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Whenever you travel abroad it is important to have that 'what if' scenario in the back of our brains because the world can be a scary place, that is unless you have someone totally bad ass looking out for you. "In The Blood" is a low budget action shoot in the vein of "Taken", and while it has moments of looking a little cheap, it's got a surprisingly solid cast and a strong yet simple narrative that holds up pretty darn well.
The newly married Ava and Derek (Gina Carano and Cam Gigandet) set off on their Caribbean honeymoon to start their new life together and put the troubles of their past behind them. However when Derek goes missing, a frantic Ava begins looking for him only to have the eyes of the family and the law looking directly at her for the disappearance. She quickly learns that her husband's only hope is herself as she takes matters into her own hands to find the man that she loves and clear her name.
It's by no means high art, and takes one too many things on faith, but "In The Blood" manages to be a decent little action thriller and a good vehicle for Carano as she looks to stretch her acting muscles.
Director John Stockwell who has transitioned from acting (he was Cougar in 1986's "Top Gun") to directing has developed into a steady but all be it unspectacular directing hand who get a story from point A to point B without too much fuss. Giving the proceedings a little bit more of a low budget feel gave the shoot some positive and negative elements to work with, but the dark streets and dimly lit streets in this shift Caribbean island successfully created some tension to work with and made it all feel very present and in the moment. The script from the writing team of James Robert Johnson and Bennett Yellin, leaves a few things to be desired as both men have more of a comedy and horror background, but it gets the basic frame work right making it easier over look any mediocre dialogue or logic jumps.
In her first non-Soderbergh leading role, Gina Carano puts in some good work and is developing her skills as an actress. She puts us in the moment, balancing her stunning beauty with her no nonsense bad attitude to try and get the answers she needs in protecting her family. She'd be the first to admit that she is still a girl, but hardly one to be trifled with either. It's sexuality rolled up into some classic action movie swagger and she does it well.
As Carano actually ends up carrying the bulk of the film, it's a little odd how somewhat loaded this ensemble cast. Cam Gigandet, Danny Trejo, Luis Guzman, Stephen Lang, Amaury Nolasco and Treat Williams are all fine in their respective roles, but it would have been nice if their characters had been fleshed out a little more than they were to make feel a little less like stunt casting and more like building an ensemble that was trying to tell a fully fleshed out story.
At the end of the day, "In The Blood" is meant as an action vehicle for Carano and from that standpoint it works pretty darn well as she certainly has the looks and the combat skills to make it as an action star while her performance here actually takes her on that next step towards developing as a genuine actress as well.
3 out of 5 stars.
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College Hockey:Ohio State Slips By Union
Reserve Netminder Keserich Saves 30
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With goals from Sean Collins and Mathieu Beaudoin, Ohio State edged visiting Union 2-1 at Value City Arena.
"Was that our best effort? No," said OSU head coach John Markell. "Do I think Union came in and played a good road game? They did. They outshot their opponent, they won the first period. In the second period we got it going but penalties kept us off balance.
"It certainly showed what we went through as a team. We'll take the 2-1 win the Saturday after exams. We're going to go back to building off the good stuff that we did."
Sophomore Ian Keserich had 30 saves in his first win of the season for the Buckeyes, filling in for injured senior Dave Caruso, who had knee surgery earlier in the week. Caruso is expected back for the Ohio Hockey Classic Dec. 29-30.
"I thought Keserich came in and did a good job under the circumstances," said Markell, "but we are a team that can improve and hopefully we can find our legs here tomorrow."
The Dutchmen became the first team to outshoot the Buckeyes this season; OSU was averaging more than 36 shots per contest coming into the weekend.
But in spite of out-gunning the Bucks in the opening stanza, the Dutchmen fell behind 1-0 after one on Sean Collins' fourth goal of the season at 18:06. The goal was OSU's third shot in the period.
"To only give up three shots and one goal, that hurt," said Union head coach Nate Leaman. "I thought we had some outstanding opportunities. To come through with nothing to show for it kind of hurt."
Both Buckeye goals resulted from Dutchmen turnovers in their own end. On Collins' goal, Union lost control of the puck in the right corner, and the play eventually came to Buckeye Dave Barton behind the net.
Barton shot it out front and hit the skate of Dutchman Lane Caffaro; the puck squirted to Collins, whose one-timer from the top of the slot ripped by Union goaltender Kris Mayotte on the right.
Mathieu Beaudoin made it 2-0 for OSU at 15:49 in the second. It was again Barton with the first assist, this time a home-run pass from the right Buckeye circle to Beaudoin who was just about to cross the blueline into Union territory. Beaudoin skated in and shook off a Union defender, netting his sixth of the season, five-hole, as he sprawled to the ice in the right circle.
Late in the third period, Dutchman head coach Nate Leaman called a timeout to give his players a breather and regroup for a last push.
"I thought our guys were a little gassed. We were talking about getting Mayo out of the net and changing up, getting our D a little bit more aggressive. We knew we had to get the first one."
The call paid off with Scott Seney's power-play goal at 18:50, scored six-on-four with Mayotte pulled for the two-man advantage. Seney picked up his own rebound on a play that began with Josh Coyle's shot from the point.
The Dutchmen had another power play in the closing minute of the game as OSU was called for too many men, and again pulled Mayotte for a two-man advantage, but were unable to capitalize a second time.
"I think that the fact that they scored the first goal and we carried the play in the first periodkind of hurt our confidence a little bit," said Leaman, "but I thought that the last three minutes were really going to help our confidence for tomorrow.
"But you've got to give that goaltender a credit. I thought he made a lot of things look like they just hit him in the middle of the chest and he made them look easy. They're a team that does a good job of limiting your second opportunities."
Markell thought his team was sluggish. "I don't know if we had the legs we normally have. Maybe that's Union. They're a good skating team. They've got good forwards. I thought they had a good overall game. They moved the puck well on the power play, they're aggressive on the penalty kill. They came with a great effort."
Mayotte finished the night with 20 saves as the Dutchmen outshot the Buckeyes 31-22. Union was 1-for-7 on the power play, OSU 0-for-4.
Union (9-6-2, 3-3-0 ECACHL) and Ohio State (8-6-2, 6-4-1 CCHA) will play again Sunday at 3:05 p.m. in Value City Arena.
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A Tioga County chef has being transferered to a Pennsylvania burn center for treatment of multiple burns suffered in a kitchen fire Sunday at a restaurant that had opened for business just several days earlier. The blaze, believed to have been caused by a punctured aerosol can catching fire, happened at the new Sisters Family Restaurant in the Village of Waverly, located southeast of Elmira. It was immediately closed for repairs, but is scheduled to open this Wednesday.
According to fire officials, Jamie Miccio was found outside the restaurant on the ground with first-degree burns to her face, second-degree burns to her arms, legs and stomach. After being treated at the scene and taken to the Robert Packer Hospital in nearby Sayre, Pennsylvania, she was transferred to the Lehigh Valley Burn Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Sisters Julie Trudeau and Tammy Blow opened the restaurant on July 9 in a former servicemen's club. They told local media that Miccio was instrumental in helping create the facility. She is married and the mother of two.
Fire investigators pieced together the chain of events. They said Miccio was alone when she opened up the restaurant on Sunday and turned on the grill to pre-heat it. While her back was turned, an aerosol can near the grill exploded and flames hit Miccio. The event was ruled accidental.
"They told me she turned around and shielded herself with her arms," Blow told the Press & Sun-Bulletin. "She didn't know what happened but she noticed the fire suppression didn't come on, so before she went outside, she flipped the switch."
Trudeau added, "We've all worked at different restaurants together for a long time. She helped us decorate and she also baked the bread. She was really upset about our having to be closed, but she cared more about the business than she did herself."
The sisters said they will hold an official grad opening ceremony when their friend and colleague is released from the hospital. The restaurants is located at 2 North Chemung Street. Phone: 607-565-2010.


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it was a night when all of the stars were aligned, and the brightest one in the sky cast its luster upon a 26-year-old from San
Jose, Calif. If not for that one evening of brilliance, the world might never have fallen in love with Rudy Galindo.
That wild night...in 1996...when he captured the U.S. men's title.
His flawless performance as a modern jazz dancer portraying the evil Baron Von Rothbart from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is arguably one of the most exciting moments in skating history.
That night changed his life.
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Things are busy, busy, busy as the April 3 date for the iPad to go on sale. Apple is working to drum up lots of content for the new device in a variety of areas.
Games are the predominant type of app being tested on the iPad, making up 44% of the total, according to info from Flurry Analytics. Entertainment apps -- including videos -- come in second with 14%. Social networking programs made up 7% of the total, followed by sports, travel, lifestyle, and utilities.
Apple is also reportedly working hard to get TV shows on the iPad. "The Wall Street Journal" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870352320457512986226470419...) says Apple has put its magazine, newspaper and textbook projects "on backburner" as it concentrates on cutting media content deals in the weeks before the iPad's launch. The article says Apple has postponed its rumored "iTunes TV" plan to offer "best of TV" packages as US$30 per month subscription services "because few media companies were interested."
Instead, Apple wants to cut the price of individual TV shows to 99 cents, down from the $1.99 and $2.99 currently charged for most shows on iTunes. However, most TV studios are balking at the price cut, worried that it would "jeopardize the tens of billions of dollars in subscription fees" cable and satellite companies pay now for their content. On the other hand, according to the "WSJ," Apple argues that lowering the price could create new markets.
If you want to develop anything for the iPad, be prepared to deal with Apple's heavy veil of secrecy. According to "BusinessWeek" (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2010/tc20100318_833402.htm") is taking some very stringent security measures when it comes to developers of potential products and content for the device. Would-be testers of the tablet-style computer must promise to keep it isolated in a room with blacked-out windows, the article adds, attributing the info to "four people familiar with the more than 10-page pact that bars partners from disclosing information about the iPad."
"To ensure that it can't be removed, the iPad must also remain tethered to a fixed object, said the people, who asked not to be named because their plans for the iPad have not been made public," says "BusinessWeek." "Apple won't send out an iPad until potential partners send photographic evidence that they've complied."
As mentioned, the iPad -- now available for pre-order -- is due to hit the stores April 3. At least the Wi-Fi only versions will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
The Wi-Fi iPad sells for a suggested retail price of US$499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB models. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store, Apple's retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.


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bananaholic wrote:How can you be so sure it's going to be Seasons? Have they given out some hints?
debrawolfsohn wrote:I really liked Freetime cause with the sewing machine & pottery wheel you could make things to sell in my all time favorite: Open For Business.
I loved being able to open a store on my home lot and sell things I made.
It would be fun for Sims 3 to be able to breed animals & sell them at our own Pet Stores or open a Farm Stand for all the garden vegetables my Sims grow. A nice addition would be to grow flowers & plants to sell.
My Sims spend so much time discovering potions or making items at the bench, that I'd like to sell them too.
It would also be nice to be able to expand on the kids baking items on the play stove to adults. Opening a bakery would be fun.
I find that since my Sims have limited things to do, I get bored quickly. I spend more time in World Adventures because I can actually get them to discover & do things.
Wouldn't it be fun to make wine and then sell it? Or the 'treasures' we find on vacation could be sold in our own Antique Store?
So before Seasons (that I loved), I'd rather have something like Open For Business.
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In Linux, Is there a way to remember/change a path to a USB device?
In my case, I need linux to remember that my USB serial adapter will stay on /dev/ttyUSB0, but when I unplug it and plug it back in, it switches to /dev/ttyUSB1.
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The Wall Street Journal does pallets and gets it right
March 26, 2011 - MMH Editorial
The battle between wooden and plastic pallets - a fight as epic as the Hatfields and McCoys - landed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today. Better yet, Loaded Issue: Pallet Makers Sling Mud Over Who's Greenest, the article by Jennifer Levitz, is a great read.
Like the analysts and academics quoted in the article, I find it a sad battle. As most people know, I grew up in the wooden pallet industry. While most end users would love to get around pallets, there are few products in the supply chain as simple, inexpensive and effective as a wooden pallet for getting the job done. They're almost elegant in their simplicity.
At the same time, I was impressed with the new plastic pallets introduced by Orbis and Rehrig Pacific at ProMat this past week, and I'm an admirer of the iGPS plastic pallet pool.
Let's hope it's over soon. In the meantime, if you want to read about how the battle lines have been drawn, check out Levitz's article.
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Bob Trebilcock, executive editor, has covered materials handling, technology and supply chain topics for Modern Materials Handling since 1984. More recently, Trebilcock became editorial director of Supply Chain Management Review. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Trebilcock lives in Keene, NH. He can be reached at 603-357-0484.


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Please raise your hand if you are tired of the radio rotating the same twenty songs all day long. Go ahead, don't be shy. The truth is, many great bands never get the attention they deserve because of the way the music business is designed. Not every band should be a household name, but all deserve the chance to be heard.
The House of Blues Dallas is hosting the Next Big Thing Tour Sunday, February 19, 2012 from 11:00am to 10:45pm. This show will feature acts both local and national that could be the "next big thing". For the price of $15 at the door (more information here), all should come check out this mixture of alternative, pop, rock, metal, and everything in between.
If nothing else, support local Dallas bands and go to the House of Blues Cambridge Room. This venue provides an intimate experience allowing for an up close and personal show! Let the Examiner know what you think of the show by posting in the comment section below.
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Below is a schedule for the concert. Enjoy!
11am-11:20 Handicap Rebel
11:25-11:45 Do Something Krazy
11:55-12:15 Vital Gore
12:20-12:40 The Living Glory
12:45-1:05 The Scarlet Letter
1:15-1:35 I ate A Quarter
1:40-2:00 Sorrows Of The Unseen
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2:30-2:50 The Clutch Theory
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5:35-5:55 The Indecision
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8:10-8:35 Wasted Generation
8:40-9:00 Mixed Nutts
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God Doesn't Believe in Atheists was supposedly a response to atheism, but it was only atheism as imagined by a Christian, because it did not cite atheist thinkers. Sixteen years later, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence is a slightly improved version of the same theme. It is formatted as a Q&A with real questions that real atheists have posed to Comfort on his blog. Unfortunately, these questions are short, unscholarly, and vague, allowing Comfort ample room to misinterpret them.
To give a sense of what these popular books are about, I will analyze five main themes and explain why they failed to logically convince me of God's existence.
What is Comfort's "proof that the atheist doesn't exist?" It is only the disappointing and silly claim that true atheism — the certainty that there is no God — would require omniscience. "If you insist upon disbelief in God," he advises, "what you must say is, 'Having the limited knowledge I have at present, I believe that there is no God.' Owing to a lack of knowledge on your part, you don't know if God exists. So, in the strict sense of the word, you cannot be an atheist." (God Doesn't Believe in Atheists, page 15) I was not aware that the strict sense of "atheism" implies certain knowledge. His juvenile gambit on behalf of the impossibility of denying anything won't take him far. After all, what of his own repeated denials of evolution? "It doesn't matter how many thousands of years pass," he asserts confidently, "elephants don't have giraffes, nor do monkeys have men." (God Doesn't Believe in Atheists, page 71) How does he envision himself escaping the snarky retort that, because he isn't omniscient and didn't witness the birth of every animal that ever lived, he cannot deny evolution? God doesn't believe in creationists!
"Every building has a builder." This is Comfort's ubiquitous argument for why living beings must have had a Creator. Of course, as has been acknowledged by theologians for thousands of years, this principle implies an infinite regress of creators. Who made God? No one, says Comfort, because God created time and nothing could have been created before time. This "solution" merely exchanges one problem for another: how could time have been created, if time is a pre-requisite for creation? Another, more subtle issue: Why does Comfort assume that because God couldn't have been created, therefore He didn't need to be created? Why not just go with the other option: He doesn't exist?
At times, Comfort says the burden of proof is not on the Christian. "We don't have to prove God to the professing atheist. This is because he intuitively knows that he exists." (You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, page 9) How can he know what any atheist, much less all atheists, intuit and what proof they require? He doesn't acknowledge his own limitations, nor the burden of proof inherent in his own position.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence contains a hideously embarrassing contradiction. On page 8, Comfort says the conscience, rather than the intellect, testifies to God's existence and therefore the atheist's motivation for rejecting God "is moral. It's not intellectual." On page 35, he says the conscience has nothing to contribute whatsoever on this issue because "atheism is not a moral issue. It's an intellectual issue." On one of his central theses in a bestselling book, he blatantly contradicts himself.
(Comfort does not seem to be sensitive to contradictions in general. In responding to an objection that the creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other, he simply responds that they do not. Actually, they do, on the issue of whether plants were created before or after the first man.)
He is also unclear on whether atheists are moral. He acknowledges that studies have shown that stupidity and vice do not plague atheists any more than they plague Christians, and that people do not necessarily change their ways when they convert to Christianity, yet he insists on calling atheists "foolish" and "immoral." In some places, Comfort says the atheist has a working conscience and should recognize that it is God-given. In other places, he implies that the conscience doesn't function properly without the recognition of God. This is false, of course. A typical atheist certainly feels more restrictions on his behavior than "the bounds of a civil law he's ever expanding to accommodate his sinful desires." (You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, page 17) I have a conscience; I merely have an atheistic theory about what it is, what it does, and where it came from. Even if I am mistaken in my atheistic understanding of how I am wired for morality, I am nevertheless capable of decent behavior, which is far more important, and a point on which Comfort doesn't give me full credit.
If I believed in God and Hell, Hell would be a barrier toward my relationship with God. I don't wish other people to suffer harsh punishment for minor infractions; why should God enforce this? Comfort superficially explains that God is different because He is perfect and has more exacting standards, but this does not answer the question. We wouldn't consider it a perfection of our justice system to imprison everyone except repentant Christians. Why is God's moral perfection constituted by nitpicking and cruelty, when these things are not perfections in humans? Again, no explanation is given.
A cornerstone of these books is Comfort's pervasive parachute allegory. He describes himself as being in the position of knowing a plane is going to crash and warning the other passengers to put on their parachutes. Many passengers do not listen due to their pride, laziness, or disbelief. Why not, he suggests, just put on the parachute — that is, faith in Christ — because it is harmless and it will save you if there turns out to be anything to be saved from? Essentially, this is a version of Pascal's wager.
Here is an explanation of why someone might not make Pascal's wager. To flesh out the same allegory from the perspective of an obstinate passenger:
Many people in the world claim to have invisible friends. They say their invisible friends give them information through prayer, text study, moral law, spiritual leaders, prophecy, and so forth. I notice that their description of reality and their prediction of the future is no more accurate than that of people who do not claim to have invisible friends. I conclude that the invisible friends are actually imaginary, and I am content not to have one.
One day, as I am flying, another passenger stands up and announces: "My invisible friend tells me that the plane is going to crash! Put on a parachute!"
Another passenger stands up and yells: "Don't listen to him! His parachutes are ripped. Use my parachutes!"
A third passenger argues: "My invisible friend slashed all the parachutes on board. He takes care of his chosen people, and as none of you were born into the correct lineage, it's too bad for you."
The drama continues:
"My invisible friend will give you a parachute, but you have to take a lengthy conversion class before you will understand how to use it."
"My invisible friend says planes never crash, particularly not when he's riding them."
"All the parachutes will work, even if they have holes, as long as you recite the proper prayer when you jump."
"The parachutes require more faith than that. You must decline to inspect your parachute and you must jump out of the plane before you even see evidence that the plane is in distress."
I strap on a parachute. It doesn't fit me. It constricts. I can think of nothing except removing it. Plus, upon inspection, it has holes I can put my fist through. The plane flies on.
Comfort, Ray. God Doesn't Believe in Atheists: Proof that the Atheist doesn't Exist. (1993) Gainesville, Florida: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 2002.
Comfort, Ray. You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics. (2009) WND Books, February, 2009.


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A Nokia device with Android baked in have been making the rounds on numerous internet forums for quite sometime, but after Microsoft and Nokia struck an exclusive deal to produce Windows Phone devices, it was all but a dream. Until today.
Apparently, Nokia has been secretly building an Android device, dubbed Normandy, which was leaked to the internet today by Evleaks.
Going by the images alone, the phone looks like it uses a stripped down version of Android, but takes a page from Windows Phone's playbook. The phone's UI was tweaked to make Android as unnoticeable as possible, similar to what Amazon did with its Kindle tablets, which uses a heavily modified version of Google's OS.
While its great to see Nokia doing something with Android, the fate of the smartphone is still up in the air. Microsoft recently made a bid to purchase the Finnish mobile company, and are currently months away from closing the deal. Unless Nokia plans on releasing the devices ahead of the deal, it's more likely that Microsoft will scrap the project in favor of its own offerings.


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BBQ Cook-off to aid veterans brings out hundreds
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For the love of barbecue and a good cause, hundreds of people converged on the lake at Carolina Beach to taste some of the 25 entries vying for the three top slots in the Step Up For Soldiers second annual Backyard BBQ Cook-Off.
1st Place: Bean Can Barbeque – brothers Mark and Steve Johnson of Wilmington
2nd Place: Crawdad Creek BBQ – husband and wife Doc and Nancy Crawford of Boiling Spring Lakes (last year's winner)
3rd Place: Slaw and Order – Veggie Wagon owners Max and April Sussman of Carolina Beach
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"If I could go home and take a nap, we'd do it again tonight," said rookie competition cooker Charles Thomas after his tent served its last sample to the hungry masses. The turnout was so large that by 2:30 p.m. not a sliver of pork was left anywhere for sampling.
Thomas, along with Gary Doetsch, Fred Grady, Jim Dial and Rick Knott, made up the Got-Em-Live Bait Club's team of pork-butt cookers who doused their pulled pork entry with Mossy's Most Wanted N.C. BBQ Sauce.
Grady said the purpose of the cook-off – to raise funds for Step Up For Soldiers, a Wilmington-based nonprofit that provides assistance to disabled veterans and their families – was worth suffering through freezing overnight temperatures and long hours.
"The main thing here is raising funds for our soldiers," he said. "That's what motivated all of us to do it. We're so proud of the turnout today."
"Grateful," Thomas agreed.
Twenty-five cookers, dozens of vendors and live music filled the park at the corner of Lake Park Boulevard and Atlanta Avenue for the one-day public event Saturday. On Friday night, the particpants set up their tents and enjoyed a dance.
The cooking began for some as early as 1 a.m. Saturday.
"We lit our fire at 11:30 (Friday) night and we put the (meat) on about 1 a.m. (Saturday)," said Matthew Register.
This was also the first foray into competition cooking for Register and his wife, Jessica. They topped their pork with a homemade sauce they dubbed "Sweet Grace," after their 6-year-old daughter, Taylor Grace.
"We're used to cooking for friends and family, but competition is a whole different animal," said Matthew, who already plans to enter another cook-off in February.
He said the 32-degree overnight temperature at the lake didn't help, either.
"But when you love barbecue like we do, weather's not gonna stop us," he said.
Rookie cookers Brian Treece, Corey Bacon and Kevin Balleu called their team RCDC because of Carolina Beach transplant Treece's tie to Rowan County and Bacon's and Balleu's homes in Davidson County.
Balleau said their secret to good pork was "all in the wood," a mixture of white oak, red oak and cherry to enhance their vinegar-based sauce.
"We had a blast, without a doubt," said Treece, who, like everyone else, was hoping to place in the competition. "I think we're going to do pretty well. We had a lot of people come back for seconds."
Tom Russell, founder and director of Step Up For Soldiers, said the cook-off is one of the major fundraisers the nonprofit holds each year. The next fundraisers are the Back to the Beach Car Show on March 23 at the Fort Fisher Air Force Recreation Center in Kure Beach and the Combat Mud Run on April 27 at the Wilmington National Guard Armory.
Russell said Saturday's total profit wouldn't be tallied for days.
"But we'll come out all right," he said. "Pleasure Island turns out a lot of people."
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Oct. 21, 2012
Tulane 20, UTEP 24
Tulane Game 7
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El Paso, Texas
Saturday's game marked eighth all-time meeting between Tulane and UTEP and with the win tonight the Miners now lead the series, 5-3, and have now won back-to-back games in the series for just the second time. UTEP topped Tulane in the first two meetings in 2005 and 2006.
The Green Wave now has a 1-3 all-time record at the Sun Bowl with the lone win coming in 2010. Tulane has lost match-ups in 2006, 2008 and 2012.
Junior running back Orleans Darkwa finished the night with a season-high 61 yards on 14 carries, which are the most rushing yards by a Tulane player this season. Tulane's 77 total rushing yards was also a season high.
Senior linebacker Darryl Farley led the Wave with a season-high 10 tackles, which are the second most of his career.
With UTEP's fourth quarter fumble, Tulane has now forced an opponent turnover in every game this season. For the year, TU's defenders have forced 10 total turnovers (five interceptions; five fumbles).
Tulane recorded a season highs 440 yards of total offense. The previous was 342 yards last week against SMU and Tulane has now surpassed the 300-yard passing plateau in consecutive weeks. The Green Wave finished the game with 363 yards through the air and 77 yards on the ground.
Senior quarterback Ryan Griffin completed the night 28-of-44 for 363 yards and two touchdowns. His 363-yard passing night was the seventh 300-yard game of his career and his second straight after finishing with 302 yards last week against SMU. His seven 300-yard passing games ties him with J.P. Losman (2000-03) for fourth place in the school record books.
Sophomore WR Justyn Shackleford recorded a career-high 130 receiving yards on six receptions and one touchdown.
Junior WR Ryan Grant finished the night with 115 yards on six catches and one touchdown. His 115 yards marked his third 100-yard receiving day of the year and he now has four for his career.
The last time Tulane has two receivers post 100-yard days in the same game was last season at home against Memphis on Oct. 22 when Wilson Van Hooser finished with 100 yards and running back Orleans Darkwa had 112 yards.
Junior running back Orleans Darkwa made his first start of the season.
Darkwa missed the first three games, but returned against ULM. It was Darkwa's first start since starting the 2011 season finale on the road at Hawai'i on Nov. 26, 2011. Darkwa has now started 18 of 28 career games.
Sophomore safety Renaldo Thomas earned his first start of the season.
Thomas, who missed the majority of the season with an injury, made his last career start on the road Duke on Sept. 24, 2011. He now has four career starts.
Junior PK Cairo Santos remained perfect on the season kicking a field goal with 46-yard and 37-yard FGs against UTEP. For the season, he is now 10-for-10, including a 7-for-7 showing from 40-plus yards.
Junior WR Ryan Grant extended his consecutive games with a catch streak to 15 after hauling. The last time Grant - who missed the final 12 games of the 2011 season due to injury - failed to catch a pass in a game he played in came on Oct. 9, 2010, against Army.
Three Tulane players extended their double-digit starting streaks on Saturday at UTEP -senior DE Austen Jacks (32), senior CB Ryan Travis (31) and senior OT Eric Jones (21).
Freshman offensive guard Todd Jacquet made his first career start when he opened the game at tight end, becoming the 20th Green Wave student-athlete to earn his first collegiate start during the 2012 season. With Jacquet's first career start, a combined 10 freshmen (7 true, 3 redshirts) have started for Tulane this year. In the season opener against Rutgers on Sept. 1, Tulane's first-time starters were sophomore Sean Donnelly started at left tackle, junior Mike Henry at center, sophomore Rob Kelley at tailback, junior Rio Mares at right guard, true freshman Darion Monroe at cornerback, redshirt-freshman Corey Redwine at nose tackle, sophomore Justyn Shackleford at wide receiver, sophomore Adam Skidmore at left guard, sophomore Evan Tatford at tight end and sophomore Kenny Welcome at defensive tackle. At Tulsa on Sept. 8, redshirt-freshman Aaron Bryant and true freshman Alex Paul joined the list with starts at defensive end and right guard, respectively. Against Ole Miss on Sept. 22, sophomore Danté Butler opened at running back while true freshmen Devin Powell, Jordan Batiste and Lorenzo Doss started at quarterback, cornerback and nickelback, respectively. Senior quarterback D.J. Ponder earned his first start last against ULM on Sept. 29, and true freshman tight end Sydie London garnered his first start at UL-Lafayette. Redshirt-freshman wide receiver Marc Edwards started for the first time last week against SMU.
Tulane's game captains for Saturday's contest at UTEP were junior offensive guard Rio Mares representing the offense, senior linebacker Darryl Farley representing the defense and junior kicker Ryan Rome representing the special teams.


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This weekend, we asked the question on many cruisers' minds: Has Royal Caribbean named the second 158,000-ton, 3,643-passenger Freedom-class ship? Indeed, just as we reported, it has -- though the company fooled a lot of people, including Cruise Critic (members and editors we should add), when it opted not to go with the anticipated moniker of Endeavor of the Seas. Get used to this one instead: Liberty of the Seas.
The announcement was made today at cruise3sixty, a three-day event in Ft. Lauderdale geared to travel agents. Later, Royal Caribbean chief Richard Fain told Cruise Critic's Carolyn Spencer Brown that there were "other frontrunners" in the name game (though he declined to confirm -- or deny -- whether Endeavor was one of them). "Like Freedom of the Seas, Liberty of the Seas [the winning name of the second ship] was a late entry into the process."
One logical question is this: As cruise lines continue to use names that are often more similar than not (Norwegian Jewel and Royal Caribbean's Jewel of the Seas, Carnival Legend and Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas, as examples), will the name Liberty of the Seas confuse travelers who may have already heard of Carnival's relatively new Carnival Liberty?
Nah, says Fain. "I wish the names would always be very unique but we have been very successful with the 'of the Seas' designation." It has, he added, become strongly identified with the line.
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87 Moments InTime represent a journey that began with a heart attack in my fire station that ended my 34 years as a Fire Department Captain. Retirement didn't come easy and I struggled to find something to fill the enormous gap in my life. A camera seemed like something that might do the trick.
This book is a collection of photos from that year and a half of learning, trying and retrying ideas. Thousands of photos later, the images begin to tell a story. Much of the subject matter comes from our Quail Ridge Ranch. The vistas, the wildlife, the Hummingbirds and our wonderful horses are all included.
It is an easy book to enjoy. Put some acoustic guitar on the IPOD, pour your favorite cold one and sit down in the recliner to enjoy. I think you will enjoy some quiet time and maybe even ask, "How did he do that?" a few times.
Volume two is already being planned. Enjoy.
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Hudson is an easy jump across the river, with a cute little main street that's a bit quieter than opposite-banked Stillwater. So easy, in fact, that it's long been a focal point in the battle for Sunday sales in liquor stores, the argument being that Wisconsin is getting our local money while we sit idly by. Well, this topic is only going to get hotter with the opening of some Hudson brewery taprooms with Sunday hours—and the evolution of Stone Tap.
This newest bar and eatery on the main street drag opened with the idea of creating a gastropub with creative but accessible nosh that paired well with great locally made craft beer. And when I say local, I mean Wisconsin local. The taps and coolers at Stone Tap are populated with beers that can't be had across the river, notably the New Glarus brand, which seems to enjoy an almost mythical reputation among parched Minnesota beerists. Dave's BrewFarm has delivered some serious kegs to the line, experimental and one-time wonders that shine, like the Mandarina single hop lager. You'll find Hinterland beer from Green Bay, as well as Three Floyds from Indiana and other craft labels from beyond.
It's a welcoming bar. The space has been stripped down to brick and warehouse elements, and it feels contemporary and cool. Service and food are not quite there, but they seem to be evolving and getting better. My burger was nicely done with a lovely bun; the grilled pork chop was a little sweet but otherwise tasty. I'd say belly up to the bar, order a meat plate or hummus and veg to fortify your constitution, and sip some of the best of what the neighbors have to offer. 517 2nd St., Hudson, Wis., 715-808-8343, stonetaphudson.com —S. M.
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EMA "Rocking" The Largest Open-Air Music Festival in Slovakia
The smell of summer, world class musicians, cinema, political discussions, activists, artists and EMA: all together in the same place, spreading relaxed vibes to festival-goers. The 16th edition of the summer festival "Bažant Pohoda" made that possible as it brought together thousands of diverse young and not so young people from Slovakia as well as abroad to the city of Trenčín during the second week of July. No wonder EMA Slovakia gladly accepted the invitation to participate in this great event and present Erasmus Mundus programs to potential students.
The EMA hosting tent "Youth on the Move" sponsored by the European Commission was constantly busy and full of young people seeking mobility opportunities across Europe and abroad. EMA, together with Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Slovakia, European Voluntary Service (EVS), and EURES represented programs through discussions during the festival.
EMA Country Representative Lucia Lopošová and current student of European Master in Tourism Management Eliška Smaržíková shared their EM experiences and gave useful advice during two sessions. A debate was enriched by the presence of Katka Šmálová, the representative of Slovak Academic Agency for International Cooperation (SAAIC), responsible for Erasmus Mundus selection. Besides the in-house debates, EMA representatives spread the word about Erasmus Mundus by approaching young people who were roaming around and encouraged those with motivations and potential to apply.
Besides information corners spread around the colorful tent of the Youth on the Move initiative, different activities invited passers-by to hide from the warm sun. While they familiarized themselves with the variety of possibilities offered by the EU, they could also win some prizes answering questions about Europe or give the wheel of fortune a try. In the evening, the stage turned into an oasis of relaxation, offering massage to interested festival-goers (very much appreciated after nights spent in tents).
All in all, Pohoda Festival was a great opportunity in raising awareness on Erasmus Mundus among young people and to connect with other partners from various associations in Slovakia. A thank-you note goes to SAAIC and ESN Slovakia for inviting EMA members to the Youth on the Move program and for all the support they provided throughout the short but very fruitful collaboration.


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Who Said Barry Bonds Has No "Appeal"?!
While I'm a little late on blogging about this news, it was announced a few days ago that federal prosecutors in the Barry Bonds case are appealing the judge's ruling that Bonds' positive steroid tests from 2003, as well as doping calendars put together by Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson, could not be used as evidence that Bonds perjured himself. This announcement was made shortly after Anderson again refused to testify against Bonds. This new development will push the trial back into the summer months.
I know that many of you are probably sick of hearing about this kind of stuff during baseball's ethereal-like Spring Training, but I feel compelled to discuss these matters due to the fact that they represent the biggest current problem in baseball right now. Much like the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the Steroid Era has caused the game to lose much credibility, and thus must be dealt with in a very serious fashion. I would like nothing more than to never write about the issue of steroids again, but unfortunately that may be long (if ever) in the future.
In an interesting comparison, I think that Bonds may very well be the "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of our generation. Even though there wasn't much concrete evidence that Jackson ever accepted a bribe to throw the 1919 World Series, he became one of the "Eight Men Out" nonetheless and was banned from the game for life just for THINKING about taking a bribe, essentially. It could very well have been that then-Commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis made an example of Jackson, essentially declaring that not even the greatest stars could get away with acts that tarnish the game.
While Bonds' case is a bit different, as he is much more quantifiably guilty than the Shoeless one, I believe he is also being made an example of. I mean, there are many other players (weren't there over 100 on the '03 list?!) that the Fed could be going after, but instead they are focusing on nailing Bonds. I'm not saying this is wrong by any means, as Bonds deserves to be punished if indeed he did perjure himself, but I'm just pointing out that the federal government is doing what current Commissioner Bud Selig has proven unable to do…play the "Judge Landis" card.
-Just to let my readers know, I will not be blogging about individual Twins Spring Training games. I know it is exciting that the boys of summer are getting after it again, but I've never really been able to get into evaluating essentially meaningless games. Once the regular season starts, however, I hope to have some comments every night!
Union Man
A day or two ago, MLB Commissioner Buddy-Boy Selig had a few harsh words for those criticizing his stand against steroids in the game. Selig said that it "annoys the you-know-what out of me" to be criticized for the Steroid Era, and that he tried to institute a tough testing policy in 1995 but was fought by the MLB Players Union (led by Donald Fehr) every step of the way.
Now, while I can understand Selig's frustration with Fehr's Union, which has gotten completely out of hand with too much power the last decade or so, the commish seems to have forgotten one certain thing: the title in front of his name. As commissioner, what Selig says is what WILL happen in baseball. If he was frustrated by Fehr in 1995 while negotating the new bargaining agreement to avoid a longer players strike, why didn't he just come to the public with the information? He could have easily just held a press conference and told baseball fans that the Union is impeding my efforts to clean up the sport. So much pressure would have been place on the Union at that time that they likely would have complied. However, Bud instead chose to overlook the entire issue at the time (think all the U.S. Presidents before Abraham Lincoln overlooking that "little" issue call slavery) in order to gain a brittle trust with the Union. That was his big mistake, and he is paying for it royally now.
So, when I hear Selig getting defensive about all the negative press he is currently receiving, I think he deserves every bit of it. Only certain commissioners (Kennesaw Landis being first and foremost) have truly tried to do what was best for the game, but Selig is not one of them. He THINKS he is (because he got the players back on the field in '95), but really he just mortgaged the next decade to steroid issues.


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What is the name of a TV serial or movie that had a group of intelligent cars that could talk and drive themselves? As far as I can remember, the drivers were law-enforcers. They also had a big custom plane they used as temporary base.
Could it be Team Knight Rider?
It was a 90s spin-off of Knight Rider, featuring a team of crime fighters with talking, self-driving cars. They had a transport plane that they used as a mobile base.


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Fundraising reports suggest there's a competitive four-way race for the Republican nomination in Kansas' 1st Congressional District.
State Sen. Tim Huelskamp, of Fowler, reported having significantly more cash on hand at the end of June than other candidates in the Aug. 3 primary contest. His total was almost $392,000.
But Sen. Jim Barnett, of Emporia, reported raising the most money from April through June. His total was about $174,000.
Salina commercial real estate salesman Tracey Mann raised almost as much, nearly $173,000.
Former congressional aide Rob Wasinger, of Cottonwood Falls, raised about $161,000.
Huelskamp raised about $134,000 during the quarter, but he's collected more contributions than the other candidates throughout the campaign.
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Living Water
Choosing an abortion is probably the most grievous act within the reach of an average young woman. I made that choice, nearly twenty years ago. I was seventeen years old.
The windshield of the truck was crusted with frost that winter morning; I shivered through the short drive to the clinic. I can remember many things about that day: the elevator ride up to the second floor, my boyfriend's sober face as he handed over a stack of twenty-dollar bills, the many pairs of downcast eyes in the waiting room. I vividly recall the details of the procedure, which I will not relate. I remember walking into my house afterward and wondering what my mother would say if she knew what I had just done. But I don't remember feeling anything. My mind and heart were as frozen as the January landscape.
Feelings came later.
It was a November night, nearly a year after the abortion, when my feelings began to surface. My living environment had changed dramatically that year. After a long season of inactivity in the Church, I had begun attending Sunday meetings again. I was interacting regularly with people who were in tune with the Spirit, and the power of goodness that comes from such people and places was beginning to permeate the numb places deep within me.
Sitting alone in my college dorm room, I began to feel very heavy inside. My mind began to replay my many sins, and the ugliness of what I had done began to swell within me like a wave of dark water. The sensation grew stronger and stronger, filling up all of my consciousness, as if I were drowning. And simultaneously, I felt an unseen hand pushing me toward the shore.
A short time later I found myself standing in my bishop's office. I had felt so compelled to find him that I expected my confession to immediately spill out. Yet once I saw his kindly face I was not sure if I could speak. The words that had rushed to my mouth sat on my tongue like lead, so great was my shame. But my desperation was even greater. As the same invisible force that pushed me to that office pushed again, the words began to flow, and so did the feelings.
It all came out in a churning tumble. I told him about my choice to abort a six-week pregnancy, and the long catalogue of sins which preceded that choice. I also told him about the sins against me which preceded my own.
When the tears and truth were all poured out, the great emptiness within me was a great relief. I didn't care what happened next. I was willing to undergo any punishment that I deserved.
I sat and waited for the bishop's response. His face was solemn. His shoulders sagged with the weight of knowledge. But his eyes were soft and his voice was gentle. He did not speak of punishment. He told me I could heal from what I had brought upon myself, and from what others had brought upon me. I had taken the first step, and I would receive the help I needed to keep going.
A bright surge of hope flowed into me, filling the place where the darkness had been.
The July afternoon was searing and humid. I sat in a windowless room with Marie, my therapist. She was thirtyish, dark-haired and slender, with a quiet manner and an admirable capacity to listen. Seemingly oblivious to the suffocating heat, she was leaning forward, focusing intently on my words as I expressed anxiety that bordered on panic.
It had been five years since I had confessed to the bishop, three years since I had entered into a temple marriage, two years since I had become a mother. Much had changed, much had healed. But I continued to struggle with emotional problems. As a mother, I had an overwhelming desire to save my children from pain and sorrow, and provide for their every need. Yet I felt deeply, painfully inadequate in the face of this desire.
In the stifling heat of her office, Marie gently encouraged me to describe this gap between what I felt I should be, and what I was. As I tried to articulate my feeling of failure, I was struck by a sense of my children's beauty. My mind and heart were opened to the reality of their innocence, their trust, and their staggering worth. Then, without warning, my thoughts turned to the new life I had destroyed years before.
Grief swelled up within me—thick grief for the loss I had brought upon myself, upon life, and upon the world. I had experienced many emotional reactions to that choice, from the shame of my confession to the joy and gratitude at being given a second chance at motherhood. But somehow, until that moment, I had not understood what I had been given, and what I had given up.
I choked out the story to Marie, barely able to breathe. What have I done? I gasped, over and over. What have I done?
Marie sat motionless and silent. She had made a good life for herself. She had a happy marriage and a successful career. But she had not been able to bear children. What would she have given to receive the very gift I had thrown away? She personified everything I had sinned against. She had every reason to hate me.
But her silence was not hardened by shock or scorn. It was soft, much softer than professional distance, softer than human respect. When her tears stole quietly into the corners of her eyes, they were tears of shared pain, tears of mercy.
One afternoon I received a telephone call from Kate, an old friend. She had been my confidante during my high school years, and while we no longer spoke as often, we still shared an intimate friendship.
"My niece is pregnant," Kate announced, "and she's decided to get an abortion. I agreed to take her to the clinic. Can you help me understand what to expect?"
I was speechless. Kate was not a religious person, and she believed that there were occasions which warranted abortion. But she sounded so brisk and practical, as if she were asking about a tonsillectomy, rather than the termination of a pregnancy. I was horrified by her attitude, and even more horrified to realize that long ago, I had approached my own situation in a similar way.
As the conversation continued and my distress grew, panic began to rise up in my chest, threatening to pull me under. I began to plead with my friend. "Please. You have to tell her that no matter how sure she is that this is the right thing, she is wrong, and she will regret it. It may be years down the road, maybe not until she becomes a mother, but she will regret it. She will wish that she could go back and make a different choice. Please, please tell her." It had been over a decade since my confession to the bishop, but I felt just as desperate and despairing as I had that night.
Kate listened, then gently said, "I don't think that hearing any of this will make any difference to her."
After I hung up the phone, I sobbed and sobbed behind my locked bathroom door. I was overcome with feelings of helplessness and sorrow. I would have done anything to save this young woman and the new life within her from the fate I had brought upon myself and my own growing child, but I could not.
Over the next few days my distress would not abate. I called Karen, a close friend who knew my history. I related the story of Kate's niece and how desperately I wanted to prevent another tragedy. Karen despised the practice of abortion. I expected her to comment on the niece's foolishness, even her wickedness. I was so consumed with a renewal of my own guilt that such words would have been a strangely welcome soul-lashing. "If she only knew what I knew," I said, "she would change her mind."
After a pause, Karen spoke. "But she doesn't know. She cannot know. And when you were in her shoes, you could not have known either."
I realized that my argument with Kate was really an argument with myself as a scared and scarred adolescent holding a positive pregnancy test. I realized that my emotional numbness had begun long before that awful January day, and was rooted in circumstances that I did not create. This certainly did not mean that I hadn't had a choice. There had been a choice, and I had made a terrible decision. But I finally understood why I made that choice, as wrong as it was.
I felt a warm rush of compassion for Kate's niece, who was so young, vulnerable, and limited in her knowledge. And I felt something new and wondrous: compassion for myself.
Last year, I was six-weeks pregnant when I began spotting. I had bled during early pregnancy before, but this felt different. I knew I was going to miscarry, for the first time.
The increasing flow of blood filled me with dread. As I felt the fragile almost-body slip away from me, how could I not remember the other tiny form, the exact same size and age, that I had once cast out? Was this some kind of divine retribution? As the inevitable loss unfolded, I shrank, fearing the deluge of fresh pain that would surely come.
But I was wrong. Pain came, yes. But it was pain for the present loss, not pain for the past. Instead of despair, my memories brought solemnity, stillness—even peace.
I was relieved. But I was also troubled. I felt so undeserving of that relief and that peace. Is it really over? I thought. SHOULD it be over? That January morning a life had been at stake. It didn't seem fair that I was being spared, that my suffering had been so small compared to my sin, and that my pain had come to an end.
In that moment, I remembered that when I chose abortion, there was another life hanging in the balance—my own. Christ had offered me living water through my bishop, my therapist, and my friend. This compassion had flowed into me, cleansing me, refreshing me, and lifting me up toward a fullness of life. It had nothing to do with fairness. Nothing to do with deserving. It was gift. And I made the choice to gratefully receive it.


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Hurricane Earl Projected Path Reveals Warning Two For Gay Marriage States
For it is written:
Luke 21:25-28
25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Gays are sick sullen savages who shall drown by the filth of their own fecal sins, then be washed straight into hell where they shall be washed of their stench by burning heaps of molten hell-lava, for all eternity!
Burn gays, burn! For you all bring iniquity into our Godly nation of America!
We are one nation under God, not under the gay blanket odors Frankie or Steve! Your gay bedroom antics and insatiable desire to corrupt America by stealing our children and claiming our normal marriages as your own has angered God!
God is very angry, you have ignored his warning. Whore enablers in government have taken to your cause and have allowed gay marriages in our nation! A nation that used to have the Ten Commandments on its Supreme Court Walls, a nation whose lifeblood — our blessed dollar — says in God we Trust. A nation that daily pledges its loyalty to our God in Heaven.
With shame, we have allowed gay marriage in several of our states. These states have seceded with their union to God! God shall punish them, as even Christ himself said he would create a giant hurricane to punish all sinners and bring salvation back to America!
Let's look at the states that upset Jesus Christ the most:
Drown in the flood of righteousness, gay states. God sent a Hurricane Haley last week, to warn you to repent. This week, he sends a male one even closer — Hurricane Earl — to let you know that you have upset Christ himself. The smell of gays is fiercely odiforous to his holy nose, and an offense! It burns worse than sulfur and rotting egg carcasses!
New Hampshire. Vermont. Maine. Massachusetts. Connecticut. You gay enabling states, you are the prime suspects. You think you can secede from the Union, but know that God is the greatest leader of all and his angelic generals have never lost a battle.
God is so brash in battle, he can show you his battle plans and there is nothing you can do about it but flee! God will flank you from the East and drown you in your wickedness!
Click the image to see in full size, where God is shooting this warning shot.
Look upon his power and tremble, gay marriage states. Not even General Lee, General Grant or even "Stonewall" Jackson himself could dare challenge the military strikes of God. There is no nuke and there is no law that can stop the power of heaven from bringing its full wrath to you sick, hellbound backside lover gays who will burn in hell and get out of my country for all time for you burn for YOUR SINS!
You have angered God! Luke 21: 25-18 warns you, that Jesus himself will one day ride upon one of these hurricanes! He will shroud himself in heavenly Glory! He shall use his great power to drown every single one of you sinners, especially you gays who are trying to pervert our country!
Be warned, on Ye Sinners! The Bible says when the true day of reckoning comes, all your gay hearts will be betrayed with fear! Your gay legs will tremble and you will fall down in fear, begging mercy! It will be too late, for wrath has come and you will awake to find yourself bowed down before the busoms of Satan and his demons, who will torture you with firerods up your sinholes for all time!
You sicko gays would probably think you'd like that, but as warned, your eyes will weep and your teeth will gnash and then regrow to only gnash again for all time! Endless torture!
Be warned, gays and anyone who votes "Yes" to a gay enabling law. The day comes when Christ himself will come and bring redemption for all, and the gays will drown and burn for their perverse ways. Do not be part of their number, who will entertain Satan in hell for all time.
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Hi. I am working on the MD code to make port-ofppc run on the Motorola PowerStack II. PCI and ISA attachments are working, now I am on the interrupt handling stuff. (See my post of a dmesg to port-prep recently.) As Matt Thomas sugested I pulled pci_attach_hook() / fixpci() / find_node_intr() from sys/arch/macppc/pci/pci_machdep.c and integrated this into my sys/arch/ofppc/motorola/powerstackII_pci.c. The OFW on the PowerStack II disables all PCI devices by default. This code sets PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG and PCI_INTERRUPT_REG of each PCI device according to the OFW properties, thus enabling the device. The code from macppc queries for the property "AAPL,interrupts". Is this somthing special to macppc? The OFW on the PowerStack II has the property "interrupts" and the OFW-PCI binding talks about "interrupts" too. Or is there some special semantic behind the ","? The OFW "interrupts" property is allways 1 for all PCI devices, so the PCI attach code gets "IRQ 1" for all PCI devices. If I don't use the find_node_intr() function and leave PCI_INTERRUPT_REG untouched, the devices get the correct interrupt. (I know the interrupt routing of that machine from the Linux source linux/arch/ppc/kernel/prep_pci.c, Utah_pci_IRQ_map[] and Utah_pci_IRQ_routes[]). So it looks to me like the OFW initializes the PCI_INTERRUPT_REG correct, but doesn't supply a correct "interrupts" property. Correct? Or is there somthing else I don't know already. -- --(Continue reading)


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Somdatta Sinha,
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Spatiotemporal description and modelling of Malaria
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Malaria is one of the major
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parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent.
In this talk, I will first present the available
disease prevalence data from different parts of
India, and demonstrate the prevalence of the disease
in space and time to arrive at some important features
of its distribution. I will then discuss, in brief,
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New Orleans Saints cornerback Champ Bailey said players were encouraged by the strong play of the secondary in Tuesday's minicamp practice.
"We had a top five defense here last year but turnovers weren't there," Bailey said. "That's something we've been talking about all season so we want to definitely improve on that."
Saints defensive backs practiced what was preached Tuesday as they intercepted several passes and broke up several more in offense vs. defense drills.
"Before the weekend, we had a talk that we needed to pick it up," Saints safety Marcus Ball said. "We have a great group of leaders as in Champ, (Rafael) Bush and (Kenny) Vaccaro, we wanted to step out and stand out. We were practicing some things we needed to get better at and we just took the initiative to do so."
Ball picked off a pass in the final 11-on-11 drills and said he was fired up after Bush got the unit its first turnover.
Bush intercepted Saints quarterback Drew Brees in the first set of seven-on-seven drills which Ball said set the tone for the practice.
Bush echoed ball and said he was pleased with the effort he saw in Tuesday's practice from both the newcomers and veterans.
"One thing you can't coach in this league is effort," Bush said. "Effort makes a lot of plays in this game so we want to make sure we give the maximum effort at all times on all plays. Our coaches demand it from us and we have a high standard. So effort is never going to be a question for our defense."
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There's a story I've been reluctant to share, because I'm a little ashamed of myself.
I work on a computer most of the day, and I need to surf the Web to do research for my job. I use social networking sites at home, and I recently signed up for Twitter (Just recently? Yeah, I'm a dinosaur). As for computer security, I watch for alerts and updates and have antivirus software and firewalls installed on all my computers.
Yet, in spite of it all, I shamefully allowed my personal laptop to become infected with malware.
At least, I think it was malware. It might have been a worm or a virus. Once I got over the horror and shock of my mistake, I was so concerned with scrubbing my laptop clean, I didn't really look too closely at the infecting vermin.
The shameful infection happened about six months ago when I clicked on a link that popped up while I was browsing the Internet. The link said something like "updates are available."
It was a slick little pop-up, with a logo that looked professional enough to have come from Bill Gates himself.
I can't tell you exactly how, but I realized before the "update" was finished loading the software update came from an imposter. Within less than two minutes I knew I was in trouble, but that's all it took.
This imposter effectively blocked me from accessing my usual home page and, as I recall, just about every other Web site on the Internet.
I was still sitting on my living room couch, pondering whether or not to dust off the reinstallation disks that came with the laptop when helpful news arrived moments later that announced all my systems could be "restored" to normal. I simply had to remit $49.99 to a certain online company. I really don't recall which one.
The payment instructions and Web site link came in the form of, you guessed it, a popup window.
Wouldn't you know it, that Web page would load on my computer, although no others could.
"Give us your money, and we might go away," seemed to be the offered deal.
Instead, I was able to go to a backup point on my computer and save my data. Eventually, I cleaned up my mess and was able to update my laptop.
I'm sharing this story with you now because Nina Wilson, the 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, family readiness group leader, came to me about a week ago to share a similar experience. She too had been a victim of a malicious online poser. This time, the imposter pretended to offer a fix to her supposedly outdated antivirus software.
Again, the logo and the message seemed legitimate, and the thieves got away with $130. Potentially more problematic, they got her credit card information as well.
Wilson had to cancel her credit card. She also did a "real" update of her antivirus software to clean up the computer. She's now in the process of filing a claim to get her money back, which she was told should take about a month.
Although Wilson was frustrated because she allowed herself to be bilked out of the money and had to go through the hassle of updating her computer, my colleague is much more upfront than I am.
"Sure, use my name," she said, explaining she just wants people to know such dangers exist.
I appreciate Wilson's candor. Her chief concern is that others learn from her mistake, our mistakes.
In spite of my own computer hijacking experience just months ago, I've probably relaxed my posture at home when it comes to verifying the origin of the update notices.
I do appreciate that the computer updates at my office are seamlessly pushed through the server like magic, rarely interrupting my productivity or the flow of information in and out as I share news, calendars and photographs. All this happens uninterrupted as the professional Soldiers and civilians of the 59th and 507th Signal companies make my computer and our servers safe.
"Updates are available…are ready…are imperative." Sometimes the message balloons that popup on my personal laptop and home computer seem urgent.
When I look at my home computer's history, I see hundreds of popup messages are regularly blocked. I can't help but wonder how many were malicious.
Sometimes, in my haste to do the right thing, I fail to verify messages are from trusted sources.
Like the old science fiction show robot said, "Warning. Warning. Danger, Will Robinson." I can picture the robot running around inside my hard drive, urging me to heed his alert message.
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By Paul Laurent on Jun 27, 2011
Today and tomorrow, we'll see our next steps in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) governance roadmap as NIST hosts the NSTIC Privacy Workshop at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. I'm here live but the proceedings are already underway and you can tune in remotely to the webcast here. Questions can also be lobbed in via the Tweetosphere at #NSTIC.


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Hello I have had the lateral release surgery done. And I had my knee cap cleaned out. I had crunching sound when I used to bend my knee. I wanted to know when I work out I hear a clicking sound from from knee cap when I do leg exercises - leg press etc., but only when I start then it stops.
They say it from the hole under my knee cap were they cleaned it out. They say it is the air from the hole were they cleaned out the knee cap.
I get no pain when I do the exercise or pain the next day - I can beat it pretty good. Just my thighs get tight then I hear it click but when I get my thighs loose the clicking calms down.
So should I be worried about it? They say no pain is a good thing - it just makes that clicking sound and it drives me nuts every time I hear it.
I always think I am hurting it.
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Senior quarterback Kory Faulkner threw for 252 yards and two touchdowns Saturday.
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - After outplaying No. 4/5 Northern Iowa for nearly the entire game, Southern Illinois survived for a 24-17 overtime win over the Panthers (4-2, 0-2 MVFC) Saturday evening at the UNI-Dome. For the Salukis (4-3, 2-1 MVFC), it was the second-consecutive week with a road victory against a top-10 team.
Malcolm Agnew received a pitch from Kory Faulkner on an option run to score the game-winning touchdown on the second play of overtime. Southern began the overtime session on offense, and Kory Faulkner quickly completed a 20-yard pass to John Lantz to set up Agnew's five-yard score.
"(Agnew's touchdown) was a play we hadn't run all year and had just put in the playbook for this game," SIU Coach Dale Lennon said. "We knew how (UNI) lined up that it would end up being a pitch, which scares you a bit because we're not an option football team and we're going to count on our quarterback to make a pitch to our running back. But he did and went in untouched."
UNI began their first possession of overtime with a two-yard run and a seven-yard pass to set up a third-and-one. After Sawyer Kollmorgen threw an incomplete pass, UNI called timeout to set up a play to extend the game. After lining up, SIU countered with a timeout of its own. Linebacker Bryan Presume fought through the line and stood up running back David Johnson to secure the victory.
"I went in untouched," Presume said. "The guard was coming to block me, but I gave him a little juke move, met the running back in the hole and was able to make the stop."
The Salukis had an opportunity to win in regulation when Thomas Kinney missed a 29-yard field goal as time expired.
After a scoreless first quarter in which the two teams combined for five first downs and five punts, Faulkner threw a pair of touchdown passes as SIU built a 14-0 lead heading into the half.
The Panthers stole the momentum with two big plays midway through the third quarter. With SIU on UNI's 21-yardline and looking to extend its 14-0 lead, Ray Mitchell intercepted Faulkner at the eight-yardline. Mithchell returned it 53 yards before Lantz stripped the ball. However, UNI's Deiondre' Hall scooped up the ball and ran the final 29 yards into the end zone to cut the lead to 14-7.
Three minutes later, Panthers wide receiver Kevin Vereen got behind the Saluki defense, and Kollmorgen hit him in stride down the left sideline for a 52-yard touchdown to knot the game at 14-14.
"The third quarter took the wind out of our sails," Lennon said. "We had been playing so well, and then all of the sudden gave up two quick scores. Early in the season, I don't know if we would've rallied, but we've been through those scenarios in the past, and I think we've learned from it."
The Salukis' won the battle for time of possession, holding the ball for over 37 minutes. The running game was a big part of that success as SIU ran for 177 yards compared to UNI's 37 rushing yards. Malcolm Agnew led the team with 113 yards on 25 carries.
"We have a lot of faith in our run game," Lennon said. "That was a big part of our game plan, trying to keep Northern Iowa off the field. We knew time of possession was going to be key, and I thought we did an extremely good job of just keeping our offense on the field."
Lennon said his team played with a chip on its shoulder after beating South Dakota State last week. The Salukis will try to make it three straight wins over top-10 teams when they host No. 1 North Dakota State for Homecoming on Oct. 19.
"We figured to take that next step up in credibility, you have to beat a team like Northern Iowa, so that was a big motivation for us," Lennon said. "We're there, it's just we hadn't shown it in the end, so I think teams now are going to realize that we're probably better than what our record shows."