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Laura, a.k.a. ( The Little Nympho ) Chapter 4 ( Icky Dicky )
Fantasy, Blowjob, Consensual Sex, Cum Swallowing, Incest, Non-consensual sex, Teen Male/Teen Female, Young
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Wed 19th of September 2012
Laura consules her little sister and has a confrontation with her little brother
( Laura, a.k.a. The Little Nympho)
Chapter 4
( Icky Dicky )
… Barbusie …
When I walked into the house the girls were watching T.V. and I asked where is everyone?" 'Dicky is in his room, probably beating his meat." Mary giggled. Pammy asked. 'How come he's got meat in his room?" Me and Mary just giggled at her innocents.
'Where's mom and dad?" I asked. 'They're in their room." Mary replied. Then I asked. 'You guys need the bathroom cause I'm gonna take a bath." They didn't answer so I went up stairs and walked into Dickey's room and sure enough, there he was, beating his meat. He didn't even bother covering up and kept stoking on it.
'What the hell do you want Laura?" Dicky asked as he aimed his dick at me. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. My little brother wasn't so little anymore. I closed the door and walked over to his bed and sank to my knees and asked. 'Would you like a little help with that, sweetie?" All he could say was. 'Hell yes darling have at it."
I grinned and took his rock hard 7 inch cock in my hand and wrapped my lips around it and began to give my little brother a real good blow-job.
He laid back and began too quiver as I sucked hard and stroked him at the same time. I pulled off of him and whispered. 'You know, you'll have to help me once in a while now if I get horny and need some loving. You got a problem with that?" 'Not as long as I can get off, we can do what ever you want Laura." 'Also, you tell anybody, and I will kill you, you little perv." I added.
I went back down on my brother and made him cumm hard in my mouth and I swallowed it all. It was saltier then the other boy's so I told him to eat more ice cream and sweet stuff to make his cumm taste better.
As I was walking out of his room I stopped and asked if he needed the shitter cause I was going to take a bath. He said no so I went into my room and got my nighty and some herbal shampoo and went to the bathroom.
I took my bath and when I got out dad and mom had gone out to a movie and diner leaving me to sit for my siblings. Mary wanted to go and visit a friend down the street so that just left me alone with Dicky and Pammy.
I went to my room and put on a pair of skimpy panties and watched in the mirror as Pammy Sue watched me like a hawk from her bed.
As I sat there brushing out my hair she spoke up. 'Laura, what's it like to have an orgasm and what the hell is an orgasm anyway?" I looked at my 10 year old little sister through the mirror and said. 'Why do you want to know sweetie?"
'Because Dicky was in here awhile ago and said he was gonna make me have one if I didn't quit shooting beavers all the time. And I don't even own a gun, how can I shoot anything?" I giggled hard. She was such a cute and blond baby.
I got up and went over to her and sat on the edge of her bed. Her eyes were transfixed on my budding titties as I crossed the room and still were when I sat down next to her.
I put a hand on her shoulder and quietly said. 'Do you really want to know, sweetie?" 'Ya." Was her response still glancing over at my chest every few seconds. 'Well, an orgasm is what little girls and boy's have when they play with their naughty parts way too long. You mean my pussy, Laura?" 'Yes baby."
'If you or a boy plays with it long enough you will feel an incredible wonderful feeling that at first, is a kinda scary feeling throughout your whole body and that's called an orgasm.
'Laura, I'm really, really curious and want to learn about these things, but Ma keeps saying that I'm to young yet to be knowing such things." Pammy lamented. 'Well you are still just 10 and maybe your body hasn't developed enough yet for you to have an orgasm." I replied.
'Well, maybe you could show me what I gotta do to have one and I could try it and see if I am old enough." Pammy implored. 'And what the hell dose shooting beavers got to do with all this?" She added. I just had to giggle again and explain.
'Sweetie, that's what little girls or even grown woman sometimes do to get a guy interested in maybe having sex with them. It's when they spread their legs and let guys see their underwear or bare pussy's if their not wearing any underwear.
'And that gets guys interested?" 'Sure dose baby, it sometimes drives them nuts. And if you're at school and do it right he'll keep an eye on you for the rest of the day and maybe the rest of the week."
'Young boy's have short attention spans though, and might get tired of just looking at you and might want to try and have sex with you at some point." 'Like, Icky Dicky?" she asked. I giggled again. 'Ya baby, like Icky Dicky."
'So how do I give my self an orgasm Laura?" 'Well, first you have to be good and horny." 'What's that?' Pammy asked. 'That's when a girl starts feeling tingly, itchy, and throbby down between her legs. And her little pussy starts getting all wet and slippery." I explained.
'When a girl gets all hot and bothered, she'll start leaking a little fluid from her pussy that helps make her vagina get all slick and ready for a guys dick to slide up inside her." Pammy's eyes got big and she grinned. 'I think I'm horny right now Laura."
'How do you know that sweetie?" I asked. She took my hand and put it between her legs and right on her panty covered little pussy. It was good and wet. 'See." She said. 'And I didn't pee my pant's either." She added.
'Well, maybe you are starting to grow up a little. Dose it tingle and throb a lot lately?" I asked. 'All the Friecken time, Laura." She confessed. 'I'll tell you what, the next time you take a bath get naked before you start the water."
'Then get into the tub as the tub is filling and slide your pussy under the streaming water as it fills the tub and it will make you have one of those orgasms your so curious about. That's how I had my first one." 'Really Laura?" Pammy beamed with a grin.
'It's getting dark and you haven't had your bath yet. So as your older sister I'm gonna tell you to get your little ass in that tub and have yourself a real good bath sweetie."
Pammy hugged me real tight and surprised me by kissing me right on the lips and held it for a few seconds. And then said. 'Thank you Laura, you're the best big sister ever."
She got up grabbed her nighty, dashed out the door, and down to the bathroom. As she left the room I whispered. 'Your welcome sweetie." I then got up and put a t-shirt on and went looking for 'Icky Dicky'.
I kicked open his door and went right to him. I reached out and grabbed the little turd by the neck and squeezed tight and said. 'Listen good you little perv. If you ever force yourself on Pammy, I will kick your little ass all the way to the gates of hell, you little bastard. Do you hear me, you little turd?"
Mary heard all the yelling as she was coming home and up the stairs. She stepped into the room and asked. 'What's going on in here? I could hear you yelling out in the yard." 'Little Icky Dicky here can't control his little pecker, and tried to force himself on Pammy Sue." I said. Smacking Dicky in the back of the head.
'Really." Mary said moving closer. 'And what do you think we should do about our amorous little brother." I looked at Mary and asked. 'Amorous?" 'What, I do study in school, Laura." Mary answered.
'Well, I began. 'I'm thinking maybe tying him up to his bed and shoving a cucumber up his little ass might do the trick. Then we'll get the message across that he shouldn't even try to mess with us." 'I'll go to the fridge and see what I can find. You hold him here so he don't get away." Mary said. And dashed out of the room.
Icky Dicky was starting to get scared now and asked. 'You ain't really gonna tie me up are you?" 'Would you rather we tell dad about your rutting little ass, and about how you tried to fuck little Pammy." 'But I didn't do that, Laura." He started to explain.
'I was trying to warn her that if she didn't start acting more like a lady then she might get her self raped that's all." 'Besides all three of you are driving so nuts, that I gotta spend most of my time in here jacking off. It ain't easy for horny teen-ager to be around three nearly naked girls all the time." He lamented.
I started feeling sorry for the guy, he did have a couple of real good arguments. Mary came back with some cloths line and the biggest carrot she could find and said. 'We ain't got any cucumbers, will this do?" She held it up. It was about 8 inches long and about three inches in diameter. 'Yep that'll do Mary." I said looking at Dicky with a grin.
At about that time Pammy came into the room and asked. 'Why is everyone in here?" I said. 'Pammy, just what exactly did Dicky tell you awhile ago about the orgasm thing."
'Oh, he just said that if I didn't keep my legs closed that someday some guy is gonna show me what an orgasm is, and if I keep teasing him, it was going to be him that would be showing me." Pammy explained.
I looked at Mary and said. 'I don't think we can punish him for that. He didn't really do anything but give her a warning." Mary threw the rope and the carrot on the floor and said. 'Shit, I'm going to bed." And left.
Pammy motioned for me to come closer so she could whisper in my ear. 'Laura, she whispered. 'It was fantastic." 'What was sweetie?" I replied. 'The bath, and it didn't take long and I was cumming, and cumming, and cumming, it was the best bath I ever took in my whole life." She giggled.
'I know how to do it now and I feel sooo grown up now. Thank you." She pecked me on the cheek. 'That's great sweetie, now you know how I feel when I'm playing with myself." Dicky was laying on his bed in his underwear. 'So, what was it that got you all horny." Pammy pointed to Dicky. I smiled at her and said. 'Really?" 'Oh Laura he's been making me wet for a year now." She whispered.
'Well, would you like me to teach you a little about sex now?" 'Oh Laura would you?" that would be sooo cool." I looked at Dicky and said. 'This is your lucky day dude. We need a boy with a hardon and you are a boy with a hardon."
'I'm gonna teach Pammy here about how to please a guy and we need you to be the dummy." 'Who you calling a dummy? You slut?" 'Shut the fuck up and listen. We're gonna do this right and you ain't gonna say anything about it, got that shit head?"
'Now take off that underwear and lay down on your back." I got the rope that Mary had brought in and began to tie his hands to the bed posts. 'Hay what the hell are you doing Laura?" 'Shut up fool and just enjoy this." I said.
When I had his hands tied I spread his legs and tied his feet to the foot board. I told Pammy who was still in a towel, to come over and sit next to Dicky on the bed. 'Now, the first thing is, you can't be afraid of touching him. So if you ever had thoughts of touching him, go ahead a do what you want to do with him, but be gentle." I explained 'I'll be right here if you have any questions."
Pammy took off the towel and I have to admit she didn't look too bad for a 10 year old blond baby. She's got long honey blond hair and pale blue eyes like mine, and a nice round little butt that just begs to be licked and squeezed.
She's kind of tall for her age standing just a few inches shorter then me. And her titties were just starting to bud and looked like just puffy little nipples standing about an inch or so above her chest.
She reached over and took Dicky's dick in her hand and slowly slid it up and down the boys ragging 7 incher. Dicky was in heaven. Pammy noticed the pre-cum fluid leaking out of his dick and asked. 'What's that stuff?" I said. 'He gets wet too when he's horny. Like a girl but not near as much. It's so his sperm will shoot out his dick real easy and harder." I explained.
'I feel like I want to taste it." She said with a grin. 'Go ahead baby, it won't taste like much, maybe a little salty." I whispered. She lowered her head and snaked out her little tongue and gave ol Dicky's dick a real good lick. She looked up and said. 'It tastes pretty good not at all nasty like I thought it would."
She lowered her head again and this time wrapped her lips around the boy's dick and sucked on the head. Dicky was going nuts squirming and groaning as his little sister proceeded to give him her vary first blow-job. She was a little gaggy at first but with my tutoring she began to suck on it like she was a pro.
In about two minutes Dicky said he was about to cumm and I put my hand on Pammy and said. 'If you don't want him to cumm in your mouth then back off and just jack him off till he shoots his load.
Or if you want him to cumm in you mouth then just back off till just the head is in your mouth and keep sucking and be prepared to swallow it." She pulled off and asked. 'Swallow?" she asked wide eyed. She looked down at Dicky and said I wanna see him shoot it all over." And went back down on him.
Just as I knew he was about to blow his wad, I reach over and grabbed Pammy by the hair and pulled her off just in time for her to see him squirt four good wads of cumm through the air landing on his chest and belly.
She looked at me and said 'Damn Laura that was fun. What else can we do to him?" 'What do want him to do baby?" I asked. 'I want him to lick on mine like I just did for him." 'Sounds fair to me. Climb up and put your little pussy over his mouth and make him lick your pussy."
She climbed over Dicky's chest and straddled his head and ground her pussy into his face. Dicky didn't disappoint her and began lapping at her little pussy till she was moaning and shivering and moving her hips back and forth at a rapid pace. She kept that up till she began to hoot and howl and quiver hard on his slurping lips and tongue.
Then she exploded hard on his face cumming and cumming, over and over And over till she rolled off quivering hard and giggling out loud as the waves of the massive orgasm washed through her tiny body. Again and again, and again, till they started to subside.
She looked up at me and grinned. 'That was ssooooo much better then the tub Laura, I think I'm gonna like fucking, a lot." We kissed each other on the lips and looked at Dicky still tied to the bed. I asked. 'Do you think we punished him enough for being such a dick-head?"
Pammy giggled and quietly said 'Yes, but I sure would like to do it again sometime. Maybe?" 'Well, that's up to you and Dicky. But I'm sure it won't be too hard to talk him into anything kiddo." I said as began to untie the boy.
Pammy left the room and Dicky was rock hard again so I locked his door and went back to him and sat right down on his nice hard dick and rode the pony till we both came real good and hard. Then I went to take my second bath of the day.
Mom and dad came home while I was in the tub and Mom stuck her head in the door and asked if the kid's gave me any trouble and I said. 'No Mam, they perfect little angels." She blew me a kiss and said good night and went to bed.
When I came out of the bathroom I could hear Mom and dad fucking like hell in their room and I smiled as I walked up stairs and went to bed…..
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anonymous reader
2012-09-20 14:50:31
At the time I wrote 'Icky Dicky' Laura was about to turn 14. Mary would've been a year younger at 13. Dicky was a month or two shy of 13. and Pammy Sue was 10 and a few months from 11. And although the story is a fantasy, It is derived from actual events and actual people. It follows Laura though her teen-age years trying to cope and explore this new found and highly charged sexual appetite of hers. The story is set in the early 70s and set in a middle American small town. The names and places have been changed for obvious reasons, but the story is mostly true. There was a girl named Laura and there was a guy named Keith, who was over his head in love with this girl in spite of her Delicate Condition.. It took a few years to write because at my age it took awhile to remember alot of the details of something that happend 35 years ago.. There are alot of chapters to this story that I'll try and condence to make it a little more readable... I'm glad your enjoying it... ...Barbusie ...
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2012-09-19 16:44:54
What a deeeeeeeeeelicious story. YUMMMMY ! Oh please continue with it. I always say... a family that fucks together.... stays together. I've been livin' with my brother for over 25 yrs. Our life of fuckin' and suckin' started when I was 2 months shy of my 12th birthday. I walked in on my brother jackin' off. With in minutes I was on him, suck his dick for all I was worth. His cum is just soooo yummy. I could drink quarts of that stuff. I love pre-cum too. He got my cherry when I turned 18. It was my birthday, but I have him the present. Right after I graduated from high school, I moved in with him. And that's where we been ever since. He and I both have really well paying jobs, we live in a nice house now, we must fuck 'n' suck at least once a day, sometimes three or four times. I never get tried of the feel of his dick in my mouth. We've bookmarked you. We'll come back to see if you've written anymore.
anonymous reader
2012-09-19 13:36:29
i loved it, make sure that you arent missing any words in sentances though. good luck!
anonymous reader
2012-09-19 13:21:16
Great story. How old are Dicky and Mary? Looking forward to reading more. Love these teeny nymphos.
anonymous reader
2012-09-19 08:17:13
Another amazing job, thank you for sharing your stories with us
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Europe Stockholm Sweden
Destination Real Weddings
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This is sort of the end-all, be-all of weddings. A crazy beautiful day that gets prettier by the minute featuring soft pastel hues, an eternally happy bride and groom and all kinds of amazing images (and I mean amazing) captured by the always-wonderful Alicia Swedenborg. In other words, it's the literal definition of lovely… and you can bask in every last ounce of goodness right here in the full gallery.
From the Bride… Tom is a design engineer and I am doing my PhD in Psychology, we first met in London when working together and it was love at first sight (at least for me!). I ran home to tell my brother that there was a really hot guy at work, I put down some moves and he finally asked me out! At the time Tom rode a motorcycle and had a shaved head, I was still doing my undergraduate degree We moved in together after a month and got engaged 2 years later in Stockholm where I am originally from and my parents still live. Life happened around us, Tom changed jobs, I continued studying, we moved 5 times and it took us just under 3 years to plan the wedding.
We always knew we wanted to get married in Stockholm, I was born there, we love it there and most of my family live there. Its an absolutely stunning city and since we visit so often we thought it would be nice for all of friends and family from London to be able to finally see what we keep raving about.
When it came to planning the wedding we knew we wanted it to be intimate and personal. We wanted to be surrounded by the very closest family and friends to celebrate our special day. We chose Fjerholmarnas Krog because we not only loved the island, it had sentimental importance to both of us and my parents as it was where Tom asked my them for my hand in marriage just 3 years ago. We chose our church because we knew we wanted to ceremony and our vows to be in English, we did however have a reading in Polish as my grandparents dont speak English. Our reverend could not be more accomodating, kind, warm and funny.
The first thing we did when we got engaged was look for a photographer, I always knew I wanted stunning wedding photographs as I felt it was the one thing that really allowed you to remember the day as it happened. I found Alicia and it was like love at first sight – her photos were and are always stunning without fail. The second thing we did was secure the venue and make sure that all the dates lined up – we were pretty flexible with our dates, however, we knew we wanted to get married in June because it is the month of love and marriage. The June birthstone is pearl which I chose to wear as my only piece of jewelry in the form of earrings.
We wanted our wedding to encompass all of our nationalities and traditions, I myself am Swedish, Greek and Polish and Tom is English and Irish. It was fun trying to incorporate all of the different aspects as well as languages. We did so by personalising each persons menu to their native language and our speeches were filled with different languages. It was amazing to hear some of our English speaking guests tell us the foreign speeches made them cry even harder than the English ones!
Once we had finally set the date we began looking for stationery, we came across Cardlab who do gorgeous personalised invitations that are timeless. We wanted to convey the feel of the day in our invites so they had a touch of colour (navy blue ribbon), they were romantic, delicate and personal. Cardlab also helped us with our order of the day which was really important to me as it included all our different nationality traditions in it. We also included translations of cheers in every language and selected customs we chose to incorporate into the day.
We didnt start planning with a theme in mind, rather we just had key words we kept telling everyone we met with which were intimate, delicate, fresh, natural, summery and classic. We conveyed that through the really fresh and clean look of our venue, the table settings and our flowers. We wanted pops of colour throughout and for our flowers to look like we had picked them ourselves.
The girls wore navy and each of them got to pick any dress they wanted. We really wanted our bridal party to feel comfortable and natural so we didnt want to put any restrictions on them. The guys wore black suits and we bought them each their own individual ties from Duchamp and Union Jack socks to have a little bit of England with us on the day.
Tom wore a gorgeous navy Jacquard Duchamp tuxedo with bridal white lining, custom shirt with his initials and a black jacquard bow tie. I bought my dress at Mirror Mirror Bridal in London, I always knew I wanted a cap sleeve lace gown. Of all people I could have taken dress shopping I knew the one person I could really trust was Tom so he was there from the first appointment to my final fitting. He really was the one thing and person that was able to ground me and stop me from becoming bridezilla!
We wanted to make every guest feel special and welcome at our wedding as we knew how many of them were travelling to Stockholm especially for us. Each guest received a welcome tote bag when they arrived at their hotel filled with our favorite Swedish treats, drinks and some other gifts.
We spent a lot of time deciding what we wanted as our wedding favours. We chose DIY White Peanut M&Ms in jars instead of the more traditional (less tasty) White Sugared Almonds as our wedding favours (koufeta) as they are traditional in Greece. They symbolise health, wealth, happiness, fertility, and longevity. The white symbolizes purity and the shape symbolizes never-ending love.
They are traditionally given in odd numbers because they are indivisible, this symbolizes that the newlyweds will share everything and remain undivided. The bittersweet peanut taste is symbolic of life itself and the sugar coating is the hope that life will be blessed with more sweetness than bitterness.
We tied a Traditional Greek charm in the form of a small eye (mati) to the jar in order to protect the wedding celebrants from bad luck. We told guests to keep their evil eye after the wedding and put it in their home or on a necklace/bracelet to ward off any evil eyes!
Tom designed the tags on the favours and cut them himself on a laser cutter. We spent a whole night tying each individual eye onto each jar and then the tags. It was a labour of love and each guest took their jars home and we have since seen many creative ways of keeping their evil eyes! As an extra favour we didnt want any of our guests getting cold so we provided each guest with a navy pashmina and white fleece blankets. They really came in handy for the midnight BBQ when it got a bit chilly outside!
Can't forget about the children! Each child got their own lego toy that they were able to assemble during dinner and each baby got their own rattle as well as a dummy (red lips for baby girls and moustaches for the boys!) which made for some great photo ops.
The morning of the wedding I got dressed at my parents home and Tom was staying at the Diplomat hotel where we spent our wedding night. The boys were surprised with Segways as their means to get to the church and explored Stockholm for an hour before they arrived. We chose to have our wedding photos done before the ceremony as we wanted to really allow ourselves to be with our guests after the ceremony. It was probably the best choice we made as it really started the day off well and we were able to mingle, chat and laugh with our families before the guests arrived.
One of my favourite parts of the day was when I walked out with my dad and I saw all of our closest friends and family standing there just for us. I only looked at Tom about half way down and tears started running down my face. I dont think I had ever been happier to see him, it really symbolised the beginning of our new chapter together.
After the ceremony we walked over to our boat which took us to Fjderholmarna (the Island), the boat ride itself was wonderful as we got to see the national parks of Stockholm and really show our guests how breathtaking Sweden is. We were so lucky with the weather and the sun shined all day long – I think I had obsessively been checking the weather forecast since early April!
It's so hard to pick one favourite part of the day, but if we had to choose it was probably the dinner at the reception as it not only included lots of incredibly delicious food and amazing company of our guests but it also was when the speeches happened! My dad who is Greek did his whole speech in English and I was just so proud of him – he was so nervous but managed to make everyone laugh and cry all at the same time. Each and every one of the speeches brought the room and us to tears, it was so incredible to hear all of them and to share our personal stories with everyone that was there.
Tears probably ended up being the theme of the day as we cried before, during and after the church and continued well into dinner! There was just so much happiness and joy throughout the day, everyone was so in love with Stockholm and us which was the most amazing part. We really felt like we celebrated us and our new life as Mr and Mrs.
Advice for other couples planning: Dont start planning too early, try and make it a focused amount of time because weve had to change our plans 3-4 times resulting in about 3/4 different weddings! Try to remember that the day is about the two of you and celebrating your love so do what makes you happy.
Try and find a guestbook that you feel you will really be able to enjoy for the rest of your lives. We chose our guestbook tree so that we could put it up in our house and be able to remember that day forever and it really does make us well up inside to think of each and every fingerprint on it and how much it meant to us that each person was there to share the most amazing day with us.
Photography: Alicia Swedenborg | Floral Design: Blombyrn Nyfiken Grn | Wedding Dress: Intuzuri | Cake: Fjaderholmarnas Krog | Stationery: Cardlab | Ceremony Venue: Engelska Kyrkan Stockholm | Shoes: Louboutin | Tuxedo: Duchamp | Wedding Venue: Fjaderholmarnas Krog | Boat: Strmma Kanalbolaget | Bridesmaids Gifts: Kate Spade | Dress Store: Mirror Mirror London | Groomsmen Gifts: Duchamp | Guest Book: Bleu De Toi | Segways: Upp & Ner Upplevelser | Veil: Elie Saab For Pronovias | Wedding Rings: Tiffany & Co.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to Tea Party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner.
Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when his five-year term expired, told the Senate Finance Committee he didn't learn all the facts until he read last week's report by a Treasury inspector general confirming the targeting strategy.
In his first public remarks since the story broke, Shulman said: "I agree this is an issue that when someone spotted it, they should have brought it up the chain. And they didn't. I don't know why."
Asked by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, whether he owed conservative groups an apology, Shulman said, "I'm certainly not personally responsible for creating a list that had inappropriate criteria on it."
That was a reference to a list of words IRS workers looked for in deciding which groups to screen, a list that included the terms including "Tea Party" and "Patriot."
"I very much regret that it happened and that it happened on my watch," Shulman said.
Shulman was testifying at Congress' second hearing on the episode that has largely consumed Washington since an IRS official acknowledged the targeting and apologized for it in remarks to a legal group on May 10.
At a separate hearing, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the IRS's actions against conservative groups were "unacceptable and inexcusable."
Lew told the Senate Banking Committee that he has directed the agency's incoming acting director, Daniel Werfel, to hold people accountable and to fix any flaws in IRS management to make sure there is no recurrence of the problems.
Lew said he first learned about the inspector general's investigation in March but that he was unaware of the findings until they became public this month. Lew became Treasury secretary in February, and was White House chief of staff before that.
Shulman said he first learned that something was happening in the spring of 2012.
He said that at that time, he learned that IRS workers were using a list to help decide which groups seeking tax-exempt status should get special attention and knew the term "Tea Party" was on that list. But he said he didn't know what other words were on that list or the scope and severity of the activity.
He said he took what he thought were the proper steps — making sure the inspector general was looking into the situation. He said he did not tell Treasury officials about the improper activity.
For more than a year, from 2011 through the 2012 election, members of Congress repeatedly asked Shulman about complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the IRS.
Shulman's responses, usually relayed by a deputy, did not acknowledge that agents had ever targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. At a congressional hearing March 22, 2012, Shulman was adamant in his denials.
"There's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people" who apply for tax-exempt status, Shulman said at the House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing.
On Tuesday, Republicans expressed anger that Shulman and Steven Miller, the IRS's outgoing acting commissioner, didn't reveal the screening of conservative groups to Congress, despite lawmakers' repeated inquiries. Miller learned of the situation in early May 2012.
"Mr. Miller, that's a lie by omission," Hatch said. "There's no question about that in my mind. It's a lie by omission and you kept it from people who have the obligation to oversee this matter."
President Barack Obama forced Miller to resign last week. Miller is leaving office this week.
Shulman said he didn't later tell lawmakers about the targeting because he didn't have full information about the situation.
"I had a partial set of facts," Shulman said. "Sitting there then, sitting here today, I think I made the right decision" to let the inspector general, J. Russell George, conduct his audit of the targeting.
Shulman said that when he did finally read about the details of the targeting in the inspector general's report, "I was dismayed and I was saddened."
Shulman was appointed by President George W. Bush and served from March 2008 until last November.
Finance panel chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and top Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah both criticized the agency and said they would investigate how and why the improper screening occurred.
"I intend to get to the bottom of what happened," Baucus said.
The IRS is an independent agency within the Treasury Department. Because of that independent status, the official said Treasury deferred to the IRS in its decision about how to make the targeting public.
George, the Treasury inspector general, says he told Shulman on May 30, 2012, that his office was auditing the way applications for tax-exempt status were being handled, in part because of complaints from conservative groups. However, George said he did not reveal the results of his investigation.
George issued a report last week blaming ineffective management for allowing agents to inappropriately target conservative groups for more than 18 months during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The agents were trying to determine whether the groups were engaged in political activity. Certain tax-exempt groups are allowed to engage in politics, but politics cannot be their primary mission. It is up to the IRS to make the determination, so agents are supposed to look for clues when reviewing applications for tax-exempt status.
In March 2010, agents starting singling out groups with "Tea Party" or "Patriots" on their applications. By August 2010, it was part of the written criteria for identifying groups that required more scrutiny, according to George's report.
Agents did not flag similar progressive or liberal labels, though some liberal groups received additional scrutiny because their applications were singled out for other reasons, the report said.
On Monday, the White House revealed that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming inspector general's report was likely to find that IRS employees had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups.
The White House says McDonough and the other advisers did not tell President Barack Obama about the impending report, leaving him to learn the results from news reports on May 10. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama was comfortable with the fact that "some matters are not appropriate to convey to him, and this is one of them."
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Human Rights Countdown
by Laura Vilim
With the Beijing Olympics just months away, Amnesty International sections around the world are intensifying their demands that China improve its human rights record. In the United States, AIUSA has pressed the State Department for the inclusion of human rights in U.S. bilateral talks with China on the Olympics, and AIUSA has worked with Congress to draft the Global Online Freedom Act, allocating $15 million in funds to promote Internet freedom in China. AIUSA's advocacy director for Asia, T. Kumar, has met with officials from the U.N. National Security Council and the State Department to discuss human rights violations in China and has recently testified twice before Congress. On one occasion Kumar was accompanied by the mother of Shi Tao, a Chinese prisoner of conscience imprisoned for using his Yahoo e-mail account to send a message to a U.S.-based prodemocracy Web site. Yahoo executives have apologized to Shi's mother for providing Chinese authorities with Shi's email account information.
AIUSA members have also been actively drawing international attention to China's human rights record. AIUSA held a rally in Washington, D.C., in early February to mark the six-month countdown to the Olympics. In April, when the Olympic torch relay passes through San Francisco, AIUSA activists will protest along the route. AIUSA also urges members to participate in the Beijing Olympics campaign to highlight the four focus issues of Amnesty's Olympics campaign: China's continuing use of the death penalty; illegitimate forms of administrative detention, such as "reeducation through labor"; persecution of human rights defenders, including journalists and lawyers; and Internet censorship". AI is developing toolkits to help members plan their own mock Olympics, introduce resolutions in their local legislatures condemning human rights violations in China, sign petitions on AIUSA's Web site or send letters to their congressional representatives.
Since AIUSA's Olympics campaign began in 2007, China has made some small improvements in its human rights record. The Chinese government has reinstated its policy of Supreme People's Court review of all death penalty sentences (which, according to Chinese authorities, has led to a decrease in state executions), and it has granted full press freedom to foreign journalists in the run-up to the Olympics. Increased AI pressure on China over the next several months will be critical to ensuring that these changes are permanent and that the country continues to make reforms that promote basic human dignity.
For more information on AI's Beijing Olympics campaign: www.amnestyusa.org/olympics. To receive an activist toolkit: http://www.amnestyusa.org/activist toolkit.


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"Read Boardwalk Empire. . . . Johnson spares no detail when painting a picture of the illegal activities that flourished in Atlantic City." Egg Harbor News (New Jersey)
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
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Boardwalk Empire
The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
By Nelson Johnson
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Copyright © 2002 Nelson JohnsonAll rights reserved.
Jonathan Pitney's Beach Village
Medicine wasn't enough. He needed to be something more than a country doctor. Jonathan Pitney had been caring for the sick and injured for more than 30 years, and he was growing weary. A medical practice in 19th-century America wasn't yet a path to wealth and prestige, and Pitney hungered for both. He knew he'd find neither caring for his patients.
Jonathan Pitney looked like a character out of a Dickens novel. Tall and lean, nearly always draped in a long black cape, Pitney's piercing blue eyes and long thin hands were the first thing others noticed. His pale craggy skin, together with his large hooknose and high forehead crowned by flowing gray locks, made him a striking figure. Jonathan, the son of Shubal and Jane Pitney, was born in Mendham, New Jersey, on October 29, 1797. The Pitney family had arrived in this country circa 1700. As told to a biographer, Pitney's great-grandfather and his brother had come from England to "enjoy civil and religious liberty, of which they were deprived at home." They eventually settled in Morris County, New Jersey. After graduating from medical school at Columbia College in New York, Jonathan left his parents' home in Mendham and headed south to the bayside Village of Absecon. He was 23 when he arrived in southern New Jersey, and he remained there the rest of his life.
There wasn't much to New Jersey south of Trenton in 1820. During the two generations following the American Revolution, things had changed little. With the exception of the city of Camden along the Delaware River and the summer resort village of Cape May at the southern tip of the state, southern New Jersey was a vast pine forest. This pine wilderness was interrupted by narrow, sandy stagecoach roads that followed the footpaths of earlier residents, the Lenni Lenape. Sprinkled throughout this green expanse from the Delaware River and Bay to the Atlantic Ocean were tiny villages whose residents descended from the British Isles and Northern Europe. Their lives were centered on farming, fishing, and the manufacture of glass, bog iron, and charcoal. In time, these pioneers became known as "Pineys." Absecon Village was part of that world and the place Jonathan Pitney chose to begin his medical practice.
Pitney was dedicated to his profession and worked tirelessly. He made rounds by horseback up and down the South Jersey coast to places a doctor had never been. Eleven years after his arrival, on April 21, 1831, Jonathan Pitney married Caroline Fowler, daughter of Rebecca Fowler, owner of the Sailor Boy Inn in Elwood, 15 miles west of Absecon and one of the many villages Jonathan Pitney visited. For years, Pitney was the only doctor many families knew and it was common for him to be called away from dinner or awakened in the middle of the night. Delivering babies, comforting the dying, stitching wounds, and setting broken bones from farming and fishing accidents made him well known throughout the region and loved by his patients. But his income was meager. Oftentimes he had no choice but to barter, and some say he relied upon his mother-in-law to get by. As the years piled up Pitney's enthusiasm shrank, and he became as weather-beaten as his doctor's bag.
Pitney wasn't satisfied just being a doctor, and about 15 years into his medical career he took to politics. A Democrat in a region overwhelmingly Republican, Pitney had his own agenda and bucked the status quo. In 1837 he led the successful fight to have a new county, "Atlantic," carved out of what was at the time Gloucester County. On the strength of that victory, Pitney was elected the first chairman of the new county government. He was also chosen Atlantic County's representative to the State Constitutional Convention in 1844. In 1848 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives. South Jersey wasn't ready for a Democratic Congressman and Pitney lost, bringing his political career to a dead-end.
Political power beyond his grasp, Jonathan Pitney decided to reinvent himself — this time as an entrepreneur. His hopes lay with a sandy little island off the South Jersey coast.
Early in his career, Pitney crossed Absecon Bay in a rowboat to treat a patient at a site known as "Further Island." Created by the tides and storms, this barrier island was a wild place dominated by sand dunes, marshes, and waterfowl. The Lenni Lenape had called this island "Absegami," meaning "Little Sea Water." Before the American colonists arrived, Absegami was a campground for the Native Americans who came to avoid the summer heat. Further Island was a desolate place with a handful of residents all from the same family, living in seven cottages scattered about the island. Aside from these solitary cabins, there were only "shanties for oystermen and fishermen, and a rude hostelry that served the purposes of the jolly fellows from Philadelphia, who came down in wagons to fish and shoot or to rough it." Early Americans enjoyed Further Island much the same way as the Lenni Lenape.
The Lenni Lenape gave up their rights to all of South Jersey in exchange for finished goods such as woolen cloth, iron kettles, knives, hoes, and axes. The first record owner of the land comprising Further Island was Thomas Budd. He bought 15,000 acres on the north and south sides of the Great Egg Harbor River in 1678 from William Penn and a group of trustees of the Quakers. The Quakers had become owners of the land — together with the rest of South Jersey — in payment of a debt owed to them. Budd sold off his holdings to other settlers for sale prices of 4 cents per acre on Further Island and 40 cents-plus per acre for mainland property.
When Pitney arrived the only people living on the island were all descendants of a Revolutionary War veteran, Jeremiah Leeds. Several years after the war, Leeds built a cedar log cabin on Further Island and settled there with his wife, Judith. (The Leeds' homestead was the site of what was later to become Columbus Park and after that the "Corridor" at the foot of the Atlantic City Expressway.) Leeds and those who followed him called their home "Absecon Island."
Jeremiah Leeds was a bear of a man, standing six-foot-tall and weighing 250 pounds. With the help of his 10 children, he cleared the fields around his home and raised crops of corn and rye. The crops he grew and sold, plus his catches from fishing and hunting, allowed the Leeds family to want for little. Leeds enjoyed the solitude of the island. The thrifty farmer bought land every chance he could but never sold any. At the time of his death, Jeremiah Leeds owned nearly 1,200 acres on Absecon Island, having title to everything except a single tract of 131 acres.
Pitney was charmed by the serenity and unspoiled beauty of Absecon Island. He returned often and grew convinced that this was where he would make his mark. Pitney believed that Absecon Island had potential as a vacation retreat for the wealthy. As a doctor, Pitney felt the island could be promoted as a health resort. He wasn't going to get rich from his medical practice, nor would he ever have any real clout in politics, but as the founder of a resort he might gain both money and power.
Pitney's dream was to build a "city by the sea." He tried selling his idea by touting the healing powers of salt water and sea air, recommending a stay at the beach for every ailment. The problem was getting people to South Jersey and then to the island.
Rail transportation was the answer. During the second half of the 19th century, railroads opened vast tracts of land, otherwise inaccessible, to development. In Pitney's time the railroad locomotive became a symbol for progress and opportunity. Pitney knew it was his best and only hope to exploit Absecon Island.
Pitney began his campaign by writing letters to any newspaper that would print them, concentrating on the Philadelphia dailies. He recognized the potential for a link between Philadelphia and Absecon Island. If his plans were to become a reality he needed to position his health resort within the orbit of a major population center. Philadelphia was his only choice. In his letters, from "Doctor Pitney," he expounded upon the health benefits of Absecon Island. In all his letters he stressed that the only thing necessary to make this health-giving island available to everyone was a railroad from Philadelphia to the seashore. Pitney's letter campaign continued for years without success. The only people excited about his idea were the descendants of Jeremiah Leeds. Some of them had no desire to farm and hoped to sell their land.
But even the Leeds family had trouble believing Pitney could ever make anything of Absecon Island. The island that existed in 1850, as Pitney wrote in his letters, consisted "almost exclusively of fine white sand, piled in hills like snowdrifts." There were "several ridges found on these old beaches separated by long, narrow valleys in which were found coarse grasses, rushes, low bushes, and vines in addition to oak, cedar, and holly timber." The summit of one of these sand dunes was more than 50 feet high. The island was covered with a growth of trees: "wild fruits, beach plums, fox grapes, and huckleberries were found abundantly in some places."
Less appealing than the holly trees and wild fruits were the insects. Between the months of June and September, the mosquitoes and greenhead flies ruled the island. During the summer, whenever the ocean breeze subsided, the greenhead flies were everywhere. They were so large they cast a shadow as they swarmed about their victims. These flies were nasty creatures and the pain of their bites lingered for days. Cider vinegar was the only lotion that helped ease the sting. Absecon Island may have been a pristine wilderness, but it wasn't a vacationer's paradise or a place one would think of as a health resort. No one reading Pitney's letters who was familiar with South Jersey's barrier islands could have taken him seriously.
With no success from his letter campaign, Pitney decided to pursue a railroad charter by presenting his idea to the state legislature. The right to construct a rail line would give him credibility with investors. In 1851 he made several trips to Trenton to meet with political leaders and lobby for his railroad. The trips by horseback were long and lonely, and the reception wasn't friendly.
The legislators labeled his idea "Pitney's folly." They rejected it with almost no debate and ridiculed it as the "Railroad to Nowhere." The consensus of the legislature was that it wasn't possible for a new seacoast resort to compete with Cape May, which was America's first seashore resort. Wealthy businessmen from Philadelphia and Baltimore, as well as plantation owners and tobacco brokers from Maryland and Virginia, had been vacationing in Cape May since the 1790s and there was no reason to believe that would change.
Cape May had evolved from a sportsman's fishing village where the upper class went to "rough it." Staying overnight in cedar log beach houses and tents, these early vacationers spent their days fishing and hunting waterfowl. With the help of slaves, visitors prepared their own meals and passed the evenings gathered around campfires. Over the next several decades, businessmen from Philadelphia and Delaware constructed hotels and boardinghouses, extending the pleasures of a summer vacation at Cape May's beach to the less hardy.
One visitor to Cape May in the summer of 1850 wrote to her readers at home describing the "parti-colored scene" created by the new sport of "seabathing." She reported that thousands of people, "men, women and children, in red, blue, and yellow pantaloons and yellow straw hats adorned with bright red ribbon, go out into the sea in crowds, and leap up and down in the heaving waves amid great laughter and merriment." The reporter, Swedish novelist and travel writer Frederika Bremer (1801–1865), reporting on the scene at Cape May's beach continued, "White and black people, horses and carriages, and dogs — all are there, one among another, and just before them great fishes, porpoises, lift up their heads, and sometime take a huge leap, very likely because they are so amused at seeing human beings leaping about in their own element."
In pre-Civil War days, Cape May was renowned as a "Southern resort" and was a mecca for the cream of Southern society. Southern planters and the elite of the North brought their gleaming horse-drawn carriages and paraded in the sun along the water's edge. Nationally celebrated bands performed for the ladies in the fine hotels, while the men passed their time gambling. The most popular gambling house was The Blue Pig — for "gentlemen" only.
By 1850, no resort in America could compare to the Jersey Cape in terms of attracting the rich and famous. More national figures made Cape May their summer retreat than any other place. Saratoga made claims to the contrary, but only Cape May could boast of frequent visits from presidents; several made it their summertime headquarters. The only resort that rivaled Cape May in the quest to be the Summer White House was Long Branch, New Jersey, more than 100 miles north. There was no need for a third resort, especially one in the southern part of the state.
A majority of Cape May's visitors made the trip by sailing sloop and steamship, though some arrived by stagecoach. Regardless of how one traveled, the trip was expensive and time-consuming. But Cape May's vacationers were loyal and their resort prospered. It was popular with Trenton's leaders and most of the legislators believed that if there were to be a railroad to the Jersey Shore, it should be to Cape May.
Another obstacle facing Pitney was the monopoly of the Camden-Amboy Railroad. In 1832 the legislature gave this North Jersey-based railroad an exclusive right-of-way across the state. While the Camden-Amboy had no plans to construct a railroad in South Jersey, the legislators were not about to permit someone like Pitney to get into the railroad business. Having neither financial resources nor the right political contacts, Pitney's idea for linking Philadelphia to an obscure, undeveloped island was nonsense. In rejecting his idea, the legislators asked, "Whoever heard of a railroad with only one end?"
Pitney's humiliation before the state legislature forced a change in his strategy. He quit trying for popular support and set about selling his idea to the rich and powerful. In the mid-19th century, the elite of South Jersey were the bog iron and glass barons. A dozen or so families, these barons controlled most of the wealth, owned nearly all of the undeveloped land, and employed almost anyone who wasn't a farmer or fisherman. Pitney cited the need of iron and glass factories for better transportation and argued that their goods could be shipped more cheaply by the iron horse. Things began to happen for Jonathan Pitney when he won the support of Samuel Richards.
The name "Richards" cast a spell. From the American Colonial era to the Civil War, the Richards family was the most influential in southern New Jersey. Centered in villages of Hammonton and Batsto, the Richards' empire included iron works, glass furnaces, cotton mills, paper factories, brickyards, and farms. As a family, the Richards were among the largest landholders in the Eastern United States for several generations. At their peak the Richards' family holdings collectively totaled more than one-quarter million acres.
Samuel Richards, as one biographer noted, "looked like a bank president and worked like a horse. For all his handsome appearance and meticulous dress, no task was too small, no problem too intricate for him to tackle personally." Richards was a buccaneer-type entrepreneur who lived the high life. He owned a beautiful mansion with sprawling grounds and servants in South Jersey, as well as a palatial Victorian home in Philadelphia. He was part of the aristocracy. Vital to Pitney's dreams, Samuel Richards understood the importance of a rail line between Philadelphia and Absecon Island. He saw the economic potential of Pitney's railroad and realized it could make his family even wealthier.
Railroading was high adventure for entrepreneurs in the 19th century, and Samuel Richards was anxious to become an investor. More than anything else, it was the rise of the railroad that transformed the American economy in the 1840s and '50s. The development of railroads throughout the country had an enormous effect on the economy as a whole. While the demand for iron rails was first met mainly by importation from England, the railroads, in time, spurred development of America's iron industry. Because railroads required a huge outlay of capital, their promoters pioneered new methods for financing business. At a time when most manufacturing and commercial concerns were still owned by families or private partnerships, the railroads formed corporations and sold stock to the general public. This type of financing set the pattern for investment, which led to the creation of the modern corporation. Railroads were a catalyst to economic growth the likes of which the country had never known.
Richards knew that a rail line linking his landholdings to Philadelphia would increase their value and make it possible for him to turn some of his vast acreage into cash. Even if a land boom didn't materialize, Richards and his fellow businessmen would still benefit from reduced costs of transporting their glass and iron. At the time, goods manufactured in South Jersey were shipped to Philadelphia by horse and wagon over sandy trails, which were often impassable in bad weather.
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Nothing like the TV series, but better. This book goes from when Atlantic City was just a sandy island until present day. At least the first couple of chapters should be required reading for ALL American PUBLIC school-kids. It details how capitalism really works to the benefit of all. From a sand pile to a resort for the common man and jobs for all simply from a vision of one man, this book chronicles the march of capitalism and how it benefited the working class of Philadelphia. No socialist government could have ever built a city for the benefit of tens of thousands. Then, when corruption sets in the city starts in its inevitable decline. This book details the great things capitalists did for this Philadelphia and South Jersey such as getting trains into Atlantic City for a cost the working man could afford; providing thousands of jobs for ex slaves from the south; providing a vacation resort for the working class. Then when government intervened and banned alcohol, this provided a haven for thieves and organized crime. Government became corrupt and the people suffered. This book, to me, shows how a corrupt government destroys cities....
Really good for those who are interested in how this billion city came up from a deserted island owned by farmers.
The Author tells this story in a way that makes you want to keep reading. If you ever wanted to know about Atlantic City, or you watch Boardwalk Empire on HBO, this book is for you. From a small island to Trump's Casino, it's all in here. The wheeling & Dealing,the racketeering,side deals,and backstabbing. Nelson Johnson has told the story of a bad girl gone strait or as strait as she can. Great Read!
The book was not what I expected, it spoke mostly of Atlantic City's politics and racial discrimmination. I expected the book to speak about the story on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, it did mention a few characters and events.
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City is a fact laden account of the history of Atlantic City, from its inception to 2007. Reading more like a history book than a novel, a few of the chapters (i.e. dealing with the inequality of the races and Nucky Johnson's corrupt reign) proved a little more interesting and readable than most of the other chapters. Unfortunately, I feel this book will interest only the most hardcore history buff while the rest of us will count the pages till it ends.
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Waste of time. Page after page of repetitive, uninteresting writing.
It gives a good detailed account of how AC grew from a tiny village into the mecca of east coast gambling it is today.
If you were looking for the tv series, you'll be dissapointed. Hardly any of the charactors from the show and not much of the excitement.
If you like the tv show, you'll love the book!
If you are looking for a replay of the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," this book is not for you. If, however, you are interested in learning about how Atlantic City came into being, then this is the book for you.
Being a fan of the HBO Original Series, Boardwalk Empire, I was excited to read the true story behind the fiction. It was very interesting to read the history of Atlantic City from its very humble beginnings to what it is today. I definitely recommend this book.
Very informative about that era. I'm a fan of the HBO series and this really gave me a better perspective on that time in our history.


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Amtrak seems to be feeling the crunch of the current recession, as I noticed on a recent trip.
Every few months for the past several years, I have used Amtrak to take short trips up to Oceanside or San Clemente. On these jaunts, I usually opt for business-class travel — an extra ten bucks doubles the fare, essentially, but used to be justifiable for the perks.
Business-class travel used to include a choice of drinks (I usually chose cola), a decent snack pack (with tortilla chips and salsa), and a porter-delivered USA Today.
On an Amtrak trip north on July 19, I discovered that the drinks, formerly in standard 12-ounce cans, had been downgraded to the 8-ounce, 100-calorie jobbies. The snack pack was noticeably smaller, and the snacks were of lower quality than before. Complimentary coffee and newspapers remain available, but on a self-serve basis at the front of the car. Where there used to be two porters working the business-class car, on that day I saw only one.
Amtrak's Big Wheels need Training!
Encourage use of mass transit,Whooo Whooo; that is what they are all saying but who allowed Amtrak to make it so "dated' that riding it will always be hated and the least "fun", now I am done!
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July 29, 2013 | Toy Industry Association, Inc. proudly welcomes 18 new members that joined the Association in July of 2013. These organizations join more than 600 member companies that account for roughly 85% of domestic toy sales:
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"TIA and its members are committed to furthering leadership in safety standards, advocacy on legislative and trade issues, visibility in the media, and philanthropy to children," said Ken Ebeling, TIA vice president of membership. "Active participation in the Association and its programs provides a valuable tool for any organization in the toy industry."
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A federal district court in California has dismissed some but not all of the claims in a class action against a food manufacturer alleging that the labeling on guacamole and bean dip is deceptive in violation of California consumer protection laws. Henderson v. Gruma Corp., No. 10-04173, 2011 WL 1362188 (C.D. Cal. April 11, 2011).
The plaintiffs argued that the labels on Gruma's Mission Guacamole and Gruma's Bean Dip were misleading because (i) the labels stated that the dips had "0 g trans fat," when the products actually contained a small amount of trans fat, (ii) the phrases "With Garden Vegetables" and "The Authentic Tradition" were misleading descriptions of the Guacamole's contents, (iii) the emphasis on the word "Guacamole" in "Guacamole Flavored Dip" falsely implied that the product contained significant amounts of guacamole, and (iv) "0 g cholesterol" and "All Natural" were misleading statements of the Bean Dip's contents.
The plaintiffs contended that these statements violated California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL), False Advertising Law (FAL), and Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA). Gruma moved to dismiss all claims. The court first held that the plaintiffs had standing to sue under the UCL and FAL because they had adequately alleged injury and reliance. The court concluded that, under the California Supreme Court's recent decision in Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court, it was sufficient for plaintiffs to allege that they had "paid more for [the products], and would have paid less for the products, if they had not been misled by the allegedly false and misleading labeling." (Please see our article on the Kwikset decision.) The district court also held that, under In re Tobacco II Cases, only the named plaintiffs—not the absent class members—must allege reliance to satisfy the UCL's and FAL's standing requirements. (Please see our article on the Tobacco II decision.)
The court next addressed the allegedly misleading statements on the labels, and held that most of them failed to state a claim:
Henderson is one of an increasing number of class actions that have been filed under California's consumer protection laws to challenge a food manufacturer's labeling and nutritional claims. The decision highlights the types of arguments available to businesses to defend against these lawsuits—including express preemption that applies to certain FDA labeling regulations—as well as the litigation risks that businesses face when expansively interpreted California consumer statutes are used to challenge labeling statements.
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Thanks for having me back! Today I am sharing a recipe for blackberry pie from the new book 250 Treasured Country Desserts by Andrea Chesman and Fran Raboff. I illustrated the cover for the cookbook plus made patterns for each of the chapter openers. I thought it would be fun to pull a recipe from this book and do a little illustrated version. I picked blackberry pie because it seemed like the perfect end of summer treat. Happy Baking! –Julia Rothman
CLICK HERE for the full recipe (and more of Julia's illustrations!) after the jump!
Pastry for a 9-inch double-crust pie, homemade or purchased
6 cups fresh blackberries
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
5 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
pinch of salt
2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
1 large egg, beaten
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1. If you are making your own pastry, prepare the pie dough according to recipe directions and refrigerate.
2. Rinse and sort the blackberries. Drain thoroughly on paper towels.
3. Combine the granulated sugar, brown sugar, flour, lemon zest, and salt in a large bowl. Add the blackberries. Toss lightly to combine. Set aside.
4. Preheat the oven to 425°F with a rack in the lower third of the oven.
5. To prepare the pie shell, lightly flour a work surface. Roll out the larger portion of the chilled dough to a thickness of about 1/8 inch. Fit into a 9-inch pie pan, leaving a 1-inch overhang. (Fit purchased pastry into the pie pan.) Spoon the blackberry mixture into the pastry. Dot with butter. Roll out the remaining dough into a circle about 1 inch larger than the pie pan. Moisten the edge of the bottom crust with water. Fold the dough circle in half, lift off the work surface, place the pastry across the center of the filled pie, and unfold. Trim the edge ½ inch larger than the pie pan and tuck the overhang under the edge of the bottom crust. Crimp the edges with a fork or make a fluted pattern with your fingers. Make several decorative slits in the top crust to allow steam to escape.
6. Make an egg wash by combining the egg with the water. Brush the top of the pie with the egg wash. Sprinkle the 1 tablespoon sugar over the top. Place the pie on a baking sheet to catch any juices that overflow.
7. Bake in the lower third of the oven for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the crust is golden brown.
8. Cool the pie on a wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
This recipe serves 8. Time for a pie picnic! You can find 249 other delicious recipes in the cookbook here. Thanks and happy baking! xo Julia
Julia is an illustrator and pattern maker located in Brooklyn NY. You can find more of her work here.
oooh, this sounds so yummy! and the illustrations are so sweet!
these illustrations are so lovely!
delicious. more illustrations on d*s :)
This is so great, Julia! More! More!
Sounds yummy, and I heart the illustrations!!
The illustrations make me want to jump right in!!! Love it!
Just got my Julia Rothman forks illustration in the mail! LOVE!
I think I'm going to pick some blackberries right now! Julia's illustrations are absolutely beautiful.
of course julia illustrated her instructions. why wouldn't you!?
that woman is amazing. thanks for the eye candy!
Love, love, love!
oh this is SO awesome!
love this! such cute illustrations and i LOVE blackberry pie so i'll be trying this recipe very soon
I love Julia's work as well!
Yummy that looks so delicious!
Oh gosh, I really want that book! Those illustrations are gorgeous. And so is the pie :)
WONDERFUL illustrations!!!!!
What beautiful illustrations! You've inspired me!
These illustrations make me want to get out there and start blackberry scrumping right now (better wait until it gets light tho')


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United States District Court, C.D. California, Western Division
March 24, 2014
KENJI HOWARD, Plaintiff,v.CORRECTIONAL OFFICER RUSH, et al., Defendants.
ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE; and ORDER
JOHN A. KRONSTADT, District Judge.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 636(b)(1)(C), the court has reviewed the Complaint and other papers along with the attached Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge, and has made a de novo determination of the Report and Recommendation.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. The Report and Recommendation is approved and accepted.
2. Plaintiff's Complaint is dismissed with leave to amend, except as provided in paragraph 3 of this Order.
3. Plaintiff's official capacity claims against defendants Johnson and Thomas, Jr., and his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment claims, are dismissed without leave to amend.
If Plaintiff wishes to pursue this action in this court, he must file a first amended complaint within forty-five days of the date this Order Accepting the Report and Recommendation is filed. The amended complaint, bearing the number CV 13-4929-JAK (SH), must be a complete and independent document and must not refer to prior pleadings. Plaintiff is cautioned that failure to file a first amended complaint within the time specified by this Order may result in dismissal of the action with prejudice on the grounds stated in the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge and/or for failure to prosecute.
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Posted By Jim Mancari On Sep 13 2011 @ 11:17 am In New York Mets | No Comments
In winter 2008, the Mets paid a hefty price to acquire Johan Santana from the Minnesota Twins. Four good-looking prospects and a six-year, $137.5 million contract is what it took for the Mets to secure their new ace.
As of now, the trade, at least based on the prospects, looks like a steal for the Mets. Philip Humber, Carlos Gomez and Kevin Mulvey are no longer with the Twins, while Deolis Guerra pitched this season in Double-A.
However, the problem for the Mets is that Santana just can't stay healthy. What's the point of having such a dominant ace if he's never going to be on the mound?
Reports surfaced yesterday that it's unlikely Santana will pitch for the Mets this season. With just over two weeks to go, his goal was to get back to Citi Field to prove to everyone that he'll be 100 percent by spring training 2012.
He's scheduled to throw four innings in a rehab start in Savannah this Thursday, but after that, who knows?
One thing is certain: The Mets are way out of contention this year, so is it really worth it to try to rush back Santana to pitch a meaningless game?
Yes, it would be a great boost of confidence to actually see him on the mound at Citi Field facing professional hitters, but it's really not worth the risk.
Let's say he suffers another setback and is forced into extended spring training next year. Then what?
He said he goal is to be pitching for the Mets on Opening Day 2012. A healthy Santana would totally transform the team's starting rotation.
He would easily assume his role as the team's ace and would take some pressure off of Mike Pelfrey. Jon Niese, R.A. Dickey, Dillon Gee and Chris Capuano—assuming the Mets keep these pitchers—would all battle it out for the open spots. Adding a high-profile free agent starting pitcher is very unlikely.
Since it's been so long since we've seen him in action, it's easy to forget that the Mets still have Santana. Well actually, based on his crippling salary, it's not that easy.
Hopefully, Santana returns next year with a vengeance. However, if he's healthy enough to pitch a few innings in late September, I'd say go for it.
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The following table lists the escape characters:
Escape character | Description | Pattern | Matches |
\a | Matches a bell character, \u0007. | \a | "\u0007" in "Warning!" + '\u0007' |
\b | In a character class, matches a backspace, \u0008. | [\b]{3,} | "\b\b\b\b" in "\b\b\b\b" |
\t | Matches a tab, \u0009. | (\w+)\t | "Name\t", "Addr\t" in "Name\tAddr\t" |
\r | Matches a carriage return, \u000D. (\r is not equivalent to the newline character, \n.) | \r\n(\w+) | "\r\nHello" in "\r\Hello\nWorld." |
\v | Matches a vertical tab, \u000B. | [\v]{2,} | "\v\v\v" in "\v\v\v" |
\f | Matches a form feed, \u000C. | [\f]{2,} | "\f\f\f" in "\f\f\f" |
\n | Matches a new line, \u000A. | \r\n(\w+) | "\r\nHello" in "\r\Hello\nWorld." |
\e | Matches an escape, \u001B. | \e | "\x001B" in "\x001B" |
\nnn | Uses octal representation to specify a character (nnn consists of up to three digits). | \w\040\w | "a b", "c d" in "a bc d" |
\x nn | Uses hexadecimal representation to specify a character (nn consists of exactly two digits). | \w\x20\w | "a b", "c d" in "a bc d" |
\c X\c x | Matches the ASCII control character that is specified by X or x, where X or x is the letter of the control character. | \cC | "\x0003" in "\x0003" (Ctrl-C) |
\u nnnn | Matches a Unicode character by using hexadecimal representation (exactly four digits, as represented by nnnn). | \w\u0020\w | "a b", "c d" in "a bc d" |
\ | When followed by a character that is not recognized as an escaped character, matches that character. | \d+[\+-x\*]\d+\d+[\+-x\*\d+ | "2+2" and "3*9" in "(2+2) * 3*9" |