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by L. Kevin Johnson
Note: This article is written specifically for men. But it is helpful for women to understand what a man needs to accomplish in order for them both to experience mutual, sexual harmony. Therefore it is recommended that couples work on the process together. It takes time to wean off the "mating sex" program and regularly engage in bonding behaviors, such as Karezza, with lots of cuddling in-between, holding hands, affectionate hugs, etc., before our brains start to rewire and build receptors that will enable us to experience the enjoyable effects of oxytocin, the "love hormone."
Simply stated, Karezza is the practice of gentle, sexual intercourse, without the goal of orgasm. When a man can control his ejaculation, satisfaction is quickly attained because sex lasts longer, erectile dysfunction is often healed and fatherhood becomes a matter of choice, rather than an accident. In my experience, the secret to success is deciding that you want to give up the habit of masturbation altogether. As long as it is still an option in your mind, there remains a nagging temptation to "give in" to an orgasm, especially whenever you feel stressed or happen to shift into the "rough waters" of sexual arousal while making love to a woman.
Several couples I've talked to recently have expressed confusion about how to transition from standard mating sex to the gentler style of Karezza, which is actually a type of bonding behavior. If you want detailed information about the neurological and physical health benefits of this practice I encourage you to check out the articles and resources at www.reuniting.info (a website dedicated to education on the topic of sexual addiction and the development of mature intimacy in personal relationships).
To take the mystery and confusion out of the subject of Karezza, I present from my own personal experience, a simplified step by step approach to this practice of love-making. Any healthy adult male should be able to follow the advice given here and reach success in avoiding preliminary ejaculation, porn addiction or overcoming sexual dissatisfaction. Karezza is essential for any couple who wants to truly reconcile with one another and experience a deep, rewarding intimate relationship.
Many men really believe that it is harmless to masturbate as much as they want. This is one of the biggest fallacies perpetuated in the modern world today. Ejaculating too often, particularly every day, is the surest way to weaken and diminish your sexual strength. You sacrifice a tremendous amount of energy each time you do it, only to get three seconds of pleasure. The older you are, the worse it gets. At age 20 a man may very well be an endless fountain of semen, but by age 40 and beyond he would be wise to conserve as much energy as possible if he wants to continue having satisfying bonding sex with women!
Another thing, if you really care about women, there are other reasons why you might want to consider giving up ejaculating. Many women today suffer from recurring and painful bladder and yeast infections and Barpholins cysts after intercourse and have to regularly use antibiotics. Drugs can upset the natural balance of the body, causing the overgrowth of yeast. What most lovers don't realize is that the cause is due to a regular drenching of the vaginal tissues with male seminal fluid. Semen is a sugar-like medium, designed to protect and nourish sperm cells as they travel toward the female egg. And where do yeasts thrive best? In sugary, dark, moist places, like vaginas.
Karezza in Four Easy Steps
STEP ONE: So once you've educated yourself and made a firm decision that you want to learn Karezza and move away from masturbation and fertilization-driven mating sex, the first step is to limit ejaculation to no more than twice a month. After six months or so you'll find that you have less and less desire to unconsciously deplete your life-essence by continuously emitting semen, especially when you have no intention of impregnating a woman.
Eventually you may discover that regularly masturbating and ejaculating are not that important anymore. Then it becomes your choice whether or not you want to continue. But twice a month is probably the safest upward limit if you wish to keep doing it and remain healthy, youthful and vibrant. Many Karezza men report that the desire for orgasm and ejaculation completely goes away after a few months and is no longer an issue.
STEP TWO: For now, decide to put off masturbation and sexual intercourse for at least a couple of weeks to give your brain chemistry a chance to settle down and re-stabilize. (Read "The Passion Cycle" at www.reuniting.info. It will explain scientifically why this is so important.) Meanwhile you can recruit your wife or find a girl friend to help you with this critical transition phase, of moving from mating to bonding sex.
Allow her to offer you a genital/penis massage at least 3 or 4 times a week during the next two weeks. Doing it every day is okay too, but you really should willingly do something non-sexual for her in exchange, such as dinner and a movie out, affectionate (non-sexual) snuggling, back massage, foot rub, house work, etc. It should be something of her choice that would please her.
A genital massage session should last at least 20 minutes but not more than 45 minutes. The point of this is to help acclimate you toward receiving direct genital touching without getting "heated up" or aroused or to the point that you want to encourage the urge to ejaculate. Permit the woman to keep her clothes on. Lie on your back, open your legs and relax. Have her apply some almond oil to her hand and let her gently and very, very slowly massage your scrotum, testicles, penis and perineum. Breathe slowly and deeply while she softly and tenderly pulls the skin of the scrotum and pubic hair. These light touches require that you remain still. Have her push slightly (with short fingernails if possible) into your groin at different places around your penis to release built up tension. Don't encourage her to stroke the penis! She can do gentle, light squeezing and releasing along the shaft and head.
Due to the fact that the male genitals have experienced a constant build-up of tension through orgasm and ejaculation, this type of gentle massage from a female greatly relieves soreness and pain in that area. It is very soothing and relaxing and releases oxytocin in the brain, which makes you feel bonded to your partner
If you are prone to getting heated up easily, then have a bowl of ice and a cold damp wash cloth next to the bed. As soon as you feel that familiar horny, full feeling, which means the semen is beginning to load in your prostate, have her stop the massage and place the cold rag on your testicles and the sensation will eventually subside. Then your lady can go back to the massage.
Remember, if abstaining from masturbating is causing you to get "blue balls," it isn't an indication that you need to ejaculate. It simply means that your body is adjusting to retaining and reabsorbing the semen into the surrounding groin tissue. To soothe the discomfort, apply the cold compress for a few minutes whenever the pain arises. It took only about a week for me to overcome the soreness when I finally quit masturbating. After that, my body adjusted and all the symptoms of "blue balls" went away once and for all.
The purpose of the penis massage is to enable you to learn how to focus your awareness on the present moment, develop heightened sensitivity, channel your sexual energy to the woman and appreciate her touch. It is an excellent training method to prepare you for Karezza sex. It doesn't matter if you have an erection of not. Don't worry about that. Most probably, you will discover that you are numb or insensitive in this area from years of pursuing vaginal thrusting and hard masturbating. You have to relearn how to "feel" gentle sensations and welcome the pleasant nurturing of a woman's affection. When you can successfully get through two weeks of several penis massages without ejaculating and can remain calm and relaxed, you're ready to move on to the next phase.
STEP THREE: If you've gotten through at least fourteen days without ejaculating you can now try peaceful Karezza intercourse. Start with a little bit of soft, unhurried, affectionate cuddling and relaxed kissing. Then after a few minutes, if you're not too heated up, try a round of partial insertion of the penis into the vagina, one to two inches only. Be sure to apply a generous amount of oil such as unscented almond oil on both of you.
Lie down naked on your right side, have the woman lie on her back, her left leg over your left hip and ever so slowly glide the penis into the vagina. What's really incredible about doing it this way is that initially, it's not even necessary to have an erection. If you use enough oil, the two of you can practice soft penetration and easily "pop it in". In some cases, the penis will then slowly expand and grow inside of her.
Now from this point on, you have to focus on relaxing and staying in "calm waters," that is, keep yourself from getting swept away by the temptation of moving and rubbing. It is best to remain perfectly still. Remember, avoid getting heated up. Though it may seem like this kind of sex is boring and pointless, if you stay with it and wait, you will learn that there is an incredible gift for both of you.
It is as if the genitals know what to do and all you have to do is relax and let it happen. Your job is simply to monitor whether or not you're feeling an eruption coming, a point where you feel tempted to move closer to orgasm. If this starts to happen, pull out and go back to cuddling and lying still together. Use the cold cloth method if necessary. Make soft eye contact and slowly kiss each other. Allow the feelings in your body to settle down and then try again. Keep going until you can make it last at least 30 minutes. When you can master this form of loving, it is possible to stay connected for even an hour or more!
Note: If you feel the semen is about to spew and it's inevitable that you are going to ejaculate, try this: Pull out and immediately, press down hard on your perineum (the soft hollow tissue between the anus and scrotum) with the tips of your third & fourth fingers. Hold the pressure with your fingers, push the tip of your tongue to the roof of your month, and breathe slow and deep in through your nose and out your mouth.
If you do emit some semen, you will significantly reduce the amount lost by employing this method. Should this happen, it would be wise to discontinue the love session until another time, because your prostate has now become loaded with semen.
My best advice here is learning not to rush things. Never seek to stimulate the woman or make her feel horny or aroused. Avoid oral sex as well as clitoral stimulation. In Karezza, women should also avoid orgasm. (Read "What If She Were Always In the Mood" to understand how peak orgasm for both men and women can cause separation in intimate relationships.) It is better to be affectionate, attentive, kind and loving.
Your goal in Karezza is to get an energy circuit of the male and female life-force energy riding between the two of you. It's not about stimulating the genitals so you can have a release. The objective is to send the sexual energy back and forth between you, not discharge it. That is the delight to be discovered in Karezza. That's when the deep connection begins to happen, which is the valuable treasure and gift that this form of bonding offers.
For now, it isn't even important to penetrate deep into the woman's vagina. What you want to do is stay relaxed, open, still, and partially inside of her for an hour or so. If you want to change positions, do it slowly. I would strongly suggest avoiding lying on top of her, such as in missionary position. For most men this will only trigger the ejaculation/mating sex urge. If the woman lies on top of you, that is often perfectly fine, because it enables you to completely relax and not have to hold yourself up. Side to side works well too. Any position is okay as long as you can relax, stay comfortable and avoid any kind of tension.
The two of you may want to benefit from this kind of love-making four or five times a week, but remember that it takes time and patience to get to the level where you, as a couple, can feel the flowing circuit. There is a pleasant energy that radiates from your perineum (base chakra) into the woman's vagina, up toward her breasts, then out from her to your chest, down your spine back toward your genitals, then out into her again.
The first time this phenomenon happened to me I was stunned at how profoundly nourishing it was. I then realized that in all the years of pursuing orgasms for me and my woman, I had missed this incredible miracle of consciously linking with another human in love and kindness.
STEP FOUR: At this stage in the process you may find that it is easy to move toward deeper penetration, which the ancients called "the garden of Love". The penis, no matter what length, creates an energetic connection with the cervix. It is not necessary for the head of the penis to make physical contact with the cervix. It is the energy exchange during deep penetration that begins to generate the profound feelings of intuitive connection between a man and a woman.
It may take several months before the two of you can achieve sustained, deep penetration, especially if she experiences pain in her vagina due to past sexual trauma or emotional insecurity. The point is to make slow and steady progress toward deeper levels of relaxation and awareness. Never shove your penis into her. Avoid thrusting in and out of her just to stimulate yourself. True male authority means possessing a calm, loving penis that is used as an energetic "sending" instrument, not as a desensitized "getting" device.
Over time you will discover that the penis has an innate intelligence. It knows what it is doing and will do special things at different times. It may gently swell and then quickly shrink in size depending on the energy that is present at the time. Sometimes it will not swell into an erection at all, other times it will be huge and hard. It is at these times that you need to be extra sensitive to the woman and only inch it in slowly, then stop and let it rest in one spot.
Amazingly, the penis will probe, explore and pulsate on its own. Your job at all times is to focus on your penis and use your awareness to move the universal life-force energy you feel into her body. You must become a giver of this life energy. It is no longer about you getting pleasure for yourself, yet it is a truly pleasant experience. Open your heart and cultivate loving feelings and kindness to the woman. Karezza is actually a process of discovery toward the higher goal of achieving unity between a man and a woman. Do you want to bond with your woman or do you want to fertilize her?
In Conclusion
This understanding of the goal of Karezza sex as a way to bond with another human being took me quite some time to uncover and learn. Now I feel that this simple act of consciously joining the genitals together has the potential of achieving the most profound effect, in allowing us to fulfill our true function. Human beings are here to bring love into the world, to make an impact upon the consciousness of the society and the planet. Through harmonious, sacred bonding of man and woman, the spiritual seeds of a new understanding can begin to grow and expand, reaching out to touch the lives of all people everywhere. Because all Mind is One, I believe this way of love-making is a powerful and significant transformative force.
Resources & Recommended Reading
Tantric Sex for Men – Making Love a Meditation, by Diana & Michael Richardson (the line drawings in this article are from the Richardson's work)
Tantric Orgasm for Women, by Diana Richardson
Cupid's Poisoned Arrow – From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships, by Marnia Robinson
http://www.yourbrainonporn.com (the brain chemistry of sexual excess and its evolutionary roots)
http://www.reuniting.info ("Healing With Sexual Relationships")
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I might just have to try this :)
Quote:Note: If you feel the
[quote]Note: If you feel the semen is about to spew and it's inevitable that you are going to ejaculate, try this: Pull out and immediately, press down hard on your perineum (the soft hollow tissue between the anus and scrotum) with the tips of your third & fourth fingers. Hold the pressure with your fingers, push the tip of your tongue to the roof of your month, and breathe slow and deep in through your nose and out your mouth.[/quote]
Is there any consensus as to whether this method leads to injaculation or retrograde ejaculation? I poked about the internet a little with no conclusive results as to if those are even different.
I don't know
but while it's fine to experiment, it's not intended as a technique for regular use.
I understand part of the
I understand part of the thinking here to suggest semen retention was a misguided attempt at dopamine regulation. Here, this is presented as a way to retain semen. Orgasm will still happen. If the semen is just going into the bladder, there is little point. The reduction in yeast infections is still a benefit.
What do all these doctors and scientists do? No urologist has wondered about this?
the orgasm is less intense when interrupted, so those who experiment report less neurochemical fallout. Who knows?
Maybe they've wondered, but there has been a strong meme for the last few decades that insists (without any basis other than repetition of Kinsey's opinion) that there can never be too much sexual stimulation. So no one has thought this a fruitful area for research. Have you read this article? http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/201112/the-wag...
It is different. I've done
It is different. I've done some solo experimenting. What is real versus perceived is where I'm a little lost. It also isn't as pressurized as one experiences at first. There seems to be some sort of adjustment as if the brain considers this conscious choice and adjusts. Maybe there is indeed an eventual shift from retrograde ejaculation to injaculation. Some sites suggest that is what the taoists intended. We could use a resident taoist to clarify some of these things.
Ignoring addiction, many doctors have a thirst for understanding any and all body functions. That's where one would think someone would have been inspired to look. Certainly some doctors with the right knowledge and research capabilities are aware of these ideas. I'd be wondering where does the fluid go.
I hadn't seen that article. The medical world went down another track when it became a more unified establishment. Growth requires freedom to challenge and that is not adequately valued in the community which seems hijacked by egos, financials, risk mitigation, and so on. ASAM statement itself, "[b]y bringing textbooks and protocols up to date, we free healthcare providers to steer us more directly toward healthy sexuality, and avert lawsuits brought by misdiagnosed porn addicts," reflects part of this problem. The medical community needs to start doing what is right and not bending to its own or outside influences. Globalization might be useful in this regard as competition intensifies. It would also help if more consideration were given to the limitations of the scientific method and evidence-based medicine.
I can't believe the Daoists (on the whole) would condone retrograde ejaculation as a standard practice. It can't possibly be good for the body, and it doesn't address the brain angle, which they were aware of in their own way. For example, they speak of sex without orgasm as "nourishing the brain," and too much ejaculation as doing the opposite.
One problem with academia is that the people who review the studies hold all the cards. They can "diss" anything they find threatening to their own world view as "bad science," which often discourages new points of view...except for those which do not threaten earlier conclusions.
For me, reading A Short History of Everything by Bryson was convincing proof that quite often academics *impede* humanity's progress. This is not to take away from their many wonderful contributions, which we, too, highly value.
But at the end of the day the answers you find are only as good as the questions you ask. And when it comes to sex, humanity is simply not yet asking the right questions. That article I linked to explains one big reason for this glaring gap, but the tradition of not looking at the possibility of sexual excess, an orgasm cycle, or the differences in the brain between intercourse and masturbation, etc. goes farther back.
Around 1900, the medical profession was very anti-masturbation. Then there was a complete revolution thanks to Kinsey and others. Since then, doctors have been completely unwilling to reconsider the matter. Instead they're taught in school that excess is impossible "because people will quit when they've had enough." That seemed logical, and was probably right...for most people...until the advent of highspeed porn.
Time to rethink...but the entrenched viewpoint is powerful...and sarcastic, condescending and arrogant. Few wish to risk their professional status and livelihood questioning the status quo. That's one reason I honestly believe we have a role to play. We can get important information out...information that a lot of health care professionals agree with but can't risk promoting...yet.
At some point the floodgates will open.
[quote=Marnia]I can't believe the Daoists (on the whole) would condone retrograde ejaculation as a standard practice. It can't possibly be good for the body, and it doesn't address the brain angle, which they were aware of in their own way. For example, they speak of sex without orgasm as "nourishing the brain," and too much ejaculation as doing the opposite. [/quote]
I agree. That's part of the mystery. Where they confused? Is something lost in translation? Did the West misperceive or use selective conveyance? Even among those interested in Taoism, there is mystery and little agreement. http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/4903-retrograde-ejaculation
Can we contact Mantak Chia? Have you gotten his views on what is going on here? Maybe he can resolve this matter for the world. It could be in one of his books. I've not had time to go through them all. It seems rather practice based such that one may not get it for years. That is risky given that we have no idea how healthy or unhealthy this practice may be.
A tool
My experience with the two finger retention practice is that it has a place in the journey to living beyond orgasm. In the beginning I tried it and liked it for two reasons. One, the post ejaculation blah and recovery were significantly reduced. Instead of falling all the way to the bottom I felt like I would catch a branch part way down and be back on top in relatively short order. From what I have read, the taoist are firm about keeping the semen in the body. The science of where it goes and how its assimilated and, or eliminated, I cant say. My personal experience concurs with what the Taoists say though about retaining it.
Second, and I think this part is more psychological. When you get near the edge and find yourself going over, if each time you say, "oh well" and let it go then the next time your more likely to say, "oh well" again. Using the two finger technique seemed to cut the "ahh" feeling mid way in process and that had the effect, for me, of keeping my commitment to what I really wanted. Almost like my body and biological programing were on a track of their own and by sticking my foot in the door with my will it helped interupt the habit my body was familiar with. A tool in the retraining process.
I found it a valuable tool but if its continuously used to stop the semen from leaving the body then the real task of moving away from orgasm/ejaculation is not really being worked on. A hammer is a great tool to pound nails but if you keep on pounding after the nail is in then the tool is being abused. Its important to know when the use of a tool is done and its time to lay it down. In this case, its a bit by feel as you dont want to turn the use of this tool into a new habit.
Taoists likely didn't intend
Taoists likely didn't intend this as a means of stopping PMO addiction. The intention seems to be for training the male brain to understand the male body. I'm guessing that there are problems with using this solo in the sense that rewiring isn't quite synced properly to sex. I have noticed that it brings attention to the potential for orgasm much earlier than before I could get this to work. If I'm entertaining this as possibility, it's distracting as I can become quite anticipatory. As a result, there is likely a difference in the amount of dopamine release, although I don't know if it is more or less. I suspect this is part of the retraining aspect. The brain is rewired to notice earlier physiological happenings. Once I know where the limits are, I know when to slow down, use recirculating tools, etc. One still has to master those tools. I also imagine there is a psychological aspect to this security blanket in the sense of allowing one to push the envelope toward the limits.
The impression I get from
The impression I get from this is that Karezza has little but mostly no thrusting, just initial penetration and the "throbbing" of erections as they may come or go. Is this correct? Is the idea really to connect via your genitals but not necessarily pleasure each other directly through them, and really "slide" slowly, if at all, instead of thrusting?
I remember suggesting Karezza to my girlfriend, and getting the most puzzled look. To her credit we tried it, but it didn't stay very Karezza-like for long. Turns out according to this we weren't even practicing it, just having slow conventional sex without orgasm. After I think an hour or so we decided to drop it because, if orgasm wasn't the point, the feeling was, well, boredom! I haven't tried to suggest it to her since. I can absolutely understand the benefits, but I find it hard to imagine sex, as I've come to enjoy it, being reduced to simply penetrating and then barely moving. I'm not knocking the practice at all, just personally finding it to be a rather difficult paradigm shift. Certain positions (ahem) which we find enjoyable pretty much have no place in Karezza it seems, especially if you remove thrusting. I just can't imagine just putting my penis inside her, relaxing and simply being intimate, barely moving. It sounds wonderful, it does, but when it comes to those moments where you just want to tear into each other, backing off and saying whoa, hey, easy now, let's do this the Karezza way seems absolutely bizarre.
Out of interest, why omit oral sex? Maybe it isn't apart of Karezza, but surely pair-bonding, if it doesn't lead to orgasm?
Stillness and Thrusting
You know, I think hot sex is something just about everyone likes, trouble is, it doesn't like us. Young girls like to feel passion, no doubt, so do old ladies, but the trouble is, bodies can't keep up with what the mind takes hold of. I mean, if it was up to the body, it would go for comfort, stillness, expansion, but unfortunatly, it is the mind that can't settle into calmness very easily. It's like my neighbors mare, she's over there at the fence shaking her back end, she wants something she can't get to. But once she gets it, it's off to something else. I understand that lying there, holding your penis inside a woman seems somewhat boring, on the surface it is. It makes the mind confront the present moment, being with what is instead of projecting off into some future thrill. But when the mind learns to settle, it moves out of the realm of the personal, into the sea of totality. For me, that's where the greatest joy is. I think when my body gets to the point, one day, where it can't go on any longer, the memories I will treasure are those long, still and expanded moments of floating silently with my woman, our bodies connected, looking into each others' eyes...
wow, kevinj!
This really, really "sang" to me. Thank you, this is an amazing amazing post, it is life changing awesome.
Thanks for sharing this Kevin.
Door stop
I must admit people's online names often fascinate me. Door stop??
One of the interesting things around Karezza are the idea's about what Karezza is and is not. The Karezza umbrella is pretty broad. I think plenty of what you were doing is Karezza. Personally I dont just penetrate my wife and then cuddle. We definitely move, not like a pile driver, but movement is absolutely part of our Karezza practice. We let the energy of the moment dictate the movement. By that I mean, we follow the pleasure, what we are drawn to.
The reason I choose karezza style love making is because ITS SO PLEASUREABLE. There's no moral approach here, its simply way more enjoyable than conventional sex, at least for us. If it wasnt, I woundnt do it, period. We arrived at love making karezza style by feel, we were drawn in that direction. We had no instruction or any idea there was such a name as "Karezza" for what we were doing, in fact we thought we were the only people doing it. Who would ever, in their right mind, have both the man and woman forgo orgasm?? We figured no one else could be as nuts as us. I stumbled upon this web site, discovered other people were doing this, and that there was a name for it. I say all this to explain that we were just following our joy not trying to take the high road sexually.
You say, "Is the idea really to connect via the genitals but not necessarily pleasure each other through them" My experience is, its both. We connect AND pleasure each other via the genitals. I have no interest in forgoing the pleasure my genitals offer me and my partner. As far as thrusting goes, a lot of friction is a desensitizer. When you go slow the genitals come alive with sensation. Slow movement is so alive with feeling. What I will say, is that it takes a bit of time to wake up the genitals from their usual mode of operation. Its a movement from stimulation to sensation. From my experience stimulation is a lot in the mind where sensation is all in the body. We may go to stillness when were done and I stay in her, but my wife has no intest in a flacid penis. She wants it fully erect. No complaints from me.
I would classify karezza as intercourse without orgasm and without vigorous movement. Theres a lot of room under this definition to engage in ways that pleasure you both. Sometimes thought it takes being a bit quite to pick up on the sublte sexual energies. Once you do they become far from "subtle" Divinely delicious comes to mind.
There is one more piece, and that is karezza creates this deep bond with your partner. A lot of the friction that commonly takes place in relationships melts away into a sweet pleasant harmony. A pretty nice side benefit in my book, wouldnt you say?
If you and your partner enjoy more thrusting sex as you say try slowing it down by incruments. Rather than going from action sex to laying there without movement, just reduce the movement slowly and start tuning into to the subtle sexual energies that lie beneath the surface of conventional sex. Your genitals have a language of there own if you listen carefully.
**TRIGER WARNING*Allow her to offer you a genital/penis massage
Wow... I charge $150 for this service (of course, no happy endings!), but trading that for dinner? WOW.
I would like to suggest asking the lady what she wants in return. Sexual or non-sexual. Trading genital massages might be enjoyable and connecting. I remember snuggling with the Mister in the bathtub, and getting a full body massage which led to a genital massage.
In case anyone is not sure what to do for a genital massage, I did a video for Passionate University showing what to do, where to massage, stroke patterns, rhythms and more. There are a lot more videos on female genital massage, and I did another on prostate massage (again, no happy endings!).
Here is my affiliate link:
I hope you find it educational and fun!!
Great article Kevin. My partner read it and it was very validating for what we are doing. We are slowly moving toward his really embracing Karezza and even enjoying it. It is such a pleasure to be using our sexual relationship to connect with each other and the universe. He is on a business trip for three weeks and we are doing our version of bonding over the phone. It really help[s me to feel connected. Thanks for all of your help. Someone sent me a short utube film which is about non-orgasmic sex by a very articulate young man. Let me know if you want me to forward it to you and how.
Thank you
Thanks for the wonderful article KevinJ. I have found performing the genital massages (testicles only, no shaft) on myself to be very helpful in relieving sexual tension and avoiding the urge to masturbate.
Hi all,
It is said above that gentle penis massage releases oxytocin in the brain. I want to know how it happens in the body and also i would like to know how women can give gentle massage i.e. steps in using her hand to give massage.
i wish i had some help...i let any girl i'm with know i'm into this...they sometimes leave, but, mostly enjoy it ...some take advantage and make me lovingly entertain them!!!
What kind of help do you need?
Sounds to me like you're doing great!
I just don't see the point in sex without orgasm, I guess because I've had an orgasm every time I've had sex. This Karezza stuff just seems really boring and uneventful.
To me, it would seem that starting out slow and sensual with the Karezza approach and then going a bit (but not hardcore) faster until orgasm is reached would be a lot better than just not having orgasms at all, or very rarely. That way you're both comfortable and bonding at first, then you finish with an orgasm and everybody wins. :]
That's just my opinion, though.
That would be
most people's opinions who haven't tried it. And the truth is, for best effects you have to allow your brain to return to greater sensitivity. So at first it might indeed be less than satisfying. It's kind of a moving target. Keep an open mind. Did you read this guy's experience? He followed your model...kind of. http://www.reuniting.info/blogs/intriqued
here's why I don't have orgasms these days
it is SO much better to not have them. And to have these incredibly deep and fulfilling feelings all the time, 24 X 7. And to have a lot more sex than ever before, and have the sex be so much deeper and more pleasurable.
Why do I want to give that up for sake of a 15 second orgasm? I don't.
But women can have WAY more than 15 second orgasm
The typical male orgasm is about 5-6 seconds so 15 seconds is a VERY long male orgasm.
But women have way more than 15 seconds - even 15 minutes of riding high desire and plateau, then crash orgasms washing over her body, refreshing her.
Karezza doesn't really speak to women. How am I to do it with my partner when she is revitalized and energized by the long waves of orgasmic pleasures that go through her body and mind? I am in awe.
Karezza, in short, seems to be the male's way of dealing with the female's superiority. But I don't know why a woman would find it appealing. It would lower her to a base male point. That would be sad.
Comments? Because my two long-term partners have both been that kind of woman. And my women friends say they are the same way too. "You should try it" (the refreshing WAVES of orgasms rejuvenating them over and over). And then say
"Oh yeah, you can't! Go try that karezza stuff and let us have the fun." They mock in jest.
You're welcome to your point of view, but please don't state it as a universal fact. Unless your partners try the alternative, which they haven't, they simply don't realize the effects of orgasm. As "refreshing" as orgasm is in the short-term, it can create ripples for some women in the the longer term.
Ever read Deida? You know his descriptions of how bitchy women are, and how that's just normal "testing?" Well, I'm here to say that it's not normal, at least in the sense of "inevitable." Some of it is the product of overstimulation of the brain, which creates subtle neurochemical shifts that also shift perception of partners. Have you read anything I linked to? Orgasm's Hidden Cycle | Reuniting
Clearcut instructions are best for men.
1. Stop coming.
2. Stop sex two weeks.
3. Get penis massage.
4. Resensitize penis.
5. Have sex without orgasm and ejeculation.
I find this answers my other questions:
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In this description there is no mention of ear kissing, neck licking or biting, shoulder kissing, arse biting or nipple sucking, it's all about the frigging penis. Now I don't care about whether or not there's an ejaculation or not in this type of sex but for the love of god a man is more than a penis. And no way is any woman(or man) going to be allowed to touch my penis before they have spent a least 30 mins warming me up with the aforementioned activities.
Also this post as so many others equates ejaculation with orgasm! Wrong wrong wrong!! But not all together surprising when it doesn't include all the foreplay necessary to achieve orgasm
Why are you here?
Just curious. If it's to learn anything, then maybe you should start with this article: Orgasm's Hidden Cycle | Reuniting
The distinction between orgasm and ejaculation is given great weight in some eastern sacred sex cultures, but it is based on the theory that all that matters is semen loss (or not). That's actually not the case for some folks. Intense activation of the primitive parts of the brain can also create lasting neurochemical ripples...in women as well as men, even without ejaculation.
If you read that article, and maybe a few others, it may become clearer why "hot" foreplay doesn't work well for everyone. That said, couples are encouraged to find what works for them.
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I had prostate surgery 2 years ago & have difficulty obtaining an erection. Am excited to start the practice karrezza with my my. We both miss the physical contact of intercourse. Looking forward to starting practice & also any advice anyone could give. Your in Peace, Lmbjless
Start with "soft entry"
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This is very helpful for anyone just stsrting with Karenzza. lmbjless


text: We're less than 24 hours away from the start of the NFL season, so it's time to finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running until, oh, the first round of the wild card playoffs based on how quickly they've been coming in. So, for the next few days, expect a lot of these. And, these worthy teams are still in search of an author: • The Indianapolis Colts • The San Diego Chargers • The Seattle Seahawks • The Chicago Bears • The Jacksonville Jaguars (Shanoff!) • The New England Patriots (For real?) • The Tampa Bay Buccaneers • The Baltimore Ravens • The St. Louis Rams So, let's see if we can get all of these done by, oh, Sunday at 12 p.m. It'll be fun. Go. Today: The Cincinnati Bengals. Your authors are is the Who Dey Revolution. Who Dey Revolution is run by lifelong Bengals fans who want their team to stop losing by demanding that ownership is committed to winning at all costs.In the 17 seasons since Paul Brown died and his son Mikey has run the team, the Bengals have won zero playoff games and only made it to the postseason once. In the last 17 years, the Bengals have posted a .356 winning percentage (97-175), making the team the losing-ist team over that stretch in all 4 major sports. Take that Clippers! The organization's management decisions are a case study in how to ruin a team's chances of success – all in a league designed to encourage parity. You have to work at it to be this bad. The recent offseason added more classic bonehead examples of mismanagement that we in Cincinnati have come to understand are inevitable. Mike Brown is simply a colossal failure. To copy a bit from an old graduation speech given by Johnny Carson where he gave tips on how to guarantee failure instead of success, here are Mike Brown's Guidelines for Destroying an NFL Franchise.– 2008 Offsesaon edition. Fail to Address Glaring Needs Via Free Agency Despite Having Cap Space Free agents can step in and help right away, so when you have holes you desperately need to fill, by all means do not sign anyone in free agency to help. Draft picks can take years to develop and are riskier since they have no proven track record, so use them instead. Failing to close is great (DT Dewayne Roberson) but failing and then seeing them sign with a division rival (Cleveland) is even better (DT Shaun Rogers). Throw Big Money at Mediocre Players Okay, you just failed to address an obvious need in free agency, the next step is to give lucrative extensions to the very people you were trying to replace. DT Domata Peko- you have 4 sacks in two years, have a $30 million extension! Back up Jonathan Fanene, you have 1 sack in 3 years, take a 3 year extension worth millions! An important corollary: Make sure to keep cap killing deadweight players on the roster. DT John Thornton counts for $5 million against the cap this year despite anchoring one of the worst defenses of the past 5 years. Keep that "veteran presence" on your roster even though you could use that space better in all sorts of ways. Ignore Contract Negotiations with Indispensable Players In order to fail, it is important to get your priorities wrong if not completely backwards. Start by ignoring players who have outperformed their current contracts and are looking to reasonably negotiate new terms going forward. T.J. Houshmandzadeh is tough, consistent, clutch, a fan favorite, a pro bowler and a safety outlet for Carson. Ignore his requests at all costs. See how keeping Thornton's cap space helps here? Now you can't pay T.J. even if you wanted to. Franchise Tag the Strategically Worst Player Possible The key here is to make a decision so baffling people might wonder whether or not you are aware you don't have to use the Franchise Tag at all. 2007 was a success. You paid slightly above average DE Justin Smith $8 million just to see him leave the following season. Plus, spending that money prevented you from resigning Pro Bowl G Eric Steinbach , resulting in his loss to division rival Cleveland. Breathtaking. How can you improve on that? Franchise a guy who has never been on top of the depth chart and has no intention of being here next year! Seriously? RT Stacey Andrews is your man. Get that man a Tag! Telegraph Your Draft Strategy Two simple steps: First, make your needs publicly known (in this case going for high profile DT free agents and failing). Second, openly declare you will make no moves in the draft. This allows teams with similar needs, in the case the Saints, to trade not once, but twice, directly in front of you to take the best DTs on the board. Have a Poor Draft Strategy This goes without saying. No single thing can make a franchise as consistently successful as drafting well. The offense is (was?) good, the defense is terrible. Better draft three WRs! Chad and TJ, despite some turmoil, are the starters. Plus you acquired TE Ben Utecht as the first passing catching option at that position since the Carson Palmer era began. But draft more WRs! Take at least one of them a round or two early (Jerome Simpson). Stockpile Fringe Character Players There are so many benefits to this I don't even know where to begin. First, remember the following relationship: Fringe Character Players = Cheap Talent. Nevermind that every other franchise passed on the guy, you have a special insight. When the strategy inevitably backfires, and there are ten arrests in ten months DO NOT GIVE UP. DE Jason Shirley allegedly drove drunk through a building, but man can he move for his size! Bring him on board. Wait, we didn't draft enough unnecessary WRs, pick up delinquent Maurice Purify! But the benefits don't stop with the arrests. First, you are a perennial loser, which generally results in a baseline amount of sympathy for your fans in the sports world at large. Well, not anymore. Now your franchise is not only a loser but a villain. Besides, who cares if these guys act up on the field? You don't have to deal with them on a day to day basis. That is the job of your coaches. Make One Unconscionable Move Drawing National Scorn The opportunity does not arrive every year, so you have to seize it when it comes. In this case, it was obvious: resign Chris Henry. In one fell swoop, it has destroyed any remaining sympathy and credibility, it has made Marvin Lewis simultaneously appear unscrupulous and impotent, and it has made the fans outraged and despondent. Note: make sure to take the moral high ground and claim that you are a "redeemer" in a press conference so that you seem like Father Flanigan. Nevermind that you are running a professional organization with the goal to win, not to rehab, and that you are doing so at the expense of your fans and taxpayers. No. Nevermind. You're a good man, Mike Brown. Cincinnati Bengals 2008 Season: 3-13. The Lost Decade Returns.

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Anatta does NOT have to mean "No self". Anatta = "not Atman" where Atman is a Hindu metaphysical being not a modern western concept of "self".
In SN44.10 there is interesting passage:The earliest use of word "Ātman" in Indian texts is found in the Rig Veda (RV X. 97. 11). Yāska, commenting on this Rigvedic verse, accepts the following meanings of Ātman: the pervading principle, the organism in which other elements are united and the ultimate sentient principle.[3] Yajnavalkya (c. 9th century BCE), in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, uses the word to indicate that in which everything exists, which is of the highest value, which permeates everything, which is the essence of all, bliss and beyond description. link
Within Advaita Vedanta philosophy the Atman is the universal life-principle, the animator of all organisms.
Since, as I understand it, Annihilationists do believe in empiric self that dies during death, I think this sutta quote suggests that atta means something more than mere empiric self.If I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is [no atta, natthattā] — were to answer that there is [no atta, natthattā] , that would be conforming with those brahmans & contemplatives who are exponents of annihilationism
When we examine some of Hindu Philosophical teachings on Atman, it doesn't really sound like what we, in English, call "self" in ordinary, non-philosophic usage. In the suttas the Buddha seems to perfectly well to refute Atman by showing anicca and dukkha of everything knowable.
I wonder If someone would ask the Buddha, "why can't self be anicca, and dukkha? what is wrong with that?"
Concept of self, as in empiric, and ordinary usage doesn't need to mean the metaphysical entity that never changes and is always happy. In Christianity, soul can suffer in hell, and yet it doesn't refute its existence. So even Christian idea of soul would not fit Atman as unchanging and always happy first principle. So it seems that Buddha was rejecting something else.
Word for self in pali is sayaṃ. Not-Self is asayaṃ (a+sayaṃ).
sayaṃkata= done by oneself
sayṃvara= self choice.
asayaṃvasī = not under one's control.
What is the difference between Atta, and sayaṃ?
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The roller coaster that was swept right-side up into the Atlantic Ocean as Hurricane Sandy slammed the Jersey Shore may not be torn down, according to Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers.
The picture of the ride, which looks more like a water slide these days, has become an iconic image of the damage Sandy wreaked up and down the coast just over three weeks ago.
But Mayor Akers, in an exclusive interview with NBC 4 New York, said he is working with the Coast Guard to see if it is stable enough to leave it alone.
If it is, Akers said it would make "a great tourist attraction."
Meanwhile, demolition crews have already finished removing all of the damaged boardwalk that was the heart and soul of this seaside resort.
Businessmen like Mike Mergott of Mad Mike's Amusements said he is rebuilding because he is "one hundred per cent sure" families want to come back.
And Jim Loundy, who owned several buildings wiped away by the surge is confident he won't see another storm like this for "another fifty or sixty years."
Mayor Akers said construction on a new boardwalk should begin in January, and be ready by Memorial Day.
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A rollercoaster that once sat on a pier in Seaside Heights, N.J., rests in the ocean after the pier was washed away by Superstorm Sandy,Oct. 31, 2012.


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It's a silver lining to an otherwise dismal quarter.
Sales of deferred income annuities reached a record high in first quarter 2013, according to the Beacon Research Fixed Annuity Premium Study. This is the fifth consecutive quarter in which they increased, climbing 150% higher than a year ago. The success of DIAs helped overall income annuity sales grow 1.4% year over year.
"Deferred income annuities were a bright spot in a difficult quarter," said Jeremy Alexander, CEO of Beacon Research, said in a statement. "Ongoing product development and increasing sales underscore the importance of generating guaranteed retirement income for consumers and their advisors."
But the industry continued to be impacted by the ongoing low interest rate environment, according to Alexander. Total fixed annuity results were $15 billion in the first quarter, down 11.7% from a year ago and 7.7% sequentially.
However, fixed rate MVA sales dipped only slightly from the prior quarter, suggesting that consumers are willing to accept some potential interest rate risk in exchange for higher credited rates. Indexed annuity sales decreased 7.9% quarter on quarter to $7.8 billion, and fixed rate non-market-value-adjusted (MVA) annuities fell 8.1% sequentially to $4 billion. Income annuities dropped 8.2%.
Allianz was once again the top fixed annuity company in the quarter, followed by Security Benefit Life, New York Life, American Equity and Jackson National.
Western National Life moved from fifth place to take the lead in bank channel and fixed rate non-MVA sales. The other top companies in sales by product type and distribution channel were unchanged from the prior quarter.
Security Benefit Life had two of the quarter's five top-selling fixed annuities for the first time. Its Total Value Annuity was the quarter's bestseller, up from fourth place last quarter, and the Secure Income Annuity joined the top five in third place.
New York Life's Lifetime Income Annuity, the quarterly bestseller throughout 2012, finished second. American Equity's Bonus Gold and Allianz's Endurance Plus indexed annuities both dropped two notches, but remained in the top five at number four and five, respectively.
"We expect that fixed annuity sales in the coming months will follow the pattern set early in the year," Alexander concluded. "Sales may increase slightly coming off from a record year for indexed and income annuities, but low interest rates will continue to hamper significant growth in the near future.
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Pleasing customers and employees with helpful apps and websites is a worthy endeavor, but one that's becoming more challenging. When a site is slow or an app doesn't work, they quickly look for a competing service.
"This is the most dynamic application development and deployment environment enterprises have ever faced," said Prakash Ramamurthy, Oracle's senior vice president for systems management, in his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Enterprises are caught between two competing goals, he said. "One is to rapidly innovate and the other is to make sure that if there are problems they can quickly address them."
With that context in mind, Oracle has announced a set of cloud services that provide customers with a better way to meet these rising expectations. The new cloud services "can help you continue to develop at a very agile pace, but at the same time give the best possible user experience to your customers," said Ramamurthy.
Read the Oracle Management Cloud brief.
Oracle Management Cloud is an umbrella term for a suite of services that delivers everything from proactive monitoring and rapid troubleshooting to interpreting log files, orchestrating applications, and doing long-term application analytics. "All these areas of IT operations management will be brought to you as services on the cloud," said Ramamurthy.
Specifically, Ramamurthy announced three services:
Oracle Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Cloud Service provides development and operations teams with the information that they need to quickly find and fix issues with mobile and web applications. It gives them deep visibility into application performance from the end-user perspective, including application logs.
Oracle IT Analytics Cloud Service allows customers to monitor the performance, availability, and capacity of applications and IT investments, enabling executives, analysts, and administrators to make critical decisions about their IT operations based on comprehensive system and data analysis.
Oracle Log Analytics Cloud Service monitors, aggregates, indexes, and analyzes all log data from your on-premises and cloud applications and infrastructure—enabling IT staff to search, explore, and correlate this data to troubleshoot problems faster, derive operational insight, and make better decisions.
This can help you continue to develop at a very agile pace, but at the same time give the best possible user experience to your customers.
—Prakash Ramamurthy, Oracle Senior Vice President for Systems and Cloud Management
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These services are meant to provide value without forcing customers to update their application infrastructures. "Whatever you use to run your applications, whether it's Java, J-Boss, or non-Java, such as .Net or Node.JS or PHP or Python, whatever your application deployment environment, these services are designed to adapt to that." Ramamurthy noted that the services work equally well regardless of which databases, storage, and operating systems a customer uses. Customers can use the services in a data center or Oracle Cloud, as well as in a third-party cloud service.
Time to Value: Only Minutes
Ramamurthy said that a key design goal is to make the effect on application performance "absolutely next to nothing." In order to accomplish this, Ramamurthy's team wanted to deploy the minimal number of components on a customer's infrastructure so that it wouldn't take long to set up. "Within 15 minutes of deploying it, you will start seeing value out of it," he said. Using Oracle Cloud as a platform made it possible for his team to deliver the tools in a way that had minimal impact on customers' existing setup while providing a fast time to value, said Ramamurthy.
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"Anyone who knows these kinds of services knows that [they require] collecting a ton of data from a lot of different places," said Ramamurthy. Underpinning all Oracle Management Cloud services is a massive data platform that will allow customers to see into their operations in real time, including usage and performance data from customers' browsers, tablets, smartphones, and application infrastructure, as well as data on the health of virtual machines, databases, and storage. Customers will also be able to upload all their logs to the cloud service, where "we can help you understand what they have to tell you," said Ramamurthy.
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1. Sell ad space (website, program, memory book)
2. Put effort into three areas: donations, donations, donations
3. Negotiate with Vendors!
4. Hold an online auction
5. Set up a raffle
6. Hold a 50/50 draw
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3. The telephone book
4. Search the Internet
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6. List the event
7. Post flyers
1. It is a great way to create interest in the reunion and increase attendance.
2. It is a simple, convenient and secure way to sell tickets to the reunion.
3. It allows you to get feedback from classmates about the reunion.
4. It is the best place for classmates to get reunion updates.
5. It serves as a meeting place for alumni.
1. Post Guess Who photos where alumni have to browse the site to locate the answers. This can be a classmate, teacher, or administrator. You can also have a Guess What version by posting pictures of a building, a classroom, or an event like the prom or legendary sports match that took place....You are limited only by your imagination!
2. Create a Who's Coming page so that others can check and see who is planning to attend the reunion. We strongly advise that you wait until there is a critical mass of tickets sold (60 or more, for example), before you post this information. The reason is that people are less likely to buy tickets if they know that only a few have been sold to date.
3. Post old pictures of classmates and teachers on each page. Change them periodically.
4. Include a Last Updated On date on the home page so people will know when new information has been added.
5. Include video clips of things like the reunion committee meetings, clips from the old school, random clips from classmates. It is very easy to add a digital video clip to sites like YouTube.com. Once added, YouTube provides you with an embed code that you copy and paste into your reunion website. Visitors to your site can then click on this link and watch the video clip.
6. Set up RSS feeds which are very easy to find on just about any topic. You can select feeds from prominent news sites that are updated daily. You can also select some offbeat unique content that people will find interesting and entertaining. The more interesting the content is on your website, the more reason people have to visit regularly.
7. Start a reunion blog. Blogging is a friendly and interactive way to keep your classmates up-to-date on your business, organization, personal plans, or anything at all. It also helps keep your content fresh so your visitors will come back more often.
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hi, yes i am, sorry for late reply, i havent been active in Stickpage, but rather in Stickpage Discord. My deep apology of this late message...
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Two different outfielders ran through the fence on back-to-back nights during a series between the Melbourne Aces and the Adelaide Bite this past weekend.
The teams were playing at the Norwood Oval in Adelaide, an Australian Rules Football stadium that has also hosted baseball games for more than a half-century. The fence being temporary, we're not surprised this sort of thing happens; maybe it's by design, like breakaway rims in basketball, but it's still funny to watch. Above you see Rockies prospect Tyler Massey and former Reds minor leaguer Byron Wiley engaged in full-on fence destruction. Here, have some GIFs.
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Pioneer's AppRadio Provides a Revolutionary Way to Use Apps in The Car
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., the leader in aftermarket car electronics technology, today unveiled its latest innovation, the game-changing AppRadio™. Drawing upon Pioneer's technology integration expertise and following its "Rethinking Connectivity" strategy, AppRadio is the first in-vehicle product designed to utilize the processing power, storage capacity, network connectivity and apps of the iPhone and iPod touch (4th generation) as the primary source for its information and entertainment capabilities. Pioneer's AppRadio also features the industry's first capacitive touchscreen that enables control of most functions using similar touch and motion gestures as many of today's most popular smartphones, but in a larger 6.1-inch screen designed specifically for safer in-vehicle operation. For safety and convenience, AppRadio features built-in Bluetooth1 for hands-free calling and an input for an optional vehicle mounted rear facing back-up camera.
"Pioneer is rethinking connectivity by tapping into the power of the smartphone, while simultaneously providing a solution that safely merges the consumer's connected lifestyle into the vehicle," said Ted Cardenas, director of marketing for the car electronics division of Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. "AppRadio fully embraces the iPhone, which has become the window to our mobile connectivity and provides a comprehensive and safer way to use apps in the car."
The power of AppRadio comes from the ability to simply and easily update its software, similar to many of today's most powerful mobile devices. The front of the unit features a clean and simple aesthetic with only three physical buttons; a home button, a volume up button and a volume down button combined with a high resolution WVGA (800 x 480) 6.1-inch capacitive touchscreen display. This capacitive touch panel requires less pressure, responds faster and can recognize multiple touch points simultaneously, advantages when compared to traditional resistive touchscreen displays. Touchscreen control is used for all functions including the app interface, iPod control/playback, AM/FM radio, and Bluetooth hands-free calling features.
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When connected to an iPhone and iPod touch (4th generation) with the Pioneer AppRadio application and compatible third-party apps, the full potential of the AppRadio is unleashed, bringing an ever-expanding world of convenience and connectivity directly into the dash. The Pioneer AppRadio application, available free in the App Store, enables access to the data and connectivity of the iPhone 4, providing users the ability to access Google Maps and stay current with recommended compatible third-party apps.
Google Maps appears on the AppRadio screen with the same mapping information and features that consumers are familiar with. The system enables users to search2, route to locations, view route directions and create bookmarks with the ability to drop pins directly on the map.
Pioneer has initially partnered with several app providers to integrate AppRadio compatibility into a few of today's most popular apps, formatted specifically for safe use and access in the vehicle. AppRadio compatible apps are now available including INRIX, MotionX-GPS Drive, Rdio, and Pandora Radio.
With the vehicle parked and the parking brake fully engaged, additional apps featuring second screen video output can be viewed on the AppRadio screen.
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As the library of AppRadio compatible applications grows, users will be automatically notified via Pioneer's AppRadio iPhone application, with a link to the respective app(s) page within the App Store. Additionally, the AppRadio software itself is updatable offering the potential for future hardware, software and app compatibility changes.
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AppRadio continues Pioneer's strong audio heritage, with a built-in AM/FM tuner with RDS text information display (when available) and full iPod audio control/playback. Pioneer employs Apple's iPod Out feature enabling the AppRadio system to display the familiar iPod navigation menu, displaying album art, song title and artist. This promotes a safer driving experience, as all of AppRadio's controls have been designed specifically for in-vehicle operation. This newly developed interface technology supports iPhone 4 and iPod touch (4th generation) running iOS 4.2 or later. In addition, AppRadio enables direct access to the latest iPod functions, such as custom playlists and Genius Mixes, which let users automatically create playlists of music with similarities from their music library.
Safe, in-vehicle phone functionality is simple with built-in Bluetooth, enabling hands-free cellular phone operation using the car's speakers and the included external microphone to turn the car into a rolling speakerphone. Access to the user's phonebook is provided via Bluetooth phonebook transfer, with browsing and searching available by touchscreen controls.
The AppRadio includes a 30-pin connector, external GPS antenna, external microphone for hands-free calling and input/output connections to support the addition of an optional rear view camera, wired remote steering wheel control adapter and an external amplifier via one set of preamp outputs.
Pioneer's AppRadio will be available in late June with a suggested retail price below $500.
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A free Shakespeare production on the Boston Common has become quite the summer tradition, thanks to Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
This year the show is "Twelfth Night," one of the Bard's more popular romantic comedies, featuring identical twins, a sister and brother who are separated when their boat is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and they each fear the other is drowned.
Shakespeare's text begins with the sister, Viola, having landed on shore. But director Steven Maler starts the show with an extended pantomime of the storm with sails billowing and the sailors and passengers being tossed into the sea and struggling to survive. A kind of dance between Viola (Marianna Bassham) and her brother Sebastian (Nile Hawver) indicate how close they are. It's a lovely, creative opening.
Once Viola is on shore, she confers with a loveable Captain (Jerry Goodwin), who says he saw Sebastian tie himself to a mast and feels there is hope he may have survived.
In a nice scene shift, Orsino (Robert Najarian), who governs Illyria, comes on stage to talk with his aides. When they're done and start to leave, the shipwrecked sailors rise from the stage where they had been lying. You may have forgotten they were there. It's as if they share the same space without realizing the other group is there.
Viola takes on the character of a man, calling herself Cesario, and dresses in a turquoise stocking cap and a turquoise patterned shirt. She soon falls in love with her employer, Orsino, but can't reveal her love for him. After all, he thinks she's a boy. Najarian plays Orsino with an intense passion for Olivia, the daughter of a count, who shows no interest in him. But he also expresses interest in Viola without realizing he's doing it. It's a lovely, delicate thing. At one point, he leans his head against Viola, causing her to fall back and lie down with his head ending up in her lap. It's a charming moment.
Kerry O'Malley gives an exquisite performance as Olivia, shifting fluidly from one emotional position to another. When Viola as Cesario arrives at her house to plead for Orsino, Olivia wants nothing to do with any of it. They have a lively, spunky fight between them. But suddenly, Olivia shifts as if on a dime, and she's clearly falling in love with Cesario, a love that grows with intensity when Cesario next returns.
Bassham has her own liveliness and variety as Viola/Cesario, but it's a little too broad and hard to see how Olivia would fall in love with "him."
As in all of Shakespeare's comedies, there's a group of low-life comic characters. This group is headed by Sir Toby Belch, who's played by Robert Pemberton with considerable energy and charm and ends up being drunk much of the time. Conner Christiansen plays his buddy Sir Andrew Aguecheek as a very effeminate gay with lots of stylized mannerisms. Sir Andrew has a pointed Mohawk hairdo and first greets Sir Toby by jumping up and throwing his legs around his waist. The two have a lot of good-natured fun.
Sheree Galpert brings considerable spark to Maria, Olivia's employee. She helps plan a letter that she, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew leave for the stuffed shirt Malvolio (Fred Sullivan Jr.) to come across. He assumes that Olivia has written to him, having fallen in love with him. He's very funny trying to pronounce a few letters that don't quite add up to his name and then appearing, as the letter suggests, in cross-gartered yellow stockings, assuming this is how Olivia most wants to see him
In the second act, Sebastian appears, causing people to think he is his twin sister Viola/Cesario, with some funny and life-changing consequences.
Woody Gaul brings appealing intensity and seriousness to Antonio, who finds Sebastian when he first washes up on shore and looks out for him. Juan Rodriguez has an eager freshness as Fabian who joins the band of comic characters. And Remo Airaldi gives a poignant touch to Feste, Olivia's fool, who has the last speech of the play.
Cristina Todesco's set is based on a psychedelic mural created by Victor Reyes in Wynwood Walls, a warehouse district covered with street art, in Miami.
The play is based on identity confusion that's a bit improbable, but if you are willing to go with it, there's plenty of fun to be had.
"Twelfth Night"
WHEN: Through Aug. 10
WHERE: Boston Common, near the Parkman Bandstand
COST: Free
INFO: 617-426-0863; www.commshakes.org
Theater Review: Kerry O'Malley exquisite in 'Twelfth Night' on Boston Common
A free Shakespeare production on the Boston Common has become quite the summer tradition, thanks to Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.


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There are many intellectual reasons to enjoy bike commuting- it can save you time and money, it's good for your body and maybe Mother Earth- but it's the visceral feeling of it that keeps me coming back, especially in the cold weather. The kiss of the cold wind on my cheeks, the slight constriction of my lungs and chest (Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you...by bike!), the cold tear welling up at the corner of my eye and tingling toes clenching and releases the wool socks.
I saw a pizza delivery guy at the gates of the Naval Observatory, which is where Joe Biden lives. I'd really like to assume that "Uncle" Joe ordered some Papa Johns, but I doubt that he was home.
There's a reason why I sometimes jump red lights, especially if there's a long queue of cars behind me and that reason is because I don't want to get run over. Cars can accelerate must faster than I can and rather than risk the negative consequences of someone's impatience (and/or create a situation that I could just avoid through gentle and safe lawbreaking), if the road is clear, I'll start early. This allows me to get moving while worrying less about both slowing someone down or being passed too closely by someone trying to accelerate around me. I'm not saying that it's the morally right thing to do, but that's at least my justification: it seems safer than waiting.
L Street happenings:
- A driver cut me off by using the mixing zone as a place to pull over to pick up his wife or girlfriend, who was waiting on the sidewalk. He said "Oh SHIT" when he saw that he had done so. Luckily, I saw him well in advance and was quite prepared for it and wasn't hassled that much, but I appreciated his cursing because it shows me that he cares.
- It's not cool when someone drives in the bike lane for a block and a half.
- Still no bike boxes painted. I noticed their absence for the first time. Also, the bicycles painted in the lane stop maybe around 15th street. I assume more painting will be done in the coming weeks. We're still not looking at a finished product, so it's still a little to early to assess.
- Many drivers are still make left turn mistakes. This is a problem that, with time, will resolve itself to about 94% compliance (I'm the Nate Silver of guys who guess shit about bike lane compliance issues...?) but there's always going to be somebody who misses the mixing zone and decides to make the left turn anyway.
- Mail trucks in the bike lane every day. I snarked about it and I'm sure DDOT is working on the problem, but it's still annoying.


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Here's a question for you know-it-all bitches: what do you enjoy more? Sex... or being right? I want you to really think about that. Sex is the obvious answer, but that would mean you've never had bad sex. Or sex with a truly vile person. I've had too much of both. In fact, most of the people I've slept with have been hideous.
Being right though can be bittersweet too. Gloating is great, lording it over someone is even better, but you don't want to do either when it turns out you've been right about a movie star drug addict who eventually overdoses.
Whatever. I don't know why I'm getting all profound and sh-t over this when the subject here is just Carrie Underwood and being right about what a giant f-cking twat she is. After all, my nickname for her, for years, has been Country Bitch. Because she is a goddamn bitch. And recently she decided to throw her bitch at Leighton Meester.
It went down on Carrie's home turf, the Country Music Awards in Nashville last month, where Leighton was presenting. Leighton was a little nervous and just before she was scheduled to go on, Country Bitch approached her and snarled:
"Get out there and don't f-ck it up."
Unfortunately Blair Waldorf was still in New York. Leighton was shaken. And apparently, when asked later why she was such a giant asshole, Carrie replied, "Someone said that to me once and I got over it, so she'll get over it".
That's a Country Bitch right there. I wonder why it's so hard for people to believe. Is it because she's blonde?
As for why the bad blood between them – it's probably residual from when Carrie pretend-dated Chace Crawford for five minutes. If that's the case, bitch take your sh-t to New York, and we'll see then how you can really hold up in a throwdown outside the Grand Ol' Opry.
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My dad and sister arrive today and we're looking forward to showing them around and having a belated celebration of my dad's birthday. It will be really nice to have him here for his first visit and my younger sister's second!
Here are a couple of fun pics Dylan took yesterday, which will probably be included in our tour. Hope everyone has a great weekend!


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Pretty sweet! https://t.co/oOstLyvQDe- Monday Aug 31 - 9:09pm
A Bloody Mary with a meat straw. Perfect for Sunday brunch. http://t.co/jpPLfh9JeJ- Sunday Aug 30 - 5:07pm
I am a lover of bourbon. So I think I need to take an exploratory trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. http://t.co/RuAJdeMHex- Saturday Aug 29 - 3:36pm
Psyched that "James White", a film that @KidCudi acted in and scored, is coming to theaters 11/13. Been waiting. Lots of amazing talent.- Friday Aug 28 - 12:47am
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Bug severity: Start up crash / Game play crash / Unexpected behaviour/ Balance issue / Other
Other. Unable to play, although it's not a crash.
Complete steps to replicate bug:
At the launch screen before starting a mission (also after entering a new mission), the screen is black. Menu text appears normally, but everything else, even the mouse, is black. I don't think a screenshot would help. It's black.
Dxdiag output** or system specs for non Windows machines:
Here is a link to the output from "inxi -Fx" on my machine...
http://www.deltaworld.info/media/temp/L ... 171019.png
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Graphics were fine on earlier builds, so maybe it's just a switch on this build that needs to be toggled. I did try different resolutions for the window and switching some other visual settings in the game menu, but none of it made any difference. I'm glad to read that pets are showing up in the game. I look forward to meeting them. Thank you for the steady progress.
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Hey. I fixed this issue. Seems Nvidia didn't like my choice of shader version.
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Hello stitchers! When I was a kid my dad had this huge stack of comic books, most of them were Conan the Barbarian, Thor, and Silver Surfers. I however preferred one that my brother thought was kinda lame, Daredevil! This Friday, Neflix released their new Daredevil show, and I just got done binging on the first three episodes. I am very happy with it (much better than the movies). I really like the guy playing Foggy, I would totally hang with him….without the eel drinking that is.
During my viewing I charted up a couple versions of The DD himself. Yes I was watching, I just have a hard time sitting still without having something to do with my hands. I have Daredevil, a simplified version, and also both as just outlines. They are all in 5×6 knit/crochet blocks.
Feel free to contact me with your favorite Matt Murdock moments, pretty pictures of your projects, lethargic links, or charismatic comments. Enjoy! -Molina *Just click on the hyperlink of the charts you like, and it will take you to the free PDF download Daredevil Knit
Daredevil Outline Knit Daredevil Simplified Knit
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