Here is a fun instant oatmeal recipe from Good Eats, a free book produced by the University of New Hampshire Health Services.

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In our caveman days, this kind of pattern recognition coupled with instant and consistent response was a good thing.

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Indeed, in the roles I have held, any such taint would be an instant career-ender, and for good reason.

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His instant, instinctive reaction was that such a prize would be good for science.

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However, one of the most impressive instant operating systems yet has to be the gOS Cloud produced by Good OS of Los Angeles.

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Using its Community Impact Platform to create a fundraising challenge for two local animal rescues, Causecast leveraged social media, real-time reporting, peer recognition, instant donation processing, automatic tracking, micro and macro funding abilities, and good old competition with incentives to fire up the team and get them engaged in giving back.

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Among groups with a stake in good ties between Islam and the historically Christian West, there was an instant sense that the challenge they faced might be bigger than people thought.

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