BOSTON - Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard on Thursday night when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall. Television video of the fight showed two men struggling in the balcony one having his shirt pulled off as several people stood around them. "Chardonnay should be oaked, dammit."
Lockhart briefly halted the performance, which featured Ben Folds, while the men were escorted out. Boston police spokesman David Estrada said police officers on security detail at the hall escorted the men off the property, and no charges were filed. No injuries were reported in the 7 p.m. incident, he said. "Not oaked. Oaked sucks. Dilletante!"
A Boston Symphony spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.
Witnesses said they heard a scream from the balcony, and the sound of chairs falling, then a second scream as the fight escalated. He spilled my wine Argggh.
NEW YORK: People who indulge in oral sex face the risk of developing throat cancer, says a new study.
Maura Gillison at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, the US, and colleagues collected blood and saliva samples from the throats of 100 patients diagnosed with cancers of the tonsils or back of the throat.
The scientists also took samples from 200 healthy people for comparison. All of the study participants provided information about their sexual history, including the number of people with whom they had engaged in oral sex, reported online edition of New Scientist.
People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250 percent more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, the study suggests. Smoking or drinking increases the risk of such cancer by about threefold, the researchers said.
Tonsil and throat cancers affect about two in every 100,000 adults in the US. The study has appeared in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Doctor will I be alright if I gargle while I get oral sex ?
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They may have a point, but it's not the whole picture. To start with, people have a unique and complex bacterial culture on and in them, as individual as fingerprints.
On the skin, it is not evenly distributed, with the area from about the knees to the navel having a much greater concentration of coliform, or fecal bacteria. While only a percentage of this bacteria is harmful, its density makes it much easier to spread. This is why people are told to wash their hands after using the restroom.
It also complicates sex. Females are already vulnerable to coliform "yeast" infections, due to the proximity of the mons pubis (vaginal opening) to the anus. But when they have sex with a male for the first time, they suddenly get perhaps 25 to 100 new types and strains of bacteria introduced, which is a shock to their immune system.
I said all that to explain why some amount of oral sex, especially at the onset of a relationship, is a good idea. It has been proposed that the introduction of a male's bacterial culture orally, with some days, or a week delay before vaginal penetration, would give the female's immune system time to adjust to the new culture.
This would not just lower the incidence of yeast infection, but would also make pregnancy easier, the body not having to fight a series of bacterial infections at the same time. The immune system is more capable orally, because the mouth is very septic.
Ironically, while this presents a biological reason for oral sex, it also supports a biological reason for monogamy. This is because after a couple have sex, both partners have increased their bacterial cultures significantly with the introduction of new bacteria and new strains.
However, if a person engages multiple sex partners over a period of time, they develop what has been called a "superculture" of bacteria. When a person with such a superculture has sex with a virgin, the virgin may get so many foreign bacteria at once that they would almost certainly get ill, or at least have their immune system strained and weakened.
Finally, the oral sex-throat cancer link is not too outrageous an idea, because several pathogens have been associated with cancers and other problems, often years after infection. In the article it notes that number of sex partners is also a factor, here.
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Dr. Moose PHD: said all that to explain why some amount of oral sex, especially at the onset of a relationship, is a good idea. It has been proposed that the introduction of a male's bacterial culture orally, with some days, or a week delay before vaginal penetration, would give the female's immune system time to adjust to the new culture.
Dr Mooses, ima writing that one down... suggestion: on delivery, a low sincere voice would add sum convincing richness...
"New research suggests oral sex may not only help a woman conceive but may make her pregnancy safer and more successful.
The Australian study found that semen contains a growth factor which helps persuade a mother's immune system to accept sperm.
It claims to have found evidence that regular exposure before pregnancy, especially by mouth, helps her immune system get used to her partner's sperm..."
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Everyone should check out what oral sex with someone who is infected with HPV will do to you... HPV is one of the most commen sexually transmitted diseases.
He says, "the protective effect was strongest if the woman swallowed the semen".
Now, when advising couples who have difficulty carrying pregnancies to full term, he says: "I tell them, 'semen exposure's good, and you could think of oral sex".
O-M-Gawd with this document I will make every woman I like, healthy and happy!
Sorry, it's a *different* Times-Picayune. But very well deserved.
NEW YORK How often does an entire newspaper receive an honorary degree? The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, La. soon will. The Web site of Loyola University New Orleans posted a release naming the recipients for this year's commencement, set for this weekend. Among them, "The Times-Picayune for heroic service to the city and region during and after Hurricane Katrina," the release states. Others receiving such honors are music legend and civil rights activist Julian Bond; musician and educator Ellis Marsalis, Jr.; New Orleans artist John T. Scott; and the advocacy and volunteer group The Women of the Storm.
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How did the Rantburg Times-Picayune come to have the same name as my little home town paper?
The New Orleans version actually did a remarkable job maintaining information flow following Katrina, and is a considerably better-than-average newspaper too. Surprisingly so for a city like New Orleans (way below average in so many ways).
The financial news has been grim recently for the newspaper business in general. They could take a lesson from the Rantburg T-P - a good picture of Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe on the cover every day ought to give circulation a nice boost (it does wonders for MY circulation.)
At an event in North Carolina to mark Black History Month last February (2005), Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, unleashed a blistering attack on the Bush administration and the Republican Party. Among other discourtesies, he compared President George W. Bush's judicial appointees to the Taliban and described former Attorney General John Ashcroft, not for the first time, as ``J. Edgar Ashcroft."
"The Republican Party," Bond was reported as saying, ``would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side." (A slightly different version has Bond saying that the GOP's ``idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side-by-side.")
Such partisan bigotry from the chairman of a supposedly nonpartisan organization makes it easy to understand why for five years Bush refused to attend the NAACP's annual conventions. More of a mystery is why he changed his mind this year -- and why, rather than attempt to refute Bond's venomous caricature of his party, he seemed to accept it.
Julian Bond, the Harry Belafonte of Civil Rights Assholes Activists. Partisan poison using skin color as cover
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Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal, the eldest son of King Faisal and former chairman of Al-Ahli Club, died yesterday at the age of 85 following a prolonged illness, the Royal Court announced. Funeral prayers for the late prince were held at the Grand Mosque in Makkah last night. Crown Prince Sultan took part in the funeral prayers along with a large number of Saudis and expatriates.
This article starring:
Crown Prince Sultan
Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal
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A great article. More text and several impressive photos at the link.
For more than 40 years after U.S. forces drove Nazi Germany from Plzeň, west Bohemia, an important truth was kept quiet. Although this event was known as the liberation of Plzeň, the city continued to suffer under the oppressive censorship of Soviet communism, and schoolchildren were taught that it was the Russians who freed Plzeň from the Nazis grip.
But private memories persisted. Many people remembered the massive celebration when the Americans rolled into town in May 1945. Families secretly kept photos, and some even hid U.S. military vehicles that had been left behind.
Now, official amnesia has been abolished, and the towns collective memory of the U.S. liberation has been celebrated each year since 1990. Late in the morning May 6, closing day of the 18th annual event, hundreds of people lined the streets under a sky that threatened rain to watch a convoy of dozens of historical U.S. military vehicles mostly jeeps make its way down Plzeňs main drag. In them sat Czechs outfitted largely in U.S. Army camouflage and waving American flags. A few passengers cried as their jeeps drove down Klatovská street, re-enacting the liberation.
Eva Stejskalová, of Prague, was 6 years old at the time; she remembers bringing a cake her mother baked to some U.S. soldiers and parroting the English phrase her father taught her: How do you do? The soldiers laughed and gave her chocolate.
Along the streets, locals dressed in U.S. military uniforms waved the stars and stripes. Its a tradition for us because liberty is of great value for us, said Andrea Řeháčková, 35, of Plzeň, as she waited with her husband and their 4-year-old son for the parade to start. Its a nice show for our son.
Perched in one of the jeeps was Earl Ingram, 84, a U.S. veteran from North Carolina. It was his division, the 2nd Infantry, that liberated the city in 1945. Before his jeep took off down the parade route this year, he recalled his first trip down that same street 62 years ago. The most memorable thing is how happy the people were, he said. Since 1990, he has attended the celebration 13 times.
Doug Brackenbrough, 75, a Korean War veteran, came over from Washington state for the celebration. His eyes teared when he remembered driving through a small Czech town in 2002 with the convoy and passing a crying elderly couple holding a sign that read, Thank you America. The outpouring of appreciation and patriotism in this country is much greater than in our own, he said.
Lee Dashiell, a 40-year-old U.S. filmmaker capturing the event, was also surprised by the large turnout. Dashiell was at the event with his business partner, Robert Galloway, 39, to make a documentary about the liberation festivities. The two men own Osprey HD, a South Carolina film company that shoots in high definition for The History Channel, The Discovery Channel and other clients. The one-hour film they are making will likely air on one of those two U.S.-based channels, they said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
BOSTON - Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard on Thursday night when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall. Television video of the fight showed two men struggling in the balcony one having his shirt pulled off as several people stood around them.
