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Timmy's Kindergarten Adventure - Fun Math, Sight Words and Educational Games for Kids
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There's never been an educational game like this before. Kids of all ages will enjoy learning basic skills by guiding their player on a kindergarten adventure!
Created in partnership with a teacher, Timmy's Kindergarten Adventure focuses on the basic skills learned in Kindergarten:
Basic Math, Sight Words, Spelling, Telling Time, Counting Money, Color Mixing and more.
What People Are Saying
"Since buying this App a few days ago, it's all my 5 year old has asked for. He has played it every day, and hasn't asked for any of his favorite non-educational games at all"
5 different challenges with varying difficulty to practice skills
• Math Birds - Pesky birds keep taking your fruit. Learn subtraction by figuring out how many fruits are left.
• Clock Waterfall - There's a waterfall in your path. Find the log with the correct time to block the water get across the pond.
• Word Mountain - How do you get over the gaps in the mountain? Touch the correct Dolch sight word to jump!
• Math Bridge - Crossing a bridge can be tough when there's rocks weighing down one side. Figure out how many rocks are needed to balance it out with basic addition skills.
• Word Maze - This corn maze is tricky but if you can identify the object that starts with the letter spoken, you'll make it through.
We automatically adjust the difficulty of each challenge as your child improves and reward them with a special 10c coin for "leveling up".
7 school activities to help enrich your child's creativity
(unlock new activities each time you reach the school)
• Monday: Painting and color mixing - four sized brushes can be used to paint pictures. Mix the 5 basic colors (red, blue, yellow, black, white) to create new colors to paint with.
• Tuesday: Piano - there's a baby piano you can play. As you touch the keys, the notes are displayed on the sheet music above.
• Wednesday: Learn to draw - trace the outlines step by step to learn how to draw. When you're done tracing, you can paint your creations.
• Thursday: Remix - touch any of the buttons to turn on the music. Mix and match different buttons to create your own songs
• Friday: Collage - create beautiful collages with different papers, shapes and stickers
• Saturday: Bubbles - take a trip to the bubble geysers and have fun popping them. Look out for coins hidden in the bubbles!
• Sunday: Bike race - jump on a bike and ride down the trail. Tilt your device to control the player as they go through puddles and markers
What is the game like? What can I expect?
- The game starts outside Timmy's house. Tap on the School sign when you're ready to start.
- Timmy will need to complete 3 challenges on his way to school. Each time you start the game it will pick up from the level you last completed
- At the end of each challenge, you'll win a coin. If you make no mistakes, you get two coins. These coins can be used to purchase mini games back at home.
- Once Timmy reaches the school, tap on the calendar day to select the activity you'd like to play. If you've already unlocked today's activity, you'll win a key to unlock another activity. Reach the school 7 times to unlock them all!
Special Features
• Multi user support for classrooms and families with multiple kids
Do you have feedback?
We love seeing your reviews, but if you have a complaint or feature request, please let us know directly. There's no way for us to write you back if you leave a review. We want to make our games better, what you think is really important to us.
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What's New
Updated to support devices with 4.7" and 5.5" screens.
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Just after the toll gate on the highway to Carcavelos, among the complex of buildings that comprise Brisa's - Auto estradas de Portugal, lies the new Control and Coordination Center. The rectangular prism, intended to be low, elegant and light, gleams brightness and reflects the sun due to its cladding of solar panels on the east, south and west facade. The panels also cover the roof as a means of optimizing the energy requirements of the building. They produce hot water and are totally responsible for the conditioning of the facilities. The apparent technological character induced by the modular multiplication of the panels, occludes the north facade, entirely clad in dark volcanic stone. This stone retains humidity and promotes the growth of moss and lichen. Along this long and dark wall, extends a small and concealed parking lot, punctuated by trees. The continuity of the stone wall is slightly interrupted, creating the entrance on an unexpected and luminous patio.


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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will make a late call on the fitness of Gareth Bale ahead of the first Clasico of the season – but both men believe the world-record signing is ready to start against Barcelona at the Nou Camp.
The 24-year-old Wales forward has struggled with a thigh injury in recent weeks but was introduced from the bench against both Malaga in the league last weekend and against Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, and Ancelotti hinted at his pre-match press conference that Bale could start this weekend.
Ancelotti will also have to decide whether to select Alvaro Morata or Karim Benzema, and was not giving much away. "Morata is in a better physical shape than Benzema now because Benzema did a great defensive job against Juventus and he's more tired," he said. "But [on Saturday] we need quality, not just hard work, and experience in these games is also important."
Ancelotti believes the match comes at a good time for his team and has urged his players to show "courage and personality" against Gerardo Martino's league leaders.
A home victory would move Barça six points clear of their rivals. However, fresh from a 2-1 midweek win over Juventus and last weekend's action in La Liga – Real beat Malaga 2-0 while Barça and Atletico dropped their first points this term – Ancelotti appeared quietly confident.
"I do not know who is favourite. Everyone thinks Barcelona, but this is not bad for us. It is difficult to prepare for this game. Motivation and concentration are massive. The key is to have courage and personality to play football, not just defend and wait. We need character, personality. You should go to Barcelona and try to play football."
Ancelotti, who arrived at the Bernabeu from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer to replace Jose Mourinho, will be overseeing his first Clasico in Spain – and cannot wait to experience it first hand.
"I've seen many games and the one I liked best was the Barcelona-Real Madrid in recent years," the 54-year-old Italian said. "Madrid have improved a lot – starting badly with Mourinho but eventually achieving good results against them.
"[On Saturday] everyone knows what they have to do. It's an important game, but the result is not decisive for the league because it is a long season."
Martino will also be viewing his first Clasico from the dugout after taking over at Barça at the start of the season, and Ancelotti expressed his respect for the job his opposite number was doing.
"Coaching Barcelona is not easy, after [Pep] Guardiola and [Tito] Vilanova, but he is doing a good job," the Real Madrid coach said.
Footy shutdown
Viewers baffled at being unable to tune in to the opening 15 minutes of this weekend's El Clasico are falling foul of a 50-year ruling which prohibits the showing of 3pm kick-offs.
Sky pick up coverage 15 minutes in at the Nou Camp tonight. In a move instigated by Burnley in the 1960s, matches are not televised between 2:45 and 5:15pm on Saturdays for fear of impacting on attendances of other games. The rule does not however, apply on bank holidays, with BT Sport screening 3pm kick-offs this Boxing Day and New Year's Day.


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That is for the mk3, but I am sure they have it for the mk2.
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Biostatistics Seminar Series for Clinical and Translational Scientists
Seminar Topic: Cluster-Randomized Trials (John Preisser, PhD)
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The goal of this series is to provide clinical and translational researchers who have basic quantitative training in biostatistical methods with a more in depth understanding of selected topics and to introduce them to more advanced methods.
The target audience for the seminar series includes junior clinical and translational scientists who currently serve as or plan to serve as Principal Investigators leading interdisciplinary research teams that include biostatisticians. For example, this includes junior faculty in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry.


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Sunday, February 08, 2009
Emergence 3: Emergence and Collapse
I am increasingly of the opinion that the crux of understanding the behavior of social complexity is understanding emergence--both what it is, how it works, and what actions are available re: emergence. My first two posts in this series address the nature of emergence and the difference between weak and strong emergence. In short, there may be two very distinct types of phenomena labled "emergence":
1. Weak emergence: these are systemic phenomena that are theoretically reducible, but not practically reducible due to complexity. Most complexity theory (e.g. modeling, simulation, system laws, etc.) study this form of emergence without noting the differentiation with:
2. Strong emergence: these are systemic phenomena that are fundamentally not reducible, but that are ontologically distinct and can exert downward causation on the system from which they emerge. A possible example is consciousness (though the theoretical problem with strong emergence is that, until we understand *how* it works, we can't rule out that we just haven't yet learned how it is reducible--e.g. what were once viewed as emergent properties of elements seen in the periodic table now appear to be reducible to quantum mechanics). Complexity studies, for the most part, ignore strong emergence, or fail to differentiate strong vs. weak.
Why is this relevant to the question of complexity in civilization and the question of collapse? I think there is an important interface between emergence and the collapse of complex societies as noted by Joseph Tainter and others. Viz., that one evolutionary strategy for managing complexity is hierarchy, this is the strategy that has dominated human history because it allows centralized control over the complexity, but it also tends to result in collapse because hierarchies are structurally driven to growth and intensification. In contrast, complexity can be managed by the system via emergence, but this removes control from the center. One function of intensification of [hierarchal] complexity is to deal with information management and coordination. However, if consciousness is a guide, this may also be possible via (strong?) emergence in a decentralized system rather than via hierarchy. Such systems could manage complexity, could optimize functioning over time, but without intensification, therefore removing the driver of collapse. Compare, for example, the information processing and coordination function of hierarchal systems with something analagous to "synchronicity" as a strongly emergent coordinating and information processing phenoemenon. The role--and more importantly potential future role--of strong emergence in human systems has been almost entirely ignored.
Any general law of complexity, and any attempt to apply complexity theory to social systems must address emergence directly, and in my view must specifically address the distinction between weak and strong emergence. I think that current writing on complexity theory, especially as it applies complexity theory to civilization, almost entirely fails to consider the role and impact of these key features. My writing going forward with this series will be an attempt to address that gap. Unfortunately, while I hope to continue some kind of posting for the next three weeks, anything requiring more than about 15 minutes effort is unlikely before March 15th...
Readers may also find my litigation checklist of interest.
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- TH in SoC said...
I've been following your posts on emergence, though I haven't been able to do more than just skim them. (Been pretty busy lately...)
One thing comes to mind. Your framing of emergence sounds very much like the concept of the gestalt, that is, a structure or pattern whose properties can't be derived by summing its parts. Am I right?
If that is so, I have a further question. How can gestalt entities be comprehended or analyzed in a left-brained, sequential way? Or do we need to shift to a right-brained approach to understanding emergence and collapse? How would people make the shift? - 1:03 PM
Kind of shooting from the hip here, but is it possible that the basic assumption about "consciousness" - that it is somehow an emergent phenomenon - is fundamentally inverted? Perhaps what we consider to be reality, in all it's various manifestations and dimensions, is an emergent of consciousness. The great wisdom traditions, as well as the fringe areas of quantum physics and subjective experience, seem to make that suggestion.
Under weak emergence, we can improve our forecasts of future events through ever more clever and complex models. The future is probabilistic.
Under strong emergence, we cannot assign probabilities to future events; the future is fundamentally unknowable. Hence uncertainty.
So Taleb is a proponent of strong emergence? - 9:20 AM


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Automatic Recall of California Justices?
I learned an interesting thing this morning. Judicial appointments in California are confirmed by the public at the next general election; justices also come before voters at the end of their 12-year terms. Who is coming up for the end of their 12 year term this time around??
Three California Supreme Court justices will be up for reelection to 12-year terms on the November 2010 ballot:
1. Ron George — led court to invent homosexual "marriage" last year
2. Ming Chin — voted to uphold Prop. 22 last year
3. Carlos Moreno — voted to invent homosexual "marriages" last year
Carlos Moreno was the lone dissenting vote on upholding Proposition 8. The amount of stretching and wheedling that had to be done in order to muscle his will into the state constitution automatically discredits him and disbars him in my mind. There is no way he should ever sit as a judge over this state with that kind of willingness to overlook the basic rights of the people.
Ron George is hardly better.
There are some days when I am so glad to be a Californian. When I look at these other states so helpless against their legislatures and judiciaries…It's unfathomable the amount of work they have to put out to reorganize a corrupt system. The California Constitution gives the people power.
That's something to be grateful for.
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text: What Was the Best Gadget You Ever Got For Christmas?Eric Limer12/30/12 3:00pmFiled to: chatroomGiftsGadgets147EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink With Christmas a few days past, you've probably gotten a good chance to get familiar with whatever gadgets you may have gotten as gifts. Maybe you got a new iPad Mini, or a Nexus 7. Maybe it was a new phone, or even a new laptop. But as awesome as any of them may be, do they hold a candle to what you've gotten in the past? What was the best gadget you've ever received as a Christmas gift. Dig deep. What are the classics that stick out in your mind?Reply147 repliesLeave a reply


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stock markets have been hit by the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan as investors worry about the financial impact of the disaster. The Japanese stock market fell 14 per cent in two days at the beginning of the week, reversing the whole of its gains for the year so far.
In the UK, the FTSE fell for four consecutive days as the news of the scale of the disaster became clear. For anyone contemplating opening an equity ISA before losing their tax-free allowance on 5 April, this week's worrying headlines and fluctuating markets could well prove a powerful motivator to think again about investing.
Approaching stock markets when they are reacting to world events is always going to be a little strange for the inexperienced. Anyone unaware of just how much the market is driven by uncertainty, fear and rumours is likely to be surprised by how much it can fall – or indeed rise – on the back of headline news.
But experience shows that markets quickly recover from confusion. Back in mid-January, for instance, the riots and uncertainty in North Africa and the Middle East saw the FTSE slip from around 6040 to 5870 in the space of a couple of days. Within a week it had recovered to 5970, before falling again to 5860 by the end of the month.
When Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak stepped down on 11 February the market welcomed the ending of uncertainty by climbing to a high for the year on 14 February of almost 6100. But any investors who panicked when they saw markets sliding at the end of January would have missed out on the subsequent gains.
Looking back to last April the FTSE stood at around 5840. But the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April had a massive impact on financial markets. As the subsequent oil spill spread and the costs of the clean-up operation multiplied, the FTSE went into virtual freefall, slumping to 5120 within a couple of weeks and hitting its lowest point of the year of around 4800 by the end of June.
But then, once the leak was sorted and some certainty returned, markets started climbing and the FTSE reached a year high by the end of October. In other words, the wild fluctuations in the six months between April and October would have had no noticeable effect on anyone who had simply kept their nerve and kept their cash invested in funds.
The same is true of the current situation. While there remains uncertainty, markets will continue to react adversely. "Global stock markets have fallen on the fear a nuclear catastrophe will happen, even though this has been highly unlikely, " points out Adrian Lowcock, senior investment adviser at Bestinvest. "This demonstrates the inability of markets to price in rare high-risk events, known as black swans."
Lowcock believes that the Japanese economy is strong enough to cope with last week's disaster. "Nuclear fallout is one of those events where fear overwhelms rational behaviour. Japan plays an important role in world trade. It is the third largest economy and a big importer and exporter. It has a strong manufacturing base which is likely to be interrupted.
"However, many Japanese companies operate overseas, there is enough slack in the system to ensure that supply of goods is not significantly interrupted, and Japanese companies are highly efficient. The country will recover and the effect on world GDP is likely to be minimal," says Lowcock.
The lesson is clear: investing in the stock market should be a long-term decision, not aimed at short-term gains. The last seven days-worth of confusion in markets will settle down and investments will return to their normal fluctuations, until the next headline news hits them once again.
If news-driven market swings make you nervous about investing in stock markets then, maybe, an equity ISA isn't for you. If that's the case, then it's still worth using your cash ISA allowance of £5,100 before 5 April. But if you think it's a shame to waste the whole £10,200 tax-free allowance you could put in an equity ISA, there are other tactics to use to reduce the risk.
"At a minimum you should invest with a five-year investment horizon, which should help you to ride out any possible short-term market dips," advises Alan Easter, director of the discount broker Willis Owen. "Second, you can diversify your investment by buying funds within your ISA rather than individual shares.
"You could diversify further by choosing a multi-manager fund, whose manager will buy funds run by other managers. The aim of this is to access the expertise of the world's best investment talent. These help to spread your investment risk."
The broker also offers a Cash Reserve fund which is a way to use your 2010-2011 ISA allowance without investing in stock markets right away. "With the situation in Japan changing by the hour investors may be put off by recent events," says Easter.
"If you don't want to lose your allowance but are unsure where to invest right now, you can invest up to the full ISA limit in a Cash Rserve fund, then decide when the time is right to invest in particular funds, either in a lump sum or by drip feeding your money into the market. The key for savers is not to lose your annual tax free allowance."
If you really are running scared of stock markets right now you could start a monthly savings plan ISA rather than putting in a lump sum. Your first monthly deposit could use up some of your current ISA allowance, with the next starting to use your 2011-2012 allowance.
"Monthly savings can also be a very effective investment strategy for ISA investors that don't want to or can't afford to part with a large sum of money in one go," says Rob Fisher of Fidelity International. Because you buy into investments gradually over time, you avoid the danger of buying at the top of the market.
Drip-feeding your savings into the stock market over a year, for instance, means you end up effectively paying the average cost of shares or funds over that year, missing any particularly bad swings. it can even be more beneficial, says Fisher.
"For example, anyone who started a monthly savings plan in 1999 when ISAs were launched would have invested £87,600, but the pot would now be worth £125,151. By comparison a lump sum investor would have a pot worth £124,404."
How have fund managers reacted to the unrest in the Middle East?
Fund managers have found it tricky to call how their portfolios should be revised to make the most of opportunities arising from the crisis, with most resorting to locking down their holdings and hoping for the best, writes Joe McGrath. The common factor for anyone looking at the market is that it is exceptionally high risk.
From an investment perspective, the situation remains delicate with all eyes on Saudi Arabia, which, has seen small local protests but no large-scale demonstrations such as those witnessed in Egypt, Libya, Iran and Tunisia. Saudi Arabia is seen as particularly significant because the country is home to over a quarter of the world's oil reserves.
The country is popular with fund managers due to the large concentration of oil and gas companies there and is seen as one of the most important in the region because of this.
Meanwhile, economic commentators say that Egypt could recover very quickly if economic reforms are constructed quickly and in the right way, but any lingering of protests in the country could act as a further barrier to growth. Despite all of this, some fund managers say there are some bargains to be had, now that there are signs of recovery in the future.
Most funds that invest in the region are not just in the areas of unrest, but in more stable countries too, such as Turkey, Qatar, Oman, Syria and UAE.
Research taken from the MENA funds survey in the April issue of "What Investment", on sale from 30 March.
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If you are a graphic designer, web designer or a visual designer of any kind, this is the podcast for you. Each episode tackles a different graphic design related topic, from finding better clients to online portfolios to making sure you get paid. We also offer tips and tricks in our "Do Yourself a Favor" segment and advice when we answer a listener question. The Deeply Graphic Design-Cast is hosted by three successful, working designers with a wealth of real world experience to draw upon, so listen close! You're bound to learn something in each and every episode. Email listener questions to [email protected] Yours may be answered in a future episode!
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We may know a lot about the ins and outs of running a successful design studio, but we regularly run into dilemmas of our own. Mikelle had a recent client scenario which devolved from looking to an existing site for "inspiration" into the client wanting a very close copy of the original. When clients want [...]The post DesignCast 45: The Curious Case of the Copycat Client appeared first on The Deep End Design.
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The high axial loads induced in the screw drive shafts by the extrusion process are transmitted into the housing by the tandem bearing F-81660. A tandem bearing consists of several axial cylindrical roller bearings arranged in line. A sprung system of specially matched rings and washers ensures that all stages of the tandem bearing are always equally loaded regardless of the ratio between the basic load rating C and the axial load F. The rings and washers in the tandem bearing are made from hardened steel. It is generally fitted with standard axial cylindrical roller and cage assemblies.
The advantages of a tandem bearing come to the fore particularly when the following requirements must be fulfilled:
Distributor shaft
The two parts of the distributor shaft (b) are each supported radially in two cylindrical roller bearings SL 183040. They are installed such that they act as non-locating bearings. Each shaft section is supported by a four point contact bearing acting as a locating bearing. Each bearing is axially preloaded and has a radial release.
Intermediate shaft
On the intermediate shaft one intermediate gear (c) has a helical tooth set while the other intermediate gear (c) has a straight tooth set. Both intermediate gears are supported in cylindrical roller bearings SL 192328 C3.
Screw drive shafts
The bearings selected for the screw drive shafts are two double row semi-locating bearings NNCF 140x225x105 and two double row semi-locating bearings SL1850 26 C3. The shafts are additionally supported in a radial direction on the tandem bearings by ball bearings 6309. A needle roller bearing NA 4824 C3 is also used to guide a shaft.
Tandem bearings are generally preloaded. The preload is achieved in this bearing by means of disc spring assemblies. During zero load running, the disc spring assemblies are supported by two axial cylindrical roller bearings 81224 TN.
The whole gearbox is lubricated and cooled using oil. Dissipation of heat is very important in a gearbox characterized by power levels of this magnitude. Particular attention was therefore paid to the design of the oil feed system.
The direction and quantity of lubricant flow is particularly important in tandem bearings.
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SIT322 - Distributed Systems
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Year | 2017 unit information |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | James Zheng |
Prerequisite: | SIT221 or SIT232 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Contact hours: | Campus: 2 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 2 hour practical per week. Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. Students will have the opportunity to participate in online consultation sessions. |
The key focus of SIT322 is on introducing students to implement integrated systems over distributed web applications, websites and web services. In SIT322 students will learn how distributed web applications are developed by using ASP.NET framework and associated messaging systems. Students will examine four major integration styles adapted by modern business systems and the techniques of integrating loosely coupled applications. The unit enables students to develop complex web-based systems capable of processing analytical, geographical and personal information retrieved via Windows DLL, web and database APIs. In particular, students will use XML-based messages and message channels to facilitate information exchange. Students will also explore the real-world business systems such as HR, CRM and ERP. A good programming background in C# and SQL is essential for those who wish to achieve a high standard of this unit.
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Size: Afghan 45" x 60" & Pillow 15" square
Designer: Roberta Maier
Original Publication: Crochet With Heart magazine, April 2000 issueSkill Level: Easy +
Description: Indulge yourself in the comfort of an afghan and pillow set that's twice as nice! The double-layer delights provide the extra warmth needed when snuggling up for afternoon naps. They are crocheted using worsted weight yarn and a size H (5.00 mm) hook.
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Posted Sat 20th of November 2010
I fulfill the fantasy of fucking someone after a show
Over the summer, I had three different music projects going. This band that I got together with my junior year had really taken off and then I was starting to mess around with punk music and cover-songs with one of my good friends. So I spent a lot of time playing gigs on the weekends and Friday's.
The punk band was a two person show. My friend Calvin and I had started it up just to mess around but people were starting to like the sounds we were producing. I had only known Calvin for a few months, but we were growing as friends very fast. Almost four times a week we would be jamming out in his basement, so we got to know each other relatively fast. He also didn't know that I was on the verge of officially falling off the Straight-wagon once and for all. Rumors had been going around for quite some time by this point, but in high school rumors are easy to debunk.
Anyways, I had lately been fantasizing about getting a hook-up after a show in the back of my car or something radical like that. I think it had something to do with all the rock music culture I was immersed in. I just wanted to get high and get fucked. As it happened, Calvin was proving to be just what I needed.
Calvin is a slim guy; Younger-looking than me and kind of boyishly cute. He seriously has the most childish dimples I have ever seen on a teenager. He wasn't openly gay or anything like that, so I had to pull some tricks to achieve my goal of fucking someone after one of our shows.
The gig in question happened in July. It was an awesome night and we had a huge crowd of about 500 people coming out to see a bunch of bands. I had been saving up some money and bought a few lines of cocaine off of a guy that works at the venue (all rock-stars need their sugar!). Calvin and I played a hot set and were really feeling that euphoric high from doing a live performance. I was feeling so pumped after-wards that I couldn't be calmed down. As we were finishing packing our equipment into the store-room at the venue, I kept shouting to Calvin "I want to get fucked tonight."
He would just smile like it was nothing. He was having a good time too so there had been no doubt he understood my eagerness and excitement. We went back inside and watched a few more bands. After that, I talked him into hanging out in the alley behind the venue with me. It was between sets and since we were a band, we pretty much had the ability to go in and out of the club as much as we wanted. That always made me feel powerful.
By this time it had gotten kind of dark. We had walked to one end of the alley that was secluded by industrial recycling containers. I aksed Calvin if he wanted some cocaine. His response wasn't exactly what I had hoped for.
"What the fuck? Cocaine? You have got to be kidding me, you druggie"
"Shit, its not like that, just thought you might like to try some is all." Calvin was noticeably pissed.
"Dude, I don't know. I'm not really into that kind of stuff."
He was apprehensive but after a little prodding, I finally got him to see my viewpoint and got him to take a bit with me. The effects weren't instantaneous but I played it up.
"Oh my god Calvin, I fucking want to get fucked" I was shouting this at him, suggestively hinting my darker intentions.
"Ha ha, you creeper" He was happy which served as a good cue for me that it was time to make a move.
Calvin didn't even take a moment to stop me. As soon as I started to ravage his chest and shirt with my lips, the moaning started. I swear, I hadn't even reached my hand down his pants and it sounded like a climax. I didn't wait for him to say yes or no, I just went for it. I unzipped his skinny jeans and pulled out his cock. It wasn't overly impressive but was clean-cut, semi-hard, and as good as a cock gets I suppose. I rubbed the tip with a little coke and went to town.
As soon as I saliva up the crown of his dick, Calvin got pulsatingly hard in his dick. His whole body jerked to attention. I just kept pace, shafting him from the tip to the balls. I took a second to re-adjust and get on my knees and to pull his pants down fully, leaving only his briefs. His cock was throbbing and red. I could tell I was doing a good job just by his clenched-shut eyes and heavy breathing. I kept shafting him for another 10 minutes until he began to scream and squirted off a load into my mouth.
By this time in my homosexual history, I had finally sucked Will off enough times to know how to swallow. So when Calvin came, I swallowed every drop in my mouth, and then suctioned his dick to the back of my throat to force every remaining ounce in his dick out. He liked that. He liked that a lot.
I pulled his briefs all the way to the ground. "Calvin, lick my fingers." He took my right hand in his mouth and lathered them up extremely well. Then I reached around to slip my hand into his ass-crack. I started by forcing my index finger into his tight hole, then my middle finger. I squeezed all four in eventually and spat into his ass to try and force them down till my knuckles were to his rectum. Calvin took all this without too much pain so I kept going.
His ass was full of nearly half my hand, so I squeezed in further until my knuckles were now in his ass and started to clench my hand into a fist. Calvin gave out a little bit of a yelp but nothing I was worried about. I couldn't believe I was getting away with fisting him. I had only seen it done in videos and Will's attempt at it on me definitely didn't go over well…
I didn't try and push my luck with Calvin in this way, however. Instead, I got up off my knees and pushed him against the wall of the building we were behind. I pulled down my pants and briefs just enough to bring my hard cock out of hiding. I spat in my hands and rubbed it on the head of my dick before forcing it in between Calvin's legs. Since the fisting went so well, I just went straight for it and jabbed Calvin in the ass, getting my cock half-way in at the first go. This was magnificent!!!
I fucked away, pounding him into the brick wall for a good eternity before finally approaching an orgasm. Calvin had the instinct to jack himself off at the same time that I fucked him so the timing was pretty good. By the time I was ready to finish, he was approaching his climax and we both shouted halleluiah to the angels. I squeezed 1, 2, then a third sprit of cum into his ass. We both let out deep breaths and I sunk into his back and the brick wall.
"What are you doing?" I turned around, whipping about Calvin's naked pelvis with me to see one the security guards from the club spying on us from behind the recycling bins. When he noticed that we were just two young kids, he gave a quirky smile and told us before he walked off to pack it in before the cops cruised by one night patrol.
Calvin and I both kind of smiled at this. We zipped up and gave each other a kiss. "That was fun Scott."
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2015-02-04 20:31:03
fuck the cocaind this was a good storie
anonymous reader
2011-03-17 14:52:39
People read his other stories he explains who the other charecters are in those stories and you will like them if you like this one. also dud i agree cocaine is bad
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2010-12-20 17:07:16
that was georgous!!!!! >_<
but could you explain who will is? and dude, cocine is baddddd (:D)
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The U.S. Treasury took its boldest step to date in its efforts to stabilize the housing market by announcing on Sunday a takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but analysts and economic experts warn that the action will not likely lead to a real estate turnaround anytime soon.
Builder stocks rallied strongly on the news, with many in the group posting increases of nearly 20% at market opening Monday. By mid-afternoon, most had settled back to gains between 7% and 13%.
"It's good news, because the alternative would have been far worse," said Bert Ely, a financial and monetary policy expert who runs Ely & Co. based in Alexandria, Va. "We maintain the status quo, but we still have very serious problems to work through."
The alternative, said Ely, would have been to let both government-sponsored entities fail, which would likely have completely collapsed the already moribund market for mortgage backed securities that ultimately provide the funding for home loans.
"The broad belief is that it's going to help bring [mortgage rates] down a bit," said Ely. But, he added, "I don't think it will be a magnitude of even 1%."
The impact of the takeover will not be felt throughout the overall housing market, he said. "Your stronger borrowers are going to be able to get cheaper money, but this does not mean your weaker borrowers are going to have it any easier getting credit than they did before."
Brian Bethune, chief U.S. financial economist for Global Insight, believes the takeover will have the effect of shaving 30 to 40 basis points off mortgage interest rates by the end of October. "Definitely we're going to see some relief on mortgage rates," he said. "We could see rates by the end of the year dip below 6%. That's the best news in the whole equation here."
Bethune added, however, that the implicit government backing of Fannie and Freddie should help ease the credit crunch. "On net, it should have a slight positive effect on availability of capital," he said. "I think some of these mortgage backed securities will get a lift. But it's not going to be a cure."
Michael Rehaut, home building analyst at J.P. Morgan, was more skeptical. The GSE takeover, he wrote in a research note, "will have a fairly minimal effect on current mortgage rates, and hence the present dynamics of the housing market."
Those dynamics, according to Ely, are driven by several factors that are outside the purview of the financial markets: the tightening of credit standards to pre-bubble levels and an overall decline in the pool of home buyers owing to creditworthiness, reduction in net household wealth due to home price declines (which he estimates at $1 trillion in aggregate) and changing preferences regarding size, styl,e and location of existing housing stock.
"As I said to the builders at last year's Big Builder conference, there's really got to be a significant slowdown in housing not only in units being built, but in what people pay for them. What I see is a slow recovery for home building, and as the recovery takes place, possibly significant changes in the mix of what is being built."
The takeover generated a mostly positive response from home builders.
Said R. Chad Dreier, president and CEO of The Ryland Group, "We are encouraged by the possibility that the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may drive down mortgage rates and create some renewed demand for new homes among qualified buyers. Also, the government's effort to help restore confidence in the financial markets is a good thing for both the housing market and overall economy."
"Now with the tax credit in play, and this recapitalization commitment by the government, the necessity to clear the market of re-sales--both people who are living in their homes and want to sell them and the supply of foreclosure properties--and the overhang of new-home properties now has the beginning of a solution," said Larry Mizel, CEO of M.D.C. Holdings. "A cure has started, substantially, and that we'll now be able to begin to clarify the baseline for new-home demand. I feel confident that we'll find that the lines between new-home supply and demand will cross again, and we'll need to work to meet demand again. It may take a couple of years."
"The takeover by the government, which many people have been waiting to happen for some time, confirms the guarantee that the GSEs have been backed by the government, which should restore some confidence in their ultimate viability," said Fred Cooper, senior vice president for finance and investor relations at Toll Brothers. "It removes a cloud of doubt about their ability to survive their crisis, and will hopefully bring mortgage spreads down and improve liquidity."
The National Association of Home Builders put out a statement from CEO Jerry Howard on Sunday that said, "While it is unfortunate that we have reached this point, we are hopeful that the government's action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will help to increase liquidity in the nation's mortgage markets and restore confidence in the global financial markets. At this critical turning point, it is essential that government regulators and all parties involved in the nation's housing finance system work together to rebuild the nation's secondary mortgage market--a move that is absolutely vital to provide affordable mortgages for America's home buyers and to help spur an economic recovery."
For Alan Shapiro, president of Bethesda, Md.-based Winchester Homes, the takeover's biggest benefit is keeping mortgage money in place.
"We can ill afford to have an illiquid mortgage market right now," he said. But he said he did not think the federal action will have an immediate impact on the market.
"It'll be--if nothing else--something that keeps us in neutral," said Shapiro. "The fundamental problems are still there. Inventory still needs to come down. ... So, I don't see it as a great help, but I see it as a good step to keep us on the path for recovery."
While recovery seems like wishful thinking in some hard-hit markets, Shapiro said that in the past four to six weeks he's seen some stabilization around Washington, D.C. He said most of the improvement had been in the local Virginia markets, with sales higher than during the spring selling season. And if the government strategy keeps interest rates low, that trend could gain momentum.
Because Winchester is a move-up builder, Shapiro said that he tracks the resale market very closely; his buyers most often have a house to sell before they can buy a new one. Low interest rates could help get more entry-level buyers to purchase homes; many, of course, choosing existing homes. When resale inventory begins to clear, it frees up opportunity for the move-up tranche of the housing market.
"We believe this market won't be back until resales get healthy," Shapiro explained. "If this helps the entry-level market, we're all for it."
Dave Borreson, CEO of Atlanta-based Peachtree Residential, said the government action can't be anything but positive.
"The fact that the government stepped in and said, 'We have the keys to the front door,' that is a good thing. ... Warren Buffet thinks that it's a good thing for the long term," Borreson noted, adding that the move should prevent the negative effect on interest rates that losing the GSEs would have had.
"The fact that they are still in business and, hopefully, their window is open has got to go a long way towards keeping interest rates more manageable," he said.
In addition to the establishment of a secondary market for mortgages and an expected gradual decline in interest rates, for former mortgage industry executive and current CEO of Florida-based Holiday Builders Kim Shelpman, the pluses of the government also include the standardization of lending guidelines. Shelpman said that the mortgage pendulum has swung so far from the fast-and-loose lending of the boom times to where it's "practically impossible" to get a mortgage today. She said she expected the government takeover to provide some consistency on the lending side, returning "lending to the pre-boom time when decisions were made prudently on a consistent basis and everyone understood the guidelines."
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Superstorm #Sandy: A Real-World Disaster, Socially Shared
By Rose de Fremery
The impact of Sandy's arrival has been severely felt. More than 100 homes burned to the ground in Breezy Point, Queens. A building on 14th Street lost its façade, exposing the apartments inside to fierce wind and rain. Several Manhattan hospitals lost power and were forced to conduct risky evacuations of patients, including newborn babies, during the storm. Subway stations and tunnels completely flooded along with entire sections of the city bordering the Hudson and East Rivers. Airports flooded. A transformer exploded on 14th Street, emitting a bright blue ball of light seen for miles. Shortly afterward, half of Manhattan lost power and went dark. Millions were ultimately left without power across the eastern seaboard.
Increasingly concerned as the hurricane made its way inland, people turned to Twitter rather than traditional news outlets to stay abreast of the latest developments in real time. Local, state and federal agencies also used social media channels to issue public safety warnings and keep residents updated on recovery efforts. Twitter users, accustomed to a certain level of joviality and sarcasm on any given day, grew uncharacteristically sober as the storm progressed, according to the New York Times. It was also reported that, in a rush to share their personal experiences of the storm, Instagram users were at one point uploading 10 #Sandy photos a second.
There were some lighter moments shared over social media channels during the storm as well. Mayor Bloomberg's charismatic sign language interpreter, Lydia Callis, became an instant Internet sensation. El Bloombito, a Twitter account poking fun at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's wobbly ways with the Spanish language, provided real-time comic relief to nervous New Yorkers as Sandy battered their city.
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WayForward Technologies is bringing classic side-scroller Double Dragon back from the dead. Double Dragon Neon is an Xbox Live Arcade and PSN reboot that adds a bit of 80s magic to the beat 'em up.
How do you make a game originally released in 1987 feel more eighties? Well, as Neon's name suggests, the game's color scheme has a whole lot of electric blue and hot pink. IGN reports that the soundtrack is heavy on guitar solos, keyboards, and synth drums too. Neon, like the original, stars Billy and Jimmy Lee. They're trying to save their girlfriend Marian from a nefarious character called Skullmageddon. Yes, Marian is the girlfriend of both brothers. In the original game, the two players had to fight at the end to decide who wins her affections. Ah, romance. The core gameplay - walking down the street and beating up thugs - remains intact. You'll dispense enemies using martial arts moves like flying knees and spnning kicks. You can also use weapons like hand grenades and baseball bats that you find along the way. The IGN report mentions a "grid-like system of earning and upgrading power-ups." They don't mention any other details about it. Still, a progression system sounds like an interesting twist and could be enough to elevate the game above "just a simple remake" status. Neon will launch this summer.
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Y'all, I have a confession to make. I... used to be a theatre person. I took acting classes for years and years and then graduated to writing and directing plays, until such time as I realized I kind of hate theatre and stopped doing it. </backstory>
Have you seen the 2003 movie Camp? About the musical theatre obsessed teens at summer camp? That was my adolescence, basically. Except I didn't go to camp. |
So, I'm not just like a fringe festival casual visitor, I am a fringe festival VETERAN. I did my first Fringe play when I was FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (it was about a teen girl in love with a vampire! It got extremely negative reviews! I was Stephenie Meyer before Stephenie Meyer was Stephenie Meyer). Since then, I went on to do six more Fringe shows in the next 10 years.
If you aren't familiar, fringe festivals where you can see sometimes REALLY GOOD shows that are just starting out, and frequently you will see EXTRAORDINARILY BAD SHOWS from people with far too much time on their hands. They can range from very small (20 or 30 plays) to extremely huge (hundreds of plays!). Wherever you live, here's my...
Fringe Festival survival guide:
1) Carefully plan out which shows you want to see. There's always room for serendipitious play discovery, but honestly? Go through the program and find shows featuring PEOPLE YOU KNOW ARE GOOD. Also look for shows that HAVE PERFORMED IN OTHER CITIES ALREADY.
2) Fringe festival volunteers are worth their weight in GOLD. They usually get free passes to shows, which means they've seen many of them AND they hear word of mouth from people leaving shows. They know which ones are catching on before anyone else. Even the reviewers rely on the volunteers to know which shows to catch.
3) While it may sound like hilarious fun to see a show that everybody says is TERRIBLE... it is not necessarily fun. Watching a bad amateur play is not like watching a crappy B-movie because a) the actors are right there in front of you and b) you're stuck in the theatre. You may be able to escape if it's really horrible... or maybe you will wind up like I did one time, sitting in riser-type seating watching THE WORST PLAY EVER (the story of a man trapped in a duct; it was like an hour long and the guy just kept saying, "OK, you're stuck in a duct. I can't believe this! What do I do now? I'm in a duct! How did this happen? STUCK IN A DUCT." I literally couldn't leave due to the riser-type seating, and me being in the back row. This cost like $5 and was VASTLY OVERPRICED.
4) Generally, the first weekend of a fringe fest is when everybody's figuring out what's good and what's bad. By the second weekend, reviews have come out and word of mouth has made some shows into must-sees... which means it's harder to get tickets. Ideally, you want to see the really good shows before anyone else knows they're good. This is why it's important to either volunteer or cozy up to volunteers. Or, often, there's a fringe preview show where you can see bits of various shows, which also gives you a heads-up on what's good to see.
Bottom line is that lots of shows will be good, a few will be OMFG SO BAD and a few will be SO GREAT. Ticket prices are way less than professional theatre, but there's a lot of risk in the way of your reward.
Plan what you're going to do, take a leap of faith sometimes to try something untested, and enjoy!


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The Bill Archer Fellowship Program for Undergraduates
The Bill Archer Fellowship Program for Undergraduates brings talented UT System undergraduate students to Washington, D.C. for a Fall or Spring semester of coursework and internships./p>
Applications to The Bill Archer Fellowship Program for Undergraduates are due in early February for both semesters of the following academic year. On campus interviews will be held in late February or early March. Final decisions will be made in late March. You can download the application here. A full application includes the information sheet, a resume, a writing sample, a personal statement, a transcript, two letters of recommendation, and a list of desired internship placements. The packet must be submitted to the Honors College offices in Green Center 2.202. All participants must be of upper division standing and have taken both required government courses. A good candidate is a student who is interested in pursuing a semester in Washington and is interested in participating in intellectual exchange centering on government and politics. Students come from all majors, including Political Science, Economics, Business, Science, Engineering, History, Education, and Pre-Med. The key factor is your ability to make a compelling case, in your application and interview, for why you should be allowed the opportunity to participate in a semester in Washington D.C. In the 2014-15 academic year, UT Dallas students interned with organizations including: For additional information on The Bill Archer Fellowship Program, including information on housing, transportation, and costs of participation, please visit the program website at www.archercenter.org or contact Valerie Brunell in the Honors College at UT Dallas.Application Process
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Mercedes' 911 fighter
Most of the form-altering camouflage is removed in this spy shot of the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT that will debut in September.
The front engine, rear-wheel-drive competitor to the Porsche 911 is expected in early 2015.
It will be powered by a twin-turbo, 4.0 liter V-8 making 500 hp.
The price is assumed to be around $110,000.


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Dune Lankard
My work: protecting Native interests with sustainable economic models that protect our unique subsistence way of life
This profile was prepared when Dune Lankard was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2006.
The New Idea
Dune is conserving precious ecosystems by restoring Native control over land and developing new economic incentives for conservation. These tools include: payments which offset the economic "benefits" of clear cutting and strip mining, local philanthropic models, and coalitions that bring together local and national support for a new look at conservation. Among the organizations under the umbrella of his Cultural Conservation Initiative (CCI) are the Native Conservancy Land Trust (NCLT), the Eyak Preservation Council (EPC), and the Fund for Indigenous Rights and the Environment (FIRE Fund). Initially focused on his own Eyak tribe, Dune is now working to educate and engage younger generations and indigenous people outside Alaska, so that their problems are collectively shared and their solutions sustainable. For the native corporations which own the land, Dune's solutions are more powerful than any act of civil disobedience. They are implemented through an integrated web of organizations and coalitions that address the legal, political, environmental, and most importantly, the financial angles of the problem. For thousands of years Native Alaskans have relied on their traditional knowledge of the sea, ice, land, and animals to thrive in a harsh environment. The plentiful natural resources of Alaska provide a basis for the survival of these communities. By convincing Native communities and policymakers that it is in their long-term economic interest to preserve renewable sources of food, energy and water, Dune is helping indigenous peoples protect some of the world's last wild places with strategies that are environmentally, culturally and economically sound.
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Controls Specialist, Subject Matter Expert
(Altoona, IA)
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share, and make the world more open and connected. Through our growing family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that helps billions of people around the world connect and share what matters most to them. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to make the world more open and accessible. Connecting the world takes every one of us—and we're just getting started.
Facebook is seeking a Controls Specialist, Subject Matter Expert to join our Data Center Facility Operations team. Our data centers serve as the foundation upon which our software operates to meet the demands of our customers. This role is responsible for reliability and quality of the Building Management System (BMS). The candidate will support data center daily operations, and global quality / standardization initiatives.
- Accountable for all Building Management System (BMS) operations, changes, and enhancements on a campus consisting of multiple data center buildings.
- Diagnose and repair complex control system malfunctions requiring extensive knowledge of a variety of electronic or digital controls systems and ability to test and write modifications in multiple languages of systems software.
- Troubleshoot and repair controls hardware including controllers, relays, measurement devices, actuators, etc.
- Review operating equipment data for efficiency improvements, monitor all building systems for abnormal operating trends, and make optimization adjustments accordingly.
- Manage controls vendors while supporting site operations, including direct oversight to all system configuration and component upgrades.
- Review quality control of hardware installation and review programming through commissioning process for new construction and retrofits.
- Provide controls scope and review proposals for retrofits and upgrades.
- Oversee all system configurations and component upgrades to ensure system integrity is maintained and that all modifications to existing systems are in compliance with best practices, including change control processes.
- Provide technical controls training and support to all Facility Operations staff.
- Collaborate with Global Automation and Optimization team to implement initiatives at the data center.
- Communicate all issues and upcoming controls work with site management.
- Other duties as required to support the operation of Facebook data centers.
- Less than ten percent of Occasional travel as required.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of controls experience in programming development, start up, and commissioning of complex systems – central plants, air handling units, and evaporative cooling/humidification systems.
- Alerton experience preferred.
- AS/BS degree in Engineering/Technical studies, Military Technical School, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in data centers or other critical environments.
- Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical and life safety systems associated with critical environments.
- Ability to read and audit blueprints/CAD drawings and controls diagrams.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Experience with common software programming languages is preferred: Python, PHP, SQL.
- Experience beyond field technician level is preferred – project management, project engineering, operations management.
- IT/Networking certification is preferred.
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Photographer and music journalist Rena Kosnett thinks she got one of, if not the, final interview with the singer, songwriter, musician and former "South Park" voice who died Sunday. Hayes, 65, was found dead at home near Memphis. He was due to appear at this year's Sunset Junction festival and spoke to Kosnett last week for the LA Record. Excerpt of the interview:
Rolling Stone named �Soul Man� as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Do you think most people realize you and David Porter wrote that song?Maybe, maybe not. Some people, they don�t connect it�they think it was Sam and Dave, because they made it well known.
The Sunset Junction festival started as a way to bring the Latino community and gay community together in East L.A. after several instances of violence. Would you consider writing a �Soul Man� type of song for the gay and Latino struggles?
Oh, um, I�m workin� on that one. [laughing] I�ve been working on my new album. I�ll just tell you what, though�this new album that�s coming out, it�s good. It�s probably coming out next year.
Who should really be called �Black Moses�: you, Harriet Tubman, or Marcus Garvey? There can�t be three, can there?
I got my name as �Black Moses� from Dino Woodward, a pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York [and one-time Stax executive]. He called me Moses, and I said, �Hey, that�s sacrilegious, baby!� But he just kept up with it, so I was like, �OK, I get it.� I finally gave in.
Kosnett enjoyed the interview and writes at her blog, "I was ecstatic for the week leading up to the interview, and stayed ecstatic for the week following it, so not surprisingly I received 4 voicemails, 6 text messages, and 9 emails from people informing me of this sad news. Isaac was a one-man messianic movement who spoke the gospel of groove and spread the sermon of soul throughout American culture. He served to liberate and advocate American funk and human sexuality the way Timothy Leary articulated acid, the way Hunter S. Thompson obliterated objectivism."
Photo: Hayes in 2001, AP Photo/Frank Franklin II via Yahoo


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Over the last few weeks, I have had more than my fair share of extravagant food for one: More pounds of asparagus than I care to admit have passed through my kitchen as I chopped and cooked, mixed and measured, tweaked and twiddled, before finally settling on a recipe, only to discard it the next day. I have a shelf full of goodies that I bought for the sole purpose of cooking an entire recipe to take 3-4 bites (and, when I couldn't freeze it, throw it away before I ate it all), before repeating it the net day - the food waste around here lately is appalling! Tomorrow's agenda includes baking a chocolate cake, not because I have a party this weekend, oh, no, this is going to sit here and taunt me for however long it takes me to eat it...one teensy little slice at a time.
But other days, days like today, I spend the entire day with my head down over a computer, only to look up as the sun drops behind the hill wondering how it got to be dusk. Days when my 'break' from the computer, such as it is, involves a stack of paper covered with red squiggles. Days when, if I am smart, I start with something that will keep me going all day.
Something like this: simple, old-fashioned oatmeal, cooked with 1/4 cup of apple cider and a sprinkle of cinnamon in the cooking water. I put it in a beautiful blue bowl that fits in the curve of my hand (50 cents at Goodwill!), top it with a drizzle of manuka honey and I have food so comfortable it darned near hugs me.
If I had to pick one word for my life the last while, it would have to be scattered. Just as one crazy thing is brought under control, the next careens into view. Like garlic butter in your cake pan. Or a teetering stack of biscuits.
One of my surest cures for scattered is bread. As I gather the bits of ragged dough and knead them together into a cohesive whole, I am, likewise, remade just a bit, my loose edges reintegrated and all that. It's one of my favorite meditative states.
How much does a cup of flour weigh? Seems like a simple question, but it is actually anything but: (Okay, I made the last one up, but you know what? It might actually make a difference because the shaking would make the flour settle…in which case, more would fit in your cup! Determining this, however, would require a complex equation taking into account your weight, the structural integrity of your kitchen floor, and how often heavy trucks drive by and shake the flour before measuring. Too much work.) In any case, depending on who you ask, and how they measure, a cup of flour can range from about 3 ounces to about 6! Even the mid-range is 4 1/4 – 5 1/2, which is a huge difference when you are baking. One article I came across said: "I can make a cup weigh almost anything I want." Now, isn't that helpful?
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Tied up with a project and down with a bug is not a good combination, but when you add in a freezer that is being slowly denuded of all but the most basic of options — we ate half of the last baguette last night — it starts looking downright dire. And yet, sad to say, this is the state of affairs. The dwindling of the usual stockpile of homemade food comes with a couple of weeks to go on the book: no homemade cookies, no baguettes, no cinnamon rolls, no marinara, no soup. We're making chili tonight and I'll probably make some bread starter. If I stop sniffling, I may even get to cookies tomorrow. But there are chapters with my name on them and they have priority over baking, no matter how theraputic. I need a cookie fairy to deliver a few dozen cookies to my door, preferably something with chocolate.


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Red hot Ferrari F150's front fascia rendered
Posted on: Dec 28, 2012 - 9:48am IST
The Ferrari F150 has got what it takes to be the petrolhead's poster car.
The red hot piece of cutting edge engineering from the town of Maranello will be seriously fast, sophisticated and exquisite. Here is the rendering of the F150's front fascia by Evren Milono based on the official teaser that was released about a week ago through Ferrari's online magazine.
As we said earlier, the F150 is the closest a Ferrari road car ever got to the purpose built track car. The wide and tarmac hugging nose, the vast air dam, the central ridge on the hood that mimics the nose of a F1 car and the Le Mans racer style cabin, they all sum up to portray the brilliant execution of functional design.
The F150 carries a monstrous 6.3 litre V12 engine which will be supported by F1 drived HY-KERS unit which can convert the kinetic energy into electrical energy under braking and provide a burst of extra power when needed. The system also improves the efficiency and reduces the emission by 40%.
The fastest ever Ferrari road car yet will be just as tall as the 458 Italia and also will have the same wheel base as its brother.
The Ferrari F150 is expected to be the crowd puller at next year's Geneva Motor Show in March and we can't wait to know more about the Enzo's successor.
[Source: Evren Milano's Facebook page via Worldcarfans.com]