Warning! Cakes Mixes...Who Knew?

Received this email this morning from a friend and did check it out with Snopes. Snopes says it is real, therefore, I am posting it here for all to read and Please don't dismiss this:
Subject: Warning: cake mixes - who knew ??

THROW AWAY ALL OUTDATED PANCAKE MIX, BISQUICK, BROWNIE MIXES, CAKE MIXES, ETC. YOU HAVE IN YOUR HOME.

Warning: cake mixes - who knew ??

Somebody wrote:
Before my surgery I bought quite a few Duncan Hines cakes mixes that were on sale. A couple of months ago I decide to use one, I checked the expiration date and found it past, all the boxes were passed the expiration date. I phoned Duncan Hinds to ask if the one that was only two months passed if it was OK. She told me in no uncertain words to throw them all out, she even said to open the boxes and throw the mix in the garbage, just in case someone picked it up and used it

According to Snopes:
Subject: Cake Mixes & Toxins- **PLEASE READ**
Pass this on to ALL in your address book. You never know whose life you may save by doing so. For those of you at work, PLEASE remember to check you cupboards when you get home tonight!!!

This is confirmed on Snopes
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/pancake.asp

A student at HBHS (high school) had pancakes this week and it almost became fatal. His Mom (registered nurse) made him pancakes, dropped him off at school and headed to play tennis. She never takes her cell phone on the court but did this time and her son called to say he was having trouble breathing. She told him to go to the nurse immediately and proceeded to call school and alert the nurse. The nurse called the paramedics and they were there in 3 minutes and worked on the boy all the way to the hospital.

He came so close to dying. Evidently this is more common than I ever knew. Check the expiration dates on packages like pancakes and cake mixes that have yeast which over time develop spores. Apparently, the mold that forms in old mixes can be toxic! Throw away ALL OUTDATED pancake mix, brownie mixes, Bisquick, cake & cookie mixes,etc., you have in your home.

P.S. Tell this to your children, grand children, nephews, nieces and anyone else who keeps these types of mixes in the cupboard.

Review of Catherine's Ring

Monday, January 10, 2011
Review of Catherine's Ring
Catherine’s Ring – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat 5 Stars

Nicholas deftly opened the package. He had to be careful with it because of how delicate it was from being tossed around the way it had been. Inside was a thick padding of The Boston Evening Globe dated April 21, 1915 and tied with a red ribbon to secure it. As Nicholas removed the ribbon the newspaper began to fall away revealing a note wrapped around a red velvet box which had been placed in the middle of the thick padding for protection. When he opened the box he could hardly believe what he was looking at – a beautiful Diamond, Emerald and Ruby ring was staring up at him. Maria was flabbergasted at the sight of the ring. She couldn’t help wondering how anyone could send something that beautiful through the mail without insuring it. But in those days, I guess they didn’t have to worry about the mail not going through? Hah! The mail didn’t go through then either did it? Never mind, that was then and this is now. Nicholas hadn’t said a word, he just held the ring in his hand and stared at its beauty and wondered who sent it to whom and why? And on that same day, in an elegant Georgian Country Home, in the suburb of Cambridge, England, a young girl named Catherine Alexander-V was presented with a ring that was the twin of the one that Nicholas held in his hand – an incident that neither Nicholas nor Maria could know would have a significant impact on their lives. Maria insisted that Nicholas stop staring at the ring and read the note that was included with it. There had to be a reason and obviously the reason was in the note. Nicholas wondered how she could be so sure, her only answer was, that there was a note with the ring It was obvious. Nicholas opened the note and began to read it while Maria looked on…Catherine’s Letter to Nicholas: 25 April 1915.

The post office in Nicholas Lindin’s home town was being remodeled and when one of the counters was moved a mysterious package was found. The package was addressed to Nicholas Lindin but the posted date was 1915…98 years earlier. The package contained a ring and a letter from Catherine Barton and was addressed to the boy she loved. Nicholas Lindin, the Great-Grandfather of the Nicholas Lindin of today. Apparently Catherine’s father refused to allow his daughter to marry a man outside of the family religion so he decided to separate them by sending her to England for a year. He had no idea that she would never make it to England but instead end up at the bottom of the ocean.

Catherine’s father, Joseph Barton was a gemologist who traveled the world acquiring priceless gems. On one of his trips he ran across a Tribal Leader who was also a Medicine Man and Spiritual Leader of his tribe. He had a pouch of gems that he was willing to sell to Joseph for a mere $500 in gold coins. But, he told Joseph, the gems were special. They were mystical and to prove this, the man cut his own wrist with a sharp rock and placed several of the gems on the bleeding wound. The cut healed almost immediately. Joseph paid the man with the intention of having the stones made into a necklace for his mother, which he did. As time proceeded, Joseph and his wife had twin girls and as a gift to her granddaughters, Joseph’s mother had 2 identical rings made using some of the diamonds, rubies and emeralds for both girls. Their names were Catherine and Caroline and they were inseparable, that is until Joseph decided to send Catherine to England.

Catherine’s twin sister Caroline’s ring was passed down over the generations and finally ended up in the hand of her Great-Granddaughter Caroline Alexander. But what happened to Catherine’s ring? Could it have actually sat under the counter for almost 100 years and not been discovered? That sounds quite unlikely. Could a friend have hidden it and it finally turned up after all of those years? As the 2 rings come back to form a full circle, some of the questions are answered.

Catherine’s Ring is full of mystery, suspense and ghosts. And as an added treat, there you will even learn a little history. The only problem I had with Catherine’s Ring was that I wanted it to continue. I wanted it to take me into the next generation and then the next. But the ending was beautiful, I just hope Author Elena Dorothy Bowman will carry on with the ring’s next journey.

2010
165 pages
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I am an author who writes in several genre's including: futuristic science fiction, and mystery romance novels that have a touch of the paranormal running through them. I started writing fiction seriously during my lunch hours at work. But one day after a real rough morning, I lit a cigarette. I watched the curled smoke rise toward the corner of the office as it disappeared into a crack in the wall, and wondered where the smoke was going. Needless to say, my imagination took hold and before I knew it I was writing the first chapter to my science fiction/mystery/romance novel Sarah's Landing-I-Contact. I replaced the smoke with a human being -- the lead character -- which ultimately led to the birth of four complete novels in the Sarah's Landing Series....More about the series, excerpts, and reviews can be read on my website: www.sarahslanding.com or http://elenadb.home.comcast.net.

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Billie Williams Book Tour

Hello Billie Williams, welcome to my blog. It is nice of you to stop by on your Blog Tour.

Give Billie Williams a great big Hello everyone. I have to tell you, I never met Billie in person, only through the internet but I must say watching as I have as Billie produces one book after another is amazing to me. One never knows what will be pouring out of her imaginative and fertile mind next.

Best Selling and Award winning Mystery/Suspense author Billie A Williams is a fiction, non-fiction and poetry author and has won numerous contests for her short/flash fiction stories, essays, and poetry with over two dozen works published. She is published in various magazines such as the literary magazine Thema; Guide, a Magazine for Children, Novel Advice.com, Writing Etc. WritingNow.com, and Women In The Arts newsletter as well as Sister’s in Crime, to list but a few.

Her articles, columns and features have appeared regularly in newspapers. Short stories, Flash fiction, poetry and book reviews have appeared in Mystery Time, True Love Magazine and various anthologies and on line e-zines and web sites. She writes a bi-monthly column titled “Whodunit?” for Mystery Fiction’s Voices in the Dark and is a contributing editor for Writingnow.com a Blueberry Press Newsletter. She also hosts her own writer’s group, Word Mage Writers and Readers as well as The Amberg Writers Group that meets at her home monthly. She is an active blogger; http://printedwords.blogspot.com and http://onewomansgarden.blogspot.com A website for writers is at http://writingwide.com where you can find plenty of tips, tricks and good reads, as well as a current novel in progress serialized in her newsletter, “Printed Words.”

Williams is currently a member of The Wisconsin Regional Writers Association (WRWA) Upper Peninsula Writers Association (UPWA)National Association of Women Writers (NAWW) Sister’s in Crime, Women in the Arts Program, Electronically Published Internet Connection (EPIC), Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. (SCBWI) and Children’s Book Insider, and the Children Writers Coaching Club. Her website www.billiewilliams.com
She lives with her husband and Lady Slipper the Maine Coon Cat she received the day she got her contract for The Pink Lady Slipper bed and breakfast murder mystery from Wings ePress so of course the kitten got the name. Amberg, is home, a small Northern Wisconsin community where the winters are cold and long, but the people are warm and friendly.

Here is a preview of one of Billie's Money Isn't Everything.

Money Isn’t Everything – It isn’t love, it isn’t security, and it doesn’t buy loyalty. It can be a tool, -- OR-- a murder weapon.

Mary March is a CNA in a nursing home (Idle A While) when she discovers patient abuse, she investigates and that leads to Jayde Blarney being fired. Jayde goes to work as a fitness trainer in a local health club, (Rainbow’s End). Now, she is out for revenge against Mary for two things. Getting her fired and for encroaching on her, as she perceives it, Doctor Tanner Irish who she is head over heels in love with. Tanner can’t see Jayde for dust as he is infatuated with Mary.

Tanner Irish is almost the proverbial cliché in Mary’s mind. She thinks Tanner is a spoiled little rich boy used to having everything his way, handed to him on a silver platter. He is filthy rich. He thinks money talks, she insists Money Isn’t Everything and she won’t be one of his conquests.

Mary uncovers a connection to the missing funds that lead to Edith Erhoes (Director of Nursing) and Fern Fish (Head of the Accounting Department). Edith’s attitude is the rich can afford it. And they have always gotten the wheat while she has always gotten the chaff, she wants the heart of the wheat and is angry that the young whipper-snapper with money, Dr. Tanner Irish, gets more money catering to old ladies and old men who’ll be dead soon anyway. Life is unjust—and fate is fickle, she is out to change the odds.

Mary will try to find where the abuse stems from and who is taking the money from the coffers as well as how.

Within minutes security had the box of dead rats, Dolly and Ebony had their walking papers; Edith thought the abuse was now all cleared up. Mary wondered what Jayde might do next. Until they were all locked up there would be no peace for anyone at Idle A While Nursing Home.

Thanks again for visiting my site Billie. Wishing you much success in all that you do.

The next stop in Billie’s Blog Tour is Lizzie T-Leaf. Lizzie says: I've loved books since I opened the first one. My dream was to write them myself. Of course life has a way of throwing us a curve ball, and the writing became a distant memory, lost in the hectic day to day world of family, job, laundry and housework. When the twinkling ember did spark, it was usually doused by someone demanding their share of my time, and me allowing it to happen.

But life does seem to go full circle. The desire to put the stories that continued to play in my head on paper emerged stronger than ever, and at a time in my life when there was someone encouraging me to do it. Now I'm living my dream; creating stories to share with others. I hope you enjoy them.

My other hobbies, gardening and baking, are now taking a back seat, and as for housework...what's that?

Lizzie's Website: http://www.lizzietleaf.com/
Lizzie's Blog: http://lizzieleaf.blogspot.com

Coming July 14th - Billie Williams Blog Tour-Money Isn't Everything

Coming in July...Billie Williams Blog Tour, Money Isn't Everything..The tour will stop at my blog on the 14th.




Here's the Calendar for the tour dates and stops:
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Fran Orenstein Tour Date: July 5
www.franorenstein.weebly.com,
www.myspace.com/franorenstein

J Gayle Kelly Tour Date: July 6
http://jgaylekelly.blogspot.com

Lizzie Starr Tour Date: July 8
http://starrwords.blogspot.com

Janice Kaat Tour Date: July 10
http://janicekaat.blogspot.com

Elaine Cantrell Tour Date: July 12
http://elainepcantrell.blogspot.com

Annette Snyder Tour Date: July 13
http://annettesnyder.atspace.com

Elena Dorothy Bowman Tour Date: July 14
http://elenadorothybowmansbooks.blogspot.com

Lizzie T Leaf Tour Date: July 15
http://lizzietleaf.blogspot.com

Work Tour Date: July 16

Work Tour Date: July 17

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SK Hamilton Tour Date: July 19
http://willow-walk.webs.com

Rhobin Courtright Tour Date: July 20
http://robinsrambles.blogspot.com

Ron Berry Tour Date: July 21
http://unwriter.wordpress.com/

Pat McCain/Cerise Tour Date: July 22
http://patmccainworld.com

Joyce Anthony Tour Date: July 26 - 29
http://joyce-anthony.blogspot.com

Working Stiffs Blog Tour Date: July 30
http://workingstiffs.blogspot.com

Rene Cryer Tour Date: July 31
http://myspace.com/1hotpoetress

Billie A Williams
http://printedwords.blogspot.com

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I thought that the following Address that Abraham Lincoln delivered at Gettysburg is as appropriate now as it was then.

President Abraham Lincoln gave his historic Gettysburg Address and eloquently laid out the simple yet profound idea that lies at the heart of this day.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

All I can add to this is AMEN!
And may the Good Lord Bless, Protect and Keep the United States of America a Constitutional Republic.

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