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Whittier reporter Tracy Garcia wrote a story in today's paper about layoffs at Huerta Elementary School. The school is closing at the end of the school year to save money at Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, which is going through declining enrollment.
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This article originally appeared in the winter 2002 issue of IMPACT!, the quarterly newsletter of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
To some eager beavers who want instant results, focusing on ideas seems to be an unbearably long-term strategy. They yearn for the magic button that, when pressed, will make things better. They think everything depends on who wins the next election, so they put their money and time into yard signs and bumper stickers instead of books, studies, commentaries, seminars and other thought-provoking educational tools.
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Candidate Barack Obama pledged that he'd close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Easier said than done. As president, Obama has failed to shut down the facility he calls "expensive," and "inefficient" and a "recruitment tool for terrorists."
On April 30, Obama promised that he'll "go back at" the Guantanamo problem, which frustrated him during his first term. His pledge raises many questions, some easier to answer than others.
Q: How long has the Guantanamo detention center been around?
A: Then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced on Dec. 27, 2001, that some prisoners captured in Afghanistan would be held within the bounds of the 45-square-mile U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which the United States has occupied since 1903 under a lease that gives the U.S. rights "in perpetuity." The first 20 detainees arrived Jan. 11, 2002.
Q: Why Guantanamo?
A: According to a report by the Constitution Project, a policy research center, Pentagon officials considered a variety of Pacific island and other remote locations for holding men detained during the so-called war on terrorism that President George W. Bush declared after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Officials eventually turned to Guantanamo, which previously had been used to house Haitians and Cubans who'd been picked up on the high seas trying to reach the United States.
Officials thought that in addition to providing limited access, which would ease security concerns, Guantanamo would keep the men held there from accessing U.S. federal courts since Guantanamo is part of Cuba. The Supreme Court eventually rejected that argument, however, and allowed the detainees to file habeas corpus petitions challenging their imprisonment.
Q: Who is being held at Guantanamo?
A: Currently, 166 men are detained there, more than half of them from Yemen. Three of the 166 have been convicted of crimes by a military commission, seven have been charged with crimes – including the five accused of conspiring in the 9/11 attacks – and 24 may face criminal charges. Of the remainder, 86 have been cleared for release or transfer to other countries and 46 face no criminal charges but a multi-agency review of their cases found them to be too dangerous to release. At its peak, in May 2003, the facility held about 680 men. The last prisoner arrived in March 2008.
Q: Why are they called detainees rather than prisoners?
A: The Pentagon says it uses the term for most of the men because they haven't been convicted of crimes. The three who've been convicted are called prisoners.
Q: What are the conditions like?
A: When the first detainees arrived, they were housed in wire enclosures that looked like a backyard dog kennel. Now most detainees are in air-conditioned buildings, styled after a maximum-security prison in the United States. The buildings are called camps, though they have little in common with the image that word conjures.
Until recently, most of the detainees were in Camp 6, where they were allowed to keep their cell doors open and move freely in a common area where they could watch television and eat together. But in April, in response to detainees' covering cameras used to monitor them, the guards forced all the prisoners back into their single-occupancy, 6.8- by 12-foot cells. The most secret of the facilities, Camp 7, holds an estimated 15 of the highest-value detainees, including those accused of planning the 9/11 attacks. As of Monday, 100 detainees were refusing food; 23 of those are force-fed twice daily through tubes snaked up their noses and down their throats.
Q: What rules apply to how they're treated?
A: The United States characterizes most as "unprivileged enemy belligerents," rather than prisoners of war. Under Executive Order 13492, however, detainees are supposed to be treated in a manner consistent with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which among other things prohibits "outrages upon personal dignity." Congress also has specified certain standards through laws such as the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment and requires that interrogations conform with conventional U.S. Army standards.
Q: Does the U.S. Constitution apply to detainees at Guantanamo?
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Q: How much does Guantanamo cost to operate?
A: The Obama administration reported to Congress in mid-2011 that it "spends approximately $150 million per year on detention operations at Guantanamo, currently at a rate of more than $800,000 per detainee." In addition, the Bush and Obama administrations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the facility. The average cost to hold a prisoner in the United States is about $30,000 per year.
Q: What's stopping Obama from closing it and moving the men to U.S. prisons?
A: Since 2009, Congress has made it difficult for the Obama administration to transfer men out of Guantanamo. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 prohibits using any military funds to transfer detainees to the United States. It also prohibits transfers to foreign countries unless the secretary of defense certifies that the country meets certain standards, including that it isn't "facing a threat that is likely to substantially affect its ability to exercise control over the individual." That's a problem for Yemen, which has an active al Qaida branch. After a Nigerian who said he'd been recruited in Yemen tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, Obama ordered a halt to all transfers to Yemen. That's held up the release of 26 Yemenis who've been approved for transfer and 30 more who the U.S. says could be transferred back to Yemen if the government there demonstrates it can hold them.
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Through the Jubilee USA Congregations program, faith communities across the U.S. plan to engage a powerful Christian tradition—fasting—to bring home the need to release millions more from the captivity of debt. From Sept. 6 to Oct. 15, 2007, the campaign will engage tens of thousands of supporters around the country and the world in the "Cancel Debt Fast." This will culminate in a week of action in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14 to 20, when supporters can participate in a national prayer breakfast and lobby for the Jubilee Act. With the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank scheduled for Oct. 19 to 21, campaigners can call for justice at these global institutions as well as in the halls of Congress.
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A 15-year-old boy was hit by a SEPTA train and seriously injured on Wednesday afternoon. The teenager was rushed to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said Kristin Geiger, a spokeswoman for SEPTA.
According to Geiger, the boy was standing by the tracks waiting for the Northbound train at approximately 1:15 p.m. when he stepped into the path of the oncoming train. She said the train operator sounded the horn and applied the emergency brakes but was unable to stop the train in time.
Geiger said the incident is still under investigation and it is unclear whether it was an accident or intentional.
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Iowa Pacific is heading to California.
The Chicago-based rail operator was officially selected Thursday to run the 32-mile Branch Rail Line, which the county"s top transportation agency is purchasing for $14.2 million.
Once approved by the federal regulators, the selection clears the way for passenger service on the line. It also solves one piece of a complicated puzzle that should finally lead to public ownership of the line.
"We"re very excited about the opportunity. We see substantial opportunities for growth on the freight side as well as on the passenger side, both for an ongoing tourist service as well as for special events," said Kevin Busath, Iowa Pacific"s vice president for strategic planning.
The vote came at Thursday"s meeting of the Regional Transportation Commission. Iowa Pacific bested four bidders competing to run the line, pledging a balance of commercial and recreational uses for the line. With the state underwriting much of the purchase, continued rail operations are a condition of the sale.
It is also the second operator chosen. A prior deal between current line owner Union Pacific and Woodland-based Sierra Northern fell through after a dispute between those two companies.
But a restart on choosing a rail operator gave the commission more say over future rail uses of the line. While Iowa Pacific offered what appears to be a modest financial package compared to some other bidders, the company is an experienced operator that oversees lines across the U.S., and in the United Kingdom and Peru.
The choice still must be approved by the federal Surface Transportation Board. The agency"s approval of Sierra Northern was slow, but RTC deputy director Luis Mendez said it shouldn"t take as long the second time around.
"What they"ve told us is if we"re using the exact same agreement as was previously established with Sierra Northern, it"ll be fairly quick," said Mendez, though he cautioned there were no time commitments.
Busath said passenger service between Santa Cruz and Davenport, which is planned to run on weekends and holidays, probably wouldn"t be up and running until next year. But he does hope to begin "Polar Express"-themed trains based on the Warner Bros. movie this holiday season.
"We see this drawing from the entire Bay Area, San Jose, the Monterey Bay communities," Busath said. "If you have small children, this will be a big event."
Freight traffic on the line is now limited to a very short stretch of track near Watsonville, and Iowa Pacific has said it would be ready to take over those operations immediately. The company has also said it is interested in exploring passenger service to San Jose via Watsonville.
Thursday"s vote by the Regional Transportation Commission was unanimous, and no members of the public spoke against it.
Acquisition of the line is also seen as key to the development of a coastal trail that would hug the Monterey Bay.
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Cramer Decker Industries is a corporation of many divisions and brands within each divison. We are heavy into marketing and want crisp, clean logos and designs which are bold, easy to read and work well in graphic design and product marking. Logo must be powerful in single color design.
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Due to large amounts of rainfall, a 32-mile segment of the Santa Fe River is now an idle-speed, no-wake zone, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officials.
Zone 5, which runs from River Rise within O'Leno State Park west to the confluence of the Suwannee River, was activated today as an idle-speed, no-wake zone.
This area of the river becomes an idle-speed, no-wake zone when the Santa Fe River reaches 17 feet as indicated on the Three Rivers gauge, where flood stage is 19 feet.
An idle-speed, no-wake zone means a vessel must proceed at a speed no greater than required to maintain steerageway and headway. At no time is any vessel required to proceed so slowly the operator is unable to control it or anything it may be towing.
FWC officers will be patrolling this area of the river to ensure compliance with the temporary idle-speed, no-wake zone, according to Lt. Scott Kihei, acting area supervisor at the FWC's Lake City office.
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CareFamily provides services to individuals that allow them to easily find a caregiver and manage home care for their family member. We also provide management tools that allow senior home health care agencies to effectively manage their organizations using robust, easy tools delivered via the cloud. We want to impart a feeling of warmth and convey that we help others provide care and are a serious organization with great technology. We want to convey a feeling of trust, warmth, and security. We deliver not only and next generation solutions that make home care a viable option for families and but also services for agencies that improve their business and revenue model.
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Where will Andrew Wiggins end up playing next season?
(Tim Brown, OregonLive.com)
Where will
, the nation's undisputed No. 1 Class of 2013 college basketball recruit, go to school? The secret has been more carefully guarded than
The national signing period opened Wednesday, and Wiggins still hasn't put the speculation to rest. While many have tried to get him to bare his soul, Wiggins laughs at everyone trying to handicap the four-school race between
Last week, Wiggins told his 60,000 Twitter followers: "Lol if you ain't in my family you know nothing about my recruitment , lol stop with the rumors."
Next week will be a big one in the recruitment of this 6-7, 200-pound star-in-waiting. Wiggins will get visits from UNC's Roy Williams on Monday, Kansas' Bill Self on Tuesday and FSU's Leonard Hamilton on Wednesday, the player's high school coach, Rob Fulford told SNY.tv. And that indicates that anything is still possible for this talented player who averaged 23.4 points and 11.1 rebounds this past year for Huntington (West Va.) Prep.
Kentucky and Florida State have long been considered the frontrunners to land Wiggins, but his decision may come down to this, says Kentucky Kernel sports editor Alex Forkner: "Does Wiggins want to share the limelight on the way to a national title at UK, or be the main man at FSU? I'd call it a coin flip."
Brendan Bures, the sports editor for the FSView and Florida Flambeau, gives Wiggins a 75 percent chance of coming to Tallahassee, even though the Seminoles are not the basketball powerhouse that the other three finalists are.
"I believe Wiggins chooses Florida State because of his father's (and mother's) alumni status, his best friend Xavier Rathan-Mayes (who's already committed to FSU) is attending, and he wants to be the guy, not just one of many," Bures said.
The intriguing school in this mix is North Carolina, especially considering Williams has an opening for a wing scorer with
. UNC's other three 2013 recruits are either big men (
) or a point guard (
). And much like Lexington, Chapel Hill would be Wiggins' best bet at a national title, should that be on his priority list. Teaming with
would form a formidable team.
Meanwhile, Kansas has its own big hole to fill with
declaring for the NBA draft. Wiggins could star in Lawrence with McLemore's departure, but Pat Strathman, the sports editor at The University Daily Kansan, the school's student newspaper, gives it a 10 percent chance.
heading back to Oklahoma State, the urgency to get him increased drastically, but I think with the history of "one-and-done" players, Wiggins won't choose Kansas," Strathman said.
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Grossman had a passer rating of 73, but threw no interceptions and made the big plays when it counted. I think the MVP for the Bears might just be Reggie Bush, who taunted linebacker Brian Urlacher before back-flipping into the end zone on an 88-yard reception.
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I actually don't think it was that ugly. The Bears *dominated* three out of four of the quarters. They not only one what traditional wisdom says you need, 2 out of 3 facets of the game, but they won all 3 (offense, defense, and special teams). That wasn't too ugly. There were ugly moments, but that was a dominating performance and we as fans shouldn't let all of the negatives that media and other non-Bears fans have been shoving down our throats color our opinion of the team and that performance.ReplyDelete
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Fort Lewis College senior, Brent Eastin, joined the Region 9 team in December as a student intern. Raised in Mancos where his parents own Integrity Glass, Eastin is majoring in Business Administration with an Economics Minor. He has been primarily assisting in the loan program.
"I wanted to gain experience outside the classroom and also learn how to work in a more formal environment," he said. "I have already been able to learn about the procedures around loan documentation, filing and servicing. There is definitely a lot of detail required."
Eastin, who hopes to own his own business one day, says even if he leaves the area for a while after graduation, he definitely plans to come back.
"I love this area and have a personal interest in how our region is doing economically, said Eastin.
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So far I've written only a handful of blogs. My blogs are
technical and dry and consequently the hit count of my blog is low.
However, it has generated some interest from people in far away places
and generated some interesting discussions through email. One of the
things that came up is data integrity and disk performance. And that's
the topic of this blog...
Maintaining data integrity
Consider a simple scenario: an MDB reads from a JMS queue, and for each message that it receives, it writes a record to a database. Let's say that you want to minimize the chance that you would lose or duplicate data in the case of failure. What kind of failure? Let's say that power failures or system crashes are your biggest worries.
How do we minimize the chance of losing or duplicating data? First
of all, you want to make sure that receiving the message from the
queue and the writing to the database happens in one single
transaction. One of the easiest ways of doing that is to use an
application server like Glassfish. How does Glassfish help? It starts a
distributed (two phase) transaction. The transactional state is
persisted by the JMS server and database, and by Glassfish through its
transaction log. In the event of a system crash, the system will come
back up and by using the persisted transactional state, Glassfish can
make sure that either the transaction is fully committed or fully
rolled back. Ergo, no data is lost or duplicated. The details of this
are fascinating, but let's look at that some other time.
Thus, reliable persistence that is immune to system crashes (e.g.
the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)) or power failures is important. That
means that when a program thinks that the data has been persisted on
the disk, it in fact should have been written in the magnetic media of
the disk. Why do I stress this? Because it's less trivial than you
might think: the operating system and drive may cache the data in the
write cache. Therefore you will have to disable the write cache in the
OS on the one hand; in your application you will have to make sure that
the data is
indeed sync-ed to disk on the other hand.
Turning off the write cache, syncing to disk... no big deal, right?
Unfortunately there are many systems in which the performance drops
like a stone when you do that. Let's look at why that is, and how good
systems solve this performance problem.
The expense of writing to disk
As you know, data on a disk is organized in concentrical circles.
Each circle (track) is divided up in sectors. When the disk controller
writes data to the disk, it has to position the write head to the right
track and wait until the disk has rotated such that the beginning of
the sector is under the write head. These are mechanical operations;
they are not measured in nano seconds or micro seconds, but rather in
milliseconds. As it turns out, a drive can do about one hundred of
these operations per second. So, as a rule of thumb, a drive can
perform one hundred writes per second. And this hasn't changed much in
the past few decades, and it won't change in the next decade.
Writes per second is one aspect. The number of bytes that can be
written per second is another. This is measured in megabytes per
second. Fortunately over the past decades this rate has steadily
increased and it likely will continue to do so. That's why formatting a
300 Gb drive today doesn't take 10000 times longer than it took to
format a 30 Mb drive 15 years ago.
Key is that the more you can send to the disk in one write
operation, the more data you can write. To demonstrate this, I've
done some measurements on my desktop machine.
This chart shows that the number of write operations per second
remains constant up to approximately 32 kb. (Note that the x-axis is
logarithmic) That means that whether you try to write 32768 bytes or
just one single byte per write operation, the maximum number of writes
second remains the same. Of course the amount of data you can write to
the disk goes up if you put more data in a single write operation. Put
another way, if you need to write 1 kb chunks of data, you can
process 32 times faster if you combine your chunks into one 32 kb chunk.
What you can see in this chart is that the amount of data you can
write to the disk per second (data rate) increases with the number of
bytes per write. Of course that can not increase infinitely: the data
rate eventually becomes constant. (Note that the x-axis and y-axis are
both logarithmic). The data rate at a write size of 32 kb is approx 3.4
Mb/sec and levels off at a write size of approx 1 Mb to 6 Mb/sec.
These measurements were done on a $300 PC with a cheap hard drive
running Windows. I've done the same measurements on more expensive
hardware with more expensive drives and found similar results: most
drives perform slightly better, but the overall picture is the same.
The lesson: if you have to write small amounts of data, try to
combine these in one write operation.
Multi threading
Back to our example of JMS and a database. As I mentioned, for each
message picked up from
the queue and written to the database, there are several write
operations. For now, let's assume that the data written for the
of single message cannot be combined into one write operation. However,
if we process the messages
concurrently, we can combine the data being written from multiple
threads in one write operation!
Good transaction loggers, good databases that
are optimize for transaction processing, and good JMS servers, all try
to combine the data
from multiple concurrent transactions into as few write operations as
possible. As an example, here are some measurements I did against STCMS
on the same hardware as above. STCMS is the JMS server that ships with
Java CAPS.
As you can see, for small messages the throughput of the system
increases almost linearly with the number of threads. This happens
because one of the design principles of STCMS is to consolidate as much
data as possible in a single write operation. Of course when you
increase the size of the messages, or if you increase the number of
threads indefinitely, you will eventually hit the limit on the
data rate. This is why the performance for large messages does not
scale like
it does for small messages. Of course when increasing the number of
threads to large numbers, you
will also hit other limits due to the overhead in thread switching.
Note that the measurements in this chart were done on a
queue-to-queue and topic-to-topic scenario about three years ago. The
STCMS shipping today performs a lot better, e.g. there's no difference
in performance anymore between queues and topics, so don't use these
numbers as benchmark numbers for STCMS; I'm just using them to prove
the point of the power of write-consolidation.
Other optimizations in the transaction manager
Combining data that needs to be written to the disk from many
threads into one write operation is definitely a good thing for both
resource managers (the JMS server and database server in our example)
and the transaction manager. Are there
other things that can be done specifically in the area of the
transaction manager? Yes, there are: let's see if we can minimize
the number of times data needs to be written for each message.
Last agent commit The first
thing that comes to mind is last-agent commit optimization.
That means that in our example, one of the resource managers will not
do a two phase commit, but instead only do a single phase commit,
thereby saving
another write. Most transaction managers can do this, e.g. the
transaction manager in Glassfish does this.
Piggy backing on another
persistence store Instead of writing to its own persistence
store, the transaction log could write its data to the persistence
store of one of the resource managers participating in the transaction.
By doing so, it can push its data into the same write operation that
the resource manager needs to do anyway. For instance, the transaction
manager can write its transaction state into the database. An extra
table in the database is all it takes. Alternatively, the JMS server
could provide some extensions so that the transaction log can write its
data to the persistence store of the JMS server.
Logless transactions If the
resource manager (e.g. JMS) doesn't have an API that allows the
transaction manager to use its persistence store, the transaction
manager could sneak in some data of its own in the XID. The XID is just
a string of bytes that the resource manager treats as an opaque entity.
The transaction manager could put some data in the XID that identifies
the last Resource Manager; in the case of a system crash, the
transaction manager will query all known resource managers and obtain a
list of in-doubt XIDs. The presence of the in-doubt XID of the last
resource in the transaction signifies that all resources were
successfully prepared and
that commit should be
called; the absence signifies that the prepare phase was incomplete and
that rollback should be
called. This mechanism was invented by SeeBeyond a few years ago
(patent pending). There are some intricacies in this system; perhaps a
topic for a future blog? Leave a comment to this blog if you're
Beyond the disk
The scenario we've been looking at is one in which data needs to be
persisted so that no data gets lost in case of a system crash or power
failure. What about a disk failure? We could use a RAID system.
Are there other ways? Sure! We could involve multiple computers:
clustering! If each machine that needs to safeguard transaction data
would also write its data to another node in a cluster, that data would
survive a crash of the primary node. Assuming that a crash of two nodes
at the same time is very unlikely, this forms a reliable solution. On
both nodes, data can be written to the disk using a write caching
scheme so that the number of writes per second is no longer the
limiting factor.
We can go even further for short-lived objects. Consider this
insert into A values ('a', 'b')
update A set value = 'c' where pk = 'a'
delete A where pk = 'a'
why write the value ('a', 'b') to the disk at all? Hence, a smart write cache can avoid any disk writes for short lived objects. Of course typical data that the transaction manager generates are short lived objects. JMS messages are another example of objects that may have a short life span.
A pluggable transaction manager... and what about Glassfish?
It would be nice if transaction managers had a pluggable
architecture so that depending on your specific scenario, you could
choose the appropriate transaction manager log persistence strategy.
Isn't clustering something difficult and expensive? Difficult to
develop yes, but not difficult to use. Sun Java System Application
Server 8.x EE already has strong support for clustering. Glassfish will
soon have support for clustering too. And with that clustering will
become available to everybody!


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Grilled snap pea salad with onions and mint √
Serves 4.
Note: The combination of mint and peas is a culinary gift. This salad relies on the beauty of that pairing, with onion thrown in for a little texture and spice. Grilled snap peas are highly addictive, as a smoky-charred bitterness is matched with their sweet crunch, and who doesn't love smoky-salty-crunchy-sweet-sweet-goodness? From "Where There's Smoke," by Barton Seaver (Sterling Epicure, $30). If you're using a gas grill, reserve a portion of the grill to create a "smoke station" where you can put a handful of wood chips in foil and slowly heat them until they smolder.
• 1 lb. fresh sugar snap peas
• 3 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided
• Kosher salt
• 1 small red onion, thinly sliced vertically
• Leaves from 8 sprigs fresh mint, torn
• 1 tbsp. white balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar
Toss the peas with a little bit of the olive oil and a pinch of salt. Place them in a grill basket and set it directly over the coals of a small fire (low heat) spiked with apple wood chips. When the peas begin to char and soften, about 7 minutes, remove the basket from the fire.
Place the peas into a bowl. Add the onion and toss to combine. Let the mixture sit for a minute or two so that the heat of the peas can gently soften the onion. Add the mint, vinegar and remaining olive oil and season to taste with salt. Toss to combine and serve immediately.
Nutrition information per serving:
Calories 147 Fat 10 g Sodium 7 mg Saturated fat 1 g
Carbohydrates 11 g Calcium 61 mg
Protein 3 g Cholesterol 0 mg Dietary fiber 3 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 2 vegetable, 2 fat.
Wild rice with bell pepper and fennel and oregano
Serves 4.
Note: From "Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook" (Oxmoor, $21.95).
• 1 (8.5-oz.) pkg. precooked wild rice
• 1 1/2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1/2 c. diced yellow bell pepper
• 1/2 c. diced fennel bulb
• 1 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh oregano
• 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 tsp. salt
Prepare rice according to package directions.
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add bell pepper and fennel; cook 8 minutes or until tender, stirring frequenly. Stir in rice, oregano, black pepper and salt; cook 1 minute.
Nutrition information per serving:
Calories 115 Fat 5 g Sodium 155 mg Saturated fat 1 g
Carbohydrates 15 g Calcium 13 mg
Protein 3 g Cholesterol 0 mg Dietary fiber 2 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 1 bread/starch, 1 fat.
sunday scones with dried strawberries and rosemary
Makes 4 scones, each about 3 inches.
Note: The only thing better than a plain, well-made scone is a scone with a few embellishments. In this case, dried fruit and herbs. You can top them with unsalted butter and honey, apricot or strawberry preserves or clotted cream. From "Cooking With Herbs," by Lynn Alley (Andrews McMeel, $16.99).
• 2 c. flour
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 c. (1 stick) cold butter, cut into pieces
• 3/4 c. buttermilk
• 1/2 c. chopped dried strawberries or cranberries
• 1 tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary
• Butter and preserves, for serving
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet.
In the work bowl of a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Pulse to blend.
Add the cold butter. Turn on the machine and let it run until the butter is just blended in and the dough is the consistency of coarse cornmeal.
Turn off the machine and add the buttermilk, strawberries and rosemary, then pulse just long enough to blend the ingredients. Remove the dough from the processor and gently knead it in your hands, using just a few turns (no more than a dozen) to bring the dough together.
Lightly flour a cutting board. Roll out the dough until it is about 1 inch thick and cut it with a biscuit cutter or a water glass to form scones.
Place the scones on the baking sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden brown. Remove scones from oven. Let them cool a bit, then split them open and slather with butter and preserves.
Nutrition information per serving:
Calories 580 Fat 24 g Sodium 790 mg Saturated fat 15 g
Carbohydrates 83 g Calcium 137 mg
Protein 9 g Cholesterol 63 mg Dietary fiber 4 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 3 bread/starch, 2 ½ other carb, 5 fat.


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CLV (Closing Line Value): +3.79
CLV Profit (Actual Units Won/Saved by Beating Closing Line): +1.66
As always, I am capping the line, not the matchup. My only goal is to beat the closing number by betting early before the market sets itself. If I do that consistently, I believe I will be profitable. Along with my units I will be tracking CLV (total units I have beaten closing line) and CLV Profit (actual units won or saved by betting early instead of waiting for the closing line).
Tough day Monday going 0-2 with the Red Sox and Braves -1 run line. However got both at the open and instead of laying -111 and -117 on those plays I got EV and -108, so saved myself a fifth of a unit.
Larger card on tap for Tuesday. Playing more chalk than usual but just seems like some value for some short favorites on Tuesday. All plays bet at the open and posted in my Monday thread.
Tuesday 4/17
901 Houston Astros +195
908 Milwaukee Brewers -125
912 Colorado Rockies -115
916 San Francisco Giants -1 +108
922 Boston Red Sox -113
929 Cleveland Indians -115
Good luck everybody.
Thanks Nate... shocked at some of these lines I was able to get. Capped the Brewers at -150, Rockies at -150, and Red Sox at -145. I expect these to move somewhat tomorrow. Already have a huge 40 cent edge on the Astros as BetOnline stupidly opened at a way too high +195. It's currently +156 at Pinnacle.
Originally Posted by NastyNate9: Like Lester tomorrow, and my line already has gone to -123. Like gallardo as well, that hasn't moved yet
I would hit the Brewers now if you like em Nate... Lord knows I've been wrong before, but I at least see this line getting into the 130's tomorrow. I could just be way off here though.
Thanks, fellas. BetOnline openers went up, went ahead and played these two for tomorrow.
Wednesday 4/18
Tampa Bay Rays +105
Philadelphia Phillies +105


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tinyint 0.1.1
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This module provides 1 byte signed integer type with operators, index access methods and support functions. You can use it as like the corresponding data type in other RDBMS as well as smallint, integer or bigint in PostgreSQL. Although the byte used for 1 tinyint is exactly 1 byte, you need to take account into its position in the row if you really care the table size since PostgreSQL usually pads extra bytes for the alignment of 4.
tinyint holds -127 to 127. +, -, *, %. min(), max(), sum(), avg(), btree index and gin index are supported as other integer types.
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Top 25 Dolphins disasters since 2000
For 30 years, mostly under the stern watch of head coach Don Shula, the Miami Dolphins were among the most successful franchises in the National Football League. Only two losing seasons. Two Super Bowl titles. Five Super Bowl appearances. A perfect 17-0 in 1972. But since 2000, the fortunes of one of the NFL's marquee franchises have unraveled. In fact, since Miami's 62-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Jan. 15, 2000, the Dolphins have been beset by blunders, bad luck, bad picks and black eyes. Here's a look at the top 25 Dolphins disasters since 2000.
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FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley points out that last week's raids on anti-war and solidarity activists in Chicago and Minneapolis came just days after a "scathing review" by the Justice Department's inspector general, which slammed the agency's post 9/11 "terrorism investigations" of peace and social justice groups.
The FBI is conducting a "war on dissent, rather than terrorism," she writes.
The IG report apparently "gave no pause to the FBI," which is "continuing to do more of the same," Rowley writes.
The FBI's "anti-terrorist" activities highlighted by the report (which covers 2002 to 2006) included investigations of pacifist groups such as Catholic Workers, Quakers and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh. Environmental and animal rights groups were put on terrorist watch lists.
The report reveals "shameful red-baiting at its worst," editorialized the Boston Globe, which argued that the net effect of the FBI's activities was to stifle dissent.
It's "a reminder of how easily civil liberties can be cast aside during suspicious frenzies," wrote the New York Times in its editorial column, noting cases in the report where the FBI "trumped up routine civil disobedience violations" as "potential terrorism."
And with federal officials commenting on the newest raids repeatedly referring to an "ongoing criminal case" and "a law enforcement investigation," it's worth noting that the IG report revealed that FBI Director Robert Mueller gave false information to Congress when he testified that surveillance of the Merton Center was "an outgrowth of an FBI investigation."
Instead, as the Globe noted, it was a "make-work assignment" on a "slow day."
The raids are being taken as a sign that the FBI is eager to exploit the huge opening afforded by a Supreme Court decision in June that found that a law banning "material support" for designated terrorist organizations could legally prohibit speech and advocacy - even advocacy in support of human rights and international law.
The court overruled repeated findings by lower courts that the law's provisions restricting speech are unconstitutional.
"For the first time ever, the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment permits the criminalization of pure speech advocating lawful, nonviolent activity," wrote David Cole, Georgetown professor and attorney for the Humanitarian Law Project in the case.
He points out that by advising Hezbollah and other groups on election procedure, as he did in Lebanon last year, former President Jimmy Carter arguably committed a crime punishable by 15 years in prison, under the Supreme Court ruling. (Indeed, Carter spoke out against the ruling.)
Under the new "material support" interpretation, anti-apartheid and solidarity activists in the 1980s could have been subject to harassment and prosecution, as National Lawyers Guild 's Bruce Nestor points out. (NLG has opened a hotline and issued a know-your-rights guide for activists harassed by the FBI.)
Back then, U.S. activists communicated and worked with the African National Congress and the FMLN of El Salvador, both considered terrorist groups by the State Department -- while the U.S. government actively or tacitly backed large-scale, brutal repression by the existing governments of South Africa and El Salvador. Today, with repressive apparatuses dismantled, both the ANC and the FMLN are governing their nations through fair and free elections.
In 1991 a federal judge ruled that multiple FBI investigations of the Chicago chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, based on unsubstantiated charges of "terrorist" activities, violated the 1981 consent decree in the Chicago Red Squad case. That decree barred investigations of activities protected by the First Amendment. (It was vacated last year.)
If the FBI is serious about investigating material support for terrorism - and not cracking down on domestic dissent - they could raid the corporate offices of Coca-Cola. Several union leaders have been killed and hundreds of union members at Coke bottling plants in Colombia have been detained and tortured by paramilitaries working with plant management, according to the labor-backed Campaign to Stop Killer Coke.
Such a focus on real material support for terrorism by the FBI is not likely, alas, since earlier last month the State Department certified Colombia is "making progress" on human rights ("though there continues to be a need for improvement," the department reported to Congress, mentioning the small problem of impunity for human rights violations) -- and thus worthy of $30 million in military aid for fiscal year 2011.
This despite a recent report from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the U.S. Office on Columbia showing that Colombian army units receiving U.S. aid "allegedly kill more civilians and frame the deaths as combat kills," as Global Post reports. This gets them "job perks and promotions."
Extrajudicial killings of civilians surged significantly in regions that received the largest increases in U.S. aid, the human rights groups found.
Talk about material support for terrorism. That's our tax dollars at work, friends.
From the Palmer Raids through McCarthyism and COINTELPRO and on to today, the FBI has policed and suppressed political dissent. The September 24 raids are just the opening chapter in the latest episode.
A dozen or so activists have been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in Chicago on October 5. There, as Nestor points out, they'll "have to answer questions: Who do you know? Who do you talk to? What do you think? And if you don't answer them you can sit in jail for 4 or 6 or 8 or 18 months until the grand jury term ends."
It's "an attempt by the federal government to criminalize anti-war organizing," writes Ron Jacobs at Counterpunch. The Grand Jury Resistance Project has called on the government "to end the use of grand juries as a political tool to suppress political dissent."
It's "a declaration of war on the activist left, in which grand juries are deployed as omnibus weapons of political persecution under an infinitely expandable anti-terrorism rationale," writes Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report. "The constitutional lawyer in the White House has tossed the founding document into the National Security State shredder."
The newly-formed Chicago Committee Against Political Repression has called a rally and vigil at the Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn, for October 5 from 8:30 to 3:30 p.m. The national Committee to Stop FBI Repression says there will be rallies that day in dozens of cities.


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After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna's soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning ("do no let her…") before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.
A haunted kitchen isn't Ginny's only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka "Demanda") insists on selling their parents' house, the only home Ginny has ever known. As she packs up her parents' belongings, Ginny finds evidence of family secrets she isn't sure how to unravel. She knows how to turn milk into cheese and cream into butter, but she doesn't know why her mother hid a letter in the bedroom chimney, or the identity of the woman in her father's photographs. The more she learns, the more she realizes the keys to these riddles lie with the dead, and there's only one way to get answers: cook from dead people's recipes, raise their ghosts, and ask them.
My Thoughts:
I really liked this book. Matter of fact I read it in one afternoon. I have been in a slump as of late and with one turn of a page of this book, the slump melted away and I was drawn into Ginny's world.
Watching Ginny transform from a scared woman with Asperger's, who just lost her parents, to a strong independent woman facing her fears and life, was amazing. I really enjoyed how food and cooking were brought into the book. Being someone who doesn't enjoy cooking, this book made me wish I did. Jael made cooking look so cathartic and made me want to go bake some bread or soup.
There were other great characters in the book. Gert, David, the ghosts. Even Ginny's sister, even if I was never sure of her angle. To be honest even though these characters were great. This book really, for me, was all about Ginny and watching her evolve.
I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a character that will reach out and grab your heart and attention.
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It's getting late in the season but I'm going to mention this anyway. Last fall when pumpkins were everywhere I decided I was going to try something new.
I bought an extra pumpkin or two. One for carving, the rest for baking. I'd heard that fresh pumpkin was so much better than the canned that I was compelled to take up the challenge and see for myself which was better.
All you have to do is wash your pumpkin and carve out the stump on the top. Slice it into quarters (and this is where it's better not to get too ambitious with the size of pumpkin--smaller is better) and bake it at 350 for 45-60 minutes on a lightly greased baking sheet.
By that time the flesh will be soft, even mushy, and once it's cool enough to handle you can scrape out the strings and seeds left inside. You can see from my picture how much darker the skin on the pumpkin gets after baking.
The skin strips right off--peels like a blanched tomato or a peach and once you've got the pumpkin flesh de-stringed, de-seeded and peeled you can puree it and either pack it for freezing or use it right away.
I used the pumpkin in my standard pumpkin bread recipe and the difference it made was noticeable. The color of the bread was be lighter (one can only imagine all the food dyes that must be in the canned stuff) but crispier on the top crust and more flavorful and moist.
A small pumpkin such as you see here produced the equivalent of slightly more than 2 28-ounce cans of pumpkin which means it may not be quite as economical as the canned version (it depends on what you can get on sale) but it certainly tastes better.
"You're in a chair! In the sky!" should be the quote of the week.
Congratulations to Wendy of Pomona, New York for winning the Wizard of Oz tickets for the show at Madison Square Garden--it ought to be a fun time for the whole family.
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Extra Points: McClain needs to retire the immaturity
Philadelphia, PA – In three years, Rolando McClain has gone from can't miss to never was.
The immature ex-Alabama star "retired" from the NFL earlier this week, just over a month after signing a one-year contract with the reigning Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.
"Rolando let me know that he plans to retire from the NFL," Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said when confirming the news.
McClain, of course, entered the NFL in April 2010 as the eighth overall pick by the Oakland Raiders after a brilliant career in Tuscaloosa, one in which he was recognized as a unanimous All-American and the best college linebacker in the country after helping the Crimson Tide win the 2010 BCS National Championship.
A five-year, $40 million deal greeted McClain in Oakland, but his stay in the Bay Area ended prematurely, just months after the enigmatic Cotton State native was suspended for two games late in 2012 after clashing with Raiders head coach Dennis Allen. He was then declared inactive for what turned out to be his final three contests as a member of the Silver and Black.
According to sources within the Raiders, McClain was kicked out of practice on Nov. 29 of last season due to an "incident" with Allen. In what has become somewhat of a hallmark in his life, McClain then exacerbated the situation with some bad decision-making, taking his gripes to social media and writing things like he was "no longer an Oakland Raider!!" and that he was "mentally done" and wishing "to be anywhere besides here."
He got his wish in April when the Raiders tapped out.
Everyone knew there would be a second chance, however, because the talent remained. McClain recorded 62 tackles, one sack and one forced fumble in the 11 games he did play in 2012, a year after he set career bests with five sacks and 99 stops.
McClain's mulligan came in the Charm City with the Ravens, a team is desperate need of linebacking help after Ray Lewis' retirement and Dannell Ellerbe's defection to Miami in free agency.
He signed a one-year contract with the Ravens on April 12, but any hope that a change of scenery would provide at least some perspective quickly evaporated when McClaim was arrested on disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges in his hometown of Decatur, Ala., 10 days later.
That dustup with the law was the third time McClain was arrested in Decatur since 2011. He was first charged in a shooting before police again arrested him in January on charges of having his car windows tinted too dark and then lying about his identity.
To date, McClain has skated on most of his mistakes. He was sentenced to jail on an assault charge after the shooting, but prosecutors eventually dismissed the case. Meanwhile, a judge dismissed the identity issue, although he was forced to pay a small fine for the window tint violation.
Those details are just white noise, though. McClain has been speeding down a dark path for quite some time and has officially hit a fork in the road. Fix the issues that have plagued him, become a productive citizen and return to football or continue to throw what was a career filled with promise down the drain.
For what it's worth, McClain is at least paying lip service to the former.
"Clearly, my decision to retire has raised some questions," McClain said in a statement. "Quite simply, I love football, but I have decided at this time it is in my best interest to focus on getting my personal life together."
Any 12-stepper knows the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. That said, acknowledging an issue is a long way from addressing it in a positive fashion.
"I'm not sure what the future holds for me," McClain admitted.
Football isn't boxing, so when someone calls it quits, you usually take them at their word. This situation is far different, however. McClain is only 23 and still has the athleticism and physical skills to make a difference on just about any NFL defense.
By placing McClain on the Reserve/Retired list, the Ravens will hold onto his rights and Newsome will be holding his breath, hoping the talented linebacker can resolve his pending legal issues and keep his nose clean moving forward.
"This was entirely my decision and the Ravens have been very supportive during this process. I am very grateful for the opportunity they gave me and wish them the best of luck in the future. God willing, maybe I'll play for them one day," McClain said.
With all due respect to God, the only one deciding whether McClain will resume his career in Baltimore is Rolando McClain.
Here's hoping he realizes that sooner rather than later.


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MasterCard Lost and Stolen Account List Ruby SDK by MasterCard Comments
This Ruby SDK for the Lost and Stolen Account List API, validates accounts against a list of accounts that have been reported by issuers to be lost or stolen. It Identifies cards that have been reported lost or stolen by issuers that provides a way for large merchants or fraud solution providers to integrate the API into their fraud monitoring system for added security. MasterCard is a financial technical company that provides electronic payments globally for Individuals, Business, Travel and Leisure, Airlines, Telecommunications, Retail, Gaming, Entertainment and more.


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Discover the Ultimate in High Efficiency Heating and Cooling with a Goodman System
With millions of products sold throughout the world and one of the best warranties in the industry, Goodman takes the worry out of making an important home improvement investment. Each component of your Goodman central air conditioning and heating system has been specially designed to create the most energy-efficient and reliable indoor climate solution. Extra details such as added insulation in each unit, multi-speed ECM furnace motor, scroll compressor and a low continuous fan enhance noise control and temperature precision.
- Furnace energy-efficiency optimized by 2-stage gas valve and 2-speed induced draft blower
- Easy-access, versatile design simplifies installation and maintenance for entire system including external TXV
- Strength and increased surface area created by thick-walled, grooved evaporator tubing
GSX140301 | Outdoor Unit
The heart of the 2.5 Ton, 30,000 BTU GSX140301 is the high efficiency Copeland® scroll compressor paired with Goodman's proprietary SMARTCOIL™. Together they maximize thermal heat transfer ability and reduce the amount of refrigerant needed. Additionally sound-dampening features help ensure that your cooling system doesn't interfere with a good night's sleep. The near-silent operation is owed to the condenser fan system, which includes a three-bladed fan encased in a heavy-gauge galvanized louvered cabinet with noise suppressing features.
- Save money and resources with SMARTCOIL™ 5mm copper tubing
- Weather resistant, attractive architectural gray finish on outdoor unit
- Pre-charged with chlorine-free R-410A refrigerant
CAPF3137B6 | Indoor Unit
Goodman's all-aluminum painted cased evaporator coil is constructed from aluminum tubing, corrugated fins and panels giving you a single metal solution for outstanding, time-tested, heat transfer performance properties. Easy access owed to split seam front and 21" depth. Fits 17 ½" furnace cabinet.
- Superb strength provided by thick-walled aluminum tubing
- Reliable quality control/pressure and vacuum-tested at factory
- Reduced cabinet condensation achieved with foil-faced insulation over the internal casing
GMEC960803BN | Furnace
The GMEC960803BN 96% AFUE furnace from Goodman is one of the wisest choices among the condensing furnaces. You'll feel good about how you're heating your home knowing very little energy is being wasted. Unlike a standard furnace, which vents leftover heat out of your home in the form of exhaust, the Goodman 96% high-efficiency GMEC960803BN furnace passes the exhaust through a secondary stainless steel heat exchanger to extract additional heat. That heat – up to 30% or more -- which would have otherwise been wasted is circulated through your home by a two-speed induced draft blower.
This means every 96 cents of every dollar that you spend on heating actual goes to warming your home. The multi-speed ECM motor also keeps your home temperature steady and the low continuous fan speed option reduces sound and keeps air circulating throughout your home. Auto dehumidification mode is another advantage.
- 2-stage valve adjusts airflow according to heating or cooling demands
- Certified for direct vent (2-pipe) or non-direct vent (1-pipe)
- Complies with California 40 ng/J Low NOx emissions standard
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- Indoor unit thermoplastic drain pan is DecaBDE-free, UV-resistant and has secondary drain connections
- Coil fins feature aluminum-lanced sine fin design and brass liquid and suction line valves
- Factory-installed liquid line filter drier
- Unique 5mm tube condensing coil design optimizes the heat transfer ability of R-410A refrigerant compared to standard 3/8" copper tubing
- Furnace self-diagnostic control board with constant memory fault code history output to an LED
- Color-coded low-voltage terminals with provisions for electronic air cleaner and humidifier
- Furnace features easy-to-install top venting with optional side venting and convenient left or right connection for gas and electrical service
- Furnace cabinet air leakage (QLeak) ≤ 2%
- Heavy-gauge steel cabinet with durable finish
- Fully insulated heat exchanger and blower section
- Furnace features airtight solid bottom or side return with easy-cut tabs for effortless removal in bottom air-inlet applications
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- All components are AHRI certified, ETL listed and factory tested
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Your Goodman Central Air Conditioning System with Gas Furnace from Heat & Cool Comes With:
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Nigel Jones needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Technology Crime Training Consortium (TC2) (TC squared)
We are a new consortium of providers of quality training programmes to public and private sector organisations in the UK and internationally. We develop and deliver IT Forensics and technology crime investigation training for these audiences. We are missing an identity that lets people know that the products are part of a quality structured programme. We want to use the logo on all aspects of the programme, including web, PowerPoint template, stationery etc. The purpose of this is to create an identity that will tell people that that what they are getting is a valid product and part of the programme that we run.
Public and private sector organisations that collect and examine digital evidence as well as being involved in Internet and cybercrime investigations. As said above we, we want this to be a sign that people immediately recognise as being associated with a top quality training and education programme that they can trust and which provides a mark that identifies the source of the material. We want this to be different than other offerings
Logo that reflects:
1. International nature of our activities (but no globes or worlds),
2. Technology Crime/Digital Forensics
3. Quality
4. Training
5. A consortium
We don't want something like a multicoloured swap shop and do not want a predominance of the colour blue. We want something that stands out and 4 colours would be acceptable.
Not too difficult I hope!!!
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Hello friends This is shabdkumar again to tell u about mi children play andsex with mi mom. I was 10 and only child of mi parents and i use to sleep with mi mom as mi father was away to Mumbaifor some job and he is a driver taxi at Mumbaiand comes only once in three year and part away with the moneyhe broings and stay inhouse for few days and then againgoes back to Mumbai.My mother being an ideal lady 30 years and nice buildup body ideal pair of boobs and nices buttock and hshe always keep me with herduring the night time closely to her i use to sleep with her and place mi hand on her boobs un intentioonally. But I dont know whether motheruse to enjoy the sex as she use to rub her puzzivery often I didnot knew why she use to do sosometime I have seen her puzzi i e mi birthplace i had a nice opening pinkish in color and shaven wellsometime mi mom use to ask me to suck theboobs like i sucked in mi childhood and use to rub her puzzi vigourously I never knew this is a sex actonly came to know after when i grew up and on thosedays father was in house and they use to faqq each other and I was asked to go to sleep in servants quaterthough there was no one in servants quarter butwe did have a servant quarterOne day i saw mi mom completely naked andsaw erection in mi own dick I was surprised to know this howdick has any connection with the body of ladythat was the last day of mi father in this place and wasto move to other placve i e mumbai Mom did all the acts father wanted to do and I was peeing in betwenas anal faqqing mouth faqqing and puzzi faqqing all in one dayi was looking as a wqatcher to any tournamentin which mom has won and father lost . Everytime i saw him taking out his dick without any erection while whenever he tried to enter it inside the puzzi oranus it was fully erectedMi dick was fully faltuu erected and i was notknowing wat to do with it suddenly i placed mi hand on mi dick and processs of rubbing startedand after vigourous rubb something came out of it it was whilte patch and shooted like a goliI was now knowing why it is when entered is erectedand while coming out it is just like ................We went to station for seeoff mi father and came backthat date i didnot slept with mimom and requested her that i will sleep in servant quartershe started weeping saying she needs me today more thanany other day. She insisted and i was with her but today the storywas different as I slept with her mi dick erected and touched the ass of mom and she too was surprised to knowand smiled at me and took hold of mi dick and suck it deeply and i cum out in her mouthshe thanked god ...... in part II I was 13 and mi mother 33 when father left her three years she was a bit disturbed but on that night i insistedthat i will sleep in servants quarterbut mi mom started weeping saying u r father deserts me for three years and now u dont want to stay with me and share mi bedAfter her pleading i joined her and now I was looking heras A lady instead of mi mother Now I was looking at her boobs the assets of the ladyher waist her hips her body as whole her curves and moulds and also think of her cunt and the hips i mean ass or anus what so ever u may sayShe was being looked at a maal for me andher body as playground for me so when i sleptwith her first night mi dick showed clearly the signof being a man dick full and erected touching her ass while i was with her and touching her boobs as per mi practice she too was thinking this is not the sameboy who use to sleep calmly with mebut now a grown up boy who came do anything of her choice she was keeping quitenessas i was nimbling with her boobs after lifting her kameez(shirt) keeping both the hands on herboth the boobs and she was enjoying it her smiling face was clearly visible in zero watt bulb and making no shikayat her nipples were fully erected andmi sucking of nipples was making her hornydo it slowly mi son..........was her requestas u r doing do mit i am enjoying but doit slowly i planted a big and huge kiss on the back of her body which she resiprocated by kissing milips and deep kiss and intermingaling of trounguesmaking me horny love making thoiugh none of mi job at this tender age but continous seeing the sex mademe pagal for sex she took off mi nickker and made me naked and she too took off her gown to show off wat she had.I was mad seeing her body started caressing her bodyand placed mi hand in her thighs and started rubbing it .the thighs were soft and hairless and chikni like makhan and miand was slipping all the way on her thigh touching uptomi birthplace. Her hairless cunt was also like a devi dwara for me at was looking at her in innocent wayshe showed me where to enter mi dickand how to make strong strokes. she placed mi dick on the royal opening of the cunt and ordered me to enter it I entered mi dick inside her puzzi and she ordered for making pounding on the puzzias i saw mi father doing.I started it and by doing inout and inout she was enjoying every pal moment of faqqing and cooperatiiongin all possible way by lifting her puzzi above and makingmi penetration as complete.We did it for three to four times in night and finally I surrendered before mom saying enough nis enough for todaybut she was not ready top hear saying this is a life time opputunity we sud enjoy the entire nightas it is suhagraat for her. I told mom I am with uat every moment of mi life we will do it tomaro thecomplete day and night and i kept the promise and also is keeping up the promise but in between one strange thing happened mi mom become pregnant and delivered a baby boy.whose child is this is thousand dollar questionas mi faqqing and faqqing by mi father match and in the veryfirst month of mi father left this message was given to meand to mi father.He was too happy to have a child after14 years of marriage first being me and second being the newborn baby who will grow up and faqq his mother too
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Green Day Ticket Policy Draws Flak from New York City Fans
Green Day fans are undeniably thrilled about the band's rescheduled spring tour -- but there has been some drama mixed in with the excitement. The pop-punk trio decided to implement a new rule for purchasing tickets for their April 7 performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Those who bought floor seats were told they couldn't pick up their tickets in advance; instead, they were advised to retrieve them at the box office on the day of the show.
Green Day's intentions haven't been confirmed, but it's assumed that the new policy was designed to prevent ticket scalping. However, fans were taken aback and enraged, fearing that if they suddenly couldn't attend the concert, they'd be out of luck (not to mention a good chunk of change).
"We believe we own the tickets ... and that fans have the right to give away or transfer tickets however they choose," said Chris Grimm – a member of the Fan Freedom Project – to the New York Post in a recent statement. "No fan should ever face the prospect of losing money when plans change because of work or family obligations."
The fans were so vocal and persistent in their protests that Green Day eventually eased up on the restriction and granted the option to pick up tickets prior to the event. Click here for more details about the band's forthcoming tour.


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junkmycar needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 50 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Junk my Car
We are a free junk vehicle removal & recycling service in the USA and Canada. We remove Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles. Our company is technology driven, fun, and fast-paced. Our top priority is exceptional customer service. http://www.junkmycar.com
Our target audience for this project is our employees.
Attached are three other award examples we have had designed in the past. We would like a polished look but for the designer to be creative. We would like the award to have a Spartan warrior theme. No shirtless warriors though please. It also needs to be copyright free, so we can't just take pictures from the movie, etc.
This is an employee appreciation award.
What is needed:
Award Name: Spartan of the Month
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Month and Year
Junk my Car Logo
Spot for employee picture
This award should be compatible to be printed on paper (w 8.5 inches x H 11 Inches) as well as used digitally. We need a PSD of the final product so we can make changes month to month.
I have also attached vectors of our logo.


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With the wet weather continuing to wreak havoc on the Midwestern corn and soybean harvest, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) is urging farmers to contact their crop insurance agent as soon as possible.
"With the 'End of the Insurance Period' just around the corner, it is important that farmers submit their notice of loss promptly," said Bob Parkerson, President of NCIS. (December 10th is the EOIP for most spring-planted crops.) "The ability to manage risk through crop insurance is their best asset when facing the uncertainties inherent with farming."
Some important reminders for insureds who are facing a delayed harvest:
• Submit a notice of loss with your agent if you have not already done so and request additional time to harvest in order to protect your crop insurance coverage.
• Continue to carry out normal and customary harvesting practices, if possible, utilizing available windows of opportunity.
• Yield-based policies provide coverage for loss of quality (review crop provisions for specifics), reduced yields and revenue losses (if chosen).
• If, for example, you are unable to harvest by the EOIP due to extreme wet or snowy conditions, your crop insurance company may allow additional time to harvest, if:
• You give timely notice of loss to your agent; and,
• It is determined and documented by the insurance company that the delay was due to an insured cause of loss; and,
• You demonstrate that harvest was not possible due to an insured cause of loss; and,
• The delay was not due to an uninsured cause of loss or because you did not have sufficient equipment or manpower to harvest.
"It is important for insureds to document conditions for their acreage and the actions they take in order to receive an accurate claim payment if one is due," said Parkerson. "We can't stress to farmers enough the need to contact their agent as soon as possible. Agents are the best resource of information for their insureds, especially during the loss season."
The Federal Crop Insurance Program:
The crop insurance industry insures over 272 million acres and protects $90 billion in America's food supply. Over 80 percent of the insurable acres are protected. Crop insurance is the key to financial stability for farmers, enabling farmers and ranchers to supply food and fiber to our country despite severe weather and other challenges that impact their business.
The federal crop insurance program is a public-private partnership, the industry and federal government work hand in hand. The crop insurance program is available to all producers on an equal basis and provides the financial stability for farmers and ranchers, including access to capital.
National Crop Insurance Services
National Crop Insurance Services National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) is an international not-for-profit organization representing the interests of more than 20 crop insurance companies. NCIS member companies write Crop-Hail Insurance; Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI), the federally subsidized risk management program; and, privately developed crop insurance products totaling approximately $9 billion in premium, with liability totaling approximately $80 billion. These companies service all farmers participating in the federal program, including limited-resource and socially-disadvantaged farmers. In partnership with the government, these private companies are the safety net that equitably provides risk management to the American farmer. NCIS members range in size from one-state companies to national writers, as well as foreign company members.