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Crown Heights: Barboncino
Pizza reviews in NYC.
Having saturated most of Manhattan and close-in Brooklyn, wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza continues to find a welcome home farther out in the boroughs, in neighborhoods heretofore deprived of great pizza. Case in point: Barboncino in Crown Heights.
In the past, I've lamented that some of these pizza trailblazers are merely good for the neighborhood, getting praise and business simply because they're the only game around. Judging by the one initial visit I made to Barboncino earlier this week, though, I'd say the place could hold its own against some of the top-tier joints in the city.
The place is the work of indie filmmaker Ron Brown and Jon Greenberg, who did time at Paulie Gee's and, before that, the original Robicelli's. It should come as no surprise, then, that the pizza at Barboncino is remarkably similar to that popular Greenpoint pizzeria.
The crust is artfully "leopard-spotted" with thin, flaky charred bubbles making for a smoky flavor. It's a thin crust, one that's crisp just out of the oven and sturdy enough that you can pick it up without glop-dropping toppings onto the plate—or your shirt. In this it skews more toward the American end of the wood-fired pizza spectrum than the more traditional, soupier-centered Italian pies.
There are a handful of starters on the menu, including a cheese plate, salumi, and more—we went for meatballs (good) and Bibb salad (remarkably* good) with a crumbling of blue cheese and just enough balsamic-vinaigrette dressing.
* Seriously, my dining companions actually mentioned how good it was.
The white clam pie will be familiar to anyone who has eaten the cherrystone clam pizza at Motorino. Like that one, the clams, tender and fresh tasting, are chopped into pinky nail–size bits accompanied by garlic, parsley butter, olive oil, and parsley leaves. It's a good pie.
The clams give you just a taste of the sea—a walk on the beach at ankle depth. They're not dragging you out in an undertow of overwhelming fishiness. There's plenty of garlic, though, and I wish there were more parsley butter, the stuff that makes Motorino's version so craveworthy. Still... Worth getting.
The cremini and sausage pizza was good, too. A diner at our table mentioned that it reminded him of a pizzeria he grew up eating at in San Antonio. It reminded me of the stuff I grew up eating on trips back to Milwaukee. In other words, it was the best of what I like to call "pizza parlor pizza" merged with artisanal intention and wood-fired blah blah blah.
Other pizzas on the menu that caught our attention: the Artichoke and Smoked Pancetta and the Eggplant and Zucchini. Beyond that, the pizza menu (above) is fairly basic, though a little more varied than a more straight-edge Neapolitan place.
The atmosphere is laid back though the staff is attentive (and friendly). The dining room is large despite the restaurant's cramped appearance when you first walk in. Seating is up a couple steps to the left of and behind the Stefano Ferrara oven.
It's only been open since October 6, yet it was packed to capacity on a Tuesday evening. As of this posting, they're waiting on their liquor license and do not allow BYOB. But our waitress mentioned that the license was pending, so do be surprised to find alcoholic libations there soon.
Barboncino is within a couple blocks of both the Franklin Avenue 2/3/4/5 and the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. If you don't live in the neighborhood, I suggest you hop one of those trains and check it out.
781 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238 (near St. Johns Place; map) 718-483-8834; barboncinopizza.com
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SoSHer PortlandSoxFan began a thread on Monday morning -- "In the Belly of the Beast: Yankee Stadium Memories" -- and asked people to "share your favorite in-person memories".
I posted a few times. Here is most of what I wrote:
I was also at the Mel Hall game and the Greenwell/Guy on field game. In the latter, I had moved down to an aisle seat only a few rows from the field on the 3B side. The guy who ran on the field ran right past me. Shoulda tripped him.soxfaninyankeeland said: "When I started going there regularly, 1988-1992, attending Sox games at the Toilet was like going to Camden Yards for a Sox game today. Biggest crowds of the season, and mostly Red Sox fans." I replied:
My last time at the Toilet was the second game of the 2005 opening series. The game with the Tek and CI home runs. I was up in the right field upper deck, alone. I was getting up to leave after CI had won it and a bunch of shitheads a few rows down see my cap and start right in with the bullshit.
I say nothing. I just open my jacket to show off my brand-new 2004 Champs t-shirt. Their faces turned from delight to pure hatred in an instant. They looked like they were going to have a stroke. Probably good for me there were thousands of semi-normal people around.
Before a Yanks/Jays afternoon game many years ago, my wife and I were in the RF bleachers and I got up to get beers. Sox cap on. Bleachers were half-full maybe and at least 75% of them started in with chants of "asshole, asshole". That was kind of funny, actually.
For one O's/Yanks game, some guy in LF was standing up and threatening to drop his pants. Crowd egging him on, him teasing for about an inning. He finally does it and within 0.3 seconds, cops are there with the cuffs!
Was in the LF bleachers for Game 2 of the 1999 ALCS. Some MFY fans had taken a Sox fan's cap and lit it on fire in an aisle. Cop down aways just watching the scene, flames burning away, doing nothing. Only after the cap has completely burned and the fire is out does even move his fat ass. No one was ejected, obviously. Ahhh -- NY's finest.
Waited outside the park for a game in September 1999 for a guy to come up from midtown with tix. Fucker worked very late and without cell phones, we had no idea what had happened. We finally gave up and went home to watch on TV. Can't even remember if he showed up at all. ... Pedro's 17 K game. FUCK.
Yep. I moved from Vermont to to Brooklyn in January 1987 and for years, we went to every single Sox game (it took years for the novelty to wear off). We could always get nice main reserved seats behind the dugouts on walk-up. Sox fans at the opening games of any series were always loud -- it did seem like 50-50.Turns out that was someone else's first game too! He was 11. (I was almost 23.)
My first game was in September 1986 -- before I moved. It was the game Rice went into the stands to get his cap. I missed that -- was out buying beer.
I'll say one thing -- there was nothing like walking down the ramps from the upper decks after a close loss to those dushbags. Especially before 2004. The "Boston Sucks" and "1918" chants were deafening.I am amazed at the high number of SoSHers who were at any given game in New York, especially non-playoff games.
I was decked out in Sox stuff for that 2005 game, but for a number of years, I just stopped wearing my Sox cap. I'd still clap and cheer for good things, even stand for HRs, but the hassle was just not worth it. I wanted to see a fucking game, that's all, not hear the same three taunts all day long.
I said I was at the Mel Hall game. We were near the back of the grandstand in the first level behind 3B. Sox get an early run and this loud, probably-drunk Red Sox fan, starts in yelling "ONE RUN! THAT'S ALL WE NEED!" over and over. Gets the usual response. He must have fallen asleep after the 3rd inning or so and woke up late in the game. Hall bangs his dong and my partner -- who was a Yankees fan then* -- dances over to him and starts pointing at him and laughing. (This was when they played "Shout!" after a win.) All around us, MFY fans are laughing and the guy just looks sheepish. What could he do? It was a shitty loss, but I always thought that whole scene was pretty funny.
* - A number of things soured her on the MFY and over the course of the first half of the 2003 season, she began to drift over to the Sox. For years, I would watch or listen to the Sox on the computer and she'd watch the Yanks on TV. She's on our side now. I love it, but honestly, it's still a little strange.
Also, 17 years later, I almost always say "There's our run! That's all we need!" when the Sox get a 1-0 lead.
I was trying to think of my favourite game and I realized I have no idea. If nothing jumps out, maybe I don't have one. I would have to look at my scorecards, I guess.
One game I did not mention at SoSH was a game against Oakland at which fans in right field were throwing all kinds of shit at Jose Canseco (while he flexed his biceps at them). I saw him retrieve a full head of cabbage at one point. He also picked up a fully inflated blow-up doll from the field.
Also: At dinner last night, L reminded me of a game we saw in which Don Mattingly hit a grand slam. He hit six of them in his career, all of them in 1987. We saw #6 -- which set a major league record for one season -- off Bruce Hurst on September 29. Earlier in the season (July 8-18), he hit dongs in eight straight games, tying Dale Long's record (also matched by Ken Griffey Jr. in 1993). I said I thought the score was 6-0 -- I was right. L said that at the time I said I had never heard a crowd at a park be so loud.

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Norah Schneider sits in a wheelchair most of her day, a paraplegic as the result of a car accident, but Norah's life is anything but sedentary. Not only is she part owner of a cedar log home company, but she also is a member of the Pittsburgh Steelwheelers, a group of 150 paraplegics who play basketball and rugby on a competitive level.
Unfortunately, Norah and her teammates have nowhere to go for their physical training. In fact, other than rehabilitation facilities, she knows of no privately funded health clubs for physically disabled individuals. But, if Norah, her Pittsburgh Steelwheeler teammates and others in the Pittsburgh area have their way, they won't be without a practice facility or health club for long — and neither will any physically or mentally handicapped person in their area.
The Steelwheelers have set into motion a plan to build a privately funded health club for all mentally and physically disabled individuals. The group has already been promised land for the facility by a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and employment of mentally disabled persons. The group has formed committees to raise funds and look into equipment. Preliminary blueprints have been drawn. Fundraising is in its early stage. So far, response to the idea has been overwhelmingly positive, says Norah, who is vice president of the Pittsburgh Steelwheelers.
A facility for the disabled is needed in this community, Norah says, to allow the disabled to come together, socialize and exercise.
"The friendships and camaraderie I've developed through the Pittsburgh Steelwheelers has been invaluable," Norah says. "It's something that I cherish very much. To have an actual facility that people can come to and develop bonds is instrumental in anyone's life with a disability."
The facility will have equipment for the disabled and able-bodied, rooms for group exercise, three NBA-size basketball courts (that double as rugby and volleyball courts), a track, a café, a kitchen, a social area, locker rooms, bathrooms and offices designed for the disabled and group exercise programs including a martial arts program.
The club will be one level with entry to the locker rooms, main gym and the fitness area easily accessible. Eventually, a second story may be added for storage and offices, in which case an elevator will be added. A swimming pool and tennis courts may come in phase two of the project.
To construct this facility, the group needs to raise $2.5 million. Prominent members of the community were invited to join a fundraising committee, which has just begun its efforts.
"It is important to us that we gather people who could make this happen," says Norah. "We went after influential, high-powered people to help us. We were very picky."
Paul Schneider, Norah's father, heads the fundraising committee. Along with his wife, Lynda, he is also a board member for the Pittsburgh Steel Wheelers. Paul expects to raise the money within a year from the public and from corporations. Construction of the 36,000-square-foot facility will follow with a projected opening date of spring 2005.
Paul is not concerned about the fundraising goal.
"I think there is plenty of money out there when you think about it," says Paul. "This is a one-shot deal. Once we raise the money, we won't be raising it anymore. It's not like a telethon where it's done every year."
Once the club has been built, the complex will be maintained through members' monthly fees and corporate donations for facility maintenance. The logistics about exactly how much the club will charge for membership haven't been ironed out yet, but no one will be turned away from the club for inability to afford the membership fee, say Paul and Norah. Individuals will be invited to sponsor those who can't afford the membership.
"If you build it, they will come" may not be far from the truth when it comes to this facility. The area surrounding the future club certainly is not lacking in disabled individuals. A demographic study of the area found that in the three counties near the proposed complex site, which will be 15 minutes north of Pittsburgh, there are 255,000 disabled people over the age of 5.
"If all we do is draw from those counties, we'll be packed," says Paul. "You've got this gigantic demographic that's never been touched. People get kicked out of rehab faster because insurance doesn't pay…They don't have anywhere to go. This facility will allow them to come out of rehab and physical therapy and have a place to work out. It's something that the disabled community needs."
The complex will be located on the border of two of the three counties in the demographic study. The commute will be eased by access to a county transportation system that many area disabled individuals already use.
"Just think about all the disabled groups out there and the possibilities," Paul says about membership, which could include veterans, people with spina bifida, blind individuals, those with cerebral palsy and others. In addition, family members of the disabled members will also be able to work out at the facility. For that reason, some of the equipment will be geared to the able-bodied while the rest of the equipment will be geared specifically to those with disabilities.
Paul expects to see the new facility packed based on all the interest he has already received from groups representing disabled individuals.
Whether this club is successful or not won't be predicated strictly on its finances and its membership numbers, says Frank Ancharski, member of the fundraising committee for the Steelwheeler Athletic Complex. Instead, success will be based on whether the facility is functioning well for the members who are there. The club must make good business decisions, but the underlying current is the people involved in the club and the desire to make a difference in the lives of those who have had some difficulties, Ancharski says.
Ancharski has been in the health club industry for 20 years. He is general manager at the Oxford Athletic Club, a 140,000 square-foot multipurpose health club in Wexford, PA (a suburb of Pittsburgh). Back in the late 1980s, he considered putting together a facility similar to the Steelwheeler Athletic Complex, so when the Steelwheelers approached him to be on the committee for their facility, he jumped at the chance.
Ancharski is on two subcommittees. One is the sponsorship committee to find companies that will donate services or sponsor portions of the facility, such as the scoreboards, end lines or center court of the basketball courts. The other committee is the exercise equipment selection committee, which is looking at equipment manufacturers for the able-bodied and disabled exercise equipment.
"It's an opportunity to give back," Ancharski says about his involvement with the Steelwheeler facility. "I can take my experience and skills and all the mistakes that I made and share that with them."
One of the top priorities at the club is to rely on the experience and skills of the disabled to staff the club, providing employment opportunities for the disabled and an automatic empathy from staff toward members.
"The persons with the disability will have a better understanding of running a facility for people with disabilities," says Norah. "You may think you know what it's like to use equipment with a disability, but unless you actually have one, it's hard to do that. Because this is a facility for persons with disabilities, we feel it is important to hire people with disabilities. That also opens up money for grants."
Besides, Paul says, the group knows a large number of disabled individuals who are well trained to work in this area. "It's just a matter of pulling them into the system," he says.
Those involved in this project hope that their club will be a model for future clubs like it throughout the country.
"We hope our facility helps spawn a birth of these types of facilities across the country," Norah says.
Those clubs will need a core team to get it going, says Ancharski.
"When you have volunteers helping put this together and you compete with their real jobs, their family commitments and other worthy causes, it is going to take longer [to get the facility built]," Ancharski says. "You need a core team to get this together…They'll have to have a higher purpose to get through these time constraints and money constraints."
The Pittsburgh Steelwheelers already have that core team in the Schneiders, Ancharski and the other volunteers who are donating their time and skills to getting this project rolling along so that the disabled in this community have a place to go to keep fit.
"The most important thing in the world is that they don't feel out of place," Paul says about the planned facility. "Everybody will feel the same in here whether they have a disability or not."
To inquire about equipment, staffing or donation of time to the project, contact Frank Ancharski at 724-933-1911 ext. 105 or by e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected].
To inquire about donations of money, go to the Pittsburgh Steelwheelers Web site at www.steelwheelers.org or call 800.930.I CAN (4226).


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In the spirit of Halloween, we're taking a brief look at local 'haunted' sites and even invited the Jasper County Paranormal Idealist to investigate for spooks and spirits at the NDN!
1. Jasper County Care Facility
Probably the subject of the most paranormal speculation in Jasper County is the old Jasper County Care Facility (pictured at top), located southeast of Newton.
The care facility was built as the county poor farm in 1867 for those who were elderly, orphaned or physically or mentally handicapped. The original building was replaced in 1896 and has been added on to and renovated multiple times. The three-story facility closed in 2000 and has sat vacant ever since.
According to ParanormalKnowledge.com, former employees have reported seeing people vanish while walking down hallways and through doors. Temperature fluctuations and other signs of ghostly activity also have been reported. Paranormal groups have been attempting — without success — to gain permission to conduct investigations at the site for years.
2. Maple Hill Mansion
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Maple Hill Mansion — built in 1860 and located just west of Monroe on Highway F70 — is a hotbed for rumors and speculation.
The house originally was built by Joseph Grayson Long and is known as the oldest wood-frame home in Jasper County. It has been said that the house was a stop on the underground railroad and has an underground tunnel connecting it to the barn.
The house was featured in Kathleen Vyn's "Haunted Iowa" book, with previous owners, including Judy Salier, citing incidents of moving objects and apparitions. However, Curt Swarm, guest columnist for the Daily News, stated in his Aug. 27 column that he grew up in the house and never experienced any paranormal activity.
3. David Ryan House
Built in 1868 by Civil War veteran and colonel David Ryan, the residence now dubbed the David Ryan House recently became a site of interest for the Supernatural Research Society of Iowa. The home is owned by John and Annie Gerkin, who own and operate the August Bergman Inn right next door, and is used as a guest house for the inn.
According to Annie, overnight guests have heard footsteps, a man's voice and even the music of a trumpet during their stay in the David Ryan House. The SRSOI investigative team also determined the house has paranormal activity, but Annie insisted good-naturedly, "They are friendly ghosts."
4. Capitol II Theater
The Capitol II Theater in Newton has been in operation for more than 85 years, first opening in April 1927. Rumors of its haunting have cropped up in recent years, so former manager Dawn Bleeker invited the Iowa Paranormal Researchers & Investigators to spend the night in March 2012. What they found were unexplained photos, sounds and even physical contact. Former worker Casey Clarke can attest to feeling a "presence."
"One night, after I got done threading the film, I turned away from the projector and started to walk out of the room. After just a step or two, something suddenly pulled me backwards, like my hair was being pulled," Clarke said. "The pull was so forceful, it caused me to stumble backwards and hit the back of my head on the projector. There was no one else (alive) in the booth or even upstairs at the time."
The theater, which has been closed since Sept. 12, is tentatively set to reopen Nov. 9.
5. Community Theater
According to ParanormalKnowledge.com, the Newton Community Theatre has been said to be haunted by a ghost — referred to as "T.G." for "Theatre Ghost" — since it relocated to its current site next to the Newton YMCA in 1976. Although the Supernatural Research Society of Iowa's investigation of the site yielded inconclusive results, NCT board member Lonnie Appleby recalled once seeing the figure of a man passing between the stage curtains when no living person was on stage. But Appleby characterized the ghost as more of a prankster than mean, noting that the actors often have trouble finding their props.
6. Glowing Tombstone
The first known burial in the Sugar Grove Cemetery, located south of the Interstate 80 bridge in the old Metz area, was Anna Sims, who died April 27, 1857. By 1881, according to the cemetery information booth, about 48 irregular-sized spaces were staked out for burial purposes in what is known as the original part of the cemetery.
One of those headstones — believed to belong to Charles M. Baker, who died April 17, 1881 — is rumored to emit an eerie glow at night for no apparent reason. Area residents claim to have seen the glow when car headlights traveling over the interstate bridge shine into the cemetery.
7. Metz Mud Man
Longtime area residents might remember hearing stories of the Metz "Mud Man" or "Mud Monster."
Located south of the Sugar Grove Cemetery along West 66th Street South in rural Jasper County is a now privately-owned park (seen in right of photo) resting along the Skunk River near a bridge. County residents — old and young alike — may remember having been warned as teenagers against hanging out at the park or near the bridge at night lest the Metz Mud Man emerge from the river and attack. Most believe the story, or urban legend, was invented to discourage teens from parking near the river to make out.
8. Children's Forest
Rumors that the Children's Forest, located directly behind Newton Senior High School, is haunted have circulated among students for years, although information to confirm the rumors is sparse.
StrangeUSA.com claims the Children's Forest is located on an old Native Indian burial ground, although that information has never been confirmed. According to the website, the teenagers have reported hearing screams from the forest and seeing the spirit of a Native American walking through area. However, a member of Supernatural Research Society of Iowa said she believes the "haunting" of the forest is just an urban legend.
9. Old Rock Island Depot
Another location in Newton speculated to be haunted is the former Rock Island Depot, which is now the home to graphic design company Art A La Carte.
The depot opened for business in 1912. The train station operated until closing in the early 1980s, and the building was purchased by Art A La Carte LTD in 1996. Owner Cathy Rickers said, "To my knowledge, the building is not haunted. But it can be creepy if you're here alone at night." A paranormal group once investigated the site but could not determine for certain whether the old depot is haunted. Rickers did, however, say that one front door opens by itself on occasion, particularly in the summer. Humidity or haunting? One can't be sure.
10. Newton Daily News
Wrapping up the list of local haunted sites is none other than the Newton Daily News.
The Daily News building was built in 1921 specifically for the town newspaper. Over the years, rumors and jokes have been heard from the newsroom to the press room about ghosts haunting the old building. Since inviting members of the Jasper County Paranormal Idealist to investigate the building on Oct. 20, Daily News workers have complained of papers disappearing from their desks and clocks being turned back. Whether the ghosts have been stirred into action or paranoia is sweeping through the creaky halls remains to be seen. Regardless, all at the Daily News want to wish you a Happy Halloween!


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So far, we know the names of two of the subjects in the Friends Album:
Fred Young
I looked more into the family I mentioned in my last post about this gentleman and discovered yet another potential Frederick Young that seems more likely to be our man. In 1889, the Frederick Young I thought might be a prospect in my previous post lived in Salisbury, Connecticut, which in today's travel time would be almost an hour away from the place the photo was taken. I have found another Frederick Young of suitable age who lived only three miles away. More information is needed, but in the meantime, at least I've found descendants for each.
Ellis B. Wilson
I found Ellis Wilson's memorial on FindaGrave and it lists the names of two of his wives: Florence E. Chance & Grace A. Durie. The name Florence matches that as given on his WWII draft registration card. I have yet to find an obituary for him.
Interesting note: The Youngs in 1920 are located next to a Wilson family.
1880 U.S. Census, Litchfield County, Connecticut, population schedule, Bridgewater, page 12, dwelling 124, family 132, Frederick Young; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 March 2011); Family History Film: 1254101; Page: 582D; Enumeration District: 32; Image: 0865.
1920 U.S. Census, Fairfield County, Connecticut, population schedule, Newton, page 14, dwelling 239, family 248, Frederick A. Young and family; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2011); Roll: T265_178; Enumeration District: 133; Image: 384.
Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, for Fred A. Young; FamilySearch (familysearch.org : accessed 9 March 2011).
Ellis B. Wilson, Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn., Memorial #16887574; FindaGrave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 March 2011).


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Generations of women have learned the hard way that, if you've got a pregnant belly or a brand-new baby, you'll likely be the target of unsolicited feedback from your community. For pregnant and parenting women living with HIV, that unwanted attention only gets worse, according to a recent study by Canadian researchers.
First, there's increased scrutiny from medical providers -- and, in some cases, an increased number of medical providers doing the scrutinizing. "When you go into the hospital there's always a random person that's checking your file," recalled one mom who found out she was positive while pregnant; "every day you are, like, melting cause you're like, 'Oh God!, one more person has seen that [I'm HIV positive].'"
Then there's the commentary from friends and family that the researchers found: judgment from peers for not nursing their babies; fear that such questioning would force them to disclose their HIV status; and a sense of loss at not having the chance to breastfeed.
And then there's the age-old suspicion that people living with HIV should not be having babies -- compounded in Canada by the country's penchant for bringing criminal law to bear in HIV-related matters.
Study author Saara Greene surmises that this enhanced surveillance can challenge, undermine and even strip away the authority of moms living with HIV. What are women to do? The answer, Greene suggests, begins with the HIV-positive mothers themselves: They must be lifted up and treated as equal partners with care providers, policymakers and researchers, and encouraged to lead discussions about how to provide support to HIV-positive mothers and moms-to-be -- not to simply be treated as research subjects, baby receptacles and data points.
For more on the study results, including recommendations for countering these stigmatizing phenomena, read Aidsmap's thorough summary.
Olivia Ford is the executive editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.


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Mercenaries 2: World In Flames
EA to close more online servers
EA's announced it is going to close more online servers for its games.
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Free Mercenaries 2 DLC now on Live
That Mercenaries 2 content we saw a video of this morning? It's on Live now, and it's free. Nelson says so.Blowing things up was never cheaper. Aside from the time you were forced to inflate your parents' air-bed on that camping trip 25 years ago.Sorry.
Mercenaries 2 DLC movie shows things exploding
CVG's posted a movie of upcoming Mercenaries 2 DLC, which apparently involves making things endlessly explode.There's no date on it as yet.
Obama and Palin to appear in Mercenaries 2 as DLC
As you can see in the video after the break, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are to appear in Mercenaries 2 as DLC.Topical. Watch and believe.
Mercenaries 2 content update pushed back into November
The Mercenaries 2 "Total Payback" update won't release until early into November, as you can see from this Pandemic community post.As you can see on that thread, the news has resulted in the creation of some fairly unhappy bunnies.Just goes to show.
Mercenaries DLC to includes cheats and characters
According to this Destructoid report, EA's to release a Total Payback DLC pack for Mercenaries 2 later this month, to include cheats, new playable characters and more.Here's what you'll get: Cheats: Infinite ammo, infinite health, and unlock all weapons, vehicles, and airstrikes Six new playable characters: Blanco, Fiona, Ewan, Eva, and more Cross-region co-op: Play […]
PC Mercenaries 2 demo goes live
If you haven't had a go at Mercenaries 2 on console yet, you may be heartened to know that the PC demo's now up. Download it from GamersHell.It's a 1.6Gb download, so just be aware of that. No details on what it actually contains. The console demo was the full game but was restricted by […]
Mercenaries 2 and Fracture demos Live, says Nelson
Three times a charm. Nelson brings word that the Mercenaries 2 demo is actually live, although you're not going to be able to get it if you're in Germany.Details through the link.Also, LucasArts' demo for Fracture's up now, as you can see here.Get get get.
Mercenaries 2 demo now on Live... again
Update: We fucked up again. Very sorry. It's only out in the US. We hate ourselves more than you can appreciate.You may have believed us when we said the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames demo was up on Live. We lied. It is, however, there now. It's the game as you'd play if you bought […]
Mercenaries 2 demo now on Live, PSN next week
Not much else to say on this one, really. A demo for the total-armageddon, blow everything up, chart-topping action sequel Mercenaries 2 is now available to download from Xbox Live. PSN gets it on the September 18.Thanks, Shacknews.By Mike Bowden
Mercenaries 2 cracked, pirated
Following news that Spore had been pirated yesterday, this GameViper post tells that Mercenaries 2 has also been fed to the torrents.It's on Usenet as well. Nothing's sacred these days.
Mercenaries 2 free fuel stunt branded "irresponsible" by MP
A Mercenaries 2 PR stunt in London, at which EA tried to give away £20,000 worth of free petrol, has been branded "irresponsible" by an MP after hordes of motorists tried to cash in.The fuel was limited to £40 per person, and 500 motorists were fast enough to get the gift.By midday over 40 cars […]
IGN destroys the PS2 version of Mercenaries 2
When the tagline said "World in Flames," we didn't… Never mind. IGN's given the PS2 version of Mercenaries 2 3.9/10, which for IGN is pretty, pretty bad. Snip:The original Mercenaries came out three-and-a-half years ago. But instead of giving us a game with more than three years worth of updates, Pi Studios has actually taken […]
IGN posts first Mercenaries 2 review, no bed of roses seen
IGN's given Mercenaries 2 7.9/10, citing "numerous bugs, the terrible AI, and the lackluster missions." Snip:Mercenaries 2 is like a newsstand; it has a lot of issues. Still, I can't deny that there were some hootin' and hollerin' moments. For every time I cursed the stupid AI, I cheered at the demolition of another building. […]
Mercenaries 2 complaints are "comical," says EA
EA has slapped back at critics of Mercenaries 2's "fully destructible Venezuela" saying those opposed to the title on political grounds are just being silly."All the controversy around this is kind of comical," said EA comms head Jeff Brown. "At the end of the day you have to remind yourself it's a damned video game."The […]
Mercenaries 2 launch trailer released, out on Friday in US
"The Season" is kicking off properly now, with the first of the mad retail rush's big products hoving into view, not least of which is Pandemics Mercenaries 2. Watch its launch trailer after the break.Game's out on Friday in the US and next week in Europe. Looks explosion-packed.
Mercenaries 2 co-op developer walkthrough
After the break. Watch lots of explosions, guns and helicopters as game director Cameron Brown and lead designer Scot Warner talk you through how co-operative play will work in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.There'll be seamless 'drop in, drop out' co-op throughout the game and lots of killing.We want.Have a look.By Mike Bowden
Mercenaries 2 video causes action orgasm
This interview with Pandemic's Cameron Brown has plenty of gameplay footage from Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. It looks cool, as ever, with Havok physics and explosions of sheer awesomeness. Like GTA in a warzone.See for yourself.By Gareth Chadwick
Mercenaries 2: hands-on, screens, videos
IGN again. The site's posted new hands-on impressions of the excellent-looking Mercenaries 2, as well as new screens and movies. Knock yourself out. Or blow yourself up. Whatever.
EA announces massive Holiday 08 roster
EA has just announced a giant line-up for Holiday 2008, and it's hard to be unimpressed. There is, quite fairly, something for everyone. Big boss John agrees."EA's 2008 lineup is our best ever," said EA head John Riccitiello. "This is the year that our core franchises leap forward with stunning innovation and we introduce more […]
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A nearby dwarf galaxy, Sagittarius, has delivered two "punches" to our Milky Way galaxy. These impacts are what gave the Milky Way its spiraling arms. And we may take another hit soon.
At 10,000 light years across, Sagittarius is a small galaxy just a tenth the size of the Milky Way. It's also not very bright, and because it was obscured by the center of our galaxy, it wasn't discovered until 1994. Still, Sagittarius is loaded up with dark matter, and that has made its presence felt.
A recent study published in Nature reveals that Sagittarius smashed into the Milky Way twice in the last two billion years. Those impacts pushed stars outwards. Chris Purcell, lead author of the study, explains:
"When all that dark matter first smacked into the Milky Way, 80 percent to 90 percent of it was stripped off. That first impact triggered instabilities that were amplified, and quickly formed spiral arms and associated ring-like structures in the outskirts of our galaxy."
A tough hit for the Milky Way, but you should see the other guy. Sagittarius is literally getting ripped apart by the gravitational forces of the Milky Way. Before it dissolves, it may have another run at us, though. It's on course to hit the Milky Way one more time. We have another 10 million years to brace ourselves.


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Yiying Lu makes splash with Twitter's 'fail whale'
PROFILE / Yiying Lu Twitter 'fail whale' gives artist outlet for creativity
Yiying Lu's most famous illustration thus far is linked with failure - and that has turned out to be a good thing.
The young artist is the bubbly brainchild behind Twitter's "fail whale," the image that appears when Twitter is overloaded and can't function. In the picture, a flock of birds carry an enormous, smiling whale over the water.
Through Twitter, the whale has become a sign of the times. This year, the popular San Francisco microblogging service sent an astonishing 25 billion messages of 140 characters or fewer and added 100 million new users.
Though the fail whale doesn't appear as frequently as it once did on Twitter, it lives on. It has inspired a fan club, two parties and at least one tattoo. Last month, for the premiere of his new show, Conan O'Brien commissioned Lu to create the "pale whale," which depicts the comedian riding on top of a whale as it is being carried by birds.
The whale has also helped part the waves for a new startup, Walls 360, an online store that sells prints and wall graphics, including a line of fail whales and its friends. Lu, a co-founder, was in San Francisco this month to kick off the site and hold her first solo art exhibit at the Hotel des Arts.
That her illustration has come to represent a website going down is a bit ironic, given that Lu is anything but a downer. Lu is all smiles, exuberant and effusive, and she peppers her conversations with quotes from famous people, from Conan O'Brien to Pablo Picasso.
Doodling takes hold
Born and raised in Shanghai, Lu attended a technology high school and had no intention of practicing art. But she found herself doodling and spending hours each day browsing art books.
"I wasn't born for that," she said about studying math and science. "I could do it if I tried really hard, but I knew my heart was somewhere else."
In 2002, she moved to Sydney to attend college. While in school, she drew the first iteration of "Lifting a Dreamer," using an elephant instead of a whale. (She had read about the elephant representing a person's higher self.) She sent it to her friends as a way to tell them how she wished she could be there in person to help celebrate their birthdays but couldn't because she was overseas.
"It is a positive happy image that has nothing to do with failure," she said. "It was an image that carries a sincere wish to my friends overseas. My wish is so big, so heavy. I can't fly over to attend your birthday, but these birds are carrying my biggest wish."
In 2006, she was studying abroad again, this time in London, and wanted to send a similar message to her friends in Australia. She didn't want to use an elephant again, but needed another animal that was heavy. She settled on a whale, a reference to New South Wales, her home in Australia.
In her final year in school in late 2006, she uploaded that illustration and a few others to iStockphoto, which licenses art, photographs and video clips. She saw it as a way to share her portfolio online, because she didn't have a website at the time, and to network with others.
Image a phenomenon
That's how Twitter co-founder Biz Stone found and licensed the image. Each time Twitter reached overcapacity and collapsed under its own weight, Lu's whale appeared.
In 2008, that started to happen a lot. A banner year for the San Francisco startup, events such as the presidential election and the Beijing Summer Olympics helped drive traffic and attention to the service.
Tom Limongello, an early Twitter user in New York, started taking notice of the fail whale, even making a T-shirt and wearing it to a tech party. He reached out to Lu and with other fail whale fans made a box of T-shirts and sent them to Twitter's headquarters. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, though he had mixed feelings about it, tweeted about it, and soon the fail whale phenomenon reached new heights. "Then it went nuts," Limongello said.
Initially Lu felt dismayed that her illustration was being associated with failure. Lu, who has since removed her art from iStockphoto, was paid a small one-time licensing fee, but did not earn any royalties for its repeated use. She also found people copying it without her permission.
But ultimately she decided to focus on the positive, such as the doors it has opened for her.
Twitter licensed a picture that appears when Twitter suspends an account for spam or other strange activity, introducing the "foul owl" in late 2008. ("It's the 'Goodnight Owl,' " Lu said.) Last year, she met Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Silicon Valley entrepreneur guru and author Guy Kawasaki asked her to create an image that shows him being lifted up by butterflies. A few weeks ago, she met Conan O'Brien at a taping in Los Angeles.
Diversion during crash
Lu is excited about the prospect of Walls 360, which she sees as a new medium that could help bring art to the masses and perhaps even eventually allow people to bring the virtual to the real, such as sticking their tweets on the wall.
"I look at it as a positive thing," she said. "If it hadn't happened, I wouldn't have these experiences that money can't buy."
In fact, Lu has a suggestion for all Web startups: They should commission their own fail whale - that is, a piece of art to appear each time their site goes down.
"What a great moment to show people art. 'We are working on the problem. In the meantime, enjoy this happy picture,' " she said.


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Farmers' market troubles
November 22, 2011
Last week I learned the farmers are not coming back.
Upset about this, I called the Citiparks Department at 412-422-6547 to verify this. I was informed they plan on continuing the Farmers' Market in South Side.
This information did not satisfy me and I began to call around and investigate. Even though it is scheduled to resume the week after Mother's Day in 2012, our Farmer's Market is in jeopardy to have the same fate as TnT Hardware, Ejay's Bookstore, and other local favorites we now only remember.
It was explained to me the reason why we lost so many vendors at our market in South Side is because when it moved its location from 18th and Carson streets to 20th and Sidney streets it lost its visibility and therefore is not attracting people to the market. I also learned the decision was made by the Pittsburgh Parking Authority and not Citiparks. The Parking Authority will not allow the Farmers' Market to be there once a week.
Because of the Pittsburgh Parking Authority's decision we are in jeopardy of losing the opportunity a farmer's market creates – offering unique products, more heirloom varieties, and more opportunities to build relationships and learn about healthy eating. Farmers' markets are a community experience, where you can meet your neighbors, friends, and farmers, and where more of your dollar will stay in the community.
At a farmers' market, you hand your money directly to the person who grew or made the products. One cost advantage farmers' markets offer is the ability to buy fresh food in bulk at the height of the season and preserve or freeze for later use when the product would otherwise be more expensive, hard to find, or of lower quality.
Farmers' markets also bring business to neighboring stores and communities where the market is located.
Purchasing as much as you can from your community's farmers' market is the simplest way to demonstrate your support. I am asking everyone to go today to 20th and Sidney streets from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Talk with the farmers that have stayed in South Side until the end. Buy some wonderful produce (after all Thanksgiving is just two days away), and urge them to come back to South Side in 2012.
I also would like to urge everyone to write letters to the Pittsburgh Parking Authority Executive Director David G. Onorato, 232 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, and ask for use of the better lighted, more visible parking lot on 18th and Carson streets for our farmer's market.
Call the Director of Citiparks Michael T. Radley, and ask him to fight on our behalf to move the farmer's market to a better location for all. And last, contact Councilman Bruce Kraus and ask him to help.
Sherri Lynn Dunik
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- Major: Psychology
- Program: Premed
- Concentration: Behavioral Neuroscience
- Resident Assistant
Hometown? Eldersburg, MD
Favorite thing about Washington College? The class sizes and personal interaction with the professors.
What would you never leave at home for college? Decorations to make your room feel like home.
What not to bring to college? Knickknacks and things you really don't need. They will only take up valuable space in your room.
Why are you an RA? I wanted to be an RA because I had such a wonderful first year experience with my RA and wanted to do the same for the new incoming freshmen.
Where are you an RA? Caroline 3rd Floor
What is one thing you believe the freshmen should know before coming? Have an open mind and be ready to compromise. Living in a 10 X 12 room with someone requires good communication to ensure that you are both happy :)


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The Capitol Christmas Tree arrived at the U.S. Capitol after making its way from a forest in northeast Washington state.
Workers used a crane to place the 88-foot Engelmann spruce on the west front lawn of the Capitol Monday morning. It is the second tallest tree ever used at the Capitol.
It will be decorated with more than 5,000 handmade ornaments from children across the country reflecting the theme "Sharing Washington's Good Nature."
A tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. The tree will be lit nightly from dusk until 11 p.m.
The tree made stops in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland on its way to the nation's capital.
The U.S. Forest Service is in charge of cutting and maintaining the tree. Donations cover the cost of transporting the tree across the country. This year's lead sponsors included the Truckload Carriers Association, Mack Trucks, the National Association of Convenience Stores and the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.


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Virgin Media has confirmed that it is in talks with EE to launch 4G services on its newly rolled out long term evolution (LTE) networks.
The news comes as the government's 4G peace talks with the UK's other mobile operators are 'still in the balance', according to the Financial Times.
News of Ofcom's decisionto approve EE's request to use its existing 1800MHz spectrum for next generation 4G services, which will launch this year, several months ahead of its competitors, has created much turmoil in the telecoms industry.
EE is Everything Everywhere's newly launched 4G brand.
Three, O2 and Vodafone are having to wait for Ofcom's 4G spectrum auction to roll out services, which is due to begin at the end of this year, but have been embroiled in legal disputes over the country's competitive landscape once the spectrum has been allocated.
EE's rivals are concerned that if EE is the only operator on the market to be selling 4G services it will attract a lot of their customers, who could then be tied into contracts for 24 months.
The news of EE's 4G network has even led to discussions between O2 and Ofcom about bringing the 4G spectrum auction forward, which will see 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum allocated.
Virgin Media confirmed to Computerworld UK that it is in discussions with EE about launching 4G services on its (LTE) network when it is launched. A spokesperson added: "Launching 4G services this year promises to bring significant benefits to UK consumers as people begin to make the most of forthcoming superfast mobile connections."
Virgin Media already offers its current mobile services by piggy-backing on EE's current network.
Meanwhile, government officials have been holding talks with mobile operators in a bid to resolve the ongoing legal disputes, but with just a week to go before they end, no resolution has yet been made.
To confuse matters further, EE has agreed to sell 2X15MHz of its 1800MHz spectrum to Three, which was agreed as part of European competition rules when Orange and T-Mobile formed to become the single Everything Everywhere brand.
Although it hasn't been confirmed that Three intends to use this spectrum for 4G services, it is a possibility that is likely to further anger Vodafone and O2.
EE's 4G network will become available to consumers and businesses in London, Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham in the coming weeks, and is expected to launch in 12 more cities – Edinburgh, Belfast, Derby, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and Southampton – by Christmas.
Further towns, cities and rural areas will follow rapidly, with 2013 population coverage to reach 70 percent, and 98 percent covered by 2014.


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Sitting Out Rules
What is 'Sitting Out' and how does it work?
'Sitting out' when playing poker games gives you the freedom to take a break as and when you might need one, without forfeiting your chips. It's best to think of a player who is sitting out as simply folding every hand. This is a completely legal tactic, as it is up to any individual player to decide his own best strategy. There is no rule, for obvious reasons, against folding every hand. Therefore, players who choose to sit out are not breaking any rules, and no action will be taken against them.
The option to sit out is available in all our games at the click of a button, and below we'll discuss how it works in ring games and tournaments.
Sitting Out in Ring Games
When you are playing a ring game, you can always click 'leave table' and take your chips out of the game at any time. This is because each hand in a ring game is its own separate event, meaning the game and your opponents' chip stacks won't be directly affected if you decide to no longer play. You can also 'sit out next hand', which allows you to return to the game when you're ready. Your chip stack won't be affected, but you may need to post a big blind upon returning to the game. Sit out too long in a ring game, though, and we will free up your seat for another player.
Sitting Out in Tournaments
Tournaments differ from ring games as for each 'buy-in' made by players they receive a starting stack of chips. These chips are not taken from their chip totals or bankrolls, but are instead part of the overall structure of the tournament, and used to measure who's winning, losing or already out of the game. In general, once a tournament begins, it will only finish when one player has won all the chips.
For the same reason that players cannot just choose to pick up their own chips and leave, we cannot arbitrarily remove the player and their chips from the tournament once it has begun. Every chip in a starting stack of a tournament must be at the final table in order for a game to be fair to every player. This means should you sit out, you will continue to post blinds and pay antes until you return, or run out of chips.
We cannot make changes to the system to discourage this activity. Once a player has paid their entry, they are entitled to play their chips however they wish within the rules of the game.
Is Sitting Out a good Strategy?
Sitting out of ring games will have no direct impact on the way a game plays, or how much you win or lose. But whether you're playing a real money Sit & Go or tournament, or enjoying Play Money poker, you will find that very few players are sitting out, as it's rarely the best way to win.
A player who sits out of a tournament actually puts their opponents at a significant advantage, as that player is still forced to pay their blinds and antes, and is never able to build a big stack. On occasion, a player in a one-table Sit & Go might 'blind off' into 3rd place, or maybe even 2nd, but players who employ this strategy are usually far worse off than those who play their best game. And if players are actually reaching the payouts and winning chips by sitting out for long periods of time, this is a sign that the play in these events is far too loose, and you should adjust your play accordingly.
We hope this clearly explains why sitting out is neither against the rules nor something we can possibly police.
Enjoy our games, and thanks for playing with us!


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Welcome Back
In today's post I would like to share with you the results of my adventures with Lyra Aquacolour Crayons. I wanted them for Art Journalling as they looked an excellent way of achieving bold layers of colours and have the advantage of giving a crayon or paint style of finish.
Lyra Aquatones are a watersoluble wax crayon. You can use them as they are for a wax crayon effect, add water over a coloured area for a colour wash like water colour. Alternatively you can use a piece of scrap paper as a pallet and scribble colour on that and then use a damp brush to pick up the colour to enable you to apply the colour with a smaller brush to more detailed areas.
- Paper covered crayon, so you don't get messy unless you want to.
- Portable, a great way to have a large selection of colours if you want to create on the move.
- Excellent quality of crayon. They are velvety smooth to use and the pigment blends beautifully. These crayons seem to allow a little more time to blend than other brands.
- Excellent Pigment content; lay down large areas of colour and vary the depth of colour by how hard you press the crayon to the paper.
- Not yet found a source of individual crayons, to replace 'favorite' colours later on.
- Being wax, don't leave them in direct sun or near radiators 😉 They will melt left in hot conditions
- Due to the wax content, if you are using them for a background to stamp over it is better to stamp using a pigment ink and heat set. I found the dye inks resisted in some areas where wax was still present after blending out with water.
Value for Money
Excellent! I bought 48 crayons in a set in a tin box for £32.99. (Correct at time of writing May 2009).
Would I buy them again?
Comparison to similar products
I have done a side by side comparison of Lyra Aquacolours with Caran Dache Neocolor II, which are also water soluble wax crayons. Lyra's compare very well, they are just as good for pigment quality and density as the Neocolour IIs.
Although the advantage of the Neocolour IIs in the long run, is that they are available individually in many art shops as well as online. I suspect that unless I find a stockist of individual Lyra Aquatones, that as the Lyra crayons wear out they will be replaced in the set with their Neocolour equivalent.
As for getting the hang of them, like all products of their kind; it is a case of using them with different papers and varying amounts of water until you achieve the result you are looking for.
For a water stable finish apply a layer of crayon then go over it with thinned gesso. This will lighten the colour but does mean any subsequent layers you apply on top are not disturbed. I saw this demonstrated on a video by Millande on You Tube.
Lyra Aquacolours on Joanna Sheen's site
Caran Dache Neocolour II Crayons
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 🙂
***UPDATE*** 16 July 2009
Do check out the comments under this post before you make your final decision. Liesan has been using these Lyra crayons for longer than me and has discovered they may not be as light fast as the Neocolor II ones. I'm using them within a book, so it wouldn't be a problem for me but if you want to make a piece of art that will be on show and in the light all the time it would be more of a concern. 😉


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Butterscotch Applesauce Cake
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Bake: 25 min.
Makes12-15 servings
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup applesauce
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups (12 ounces) butterscotch chips
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- In a bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and applesauce; mix well. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins. Spread in a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with chips, sugar and pecans. Bake at 375° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 396 calories, 18g fat (10g saturated fat), 46mg cholesterol, 258mg sodium, 56g carbohydrate (41g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g protein.
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This is one of my favorite cakes. I usually make it in a 15 x 10 pan. It's really good!
Feb 5, 2010
I adjusted this recipe to suit my tastes: I used 1/2 white & 1/2 packed brown sugar, 1-1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce, an additional 1/8 cup all-purpose flour, 1 tsp. salt instead of 1/2 tsp., 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. each ground gloves and nutmeg, in place of raisins if not available, I used 1 cup mixed candied fruit, 1 Tbsp. ground Navel orange, 1 package (10-oz.) butterscotch chips OR cinnamon chips, 1/3 cup sugar and 1/2 cup chopped pecans. I greased and floured 13x9x2" baking pan & I baked cake 35 to 40 minutes @ 375o F. or until cake tester comes out clean when inserted near center. I have used this recipe before and I thank you for sharing it with Quick Cooking! delowenstein


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Phone: (989) 224-8944 ext. 223
Fax: (989) 224-2204
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Clerk is the custodian of the City seal and of all documents pertaining to the City including meeting minutes, ordinances, resolutions, contracts and agreements. The City Clerk also administers oaths of office and publishes notices of public hearings, meetings, etc. The Clerk's office maintains voter registration files and conducts elections.
Birth, Death, Marriage and Court Records - Are under the custody of the Clinton County Clerk, (989) 224-5140.
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Gold jumped the most since November as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended the U.S. central bank's asset purchases, boosting demand for bullion as a hedge against stimulus-fueled inflation.
"We do not see the potential costs of the increased risk- taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a stronger economic recovery," Bernanke said today in testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington. "Inflation is currently subdued, and inflation expectations appear well anchored." Expectations that the Fed would slow asset purchases helped send gold prices down 3.6 percent this year.
"Prices have been vacillating, and finally, the pendulum has moved in its favor as Bernanke's testimony shows that stimulus will continue," David Meger, the director of metals trading at Vision Financial Markets in Chicago, said in a telephone interview.
Gold futures for April delivery jumped 1.8 percent to settle at $1,615.50 an ounce at 1:30 p.m. on the Comex in New York, the biggest gain for a most-active contract since Nov. 6. Trading volume was 62 percent higher than the average in the past 100 days.
"We think gold prices are going to go higher," Nic Johnson, who helps manage $30 billion of commodity assets at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, said in a telephone interview. "We have sold gold puts across funds."
Remain Intact
A put option gives the holder the right to sell the underlying security at a specific price within a given time, while a call option grants holders the right to buy.
Prices are due for a rebound and reasons for owning gold remain intact, Morgan Stanley wrote in a report dated Feb. 25. On the same day, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report that gold's price cycle has probably turned as the recovery in the U.S. economy gathers momentum and investment holdings collapse. The bank cut its three-month target to $1,615 from $1,825 and lowered the 12-month forecast to $1,550 from $1,800.
Silver futures for May delivery gained 0.9 percent to $29.32 an ounce in New York.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, platinum futures for April delivery fell 0.3 percent to close at $1,616.50 an ounce, the fourth loss in five sessions. One ounce of platinum bought as little as 0.9945 ounce of gold in London today, the least since Jan. 22, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Palladium futures for March delivery dropped 1.3 percent to $741.90 an ounce on the Nymex. Trading in palladium and silver were more than twice the 100-day average for this time of day.


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Christian Aid and other church groups say that the breach of the border between Gaza and Egypt demonstrates the desperation of a people held hostage to both a policy of collective punishment and an inadequate peace process.
Christian Aid, the UK-based international development agency backed by 40 of Britain's main churches and denominations, "condemns in the strongest possible terms Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which did not begin last week as commonly thought, but has been going on since June 2007".
A statement released at the end of last week noted that Israel's decision to allow in limited shipments of fuel and basic humanitarian supplies "will not ease the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza."
"Since Hamas took power last June, Gaza has been subjected to severe restrictions on movement that have allowed in only a drip-feed of aid, preventing a full-scale humanitarian emergency but keeping the population in a perpetual state of economic crisis," said Janet Symes, Christian Aid's Head of Middle East Programme.
The blockade has affected fuel supplies which led to Gaza's only power plant shutting down on Sunday night, leaving homes, hospitals and factories without electricity. The lack of fuel also has implications for Gaza's water supply and sanitation infrastructure with rivers of untreated sewage already flowing through the streets and into homes in this densely populated strip of land.
The Near East Council of Churches may have to shut down some health services at its clinics due to a lack of fuel for their refrigerators. They also only have two days of fuel for their vehicles – an essential part of getting emergency relief assistance to poor families.
"I just can't cope. I don't know what to do. None of my sons can find work. There is no money to buy food. I have 25 mouths to feed but nothing to give them. I rely on the kindness of friends and neighbours, but I can't continue like this. I've never been so desperate. Somebody has to help us," a tearful woman in Gaza told a Christian Aid oficial.
Over the past week, there has been a resurgence in violence by both sides with each claiming they are acting in self defence. Israel states its blockade is necessary to prevent mortar attacks – a policy that is clearly not having the desired impact.
The European Union has criticised Israel's 'collective punishment' of Gaza's 1.5 million residents, while the United Nations has warned it could be forced to stop distributing food to hundreds of thousands of people unless Israel opened the crossings to allow in supplies.
In November 2007, Christian Aid and 40 other international, Israeli and Palestinian NGOs called for an end to the isolation of Gaza in the interests of ending the escalating crisis.
In addition to condemning the illegal policy of collective punishment, they said: "Isolating Gaza has not stopped Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel and the entire population of Gaza remains vulnerable to continuing Israeli military attacks. All civilians, Israeli and Palestinian, must be protected under international law."


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Lockheed Martin Taps Lorraine Martin '84 to Lead F-35 Program
March 19, 2013
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has appointed Lorraine Martin, a 1984 graduate of DePauw University, vice president and general manager of the F-35 Lightning II program. The company's board of directors also elected Martin a corporate officer. She had been serving as vice president and deputy of the F-35 program.
"As a seasoned leader with nearly 25 years of Lockheed Martin experience, Lorraine has a proven track record of driving operational excellence and has been instrumental in improving the F-35 program performance and delivering outstanding results for our customers," says Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin chief executive officer and president.
"Since joining the Aeronautics business area in 2008, Martin has led the C-130 and C-5 programs, where she was responsible for all aspects of the design, delivery and sustainment of these successful aircraft programs," notes the company's announcementt. "She also led the Flight Solutions business, where she was responsible for developing and delivering U.S. and international military aircrew training programs, including the F-35 training system. Martin began her Lockheed Martin career in 1988, after serving five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force," it adds.
A mathematics major at DePauw, Lorraine (Dunn) Martin also holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Boston University.
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Governor Pat McCrory hasn't said much about the spiteful power grab by Senate Republicans to void a lease agreement between the state and the City of Raleigh that would turn the Dorothea Dix land into a destination park.
The lease was finalized during the waning days of the Perdue Administration and duly approved by the Council of State. Republicans howled at the time, particularly Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, who slammed the deal and attacked Perdue personally for a series of actions taken at the end of her administration.
Now Berger's key lieutenants want to want to take the extraordinary step of passing legislation voiding a lease that was legally and properly negotiated and signed with Raleigh officials.
Supporters of the park are understandably furious and whatever you think of the agreement to lease the land for a park, it's hard to overstate the troubling precedent the legislation would set.
Why would any business or government have any reason to ever negotiate with North Carolina officials again if any legally binding agreement can simply be overturned by vengeful politicians a couple of months after it is signed?
McCrory was asked at a December press conference what he thought of Perdue finishing the Dix deal and making other moves before she left office and he said simply, "She is the governor. That's how I feel about it. She has the authority to make those moves."
McCrory added that he would have preferred for Perdue to wait and allow him to have some input on the Dix lease, though he did say he was "all for the park."
McCrory's response was refreshingly mature at the time and stood in stark contrast with Berger's snarling partisanship and personal attacks.
But where is McCrory now and why won't he speak up again about the power grabbing in the General Assembly by his fellow Republicans?
It's not just the Dix deal. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would redraw the districts for the Wake County Board of Education because they are not happy that Democrats reclaimed a majority on the board in the 2011 elections.
The current districts were redrawn after the 2010 census by the law firm of Republican attorney Kieran Shanahan, who is currently McCrory's Secretary of Public Safety. Apparently the Republican-drawn districts weren't Republican enough for legislative leaders.
Another bill would similarly redraw school board districts in Guilford County too because Republicans in Raleigh aren't happy with that school board either
There are plenty of more examples of blatant power grabbing by the General Assembly that is happening alongside the devastating policy decisions not to expand Medicaid, to deny emergency unemployment benefits to 170,000 laid off workers, and to abolish the state Earned Income Tax credit that helps low-wage workers and their families.
McCrory signed those regressive bills in private ceremonies after initially asking the Senate to slow down the legislation that refused to expand Medicaid and provide health care coverage to 500,000 people.
Senate leaders ignored him then and he has for the most part stayed out of the major political debates in the legislative halls even as they are shaping North Carolina's future.
McCrory was briefly front and center last week when he presented his budget, a cautious, meager proposal that was described as pragmatic only because people expected another round of the slash and burn budgets passed by McCrory's friends in the General Assembly in the last two years.
But now legislative leaders are dominating the headlines again with absurd ideas like ripping up a legal agreement between Raleigh and the state.
The General Assembly is clearly out of control and intoxicated with its own supermajority power, voiding leases, taking over local airports, inserting themselves in local elections.
One self-described conservative said at a public hearing Monday night that the legislative session was becoming a debacle. And he's right. Someone with the maturity and the power needs to step up and rein in the power-mad lawmakers.
There's only person in town that can do something about it.
The question is, will he?


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cloudandweb necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 107 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Cloud and Web
We're developing a portfolio of commercial web applications, both b2b and b2c. We're using the newer web technologies especially open source. Our vision is to maintain simplicity for our apps, and focus on making them stable and as fast as possible. We are developing, for example, a platform for rapid web development and a data storage system for businesses and consumers. Naturally we use the 'cloud' quite a lot, we don't sell cloud services ourselves, we use the cloud on which we run our applications and pass on cloud benefits to customers.
The company is an umbrella company developing a series of different applications each of which will have their own identity, so it's focus is as corporate, group logo.
Simpler the better. Just typeface, no icons, no pictures of clouds and webs etc. It's a parent group icon, so it's more business-focused. The logo will go everywhere, top of webpages, stationery etc.
The brand ideally conveys establishment, stability and trust. Designers might like to play with the idea of an 'old' style name in a brand new industry.
Incorporating a traditional feel, playing upon the old-style name, might be an interesting way in which trust and establishment can be conveyed.
At the same time we don't want a totally old world feel. The challenge might be to make the most of the old style name, at the same time as hinting to the fact that this is in fact a cutting edge web 2.0 style company. The name itself already reflects this fact in some ways, so the logo should seek to reinforce it.
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My birthday present to myself was a new Big Green Egg, something that I had been fantasizing and longing for, for the last year and a half. The Big Green Egg is a kamado cooker, or simply a ceramic all-in-one cooker that can smoke, grill (and sear at really high temperatures), and bake. You can even recreate a "wood-fired" pizza oven-like effect on this thing because it retains heat so well!
My partner has been a little less enthusiastic about the cooker. It has been tough trying to convince my partner the idea of buying a semi-expensive the BGE, especially when we have a lot of house projects that we'd like to accomplish… replacing the carpets with laminate flooring, updating our bathrooms and kitchen, and redesigning our backyard to be more low-water maintenance. And not to mention, my much anticipated hospital bill, which I still haven't received from my recent hospitalization in February. So I understand her concerns for spending money on the BGE when we have so much more to do. I've mentioned the BGE to her more frequently these last couple of weeks than I ever had before. I even tried to entice her by showing her videos on YouTube and explaining to her how it can even bake. Whatever I did [I think it was the ability to bake on the BGE that sold her] to convince her worked because she was driving me to the only retailer that sells BGEs on my birthday!
After watching the instructional DVD, and perusing through the numerous BGE forums for the do's and don'ts, I finally mustered up the courage to "break it in" so-to-speak. I guess you can say I was slightly intimidated by the cooker. I don't really know why the BGE was so intimidating, or if it was just me being scared of change and stepping out of my comfort zone of the gas grill. But after much debate with myself on which recipe to try first, I settled on smoking salmon. It would be the perfect recipe to try as it would give me the opportunity to smoke something [something that I had always wanted to do], and to play around with the temperature control [which is supposedly really easy according to the BGE manufacturer, but I didn't think it was that easy].
The salmon came out beautifully after three hours of smoking. I flaked a little piece for my partner to try, and well, let's just say that she is a new BGE convert 🙂
Smoked Salmon
1.5 pound slab of fresh salmon filet, with skin on
2/3 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup kosher or sea salt (non-iodized)
6 garlic cloves, finely minced
In a small mixing bowl, combine the all the ingredients above and mix thoroughly. Liberally pack the salmon filet with the brown sugar mixture. Place in a shallow glass baking dish, and cover tightly with saran wrap, and refrigerate overnight.
Rinse the salmon under cold water to remove the brine. Dry the salmon with a paper towel, and allow it to dry in the refrigerator, uncovered. It should dry for a couple of hours to develop the pellicle (shiny skin) on the surface of the fish.
Fire up your smoker per the manufacturer's instructions and you favorite wood chips [I used alder; hickory or mesquite would be too potent for seafood] to around 180 to 220 degrees F. The salmon will be ready when it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
Remove it from the heat and devour it right away, or vacuum seal it so that you have it on hand for a while. The latter may be difficult because you might finish it before you even get to package it away.


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No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation's newest Holocaust memorials.
Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession of speakers delivered somber homilies remembering one of the darkest chapters in human history.
"It was an absolutely unbelievable world that I lived in," survivor Fred Lorber was quoted as saying by local media. "It's hard for me to describe, but whatever time I think about it, it's there. It never left my memory."
The construction of a new Holocaust memorial is hardly unusual. But this was Des Moines, Iowa, home to a small Jewish community and an even smaller number of survivors.
Just 2,800 Jews live in the capital of the Hawkeye State, among them a rapidly diminishing number of survivors like Lorber. Yet local authorities, along with the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines and Jewish philanthropists, nevertheless felt it important for the city to set aside prominent public space near the state capitol to remember the victims of Nazi persecution and their liberators.
"As time went by and as the last survivors pass away, the study of the Holocaust in the school districts began to wane and the Jewish community felt the memory of it needed to be perpetuated," said Mark Finkelstein, the head of the federation.
The Jews of Des Moines are hardly the first to push for such a project.
Though precise numbers are difficult to come by, Holocaust studies experts say museums and monuments dedicated to the genocide have proliferated across the United States over the past two decades.
Major American cities typically have at least one Holocaust memorial, but now many midsized ones do too, like Richmond, Va., Charleston, S.C., and El Paso, Texas. Memorials are even found in relatively small cities, like Whitwell, Tenn., and Palm Desert, Calif. And more are in the works, including a recently approved monument designed by architect Daniel Libeskind to be built on the statehouse grounds in Columbus, Ohio.
The phenomenon is also not a uniquely American one. Norway, a country with only 1,300 Jews, has two Holocaust memorials.
"There are probably more than three hundred Holocaust study centers and museums around the country, and the number of memorials would be hard to track down because of all the small ones," said James Young, a professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and the author of a book about Holocaust remembrance.
"Just in Manhattan, there are eighty. Multiply that and you probably have thousands."
Young says the single most important factor driving the construction of Holocaust memorials nearly seventy years after the war is the initiative of elderly survivors. With the youngest of them nearing 80, survivors are eager to educate future generations about their suffering and, in so doing, give meaning to their lives.
"It doesn't take a big community," Young said. "If someone is inspired to build a memorial site, it is possible to do so."
One such person was Eva Mozes Kor, 79, who along with her twin sister was subjected to savage medical experiments carried out by Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.
In 1995, Kor founded the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, a small city in western Indiana where she has lived since the 1950s, with the aim of sharing her story with her neighbors.
Each year about 75,000 mostly non-Jewish children visit the center from nearby rural areas of western and central Indiana. Kor and two other survivors, including her husband, present lectures to the young visitors.
"I want to teach children in the world," she said. "I think [the Holocaust] is not a Christian thing, not a Jewish thing, it's a human thing."
For Jewish leaders, Holocaust memorializing is often a way to build community around a non-religious issue.
"The creation of a Holocaust memorial is likely something everybody can cooperate on," said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish studies at Brandeis University.
"The minute you touch Israel, it's divisive. But for Jews and Christians to get together to commemorate the Holocaust, that can bring them together, especially in smaller communities."


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'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.' Mark 10:14
Suggested Further Reading: Deuteronomy 6:4–7
We can say with the apostle John, 'I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.' We continue, therefore, to bring them to Christ by daily, constant, earnest prayer on their behalf. As soon as they become of years capable of understanding the things of God, we endeavour to bring them to Christ by teaching them the truth. Hence our Sabbath schools, hence the use of the Bible and family prayer, and catechizing at home. Any person who shall say, 'Do not teach your children; they will be converted in God's own time if it be his purpose; therefore leave them to run wild in the streets,' will certainly both 'sin against the child' and the Lord Jesus.
We might as well say, 'If that piece of ground is to grow a harvest, it will do so if it be God's good pleasure; therefore leave it, and let the weeds spring up and cover it; do not endeavour for a moment to kill the weeds, or to sow the good seed.' Why, such reasoning as this would be not only cruel to our children, but grievously displeasing to Christ. Parents! I do hope you are all endeavouring to bring your children to Christ by teaching them the things of God. Let them not be strangers to the plan of salvation.
Never let it be said that a child of yours reached years in which his conscience could act, and he could judge between good and evil, without knowing the doctrine of the atonement, without understanding the great substitutionary work of Christ. Set before your child life and death, hell and heaven, judgment and mercy, his own sin, and Christ's most precious blood; and as you set these before him, labour with him, persuade him, as the apostle did his congregation, with tears and weeping, to turn unto the Lord.
For meditation: Christian parents should bring their children up 'in the nurture and admonition of the Lord' (Ephesians 6:4). This may be harder in non-Christian marriages when only one of the partners becomes a Christian, but it is not hopeless (1 Corinthians 7:14); Timothy was proof (Acts 16:1; 2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15).
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I'm not normally a man to carry around regret, but last week, I didn't get a chance to play this game. The lines, as we've told you, were too damn long. But if ever Square Enix were going to make a game that spoke directly to my heart, it would be this.
Army Corps of Hell is a Vita game that is exactly what it looks like: Nintendo's Pikmin series ported to another console and given a facelift. A brutal, metal facelift.
It'll be released as a Vita launch title in Japan on December 17. No word on a Western release, but given the trappings of the game, they'd be bananas not to bring it on over.
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Apple Removes StoneLoops from the App Store at the Request of MumboJumbo
StoneLoops! of Jurassica is fantastic marble-shooter that Bonnie proclaimed "sets a new standard for Zuma-style match-3s" in her initial review. Have you rushing off to the App Store? Well, don't bother. Recently, StoneLoops was removed from the App Store by Apple and is no longer available for download. As it turns out, this act was perpetrated by MumboJumbo, the developers of the main genre competitor, Luxor.
According to the developer of StoneLoops, Code Minion (full blog post here), MumboJumbo's reason for doing this was StoneLoops's success. In fact, this assertion seems to be largely substantiated. When they both existed as PC games, Luxor far overshadowed the little-known StoneLoops. However, when it came to the iPhone, the tables turned. Code Minion beat MumboJumbo in the race to the App Store, and StoneLoops enjoyed a sustained high rank in the top paid apps list while Luxor languished.
The full story goes like this: a few weeks ago, Apple relayed Code Minion a formal complaint and request to remove StoneLoops from the App Store, originally filed by MumboJumbo. According to Code Minion, the complaint involved "infringing Luxor copyright, confusing customers, stealing Luxor's look & feel and even stealing their source code!" Most of these claims are simply outrageous, and if you've ever played the two games, the differences are apparent. Code Minion replied to Apple, refuting the claims that they found erroneous and even offering to change a few things on StoneLoops's app description. Code Minion assumed Apple ruled in their favor when weeks passed without any reply, but discovered otherwise when they learned StoneLoops was no longer available in the App Store.
There are several reasons why MumboJumbo's actions are repulsive and hypocritical. First, of course, Luxor is not an original game. All marble shooters are derived from the 1998 Japanese game Puzz Loop, and most established iteration on the formula is Popcap's 2003 game Zuma. In addition, there are multiple other Zuma-like games on the App Store, though MumboJumbo only chose to attack their closest competitor. Ironically, when Code Minion was deciding on a publisher for StoneLoops, they talked with MumboJumbo before settling on Playcreek. MumboJumbo was shown the game, and never expressed any doubts about possible copyright infringement. This incident sets a dangerous precedent in the App Store that could be easily exploited by other developers.
Please note that MumboJumbo has not yet commented on the incident with their side of the story.


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Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po (voiced by Jack Black), a portly panda who lives in a village at the foot of a mountain, atop which is a legendary Kung Fu temple. Po dreams of being able to learn Kung Fu, and of joining the exploits of the temples famous martial arts warriors, The Furious Five.
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