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or whatever you want to call the pictures we add to forums & emails. I have them made for me at Delphi and never had a problem with them, now they are messing up when they are animated. take a look: Could it be Firefox? This didn't happen till I started using it. I usually use tiny pic to upload, but today I tried photobucket and its doing the same thing, |
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- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 12:46
I use firefox exclusively and never had that happen, the ones that I try to directly upload to here from my computer do have problems but not any I have stored online. |
I uploaded it to my computer then image shack and its doing he same thing. I don't know whats wrong. Any suggestions? |
- Posted by marie-ndcal (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 13:53
You might try the Computer forum also. |
Is this a new graphic? What happens with ones you know have worked in the past? Does it work right in Irfanview or another viewer? I'm using Opera and it's not looking as I'd guess it was intended to look. Also tried Chrome, IE and Nightly. In IE it's not animated but the graphic looks fine. Maybe the graphic itself is corrupted. |
The cat is a new one , it was made for me and was fine. I uploaded it to tiny pic, then it messed up when I put it here. All my old animated ones are doing the same now. When you look in tiny pic even my old ones are messed up. Whats going on? Photobucket & image shack are doing the same also. |
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and why doesnt anyone reply to my posts that dont involve me being naked :P
and why doesnt anyone reply to my posts that dont involve me being naked :P
i'm not sure why no reply but this is mine.
You are hot,hot, hot . I wish i was there right now to keel in front of you for hours. I think i could worship you cock for hours. Thanks for sharing and keep it up i'll reply any time i see you, think i'm going to reply right now
Not sure I can answer your question but I will say that when I used to hang out in Ybor City............my favorite colour being blue of course..........my beverage of choice were Blue Margaritas.........oh the memories of it all................
Of course Piña Coladas are awesome too...........
Oh by and by........"Has Anyone Seen That Darn Lost Shaker of Salt of Mine......... Cheers all...............
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hi piña colada - where are you posting? will give those rants and raves a look-see. fyi, your dick is outasight, so relish all these compliments. i'm sure you know you're HOT.
PCW...you are one fine lookingdude, nude or not! You rock!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Great pics.
In answer to the question, I would if I knew where the posts were and if I was interested in the subject. I tend to respond more to normal posts than pics.
I post in the Movie/Music section..
i wanna let you fuck my virgin ass and i wanna suck your huge cock, ah fuck yea!
woah woah woah O_O
My cock's not huge :P
...but I'll gladly fuck you :P It's a little secret pleasure of mine to hear the little whines and wimpers of pain during the 'first time'... mmhm
thepinacoladawolf I would let you make me whine,wimper or even gag. Hell I think I would let you just smack me around alittle just for the privlage of seeing you naked (oh wrong fantasy )
ehh? :P
Yeah.. I fucked a girl back in highschool... not sure if she liked it, but then again she wouldn't have let me put it in her in the first place if she didn't .. right?
There was one guy I fooled around with that wanted me to fuck him, so I did... came inside him, then there's my current roomie, who I fucked a couple times but didn't get to finish cuz he's difficult because of his attachment to 'perfection', and a false sense of what sex really is.... he's one of those types that believes that all the shit you see in sex stories and porns really happens, which caused alot of discomfort when me and him would do things, I would always be discouraged by the fact that eveyrthing I was doing wasn't up to his 'false' specifications.
But yeah,. the times that I did fuck him, he complimented that I was bigger than his biggest dildo, and that I was 'doing it too hard', or whatever... just having his body under mine was enough to thrill me, and I didn't need to cum to satiate that lust..
Ah well.. we haven't done anything for awhile now, but maybe some day I'll
I rarely go in there, hence the lack of response on my part.
*he says responding in the Amateur Selfpics thread and wonders what that says about himself..."well okay, I don't wonder about it as I would think it pretty damn OBvious what it says. OH I'm SO embarrassed!"*
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- By: Douglas
- From: VA
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Excellent value for the money. Cooks great, looks good, stores well in an upright position. Would definitely recommend to others. I had some problem cleaning after grilling chicken breast. The chicken was great but the marinate burned and stuck to the grill. 'Probably needed to spray with oil before grilling. It made an awesome chicken pesto sandwich.
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- January 25, 2009
- By: jamesc
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This unit prepares panini OK, but that is all it does! The plates do not come off for cleaning if you want to prepare anything else. There are no other plate profiles you can use.
I think the best thing I can do with it is to sell it on eBay! I certainly will not be using it again.- December 11, 2007
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I have been confused on this hardiness zone thing.. I live in an area where I can't tell for sure if I am in zone 7 or 8 because I appear to be near the line. I wish I could find a zone map that had cities and towns overlain on it.
Anyways, what is the most important thing about the zone? Is it the cold temp or the warm temp that is important? For instance, a cherry tree I bought is listed for zones 5-7. Is that the hardiness rating for cold-hardiness or how much heat it can withstand? Lastly, is there such a internet site or tool that one can use to determine how many chill hours are in your area? Thanks in advance. |
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There is more than one type of zone map. I believe it is the USDA zone map that has zones 1 to 10. These are now divided into A and B. The USDA zones are about winterhardiness. They are areas with equal average winter low temperature. It's really not all that accurate so it doesn't matter if you are 7B or 8A. Lately winters have been mild so the zones may be shiffting some. Chill hrs are of more concern. But many new varieties don't have an accurate number. Also some fruits like apples are much more adaptable to low chill than previously thought. So to some extent it is a matter of trial and error. The Fruitnut |
The word "zone" (by itself) almost always refers to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone. This rating is primarily useful to describe how cold tolerant a plant is. There are 11 zones (not 10) in this system. The zone rating refers to the average annual minimum temperature. When a plant is given a range (like zone 7b-10), it means the plant usually won't survive where temperatures drop below the lowest temperatures usually experienced in zone 7b AND probably wouldn't do well where temperatures were higher than those experienced in zone 10. Obviously there are shortcomings with this system. Temperature is definitely not the only important factor in how much heat or cold a plant can take and the average minimum temperature rating does not address how hot an area gets (and stays) during the warmer months. I have provided a link to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map below. Gardenweb has a zip code to USDA Plant Hardiness Zone converter at http://www.gardenweb.com/zones/zip.cgi In an attempt to overcome some of the disadvantages of depending on the upper number in the cold hardiness rating system for plants being grown in different climates, the American Horticultural Society came up with a Heat Zone rating system. It indicates the number of days per year above 86 degrees F (30 degrees C). Note that this zone rating system should always be referred to as Heat Zone. A map can be found at http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/05_heat_map.pdf With the climate change that has occurred over the last couple of decades, weather patterns have shifted quite a bit. Many areas are warmer than they were when the USDA's map was produced. Some areas have actually even gotten COLDER! The National Arborday Foundation has attempted to "update" the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Many people point out that there are various problems with this new map, but it is used by some people. It can be found at http://www.arborday.org/media/zones.cfm |
Here is a link that might be useful: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Oh yeah, Fruitnut was correct about chill hours. Raintree Nursery has a Chill Hours Map along with an explaination at http://www.raintreenursery.com/chill_hours.htm (linked below). |
Here is a link that might be useful: Chill Hours Map
The chill hrs map at Raintree is interesting. It even shows the decrease in chill hrs in North Dakota caused by the fact that they stay frozen all winter. The map is probably a pretty good estimate for areas east of the Rockies. But it is hopeless in areas with large variations in elevation like the Rockies. It is also hopelessly usless in California with all their microclimates. There are other zone maps for California. One is I believe the Sunset zones. In California you get into the tropical and subtropical fruits. That adds another layer of complexity. But all interesting stuff!! The Fruitnut |
When I was growing up, we were in a solid zone 4. When buying plants, if it was rated for a minimum zone 3, we figured the odds were 50/50 it might survive for us. If it was rated for a minimum zone 5, we figured it was highly experimental and was probably a waste of money, but might be fun to try. We had other things going against us than just minimum winter temperature--moderate elevation, 4,500 feet, and low humidity, which makes for large temperature swings from day to night throughout the year. Thus, 70 degrees in early May might bring well below freezing at night, and anything in the 60's was a good chance of frost at night. The point of all this, unless you are in an otherwise really odd climate, plants rated for a minimum of zone 7 will probably be hardy, those rated for zone 8 will probably do well but might have problems some years. Those rated for zone 6 or below and going up 8 or higher will probably be hardy. Some plants just won't like your climate no matter what, so you have to experiment with kinds and varieties to find the ones that like it best. Check your local extension service office for a list of plants recommended for your area. |
Very nice. I have said it before and I'll say it again. I sure do wish I had found this forum back when I was planning my orchard last year. The Arbor day map is the one that I appear to be right on the 7/8 zone line. But like you all said, there are other factors. I am particularly suprised at the chill hour map. I thought I was in an area with around 600 chill hours which heavily influenced which apple varieties I planted. That map says I have more than 1200! I'll just have to see. Only time will tell. |
Sunset also puts out a national gardening book with zones assigned for the east. The amount of detail given regarding some of the western zones, expecially in California (for example, noting effects of frequent winds on plants in some zones) is remarkable. I don't know if this much detail was lavished on assignment of zones in the east. |
- Posted by larry_gene z8/Sunset6 OR (My Page) on Thu, Mar 27, 08 at 0:21
The USDA map has been updated within the last 3 years; the data now dates from the 1970's and takes into account the warming trend. |
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When not working with No Explanations, guitarist Dan Leonard is extremely active as an in-demand sideman who also tours regularly as lead guitarist with Deanna Bogart. If you have not yet purchased Round Trip, his duo recording with pianist Mark Christopher Brandt, it is not too late. Round Trip will make a great Christmas present for any true lover of creative and improvisational music. The Christmas recording from No Explanations does not include the exceptional guitarist, but he was directly involved in the production of the album and in full support of the project. December Moment is a spontaneous "side project" from the No Explanations team, and while it is not part of the original vision for the 5-disc collector series spear-headed by Leonard and Brandt, it will undoubtedly become a welcome addition to our fans' listening library.
December Moment comes from three members of the No Explanations musical team who perform regularly throughout the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. area as a jazz trio. During the 2013 holiday season, pianist Mark Christopher Brandt, bassist Shaun Jurek, and drummer Russell Lucas worked steadily from the end of November until the second week of January performing Christmas music for one holiday party after another. At the end of the season, they felt that "the moment" was right for a jazz recording. A trip to the studio in January 2013 etched their "oneness" as a honed trio into a beautiful recording of Christmas music which will become the defining holiday sound for many joyful listeners.
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I'm planning on building some built-in bookshelves in the den. I want to go with a nice rich feel and stain the wood either a cherry or dark wood color. Can anyone suggest a type of wood that would be affordable and at the same time look nice with a dark stain application?
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Define affordable. Also need to know how many tools/experience you have available for the work. Cherry is really a mid range color---not dark at all. Many pieces of furniture labeled Cherry stain are actually birch or some other wood stained very dark and called Cherry stain. Walnut is dark and stains darker well. Oak takes dark stain well, but has a rough looking surface. Ash is less expensive that either oak or walnut and stains darkly well. Someone may recommend poplar, the trouble with poplar and stain is that poplar sapwood and heart wood are two distinctly different colors and those differences are not covered by staining. Maple may be recommended, but it is very hard to get maple to take stain evenly. And dying maple is better than trying to stain it. All the above are available in plywood---which can lower the total material cost/working time substantially. |
- Posted by justintime2b2late (My Page) on Sun, Aug 3, 08 at 14:21
Good point about "affordable." I am on a fairly limited budget. I guess it's still a little vague but I'm looking for a type of wood that will look like it belongs in a nice home office without having to spend as much as those upscale offices would. Oak is probably out, since it has the rough looking surface. Sounds like walnut and ash might be good choices, especially if they're available in plywood. Thanks for the advice. |
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- Posted by bobsmyuncle (My Page) on Sun, Aug 3, 08 at 16:30
I'd suggest plywood as the most economical alternative in terms or yield (lack of waste), stability, and lack of defects. You also know a piece of plywood is 48" x 96" and a saw kerf is 1/8" (depending upon your blade), so you can plan accordingly. Use solid woods for facings and moldings. After that, there are some woods that stain well and some that don't. A friend of mine always says something like, "The best way to get something to look like cherry is to start with cherry." Before committing to any finish schedule, try out a sample or two on some cutoffs. |
Poplar is usually the cheapest solid wood. It takes dark stains well and can be made to look like dark stained cherry, but not natural cherry. Shop grade birch ply is the cheapest stain grade material you could use. Add solid birch facing to hide the ply edges. Birch takes most stain well and can be stained lighter than poplar. Real cherry ply is over $100 a sheet. Sometimes I find lower grade S2S or S3S cherry wood at a hardwood wholesale distributor for under $5 a bf. It has way more color and grain variation than clear heart cherry, but the price is right and some people like wood with color and inclusions. |
- Posted by bobsmyuncle (My Page) on Mon, Aug 4, 08 at 22:20
Plywood at $100 a sheet is just over $2 a square foot. (48 sq. ft. in a standard 4x8' sheet). And as I mentioned, you can design around fixed dimensions to reduce waste, for example you are not stuck trying to get 8" wide boards out of a 7" wide and a 5.5" wide board. |
Hate to tell you this, Bob, but 4x8=32. |
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Against the wishes of tween girls everywhere, Justin Bieber is growing up and his famously high-pitched voice has begun to drop a few registers. On Sunday, the singer surprised fans when he posted his remix/take on Drake's 'Trust Issues' on his Facebook page. Is that guy singing in a deep voice really their beloved Biebs? Yes, yes it is.


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This gun (like ALL guns) points to a tiny, shriveled prick.
Bet he's a real fun guy to be behind in a TSA checkpoint line…
That stupid tattoo could get him shot when he's approached by police.
RAWR! That is sexy. Maybe not the brightest "long-term" tat, but intelligence expectations should be low ("Jackass" wrist band). Guy has a nice body.
Phonies like this one invariably crumble into a pile of whine-and-cry when confronted with someone who knows how to use a gun. The only thing he deserves is a taste of his own medicine.
He's got nice abs!
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He better hope no one shoots him in "Self defense".
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The Netherlands placed greater restrictions on banks' derivative sales to affordable-housing providers after Stichting Vestia Groep unwound billions of euros of soured interest-rate swaps at a loss this year.
Housing associations will only be permitted to purchase so- called payer swaps and interest-rate caps from Oct. 1, Interior Minister Liesbeth Spies said in a statement on the ministry's website today. They can only buy derivatives from banks that agree to consider them non-professional investors, she said.
Vestia, which owns 89,000 homes and is based in Rotterdam, lost 1.3 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of collateral as part of a deal reached in June to unwind derivatives and repay 700 million euros to nine banks, including Citigroup Inc. (C:US) and Deutsche Bank AG. (DBK) The agreement stopped the organization from having to post more collateral if interest rates kept falling.
Spies "wants to prevent corporations taking irresponsible risks in future," according to the statement. "Vestia struggled with big liquidity issues as it had to add collateral to the bank because of dropping interest rates. It also speculated with complex derivative products."
The Netherlands has about 400 housing organizations, of which 162, excluding Vestia, had 17.9 billion euros in derivative contracts as of Dec. 31, a supervisory body said on June 4. That compared with lending of 62.2 billion euros. Vestia alone had amassed interest-rate swaps with a value of 22 billion euros, compared with 6.1 billion euros of loans, the organization said in February.
Housing organizations using derivatives will be forced to maintain a buffer that allows them to handle an interest-rate drop of two percentage points, Spies said.
Payer swaps, contracts in which a housing firm pays a fixed rate on loan while receiving a variable rate, will be capped at a duration of 10 years, Spies said. Interest-rate caps provide insurance that limits interest payments to a certain maximum.
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The Tusken Raiders reaction states:
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The Sub-Zero Defenses constant effect states:
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The issue I have is that both of these card abilities occur after a unit strikes. Does section 2.9 of the FaQ cover this situation? Or, do one of the two (constant effects or reactions) occur "faster" than the other
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Kinder Morgan Discusses, Downplays MLP Merger
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI - Get Report) on Monday distributed a five page press release responding to a Barron's article that criticized the firm's non-GAAP financial reporting and the relationship between the company and its limited partnership vehicles, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) and El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB). In the press release, Kinder Morgan discussed the prospect that it might consolidate its sprawling master limited partnership (MLP) empire.
"As was mentioned in our analyst day materials, KMP would consider other options if we get to a point where we cannot deliver attractive returns to LP investors. However, we do not believe we are at that point," Kinder Morgan said.
"We would point out that KMP has a highly attractive total return prospect, with a current yield of nearly 7% and a target distribution growth rate of 5% for the next three years supported by organic expansion capex projects of nearly $14 billion that we expect to place in service over the next 5 years," the pipeline giant added.
Specifically, Kinder Morgan was referring to discussion in its January 29, 2014 investor day, when CFO Kimberly Dang indicated that that the company could re-visit its general partner and limited partner relationships if stock performance warranted such a review.
"In certain circumstances, the GP has demonstrated a willingness to give back. And we've done acquisitions where we have a ramp in the cash flow. And so, we have a very supportive GP. But all I can say is the structure is working today. If it did - if we've come to a point sometime in the future when it's not working - then we will look at ways to solve that and consider other options," Dang said in January.
The relationship between Kinder Morgan, the general partner, and its various limited partnership MLP interests has been a topic of discussion and some criticism for years.
Still, as Kinder Morgan noted at its investor day, the general partner has identified acquisitions and investment opportunities that's increased distributions from $70 million to over $4 billion, between the late 1990s and 2013. General partner and limited partner stocks have performed strongly since their inception.
Kinder Morgan said in January that absent acquisitions, it expects 5%-to-6% distribution growth at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and 8%-to-9% at the general partner.
However, there would be precedent for a general partner and limited partner merger. In 2010, Enterprise Products Partners
(EPD) merged its limited partner and general partner interests into one entity.
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Barron's, in its article published on Sunday, focused on the amount Kinder Morgan's limited partner interests pay in certain capital expenditure and the high portion of earnings that those MLP's pay to the general partnership, Kinder Morgan Inc.
Deutsche Bank analysts said Barron's was bashing Kinder Morgan with "old inaccuracies." Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts characterized Barron's article as "old news getting re-hashed, but still grabbing attention."
The Barron's article keyed in on the size of Kinder Morgan MLP entities, slowing growth rates, and high profit payouts to the general partner as issues hanging over limited partner stocks. Barron's, citing analysis from Hedgeye Risk Management, also questioned whether Kinder skimps on maintenance capital on its pipeline's and reports some pipeline capex incorrectly in its CO2 crude oil production business.
"While we think these critiques have varying degrees of validity, they are not new and we think they are overly discounted in KMP's current unit price," Bank of America analysts concluded.
Other MLP Mergers More Likely?
At the January investor day, co-founder and CEO Richard Kinder fielded questions from analysts and shareholders and was asked whether Kinder Morgan limited partner El Paso Pipeline Partners would remain a standalone LP interest or eventually be consolidated into Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, given its poor share price performance.
Mr. Kinder indicated that the company might re-evaluate its MLP complex at the end of 2014, and especially if performance continued to lag. He also said such decisions would rest on independent directors and would also hinge on votes by MLP unitholders.
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Question: On EPB, longer term, would you expect it to remain standalone or at some point if the discount continues, to be consolidated into KMP? Richard Kinder: Well, we always look at all those alternatives. Clearly, to do that, it would take a unitholder vote at both entities and it would take the independent directors, not Steve and me to make those decisions. As I said at the time of the El Paso merger, at sometime that probably makes sense to put the two together. We don't mind having the two outstanding, but it probably makes sense, at some point, to put them together, but that would be up to the directors and the unitholders of those entities, but it's a possibility. We'll just see how it develops. Mr. Kinder also said that Kinder Morgan Inc.'s interest in Florida Gas Transmission, a joint venture 50% shared with Energy Transfer would remain within the general partnership through 2014. "Right now, we have FGT in the model staying at KMI through 2014 and then we'll take another look at. It's kind of almost like, we don't operate it. It's sort of almost like owning an interest in an MLP," Mr. Kinder said. For context, El Paso Pipeline Partners currently carries a market capitalization of over $6.5 billion. The MLP, however, has seen its share price fall nearly 30% over the past 12-months. Kinder Morgan Inc. shares fell nearly 3% in Monday trading on the negative Barron's article. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners shares fell over 5%.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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I've been project manager at the MediaLAB since February 2013.
MediaLAB Amsterdam conducts applied research by developing innovative interactive media applications for design problems. We work with final year students from various disciplines and countries, who work in teams of 4 towards a tested prototype that they present at the end of their design & research project. Project assigners come from government orgs, Dutch SMEs & large international corporates from across fields of IT, media, city making, education, culture, healthcare and other fields. They bring in Digital Media & ICT related problems, societal challenges, ideas or innovation issues.
We've worked with Cisco, NOS, IKEA, ProRail, City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Light Festival, Dropstuff, Beeld&Geluid, Arkin, Ordina, AVROTROS, WeMakeVR, Submarine, TWC and many others.
Tamara and I tried out a different format to get the students to think about tinkering and prototyping. Both have in common that they celebrate early failure as a way to learn quickly and deeply about your ideas and prototypes. We asked the students to create paper prototypes – always a big hit and a huge surprise – and to tinker for an hour with a prototyping tool they were unfamiliar with and report back what they learned. I really enjoy facilitating these sessions and using whatever comes up in the room as an opportunity to learn something about the creative making process together. Awesome day, always too little time awwwww. We can't get enough!
Last Friday I facilitated a small workshop in the basics of visual communication. The student teams worked on some small exercises to help make their communication within their team – and to the outside – better by making it more visual in simple ways. Armed with only paper and markers, the students practiced their drawing skills, their ability to translate concepts into quick drawings, and they learned some tricks to make better use of the canvas and guiding the viewers' attention to what's important. It was hot, and it was reallllly the end of the week but we laughed really hard. Some showed their natural ability to think visually, others made massive improvements just be learning a few small tricks. Awesome!
In the spring '14 semester I coached the project Transmedia Analytics, a collaboration between interactive production company Submarine, University of Amsterdam, and MediaLAB Amsterdam.
This project goal was to capture a variety of data points from two interactive web based documentaries (The Last Hijack and Unspeak) and present these data in a way that allows the producers get an understanding of how audiences engage and interact with their creation, and enrich the user experience accordingly. This resulted in a custom designed analytics dashboard tool: Figures. The progress of the project was documented on the students' project blog.
A short article of mine was published on VVVNT recently, dealing with the expressive and philosophical potential of performance practices combining dance improvisation and live coding.VVVNT is an online journal, forum, & project space for sharing ways of thinking with practical connections across time, scale, system, & discipline.
I made an excursion to another HvA location to give a workshop tinkering to students of the minor Intelligent Environments. These students, mostly from rather techy backgrounds like Software Engineering, Game Development etc are quite a different target group from the design & humanities students I'm normally used to at the MediaLAB.
For this workshop we took the better part of a whole day, and worked in multiple iterations to let students think about alternative interfaces, playful interactions and how you can work with objects as interface. To understand the important role the design of an interface plays in an any interaction. The students were asked to find an interesting – or boring – object and take it as a starting point to come up with a playful installation. To let the meanings, connotations and affordances the object embodies be leading in the kind of installation you will build. I found it very useful to have a number of show and tell rounds – with a gaming expert even! – to help the students improve their ideas and ways of executing them. Although the creative process was somewhat out of the comfort zone of some students, they all made tremendous efforts and progress in the course of the day.
My absolute favourite is this weirrrrd granny interface for a classic racing game using a walker (NL:rollator) :D
During this semester's tinkering workshop at MediaLAB, we spent a morning exploring Scratch and Makey Makey. In this pressure cooker style workshop, the students were asked to create playful interactive installations inspired (more or less) by the winter Olympics. This workshop is all make and very little 'me-explain-you-listen'. The group was awesome and went nuts programming their own audio feedback, or even visual interfaces with customized avatars. Costumes were designed and tributes were paid to the olympic rings. Real nice. Some favourites:
And this classic: Frustration!
During the Amsterdam Light Festival, that took place between the 6th of December 2013 and the 19th of January 2014, residents and visitors of the city Amsterdam were being challenged.
During this light festival a group of international students seduced residents and visitors to enlightening the Dark Side of Amsterdam. Visitors were asked to confess about their dark side by wearing anonymous "sin" glasses in a nighttime light painting portrait that were projected onto the Mozes & Aäron church at Waterlooplein. 411 People used the installation, and revealed that with a majority of 91 people, Amsterdam is still a sin city of lust. Also see the infographic, twitterfeed and Flickr set.
Check out http://medialab.hva.nl/blog/project/amsterdam-light-festival/ for more info. I coached on the concept development and project management of this student project.
The Dark Side of Amsterdam won the audience award at Beamlab #32
At the very start of semester, I facilitated a tinkering workshop for our new bunch of talent! Tinkering is a key literacy in contemporary culture. Unstructured time for playing, exploring, experimenting and messing around with technologies allows us to think about the systems we use differently, and opens up space for new ideas and even innovation. It was a morning full of crazy fruit installations, weird games and minority report installations, we made using the excellent tinkering tool Makey Makey and easy-for-all programming environment Scratch.
By using the powerful relationships between scent & emotion, and confidence through embodiment, PosturAroma helps women feel safer by enhancing their posture. By sensing the angle of the back and using scent as trigger, the user is reminded to keep her head up, and straighten her back when stepping into the world. Walk proud to feel confident, look confident, be safe.
During the fall 2013 semester, I coached a team of students for their project Women's Safety in Public Space. The project that explores collaborative design efforts that look into what it means to design collectively across different countries and contexts. Two teams, one in Amsterdam and one in Bangalore will work on the same project brief in parallel, while regularly exchanging insights about their methods and progress. Students will work on the question: how can we enhance objective and subjective safety of women in public space, by innovative uses of digital media, communication technology and/or (networked) electronics? The research question will be answered separately for the context of Bangalore and Amsterdam. View Flickr set here.
The project is phase 1 of the project Design Across Cultures, a larger effort commmisioned by Cisco and made possible by Center of Expertise.
The Bangalore project was coached by researchers from Fields of View at IIIT-B University. The results of their project Convers(t)ation can be viewed here: http://medialab.hva.nl/blog/project/womens-safety-india/
The research paper about PosturAroma was presented at the 9th International Conference on Design & Emotion themed "Colors of Care" in Bogota, Colombia, 2014. It won the Award for Best Design Case and was featured on Fast.Co, Ideo.org, PSFK, Crisp.nl, Discovery Canada, and presented at the 2014 Rome Maker Faire.


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Small cock threads seem to be all about big guys with small ones...but are there pics of slim/skinny guys with small ones...never seen them. To be honest I think if the fat guys with small ones slimmed...then they would be bigger just asking...
Small cock threads seem to be all about big guys with small ones...but are there pics of slim/skinny guys with small ones...never seen them. To be honest I think if the fat guys with small ones slimmed...then they would be bigger just asking...
Yeah, I feel the same way you do. Unfortunately, it's really been tough to find a site for this kind of thing. I had the pleasure of sucking off a hot, redheaded skinny skater boy once who had a little dick. He probably wasn't even 4 inches hard! He was sexy as fuck & it was one of the hottest hook-ups I've ever had.
So, a companion thread to "Skinng guys with big ones!!
Here's a guy (don't know his name) who's certainly thin (if not skinny) and that cock wouldn't win too many prizes in a size competition.
So, I guess he's just right for this thread
DANG........nothing wrong with HIM....... .......
How about this fellow
Hoorah for smaller cocks!!!!!!!
The above pics are hot! Here's a few more;
OK, it's nice to know that I'm not the only skinny guy with a small endowment out there! ;-)
"Do what you love."
Here is another
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dean oconnor is NOT small at all!!
you gotta see this
just google "smallguyswhoshow"
or "entre machitos" or "over our head"
or google pictures of "billy joe penis"
or " sting penis"
These guys are not small - they are average - just like the rest of us.
I think when people say small on threads such as this, they use the term to mean as opposed to the "huge dicks that pop up from time to time in gay porn. Joe Young's, for example:
Anyway, here are a few photos as my contribution to this thread. Some of the guys arent too skinny, admittedly. But the dicks are definitely . . . . 'smallish to average!'
Oh these guys are beautiful. I love ALL cock, getting fucked by a small one is heaven. The guy in the next-to last picture above could fuck me all day!
I like em small AND hard!
Tiny peepees are adorable
This is a great thread! I luv it! The gay porn world is so over saturated with "big dicks" that I don't necessarily get a big thrill out of it.
Plus, I have a tight and sensitive ass hole. Small to average size cocks are just right. Never again will I get fucked by a big wide dick, 30 days of hell and healing is not cute!
So glad I started this thread. Happy to see small lovers out there on slim guys....Oh well..here we go...this is mine
Small dicks are also hot...... i work out quite abit but would not want a muscled b/f and i have never been attracted to muscled guys. I love slimmer guys any day.
This guy is sooo hot! I want to suck his cock and feel it grow in my mouth!
some of these guys look average to me
Woof. Woof.
More than a mouthful is a waste.
This is a great post! I'm pretty thin, and pretty average-sized cock. It's nice to know that quite a few guys like that. Plus, I think every one of these guys are hot, and I would totally hook up with any of them! Hot!
love all the guys here
it's funny how whenever I usually see a big dick, the guy is slim
I LOVE to see a guy with a nice small dick Here are some that I liked. Enjoy!
Hey Guys!
I think a guy with a nice body and a small penis is onw of the hottest things around!
I think this guy is hot, for sure - I love how confortable he looks with his tiny, cute cock on display...
Some more...
I think this naked lad out for a run has a great body, and a lovely dick... can you imagine taking a guy like this home, pulling down his boxers and finding such a cute, tiny package... so suckable!
Or this hot young swimmer... I think his small dick makes him even sexier, somehow...
Two more 'under-sized' men out for a swim... perhaps the water was cold : ) ...I think they're really sexy...
This cute guy has a nice pair of balls to go with his cute, uncut cock...
This lad's approaching average, I reckon, but his friend's keen to draw attention to the fact that he's on the small side... personally, I wouldn't be able to resist reaching out to see if it grew in my hand any...
I like the comparison of these two guy's cocks...
The one on the left, with his average-sized, cut dick is cute, but his uncut, less well-endowed friend gets my vote...
Love this thread...but why is everyone so sparce w the pics??.......we need more pics please!!!!!
I like this thread
I like all shapes and sizes...and sometimes I have seen some grow to very large size...so dont be so quick to judge...just because its not a showier doesnt mean its not a grower.
Most of the pictures here are of small SOFT cocks. I'd like to see some who are small, even when erect.
Love these gorgeous pix. As for me, I especially enjoy the golden Asian boys, with their slim bodies and undersized dicks.
How about this cute young stud...
Lovely smooth body, big balls and a tiny, cute cock that wouldn't fill your mouth...
This cute lad has a really under-sized hard-on... barely a mouthful...
...any more photos of the hot and under-endowed gratefully received.
..this pic has been posted before, but I reckon it's worth revisiting!
These two guys both have nice slim bodies... but the guy with the tiny penis really catches my eye... his mate's massive, semi-erect dick is somehow really unattractive in comparison.
I'd love to see the guy on the right with a boner - I bet he's got a really small, cute stiff dick...
Dang, a lot of these guys look good are are sweet. I'm sure it would be fun to roll around with them no matter the size of their penis.


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As readers of this blog are aware, Iâm fond of advancing ideas on how to play better golf immediately. Previously, I talked about upgrading your driver and then followed with a post suggesting fairway technology had taken such a leap this year that you needed to do likewise and get a new fairway wood. You might also recall from that same fairway wood article I refused to call them âfairway metals,â so, like, donât bother correcting me on that.
Iâve also written about the mental side of the game in a piece that suggested we all should try a little less. Even though that post was written with more than a little tongue-in-cheek, I really believe we would all improve if we didnât care quite so much. That said, I know that most of you will never ease off the throttle or tone down your competitive zeal. And since the idea of performing better while trying less is so counterintuitive as to be almost un-American, I donât expect anyone to write and tell me how my insightful article saved his game.
So today I get back to equipment and offer a suggestion which, if taken, will improve your game immediatelyâ¦or, you know, whenever you get around to doing it.
Today weâll talk about set composition or, why yours is probably wrong. For awhile now, Iâve been contemplating getting rid of my 3 iron, but Iâve been unwilling to do so for fear of being labeled with a big scarlet H (for Hack). In the last year or so, however, Iâve reluctantly come to the conclusion that my continued adherence to traditional set makeup is simply stupid. I gave up my 2 iron long ago when the first brown banana-looking TaylorMade Rescues with the Bubble shafts hit the market, and have utilized various 2 hybrids ever since. More difficult has been the idea of relegating the 3 iron to the antiquities bin. I know I should do it; after all, itâs really been years since I hit a 3 iron with any real degree of confidence, and even my solid shots with that club donât come off with the height needed to generate the distance desired. In short, I have no real business carrying a 3 iron.
Part of my reluctance, Iâll readily admit, is the swagger factor. When I was a junior in high school, my dad bought me a Ping 1 iron that I carried for years thereafter and used with regularity. I loved that club, and even more than I loved the club itself, was the fact that in order to carry a 1 iron I had to get rid of my 4 wood. I liked the way my bag looked with only a driver and 3 wood. I also thought it was a bit intimidating to show up to a tournament sporting only a driver and sometimes 3 wood in an era when many players carried driver, 3, 4 and 5 woods. I would sneer at their girlie bags with their plethora of pom-pon head covers. I suspect I never really intimidated anyone with my 1 iron. And I know I donât intimidate anyone these days, except maybe my six year old neighbor, Harold, with whom I have regular chipping and putting contestsâand even heâs been talking smack lately. So as I said, I think itâs well past time to re-think my love of the long iron, which long ago stopped loving me.
This point was made dramatically clear to me this year when I took a look at Matt Kucharâs bag following his win at The Players Championship. The lowest numbered iron used by Matt Kuchar in claiming the tournament featuring the deepest professional field in golf was a 5 iron. Kuchar is known as a guy who keeps the ball in play and rarely makes errors of a nature that lead to big numbers. Heâs a fairways and greens machine. And he uses two hybridsâ 20 and 23 degreesâand three wedges. Wedges are known as the âscoringâ clubs for a reason and deserve our utmost attention, but Iâm saving that for a future post. For now, let me stick with the point that almost every player could benefit by acing the longer irons and replacing them with hybrids. After all, the pros are incorporating more and more hybrids in their sets, so it would seem more than a little silly to reject a concept embraced by the guys who make their living playing golf just because we think we're too good.
Manufacturers have recognized this. Most sets no longer offer a 2 iron as an option, and many stock sets now begin with a 4 iron, requiring a special order if you want a 3 iron. Let me suggest that you may want a 3 iron, but you shouldnât get it. I have a friend whoâs a pretty accomplished player. He lives about 90 minutes from me so I only play with him a couple times a year. Last year, during one such round, I looked in his bag and discovered four hybrids. His lowest numbered iron was a 6 iron. When I asked him about why all the hybrids, he said simply, âTheyâre easier to hit.â And there you have itâhybrids are easier to hit. Callaway and other companies, recognizing this, have begun marketing hybrid/iron combo sets that feature hybrids instead of 3, 4 and even 5 irons.
Not only are hybrids easier to hit, but theyâre easier to hit higher and longer than their numerically-equivalent iron counterparts, and they're alot more forgiving on mis-hits. Unless you're a scratch golfer or better and a high ball hitter, forget the macho nonsense and put more hybrids in your bag. Youâll play better golf. I for one have replaced my 3 and 4 irons with hybrids, and my 5 ironâs getting nervous. It should be. I miss those irons, but I donât long for them. They quit on me a long time ago, so its good riddanceâlet âem rust in the garage.
Check out all the available hybrids and mixed composition sets available at DGW. Each model Hybrid or Rescue club comes in a variety of progressive lofts ranging from the 15.5 degree Cleveland Mashie M1 to the 31 degree Cobra Baffler T Rail 7 Hybrid. We have Hybrid/Iron combo sets from Callaway and Tour Edge that offer a complete mix of easy to launch hybrids with shorter irons for precision shot making.
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The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson: "I think norms and standards are really dangerous."
The Knife (due Monday, April 21, at The Fillmore Auditorium) from Stockholm, Sweden, is an experimental synth pop duo comprised of Karin Dreijer Andersson and her brother Olof Dreijer. Since the project's founding in 1999, it has explored unusual rhythmic ideas. Its 2003 album Deep Cuts garnered the group an international audience, and the band toured on the strength of 2006's Silent Shout. Known for a theatrical performance style and costumes designed partly to obscure specific personal identity, The Knife is one of the few pop groups of recent years to have maintained a certain mystique. That has only enhanced the impact of its music. Ian Pearce
But on the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual, The Knife challenged its long-held methods, both in terms of making music and also the visual presentation of it. The album is also the outfit's most directly political to date, so perhaps Andersson and Dreijer felt that even superficial barriers between itself and its audience, to the extent practically possible, were best left behind. Recently, we had the rare opportunity to speak with Andersson about the ideas behind Shaking the Habitual, how The Knife has applied its ideals on tours and her commitment to questioning established norms.
Westword: What are some ways in which you have tried to offer an alternative perspective on the core problems of neo-liberalism with your new album? For example, with the phrase "End Extreme Wealth."
Karin Dreijer Andersson: That phrase, "End Extreme Wealth," we contacted this illustrator and cartoonist, [Liv Strömquist] who studied political science at university. One thing that is often discussed is how we have to end poverty and that poverty is the problem.
We sat down and talked about why the rich think that poverty is the problem. She just wanted to turn that concept upside down. We started to read a lot of books about this symptom called "affluenza." I hadn't heard of it before. It was written about like it was a disease, almost. We just thought it would be fun to turn it the other way around and talk about how the real problem is that there are a few people that live really well out of a lot of people being poor. That's how we came up with that.
We wanted to work with people that worked with similar ideas we had but in different art forms. Liv Strömquist was one of them. We worked with a video artist named Marit [Östberg] and she did the first video, "Full of Fire." We also worked with Emily Roysdon who, at that time, had just been to Occupy Wall Street. She was in New York at the same time we were working on that track and she wanted to write something out of what was going on at that time. Now it's been a year since we released an album and when I look back upon it I see that there are a lot of different issues. It was like an explosion of ideas going in many different directions.
In Europe, as well, I think there has been an explosion of racist and extremely right wing [political] parties. And I think the left wing was not been prepared for that. I think two or three years ago, when we started to work on the album, there were many things that seemed really urgent. But I think, at least in Sweden, there have been [counter] forces gathering to try to deal with this problem.
When you were working with Emily Roysdon did her concept of "ecstatic resistance" inform or otherwise influence your thinking for the album or in general?
I'm a little bit disgruntled with myself for not having had the time to delve into her work. But I have seen some of her pieces that I find really inspiring and I would like to spend more time with it. She's actually a professor now at Stockholm University.
Why did you commission Liv Strömquist specifically to do the illustrations for End Extreme Wealth, and did you collaborate with her on the text of the piece?
Album artwork is often serves some kind of commercial purpose. We just thought it would be fun, and a good idea, to invite someone who would want to use this space to talk about their ideas. That's why we asked her.
Did you collaborate with her on the text of the piece?
Well we were sending it back and forth and discussing it. Mainly it came from her and we were just discussing a few details and some of the topics.
When you were making the sounds and music for what would become Shaking the Habitual you challenged yourselves to create your own sound sources, to make your own instruments, to use conventional instruments to make unconventional sounds and to use unconventional sound-making objects and methods to make traditional sounds. You have talked about creating with no real rules with this album, but did you in any way impose restrictions in order to force yourself to create in ways in which you were not used to? That can be a way to create fruitfully by forcing yourself out of established instincts and patterns.
I think when we started we sat down and talked about things like, "If we are going to make music together, how do we want it to be?" One very important thing was to have fun. It can easily become mechanical when you have been working together for a long time. In order to have fun I think we wanted to combine our political interests and ideas with the music. After that we made a long list of experiments that we wanted to do. It was like putting amps in a big room and putting microphones in the room and record and see what happened. For the first six months or so we were just making sounds. We also had a long reading list. So we were creating sounds and discussing political ideas.
Was your reading list mainly political works or was it a wider variety of texts?
It was a big mix. A lot of post-colonial history and gender studies. We were brought up with a very radical left wing dad. We had that already. I think class was a thing we talked about a lot as kids. In Sweden the left wing parties have totally skipped the thing about sex and gender and race and so on. The old traditional left wing parties were very conservative. I think now there is so much more a variety of ideas and discussions. I think it's an exciting time now.
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