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Aramis Ramirez moves into 1st in all-star balloting
Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez moved past New York's David Wright into first place in fan balloting for the All-Star Game in a very close race at that position.
In other all-star balloting announced Monday involving Brewers players, Carlos Gomez is in third place among NL outfielders, which would guarantee him a starting berth, and catcher Jonathan Lucroy and shortstop Jean Segura moved into second place at their positions.
Ramirez, who has been on an offensive tear since coming off the DL a few weeks ago, has 1,279,902 votes in the latest update on fan balloting. That puts him just ahead of previous leader Wright, who has 1,260,895 votes.
The voting also is very close in the outfield. Los Angeles' Yasiel Puig is first with 2,468,376 votes, followed by Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen with 2,461,722 and Gomez with 2,409860. Miami's Giancarlo Stanton is fourth with 2,130,519, ahead of the Brewers' Ryan Braun with 1,974,845 votes.
Though Lucroy moved past San Francisco's Buster Posey in voting for NL catchers, he remains far behind St. Louis' Yadier Molina, who has 2,600,853 votes. Lucroy has 1,911,745 votes.
As the overall vote leader, Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has a commanding lead with 3,287,460 votes. Segura has 1,272,273 votes.
Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt remains the leader at first base and Philadelphia's Chase Utley still has a comfortable lead at second base.
There will be one final NL balloting update on Tuesday July 1 for the All-Star Game on July 15 in Minneapolis.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] barrier before calling del_procs
From: Ralph Castain (rhc.openmpi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-21 12:42:53
We already have an rte barrier before del procs
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 21, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Yossi Etigin <yosefe_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
> We get occasional hangs with MTL/MXM during finalize, because a global synchronization is needed before calling del_procs.
> e.g rank A may call del_procs() and disconnect from rank B, while rank B is still working.
> What do you think about adding an MPI barrier on COMM_WORLD before calling del_procs()?

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I'm using Java's ProcessBuilder class to run an external process. The process should not terminate before the Java program does; it must stay alive in command/response mode.
I know that the process streams may easily 'jam' if neglected, so I've done the following: The program reads the process's combined output and error streams in a "reader" thread, and uses a "writer" thread to manage the commands. The reader thread does blocking character reads from process output, buffers them up into Strings and dispatches the results. The writer thread writes complete "command" lines via a PrintWriter; it uses a queue to ensure that no two command writes are "too close together" (currently 100ms), and that no new command gets written before the output of the previous command is complete. I also call flush() and checkError() after every println().
This scheme works fine for a few seconds or minutes, then the reader thread hangs on the blocking read(). No errors, no exceptions thrown, no more process output. Thereafter nothing will revive the external process (short of restarting it). (BTW this happens on both Linux and Windows.)
I've looked at the code and test-cases in Jakarta Commons Exec and in Plexus Utils http://plexus.codehaus.org/plexus-utils/ but (a) neither gives an example of using a long-lived Process and (b) neither appears to be doing anything basically different from what I've described.
Does anyone have a clue what's happening here please? Thanks!


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She Wanted a Younger Man Ch. 03byjeffrey214©
"Yes, I can handle that," he said.
She looked sternly into the young man's eyes. "Promise me."
"I promise I won't have any other woman as long as you're having me... uh... regularly. By the way, what does 'regular' mean, exactly?"
She smiled, "I'm thinking about once a week. Would that work for you? I promise to always leave you completely exhausted and drained..." She grinned deviously and caressed his erection with her surreptitious hand.
"Absolutely!" he beamed.
"Alright," she said, "The next rule is that you follow my lead. When we get together, I'll generally have some things in mind that I want to do. I need you to be cooperative and not try to take charge. I don't mind you trying to grope me, it's fun, but I don't want you taking too many liberties and I'm not the kind of girl that wants to be carried to bed, stripped, and fucked. I like to make love. So if you get too forceful I'll let you know, and I'll expect you to back down. If you come on strong and don't cooperate with my signals and communication, we're through."
"Yes, Ma'am," he said in all seriousness. "Please just try to be clear with what you want and don't want so that I don't get in trouble for misunderstanding. I want you to be happy so that I get to see you again. I won't knowingly or purposefully screw up."
She smiled, "Well, I guess that's all a girl can wish for, thank you."
She continued, "Rule number three. We are not going to fall in love, and get married. We can be very affectionate friends with very intimate benefits, but I don't want you to start sending me flowers and writing me poems. The moment I think you're falling in love with me, we're through. Just be a good boy for me and understand this is not forever. We're not going to grow old together. Our relationship won't last too long; maybe six months or a year at most. Do you understand?"
He said, "Yes, I understand. We need to approach this whole thing as friends who get together and enjoy sex. I'll think of you as a really hot and attractive woman, who just so happens to want to have a young guy on the side, and that I'm lucky to be that guy for as long as it lasts."
"Yes," she said, "That would be a good attitude to have, because that is the truth."
They sipped their drinks in silence, and then Susan looked at her watch. It was time again to call Jeffrey. She slid out of the booth with Randy's help and sauntered off toward the phone bank again, to get at least a little ways away from the loudest music, and dialed.
Again, Jeffrey picked up on the first ring.
She said, "Hello, sweetheart, how are you feeling?"
"I guess really nervous and excited. The clock is moving so slow..."
"I know honey," she cooed softly, "But I know you're going to be patient for me, and I love you so much. I can't wait to get home to you..."
Susan as very pleased with herself as she kissed randy on her doorstep, and put the key in the lock. She had accomplished her goal of getting three ejaculations out of the poor, tired boy. She grinned as she felt all wet and squishy between her thighs, and hoped her panties were doing a good job of keeping as much of her date's warm young goo still inside her as possible. She had glanced down there in the suite's bathroom before the drive home, and had been pleased to see his fluids had spread all over her tummy, thighs, and her shaved pussy.
Her vaginal lips were red and puffy from having been stretched wide and taken such a good pounding from the boy. She could still feel her fat vulva throb and pout as she squeezed her thighs together.
She ran her tongue across her teeth and licked her lips, knowing that her breath must still hold the hot male scent of the semen she had swallowed directly from Randy's stiff spurting penis. 'Yummy,' she thought as she could still taste a trace of his semen in her mouth, feel the bigness of him stretching her lips, and the sensual echo of the soft velvet of his head upon her tongue.
Her nipples were stiff with renewed arousal, though a little sore from Randy's ardent suckling, as she anticipated the next moment when she would present herself to her husband. She thought of the two dribbles of semen she had purposefully allowed to drip from her mouth onto each breast, and had gently rubbed around to cover her nipples and some of the soft white flesh around them.
She pushed the door open to see her sweet husband standing naked and waiting for her with a full erection. She eyed his penis with renewed love and appreciation as she thought about how her husband loved her and wanted her, especially after she had enjoyed he lover. She thought he was a very good husband indeed. She smiled brightly, and said, "Hi honey, I can see that you missed me while I was on my date...I missed you too!"
She softly closed the door and then took her husband in her arms, kissing him softly on the cheek and biting his ear as she whispered, "My mouth still tastes of semen, honey, so you need to think about that before we kiss. How about you take me to bed and get me undressed. I have some things to show you..."
He nodded and picked her up as she giggled at his manly gesture. "My Lancelot," she whispered as he carried her to the bedroom.
Jeffrey started to remove Susan's sexy shoes, but she said, "Leave them on, honey."
He eagerly helped her out of her dress, and then Susan lay back luxuriously in only her little thong panties. She put her hands seductively on the pillow over her head and raised one knee, allowing her thighs to part slightly and reveal the messy crotch of her panties to her husband. She lay still, watching him lovingly and allowing him time to see her body and process his feelings.
His eyes stayed fixed upon her panty crotch, freshly wet with the evidence of her tryst. He trembled inside, now confronted fully with the proof his wife's lovemaking. No more fantasy; no more doubt. Jeffrey dealt with the full knowledge that his wife had spread her thighs and allowed the penis of a young and virile man to thrust into her and to ejaculate inside her body. There seemed to be so much semen...
He looked at her soft inner thighs, also anointed with the evidence of her lover. His eyes traveled up her taught and shapely belly and lingered on her full and soft breasts as they rose and fell with her breathing. Her nipples were erect and seemed a bit puffy. There were a couple faint red marks on the soft white flesh, perhaps hickeys or soft bite-marks. He couldn't help but grin that her lover liked her breasts as much as he did...
He looked at her face and returned her seductive smile. Her lips were full and looked deliciously kissable. He wondered how he felt about kissing her mouth, since she had warned him that her lover had spurted semen there. He wasn't sure.
Her eyes were so beautiful as they looked at him with love and softness. She was being quiet and patient for him, letting him look and think. He loved her for it.
He slowlylooked back down toward her panties and took gentle hold at her hips, slowly drawing the lacy facbric down her thighs and off, careful not to remive her shoes. Her bare pussy was now revealed as she kept one knee up again and let her thighs part a little wider for him.
Her lips were darker pink than usual and seemed a little swollen from her lovemaking. He let out a deep breath as he saw that her entire crotch area was wet with semen. Her vagina was partly gapped, since her thighs were parted, and he could see semen at the mouth of her opening. Her lover must have stretched her, he thought, because she was still loose.
After he had looked between her parted thighs for quite some time, seeing the softness of her lips in their pink and puffy beauty, and the wetness of her lover's semen all over her body, he closed his eyes and breathed deeply.
Susan spread her legs and lifted her knees as she held out her arms to him. She whispered, "Come, my husband, and make love to your wife."
Jeffrey got onto the bed and moved gently between her thighs, putting his penis near her relaxed and beckoning vagina. He hesitated a moment, looking at his penis so close to her puffy vulva and distended labia, all glistening and dripping with the wetness of her lover's fresh semen. The mouth of her vagina was open, as though stretched so much it couldn't close. It was a surreal moment for Jeffrey. The reality of the situation was fully becoming clear. The line had been fully crossed. He was a cuckold husband.
Jeffrey thought that the reality was different than the fantasy; so much more real and intense now. He felt at once a mixture of pain and happiness, of fear and love. She had done what he'd always wanted. And now he was faced with the reality of entering his wife and making love to her so soon after her lover had been with her and her body so clearly proved that he had been.
All five of Jeffrey's senses confirmed what he already knew.
His eyes could see the proof between her thighs that another man had been in her. She smelled of sex and the sweat and semen of another man. Her skin felt sticky with another man's fluids. He heard her words -- on the phone during her date, and now that she was home -- and every sound confirmed the truth. He had not tasted her, but he knew when he kissed her, there would be a faint foreign taste on her lips.
He shuddered visibly as the truth of it hit home. He was not shocked that she had truly and thoroughly made love with her date, which was forgone before it happened. The reality that shocked him was that the clearly proven genuineness of her dalliance was indeed more exciting than he had expected. The reality was better than the fantasy. Her body had been fully used by her date and now she had come home to him, covered in the evidence of their passionate lovemaking.
She was being so patient and warm and loving with him. She gave him time to adjust, time to look at her body's evidence, and to think about what it all meant. Her words were soft and affectionate and caring; even though as she spoke he could smell the faint scent of man on her breath. Everything about his wife turned him on more than he could ever remember, and yet he paused at the threshold of her womanhood.
He knew that once he had entered her, it would demonstrate his full acceptance and approval of her infidelity, and seal his fate as her cuckold husband. He would be stepping through the door as she held it open for him. He would be entering a new room and a new life that could not be undone. His thoughts and feelings were so intense that he couldn't move as wave after wave of powerful emotions washed over him.
He felt every sort of feeling he could imagine, with the strange absence of a few he'd expected to feel. Remorse, regret, anger, betrayal, - none of these feelings touched him. There was a little fear and jealousy, but they were colored with excitement and awe and served only to heighten his arousal and submissive feelings towards his beautiful wife...
Susan knew she must give him both time and encouragement in just the right amounts. Patience was paramount for a wife in her position. She must let her husband work through his first experience of her post-date body on his own, with only a little help from her. She sensed his hesitation immediately as he had positioned himself between her open thighs. She knew her job at this moment was to be open and welcoming to him -- to be gentle and patient and loving and supportive, but not demanding or pushy.
When her intuition told her he was ready after giving him the time he needed, she sought to comfort him. "It's ok, Jeffrey," she whispered, "I've had my lover, and now I want my husband."
He looked up into her eyes as her hands on his shoulders began to pull gently. "It's alright, honey," she cooed, "It's time for you to enter me. Just slide forward and into me, sweetheart." She smiled and put every ounce of love and acceptance and compassion she had into her eyes as she gently willed him to comply with her request.
He looked down at his penis and watched as he moved his hips very slowly forward. The head of his penis touched the warm and wet entrance and then slipped effortlessly in. She was so well lubricated with both semen and her own arousal, and she was so loose inside, that there was no resistance at all. He watched as each inch of his shaft slowly disappeared into his wife until he was fully inside her. She wrapped her legs around his back and just held him tightly inside her, letting him just be in her for a minute or two without moving.
Jeffrey had never felt her so loosely. She felt very hot and soft as always, but she had never been so slippery even when they had used lots of lube. He knew the added slipperiness was supplied by her lover's semen, and the thought that she was so full of cum and that his penis was now covered with it made him shudder. He was torn between the excitement of the situation and his deep aversion to homosexuality. He was a submissive man, but he was very straight.
He pushed that thought aside and again focused on how loosely the pink softness of her vagina barely clung to him. There was contact, but no feeling of tightness at all. It was as though his penis were swimming in a warm wet pool. It was so different than before, but not bad. Just different. It was the reason for her looseness that again gave him a thrill down his spine. He was in his wife after another man had been there...
After the pause for him to get acquainted with her body in this strange an new condition, Susan still held him tight to her with her legs and she began to slowly rotate her hip against him.
"Mmmm..." she said, "That's what I want. I have my husband in me...mmmm..."
Jeffrey just held still and let his wife control things. He felt her vagina squish and slosh around his stiff penis as she ground her clitoris against his pubic bone. He enjoyed her little moans and squeaks of pleasure and marveled that she could still want more sex after obviously having plenty with her lover. He could feel warm fluids slipping out of her as she rolled her hips on his penis, dripping down and covering his scrotum and her bottom, making the joining of their bodies gooey and squishy.
She seemed to be enjoying it, as though the blending of their bodies with the semen she'd brought home to him was a real turn on for her. If it was true that coming home to him after being with her lover would make her horny for him, he thought that was wonderful.
After a little while, Jeffrey felt her legs relax a little, signaling that it was time for him to take over and do his 'husbandly duties', as she'd always playfully called it when it was his turn to do the thrusting. He began to slide his penis slowly in and out, lowering his body onto hers so that he could feel her breasts jiggle softly against his chest with each thrust.
After his long time of silence, Susan was very pleased when he finally said something. He whispered in her ear, "You're so wet and loose." She just kissed his cheek in response, letting him do the thinking and talking now. She had given him control of their lovemaking now and she wanted him to pleasure his penis in her body at his own pace.
His thrusts increased in speed and urgency a little. "He must be big...and he came a lot," he gasped.
Susan smiled and kept kissing him, whispering only, "Yes...", to encourage him to continue to do the talking.
Ever so slowly, Jeffrey's thrusting continued to become more forceful, though not increasing much in tempo. He built up the strength of his hips' movements so that when he thrust forward, Susan's whole body shook and he could feel the satisfying jiggle of her breasts against his chest. It felt good to seat his penis more powerfully into her again and again, and Susan was very pleased with his increased vigor.
"Your lover was thrusting in like this..." he whispered.
She kissed his neck as she whispered, "Yes, honey, but now I'm yours. He only gets to borrow me sometimes." She grinned at his increased thrusting and heavier breathing. His words told her everything she needed to know, and she was content to let her husband keep the lead on the conversation. She would merely confirm and encourage, as she knew that at this time it was best for her to remain mostly silent.
But as part of her encouragement, she allowed her lips to emit soft gasps and intakes of breath when he gave her a particularly hard thrust, just to let him know he was doing a good job. Boys need positive feedback from a lady so that they know she is enjoying their efforts...
Jeffrey gasped, "So slippery...", as his thrusts began to increase in tempo.
Susan cooed, "Mmmm..." at his thrusts, and whispered softly, "Do you like that?"
She had her answer and smiled as he gasped, "Ooohhh...", and thrust faster and harder. It seemed to her there was a vein of gold that should be mined more deeply.
She said, "Can you feel my lover's cum making me all slippery inside, honey?"
"Ohhh God," he rasped as he thrust with all his might, delighting his wife with his desperate plunges, each one delivered with its own little gasp from his parted lips.
She caressed him with her hands as she murmured, "Yes, honey, I'm full of my lover's cum, but now I want to feel you cum in me, honey." She was rewarded with a further increase in her husband's urgency. She whispered, "I want my husband's semen... Give it to me, honey."
Susan worked her vaginal muscles to try to squeeze his penis so he could feel more of her, and she of him. There was something thrilling and wonderful about pleasuring her husband's penis so soon after her lover had been inside her. Though Jeffrey's penis was smaller, it felt so right and wholesome to have her husband thrusting into her -- it felt like 'coming home' and she hoped he felt the same way. She felt like, with her lover in her she was enjoying sex with a man's penis, but with her husband in her she was making love with 'her' man. The size of Jeffrey's penis seemed even less important now. Only the love and connection between husband and wife mattered when she made love with Jeffrey.
She had worried that having her dates with a 'big boy' would make her more dissatisfied with Jeffrey's genital size, but in fact the opposite occurred. Now that she had a big penis like Randy's available to enjoy, she was more satisfied than ever with Jeffrey's 'average' size. She realized it wasn't Jeffrey's penis that mattered to her anymore. What mattered was who Jeffrey was -- her beloved husband. How strange, she thought, that having a lover made her appreciate intercourse with her husband more...
It was so erotic to Jeffrey to thrust into his wife after her lover had done. She was stretched wide and deep by her lover's big penis, and she was so full and slippery with his semen. Somehow, the fact that Susan's lover was bigger, and that he had filled her with his cum, was scrambling Jeffrey's emotions. What should have been jealousy was changed into arousal, fear into excitement, and worry into desire.
It only took a few more thrusts before ejaculation was upon him. He gasped and moaned and spurted into his wife again and again. Susan was saying, "Oh yes, that's it, cum in me honey, spurt in me. Yes, that's my good boy, come in your wife. Your penis feels so good when you spurt in me. Give me all your semen, Jeffrey, I need it all. I love when you cum for me!"
She knew from experience that this sort of talk really helped her dear husband come hard for her, and she loved to help heighten his ejaculation and make him feel that he had pleased her. He always pleased her, but it was good for him to hear that she liked it.
She kissed the side of his face and caressed him as he finally lay spent and exhausted atop her, his penis pulsing softly and giving her his few last drops. After a little while, he went soft in her so that she no longer felt his penis at all. Every few moments, she whispered, "I love you," between kisses on his cheek and neck as she enjoyed feeling his relaxed weight on her.


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Chris Brown Allegedly Had A Sexual Relationship With Someone At Rehab
By Mack Rawden 2 years ago
Its a little dramatic to say rehabilitation centers are like prisons, but the two places are not entirely dissimilar. Both require residents to submit to very rigid rules, and both promise serious consequences for not following them. Just ask Chris Brown. He apparently couldnt keep his hands to himself or his contempt for the situation properly masked while inside rehab; so, now, hes going to spend more than a month in the slammer.
According to TMZ, Brown was kicked out of rehab last week after an alleged pattern of inappropriate behavior began to emerge. He reportedly refused to take a drug test for several hours (though he later passed), spoke very negatively about treatment during a group therapy session, inappropriately touched at least one of the females seeking treatment despite being told he wasnt allowed within two feet and allegedly began a sexual relationship with another female. Those might not be felony level crimes, but in a treatment environment where order and stability are paramount, they present problems.
Brown and his attorney, Mark Geragos, were in court today to try and convince the judge to let the singer transfer to another rehab facility or wait out the month or so before his Washington DC trial under house arrest, but that plea apparently fell on deaf ears. So, Brown will have to ship off to prison for a month or so until the legal proceedings begin on April 23.
Even if hes convicted, its highly unlikely Brown will get much more than a slap on the wrist for the alleged DC area assault itself, but thanks to all of the issues hes had in the past, such a conviction would likely violate his probation and send him to the slammer for up to four years.
Well keep you updated on this case as more details become available. Until then, heres to hoping Brown uses his time behind bars to finally figure out a strategy that will keep him out of trouble and out of the papers, at least for the wrong reasons.


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Splendor Above the City
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Situated directly on the Small Boulevard of Budapest, Splendor above the city is a self-catering apartment with stylish décor and free WiFi access. The property is 150 metres from the Dohány Street Synagogue and 500 metres from the Hungarian National Museum.
This spacious apartment provides views over the city, air conditioning and a flat-screen cable TV. The fully equipped kitchen comes with a dishwasher and a microwave. Featuring a walk-in shower cabin, the bathroom also features a hairdryer.
Several shops and restaurant can be found in the immediate vicinity. The River Danube is 950 metres from the Splendor above the city and the Chain Bridge is 1.2 km away. The Citadella Fortress on the Buda side is 1.4 km away. Public parking is possible on site.
There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
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Before we left we had a problem of overbooking, which was subsequently resolved. The apartment is very nice and comfortable, is located in a beautiful building but not in a central location with metro and bus around the corner. We only had a problem with towels solved two days later. Overall we were very good.
Prima di partire abbiamo avuto un problema di overbooking che poi è stato risolto. L'appartamento è molto bello e confortevole, si trova in un palazzo non bellissimo ma in una posizione centrale con metro e bus a due passi. Abbiamo avuto solo un problema con gli asciugamani risolto due giorni dopo. Nel complesso siamo stati molto bene.
The airport service was super and the owners wer easy to reach by SMS.
The location of the apartment was really great and there was Wifi. The size of the roomwas also good.
We were staying here during a heatwave and we were very uncomfortable because it was on the top floor and there was no airco.
Next time we would chose a hotel over this apartment because the price would be the same but breakfast and more comfort would be included.
Prima plek! Enorm centraal. Schoon. Voldoende luxe.
Lovely llittle hotel style appartment in a very central location. A nice swimming pool and gym are included. Very well working internet.
Very near to Opera house and Basilik, and house of terror, a very impressive museum about communistic times.
A very small remark; the chairs in the room do need revision
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We were a new married couple who booked this "luxury" apartment.
It was FAAAR FAAR away from luxury
-Disgusting apartment, has not been cleaned for a long time
-Dripping water from the roof in the kitchen
-It was a lot of dust on the walls hanging
- I killed 6 cockroaches
- The lock on the door wasnt working properly
- A electric outlet was really dangerous in the kitchen
Simon has about 20 apartments for renting but he do not have the time to take care of his guest, he don`t give a shit!
I contact them but nobody contact me back.
BE CAREFUL of this JOCKER!
Reallly good place! The location could not be better and the service was reallly good. The host was Always at our service. The apartment was cozy as well! We would definetly stay at astoria apartment again If we go to Budapest.
Hola! para aquellos que estén pensando en viajar en Budapest y alojarse en un apartamento os diré que el Astoria es un apartamento muy bien situado, cerca de supermercados, metro y cualquier lugar que se quiera visitar. El apartamento está en un edificio muy antiguo pero es a la vez muy tranquilo y por dentro es como se muestra en las fotos.
Simon y su equipo de trabajo te facilitan mucho la estancia. El servicio de traslado al aeropuerto está fenomenal y los conductores súper amables.
Excellent Location (downtown Pest), Beautiful apartment, perfect for short stays, the main bedroom is very wide and luxury, the other parts of the flat are confortable even if smaller. It's a overall good solution. At the check in we met Màté (Simon Peter's friend .... or colleague) an helpful and efficient guy. If we come back to Budapest we will certainly contact Simon Peter.
A very well equiped clean appartment in the middle of Budapest.
We enjoyed our stay in Budapest the owner is very friendly and helpful
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Horton House
The newly renovated Horton House, former home of Highlander's founder Myles Horton, is available for rent by individuals, small groups, and organizations as a site for meetings, writing projects, and individual or group retreats.
The house is located at the top of the ridge on Highlander's property, with a spectacular view of the Great Smoky Mountains. It can accommodate up to eight people for multi-day meetings and retreats, and up to fifteen people for one-day meetings. Groups with more than fifteen people should use our Workshop Center.
Horton House, exterior view
The Horton House has the following facilities:
- A full kitchen with pots, pans, cooking utensils, plates, dishes, silverware, glasses, dishwasher, microwave, etc.
- Three bedrooms
A large bedroom with three twin beds
A small bedroom with a double bed
A small bedroom with a built-in twin bed
(There is also a couch in the living room that folds out to a double bed.)
- A large living/dining room facing the mountains.
The dining room section has a dining room table that can seat up to 10 people for a meal.
The living room section has a couch, two easy chairs, and 8 rocking chairs.
- A large deck and adjacent patio, both of which also face the mountains.
- An accessible full bathroom with a roll-in shower.
The house can sleep 6 people with one person in each bed (including the fold-out couch). It can sleep 8 people if two people use each the double beds.
For a day meeting, the house can accommodate up to 15 people. Larger groups should use our Workshop Center, which can accommodate up to 35 people. (Click here for information about the Workshop Center.)
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Biocharts : A Viusal Formalism for Complex Biological Systems
Unify biological hypotheses with models and experiments
For any assistance regarding downloading and using the tool and questions about the methodology please email Hillel Kugler at (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation
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Synthesizing Biological Theories
H. Kugler, C. Plock, A. Roberts (CAV, 2011)
Biocharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Biological Systems
Hillel Kugler, Antti Larjo, David Harel (Interface, 2010)
Movies Description: A simulation combining chemotactic and metabolic models. The set-up is a tube filled with aspartate and bacteria placed randomly on the other end of the tube. The box in the top portion of the figure represents the tube; the diamonds are bacteria in their running state and the 'x's are bacteria in their tumble state. The diameter of the tube is 200um. Bacteria shown in red were born as the result of divisions taking place within the last 1.5 seconds. Aspartate concentration inside the tube is shown by the curve beneath the box.
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RJ McNichols filmed a documentary series titled "1621 and Beyond: The Fall and Rise of North Central Men's Cross Country Team." This eight-part web series incorporates video from the 2007 season and what it took to win a 13th team national title. The series began streaming August 22 at nccharrier.com.
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Abigail Stark is a loan administrator at Chase Mortgage. She is also pursuing a master of leadership studies degree at North Central. Stark lives in Bolingbrook, IL, and may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Glen Allen Resident to Sing National Anthem at Nationwide Race
When thousands of fans stand for the national anthem tonight prior to the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond International Raceway, all eyes will be on a Glen Allen resident fulfilling a lifetime dream of singing at a NASCAR race.
Twenty-two year-old Ryan Corbin of Glen Allen entered Richmond International Raceway's National Anthem contest last month and ultimately won the opportunity to perform prior to the race.
"I'm so excited," said Corbin. "Four months ago I was in the stands hoping I could sing at a race one day. And four months later I'm doing it. It's the chance of a lifetime and I've wanted to do it since I was five years old. I'm just overwhelmed with joy right now."
In August, the track hosted a month-long contest to determine who would perform the National Anthem prior to the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Nearly a hundred submissions were received via e-mail, mail and through an open audition at Short Pump Mall. The second and final rounds were showcased at the mall and Corbin bested eight other finalists for the opportunity to perform.
Corbin is a huge NASCAR fan and was introduced to motorsports by his father. Following his first race, he was instantly hooked.
"Racing at Richmond is exciting in so many ways," said Corbin. "Forty-three cars on a short track at night, running side-by-side, watching them beat and bang for every lap! Now that's exciting, and the reason Richmond racing is so special. When you walk to your seat you can feel the vibrations as the cars go around and you can see drivers up close! It's just an all around amazing place!
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The Asian American Society of Central Virginia will hold its 19th Annual Asian American Celebration on Saturday, May 21 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd St. in Richmond, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
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By: April Scott
Number of Reviews: 366
Average Score: 64
Risky Public
This site is closed.
This site is closed.
I want to make it clear that not every girl on Risky Public appears to be drunk. Some look stone-cold sober and are just having a good time with another gal or flashing in public (while a guy's filming) just to push their boundaries.
That said, I did see one girl start to finger herself at a party, fall over and then basically beg a guy to make out with her while someone handed her a handful of crackers. I'm guessing she was drunk and probably about to yak. I've been there myself and a few Saltines always do the trick.
Apart from drunk chicks getting naughty on camera, you'll also see lesbian threesomes, wet T-shirt contests and babes riding bulls and having some XXX fun in a limo. I didn't see any oral or penetrative sex, but there's a ton of nudity with chicks masturbating and having girl-on-girl fun. I'm sure the guys operating the cameras might have thought they'd get a little something-something, but I didn't see any evidence of that.
Once you enter the members' area, you'll be faced with thumbnails for all the network sites, so just choose this one. The videos are presented as thumbnails and you just have to click whichever one strikes your fancy. You can stream the 44 videos in a big embedded player or you can download them in an MP4 format and you're looking at mostly HD footage.
Pretty much all the footage here is captured outdoors, in clubs or at parties, but I'm guessing you figured that out from the "Public" in the sitename. What you might not have figured out is that there aren't any pictures. It's kind of strange, though, since in many videos you'll see camera flashes. It doesn't advertise that the porn is user-submitted, but I can almost guarantee it is, so maybe the pics were never sent in.
They don't date the material, but since the site is identical to how it looked when we visited it in January 2013, it's safe to assume they've stopped updating. At least the 53 other sites you saw on the homepage also come with a membership and they give you more party porn, including Untamed Shows, Party Females and Girls Only Party, but many other niches are represented as well, like MILFs, teens, reality, interracial and Femdom.
Risky Public could benefit from some kind of search engine, but the collection isn't too big right now so it's not that big a deal. This site sits somewhere in the middle of the pack for now. I don't think it would be waste of money to join the site on its own and all the like-themed bonuses really add value.
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Since we last visited FootsieBabes...
Footsie Babes resembles some of the more general hardcore offerings found on the other sites in the same network, so I was worried that the content would be too mainstream to fit the theme and that it wouldn't satisfy true foot lovers. Thankfully I was worried for nothing.
For some people, feet aren't a turn-on without nudity or hardcore action, whereas pure foot-fetish content often doesn't depend on either method to stimulate fans. So a compromise is often made. In the best case scenario, we get a large focus on feet and the sex is treated as an incidental bonus, like it is on FootsieBabes.
Many of the 496 movies are in Full HD. You'll also find files for mobile devices. If you want to watch the vids online, you can stream them in an embedded player. Although there isn't an advanced search, you can save your favorites and use keyword tags. They're currently updating once a week.
What you can expect from the 496 photo galleries are crisp high-res images that you can download in Zip files. And the layouts are great. Although they always progress to the models being nude and, in many cases, sexually interacting with a man or another woman, they still have plenty of closeups of feet. You'll see them in shoes, sandals, high heels or bare and they occasionally slather them in lotion or oil.
The tender tootsies also get sucked and licked. Other times toes slip into wet pussies, or skilled soles wrap around a hard cock and eventually get covered in cum. There are always pictures where the feet fill the entire frame without any other distractions.
Extra content comes in the form of a ton of other 21 Sextury sites, like Nude Fight Club, Pix And Video, Gape Land, Sex With Kathia Nobili and Blue Angel Live. There's a section that combines the best of the network's scenes and you also get a slew of nonexclusive bonus sites. There's a wide variety of content to be found, but I don't think you'll find much more foot-focused porn.
Foot lovers will enjoy Footsie Babes and the large network will add to your pleasure as long as you're open to a variety of hardcore porn. This site is a top contender and you shouldn't pass it up if you've got a foot fetish.
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Score: 50% Date: 02/24/2016
Well filmed couples (MF) foot fetish hardcore content, but hardly any lesbian FF, and I couldn't find a single 3some, either FFF or FFM, so quite boring really. Not that easy to search either
Score: 90% Date: 05/22/2015
I have been a frequent subscriber, but when I try to join at the DISCOUNT price, the billing page tries to charge me full price. HELP. thank U
Reply from RabbitsReviews (Date:05/25/2015): Hello. I sent you an email. The discount pricing is showing, so lets figure out where the issue is and resolve it.
Score: 80% Date: 08/17/2012
i love this site it is amazing to me i love to get a footjob from any sex girl and ready to spent doolars on them.i am also called dashymoney over girls.
Score: 80% Date: 07/06/2010
Decent site for sure, but if you look at some of the photos, you will see a reddish splotchy cast to the skin of the girls. They basically rubbed tanning lotion on all of these girls and that is why the splotchy quality exists. It sucks, but the girls are sexy and put on a good foot show in the videos.
Score: 5% Date: 01/15/2009
Have ordered a trial membership for one dollar, which only gives you access to the first picture page and the first picture, which is not noted visibly to the user, so be careful with trial accounts. Besides, I only orderered footsiebabes, but also received sophiemoone, and this was also billed. So I lost 2$, luckily not more.
Score: 5% Date: 11/18/2008
Exactly like the "dissatisfied customer" below I have been a member for more than a half year. Now since about ten days I cannot find the site. IT'S GONE ALL OF A SUDDEN !... It seems all the 21th sextury content's domains have expired. (every each of their sites) And this all without informing the customers! I wonder if they continue the billing without fullfilling their features. A REAL SHIT !


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No matter the genre, Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element," "La Femme Nikita") is a filmmaker who likes his film loud, big and bold. Judging by the new trailer for his latest, "The Lady," he's made our of his grandest entertainments yet.
The Aung San Suu Kyi biopic premiered last month in Toronto to generally lukewarm reviews, but critics were pretty unanimous in their praise of Michelle Yeoh's lead turn as the Burmese Nobel Prize winner. The epic film (it clocks in at 143 minutes) follows Suu Kyi's activism against Burmese dictatorship and her marriage to writer Michael Aris (David Thewlis). The actress was deported and banned from Burma for taking on the role.
The trailer is all rousing music and sweeping shots with Yeoh commanding the screen in a big way. Cohen Media Group picked up the film out of Toronto. While a North American release date hasn't been set yet, look for this to open before the year's end to make the Academy Awards cut off deadline. Looks like Yeoh has a good shot.


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Hey everyone. I thought I'd make you all feel a bit better about yourselves after the loss to the Ravens.
I'm a Jets fan....and if you're feeling a bit down about the Pats, please read below:
Sad about the playoff loss? At least your team was in the playoffs.
A little upset at BB? Meet Rex Ryan.
Are you mad at Brady for a subpar performance? My team's QB is Mark Sanchez.
You think the Pats have made a couple of bad acquisitions? Tebow...enough said.
Embarrassed about that game? Buttfumble.
Despite these troubles, I will stick with my Jets...but I thought this might bring some of the angry posters here back to Earth a bit.


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Former Oklahoma linebacker Rod Shoate elected to College Football Hall of Fame
NORMAN — Late former Oklahoma linebacker Rod Shoate will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, the National Football Foundation announced Tuesday.
Shoate was a three-time All-America pick from 1972-74, and was a unanimous first-team All-American in 1974, when the Sooners won the national championship.
A two-time Big Eight Defensive Player of the Year, Shoate finished seventh in the 1974 Heisman Trophy voting and finished his career with 420 tackles, the third-highest total in school history.
Shoate died Oct. 4, 1999 at the age of 46.
His teammate, defensive back Randy Hughes, was listed on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot, but wasn't elected. Hughes intercepted 14 passes during his career, good for fourth in school history.
Once again, Oklahoma legend Brian Bosworth was not elected. The two-time consensus first-team All-American linebacker led OU in tackles three straight seasons from 1984-86, and helped the Sooners to three straight Orange Bowl appearances and the 1985 national title.


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Everyone knows that online payment system in Nigeria is broken. Paypal, most times, blocks electronic transactions when they emanate from Nigeria. Nigerians are still finding it hard to buy things online. A young man is out to solve that problem by making it easier for web developers to seamlessly integrate payment systems on their websites. That way, people can electronically pay for goods and services online. With simple codes, a developer will setup a website to collect payment. Hey, the freemium model we are forced to embrace without option to collect payment is ending soon. There are about three players in the industry right now in Nigeria: CashEnvoy, Eyowo and VoguePay. Among the three, VoguePay is bringing some geeky enthusiasm in this young sector. It is possible we have Stripe with us. People, Tekedia is proud to present the Founder of VoguePay, Mr. Leke Ojikutu. This guy rocks in the tech universe.
Tekedia: Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. We have read your accomplishments and found them very inspiring. Let us begin by asking your name and background.
Leke: My name is Leke Ojikutu. I am a programmer, software developer and entrepreneur. I started out with Lojik Technologies; a call center opened on a borrowed mobile phone in 2003. In 2007, I registered AFRISOFT Interactive but was unable to fund it, so i worked for Xpedition NG and Bluebox Macromedia before joining Lagos State Internal Revenue Service in June 2008. At LIRS, i developed the Lagos State Tax Audit Database (acclaimed to be one of the largest databases in Nigeria) in use till date. I resigned from LIRS by May 2010 to re-start AFRISOFT Interactive with only N30, 000 I had in savings. I was able to attract investors to the company. Today, we are valued a little higher than N20 Million.
Very impressive. We have spent time on your site and are amassed on the progress you have made on AFRISOFT and especially VoguePay. Can you tell us about VoguePay and its products and services.
VoguePay is a unique online payment processor owned by AFRISOFT Interactive. We have a vision to offer buyers and sellers a secure and easy-to-use means of transacting business online. At VoguePay, we believe that receiving money on a website should be easy enough for anyone to implement, this explains why we have carefully created several tools to make integration of VoguePay into your site a snap.
Yes, we have signed up and truly commend you. Can you share the motivation for starting this company
If Nigeria is to go cashless, there has to be a way for businesses to accept payment from remote buyers without buyers going to pay cash into seller's bank account. Basically, we created VoguePay in response to our business need. As a software company, we needed a payment solution that can allow us to sell online real time with suitable payment processor that incorporates multiple credit/debit cards without limiting the merchants.
We couldn't find a worthy platform, so we created one. We created a new standard for payment. We launched what is now the biggest payment processor in Nigeria with over 2300 registered Merchant base and over 1000 websites linking into it, all within 3 months.
Interesting. It was the same motivation that Stripe had and they hope to change America in the sector. We are happy you are doing same here. So, what is VoguePay doing and what are your future plans in this quest to change the nation payment system.
As a group, AFRISOFT Interactive has grown to become a global company. With software sales in Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Canada, France, U.S.A, U.K, India and several other countries, we have broken every encountered barrier and built sustainable bridges that have connected us to the world. With a valuation of N20 Million and over 6000% growth rate per year (in 2011), we do not plan to watch the future unfold, we are already creating it.
"We are creating a new standard for online solutions, redefining client-company relationship, and restructuring the image of Nigerian businesses online."
We like that quote. But in this grand mission, there will be challenges. What are the challenges including any CBN related one. You know Nigeria's Central Bank is out there to ensure the industry develops with order.
- The first challenge was the transaction limitation. Interswitch imposed N3, 000.00 maximum single transaction limits on some forms of online businesses labeled "High risk online businesses"; this includes Bulk SMS and Recharge card businesses. I believe this is a setback for the cashless policy being introduced by CBN. We have assured our merchants that we will find a way to relax this limit and we are presently trying to find a way.
- The second major challenge was the issue of payment integration with websites. Most online entrepreneurs are not programmers and payment integration requires programming. We have been able to solve this with our merchant centered approach
- The third challenge was our support system. With the fast growth rate of VoguePay, the support requests became very enormous. We have recruited new staff and now have a continuous training process for every staff and this is paying off well.
Now, what makes you different from your competitors, local and foreign including Google Checkout and Paypal?
VoguePay distinguishes itself from Google Checkout and PayPal in some unique ways. We did not set out to copy, we set out to innovate. This is evident with some of our features listed below:
- We are Nigerians and we accept Nigerians.
Nigerians have been identified with fraud online by many payment solutions and this has caused PayPal and other payment processors to ban Nigerians from using their service. We have our own creative solutions. Built by us, built for us and that accepts us.
- We pay into Nigerian banks
Despite Google's presence in Nigeria; Google Checkout still does not make payments into Nigerian merchant accounts. The same goes with PayPal. VoguePay pays into Nigerian bank accounts and we have paid millions of Naira into savings and current accounts with Nigerian banks.
- SMS-enabled transaction (TEXT-DIRECT)
VoguePay allows transactions without the need for internet connection. Merchants can transfer money, check balance, withdraw to bank, request for payment, send invoice and perform a few other tasks by SMS. No internet required. Google checkout and PayPal do not yet have these features.
- Mobile Apps
With VoguePay, you don't need to worry if you don't have a computer around you. VoguePay has feature rich mobile applications for popular mobile platforms like Blackberry, Android, and Symbian etc.
- VoguePay affiliate program
VoguePay pays you commission for life on any new merchant you refer to the VoguePay payment processor. This means that every time the person you referred makes sales online, you earn money into your VoguePay wallet.
- SMS and Email transaction alert
You can choose to receive SMS and/or email alerts for every transaction on your account.
- Free installation/integration on your website
For those that do not know how to write computer programs, they can use any of our free code generation tools. They are very user friendly. Our professional programmers can also do it for you. For free!
May we ask if you have any serious local competitor? And how do plan to innovate to stay ahead?
There are a few websites offering payment processing in Nigeria, but when you do a fair comparison of what they have to offer, they are far from being real competitors. Our real competitors are from bigger economies. In a few months from now, we would be competing globally against the giants of payment processing worldwide. That is where we are headed.
Simply, what motivates you?
Our motivation and drive comes from two different sources:
- God given vision
Our vision is God given. Everything we do is centered on our God given vision.
- Team
We have the best team in the world! We are like one big family. In fact, some of our most successful projects are named by staff. The name, "VoguePay" was christened by an I.T student that worked with the company. Our staffs are our real assets. Although, I am the C.E.O, almost every staff can run the company just fine or even better.
Now, we are going off-topic. We want a message from you for young Nigerian Entrepreneurs
I will leave you with these quotes that I cherish
Take action on your ideas today. Take the first step, it's what matters most. Because it does not matter what you know, it is what you do with what you know that counts.
Don't let fear hold down your destiny. If you are not acting on your ideas today, you might wake up tomorrow to find out that someone else has turned billionaire by that same idea.
Be courageous. Courage is not the absence of fear but the will to go on despite the presence of fear.
The world awaits your manifestation! Arise!! Shine!!!
That is it. Thank you for speaking with Tekedia.
Thanks for the opportunity!


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RUSTON - Hill Oil's Inside Bulldog Football with Skip Holtz will air live Monday at 6 p.m. at the Dawg House Sports Grill in Ruston.
Holtz will team up with Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Nitz to talk Bulldog football as the one-hour radio show will air live on the LA Tech Sports Network, including KNBB 97.7 FM (Ruston/Monroe), KBEF 104.5 FM (Minden), KASO 1240 AM (Minden), KVCL 92.1 FM (Winnfield), KRMD 1340 AM (Shreveport/Bossier City), KRMD 100.7 FM (Shreveport/Bossier City) and WUBR 910 AM (Baton Rouge). It can also be heard via the internet by purchasing a subscription for LA Tech All-Access at LATechSports.com.
Bulldog fans are encouraged to come out to the Dawg House Sports Grill to eat dinner and to experience the show in person as one segment will include taking questions from the fans. In addition to Holtz and Nitz reviewing Tech's 27-14 win over Lamar and previewing Thursday's C-USA opener against Tulane, this week's show will also include a phone-in segment with Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky.
LA Tech season tickets and single game tickets to the Heart of Dallas Classic against Army at the Cotton Bowl Sept. 28 are also on sale and can be purchased by contacting the Tech Ticket Office at 318-257-3631 or emailing email@example.com. The Tech Ticket Office is located in the Thomas Assembly Center and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Fans can also purchase tickets at LATechSports.com.
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Osprey makes precautionary landing in Jacksonville
POSTED: 9:26 PM Sep 06 2012
A Marine Corps Air Station New River spokesperson tells NewsChannel 12 an Osprey aircraft made a precautionary landing in Jacksonville late Thursday afternoon.
A witness to the landing says he heard a strange, loud noise about 5:15 p.m. He says the aircraft went over his house and landed behind a church near the Ellis Park Subdivision.
Thick black smoke was coming from the Osprey but both pilots made it out safely.
No one was injured and there was no damage to property.
The Marine Corps continues to investigate.
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Oklahoma At A Glance
20) Oklahoma (3-2) at (3) Texas (5-0)
As fierce as the Red River Rivalry is, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford insist they are friends.
That friendship will be put aside Saturday as No. 3 Texas (5-0, 2-0) and No. 20 Oklahoma (3-2, 1-0) renew acquaintances at the Cotton Bowl with the marquee signal callers drawing all the attention for the perennial Big 12 contenders.
The Sooners' Bradford edged the Longhorns' McCoy last year for the Heisman Trophy, thanks to a spectacular 50-touchdown season. The quarterbacks got to know each other through the college awards circuit, with Bradford winning the Davey O'Brien Award and McCoy earning the Walter Camp Player of the Year. Their friendship blossomed over the summer as they roomed together at the Manning quarterback camp.
"I think that probably from a fan's perspective and people outside of the game think that it's crazy that I could be friends with Sam or that Sam could be friends with me, but we are and he's a great guy," McCoy said. "We've got a lot in common. But we both understand this is a huge game."
It wasn't certain the two would meet when Bradford sprained his right shoulder in Oklahoma's season-opening 14-10 loss to then-No. 20 Brigham Young on Sept. 5. Bradford missed the next three games before returning last Saturday to complete 27 of 49 passes with one touchdown in a 33-7 victory over Baylor.
"We didn't anticipate him throwing 49 balls, but we didn't anticipate him getting 100 snaps either," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "In the end, it just worked out. We kept in touch with him throughout the game to see how he was feeling and he was feeling fine, so that's a positive. We only expect him to make some improvement this week."
McCoy, who sent a text message to Bradford the night of the injury, says he's happy the Sooners' All-American is healthy again. Bradford appreciated the gesture.
"Colt's a great guy and I think him sending me a text message after I got hurt, telling me that he was praying for me, to stay with it and keep my head up, that just says a lot about the type of guy he is," Bradford said. "I think a lot of people see us going to rival schools, you know, and probably wouldn't have done that.
"For him to do something like that and to keep encouraging me, it just says a lot about who he is."
This is the third time the quarterbacks have met. They've split the first two matchups. Texas won 45-35 last year despite Bradford's matching a career high with five touchdowns passes and throwing for 387 yards.
That win gave the Longhorns a leg up in their bid for a BCS championship, but Texas later blew its Big 12 South advantage with a 39-33 loss to Texas Tech. Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech finished in a tie for the division title, and the Sooners were awarded the spot in the conference title game due to a tiebreaker.
Texas, though, is not using the controversial ending to last season as motivation for this matchup.
"You go back and people constantly ask me for what they did last year," coach Mack Brown said. "All OU did was win all their games after they played us. They didn't do anything to us. It wasn't about them. Our problem was we lost to Tech, and we put the decision-making process back in the BCS computer ranking's hands and the Big 12 tiebreaker's hands. It had nothing to do with OU."
McCoy leads the nation with a 73.4 completion percentage, and has 10 touchdowns and six interceptions. He completed 32 of 39 passes last Saturday as Texas rallied from a four-point halftime deficit for a 38-14 victory over Colorado.
While Bradford and McCoy are drawing the headlines, both coaches are aware that Saturday's game also pits the two best defenses in the Big 12, with Texas ranking fourth in the nation and Oklahoma ninth.
The Longhorns were able to control the line of scrimmage last year, gaining 161 rushing yards compared to 48 for the Sooners. Texas held the ball for more than 37 minutes.
Oklahoma feels it can limit Texas' running game this year. On the other side of the ball, it feels it can take advantage of the fact the Longhorns lost three 2008 defensive starters in the first three rounds of the NFL draft.
"We look at the tape of last year all the time and we remember the mistakes we made and the things we didn't do to win the game," Oklahoma defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. "We know we have to change those this year."
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'A Perfect Storm': The Failure of Venezuela's New President
He was hand-picked by Hugo Chávez, but Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has lost control of the country's economy. Vast protests have been the result, but the government in Caracas has shown no signs of bending.
The smell of smoke wafts over Caracas. A group of young women have built a barricade of wooden pallets and garbage bags and lit it on fire on the main street running through Bello Monte, a middle-class quarter of the Venezuelan capital.
Students have been protesting in Caracas for days, building barricades on city streets and occupying squares. The movement began two weeks ago in San Cristóbal, in the state of Táchira near the border with Colombia. In just a few days, it spread across the entire country.
The students are protesting against inflation, shortages and corruption. Mostly, though, they are taking to the streets in opposition to the violence meted out by the country's paramilitary shock troops. "We are going to protest until the government disarms the colectivos," says Camacho.
"Colectivos" is the name given to the brutal militias that even late President Hugo Chávez supported. Now, the government of his successor, Nicolás Maduro, is sending the thugs after opposition activists, with masked men on motorcycles speeding through the streets, firing on demonstrators and, sometimes, following students all the way back to their universities. At least 13 people have died in the unrest, with 150 having been injured.
Last Tuesday, government toughs terrorized the quarter of Altamira, a hotbed of opposition in Caracas. For hours, some 150 motorcycles sped through the central square with thugs firing guns into the air. A handful of passersby were wounded by the bullets.
A Mustachioed Chávez
One day later, Maduro co-opted the country's television channels to publicly ridicule his opponents. Wearing a bright red shirt, he hosted the live show, playing the role of an MC in a performance reminiscent of his predecessor. Chávez used to call opposition supporters "scrawny." Maduro prefers to call them "fascists."
Indeed, Maduro behaves a lot like a mustachioed Chávez, but lacks his forerunner's humor and, especially, his aplomb. He often seems tense; he picks at his shirt and stumbles over his words.
Chávez died just under one year ago, but began grooming Maduro as his crown prince a few months prior. No one was as obedient as Maduro, a former bus driver that Chávez made into a government minister. It was a terrible decision for the country: What Maduro lacks in charisma, he makes up for in radicalism. He has ruined the country's economy and has often turned to Cuba, his closest ally, for guidance. And he has attempted to silence the opposition with a campaign of pure terror. Recently, though, it has begun looking as though he will have difficulty regaining the upper hand over the protests.
When Maduro's term began, hopes had been high that he would be able to reconcile his divided country. He sought out contact with the US and gave the impression that he was willing to open a dialogue with opposition politicians. But last week, he expelled three American diplomats, claiming they had supported "the opposition fascists."
Recently, he has encroached on freedom of expression to a greater degree than even Chávez did. He arranged the purchase of the last remaining television station in Venezuela that was critical of the government and has unleashed his supporters on the "fascist broadcaster" CNN and on other foreign journalists. A "deputy minister for social networks" has been charged with monitoring what Venezuelans post on Twitter and elsewhere, while the two largest government-critical newspapers have had trouble publishing due to a paper shortage.
The president is a stubborn ideologue hiding behind a jovial façade. He has launched a new wave of expropriations and increased government control in slums, with neighborhood organizations modeled after Cuba's "committees for the defense of the revolution" monitoring residents.
The Voice of the Opposition
Maduro travels frequently to Havana for consultations with the Castro brothers; he was also their preference to succeed Chávez. Cubans also monitor Venezuela's security apparatus, to the point that they even issue personal IDs. But in recent weeks, a potentially dangerous opponent to Maduro has emerged.
Representative Mariá Corina Machado receives visitors in the office of her organization, La Salida, which means "the exit." Machado is the closest ally of opposition politician Leopoldo López, 42. She keeps things moving while Salida leader López sits in a military prison waiting for the Maduro regime to put him on trial.
López, a Harvard graduate and a former mayor of the prosperous municipality of Chacao, is the voice of the opposition. He is chivalrous, charismatic and impatient. He only begrudgingly accepted Enrique Capriles, the moderate governor of Miranda, as the opposition's candidate in the presidential election last April. He had wanted to run himself.
Maduro won by a razor-thin majority and López has never accepted the election result. He broke with Capriles and threw his support behind the student protest movement. After three protesters were killed during violent clashes in Caracas on Feb. 12, the government held López responsible, with prosecutors accusing him of incitement to murder. With proceedings now having begun, the judiciary has reduced the charges to destruction of public property.
López went into hiding for five days, only to turn himself in in a maneuver worthy of Hollywood: Waving a Venezuelan flag during a mass demonstration, he climbed into a military vehicle and was driven in a convoy to jail, escorted by his supporters. He became a martyr overnight and is now the best-known opposition figure in the country.
The risks López is taking are significant. He is polarizing the country and openly challenging the regime. "We don't want to wait six years until the next election. By then, the country will be ruined," says his ally Corina Machado. "Maduro should resign as soon as possible."
'Destroying the Private Sector'
But are López's actions calculated? Or are they born out of desperation? For 12 years, the opposition has been doing everything it can to topple the government. Activists have staged an overthrow attempt, organized referenda and put up candidates in elections -- but Chávez always won. The "Caudillo" was considered invincible.
That, though, cannot be said of Maduro. His victory in last year's election was anything but a landslide and even in the slums -- once the source of Chávez's power -- his economic policies are not well received. In order to combat the country's massive inflation of over 50 percent, Maduro has introduced price controls. Shops that demand prices that he believes are too high are simply occupied. "We will guarantee everyone has a plasma television," the president has said, and has forced stores to sell them cheaply.
"It is plundering under the aegis of the state," says Diego Arria, formerly Venezuela's UN ambassador. "Maduro is destroying the private sector."
Oil production is responsible for roughly a third of the country's economic output and over 70 percent of consumer goods are imported. But the yield from Venezuela's oil wells has been dropping for years and gasoline and foodstuffs are heavily subsidized. And now, the government is running out of hard cash. The official exchange rate is around 6.3 bolívars to the dollar, but on the black market, one can get up to 84 bolívars for a US dollar.
Many shops are empty, with even corn flour, milk and toilet paper subject to shortages. Lines like those seen in Cuba have become common and people are desperately trying to get their hands on dollars. "A perfect storm is brewing in Venezuela," says Arria.
The government has been having difficulties supplying even the basics in the slums of Caracas. In the vast quarter of "23 de enero," people stand in long lines in front of the state-run supermarket; they are issued numbers on strips of cardboard. Chavistas control entry to the store and glorify Maduro and the revolution to shoppers. Most of those waiting remain silent. Every three days, they mumble quietly when the guards aren't paying attention, their food coupons will get them chicken from Brazil and two kilograms of flour, but nothing more.
Black Screen
Venezuela's military has more power under Maduro, a civilian, than it did under the former officer Chávez. Maduro has handed out senior jobs to some 2,000 soldiers and the military now occupies key positions in business and controls entire companies. Late last week, Maduro sent a parachute battalion to Táchira to curtail the protests there.
But even in the military, dissatisfaction is spreading. "The soldiers just haven't yet had the courage to open their mouths," says one administrative employee who works in Fuerte Tiuna, a military base on the outskirts of Caracas.
In front of the prison, a group of women is gathered, the mothers of the dozens of university students who have been arrested in the course of the protests. Some of the prisoners are minors, others are injured. "They beat my son on his head," says Beatriz Munga, a desperately worried mother. "I just want to know how he is doing."
She pulls out her cell phone and shows a video that her sons' protest companions made. Shots and blows can be heard, motorcycle engines roar and someone screams. Then, the screen goes black.
Translated from the German by Charles Hawley
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