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Have you ever looked at another couple and wondered, what if... ? Forgotten Desire offers five tantalising tales of couple that swap and share.
Forgotten Desires by Tony Haynes
On revisiting their old university – in order to attend a reunion event – Sara and Marcus end up with more than they bargained for when they bump into Alice and Luke.Knowing that Alice always had a bit of thing for Marcus, and having shared an intimate moment with Luke ...
Have you ever looked at another couple and wondered, what if... ? Forgotten Desire offers five tantalising tales of couple that swap and share.
Forgotten Desires by Tony Haynes
On revisiting their old university – in order to attend a reunion event – Sara and Marcus end up with more than they bargained for when they bump into Alice and Luke.Knowing that Alice always had a bit of thing for Marcus, and having shared an intimate moment with Luke (the very evening she first got together with her husband), forgotten desires begin to stir deep within Sara. A chance late-night encounter in the campus grounds gives all four the opportunity to explore their pent up passions.
One Way Swap by Alex Jordaine
Christine willingly lets her voyeuristic husband Peter watch her having sex with strangers. He views the steamy action through a one-way mirror and masturbates. The couple greatly enjoy playing out this kinky surrogate ritual, which they've come to crave like a powerful drug. And Christine simply loves to give Peter something really worth watching. She always puts on as good a show as possible for him. But you never know for sure how it'll go with one-night stands. After all, it takes two to tango, as they say. Sometimes it takes more than two ...
Deeds of Mercy by Giselle Renarde
Mercedes' romantic world has grown into a man-eating monstrosity! She really does love her fiancé, Anwar, so why does she keep prostituting herself to Simon? It isn't that she needs the money. Well, OK, the money's nice and it gives her a cheap thrill every time she adds Sex-with-Simon cash to the Wedding-with-Anwar fund, but it's not like she's living at subsistence level. She doesn't need it. But she likes it. She enjoys the naughty thrill of prostituting herself to her married ex-lover while her husband-to-be remains oblivious.
Pattie and Annette by Penelope Friday
One girl is good, but two are wonderful. John knows he's lucky having Pattie in his life, but having Annette as well is the ultimate fantasy. And it looks like fantasies can come true...
Coming Home by Dee Jaye
Rachel has been waiting for her boyfriend to return from working away but his plane has been delayed. That evening her new flatmate brings her own boyfriend and his sister home to learn lines for a play. Rachel falls instantly in lust with him. When they are caught having sex her flatmate tells her she's gay. As it's Rachel's birthday the flatmate and two visitors give her a present which introduces her to a number of sexual acts. The last of these provides her with a big surprise.
These stories have also been published in Partner Swap ISBN 9781907761744 / 9781907761751
It was obvious that Luke and Alice had come well prepared for their weekend away as they stood on a rather luxurious-looking car rug. They had clearly lost no time since leaving the bar for Luke was completely naked, apart from a flimsy pair of briefs which barely covered his hard on, whereas Alice was in the process of slipping out of her scarlet dress. As she slid the garment down her thighs and wriggled out of it, Sara remembered what a fine, voluptuous figure her friend had. Alice's gorgeous breasts looked as if they were ready to burst out of her sequinned bra. Eager to see the delights that hid inside, Luke reached around her back and unclipped it. Even in the moonlight, Sara could clearly see Alice's breasts. Luke cupped them in his hands and then leant down in order to kiss them, taking each in his mouth in turn. Alice's head lolled back and a gentle sigh escaped her lips. As he tended to her breasts, Alice reached down with her right hand and freed Luke's cock from his briefs. Taking a firm grip upon it she began to ease his foreskin back and forth.
Sara felt incredibly turned on as she watched the pair. She suddenly realised she wasn't the only one as she felt Marcus come up behind her and begin to nuzzle her neck. As he rubbed his groin against her, Sara could clearly feel his hard on pressing into her bottom. Marcus snaked his right hand around Sara's waist and ran it down the top of her thighs, searching for the hemline of her dress. When he eventually found it his hand inched the material upwards so as to allow him access to her skimpy black panties. Marcus wasted no time in wiggling them aside and slipping a finger into her pussy. Sara had to bite her bottom lip in order to stifle a low moan. It was sheer bliss to be pleasured by her man as she watched the scene between Alice and Luke unfold in front of her.
On looking back up, Sara saw Alice had taken her red thong off and was now lying down on her back. She opened her legs wide apart. Luke surprised his fiancée by licking the lips of her pussy before entering her. Alice thrilled, delightedly. The next second, Luke manoeuvred around until the tip of his cock nuzzled against the entrance to Alice's pussy. As he slid his cock inside Alice her mouth formed a silent 'O' of pleasure.
Sara could clearly see how turned on her old friend was. Little thrills of excitement pulsed between her own thighs and covered the middle finger of Marcus's right hand with sweet, sticky juice. Marcus withdrew it for a moment in order to taste her, only Sara beat him to it, took hold of his hand and guided it towards her own lips. Hungrily, she tasted herself as she licked the juice off. The second she released her grip Marcus returned the finger to its happy home.
By this time, Luke had built up a steady rhythm as he thrust in and out of Alice. The pair were patently both nearing their respective climaxes already. Their heavy breathing was clearly audible. Luke grasped the cheeks of Alice's bottom and sank deep inside her. Alice let out a yelp of delight as the pair came together.
Seeing the couple in such throes of ecstasy was too much for Sara and she sensed her own climax tingle between her thighs. She arched backwards against Marcus. He clasped her tightly to him as she came. Sara tried her best to remain silent, however she couldn't help letting out a tiny yelp of delight.
Alice and Luke glanced across in the direction of the sound. Luke withdrew from Alice enabling her to sit up. As she did so she called, 'Come out, come out whoever you are.' She took hold of her fiancé's cock in her left hand and held it up in an inviting manner. 'I have a present for you.'
Initially, Sara thought she and Marcus may have been able to simply sneak off, but as it was their old friends they decided to show themselves. They emerged from the bushes, both wearing slightly guilty looks, having being caught at playing voyeur.
'Well, well,' Alice said, 'It seems as if we weren't the only ones with the idea of an early night.' As she spoke, Alice continued to play with Luke's cock. She was fully aware that Sara was hardly able to take her eyes off it. Rather cheekily, Alice added, 'I don't suppose you fancy giving me a hand here?'
Sara glanced across at Marcus, seeking his approval before making any move. She realised she needn't have bothered, for Marcus was fixated by Alice's amazing tits. The warm summer night was suddenly alive with possibilities. Alice was the first one bold enough to suggest what they were all thinking. 'You remember our graduation night all those years ago? Don't you ever wonder what it might have been like if things had turned out differently?'
Sara and Marcus exchanged a knowing look and smiled at one another.
'I'm game if you are,' Sara said.
'Sounds good to me,' Marcus replied. They kissed passionately in order to seal the pact, then turned to face their respective new lovers.
Alice shook her head and tutted. 'First things first, let's get you out of those clothes.'
As Sara stepped towards Luke she got her second surprise of the night as he and Alice deftly swapped places.
'But …' Sara began.
Alice held her left forefinger up to Sara's lips to stem the latter's protest. 'Ah-ha.'
Sara was about to object, but when she looked across at her husband she saw Luke was already in the process of slipping Marcus's dress shirt off, so Sara tried to steady her nerves, smiled at Alice and gave her friend a nod of approval. Alice looked delighted at being granted permission. Slowly, sensuously, she removed Sara's cocktail dress. As Sara stepped out of it, Alice ran her hands over Sara's lithe, firm body. With a swift, sleek move, Alice unhooked Sara's bra clasp with her right hand. As the bra fell to the floor, Sara instinctively reached up and covered her breasts. Alice pouted. Deciding she was being silly, Sara lowered her hands. Alice stood back for a second in order to admire Sara's pert little breasts. As she did so she whispered, 'You are beautiful you know.'
Sara wasn't sure how to respond. Words didn't seem appropriate somehow so she leant forwards and planted the most delicate of kisses on Alice's lips. She'd never been intimate with another girl before. Alice's lips felt different to those of the men that she had kissed, they were softer and smoother. Upon parting, Alice smiled then glanced to her side. Naturally, Sara followed her friend's gaze. Sara gasped in surprise at what she saw, for Marcus and Luke were now both completely naked and locked in a tight embrace. As the two men parted they noticed their audience. Marcus looked slightly bashful as he explained, 'Well, we couldn't let you have all of the fun.' As he spoke, his left hand imperceptibly brushed Luke's cock. It twitched excitedly. Sara's gaze locked upon it once more.
'Swap?' Alice suggested
'I thought you'd never ask,' Marcus grinned.


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Tainted Tour's final stage heavy with symbolism
PARIS -- Hey, those wacky folks who put together the Tour de France route have a good one for you.
During Sunday's "ceremonial" 90.7-mile stage from the southern suburbs of Paris into the heart of the world's most elegant city, the peloton will pass through a very special destination at the 74-kilometer mark. Here's what the Tour's official "Guide Touristique" has to say about it:
Chatenay-Malabry: Cyclists are very familiar with the name of Chatenay-Malabry, as it is the headquarters of the national anti-doping research centre, which unfortunately confirms many positive tests on the Tour.
Now, we have to admit we wish we had seen this line in the itinerary before today. But the Tour is a three-week survival test for everyone who follows it, journalists included, and we tend to go day-by-day, never looking too far ahead. Now that we've read the map, we have a question. Did the course designers know something about this year's race that we didn't know?
Stage 20 also traverses Issy-les-Moulineaux, home to the corporate headquarters of the company that runs the Tour, Amaury Sports Organisation. Another one of ASO's holdings is the daily sports newspaper L'Equipe.
This could work out splendidly. The lab techs at Chatenay-Malabry could stand on the side of the road like the team staff members (called soigneurs) who hold feed bags (musettes), only instead of loading them with protein goop and tiny sandwiches and cakes and mini-colas, they'd be full of urine and blood test analysis results.
The Tour riders -- who all signed documents before the race swearing to do all they could in the effort to cleanse cycling of performance-enhancing drugs -- could act as bike messengers, picking up the packets and delivering them straight to the L'Equipe newsroom, where they usually wind up anyway.
Just kidding.
You'll have to excuse us. We're a little punchy. The 2007 Tour has been a thrill a minute. Doping busts have spiced up the action with the compelling spontaneity of NASCAR crashes. The race turned on whose cover would be blown next rather than attacks in the mountain stages or the chaotic beauty of the sprint finish.
This Tour will be remembered as the one in which the pendulum swung the other way and stuck. In past years, fans, journalists and industry VIPs gave riders the benefit of the doubt. That chemistry has changed to just plain doubt. ASO president Patrice Clerc said it best: Cyclists now face the presumption of guilt rather than the presumption of innocence.
There will be a lot of wrecks by the side of the road as the sport tries to clean itself up, and not all of them will involve cheats. Some riders who don't deserve to be tarred with the same brush as the dopers will get mired in the muck, and some sponsors and managers and coaches and trainers and families will lose faith and a lot of money in the process.
Will we ever again believe in the sudden acceleration on a climb or the previously unknown rider who bursts onto the scene? Is the peloton cleaner if it's slower, or is it just the headwinds? Once we've lost our cycling religion, can we be re-born, or are we doomed to being athletically agnostic?
Cycling has broken a trust with the people who used to give it unconditional love. The sport got away with its infidelity for a long, long time, but the patience of the long-suffering partner -- that would be us -- has run dry. The estrangement could be lengthy, and divorce is a real possibility.
None of these misgivings are helped by the fact that the organizations that should be uniting against a common enemy are instead fighting a destructive civil war and seemingly relishing it. In the latest episode, the ASO is openly accusing cycling's international governing body, the UCI, of conspiring to make sure bad doping news (is there any other kind?) broke during the Tour in order to sabotage the event.
Way to go. Use the sharp knife to slit your own throat instead of cutting out the warts.
Perhaps there's some symbolism in where Stage 20 starts as well -- Marcoussis, site of France's national rugby center. These guys at the head of the alphabet soup groups are much better at pitching the ball laterally to someone else than they are at running with it and scoring themselves.
Meanwhile, the riders are so fractious and self-interested that they can't even organize the simplest start line sit-in. The divisiveness is a complete departure from the strong-armed players' associations we're familiar with in American pro sports. Unfortunately, that lack of structure doesn't serve the greater good.
A riders' union truly devoted to the health and welfare of its members might be a force against doping. As long as each guy is left alone in his room to make his to-do-or-not-to-do decisions, temptation frequently will trump common sense.
The elite cycling teams are split along moralistic lines, sparring about who's purest on the anti-doping issue. It's just not that easy. Two of the riders whose positive tests were announced during this Tour -- T-Mobile's Patrik Sinkewitz, whose result pre-dated the race, and Cofidis' Cristian Moreni -- belong to teams that are saying, and seem to be doing, a lot of the right things.
Cycling turned into another CSI spinoff this July, with more attention to forensic evidence than results on the road. Young Alberto Contador found himself at the center of this nasty vortex of suspicion at the Tour champion's traditional Saturday evening press conference. Only time will tell if he deserved the skeptical treatment he received.
Contador has stayed collected through most of his brief, unexpected tenure in the yellow jersey, answering questions under a bare light bulb that few of his predecessors could have imagined fielding.
But finally, under repetitive interrogation about why his name would appear in the margins of a couple of pages in the Operacion Puerto doping investigation files, Contador finally did what tired riders do. He cracked.
"I don't have to demonstrate innocence to anyone," he said with a slight edge in his voice. "I am innocent -- what do I do, take some blood and give it to you?"
No. Just peel off at kilometer 74 on Sunday and hand it over to the people in the white coats by the side of the road. Vive le Tour.
Bonnie DeSimone is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com.
The 2007 Tour de France could not escape without being rocked by scandal. Several riders, including race leader Michael Rasmussen, have been ousted from cycling's premier event due to doping and suspicion. Here is ESPN.com's complete coverage:NEWS
• Rasmussen returns to cycling in Denmark
• Rabobank director resigns after ousting Rasmussen
• Expert: Documents show Contador doped
• Astana cycling won't race in August
• Sinkewitz fired by team after refusing test
• Report: Spanish rider Mayo tests positive for EPO
• Vinokourov fired by Astana after positive test
• Rasmussen denies he used doping
• Vinokourov's 'B' sample confirms blood doping
• Tour de France owner calls on UCI chief to resign
• Landis lawyers to defend Vinokourov, Astana team
• Rasmussen vows return to professional cycling
• Cyclist Wiggins says '07 Tour 'null and void'
• Officials question cycling's worth as Olympic sport
• Tour boss accuses UCI of violating anti-doping rule
• Team ousts race leader Rasmussen from Tour
• Moreni fails doping test; Vino says he's innocent
• Vinokourov tests positive for blood transfusion
• Teams undergo 'routine' customs checks
• Tour leader Rasmussen erred in testing rules
• Sinkewitz asks for B sample
• T-Mobile's Sinkewitz flunks doping test
• Tour leader, 24 others test negative
• Tour's openness its strength, downfall
• Vino news stuns cycling's 'Honest Guy'
• A failure to communicate
• Rasmussen drama creates more questions
• Officials can test blood, not cyclist's conscience BOBBY JULICH DIARY
• More testing, on and off the road
• Vinokourov news is hard for me to take
• More doping? I just don't get it
• If Rasmussen at fault, why is he at Tour? MORE ANALYSIS
• Kreidler: Are we really surprised?
• Caple: At least the scenery is still spectacular
• Timeline: Past Tour scandals SPORTSNATION
• Vote: Do you think cycling can be saved?
• ESPN.com Tour de France coverage


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It's not every day one can go flat out with a McLaren F1 GTR Long-Tail, but Indy 500 winner Kenny Brack just got lucky at Goodwood. » 7/08/14 10:37am 7/08/14 10:37am
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Last time I checked, Jay Kay had a collection of about forty cars or so. As it turns out, Jamiroquai's main man has over a hundred in his garage by now, and the latest is a LaFerrari wearing the green of the Italian flag. Or Kermit the Frog, depending on how you think. » 6/30/14 8:05am 6/30/14 8:05am
The fourth day of the biggest motoring garden party in the world is already well underway, thanks to those pesky time zones, and it's already a bit of a nutter. Al Unser's old IROC Camaro already had an off, and there's been battles between a McLaren F1 GTR longtail and a modified Maserati MC12. » 6/29/14 9:04am 6/29/14 9:04am
You can see a lot of cool things at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, like supercars charging up the hill, or amazing sculptures, and it's all very European. Well, Richard Petty didn't get that memo because he, his Plymouth Belvedere GTX, and his hat brought the America. » 6/28/14 4:21pm 6/28/14 4:21pm
Koenigsegg brought not one, but two One:1s to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Yesterday we saw the first drive, but now we can see what it's like behind the wheel. Hint: It's a handful. » 6/27/14 4:59pm 6/27/14 4:59pm
At this weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed, Mercedes-Benz is celebrating 120 years of participating in motorsport. And they're doing it in a way that's about as subtle as the S-Class Coupe — with a nearly 300 foot arch over Goodwood House with two race cars driving on it. » 6/27/14 12:12pm 6/27/14 12:12pm
The Goodwood Festival of Speed presents the latest and greatest of the faster side of the automotive world every year as well as a bunch of classic cars with a massive pedigree. » 6/27/14 10:24am 6/27/14 10:24am
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A nip here, a tuck there. The 2015 Ford Focus ST is still the ST you've come to know and love, just sharpened. Which means it's probably still awesome. » 6/26/14 6:07pm 6/26/14 6:07pm
Earlier this year, we got a sneak preview of the Koenigsegg One:1 as it came together for its debut. Now Koenigsegg has two of them, and on the way to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it got driven by someone outside of Koenigsegg for the first time. The verdict? Mind bending. » 6/26/14 5:48pm 6/26/14 5:48pm
Oh, you have a McLaren 650S Spider? How nice for you, I suppose. But for those of us who aren't on food stamps, meet the McLaren Special Operations 650S Spider. You can't even handle how bespoke it is. » 6/25/14 10:20am 6/25/14 10:20am
The new high-performance Range Rover Sport that Land Rover is revealing at Goodwood in two days will be called "SVR." » 6/24/14 7:45am 6/24/14 7:45am
The Ford Focus ST has been in the habit of kicking the asses of all the other hot hatchbacks in its class as of late. It's powerful, it handles exceptionally well, it's practical, and it can be had in a very appealing shade of orange. Can it get any better? It might this weekend. » 6/23/14 2:48pm 6/23/14 2:48pm
Forget the tacked-together aftermarket garbage, Land Rover has just confirmed they're introducing a new Range Rover Sport variant with "More performance [added] to the mix. A lot more."
Truck SUV YEAH! » 6/20/14 10:38am 6/20/14 10:38am
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2. A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.
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1: a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced [syn: {vineyard}, {vinery}]
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An officer checking along an interstate in Iowa found the nearly week-old infant on Friday
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TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. — Police say a newborn missing from a southern Wisconsin home has been found alive at an eastern Iowa gas station.
Town of Beloit Police Chief Steven Kopp says an officer checking along an interstate near West Branch, Iowa, found the nearly week-old Kayden Powell on Friday morning.
Gas station manager Jay Patel says the baby was found in a closed, gray plastic storage bin and that the FBI took it and surveillance video from the station.
No arrests have been made in connection to the baby.
Authorities say the child appears to be in good condition and has been taken to a hospital for evaluation. They had been looking for the baby since early Thursday when his mother discovered him missing from a bassinette in a Town of Beloit home.
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Reader Redesign: Stenciled Seats
The soft spot we have for stencil projects has certainly grown since our office undertaking, but this one by Amy at The Casablanca Transformation would probably win over even the most skeptical stencil fans. And it actually sounds doable in well under fourteen hours! Score. Here's her letter:
No matter how many decorating projects I do in my lifetime this one will surely go down in history as one of my all time best! I am so happy I had the idea and even happier that I dared to try! Here is the plain white leather bar stool before:
And the after!
I used a stencil from cuttingedgestencils.com and the paint is from turtlefeathers.net and is called Angelus Paint. It is made especially for painting leather (it has a bit of give to it and won't crack). Since the chairs came unassembled I decided to leave them that way to make it a little easier to stencil. I was amazed at how easy the process was – total time was only about 4 hours.
I loved that I could pick out the exact style and colors I wanted for these chairs – a custom chair at a very cheap price! I bought the chairs 2 for $152 from overstock then add in the $80 in materials and my total cost is $384 for four bar stools ($96 each)! To have these stools custom upholstered in a fabric of my choice would have cost a lot more than that and they would have been ruined so quickly. I am hoping this painted leather alternative means they will stand the test of time and three boys! – Amy
Awesometown, right? You can check out more details over on Amy's blog. Is anyone else's head filling with ideas of what else they could stencil? And look at that pretty kitchen in the background. Me-ow.
Update: We just learned that there are some follow up posts about a few pitfalls with these chairs (specifically she wasn't happy with the quality of the chairs themselves or the acrylic finisher that she used), so more details can be found here and here. Although Amy did drop in to say the actual stenciling process really works and some other chairs that have been stenciled (of better quality) are holding up great (without any acrylic finisher). Hope it helps!
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What a flippin great idea! Well done :)
Those look amazing! Off to check out her blog. :)
nice range hood too ;-)
The yellow detail was genius. Amazing and inspiring indeed!
Wow, they are beautiful and so unique!
This looks amazing! Grey + Yellow is one of my favorite color combos right now. So elegant and fun all at the same time! Nice work!
Love Reader Redesigns! This is a great project.
Just wanted to let you know that you mention early in the post that the project took 14 hours, but the reader said it took 4.
Love this blog! :)
My bad! Sometimes I read too quickly – I got it now! :)
Amazing! I absolutely am in love with these!
Love this! I'm thinking of stenciling some lamp shades in our living room. Well, first I thought of spray painting, but I'm afraid it would block too much light. Stenciling a small design might be better.
Oh.My! My wheels are turning already and I'm trying to figure out where I could put chairs like that. Love it!
Great stalls! Even better ending from John. Me-ow! Tapping into your feminin side!? ;)
Great idea! And I have to say, I laughed out loud when I read the 'Me-ow' line. I literally scrolled up to double check that it was John writing since that sounded like something Sherry would write!
I now own a stencil. And I have a wall. And now I have the courage. So pretty :)
Wow! LOVE it!
Those are GREAT! Love it!
If you read her blog, she doesn't recommend the chairs she used. The ones from Overstock had issues so she's now trying this out with some from Target. Just FYI in case anyone wants to try this themselves.
I was aghast – why would anyone ruin those perfectly beautiful stools?!
Then I scrolled down.
My jaw is still on the floor! Beautiful!!
Those are so pretty! And when I saw the final photo my first thought was… That wooden hood cover makes me so excited to see yours when it is all finished!
I think I read your blog too much. :)
The chairs are beautiful! I didn't even know you could paint leather… such a great idea. I love reader redesign.
These look incredible! Such an inspiring DIY project! I've been thinking more and more about adding stencil projects to our home. Now I am definitely going to!
this is very inspiring!
did john seriously just end his post with 'me-ow?!" haha.
Sorry for being a spoil sport. Really loved the idea but……I was reading through the Casablanca project blog. In a later post, http://casablancatransformation.blogspot.com/2011/11/good-bad-and-ugly.html
she mentioned that the chairs or the paint are not holding up well. I think you should have put in a disclaimer of some sort.
I re-read the post again. It is the acrylic finisher that is chipping off not the paint. My bad…
Very cool & Impressive.
Awesome! Btw… This is definitely do-able on regular fabric too. I haven't used a stencil for it before, but I have taped out a striped design and spray painted it. After taping, I sprayed with some of Rustoleum's Crystal Clear Enamel, to give me clean lines and keep things from bleeding. Turned out awesome and hasn't given me any problems with coming off or cracking or anything.
I bet your wheels are spinning with your dining room chair covers! I know that color of brown you've got going on right now can't be doing it for ya!
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- Mizzou now leads the all-time series with Kentucky 3-2 and was won three of the last four dating back to last season.
- The Tigers now have defeated four ranked teams and three of the wins over ranked teams have come in true road games. Mizzou is now 3-6 on the road this season with all three wins coming over ranked opponents.
- Mizzou is now a 10-3 in night games and 5-2 on Fridays.
- Fifth-year senior Eric Anderson led off the game with a double, marking the 14th time in 22 games that he has reached base to open a game since moving to the leadoff spot. Anderson has also reached in the first inning in 15 of the last 23 games. It was just the 12th double allowed by UK starter AJ Reed this season.
- Anderson tallied his second two-strike hit of the day as Mizzou regained the lead in the second. The single gives him nine multi-hit games on the season, second-best on the team.
- Dylan Kelly launched his second homer of the season in the top of the third. It was his first homer since Feb. 23 against Cincinnati, a span of 79 at-bats. It was Mizzou's first homer since Anderson launched a solo shot to lead off the game against SIU on April 1.
- Kelly has now reached base in 10 consecutive games and owns a five-game hitting streak, both of which are the longest such active streaks by the Tigers this season.
- Josh Lester has now reached base in nine consecutive games, the second-longest active streak by a Tiger.
- Ryan Howard's bases-loaded, two out single in the fifth inning gave Mizzou five runs in the game, snapping a streak of seven consecutive quality starts for UK starter AJ Reed. The two RBI for Howard match his total in the previous nine games combined. Howard tallied a pair of hits in the game, his sixth multi-hit game of the season.
- Austin Tribby pitched in the seventh inning, making his SEC-leading 21st appearance this season.
- Mizzou tallied 12 hits in the game, marking the 12th time this season that Mizzou has had 10+ hits in a game. Mizzou needed 45 games to have 12 10-hit games last season. They have played just 32 this year.
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I had the pleasure of being profiled by my favorite magazine, The New Yorker. Read the article here.
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Many of you know that I am involved with events called "Campus Party", which started sixteen years ago in Spain and have spread out to Latin America.
Briefly, Campus Party events bring together between 7,000 and 10,000 "campuseros" who live in tents under a gigantic roof, supplied with large amounts of electricity, tabletops, comfy chairs and state-of-the-art Internet. These "campuseros" then share ideas and experiences while having the chance to listen to some of the greatest thinkers of today.
Last year Campus Party started a program called "Something Better" where groups of campuseros worked on projects during the week that benefited non-profit organizations. I was proud to be a small part of that, and proud of what the campuseros could accomplish in one week while still enjoying themselves in the process.
Campus Party Europe will be held in Berlin from August 21st to August 26th, and in conjunction with the European Commission, Telefonica O2 and more than 100 universities is running "The Big Think Challenge" generate nearly 5000 ideas to be submitted to the European Digital Agenda in the categories of Youth Unemployment, Aging Well, Entrepreneurship, Health and Internet Rights.
The authors of around 5,000 of these ideas will receive free admission to Campus Party Europe, but also free transportation to Campus Party Europe and free accommodation. Just the admission and accommodation is a package worth over 190 Euros.
In order to enter the Big Think Challenge you have to present an idea in one of the categories. You do this by summarizing it in a tweet, but if you are like me and your ideas are really great (and what geek does not have really great ideas?) you may need to write a blog entry about it or make a YouTube or Vimeo video about it and point to that blog entry or video with your tweet.
You need to tweet your idea between May 15th and June 15th, with the Twitter geolocation feature activated and include a general hashtag #I4DA and one of the following category hashtags that best describes your category:
While everyone is invited to summit ideas for The Big Think, the prizes are only available to residents of the 27 European Union countries.
For complete details on this, please see the official web site for "The Big Think", and I hope to see you at Campus Party Europe in August.
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Lying about your age and beauty is par for the course when it comes to Internet dating. In China, such deceptions had deadly results for one lovesick teen who killed himself after a disappointing meeting with an Internet 'hotty' he had been chatting with.
The 17-year-old boy from the northeastern Heilongjiang province, whose name has not been released, chatted with what he thought was a 19-year-old girl for weeks on popular free Chinese instant messaging and chatroom service Tencent QQ.
The woman, who used the name Qunjiaofeiyang (meaning "Flying Skirt") in chats with the boy, described herself as beautiful and the two had conversations online for weeks before deciding to meet in person. When they finally met in the nearby town of Mudanjiang, the woman turned out to be ten years the boy's senior – and much less attractive than advertised.
Disappointed and depressed, the teen returned home immediately and discontinued eating and sleeping. He made the tragic choice to end his life through hanging himself four days later.
The teen is just one of many in China, which has one of the world's highest suicide rates.
Wasn't this a very old news reported before. I think it was two years ago.
Hmmmm. Ironic that the sites name is QQ?
Sorry for the MMO dork humor.
What a big sissy.
Id of got blind drunk and nailed her.
Wow. They only met, and he killed himself? It's not like he'd impregnated her or anything, or promised to marry her (as far as I know).. He must have had some real personal issues…
"The teen is just one of many in China, which has one of the world's highest suicide rates."
Where did they fist this untrue statistic from?
According to the WHO China ranks 28th in their list of 100 countries.
New Zealand 26 — SHOCK!
Lithuania coming in first.
Russia second.
Japan 11th.
still makes a sad statement on the youth in Asia.Remember the girl killed to provide a bride for a dead son? I can't help but think a lot more goes on that isn't printed
lol. that is why people should be cautious when dealing with people in the net. people aren't what they say they are.
This kid must have been isolated, or felt isolated, and really connected with the person he thought he was talking to on the net. The shock that what he thought he had wasn't actually real must have tipped him over the edge. Maybe he'd had a shitty time in school and thought he finally had a lucky break.
"till makes a sad statement on the youth in Asia"
Or should that be euthanasia?
That must have been one butt ugly gal
woah..this is crazy…
Blind dating could be kind of romantic things, but it is the last choice I want to have. You would never know how terrible the blind date are, you would never know what kind of people you would meet. There are some stories for my blind dates.
The first I went to the blind date was soon after my thirtieth birthday—- I do not think that there are many chances for the women above thirty. I expected to meet someone nice in the date and I did pay so bucks to the agency for arranging the date. Sat with a lazy man, I would never forget the first blind date I had; it totally ruined my imagination for blind date. He was a mid-age man, with well-shaped mustache, well-ironed suit, surrounded by the thick fragrance of Eau De Cologne. He was not the best one but at least a nice one, I thought. Surprise always comes without any notice, I saw the rubber wristband on his finesse. I asked him what that is and to my surprised, he told me that came from his mother and he believed that it could bring him good luck. Could this man be sorted in the normal men's queue? I just tried my best to get rid of him. What is more, he told me that he did not have any feeling with me because I did not look like his mother.
The second date came after a half of a year, I just could not recover from the shock of the first date. Then the agency arranged me a young, handsome man as the mate. I thought he could be more mature than the first one. But the normal men are all hiding themselves from me. The first question that pretty boy asked me is how much I earn per month. I consider that question as a secret, so I did not give him the exact number. But later he proposed to visit my house and I told him that I did not have a real property. Then the last sentence he left me is "How could you expect to date me as a poor old woman."
Now I would like to live alone all my life rather than go to the blind date.
That guy probably had much bigger problems than this. The fact that she wasn't pretty couldn't possibly have been the only thing that made him commit suicide.
If this is true, then that guy was one big pansy.
And if its not true, then you just used a bullshit title to get my click, you sly bastards!!
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I am not generally a superstitious person, or believe in too much far out stuff, but here is my story.
We have had the old homeplace for 5 years now, and I keep finding new flowers, plants, etc, that the dear hubby has not gotten with the weedeater yet. I dug some small bulbs the other day that were planted in an old shady bed. The leaves looked interesting, and not like a weed, so I figured they were something.
Brung them to work and got an ID - lily of the valley - cool!
Anyways, last night, I went to bed early due to the rain, although I was not tired, so I found a book my friend had given me a while back called PASS ALONG PLANTS. All about old-timey plants we all trade amongst each other.
Where my bookmark was, I turned to the next page and there was Lily of the Valley. How coincidental!!!
In the book, it says there is an old folklore that says if you transplant a lily of the valley, you will die within a year.
So....Should I go put these lily of the valleys back in the bed I found them.
I know it sounds VERY SILLY, but it is a little creepy, too....how I found the plant, dug 'em up, found the book, and opened to that page.
I've never heard of that. Just about every year for the last ten years, I have a patch of Lily of the Valley that grows out of the flower bed and into my lawn. If I didn't dig them up and transplant them, they'd be goners. I figure I've saved their lives, so they wouldn't hurt me. :-) They seem to like my rock wall a lot. I don't think there's anything dangerous about transplanting, but that was kind of evil for someone to make up that superstition about a sweet looking little plant like this.
Thanks y'all....
sandy, thanks for posting that pix also. The bulbs I dug have very slender leaves, actually only one leaf attached to a teeny bulb, about the size of a wild green onion bulb. This may be due to years of being mowed down, but maybe it is not a lily of the valley after all. I will try to get a picture today and post here - maybe it is something else and y'all may be able to give a second opinion Id for me.
Thanks...I will post back this evening.
You are in luck. I really don't think that is Lily of the Valley. I 'think' that LOV has long trailing thick roots that connect to other LOV, as they spread by underground roots.
I initially thought it was creepy, but now I think it was just a coincidence. If no one can ID your leaf and bulb, you might try posting at the link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Name That Plant Forum
LOL folklure Too Funny. There was a time when people actually thought that a person would die if transplanting certain plants. This old superstition actually comes from a time when people did not know how to handle toxic plants. The lily of the valley is a toxic plant.
It can cause....Irregular heart beat and pulse, usually accompanied by digestive upset and mental confusion and if ingested, Death.
I venture to say the people who actually died from it back in those days were people who tried to figure out if it was eatable.
Please wear gloves when handeling the roots of this plant as the toxins can soak into the skin. They would not cause death but you can get sick from them.
Wow, I should be really, really dead, many times over by now, if this old myth had any validity.
Not to mention people involved in the nursery industry who grow and sell LOV.
I've spread mine around various places in my yard.
The only people I've ever seen have a near death experience with LOV were brides-to-be during the 20 years I worked as a florist -- try telling them that the Marth Stewart bouquet featured in their magazine that has 200 individual stems of Lily of the Valley blooms would cost about $800 retail, and just see what happens! :=) Same reaction with many other high-end, pricey flowers like sweet peas, gardenias, etc.
Too many brides had Trump tastes on trailer park budgets, alas.
A bit later on in the gardening year - check to see if you have any lilies growing nearby. Particularly those that carry little bulbils on the stem.
May well be Erythronium but there's also the likelihood of it being Lilium.
LOV bad luck to translplant? Don't think so. Probably some irate gardener threatening a 'helper' with extermination if a beloved plant was dug up and moved yet again ;-)).
I dug up a patch of LOV and discarded it because it was such a traveler and that was almost 3 years ago and I'm still here to tell about it. I do understand the creepy feeling it gave you, but that is why I avoid books or any kind of TV program that is similar. Still, sometimes it just surprises you and you don't see it coming. Obviously, if someone gave you the book, they didn't know that was in there. If you think about it, why would anyone repeat that superstition to anyone? Pretty unkind really. Why would you say something that would frighten someone like that? Sorry you've been upset by this and I hope you will be able to put it behind you.
>I know it sounds VERY SILLY, but it is a little
>creepy, >too....how I found the plant,
>dug 'em up, found the book,
>and opened to that page.
When you put your attention into something you will start to see a lot of that something. It's how the mind works, not a death sentence. As far as transplanting goes, I've moved those things at least a hundred times and $*(&*()))))))MK *
The reason they die in California is they like wet summers. If transplant, but water a lot, they will make it, if you don't get summer rain. But, they should be healthy when transplanted. We got some that someone had out of the ground for a while, they don't keep like bulbs, they are not really bulbs, they are pips and they need to be transplanted instantly.


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Pros: This router is a very nice upgrade to my slightly older dual-band wireless router. It has all the latest technology features, and some useful "extra" features that ensure it will remain active in my home network for a long time. The best features in my opinion are:
Dual band WiFi up to 802.11ac
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Cons: I had some difficulty getting the wifi bridging to work, however I think I was doing something wrong. Some additional documentation on how to set up wifi bridging would have helped quite a bit.
The security settings to change the router's administration password was buried waaaay down at the bottom of the admin pages, instead of prominently up top where it belongs. Changing the admin and wifi passwords IMMEDIATELY is very important when setting up a new router, and I had to dig around a bit to find the three menus to change all of the required passwords. Also, I could not find a way to disable administrative access through wifi, a nice feature to help keep drive-by hackers from even attempting to change router settings.
Parental controls doesn't have a feature to use any of the various "free" automatic whitelist/blacklist web site services out there. There are a few free services that offer no-charge parental control lists for child safe websites, and a parental control feature using one of these free service would have been nice.
Other Thoughts: My home/home office network consists of an extensive wired gigabit Ethernet network, powerline networking with 4 nodes, and dual-band wifi. When I received this new TP-Link dual band gigabit router and saw its feature list, I immediately thought that I would set it up as a virtual sandbox for my young son's network use. He is in elementary school, and needs a safe computing environment. Key features for this include USB storage with configurable access restrictions and sharing, USB print server, and the ability to use parental controls to whitelist or blacklist various websites and also to set specific times for when the internet would be available for his use.
Setup for all of this was very easy due to the nice administrative user interface. The only thing that would have been better about the admin interface would have been more explanation about WHY certain features would be enabled or configured, instead of just how to turn them on and off. Still, in less than 30 minutes, I had configured this router to provide internet access for my son from after school to bedtime, had enabled USB networking storage for him to store files and backups, blacklisted several known bad sites, and specifically allowed access to sites he needs for school.
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Pros: Easy installation with push-pins just like the stock intel heatsink.
4 pin fan letting OS or mobo set fan speed
Very quiet
Tower design blows hot air straight out the back of the case instead of spreading it around inside.
Light weight
Better performance than stock Intel heatsink
Cons: Probably not ideal for high-end or overclocked cpus.
Push-pin mounting isn't ideal for tower HSFs, even ones as light as this one is. Any bumping of the case will put a huge amount of pressure on the pins, possibly enough to break them or pull them out. This could lead to cooking the cpu with no warning, or even let the HSF fall and damage other components.
There are no rubber strips between the fan and HSF, so any fan vibration will be transmitted to the HSF which usually makes it louder.
The fins are press-fit onto the heatpipes instead of being soldered.
Baseplate is not flat so you'll need to use a thicker layer of thermal transfer paste between the cpu and HSF base.
Fan may interfere with RAM slots, and base touches some capacitors near the cpu socket.
The only instructions are printed on the back of the box with only pictures. A larger fold-out sheet of paper with the same pictures would have been a lot easier to follow. Also, I don't think the instructions show applying the thermal paste (its hard to tell, there is a step showing a square that might be the cpu, but no words at all?) so people who haven't done this before might skip that crucial step. Some words and better instructions would be a BIG improvement.
Other Thoughts: On unboxing, I was surprised at how light this HSF is. The HSF is mostly aluminum except for the heatpipes, so it weighs a lot less than other tower HSFs I've used. While this makes the pushpin mounting system workable, it's a minimalist approach to heatsink design that could affect performance. Some fins were slightly bent during shipping. The heatsink isn't secured very carefully in the box and the accessories are loose inside a smaller box inside the large retail box. The baseplate comes covered with a protective sticker, but the baseplate isn't even close to flat due to the direct heatpipe contact design of the HSF. The package includes sufficient hardware for installation and also a small packet of thermal transfer past. I used my own paste, artic ceramique 2, which I've had good luck with in the past.
During installation, I had to remove the fan and my RAM to get enough clearance to push in all the push-pins. Once I did that, I saw that the fan's mounting position can be adjusted up and down a little bit based on where the clips fit in between the heatsink fins. This helped a lot because the fan overlaps my ram slots and the ram would have prevented installation if I hadn't been able to raise the fan up about a centimeter. Also, on my mobo the baseplate of the HSF touches a row of capacitors near the cpu, so the design and production tolerances of this are perfect, from the perspective of if it was even 1mm larger, it wouldn't have fit.
I compared this heatsink to the stock intel heatsink on my core i5-2500 cpu. The cpu is running stock inside a mini-tower case. Ambient temps in the room were about 76F. I measured cpu temps with speedfan, and used prime95 to load the cpu.
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I also noticed that mobo/ram/hd temps were much lower with the Gammaxx HSF, with mobo temps dropping from 61C with the stock HSF to 51C using the Gammaxx HSF. This is most likely due to the tower design which exhausts the hot air directly out the back of the case.
The Gammaxx 400 is a good HSF for mid-range cpus, but I would be very hesitant to recommend it for high-end or overclocked cpus. Design choices like the push-pin mounts, the press-fit fins, and the non-flat base, all reduce the product's performance. Considering the price, I would say that this is at best an "ok" choice. There are other similar HSFs for the same price that have different construction features that would make them more effective. The push-pin mounting also gives me pause. So, I recommend it and plan on continuing to use it in my computer, but I have some reservations regarding design quality and will need to keep checking to ensure it doesn't fall off each time I move the computer.
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Pros: I have the 32GB version of this tablet and it has FAR exceeded my expectations. The quad core atom cpu is "fast enough", and running one or two things at once like office one note plus email, or email plus word, or email and a web browser, works great within the 2GB ram that this tablet has. The 32GB storage isn't really large enough, but a 64GB microSD card is really cheap so that should probably be the first accessory you get for this tablet. With a Bluetooth or USB keyboard/mouse, this could easily be a go-anywhere laptop replacement. And for a student or someone who doesn't do anything too demanding on their computer, this could even be hooked up to a monitor and desktop-style USB keyboard/mouse (through a powered USB hub ideally) and turn into a complete desktop replacement.
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Cons: I still don't like windows 8 after setting up this tablet for my own use. It's clunky and obscures features without making anything easier to use, and Microsoft STILL hasn't figured out how to make windows work on a small screen. But that's a mark against windows 8, not this tablet. As far as I can tell win8 works the same on this and any other similarly sized small tablet.
Other Thoughts: The back is plastic and doesn't feel very solid, but most people will probably put this into a case or cover so the thin plastic back is actually a reasonable design choice I think.
I got this device just to see if I liked and would be happy using win8 on a tablet before paying the big bucks for a Microsoft surface pro 3, but after seeing how useable this little tablet is, I may not get the surface pro after all. Don't really need it, this tablet is "good enough" for when I'm away from my desktop and don't want to lug around my full size laptop.
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What Happens in the the Bathroom #IC #TweetFromTheSeat
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XOut Review #MC #Sponsored
I participated in an Influencer Activation Program on behalf of Influence-Central for X Out. I received samples of X Out to facilitate my review and a thank you item for participating. When my teenage son, currently 15, started getting acne it brought back memories of school pictures from when I was a teen. All I {Read More…}
Good Caffeine VS. Bad Caffeine #SkinnyJane
In October of 2013, I ditched coffee and switched to tea. I was able to keep that up for about 9 months, even after having transitioned from a desk job to a warehouse job. When I went back to my desk job, I caved and started drinking coffee again for about two months. Then I {Read More…}