,” all those times you ‘stood up’ for me. Now let me tell you I never needed you to defend me, my dad told me you’d be a good friend cause then I wouldn’t hurt anyone with what he taught me to do most of my life. When you catch your breath remember you chose this. Don’t come near me again, only warning.”

I go back to the girl watching and practice which thankfully is still going on despite Derek’s display. I don’t see him leave and almost hope he would try to fight me, but he doesn’t. After the practice is completed I get waved over by Tracy to the edge of the field. I grab my bag and walk over. She hands me some keys,” Red key, third door on this side of the building, wait ten minutes.” I look at the keys as she turns and jogs back to the gymnasium.

I give it just over ten minutes and get the door open with the key. To my surprise I discover it’s the girl’s locker room. I tentatively look around and discover that the girls have packed up and headed out, I listen a little closer and hear voices from what I think are the showers. I set my bag down by the door I came in and creep up a little so I can see what’s going on. Tracy is standing at the front of the showers with a couple other girls from the team standing around all in their sports bras and panties, and the islander girl and the red head from the gym on their knees in the same. “I’m gonna go see what’s going on,” I hear from Tracy as she starts to head to where I came in at, I wait for her to round the corner and see me. “Jesus,” she gasps,” what the fuck took you?” “I was just noticing it’s a lot nicer here than in the boy’s locker room,” I joke and again I’m seeing her without a sense of humor. “Shut up and just do what the fuck I tell you here,” she starts in,” don’t say a word here or outside of here about what happens or I swear to god I’ll have my Dad fuck you up.” I almost say yes ma’am but smile and just nod. She grabs my hood and pulls it over my head and face and heads back to the girls. I follow after her and keep my head down.

We get to the group and I see the girls looking at me with questions on their faces. “You two decided you wanted to play 20 questions,” Tracy starts in to the two on their knees,” we got a game in 3 days, I convince my dad to let me run some practice drills and you two wanna talk. Now I know you’ve heard about the penalty when you fuck up practice, well I decided to up the ante. My friend here is gonna help me teach you not to run your damn mouths.” She turns her head to me,” take it out.” Now and again you see this in porn; I’m standing here living it with a smile like a Cheshire cat. I remember I’m going commando after this morning and unzip my pants, pulling seven and a half inches out. Immediately the standing girls start talking,” Tracy you sure ‘bout this,” one asks. Tracy steps forward and glares at the girl, then addresses the two on their knees,” who is first?”

I decide to take some initiative in the situation and step up to the islander girl first, up close I can see she’s got some big tits for a sports bra. “Open your mouth,” Tracy tells her. She tilts her head back a little and opens her mouth wide. I look at the girls standing and see some seriously hard faces before I hear from Tracy,” Gag her.” I pull my cock to her face and mouth and push my way inside slowly and feel nothing until I’m at 5 inches, then I get that warm wet feeling of her throat and she starts to pull back. Not wanting to piss off Tracy and her gang of seriously hard females I take hold of the Islander girl’s head and ram my cock all the way into her throat. Now I hear the other girls talking “Hold out; don’t move off it; fuck her face.” Only voice I’m listening to is the one that get me to start fucking her face, fast and deep. After a couple minutes I hear the gagging noise over the other girls talking and feel a hand on my shoulder,” Stop now,” comes from Tracy. I let go and back off the girl slowly, she lets me out completely before she closes her mouth. The other girls stand her up and one takes her off to the side. “Your turn freckles,” Tracy says. I’m harder now than before and she opens her mouth and I step up to the plate, so to speak. She’s thinner than the islander girl and damn near an A cup, and she does have freckles on her face and her chest. Tracy steps around and grabs my cock in one hand and the back of the girls head in the other then rams my cock all the way down her throat. I look down and see her eyes go wide in panic as Tracy uses both hands to have ‘freckles’ face fuck my cock. The cat calling girls get quiet as Tracy takes charge of the situation, I can feel ‘freckles’ drooling and gagging on my cock I look into her eyes and see them looking up but not at me or Tracy. I quickly whip my head to see Tracy and give her a straight look of rage. She feels me staring and when we make eye contact I turn my eyes to the red head gagging on me. As good as it feels to have my cock sucked Tracy stops and pulls the girl off too soon for me to get off and the other girls swoop in and help her up, she gasps and staggers off. Tracy looks at me for a sec and motions me to the back of the locker room while she goes and starts talking to the other girls. “You two like that better than eating pussy,” Tracy asks,” Don’t break practice and don’t fuck with the team or next time I won’t supervise another one of these again and we got some hardcore dykes who’d love to fuck up some pretty things in here.” The two victims nod to Tracy and the rest of the girls get dressed and head out as I hear a shower kick on.

I’m hard and really riled up so I strip down and wait for the last door to close, I come around the corner and see Tracy’s frame standing under the water in the shower facing the wall. I hide myself around the corner and speak out,” So what do I do now boss?” “What the fuck do you think, get the hell out of here,” she calls. Getting a little ticked off,” Wait a minute, you call me in here and have me nearly choke a girl out, with my cock which was kinda kinky and now I just get to walk away and not cum?” I don’t know what she’s doing but I hear more water hitting tile,” Well?” “Just go jerk off or something,” she calls out. No chance of that for me today, I round the corner and come up behind her. As soon as she starts to turn and put her back to the wall and latch my mouth onto her right tit, she grabs the back of my neck trying to pull me off as I place my left hand right on her slit, feeling for her clit. I start to rub and suck frantically as she attempts to pry my hand and mouth off her body.

Her hand on my head stops trying to pull after a minute and starts holding my head in place as I flick her nipple in my mouth with my tongue. “Shit that feels good,” she gasps. I slid my fingers down past her clit and stick my middle finger in her pussy to the first knuckle. “Okay asshole,” she gasps as I start working my finger in and out, I stop and take my finger out and my mouth off her nipple. She slides over to the shower nozzle and grabs it with her hand and pulls me up against her body. I hike up her right leg and let the left dangle as she uses her free hand to line my cock up with her hole. As soon as I feel the entrance Tracy lowers her hips onto my cock and I feel her smooth taut pussy wrapping half my member. It feels different than Korinna, warm and wet but not soft, very firm. I push up into her as she starts gasping; she wraps her arm around my neck pulling me tight against her body with me holding her leg up to keep the angle to enter her.

Anxious I thrust my whole member into her and feel her body clench up, slowly pull out and slam into her again. She keeps my head next hers and gasps,” Keep… fucking… me…. I’m close…..” I lift her other leg up while she holds my neck and the shower nozzle, pulling back slowly again and thrusting myself deep into her pussy. I feel her nails on the back of my head and placing my forehead against hers I start jack hammering my cock harder and faster into her. “Oh shit fucker I’m CUMMING,” she moans loudly, I feel liquid running down my balls that isn’t the shower water running down my back. I keep pounding as she rides out her orgasm, then I feel that tingling in my member and start frantically shoving the whole length of my cock into Tracy’s pussy. She snaps to her senses and starts to push me back, almost losing my balance and letting go of her legs. Placing her feet down on the floor of the shower and letting go of the nozzle drops to her knees and places her mouth on the head of my cock starts jacking my penis with her hand. I place my hands on the wall behind her and grunt loudly and the first shots of cum blast into her mouth and throat. Tracy doesn’t move just keeps pumping me until I’m spent and starting to go limp.

Exhausted myself and her more so we clean up quietly in the showers and get dressed. “One question,” she asks me as I’m pulling my pants up,” where did you learn to do that? I thought you were a virgin.” “Really, you have a coach to learn basketball, how do you think a virgin learns about sex,” I chuckle. “Really asshole, you’re gonna play games with me now cause I’ll still kick the shit out of you,” she states grabbing her bag. Not wanting a fight I plainly state,” The internet. My sister got a new phone but I had to beg for one gift last Christmas, a computer.”

We walk to her car and I put my bag with hers in the back seat, once inside we speed off towards my home. I check my phone and see it’s about 45 minutes till dinner time and I have 2 messages from home, one from Liz and one from mom. “So what do you think I should tell your sister,” Tracy asks. I mull it over for a second,” Honestly what do you want to tell her, I could tell her the whole thing and she’d think I was lying, you tell her and she’d believe it in a heartbeat.” We sit in silence until she pulls in front of my house. “Here’s what happens, you keep your mouth shut about what we did and what you helped me with,” she says to me,” and if you keep your mouth shut till after I say something, IF I say something this will happen again.” I nod in agreement and exit the car, stopping to grab my bag and quickly stuff my underwear from this morning in my coat pocket.

As I enter the house, my mom hops out of the kitchen. “Guy Donnelly, where have you been for the past 3 hours,” she demands. “Mom I’m sorry, I was at school, I missed the bus and when I saw Tracy she offered me a ride home after practice,” I mumble out with my best sheepish look on my face. She glares at me for a second and softens her gaze,” Alright, well your home and you weren’t getting into trouble so I guess I’ll just tell your father you were fine.” I hug her hello and head back to my room.

A couple hours later and we’ve eaten dinner, my dad is in front of the TV watching ESPN and my mom is cleaning up the table, I’m heading back to my room when the house phone rings. I’m on the couch watching when I hear Mom perk up her tone of voice with the caller. A few minutes later she hangs up and comes into the living room. “You want to tell me what else happened after school today Guy,” she asks sternly. I am confused and racing over the day’s events in my head, blankly I shrug my shoulders. “Guy,” now Dad joins in,” Your mother asked you a question.” Still I shrug my shoulders,” Mom I don’t know what you’re asking for.” She steps in front of the TV,” I just got a call from Derek’s parents. Apparently Derek wants to leave school, he’s telling them that you threatened to kill him.” Now I’m standing up but taking a non aggressive posture, last thing I need is my dad kicking my ass,” Mom I didn’t threaten him, I told him to leave me alone, he’s not my friend anymore.” Dad looks over to us,” first off Guy sit back down, honey, I know you heard what they told you but let Guy tell us what happened. Now son, why aren’t you and Derek friends anymore.”

I sit back down; mom takes her chair next to dad in front of the TV. “I broke it off with Heather yesterday and told her and Derek today that I was done with them and didn’t want to see them again.” I know the next question as soon as I finish my sentence, it’s mom who asks,” What happened with the three of you.” I sit back and resign myself to the truth of the matter, my dad cuts me off before I can speak,” they betrayed your trust didn’t they,” I look up quickly,” I know that look, they did something and you trusted them not to, something that hurt.” We sit silently for a few seconds and my mom decides to speak,” Okay, well next time you have life altering moments please refrain from burning any possessions.” We all laugh; I hug my mom and smile with my father. Quickly I head to my room and close the door.

An hour later I’m lying on my bed and there is a knock at my door, sitting up I see my sister poke her head in,” Can I come in?” I nod and she enters and moves over and sits on my bed, she’s got a loose tank top and some cotton short shorts on. “I don’t know what happened with you Derek and Heather; I don’t know what you said to them at all.” I don’t say anything as she continues. “You and Korinna had a major conversation in Tracy’s car and that’s what I want to know about, she’s my friend and you two missed the whole first period,” she queries,” what did you two talk about there?” I shrug and say,” it’s late Liz, I gotta get some sleep and we gotta be ready, Tracy doesn’t want us late tomorrow.” She scowls and hops off my bed then grumpily leaves closing the door behind her; I shut off my light and head off to bed.

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2005-05-31 04:00:00 PDT Hawthorne (Los Angeles County) -- Hawthorne is a charmless, flat, blue-collar town where workers from the plants in the South Central industrial belt could buy tiny two-bedroom stucco-front boxes. In 1959, the same year the film "Gidget" first exposed the Southern California beach culture to the outside world, the Mattel Toy Co. in Hawthorne started producing a new doll named Barbie, which outsold even the Mickey Mouse ears the company also made.

Brian Wilson was a senior that year at Hawthorne High School (home of the proud Cougars, whose fight song he cribbed for the middle-eight to his "Be True to Your School"), hanging out on weeknights in the parking lot behind the Fosters Freeze on Hawthorne Boulevard in his two-tone '57 Ford Fairlane 500. On weekends, the guys would pick up a six-pack and head for the double-bills at Studio Drive-In on Slauson.

It was a long way from Hollywood, a town where things were still possible, but it was close enough to Disneyland that the Wilsons' father took his three boys to the recently opened amusement park at least twice a year.

Few traces remain of songwriter Brian Wilson's Los Angeles. He wrote of a world he knew growing up during the '50s in unremarkable Hawthorne, where he created mythic Southern California in songs such as "Surfer Girl," "Fun Fun Fun," "Little Deuce Coupe," "The Warmth of the Sun" and "California Girls."

If you're going to go looking for Brian Wilson's Southern California, it's not a bad idea to hook up with Beach Boys expert Domenic Priore and have him give you the tour. But first, to supply some context, we met for breakfast at a Hollywood coffeehouse with Wilson's genial and erudite collaborator, Van Dyke Parks, who still has the slightest Southern accent after more than 40 years living in L.A. He is a small, compact man with a salt-and-pepper mustache, gracious manners and an impish grin. He likes to talk about the band and Brian Wilson in particular.

"His music had an animate quality," said Parks, the co-writer of Wilson's iconic "Smile." "It was vigorous, an athletic kind of music. It looks in all directions. It takes everything in. It's anecdotal -- lots of little events. It was a reflection of the real rapture of the feel-good set that grew up in the Eisenhower era."

The Wilson home on 119th Street no longer exists. It was torn down to make way for a freeway 20 years ago, but its site was marked on May 20 with a large brick monument and named an official California State Historical Landmark. A few blocks away, the Fosters Freeze still stands, the hamburger stand where Wilson saw a girl with her daddy's T-Bird. Sometimes Wilson would cruise several miles north to the Wich Stand at Slauson and Overhill, where the parking lot would hold a hundred cars from all over the South Bay, which is what locals call the area between South Central and the bottom half of Santa Monica Bay. He might have immortalized the destination drive-in in a 1964 recording, "The Wich Stand," but the track went unreleased.

With a decorative spire poking through the slanted roof, buttressed by Swiss cheese struts, the Wich Stand looked like Southern California itself -- open, airy, offbeat and futuristic. Today the building is painted an unlikely forest green and houses a health food restaurant, Simply Wholesome, that caters to the large African American community in the neighborhood. The spacious parking lot in the rear, once packed with hot rods and surf wagons, stands nearly empty. More than the neighborhood has changed in South Central Los Angeles. over the past 45 years. But signs of the bygone era, the California of young Brian Wilson, are sprinkled all over the South Bay.

Priore knows where to find them. Author of a book about Wilson's long- lost masterpiece, "Smile," as well as another book about the Sunset Strip in the '60s, Priore dresses like the pop scholar he is: Mod burgundy corduroy shirt and chocolate suede Cuban boots. As part of the weekend-long activities surrounding the recent landmark unveiling, which drew fans from all over the world, he led a bus tour of the Beach Boys' old neighborhood. A few days before, he did a test run, checking out some of the locations he'd never visited before, like the boyhood home of Beach Boys rhythm guitarist Al Jardine, a classmate of Brian Wilson's at nearby El Camino Community College who likes to take credit for suggesting Wilson start the group.

"I didn't know Al Jardine lived in an apartment building," Priore said, pulling up to a Hawthorne address of matching duplexes built in that unique Southern California '50s mode of frenzied modernism. Futurism was more than an architecture style in Los Angeles during the '50s -- it was a way of life.

Dennis Wilson used to go down to the Redondo Beach breakwater and watch the hotshots ride the big ones. He brought home the tales to his older brother Brian, who rarely set foot on a beach. But those Waimea-style titans don't break at Redondo anymore, not since a 1981 wave wiped out the breakwater and did $13 million worth of damage to the beachfront hotel. City fathers moved the breakwater farther out and knocked the historic South Bay surfing spot off the maps.

Much has changed since the Beach Boys lived in Hawthorne, but time stands still on Manhattan Beach, where Dennis Wilson and Mike Love used to fish from the pier. This white sand jewel sits in the middle of the Strand, the string of South Bay beaches that runs from El Segundo to Palos Verdes.

Surfers catch waves alongside the pier where Dennis Wilson would ride the breakers. Girls in bikinis lie basking in the sand. People still fish from the pier. Away from the hectic beach scenes farther north at Venice or Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach remains what Priore called "a neighborhood beach." At Manhattan and nearby Hermosa Beach, the first few lonely surf shops opened in the late '50s, as the Hawaiian sport was just starting to take hold on the mainland.

Priore points to a social convergence coming together over the Southern California beaches in those few innocent years -- "Gidget," Surfer magazine, Bruce Brown surfing documentary films, the emergence of surf guitar king Dick Dale and the Del-Tones at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Huntington Beach and subsequent surf music instrumental hit singles by South Bay combos such as the Frogmen ("Underwater") and the Belairs ("Mr. Moto"). Into this yawning vortex stepped Brian Wilson, his two younger brothers, their cousin Mike Love and Brian's El Camino classmate Jardine.

Over Labor Day weekend 1961, with the Wilson parents on a Mexican vacation, the group took over the 119th Street house, stocked it with rented equipment and worked up the Brian Wilson composition, "Surfin' " which he cobbled together from information supplied by his younger brother Dennis, the only surfer in the group, and cousin Love, who knew some of the lingo.

Wilson's father, an amateur songwriter, took their homemade Wollensak tape to a music publisher he knew, who arranged the have the boys record the song professionally and get the results released on a small label in early December. It was the label's promotion man who named the group the Beach Boys.

The leading Los Angeles Top 40 radio station, KFWB, already broadcasting daily surf reports and quite aware that something was going on with the region's youth out on the beaches, jumped on the record. A minute later, the Beach Boys were signed to Capitol Records -- home to Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, with its instant '50s landmark Hollywood headquarters designed to look like a stack of records, a red beacon on top blinking all night long in Morse code H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D, a long way from Hawthorne.

In a matter of months, the Studio Drive-In was showing nothing but insipid beach party films that were little more than cheap movie-length musicals based on imitation Brian Wilson music (he actually did write the songs for one of the Frankie Avalon-Annette Funicello clinkers, "Muscle Beach Party"). An entire school of pop music emerged in his wake -- Jan and Dean, Bruce and Terry, Ronny and the Daytonas, the Hondells and others.

He painted California as the land of youth, tanned surfers with fast cars and blond-haired, beach bunny girlfriends ("some honeys will be coming along"). He threw in local references, details that fixed his songs firmly in the Southern California coastline.

"That's part of his olio," said his collaborator Parks, "his real ability to osmote and to become a part of what he observes, to drink what he loves and let it kill him -- the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane."

The Wilsons all still lived at home in Hawthorne. Love dropped out of Los Angeles City College after his girlfriend got pregnant and her parents insisted they get married. Love's mother threw his clothes out of the upstairs window of the three-story Love family home in the upscale Baldwin Hills neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, his father experienced severe financial setbacks in his sheet metal business and the family moved to a smaller house directly under the path to the Los Angeles Airport runway. Love and his new wife were living in a tiny studio apartment and he was working at his father's business during the day and pumping gas at night for Standard Oil at the busy intersection of Washington and La Brea.

Given his natural talent -- his voice was once famously described in a Beach Boys "joke" album track as "Mickey Mouse with a cold" -- only a family member like Brian Wilson would have ever thought of Love as a candidate for lead vocalist of his rock 'n' roll group. His job at the gas station was probably the last position Love was truly qualified to hold.

The station, which still sits like a fort at the hectic crossroads, has been remodeled, expanded and rebuilt a number of times since he worked there. But Love would probably recognize it in a heartbeat.


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Watch the trailer for the movie "Ninja Assassin."

Media: San Francisco Chronicle

Ninja Assassin

JAction. Starring Naomie Harris and Rain. Directed by James McTeigue. (R. 99 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)

On the long list of things the world doesn't need any more of - bank failures, global warming and a handsome teenager who turns into Frankenstein in the next "Twilight" movie - we need to add Bad Movies With the Word "Ninja" in the Title. There has never been a good one, and the streak continues with "Ninja Assassin," which hits the trifecta: It's a gorefest, a borefest and a snorefest.

It's also a bizarre career move for director James McTeigue, who directed one of the best movies of the decade ("V for Vendetta") and now follows that up with one of the worst of the year. I assumed he must have written "Ninja Assassin," thinking that only someone misguided enough to write such nonsense could be persuaded to direct it. But no, he chose it: Yeah, yeah, a ninja who goes around killing everybody, that's the ticket. Nobody's ever thought of that one before, right?

This one's bad even by ninja movie standards. Naomie Harris plays an Interpol researcher in Berlin who stumbles upon evidence suggesting that a ninja assassin ring is behind a series of recent assassinations. So she gets on the case, just in time to be interrupted by a series of long, long, long flashbacks in which we see the training of a very special ninja named Raizo (the Korean actor Rain). "Suffering exists because weakness exists!" his Zen master/assassin trainer tells him.

By the way, amazing dialogue: You know things are going to be bad when, in the movie's first scene, ninjas show up to kill a gang leader, and he actually says, "You don't have to do this. Whatever they're paying you, I'll double it." Imagine, a pair of screenwriters actually wrote that, either thinking they were coming up with something original - in which case they're stupid - or not caring that this line is from 10,000 other movies - in which case they have contempt for their work or their audience, or both.

Anyway, soon enough, our Ninja Assassin goes rogue and hooks up with the Interpol researcher to defeat the ninja gang, meaning that, for a good long while, we're treated to scenes in which young Raizo has to kill 25 to 30 ninjas at the same time. McTeigue must know that his script is weak, so he lavishes time on the fight scenes ... and renders them excruciatingly tiresome.

Just one example: Raizo is about to get into a car with the researcher and drive off, but wait: Two dozen ninjas show up. Of course, we know that Raizo can't get killed, so to stretch that fight sequence to 15 minutes is just an agony of delay. It's not action, but the opposite of action. The movie is standing still, while the camera shakes and the sound of butcher knives going into meat is played again and again over the soundtrack.

Lots of meat-slicing sounds in "Ninja Assassin," by the way, as well as liquid dripping sounds, meant to indicate blood. It's hard to know how this movie constitutes entertainment, even bad entertainment. Multiple heads, arms and legs are sliced off ... I just never knew disgusting could be so dull.

-- Advisory: Nonstop butchery.

Ninja Assassin

JAction. Starring Naomie Harris and Rain. Directed by James McTeigue. (R. 99 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)


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San Diego --

Niners running back Xavier Omon and Chargers defensive tackle Ogemdi Nwagbuo were on a collision course Thursday night.

The end result, though, wasn't a tackle, but a hug.

Two hours before the 49ers' preseason finale, Omon and Nwagbuo, who found out they were half-brothers in December, met in person for the first time during warm-ups before San Francisco's preseason game against the Chargers.

Omon and Nwagbuo, both 25, had frequently communicated via text, Skype and through phone conversations over the past nine months. But they first met at 5:04 p.m. when they greeted each other at the 25-yard line, sharing a handshake and reeling each other in for a hug.

During their ensuing 12-minute conversation, two photographers had them pose to document the meeting and a few 49ers briefly joined their conversation.

Omon's mother, Delorise, found out about her son's connection with Nwagbuo while communicating with a friend on Facebook.

Omon and Nwagbuo's biological father, Chris Nwagbuo, who died in 2004, abandoned both families. Omon never met his biological father. Nwagbuo last saw his father in 1999.

Omon, a sixth-round pick of the Bills in 2008, is on his fourth NFL team and is considered a longshot to make the Niners' 53-man roster. He is eligible for the practice squad. Nwagbuo is expected to make the Chargers roster after serving as backup the past two seasons in San Diego.

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As the Giants' World Series euphoria gave way to the grueling endurance test that is Warriors basketball, insiders wondered who would be "the man," so to speak, to take that crucial last shot with the team down a point and 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

Here's a thought: Why would the Warriors stoop to something so primitive, especially when they don't have to?

There's a lot of team basketball being played around the NBA, and all to the good, but too often teams clear the floor for an isolation play when it really matters. There's Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant or LeBron James with the ball, drama building to an excruciating level - and nobody else even remotely involved in the halfcourt set. All too often, the result is a preposterous shot, the superstar going one-on-three or taking a 28-foot fallaway without the hint of a screen, a backdoor cut or an actual play.

Nobody's arguing with the notion of Stephen Curry as the Warriors' best and most reliable shooter. He's playing as well as any point guard in the Western Conference, and he owns one of the sweetest outside shots in the business. But this team is building toward something special when it comes to spreading the floor.

As Klay Thompson's confidence builds, he'll be a definite option with his classic catch-and-shoot technique. David Lee is a proficient scorer - with either hand - down low and cannot be left alone. Harrison Barnes isn't the slightest bit fazed by the professional game, and even a bit of foul trouble doesn't necessarily hurt the Warriors at crunch time. Not with fearless veterans Jarrett Jack and Carl Landry coming off the bench, as well as rookie Draymond Green, who is starting to prove beyond a doubt that his reputation out of college - "all he does is win" - squarely hit the mark.

All of which gives coach Mark Jackson a chance to rise above the NBA's lamentable last-shot mentality. Run a legitimate play. Set a screen or two. Savor the possibilities.

Around the NBA

-- As Kobe Bryant joined the exclusive club of 30,000-point scorers, there was talk of his earning the distinction of "greatest Laker." I'd say it's a five-man argument, and a very tough call.

Take it from someone who was there: Jerry West was the greatest clutch shooter in NBA history, and nobody - including Julius Erving and Michael Jordan - changed the game more dramatically than Elgin Baylor with his airborne virtuosity and all-around genius (check out his career numbers sometime). Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had the single most unstoppable shot, and every point guard in history will be measured - and come up short - against Magic Johnson.

Kobe's definitely a contender, but I can't make that call. I do know that I'd love to see that team against Boston's, with Bill Russell, Larry Bird, John Havlicek, Bob Cousy, Sam Jones, Kevin McHale and Paul Pierce. Sure, you'd pick the Lakers - but Russell makes you think twice.

-- More nostalgia: What if NBA players had been allowed to compete in the 1964 (Tokyo) Olympics? Longtime Bay Area sportswriter Dave Newhouse submits Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Nate Thurmond at center; Baylor, Havlicek, Gus Johnson, Chet Walker and Rick Barry at forward; with West, Oscar Robertson, Lenny Wilkens and K.C. Jones in the backcourt.

"This team has inside and outside scoring, rebounding, toughness and defense," said Newhouse. "Havlicek is a swing guy. Wilkens brings the ball up. Johnson and Jones will muscle guys as defenders. There's your real Dream Team."

-- Trivia question: Greivis Vasquez, the former Maryland star now starting at point guard for New Orleans, is only the second NBA player from Venezuela. Who was the first?

-- Two bad signs for the Clippers: The growing belief that Lamar Odom will be a factor (never trust the man who quit so disgracefully on Dallas), and Chauncey Billups sidelined with an inflamed tendon in his left foot after taking so long to recover from an Achilles injury.

-- The Pau Gasol rumors don't make much sense right now. He's no longer a fit on the Lakers, but they can't be sure about his future - or his trade value - until they see him with Steve Nash on the floor.

-- Classic shot of Mark Cuban the other night, sour-faced and slumped in his chair as the Clippers staged an ongoing dunk-fest against his Mavericks. That's not the only source of Cuban's frustration, though. Dirk Nowitzki, out since mid-October after having arthroscopic knee surgery, is unable to put an exact timetable on his return.

-- From a Western Conference scout to on Jeremy Lin: "He's kind of settling into what he really is. On an average team, he can be a starter. On a good team, he's going to have to be a backup. He's still not a great shooter, and I don't know if that will ever change. He's got a flawed jump shot that's ingrained in him. He's still a right-hand dominant player who has a tough time finishing to his left. And Jeremy has to play off the ball when (James) Harden is out there. That's not his strength."

-- Answer to trivia question: Oscar Torres, the 6-foot-6 forward who played 17 games for the 2002-03 Warriors.

Bruce Jenkins is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail:


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Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) - Board of Advisors

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, MA, D.Phil, is a titular metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Great Britain. From 1966-2001 he was Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford, and he is known around the world as one of Orthodox Christianity's leading scholarly and learned voices. Due to the immense success and abiding popularity of his Penguin book, The Orthodox Church, published under his former secular name, His Eminence is still known to some as Timothy Ware.

Metropolitan Kallistos joined the Institute's Board of Advisors in January 2012, in which role he brings his many decades of Orthodox academic experience to bear on the future, plans and shape of the Institute.

Born in Bath, Somerset (United Kingdom), Metropolitan Kallistos was educated at Westminster School (to which he had won a scholarship) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a Double First in Classics as well as reading Theology. In 1958, at the age of 24, he embraced the Orthodox Christian faith, travelling subsequently throughout Greece, spending a great deal of time at the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos, where in due course he was tonsured a monk in 1966, receiving the name Kallistos in honour of St. Kallistos Xanthopoulos. He also frequented other major centers of Orthodoxy such as Jerusalem and Mount Athos. The same year as his tonsure, the then Father Kallistos was ordained to the priesthood.

Almost simultaneously, he became a lecturer at Oxford, teaching Eastern Orthodox Studies -- a position which he held for 35 years, until his retirement in 2001. In 1979, he was appointed to a Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 1982, he was consecrated to the episcopacy as a titular bishop with the title Bishop of Diokleia, appointed to serve as the assistant to the bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. Despite his elevation, Kallistos remained in Oxford and carried on his duties both as the parish priest of the Greek Orthodox Community of the Holy Trinity in Oxford (which he founded), and as a lecturer at the University.

Since his retirement in 2001, His Eminence has continued to publish and to give lectures on Orthodox Christianity, travelling widely. Until recently, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. He is the chairman of the group Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona, and serves on the advisory board of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship.

On March 30, 2007, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated the Diocese of Diokleia to Metropolis and Bishop Kallistos to Metropolitan of Diokleia.

An extensive, though still incomplete, listing of Metropolitan Kallistos' publications may be found here.

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Shot in the Dark

January 23, 2008, 12:00 am
A New Mexico man is set for execution in Texas.

A manila folder lies in Muï¿½ina Arthurï¿½s lap, filled with a visual history of her oldest of nine children, Karl Chamberlain: His yearbook photos, his Army portrait and, finally, Polaroid snapshots of his family crammed against the reinforced glass of a Texas death rowï¿½s visitation cell.
Arthur, a San Francisco hippie living now in Las Vegas, NM, has no delusions about her sonï¿½s guilt. She knows that, in 1991, he raped and murdered a young mother in Dallas. Heï¿½s confessed as much. Now, Chamberlain is the only death-row inmate in Texas with a standing execution date: Feb. 21, 2008.

ï¿½I do want to have hope and I want to say that the people of this nation will wake up and stop the death penalty, but Iï¿½ve been told over and over that Iï¿½m so naive to think that,ï¿½ Arthur says. ï¿½My son himself says, ï¿½Mother I want you to prepare to bury me. I want you to be prepared for my death.ï¿½ So, I just told him, ï¿½You prepare to live a long life behind bars.ï¿½ï¿½

Across the country, death-row inmates have filed for, and uniformly received, stays of execution as the US Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the three-chemical lethal injection method employed in 37 states. Yet, no lawyer has so far filed for a stay for Chamberlain.

The Dallas County District Attorneyï¿½s Office tells SFR via e-mail that it will withdraw the execution date if the Supreme Court doesnï¿½t rule before Feb. 21. However, the prosecutorï¿½s promise contravenes Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has indicated publicly that the state will not halt executions while the Supreme Court deliberates.

Meanwhile, criminal defense attorneys David Schulman and John Jasuta are fighting to reopen Chamberlainï¿½s case. Schulman tells SFR they expect the Supreme Court to return a ruling on lethal injection as early as March, but more likely June. A stay would give Chamberlain at least another six months more to appeal.

To vacate the execution date, the Dallas prosecutor needs to make a single phone call, one that Schulman says would take only slightly longer than it would to administer the lethal injection.

The three lethal injection chemicals cost approximately $90 and can cause death in fewer than 10 minutes. Through an intravenous feed, prison personnel inject the inmate with sodium thiopental, a sedative, knocking him out. The second chemical, pancuronium bromide, is a muscle relaxant designed to paralyze the individual before administration of the final chemical, potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

Pancuronium bromide is at the center of the national controversy. Lawyers for two Kentucky inmates argue that if handled improperly (medical professionals are ethically prohibited from participating in executions) the paralyzing agent could prevent the condemned from alerting officials if he is still conscious. The potassium chloride would be excruciating and, arguably, cruel.

New Mexico has only executed one offender since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976: child murderer Terry Clark in 2001. New Mexico Corrections Department officials looked to Texas, Arizona and Colorado for guidance, according to former Penitentiary of New Mexico warden Tim LeMaster, who personally witnessed two executions in preparation.

Since New Mexicoï¿½s two death-row inmates currently do not have execution dates, the departmentï¿½s spokeswoman, Tia Bland, tells SFR the state wonï¿½t reconsider its execution policies until the Supreme Court issues an opinion.
LeMaster says there were ï¿½no complicationsï¿½ in 2001, adding that the only person with the power to have stalled or stopped the execution was Clark himself.

ï¿½He couldï¿½ve said he wanted to go farther with his appeal,ï¿½ LeMaster says. ï¿½Even the ones in Texas, both of them wanted to get it over with. They were done, they were just done.ï¿½

ï¿½Heï¿½s not positive or optimistic, nor is he afraid to die,ï¿½ Arthur says of her son. ï¿½Heï¿½s an extraordinary person and heï¿½s doing much better than I am.ï¿½

Arthur assumes much of the responsibility for her sonï¿½s crime. She says she was a neglectful mother, which resulted in Chamberlain being raped by a babysitter.

***image2***ï¿½Iï¿½m not saying he wasnï¿½t a kind of a messed up person when he got on the row,ï¿½ Arthur says. ï¿½He couldnï¿½t have done rape, murder, if he hadnï¿½t been messed upï¿½But Iï¿½m telling you, the guy that is in prison now, heï¿½s like a teddy bear. He is so clear and he is so loving.ï¿½

Appellate attorney Toby Wilkinson may also be culpable for Chamberlainï¿½s execution date. Last year, the Austin American-Stateman published an investigative series accusing Wilkinson of submitting habeas corpus motions ï¿½ largely copied from letters by his death row clients, performing minimal editing and none of the required research.ï¿½ Thatï¿½s how Schulman and Jasuta heard about Chamberlainï¿½s case.

Schulman also wants the courts to fund a new investigation into whether there were any factors that would have lessened the severity of Chamberlainï¿½s sentence. Arthur says the rapes her son suffered as a child could earn him clemency, as could his attempts to reform during the five years between the crime and the arrest.

ï¿½They offered him life in prison without parole and he didnï¿½t take it,ï¿½ Arthur says. ï¿½He wouldnï¿½t accept it because he thought in his mind that everybody would clearly say that in the last five years he had changed his life so much. And indeed he had.ï¿½

Texas courts rejected the motion to reopen Chamberlainï¿½s habeas corpus case in November 2007. Schulman plans to file an additional writ in coming weeks if the district attorney moves to vacate the execution date.

ï¿½That they havenï¿½t done it yet is troubling, but his date is still a month away,ï¿½ Schulman says. ï¿½This is something than can be done in an hour.ï¿½

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Mayor David Coss promises that any councilors who vote against saving CSF will be cut into pieces and pinned to the wall.

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July 29, 2009, 12:00 am

When we’re talking about how to source and allocate $41 million at a time when the very word “economy” sounds like an existential joke, it’s best to begin with the facts.

And facts—in relation to the city of Santa Fe’s potential purchase of the College of Santa Fe campus and subsequent leasing of facilities to Laureate Education, Inc.—have been in short supply. Oh, the truth is out there; the facts are not hidden. It’s just that, as Santa Feans, we have a special ability to fabricate convictions disconnected from reality. It’s probably why UNESCO declared Santa Fe a “creative city.”

Here are some blatant falsehoods widely considered to be true:

1. The city will spend $30 million in taxpayer dollars to purchase CSF.

2. The city will then become the primary operator of CSF, thereby getting into the college business in addition to the city business.

3. Laureate is a huge university that drops its robotic programs on unsuspecting cities like University of Phoenix cluster bombs.

Here are the corresponding facts:

The city will issue a bond, effectively borrowing $29.5 million. The city will “buy” the CSF property by paying CSF creditors $19.5 million on approximately $31 million owed. CSF’s debt will then be settled and the city will own the property. An additional $12 million will be generated through selling some of the acreage to the state of New Mexico, discretionary funds committed by Gov. Bill Richardson and grant sources. The city’s debt service on the borrowed $29.5 million will be paid by Laureate’s lease: $2.35 million annually. The city will invest $15 million of the sourced funds in capital improvements and another $5 million in reserves. Laureate will invest $20 million of its own money into capital improvements and revitalizing the college.

What if Laureate folds or runs away? Beyond Laureate’s contractually obligated investment (and the money it already has invested in CSF), the city will still have its reserve funds to cover the debt service for more than one year in order to find a new service provider.

But Laureate is not likely to close. Say what you like about multi-national corporations, Laureate has never closed one of its schools and has continued to profit through the global recession.

Finally, as fun as it would be to believe otherwise, Laureate has no forced strategy or plan that it exercises uniformly across its holdings. It appears content to let schools survive based on individual specialties and niches—the only
practices it enforces are long overdue for CSF: financial accountability and capable marketing.

Another fact that bears serious consideration by the City Council is what will happen to the CSF property if it does not intervene. The most likely scenario is years of bankruptcy litigation while the property continues to fall into disuse and become an expensive security problem, a persistent eyesore and the death blow to sensible redevelopment of the St. Michael’s Drive corridor. Any councilor who votes against saving the college will have a dangerous and dilapidated property in the heart of the city on his or her shoulders.

And why would a councilor vote against saving the school? After all, the city staff has structured a sound deal with Laureate, having wrestled with experienced international deal makers to come up with a fair shake for Santa Fe. But in Santa Fe, we have a hard time basing our government decisions on the facts: We tend to get all emotional. Again, it must be that creative thing.

What are the possible emotional motivations for councilors?

1.It’s too big and confusing and it’s a lot of money and what if everything goes wrong?

2. I’ve been reading editorials and website comments and a lot of people are mad about this.

3. That stupid college ran itself into the ground and it isn’t our business to save it.

4. I am running for mayor and this is the current mayor’s big idea and so I look tough by opposing it.

Again, in corresponding order:

A city councilor’s job is to deal with big and confusing issues and lots of money. If you can’t handle it with our best interests at heart, please resign.

We cannot be governed by squeaky wheels. The opinions of a few angry people who don’t take the time to comprehend the situation should not outweigh facts and good governance.

Yes, the stupid college ran itself into the ground and, no, it is not the city’s job to fix it. But this is a rare opportunity for the city to save history while simultaneously investing in the future. Like the arts and culture industry? Like being an internationally recognized cultural destination? Like being called a creative city? None of it will last without a college.

Finally, nobody looks good by saying “no” for the sake of saying no. Nobody looks good for disregarding hundreds of hours of quality staff time for the sake of petty rivalries.

If there has ever been a time for a unanimous vote from a council united in investing in the future vitality of this city, it’s now. If there has ever been a legacy project for which the council can be fondly remembered, it’s this one.

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Weir enters tonight’s JP Trophy tie with Hartlepool having lost eight of his first 12 matches since taking charge of the club in June.

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The article says she "took things to the next level in the Fantasy Suite with more than one man." The In Touch source shared, "She slept with two of the three guys who were left."

Another insider said, "I'm convinced she's pregnant."

While it's no secret that many of the contestants sleep together on that final night in the Fantasy Suite, the magazine claiming to know that Dorfman is pregnant takes the story to a whole different level.

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It has been almost exactly a year since Ronnie Wood split from his girlfriend of two years, Brazilian model Ana Araujo. But it looks like he has moved on, in a big way. The 65-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist announced his engagement today to 34-year-old Sally Humphreys.

"The twice-married, 65-year-old musician and artist separated from his second wife Jo Wood in 2008 and had a public disagreement with her over the auction of some memorabilia in Los Angeles, which went ahead earlier this month," said Reuters.

Jo Wood also recently announced she will be releasing her memoirs in February, and she promises it will tell people everything about the life of the wife of a Rolling Stone.

Lately, Ronnie Wood has been focusing on his art career, and a few months ago, he opened a show in New York. The exhibit featured portraits of Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, among other celebrities.

Wood and Humphreys may seem like an odd pair, but according to Wood's stepson Jamie, they make a good couple, and it was bound to happen.

"She's a lovely girl, and she's no groupie — I can assure you of that," Jamie told The New York Daily News in June. "She's a nice girl, and we've known her for years. She's been a friend of dad's for a long time, but she always had a boyfriend, which I think held him back. But now the boyfriend's gone; they're free to be with each other."

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  1. Place the chicken in the slow cooker with the one-half cup of water.
  2. Whisk together the ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, hot sauce, celery seed and salt until smooth, then pour it over the chicken.
  3. Cook for about four hours on high heat.
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The Knicks went from the top of the conference to fall to fifth by seasons’ end. They won just 19 of their last 46 games, finishing the season 45-37 which included losing 20 of their final 30 games. After winning 17 of their first 18 home games, they went just 12-11 after that game. In the playoffs, the Knicks avoided a total meltdown by heroically rallying from down 0-2 to defeat the Boston Celtics 3-2 in their best-of-five first round series. The Knicks snapped a 26-game losing streak at the Boston Garden in their game five win.

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Falling to 25-13 after the loss, the Bulls went 30-14 the rest of the way, finishing the season with the third best record in the Eastern Conference. They would reach the Eastern Conference Finals, losing to the eventual champion Pistons in seven games.

That would be the last time the Bulls would lose in the postseason for a while.

The Bulls would go on to win the next three NBA Championships and follow that with another three-peat afterJordan’s two-year sabbatical in baseball’s minor leagues.

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The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye Appearances Quotes

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Quote #4

They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly. Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique. But their ugliness was unique. No one could have convinced them that they were not relentlessly and aggressively ugly. (1.3.1)

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the Breedloves have internalized the belief that they are ugly.

Quote #5

It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes...were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different." (1.3.18)

Pecola believes that physical appearance can alter one's psychological condition.

Quote #6

Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people. (1.3.21)

Pecola lacks the self-esteem to not care what other people think.

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