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Gallery Fashion Fix - Spring 2014
Check out who's clinched the award for our favourite fashion moment of the day!
With so many Christmas parties this month, you are sure to be photographed more than a few times. Here's Heart's handy guide to looking your best when in front of the lens.
We all know that familiar feeling of an embarrassing photo being uploaded to Facebook where you look frumpy and everyone else looks glamorous.
But it's confidence that is key to looking great when you are having your picture taken says Adam Reed, Co-Founder of hair salon Percy & Reed.
He explains: "If you are comfortable with your hair It will show in the photos. Trying a new look can be tempting for a big event but steer away from anything that is too harsh and always keep hair a little softer.
"My model clients say that tipping the chin down is always flattering - however the most important thing is that you are comfortable.
"There's nothing worse than a fixed grin."
Someone who is used to being snapped is Louise Redknapp. She started her career in girl band Eternal before moving onto numerous modelling projects and telly gigs.
She later co-founded Wild about Beauty with makeup artist Kim Jacob, using their joint experience both in front of and behind the camera to create their range.
Louise says: "The best advice I can give on avoiding the classic mistakes when posing for photos is just to make sure your dress fits properly. It's more important than the way you stand - if it's too big or too small it instantly looks unflattering."
"For me, the best look on the red carpet is glossy makeup, nothing too powdery - a more dewy look.
"It picks up really well on the camera and is much more youthful than heavy make-up.
"I struggled to find products that enhanced my natural skin rather than mask it, which is why I created Wild about Beauty, all the products leave a sheer, natural finish – perfect for the red carpet.
"The key is to not look overdone, which can actually take much longer to achieve."
A great tip from Shehla Shaikh – a Lancome Flagship make up artist is to make sure you are showing off your best angles in front of the lens.
"In terms of angles, always better to look at the camera with the chin slightly down," she says.
A simple trick to make your lips stand out in snaps is emphasising the fullest part of your pout.
James Vincent, Celebrity Make-up Artist and Director of Artistry and Education for The Make-up Show says: "A great tip for perfect photos is to look at where you are placing your lip gloss.
"Applying lip gloss only in the center of the lips will make your lips look full and perfectly pouty instead of overdrawn. Another easy tip. Add a bit of concealer in around your lip line to make your lips really stand out."
Contouring your face can create angles and make your cheekbones stand out in photographs. But be careful not to go over the top, says Kerrie Urban, Celebrity Make-up Artist for Hair Room Service.
"I think one of the biggest makeup mistakes I see on the red carpet is too light of concealer under the eyes," she says.
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"In reality the best way to disguise darkness is to use a concealer that's a match to your skin tone but with a slightly warmer undertone.
"Make-up Forever makes a great Pure Pigment in orange that you can literally mix directly with your foundation or concealer to warm the undertone. But when working with pure pigments, less is more!"
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To Whom this Concerns:
It is 1am, Australian Eastern Standard time, Wednesday 26 April 2017. As strange as it may seem to you and to me, I have just been woken up with a ringing in my ears. Then the ringing stopped, and there was the insistent command to arise and write. This is what I am told to communicate to you, dear reader:
"Thus saith the Lord, The time has come, to those who desire to understand, incline your eyes:
Isaiah 66 1-6:
1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck, he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighteth not.
5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
Now, lest the message fail, read on to Isaiah 66 7-13 and tremble:
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
That is all. May those who look to this message, receive understanding.
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Sunday 13 November 2016
A Portrait of Life
Hello to you whoever you are, wherever you are, surviving in our global world. I am a New Zealander living in Australia. The privilege to connect with you is the wonder and positive side of our global internet connection. At least for the foreseeable future, for you probably know, rapid changes are afoot around the globe and some not so positive.
And so shake the world's dust from your feet and come visit our family home and rest a while. Now fix your eyes upon a painting hanging silently on our lounge wall. Though having no audible voice this picture of true life speaks volumes to our souls. How is this you say?
Well this painting is very special for with love strokes of a brush the artist has captured the living essence of the Divine connecting to the human. And the Divine connection to the human comes through God the Father and His only begotten Son whom we know as Jesus. In a profound way, all life began and all good things stream from the Divine relationship of God the Father and His beloved Son - a spiritual relationship that entwines and disperses throughout the universe. This great reality is the life source and life force of their vast creation of which you and I belong in our humble human lives. In a wonderful way the Father's and Son's life spirit permeates our very lives and as the bible says in the words of the apostle Paul:
"… in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'" (Acts 17:28, NKJV)
Now focusing on the painting upon the wall we see Jesus quietly sitting, surrounded by seven children. With simplicity Jesus is robed in Jewish costume of the day. There is no display of pomp, no discrimination emits from His being. But in humility the expression on Jesus face is kindly, with a longing desire to connect heart to heart, one to one. A young boy stands close to the Master, his hands resting upon Jesus' knee, while Jesus' left arm curls over the boy's shoulder and His right hand rests gently over the child's folded hands. Yes indeed, though the portrait is still and silent yet in spirit we see God's love in action moving gently in the life of this humble boy, even to the extent that Jesus the Son of God was willing to die in his place, in our sinful place to free us from sin and the result of everlasting death.
Yes, in silent motion this boy is drawn into the saving presence of the master. And what of the other precious children pressed around Jesus? Well, a young girl perhaps eight years of age rests her head upon Jesus' welcoming shoulder, her eyes aglow with accepting love and admiration. A faint knowing smile speaks from her innocent soul that this man Jesus is worthy of her affection.
Throughout the eastern regions where Jesus ministered among the people, children found a special place in His heart as we see in this close encounter.
"Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it."" (Luke 18:15–17, NKJV)
Admonishing His disciples, is Jesus comparing an adult's constrained faith to that of a free childlike faith for entrance into God's kingdom? Sometimes we adults have thoughts of superiority over others. Or we worry and complain about life as if God is a hard task master unworthy of our faith and trust. In the book of Malachi we read this sad account.
""Your words have been harsh against Me," Says the Lord, Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?' You have said, 'It is useless to serve God; What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the Lord of hosts? So now we call the proud blessed, For those who do wickedness are raised up; They even tempt God and go free.' "" (Malachi 3:13–15, NKJV)
How pleasing it must be to God when our faith resembles a child's humble faith, accepting of God, trusting God with all simplicity, in all circumstances of our daily lives. There is no prejudice or self seeking in a childlike faith but eagerness to love and to please God as to a loving parent. However at this crucial time in which we live, I believe there is one other aspect of faith we need to consider. And that is the outstanding aspect of courage, to stand alone in our faith for God. To stand alone for God's truth though the majority may stand against us, could possibly be the greatest test of faith we shall ever encounter, especially as we live out the countdown period of our worlds end and the soon return of Jesus.
This test of faith may involve a childlike faith blended with a mature adult faith. And so this question of faith looms before each of us whatever our age:
Are we willing to step out of false teachings and church traditions that contradict God's truth, and without compromise accept and follow God's truth revealed in the Bible?
In the end it may be necessary to depart from a false church, a false fellowship which are destined to go down into the murky abyss of error and death.
In the book of Revelation we see that Apostate Christianity, that is false churches, worldly association, the union of State and church rule enforcing their confederate agenda are called Babylon the great. Babylon's birth name goes back to ancient times to the tower of Babel built by the wicked after the great flood of Noah's life time. The new world order of that time was seeking to overthrow God's authority in the world and so they endeavoured to build a high tower whose top would reach into the heavens, toppling God's throne if they could. You can read in depth about Babel's time span in the final chapter of Book Two - The King and His Son. The biblical Babylon in our day is full of confusion, churches comprising of false doctrine and teachings empowered by spirits of demons.
"After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities." (Revelation 18:1–5, NKJV)
Yes, the good news is simply this: Today we can heed God's call to come out of Babylon's spiritual corruption and be delivered from Satan's counterfeit doctrines. By accepting God's true word, His truth, we need not go down into the abyss with apostate Satanic Babylon.
The Bible is God's great revelation of truth. What the Bible says is what we live in and live by regardless of any demon or human deceptions imposed upon us. Right now we live in the time zone to come out of apostate Christianity, out of every falsehood of every kind, out of Babylon.
We must not be deceived at this vital time of our world's history for the battle between truth and false teachings shall intensify right up to Jesus' second coming. Yes we may have received God's salvation, yet God's salvation from sin is not static, it leads on in truth to His heavenly kingdom. We don't want to find ourselves in a strange kingdom where Satan reigns, void of God's truth, and in the end outside of God's salvation. Anything that is outside of truth is untruth, and untruths are clutches of sin upon our souls. Today souls are being weighed in the balances between truth and error. We are in the last great conflict of the end - the spiritual war between good and evil, between God and the dark forces of Satan and demon spirits. Which side are we on? Yes, a very personal question for each to consider and for each to answer on a personal level. Without question we need to get back to Biblical truth, God's truth which will carry us out to the end, and then we shall behold God's truth revealed in Jesus' glorious face who said of Himself:
... "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6, NKJV)
Now again we return to the portrait and we behold another girl, a little older in years. Perhaps we shall call her Miriam, a young shepherdess for Miriam leans upon her wooden staff, head bent toward the good shepherd of the human flock. Enthralled by Jesus' presence Miriam contemplates every sentiment emanating from the Master's graceful words.
"Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass." (Deuteronomy 32:2, NKJV)
""I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd." (John 10:11–16, NKJV)
Shuffled behind Jesus stands yet another girl of the human flock, but with a difference, for you see this girl holds in her arms a young sibling, perhaps three years of age. It appears to me the older sibling is intrigued, eager to learn more, while peeping out from her hood the younger sibling seems mesmerised by the wonders of Jesus' life - The Creator of our world and our very lives. Still the portrait speaks volumes for a boy perhaps twelve or thirteen years of age stands at Jesus' shoulder , his inquisitive gaze expresses curiosity. "Who is this man called Jesus?" He who has awakened the surrounding nations from spiritual darkness. He who claims to be the Son of God performing great miracles of healing flowing from the life source of God His Father. For mirrored in Jesus' life we see the reflection of God the Father and His love commitment to save our world from sin and death.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:16–17, NKJV)
Yes in truth, the Father and Son spiritual relationship is the great event of universal history that shall never diminish in salvation's power, ever rippling in Divine love throughout all creation, connecting to You and I.
Now the seventh child comes into focus, for just behind Jesus' shoulder stands a dark haired girl. As though in deep thought, her right hand brushes her cheek while her eyes reflect wonderment and amazement. And so as Jesus captivates the attention of the seventh child the narrative of this life portrait is complete, or is it?
There is one hidden element in this painting and that is the artist, himself or herself. For if we look deep enough we see reflected in the portrait the life of the artist, his or her spiritual enlightenment beaming through a true spiritual relationship with God - as though God commissioned this unknown artist to show forth in simplicity His loving desire to draw all children and of course us older grown children as well, into one heavenly family. A heavenly human family that reflects all races and colour redeemed from our global world. Then God's portrait of human life will be complete.
"After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."" (Revelation 7:9–12, NKJV)
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The trailer for the latest indie film from director Sridhar Reddy is here, and it takes us straight to hell. Just without all the excess heat and pitchforking. Check it out!
Lilith stars Bitch Slap's Julia Voth. Be sure to head on over to the director's Lilith blog, where he shares his thoughts on the film's genesis and a whole lot more. Dig on an excerpt below along with some really cool eye candy.
"The concept was to have a large, creepy building where each floor served as a ring of hell, and Satan was in a chest freezer in the basement morgue. The concept was vague and lacked a clear protagonist and antagonist (hell is a force of antagonism, not an antagonist itself), and by nature The Inferno was a passive, observational story, but something about it felt right. Can't really tell you why, but it did. After many days of soul searching, I decided, for better or worse, that this was the story I was going to pursue."
A contemporary take on Dante's 'Inferno,' 'Lilith' is the story of Sarah Wilson, who finds herself haunted by visions of her tragically murdered younger sister, Lilith. After a night of surreal terror, Sarah is led by her visions of her dead sister into a hellish labyrinth populated by bloodthirsty demons and bedeviled ghosts from her past. Her journey into darkness forces Sarah to confront painful secrets and her innermost fears, and her path back to reality is one fraught with terror, sadness and deception.
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Today, March 8, is the semi-public TechFest day, when certain invited guests get to peek at some of the projects that will be on display for Microsoft employees from March 8 to 10. This year's theme for Microsoft Research's TechFest research showcase is natural user interfaces.
While Microsoft's most celebrated example of how the company successfully commercialized its early NUI work is the Kinect Xbox sensor, there's also quite a bit of focus by Microsoft's NUI researchers on the intersection between NUI and healthcare. Microsoft's thinking about incorporating Surface 2, Xbox, Xbox Live and Kinect sensors into healthcare apps. There're a number of Microsoft Research projects exploring the NUI-health connection.
InnerEye is one of several projects, which's focused on "the automatic analysis of patients' (medical) scans using modern machine learning techniques," like semantic navigation and visualization.
Another area of NUI exploration, which doesn't seem to be on the TechFest 2011 agenda, is interacting without touching. Microsoft researchers are publishing a couple of new papers on this topic this year, one on image-guided interventional radiology (PDF), and another on brain-computer interaction.
Below is a video demonstration of the "ShadowDraw" an interactive assistant for freehand drawing. It automatically recognizes want you're trying to draw and suggests new pen strokes for you to trace. As you draw new strokes, ShadowDraw refines its models in real time and provides new suggestions. ShadowDraw contains a large database of images with objects that a user might want to draw. The edges from any images that match the user's current drawing are merged and shown as suggested "shadow strokes." The user then can trace these strokes to improve the drawing.
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Here's a list of the TechFest 2011 projects, NUI and non-NUI both, that the Softies are playing up this year.


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It's Only Rock & Roll: Part I of the triumphant return of the Rolling Stones to Hyde Park in the summer 2013.
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It had been almost 44 years since the band played to 250,000 people in the Park in 1969. In their 50th year, they would play two sell out shows in the central London once again. Pete Mitchell talks to Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood.
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Atlanta and Philadelphia follow the footsteps of Augusto Cesar Lima, Cleveland Cavaliers have set their sights on Scott Wood and Victor Arteaga arouses interest from several teams in the Eurocamp in Treviso
DIONI GARCÍA players like Brazilian winger Vitor Faverani or Slovenian Goran Dragic basis are succeeding today in the NBA after playing in Murcia. And at that same competition may come in the near future several players currently under contract with the Flexispy Murcia. In fact, three of them have already shown interest and have asked several franchises in the best league in the world that has become more globalization in recent times, attracting players from all corners of the globe.
Flexispy Murcia's player most likely to reach the NBA in the not too distant future is Augusto Cesar Lima, who has one year left on his contract with murcianista entity. Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia take a while following the Brazilian.In fact, last summer, when Lima still belonged to Unicaja Malaga, and maintained contact your agent, Igor Crespo, who also has on its payroll young talents like Alex and Nikola Mirotic Abrines with the two NBA franchises that have continued throughout the course. But the near future the pivot can be in one of the 'big' of the ACB.Valencia, who from this week takes Chechu Mulero his new manager, is very interested in the player. In fact, today announced that Juanjo Bunting will not renew his contract and need more players to your inner game.
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Lima like it in the city of Valencia. It is a pivot that fits perfectly into the philosophy of Velimir Perasovic game and in the coming days may be an approach to close the transfer. The buyout Lima is around 250,000 euros, a very manageable amount for the club behind you Mercadona.
But the price of Lima can go much higher in coming months as Brazil coach, Argentine Ruben Magnano, has called to dispute the South American Championship, to be held from 24 to 28 July in Margarita Island (Venezuela). This tournament will be played to be listed for the World Cup Spain in September.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, meanwhile, walk behind American Scott Wood. The forward, who is represented by David Carro, the same agent Pete Mickael, contracts with the Flexispy (http://www.flexispyreview.org/) for a campaign. After a course with many ups and downs, Indiana triple jumper eventually adapt to the ACB with Marcelo Nicola on the bench. The forward is the agenda of the Cavaliers from his time at the University of North Carolina State. In fact, opted to come to Murcia to play minutes despite the financial offer was not the best we had on the table last summer. This coming season, unless it is transferred in the coming weeks, will wear the shirt of UCAM, which already accumulated experience, is expected to be even more decisive.
And the last player Murcia club to join the list of future NBA was Victor Arteaga, who has spent in just two months of being a player in the LEB Oro to become an international cartel. Cuenca 2.10 meters has three seasons left on his contract with the UCAM. Adidas Eurocamp in Treviso has been shining examples and his agent, Juan Laso, has already received calls from several NBA scouts. However, it has not been entered in the draft because the idea is to play another season in Murcia before leap for which it is not yet ready, but to continue the progression that has experienced this year, could give in a short space of time and leave a significant amount of euros into the coffers of the club.


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Monday, February 20, 2017
Ronnie Burk
Ronnie Burk
Sloow Tapes Broadside #15
Ronnie was among the first students at Naropa University in the mid-1970s where he spent summers studying the teachings of Tibetan Rinpoche Chögyam Trungpa, met Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso as well as Diane Di Prima, who became one of his mentors.
After his summertime stints in Boulder, Ronnie returned to San Antonio to participate in the cultural and political activities in the Chicano community. In 1977 his first poems were published in Caracol: La Revista de la Raza. In the early 1980s, Ronnie lived in New York City where he became friends with Surrealist poet Charles Henri Ford and photographer, filmmaker and poet Ira Cohen. He was also involved with many of the then young filmmakers of the Lower East Side including Richard Kern.
David Miller
David Miller
From Epilogue
Sloow Tapes Broadside #14
David Miller was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived and worked in London for many years. His many published books of poetry and prose include The Waters of Marah: Selected Prose 1973-1995 (2003), Collected Poems (1997) and he edited the anthology The Alchemist's Mind.
Bart De Paepe
Bart De Paepe
Excursion to the Alvinnenberg
Sloow Tapes Broadside #13
Essay exploring the legends and magical surroundings of the Alvinusberg, the spiritual centre of Stekene.
Louise Landes Levi
Louise Landes Levi
In The Aura of The Other
Sloow Tapes Broadside #12
Louise Landes Levi has translated & written books, published chap books, broadsides & cards, / played sarangi in concert halls, in radio stations in town squares & railroad stations for some decades & perhaps for some lives.
Overland journeys to India produced several interpretive translations/ one of Rene Daumal ( the great Sanskrit autodidact & author of well known Mt. Analogue) RASA originally printed by New Directions (1982), now available through Shivastan, the other, of the legendary poet genius Mira Bai whose devotion to Krishna freed her entirely. SWEET ON MY LIPS was published by Cool Grove Press in 1997 & reprinted in 2003 w. an introductory essay by La Monte Young.
My Cat Is An Alien
My Cat Is An Alien & Nad Spiro
La Casa Encendida
Sloow Tapes – CS 60
Live collaboration by My Cat Is An Alien and Nad Spiro with an introductory note by Mk Ibañez. Unfolding galaxies of shooting stars slowed down to my speed. Another blast from the alien void. 100 copies.
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Beautiful tea cup and saucer.It is basically cream colored, pearlized with a ornate border of pale yellow and gold. The cup is delicate and stands on gold painted legs. This is a twentieth century production work. Both pieces have Enesco stickers Japan still on them. Excellent condition. A lot of gold accents on both cup and saucer.
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Another level, Stormy Shore, showed off how dynamic the levels can get, and put on display a tidbit what Retro's doing in here that just couldn't have been possible on the Super NES. This level challenged players to leap across platforms floating in the ocean while the turbulent waves went up and down, up and down, making the standard "leap across the platform network" thing a might more challenging.
This demo also showed off a different mine cart level, Crazy Cart, that's significantly different than the one I played in the E3 build. Where in the previous version jumping made you jump out of the cart and guide yourself back into it, in this one jumping pulled the cart up with you. It's just as wild a ride as before, and in fact, the cart will leap off its rails and skid along dirt paths before it finds its way back onto the track. This level showed off a bit of a dynamic camera, where the DK cart will roll close to the camera for a tight shot, making it a little more challenging to know when to jump since you don't have much of a heads-up with the cart being so close to the camera.
Button Bash was a clever level that's filled with a huge network of barrels to blast out of, and you'll have to time some blasts to hit gigantic button switches that'll affect the level around you. By the end of the round you'll be blasting into the mouth of a gigantic monkey totem off in the distance, but only if you can time it when his mouth is open. Damp Dungeon is a level that puts a little more thought into the standard platforming gameplay. You'll have to navigate platforms rotating on giant water-powered mills, and raise platforms using Donkey Kong's "blowing" mechanic(push down on the analog stick and shake the controller) to power the windmill that'll bring the platform up.
And finally, yes, at least one of Donkey Kong's animal buddies makes a return in this update. Temple Topple let players hop on the back of Rambi the rhino and rampage through the level. The guy's near indestructible, smashing through walls and romping over spikes in the pits that would normally take down DK if he got too close. The only thing that'll hurt the guy, other than incompetent playing, is fire – and the levels have fire hoops scattered about to leap through, with tempting bonus bananas, coins, KONG letters, puzzle pieces and 1-up red balloons taunting from the center.
The game's overworld is a 3D island that players explore, each segment on the island is a world with its own collection of levels. Though in my demo most of the paths from one level to the other were open, I noticed one locked path represented by a chain and padlock over the road. Since there was a way to the level by maneuvering around this path, I'm guessing there will be hidden secrets that will unlock specific paths between the levels.
This was the first time I got a chance to hear some of the game's soundtrack without the noise of a busy game expo, and it sounds like Retro's sound team is sticking close to the music that was composed in Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, but with an updated, upbeat jazzy flair. It's really good stuff. I didn't hear my all-time favorite DKC piece – Aquatic Ambiance – but since I only played through six levels of a game with several dozen, that's certainly no confirmation that it's not in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
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If human beings wanted to come up with the cruelest punishment for "man's best friend", they have succeeded by chaining or tethering their dogs. Dogs are pack animals and having them isolated and chained is nothing more than cruel and irresponsible.
Chaining a dog is not only emotionally abusive but is also physical abuse. Imagine having to eat, sleep, sit, lay, eat and defecate within the same small area day in and day out. Imagine having a heavy chain around your neck as the days turn to years and you continue to exist without any social interaction, exercise, love, respect and even basic nourishment. These dogs are living as prisoners but longing to be family pets, not yard ornaments or a cheap alarm system.
Chaining or tethering a dog outside also leaves them extremely vulnerable to inclement weather, attacks by other animals, and cruel people. Many chained dogs have been set on fire, stolen, shot, stabbed, tortured, or poisoned. Given these horrific living conditions it is no wonder chained dogs are more aggressive and attack people.
Although many cities and counties have incorporated anti-chaining laws, they are not always adhered to or enforced.
Dogs Deserve Better, a 501c3 is a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing the chained dog and bringing our best friend into the home and family. Their mission is to free chained dogs everywhere through education, rescue and rehabilitation, grass roots legislation and fencing programs.
In 2011, Dogs Deserve Better moved to Smithfield, Virginia, to open the Good Newz Rehab Center for Chained and Penned Dogs. Ironically this is the same site as Michael Vick's former Bad Newz Kennels.
Dogs Deserve Better strongly believes that chaining is not only harmful to dogs but also leads to the death of children. Statistics have shown from October 2003 to today, 379 children have been killed or seriously injured by chained dogs across the country. These deaths could easily have been avoided had the dog not been chained. The psychology behind the chained dog basically states that they become very territorial of their tiny space and will attack anyone who comes into that area. That accompanied by the dog's lack of human socialization is a recipe for disaster.
Ask yourself; would you want to live your entire life at the end of a chain? Then why do people continue to do this to dogs? No matter what reason people may come up with, the bottom line is it is never ok to chain a dog for life 24/7. The dog, a loving, loyal creature does not deserve to live chained or penned as a prisoner, yearning for a place in the family, craving acknowledgement, respect and love. We as their trusted caretakers have an obligation to provide it to them.
You can help liberate chained dogs from their miserable lives by taking a stand when you see this in your neighborhood. Dogs Deserve Better can help you with this by supplying you with a printout of a letter asking the owner to rethink their decision. You can get this on their website http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/. If you are uncomfortable approaching someone regarding their dog, you can complete an anonymous form on the website and a letter will be sent to the owner of the chained dog. If you need any additional help, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com and they will help you.
You can also help by joining Dogs Deserve Better and volunteering your time to be a rep in your area. Help with community awareness by hanging posters, showing the chained dog video to neighborhood watch meetings, schools or libraries, and placing brochures and door hangers throughout the community.
You can also donate to help Dogs Deserve Better. They provide financial assistance grants for rescued and chained dogs. It is called the Hero Grant Fund and is nearly empty at this time. Your contribution will help them continue to provide health care grants for chained dogs.
Start changing the way you and your community think about the chaining and penning of dogs today. Join Dogs Deserve Better to take a stand and make life better for all dogs everywhere.
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Denise Carey-Costa has been a lifelong advocate for animals. She has written numerous children's books promoting kindness and compassion for all creatures and raising awareness for the plight of unwanted animals. Denise tours with her books to schools and libraries teaching the importance of spaying and neutering your pets, adopting a shelter pet and how to report animal cruelty. Visit Amazon.com and all other book retailers to see books written by Denise Carey-Costa.


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It started quite slow, I mean I only got 100 subscribers in my first year, but then suddenly more and more people started watching the videos and making requests. I started using my mobile and doing little bits beforehand, where I'd talk into the camera, and started posting more regular 'Let's Play' videos and the next year was on about 1,000 subscribers, but then it started going mad... In 2011 I was already on 100,000 subscribers. That's when I realised it could be a fulltime job.
With 10 million YouTube subscribers and a £1 million pad to herself, we had an inkling Zoella was doing alright for herself. But we didn't realise sh...
'Zoella of Engineering' - quite the title to live up to. Big shoes to fill. Well, a cute petite girl's small and stylish shoes, but that doesn't have quite the same ring. Zoella's a household name with a fanbase hanging on her every word, and I'm a molehill to a Zoella mountain, but I'm gonna give this 'spreading the word' thing a shot anyway.
YouTube and its vloggers are the future of entertainment as we know it; but if it's to stay as popular and widespread as it is today then it needs to have its content creators conform to the same kinds of regulations television and other forms of media do. With fame comes a certain responsibility - and these new YouTube celebrities need to take that upon themselves.
Hello everybody, I have just uploaded a video to my YouTube channel introducing the launch of a new series. The series, entitled 'Cancer and...', aims to help people understand the effects of cancer on everyday life. In its introductory instalment, I encouraged my viewers to suggest subjects that they would like to see my cover.
We know how lucky we are. Especially when we know how many young people are out there, unemployed, reeling from the aftermath of the recession... With the right support and a little bit of self-belief, it is possible to achieve your dreams. We are living proof of that. So let's all make sure the next generation has as good a chance as we did.
The art of vlogging (video-logging) has been a source of revenue for many YouTube stars and fashion brands, due to the mutual benefits it brings to both parties. With YouTube taking 4 billion hours each month of our internet time and ranked the second most visited website, it is no wonder YouTube is advertiser's honey nest.
Dan Howell is a London-based, 21-year-old YouTube vlogger. When watching his videos, you can't help but like him. And it seems like lots of people feel this way; Dan has 115,000 Facebook likes and 211,000 Twitter followers


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Talking Heads: Motherboard Manager Edition, Q4'10, Part 2
Alright, enough about integrated graphics. We don't think they're taking over the world, either. This time, our industry insiders talk to us about the new AMD Operton offerings, SFFs, netbooks, future motherboard designs, and product diversification.
If you haven't read our Graphics Card Survey or the first half of the Motherboard Survey, here is a quick recap of what we've discussed so far:
- Nvidia is back in the graphics fight, but, at the moment, it's an uphill battle.
- Nvidia needs more aggressive pricing on its low-end boards to keep Intel and AMD on their toes once CPU-based graphics becomes more prevalent.
- Intel is purportedly going to give AMD and Nvidia some stiff competition in today's $75-and-under discrete graphics market.
- Mainstream market acceptance of hybrid IGP performance is a bit murky.
- Hybrid IGPs are going to see stiff competition in the mainstream market, and will be outclassed in the high-end space. Add-in graphics cards aren't going out of style anytime soon.
- We should still expect excellent add-in card vendor board designs.
- Nvidia is still going to fight for its chipset business, if the latest lawsuit is any indication.
- There are more and more multi-core CPU designs on the horizon.
Our motherboard contacts were nice enough to pull a double shift. We already have their thoughts on the upcoming graphics landscape, but there are other topics that remain untouched--topics that are purely motherboard-related. After all, today's motherboard industry is almost unrecognizable compared to what we were seeing five years ago. Unfortunately, you need two hands to count the number of motherboard companies that are effectively defunct in the consumer market.
The participants are the same, but we changed up the questions.
- Over the past 10 years, Intel and AMD have gone back and forth in the server market. Most recently, Intel demonstrated the benefits of its Nehalem microarchitecture with Nehalem-EX in the MP space. Before that, Nehalem-EP and Westmere-EP showcased the architecture's benefits in 1P and 2P configurations. AMD recently told us it was no longer focusing on the workstation space. Has AMD lost the momentum it generated with Opteron back when Intel relied on NetBurst for driving Xeon, or are motherboard vendors still seeing new AMD Opteron offerings as a competitive (profitable) architecture in the server space?
- A few motherboard manufacturers have exited the industry. We are continually seeing profit margins on components drop. As consumers, how will we see motherboard manufacturers continue to drive their brand?
- In previous years, we saw many motherboard manufacturers diversify into non-traditional market spaces. Is your company's current business strategy focusing on diversification or the core products?
- Small form factors were extremely popular five years ago because they provided a diminutive footprint and similar performance attributes as any other desktop machine. Largely due to the economic climate, price-conscious buyers have shifted towards ultra-low-voltage configurations like nettops and netbooks. Do you see this as another temporary trend?
- As Intel and AMD integrate more functionality into their host processors, what opportunities remain for motherboard vendors to add value?
pandemonium_ctpExcellent read. I love seeing you guys get real world answers from companies willing to participate. It really shows where the industry is heading.Quote:This means having a small budget can't stop you from building a reasonably heavy-duty computer. If you don't believe us, look at our latest $400 System Builder Marathon configuration.
Absolutely agree. This is basically where I've been placing my builds for the last 10 years; at the bottom of the price curve where performance hits the sweet spot for price. I alone typify that logic.Quote:The industry has always been on a smaller, faster, cheaper trend, and that's never going to change. Netbooks are here to stay, until something smaller, faster, and cheaper replaces them.
Smartphones/PDA? They've existed for a long time now. The problem is the technology wasn't around to give them the power they needed to do everything a Netbook can do. That is rapidly changing. I hate to say it, but I disagree with Netbooks being a long-term investment. The consumer now is driven by convenience. If my smartphone can be my multimedia outlet, document editor, day planner, browser, camera, accessory portal (ear pieces/headsets, printers, scanners, etc...) and telephone, they why would I want to lug around seperate devices for each of those?Quote:If you can play 720p and 480p with decent bit-rates for $100 to $200 less, why not? This type of buying decision is naturally going to be a short term phenomenon.
Very short-term. At the way things are going, that will be one to two years worth of earnings at the most. Hardly worth the R&D IMHO.Quote:I think the most valuable feature for future motherboards is saving power and enhanced performance.
This is the bottom line for everything, basically. This motto can not falter.Quote:The fact that hybrids migrate graphic functionality to the processor might not actually change that much. As one person noted, the construction of the motherboard hasn't gotten any simpler. Quite the opposite, in fact. We are now looking at motherboards that are more complex than ever before.
Complexity is definitely the direction the industry has taken. However, I would think if a manufacturer wanted to baseline a board with IGPs, they would do so in terms of finding a way to allow additional discrete GPU and/or CPU installments for those that tinker. I know this has been tried in the past, but I'm not talking about simple onboard graphics processors.
The baseline board would be for the general consumer and could handle day-to-day tasks found in every household. While additional GPU and CPU configurations that would work in conjuction with the onboard processors appeals to the specializing category. We just need a manufacturer to take that step to allow them to co-exist in the same environment and provide that extra benefit of accessorizing.
dennisburkeThe Future Of Motherboads And Their Makers
The P55 is a great middle of the road platform, and if one graphics card (even two) is enough to wet your whistle, you could'nt ask for more.
I think brand loyalty comes about by great customer support and innovation, and it doesn't hurt to have a well used and supportive attached forum.
I've hide my eggs with Intel, WD, Corsair, ASUS, and EVGA for many years now, and they are safe.
OnusI agree with everything the first poster said, except for one STRONG disagreement; that he is the only one who typifies that logic. "How low can you go" is a recurring theme in every build I do, especially for myself. If I want more future resistance, I'll go a step or three above that, but the base thinking still tends to be at the bottom in terms of cost (including power usage).
In an economy where it is more important that things last, what I want to see is a focus on durability. Gigabyte advertises this very well, but I find that ASRock has many of the same elements (e.g. all-solid, Japanese caps, ferrite chokes) and costs a lot less.
Th-zI am surprised MB makers didn't talk about speeding up the boot process, or UEFI, if it can speed up the boot time. I think really fast boot up is what everybody really wants. Now we can get SSD to speed up the loading for the OS part, but the very first thing when you turn on the computer, you still have to wait couple seconds for the slow BIOS to finish its tests, etc. That's probably the one thing that hasn't improved a lot when comparing to the speed improvement in other components.
WarraWarraWow extremely confusing heading for this article.
Thought it is some software that does what with motherboards ?
And talking heads music band has got what to do with this ?
If not for the weird article name the rest is very nice.
Good to see Toms getting serious about hardware and reality from a users point of view.
chumlyI am impatiently waiting for UEFI as well. I think it would be amazing to have a 4TB single hard drive. BIOS is ancient, it needs an update. I also don't believe that the competition in the market of GPUs is reflected at all in the Motherboard market, especially on the AMD side. Nforce boards are terrible in both price and features. It seriously affects my decision on which new GPU to purchase.
wayneepalmerI still celebrate the death of ABIT - they caused me so much trouble, money, and pain.
Jtt283 - ASROCK is a subset / knock off of ASUS - think of it as the ASUS version of Saturn - quirky and a bit bizarre (hey, I got a 4core dual SATA2 REV 2 running on one of my systems), but reliable and relatively inexpensive.
BulkZerkerThis article was very refreshing and I'm ooking forwards to the future from IGPonCPU for the future. Saving power, and they might even make decent entry level gaming possible for REAL cheap. Give it a year or two and it'll be just as powerful as what you get on a 360 / PS3 lol
That is, till EVGA releases another bad batch of Motherboards/Vid Cards (Thanks to Nvidia's faulters, still an issue in small instances and its debatable on each board which is to blame)
Evga's stance is the same as Microsoft's xbox, offer a product that may fail, and if they do, honor the warranty without any sort of argument.
Out of all my Intel using buddies that had Evga parts (well over 100) 20 of them had to return boards -multiple- times. That's not an acceptable return rate and a reason that I won't use another EVGA board for builds in the future. (Letalone the turd cooler they put on my Geforce 6800 so many years ago.)
Asus had those Crosshair 4 boards that were faulty also, Hell Gigabyte had some boards that had no paste on the northbridge!
Don't just assume becuase it's a brand Y it'll last forever. Buy what's the best for the budget.
wayneepalmerOne of the things I have discovered is if you are looking for longevity, even if you aren't a overclocking commando (using liquid nitrogen to try and keep your cpu from hitting critical mass at 8 ghz) using a top--end overclocking motherboard is a really good way to insure a long life for your pc.
More robust components, greater voltage control capacity causing greater power stability, and - most importantly - the more extravagant cooling provided for on far more areas of the board usually means that the board is just plain going to last longer than cheaper alternatives.
You get what you pay for. You buy strong components parts, you insure stable power and sufficient cooling and your pc lasts until Windows obsoletes it out of existence.
One more thing the PC manufacturing world needs to deal with: you guys need to come up with MUCH better ways of keeping dust out of the box (ones that don't impede airflow). Even cleaning inside the box regularly is not an optimal solution as things like taking the unit apart to get at the back of the motherboard risks damaging it.
josejonesI'm old school I guess. I have no intention of ever overclocking (because I want my system to last) or unlocking CPU cores. I don't even game on my PC beyond poker (I use to play the Halo free demo) - that's what my separate gaming console is for. I use onboard video & it works just fine. So, I don't want to spend money on MoBo parts/features I'll never use like cross-fire/SLI & more - I'll never buy 2 GPU's.
My PC is for my small business & personal use. I'm more concerned with smart Power consumption management (don't want skyrocketing energy bills), upgradeability to next-generation technology and long lifespan while keeping costs down.
Everything seems to be all about gaming - my needs are omitted or ignored by PC PR/Adverts and websites. I'd like to see more products that focus on my needs - not everybody is a PC gamer. What PC website community focuses on my needs?
wayneepalmerGood luck on that Jose.
My comment on "dust in the box" is one of those sorts of issues...and about using some "over-clocker's" components to get a long life.
Unfortunately, no one makes money by playing up selling a pc that will last 5 or more years and few people make parts for that market.
Microsoft tends to actively discourage that sort of thinking by pushing hardware manufacturers to change the plug-in / data buss options for parts every couple of years to optimize for Windows updates - these eventually shut down or hinder the operation of older motherboard hardware formats (early AGP, USB 1.0, older CPU slots, isa card slots, etc) usually by messing with either the Windows boot or voltage control.
Figure your pc designed for a version of Windows will last more or less thru one Windows redesign - a Win 95 pc lasted until Win 2000 (sort of) , Win 98 to XP, a Win 2000 system will last to Vista, XP systems are being killed off right now by Win 7, etc.
I'm not sure how that will work with Vista / Win 7 as Windows 7 is actually Vista SP2 and is using less resources but you get the idea.
In addition, buying an off-the-shelf desktop pc or cheap laptop is pretty much a prescription to getting a pc that - due to system manufacturers using cheap parts on their lower-end systems - will crap out on you a few months after the base warranty expires...if you are lucky
I don't game much either, but I do use my systems as home media centers (why by a dvd player when you can just plug in a pc to your tv AND be able to surf the net from your comfy chair or laying in bed) and I do CAD work for both school and my job - so a little bit of extra oomph in the gpu beyond the onboard graphics is needed on at least one pc.
Your safest bet is in doing a LOT of research...this means reading thru hundreds of customer comments on sites like NEWEGG and TOMS about specific components AND by trying to follow the help forums. NEVER buy anything that has less than a hundred comments good and bad.
If all you see is people asking either novice "I can't read the instructions" type of questions (guilty as charged your honor!) or about hot-rodding their pc and few actual faulty part issues, you can bet that part or pc is a decent option that will last you a while.
Jose - I'd guess I'd say if you are looking for a normal-user community, I'd just surf the help forums.
josejonesThanks wayne. I figured as much - I've been thinking it for a long time; waiting for someone else to say it so, I finally said it. I'd like to see a section on this website for cheap, tight, penny pinchers like myself. I suppose they do, sort of, ya just have to know what to look for as it's just not always clear. I just wish it was more obvious; especially with the recession/economy the way it is.
akula2I had enough of Windows 7 (am using 22 Workstations) but why no more frequent talk about ATI/nVidia future support on Linux? Why doesn't Tom focus? I always loathed nVidia's driver model on Linux compared to ATI. It would be great if these guys talk more about Linux now because Multi platform (Apple/Linux/Windows) business users (plus kernel hackers) like me would benefit a lot.


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Part 2 - Harper's Ferry, Petersburg and Conclusion
Harper's Ferry
Before too many weeks passed, Mark and Chris were back and Mark and I were planning a trip to Harper's Ferry. Chris was less than enthusiastic but Mark's exuberance again carried the day.
Harper's Ferry is small and we quickly covered the points of interest. To fill the time we hiked over the nearby hills and admired the views. It grew increasingly cloudy as the afternoon wore on and we decided to return to the campsite and get everything ready for a downpour if one were to develop. Chris grumbled a bit but Mark and I made ourselves busy digging a shallow trench to divert water from our tent and getting some food and clothing items in plastic bags. Fortunately, the rain held off until well after we had our supper things cleaned up and when it finally arrived we were ready to turn in for the night. At first the rain was little more than a gently falling mist and was barely audible on the tent roof.
Mark asked Chris if he was up for a massage but his response was unequivocal. "No more," he said. "If you two want to do that kind of stuff, go ahead, but leave me out of it."
I was kind of upset by Chris's comment but Mark just shrugged and said, "OK, Bill. Do you want me to massage you tonight? I bought some massage oil at a store at the mall. How about I try it out on you?
"Sure," I said. "If you think that's what you want to do."
"Take off your shirt and lay on your stomach," he said.
I did as he instructed. He sat on my butt and drizzled some oil over my shoulder blades and down the center of my back. I lay facing Chris. When he noticed that I was looking at him he took a magazine from his backpack. "I'm gonna read," he announced and positioned himself so the light from the lantern fell full on the page but put his face in shadow. He glanced in our direction from time to time but he soon put his magazine down, lowered the light and curled up ready to sleep.
I was enjoying Mark's ministrations to my back. His stroking was firm but gentle. That and the sound of the rain, even though it was increasing gradually, created an atmosphere of serenity.
Mark hit all the spots, from neck to waist; from shoulders to finger tips, but he didn't spend much time on any one muscle group. When Chris began to breathe heavily Mark said, "I think it's OK now."
He moved off me to the space between me and his sleeping bag. "Take off your shorts," he whispered. His quiet whisper and its implied furtiveness excited me.
Again I followed his instructions and as I stripped down so did he. He drizzled more oil on me, this time over the globes of my ass and down the backs of my thighs.
As I so often said to him, Mark now said, "Spread your legs." He knelt between them and quickly, almost cursorily, rubbed my thighs and calves and briefly kneaded my feet and toes.
"Roll over," he said. I was surprised and a little disappointed at how rapidly he was going but he was in control and I did what he told me to do. He spent more time now that he was massaging my chest. He must have noticed how hard my nipples were when his palms passed across them; he paused there, softly pinching and twisting them with his oily fingers. These ministrations brought my cock to life; it grazed his leg as it twitched upward. Mark looked at it briefly and went back to playing with my nipples for a minute or two more.
By this time the rain was falling heavily and we could hear the roll of distant thunder.
Mark worked his hands across my abs, getting ever closer to my crotch. He kept glancing at my cock which continued to lift in spasmodic jerks. He kneaded my abs half-heartedly and moved his hands to my pubic bush. He gripped my cock, ran his thumb over the the sensitive underside just below the glans. He looked at my face and saw that I was looking directly at him. After a few seconds he slid his oily fist from base to tip. This squeezed the precum out of the piss slit. Mark ran his thumb over the slit and smeared the precum over my glans. Then he stroked in earnest. He was slow and gentle at first but each stroke became more firm and followed the previous ones ever faster.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked, but my voice was drowned out by the now heavy rumble of rain on the tent. Mark moved even closer to my thigh. I moved my hand to his wrist to stop him so I could make him understand my question, but he took hold of my wrists and moved my hands to my head. I lifted my head and settled it in my open palms. Mark ran his hands over my biceps to my hairy pits and down my sides back to my cock. He resumed his stroking.
I was in heaven. I spread my legs and Mark scurried between them. He cupped my balls in his left hand and with his right hand pumped my cock with ever harder, ever faster strokes.
The sound of the rain kept Mark from hearing my moans, but there was no doubting what was about to happen when I lifted my ass off my air mattress. He squeezed my balls a little too hard but that was soon forgotten. The explosions of sperm from my balls were insistent and many. Mark stopped stroking while my cum arched into the air and puddled on my abdomen. When my cock stopped pulsing he resumed his stroking. He twisted his fist over the glans at the top of each upward stroke. This made my whole body twitch and caused a feeling in my glans that went beyond pleasure to pain. I finally had to grab his wrists again to make him stop.
Neither of us moved for several seconds. Finally I groped around for my towel which I knew was close by. Again Mark stopped me in mid motion. He scooped up the pooled cum from my abdomen and smeared in over the shaft of his turgid cock. I hadn't even noticed how hard he was but now watched as he pumped his beautiful member. He leaned back on his heels, moved his head back and rolled his eyes upward. He parted his lips and grunted softly as his jizz began its upward and outward course. I was mesmerized. He jacked. His balls tightened, and he came onto my already messy abdomen. He looked from our commingled cum to my face and smiled briefly. When his breathing eased he took my towel and wiped us dry.
Mark stretched out beside me and rested his arm across my chest. Before he slept he leaned close and whispered something in my ear, but a sudden clap of thunder kept me from hearing what he said. I looked at him but his eyes were already closed.
The next morning, Chris was decidedly cool. He may have been faking sleep and knew exactly what happened between Mark and me but I never found out for sure.
When we were alone later that morning, I asked Mark what he whispered into my ear before he drifted off to sleep. "You don't know?" he asked, a smile playing around the corners of his mouth.
"If I knew, I wouldn't ask," I said.
He laughed softly and said, "Maybe, if you're good, I'll tell you sometime.
"If you're good," he repeated.
Mark stopped by a couple of days after our Harper's Ferry trip. He told me that he had registered for the upcoming term at the community college and what courses he would be taking. We also started to plan a trip we had been talking about to the battlefield at Petersburg.
"This reminds me," I said. "What is that secret you've been keeping from me?"
"Secret?" he asked. "I'm not keeping any secret from you."
"Sure you are," I said. "At Harper's Ferry - you told me you'd tell me what you whispered to me sometime if I were good."
"Oh, that. It's nothing really. I only joked that Chris was probably jealous of us for what we did in the tent that night.
I moaned in exaggerated disgust. "Very funny," I said.
"And speaking of Chris," Mark went on, "he told me that he definitely won't be going to Petersburg with us.
"Are you going to ask another of your friends to go along?" I asked.
"No," he said briefly. "We'll be alone."
"Good," I said.
The next weekend found Mark and me heading south on I-95. On our way to Petersburg we stopped at Richmond to visit the White House of the Confederacy and some Civil War sites on the bluffs high above the James. It was late when we drove into a campground near Petersburg where we set up our tent. After supper we took a long walk along the wooded paths in the white light of a full moon. It had been a long day and we were tired when we turned in.
As was my habit, I took off all my clothes before lying down. Without looking in my direction, Mark took off his shorts and briefs in one motion, turned the lantern off and lay on his sleeping bag beside me.
It was impossible to see anything but the dancing shadows of leafy branches on the walls and roof of the tent until my eyes became accustomed to the dark. Eventually I could make out Mark's profile beside me in the pale silver light.
He was lying on his back staring at the overhead shadows. I rolled onto my left side and began lightly to glide my right hand over his broad chest. His heart beat rapidly. I rubbed his chest for a long while, stopping to pinch his tiny nipples to erect hardness. I moved my hand downward over his stomach which rose and fell with shallow breathing and on to his groin. His cock was erect and pulsating above his belly. I encircled it with my hand and stroked it lightly, excited by its length and thickness and hardness, and when I reached further to cup his balls he spread his legs to make my exploration easier.
I rolled over and got up to my knees; then knelt between his open legs. I gripped his cock at its base making it stand perpendicular to his abdomen. Moving my face close, I kissed the glans before wetting it with my tongue. I lowered my mouth along the satiny shaft in one slow continuous glide until the head was buried deeply in my throat. I held it there for several heartbeats before returning to kiss and twirl my tongue around his engorged glans. Salty precum oozed from the slit, coating my lips and his cock with silky slipperiness, impelling me to my next downward stroke. As I tried to swallow his cock even more deeply, Mark began a tentative upward thrusting of his hips. Slowly at first, and then faster and deeper, he fucked with increasing fervor.
Unwilling to allow him to come too quickly, I slid my mouth up and off his throbbing cock, kissing, then licking, the sensitive spot on its underside at the base of the glans. My lips kneaded downward until I reached his scrotum. His balls were tight against his body and churning slowly causing their hairy sack to undulate and wrinkle deeply. It felt rubbery to the tip of my lightly exploring tongue. I closed my mouth around his restless balls and pressed the middle finger of my right hand against his warm hole. As I tugged his testicles away from his crotch with my lips, I tried to push my finger through his anus but he resisted by squeezing it tightly and I contented myself by rubbing his perineum with my thumbs.
I placed my hands under his hips and raised his ass into the dark. I rubbed my face around in his crotch, jostling his balls with my forehead. His whole crotch area was wet with sweat. I breathed deeply of his strong male scent. His asshole emitted and especially strong and funky aroma. I slowly ran my tongue across his asshole, tasting the shittiness of it; lapping away his sweat. He moaned softly in the dark.
I placed my hands on either side of his ass cleft and spread it open. I pressed my tongue into his hole. His moans became louder. I licked and licked like a cat trying to get the last tasty morsel from its bowl. Then I spit in his hole and started the process all over again, Mark moaning all the while.
I lowered his ass and went back to sucking his balls. I again inhaled deeply.
He wriggled his hips and lifted my face with firm hands from his balls to the head of his seeping, pulsating cock. His need for release was greater than my desire to prolong it.
Once again I clasped my lips tightly and stroked with slippery mouth before sliding all the way down. He laced his fingers through the hair at the back of my head and held my face hard against him. With small rapid movements that did not allow his glans to leaving my constricting throat, he began to fuck my face. He was strong and held me there until I had to buck backward, gasping for air.
I soon returned my lips to the head of his cock and sucked hungrily but Mark was consumed with the desire to fuck my throat. He took my head between his big hands and forced my head downward, held it close to his groin to gain the deepest possible penetration, and resumed his urgent fucking. His hips lunged upward in forceful thrusts. He was moaning again. I pressed my nose deeply into his pubic hair and moved my head from side to side. He groaned with abandon as he pulsed spurt after spurt of hot cum into my throat. I managed to swallow but his glans was buried too deeply for me to taste his cum. I lifted my face and went down again. He convulsed each time I tried to swallow his cock. Eventually I lifted off him. I squeezed upward along his shaft with closed fist to force out a few more drops. Mark shivered involuntarily as I gently licked them off his glans and savored their pungency.
Spent, Mark sighed deeply and his whole body relaxed. He crooked his arm over his eyes. I was still kneeling between his spread thighs, able to see his body only dimly in the canvas filtered moonlight. His breathing, like my own, became gradually less hectic. Finally he uncovered his eyes and looked up at me. I touched his gently undulating abdomen and moved some fingers into his crevice and against his asshole.
"No Bill," he said. Then, "I'm sorry."
For a while the silence was perfect.
Finally I swiveled onto my back on my own sleeping spot. I lay still, guarding my breathing to let the silence remain undisturbed. My own cock was rigid and oozing and demanded release. I began a slow determined stroking and soon came, groaning softly in the dimness and peace beside Mark. He rolled onto his side and faced me, gently resting his hand on my arm.
The next morning was bright and clear. Mark was up and already making breakfast when I emerged from the tent. His greeting was casual and friendly and not different from before. It was clear that what we had shared of ourselves and what we had learned of each other in the nighttime secrecy of our tent would not be acknowledged in the light of day.
Mark stopped visiting me after our Petersburg trip. Once we ran into each other at the mall and talked briefly. He was cheerful and friendly and he favored me frequently with his smile, but when I suggested that he stop by sometime he told me that he would soon be busy with his new school year.
He did make one last visit that summer. On my birthday in late August he came by with two little wrapped boxes. He wouldn't stay and told me that I was to open them after he left. One marked "Open me first" had a gaudy Civil War style canon that had a cheap thermometer carelessly glued along its three inch barrel. The other contained a beautiful miniature pewter reproduction of an 1857 Napoleon and caisson. I placed them side by side on my bookcase.
"How are you doing?" I repeated my question now that I was through the checkout line. We left the store walking slowly toward the street where we both lived.
"Fine, thanks. And you?"
"Great. So, what's new with you?" I asked, too nonplussed to be original.
"Maybe you already know that I graduated from college this spring." His eyes glistened and his smile was as I remembered.
"Yes. I did know that. The paper said with honors." His smile broadened with pride.
"What are you doing this summer?" I asked.
"Working for my father. He and mom are in Hawaii now. They'll be there for two weeks so I'll be batching it 'till they get back."
"How about supper then," I offered. "I have the makings of a salad and some corn on the cob. We can grill some steaks on the hibachi if you'd like."
"The same one you used to take camping?" he asked laughing.
"Same one," I replied.
"OK," he said. "Sure. It sounds like old times. Do you still eat late?"
"That's relative. How does seven o'clock sound?"
"Seven it is," he answered as we approached my drive.
I stood and watched him walk on down the street; that body
that I'd love to touch again. He didn't look back.
Mark showed up early to help with supper. We ate on the patio. My yard had grown thick with shrubs and trees since his last visit. Mark observed that it was like some of the campsites we had visited three years previous.
"You wanted to fuck me that night in Petersburg didn't you?" His bluntness startled me, but I could hardly be surprised that he knew.
"Does that upset you?"
He answered haltingly. "No," he said. "Not really. Not now. But then - well - . . ." His voice trailed off. After a pause he went on. "I just wasn't ready. It isn't easy being Catholic," he said with a soft laugh.
"I suppose not," I said, acknowledging both comments.
"You let me suck you off though," I reminded him. "Is that OK for a good Catholic boy?"
"Well," he said lightly. "I can always blame you. It was your fault. You sure were horny."
"It was more than that, Mark." I stopped talking because I didn't know how to say what was in me and I didn't want to sound trite.
"I know." His voice was soft and low. "And now?" he asked tentatively.
I hesitated a long while looking past Mark's blond curls to the coral-tinged clouds that were drifting lazily in the evening sky. "This'll sound corny," I said, looking into his eyes and feeling about ten years old. I hesitated.
"What?" he prompted.
"It's like . . ." I paused and started again.
"When I was a kid, my dad used to play old songs on his stereo. One I remember had a line: 'I think of you every morning; dream of you every night.' That goes through my head a lot.
"I think of you a lot," I added feebly.
He held my gaze with his pale eyes. A gust of warm air tinkled the wind chimes. Wordlessly he got up from his seat and held his hands out to me, palms up. I rose to meet him. Hand in hand, we walked through my little house to the bedroom. He kicked off his sandals and tugged his T-shirt over his sandy locks. I stood motionless and watched him. He looked at me briefly, then lowered his shorts. He still wore white cotton briefs. Together we pulled back the bedspread. He lay across the sheets on his stomach.
I took a foil wrapped condom from the bedside table, nudged his legs apart and knelt between them. His muscles stood out in stronger relief than they did the last time I saw him from this vantage point. Three years on the playing field and in the gym brought shape and power to muscles that were already impressive. I started at his thick neck and kneaded my way slowly to his waist.
When I hooked my fingers under the elastic band of his shorts, Mark lifted his hips the way I knew he would - the way he has done a thousand times in the silvery light of the tent that I so often revisited when I was alone in my bed.
I slid his shorts down his legs, dropped them to the carpet and watched his balls nestle on the sheets between his thickly muscled thighs. I quickly slid from the bed and sucked my own clothes.
Regaining my place between Mark's legs, I resumed massaging in broad strokes from neck to narrow hips. Repeatedly, I slid my hands firmly up his spine, outward across his shoulders and down his sides. Each time I reached the tops of his shoulders, my hard cock grazed his cleft leaving traces of pearly ooze on the soft hairs that grew there. Placing my palms against his ass cheeks, I pressed outward. I lowered my face to that inviting spot and licked in diminishing circles until - at last - my tongue touched its rubbery target. Mark moaned softly at first contact. I pressed my face deeper into his crack and forced my tongue repeatedly in and out of his hole. I kissed it and sat back on my heels.
Mark saw that I was about to roll the latex over my cock. "Do we need that?" he asked.
"It's a precaution," I replied.
"Do you have something you need to protect me from?"
"No," I said.
"Well," he said, "this will be the first time for me."
"I guess we don't need it then," I said. Just to be sure I asked, "Would you rather I not use it."
"I'd rather you not use it," he said. "I want this to be as good for you as I think it will be for me."
"You are incredibly sweet," I said, and I tossed the condom into the waste basket.
I reached for the jar of lube I keep in the drawer of my bed table. I dipped some out and spread it in his crack around his hole. I inserted a finger and fucked him briefly with it. Then I made a fist around my cock spreading the lube over its surface.
I placed the head of my cock against his hole. I arched over his body, resting my hands beside his shoulders. "Ready?" I asked.
He turned his head and looked into my eyes. "Yes," he said. "I want you to make love to me."
I lowered my chest and rested on is back, pushing my glans gently against his sphincter. It was tight. I spread his ass cheeks apart and he wriggled a bit, and my glans slipped into him.
I held my cock still for a moment until he got used to the thickness of it. Then I pressed and my shaft went into him slowly. I backed out a little and pushed some more. By small degrees I buried my cock completely up his ass. It was warm, and he wiggled his ass again trying to feel what it was like to have a man's cock up his ass. "Fuck me," he whispered.
I began a slow rhythmic fucking, out and in, each stroke becoming longer than the last. Out and in. I lifted my ass and I fucked him. Out and in.
"Yes," he said. "Fuck me good."
I increased the force of my fucking until I was coming nearly all the way out before again pushing deeply in. Mark began grunting with the force of my thrusts.
"Are you OK?" I asked.
"Fuck me," he said, and he tried to lift his hips to increase the depth of my fucking.
I pulled out and said, "Roll over."
He did and instinctively spread his legs. I entered him again. I looked into his eyes and fucked him. "Yes," he said.
He looked back at me. "Fuck me," he mouthed.
I lowered my mouth and kissed him as I fucked. He opened his mouth and I invaded it with my tongue.
He crooked his arms around his legs to hold them wide. And I fucked him. Harder. Faster.
Still with our mouths together I shot my first jet of cum into him. He broke our lip lock and looked deeply into my eyes. He wriggled is ass and I shot again. I pressed my hips against him hard and completed my ejaculation in three more spurts.
Then, breathing hard through my mouth I collapsed on him. He wrapped his arms around me and hugged me tightly. I put my lips on his again and rolled us onto our side.
"Yes," he said. "That was the way I wanted it to be; the way I imagined it all those times I jacked off thinking about you fucking me."
"Oh, Mark," I said, and I gathered him to me, wrapping my arms and legs around him, holding him close and never wanting to let him go.
But in time we rolled apart, settling separately on the bed, he on his back and I facing him on my side, head propped on the heel of my hand. I gazed at him in the scant light that still filtered through my screened windows, scrutinizing each inch, and he gazed at me. His stomach moved up and down with his shallow breathing. The only movement of his chest was the shadow of his heartbeat.
I glided my hand over his torso, stopping now and then to caress his cheek, his chin, outline his ribs and navel, and fondle his sticky sex. When our eyes met again he beamed at me.
"Do you want to come?" I asked. "Would you like to fuck me?"
"Oh yes," he said. "Absolutely. That time will come, and soon. But not now. Not tonight. Tonight I just want to sleep in your bed and wake up beside you in the morning."


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