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using wavelet systems or wavelet transforms consists of partitioning the
time–scale plane into tiles according to the indices
The energy in a signal is given in terms of the DWT by Parseval's relation
in (Reference) or (Reference). This shows the energy is a function of the
translation index
The wavelet transform allows analysis of a signal or parameterization of a signal that can locate energy in both the time and scale (or frequency) domain within the constraints of the uncertainty principle. The spectrogram used in speech analysis is an example of using the short-time Fourier transform to describe speech simultaneously in the time and frequency domains.
This graphical or visual description of the partitioning of energy in a
signal using tiling depends on the structure of the system, not the
parameters of the system. In other words, the tiling partitioning
will depend on whether one uses
Nonstationary Signal Analysis
In many applications, one studies the decomposition of a signal in terms of basis functions. For example, stationary signals are decomposed into the Fourier basis using the Fourier transform. For nonstationary signals (i.e., signals whose frequency characteristics are time-varying like music, speech, images, etc.) the Fourier basis is ill-suited because of the poor time-localization. The classical solution to this problem is to use the short-time (or windowed) Fourier transform (STFT). However, the STFT has several problems, the most severe being the fixed time-frequency resolution of the basis functions. Wavelet techniques give a new class of (potentially signal dependent) bases that have desired time-frequency resolution properties. The "optimal" decomposition depends on the signal (or class of signals) studied. All classical time-frequency decompositions like the Discrete STFT (DSTFT), however, are signal independent. Each function in a basis can be considered schematically as a tile in the time-frequency plane, where most of its energy is concentrated. Orthonormality of the basis functions can be schematically captured by nonoverlapping tiles. With this assumption, the time-frequency tiles for the standard basis (i.e., delta basis) and the Fourier basis (i.e., sinusoidal basis) are shown in (Reference).
Tiling with the Discrete-Time Short-Time Fourier Transform
The DSTFT basis functions are of the form
Tiling with the Discrete Two-Band Wavelet Transform
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of the time-frequency plane suited for signals where high frequency signal components
have shorter duration than low frequency signal components. Time-frequency
atoms for the DWT,
The tiling of the time-frequency plane is a powerful graphical method for understanding the properties of the DWT and for analyzing signals. For example, if the signal being analyzed were a single wavelet itself, of the form
the DWT would have only one nonzero coefficient,
General Tiling
Notice that for general, nonstationary signal analysis, one desires
methods for controlling the tiling of the time-frequency plane, not just
using the two special cases above (their importance notwithstanding). An
alternative way to obtain orthonormal wavelets
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Right On Queue
One thing that I did not mention is that 2008 (and for however long it lasts beyond 2008) has been the year that is the outlier for everything. It has been the outcome that would be the least probable scenario in any sort of financial planning process.
With that sentiment I am not commenting on whether it should have happened, whose fault it is, the fixes gone bad, what I think will happen next or anything else just the simple idea that down 40%, 30-40% below the 200 DMA for broad market indexes, the implosion in oil, the possibility that the fixed income market is worse off than equities, that commodities have also imploded and anything I am forgetting have created a cocktail of 100 year floods in every asset class (including the bizarre rally in treasuries; TYX as at 3.11!).
2008 was the year no asset allocation model would ever realistically account for. The odds that a diversified portfolio that took no defensive action would stand up to this onslaught were close to nil.
Some of my recent posts have explored ways to possibly construct a different type of portfolio that would mean a different type of market participation and a different type of result. The reason anyone would consider this is if they simply find they cannot stomach normal stock market behavior. However the assumption that the capital markets and the sorts of inter-assets relationships that have existed for decades are now permanently defunct is a bad bet.
This is a disruption of normal market function, without getting into how long it might last for now, that is what it is. I still think normal stock market participation, with some sort of defensive strategy, is the best way to go. I can envision a scenario where a lot of people one way or another give up on stocks, then maybe we end up having a decent cyclical bull market and many of the folks who gave come back in just in time for the next cyclical bear.
The explorations of different portfolio methods is interesting and can be a learning tool as I think it stretches out the mind a little bit but above all I would urge (repeat theme here) keeping it simple with a normal-ish portfolio. Defensive action in the manner I've described before is simple. There is no need to even worry about magnitude--indeed I was wrong about the bear market's magnitude (down 50% twice in one decade? really?) but that has not mattered.
To reiterate a point made many times over, it doesn't matter if every fund or stock you have is down 40%, what matters is not being fully invested in a bunch of funds and stocks that are down 40%.
27 comments:
- Anonymous said...
...nothing new here today. What you are describing is a balanced approached to asset allocation. Yawn.
..but sensible advice. Yawn again. The KISS method rules. - 6:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'm hoping for an ETF that tracks the 200 dma.
- Anonymous said...
Hussman is espousing similar "planned" logical approach to investing. It maybe boring and get some people yawning, but I just kind of love the returns :)
I did find that Hussman is just plane wrong and uninformed about one thing. He said "...not because the market is diabolical and secretly wishes to frustrate the greatest number of investors..."
He has no idea what he is talking about. The market is clearly and undeniably diabolically trying to frustrate the greatest number of investors :) - 6:51 AM
- redloon said...
First, thanks for your comments. Granted that the balanced effect hasn't helped YET. The point is that we don't know where growth will occur going forward, and being balanced will put us at risk in those areas, just after all correlations have gone to 1. Still, applying some sell discipline, like Mabane Faber discusses, seems reasonable.
- Anonymous said...
Here I am, the guy you all know and love as the down 11% guy.
First, I must say that I have been reading Roger for many years since I found his writing on The Street.
Second, I continue to follow him because he's not just another CNBC pundit. In fact, CNBC would improve their grade by a wide margin if Roger were a regular guest.
Third, he's honest and he cares.
All that said, I disagree that this is just a disruption of normal market function. THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT. Much more than the last twenty times people asked, "is this different"? We have the makings of a perfect storm. So far we've been hit with a few rogue waves.
The sky could be falling. On top of the usual indicators that everyone is following is the muni bond market. They're getting slammed. Some are down over 30% and I'm talking the A-AAA rated bonds. Our state government problems are another shoe that's going to drop.
When I started buying muni's about 15 years ago I told my broker of my very conservative investment style. He told me not to worry because we're only buying insured bonds and for any of them to fail THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL MARKET IN THIS COUNTRY would have to be in a state that we haven't seen since the great depression.
GUESS WHAT? We're almost there!
The states need money to balance their budgets. They're going to have to cut services and raise taxes. That's RAISE TAXES!
I could go on about the muni bond insurer debacle and such but I think I've made my point.
This time is different than maybe two times in history. - 7:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
Re: 07:15
Ask any guy that's been married 6-8 times and they will all tell you it was the three little words that got them in trouble. No, not "I Love You", but rather "this one's different".
How bad things are depends on your vantage point. After 6 plus decades, in my view other periods have been worse. Your being down 11% is good and shows great wisdom. However, if you stay where you are, you will likely be left in the dust. Roger's commentaries are really quite sound-IMHO of course. - 7:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
"Ask any guy that's been married 6-8 times and they will all tell you it was the three little words that got them in trouble. No, not "I Love You", but rather "this one's different".
LOL...I think "any guy" might need
to be the one to change.
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their PERSONNAL investments.
(attempt at humor) - 8:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Regular readers know me. I'm only down 11% because I'm a chicken, not because I'm wise.
- Stephen Drone said...
Has diversification really failed?
If the S%P 500 is down 39% and you're only down 25% due to diversification, that means diversification is working (at least to me). Perhaps a lot of people have a hangover from the late 90s; while they don't think stocks always go up, maybe they think they aren't supposed to suffer huge losses.
I remember the risk questionaire from, what is it, IFA.com? There are specific questions on how much of a 1 year loss you're willing to take. - 10:09 AM
- RW said...
The principle of compounding is familiar to everyone in building wealth but it is just as destructive on the way down as it is constructive on the way up:
Down 25% requires a 33+% gain to break even; quite feasible.
Down 40% requires twice that (66.6% gain) to break even; takes more work and risk or time.
Down 50% requires that you double your entire stake, 100% gain, just to break even; the risk and/or time factor could now become a major impediment to reaching financial goals.
Shorter version: Regardless of wealth-building strategy it is a good idea to develop a regime that helps you avoid big losses. - 11:04 AM
- Matthew said...
What if there was a passive asset allocation designed 3 decades ago that with a historical CAGR of 11+% and a YTD return of -4.84% this year. Would anyone be interested in this?
For some reason I haven't been able to get anyone to comment on this idea when I post about it... Not complaining just scratching my head... I started doing backtests at assetplay.net and morningstar when my endowment style portfolio caught on fire a few months ago, and it looks very solid. 25% small value, 25% long gov't, 25% cash, 25% gold.
I am not against doing the best job possible to increase the reward/risk possible of the equity portion of my portfolio including diverse equity positions and defensive selling. But I have definitely been convinced to shift by target allocation for the future. - 11:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
Greg Mankiw has a great graph that puts 2008 in perspective
- Bill B said...
Isn't it 'cue'? :)
To offer a little more personal evidence about the definition of 'failure', I started a paper fundadvice.com ultimate buy and hold over at marketocracy. I did this probably at the worst time (the beginning of this year). So have a look at it here if you want. It pretty much agrees with the link that Stephen posted. The UBH is down about 25% this year. The chart really shows the stability vs. the major averages.
To me, this is the first step in proving the concept in real time. I'll give it another few years and see how it handles the up side of the cycle.
Supposedly this strategy will outperform not necessarily because it runs hotter on the way up, but it doesn't lose as much on the way down. A fact that many would probably find comfort in right now. It also seems to have proven that this time around. - 11:40 AM
- Stephen Drone said...
I enjoy looking at portfolios; I track that and others here and you can see how it has done since 2001. I'll probably get earlier data filled in by the end of the year.
- Anonymous said...
Matthew--Very interesting allocation. Personally, I have a really hard time with just 4-5 buckets, regardless of what the numbers prove. Same with with Mebane Faber's allocation. I don't know why; maybe the actual $$$ pooled in this manner just look too concentrated on my brokerage statement. Silly, if you look at the historical correlations.
- Stephen Drone said...
Matthew: using Morningstar data, your YTD is -7%.
If I use Vanguard SC value, Vanguard prime money market, Vanguard Long term treasury and GLD, returns are:
2008 ytd: -7%
2007: 9.6
2006: 11.9
2005: 8.4
VFINX returns in for those periods are, startig in 2005: 4.8%, 15.6%, 5.4, and -39%.
It's interesting, but not impressive at this point 'cause Gold has gone insane the last few years.
I'm not sure how to get annualized returns for gold pre-GLD. - 12:25 PM
- Bill B said...
This is good stuff. Is there a way we can get some sort of notification when you update data? - 12:37 PM
- Stephen Drone said...
Sure; I could just post a comment here or something.
I update it every January - OR when I add portfolios or test new ideas.
This year we've had the big market losses and the fact that I've figured out to calculate annualized gains. so it has been updated several times. - 12:43 PM
- Matthew said...
Hi Stephen, thanks for posting your analysis. Harry Browne is the original designer of that allocation I posted about. I believe he would contend that gold ( and other hard assets), have a strong economic relationship to assets such as cash and equities. This means that it is not coincidence that gold went up during the inflationary expansion caused by over-leveraging of global financial markets.
It is also not a coincidence that when things started to stray toward deflation gold went down and long US bonds went up. This is how Browne said the permanent portfolio was supposed to work.
Anyway, something interesting to chew on... - 2:40 PM
- Stephen Drone said...
One could make the argument that it IS coincidence - 'cause that's when gold ETFs because available and let every Tom, Dick, and Harry easily buy gold that bloggers were telling them to buy.
The Journal of Financial Planners had an article a few years ago showing that the long term returns of commodities was essentially zero - which was part of the reason they help balance your portfolios in bad times for equities. So it would be interesting to see what the long term returns of the other 3 pieces of the portfolio would be while just putting the gold portion at a 0% return each year. - 3:02 PM
- Matthew said...
But then again perhaps GLD came out because the price of gold had started to move already ;)
I think you probably meant to ask for gold return =inflation% instead of =0% but here are the numbers you asked for since its easier for me. I got this from assetplay.net data which goes from 1972-2007:
Small Cap Value - 34%
Long Term Government Bonds - 33%
2 Year ST Treasury - 33%
Portfolio Stats:
Average Return 10.99%
Standard Dev 9.1%
Correlation TSM 0.65
Correlation EAFE 0.28
Max Annual DD (8.9)
That site doesn't have gold data, but using broad commodities as a proxy:
Small Cap Value - 25%
Commodities - 25%
Long Term Government Bonds - 25%
2 Year ST Treasury - 25%
Portfolio Stats
Average Return 11.49%
Standard Dev 7.04%
Correlation TSM 0.51
Correlation EAFE 0.19
Max Annual DD (2.9) - 3:45 PM
- Stephen Drone said...
DAng. The article is in May 2007 but I can't find it on the website.
- Stephen Drone said...
Ok, not to keep yapping. Last post.
A quick google search for the name you mentioned comes up with this. Turns out it's a take on the permanent portfolio mutual fund.
It does specify "stocks" and not "small value stocks." I'll have to mess around with numbers to see if it makes a difference to use sc value vs. S&P 500. I'd probably compare gold vs. a precious metals or precious metals/mining ETF.
Now that I have a source, I'll probably add this to my list. It's an interesting concept; thanks. - 7:44 PM
- RW said...
I used Browne's approach in the 80's but it didn't work well in practice as originally laid out. Browne's model relied upon very strong volatility in the active components so, for example, "stocks" were typically represented by warrants or very high beta equities, "bonds" were typically represented by treasury strips or other long duration instruments.
One of the problems as folks have noticed is that asset classes have a tendency to become more correlated in a crisis so the assumption that you could reliably predict one would zig when another zagged didn't pan out when you needed it most.
I still use the original framework as a conceptual tool for my core strategic portfolio but, like the Permanent Portfolio fund Browne and a colleague started, do not follow the original model (AFAIK Browne was never active in the actual management of that fund). - 8:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Very interesting Stephen. At a quick glance I like the simplicity and average annual return of the Motley Fool's "ETF Portfolio". Thanks for your post.
Mad Max - 8:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Browne not only encouraged a Permanent Portfolio, he also encouraged a Speculative Portfolio to hopefully juice returns. In a perfect world, with rebalancing, the Permanent Portfolio could well result in an absolute return of nil. Mr.Browne alluded to this in later years.
- Anonymous said...
The permanent portfolio allocation worked fine in this market. It is the only allocation that has true diversification in my opinion. Stocks are down 30+% but the Long Term bonds it holds are up 25% and climbing. For such a simple allocation it sure does work. You can download all his radio shows discussing the strategy from here:
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Hi all, I'm relatively new to game programming and I'm sure there's a nice and easy way to do this so I thought I'd post here and see if I can get a concise reply before I make changes myself.
The issue is I have 3 different types of enemies that I render to the screen. Unfortunately the way my code works is each type of enemy object gets stored in its own list. When it's time to draw the enemies to the screen they get rendered in the order of what kind of enemy they are because I simply draw one enemy list, draw the next enemy list and then draw the 3rd enemy list. This is not good because the 3rd enemy types are always "on top of" the first enemy types. I know there must be a way to define and interface or something where I can store the 3 different objects in one big list and sort them neatly depending on how close they are to the screen and update all their positions and so on. I tried putting them all in a list of their parent class but then I don't have access to their update methods. Help appreciated!
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Do the update methods override the parent class's method, or does the parent class not have that method? If the parent doesn't have an update method, why not have all of your enemies inherit from an interface that has an update method, and then have a list of that interface (in which you can sort the enemies by render-order)?
I'm not sure what language you're using, so I can't know that these ideas are right for you, but that's what I'd do in your situation.
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I think you misunderstand how inheritence works. You can inherit an update and draw function from a parent, like this.
If I am misunderstanding what you are doing, tb en post some code for us.
class TEnemy { public: virtual void Update(); virtual void Draw (); } class TGoblin : public TEnemy { public: void Update (); ... //other functions or members } // Create a list of TEnemy, and when update is called, it will update the specifix enemy type std::vector <TEnemy> EnemyList;
If I am misunderstanding what you are doing, tb en post some code for us.
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There are obviously other terms which are likely to be more important in terms of conversion rates, first and foremost the individual brand name, and other terms such as 'online grocery' or 'online grocery shopping' (as targeted by Tesco). But given the very large search volume of the keyword 'supermarket', this surely has to be a key term to target search traffic from?
The screenshot below, from the Google AdWords keyword tool, shows that 'supermarket' as an exact match generated 27,100 clicks in the UK during August at an average cost per click of £2.82. As a PPC cost this would have totaled £76,422 for this one keyword alone during the month.
If you consider that by optimising for this term rankings are likely to be achieved for many variations of supermarket queries, then it's worth considering that the broad match of supermarkets generated 1.5 million clicks last month (at the same CPC). This much traffic would have cost £4,245,000! Yes, they wouldn't have generated as many clicks in reality, but if they could gain high rankings for a number of top search terms then the 56% of #1 organic clickthroughs would be going directly to their own website instead of competitors.
In comparison, if you look at the search volume figures for 'online grocery', this shows a huge difference in popularity.
Even Ocado, which specialises in online grocery delivery, isn't best optimising its website for traffic- and conversion-driving search terms.
What do you think, are the UK supermarkets seriously missing out on increasing online traffic and sales?
Kevin Gibbons is Director of Search for SEOptimise .


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Annual Report
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Executive Board Activities
I attended the National Conference in Los Angeles for my first Executive Board meetings. I also attended the business meetings of the Space Planners Roundtable and the Academic Libraries Division. I served as liaison to the Technology Committee and the ARLIS Web Site Advisory Board, attending these meeting as well.
I established a live chat Board meeting venue using Blackboard Courseware. We held a successful meeting using it in June.
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I contributed articles to springs and fall issues of South Region chapters' newsletters.
I attended the Texas-Mexico Chapter meeting in Albuquerque the first weekend in November and the Southeast Chapter meeting the following weekend in Boca Raton. Both meetings were extremely well organized, contained informative lectures and tours, and plenty of chances to chat and get to know each other. I did not get the chance to catch a DC-MD-VA meetings, but I felt that with the upcoming 2003 conference in Baltimore I would be spending a lot of time there during 2002.
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The Texas-Mexico Chapter meeting had a particularly lively business discussion amongst their very active and engaged members. This was the first year Mexican librarians attended, thanks in part to an ARLIS/NA grant. The two librarians who attended, Elsa Barberena and Beatriz MacGregor, both gave interesting presentations after the business meeting. In Albuquerque we toured the Special Collections Branch of the Rio Grande Valley Library system and the Zimmerman library at the University of New Mexico as well as the University of New Mexico Art Museum. While at UNM we also had the pleasure of a presentation on the Online Archive of New Mexico. The tours included a jaunt from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. I was particularly pleased at the chance to see the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Research Center. Two other excellent tours in the Santa Fe area included the Institute of American Indian Arts library and the National Park Service Intermountain Cultural Resources Library.
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I would recommend the Board look at options to provide a password protected web site for maintaining ARLIS membership contact information. Several concerns were expressed about the difficulties in finding the information they needed to contact colleagues when the directory only comes out annually. Having the most current information readily available was a stated preference.
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What do Davy Crockett, Mae West, and Bill Clinton all have in common? Their birthdays are this weekend and we happen to know for a fact if Davy Crockett was still alive, you'd probably catch him fist pumping at one of the many music festivals below.
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Each year, the Sunset Strip Music Festival in Los Angeles selects a legend to pay tribute to over three days. This year: The Doors. Freakin' awesome.
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Beautiful Days in the UK celebrates its tenth year keeping true to a mission of no corporate sponsors, no branding, and no advertising. It's working. Tickets are sold out for this year and they won the "Best Family Festival" award last year.
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On March 29, 2013, after more than 11 years of litigation, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that a defendant, as the prevailing party, was entitled to attorneys' fees under the Endangered Species Act's fee shifting provision. See Animal Welfare Institute v. Feld Entertainment, Inc., No. 03-2006 (D.D.C. Mar. 29, 2013) (pdf).
The fee provision states, in relevant part, "in issuing any final order in any suit brought" under the citizen suit provision of the Endangered Species Act, a court, in its discretion, "may award costs of litigation, (including reasonable attorney and expert witness fees) to any party, whenever the court determines such award is appropriate." The district court first found, relying on a 1983 Supreme Court decision analyzing the Clean Air Act's fee shifting provision, that a fee award is only "appropriate" when the requesting party is also the "prevailing party." In addition to being a prevailing party, however, the district court also found that for a defendant to be entitled to fees under the Endangered Species Act, one of the following criteria had to be satisfied: (i) the action must have been frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation; or (ii) plaintiffs must have continued the litigation after it became clear that the action was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation.
Because the action was dismissed with prejudice after it was determined that plaintiffs lacked standing, the district court found that the defendant was a prevailing party. As for the second element, the district court found that because it was "conclusively determined that" the key plaintiff for purposes of standing "was a paid plaintiff, hired by the other plaintiffs and their counsel," the case "was groundless and unreasonable from its inception, and, therefore, that [defendant] should recover the attorneys' fees it incurred when it was forced to defend itself in litigation."
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The Plane Crash Pt.5
Fiction, Anal, Bondage and restriction, Cruelty, Female Domination, Female/Female, Incest, Male / Female Teens, Spanking, Threesome
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Gender: Male Age: Secret Location: Somewhere in the Republic of Texas
Posted: 2010-03-19
Chapters 15-18
Right If you didn't read the First 14 Chapters I'm not going to explain it all to you GO BACK AND READ THEM. If you did and you want to read more well I'm happy to say here you go enjoy More sex violence and general mayhem!
Chapter XV
Nicole lay there against his chest gasping the muscles of her pussy clenching and unclenching on his cock milking it back to hardness. A few hours later she pulled on her shirt and got up with Jeremy to prepare and eat dinner.
"Nicole" Sunni said there is something on your leg. Nicole looked down it was a dollop of cum that had leaked out of her pussy she scooped it up with two fingers and licked them clean.
"Yummy" she smiled "Thanks Sunni" They ate dinner and Jeremy and Nicole retired back to the hut. "You really like me?" Nicole asked
"Sure do" Jeremy responded
"Mmm I have an Idea then but later I promise you'll love it"
"Shush or I'll have to tie you up"
"Oooh now I love that Idea"
"Really I was just joking." Jeremy said
"I'm not please tie me up and have your way with me"
"If you insist"
"Please?" Jeremy tied her hands behind her and had her stand he knelt down in front of her she was so short that his face was just even with her breasts He took one nipple between his lips lightly tickling the underside of her other breast with his hands he gently began to suck it flicking it with his tongue. He teased the other nipple with his fingers as he sucked and flicked her nipple her legs trembled as his teeth dragged over the nipple exiting his mouth with a wet pop. He then switched to the other nipple her back arched as he gently bit and sucked it his fingers lightly tweaking the other one. He switched again attacking it more fiercely than he had before there was a gentle rap at the door. "Come in" Nicole whispered Jeremy felt bare breasts against his back.
"Hiya hero" Naomi whispered in his ear before coming around to attack Nicole's other breast. Jeremy took Naomi's free hand that was traveling up Nicole's thigh.
"Don't touch her pussy" he whispered in her ear "Anything else is fair game" Naomi then let her hand drop to Nicole's knee and was doing something there. Jeremy did his best to hold the jelly legged Nicole in a standing position. The two kept sucking on Nicole's swollen and sensitive nipples until she was hissing orders at them to fuck her to finger her to touch her pussy. They paid no attention though she gasped and pleaded. Jeremy reached over and tweaked Naomi's nipple and kissed Nicole on the lips as he pushed Naomi's head down toward Nicole's hungry dripping snatch it didn't take much for Naomi to get the idea.
While Jeremy held Nicole's breasts and kissed her Naomi began to earnestly eat her out. She broke the kiss only to squeal "Oh my" and then her body shuddered in orgasm. Gasping he lowered her to the floor of the hut and slowly inserted his cock into her hot wet pussy. Naomi straddled her face lowering her own dripping pussy onto Nicole's face as Jeremy began to slowly thrust deeper and deeper into Nicole. He went slowly he could hear Nicole licking and sucking on Naomi's pussy
Jeremy held his pace until Naomi said "I'm close oh god she's good". Jeremy picked up the pace and started pounding Nicole's pussy like there was no tomorrow he felt his balls starting to tingle and then he exploded in Nicole's pussy he stood and Naomi sucked the last drops out her own orgasm coinciding nearly with his, Naomi then sucked and slurped the spent cum out of Nicole's pussy until she came again. They all rested on the floor together Naomi on the right of Nicole and Jeremy on her left.
"Oh my god" Nicole said after catching her breath "I've never experienced anything so wonderful I want to keep doing that my nipples are so sensitive"
"Really" Naomi asked and playfully licked the one nearest her and Nicole shuddered.
"I still want to get pregnant with your baby Jeremy" Nicole said quietly "Promise me that I'll be carrying your baby or have it at least before we leave you are so good"
"I promise" Naomi said that we won't leave the island until all of us who want to be are pregnant with Jeremy's babies."
"What?" Jeremy asked
"Shush you" Naomi admonished "you have so many girls who want babies with you"
"But if we get off the island won't it be a little hard to understand for the folks back home?"
"It might be but I think by that time we will all have an understanding and we won't have to worry about what other people think" Naomi said
"Well some of the parents of some of these women are less than likely to be understanding" Nicole responded
"We'll jump over that bridge when we get to it" Naomi smiled licking Nicole's nipple again.
Chapter XVI
Naomi left the hut soon after that and the morning dawned Jeremy opened his eyes to see Nicole's sweet face slurping his cock. He had to admit that she wasn't terribly attractive in the face but her abilities and her desire made up for a lot she smiled around his cock as she looked up at him noticing he was awake. After the morning blowjob they got up and started work again just like any other day. Gathering food and by this time Jeremy had concocted a fair form of soap from the ashes and animal fat from the food. The other girls went about their assigned tasks. Jeremy took a break and decided to wander the island.
Jeremy walked down a game trail and heard something in a clearing off the path, he cautiously moved towards the noise. He peered from beneath some bushes to see what was happening. There in the clearing stood Shannon and Annabel and Tiffany all three were naked. Jeremy noticed that most of them shaved or had a bikini wax or whatever girls did. Shannon was almost bare on her crotch just a little stubble was starting to show where Tiffany had dark stubble forming on either side of what was once a carefully cut line. Annabel had stubble dotting around her slit with what might have once been a well-manicured arrow. "Well I think she should be punished" Tiffany said.
"She is!" said Shannon
"Not well enough" Tiffany responded
"Now wait just a minute," Annabel said "don't I get a say in this?"
"No!" both of the other girls responded
"Get on your knees bitch" Tiffany said menacingly
"Fuck you" Annabel said "Your not the boss of me"
"Well I am" Shannon said "do what she says" Jeremy watched as Tiffany turned from the arguing women and pulled a thin green switch from a nearby tree.
"What if I don't want to?" Annabel asked
"You'll do it or else" Tiffany said switching the back of Annabel's calves
"Hey!" Tiffany grabbed the back of Annabel's hair and pulled her to her knees. "Ow" Annabel cried out.
"Now kiss me and ask me to forgive you for betraying Jeremy and the rest of us" Shannon said Annabel tried to get up but Tiffany kept a firm grip on her hair. Annabel glared at Shannon, who in turn glanced at Tiffany meaningfully. Tiffany brought the switch across Annabel's ass with a crack. Annabel flinched but still stood resolute. "We have all day," Shannon said as Tiffany added a stripe to her ass and then a third.
After the fifth stroke Annabel sobbed, "I'm sorry I didn't want anyone to get hurt I'm sorry for what I did"
"Now kiss me" Shannon said Annabel started to try to rise again but Shannon smirked "not here" she said pointing to her mouth "Here" again she pointed this time below her belly button Annabel leaned forward and kissed her right above her slit. "Again" Shannon demanded Annabel leaned forward to kiss the same spot as before. "All of it the apology too."
"I'm so sorry" Annabel whispered
"For what" Tiffany asked behind her
"I'm sorry I tried to betray you I'm sorry that you might have gotten hurt, please forgive me" she leaned forward and kissed the spot again.
"I'm not feeling it" Shannon smirked tiffany added another red stripe to Annabel's ass.
"I was wrong" Annabel tried a different track "I should have done what I was told and abandoned the boys they are evil" This time she leaned forward and kissed the very top of her slit"
"More feeling" Tiffany scolded switching Annabel again. Annabel repeated the apology and this time kissed Shannon's pussy open mouthed she stayed that way and Shannon took hold of her hair"
"That's more like it" Shannon said "one more time and make me cum" Annabel paused too long it appeared because Tiffany added another stripe to her ass. Which was now she same shade as a Coca-Cola can and angry stripes crisscrossed it. Annabel apologized again and this time when she leaned forward she took Shannon by the hips and attacked her pussy with enthusiasm. It took a while but finally Shannon's hips bucked and she moaned. "Mmmh that was good" she smiled
"Now don't move we have another present for you" Tiffany said "now I want you to cum for us come on stroke that little pussy of yours and thank us for your lesson"
Annabel sobbed again but her hand went down between her legs and she started rubbing as the two girls looked on. "Thank you Shannon for your lesson" she whimpered "Thank you Tiffany for showing me the error of my ways." She began to rub herself more vigorously as she repeated the mantra. Both girls now stood in front of the humiliated Annabel and as she brought herself off both girls reached down and started spraying Annabel down with pee. "Annabel never stopped until her hips lurched in orgasm her hair and body covered with warm yellow pee.
"Now" Shannon said "put your shirt back on no pants no panties I want everyone to see that we punished you"
"Yes Shannon" Annabel sighed and picked up her bra and put it on as her shirt had been torn beyond repair and walked in silence next to Shannon. The three of them left the glen to do whatever chores they were supposed to do.
Jeremy walked through the jungle observing and making a mental map in his head of the flora and fauna as well as any unusual topography. He happened upon a strange pile of rocks and he heard sobbing. He looked around the pile of rocks and there was Rachel. He cleared his throat as he came around the side. "Oh Jeremy" she said "Its you"
"Something wrong Rachel?"
"I miss home really and well I don't even know if I should tell you this but, well I have this horrible secret and part of me is just bursting to tell some one and the other part is well, scared because it's a dark and dirty secret and I promised not to tell anyone but its so complicated."
"Hmmm" Jeremy said studying the soil
"Its not like I do drugs or something its well its personal and I, I feel I need to share it with someone who can keep a secret you can keep a secret can't you?"
"Sure Rachel"
"You're sure Jeremy I don't think I could live if anyone I mean if everyone knew about it." Jeremy looked up from where he was squatting and looked her in the eyes Rachel choked and coughed a bit, "Promise?"
"I promise" Jeremy said still looking into the eyes of the scared girl
"Gary is my brother slash Cousin his mom and my mom are sisters I never knew until, well a week or so ago, I went to a party at his house and well I did some things that I probably shouldn't have done. Some things that I wouldn't normally do maybe they spiked my drink, but the next thing you know I'm getting it from both ends you know what I mean." Jeremy just nodded "and Gary is fucking me and well I think I fucked all his friends that night, I don't know how many of them will remember we were all pretty drunk, but I woke up in Gary's bed in the morning and he fucked me again before I could leave, I mean I guess since I'd already fucked him once it was okay for him to get a quickie in before I left, I didn't mind too much. But then I went down stairs" she sobbed softly as Jeremy stood and held her gently by the shoulders hugging her to him "And my aunt Rachel was downstairs waiting for me and, and she made me eat her cum filled pussy and then she told me the horrible truth and, and she said I fucked the neighbors dog and she said I had to keep it a secret or she would give everyone I know a copy of the video she made that night"
"Easy Rachel" Jeremy said holding her tenderly and gently patting her back
"Don't hate me because I'm a slut"
"I don't hate you" Jeremy said "And I don't think you're a slut I think your Aunt is a vindictive bitch who manipulated you into doing something awful"
"Really its okay?"
"It's really not okay but right here right now I don't care what happened before what matters is the here and now, and right now I see a really sweet beautiful girl who was hurt badly by people who are mean and cruel and when and if we get back I promise you that we will take care of this little problem for you"
"Really? You mean it"
"Yes Rachel I do mean it people shouldn't blackmail other people and I'll help you with your little problem when we get back if the time comes and its necessary. In the meantime don't worry I'm afraid all the girls on this island have one horrible secret or another they wish they didn't have to hide. Maybe one day we can get all our little secrets out in the open but until then your secret is safe with me."
"Oh Jeremy you are so good and wonderful, I almost didn't want to believe what Sunni and Shannon and the other girls said about you I thought all boys were mean and cruel. But your not you don't have a mean bone in your body do you?" She kissed him gently on the lips and he returned the kiss holding her trembling body for a while.
Chapter XVII
Jeremy arrived back at camp, Nicole came running up and kissed him she didn't stop there, she unbuttoned his pants and pulled them down and jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist. She reached down and slipped his hardening cock up against her pussy. "I've been thinking about you" she said.
"Have you now?"
"Oh yes I have now come on" she said pulling her top off and shedding her bra
Jeremy laughed and carried her into his hut as she offered him her nipples for tasting he instead pulled her close and attacked her neck with his tongue and teeth. She gasped and moaned as he gently laid her on the ground in the hut. "You really want me to eat your boobies" he smiled at her
"Oh yes" she gasped "and so much more"
"Hmm I see," He said biting down on one of the little eraser heads that was her nipple she groaned and thrust her hips up. He chewed and suckled each nipple until it was hard and erect before he rubbed the head of his cock against Nicole's swollen and wet pussy. He slowly pressed the entrance of her juicy slit the wet velvet like embrace of her sex felt wonderful like being bathed in warm butter. He slowly stroked into her, her legs wrapping around his body, Nicole's tight lithe body clung to him her lips touched his nipples and she bit at the flesh of his chest. Her hips thrust against his grinding against him. Excruciatingly slowly he pumped into nicole's body she could feel his cock pulsing inside her then as her climax exploded she bit him his cock plunging deep inside her pulsing exploding hot creamy goo inside her. They rested together for a while. Finally Jeremy got up and walked out to the camp site.
"Jeremy" Rose said "I think there is a problem our clothes are starting to fall apart"
"It was bound to happen sooner or later" Jeremy said. "Wearing the same clothes day after day."
"Well we can't very well go running around naked" Rose said
"Can't we" Pricilla said an evil smile on her face
"Sunni?" Jeremy looked around and Sunni looked up to him
"What Jeremy?"
"We need new clothes get whatever help you want or need and start working on how to make them."
"How its not like we have any fabric?"
"It's a good Idea Jeremy" Nicole said walking up behind him
"Sunni you are smart enough to figure out a way to make clothes for us work on it think about it if you need any help I'm sure everyone will be happy to help you I'm pretty sure we all don't want to go running around naked, and if you run into a problem I'll help with what I can."
Jeremy walked down the beach alone leaving the girls alone, How the hell are we going to get out of here he thought to himself he walked to where he kept his calendar, Twenty days since the crash, not bad he thought they were all still alive his pants and shirt were starting to rot. Apparently everyone else's clothes were too. They could leave the Island via a boat but with no way to figure out where they were he needed a map or maybe a sextant and a compass that might be helpful. He thought hard about it and then set about finding some suitable materials. He walked back to the camp and sat by the fire and started working he had only about an hour of work before he realized that he should get some fish for dinner and so he waded out into the lagoon and after a little while had seven fish ready to butcher and roast. When he returned to the beach he found the girls all gawking at Annabelle's striped ass and her apparent nakedness. It was annoying that she seemed to enjoy the attention. Most annoying of all was the fact that Shannon and Tiffany were both doing nothing.
"Shannon here" Jeremy said handing her the string of fish.
"What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Clean them and Cook them, we like to call that dinner" Jeremy said sitting down to go back to work.
"I don't know how to do that?" Shannon said
"What a surprise" Jeremy said under his breath
"Eww they are all slimy" Shannon said "I can't do anything with these nasty things and you want me to what with them?"
"Useless" Naomi said softly "Shannon I'll do it since you can't seem to do anything" She took the string of fish
"Figures you would know how to do something so menial" Annabel said "Yo Mamma teach you?" Annabel never saw the left hook she staggered and then fell sprawled out as the other girls gasped in surprise. Naomi set the fish on a nearby rock and then walked up to where Annabel lay.
Annabel blinked and slowly opened her eyes "Listen bitch" Naomi said "I don't like you I don't trust you but I couldn't leave you with those two monsters don't make me regret that decision because while you may think you know something or think that you are some how better than me you need to think again. Now then if you're through making an ass of yourself make yourself useful and get us some fire wood."
"You can't talk to me like that" Annabel said
"Can't I? The only reason you're here is because we wanted you here I'm sure if you want to go back to Joe he'll welcome you with open arms the trouble is we aren't going to because we can't afford to have them come to where we are. You don't have any power over anyone over here, you can't threaten us or compel us to do what you want. You don't deserve Jeremy's kindness and believe me he is kinder and gentler than I will ever be. I won't put up with your whiney shit."
"I can't believe?" Annabel's sentence was punctuated by a loud slap.
"Don't talk work" Naomi said moving back to the rock and fish, and picking up one of Jeremy's stone knives she went to work preparing the fish for cooking. Rachel walked up to Naomi
"Can I help Naomi?"
"Sure" Naomi smiled at the younger girl a few hours later the group were quietly eating around the campfire. Annabel and Tiffany and Shannon sitting together. Darkness fell and the girls slowly drifted off to the cave. Nicole brushed Jeremy's cheek with her lips don't stay up too late she said as he worked by the firelight.
"I'm going to take a walk" Naomi said getting up from the fire and disappearing into the night, a few minutes later Rachel got up and disappeared as well. Jeremy got up and stretched, he walked down the beach a little bit to clear his head so many problems now this Annabel issue. Well he reflected she was always an issue nothing had changed except that she'd shown her colors. He heard a soft moan
Chapter XVIII
Jeremy walked a few steps into the moonlit night he could see two figures and as his eyes adjusted he could make out Naomi and Rachel. "I know you don't have to like me Naomi but well I need a friend and never mind being horny like I am are you horny too do you know what I mean?" Rachel said in a barely audible voice.
"I'm sure you an I can be friends Rachel" Naomi said
"Naomi you don't know what that means to me I mean everyone I have ever known always wanted to be my friends because I was pretty or because I was popular I mean you really will be my friend I'm such a horrible person I have…"
"You have what Rachel" Naomi asked.
"I did something horrible" Rachel whispered
"We all end up making horrible mistakes at one time or another" Naomi said.
"But I slept with Gary and his mom, I ate his mom out, and…" Rachel sobbed
"Its okay" Naomi said softly
"I told Jeremy all this but I, well Gary is my half brother and his mom is my aunt"
"And we both know that he is not the nicest person in the world" Naomi said
"But" Rachel gasped
"Don't worry" Naomi said "I'm not going to tell any secrets Rachel I'm sure that if you knew what you were getting into you wouldn't have done it. Don't worry baby that's not a worry for us anymore."
"Can I, I mean can I you know um"
"What Rachel"
"I want to thank you for being so nice and I mean most of the girls look up to you I thought maybe we could you know."
"You don't have to do anything Rachel" Jeremy watched as the younger girl knelt in front of the taller older Naomi. She hiked up Naomi's skirt and proceeded to pull her panties down. Rachel leaned forward and kissed the smooth dark flesh in the valley between Naomi's thighs. Naomi ran her fingers though Rachel's hair, Rachel's wicked tongue darting out to savor the sweetness of Naomi's juices. Naomi moaned as Rachel suckled her clit her fingers probing the juicy depths of Naomi's core. Rachel stood and Naomi leaned over to kiss the smaller girl licking her own juices of Rachel's face, her hands quickly and deftly disrobing the other girl. They kissed deeply their hands groping and probing each other. It was like watching a wrestling match in slow motion neither woman seemed to want to give up the new flesh or pleasure they had discovered in each other. The long slow dance of their kiss, and the tender delicate press of fingers against their breasts. The slow suckling of their mutual nipple, they lowered themselves finally into a position where each could feast on the other's delights. Naomi atop Rachel her mouth busily searching Rachel's pussy to elicit another moan of delight. Rachel's tongue probing and tasting Naomi's slit and then slowly rimming the other girl.
"Lets get closer" a voice said behind Jeremy and he jumped it was Nicole, "that's hot" she whispered
"It is isn't it" Jeremy replied
"I can't wait till I get to watch you fuck them, and I really wouldn't mind joining in."
"Little devil he teased" and she giggled.
Naomi looked up, "who's there" Jeremy stepped out of the shadows with Nicole in tow, and Naomi smiled Naomi moved up and beckoned the two over Nicole knelt in the sand lowering her face to Rachel's lightly furred slit. Naomi pulled on Rachel's nipples as Nicole laved Rachel's slit from bottom to top. Jeremy got undressed and got behind Naomi his cock flopping onto Rachel's face and she cooed appreciatively adjusting her neck and sucking him between her lips. It took only moments before Jeremy exploded into her mouth and she swallowed him into her throat coaxing another erection out of his cock. She then took it by the root and positioned it against Naomi's slit rubbing it up and down a few times as Naomi's hips bucked to impale her self on it. Rachel then put the tip against Naomi's puckered butt and after a few moments Naomi's ass accepted Jeremy's hard cock he slowly slid into the tight confines. Rachel pressed her face into Naomi's juicy twat. And it was a few moments until Naomi pulled Nicole into a kiss to keep from screaming in ecstasy when she had recovered sufficiently both Naomi and Nicole went to work on Rachel's sopping slot. Rachel took only a few minutes to reach her climax and as she did Jeremy exploded inside of Naomi's tight little pucker. They lay together on the sand for a while bathing in the afterglow, and then returned to their beds.
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anonymous reader
2012-07-31 20:30:04
i have a cat too. i really love him more than any dog
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2012-03-13 05:50:19
im so tired i think im gonna say that my cat peed on my alarm clock wire and i didnt wake up... nah maybe ill use my dog ate my homework ill think bout it my eyew so tired ive read to much
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2011-04-28 13:07:22
i msut remeber that cat excuse for school :D
2010-04-08 12:25:55
another good read, ty. maybe when mine posts you'll read it?
2010-03-23 20:30:46
You all will be happy to know that the next 4 chapters are validating and should be up in a few days
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