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It sat on the corner and you entered through one of those odd angled "corner doors" that had steps down to either sidewalk with a pillar in between
It sat adjacent to some other business on the 2nd avenue side of the block
An insurance agent
A notary
I don't remember
It was surely something that a 12 yr old would never care about
When you walked into Mazeros' drugstore the ceiling fans turned slowly above you and the long, dark wood floor drew you right inside
The place was filled with all sorts of sundry items that also were of little interest to me
Cotton balls
Rubbing alcohol
Ace bandages
Dr Scholl's foot pads
For me, it was all about a particularly large glass and wood display case
Back then, I entered that door so many times with my grandmother or my grandfather and
was funneled to the back of the store.
Pushed along by unseen hands to where that case waited.
Passing the old soda fountain counter with the round, spinning chrome and leather stools and the old, tarnished cash register with it's numbers that popped up as Mr. Mazeros' arthritic fingers rang in the purchases
It was the case that held it all for me
The now and laters
The chocolate bars
The Swedish fish
The baseball cards
Neat rows of all the things a 12 year old boy could want
I didn't know it then but the world around me was changing
Industry closures and recessions rearing themselves on the neighborhood periphery
As I was entering middle school and meeting a hundred new faces daily
Each of us colliding like tiny particles and, as life insists, rocketing off in as many unknown directions just as quickly.
Thirty and more years later I can imagine the faint trails of them all.
Whatever the cause and effect of that collision, it surely played a part in bouncing me further out there, into the mostly solitary universe I was already busy creating and in no hurry to leave.
A 12 yr old never thinks that much about the changes happening around him
Never notices that a neighborhood is already in it's decline
That the people he loves are aging and that life is visibly and terribly fragile
Even with all the signs showing
It happens almost unseen
It hits me sometimes
As it did just now
Not because of a certain birthday passing, or a marker or an event
Not because of a death or a birth
Maybe it is because I am returning to myself inside
After years of faking adulthood and playing "grown up" to an ever growing audience of that certain, expectant misery, I am creating a life from the same universe I dwelt in all those years ago
I am 12
Or 42
It's just a number after all
We hold them as being so important, don't we?
16, 18, 21, 30, 40, 50
So eager to reach them and to enjoy whatever freedoms and fears come with them
And so many get stuck along the way in their numbers games along the wa
Numbers mean nothing in my world
And it is now a world that has everything this boy could want
Well, almost everything
Mazeros drugstore is long gone
Just an empty lot the last time I was home
No trace it ever stood there on the corner of Hazelwood and 2nd Ave
I missed it's passing along the way
Too caught up in 21 or 30
I didn't know what a treasure it was then
I didn't think that it would one day be missed so much along with all the rest
So now I keep it inside
And there I find it as wonderful as ever
Imagining, one more time, swinging around that corner post
The force propelling me the three steps up and walking through that corner door
It resides with all the other wishes which can never come true
One more Friday night wrestling show with my grandfather
One more garden bulb planting with my grandmother
One more time, face pressed to a glass and wood case
Believing the old cash register, with all it's numbers, will never say
No sale
nicolas hall


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Printed reproductions are available as 18″ x 24″ posters or note cards in my Etsy shop.
About the artwork: Birds of Beebe Woods was made for a fiber art exhibit celebrating the town forest in my home town of Falmouth, Massachusetts in 2012. In my piece, I wanted to feature wildlife as well as convey the natural environment of the woods. I chose to portray birds, making them realistic enough to be recognized, but patterned and abstracted in a way that made them fun to stitch. When planning the birds piece, I started with a simple sketch and then got to work on the woodsy border, with its felt-covered wire filigree stage curtains. The crow came next and then the other birds common to our area of New England, making a dozen total. Listed clock-wise, they are female cardinal, nuthatch, black-throated green warbler, male cardinal, wren, downy woodpecker, blue-jay, robin, goldfinch, cedar waxwing, American crow and chickadee.
Since many people have asked if the original is for sale– no, as I will be holding onto it, so that it can be displayed in public exhibitions.
The next showing will be in Liberty and Justice: The Sweet to Satirical Art of Salley Mavor, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts
March 2 – April 20, 2019, Artist Talk – Sat., April 13 @ 11 AM
Detail images from Birds of Beebe Woods are printed as note cards, too. They're available in my Etsy shop.
Before I sewed everything onto the background, my husband, Rob took a photo of the felt covered wire border suspended in front of the woods around our house. Then my sister, Anne used her graphic design skills to disappear the fishing line and make an announcement for the 2012 Intimate Woods exhibit at Highfield Hall in Falmouth.
Archives: To see posts about the making of the birds in the piece, go to these links: crow here, goldfinch, nuthatch and chickadee here, blue jay here, cedar waxwing here, cardinals here, robin here, wren here.
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It's the old elephant and the ant analogy. Elephants are among the strongest mammals, yet can not lift each other up . Ants are among the tiniest land creatures, yet can lift multiples of their weight rather easily. The ant's balance, geometry and skill far out-performs an elephant's brute force and size. Even if an elephant can move more weight in one effort, the ant will move WAY more weight compared to their size.
Now, I am not saying elephants are wimps. Hell no. They could tromp me in a heartbeat, as could their human correlations in this analogy. But I am saying that there is something far more impressive about a guy – of ANY size, ant OR elephant – who can figure out the skills involved with moving weights typically far beyond his expected capacity. In other words: it is impressive when someone lifts an elephant's load with the skills and capacities of an ant.
The correlation between strength and size is much misunderstood. Strength is about skill as much as it is about sheer heft. And sure, a massive dude will be stronger via sheer inertia and momentum than a dude 100 lbs. smaller. But pound-for-pound the smaller guys often are way stronger in comparison to the work they do. The ants often impress far more than the elephants.
At the Arnold Sports Festival this past weekend, there were a lot of elephants. Most were the type that just lumber around in all their heft and glory: the bodybuilders. Some were lifters as well, but mostly bodybuilders. And while I am certain – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that those who came to show off their size also are capable of lifting big numbers, theirs is a type of self-flagellation that straddles the border between compelling and masturbatory. (And all too often just becomes the latter.) Tons of chemicals (and a huge dose of fear of powerlessness) drives many of these mountains of muscle to unbelievable scale and dimension . . . and yet, any herd of elephants is impressive for it's sheer tonnage. It is the nuances that develop strength, however that truly impress.
And in a far corner of the Arnold was a display of those nuances. Away from the glitz and glam of freshly-shaved pecs and water-swollen 23" biceps were those who stay in the moment of their mission rather than get lost in the myth of their own might: the lifters.
And one particular lifter was fortunately captured on film performing something those giant elephants might be humbled by. The man is Muhammed Begaliev, and he weighs a mere, narrow-shouldered 170lbs. Let that sink in a second: 170 lbs.; a quite "average" weight for a man. By comparison to most of the muscle monsters tromping around the Arnold Expo, his is an easily forgettable build. Because his Under Armour is not straining at the seams, and because his quads don't orce him into a waddle-walk, many would just assume "Yeah, that's just a dude who lifts . . . but NOTHING like THESE superheroes of mass!"
You might think that, of course, UNTIL you watch the video.
This 170lb man proceeds to snatch 150 kilograms right up over is head. (That is 330 lbs for those who hate the metric system.) And what is most remarkable is not THAT he lifted the weight, but HOW. Indeed, one could argue that he did not so much lift the weight as "move under it." (One constant coaching philosophy I drill into my athletes heads ad nauseum is that "all lifting is not lifting but rather all lifting is "trying to get underneath something.")
Begaliev illustrates how skill is what builds strength just as much as sheer mass. The ant understands leverage, positioning and "feeling" his own center of gravity relative to the weight's. The ant gets how you are moving one center of gravity AROUND another center of gravity. And he does just that.
If a 250 lb. man moved 330 lbs., I'd be impressed. But when a man of 170 lbs. does the same, I am somewhat speechless, for he represents what the "regular guy" is actually capable of. Sure, the pharmaceutical monsters can move gigantic loads – but we'd EXPECT them to do that. The big guys who move big weights via chemical injections are not actually, truly impressing us; they are merely just meeting our expectations. "They're big, they're using assistance, therefore they SHOULD move a big weight." Nothing unique there. Thus any pleasure at seeing a big guy move a big weight is more about satisfaction with what "should be" rather than inspiration regarding what "could be."
Yet to see a man of average build – a build that we can all relate to because most of us have been that size – move nearly double their weight, it is mind-boggling! Especially when it is done with such skill. Begaliev made it seem so fluid and smooth, as if the weight itself just naturally flies upwards that way. It truly illustrates the power of the human body when focused.
And it also illustrates one of the single most vital principles behind lifting: the application of confidence. Most people think that confidence arises from lifting big weights and developing big muscles. Begaliev proves what is true: the opposite is the fact: in actuality, it is confidence which helps us move weights. The confidence comes first, not afterwards. It is the confidence that he has the ability that is the key. Become confident first, and the work will come afterwards.
This is a huge message to the men at the Arnold Expo deriving a sense of egotism via admiration. That narcissistic path to confidence is faulty and fleeting. Once the admirers of your muscle depart, so too does your own glow of confidence fade. Yet the confidence we nurture within ourselves – the kind Begaliev fired up as he squatted down to that bar – is the kind that propels great feats. And even if you want your great feat to be gigantic mass, you will need that calm, quiet, private confidence to get you underneath the weights that would help you produce such heft.
The elephants may parade confidence via their stature, but the ants live confidently via their ability. It's a lesson from the small guy in the herd of monsters – that even the monsters can benefit from.
Confidence first. Big lifts afterwards. Big muscles last. In THAT order.


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HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photography has become something of a pariah in many photographic circles. Some photographers continue to use HDR to great effect; some continue to (according to some) heavily overuse it; and still others roundly criticize any and all who use HDR as individuals who are responsible for the systematic destruction of photography as an art form.
Traditional HDR is achieved by taking a series of bracketed exposures and then combining, or "tone mapping," those exposures into a single image that has a greater dynamic range than any one exposure could by itself. For example, you might set your DSLR to take a bracketed series of 5 images at -2 EV, -1EV, 0 EV, +1 EV, and +2 EV. On combining those images in HDR software such as Photomatix, Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2, Oloneo PhotoEngine, or even in Photoshop's HDR module, you are given an image where you, in theory, get the best of both worlds – highlights aren't blown out and dark regions aren't masks of black. You have detail in both regions.
That was the goal of HDR in the beginning: provide a higher dynamic range than modern digital cameras can capture. The best of the best digital cameras right now – such as the Nikon D800 or some medium format back cameras – still don't match the human eye in terms of the dynamic range they can capture. For a great discussion of dynamic range and a comparison to the human eye's capabilities, check out this article on Cambridge In Colour.
But HDR comes with drawbacks. Chief among these is the so-called "HDR Look." This look is characterized by heavy saturation of colors, strong "haloing" along high contrast edges (such as the horizon on a landscape shot), and a general sense of unreality to the image. The photo becomes painterly or "hyperreal." Some people love the look. Many, however, are tired of seeing it on photo sharing sites and blogs.
It is important to know that the "HDR Look" is not a prerequisite of the HDR process. It is a characteristic of over-processing, of pushing the tonemapping and detail algorithms to their limit. As artists, photographers naturally did just that when HDR was new and exciting – pushed the limit. But as time goes on and the over-processed look becomes stale, it's worthwhile to look back at the original intent of HDR and see how it can be subtly used to produce outstanding images that most people won't even realize are HDR. In effect, you can use HDR to achieve a look similar to what photographers have been using layered, masked multiple exposures to get for years with Photoshop, or, going further back, what neutral gradient filters have been used to create for decades. Just without the digital layers or physical filters.
In this tutorial, I'm going to use the Nikon D800E for my example camera and Oloneo's flexible and powerful PhotoEngine for processing, primarily because I've gotten good results from this combination, even with a single RAW exposure. But similar principles can be applied to almost any modern digital camera and software packages like Photomatix and Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2 (for many cameras, however, the dynamic range will not be as great as the Nikon D800E; therefore you may still want to exposure bracket your images before tonemapping them).
The Nikon D800E is a new camera for me, and I'm still getting used to its many functions and features. As noted above, however, one huge benefit of the camera is its very large dynamic range. DXO Labs, an independent analyzer of cameras and lenses, actually lists the Nikon D800 as having the largest dynamic range of any camera it has ever tested at 14.4 EVs – greater even than the spectacular, and spectacularly expensive, Phase One IQ180 medium format digital back.
With the greater dynamic range of this new camera, I began experimenting with taking a single RAW file and seeing just how far I could press it. Could I get sufficient dynamic range from a single RAW from this new camera? Or would I need to continue to exposure bracket most of my shots, and end up having to save 5 exposures for every single high dynamic range photo I want to take?
I've found, with the help of Oloneo's Photoengine, that for around 90% of my shots, a single RAW file from the Nikon D800E does, indeed, have sufficient dynamic range to give me the look I want – while avoiding the overprocessed and dreaded "HDR Look." For those other 10% of my images, I'll still need to exposure bracket if I want to fully exploit the dynamic range of the scene – I've found this mostly in shots with a lot of blank, empty sky and a very dark, shadowed landscape below, such as on the eastern side of a mountain, facing east, nearing sunset (with the sun behind the mountain but the sky beyond the shadow still very bright).
Here's the process I'm using for the 90% case.
I have the D800E set up to capture RAW files, at 14 bits. I use the lossless compression setting to save a little harddrive and CF card space, and, since it's lossless, I don't have to worry about losing information during the compression. As you will no doubt hear time and again, I heartily recommend shooting RAW all the time for serious photographers, because you simply capture more usable data and have the ability to make critical decisions in post, instead of having the camera (or, rather, the camera's programmers and engineers) make those decisions for you.
I have had better luck "exposing to the left" (underexposing or exposing the sky properly in a landscape shot and leaving the ground darker) with the process I outline below, so I keep that in mind while out shooting. However, every scenario is different and will require some experimentation on your part.
Once the RAW file is on my computer at home, I open it in Oloneo's PhotoEngine. This is still a somewhat lesser-known program that deserves some more recognition. It struggles vs Photomatix when it comes to ghost removal and alignment of multiple exposures, but in this case, with one RAW file, ghosting and alignment are non-issues. Additionally, Photomatix currently doesn't let you tonemap directly from a single RAW the way Oloneo and Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2 allow you to do (in order to tonemap a single RAW in Photomatix, you'll need to open the RAW in the RAW editor of your choice, save off a 0 EV version with a saved preset of settings as a JPEG or TIFF, then re-open the RAW two more times and save off a -2 EV and +2 EV version with otherwise the same presets; then open those three files in Photomatix).
Oloneo comes with a number of presets for the settings. These are all fine, but I recommend playing and creating your own settings. Pay particular attention to the top two settings: the TM (Tone Map) Strength and the Detail Strength sliders. These two settings are going to go heavily impact how "HDR" or "normal" your shot is going to look. I've found a rough sweet spot for these sliders at 62 for Tone Map Strength and 10 for Detail, but I play with these for nearly every shot to find the settings that work best for a given image.
Note that with Oloneo you can easily get the hyper-real, heavily stylized "HDR Look" if that's what you are going for, just as you can with Photomatix or any other tonemapping program. But that isn't what I'm after in this tutorial.
I'm going to provide a full list of the settings I use right now in Oloneo for one of my presets. I rarely see other photographers sharing settgins this way (without making people pay for them), but I'm comfortable doing it in this case because I'm confident you are not me; even if you had a Nikon D800E with the same lens and were standing right next to me in the same place for a shot, and we both processed using Oloneo and this preset, we would both end up with vastly different results, because we are different people with different photographic instincts and artistic priorities. Instead, I'm giving these out in the hopes it will help some other aspiring photographers. Maybe someday you can send me your new presets for me to try out!
Oloneo PhotoEngine 1.1.400 Preset Settings:
Advanced Local Tone Mapper:
Low Dynamic Tone:
Photographic Print Toning unchecked
The rest of the Advanced stuff you can tweak on your own
Again, I play with the settings on a per-image basis. But it certainly helps a great deal to have a saved preset as a baseline to start from. Essentially, use the real-time processing engine that is a great hallmark of Oloneo and tweak until you get something you like. Note that I personally set the sharpening to 0 in Oloneo because I own Nik's Sharpener 3.0 and I prefer to use it, with Photoshop's layers and masking abilities, instead, on the JPEG Oloneo outputs. That gives me more control and lets me avoid sharpening things that I don't want sharpened, like luminance noise, or clouds.
What are the drawbacks of the above process? I've noticed the output has higher noise, especially in the highlight areas (such as the sky), particularly when compared against processing the same RAW file in something like Adobe Camera RAW. Of course, I can't get the same level of dynamic range out of the file with Camera RAW – close, but not the same, and the contrast and colors that come out of Camera RAW when I try never quite end up as vibrant and compelling as with Oloneo.
I'm not a software engineer but my guess is pushing and pulling the RAW file so much, as Oloneo does to eek out that dynamic range, produces artifacting in the form of highlight noise. I'm able to wipe out that highlight noise in Photoshop easily enough using Topaz's DeNoise on a layer copy (masking out the darker portions of the image that aren't noisy so I don't lose image detail) – any decent denoising program (Noise Ninja, Nik's Dfine 2.0, etc) should be able to do the same. But it is still something worth bearing in mind.
The larger drawback would be those 10% of shots that don't work, as I mentioned above. If you completely clip your highlights, they will be clipped even with Oloneo's processing. So if you find yourself in an extremely high contrast scenario, you will still want to bracket your exposures and then tonemap as you would have in the past. To determine where this contrast limit is with your camera, well, you'll just have to experiment.
But, hopefully, in a large amount of cases, you'll be able to get great results using a single RAW file with the process I've detailed above. Get to know your camera and experiment with how far you can press the dynamic range in programs like Oloneo PhotoEngine. You may find you don't need to bracket your shots and mess around with layers and masks or traditional HDR tonemapping in order to get the look you want. And, in the process, you'll save on SD/CF card space and reduce the number of cycles on your camera's shutter – so you can take more photos, and fewer exposures.
As always – get out there and shoot.
Title of this article is not completly correct... it should say High Dynamic Range without that hdr look with D800E...
I'm one of those annoying HDR haters. I love what you've done with the nighttime shots here, but the daytime shots still have one thing that I find don't like about most HDR -- lack of real shadows. To me, much of the beauty of photography lies in the play of light and shadow. Shadow is often what adds soul and mood to the photograph. HDR gives us unreal shadowless photos. Your black & white landscape is impressive but rather flat, IMO, and would be improved by more natural shadows in the foreground.
I guess I would be a fan of both styles. I work for a small magazine and do a lot of interior architectural type stuff so HDR for the sake of simply having a beautifully lit interior space is a staple for me. I generally use the Enfuse plugin for lightroom as it doesn't really change the image in any way, but gives you amazing freedom to adjust the reimported image in Lightroom.
There definitely needs to be more distinction between HDR and tonemapping because as stated in the article they are two distinct things and one certainly doesn't necessarily infer the other.
This is a nice article. I like that HDR without the HRD look. Should try it!
Marin - thank you very much!
Irv Weiner - I knew the D800/E has a built in HDR mode, but I haven't been a fan. I personally prefer more control over the end result, hence why I shoot RAW and why I only talked about post processing on the computer in this article. If you are happy with the in-camera HDR mode offered by Nikon, then great! Personally I want to tweak and fiddle and not be limited to the output of the in-camera HDR.
AnZanov - Thank you, good to know! Happily, you can get great results with almost any of the HDR software packages out there.
Ryan Zeigler - I stand corrected (see AnZanov above). I will say Oloneo and Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2 make it much more explicit that you can tonemap a single image than Photomatix. That said, I own Photomatix and have been using it for years, so that is great to know.
Eik Kerstenbeck - I'm happy the article was useful :)
This is a great article and I will surely look into this SW with much more detail! I have been playing with HDR for over 3 years now and while I was originally loving the HDR LOOK when I started, I am straying further away from Tonemapping everything. It is not appropriate and does lead to a lack of clarity, and other weird artifacts. The shot in this image, taken at The Salton Sea IS HDR, but just to get the light - the Tonemapping Pedal was not depressed too hard ... Hopefully my new approach will keep my HDR lead-foot in control!
You can tonemap a single image with Photomatix.
interesting article. A quick fix: also in Photomatix you can oper a single raw file without processing it 3 times with another editor. You can simply drag the file into photomatix window and the sw makes the rest
Best Regards,
Regarding the D800, it was not mentioned that a built-in HDR mode exists. See page 176+ of the manual. The HDR mode can be selected from the Shooting Menu,see HDR. The D800 will shoot 2 consecutive frames, you can choose the EV difference between frames to be 1,2, 3 or Auto. In auto the camera computes the optimum EV value to suit the scene. In addition a smoothing parameter is selected by you to effect the blending of the 2 frames, low, normal or high.
With 14.4 EV dynamic range plus a 1-3 EV bracket I have found this technique more than adequate for my landscape or night time photos. You will not be generating 'garish' HDR's this way.
irv weiner
Excellent article!
I think I'm going off my photo pause and start shooting again because of this :)
I haven't been much into HDR, but I'll try now more, I absolutley love the dreamy effect like the first picture here it produces.


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What could smelly sneakers, forbidden romance and an old lipstick have in common? You'll have to watch Holes -- a smart movie based on a best-selling book by Louis Sachar -- to find out. Sachar, an author who kids adore, unleashes two plots in Holes: The first is about mild-mannered adolescent Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to juvenile detention camp after he's wrongly accused of stealing a valuable pair of sneakers. The second plot, set in the Old West, revolves around a gun-toting outlaw named Kissing Kate, who leaves her brazen signature, a scarlet kiss, at every hold-up. At first, the two plots operate on different planes. It seems a sure bet that Stanley will get eaten alive by all the rougher, tougher kids at Juvie, but when he teams up with Zero, a quiet-but-savvy partner, the two boys set a generations-old saga, involving Kissin' Kate, into motion. Our kids were transfixed by a plot where the past and present collide in an unusual film that looks and feels adult, but is aimed right at the hearts and minds of pre-teens.
It's easy to overlook clues to the past in your own backyard, so when we heard that a local museum had a replicated pit where kids dig for ancient artifacts we had to check it out. Young participants get a grip, literally, on history, when they get their hands dirty digging up replicated artifacts from the Middle East. Searching for household artifacts in the sand stimulated our daughter, and pulling shards out of the dirt made her positively gleeful. The link between past and present became very real for our young one, who unearthed a pottery fragment that she tentatively identified, with help, as a kitchen tool, possibly from an olive oil press. She enjoyed this experience so much that she asked to do it a second time, the best "two thumbs-up" possible from a kid. Israelites, Hittites, and even cuneiform writing all made their way to our dinner table chat, all from a young lady bursting with pride in her own knowledge.
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Sappy Movie Moments That Melt Our Hearts
Of course we celebrated National Cheeseball Day by eating a ton of cheese. Like the true movie buffs we are, though, we had to pair each of our favorite cheeses with a fine movie to go along with it. Watch to see which of our favorite sappy movie moments truly make our hearts melt.


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So I've realized something the past weeks, as we drew closer and closer to Holy Week and Palm Sunday...
And I mean, truly, you can't blame him. That's where he finally realized, "I'm beat". He knows, for sure, his end now, and while that end isn't quite yet here, it got started in the tomb and sealed his eventual fate 3 days later. As John Eldredge wrote in his novel "Beautiful Outlaw", Jesus sauntered out of the tomb with the keys to Hades swinging on his belt. AMEN!
Any doubts the devil had about his ultimate end were confirmed with Easter. Beautiful, glorious Easter.
So I think its safe to assume (and my life the past weekish has been proof) that he fights hard against the Beloved (us as believers) at Easter time. (The thief has come to steal, kill and destroy...) He wants to steal our joy in the resurrection, wants to kill our hopes for the future and destroy our desire to praise and worship God at the time of year it's most expected and needed of us to do so. I mean, even people who never come to church tend to show up on Easter! There will be more souls exposed to the gospel in churches around the country this upcoming Sunday than any other week of the year, even Christmas. Because as powerful and needed as Christmas is, (Jesus came for us!) the resurrection is the exclamation point to the Gospel. It's essential.
The enemy knows he's going down, and he's scratching and clawing at everything he can get on his way. Families. Marriages. Health. Ministries. Friendships. Relationships. All those things that matter most, he's against. And against HARD.
So we fight back. With praise to God. With worship songs to Jesus. With continual prayer, with thanksgiving, and gratitude in our hearts to our Redeemer! WHO IS RISEN! He is risen indeed! What joy, what glory. What hope!
And guess what? That same power that rose Jesus from the dead resides in YOU as a believer, as a follower of Christ. And that power is not dead or on hold or inaccessible. It's there, it's real, it's vibrant and pulsing and beating. (But I have come that you might have life abundantly...)
That same power that rose Jesus from the dead can heal your broken heart. Can restore your marriage. Can eliminate cancer. Can replenish your bank account. Can provide. Renew. Redeem. Protect. Can breathe life into dry bones.
So have hope today, dear friends. Not in circumstances, not in faith itself, but in faith in JESUS. Because He IS alive. And He has good for you. He will never leave you or forsake you.
He DIED for you. And He ROSE for you.
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This page is about the OLLCP method substep. For the algs, see OLLCP (few algs).
Orientation of Last Layer and Corner Permutation OLLCP is an experimental LL method which both orients the last layer and solves the corners. Thus after this step only EPLL remains. The price to get there however is a high algorithm count (300+). Only a very few number of people use the full set, but a number of people use the subsets COLL and CLLEF. Several people came up with the idea, some of them after they wanted to re-learn some OLL algorithms and noticed the new algorithms had a different effect on the corners. By 'recycling' the old OLL algorithms it is sometimes very easy and fast to be able to avoid an N perm and get higher chances of PLL-skips. Because some OLLCP algorithms are really slow and because of the high number of algorithms, it is advisable to only learn the nice and fast algorithms. A slow OLLCP plus a U perm is probably slower than a fast 'normal' OLL algorithm leaving any other PLL.
See also
- OLLCP (few algs)
- OLLCP-A. The subset in which all corners are already oriented.
- COLL. The subset in which all edges are already oriented.
- CLLEF. The subset in which none of the edges are already oriented.
- CxLL. Various subsets which solve the Corners of the Last Layer
- EPLL. Edge Permutation of the Last Layer which follows OLLCP
External links
- Robert Yau's OLLCP
- Antoine Piau's OLLCP (COLL and CLLEF on another page)
- Speedsolving.com: SuneOLL Proposed system to solve all cases where the corners are already permuted
- Speedsolving.com: Kirjava's OLLCP (hax) List of all cases.
- Speedsolving.com: Hierarchy of Last Layer Sub-Steps, Subsets of OLLCP and ZBLL


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A million years ago I started writing a column in my church's newspaper…up until that point I didn't think I had any real skills. Math and science bored me, history was interesting if it happened upon a topic that I liked and well, I took German just to be different. A trend that I continue to this day (clearly seen by my choice of football teams).
But for some reason I had a way with words, turning boring little tidbits into funny commentary and the adults noticed…so for once I wasn't being judged on my propensity of crushes but an actual skill. And as I was told by grown ups, find a skill you do well, bonus if you love it and focus on that. I wrote for the school newspaper, had articles returned to me bleeding red with corrections but I wasn't deterred. For once I took the criticism and challenged myself to improve. And by the way, I do have to give major props to my Chemistry teacher, he spoke up when I was struggling in Chem class and agreed that while I was a bright kid, chemistry wasn't my thing and that's okay.
I wrote for my junior college paper, became editor and then moved on to write briefly at MTSU but by then I understood that journalists are a dime a dozen and my skills would be better served in the public relations arena. What they don't mention very often in college though is how hard it is to get a job in your field, the pay sucks and for some reason the adult world doesn't really care about your passion.
Then this crazy thing called the internet came out and many years down the road after Son kept saying I had to write a book about my dating experiences with Bubba did I finally decide to blog. I tried a few versions, finally after a particularly rough end to a relationship I came up with this blog. Five years, many posts, creating boundaries when my parents started reading it…and well, I've learned a lot. I've been working on that book off and on for years now and umm, well…
Chandler was the first real relationship, happening in real time on here and by then I was in a groove when it came to writing. Of course he got me, in a way no man has ever got me and he stayed on my ass about writing. He encouraged, tormented and harassed me until I had written a post. Because that's what you do when you love someone and you know that it is an outlet and passion. Of course we bumped heads a few times because I could write about my feelings but not talk to him because I have walls up people. But we figured it out, often times me writing while he was breathing down my neck and before I hit publish, he read it. It worked. And he got those walls down.
Then he was gone and the. Nine months later he was really gone and I struggled but I still wrote. Then I moved back home, Nashville, how I love thee. And it went okay the first couple of months, I still wrote, I still worked everything out through my words but then Allan happened.
Throughout the whole Allan debacle I questioned why I wasn't writing and I came up with the following reasons: he has a kid, he broke my heart, I was embarrassed by what had happened, oh wow, everything is how I want it but don't want to jinx it, I was busy, he has a kid and I'm not the kid's parent, so don't want to share stuff on that, oh my goodness he broke my heart again, depression, embarrassment, oh looky, he came back, we are happy!, don't want to jinx it, busy, kid and holy shit, again? Really? Okay brief makeup and welcome 40, crap that's depressing and well, fuck he broke my heart again. I'm 40 and yet still making the same mistake over and over and well….I was embarrassed.
Finally after a few months of learning more of how much I was a fool, working through it, dealing with stress with work…I started to dip my toes back into the water. This isn't about hits, about being the next blog darling or an editor coming to me saying they just have to have me on staff, it's about me being me. Doing something that I love and am kind of decent at instead of just sucking it up and only doing my day job. It's been a challenge and I've questioned myself about why I couldn't write when I was with Allan. Was it because I was just so happy that I didn't feel the need? Umm, that couldn't be it because I was really happy with Chandler. And a wise friend pointed out that maybe Allan didn't fulfill me in every way that made me want to write.
I don't know the answer to that only that I can state with certainty that I didn't have the words to write when I was with him. Maybe he wasn't a muse or maybe I just poured everything I had into him that there was nothing else, but a huge chunk goes to embarrassment. I did nothing wrong but I felt like a failure and stupid to keep on keeping on with him. I had the ultimate desire to be "normal" and be like all of my friends. I decided that being different wasn't the way to go but this summer has changed me. And above all to accept that being different, not fitting that mold and being that dork with a hint of cool was far more enjoyable than worrying about some boy.
I'm a football obsessed, dorky girl who likes to cook, read and write. The writing gives me an outlet when I really prefer not to hash things out by chatting about things. Plus, only I could really put a funny spin on the shit that happens to me, be it by my own choices or those around me. Will I ever finish that book? I hope so. The dedication kicks ass and the stories are funny but organizing it and making it cohesive is my challenge. And maybe one day I'll be on some awards stage accepting the award for best original screenplay for a movie. And go on Howard Stern's show to let him dissect me, he's a wonderful interviewer (but my parents and their friends can't listen to it).
Okay, that last part is delusional but hey, if it inspires me to write a book that only five people read, I'm okay with that.


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Detective Comics (2011-Cur)
DC Comics relaunched Detective Comics with issue #1 in September 2011, as part of The New 52. The series was written and drawn by Tony Daniel until the twelfth issue, with the team of John Layman and Jason Fabok beginning with issue #13.
The first issue of the relaunched Detective Comics has received six printings, second only to the relaunched Justice League which had seven printings. The series seventh issue was also DC Comic's sixth highest selling digital comic, ranking above many other series in the Batman category. Scott West of Sciencefiction.com gave the series' third arc a positive review, stating that "After last month's disappointing 'Night of the Owls' tie-in issue, it's nice to see 'Detective Comics' getting back to where it should be… good detective stories." The relaunched Detective Comics received the award for "Best Series" at the 2012 Stan Lee Awards. The series' first collected edition would reach the number one spot on The New York Times Best Seller list in the category of "Hardcover Graphic Books".
Daniel wrote and penciled the series until the Night of the Owls crossover, at which point Ed Benes, Julio Ferreira, and Eduardo Pansica began drawing the series for a three issue arc. The price of Detective Comics was increased due to the addition of a backup feature starring Batman villain Two-Face, which was written by Daniel and illustrated by Syzmon Kudranski, this followed a similar backup featuring Hugo Strange. Daniel left the series with issue #12 being his last as writer and the "0" issue his last as penciller.
DC celebrated the first anniversary of The New 52 in September 2012 by publishing a number "0" of each original New 52 title which act as prequels to the series and reveal previously unexplained plot elements. Gregg Hurwitz wrote the "0" issue. Hurwitz was approached by Daniel to write the "0" issue due to Daniel's busy schedule. To follow up on the Night of the Owls elements in Detective Comics, Daniel wrote Detective Comics Annual #1 which was pencilled by Romano Molenaar and inked by Sandu Florea.
Following Daniel's tenure on the series, John Layman became the new writer and Jason Fabok the new artist with James Tynion IV writing the backup features and Syzmon Kudranski remaining as artist for Tynion's first feature. With issue #19 of Detective Comics vol. 2, released on April 3, 2013, the series reached 900 issues as combined with the first volume of the series, and was a special oversized celebratory issue. Under Layman, the series featured its first crossover, Gothtopia after which Layman and Fabok moved to the Batman Eternal series and Detective Comics was taken over by Brain Buccalleto and Francis Manapul.
In commemoration of the second anniversary of the New 52, DC Comics announced "Villains Month" with Detective Comics getting four issues. The issues star Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, and Man-Bat, and respectively being numbered #23.1, #23.2, #23.3, and #23.4. John Layman and Jason Fabok are not contracted for these issues and are instead replaced by an ensemble of writers and artists.
For the 75th anniversary of Batman, issue #27 was a larger-sized issue featuring new stories by Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch, Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy, Peter Tomasi and Ian Bertram, John Layman and Jason Fabok, Gregg Hurwitz and Neal Adams, Mike W. Barr and Guillem March, and one written and drawn by Francesco Francavilla. In addition, variant covers to the issue were by Greg Capullo, Frank Miller, Chris Burnham, Jim Lee, Jason Fabok, and Tony Daniel. Single page artwork included work by Kelley Jones, Mike Allred, Patrick Gleason, and Jock.


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In what can only be understood as the height of knee-jerk causeless whining the National Organization of Women New York chapter has decided that the Kennedy endorsement of Obama is a blow to all women everywhere. Apparently there is no choice left, it's just vote Hillary or die. Regardless of how sexist, choice-less, or reactionary it is. The exact quote from the AP:
"Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal," NOW's New York State chapter said in a scorching rebuke. "Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary Clinton's opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard."
"We are repaid with his abandonment!" the statement said. "He's picked the new guy over us. He's joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton."
If there was ever a face of insipid, shrill, stupid, women it's the NoW New York Chapter. As a woman I'm offended, as a former feminist I'm offended. If they wanted to make their organization completely irrelevant, and a punchline they've surely succeeded. They could've taken the high road and issued a card of women's issues, or asked ALL the candidates to put a focus on that. Instead, they stomped their feet like spoiled brats. I hope the national organization gets that chapter in a room and puts some heads on plates.
Earlier: Feminism Is Dead- Hillary Proves It.


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My male staff loves to read, or at least he loves to pretend he can read, it impresses the girls you see. While he's pretending to read he relies on me to remind him to keep the book, newspaper or magazine the right way up so as not to give the game away. Those of you who know me will be aware that I am a late guinea pig. I made the one way trip to the Rainbow Bridge a couple of years ago, but my spirit likes to sit on my male staff's shoulder, tickling his plump rosy cheeks with my ghostly whiskers. Often he thinks a fly is deliberately trying to annoy him and this gives me hours of inexpensive entertainment as he wafts his hand about his face more and more desperately and with in a vain attempt to discourage the non-existent fly, while all the time his language becomes increasingly X-rated. If only he knew.
Anyway just lately he's been pretending to read Bill Bryson's The Road to Little Dribbling. It's a sort of sequel to Notes From a Small Island. Both are a hoot and I thoroughly recommend them. In his latest offering Mister Bryson rails against a certain type of magazine, the type that is mostly full of advertisements but also has articles on what the editor wants you to believe so called celebrities are doing to each other and themselves. Just the other day my male staff was sitting in the doctor's waiting room with me on his shoulder as usual. (He'd been called in because his brain scan result came back as negative.) He was thumbing through one of magazines. I think is was called WTF or something like that. Anyway he had it the right way up because he was looking at the pictures and even he can tell when a photo of Brad Pitt is upside down. Reading over his shoulder I could see that a heavily tattooed female celebrity called Kolostomy Bagg or some such was admitting in an interview with a "journalist" that she'd had a vaginal enhancement - a gift apparently from her aging German boyfriend - Stornch Kradelsnatcher. Mr Bryson was a little puzzled as to what a vaginal enhancement entails and I'm afraid I can throw no more light on the matter than he was able to. His suggestion was that perhaps WiFi had been installed. I prefer to think that perhaps Kolostomy had added a widescreen digital TV complete with a 24 hour sports channel installed to keep Stornch entertained while he's.................well you know, do I have to spell it out?
There are other types of enhancement too - bum and boob implants for example. I like to call well known recipients of these celebretitties. Bum implants are an interesting idea and may be a way for my male staff to make a little extra pocket money by selling some of the blubber from his own ample posterior to buttockally challenged wealthy young women. There's always the danger that unsightly hair might begin to appear on the recipient's new plumped up arse but that's just a risk you'll have to take ladies. That Kwim Krashcardigan woman must have received her bum implants from a doner hippo I think. I just hope she doesn't ever feel the urge to waggle her backside to spread her dung around. Can anyone tell me which talent made her the celebrity she is today? Was it the size of her nether regions or the fact that she and her Scottish lover Canye Seemawilly made a home movie of their tedious sex life?
Then there are lip enhancements too which apparently involve stuffing half your face with botulism to such an extent that if this had been available in 1943 Britain Winston Churchill himself would have requisitioned the recipients' lips to be used as Lancaster bomber tyres. The whole phenomenon is utterly ridiculous, but it has a serious side too. All this obsession with shallowness has an insidious dumbing down effect on people. Hence the current popularity of liars and fools like America's Donald Trump, Britain's Nigel Farage and Australia's Pauline Hanson. These dangerous people are getting shed loads of votes all over the planet. Apart from public stupidity and the abject failure of humanity to produce alternative worthwhile leaders I blame magazines like WTF.
Whoops-a-daisy. Apologies to Mr Seemawilly, I've just been corrected. It wasn't Mr Seemawilly in the Krashkardigan sex tape. It was some nonentity called Ray someone.


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Monthly Archives: October 2014
New Year Resolutions
New Year Resolutions were made at the end of last year and many of us were convinced that we would achieve them all; some or one or two. One of my New Year Resolutions was to lose 3 stone in weight. I wouldn't say that I'm on target but I have lost over a stone and people are definitely noticing the difference. My wardrobe is noticing the difference. I no longer have to breath in to do trousers up. In fact, yesterday, a pair of trousers, destined for the Charity shop, has been reprieved as I'm now going to use it as an incentive to lose more weight.
So what has kept me focussed on that goal. Well, one of the ladies at my Golf Club – Feldon Valley – has consistently congratulated me and commented on how I'm looking. So, in my moments of weakness I thought of when I would see her next and I imagined her making positive comments. You see, I didn't want to let her down.
Plus I did a cleanse at the beginning of the year and I've just finished another one. I'm feeling full of energy; less bloated; I know I can continue and, because my sugar levels have stabilised I'm not craving anything sweet – or alcoholic!! I heard Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 Live describe a glass of wine as a Knickerbocker Glory in disguise because of the calories in it.
MyFitnessPal has been an enormous help. Counting the calories as well as the exercise I do on a daily basis.
Well I'm looking to be another stone lighter by the end of the year – now I'm on a roll. I'll keep you up to date.
Exciting Times Ahead
Exciting times ahead and I can hardly contain myself!!
I'm excited today because I went on the scales, as I'm looking to lose a stone before Christmas. Well, I had a kick start as I have already lost 6lbs in 5 days. I haven't felt hungry; I haven't wanted to snack; my energy levels have been maintained. What was even more exciting today was I dropped a pack off to a friend and she was amazed at the difference since I last saw her two weeks ago. It's lovely when someone else looks at you and says 'That's amazing!'
How have I done it? Well I've used our Cleansing Programme and now I'm on my roll I'm going to continue with the rest of the programme.
I'm really loving using MyFitnessPal App as it helps me see, if I keep going, what the result will be. So If I lapse I know the consequences and if I'm good, equally, I see the consequences. A great motivator. Everything I eat or drink goes in to the App and what is particularly good is that all the foods you eat are already loaded. Really easy to use.
Can't wait to keep you updated. As I said, exciting times ahead. My new wardrobe awaits me.
The Best Things in Life
The best things in life are free – or so it's said.
I was at a Networking event at lunchtime today and the lovely John Clapham spoke. He makes so much sense. One of the things he said was
- Be authentic
Sounds so easy doesn't it? People buy people first and whatever else second – that's another saying I've heard. I suppose authentic means you have to know who you are to be authentic? John likes helping people; something I relate to as well. By helping others he finds people come to him for advice.
He also said
- Have Fun
Have fun rather than think of your ROI (Return on Investment). How many people think they will help another person – but what's in it for me? What I've noticed is that those who give more; receive more.
The best things in life are free – our ability to be ourselves whilst having fun. What a great way to live life.
Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Rain Rain Beautiful Rain – we haven't seen any for a while now. Then today, well overnight, it poured and the wind howled and the electricity went off and then on again. I felt as though I had gone to another planet.
We've been lucky this summer and yet, it wasn't all that long ago that there were floods and people were stranded in their own homes. I expect they will never utter the words – Rain Rain Beautiful Rain. They are more likely to say – Rain, Rain go away – come again another day. Or never again please.
The trouble is we need this rain for all sorts of reasons. I know my farming friends have been longing for some rain. I know when we've had a 'drought' and it rains it seems to clean the air and everything has that green, glowing look. A bit like us – the earth needs water.
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I'm a 23 year old Nurse working at a large hospital in Adelaide, South Australia (OK - I work at Flinders). I'm quite short (4'11" or 150 cm) and skinny, but not anorexic or anything. I'm a b-cup up top, pale skin with get-black straight hair down to my shoulders. I don't think I'm stunningly pretty, but I'm alright.
A few months ago I wrote two stories about my exhibitionist adventures. My cousin, Mary, recognised me from some of the details in these stories. She confronted me and threatened to expose me to my family if I didn't obey her every command. She has slowly turned me into something I don't really believe. She made me wear outrageous clothing and expose myself in public. She has had me pierce my nipples, she tied me up and tortured me - actually just read my previous stories and you'll get the idea.
After my last 'adventure' (see AdelaideNurse is sent to the doctor for 'role-play'), she gave me back my freedom and destroyed all the blackmail photos.
It was great to be free. I could wear whatever I wanted, do whatever I liked. Actually I found that I wanted to be made to wear things I wouldn't, but found I couldn't make myself wear them in public. I also wanted to be denied orgasm. To build up to the incredible horny state that Mary makes me achieve. Instead I found myself masturbating all the time. I would come home from work and strip off, getting any of a number of vibrators and dildos.
In desperation for more, I decided to try some self-bondage. I returned to Kypo forest. After my first adventure there (see Her first foray into self-forced nudity), I swore I'd never do this again, but there I was ready for more...
I drove down to Kypo forest again, this time later in the day. I had masturbated all day, but was still very horny and to be honest, not really thinking straight. I placed my car keys by a tree, down a dirt road. As per my first naked adventure, I was going to strip naked and lock myself out of my car - making myself trek naked to get the keys, to get back into the car. This time however I put the keys further out from the edge of the forest. I would have to cross a sealed road and then walk about 150 metres down a dirt road. I would be exposed the whole way with almost no available cover.
I also drove further from the keys this time. I didn't measure it, but I'd say it was around 5 km. I hadn't thought about the fact that I would have to double back to the car - or that I would be in bondage this time! Hornyness does this to me.
Before getting out the car I stripped off my clothes and shoved them in the glovebox with my car keys. Then I left the keys to my handcuffs on the back seat - I'd have to climb over the front seats to get them.
I had parked the car out in the open to (my brain was clearly not thinking). So grabbing a shopping bag full of my required toys I climbed out, shut the door and dashed into the forest.
I was horny as hell, but resisted masturbating. Instead I just had a short 'play'. Nicely wet (actually soaking) I stopped and unpacked my bag. First I got out my water bottle. It took a while, but I managed to drink the two litres. Just before I finished I took 3, 40 Mg lasix tablets. Now don't try this if you don't know what you're doing. Lasix is a powerful diuretic, but I was confident that I was healthy enough to take it. I hadn't experimented with water play before, but I wanted to suffer!
Next I put some cuffs on my ankles. These were 20 cm long, and would make me take shorter steps. Then I put in an inflatable gag. I don't like this gag (but I wanted to suffer). I squeezed the bulb a couple of times, I'd squeeze it again before I cuffed my hands.
I love being oiled and lubed up. I had four tubs of vaseline (they're so cheap really) and used two all over my body - I was caked in it. Then I used one tub in my hair. Don't know why, I just did.
Then came my butt plug. I hadn't used this one much. It was also inflatable. I moaned through the gag is it went in (it was very very well lubricated). I squeezed the bulb to inflate it twice. I had done it a maximum of three times before, today I was aiming for four!
Next step, a high 'posture collar'. This was a stiff leather device that would keep my head up. Once bucked up I looped my handcuffs through a ring at the back so they hung down my back. I was getting close now.
Nipple torture next! I took a chain and threaded a couple of fishing sinkers through it. I connected the chain to each of my nipple rings. I was standing in front of a suitable tree for this so I could rest the weights between some branches so that they weren't putting any strain on my nipples.
I was almost ready. All I had to do was put my hands behind my back and lock the cuffs. My heart was pounding and my head racing. I reached up and gave the gag pump a couple of squeezes. My jaw felt like it was going to be dislodged. I had never had it this full before. Then I reached behind and squeezed the butt plug pump. Wow, I had squeezed it a total of three times and felt completely full. With my ankles hobbled I couldn't spread my legs like I normally would so I felt even fuller. I had abandoned any form of thinking at this time and squeezed again and again. I was fuller than ever before, it hurt and was driving me crazy. Then quickly I reached up behind my back and put one hand in the cuffs. The chain was shorter than I realised and I had to hold my head almost backwards to get the second hand in. Click - now I was completely trapped.
I was completely caked in vaseline. My ankles were chained so I couldn't move them more than 20 cm apart. My hands were cuffed high up my back to a posture collar so than I couldn't look down. An inflatable gag was threatening to dislocate my jaw, while an inflatable butt-plug was going to burst my bowel. As soon as I stepped backwards weights were going to hang from my nipple rings. Also, through the marvels of medical science I was shortly going to pee like never before, and my keys to freedom were about a 10 km walk away including a long dash across and down a road.
I was in heaven.
Then I stepped backwards and the weights fell. Wow, intense. I had used this much weight before, but wow. The weight falling was something else. Trying to walk was 'something else' too. The butt-plug was way way too big! I needed to spread my legs but couldn't. With my hands cuffed behind my back I couldn't reach the valve to deflate it! With my head held back I was having trouble seeing the branches on the ground and I didn't want to fall.
But it was ok. At this stage I was still as horny as hell and happy to shuffle along, not really thinking about how far I had to go. I slowly shuffled along. My pussy was on fire, but I couldn't reach it. My nipples and ass were also on fire but differently and I couldn't do anything about them either.
I thought it took longer for the lasix to kick in, but perhaps it took longer to get 'dressed' then I realised. Perhaps it only takes longer on unhealthy people? Anyway I could feel the need to pee. Big time.
I was planning to hold on for a while, continue the suffering theme, but no chance. I soon had a warm stream going everywhere. I tried not to pee on my legs, but I'd never peed standing up so I ended up in quite a mess. I couldn't look down to see what I was doing either. About a minute later I peed again, only more. And then about a minute later I did it again and on it went for ages.
I was starting to realise I was in big trouble. I had probably only gone about 100 metres in 10 minutes. Ok, so I knew I could probably double that, but it was going to be dark by the time I got there at this rate and then I'd be in even more trouble.
I kept peeing all the time. Christ I should have taken one tablet not three. I gave up stopping shuffling to pee and just kept shuffling along with the pee running down my legs. Gross, but at least it was my pee!
Then I tripped. I was trying to move too fast and the chain between my legs got snagged. I went face forward and landed hard. Actually I was very lucky, I didn't hit my head too badly. For a second I thought I'd torn off one of my nipples, but I worked out they were still attached. I rolled over onto my back. Fuck - I rolled over the inflating butt-plug pump. As I moved it inflated. I froze. Mustn't do that again. Christ it hurt.
Carefully I manoeuvred to my knees and got up. I was still urinating - now I had pee all over myself. The dirt and leaves were also sticking to the vaseline that I was coated in.
I was panting in frustration. How could I be so stupid? And I was still horny and unable to do anything! What a slut I had become, here I was in serious trouble and I was trying to work out how I could rub my pussy.
I looked around for a suitable tree to rub against. Finding one that looked reasonably smooth (no splinters please), I moved against. God how frustrating! I couldn't straddle the tree due to the ankle cuffs and pushing against the tree pulled on the weight hanging from my nipples. I tried anyway.
I was sort of doing squats up and down the tree. It was useless. There was no way I could move fast enough or for long enough to reach climax and I had started peeing again. Also some of the vaseline was getting into my eyes blurring my vision.
I started to cry, but kept rubbing against the tree. Eventually I had to stop because my legs were getting too sore. I had succeeded in making myself hornier, and convinced myself that I was not getting relief for some hours.
I started to shuffle again. However, I could barely see where I was going and so my progress was slower than ever. My ass felt like it was going to explode and I stank!
Suddenly a stopped. Which way was the keys. Shit! I'd lost my direction. I looked around, blinking to try and clear my eyes. I couldn't make out much in the distance in any direction. If I was heading back the way I came I find out sooner, but if I was heading sideways, well I wouldn't know for hours and then I wouldn't really know where I was either. I screamed into the gag in frustration and fought at the cuffs.
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
The sky was overcast so no help at all, but one direction felt more right (maybe) so I headed in that one. As it turned out I was right, but Christ I could have been seriously lost.
I shuffled forward, cursing through the gag.
Probably an hour later I fell again. I hadn't been concentrating enough and went down quickly. I landed on some branches this time which, although they sort of cushioned the fall, also hurt due to their irregularity. Lying there I had an idea.
I could rub my pussy against the branches on the ground. I wriggled around, taking care not to catch the bulb for the butt-plug and lined myself up. I straddled a branch, sat up and started to rub myself up and down.
Ahh, yes. This was going to work. It felt fantastic to have something against my pussy. I was rubbing away for some minutes when I started to have doubts. This was not going to work. Something wasn't quite right. I laid down on the branches trying to change angle - that was better. I started a good humping motion. My hair got into my eyes depositing more vaseline. I was basically blind now, but I didn't care - I was going to cum.
But I didn't. Don't know why, but it just wasn't quite right. My legs were getting sore and my pussy was also getting sore from the bark on the branch. Damn!
I went to sat up. Shit! The chain between my nipples was caught on something - obviously a branch. I couldn't see due to the vaseline and of course couldn't reach around to release it. I tried pulling harder. No - that hurts, don't do that! I tried varying the angle, but I was straddling the branch and couldn't move much. Shit!
My legs were shaking with the effort of holding this position. I was going to have to roll off the branch onto the ground and hope the chain gets dislodged. I mentally calculated that if it wouldn't pull my nipples off (that was good) and that I'd have more freedom to pull at other angles. Slowly I rolled over to my left and off the branch. At some point I had to fall - gravity is a bitch sometime.
Shit and double shit. I landed on the butt-plug bulb inflating it more! And I felt like my nipples were going to be pulled off. I scrambled into a sort of crouch and the chain released itself. Thank Christ! My nipples were burning with pain and my bowels were in serious pain, but at least I was free.
'Ok,' I said to myself, 'just concentrate and get out of this mess. No more trying to masturbate, just concentrate and try to get those keys.'
I started shuffling again. At least I had stopped urinating.
After a while I noticed it was starting to get dark. I must have been going for around three to four hours. I was very scared that I was going in the wrong direction - or worse, around in circles. Then I heard something! A car - a car travelling at highway speeds. I must be close.
I felt elated. By now I had realised that I would have to wait for darkness to get the keys - there would be no 'dashing' across the road. I would need the cover of darkness. Then I could walk back along the dirt road to my car.
I could do it. I would survive.
I decided to celebrate by trying to get off again. I found a suitable branch on the ground and sort of laid over it. It was very hard to get a good angle. I couldn't truly straddle a branch because of the ankle chain. Rather, I had to kneel on the ground with my feet in the air and rest my pussy on the branch. It was hard work, and my legs were very sore.
I rubbed up and down, but it was clear that it was going to be unsuccessful. As horny as I was I just didn't have the strength. After 10 minutes or so I managed to get to my feet again. At least I didn't do any damage.
I continued shuffling towards the noise of the road. Eventually I reached the edge of the forest. I was right on target (very proud of that too).
I waited. This was the really risky bit, and I was going to wait until it was really dark.
Eventually I deemed it dark enough. There was very little traffic, so I honestly felt quite safe. I broke my cover and shuffled quickly down the dirt road. I soon reached the keys. Picking them up was a different matter. I basically had to lie down again to get my hands over them - making sure I didn't squeeze the bulb again.
At last I had them. The feeling of elation was huge. I had been bound for around 4 hours. I shuffled back to road and headed towards the dirt road that led to my car. Although it was overcast and a bit cool, I wasn't getting too cold. I'm not sure what stage the moon was at, but there was one - otherwise I might have had to wait until morning.
Shuffling back along the dirt road was so much easier. I was making excellent progress. I was actually making great speed (after all I had just had some good practice shuffling) and it was probably only an hour or so before I was at my car.
The night was silent apart from some bird noises. I had encountered no one.
With some difficulty I unlocked the car and opened the door. Now the other tricky bit. Stupidly I had put the keys on the back seat. I have a small car! With a lot of effort I managed to throw myself over the front seats. My nipples were on fire again as wriggled around and I squashed the bulb again, but I was so close I didn't care. I found the keys and unlocked my cuffs.
Immediately I deflated the anal plug, then removed the chain from my nipples and then the gag. Finally I unlocked the ankle cuff, open the back door and climbed out and stretched. The deflated butt-plug came out easily. God it felt good.
But god I felt sore. I walked around the car a bit stretching my muscles. I could have masturbated if I wanted to, but I was just too sore.
I should have bought a towel to clean myself up, but hadn't thought that far (my car is disgusting now). I dressed (t-shirt and shorts) and drove home. I showered for a long time. I had bruises all over and my nipples were purple. I was very relieved to do a shit - I was worried I might have caused permanent damage back there.
I didn't even masturbate that night, I was exhausted. I did the next day, but it was nothing special.
It was then I decided that I needed Mary back. I couldn't get satisfaction on my own, I needed help. I only hoped she would take me back.
Mary is back in charge of me. Again she wishes to invite contact through the anonymous feedback link. She requests all humiliation and bdsm ideas. Include an email address and she will correspond and work out a suitable scenario. I was wrong to reject her and need to be punished. Will you help?
Also, does anyone know a good method for getting vaseline and dirt out of car seats?


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The value 0 is the set that is a distance 0 from its negative.
The unit diameter circle is the set that is a distance 1 from its negative.
The value 1 is the set that is a distance 0 from its inverse.
What is the set that is a distance 1 from its inverse?
One point in the set is the golden ratio (1.618..) since its inverse is 0.618... but it isn't the only point in the set, for instance 0.618 is also in the set. Also cos(30) + 0.5i is in the set since its inverse is cos(30) - 0.5i. The full set is drawn in blue:
The left and right sides can be calculated iteratively and separately, for the left side (lesser real values):
a = 1/(c + a) where c is the unit radius circle.
For the right side:
a = 1/a - c
Does anyone know the analytic formula?
One could extend this idea to the quaternions (a golden orb? volume embedded in 4d) and presumably also to the octonions.


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Nicole Hansen had an intriguing post this weekend about what makes a lesson compelling. I think she summarized the need for compelling lessons nicely in a tweet linking to her post:
I like that she focused not on the practical benefit of student engagement, but rather phrased engagement as what her students deserve. I agree completely. My students generally work quite hard trying to balance school, activities, and teenage life. They deserve a course that is compelling filled with lessons that are compelling.
Of course the big question is how to make that happen, and that is why Nicole examines the question of what makes a lesson compelling which she breaks down by what "type" of lesson it is. I will just add a few thoughts both to the general question of what makes math compelling, and to her specific framework…
- Different people may differ on what they find compelling, but one can still strive to tell a story that most would find compelling. I have the best chance of doing that if at the least I find the story compelling.
- It also helps to know one's audience. I try to know my students' interests in general, and their interests in mathematics. I frequently ask them (both in class and through homework surveys) what they've found interesting or not so much, and what they're curious about learning more about. This is also one of the many benefits of the noticing/wondering framework.
- Stories are compelling. This is captured in the idea of conflict which Nicole quoting Daniel Willingham starts her post. It is the idea of Dan Meyer's "Three Acts". It is also the idea of Graham Fletcher's ShadowCon session: "Becoming a Better Storyteller."
- Fletcher in particular notes that the story structure goes beyond just an individual lesson, and extends to the progression of ideas across a year and even beyond which is why he encouraged everyone to read the progressions. I have had some success in making dimension a theme/thread that runs throughout my 9th grade math course which I believe help makes the course more compelling. (I'll note that Salvador Daliand Madeleine L'Engle both found the concept of higher dimension compelling).
- I agree with Nicole (and Chris) that debatable questions can be quite compelling. One source for that can be definitions. For example, "Is a line parallel to itself?" Students are shocked to learn that there is no right answer…it depends on how we choose to define parallel lines. The real debate is over what choice to make, and that requires some discussion about what is so important about the concept of parallelism.
- That raises a factor that can arise in questions and problems. Ideas or solutions that are surprising/shocking can be quite compelling. An example of such a problem is the wheat and chessboard problem.
I'm sure I'll be thinking about this more as the year progresses. Thanks Nicole!


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Ubuntu Open Week is off to a great start. Today, we had eight great sessions presented by members of the community. Here is a quick summary in case you missed them.
- Introduction: Jono Bacon started off Open Week with his traditional intro session. He talked about some of the "rules" to observe during Open Week in order to make the sessions as productive as possible. With some help from Jorge Castro, Jono also spent some time answering a wide range of questions.
- Be your neighbor's Ubuntu Guru: Fabian Rodriguez led the second session of the day. He explained introduce neighbors, friends or colleagues to Ubuntu without becoming their 24/7 dedicated "computer guy". He also mentioned a new Ubuntu Hour program that he started up, which is an easy way for Ubuntu users to get together for a quick get-together.
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter: Or How To Achieve Organization Out Of Chaos: Craig A. Eddy held a great session about the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN). He explained how it is organized, how it has changed over the years, and how to get involved with the team.
- Scratch your own itch, learn how to write your own app: Rick Spencer talked about Quickly and how to use it to quickly develop applications for Ubuntu. He also explained how to create a basic applications, Searchy, using quickly.
- Ubuntu One: Joshua Hoover, Matt Griffin, Lucio Torre, and John Lenton discuss how to store, sync and share files, contacts, notes, and bookmarks with Ubuntu One. They also talked about some of the technology used to power Ubuntu One as well as their plans to provide developers with resources that will help them make use of Ubuntu One.
- What to do when things go wrong: Although we all wish that everything would simply work the way it is meant to all of the time, that is just not possible. Alan Pope did an excellent job talking about what people can do when things simply go wrong.
- Reporting Bugs: Brian Murray explained how to report bugs and how to make your reported bugs more likely to be fixed. Lucid will be a LTS release, so now is a great time to start reporting bugs so that we can make Ubuntu more stable
- Running a FOSS Event: Laura Czajkowski concluded the first day of Open Week. She talked about some tricks to help deal with planning events, booking a location, and handling presentations.
Tomorrow, we have another full schedule.
- Ubuntu Moblin Remix – Bill Filler and Crew
- Writing a book – Emma Jane
- Getting People Involved in your LoCo/Team – Jono Bacon
- Byobu – Dustin Kirkland
- ISO Testing Tracker – Ara Pulido
- Learning Project – Elizabeth Krumbach
- Writing Secure Code – Kees Cook
- Getting KDE 4 ready for LTS – Jonathan Riddell
I would also suggestions that you check out the wiki page and the booklet for more information about Ubuntu Open Week.


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I got a Creative Zen Vision M 60GB, my primary means of listening and watching media on the go in 2008, which even back then was pretty long in the tooth (the player had been introduced in December 2005, and I remember craving for it back then). Yes I'm used to waiting a long time for things. It's cool to have this outdated, yet still pretty good piece of technology in my hands, like seeing people with first generation iPod Nanos on the train, and to take it even further back not too long ago someone I knew still regularly used a cassette Walkman.
I guess sometime over the next few years I'll have to make a change, and I considered the iPod Touch, but I have no idea whether it would be worth it to go back to the pain of using iTunes on a PC again. The iPhone is right now out of the question because I don't really want to be tied down to a data plan, and I think I'd like to have a phone with a better camera for those situations where you just have to take a shot and you don't have a camera handy.
I wish Creative would make a comeback from behind and produce a media player that was as good as the Zen Vision series was back in 2005-2006, but even their very promising Zii Egg platform doesn't seem to be going anywhere, which is sad really.


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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Blog Tour: Catch A Falling Star (Review)
She has developed a main female character, Kendall Haynes, who is a successful doctor, who has everything - but the "happy ever after" she desires.
Then along comes Griffin Walker, an Air Force pilot who is learning to find peace with a medical condition that keeps him grounded, rather than in the air.
Along the way, the two discover friendship and more, as they navigate life in a new way.
On the scale of one to five, I give this book a solid three and a half to four. I thoroughly enjoy Vogt's writing style. She has a way that draws people into the storyline, and she adds in doses of humor. I also liked the two parallel story lines - Kendall's arch, involving another doctor, Griffin's involving his desire to fly again and his younger brother.
This is the second book I've read by Vogt, and honestly, she seems to be a fresh voice in Christian fiction. Her books contain just enough realism to be honest and true. I'm looking forward to her next novel. She is definitely an author I'll want to follow with future releases.
More About The Book
(From the publisher)
What does a girl do when life doesn't go according to her plan?
At 36, Kendall Haynes has seen some of her dreams come true. She's a family physician helping kids with severe allergies and asthma achieve more fulfilling lives-a childhood struggle she knows all too well. But the feeling of being "the kid never picked" looms large when romance continues to evade her and yet another one of her closest friends gets engaged. Are Kendall's dreams of having it all-a career, a husband, children-nothing more than childish wishing upon a star? Should she hold out for her elusive Plan A? Dust off Plan B? Or is it time to settle? God says he knows the plans he has for her-why can't Kendall figure them out and be content with her life?
Griffin Walker prefers flying solo-both as an Air Force pilot and in his personal life. But a wrong choice and health problems pulled him out of the cockpit. His attempts to get out of "flying a desk" are complicated by his parents' death-making Griffin the reluctant guardian of his sixteen-year-old brother, Ian. How did his life get so off course? Can God get his life back on track ... or has there been a divine plan all along?
Catch a Falling Star reminds readers that romance isn't just for twenty-somethings and that sometimes letting go of your "wish I may, wish I might" dreams is the only way to embrace everything God has waiting for you.
More About The Author
She's discovered that God's best often waits behind the doors marked "Never." Her contemporary romance novel, "Wish You Were Here", debuted in May 2012 (Howard Books), and "Catch a Falling Star" released in May 2013.
An established magazine writer and former editor of Connections, the leadership magazine for MOPS International, Vogt is also the Skills Coach for My Book Therapy, the writing community founded by best-selling author Susan May Warren.
Online Resources
Follow Vogt online here
Buy it online here
Read more reviews here
My review of Wish You Were Here
As a freelance journalist, I was provided a copy of this book by Litfuse Publicity Group. This review was not influenced by a free book - just in case you (or the FTC) were worried about this detail.
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