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Interesting parenthetic phrase in Betsy Reed's "Sex and the GOP" [Oct. 18]: "If it were up to men, Palin might very well become president in 2012 (if it were up to white men, she'd be a shoo-in)." Yes, but had it been up to white women, John McCain and You-Know-Who would be our prez and veep right now, since white women favored that swell ticket roughly 54 to 46 percent. It's possible that white women think they have the most cultural capital to lose, as our perishing Republic struggles with equality across all social lines. It's certain that if women of color sit out this election, white heat will have burned President Obama's coattails.
Santa Rosa, Calif.
OK, OK—I don't so much object to the yucky story, but the girlie cartoons on the cover—c'mon, gimme a break. Being funny is one thing; we can use humor. Being sickening we don't need.
As a contributor to the Dump Bachmann blog (dumpbachmann.com), I would have preferred a story about Michele Bachmann's pardon letter for Petters Ponzi associate and top donor Frank Vennes Jr.; or her acceptance of $10,000 from the operator of the sham Navy Veterans Association charity; or her support for bizarre homophobic radio preacher Bradlee Dean and for a crackpot pod transport scheme.
Sexual Freedom vs. License
Portland, Ore.
The next time Katha Pollitt runs into a young feminist who is unable to articulate how and when stripping, prostitution and porn are troubling versus perfectly OK versus both, direct her to a feminist expert on the sacrosanctity of sexual freedom regardless of gender: Betty Dodson, Susie Bright, Gayle Rubin, Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, just to name a few ["Subject to Debate," Oct. 18]. Dan Savage is an indispensable source of knowledge and rational thinking about all things sex-related. Mistress Matisse is another articulate blogger and columnist. Her February 10, 2009, post on why she both is and is not a feminist should be required reading.
And please, please, please direct that young feminist to organizations actually run by the women (and men) who strip, trick, star in or produce porn. You can't think about an issue without listening to the people most affected by that issue. Flip comments and vague thinking about sex work should be countered with concrete experience. To that end, $pread magazine, by and for sex workers, is an excellent resource. This all-volunteer publication could use more subscribers, and it is the most articulate resource I've read on the troubling/perfectly OK aspects of stripping, prostitution and porn.
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We are halfway through February and there's no end in sight. As Barack Obama pulls ahead in the neck-and-neck race, the latest specter to excite election observers is the possibility of a nail-biter decided by superdelegates. Should unpledged party operatives and officials not chosen by primary and caucus voters pick the Democrats' next nominee? It would not be the first time popular hopes were dashed by Democratic leaders. Remember 2006.
On November 7, 2006, registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans at the polls for the first time in any midterm since 1990. Repelled by the Bush Administration's record at home and abroad, voters turned out in droves and elected a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. As in 2004, people didn't merely cast ballots; they walked blocks, raised money, monitored polling places and canvassed strangers in far-off states urging them to vote. Asked in exit polls what was their most pressing issue, 40 percent of Democrats identified Iraq. No other issue came close.
Fourteen months on, the Democratic majority (albeit slim in the Senate) has disappointed those voters, and Congressional approval ratings are down below Bush's. Not only has the deadly deployment in Iraq not ended; the number of troops there has increased, and both of the party's would-be nominees–along with the majority of Democrats in Congress–have refused to use their power of the purse to cut off funds for the war. Party leaders have dismissed every demand for impeachment investigations of the Bush cabal. As for restoring the habeas corpus rights of noncitizen detainees, eliminating military tribunals or roundly repudiating the Administration's policies on spying and torture–no luck. Even on the less politically loaded issues of domestic security and economic justice, not much has changed except that today it's not only New Orleanians who are losing their homes. The real and metaphorical levees around our cities and farms just keep crumbling.
Like desert flowers in Death Valley, grassroots Democrats have sprung into action again this season in part because they're parched for their party's attention. Dolores Huerta, chair of Women for Kerry in 2004, told me last year that many women are excited simply to have a candidate who doesn't take their votes for granted. (John Kerry famously told a gathering of Women for Kerry that he wasn't going to single out women for attention because he didn't want to "pander" to a "special interest.") Huerta's United Farm Workers of America endorsed Hillary Clinton shortly before the California primary, and female and Latino voters carried their candidate to victory there, just as African-Americans and young voters have bedrocked Senator Obama in part because they feel he actually cares about them.
But an invitation to the party is not the same as a seat at the table. The young voters, poor voters, secular, female, people of color, lesbian and gay, progressive and antiwar voters who have the candidates' attention at the moment belong to the part of the Democratic base whose interests are perennially sidelined by party higher-ups come the general election–and way before anyone gets down to the pay-to-play business of governing.

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The President announced today his intention to appoint Robert C. McFarlane as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He will succeed William P. Clark.
Mr. McFarlane has served as the President's Personal Representative in the Middle East since July 1983. He has also served as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs since January 1982.
In January 1981 Mr. McFarlane was nominated as Counselor, Department of State, where he served until becoming Deputy Assistant to the President. In 1979-1981 he was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was a senior research fellow at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., in 1977-1978.In 1976-1977 he was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Mr. McFarlane was Executive Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in 1975-1976. From 1973 to 1975, he was military assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the White House. In 1971-1972 he was a White House fellow and Executive Assistant to the Counsel to the President for Legislative Affairs.
Mr. McFarlane is retired from the Marine Corps (lieutenant colonel). He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and studied international relations at the Institut des Hautes Etudes in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Nation's highest peacetime military decoration.
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Licensed games for kids usually end up as platformers. The set of characters is familiar, as are the easy-to-understand game mechanics, which have been around for a while. It's also a tried-and-true concept, as it provides a sense of adventure that most children's properties seem to go for nowadays. In recent years, though, we've seen a slow shift away from typical platformers and toward other kid-friendly genres. Rio, based on the newly released film, is a recent example of a property that is a minigame compilation, a genre that is seen far too often on the Nintendo Wii but rarely on either the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360. The question is whether this was a wise move or if it would've been better for the game to go down the expected adventure platformer route.
Rio is split into five different modes, all of which involve some form of minigames. You can play as Blu, Nico the canary, Rafael the toucan or Pedro the cardinal, who compete against each other in a bunch of minigames. The Story mode goes through the same story as the movie. Each third of the story is told by one of the game's side characters, and after each story break, you're asked to compete in three minigames before moving on. The minigames vary in their objective, but they all relate to the story environment, so you'll never encounter a game in Minnesota, for example, when the story has already taken you to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Though you have infinite continues, you'll need to place first in each minigame before moving on. The Story mode takes you through 30 of the 43 minigames offered in the title.
There is a good number of available minigames in Rio, especially since other minigame compilations also offer a similar amount. The good news is that most of the minigames are very enjoyable. Everything from the survival races to dodge ball and soccer to the rhythm games are fun due to the easy control scheme and lack of convoluted rules. The various difficulty levels also make each minigame fun since, at the hard difficulty level, the minigames become challenging.
Story mode exposes two flaws, though, and one is specific to the mode alone. First, the mode rewards in the form of movie clips aren't exactly very … rewarding. The clips are short, feature no dialogue from the movie, and feel like the same ones used in commercials for the film instead of being something unique to the game. The other flaw is game-wide, and it has to do with the minigames. While they are amusing, many feel like the same minigame set in different environments with little variation. The rhythm minigames are understandable when it comes to this level of sameness, but others also feel too similar. There are several levels where the objective is to bomb marmosets with fruit while in the air or from a perch. A few more are simply musical chairs variants where you'll always collect fruit but have to head to a perch, barrel or freeze to bank those points. Others devolve into arena fighting game variants where you pummel your opponents until they run out of hit points. This doesn't take away from the enjoyment of each game, mind you, but you wonder how much more enjoyable the minigames would've been if they were truly different.
Party mode, like the other modes in the game, is a multiplayer affair for up to four people. Here, you get to choose between two submodes — regular and team play —each with game and game/quiz variants. With any of these submodes, you'll be able to pick and choose your own loadout of the 43 minigames in any order you want. The game variant lets you choose minigames while the game/quiz variant quizzes you between games about the movie and events surrounding the movie. The inclusion of quiz questions is nice, but the cache of questions is limited enough that you'll see the same questions pop up after a few playthroughs. This relegates the game/quiz variant to something you'd play if your competitors have never played the combo mode before.
Garland Gala mode is a nice little off-shoot of Party mode that contains a game within a game. You compete against three other birds in 10 randomly selected minigames. At the end of the competition, you're given a number of garlands based on your performance in those games, and then you're sent to a new minigame where you try to toss your garlands at various targets with variable score levels. Whoever wins the most points in this minigame wins the overall mode, so players who haven't been doing well in the previous 10 minigames could conceivably win by dominating the final game. While you lose the chance to pick out specific games you want to play, it becomes a good mode if someone has several advantages over the rest of his or her opponents.
Carnaval mode has you trying to form a conga line of 20 marmosets to win the mode. Like the other game modes, you compete in randomly picked minigames, and your placement in each minigame determines the number of marmosets you've attained for your conga line. Carnaval Mode contains two submodes of its own; Standard is a straightforward affair, and Crazy gives you the ability to steal marmosets from an opponent's line and add them to your own, making it the more exciting submode of the two. It's all dependent on random minigames being thrown at you, so depending on which ones you do or don't enjoy, your experience can vary wildly.
The final mode of the game is Carnaval Wheel, where players face off in another set of randomly selected minigames. This time around, each character gets a chance to spin the large wheel to determine which minigame will be played by all of the contestants and the point value of the minigame. It's still a fun mode, but with the only difference being the ability to modify point values, don't expect to play this more than a few times.
Rio lacks any sort of online functionality, which can be good or bad depending on how you feel about online play. On one hand, for systems noted for their online features, having a party title omit online play seems unheard of, especially when you consider that older party titles like Fuzion Frenzy 2 and Viva Piñata: Party Animals featured prominent online modes. On the other hand, party games are best enjoyed with local company, and leaving online multiplayer out of it might not be so bad for those who enjoy it this way. What is disappointing, though, is the lack of online leaderboards. Having local ones is fine, but it borders on unacceptable that you can't find out how the world is scoring in certain games at a time when every console can go online.
For a game that looks like it was possibly ported from the Wii version, the graphics look great. The frame rate is locked in at 60 fps with no fluctuation no matter how much is happening on-screen. The character models look great, especially Luiz the bulldog, who has enough depth to his textures that skin inconsistencies can be seen up close. The characters and environment display tons of bright colors, and while the ground textures still look flat, the environments look like they got ripped out of the movie. Animations are also smooth, though there are a few instances where animation transitions aren't as polished as one would like. Few people will complain about the graphics in this title.
The sound is one of the highlights of the film, and the game almost gets it right. Rio might not contain any official songs from the movie soundtrack, but the vibe is certainly there, and each track sounds lively and could be mistaken for an official soundtrack piece anyway. The effects are good, but there are a few situations where it could be louder, such as the minigame where you bomb the marmosets with fruit. Unless you specifically look at the target, the audio isn't loud enough to tell you that you've made contact. The voice actors aren't the original ones from the film, but their sound-alikes do a good job of getting as close to the original actor voices as possible. One thing that will annoy a few players is the lack of voice. You'll hear everyone speak during Story mode and at the beginning and end of each game, but you'll never hear them speak in the middle of the game. While it makes for a less annoying experience due to fewer repeated lines, fans of certain characters may be disappointed that they don't hear them speak more often.
Rio is a solid minigame compilation for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The minigames prove to be fun for younger audiences, and the look and sound of the title reflect the movie quite nicely. The minigames aren't all that varied, though, so you'll get a sense of déjà vu after a while. The target audience might not mind as much, and that feeling of sameness may never hit them at all. It's a safe purchase for fans of the movie and, given its cheap price point for a new game, it's a safe bet for those looking for a minigame experience without having to resort to peripherals such as the Move or Kinect.
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thanks Kylie! I gave out the valentines envelopes to people in my local area yesterday it was brilliant bringing a smile to peoples faces. I bumped into a customer from the snadwich shop where I work, he was really ill over christmas, I wished him happy valentines and gave him an envelope. He gave me a big hug and said it made his day! it made mine xxxxDelete
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Okay another thread, thinking of just recent months, WHAT are you playing, regardless of system.
Those don't have to contradict or exclude any of your ALL TIME Top 10, but can also share titles. Just basicly, what are you playing right NOW sorted by the ammount of time spent on it:
1. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Demo - 3DS - gotta practice with all weapons, yeah!
2. Paper Mario Sticker Star - 3DS - way too charming to put it down!
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - XBOX360 - AGAIN, since Battlefield 3 was such a disappointment for me.
4. Mechwarrior Online - PC - Freetoplay mayhem at its best. God I love mechs. Game is awesome too!
5. Fire Emblem - GBA - love the pixelstyle and the animations!
6. Civilization V - PC - love ancient civilizations and tactical/strategy games, so this is a must! Would be awesome to see another CIV game on Nintendo's systems.
7. Mario Kart 7 - 3DS - no explanation needed!
8. New Super Mario Bros 2 - 3DS - still hunting coins occassionally.
9. Super Smash Brothers Melee - Gamecube - AGAIN!
10. Star Trek Online - PC - Freetoplay - omg... but its good!
Please regard those topics as "filler" for entertainment and informative purposes (you might find a game on someone's list you want to try) while we wait on new releases of Ninty
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[I]n the year and a half that ended in December 2010, well operators reported recycling at least 320 million gallons. But at least 260 million gallons of wastewater were sent to plants that discharge their treated waste into rivers, out of a total of more than 680 million gallons of wastewater produced, according to state data posted Tuesday.First, 320+260=580, not 680, as Mr. Urbina writes, but that's a minor problem. Second, let's do the arithmetic:
580 million gallons of wastewater over 1.5 years is equal to 580/1.5/365=1.06 million gallons of wastewater per day, on the average. Out of this volume of water, 320/1.5/365=0.58 million gallons of water per day was recycled, and the remaining 0.48 million gallons of water per day was sent to water purification plants for processing and discharge into rivers.
Now, let's compare 0.42 million gallons of treated wastewater with daily withdrawal volumes of surface water in Pennsylvania in 1995 (water withdrawal volumes change very slowly and usually grow):
- In the Ohio River Basin (the west 3/8 of Pennsylvania), 1,450 million gallons of water.
- In the Susquehanna River Basin (the middle 1/2 of Pennsylvania), 508 million gallons of water.
- In the Delaware River Basin (the east 1/8 of Pennsylvania), 905 million gallons of water.
- 0.48/1,450 = 0.03 percent or 3 parts in 10,000
- 0.48/508 = 0.08 percent or 9 parts in 10,000
- 0.48/905 = 0.05 percent or 5 parts in 10,000
- 0.48/(1450+508+905) = 0.017 percent or 1.7 part in 10,000.
Over 17,000 golf courses in the USA irrigate about 1.3 million acres, constituting 1.5% of all water use; that's 1.5 parts in 100 on the average, or about 100 times more water than that used for hydrofracturing gas wells in Pennsylvania. Golf courses are also notorious sources of toxic herbicide and pesticide runoff, atrazine for example, a well-known endocrine disruptor. This runoff ends up directly in the rivers and public water supply sources.
Since most of the alpha-radioactivity in the treated discharged hydrofracturing water is radon, a short-lived gas, most of it would bubble into the air away from humans and mix with a much larger supply of radon from soil. If the maximum measured concentrations of radium and uranium in wastewater were diluted only 1,000 times, not 10,000 times, they would be below the drinking water limit.
Thus, as I warned in my previous post, the real danger to water consumers in Pennsylvania is well water which may contain many times the maximum "safe" radon concentration of 300 pCi/L. That water however does not come into contact with the produced hydrofracturing water.
But never mind the common sense, I have also waded through an orgy of the deeply-felt hatred towards the oil and gas industry, expressed in at least 352 reader comments on Mr. Urbina's prose.


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|Pérez Ortín, José Enrique Perfil; Medina Salas, Daniel Alejandro; Jordán Plá, Antonio
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|The model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae has allowed the development of new functional genomics techniques devoted to the study of transcription in all its stages. With these techniques, it has been possible to find interesting new mechanisms to control gene expression that act at different levels and for different gene sets apart from the known cis-trans regulation in the transcription initiation step. Here we discuss a method developed in our laboratory, Genomic Run-On, and other new methods that have recently appeared with distinct technical features. A comparison between the datasets generated by them provides interesting genomic insights into the different layers of gene regulation in eukaryotes.
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that a battle is brewing over labeling foods which contain genetically modified ingredients. According to a recent New York Times poll, 93% of American consumers favor labeling of some type for foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). July 27, 2013 NYT Poll. In 2012, California voters narrowly rejected a GMO labeling law. In 2013, Connecticut and Maine became the first states to pass bills requiring labels on all foods made from GMOs, but these laws don't become effective until surrounding states pass similar legislation. A total of twenty-six states considered some form of GMO labeling legislation in 2013. State Labeling Initiatives, CTR. FOR FOOD SAFETY. On May 8, 2014, Vermont's governor signed H.B. 112 which requires the labeling of food containing genetically modified ingredients sold in Vermont. An Act Relating to the Labeling of Food Produced with Genetic Engineering, H.B. 112, 2013-2014 Leg. Sess. (Vt. 2014). On July 23, 2014, Oregon placed a GMO labeling initiative on its November 2014 ballot in what is likely to be an expensive fight on both sides of the issue. Jeff Mapes, "GMO Labeling Initiative Qualifies for Oregon Ballot." The Oregonian, July 23, 2014 (noting that backers of the labeling measure have already raised $1.3 million to support its passage.) On the federal side, Congress is facing pressure to enact legislation establishing a nationwide standard for labeling foods made with genetically modified ingredients. See, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014 (introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS)) and the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act (introduced by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)). Outside of the United States, sixty-four countries currently require some sort of labeling for genetically engineered foods. International Labeling Laws, CTR. FOR FOOD SAFETY.
As we wade into the debate over GMO Labeling, it is helpful to have an understanding of the existing federal regulatory labeling standards that apply to foods containing GMOs. The federal standards are particularly important in what is looking to be more and more a battle of state versus federal rights in food labeling. So to start with, lets look at the current federal labeling requirements.
The Federal Regulatory Environment over Food Labeling. When it comes to food labeling, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) share jurisdiction over the regulation of food labels. The USDA primarily regulates the labeling of meat, poultry and egg products as well as organic food. A Guide to Federal Food Labeling Requirements for Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products; Labeling Organic Products. The FTC Act prohibits "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" and "false advertisements" that are "misleading in a material respect" concerning food products. Similarly, Section 403(a) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) prohibits "labeling [that] is false or misleading in any particular." The FTC and FDA operate under a Memorandum of Understanding under which the FTC has taken primary responsibility for regulating food advertising while the FDA takes regulatory authority over food labeling.
Under the FDA's 1992 policy on foods derived from biotechnology, the name of a bioengineered food must be changed only if it is significantly different from its traditional counterpart, the bioengineered food has a significantly different nutritional property or the bioegineered food includes an allergen that consumers would not expect to be present (e.g., soybeans that contain peanut allergens). In 2001, the FDA issued its draft Guidance for Industry: Voluntary Labeling Indicating Whether Foods Have or Have Not Been Developed Using Bioengineering. The FDA's draft guidance focuses on specific labeling statements such as "GMO Free" and when the FDA might consider these labeling statements misleading. Claiming that a food is not bioengineered may be misleading if (1) the statement suggests that the labeled food is better than foods not so labeled; (2) if the statement suggests that one ingredient in the food is not bioengineered, but another ingredient in the food is bioengineered and that is not disclosed; or (3) if the statement suggests that the food is not bioengineered when there are no marketed varieties of the food that are bioengineered. Finally, if a manufacturer claims that a food is not bioengineered, the manufacturer should be able to substantiate that the claim is truthful and not misleading. Similar to the FDA, the FTC requires that a manufacturer must have a "reasonable basis" for claims made in advertisements.
While federal regulatory agencies allow non-GMO food manufacturers to make certain claims regarding GMO foods, those standards are not mandatory and do not require that foods containing GMO ingredients be labeled as such. So, if a manufacturer produces a non-GMO product and wants to label it as not containing GMO ingredients, within the limits of these regulations the manufacturer is free to do so. As a result, entities like the Non-GMO Project currently provide a verification process to allow manufacturers to make non-GMO claims in compliance with current federal regulations. Importantly, though, the current debate seeks something more than a non-mandatory standard. The state law GMO labeling legislation seeks to proactively require that GMO foods be identified as containing GMO ingredients. Further, since state laws can vary in their requirements for GMO labeling, this is an area where federal legislation may ultimately pre-empt the field and establish a singular national standard. When it comes to GMO claims, states may find that they are at a disadvantage if the federal government enacts a national uniform labeling requirement.


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Tim Tebow is praying for Riley Cooper.
Cooper, who won a national championship at the University of Florida with Tebow, has been under fire being caught on video shouting a racial slur at a concert.
Tim Tebow is praying for Riley Cooper.
Cooper, who won a national championship at the University of Florida with Tebow, has been under fire being caught on video shouting a racial slur at a concert.
"You know we're friends," Tebow told the South Jersey Times and other media outlets Tuesday. "We've been close for a long time, so we'll talk. I haven't gotten to see him yet today. I'm sure I'll see him soon, but I was definitely praying for him."
Cooper, who is now a receiver with the Philadelphia Eagles, has since apologized for using the N-word and spent some time away from his team. He returned to the team Tuesday after speaking with teammates individually.
Tebow smiled but declined to respond when asked if Cooper's remarks surprised him.
"I'm just going to keep our relationship private," Tebow said of his former Gators teammate. "That's where it needs to be."
Tebow is now trying to prove he can be a viable reserve quarterback for the New England Patriots.
The Patriots and Eagles held a joint practice Tuesday in Philadelphia, giving Tebow a chance to show what he could potentially do on the field.
He tossed two touchdown passes during seven-on-seven drills, but he also threw an interception when wide receivers and cornerbacks participated in one-on-one drills.
While Tebow has room for improvement as a quarterback, he has earned rave reviews from New England fans for his behavior off the field.
The Boston Globe reports Tebow has continued his routine of spending extensive time with fans after practice, signing autographs for as long as possible before he getting pulled away to attend team meetings. The Gators once tried to limit access to Tebow at UF because he was such a popular player and in such high demand, but he continued to spend as much time as possible with fans.
"It's a very little thing that can go a long way," Tebow told the Globe. "I know, because when I was a young boy and I got Danny Wuerffel's autograph, or Emmitt Smith's autograph, what it meant to me. You want to be a good role model, someone that a young boy or young girl can look up to."


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FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Historical Society will dedicate a historical marker to a pioneer outpost and spring at Mount Sterling later this month.
The June 29 ceremony will be at the site where settlers built Fort Baker in 1790. It was one of 36 pioneer outposts crucial to the settlement of Clark, Montgomery and Bath counties. The Historical Society says the station, established by John Baker, covered 20 acres and included a natural spring.
The fort was evacuated after a June 29, 1790, attack by Native Americans.
Although the outpost was abandoned, several men returned at season's end to harvest the corn crop they had planted.
The spring and well was visited by President Andrew Jackson in 1832.


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LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Norbert dumped heavy rains and prompted evacuations as it marched up the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Friday. Forecasters said the storm may help bring weekend precipitation to the parched U.S. Southwest.
Baja California Sur state Gov. Marcos Covarrubias urged people in vulnerable areas to evacuate and said travelers should stay off highways as the storm roars past. He said most government services would be closed or restricted, and schools in Los Cabos and La Paz were closed on Friday.
At least 1,000 people remained in shelters Friday afternoon in Los Cabos, where the storm toppled over trees and knocked out electricity in some parts of the resort area. Firefighters rescued several people from vehicles stranded in flooded streets, said Wenceslao Pettit, Public Safety director in Cabo San Lucas.
Ports in the area popular with U.S. tourists remained closed to navigation and police officers were sent to the evacuated neighborhoods to prevent looting, Pettit added.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday evening that Norbert had strengthen a bit with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph (155 kph) and it was centered about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of sparsely populated Cabo San Lazaro.
Forecasters said Norbert, which had reached hurricane strength Wednesday, was headed northwest at 8 mph (13 kph).
The Hurricane Center said Norbert was helping push moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly across northern Mexico and into the southwestern United States, brining possible heavy rains in coming days.


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Recently I received some kind words from Scott Reynolds regarding my "excellent tutorial" on writing IBlogExtensions for RSS Bandit. Using my tutorial, he wrote a plug-in to send items in RSS Bandit to One Note. (There's another plug-in that does the same thing here).
The same day I noticed this post on Channel9 in which a user wishes that using the "Blog This" plug-in that comes with RSS Bandit wouldn't paste the entire text of the entry into w.bloggar. Instead, this user would prefer just the link to the entry.
Well, inspired by the kind words, I figured I could do this in a few minutes. So I built a new version of the IBlogExtension plugin that comes with RSS Bandit. This plug-in is configurable to allow posting the full text, the link only, or some generic text with the link. The generic text is something along the lines of
{Author} wrote this interesting post entitled "{entry title}" on {title of blog}.
The {entry title} is a link to the actual post while the {title of blog} is a link to the main blog. If some of this information is not available in the feed, the text is even more generic.
You can grab the plug-in dll here. Just copy it to the plugins directory within the RSS Bandit installation directory. For me, that's in "c:\Program Files\RssBandit\plugins". You might want to back up the old plug-in before overwriting it with this new one.
The Visual Studio.NET 2003 C# project file is also available here.
The plug-in makes use of embedded XSLT files for each type of post. In the future, it would be quite easy to allow user defined XSLT files that are not embedded. Please let me know if you find this useful. I'll see if Dare and Torsten would like to include this in future releases of RSS Bandit. If you make improvements, please send them to me so I may update my files.
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|[A5] How can I tell if a sample is currently playing?
Member #2,229
April 2002
Okay, I play a sample with the following example code...
al_play_sample(sfx_mysound, setting.sound_volume, 0.0, 1.0, ALLEGRO_PLAYMODE_ONCE, NULL);
is there a simple way to check if it is currently playing?
I know in Allegro 4 I used to use voice_get_position() and I would check if it equaled -1 (wasn't currently playing) than I could play it again.
I'm looking at various Allegro 5.1 functions for voice, sample instances etc... and I am not quite sure what I need to do. Right now it's just a simple al_play_sample(), but I get the feeling I need to do a lot more so I can check to see if it is currently playing.
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Oops, asked this once before, I just couldn't find it until now, sorry. :/


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GoneGolfin, Jay mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast that the two teams came to an agreement before the game that should it go into an extended rain delay, they would suspend the game and pickup where they left off on March 29th before our next game at Southeastern.
Nice catch by Izzy.
Our pitching is really, really, really, really good. If we stop thinking we are something we aren't at the plate...something special.
31 strikeouts in less than 3 games. It's the first weekend, but that stinks.
The amount of strikeouts is completely unacceptable.
Bringing in DMo
We don't deserve DMO, but we got him.
Would it be too much to ask that we just blow it open right now?
DMo is the shat.
We strike out more than coach pitch leagues.


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Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) of Alexandria, Virginia has been in operation for more than 79 years, currently from 31 locations. It is considered a primarily military common bond. By number of members, it is the 2nd largest in Virginia. It also is the second largest in the state by assets. It has the 6th fastest growing assets in Virginia.
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The famed tree on the New Hampshire farm that poet Robert Frost used for inspiration in numerous works, including �Tree at My Window� is now in the hands of a Mashpee woodworker.
MASHPEE - Mike Gould leaned over his bandsaw, carefully watching the blade in regard to his fingers. He slid a cross section of a sugar maple back and forth, cutting off the piece�s corners, slightly rounding the wood.
Gould, President of the Cape Cod Wood Turners, a 65-member club dedicated to the art of lathe work, was ready to fix the piece of wood to the lathe in his workshop-basement. Then he will �rough turn� it, using a bowl gouge to chisel away at the spinning mass. After that, he will sculpt the wood into the rough shape of a bowl, a chalice, a plate, or a cup. The wood dictates what is made, he said.
Gould has made hundreds of pieces over the years, but this wood is special. It came from the famed tree on the New Hampshire farm that poet Robert Frost used for inspiration in numerous works, including �Tree at My Window.�
Gould knows that one slip of the saw, or one crack, could derail his hopes of keeping this once living piece of history alive.
�You get to thinking, �Whoa, this is the wood that Robert Frost wrote this poem about.� There�s some history there,� Gould said as he prepared to begin. �Its quite an honor to have this opportunity.�
The sugar maple was cut down in September during a ceremony at the Derry, N.H., farm owned and operated by Frost from 1900 to 1909. The farm now belongs to the state. The tree had succumbed to rot, chairman of the farm�s trustees, Laura Burnham, of Derry, said earlier this week.
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GamesBeat takes a look at Jane Jensen's Moebius, one of the more high-profile point-and-click adventure games funded by Kickstarter.
Aww, and here I was hoping it was a game based on Silent Moebius.
After Walking Dead, I've been itchin' to play some more adventure games.
I almost read that as, "I wanted to make a f***ing adventure game." As in, an adventure game about f***ing. Do tell!


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Christmas Gift Suggestion 4: Koh Gen Do High Definition Makeup Trial Book
When new makeup are being launched I always want to try them out. But I always wish they come in small trial pack sizes so I can actually sample first before buying a whole size.
For makeup enthusiast, it would be a nice gift if you can give them a trial pack of makeup.
When I got Koh Gen Do goodies at the launch I was so excited to try everything out. I am so glad they included a trial pack/trial book where I can get to try the most coveted and hyped about makeup base, moisture foundation and moisture concealer.
It comes in a cute tin can box
Tada! The contents made me so excited!
What's inside:
Moisture Foundation in 4g tubes and two shades
Makeup Base all four colors except two comes in a sachet and the other in a 4g tube
I was so excited to use the Yellow Makeup Base that's why sachet is torn haha! They all come in SPF16+++ !
And I love this Moisture Foundation color chart!
Place the transparent card beside your cheeks and find which one disappears or blends well with your skin tone! Love it!
I'm not sure if they actually sell these Koh Gen Do High Definition Makeup Trial Book in the Beauty Bar stores but I hope they do, it is very helpful for those who are still trying to find the best foundation, makeup base, powder and concealers for them .


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It's fair to say that almost every woman owns a pair of pumps, but how many people can say they own a really eccentric pumps? I'm not talking about a bold color, I'm talking about heels with spikes, shoes with painted-on narwhals and mohawk heels. We've gathered a collection of gloriously over-the-top shoes like these and more, which you can see in the slideshow of eccentric pumps above.
Implications - Prominent media moguls are prompting their fans to embrace their own individual styles rather than conforming to the crowds. These consumers now seek products that have rare designs, or that are customizable to their tastes so that they can portray their personalities to their peers. Companies can manufacture goods with these features to appeal to expressive target markets.
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Why Study in Germany
The attractiveness of Germany as an educational destination for international students is determined by following key points:
High density of universities which is unique worldwide
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What is DAAD ?
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the largest funding organisation in the world supporting the international exchange of students and scholars. Since it was founded in 1925, more than 1.5 million scholars in Germany and abroad have received DAAD funding.
DAAD International Programmes
DAAD offer various international bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in Germany.
They offer internationally recognised degrees.
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They are taught solely or primarily in English (or another major foreign language).
They have an internationalised curriculum with study periods abroad and/or have ties with international guest lecturers and universities.
They include professional coaching and counselling for international students inside and outside your specific area of study.
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International doctoral programmes that are especially interested in attracting international doctoral students. All these doctoral programmes share the following characteristics:
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Jet Aviation Dubai receives FAA approval for the new Gulfstream G650
Jet Aviation Dubai recently received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to provide line and base maintenance to Gulfstream G650 aircraft.
"We are very pleased to broaden our maintenance capabilities for Gulfstream owners and operators in the region," says Michael Rücker, vice president and general manager at Jet Aviation Dubai. "We are continuously investing in new technologies and the ongoing training of our employees to ensure we meet the highest business aviation standards for the benefit of our customers."


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Meet Lauren, pretty sure the tallest HottHe of the Week, He has ever featured. Probably not hard to tell Lauren is a model but you might not know she is also a blogger. Thinks He loves: tall girls, long legs, high heels, tall girls in high heels, long hair. He thinks everyone is getting the point, the pictures speak for themselves, Lauren is He Approved.
Favorite item you own? I hate picking favorites, it's such a difficult task! But I honestly don't know what I would do without my favorite pair of black skinny jeans. They go with just about anything and they make my legs look fabulous. Those pants are just so dreamy
Who are your favorite designers? Once again it's hard to narrow down my favorites, not to mention I can't even afford a majority of their things anyways. But my all time favorite would have to be Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, so chic and ladylike, yet still very sexy on. I also adore Alexander Wang, Rick Owens, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Alexander McQueen, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Thakoon, Marchesa.. the list could go on forever.HE Needs More HottHes? Non-Bloggers and Bloggers wanted, please be Hot and Stylish and most importantly He Approved. Send your name, facebook link, and where you are from to firstname.lastname@example.com or Add He as a Facebook Friend.


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Topman has really upped their game this season, starting with the recent release of the U-Bahn collection. This look sees catwalk trends inspired by Berlin's edgy underground scene and pays homage to post-punk. Built on tough sculpted shapes, it is all about creating a fresh silhouette littered with antiqued military detail.
Check out the gallery below, where I have chosen a few pieces that best represent this trend.
The Navy Quilted Hooded Boundry Jacket
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The quilted jacket is everywhere at the moment, but I liked that fact that this one features a hood, perfect for rainy days. It is available for £50


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By Jason Bloomberg
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|June 18, 2013 09:03 AM EDT
BRISBANE, Calif., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet (www.collab.net), the leader for Enterprise Cloud Development, today announced TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate – major new capabilities for its open ALM platform. TeamForge Orchestrate is a new add-on product that helps software organizations connect disparate tools and activities, and produce cross-functional associations and visual traceability throughout the application lifecycle. TeamForge 7 includes Adaptive Planning Boards for hybrid Agile-based project management and Lifecycle Dashboards for centralized visibility across projects and tools. Together, TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate provide IT organizations with an open and extendable ALM platform for enterprise Agile and DevOps that greatly reduces cycle times – while providing the freedom and control to use a range of open source and commercial tools in unison.
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"With the advent of mobile and cloud, the days of the heavyweight and monolithic toolsets to build and deploy software are over, making room for a federated ALM platform that coalesces all of the assets, data and activities that occur throughout software delivery," said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. "TeamForge 7 and Orchestrate address the challenges resulting from today's increasingly complex software environments, allowing cross-tool data and cross-team activities to flow in a structured, traceable and visual manner – empowering organizations to improve code quality through better collaboration and traceability"
Today's software delivery environments are increasingly fragmented due to the open nature of development and the proliferation of tools and processes. New applications and delivery platforms, such as cloud, mobile, social and big data mandate new strategies for ALM success. Synchronizing cross-functional data from the tools teams want to use, and coordinating activities that occur from "idea through deployment," is critical to Agile and DevOps success.
TeamForge continues to solve the dilemma of having to choose a monolithic platform over best-of-breed point tools. With Orchestrate, it collects and stores metadata related to key lifecycle activities and draws associations between disparate tools for the ultimate purpose of traceability. This centralized system of record connects previously unconnected ALM activities, syndicating human and machine-generated transactions to bridge IT silos and provide context between tasks. The result is cross-functional and automated ALM traceability – presented in an intuitive graphical interface – that is critically important for software engineers and a capability that is sorely lacking in today's commercial tools that provide only simplistic traceability support.
"The need to collaborate across tools and processes has never been stronger, and organizations realize this is a must requirement if they want to scale Agile and bridge development and operations via DevOps," said Melinda Ballou, principal analyst at IDC. "Coordinating point tool choices and providing the centralized and social collaboration needed to manage change in a structured fashion are key elements for successful innovation and execution."
TeamForge Orchestrate offers:
- Control Center for Delivery Pipelines: creates traceability across disparate tools, enabling graphical traceability of delivery pipelines across tools and clouds to measurably reduce cycle times.
- Social Activity Streams: embedded social activity streams link comments and discussions to events, data and activities to provide context through continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Agent-based APIs: an easy-to-use integration model provides traceability links between TeamForge and third-party tools. This eliminates "vendor lock-in." Pre-packaged integrations include Git and Subversion, Jenkins, TeamCity, ReviewBoard and others. This tool ecosystem can be expanded with community-built integrations.
TeamForge 7 offers:
- Adaptive Planning Boards: helps teams facilitate product and release planning regardless of development method – Agile, traditional or hybrid in-houses processes – in real-time and through a flexible drag-and-drop framework.
- Enterprise Lifecycle Dashboards: a range of pre-packaged and customizable lifecycle reports provide a holistic view across projects, tools and platforms.
- Additional features: include greatly enhanced usability with 3x faster workflows, updated support for Git/Gerrit and more.
For more information on TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate please visit: http://visit.collab.net/TeamForge7Resources_LP.html
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CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a development platform and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management and Subversion Edge and Enterprise Git source code management can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CloudForge™ enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support TeamForge and leading third-party tools. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
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Fort Worth, Texas (PRWEB) January 31, 2013
Remedy Roofing brings competent, top-level professionals to the Fort Worth roofing industry along with consumer peace of mind
Remedy Roofing has earned Master Elite Contractor status with the nation's leading manufacturer of roofing materials, GAF. This level of certification is reserved for the top two percent of all construction companies in the country. Along with this elite status, Remedy Roofing brings a knowledgeable staff to service the roofing installation, repair and maintenance needs of customers in the Fort Worth roofing industry and beyond.
GAF has established steps to become a Master Elite Contractor and be awarded with this distinction. First, a company has to be licensed. In addition, potential masters of the industry have to be insured. Third, contractors must have a strong reputation for providing roofing services that meet a high-quality standard. Lastly, master elite contractors should illustrate a commitment to continuing professional education, staying abreast of the newest technology and construction methods and materials.
Remedy Roofing's contractors have a wide knowledge base in the application and maintenance of quality roofing structures. They use the finest materials and brand name products to ensure the reliability and durability of roofing for residential and commercial projects. Not only are Remedy Roofing employees fully licensed, they are also fully bonded and insured to get the job completed correctly, on time and safely.
The combination of premium roofing shingles and membranes with competent personnel characterizes the quality of Remedy Roofing's work, thereby meeting GAF's third component for elite status.
Remedy Roofing Continues to Provide High Level of Customer Support
Remedy Roofing prides itself on providing excellent customer service, demonstrating this commitment through their support of the Center for Advancement of Roofing Excellence, CARE for short, which educates consumers about roofing in order for them to make informed decisions concerning their home. By sharing what they have learned with the community, Remedy Roofing has the opportunity to keep training an already experienced staff.
Fort Worth roofing customers have the added benefit of working with a company that is recognized by Inc., a national business magazine, and has received top ratings from the Better Business Bureau.
Contact Remedy Roofing today to learn how a Master Elite Contractor is fully equipped to provide the solution to meet any Fort Worth roofing challenge. Look around their website for answers to any roofing question or to request service. For more information visit http://www.remedyroofing.com or call 1-866-919-2623 now.
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The Handmaiden is based on the novel "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters The novel is set in London during the 19th century, but the film is set in Korea in the 1930s, under Japanese colonial rule. The pickpocket Sook-Hee (Tae-ri Kim) is hired by the Japanese heiress Lady Hideko to be her personal servant. Hideko is supported by her Uncle Kouzuki and the gold-digger "Count Fujiwara", who is indeed son of peasants, wants to marry her to steal her inheritance. Sook-Hee is a small-time thief of the ring of the conman "Count Fujiwara" and is sent to help him in the confidence game. But soon Hideko and Sook-Hee get close to each other and become lovers.
I saw this movie while knowing very little about it, all I knew is that there is a conspiracy against the heiress and the girl who is pretending to be her maid falls in love with her. The twist before part 2 (the film is divided into 3 parts) really took me off guard which is very rare, but I knew the movie was fantastic long before then.
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The Handmaiden
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(272) Take your La La Land too + links
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|Rambling Friday
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Academy actually did something right this year! Twice!
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|Tuesday, January 24, 2017
|Oscar Buzz
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I had only two Oscar dreams today. And they both came true.
Bravo, Academy. Bravo for finally not awarding the mediocrity personified Amy Adams for doing nothing for yet another time in her career. Still, it would have been better if her terrible movie didn't score 8 (undeserved) nominations nor that the nomination for Best Actress went to Meryl Streep for her silly little Globes tirade (no one actually thinks it's just because of the performance, right?) but her missing out is glorious. Of course I cannot truly enjoy it because I keep seeing people whining about this 'snub'. How many times did someone get snubbed because of this basic blandness getting in? 2? 3? 4? 5?
Friday, January 20, 2017
(271) Take your Arrivals and take your Moonlights + links
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|Friday, January 20, 2017
|Rambling Friday
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(270) La La Globes + links
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(269) Black Mirror + links
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Wingham Rowan is Director of the "Beyond Jobs" project in London, UK. In recent months he has presented at Downing Street, The World Bank, the Federal Reserve and The White House.
Beyond Jobs grew out of multiple UK government investments to create advanced markets for odd hours of work. Wingham oversaw these projects and market launches.
Many years before "The Sharing Economy", he authored two books (one published internationally) and countless articles about the potential of new markets for irregular economic activity in communities. At the time he was producing and hosting what became the UK's longest running TV series about the Internet.
He has written multiple policy papers about the "grey zone" between structured work and unemployment in cities. His papers arguing employment policy needs to support better markets for non-standard work have been published by institutes from the anti-poverty left to the free-market right.


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We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site or our apps. We:
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Bollywood Actress Soha Ali Khan upset with her Hot Photo Shot.
But on the Same time he deny one pics. That is his Topless pic and also on the same time Angry on the Media for his Irresponisble Behavoiur
Shiney Confessess to Raping Her Maid. He confesses that this was just an accident.
UFF!!!! What kind of Accident this was??
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Bollywood Actress Amrita Rao now appears in hot and sexy look in his upcoming film SHORTCUT . Seems That Amrita Rao for attaining for attention tend to change his style
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Ho Ho No! With Twinkies' Fate Uncertain, Try This Recipe• http://www.cnbc.com
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Ingredients:Non-stick spray 4 egg whites One 16-ounce box golden pound cake mix 2/3 cup water Filling 2 teaspoons very hot water 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups marshmallow creme (one 7-ounce jar) 1/2 cup shortening 1/3 cup powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
You will need a spice bottle, approximately the size of a Twinkie, ten 12 x 14 -inch pieces of aluminum foil, a cake decorator or pastry bag, and a chopstick.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Fold each piece of aluminum foil in half twice. Wrap the folded foil around the spice bottle to create a mold. Leave the top of the mold open for pouring in the batter. Make 10 of these molds and arrange them on a cookie sheet or in a shallow pan. Grease the inside of each mold with a light coating of non-stick spray.
Disregard the directions on the box of cake mix. Instead, beat the egg whites until stiff. In a separate bowl combine cake mix with water and beat until thoroughly blended (about 2 minutes). Fold egg whites into the cake batter and slowly combine until completely mixed.
Pour the batter into the molds, filling each one about 3/4 of an inch. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.
For the filling, combine salt with the hot water in a small bowl and stir until salt is dissolved. Let this mixture cool.
Combine the marshmallow creme, shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl and mix well with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy.
Add the salt solution to the filling mixture and combine.
When the cakes are done and cooled, use a skewer or chopstick to make three holes in the bottom of each one. Move the stick around inside of each cake to create space for the filling.
Using a cake decorator or pastry bag, inject each cake with filling into all three holes.
Serves 10.


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The killer climbed the stairs quickly. On the first floor, he walked along the hallway listening at every door. He pressed his ear against each door and listened for any sign of commotion. He walked briskly yet carefully as he sought to cover as much ground as possible. Soon, he was on the second floor. He continued the same routine until he reached the third floor. Isabell's heart was pounding so hard that she thought her heart was going to jump out of her mouth any moment. Jariye remained calmed and collected. He had sent a text to Madubene to inform him where they were. Madubene was driving frantically to the location.
"I don't know yet. We have to let him make the first move. For now, he has no clue where we are, so that is great," Jariye answered in a whisper.
"You could have shot him when he was down there."
"There were too many people around him. I could have hit an innocent person."
"I am so afraid. How do you manage to remain so calm?"
"I don't know. We have to find a way out of here or take him out. Just remain quiet."
They heard a noise a short distance away. Their assailant had become impatient. He was now entering each apartment, yanking people onto the hallway and questioning them at gunpoint.
It is only a matter before the occupants of this apartment point at us," Isabell remarked.
Jariye did not answer. He crept back into the apartment and told the occupants to move into ne room. "I will not harm you," he promised in a low controlled tone. "The man out there is dangerous. If you stay in this room, you will be safe. Don't come out until I tell you to, okay?"
They nodded fearfully. The man, his wife and two children walked into their spare bedroom and locked the door tightly. The man's hands shook as he locked the door. Jariye told Isabell to remain on the balcony.
"If things get out of hand, jump and run for your life. I will try my best to take him out. Do not come back into the apartment no matter what happens," he warned her.
"Are you going to be okay? I can't leave without you," she said.
"I will be fine. Just do as I said."
Jariye returned to the shabby living room. The paint on the walls was peeling off and the curtains on the windows were old and rumpled with numerous holes and stains. He made sure to stand to the right of the door, far removed from possible line of fire through the main door to the apartment. He held his gun in place, ready to shoot. Soon, he heard footsteps down the hallway. Then, there was a gentle knock on the door at first, which was followed by a loud bang. The hired killer had grown too impatient. He stepped back and shot the door open. The loud banging noise sent Isabell's heart into her mouth. She stood by the wall away from the door shaking like a tree swaying under the force of a gusty wind. Jariye waited patiently and calmly. The killer did not step inside immediately. After shooting at the lock and hinges, he kicked hard on the door sending it falling inwards.
The room was dark. Jariye had removed the light bulb earlier. The killer shot randomly around the room first. Then, he listened. When his ears did not pick up any sound, he stuck his hand in and shot to the right and then to the left. After about thirty seconds, he crept into the apartment on his knees. The occupants of the apartment nearly died of fear. The man had a hand over his son's mouth while his wife closed their daughter's mouth, clutching her preciously. They too made sure to stand away from the door. Isabell was shaking even more. She latched onto the wall biting her lower lip with her hands to her side as they quivered feverishly.
The killer looked around carefully as he crept from one corner to the other. Now, Jariye can see him. He fired a shot at him. He hit him in the torso. The killer dropped on his belly and blood began to ooze out. Just when Jariye thought he was dead, he rose to get a closer look. In a desperate attempt to fight back, the killer aimed quickly at Jariye and squeezed the trigger. He had aimed at his chest, but his hand shook as searing pains swept through him. Bullets spewed from the barrel of his gun, flying with rocket speed at Jariye. He made and attempt to duck, but one bullet caught him in the shoulder. He dropped to his knees and fired one more shots at the killer. The killer dropped cold on the floor. Jariye felt a gush of blood down his body. Suddenly, he felt woozy. His knees gave way and he dropped to the ground, landing on his head.
London, England
Michael Ibukunle got off the train at Upton Park in East London. He and his wife and three children had relocated comfortably to East London with the millions they raked in from his deals with Peter Iningo and Alex Uwadighibe. He walked casually to his favorite meat stall at Upton Pak Market; a popular African/Asian Market in East London.
"My good friend, what do you want today?" Asked Abdul, a butcher.
"Good to see you Abdul. I want my usual," Ibukunle replied.
"I know what you like, my friend," Abdul enthused with a warm smile.
He went on to cut Ibukunle a sizeable chunk of 'Shaki' (cow intestine) and 'Pomo' (cow skin). Ibukunle had thought he would miss those delicacies when he left home for London. He handed Abdul a wad of notes. He counted it quickly and shoved it into his pocket.
"I gave you some extra my friend!" He said boisterously.
"That is why I always come back to you, Abdul," Ibukunle replied.
He left with a gleeful smile whistling gently as he walked southwards along Selsdon Road. A short distance from the market, he took a right turn onto Walton Road, and then another right turn, a short while later, onto Credon Road. He could see the house he and his wife had bought months earlier. He was pleased with his hard bargaining with Uwadighibe and Iningo. We have now put all our troubles behind us, he thought as he slotted his key into the keyhole. He squeezed to the right and pulled on the door which flung open. As soon as he began to walk in, three men jumped from the road onto his property. They pushed him briskly into the house and locked the door behind them. Before he could react, a hand came over his mouth and slammed it firmly shut. Fear crept into his eyes, but he fought hard. The three of them were too powerful for him. Soon, he was on the ground and one was holding a gun at him. "Your wife and children are already cooperating upstairs. If you try anything silly, I will blow your brains onto the ground and wipe them too," the one holding a gun said.
He looked around the best he could from his position. The other two had guns that hung dangerously on their waists. The thought of his wife and children dying instilled further fear into him. The pleasant thought of devouring a plate of pepper soup in which Shaki and Pomo tumbled over each other quickly vanished from his now tormented mind. He nodded to indicate that he was willing to cooperate with them. They took him upstairs where two other men watched his wife and children in the living room. His heart sank into his stomach the moment he saw his wife and children gagged and tied up. Fear walked boldly in the corridors of their eyes. Mr. Ibukunle sat down. He looked around as he wondered if there might be a miraculous escape route out of their situation. Their captors were heavily built men whose muscles sang loud choruses with every movement of their bodies. Some of them were white and some were black. They all had an English accent. The two who had been upstairs with his family covered their faces with a mask. The fact that the other three did not, scared the life out of Mr. Ibukunle. They are going to kill us all, he concluded.
"How many people did you sell the videos to?" The tall richly dark one with a forest of beards on his face asked.
"What are you talking about?" Ibukunle asked.
The man walked closer to him and without warning, slammed him in the mouth with the handle of his gun. Blood slowly oozed out of his mouth as he clutched his face. His wife and children cried painfully. With their mouths gagged, their cries were completely muffled.
"If you mess around with me, I will shoot you in front of your children," he warned him.
"I…I sold it to…to…to Chief Uwadighibe and Mr. Peter Iningo," he answered.
He was dazed from the strike earlier, but he strove to stay calm.
"So there is no other person in possession of the videos?"
"Actually, my brother, Damian and my sister, Lola have a copy each. They have made copies that they left their best friends. If they fail to hear from me in a week, they have instructions to send copies of the videos to Agudugba Televison Service, Katakata Television Station and News Agency of Agudugba. I encouraged them to send copies to foreign media such as CNN as well in the event that I am killed, or any of my family is killed."
"You have to call them now, and tell them to destroy the videos."
"I can't. They have them locked away in separate places. Besides, the moment I say that to them, they'd know that something is wrong. They will do the opposite. We talked about this already."
"He is lying," one of the men said to their leader.
"What if he is telling the truth?" The leader of the group asked him in return.
"I don't believe him," the man answered.
"Me neither," another of the abductors added.
"It is true!" Ibukunle insisted.
"I need the addresses of your brother and sister," the leader ordered.
"I don't believe you after all," he said to Ibukunle.
"You gain nothing from killing my family and I. If you do go ahead and kill us, I promise you, the whole world will hear about Mrs. Iningo and governor Mabali."
"I don't know who those are. I have a job to do, so my men and I'll go ahead and do it. Take the children and the woman to the basement and shoot them," he ordered his men.
Corletta Ibukunle began to very profusely as did her children. The men dragged them to the basement as ordered.
"You have one last chance to save your life. Where are the spare copies of the videos?"
"What difference does it make? You are going to shoot us anyway. Why would I give you something that would fight and speak for me and my family from our graves?"
"So you are prepared to die for the videos? Is that how much you value your family"
"You know we have seen you face and those of your two other men. You would not want us identifying you to the police. I know how all that works. You came here prepared to kill us. You were told to get the videos if there are any…and kill us anyway. I don't want to see my children and wife, die but I know you are ready to do so. Go ahead and shoot me. I will fight even from my grave!!!!"
He shot him three times in the chest without warning. Ibukunle fell backwards. His neck tilted as he gave up the ghost, thick blood dripping heavily from his mouth.
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The Christopher Columbus You Never Learned About In School
Christopher Columbus: The Man Who Almost Discovered America
History of Accidental Discovery and Intentional Slaughter
Myth-making about our American heritage is a big part of what shapes our sense of who we are in the world when we're growing up. I remember learning about Columbus in school.
He was, we were told, a bold pioneer who challenged the common wisdom that the world was flat.
His ships, he was warned, would fall off the edge, into some hellish oblivion.
Only Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were willing, against all odds, make his voyage of discovery possible, financing the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria in search of the New World.
But wait a minute?
How could he be looking for the New World when nobody, including Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella, imagined there was one?
Columbus's actual intention was to enrich himself and Spain by finding a sailing route to Asia and its fabled wealth.
But through his bravery, he discovered America instead, leading to colonization by an enlightened European culture.
Little of this, it turns out, is true.
Yes, Christopher Columbus believed he was on his way to Asia and thought he'd landed in India where spices were available that might please the King - and make Columbus, who negotiated 10% of the profits as part of his deal, wealthy too.
That's right, Columbus was no Meriwether Lewis or William Clark, off to explore new lands for the sake of patriotic discovery. He was in it for the money.
But Columbus Discovered America!
Dumb luck.
Columbus's ridiculously off-base calculations about the size of the world turned off every monarch he approached before the Spaniards.
He figured the world as much smaller than it is, roughly five times smaller, no matter what everyone else believed, and his wrongheaded convictions would have lead to the death by starvation of his entire crew had he not bumped into the Caribbean Islands by accident.
Even at that, still sure of himself in spite of the evidence, Columbus insisted he'd landed on islands just off the coast of China.
In order to tickle the King and Queen into more financing, he also claimed, without evidence, that there were vast fields of gold - and, tragically for the future of North America and Africa, thousands of compliant natives who could be exported to Spain as slaves.
Oh, and the flat world thing? No educated person thought the world was flat in 1492, and most hadn't since Aristotle explained that the Earth is an rounded orb, nearly two-thousand years earlier.
Celebrating The Father of "Complete Genocide" On October 12th
"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide." - Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, Harvard Professor and historian Samuel Eliot Morison from Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.
What's striking about this quote is that Morison goes on to excuse the explorer's atrocities because of what he describes as "...his superb faith in God and his own mission as the Christ-bearer," offering the same kind of religiously-based rationalizations put up to justify genocides and ethnic cleansings around the world.
Although the Catholic Encyclopedia lionizes Columbus and justifies the wrongful characterization by leaving out the ugliest parts of the story, few Catholics or other Christians would honor Christopher Columbus on October 12th each year, if they knew everything there is to know about him.
What kind of gutlessness influenced the educational authorities of my generation to turn a blind eye on Columbus's brutality and failures? It's not as if they weren't known. They were. They just were taught.
We don't honor with individual national holidays of tribute to Lewis or Clark, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, John Hancock or a host of other gallant figures who risked their lives in the discovery and building of America.
Aside from Martin Luther King and Christ, it's Christopher Columbus alone who's given a solo day of tribute. It's unjustified and a blow to American ideals of freedom and honor.
Histories of Native American Genocide
Descendents of European culture may feel comfortable mythologizing Christopher Columbus's legend as discoverer and settler of the new world.
But the Arawak and other cultures were already settled here, and what may seem like bravery to us in the Age of Discovery and beyond was a decades long genocide for them.
Christopher Columbus And The Profits Of Slavery
"We could subjugate them all..." Christopher Columbus
A famous painting by Delacroix depicts Columbus triumphant return to the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella, who - who we shouldn't forget - were also the leaders of the bloody Spanish Inquisition.
We've been taught the myths, but what did Christopher Columbus really do?
He never set foot in North America. He probably didn't realize it was there.
That is well-known. He discovered the Caribbean because he was a terrible navigator who miscalculated the size of the world, thinking he'd hit Asia.
Arriving in the Indies, Columbus set a tone for a tragic future, as he wrote in his log, "I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts."
Ominously, he added, "They would make fine servants. With fifty men, we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
As samples for the King and Queen, Columbus brought a handful of Arawak natives with him on his return to Spain, probably by force or deception. Several died when exposed to cold weather for the first time.
In his appeal for financing for a second voyage west, highlighting the benefits he hoped to bring the Spanish monarch, Columbus promised "...as much gold as they need...and as many slaves as they ask."
Among his first shipment of five-hundred human slaves, two-hundred died on the way to Spain, much as, in centuries to come, African slaves would perish in large numbers during the ocean crossing to America.
Undeterred by this human catastrophe and driven most likely by his growing realization that he was never going to find enough gold to pay back his investors, Columbus next invoked God as his guide.
"Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity," he wrote, "go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."
I'll spare you the cruelties that were common in Columbus's administration of the Indies as well as that of his followers, but you should be aware that among the results was the "complete genocide" of the Arawak people who had occupied the area, living communally in relative peace, for hundreds of years before Columbus lead his crew of Spaniards onto their lands.
So peaceful were the Arawak that they swam out to meet Columbus's ships when they saw them break the horizon.
The Arawak freely shared whatever they had with Columbus and his men.
Eventually and before he was recalled to Spain under charges of extreme cruelty toward the natives, Columbus and his underlings tortured and killed many.
Those still alive were forced into slavery.
The Most Un-American Holiday, Columbus Day, October 12
There's a minor industry of excuse makers and myth builders, from the Knights of Columbus to Fox News, who campaign to keep the long accepted story of Columbus's heroism alive.
I agree that having heroes, even mythological ones that stand out as shining examples of the ideals we cherish, are worth keeping in our collective cultural consciousness.
In down to earth terms, Gandhi's brave nonviolence in search of independence, and Nelson Mandela's astonishing sacrifices for racial equality are right in front of us.
The band of brothers who risked death for treason by standing up to King George deserve to be recognized as do women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton who faced ridicule and rejection to win women the same rights the Brothers won.
So does the courage of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Medgar Evers.
I can easily come up with a hundred Americans more deserving than the genocidal, accidental tourist who got lucky by bumping into the Bahamas.
That we allow so many brave men and women to fade into the background while we salute Christopher Columbus should make us think again about the example we make when we put Christopher on a pedestal as representative of our American values.
Christopher Columbus on Crusade
Like the Conquistadors who followed, Christopher Columbus had little regard for human rights or respect for the natives in the lands where he landed.
His motivations were religious and ambitious, a brutal combination in which genocide was as comfortable for him as it was for his handlers, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, the beasts who sponsored the Inquisition.
Americans have nothing of which to be proud or worth celebrating on October 12, Columbus birthday.
And let's take down every damned statue of this mass murderer too.
Just do it.
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