Good News: School names building after recently retired lunch lady
At Norfolk County Agricultural High School in Massachusetts, lunch lady Bette Duquette recently retired . The 81 year old was honored when the school renamed a building after her. NBC News' Jose Diaz-Balart has that inspiring story and more in this week's Good News Wrap-Up.
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Metro
3 hours ago
- Metro
I'm having sex with a woman way out of my league but I can only last 30 seconds
Finding someone you click with and can't wait to see again doesn't happen every day, and our reader this week is head over heels for his new girlfriend. Doesn't sound like much of a problem, right? Wrong. He's so turned on by his partner, that he can only last 30 seconds in bed. Now, he's terrified his dream girl will leave him out of frustration, and he doesn't know how to fix it. Should he be honest with her? Or think of something decidedly unsexy, and hope for the best? Before you go, make sure to read last week's column, where a reader found out a life-changing family secret from her dying mother. Just over five months ago, I met a really gorgeous girl at a party. I wouldn't have had the nerve to chat her up as I thought she was way too good for me, but we got talking in the kitchen and she made the first move. We ended up getting really passionate, and I couldn't wait to see her again. Since then, we've had umpteen dates, we message every day, and things have been going really well. That is, all except in one very important department: sex. I just can't seem to last long in bed, and it makes me feel like such a loser. I've had some problems in the past so I put this girl off for as long as possible, but eventually she ran out of patience and dragged me off to the bedroom. Love reading juicy stories like this? Need some tips for how to spice things up in the bedroom? Sign up to The Hook-Up and we'll slide into your inbox every week with all the latest sex and dating stories from Metro. We can't wait for you to join us! No surprise (especially as she was even more fanciable with her clothes off), I lasted all of thirty seconds. I made loads of excuses, but she was great about it and said it didn't matter. However, since then it's happened on pretty much every occasion when we've been intimate. To be honest, I don't think we've ever had great sex despite the fact that we get on really well in every other area. I don't know how long she'll put up with my rubbish lovemaking and the more I worry about it, the worse it gets. I know I'm trapped in a vicious cycle but I don't know how to get out of it. Trust me when I tell you that your problem is fairly common, although I'm willing to bet the subject of premature ejaculation is not widely discussed among you and your mates. As you well know, it only needs to happen once to become a big issue in your head, and of course worrying about it only makes it worse. Even if you'd succeeded in putting your girlfriend off for a while, it wouldn't have helped because the longer you wait, the bigger the build-up of sexual tension and the more urgent the release. The problem is rarely permanent, and the first thing you should do is talk to your girlfriend about how you feel. Suggest laying off penetrative sex for a few weeks and instead, explore the many other ways of sharing sexual pleasure. Taking intercourse off the agenda will remove an important pressure, which of course is half the battle. Whether on your own or with your girlfriend, learn to recognise the signs that you're about to climax, and when you reach that point, pause whatever you're doing and wait for the feeling to subside. Build up your confidence gradually, until you can have sex without fearing (and creating) a situation where it's over too quickly. More Trending Your partner wants to be with you because she likes you, so don't think of yourself as a hopeless lover with a girlfriend who's too good for you. Start believing in yourself, and you'll be amazed at how much difference a positive mental attitude can make. If the problem persists, there's a chance that an underlying medical issue is causing your problem, and if you think that might be the case, arrange to see your GP. Laura is a counsellor and columnist. Got a sex and dating dilemma? To get expert advice, send your problem to Do you have a story to share? Get in touch by emailing MetroLifestyleTeam@ View More » MORE: My date was a terrible kisser – but that wasn't the worst part MORE: I asked my partner to choose the porn I watched for a week MORE: This unsuspecting city was just named the BDSM capital of the UK
NBC News
10 hours ago
- NBC News
A mournful Eid al-Adha in Gaza
Under the damaged dome of al-Albani Mosque in Khan Younis, families stood on broken stone and dust, raising their voices in takbir, the declaration of god's greatness, to mark the first morning of Eid al-Adha on Friday. In Gaza, the holiest of the two major Muslim holidays is traditionally a time for communal worship, the sacrifice of lambs, and shared meals. Families gather around piles of bread baked on the saj and morsels of liver fresh from the slaughter. But this year in Khan Younis, there was no feast. No lambs to sacrifice. No smell of meat cooking, no joyful reunions. The celebration, stripped of its customs, pressed on in grief. 'We don't eat meat, we don't eat liver, we are not happy like other times waiting for the Eid with joy,' Eftarag Abou Sabaa told NBC News' team in Khan Younis. Rather than the ritual sacrifice of a lamb, Abou Sabaa said, 'We sacrifice the blood of martyrs. We sacrifice our sons, our daughters, and our mothers; we sacrifice ourselves in a way that sets us apart from other people.' That morning, crowds moved quietly to the Khan Younis cemetery to visit loved ones lost to the war, and greeted each other by the tombstones of children, parents, and friends. Only the buzz of Israeli drones overhead filled the solemn silence. 'This is not an Eid of joy; it is an Eid of mourning and death,' Ahmed Darwish, displaced from Rafah to west Khan Younis, told NBC News as he stood beside the graves. 'Our children and women are in pieces. Instead of sacrificing animals, we collected body parts this morning.' On Eid, Israeli strikes continued as families wept by the bodies of their loved ones, killed before celebrations could begin. Reda Abdel Rahim Eljara told an NBC News team that Israeli air strikes had already killed her husband and one of her sons. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, she lost two more sons and her daughter-in-law. "Three months ago, on Eid al-Fitr, my son Qais got married," she told NBC News. "Today, on the main Eid, he is martyred with his wife." Umm Ahmad Al-Qatati said her son, Omar, 11, was shot as he left his tent to shower and get ready for a visit to see his father. 'He was so excited for Eid morning, but they sent him to the morgue instead,' she said. "Instead of celebrating Eid, he went to be with his Lord." Those for whom death had not come, trudged forward. At the ruins of al-Albani Mosque, Thaer al-Salmi, 14, continued to pray. "We try to find some joy by praying and wearing a few clothes to feel the Eid spirit," he said. 'I hope this war ends, and that next Eid will be like it was two years ago — a real celebration without war.'
NBC News
2 days ago
- NBC News
Father and daughter found dead on Maine hike were long drawn to mountain, family says
A New York father and daughter whose bodies were found on a mountain in Maine earlier this week had planned the hike while on a work trip. Tim Keiderling, 58, of Ulster Park, was found dead Tuesday in the Tablelands area on Mount Katahdin. The body of his 28-year-old daughter, Esther Keiderling, was discovered Wednesday afternoon about 1,000 feet away, between two trails off the Tablelands, Baxter State Park said. Tim was a father of six and a grandfather of two. He and Esther were very close, Tim's brother, Joe Keiderling, said. They both worked for Rifton Equipment, a New York-based medical supply company. "Tim was utterly unique," the brother said in a statement Thursday. "Many young men and women remember him as an elementary school teacher who could hold them spellbound with wildly imaginative stories and escapades in the woods and fields of the Hudson Valley he called home." In his free time, Tim enjoyed tending and growing fruit, such as strawberries and blueberries, and was a beekeeper. His faith was important to him, his brother said. Tim was a member of the Bruderhof Communities, a Christian community in which people share all their possessions, including money, its website states. "At church gatherings, Tim was a regular contributor, not only as a lay pastor but as a gifted storyteller, bringing life and vitality to familiar Bible stories and making them relevant to the issues of the day," Joe said. "At home, he was the consummate host and loved nothing more than lively conversation and a great laugh." Esther was quiet but "deeply sensitive," Joe said. "She loved reading and writing, with a particular fondness for the poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edna St. Vincent Millay," her uncle said. She kept a WordPress blog and wrote posts on the platform Substack. On Saturday, she wrote a post on Substack that she and her father were in Maine for a sales trip and had planned a hike, WMTW reported. She said she was "a little nervous" about the hike because of everything she had read about the Abol Trail, according to the news station. Joe Keiderling confirmed to NBC News that the pair had traveled to Maine for work for trainings for therapists on adaptive equipment for kids with disabilities. He said they decided to take a weekend vacation and "climb a mountain that had always attracted them." The park said the pair went missing Sunday after they left Abol Campground to hike the summit. The trail's difficulty is listed as very strenuous on the park's website. Water is limited after the first mile, and the trail is fully exposed after two and a half miles, it says. Authorities launched an extensive search Monday after their vehicle was found parked in a day-use lot. A park official said Thursday that the medical examiner's office will determine how the pair died. There is no evidence of criminal activity, the official said, and investigators are trying to determine why the bodies were found apart.
