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In very sad news, indie comic creator and overall nice guy Dylan Williams passed away this weekend from complications with Cancer.
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Today also marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks. All my love and best wishes goes out to the families of those affected. In Bethesda, MD the creme de la creme of small press convened for the annual Small Press Expo. One day I would love to attend, and meet all these luminaries of the indie comic world.
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I've had Chorinho con Bossa Nova in my head since early 2000. It was a free download on the now extinct mp3.com, and as soon as I heard it, I knew Luiz Simas would stay in my playlist for years to come.
Check out these outstanding photos by Ben Canales!
Lastly here's a page from my sketchbook which I haven't drawn in since June. The Sonic picture is based off a tweet by Ray Frenden concerning Sonic's old age. The other pic (sorry for the neck breaking) is dedicated to Agent Fornell's Season 7 (of NCIS) beard.
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Archive for October, 2011
2011-2012 Tahoma Wrestling Posters
Posted by Boomer's Photography in Team Posters, Uncategorized on October 28, 2011
Here are a couple of preseason wrestling posters I created for the 2011-2012 Tahoma Wrestling Team.
Nicole's Senior Pictures
Posted by Boomer's Photography in Senior Pictures on October 16, 2011
The rain held off long enough for us to get Nicole's senior pictures taken yesterday. We were able to get to three different locations yesterday and get some really great pictures taken.


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SOUTHWEST GLENDALE — They had open looks. They had opportunities from the corners, they ran plays for shots from beyond the arc and they had chances when the defense backed off.
None of it seemed to pay off for the members of the Holy Family girls' basketball team.
The Gaels missed all 20 of their three-point attempts and made just seven field goals in a 39-24 loss to first-place Alverno on Tuesday in a Horizon League game at the Pacific Community Center.
"[Our shots] weren't falling," said Holy Family Coach Ernest Siy, whose team was 3-1 in league entering Tuesday's game, a game behind Alverno (5-0) in league in the loss column.
"We had plays set up for the three-pointer, but they weren't falling. That's basketball for you."
Alverno, the defending league champion, stepped back and waited for Holy Family to hit a three before contesting the Gaels' shots.
"We were going to play prevent defense until they hit it and they didn't," said Alverno Coach Brent Fabbri, whose team improved to 9-4, 6-0 in league after defeating Holy Family for the second time this season.


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In the past week, the temperatures have started to warm up and I am loving the first signs of Spring. But, I'm not yet ready to bid farewell to my favorite soup- in fact, I think this soup works year-round.
This tomato bacon soup is a modified version of a recipe I found a few years back in a Rachael Ray magazine and has become a favorite in our household. It makes for a wonderful, hearty dinner, especially when paired with a gooey grilled cheese sandwich. Enjoy!
Yield: 8-10 servings
Fix Portions (per 1 cup serving): 1 green, ¼ yellow, ¼ red
- 4 slices turkey bacon (look for the kind without nitrates and preservatives)
- 1 large (32oz) can of crushed tomatoes (I recommend the Hunts All Natural kind with basil added. If you can't find that, regular crushed tomatoes are fine too)
- 1 can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 fresno (red) chile pepper, finely chopped (remove most of the ribs and seeds- while this is more of a mild/medium heat level, you don't want the spice to overpower the soup. You just want the flavor the pepper gives because in my opinion it really makes the dish!)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, grated
- ½ quart chicken stock (all natural, organic, low sodium is best)
- ¼ cup finely chopped fresh basil and parsley (best with both, but either or works best too)
- Bay leaves (i just use a sprinkle of dried, but you can add a whole fresh bay leaf if you prefer)
- In a dutch oven, brown the bacon. Remove from pan. Finely chop.
- Add the chopped onion, garlic, and fresno to the same pan and saute until tender (you cook it in the pan drippings, but you might need to add a little EVOO depending on how much grease your bacon yielded. Alternatively, if theres more than 1-2 tbsp of bacon grease, I would remove some before sauteeing the veggies, so the soup isn't overly greasy… just depends on your bacon that day). Season with salt, pepper, and bay leaves.
- Combine all ingredients in a crockpot and cook until heated through and beans are tender- I usually give it at least 3-4 hours on low, but it can cook all day too!
BonusI serve this with a grilled cheese on the side for dipping. The BEST cheese with this recipe is Boars Head 3-Pepper Colby Jack. It has a kick to it, so an alternative cheese might be better for kiddos, but its the perfect pairing!


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Stream Loaded (Remix), the newest drop from Smoke DZA which features Domo Genesis. The cut was released on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011. Smoke DZA continues to impress with each new leak, and Loaded (Remix) is no exception. It's strengthens Smoke DZA's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating Smoke DZA's next offering.
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Adding 10GBase-T Support to the Portfolio
One of the central tenets for Data Center 3.0 is the migration from GbE to 10GbE. Whether its to support unified fabric (FCoE or iSCSI) or to support the type of I/O consumption server virtualization is driving, we feel 10GbE is a fundamental building block of the next generation of data centers.
To that end, we have spent a good deal of effort providing our customers a granular and cost effective path from their current GbE infrastructure to 10GbE. We support fibre based connections across our switching portfolio with a wide variety of optics. With the advent of the Nexus 5000, we also added twin-ax to the mix with significantly lowered costs. A little while later, we introduced the Nexus 2000 fabric extenders at yet another option for customer migrating their data centers to 10GbE that both lowered costs and simplified management. We also recently added the Cisco Nexus 4000 blade switch for the IBM BladeCenter to the mix. The latest option we are offering is 10GBase-T (IEEE 802.3an-2006) support which allows customers to take advantage of their existing copper cabling as they navigate the transition to 10GbE. In keeping with the extend-your-investment theme, 10GBase-T will initially be available for the Cisco Catalyst family first, then the Cisco Nexus family.
With the addition of the 10GBase-T options, we continue to offer the broadest, most flexible portfolio of 10GbE options. Here are some more details:
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So what do you do when you get a penny (or the lowest denomination coin in your country)?
I keep them and roll them to take to the bank.
But I'm squarely in the camp that wants to get rid of them altogether...I was even before it cost more to make them than they're worth.
What's with all the local stations airing penny stories today? We got the same thing this evening. So, expanding on the last comment in the article, do we kill the nickel too, since it costs 5.73 cents to make?
I'm firming in the keep the penny camp, and I would love to find the source of my local news's claim that killing the penny would cost consumers $600m per year (thus justifying keeping the penny).
I think they should too
If they still want to mint it they should do what they do for the half dollar and just mint the penny for the uncirrulated and proof sets only.
I personally just throw all my change into a big coffee mug that is now overflowing. I only pillage the mug to grab quarters for the vending machine at work.
Cnn.com had a story about this today as well. Attached to the story is an amusing video where the reporter tries to by a newspaper with 25 pennies. One stand turns her away, and at a second the guy tells her to take the paper for free. I had a good laugh, I'd never thought about pennies being a burden. I'll still pick up a penny on the ground but only if it is head up.
Link to story and video:
Here's a picture of Edmond Knowles from the article and his $13,084.59 worth of pennies.
Here in NZ the smallest denomination is 5 cents, and they're going to start phasing that out at the end of this month. Our smallest will then be 10 cents, which is currently worth about 6 US cents.
Save them, roll them, and when I have business at the bank, I exchange them for gold dollar coins and/or $2 bills. Those I use mainly for tipping at restaurants or coffee money.
$600m. Wow.
I strongly believe that the smallest denomination of currency that we have should be the smallest denomination (or part thereof) that we should have to pay. Otherwise, it's just taking money from the consumers (me). And I know stores aren't gonna follow the rounding rules we're all used to (down at under 2.5c and up from 2.5 and above.)
For a second I was thinking, "Why would opinions be worth more today?"
Keep them around, I for sure don't want to see companies pricing things so they can extract an extra 4.9 cents on every purchase.
Especially when they are already taking fractional cents away from you when they compute the taxes -- purchase is 1 dollar and .1 cents after tax, heck lets make them pay dollar 1.01 and give them 99 cents in change.
Wow, that is a lot of pennies!
Working at a financial institution, I would to have that guy bring all of those pennies to my window!
I keep my pennies in a container on my desk at work, sometimes when I get bored and I play with them. One time I tapped them all together, it was fun. stupid pennies. Australia/NZ have it right. Death to the penny
Getting rid of pennies would make my job easier.
I like not having pennies, and I like the idea of just rounding to the nearest 5 cents.
They don't do many things well in Oz and NZ, but they handled their currency situation well. No pennies. Sweeeeet.
Going back to Canada the one time was a pain. I got like 8 pennies and I didn't know whether to keep them in my wallet's coin pouch, or just chuck them into the bin. Then I realized that we don't have bins in Canada. We have "garbage cans" and then really got confused.
That was the reasoning behind the 600m - the rounding up that stores would engage in would quickly add up. It's funny that it's only $2/person/year, but still more than half a billion....
It would probably be 600m a year in rounding profits at Wal-Mart alone.
Pennies do add up over time.
I'm in the keep the penny camp. If we start rounding to the nearest 5c I forsee stores carefully calculating their prices so that after tax they work out to X + 2.51c so they can get that little extra profit margin. Plus, what happens if I pay with a credit card? There's no reason to round that to 5c, they can make it as exact as they want. I did some programming for a commodities company that kept their clients' account balances to the hundredth of a penny. It may seem trivial but after millions of transactions they can add up quickly, just think Office Space.
Death to pennies, but this reminds me that that coinstar company advertised free coin counting when the proceeds are put on a card for places like Starbucks. I have change lying around, and I spend money on Starbucks regularly enough that this is a win-win.
Find a penny, pick it up,
and all day long you'll have good luck.
I hate pennies! I'll always just throw them out if I get them in change. Sometimes I'll throw out nickels too because they're worth so little and I'd rather not have the extra weight in my pockets.
Which rounds out to about $2 a year per consumer. I'll take it
Oh and while they're at it, why don't they stop doing gas prices with 9/10 of a cent. Freaking round it to the next penny.
We use the Swedish rounding system currently - where prices that come out at 3, 4, 6, 7 cents round to 5 and 1, 2 down to 0 and 8, 9, up to 10.
Electronic transactions still use the original price and most people pay that way anyway.
So, in theory, no one got stiffed by dropping the 1 and 2 cent coins. I presume something similar will come into play when the 5 goes. If anything, consumers pay less because all the 99c prices drop to 95c, and retailers save on cash handling expenses.
The banks however will continue to stiff everyone, like they always have, for electronic transactions that cost them almost nothing, but which they charge for as if they were cheques.
Only if you buy just one thing.
Say you live in a city with 8% tax. An item is priced at a buck...with tax that's $1.08 and gets rounded up to $1.10. Those darn smart shopkeepers just scammed me out of two cents.
But what if I buy two of that item? That's $2.00 x 1.08 = $2.16, which rounds down to $2.15 and I make out by a penny.
Buy three and the store makes an extra penny. Buy four and you get two pennies free. Throw in the wide variety of goods and their prices, and it's pretty apparent that it's essentially impossible to price things such that the store gets much benefit from the rounding...it all evens out in the end.


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NWSB Blogger and NBA insider Steve Lee reports in with his second installment of the 2012/13 NBA season on the Northwest hoops stars making noise in the NBA. Week two of the 2012-13 NBA season is under our belts and as expected there is a potpourri of stories to kick off the season. Steve Nash, Brandon Roy, Tony Wroten, Damien Lillard, Isaiah Thomas, Jason Terry, Rodney Stuckey and Spencer Hawes are all in this report.
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About the company: Advance Financial, which operates 71 community financial service centers, offers alternative financial services like free money orders, free bill pay, pre-paid debit cards and lines of credit up to $4,000. Every one of the 71 retail stores are open 24/7.
We were the quintessential mom-and-pop store when we started out, learning as we went, and we've made a lot of mistakes. When we made the decision to stay open 24 hours a day, it was a huge learning point for us. All of our customers loved it and our stores doubled in size, and it was just great, but we didn't stop to think about how it was going to impact our staff.
We had a short-sighted outlook. We didn't think that asking our employees to work till midnight when they'd been getting off at 6 p.m. for three years would have an impact on them. The way we rolled this out was probably a mistake, because we lost a significant portion of our staff when they couldn't work the hours we needed them to work. This was a big turning point for us and we really had to learn to focus on our employee experience just as much as our customer experience.
We learned that it's great to focus on the customer and all the things that they want, but you also really have to focus on your employees. You have to figure out how to roll these kinds of changes out in the best way for your employees, so that when it is a success, those employees benefit from the success.
When we have things that our customers really want, we've learned to deliver that service while keeping in mind the impact it will have on the employees, and now know it's all about balance. We understand how we can accommodate our employees' needs, whether we are going to need to hire more staff or change staff, and we make sure we do that way ahead of time before we implement any changes. If your employees aren't happy, your customers see that.
Going forward, we now ask for a lot more feedback from our employees. We've completely changed our management structure to a 5-to-1 ratio, which some people think is crazy, but every five stores has a district manager. This is so that every week, your district manager is spending an entire day in your store, coaching and developing that manager and making sure the staff has everything it needs. So when we get ready to roll something out, we go to those district managers and ask them for their opinions on the best way to implement a change because they're on the ground floor every day.
After we do roll something new out, we always ask our employees to let us know where the problems and cracks are and really keep that open communication because they're on the front lines. I'm at an office in Nashville and they're spread out across the state seeing exactly how customers are reacting.
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Happy Easter! We've enjoyed a wonderful weekend full of food and family. We headed down to Braxton's parents house Thursday when Braxton got off work and spent the last few days with his family. Tyler came up Friday night to watch the new movie Batman v. Superman in theaters with Braxton and some friends so he spent the night and we got to hangout with him Saturday morning. We went out to eat at this DELICIOUS little dinner for breakfast and ate waaaaay too much food. Anyone else binge eat over holidays? And then Sunday we drove down to Spanish Fork and spent the evening at my Aunt Heather's house with all of my side of the family. Everyone loved seeing the twins again since it had been a while, and we had a blast catching up with cousins. We really are lucky to have so much family and friends close by! A few days before Easter I had to do a photoshoot with the twins and their cute cousin Tristan. I love seeing the relationship these three already have! The boys already look up to Tristan and watch him so closely to follow what he does. It's adorable and I can't wait to see what happens as they get older.
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all remember the real meaning behind this holiday. He is risen!
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My Favorite Things | Fab.com founder Bradford Shellhammer
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Fab.com founder Bradford Shellhammer comes across a lot of wonderfully designed objects on a day to day basis. In fact, his job pretty much consists of coming across wonderfully designed objects and making sure we know about them. Here, Shellhammer curates a list of a few of his favorite things for Design Bureau.
1. Public Bikes: the perfect city bike, www.publicbikes.com, $595-995
2. Baggu Bags: foldable, versatile, essential, www.baggubag.com, $9
3. Black & Blum BBQ Planter: grill and grow in simple style, www.black-blum.com, $124
4. Native Shoes: lightweight EVA material molds to your feet, www.nativeshoes.com, $45
5. Penny Skateboards: bold plastic from Australia, www.pennyskateboards.com, $149-199 complete set
6. Bamboo Original Bottle: ecofriendly with crisp and clean taste, www.bamboobottleco.com, $20
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The reason why I decided to create a 3-meal low carb diet menu is because I feel that a low carb diet is the best path to health as long as the foods are coming from healthy, whole foods. The recipes on this menu are foods that I eat every day and feel great on. That being said, though this is a healthy diet, many people that first transition into a low carb diet do not feel too good because it is a big change for the body. Another caveat for you is that if you are a high-performance athlete, this diet is not for you! First, I'll give you a list of foods you can eat that are included in the low carb diet menu.
- Vegetables,
- Healthy Fats,
- Meats,
- Low-Sugar fruits,
- Sugar-free spices and seasonings
Notice that even whole grains (which are supposedly healthy) are not included in this list. Rice, potatoes, and bread should all be avoided as a general rule. Gluten-containing foods should also be removed because generally those foods are high carb. Please note that upon removing carbs, you will be on a high protein low carb diet. The best low carb diet, though should be a high fat diet. Do not be afraid of fat! Saturated fat is in fact very healthy! For further reading about this topic, I'd highly suggest looking into Gary Taubes and his research. So now to the low carb diet menu.
1) Asian Stir-fry
Ingredients: ½ onion, ½ a red pepper, 3 heads of broccoli, 1 clove garlic chopped, ¼ lb ground beef, 1/2 teaspoon tamari sauce, salt, black pepper, ½ teaspoon coconut oil
Serves 1 hungry individual, can serve 2
Chop the onion and the red pepper into small, bite-sized pieces. Do the same with the broccoli.
Take the coconut oil and place it on the pan on medium heat. I generally take a spoonful and then leave it on the pan so it can melt on the pan.
Now add the vegetables onto the pan. Start with the onions, peppers and broccoli. Add salt and black pepper. Wait 4-5 minutes while stirring occasionally. Now add the garlic.
Now add the ground beef and then the tamari sauce. Continue cooking until the entire stir-fry is cooked. Add some more salt or black pepper for taste. Enjoy!
2) Coconut Curry
Ingredients: ½ can of Thai Kitchen Coconut Milk full fat, 1 can of diced tomatoes, ½ onion, ½ red pepper, ½ lb chicken breast or ground beef, curry powder, black pepper, salt
Serves 1
Brown meat in a pan with curry powder. Remove from pan and chop the meat into bite sized pieces. Add coconut milk and then veggies. Allow at least 4-5 minutes to cook. Add some more curry powder, black pepper and salt for taste.
3) Lemon water Ice
Ingredients: Juice from 1 Lemon, enough Ice to fill one cup, Water, <1/2 teaspoon Stevia
Serves 1
Directions: First squeeze the juice out of the lemon. Then throw that along with a cup of ice into the blender. Add enough water for it to blend. If your blender is not strong enough you will need more water. While blending, add the stevia in very small increments at a time. It is very sweet so you do not want to add too much. When the concoction looks like water ice, take it out of the blender and enjoy!
That is it with the low carb diet menu. All of these foods are very low in carbs but there is enough for the body to function! Remember, if you are only a beginner and you still feel hungry upon eating these meals, eat more! Eat enough to feel satiated, as a low carb diet will not get you fat!
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Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly the joint-fourth highest paid celebrity in the world, only trailing musician...
That's according to Forbes who noted that the 31-year-old earns an estimated $88 million annually. In the sporting stratosphere, that puts him ahead of Barcelona forward Lionel Messi ($81.5 million) and Cleveland Cavaliers talisman LeBron James ($77 million) who are second and third, respectively, in the rankings from the sporting world.
Here is a look at the top 10 names on the list and their estimated earnings, per Forbes: Forbes Celebrity 100: Top 10 Position Celebrity Earnings
1. Taylor Swift $170 million
2. One Direction $110 million
3. James Patterson $95 million
4. Cristiano Ronaldo $88 million
4. Dr. Phil McGraw $88 million
6. Kevin Hart $87.5 million
7. Howard Stern $85 million
8. Lionel Messi $81.5 million
9. Adele $80.5 million
10. Rush Limbaugh $79 million
According to Judge, Ronaldo picks up a staggering $55 million in wages, while the rest of the money earned comes from lucrative sponsorship deals. The former Manchester United man has links with Nike, TAG Heuer, Sacoor Brothers suits and Monster. It's little surprise to see the Portuguese so high in the standings as he continues to excel on the field. This year, in particular, has been one to remember for Ronaldo.


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Thoughts from Games for Health 2011: Sensors, Opportunity, Scale
May 23, 2011, 6:19 AM, Posted by Paul Tarini
Here are a few of my initial ideas from the 2011 Games for Health Conference, put on by Ben Sawyer and Beth Bryant:
1. The sensors are coming, the sensors are coming. Sensors and the software to collect and analyze the data are on the verge of becoming retail products. Green Goose is one company hoping to grab this market. What does it mean for health games? It means that soon we will be able to turn lots of things into data collection and data input devices. So think about games that use household objects instead of, say, a Wii remote. You could turn your house into the playing field for a game.
2. Better seeds and more fertile ground. The quality of health games—the game mechanics, the theory underlying design is getting better. At the same time, the context in which we can use games to improve health is expanding. We can now embed games in social networks, so think about linking someone's facebook friends in with their game efforts to lose weight or manage their diabetes.
3. There's likely more than one way for a game that has an impact at scale. When we got into this space at RWJF, we were thinking about games as therapeutic interventions for individuals—one person with one game addressing one condition that a lot of individuals have. But building off item 2 above, given what Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler are showing with their research on transmission of health behaviors through social networks, you could design a health game that requires social networks—teams—to play. Still another level up is a game that could target a health problem that was a function of a system problem. That is, a game that targeted a health problem that resulted not from someone's genetics, but from set of processes and systems that are outside of any one individual's control. Imagine a game that's designed to get some producers to make healthier food.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF Pioneering Ideas blog.


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Something similar to Iris Zero (MANGA) Updated
any Manga similar to Iris Zero? Genre can be Comedy, Romance, Action, Supernatural. NO HORROR and Harem(could be like a love triangle, not something where 1 guy is love by like 6 different girl).
{Update} Im just looking for something where the main character, The guy just want to be left alone, he dosnt want to get involve, and he dosnt care. But the girl is like an hyper energetic character who kinda make him get involve.
Kinda like Iris Zero, where Mizushima dosnt want to get attention, he dosnt want to get involve, and he dosnt want to be exposure but Sasamori a stubborn girl who drag him into it.
It has to have Comedy and Romance.
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Try Immortal Rain! It's a great romance and supernatural love story with lovable characters and a plot that will keep drawing you in.
Plus it's finished. I totally recommend it! Give it a shot and tell me what you think, that is if you haven't read it.
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From Tokyopop: Rain Jewlitt, known as the Methuselah, is a spaced-out, immortal, 624-year-old man dressed in priest's clothes. He's got eternal youth and a large price on his head ... put there by those questing after the secret of his immortality. Machika Balfaltin is a tomboyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who, upon the death of her grandfather, sets out to kill Methuselah, the one bounty her assassin grandfather, Zol the Grim Reaper, couldn't kill. Instead, however, Machika ends up being saved by Rain again and again from other aspiring bounty hunters attacking them both. Sound like the beginnings of an odd relationship? You won't believe where their journey takes them
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He a 624 year old man and she is a 14 year old girl????? hmmmmmmmmmmm sound like a Pedofile. no offense. ima give the first chapter a try.
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|2012-04-18, 04:03
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Another Anime/Manga with a kind, compassionate and understanding lead, plus a great story would be Natsume Yuujinchou.
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singing heartbreak
I can't believe Yankee-kun to Megane-chan has not been mentioned. It has that exact scenario; the guy(a deliquent) wants nothing to do with class, but is constantly egged to join in activities by the hyperactive class rep girl. There is a change in focus a good ways in(which is a spoiler), like, maybe around chp 40 or 50, but by that time, it won't matter if you like the story(it's still good, just changes its focus). It's mostly a comedy, and not TOO much in the romance department except certain moments(like, there is some minor romance in the prologue chaps that'd satisfy you I'd think).
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I really hope this going to have an ending to it and it not like naruto and bleach where it endless.
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is kinda similar to Iris Zero, except that magic is the main theme (only the novel and manga are currently available).
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Its a Fantasy, Action, Mecha manga, but the main character seems to be similar to the main in Iris Zero like you're looking for. It has a sound amount of comedy and a small bit of romance (as current chapter).
Break Blade the name.
Its about a guy who has no power over utilizing quatz (think of it as fuel), So hes lived his life scolded and humiliated by others. Until they find an ancient Golem he somehow activates.
more info here ==> http://myanimelist.net/manga/4608/Break_Blade
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Vote your conscience, vote for a third party candidate.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2012
Here is another video of the debate.
from CSRL
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian Gary Johnson (former New Mexico governor), the Justice Party's Rocky Anderson (former mayor of Salt Lake City) and Virgil Goode, the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned Constitution Party.


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The awarded artist of the 2010 Edition of the GAA-Foundation Prize is SASAKI.
In 2011 he participated in the exhibition "Personal Structures" as part of the 54th La Biennale di Venezia, a collateral event with 28 artists from 5 continents, representing 12 countries, organised by the GAA-Foundation and curated by Karlyn de Jongh and Sarah Gold.
The Performance HEARTBEAT VENICE BIENNALE 2011 by the artist SASAKI took place the first 2 weeks of June, 299 visitors participated in the documentation of their Heartbeat creating a Collection of people who were alive at that specific moment in time, a.o. the artist Arnulf Rainer as well as the President of Austria.
Video of the performance HEARTBEAT VENICE BIENNALE 2011 by the Artist SASAKI. During the exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES, 54. La Biennale di Venezia, at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.


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Doghouse Blues
By the 22nd Century, mankind has reached the stars and beyond them. Warp drives take colonists to the outer reaches of the galaxy where terraforming has helped create new, Earth-like worlds that provide homes for a humanity that has outgrown its native planet. If this expansion across the depths of space was not enough, mankind has also learned how to manipulate the space-time continuum, permitting time travel and travel into parallel dimensions where the laws of the universe may not apply at all.
It should be a time of peace, prosperity, enlightenment, exploration and the expansion of horizons. But it is not. Far from it.
The known universe is far from peaceful or enlightened. Earth, ravaged by three atomic wars, ravaged by global warming,is introverted, sullen and filled with prejudice and hatred. Elsewhere, the human colonies have encountered and come into conflict with alien races that are every bit as resentful and aggressive as humankind. The space-lanes are beset by pirates, reavers and slavers.
The parallel dimensions are ruled by exploitative individuals who cannot resist imposing their will through the bending of the laws of reality. The galaxy is a ruthless, dog-eat-dog place.
Colonists fight for survival. Despots plunder and murder with abandon. Criminals assault society and escape on the next starship, free to continue their crimes elsewhere. No one is safe. No one is secure. The rule of law is replaced by the rule of the gun. Where justice and order should exist, chaos, hatred, cruelty and prejudice prevail.
And nowhere is the cruelty and prejudice more prevalent than in the way humanity treats the most unfortunate people in its society – the mutants.
The atomic wars of Earth caused unprecedented levels of radiation to permeate the atmosphere. Strontium 90, a virulent radioactive isotope, is responsible for creating severe and widespread mutation across the populace. The mutations range from the subtle through to the catastrophic but the degree of mutation is unimportant. Each and every mutant is feared, hated and despised by the 'Norms'. Through no fault of their own the mutants are forced to live in ghettos, are denied honest work and forced to scrape through life hungry, begging for both food and life.
Many will die – through neglect, Norm cruelty or as a result of their mutations. Most will spend their lives in abject misery, rejected by their families and wider society. But for some – the strong, the quick-witted, the amoral – there is another way…
In a sprawling galaxy where law enforcement is simply impossible, the obvious recourse is to rely on bounty hunters to bring criminals to justice, or to carry out the death penalty for those crimes. Few Norms are willing to work for such blood money, but for mutants the Search and Destroy Agency offers a way out of misery and penury. A way to be of service to society; a way to make a living. The bounty hunters of the late 22nd Century are the mutants; Search and Destroy agents, at liberty to roam the galaxy in search of its scum and in return for money.
Society has a different name for these agents. To society, they are not Search and Destroy agents, but Strontium Dogs


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The Beauty And Power Of Crystals
I've been surrounded by crystals, both in my personal healing and psychic work, since I can remember. I wouldn't call myself an expert on the subject, but I do know that these beautiful stones are aesthetically pleasing, and powerful to have around.
Many crystals have been given to me as gifts, and it's as if the giver always knows exactly what I need in terms of what the gemstones or crystals can help me with.
When choosing crystals and stones for myself, I simply allow them to 'speak' to me, trusting that their vibrations will call me. The actual color of the crystal or stone can have quite a profound effect on the mind. For example, medical patients are known to respond to the color blue, when it is used decoratively in a recuperative environment, and criminals are known to be calmer in a cell painted in very pale pink. Continue reading
Power Of Love, Or Love Of Power?
You may be familiar with the myth about the city of Atlantis and the civilization that is believed to have once lived there.
The inhabitants of Atlantis are also believed to have been very advanced spiritually, much more than we are today. They were a psychic people and possibly communicated telepathically. They were able to build amazing structures and move impossibly large objects, and also do other amazing things that would be unheard of at that time.
The Atlanteans also used crystals, like some of us do today, and they had a higher spiritual or cosmic consciousness. It certainly must have been a very saintly realm.
But, as the story goes, there came the influence of a dark, negative energy that made material things look more and more attractive to this advanced people. They turned to material desires and increasingly sought material gain and self-indulgence. Continue reading


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Growler beat me to posting a doggy pic! I ran out of time yesterday, but I found one. Shadow hated the house reno's we were doing, so her safe place was under the temporary sink
I see actually it isn't even hooked up yet! All the pics are great, Cally in a box - too cute.
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Steve Messer from Steamy Press messaged me to show me his new project, Not Our Publication - a digitised collection of different zines owned by Steamy Press.
NOP (Not Our Publication) is a code used by publishers to identify books that are not their own but are held within their warehouse. With this project, Steve wants to showcase the material he has collected, providing an educational library for other independent publishers.
There are already some great titles in this collection, including some zines that will be familiar if you check my Sunday Zine Review regularly.
Steve is now accepting submissions for this collection - if you want to send him your zine have a look at the contact information here:


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Hogs take game one 7-2 over Seminoles
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Mike Bolsinger pitched five innings of relief after three rain delays, giving up no runs on four hits to lead the No. 16 Arkansas Razorback Baseball team to a 7-2 win over the No. 5 Florida State Seminoles in Tallahassee, Fla., on Friday to take a 1-0 lead in the NCAA Super Regional.
The Razorbacks (38-22) pick up their 16th win against a ranked team this season and fourth in row while Florida State (45-17) saw its 18-game winning streak snapped with the Razorback win. The duration of Friday's game went three hours and two minutes in the box score but after three rain delays and more than six hours of waiting, the 12:05 p.m. first pitch contest finally finished at 9:14 p.m., nine hours and nine minutes from beginning to end.
The Razorbacks took advantage of several Florida State miscues both in the field and on the pitcher's mound, capitalizing on three Florida State errors and six walks. The Razorbacks tallied their seven runs on just five hits while Bolsinger and Dallas Keuchel confounded Florida State hitters in the clutch forcing the Seminoles to strand 14 base runners over the nine-inning affair.
The first rain delay of the game came in the bottom of the first inning. A leadoff double placed a runner at second, and then with one out and a 3-2 count on the next batter the umpires removed the teams from the field after just 12 minutes of play. The teams returned to the field 48 minutes later and Arkansas' starter, Keuchel, would get out of a two-man on, one out jam by forcing a ground out and fly out.
Arkansas scored the first run of the game in the top of the second inning with two outs when Zack Cox stroked a home run over the center-field fence. The historic shot gave the Louisville, Ky., native the Arkansas school record for home runs by a freshman (12), breaking the mark of Brian Kirby set in 1998.
Florida State tied the score at one in the bottom of the second when an error on the first batter came back to bite the Hogs. The error was followed by a single and after a pair of fly outs; Tyler Holt delivered his second hit of the game, a single through the left side of the infield that scored the runner from second.
The Seminoles tried to start a two-out rally in the third, but an outstanding play by Brett Eibner in center field kept the score tied at one. Florida State picked up a two-out single and the next batter hit a deep fly ball to center field that Eibner went back on. Making a leap at the wall, Eibner crashed into the padded structure and made the catch to end the inning.
The Razorbacks had an opportunity to have a big inning in the top of the fourth but a 57 minute rain delay may have killed the momentum Arkansas had built. A leadoff single by Ben Tschepikow was followed by another single by Scott Lyons and a third single by Andy Wilkins loading the bases in a downpour. As soon as Wilkins reached base the umpires called both teams off the field to wait out the game's second rain delay. After the break Bo Bigham grounded into a double play which scored Tschepikow from third to give the Razorbacks a 2-1 lead in the contest. Unfortunately, Arkansas' bases loaded no out rally only produced one run.
Florida State had things going in the bottom of the fifth with back-to-back singles to lead off the inning, but the third rain delay of the game halted play at 3:08 p.m. A pair of thunder storms rolled through Tallahassee and sent Arkansas back to its hotel at 4:30 p.m. The Razorbacks and Seminoles picked up the contest at 7:30 p.m. and Florida St. quickly executed a sacrifice bunt, and then loaded the bases when Arkansas relief pitcher Mike Bolsinger hit the next batter. A high fly single into no-man's land in right-center field scored one run to tie the game at two, but Bolsinger settled in to strike out the next batter and get a ground out to end the inning.
A patient Arkansas squad took the game's largest lead in the top of the seventh inning when it scored three runs on no hits. A leadoff walk to Andy Wilkins was followed by another walk and then a hit batter, loading the bases with no outs. Brett Eibner followed with another walk to bring in Wilkins and James McCann's sacrifice fly to deep right-center field scored Bigham. Arkansas' third came across on a finely executed safety squeeze by Collin Kuhn, making it a 5-2 game.
The Hogs tacked on two additional runs in the eighth to make it a 7-2 game capitalizing this time on three Florida State errors. Wilkins reached on a one-out error and advanced to third when a failed pickoff attempt sailed past the first baseman. He would score on a wild pitch and after Bigham reached on an error by the second baseman and Cox hit a double off the wall in right-center, scored on McCann's fielder's choice to shortstop.
The Razorbacks and Seminoles continue their best of three series on Saturday with an 11 a.m. central start at Dick Howser Stadium. Saturday's contest will air on ESPN2 with the Razorbacks having a chance to advance to the College World Series. For more information regarding Razorback baseball or University of Arkansas athletics please visit ArkansasRazorbacks.com.


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Actors: Tony Campisi, Richard Israel, Crystal Jackson, Jonathan Klein, Russell Scott Lewis
Director: Richard Natale
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
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Chronicles the lives of two ordinary men who find love together only to lose it. In an era of easy sex and open relationships they have only two rules: dont fall in love with others and no jealousy. Still rules are made to... more »
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A Powerful Piece
Barry Herem (email@example.com) | 07/27/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
""An endearing and sincere drama that chronicles the ten-year life of a gay relationship. Back in 1978, everything seemed possible for several young men. For Philip and Guy, there was the thrill and exhilaration of first love. For their friends Devon, Jerry and Todd, life was still an open book with so many pages yet to be filled. But ten years later, all are gone except for Philip who is left alone, wondering what the hell happened. He tries to make sense of the joys and the sorrows as well as to chart a new direction for the future. Writer/director Natale's feature film debut depicts the lives of five friends in conflict with themselves and each other yet ultimately, the insightful tale is about love and survival. The title is drawn from events around the sale of a shirt which brought each of them together. "A totally refreshing and romantic (even sexy) drama, true to the crises many have endured without being pedantic, mature without losing its vitality. A powerful piece about the force that tear people apart and ultimately keeps them together." Outfest"
Merits repeated viewing
Terry L. Whipple terrtwo@earthlink. | Lakewood, Ohio | 12/27/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is now my favorite drama about gay men in love; and TRUE love, not fascination, is certainly central here---a rare enough feature as it is. The symbol of that love is the titular item of fabric, worn over the course of ten stormy years, alternately, by the two protagonists, Philip and Guy. The former is the "faithful one.The latter the emotional bruiser in the story. The thoughtful story is non-linear, composed of shuffled scenes divided roughly into two time periods: (1) "Before he betrayed me" and (2) "After he forgave---and more importantly--- forgot." The syntax of the narrative is abetted, more or less, by the appearance or non-appearance of that green shirt, which serves as a sort of punctuation mark along the rough-and-tumble jumble of events in "constant collision": (A) A colon, for instance: in one "after" scene the loving revelation of a slotch of yellow paint on the shirt refers us instantly back to a "before" scene explaining the loving source of that same splotch, providing undisturbed continuity between two periods of time, a transition made possible only by Philip's act of forgiveness. (B) A "comma": When the shirt does not appear in a given scene, the scene is tied to the preceding picture in the sequence in which the shirt does appear. Such as when Linda helps Philip pack Guy's bag for his first (of many) trips to the hospital. We know from the shirt's absence there that the scene falls chronologically after guy's seizure in the kitchen, the topic of that scene which immediately precedes. Rare intelligence in film-making, regardless of genre."
Good film...
masonmc | DC and Miami | 07/12/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this movie upon the recommendation of a friend. Glad I did. Have shared the story with several frinds over time. I see something different each time I watch it. I lost a lover 5 years ago. It is a moving story of friends and lovers and the good and not so good in us we don't let anyone but our closest of friends experience. It is an accurate take on relationships, both in and out of bed.It's great to see a movie where the gay character(s) aren't psycho or totally flaming (although, there are a couple of guys who do spontaneously combust.) The people here are more like people I know. The film was very well done and the characters engaging; some more likeable than others... like in life.The sound was disappointing; otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.I would have purchased it on DVD if available."
A fine story of romance, disillusion, forgiveness and love.
Barry Herem (firstname.lastname@example.com) | Seattle, Washington | 09/02/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is an exceptionally well-written and convincingly acted film about disillusion in romance and forgiveness in love between men. The opening scene immediately sets the tone when we, along with the protagonist, overhear two men earnestly discussing their relationship with a poignancy recognizable to anyone who has loved. From there, in a series of flashbacks, the film takes us through the deeply faulty path of committment between eternal opposites: one who is essentially faithful and another who is not in the late 70's. Many of the lines are memorable which is what particularly gives this film its depth. Early on we are promised a moment which, to paraphrase, cancels all that goes before giving the strength to endure all that is to come. Yes, AIDS, but not before we witness that moment, one of forgivness so beautifully wrought, so lovely as to instruct us in love itself. Written and directed by Richard Natale who unmistakably knows what he's doing. He is notably aided in this by Gregory Phelan and Kevin Spirtas whose feelings fill and fulfill every silence, look and word of this small masterpiece."


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Four men have been selected to comprise a tournament where the UFC's first flyweight champion will be crowned, UFC president Dana White announced Saturday night following UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida.
Demetrious Johnson will meet Ian McCall in on semifinal, while Joseph Benavidez takes on Yasuhiro Urushitani in the other. Both matches will happen at UFC on FX 2, a show slated for Australia on March 4. The event will air live on the U.S. on March 3 based on the time difference between the two regions.
Johnson (9-2) suffered a loss to UFC bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz in his last match. "Mighty Mouse" was expected to face Eddie Wineland at next month's UFC on FOX 2 show but that bout has now been scrapped. McCall is the reigning Tachi Palace Fights flyweight champ, holding a career record of 11-2. "Uncle Creepy" will be making his Octagon debut in the tourney.
Benavidez has won his first two UFC fights, stopping Wineland and Ian Loveland. With a 15-2 overall record, his lone two losses have come at the hands of Cruz. Urushitani (19-4-6) holds a five-fight win streak and will be making his UFC debut on the card.
MMATraining Take: It is obvious the UFC wants Johnson-Benavidez for the finals, as they are two very high-profile fighters. But neither man can overlook their semifinal round opponent. The flyweight division is sure to bring excitement to any UFC card, and these four men will all do just that.


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Evan Ehrenberg, who attended Harbor View Elementary, is headed off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full fellowship, where he will earn a doctorate in computational neuroscience.
Here's the kicker: Evan is 16 years old, and it was just a couple of months ago that he graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's of science in cognitive science with an emphasis in computational modeling.
At age 11, Evan enrolled in Irvine Valley College, where he graduated with an associate's degree at 14. He was the youngest graduate in the history of the college.
"I'm sure it's genetic," said his father, David Ehrenberg, a software engineer who chalked up his son's unusual intellect to his wife, Elizabeth. "She has a photographic memory and she's a 'visual-spatial' learner while I'm more 'auditory sequential.' And Evan has been able to learn in both ways."
Sure of many things, even Evan isn't quite sure where he got his book smarts, and as he begins to launch into a discussion of nature versus nurture, he's sidetracked for the moment and has this much to say for certain: As soon as he started kindergarten he remembers looking for the lecture halls only to be mortified that there weren't any.


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Master craftsman and designer Seiki Torige is a Japanese glass master whose works can be seen in public buildings in Japan as well as the USA and has been sought after by collectors from all over the world. Seiki is known for the sheer size of his works – one exceeding 1 ton in one piece and they are often up to 131 feet in length. The scope of his work is amazing from cast Buddha heads to laminated discs and giant whale tails. Glass walls, window decorations as well as glass objects have been commissioned by restaurants, hotel lobbies, schools and temples in Japan and has been exported to all corners of the world for both private and commercial use.
Seiki uses recycled soda glass for the production of all his pieces. The techniques at the studio include lamination, hand blowing, chiseling, casting and slumping, to name a few. His trade mark colors of watery green and cobalt blue glass are displayed in sculptures, vases, large glass bowls, lamps and tableware. He has graciously created two series of glassware for Banana Wind. The Sea Glass series is sandblasted and reminiscent of tumbled sea glass, and the Sea Swirl series is reminiscent of the toiled waters of the Hawaiian waves as they break on the jet black lava rocks on shore.
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Please note all videos from the Tumblers & Tiaras event are now posted on Don's Youtube Channel.
All photos will be up on the OGC Power Tumbling Group Facebook by the end of the week. So many videos and pics to go through. My apologies for not getting these up faster.


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South West Irish Sea Survey
A New Investigation of the Irish Sea Invertebrate Fauna
The Museum has embarked on a new study of the seabed invertebrates of the Southern Irish Sea.
This new project, entitled the South West Irish Sea Survey (SWISS), is in collaboration with the University of Wales Bangor (UWB), and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and their associated environmental consultants AquaFact International Services Ltd. It is part funded by the European Union (EU) under their INTERREG programme. INTERREG aims to promote collaboration between adjacent EU countries - in this case Wales and Ireland. SWISS is to a large extent a continuation of the earlier work carried out by the NMGW and published in 1995 as the BIOMÔR Report 1. The scope of the new study is larger, however, incorporating additional sampling techniques and involving a wider range of experts from both sides of the Irish Sea. When the study is completed the entire southern Irish Sea seabed will have been mapped in terms of its sediments, animal assemblages and biodiversity.
Sampling was heavily dependent on NMGW staff. Opportunities were made for non-biological staff to take part and these were enthusiastically taken. Despite some unpleasant weather at the start and end of the offshore work, all participants found the experience worthwhile - even enjoyable!
In addition to the core team of Andy Mackie & Teresa Darbyshire (BioSyB), Ivor Rees (UWB) and Caitriona Nic Aonghusa (TCD), other NMGW staff involved were Deborah Spillards (BioSyB), Julian Carter (Conservation), Mike Lambert (Geology), Kate Lowry (Art), Don Bradford (Warding) and Jim Wilde (Photography). The remaining offshore places were filled by Brendan O'Connor, Florence White and Patricia Dineen of AquaFact. Piers Langhelt, Alison Trew and Peter Howlett (all BioSyB) provided logistic support.
In total some 68 stations were sampled by grab, dredge or trawl, resulting in over 500 buckets of preserved sieved animals/sediment. The processing of all the material will take place in the Invertebrate Laboratory of BioSyB. Initially 4 sorters (2 from Wales, 2 from Ireland) will extract all the animals from the sediments.Thereafter, the specimens will be sent to appropriate taxonomic experts for identification and enumeration. Only then can analysis of the results commence. Sponsorship for a publication similar to BIOMÔR 1 will be sought in the coming year and it is planned that this will appear in 1999. Specimens from the SWISS project will be lodged in the collection of the NMGW and the Natural History Museum Dublin.
For the future, the Marine Biodiversity section plans to continue investigating the invertebrates off the Welsh coasts. Prime among the areas to be targeted are the Bristol Channel / Severn Estuary and the Celtic Sea. The former has been studied previously, but the potential for development (e.g. Sea Empress) make it an area of considerable interest. The latter is of particular interest faunistically since it borders the Irish Sea itself and the Bristol Channel . From a zoo-geographical point of view alone it would be extremely valuable to compare the fauna of the Celtic Sea with that of the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel. Taxonomically, the Celtic Sea promises to be as, if not more, rewarding than the Irish Sea has been to date.


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On this page I am going to try to give some tips and suggestion for guys, who pick up ladies at the bar or at the Internet. Casual dating might be in their mind, but these tips at next, can apply to any kind of adult play.
It is easy to pick up a girl or a woman in our open sexual world, it's easy to take her into a hotel room. However sometimes it's hard to get things going. The biggest mistake that man can do is talk to much. If she is in a hotel room with you, you have already talked enough. It is time for some action. However, you have t make it sure, she wants the same things what you want, otherwise you will be charged with sexual assault, rape and who knows what else…
Therefore you go forward only, if you are sure, she is in the game… At first you have to make her relaxed. One of the secrets for having a great time is relaxation. A nervous, stressed woman not much fun to be around. You, as her male partner have to make her relaxed. Confidence is the best solution. You have to be confident. Even if you don't, you have to look like you are confident.
I assume some kissing, touching and erotic play already happened at the bar or at the way to your room. Otherwise it is very unlikely she will go to the hotel room with you. So you are in the room with her. You have to set the mood right for sexual play. If you want to have a great time, you need to do your homework. In this case you need to rent the room in advance and take some "stuff" over there in advance. Stuff, like a portable CD player, CDs, candles, maybe some light, that you can adjust, and massage oils.
That's right, massage oils, because you are going to give her an erotic massage. A good erotic massage is going to make her relax and if you do it right, she might even have an orgasm while you massage her.
You can see there are no freebies here. If you want to have a great time, you have to work, you have to put forth an effort and you need some preparation. Less preparation is needed if you do it in your home, but you should not invite strangers in your home.
Well, isn't it strange a bit already? You can have a casual sex, one night stand with a stranger, but not in your home? It is just a pre caution. Sometimes things aren't going to the right direction and sometimes it will better for you, if your new partner don't know where you exactly live. However it's up to you and up to your morals…
I hope you already know that most women are turned on by gentle bites on the neck and throat while being held from behind. You know that gently pulling her head back with her hair while kissing her is very exciting for a lot of women. So as soon as you close the door you should do the above immediately.
The previous sentence has two important words in. They are, gentle and closed the door. At first you need to close the door, because you don't want anybody to walk in to your room, not your room mate, not your mom and not room service. If you are in a hotel room you should place a "Do Not Disturb" sign outside the door.
The other world is "gentle". You have to be gentle all the time. You should not push her and you should not do anything that might make her uncomfortable.
Dim the lights, light some candles, turn on some very romantic music, maybe even pour her a drink. Make the room as romantic as possible. And now you can start to massage her. You have two goals in a massage, the first you have to make her relax, the second you have to turn her on. At first she doesn't have to be naked. You just rub her shoulders and offer her a back massage. Have her lie on her stomach and massage her back with nice long steady strokes.
You should read her body language. If she likes what you do, you should say something like: I should apply some oil, and you go and get that oil. You do not ask her, can I apply some oil, if you ask, she might say yes, or might say no. You have to be confident, not pushy, just confident. You should not give her any chance to say no. So you tell her I will apply some oil and go to the bathroom and get the oil. You go to the bathroom because heated oil does better job. The easiest way to heat up the oil is with hot water. Just put the oil container into a bigger container of hot water.
Take her blouse or sweater off. The bra can stay. Have her lie on her stomach again. If her bra's opening from the back just open it. If from the front ask her to open it. Don't poor the oil on her back. You do not need too much, you do not want to make a mess, plus the oil is not heated up yet. Just poor a small amount in to your palm, wipe your palms together, it will warm up the oil and start to massage her back again.
This massage should be different from your regular back massage. During this massage her back is naked, making it easier for you to access all the areas. From her body language you might find out where are her erotic zones. Massage her spine area with nice long steady strokes. Next, some oil all over her back and start massaging in small circles. From the back, move to her arms and legs. To do so she have to take off some more clothing.
Don't worry about her panties. They can stay, if she takes them off it's, okay but you should ignore her butt. Maybe just cover it with a towel. Massage her legs exactly the same way how you did on her back (long steady strokes at first, and small circles second).
A foot massage can be quite erotic and certain pressure points can spawn feelings of elicit sexual pleasure. You should spend plenty of time massaging the bottom of her feet. Millions of nerve endings are there, it can start to turn her on.
Now pore some oil into your palm, place one of your hands on to her leg, the other hand on to her other leg and with a nice long move go back to her butt.
Right now is the time to start the erotic part. Place on hand at the bottom of one cheek and place your other hand at the top of the other cheek. Move your hand up and down, to the side and center in the same time and opposite direction. Put a little more pressure on, it should tighten her skin. If she is still wears her underwear, you can slide your hands under it, and after a couple of strokes just take them off.
Move your hands on her upper thighs and point your fingers toward the inside of her thighs. Massage it with small circles. Lightly brush her vagina's outer lips with the top of your fingers. Within a few seconds you should see the excitement in her body language. If you are healthy, you should have a hard on by now. Slightly brush your body over hers, to let her feel your hard penis and whisper softly in her ear that it is time for her to roll over.
If you think she isn't relaxed enough, you can cover her genital area with a towel. If you think she is getting horny (you can find out from her body language, hip movement and her breathing), you do not need to cover anything.
Massage her breasts and stomach gently. Use the circular motion. Play with her nipples, but not too long. If you spend too much time there, she might ask you stop, and you don't want to stop now. Move the action to her upper body, once again ignore her genital area, but you might slightly touch it, while massaging your way down to her feet. Massage all the way down on one of her feet, use both of your hands. The circular motion is the best. Spend some time to explore behind her knee cap. Do the same with on her other foot on your way back to the top, but now stop at the genital area. Give her a long very erotic kiss.
Seat facing her vulva, on the side of her body. Pour the warm oil into your hand and hold your hand over her vagina, let the oil drip from your finger on her vagina. If she is shaved down there, you should use a lot of oil. If she is neatly trimmed, you should not massage the hairy area too much, and if her pubic hair is long, use a small amount of oil. Long pubic hair and lots of oil, plus a massage can make a lot of mess and trouble.
Put your hand on her pussy's area and with a gentle pressure massage it, in slow circular motion. Use enough pressure to move her skin over the harder tissues. With one finger, tickle her vaginal opening as lightly as possible. If you have a sex toy feather, rub that feather across on her love channel opening several times.
First focus on her larger labia with smooth long up and down strokes, then run the top of your finger on inside of her inner labia. Rub the entrance of her vagina in a circular motion. If the shaft of her clitoris is long you can try to roll it between two fingers. Never directly massage her clit, that is an extremely sensitive area. Put your well oiled finger on the top of the hood and try to make a small half circles, or site to site moves.
Put your palm just over her clitoris and with a slight different kind of pleasure and vibrate your entire hand. Try inserting the top of your first finger into her. If she moans insert the second finger too and thrust them in until your rests against her clitoris or if her clitoris is very sensitive, just rest you wrist on her lower abdomen above the pubic bone. If she did not pull her hip a way, try to insert your fingers deeper.
Try to find her G spot and massage it in a circular motion. If she likes what you do she will push her vulva to your hand, kind of asking for a finger fuck.
Not every women like finger(s) inside their vagina. A lot of them prefer a penis instead, or oral sex. If you love to perform oral sex, you should use edible massage oil. If you don't have any, then you should clean her genital area with a warm water soaked towel and then go down on her…
If you take your time and follow the above tips, its almost guaranty both, you and your partner going to have a lot of fun…
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