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In January 2009, Winterhouse Institute began a two-year project,
funded by the Rockefeller Foundation with a $1.5 million grant
, to develop collective action and collaboration for social impact across the design industry - and encompassing a range of other institutions that work on the needs of poor or vulnerable people. The funding will be used to develop specific programs for social impact by the design community, to host a major conference at Aspen in 2009, to develop case studies with the Yale School of Management, and to create an editorial website to monitor progress in the zone of design and innovation around social issues.
The Rockefeller Foundation
has taken the lead in galvanizing an important and constructive, but uncoordinated, phenomenon: design as mode of innovation leading to social change. We believe designers can make consistent, sustained and human-scaled contributions to solving large social and environmental problems, particularly to benefit poor and vulnerable people in developing countries.
There are an increasing number of examples of design-thinking — or integrative thinking — addressing these problems, whether initiated by design firms, individual designers or NGOs, yet there are only isolated examples of success. All this signals growing interest in harnessing design creativity in areas where massive public sector efforts were attempted in the past. The power of this movement, though, would be amplified significantly with success-sharing mechanisms, documentation of best practices, matching of resources to needs, and promotion of the promise of design as one avenue to innovative solutions.
Effectively, the challenge becomes how to we get the best designers working with the right NGOs towards solutions against large and critical problems? How can we get enough momentum and participation that collective action by the design community is possible and self-generating? Are there models or structures needed to create systematic engagement with the social sector? The Rockefeller Foundation is engaging these issues on a number of fronts. The Design for Social Impact Workshop at Bellagio in June 2008 tapped into a diverse group of design players, addressing different aspects of the opportunity and audience.
Within this context, Winterhouse proposed a two-year engagement 2009-2010, taking a leadership role in this initiative, acting as catalyst, coordinator, community organizer, researcher, publisher and social entrepreneur. Winterhouse will work on a sustained basis to develop collective action and collaboration between known participants, as well as other design leaders, category experts, organizations, NGOs, corporations, and large foundations. Winterhouse will act as a champion of the initiative in the public sphere, writing, attending and participating at conferences, curating events and forums, and interacting with the blogosphere and press to create awareness in NGO and design communities. Specific projects include:
• Winterhouse will identify new opportunities for critical engagements by designers among large foundations, NGOs and corporations through research, network development and personal visits. Simultaneously, Winterhouse will look for collaborative opportunities among existing social networks and online blogs which interact and intersect with the sphere of design and social change. An additional area for exploration will be museums and curators. Winterhouse will encourage each of the Bellagio players to continue their own respective efforts, yet seek to coordinate them in a way that will reinforce individual efforts and provide information to others interested in these opportunities. In this coordinative role, the goal would be to network the players and opportunities — to accelerate the collective network in a way that will allow it to sustain itself over time.
• Winterhouse will develop a larger, post-Bellagio design summit in partnership with AIGA at Aspen in November 2009. This design summit will seek to expand models for partnership between designers and NGOs, as well as to initiate concrete projects to demonstrate the ability of design to lead to concrete solutions.
• Winterhouse will identify and supervise the creation of a number of deep, professional case studies, developed in partnership with the Yale School of Management. Using an innovative, online case study model, these cases will be broadly disseminated, generating both success-sharing mechanisms and documentation of best practices. This is a critical component as the design profession (and its success stories working with NGOs) needs critical appraisal and evaluation in order to increase efficacy and scalability.
• Winterhouse will create a communications platform for the initiative. This will be especially important in the online environment where we see a number of independent projects emerging, yet where a shared online identity could accelerate awareness and participation by many players. Winterhouse will also create the "über" editorial online website to monitor and report on developments in this burgeoning zone of activity. The goal would be to professionally report on successes and failures, new models, places for engagement by NGOs and design firms, inspirational stories and critical appraisals, as well as summaries and guides to resources, tools and related news across the web. This website will generate the online traffic to give exposure to initiatives by other players, including the knowledge system and online case studies, and thus would act as the umbrella site relating many activities, initiatives and programs.
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Winterhouse Institute, founded by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, focuses on non-profit, self-initiated projects that support design education, as well as social and political initiatives.
Yale SOM Case Studies
In collaboration with Winterhouse Institute, Yale School of Management has created a new series of case studies focusing on design and social enterprise. Funded by Rockefeller Foundation, these cases place design within the larger context of real world projects, encouraging design thinking as a means to create meaningful social impact. The first case is SELCO, a solar energy company in India.
Bellagio Design Symposium
Organized by the Winterhouse Institute, a group of curators, designers, historians, educators and journalists (22 participants from 11 countries) convened to consider how museums curate, exhibit and archive design for social change. Held at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center April 12–14, 2010, "Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the 'Museum'" explored the opportunity to educate museum constituencies about important contemporary social issues.
Aspen Design Summit
Hosted by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Design Summit invited designers, educators, researchers and representatives of NGOs, foundations and businesses to collaborate in addressing large social problems. Split into assigned groups with a specific social challenges around healthcare and poverty, participants worked intensively over three days to develop a solution deemed actionable within two years. Institutional participants included the CDC, Mayo Clinic, UNICEF, SHE, University of Alabama and Auburn University.
Change Observer
Launched in August of 2009 as part of Design Observer Group, Change Observer and Places are new channels that provide journalism focused on specific content zones. Developed by the Winterhouse Institute, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Change Observer is devoted to the many dimensions of design for social innovation. Places, originally an interdisciplinary print journal founded by MIT and Berkley faculty 26 years ago, is now an online journal focused on urbanism and design within the public realm.
Project M at Winterhouse
A collaborative project of young designers for social change in a rural environment. August 15-30, 2009.
Polling Place Photo Project
Initiated by Winterhouse and supported by AIGA, the Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism to capture democracy in action: an archive of photographs taken by citizens at their polling places on election day. The Polling Place Photo Project began in November 2006 before the mid-term elections. For the 2008 election cycle, the project was supported by The New York Times as a part of its political coverage.
Winterhouse Writing Awards
The Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism seek to increase the understanding and appreciation of design, both within the profession and throughout American life. A program of AIGA, these annual awards have been founded by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel of the Winterhouse Institute to recognize excellence in writing about design and encourage the development of young voices in design writing, commentary and criticism.
Below the Fold:
An occasional journal from the Winterhouse Institute, each issue of Below the Fold: explores a single topic through visual narrative and critical inquiry.
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Samus Araan
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GG Crono
Thanks for the words. I'll try leveling Spell Flux over Overload next game. I can't afford a lot of runes at the moment (most of my IP has gone to champions ), but my first item after getting a Veil and my boots is usually a Glacial Shroud, which works very nicely on Ryze.
I'll start trying Soulstealer once I'm more confident in my kill-getting and not-dying abilities.
The Ringwraith
Bookmarked, thanks
Junior Member
thanks for the guide.. and the response.. i do like the setup.. but i did leave an open slot and do buy BV.. but only as needed.. Im still a bigger fan of TOG early.. by i didnt think about getting rylai's.. i will throw it into my buy..
gun fu panda
Hey Samus: I posted another thread, but I wanted to ask directly in your thread as well. Have you considered going Lichbane instead of Rylai's for your last item? It seems that the mana and MR synergize well with the build your going for, giving you a little bonus damage + defense against THE NEMESIS (veigar). Also, the proc seems to fit the ryze mentality very well, as it gives you a straight +200-300 damage in your combo if you throw out an auto attack. Thanks
Cool guide Samus. I tried Ryze shortly after the remake. I played a build maxing cooldown reduction first (usually entailed getting a Banshee Veil and Frozen Heart early for the survivability). I had a few good games, but most I felt pretty limited, so I kinda gave up on him. However, you've brought a lot of new ideas to the table which I haven't attempted yet, so I'll have to give it a go. One question that it doesn't look like you really touched on. Ryze is a pretty poor last-hitter, which is part of what's so frustrating about playing him. Do you have the same problem when you play him, or have you found a more effective way to farm gold? Obviously if you're getting the early-game kills it's not as much of an issue, but that can't always be counted on.

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Yes, I'm a nerd who manuscripts out all her notes when teaching. So not sure if these interest anyone, but here they are–from last night's HighSchool group at WCC.
[The HighSchoolers are currently in a series called The Story of God, Creation, Fall, Rebellion, Redemption, Glory. This is week 2.]
Thinking about last week, if I had to sum up the creation account, and all that you studied, it would be in this one word: GOOD. All that God created was good, because GOD IS GOOD. God is good. I believe that's the most important thing for you to know in your life. And why is it so important to understand that? Because that is what was called into question in the garden of Eden, and that is what is called into question each and every day of your life.
LET's PRAY
Alright, we're going to dive into Genesis 3, so open your Bibles and follow along. Basic rule of Bible study, always look at the context of the passage. Our context? Creation. Perfection. And so we can see the sharp fall in the story line here, let's look back at the end of chapter 2.
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. 25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
So the good news here is that you were created to leave your mom and dad. Good news, right? Good news is that you were created, originally, to be united as one person, in marriage, with someone of the opposite sex. And here's the really crazy part, you were created to be naked together, without a trace of insecurity.
You were created to be without shame. A Good God, created a good creation, and all creation stood in confidence before God and before each other, without shame.
Now, chapter 3: let's see what happened. v. 1: 1Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
Now the serpent itself is not evil, right? God created the serpent to be good. But we know from (Rev. 12:9, 20:2) that the serpent was simply a vehicle for Satan to manifest himself. Satan is a fallen angel, and scripture doesn't specify when satan sinned and fell, but he appears here on the scene in the form of a snake. And, surprisingly, a talking snake. Now, you know it's easy for us to look back and go, "Umm…red flag! Talking animal! Didn't you think something was up?" But consider this. None of the animals had negative connotations—a snake at that point was like a bunny rabbit or a lady bug. Second, the world is really new here. Consider the fact that Eve probably hadn't even met all the animals. She wasn't there when Adam named them all. How was she supposed to know that some of them could or couldn't talk? Adam kind of looked like an animal and he talked! Anyway, apparently the world was new enough that anything seemed possible.
So Satan questions God's command. A few things here:
1) Interestingly, Satan uses God's impersonal title, elohim, rather than His personal name YHWH. It's way easier to sin against some distant, uncaring, unknowing God, than it is against a personal, loving Lord and Savior who is intimately involved in the details of one's life. We must remember we serve and love a personal God.
2) Satan misquotes God, He twists God's words. Let's look at God's original command in ch. 2:16 "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, You may surely eat of every tree in the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." God's command highlights their abundant freedom. They can eat of every single tree in this paradise! There were probably thousands of them! Just one, you cannot. Just one thing that is off-limits. And why is it off limits? For their own good. God is protecting them. By giving them a choice he is allowing them to exercise free will. By giving them a command, He is protecting them from harm.
So what is Satan's scheme here? #1, he appeals to Eve instead of Adam. Remember that this command was given by God to Adam, before Eve was created, right? The Lord God commanded the man. So she heard the command second-hand, from Adam. Adam was the one who was responsible for communicating to his wife the directives that He heard from the very mouth of God. Adam was also ultimately held responsible, we'll see this play out more later. So from the start, Eve is more vulnerable. So Satan appeals to Eve.
And #2: he twists God's word in such a way that the focus is on the restriction rather than the freedom, in order to sow seeds of DISCONTENT. That's the first step we see here. This, my brothers and sisters, is the exact same way he is tempting you today. Since we're reading a chapter about two naked people, let's consider sex: God says to you, young single people today, You have all the freedom in the world to talk to each other, you can enjoy getting to know each other, you can date each other, you can serve together, play together, goof off together, worship together, watch movies together. But just one small thing I ask you to save for marriage—sexual intercourse. Now, what does the enemy do? He puts all the attention on the one thing God asks you to abstain from. That is a trap. The enemy's scheme is create discontentment in our hearts with what God has given us. When we focus on what we cannot have, instead of enjoying what we can have, our hearts become snared in discontent and we begin a slippery slope. Let's watch and see what happens.
v.2-3 The woman tries to combat this temptation: She comes back with what she knows to be true, although she misquotes God a bit too. It's impossible for us to know if that is her fault, misquoting God, or whether her husband mis-communicated it to her, but at some point, the command got fuzzied a bit. In fact, in the process, they actually added to God's command, making it stricter than He even intended in the beginning. And this is completely my opinion, so you can take it or leave it, but I believe we do a disservice to God's commands when we add onto them and make them stricter than He does. God says, save yourself sexually for marriage. Some groups like to take that to extremes—you can't date, you can't talk to members of the opposite sex. And I know those people have the best intentions, but adding to God's commands is generally out of fear and can actually hinder rather than help because it adds to the feeling that God is so restrictive and negative and out to keep us from all fun. So let's stick to what God's word tells us. So Eve's first step, Discontentment. I'm not happy with what God's allowed me to have.
v. 4 Now satan brings his outright attack against what God has said. He has already sown the seed of discontent, by focusing her on what she cannot have rather than what she can have. Now, he begins to sow the seed of DOUBT. You will not surely die. That is the outright lie. And this is the lie, in essence—you will not suffer consequences. Satan wants us to believe that we can disobey God's commands and not suffer consequences. That was his lie then, that is his lie today. You won't get caught. You won't get pregnant. You won't get any STD's. You won't get addicted. No one will know. He tricks us into sinning in the dark, because that is when we cannot see clearly the wretched and deadly consequences we will face in the morning. That is Satan's plan.
V. 5 "For God knows…" now Satan is not only twisting God's commands, he is trying to tell Eve God's thoughts! And the essence of this verse: "God is keeping a huge secret from you. The TRUTH is that God doesn't want what is best for you. The truth is that there is something better, tastier, and powerful out there and God is just afraid that if you experience it, you'll be like Him. God isn't looking out for your good." And here's the crux of it all: God is not good. The essence of Satan's lie is that God is not good. And ALL sin, all disobedience is a personal affront on the goodness of God. All disobedience says, "I do not trust that what you say is best for me, because I do not trust YOU. I do not trust that you are good." That is the root of all doubt, the essence of all disobedience.
So, so far we have discontent, which led to doubt. Now, we see the most powerful force in the human world come into place. Desire.
v. 6 "So when the women…" the woman looked at the tree. It was beautiful. It was good for food, it was a delight to the eyes, beautiful, and it was desirable to make her wise. Desire is incited in her heart. She looks at the tree… she lingers there… instead of running away from the temptation, she just stands there a second.
- It's so beautiful. How could it be bad if it's so beautiful? I mean, God created it, right? How could it be wrong if God created it?
- It's good for food. We need food, right? I mean God created us to need food, He created us to hunger. He created this drive in me to need food. How can it be wrong if God created in me a hunger for this thing?
- It was desirable to make her wise. Wisdom is a good thing, right? I'll know more. I'll be more powerful. My life will be better. I'll be able to decide whether or not this is a good thing or not because I'll know. If I don't try I'll never know, I'll never be able to tell good and bad unless I go ahead and try it, experiment with it. Then I'll know for myself…
Friends, this is the same dangerous slope we all can fall into. Desire is a good thing. Desire is from God. But desire, unchecked and not submitted to God's commands, desire that's not wrapped up in the glory of God and wanting His best, is dangerous. The book of James says, "each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and when it is fully grown brings forth death." (1:14-15)
Unchecked desire leads to sin, which leads to death. Always. Consider again three ways that Eve justifies her decision. It looks good, it tastes good, and it will give me power. 1 John 2:16-17 sums this up this way: "All that is in the world—the desires of the flesh (it tastes good), the desires of the eyes (it looks good), and the pride of what he has and does (give me wisdom and power)—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever."
Again in the context of nakedness, let's consider sex as one form of this same temptation. Man it looks good, man it sure would taste good to experience, and man it would give me power and status, I'd feel loved and valued, I'd know what it was like instead of being so naïve. I'd have it all. Besides, (going back to Eve's line of thinking), it's so beautiful, how can it be wrong if we love each other with such a beautiful love? God created love, how can it be wrong? And it's food for my hunger—God created me with a hunger for this, God created me with a desire for sex, how can it be wrong? If he gave me the hunger for it, how can it be wrong? And power and wisdom—how can I ever know if he's the one if we never experiment together? How can I commit to being with this person without this knowledge? Satan's methods of temptation are as old as the world, friends.
And you know what happens next? The fourth and final step—after the seeds of discontentment, after the seeds of doubt, after desire has been fanned into full flame, then comes that tragedy of deception. When we allow those three things into our hearts, we then fall into deception. We believe the lies about who God is. We believe He doesn't really want what is best for us. We are wholeheartedly deceived. Eve has bought the lie, hook line and sinker. She is deceived. And so is the vast majority of the world in which we live.
So what does Eve do? End of verse 6, "She took of its fruit…" she ate. Then she gave some to her husband, and he ate.
I just want to shake Adam at this point. What are you doing you passive spineless man? You were the one who heard God's command, you are the one who is called to lead his wife! What are you doing, standing there in silence like a buffoon while your wife talks to a snake! Grab her by the hair if need be and drag her away! He's not deceived, he's just passive, refusing to stand firm in what he knows is right. He silently, passively enters into the sin. And there, in that moment, the earth began to decay. Like a silent, oozing, poisonous venom coming up from the depths of the earth, all of creation was tainted. All suffering, disease, death, sin, cruelty, abuse, pain, sadness, tears, loss, emptiness—all human suffering comes from this moment in time. From paper cuts to the most heinous brutality, genocide, cancer, rape, torture, war. It all comes from here. It all comes from the slippery little steps of letting desire, discontent, and doubt carry away a couple from trusting in the goodness of God.
v. 7-9 "the eyes of both…" their eyes are open, they knew they were naked. They sew clothes, they hide themselves. They are filled with SHAME. This is like the morning after, if you will. We sin in the dark, we're ashamed in the light. Their eyes are opened, and the result is not wisdom and life and power—it is sin and shame and insecurity. They hide from each other and they hide from God. We've all been hiding every since. And this next interaction brings me to tears because it is so far from the ideal beautiful harmonious and intimate relationship and God desired with His children. He looks for them. He gives them the opportunity to come to Him. And their response? They are AFRAID. Goodness of God forever called into question in the hearts of man. Shame and fear fill their hearts. They've bought the lie that God is not good, and the result is that they are afraid of Him.
V. 9 "But the Lord God called…" So God questions them: Did you eat? God questions the man, the one held ultimately responsible for the command that God had given him directly, the one held ultimately responsible for this family's following of God's ways.
v. 12 "The man said, …" And once again I want to shake this man. Does he buck up and accept the responsibility, does he humbly and bravely say, "Yes God, I was an idiot. Forgive me." No. There is no confession here, only excuse. It was the women YOU gave me! He manages to blame both God and his wife all at once. Way to go, Adam! That's skill. Sweet ability there to blame everyone but yourself. So passive and spineless I want to punch him in the nose.
V. 13 "Then the Lord…" So God questions Eve and what does she do? No confession either! What does she say? "He deceived me." She rightly understands that it was deception. After we sin, after the fact, it becomes painfully obvious that we were deceived. Afterwards you feel like an idiot. She doesn't acknowledge the other 3 steps that got her into the position of being deceived, but she rightly understands she was deceived. But no confession is taking place here, no accepting responsibility. Lame excuses are as old as the world as well.
v. 14 So now we have the consequences. There are always consequences to sin. God will forgive us and cleanse us (1 John 1:9), but there are always consequences to sin. Galatians 6:7 says, "DO NOT BE DECEIVED. God is not mocked. You reap what you sow." Remember Satan's lie in verse 4: He said there would be no consequences. That's a lie. There are always consequences. So here are theirs, and here are ours.
V. 14 "The LORD God said…" The physical literal serpent has to crawl around on his belly. The figurative serpent, satan, will have enmity forever between her offspring and him. The good news is that this is also the first declaration of the gospel of Christ—he shall bruise… Satan will be allowed to hurt mankind and Jesus Christ, but ultimately Christ will bruise his head, He will rise victorious over the serpent, over satan, and stand in victory over him. This curse, the fall, will affect all mankind, but in the end, Christ will win. God's goodness still pervades even these darkest verses of the Bible.
But specifically for us, how are we affected by the fall? Let's look. It's fascinating to see how gender plays out in this very critical part of human history. Adam and Eve sinned as male and female—they played very different roles and sinned in different ways. And interestingly, their punishment and consequences are given in distinct ways as well. I'll go over it all and then focus in on one area that relates specifically to how we interact with each other today.
The Fall brought two main areas of suffering to humankind: Pain and Exploitation.
First pain, v. 16 "To the woman…" Pain in childbearing. Just in case you're wondering how REAL these consequences are? Yeah, they're real. I can personally attest to this one. God wasn't joking when he said he would greatly increase pain in childbearing. Holy Cow.
Your desire…there's that word desire again. This is huge. So we're going to come back to this in a second…
V. 17: "And to Adam…" For the man, Pain. For the man pain is in his work, his toil. Work is not the result of the fall, Adam had good work to do even before the fall. The result is the pain. The ground is cursed, you shall sweat to work the ground, it will have thorns and thistles, and eventually, it will master you and you will be buried by it. Though nowadays not many people literally work with the ground, men still struggle with the pain of work. In general, women experience sorrow and trials through finding their significance in the home, with children. In general, men experience sorrow and trials through finding their significance in their career. And eventually, a man's career ends, he is celebrated and applauded no longer, and death wins, and he is literally buried. A man's pride is short-lived. The ground wins.
So there is pain for both man and woman. But consider the last part of v. 16. "Your desire shall be… rule over you."
At first glance this is tricky. What does that word desire mean? In English it's just the plain old word desire, but in Hebrew, it is the same word that is used over in chapter 4, verse 7: When it says (of Cain) that "Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it." So in this context, this desire is a desire to dominate, rule over, master, control, subdue, exploit.
To exploit simply means to "make use of selfishly." The essence of sinful corruptness on male and female is that we exploit one another's weaknesses for our own selfish gain.
So, in light of this, a man's sinful nature is to make use of women selfishly, by means of brute strength, because she is weaker physically. This is why we have rape, pornography, sexual abuse, molestation, and sex-trafficking. On the flip-side, a woman's sinful natural is to make use of man selfishly, exploiting the weakness of his tendency for lust, by using the power of her female body to gain control over him, in order to get what she wants.
And here's the thing, ladies: In our culture we know that it is wrong for men to exploit women in this way—we're the first to stand up against rape and violence and sex-trafficking. But did you know that when we dress or flirt or act provocatively, we are guilty of the exact same sin? We are exploiting the sexual weakness of the guys around us, in order to control them for our own selfish desires—to feel good about ourselves. Because, we are so sad and desperate and fallen, that we do whatever it takes to get looks from guys—a form of control and manipulation and exploitation. The fall of man tragically produced men and women who make use of each other selfishly. Guys use girls to get sex, girls use sex to get guys. We are all fallen. We all control each other by exploiting each other's weaknesses.
I wish I could say that the story ends with a happy ending. At this point, it doesn't. Chapter 3 says God literally drove Adam and Eve out of the garden, out of paradise. He lovingly made clothes for them (another whole message there, hopefully you'll return to that in a later message), but sent them out to till the ground, to work, to raise children, and then to die. They would never return.
They were now fallen creation. We are now fallen creation. Though we still bear the unmistakable image of God, it is marred. We now spend much of life in pain. We now by our fallen nature tend to exploit one another for our own selfish gain.
I know this is a downer, but I wholeheartedly believe that we will not be ready for the good news until we've understood the bad news. We gloss over our fallenness because it makes us uncomfortable. Tonight I pray we would allow God to convince us of our own fallenness. We would have done the same, and sadly, do do the same today. Let's pray for God to touch our hearts with the truth of this reality tonight, and by His grace, grant us repentance. Let's pray.


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Senior Liberal Democrats are willing to tear up the keynote Coalition deal
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This year marks the fourth annual Academic Convocation for first-year students on Wed, Aug 22.
On Thur, Aug 23 we will hold a new event, a series of Faculty Development Workshops.
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Yvonne Love, Senior Lecturer in Art, is being included in an exhibition at LGTripp Gallery in Old City, Philadelphia. The exhibition, titled RSVP, is an invitational group show running from July 13 - August 18.


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Started appliance shopping for a new house today. Budget for range is ideally $4500 or less. Found a range made by Blue Star (RNB series). The appeal for me is the 1800 degree broiler. We've always wanted a Salamander to heat steaks at steakhouse temps. Does anyone have any experience with this item? Recommend or stay away? Any other ranges that cook a great steak? :) |
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I don't know if Bluestar makes a slide in, but I have the 30 inch gas free standing range RNB. The broiler has pluses and minuses. The downside is that it is pretty small, at least in comparison to the electric broiler I had on a prior stove which covered most of the rack. I haven't measured, but the broiler covers maybe 1/2 of the rack. So if you put a pan into the oven, some of your food may be directly under the broiler and get scorched before food that is not directly under the broiler. If you use a large sized pan to brown the top of 6 or 8 burgers, you will probably have to move it around a few times to get the browning to be even. The second minus is that if you use a pan on the top rack, the food is extremely close to the broiler - which means it sears incredibly fast. I used the broiler to finish off a sous vide burger last night and used the second rack. If I put it on the first rack it probably would have been done in a minute or less - it is that powerful when it is on. So that is a plus and a minus, because if you don't get it out quickly, it will burn. Second, if you put the full extension rack on the second from top position, it is easy to slide the food out to check. One suggestion, which I have followed a few times, is to use the broiling pan that comes with the oven, and put that in the second position from the top, which gets it pretty close to the broiler ( because the broiler pan is elevated) but not as close as the top position. I have gotten used to it and I like it to sear foods, usually using the second position, but if you were used to the full coverage of an electric broiler, it might take some time to learn to like it. The burners on the stove top are a delight - very powerful, and also allow you to simmer. |
Bluestar is not a slide in because the sides have SS panels but with the island trim it looks like a slide in installed between two cabinets. Below in link is floor model 30" RNB for $3300 plus $300 for shipping. You may also want to look at Capital Culinarian which is more expensive and American Range Performer Series which is less expensive. Just google the names of all three ranges for lots of threads on the subject |
Here is a link that might be useful: Bluestar RNB
I also have the 30" gas freestanding RNB and I love it. Great value IMHO. I don't use the broiler much but I agree with Barryv's points. My model with the island trim is supposed to be installed with the sides elevated 11/18" above the countertop surface. Not sure why, but it's something to be aware of. |
- Posted by CrosbysMom (My Page) on Wed, Apr 16, 14 at 8:13
Thanks Barryv for the broiler info! I actually followed the advice of deeageaux and took at look at the other models that were suggested. Ended up becoming very smitten with the American Range and we're ordering that one today. Can't wait till our new house is finished and I can start cooking again! Thanks all for the info! |
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The turn, the river, and the flop. If those three things mean something to you (together, not individually), then you're probably at least a little bit of a Texas Hold 'Em fan. And if you're a Hold 'Em fan, then you may like to play. And if you may like to play, then you probably like to play for free. Good news! The World Series of Poker game is now available for Android courtesy of EA.
We all knew it was coming - Full Tilt Poker Rush Mobile, the first real money poker game on Android, has finally hit the Android Market, and is available for devices running Froyo, due to the Flash 10.1 requirement. The app still bears a beta sticker, so be careful with those hard earned greens of yours. Obviously, it goes without saying that you should also find a stable connection, preferably WiFi, unless you want to fold every hand you get disconnected from.
There are times when it pays to be an Android user, literally. Poker enthusiast website PokerTwitch received word that Full Tilt's Rush Poker will soon be coming to some lucky Froyo-running Android phones. This appears to be the first genuine real-money poker game for Android and trumps the offerings in Apple's strict App store whose policies do not permit gambling for real currency. There are online solutions available but none so convenient as a native application.


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Pumpkin carving made easy with common tools
Before you spend money on a prepackaged carving kit, check your kitchen and basement for these surprise pumpkin-carving tools.
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Nothing says "Halloween" like a perfectly carved jack-o'-lantern sitting by your front door. But with hundreds of carving products out there claiming to be the best, it's hard to know which will help you create a work of art and which will break on the first use. This autumn, skip the prepackaged carving kits for these common tools that you might even have lying around your house.
Pumpkin carving expert Alex Wer of The Pumpkin Geek, has carved for celebrities such as Gene Simmons, Joe Mantegna and Jeri Ryan. Fans around the world adore his one-of-a-kind pumpkins. Though now he only carves using craft pumpkins, since they don't deteriorate, he started out on regular pumpkins and knows which tools work best.
"One pumpkin carving tool that everyone should have is a scoop with a serrated edge, because the most important thing is to have the pumpkin completely scooped out. If it's stringy it'll be a mess," Wer says. Pumpkin scoops often can be found in prepackaged carving kits. However, Pumpkin Masters makes a deluxe pumpkin scoop with a serrated edge that is sold individually.
Making intricate designs on a pumpkin requires a small, sharp tool that's both sturdy and flexible. To create zigzag patterns or squiggly shapes, try a keyhole saw. It has a pointed tip that will easily pierce a pumpkin's thick shell and is thin enough to create small details. Get one at Lowes, The Home Depot or any major hardware store.
For detailed facial designs, Wer likes to use "a clay loop, the sculpting tool, that you can get at a craft store," to shave away the pumpkin to create his 4-layer carves. "Most of my carves are four or five layers, including the areas that you completely cut through, a few graded layers of shading, and the dark parts that I don't cut at all," he says.
Common kitchen tools can also be used to create pumpkin carvings. OXO, a kitchen and household products company, offers a handful of products that double as pumpkin carving essentials. Their melon baller has two different sized heads, which can be used to help scrape out the pumpkin pulp on the inside or to create a polka dot design on the outside. Their corer can punch perfectly round holes through the skin of a pumpkin and their lemon zester can help execute unique designs. These and the rest of their products can be found at oxo.com.


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Fiber One Pancakes with Chocolate Chips |
Fiber one pancakes are our FAVORITE – when we make them
I don't have children yet, but for some reason it seems like my husband and I buy enough cereal to have at least 5. Just recently we purchased Fiber One with Honey Clusters. I'm not the type to eat cereal for breakfast everyday, I'd rather eggs, oatmeal, or yogurt and fruit for breakfast. So in order to de-clutter our cereal stock I made pancakes! Who can't use a little extra fiber in their diet?
Fiber One Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Makes 7-9 medium sized pancakes
1 1/2 Cups Fiber One Cereal, Honey Clusters
3/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
3 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 1/2 Cup Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Bean Paste
1 Egg
1-2 Tablespoons Butter
1/2 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (optional)
In a blender or food processor, crush the Fiber One Cereal. Once it is crumbly place the flour into the blender and pulse on low.
Place the cereal flour mixture in a bowl and add the remaining ingredients. (excluding butter and chocolate chips) Whisk together, meanwhile heat a nonstick pan on medium-low with butter. ( I used my Manpan, so I had to coat in Canola Oil, then a tab of butter for flavor) Once the butter is melted, start cooking!
I used a large cookie scoop for my pancakes, you could also use a 1/4 measuring cup. Place about 10 chocolate chips on the top of the pancake once it's in the pan. Once you see tiny air bubbles you can flip your pancakes.
I like to eat mine with a tiny pat of butter and shot glass full of warm syrup!
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These examples of bizarrely scientific skivvies highlight the way in which technology is making its way into consumer's lives in very intimate ways.
From pieces concerned with the health concerns of wearers to others that seek to find a suitable companion, there's no telling what direction underthings might continue to go toward. Whether these innovations are necessary or not is completely debatable, but the comedic and preventative nature of some of these skivvies makes them worthwhile, at least as design concepts.
It's clear that consumers these days expect much more from products, including items that they use daily, so it's no surprise that even the underwear industry has undergone some fairly scientific revamps over the years.


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Saturday, August 29, 2009
The passage of time
Rodrigo Calazans
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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They really luct out in finding this guy. Obviously, he suits their criteria but he's very much his own figure. It's hard to carry this observation (which I think he simply compels) into a comparative argument, or more words. One has the feeling he "settled" readily on looking this way and then put it out of his mind. And, true to form, they've photographed him well within his range. I will always welcome a picture of Calazans.
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Only original Ashoka Pillar with Lion Capitol and Dharma Chakra on top of it, known to be intact till today and not damaged by invading forces later on subsequent to Ashoka's rule from Pataliputra. Later on Indian government adopted the Lion Capital as its National Emblem and the Dharma Chakra ( wheel ) on top of it ( and also found elsewhere ) incorporated into Indian National Flag. If you wonder why this pillar is not damaged, it is simply because it is one of those erected outside India by Ashoka the Great, in one of the present Buddhist countries, to propagate Buddhism during the era of Ashoka the King.
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Miramax has FINALLY put up their "B.Monkey" page and listed it as coming soon. You can download the trailer from there. Miramax has it listed to open in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow in select theaters.
Miramax has FINALLY put up their "B.Monkey" page and listed it as coming soon. You can download the trailer from there. Miramax has it listed to open in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow in select theaters.
Jonathan was set to model in the New York Versace show, but missed his flight to NY. Instead he's been in Ireland getting ready to film his next movie after spending time back in Rome for reshoots and additional shooting for "Titus". Miramax has not listed or done any press for "B. Monkey" so no word on when or if this film will be released. Over at Young Hollywood.com, Jonathan has been picked as one of the most promising new faces of 1998.
Visit E! Online to see their feature on Johnny. B.Monkey is set for release Feb. 26 – let's see if that happens. The Loss of Sexual Innocence debuted at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. It is set to be released on May 21. Nice date. Check out the Sundance Channel page on the film. They give much praise to Jonathan and so does Variety's review, where they say, "The most emotionally touching chapter is the sexual exploration of teenager Nic (splendidly evoked by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) with Susan (Kelly MacDonald),...
In the January W Magazine, the reader survey listed top 10 men in various categories. Jonny was among them for actors! And he popped up over at E! Online's poll listed for one of the 'Most Memorable Hair' in movies for "Velvet Goldmine". E! Online is also going to do their hot list for 1999 and Jonathan is on it – check back on January 20th for the feature.
2 covers in one month!!! That's right, Jonny is on the cover of December Interview and American Cinematographer! Also, Sky International has a feature on Jonny and November Neon has a feature on "Velvet Goldmine". And speaking of that glam rock jewel, Girl Cosmetics has come out with their Velvet Goldmine collection which premiered in various Bloomingdales around the country. The line was developed by Todd Haynes' brother Shawn along with the film's makeup artist Peter King. There is a silver-and-gold glitter highlighter duo, a black glitter pencil eyeliner,...


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Do you....
1. Make your bed every single morning? yes
2. Always return your movie rentals on time?yes
3. Always bring back your shopping cart to the "return your cart here"? yes
4. Wait until you run out of something before buying another? no
5. Replace the empty toilet paper roll? yes
6. Throw out your trash and return your tray in fast food restaurants? yes
7. Screen your telephone calls? no
8. Check for change in pay phones? yes
9. Put your dirty clothes IN the hamper right away? yes.
10. Hang up on telemarketers? yes, but not before I say, "No Thank you, and please remove my name from your list."
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Mark and Rob venture into the future and geek out as they visit the Wired Nextfest.
The R2 Builder Group talks about building a fully functional R2D2, while one droid puts the mac on our host. These are the droids you're looking for.
George R.R. Martin tells which characters are closest to himself.
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In a short time James Churchward created New Age type of a book "Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man". It was followed by the book "The Children of Mu", then by "The Lost Continent Mu" and "The Sacred Symbols of Mu". These books enjoyed wild success at the times, and even now have their devotees.
In archives of web analytics company I found that even nowadays the search for a lost continent of Mu is still in progress. There were multiple researches on Mu and expeditions to various locations. Some called Easter Island a mountain top of a submerged continent of Mu. One well-known institute even suggested that underwater structures off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, were the ruins of Mu without any real scientific evidence. Some marine biologists stated that they identified the ruins of an ancient city off the coast of Japanese Yonaguni island as the remnants of an Asian equivalent of Atlantis and, that it was sunk three thousand years ago during an earthquake.


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Mother and Son → Strip Poker with Mom
On Friday, October 9, 1998, there was a big birthday dinner for my mom at a very nice Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills. I was seated next to her and at some point in the evening quietly asked her what she had planned for tomorrow night. She then proceeded to tell me of what she had planned for the entire weekend and I quickly realized that I had blown it. Everyone else had offered to treat my mother to any number of activities but other than the usual gift-card routine, I had been so busy with my own life that I had forgotten to make plans for her big day myself, and now I knew that things just weren't going to happen. Fortunately for me she was having such a good time that she didn't seem unhappy about it.
A couple of days later she told me that she was going to house-sit the following weekend for my grandmother who would be out of town. Actually she just had to check in on the cat but mom intended to spend much of the weekend there anyway. I offered to keep her company on Saturday night, the seventeenth and I'd order a pizza. It wasn't sumptuous but it was the least I could do. She said okay and that's where this story really begins.
At some point mid-evening Saturday, I was sitting on the couch with mom. I had gotten a little bored and noticed a deck of cards. I picked them up and began to shuffle. I dealt her a hand just for the hell of it and she asked what I was doing. I simply replied "poker."
"I don't want to play poker," she said rather annoyed. I then grabbed her cards and put them back with the rest of the deck and continued shuffling. About ten seconds later mom offered to change our relationship for eternity.
"You wanna play strip poker?" she asked with an inviting smile. She was being playful and I wasn't sure if she really meant it. Mom's often a tease and I've never been one to take her too seriously, but with a thrilling feeling running through me just at the suggestion I said," That might be fun."
Mom looked a little uneasy as if silently saying to herself, "Oh my God, what have I done." After all, she was now going to play strip poker, and with her eldest son! I was a little nervous too but acted calm.
"I don't mind," I said, and I meant it. Then with a smile added, "I don't have anything you've never seen before."
She batted her eyes at that and remained silent but was smiling nervously. I said "I don't have a problem with it. You should see how I was dressed on the beach in Hawaii last summer."
"I can imagine," she sniffed. "Wearing your little thong and showing everyone your behind."
"I don't wear a thong," I replied. "But I am rather skimpy. I have an exhibitionist streak in me." Mom remained silent as if debating the situation.
"Okay!" she exclaimed loudly, up to her own challenge. "Let's play."
"We can have a fanny contest," I joked, to which she laughed.
"You had a cute fanny when you were a boy," mom said with bright eyes and a smile.
"Still do," I replied.
She looked away and nodded. "I'm sure you do," mom said.
"You're right," she continued. "A fanny contest sounds good." Then she let out a huge grin that masked her bouncing nerves. Mom has always been good at hiding her insecurities behind a smile.
I asked her in the course of playing if she wanted to leave her top on. She had a mastectomy almost twenty years ago, and not wanting either of us to be uncomfortable she agreed that her long tee shirt would remain on.
Then we set the ground rules. Mom was wearing slip-ons with no socks, long white pants, panties, and the shirt that was not part of the game. I was wearing sneakers, socks, tennis shorts, paisley briefs courtesy of Frederick's of Hollywood, and a sweatshirt. Since mom was wearing less that was within the limits of the game I suggested that to make it even, if she lost a hand she only had to remove one shoe while if I lost, I had to remove both shoes and socks. In this way if I lost a second hand I had to remove my shirt. Third lost hand meant my shorts and then finally my briefs. For mom it was easy: first the left shoe, then the right, then her pants and finally her panties. She seemed in a daze as perhaps the realization of what she had suggested was finally hitting her but instead of copping out she just nodded and said "okay."
Now let me describe mom. Her name is Susan and she's in her mid-fifties, but easily passes for mid-forties. Mom is about five-two with short blond hair, blue eyes and very fair skin. Her legs and ass were always husky looking, in an athletic sort of way, when I was younger, but several surgeries over the years forced a dramatic diet change and now she has great legs for a woman twenty years her junior, and her ass is truly fine. As for me, I look just like her, with that same baby-faced appearance which is why even at thirty I still get carded for alcohol. It's true I have thought about mom sexually, which is why I had no problem in accepting her strip poker suggestion. I had no idea how far this would all go but I knew, whatever else happened, things were going to change forever. Maybe that's why we were both nervous.
Sitting on the couch with her I dealt the first hand and asked what she had. Queen-high. I lowered a pair of sevens and then mom slowly removed one of her shoes. Her eyes were laughing and excited and she was trying hard to contain a smile. She looked me in the eye and I just stared at her with my own little smile. I was trying to exude a self-confidence which seemed to make her that much more edgy. I lost the next hand and mom let out a little sigh of relief.
"Okay!" she barked. Take it off." I untied first my right shoe and then my left and pushed them off. I then picked up my right leg to role down the sock in as sexy a way as I could. Mom started laughing. Then I did the same for the other sock.
I dealt the next hand and sure enough I lost again.
"Okay!" she yelled, teasing me. "Take it off! Take it off!"
I stood up right in front of her and slowly, seductively took off my shirt with mom commenting on my hairy chest. As I dealt the next hand I noticed my mom smiling because she was winning and not feeling so threatened — yet! When she lost that hand she took off her other shoe and reached out to play footsie with me. I responded as our toes got better acquainted.
After dealing the next hand I noticed I didn't have a thing. Mom seemed confident.
"What do you have?" I asked.
"Two jacks and two tens."
I raised my eyebrows and swallowed a little and said, "Okay." Looking back I'm almost amazed that mom didn't try and stop me from taking the next step. I stood up right in front of her, looked in her eyes and she was all smiles with her baby blues dancing. She was really enjoying this. I continued my Full Monty routine, unsnapping my shorts and slowly pulling down the zipper. I then warned her about my paisley briefs so she wouldn't be shocked.
"Why do you wear that stuff?" she said with a little sneer.
I then oh-so-slowly brought my tennis shorts down exposing all of my legs and a slowly growing bulge in my briefs. She noticed it and then looked away. She may have been my mom but this whole thing was now quite a turn-on. I did a little pirouette for her and sat down to deal again. Mom then got quiet and I saw her swallow hard. She knew we were at the moment of truth. Even if she lost she would have to remove her pants. And if I lost! When I looked at my I knew I was safe. I had three jacks. Lucky me. Mom looked nervous but excited. She knew she had a dead hand. She looked at me and then batted her eyes a few times. I then lowered my jacks. Mom tried to control a little laugh and just looked at me. I stared at her as if to say "Well? What are you waiting for?"
Mom then stood up, exhaled, unzipped her pants and dropped them to her feet exposing her creamy white legs for my eyes to devour, which they did from her feet, up her calves, and to her soft thighs. I then motioned for her to turn around so I could view the back of her thighs and calves and the well-rounded, shapely panty-covered ass, which at this point I was really hoping to see. She gave me a nice show. I felt a little twitch in my briefs and knew I was leaking pre-cum in them.
"Last hand," I said as she sat back down.
"Listen, we don't have to go any further," she said. This has been fun." Ah ha! I thought. I knew it.
"I thought we were going to have a fanny contest?" I asked. "I haven't shown you mine yet," I said with a little smile in an effort to get her to relax so she wouldn't think she was going to lose. I then started dealing before she could cop-out. When I looked at my hand I knew the truth. I saw a two, seven, jack, eight and ten. There was no way I was going to win. I looked at mom and she had a somewhat more relaxed smile. I lost. She batted her eyes at me once again and I asked what she had. Two kings. When I showed her my hand she had an absolute look of triumph on her face.
"Congratulations," I said. "You win."
As I stood up to remove my briefs she said I didn't have to do it but I insisted. She seemed more nervous now then I was. I then turned around and preparing to expose my buns to her, slowly, seductively began removing my briefs. When my ass was naked she exclaimed "Oh wow!" and then laughed. With a burst of confidence she reached out to touch my ass.
"You're right," she said. "Your fanny still is cute."
"Go ahead," I replied. "Give it another feel."
She then massaged my asscheeks not at all realizing the affect it was starting to have on me. When I was out of my shorts I knelt down to pick them up and said "maybe you'd like the grand tour?"
With that I swung around to show her my nearly erect cock. Mom let out a gasp and looked away. Full Monty, indeed. With mom trying to catch her breath, I noticed her totally bare legs giving me all the inspiration I needed and I began pumping my cock, quickly getting it to its maximum length.
"I'll be I didn't look like this in diapers?" I asked bringing her attention back to my fully erect cock.
She looked at it again, a longer gaze this time, and then back up at me. "No, you didn't."
I then bent down to pick up her left hand and brought it to my thigh. She let out another gasp and held her breath. If she really wanted to stop this she could have but didn't. I then placed her hand around my cock and together we jacked me off, giving her fingers all the precum she could handle. Then I removed my hand to let her go solo. She did too, tugging at my hard cock and developing a little grin. She was starting to enjoy it. With that shot in the arm I removed her hand from my dick, much to the surprised look on her face. I then took a step forward to where the tip of my cock was inches from her mouth.
"Go on," I said softly. "I want you to."
As if on cue, mom took my cock in hand and guided it to her mouth. She parted her lips and then I felt the warmth of her wet tongue encircling my cockhead. With that mom took over. She started to suck cock like a pro and I knew I was going to have the best blowjob of my life. She alternated sucking slowly up and down the shaft, and then with harder and faster head movements, coating my prick with warm saliva mixed with my own precum juices. I had been turned-on since midway through the card game and knew I couldn't hold out much longer. I then grabbed her blond head and announced I was cumming. I began shooting off inside her mouth and in my own state of ecstasy just stared hazily ahead feeling the wonderfully powerful bolts of pleasure course through me and out my cock. I wasn't the only one enjoying it as mom eagerly drank my cream down her throat.
When I finally looked down I noticed my still hard cock in her mouth. Mom began caressing my thighs, asscheeks, and balls, never once taking her mouth from my cock, milking every last drop from me. I could have left my cock in her mouth forever but then she removed it, looked up at me and said "I've wanted to do that since you were thirteen years-old."
"Really?" I asked catching my breath.
"Yep. I didn't have the guts. And you were always so passive. I wanted to be the one to do it, to teach you. I was afraid you'd be angry with me if I ever suggested it to you."
Passive no longer I said "Get out of your panties."
Mom opened her mouth, trying to comprehend.
"Get out of your panties," I demanded. "I wanna fuck you."
Mom swallowed hard but did as she was told.
"I figure after a blowjob like that your pussy's got to be even better."
Quietly mom stood up and wiggled out of her panties, but with excitement in her eyes. I then commanded her to lie down on the couch.
"Spread your legs," I said. She did what I requested, slowly parting her white thighs, exposing her black-haired cunt.
"Spread them wide so I can get in-between." I demanded.
She then flopped her left leg on top of the couch and the other on the floor. All the while her cunt was getting moist and the smell of womanhood emanated throughout the room. I sat down in-between her legs and began fingering her snatch. I put my index finger in first and then my middle finger, slowly fucking her with two fingers. I then pulled the slick fingers out and proceeded to rub her clit with them. Mom was moaning now telling me how good it felt. I then began to massage her clit with my left hand and reinserted my fingers into her cunt with my right. First two fingers, then three, then four, and finally I tried working my whole right hand up inside her cunt.
"Oh my God!" she exclaimed wide-eyed. "What are you doing?"
"Giving it all to you," I said.
I began fisting her with my hand and couldn't believe how tight she was. I'd forgotten that me and my brother were born caesarian section. She still had the cunt of a girl. It wasn't until later that she told me she had never felt so full before. As I continued to fuck her with my right hand, and rub her clit with my left, mom was too far gone, moaning, crying, talking to God the whole time about how good it felt.
I then pulled my hand out and moved away from her cunt, wiping her juices all over my cock. Seeing what I was preparing to do, mom spread her legs wider, licking her lips with a really slutty look on her face. She was ready.
"You want it?" I asked.
"Yes, I want it," she replied.
"What do you want." I said looking her in the eye.
"Your cock! C'mon lover, fuck me!"
With that I moved forward and inserted my cock into the folds of her cunt. I went in easily and it was so warm and wet. I grabbed her legs and she flung them around my waist. I then began thrusting into her cunt, slowly at first but quickly gaining rhythm. Mom was moaning with each thrust of my dick. I began to lose myself with eyes glazed over, loving the feeling of being inside her. I grunted and groaned but simply enjoyed the thrill of this fabulous fuck. I felt mom's hands holding my arms, gripping tightly, and crying in pleasure as I continued to fuck her hot cunt.
I lasted a lot longer this time, bringing both of us to orgasm. It was great to hear her gasp letting me know that she was cumming. I smiled at that knowing it was the ultimate gift. Happy birthday indeed! After her orgasm subsided, she seemed to drift off in a pleasure-haze simply allowing me to fuck away to my hearts content. I did too. A few minutes later I quickened my pace and groaned loudly "Oh yeah! I'm gonna cum!" I then shot my load into the cunt that once took a load to create me. Full circle!
I stayed in her cunt a long time, pumping as much sperm out of me as possible and enjoying the wet warmth of her pussy. I finally grew soft and pulled out of her cunt. Mom then brought her legs together and curled up in a contented ball on the couch as I plopped down beside her, my wet, sagging dick flopping onto me. When we caught our breath I managed to say "That was good."
Smiling and looking away, mom seemed to be in her own world.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing." She paused for a moment and finally spoke up.
"So, do you want for your birthday?" she joked. Mine is in January.
We knew our mother-son relationship was never going to be normal again. We made plans to do it again the next day at her place, where we spent three hours together, with my cock in her cunt or unloading cum down her throat. I even fucked her in the ass. Speaking of hot and tight, that was the best. Just the sight of her shapely cheeks and little puckered hole was enough to make me wet the sheets with cum. I loved having every inch of my prick buried in her rectum. When she felt my balls nestled against her cunt she let out a moan.
"Do you like it?" I asked.
"Oooh, yeah," she hissed. "Your whole cock's up my ass."
The only thing better was when I came in her ass. I later reminded her of my birthday saying that was what I wanted: her asshole all night long.
"I'll be too sore if you do that," she replied. I said that was the whole idea, to fuck her up the ass so many times that the hole wouldn't close and she'd leak my cum for hours afterwards. Her eyes grew wide and her mouth fell, looking away in disbelief that I had said that to her. There was excitement in those baby blues just the same.
Well, I had my birthday on the 24th and it was the best party I ever went to. There was one other guest; and I came five times that night. Twice in mom's ass. We get together once a week on the weekends and we've actually grown a lot closer. Good sex will do that.
Well, that's what's going on. Mom has no idea that I'm writing this, though, and I think she would get pissed off with me if she knew. I wanted to share it, and of course have no one else in my life to share it with. Except mom. Hope you've enjoyed it. We sure do!


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NEW YORK (AP) - Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
A noontime ceremony is planned to honor the six people who died in the 1993 blast in a garage below one of the twin towers. More than 1,000 people were injured.
A moment of silence will be observed at 12:18 - the moment when a truck bomb was detonated.
Six Islamic extremists were convicted of carrying out the bombing, including mastermind Ramzi Yousef.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the scale of the attack was the first dramatic demonstration that "terrorism is theater and New York is the biggest stage."
The ceremony is being held at the 9/11 memorial that honors more than 2,700 people who died in the 2001 attack at the World Trade Center.
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Research Topics
| Sirpa RäsänenSummaryAffiliation: University of Tampere Country: Finland Publications
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- Mixed viral infections causing acute gastroenteritis in children in a waterborne outbreakS Räsänen
University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
Epidemiol Infect 138:1227-34. 2010..Bloody diarrhoea occurred only when C. jejuni was present. To conclude, massive exposure to several AGE viruses caused mixed infections and severe AGE regardless of the aetiological agents... - Rotavirus gastroenteritis in Finnish children in 2006-2008, at the introduction of rotavirus vaccinationSirpa Räsänen
University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
Scand J Infect Dis 43:58-63. 2011..RV-associated hospitalizations were seen in children up to the age of 9 y. This study forms the epidemiological background for the follow-up of the impact of universal RV vaccination in Finland introduced in 2009... - Noroviruses in children seen in a hospital for acute gastroenteritis in FinlandSirpa Räsänen
University of Tampere Medical School, FM3, Biokatu 10, 33520 Tampere, Finland
Eur J Pediatr 170:1413-8. 2011..Conclusion: NoVs were nearly as common as RVs as causative agents of severe AGE in children seen in hospital. After implementing universal RV vaccination, the importance of NoVs will still increase further... - Noroviruses as a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in children in Finland, 2009-2010Leena Puustinen
Vaccine Research Center, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
Scand J Infect Dis 43:804-8. 2011..Norovirus GII.4 continues to be the dominant genotype... - Detection of human coronaviruses in children with acute gastroenteritisMinna Risku
Department of Virology, Medical School, Biokatu 10, FI 33014 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
J Clin Virol 48:27-30. 2010..Human coronaviruses (HCoVs) are known respiratory pathogens. Moreover, coronavirus-like particles have been seen by electron microscope in stools, and SARS-HCoV has been isolated from intestinal tissue and detected in stool samples... - Major reduction of rotavirus, but not norovirus, gastroenteritis in children seen in hospital after the introduction of RotaTeq vaccine into the National Immunization Programme in FinlandMaria Hemming
Vaccine Research Center, University of Tampere, Biokatu 10, 33520 Tampere, Finland
Eur J Pediatr 172:739-46. 2013..The impact of RV vaccination was reflected as a 57 % decrease in all hospital admissions and 62 % decrease in all outpatient clinic visits for GE of any cause... - Human bocavirus types 1, 2 and 3 in acute gastroenteritis of childhoodMinna Risku
Vaccine Research Center, Tampere University School of Medicine, Finland
Acta Paediatr 101:e405-10. 2012..The same specimens were previously studied for rotaviruses, noroviruses, sapoviruses, adenoviruses, coronaviruses and aichivirus... - Simultaneous presence of human herpesvirus 6 and adenovirus infections in intestinal intussusception of young childrenSuvi Lappalainen
Vaccine Research Center, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
Acta Paediatr 101:663-70. 2012..This prospective study investigated the role of viral infections in the pathogenesis of intussusception, including human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), a known lymphotropic virus...


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Cardiovascular System
The Cardiovascular System is the heart and all of the vessels that carry blood to the body. Blood carries oxygen and food that every cell in the body needs for life. If the heart or blood vessels fail to get enough blood to the body, the important organs of the body may be temporarily or permanently damaged.
Myocardial infarction - or "heart attack" - happens when the heart muscle itself doesn't get enough blood because one or more of its blood vessels, called coronary arteries, becomes blocked (this used to be called "hardening of the arteries"). When this happens, an awake person may have chest pain or pressure, pain in the jaw, neck or shoulder, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea or vomiting. Critically ill patients are often not awake and so they may not be able to complain of these symptoms. Heart attacks are treated by measures to get blood flowing back through the blocked coronary arteries, but the longer the blockage is there, the more likely that heart cells will die leading to permanent damage.
Treatments include medicines that thin the blood (like aspirin or heparin) or break down the clots (like a medicine called "TPA"), reduce the work of the heart (like nitroglycerin and medicines called "beta-blockers" or "ACE-inhibitors"). Often medicines are not enough and doctors must do a procedure called an "angiogram" in which a catheter is placed into the leg or arm and pushed up into the heart, and dye is given to show where the blockage is. Doctors may then be able to open the blockage with a balloon (called "angioplasty") or with a tiny hollow pipe (called a "stent"). However, in some cases, the blockage cannot be opened up at the time of an angiogram. Surgery may be needed in which blood vessels are removed from one part of the body (often the leg) and used to carry blood to skip over, or "bypass," the blockage. This is called "bypass surgery" or "CABG" (pronounced "cabbage" short for coronary artery bypass graft).
Shock - is a term used to describe when the blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level. If the pressure falls enough, the cells in the body don't get enough oxygen and begin to die. If enough cells die, organs of the body, like the kidneys, brain and liver, may also stop working right. Common reasons for shock are severe infections (this is called "septic shock"), heart attacks (this is called "cardiogenic shock") or severe blood loss (called "hemorrhagic shock"). There are also other less common causes. In each situation, treatment of shock involves fixing the cause. In the case of septic shock, the infection must be found and treated with antibiotics. In the case of shock due to heart problems, the heart attack must be treated (see discussion of "Myocardial Infarction").
Sometimes shock cannot be treated and in other cases, if it has gone on for some time, the organs of the body have been damaged too much for the patient to survive.
Arrhythmia - is a term used to describe when the heartbeat, which normally goes at a regular rate of 60 to 100 beats every minute, becomes too fast or too slow. Sometimes medicines can be given to help. But other times, abnormal heartbeats are so bad that not enough blood gets to the organs of the body or blood backs up into the lungs. If this happens an electrical shock, given by two paddles on the chest wall, may be needed to put the heart back to a more normal rate. However, shocks are not successful in all cases and in some cases, the heart can even stop after a shock, in which case cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be needed (see Information Sheet on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation).
Congestive Heart Failure - is a term used to describe when the heart fails to pump enough blood forward to the body and as a result, fluid builds up in the lungs, called "pulmonary edema." This can cause shortness of breath, sometimes so bad that a patient may need to go on a breathing machine until it can be treated (see Information Sheet on Mechanical Ventilators). Congestive heart failure can usually be treated with medicines like nitroglycerin and diuretics, which help the kidneys to get rid of excess fluids. But sometimes, other, stronger medicines are needed and in some cases the heart works so poorly that nothing short of getting a heart transplant can help the patient to feel better.


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