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It was nothing special, tasted like the ones you buy in a box.....
Like many I adjusted the coffee, rum, and Kahlua proportions. I used 1 cup coffee, 1 cup rum, and 1/3 cup Kahlua, and this cake got rave reviews. I would definitely recommend making this cake a day ahead of serving to allow it to mellow in the fridge. I also would agree with Nebuladay of D.C. that I wouldn't trust this recipe to a bundt pan (her batter over flowed her bundt pan). This recipe creates a very large amount of batter and a tube pan worked perfectly.
Extremely easy to bake and extremely delicious!Will make it again and will probably put more rum.
This cake was a huge hit and I will make it again. I did replace some of the coffee with Kahlua, but otherwise made it as written. I didn't have any trouble getting it out of the bundt pan.
Great but definitely needs less baking time, it was done at 1:40. I added 1 T orange peel and substituted 1/2 cup coffee with Kalua. The dark rum was artisanal rum, it really added a punch. My son was so happy with his BD cake he took several slices to freeze for future enjoyment.
Delicious, very moist and dense cake that would be perfect for a Christmas party. I increased the rum as suggested and it was way too strong the first day (more like an after dinner drink than cake), but mellowed after being wrapped in plastic in the refrigerator overnight. Instant coffee made it easy to control the strength of coffee flavor (2X suggested). Instead of a bundt pan, I decreased the quantity by 1/3 and baked it in a sheet cake pan (too runny for springform), cut it in half, and stacked the layers to make an attractive square layer cake. It was delicious filled with cream cheese mixed with whipped topping.
I have made this recipe at least four times and it is always a hit. I am a bit of a chocoholic and add more chocolate. I have always enjoyed reading reviews and have really benfited from them, so I wanted share this: Bakers Joy! I got some on sale and used it on my bundt pan this time. The cake slid out flawlessly. Hope this is helpful.
This was good. Very tender and moist, but not enough rum flavor. Nearly impossible to get out of the pain (took me 10 mins with a lot of coaxing from a butter knife).
This cake is delicious as is with just a hint of rum flavor. There was extra batter when I used my bundt pan. Just be sure to leave about an inch for the cake to rise.


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American Samoa Population: 54,7192 VISITORS FROM HERE!
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|Settled as early as 1000 B.C., Samoa was not reached by European explorers until the 18th century. International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty in which Germany and the US divided the Samoan archipelago. The US formally occupied its portion - a smaller group of eastern islands with the excellent harbor of Pago Pago - the following year.
Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds; strategic location in the South Pacific Ocean
|Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 199 sq km
land: 199 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes Rose Island and Swains Island
Size comparison: slightly larger than Washington, DC
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|116 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|tropical marine, moderated by southeast trade winds; annual rainfall averages about 3 m; rainy season (November to April), dry season (May to October); little seasonal temperature variation
|five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited coastal plains, two coral atolls (Rose Island, Swains Island)
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Lata Mountain 964 m
|Natural resources:
|pumice, pumicite
|Land use:
| arable land: 9.5%
permanent crops: 15%
other: 75.5% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|Natural hazards:
|typhoons common from December to March volcanism: limited volcanic activity on the Ofu and Olosega Islands; neither has erupted since the 19th century
|Current Environment Issues:
|limited natural freshwater resources; the water division of the government has spent substantial funds in the past few years to improve water catchments and pipelines
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| noun: American Samoan(s) (US nationals)
adjective: American Samoan
|Ethnic groups:
|native Pacific islander 91.6%, Asian 2.8%, white 1.1%, mixed 4.2%, other 0.3% (2000 census)
|Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2% note: most people are bilingual (2000 census)
|Christian Congregationalist 50%, Roman Catholic 20%, Protestant and other 30%
|54,719 (July 2013 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 25.2% (male 6,809/female 7,005)
15-24 years: 20.9% (male 5,657/female 5,760)
25-54 years: 41.5% (male 11,662/female 11,028)
55-64 years: 7.7% (male 2,096/female 2,134)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 1,189/female 1,379) (2013 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 27.8 years
male: 28.3 years
female: 27.3 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|-0.4% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|22.84 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|4.62 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-22.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 93% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.8% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|PAGO PAGO (capital) 64,000 (2011)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.86 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 9.15 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 11.79 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6.34 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 74.68 years
male: 71.73 years
female: 77.8 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|3.04 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|74.6% (2007)
|Education expenditures:
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 97%
male: 98%
female: 97% (1980 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Territory of American Samoa
conventional short form: American Samoa
abbreviation: AS
|Government type:
| name: Pago Pago
geographic coordinates: 14 16 S, 170 42 W
time difference: UTC-11 (6 hours behind Washington, DC during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|none (territory of the US); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are three districts and two islands* at the second order; Eastern, Manu'a, Rose Island*, Swains Island*, Western
|none (territory of the US)
|National holiday:
|Flag Day, 17 April (1900)
|ratified 2 June 1966; amended 2008
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of US common law and customary law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Barack H. OBAMA (since 20 January 2009); Vice President Joseph R. BIDEN (since 20 January 2009)
head of government: Governor Lolo Matalasi MOLIGA (since 3 January 2013)
cabinet: Cabinet made up of 12 department directors (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: under the US Constitution, residents of unincorporated territories, such as American Samoa, do not vote in elections for US president and vice president; however, they may vote in Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections; governor and lieutenant governor elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms (eligible for a second term); election last held on 6 November 2012 with a runoff election held on 20 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2016)
election results: runoff election percent of vote - Lolo Matalasi MOLIGA 52.9%, Faoa Aitofele SUNIA 47.1%
|Legislative branch:
| bicameral Fono or Legislative Assembly consists of the Senate (18 seats; members are elected from local chiefs to serve four-year terms) and the House of Representatives (21 seats; 20 members are elected by popular vote and 1 is an appointed, nonvoting delegate from Swains Island; members serve two-year terms)
elections: House of Representatives - last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2014); Senate - last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2016)
election results: House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independents 20; Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - independents 18 note: American Samoa elects one nonvoting representative to the US House of Representatives; election last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2014); results - Eni F. H. FALEOMAVAEGA reelected as delegate
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): High Court of American Samoa (consists of the chief justice, associate chief justice, and 6 Samoan associate judges and organized into trial, family, drug, and appellate divisions) note - American Samoa has no US federal courts judge selection and term of office: chief justice and associate chief justice appointed by the US Secretary of the Interior to serve for life; Samoan associate judges appointed by the governor to serve for life
subordinate courts: district and village courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|Democratic Party [Oreta M. TOGAFAU] Republican Party [Tautai A. F. FAALEVAO]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Population Pressure LAS (addresses the growing population pressures)
|International organization participation:
|AOSIS, Interpol (subbureau), IOC, PIF (observer), SPC, UPU
|National anthem:
| name: "Amerika Samoa" (American Samoa)
lyrics/music: Mariota Tiumalu TUIASOSOPO/Napoleon Andrew TUITELELEAPAGA
note: local anthem adopted 1950; as a territory of the United States, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is official (see United States)
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
|none (territory of the US)
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|none (territory of the US)
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American Samoa has a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US with which American Samoa conducts most of its commerce. Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private sector with canned tuna the primary export. The two tuna canneries account for 80% of employment. In late September 2009, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated American Samoa and nearby Samoa, disrupting transportation and power generation, and resulting in about 200 deaths. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency is overseeing a relief program of nearly $25 million. Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well being. Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes. Tourism is a promising developing sector.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
|GDP (purchasing power parity): $575.3 million (2007 est.) $510.1 million (2003 est.)
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $462.2 million (2005)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|3% (2003)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
|GDP - per capita (PPP): $8,000 (2007 est.) $5,800 (2005 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra, pineapples, papayas; dairy products, livestock
|tuna canneries (largely supplied by foreign fishing vessels), handicrafts
|Industrial production growth rate:
|Labor force:
|17,630 (2005)
|Unemployment rate:
|29.8% (2005)
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $155.4 million (FY07)
expenditures: $183.6 million (2007)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|33.6% of GDP (2007)
|Fiscal year:
|1 October - 30 September
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
|$445.6 million (FY04 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|canned tuna 93%
|$308.8 million (FY04 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|raw materials for canneries, food, petroleum products, machinery and parts
|Debt - external:
|Exchange rates:
|the US dollar is used
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|Electricity - production:
|190 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 183
|Electricity - consumption:
|176.7 million kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|60,000 kW (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|100% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|5,115 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|2,697 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|688,800 Mt (2010 est.)
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|Telephones in use:
| 10,400 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 200
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: good telex, telegraph, facsimile, and cellular telephone services
domestic: domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station
international: country code - 1-684; satellite earth station - 1 (Intelsat-Pacific Ocean)
|Broadcast media:
|3 TV stations; multi-channel pay TV services are available; about a dozen radio stations, some of which are repeater stations (2009)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|2,387 (2012)
|Internet users:
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| 3 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 193
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 3
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
| total 241 km
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Pago Pago
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|Defense is the responsibility of the US
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 14,562
females age 16-49: 14,129 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 775
female: 762 (2010 est.)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|Tokelau included American Samoa's Swains Island (Olosega) in its 2006 draft independence constitution
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Has anyone seen the Anakin, Padme or Darth Maul yet?
Congrats on the finds. I was wondering when these were gonna hit the area.
Anyone seen Maul (training) & Anakin (Tatooine)?
I still haven't found Ki Adi Mundi or the pod racer guy. Has anyone seen those recently?
I found mine at Walmart in Springfield several weeks ago. They had them for a while, but are now out. Still haven't seen Tatooine Ani, Training Maul, or the later figs.
"Three goofballs and a guy in a monkey suit."
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Hi strangers...been a while since I've posted.
I'm gonna digress for a minute to say thanks to all of you for creating and maintaining a great forum. I sometimes scan the other boards in curiosity of what is hitting where, and am amazed (and let me say again, AMAZED) at the rude, callous and downright immature behavior of some of the individuals on other boards. I thought we were all in this together, for the fun and community of the hobby. One person's find is a score for all of us. That some people on other boards take delight in posting finds and not saying where they were able to find their new loot, or making just God-awful comments (on one board, some punk had the audacity to call someone a "homo-flamer" - let me tell you this "homo" would like to wipe the floor with him) makes me sad for the hobby as a whole. You guys and gals are great. This board (and the board at RebelScum) is a great community, and I'm glad to be a part of it, and to count all of you as friends.
That said, wanted to let you know that I was able to find Lott, Tusken and Watto at the Gaithersburg (not Germantown) Target in Maryland (a short jaunt for most of you up I-270). They're out there, so keep hunting. There were only one of each left, and I snagged them.
Good hunting.
WalMart at Potomac Mills put out two more Gunships earlier today (around 9am).
just to let everyone know i found Anakin Skywalker (Tatooine Attack) at game stop in columbia mall, and the Clone Trooper (Gunship Pilot) at the game stop in security sq mall, each place have a few of each left
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Germany's Infineon Technologies is poised to a U.S.-based semiconductor company for $2 billion, according to Reuters. But who?
Bloomberg earlier reported that a deal could be announced later on today and named Power Integrations (POWI), Fairchild Semiconductor International (FCS) and Semtech (SMTC) as possible targets. But in a later report, Reuters cited a person close to the deal as saying that Infineon was not buying Fairchild or larger Freescale Semiconductor (FSL).
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Among those deals, Avago Technologies (AVGO) agreed to buy LSI Corp for $6.6 billion, and semiconductor-equipment supplier Applied Materials (AMAT) agreed to acquire Tokyo Electron in a multibillion dollar deal. This year, Intel (INTC) agreed to acquire Avago Technologies's Axxia networking business for $650 million this month.


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Wow, i just noticed that Adam got on here a month ago -- cool! (Okay, i'm slow on the uptake.) It's fun to read the journal entries of my friends and [ex]coworkers to see what their take on things is. And a lot of the Eazel people have suddenly started posting entries again, which is nice.
You'd think with all my "free time" that i'd have plenty of time to work on say2 and other projects, but the reality is that i don't. Spent a lot of time doing housework that had been put off for too long, talking to recruiters, and going to interviews. Had a few interviews so far, and one offer. Probably have to decide next week what i'm gonna do.
Stopped for coffee at the Other Office a few weeks ago with Eskil and Arlo, then we collected Ian and went to Riacce, which is always an excellent place to have great food on a beautiful patio, get progressively less sober, and empty out the contents of your wallet. Certainly can't complain, though -- because i can't think of anything else like it in the bay.
Last weekend Rupe came over, and we poked around on his car mp3 player. It seems to be more for show than for practicality: it makes a big deal out of saying things like "Car MP3 player is now online!" over the stereo, but can't do things like playlists yet, and has a very tiny drive for storing music. Rupe pulled out of his trunk the large Compaq that makes up the bulk of the system, and we debugged a bit of the python(!) code in it. He was using threads. It was the first time i'd had to think about threading problems in over a year, which made me a little sad. We went to Fry's and picked up a new 40G disk for it, but then i remembered all the phun he's going to have with a larger-than-8G disk on an old Compaq pentium 133. So he decided to put off installing it till later.
Apple held a little recruitment/reunion lunch for ex-Eazelites on Thursday. Good sandwiches, and a hefty chunk of my ex-coworkers were all there (even Eric, the magic build guy!). I talked to several managers (or were they? actually i'm not sure what they were) that were doing cool things, but i couldn't tell how serious any of them were about doing interviews or anything, so i guess we'll see.
Friday i went with some friends to the "gay day" thing at Great America (a theme park). $60?! I'm not sure i got 10 burritos worth of fun out of it, but it was nice to ride a bunch of coasters at dusk with minimal lines. Chris and i talked Walt and Andy into trying the wooden coaster, which had a very short line. That short line turned out to be because the coaster can only run every five minutes! When we finally got to ride it, we found out why. I think my internal organs are still re-adjusting to their correct positions. Afterwards i had to assure the others that most wooden coasters are actually maintained, and don't shake you like a soul machine and give you whiplash.
Still playing Myst III like i'm obsessed, but i'm getting near the end (i think) so i've been slowing down. Also finished moving the say2 development stuff over to a new machine, and started dusting off bugs and working on them. Think that's what i'll do tonight.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
Learn composting
at free lecture series
The Lee County Master Gardeners will present a program on the "Story of Composting" on May 14 at 3:30 and again at 6 p.m.
Learn more about the "underworld" and its fascinating inhabitants, both good and bad, and how you can make and use compost to make both of these worlds better.
Advance registration for this free series is required. Call (662) 841-9000 to sign up.
Gardening conference
in May open to public
Horticulture enthusiasts can attend educational presentations, workshops and tours during the Mississippi Master Gardener State Conference in Brookhaven May 14-16.
The event is sponsored by the Lincoln County Master Gardeners and the Mississippi State University Extension Service. The conference is open to Master Gardeners and the public.
Vendors will sell plants and other gardening-related merchandise throughout the conference.
To register online, print a mail-in registration form, or view the complete agenda, go to www.msmastergardener.org. The deadline to register is May 2.
Registration includes meals and is $95 for Mississippi Master Gardeners and $115 for others. Group registration is also available.
Those without Internet access can call Barbara Breaux at (601) 669-6202 or Cathy Ivy at (601) 754-1512 for more information.
On the shelf: Book
touts plant breeding
Wish you could find a disease-resistant rose in just the right shade of pink?
Make one.
Joseph Tychonievich leads readers through the process of breeding new plant varieties in "Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener: How to Create Unique Vegetables & Flowers."
Tychonievich, an avid plant breeder and a garden center nursery manager, encourages his readers to try developing breeds that are suited to their climates and their needs, not the needs of a commercial breeder. He instructs them on cross pollination and selecting out the best offspring, teaches advanced breeding techniques and a little genetics, and offers instructions for specific plants.
"Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener" is published by Timber Press and sells for $19.95 in paperback.
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It's a wide open road - Watching "A Long Way To The Top", it amazing all the great Aussie music there is ... didn't realise half of it was.
I miss the Loft, it was a cultural and social refuge of a kind, a shared meme. Unfortunately it decided to stay behind in the nineties whilst the rest of us moved on. Will we find something to replace it?
OpenOffice - Burn a copy and give to a local small business. I don't think many end users have heard of it; if you can't get them running Linux at least get them using OpenOffice.
Back To The Future - Computer Emulators - Running an emulator for my first computer (VZ300) (Z80 based computer) on my laptop. Oh, the irony!
linux.conf.au - Paper review is starting, Registrations should be open soon
One year since graduation ... - Still have a job in Perth's catatonic IT job market
One year since ... - For The People -
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.- Laurence Binyon
One year since ... - The Rhetoric - Fortress America is here and it just doesn't understand. The number of anti-US letters (against US foreign policy) in this weeks paper has been telling and reassuring that the Australian public isn't blindly following King Bush.


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The straps inside are a real burden 2/20/2013Diana from St. Louis, MO
I just got this laptop case and have to say I hope it is better than it appears while I am moving everything into this new case. My 15.6 inch sony vaio had to be shoved in to fit. I could barely get the laptop case zipped up after putting it in. The zippers do stick too. It would not hold my Bose headphones in the case either. This made the case too wide to zip up, even though the case is not spread all the way open. THe case also hasthese odd straps sewn inside and for the life of me, I have no idea what purpose they serve. I am having my husband cut them out as they keep getting the way and getting stuck while I am zipping it closed. It does not have enough pen holders or organization pockets. The outside pockets are so tight I cannot fit a single thing in either one. It would have made a LOT more sense to make it one larger zippered pocket. I really miss this outside zippered pocked that was on my old Samsonite as I could tuck my boarding pass there and easily get to it. One nice feature about the case is the table holder. Nice feature. I sure wish one of these companies would listen to us seasoned business travelers. No one makes the perfect case, Victorinox had one last year and I waited too long to try to buy it. I would make a fortune designing my own as I know every business person would buy it!


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Hoo hoo, Raph! Great news on the ghostscript front.
And, on the off chance that you actually read all advoentries, I think the concept on song recommendations is astute. As you say, the cert system can connect what would otherwise be minor, scattered nodes of interest.
In other words, it distills trust out of the entropy of the internet.
The word "trust" has an additional meaning that is appropriate. There is a growing distrust of spam and corpratism. Certain companies, such as <cough> amazon, and other web entities, construct buyer profiles in order to give you recommendations of what you might like. This is a great concept, except for the fact that there is a growing distrust of the corporations. Well, the distrust has always been there for the naturally paranoid, but this stance has started to (thankfully) spread to the popular consciousness.
However, by bringing the cert system into the equation, the recs you receive are by choice. In addition, other participants are possibly influencing your choice without even knowing it. Is is the purest form of vote, where the vote not only counts, but counts in a direct and tangible way.
In a sense, the end user gets ultimate control over what sort of solicited responses they harvest.
I like it. I like it a lot. Great concept. Their still remains that nuggest of trust, though -- it only works if the end user feels that the data they volunteer (recs, and whose recs they prefer) are being kept confidential. If Amazon implemented this system, I wouldn't trust my privacy farther than I could throw it.
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Tuesday Challenge
Started by tinkerbell11, Jan 01 2013 08:39 AM
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 08:39 AM
Since it is a Holiday and I wanted to do something a wee bit different I decided we would have "A Free for all"to start off 2013! What does this mean, well how about you use ANY freebie from ScrapGirls that you haven't before and create a beautiful layout wiht it! Post it in the General Message Board gallery and let's see what we can come up with! Happy New Year's Everyone!!!!
Posted 01 January 2013 - 10:27 AM
I have lots of freebies to choose from!!
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 10:42 AM
Tons for me to choose from as well. I like this challenge. Happy New Year!
Posted 01 January 2013 - 12:19 PM
Here is mine! Embarrassed to say I had never used this Club from Ang! Why who knows??? I love it!
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 12:43 PM
Hmmm finding freebies I haven't used before is hard... we I do this challenge I try to use all freebies. I'll have to see if I have enough freebies I've never used to make a whole LO.
ANY freebie from ScrapGirls that you haven't before
Posted 01 January 2013 - 02:41 PM
I only used Freebies on my LO for today. Twins Christina and Amanda, adopted into my sisters family. they have Rhett Syndrome - Christina on the left passed away this morning.
Posted 01 January 2013 - 07:34 PM
This was a lot of fun to put together. Thanks for the challenge! A Star is Born
Posted 02 January 2013 - 12:23 PM
Loved this paper freebie from the other day. (I adore background papers!) Boy Angel
Posted 02 January 2013 - 03:21 PM
Thanks for this challenge. I've got into a bad habit of putting freebies that aren't the challenge freeibes still zipped into my freebie folder to save for later. I hadn't opened anyone of them for a couple months. So these are also recent freebies that I upzipped last night and created this LO, because if it was unzipped I hadn't used it yet.
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Artist, writer Jules Feiffer to discuss his work
Posted November 23, 2009; 05:25 p.m.
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, children's book author, illustrator and teacher, will discuss his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
The event is sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central program.
Feiffer's political cartoon strip, first called "Sick Sick Sick" and then "Feiffer," ran for more than 40 years in the Village Voice. He also was the first cartoonist commissioned by The New York Times to create comic strips for its op-ed page.
Roberta Smith of The New York Times described Feiffer's cartoons as "Daumier mixed with substantial doses of Calder, Giacometti, Walt Disney, Philip Roth and Lenny Bruce. His were certainly not the first cartoons for grown-ups, but they may have been the first to chart the erratic inner life of emerging counterculture urban American adulthood in all its childish splendor, mood swings, narcissism, self-hate and alienation."
In addition to his cartoons, Feiffer's widely celebrated work includes the Obie-winning play "Little Murders"; the screenplay "Carnal Knowledge"; the Academy Award-winning anti-military satire "Munro"; the Tony nominee "Knock Knock"; the Pulitzer nominee "Grown-Ups," and screenplays for "Popeye" and "I Want to Go Home," winner at the Venice Film Festival. Feiffer reinvented himself as a children's author with the award-winning "Bark George" and "I Lost My Bear." He also is the illustrator of "The Phantom Tollbooth" and the writer/illustrator of "The Man in the Ceiling," soon to become a Broadway musical produced by Walt Disney Co.
Feiffer has received lifetime achievement awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society and has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University and Dartmouth College and currently is teaching at Stony Brook University.
Commenting on his work, Feiffer said, "The whole point to drawing was to make it up out of your own imagination. ... Cartooning was supposed to be fun. If it couldn't be fun, why do it?" Feiffer's forthcoming memoir, "Backing Into Forward," relates how persistent failure inspired him to reinvent himself as an artist over and over.


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Hi Jamboree Attendees!
I just wanted to let you all know that there will be a waiver to sign that will be available in hardcopy when you arrive. You will also receive one at in your email address, that's tied to your RTF account.
I'm very pleased 1) that Nancy and Bart Pals have agreed to allow the attendees to use their property for this training day.
2) I also want to thank Stan Bullock very much for taking the initiative to not only suggest the concept, but also take the ball and run with it, organizing this fun training day.
I'm glad that the RTF resource has been a mechanism through which some folks can meet, do a little training, and have some fun. Please note, this is NOT a sanctioned event of any kind with any registry. This is NOT a seminar, or a workshop. This is NOT a competition. It is a fun training day and we are there to have fun training the dog at the line at that moment. We are not there to compare one dog against any others, nor to "test" any dog.
It is fun training...period, with a social spin. Meet a new friend or two, have a laugh or two, and SAFELY enjoy a training day together.
Special thanks to David Carrington and AVERY. We have been given the opportunity to distribute to a few folks, the newest version of the Avery hexabumper. They have the new Avery Sporting dog logo, and the plasticizer chemistry has been adjusted to make them more flexible and perhaps even more cold temperature forgiving in times of cold induced brittleness. (a fact of polymer chemistry) I think a recent gripe on the product review board may have assisted in triggering this.
We have a few other Avery items also to pass out to participants in the event.
Our legal advisor has suggested that we make it clear now, in advance, that a waiver signature will be a condition of participation. This way, if anyone has issue, they know now rather than after taking it upon themselves to drive.
It's all good. It's all fun.


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Is carbon a girl's best friend?
Yes! (At least if you think that diamond is a girl's best friend, anyway.) When people think of carbon they think of black dust left over from a fire, but the diamond is just carbon that was squeezed very hard at extremely high pressure. Formed at lower pressure, the carbon mineral is graphite, the mineral that is pencil "lead." Graphite would make a very different sort of ring.
Mineral Formation
Minerals form in a variety of ways:
- crystallization from magma
- precipitation from ions in solution
- biological activity
- a change to a more stable state as in metamorphism
- precipitation from vapor
Formation from Magma
Imagine a rock that becomes so hot it melts. Many minerals start out in liquids that are hot enough to melt rocks. Magma is melted rock inside Earth, a molten mixture of substances that can be hotter than 1,000oC. Magma cools slowly inside Earth, which gives mineral crystals time to grow large enough to be seen clearly (Figure below).
Granite is rock that forms from slowly cooled magma, containing the minerals quartz (clear), plagioclase feldspar (shiny white), potassium feldspar (pink), and biotite (black).
When magma erupts onto Earth's surface, it is called lava. Lava cools much more rapidly than magma. Crystals do not have time to form and are very small. The chemical composition between minerals that form rapidly or slowly is often the same, only their size differs.
Existing rocks may be heated enough so that the molecules are released from their structure and can move around. The molecules may match up with different molecules to form new minerals as the rock cools. This occurs during metamorphism, which will be discussed in the "Metamorphic Rock I" lesson.
Formation from Solutions
Water on Earth, such as the water in the oceans, contains chemical elements mixed into a solution. Various processes can cause these elements to combine to form solid mineral deposits.
Minerals from Salt Water
When water evaporates, it leaves behind a solid precipitate of minerals, as shown in Figure below.
When the water in glass A evaporates, the dissolved mineral particles are left behind.
Water can only hold a certain amount of dissolved minerals and salts. When the amount is too great to stay dissolved in the water, the particles come together to form mineral solids, which sink. Halite easily precipitates out of water, as does calcite. Some lakes, such as Mono Lake in California (Figure below) or The Great Salt Lake in Utah, contain many mineral precipitates.
Tufa towers form when calcium-rich spring water at the bottom of Mono Lake bubbles up into the alkaline lake. The tufa towers appear when lake level drops.
Minerals from Hot Underground Water
Magma heats nearby underground water, which reacts with the rocks around it to pick up dissolved particles. As the water flows through open spaces in the rock and cools, it deposits solid minerals. The mineral deposits that form when a mineral fills cracks in rocks are called veins (Figure below).
Quartz veins formed in this rock.
When minerals are deposited in open spaces, large crystals form (Figure below).
Amethyst formed when large crystals grew in open spaces inside the rock. These special rocks are called geodes.
Minerals Under Pressure
In the last several years, many incredible discoveries have been made exploring how minerals behave under high pressure, like rocks experience inside the Earth. If a mineral is placed in a special machine and then squeezed, eventually it may convert into a different mineral. Ice is a classic example of a material that undergoes solid-solid "phase transitions" as pressure and/or temperature is changed. A "phase diagram" is a graph which plots the stability of phases of a compound as a function of pressure and temperature.
The most current phase diagram for water (ice) is included below; it is very complicated! The phase diagram is split up into 3 main areas, denoted by color (blue for solid crystalline phases, green for liquid phases, and brown for gas phases). Each of the Roman numerals in the blue area corresponds to a different arrangement of H2O molecules. Notice that the highest pressure structure of ice is hexagonal (high symmetry) while the low pressure form of ice is orthorhombic (low symmetry). This is a common result for high pressure minerals.
A sample phase diagram, this one for water.
- vein: A mineral deposit that forms when a mineral fills cracks in rocks.
- Minerals form as magma cools.
- Minerals form when they precipitate from hot fluids that have cooled down.
- Minerals form when the concentration of ions gets too great in a fluid.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. How do minerals form in water?
2. What crystals are formed from silica-based minerals?
3. What crystals are formed from copper-based minerals?
4. What is a pegmatite?
5. What can magma rich in boron crystallize into?
6. What other gems can be found in magma?
1. How do minerals form in veins?
2. How do minerals form from cool water?
3. When do large crystals form from magma? When do small crystals form from magma?


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Dale has worked his way up to Operations Manager and has recently been promoted to Vice President in the eastern region. Dale is an organized and goal oriented individual. He loves working with our clients and employees on developing new techniques for our business.
Todd looks forward to his new role with ITC where he hopes to acquire new successful employees as well as new clients. He is currently performing as a Daily Maintenance Planner at a local refining Company. He has recently completed training in Primavera and looks forward to utilizing this with his experience.He is excited about new opportunities to learn and experience more in the planning and scheduling field from additional training and field work experiences.
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By Sarah Robinson/NEMS Daily Journal
WEST POINT – After eight months of bidding, Yokohama Tire Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding with the state of Mississippi to bring a major manufacturing plant to Clay County.
"I always knew we could do this," said Gov. Phil Bryant at Monday's signing ceremony. The ceremony took place at the Ritz Theater in downtown West Point before a large, enthusiastic crowd.
Sen. Roger Wicker, Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Rep. Gregg Harper and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves were among elected officials who spoke at the event.
Bryant said more than 3,000 counties initially made bids to the tire manufacturer, but Clay County came out ahead. Bryant said Yokohama will invest about $1 billion in the project.
"This is just the beginning," he said, adding that suppliers for the company likely will follow suit.
Bryant said although the company will get the same tax breaks as Toyota and Nissan, it will pay local school taxes that will mean about $900,000 a year for the local school district.
The project was spearheaded by the Mississippi Development Authority, West Point, Clay County and the Golden Triangle Development LINK.
Wicker said he was proud of the role federal agencies TVA and the Appalachian Regional Commission, which also contributed to the effort, played in the project.
Brent Christensen, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, said coming in second place in the bid for this project was not an option. "If you're second on a project like this, you have nothing but a lot of bills at the end of the line," he said.
Wicker commended the MDA's effort and its attention to detail, even making sure Yokohama tires were used on all of the vehicles that transported company officials.
"We wanted it, and we had a better package," Wicker said.
The Legislature passed an incentive package worth $130 million over the next four years to entice the 90-year-old tire company to set up operations in Mississippi.
The project is expected to bring 500 jobs to Clay County in its first year with expansion bringing up to 1,500 additional jobs during the next 10 years.
Clay County has struggled with high unemployment rates since manufacturing jobs were lost when the Sara Lee and Bryan Foods plant closed in 2007.
Some have raised concerns about the impact of Yokohama's arrival on Cooper Tire, which employs 1,300 at its Tupelo plant. Two Lee County legislators sought unsuccessfully to have tax breaks extended to Cooper in last week's special session dealing with the Yokohama incentives.
Nunnelee said he does not think Yokohama's arrival will adversely affect any other industry in the area.
"Mississippi is getting the reputation for being the heart of automotive manufacturing in the nation," he said.
Officials from Yokohama said choosing Mississippi was in their best business interests in terms of labor pool, community relations and the potential for future growth.


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Leading Indian drugmaker Lupin Pharmaceuticals is looking at US, China and Japan for company and brand acquisitions in an effort to grow globally
Singapore: Indian drug major Lupin Pharmaceuticals is set to expand its global footprint by scouting for acquisitions across the world. The company is looking at US, Japan, China and even the domestic market to make company and brand acquisitions.
While the company has not revealed that amount that it is ready to invest in these planned acquisitions, the Mumbai-based firm is said to have adopted a three-pronged approach in its acquisition strategy. As the company is looking for brands that it could acquire, it will be looking at companies with new technologies or market access in certain geographies.
"Acquisitions, would be a part of our overall business approach. We are on the lookout for companies and products to acquire. Our acquisition strategy is going to be three-fold," Ms Vinita Gupta, president and CEO designate, Lupin Group told PTI.
She further added that Lupin would like to go for products and companies that can complement its existing businesses in major markets like the US and Japan. "In the US in particular, we are looking at brands that we can buy that can add to our portfolio. Likewise, in Japan we are looking at companies that can add to our market presence in the country," she said.
For 2012-13 fiscal, the company's US revenues increased by 36 percent to $693 million. Lupin's Japanese business grew by 52 percent clocking net to Rs 1,304 crore during FY 2012-13 and contributed 14 percent to the company's consolidated revenues.
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Of course, I am not alone.
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Let there be no doubt, Funny or Die
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Let this be a warning to each of you.
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Forward only direction for Warriors coach who'll cut style to suit players
Depth will be added to the outside backs in the "very near future", the best young Warriors will spend more time in the Vulcans before hitting the NRL, and the club will adopt a style that exploits the squad's mobility and skill.
Those are the thoughts of new Warriors coach Matt Elliott after a hectic first week in the job.
Elliott returned to Australia on Thursday to tidy up his affairs. By the time he's back in New Zealand for good late next week, he expects he will have his assistant coaches in place and will have added to a squad light on depth and experience at centre and wing.
Former Newcastle and Wigan centre George Carmont has been approached. At 34, Carmont would be a stopgap measure, and it's unlikely he is the club's primary target.
While clearly not the first choice of a fan base that pined for a supercoach such as Craig Bellamy, or of a playing group that supported the claims of assistant Tony Iro, Elliott said he had encountered little negativity.
"I can only give you my perception of it and it has been pretty smooth," he said. "How I arrived here is in the past - it's what I do. I understand that people like to reflect on that stuff but for me there is so much to be done in a short period of time. Look, I've forgotten about it already."
While he had been impressed with the passion surrounding the club, he understood it was a two-way street and the atmosphere among the fans could turn toxic pretty fast when things go badly.
"I did coach in the UK for five years and they invented that sort of stuff. I was pretty lucky I had a successful period there. But I like to look at things from the positive. That's just a pure sign of how much it matters, how much they care. I don't think that's confined to New Zealand."
The major criticism of Elliott's teams appears to be the over-emphasis on the importance of power. Having coached Bradford and Penrith, teams stacked with hulking behemoths, he understands the basis of that view.
"I guess it is fair, but what I do is develop a style around the players that I've got," he said. "I don't think you could say we developed a style around power in Canberra because we didn't have a lot of powerful players. We developed a style around quick play-the-balls and short interchange of passing. When I went to Penrith it was the land of the giants.
"I can see people saying that [in Bradford] as well, but at that time in that competition the best people I could find to recruit were big dudes."
Marrying the right style to the players at his disposal isn't something he has always got right. Like all coaches he has made mistakes. Unlike his predecessor, Brian McClennan, Elliott at least has another chance to learn from them.
His early impression of the Warriors squad is that the typical Australian view of a team stacked with massive, physical brutes is a myth. The names don't yet run freely off his tongue, but he cites the likes of Elijah Taylor, Jacob Lillyman, Ben Matulino and Todd Lowrie as evidence the Warriors are actually more tuned towards athleticism and skill than size.
"There has always been this perception that the Warriors are big and powerful. But when I look at that closely, that's just a label people put on the Warriors that has been around so long, but I don't actually see it that way.
"There are guys who are highly skilled both before the line in attack and in the line in attack, guys who can promote the ball. We've got to come up with a style of play that gets the best out of that."
As for last year's failings, he believes an injury toll that wiped out the majority of the team's leadership group was the most significant factor. The less experienced players who plugged the gaps had struggled with the demands of the NRL and the key to improvement was making sure the young players coming through were fully hardened by the time they took the field in a first grade match.
To achieve that, players who showed promise at U20s level would be diverted to the Vulcans earlier and for longer before making the step up to the NRL.
"The challenge for us is to get them ready. The term 'whole of club' is being used and I'm committed to that. During the [recruitment] process, that's what I really pushed.
"Our young players coming through will certainly be exposed to the extreme rigours of preparation, but also they will be playing in the Vulcans."