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Money will come from grant and drug asset forfeitures
Taft Police are going to add another high-tech crime fighting tool to their arsenal, and they're going to make criminals pay for it.
Taft Police Sgt. Shad Swanson and Chief of Police Ed Whiting got the go-ahead from the Taft City Council Tuesday night to spend about $5,000 in drug forfeiture funds to by software that can be used to download a surprising amount of information from cell phones seized during criminal investigation.
Whether its from a suspect's phone or one provided by a witness, there is information – metadata – in addition to voicemails, images, text and other data, can pinpoint exactly when and where a phone was used.
Currently, Taft Police have been getting help through the Tehachapi Police Department, but now there is a grant that will pay for more than half of the $12,390 cost of the Susteen svNUC system used to extract information from the phones.
There is a limited availability of the grant, Swanson told the council, so it has to act soon.
Swanson proposed taking $4,999 from the city's asset forfeiture funds to pay the cost, and the council readily agreed.
"It's no cost to the taxpayers and the bad guys are going to pay for the tools you are going to catch them with. Pretty cool," Mayor Paul Linder said.
Without their own system, Taft Police have had to rely on outside agencies. But the cost, and length of time it takes (up to 6 months, Swanson said) make more more sense to purchase a system for Taft.
Swanson said a conservative estimate will have the system recover the cost for the city in seven months.
"With this software, we'll be able to take information off it (a cell phone) and get it back the same day."
It will also come in handy in the the city's Modified CCF, where inmates are prohibited from possessing cell phones.
As many as 50 phones per month were seized when CCF inmates worked out side the institution but that has stopped.
However a few phones can still be smuggled in anyway, and, now when correctional officers seize a phone, they can determine who is responsible for it and what it is being used for .
One thing won't change, though. Because of a recent United States Supreme Court ruling, police must get a search warrant to search through a phones data.
With a warrant, however, police can search through the phones metadata, which Swanson described as "data about data."
If a phone is equipped with GPS, metadata will include the time and exact location photos or video were record or calls or texts made and can be recovered in an hour, Swanson said.


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A few of Doctor Who's coolest stories have shown up on DVD recently. Last week, we got the classic stories "The Seeds of Doom" and "The Ark," and a few weeks earlier there was "A Christmas Carol," the latest special.
These three stories, collectively, show what Doctor Who is capable of being at its absolute best. Though they have some flaws, especially "The Ark," they're all thrilling, conceptually adventurous and stories that feel uniquely Doctor Who-ish, despite coming from three different eras. Minor spoilers ahead...
Top image: Krynoid Explosion by Harnois75 on DeviantArt
Seriously, this is the first time in ages that two genuinely decent classic Doctor Who stories have come out on DVD. Lately, it's been all the dregs, some stories that you could tell the DVD team were saving for last because they weren't terribly enthusiastic about "Delta and the Bannermen" or "The Time Monster." Both the newly released classic stories, "The Ark" and "Seeds of Doom," are among my favorites, for different reasons.
Let's start with "The Ark," which has one of the cleverest uses of the show's format ever. The TARDIS lands on a spaceship carrying the last survivors of the human race to a new homeworld, plus their servants, a one-eyed race called the Monoids. Unfortunately, the TARDIS crew brings the common cold to these refugees — a disease to which they have no resistance because they haven't had the cold in forever. So it's up to the Doctor to figure out how to cure them before they all die out — and lynch him and his companions. And then at the end of episode two, the Doctor and friends get back in the TARDIS — only to reappear on the same spaceship, 700 years later. Now the ship is nearing its destination — but the statue that was supposed to show a triumphant human is completed, and instead shows a Monoid. The Monoids have taken over and enslaved the humans.
Image: The Ark by DV8R71 on DeviantArt.
The idea of taking a 700-year leap halfway through the story is a really daring one, and the cliffhanger which uses the alien-headed statue to convey that the human race's fortunes have changed during the interval is genuinely shocking and weird.
Just like with the other recent early story release, "The Space Museum," the DVD extras mostly consist of people making fun of this episode's aliens, the Monoids. And yeah, with the clarity of picture the DVD restoration team has achieved, it's all too easy to see how ridiculous the Monoids look. They have sort of faux-Dalek voices and flippers instead of feet and generally seem a bit naff. And it's true that once the Monoids are in charge, they say the laughable line, "Take them to the Security Kitchen." Anyway, the show's extras include a featurette, "One-Hit Wonders," basically dedicated to talking about how naff the Monoids are and why they never came back. Plus a lot of the show's main featurette is about how terrible they are as well.
The extras on "The Ark," incidentally, are sparse but better than a lot of the other recent Doctor Who DVD extras — instead of the usual bloated retrospective about the making of the story, there's quite a neat documentary about the teeny studio where the show filmed all of its episodes from around 1964 to 1967 or thereabouts. It seems like a tiny space, but it's actually way bigger than the studio the show was stuck with in its early years, or from 1967 onwards. You get some great insights into how the show turned a tiny space into a half-dozen sets and maneuvered five huge cameras around them. Really fascinating stuff. And along the way, "The Ark's" director Michael Imison talks about how he tried to use his one Doctor Who outing to rescue his career at the BBC — and failed. It sounds like Imison, who came up with the Monoids and their "ping-pong ball in the mouth" design himself, was way out of his depth. Oh, and there's a cute documentary about H.G. Wells' influence on the program.
Anyway, "The Ark" is a really clever use of the show's format, and a good showcase for William Hartnell's Doctor — even though he was in his final days in the role and flubbing his lines constantly, he still comes across as the absolute master of time and space somehow.
And then there's "The Seeds of Doom," in which a killer plant from outer space takes people over and tries to destroy the human race. On the surface, this story should be a bit of a letdown — the plant monster is a bit silly, perhaps, and it's a UNIT story without the Brigadier or any of the other UNIT cast. The action is divided between two episodes in Antarctica and four episodes in England, just to stretch out the plot a bit. We learn on the information text subtitles that it was a last-minute replacement when "The Hand of Fear" failed to work out as a season-ending six-parter. And so on.
But "The Seeds of Doom" is magnificent. It's the final time Douglas Camfield directed a Doctor Who story, and he's determined to make it as much of an action movie as he can. Tom Baker is at the absolute peak of his intensity as the Doctor, turning lines like "Inimical? They're lethal!" into savage indictments of human stupidity. The Krynoids are reasonably creepy, with their fast-growing vegetable-human hybrid bodies and their control over local vegetation. And the show has two great human villains: the psychotic millionaire Harrison Chase, and the thuggish Scorby. Somehow, the show manages to keep the suspense and intensity up for a full six episodes, until the Krynoid is the size of Harrison Chase's mansion and the Doctor is out of ideas.
This is the very last of the classic UNIT stories, and the end of the Doctor being the eccentric genius called in to solve mysteries for Britain's authorities. And somehow, with the Brigadier gone, the tension between the Doctor's bohemian outsider-ness and the "stiff upper lip" of the British establishment becomes more accentuated, until you get the sense that the Doctor is a sort of necessary evil that the British government calls upon despite some revulsion.
"Seeds of Doom" has a lot more extras than "The Ark," and they're a bit less exciting. The featurette about the making of the story is 37 minutes long, and drags pretty horribly. Graeme Harper, who was an assistant on this story but later directed some of the show's best episodes, walks us through the job of Production Assistant in a 14-minute featurette. There's a rather bland documentary about how some of the story's locations look now, and a featurette about the unusual musical score by classical composer Geoffrey Burgon. Image: The Krynoids by DV8R71 on DeviantArt.
Honestly, none of the featurettes on the disk are as illuminating as just watching it with the commentary track and the informational subtitles — the information text goes into way more interesting detail about the problems "Seeds of Doom" experienced than the featurette does. And the commentary track includes Tom Baker — for the first time in ages — plus a host of other informative characters, including producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Robert Banks-Stewart and the son of the director. This is one story where the commentary track is really worth listening to, as Baker and his rotating cast of accomplices get inside making the story.
The one great featurette on the "Seeds of Doom" DVD is a 20-minute look at the Fourth Doctor's comic-strip outings, which delves into just how weak Doctor Who comics had gotten by the late 1970s, when Marvel Comics rolled out their new magazine with strips featuring art by Dave "Watchmen" Gibbons. Worth watching just for the interview with Gibbons where he talks about getting the size of the Doctor's robot dog, K9, wrong.
And last but not least, the DVD for the Christmas special, "A Christmas Carol," came out in February and it's as great a second time around as it was before. We reviewed it pretty extensively back in December, but suffice to say that it holds up quite well, and Michael Gambon is just as captivating a second time around as the wicked miser Kazran Sardick. Giving Matt Smith a real antagonist to bounce off brings out the best in his Doctor. He tries to save Kazran's soul but it turns out to be more complicated than he'd expected.
If I have one quibble about "A Christmas Carol" the second time around, it's that it's even more obvious that the Doctor is becoming too powerful lately. Kazran barely even poses a challenge to the Doctor — if he wanted to wipe Kazran out of existence, he could do it with the snap of his fingers. It's only because the Doctor takes on a greater challenge, that of redeeming Kazran, that he's got any problems in this story at all. Time was, the Doctor was stymied by a crazy millionaire and his trigger-happy hired thugs, but nowadays the Doctor seems to be too godlike even to worry about mere mortals and their weapons. It's sort of unfortunate, since a less-powerful Doctor is often more compelling.
The extras on the "Christmas Carol" DVD consist of the Doctor Who Confidential special that was shown after the episode in England — with some nice looks at the making of the story, including the first table read of the script and the way in which the "flying shark" effect was achieved. And then Doctor Who at the Proms, the concert that happened last year featuring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, plus an orchestra playing Doctor Who music.
It's a pretty nice package, although no doubt the Christmas episode will be on the eventual Series Six DVD set, so if you can hold out until the end of the year, you can get it that way.
All in all, these are three DVDs that show just how clever and powerful a show Doctor Who can be — and how many cool places you can take the idea of a man with a box that can travel through time and space, who has a special fondness for humanity.

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p>I stumbled upon this vintage Popular Mechanics magazine from 1973. Wooooooo, funny. Most of the bikes in the article would make me cringe if I saw them coming into the shop for service today. I have no nostalgia for cottered cranks and steel rims. The one really nice bike pictured, a Schwinn Paramount on the cover, had "suicide levers" on it, thereby broadcasting the owner's newb-status. And the clothes! This is the early 70s, but if you watch the documentary Stars and Water Carriers, Felice Gimondi and Ole Ritter on the Bianchi team look so suave at the '73 Giro d'Italia…whether in team kit, casual, or a suit. I guess that would be the difference between Europe and America. Makes me wish I was there in Italy back then.
But these guys…not so suave. However, if the guy above had a moustache and some thick plastic rimmed glasses, he would look at home on any Friday night on Pike & Broadway on the hill. When you see him tomorrow night outside the ChaCha, make sure you buy him a drink:
I dig the chick in red, though. She's holding a Peugeot from presumedly a company catalog shot…is she French?
p> I see the guy below and I think about the movie Caddy Shack for some reason.


text: hadoop.hdfs.configuration.version 1 version of this configuration file dfs.namenode.logging.level info The logging level for dfs namenode. Other values are "dir"(trac e namespace mutations), "block"(trace block under/over replications and block creations/deletions), or "all". dfs.namenode.secondary.http-address 0.0.0.0:50090 The secondary namenode http server address and port. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.datanode.address 0.0.0.0:50010 The address where the datanode server will listen to. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.datanode.http.address 0.0.0.0:50075 The datanode http server address and port. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.datanode.ipc.address 0.0.0.0:50020 The datanode ipc server address and port. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.datanode.handler.count 3 The number of server threads for the datanode. dfs.namenode.http-address 0.0.0.0:50070 The address and the base port where the dfs namenode web ui will listen on. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.https.enable false Decide if HTTPS(SSL) is supported on HDFS dfs.client.https.need-auth false Whether SSL client certificate authentication is required dfs.https.server.keystore.resource ssl-server.xml Resource file from which ssl server keystore information will be extracted dfs.client.https.keystore.resource ssl-client.xml Resource file from which ssl client keystore information will be extracted dfs.datanode.https.address 0.0.0.0:50475 The datanode secure http server address and port. dfs.namenode.https-address 0.0.0.0:50470 The namenode secure http server address and port. dfs.datanode.dns.interface default The name of the Network Interface from which a data node should report its IP address. dfs.datanode.dns.nameserver default The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS) which a DataNode should use to determine the host name used by the NameNode for communication and display purposes. dfs.namenode.backup.address 0.0.0.0:50100 The backup node server address and port. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.namenode.backup.http-address 0.0.0.0:50105 The backup node http server address and port. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port. dfs.namenode.replication.considerLoad true Decide if chooseTarget considers the target's load or not dfs.default.chunk.view.size 32768 The number of bytes to view for a file on the browser. dfs.datanode.du.reserved 0 Reserved space in bytes per volume. Always leave this much space free for non dfs use. dfs.namenode.name.dir file://${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node should store the name table(fsimage). If this is a comma-delimited list of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the directories, for redundancy. dfs.namenode.name.dir.restore false Set to true to enable NameNode to attempt recovering a previously failed dfs.namenode.name.dir. When enabled, a recovery of any failed directory is attempted during checkpoint. dfs.namenode.fs-limits.max-component-length 0 Defines the maximum number of characters in each component of a path. A value of 0 will disable the check. dfs.namenode.fs-limits.max-directory-items 0 Defines the maximum number of items that a directory may contain. A value of 0 will disable the check. dfs.namenode.edits.dir ${dfs.namenode.name.dir} Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node should store the transaction (edits) file. If this is a comma-delimited list of directories then the transaction file is replicated in all of the directories, for redundancy. Default value is same as dfs.namenode.name.dir dfs.web.ugi webuser,webgroup The user account used by the web interface. Syntax: USERNAME,GROUP1,GROUP2, ... dfs.permissions.enabled true If "true", enable permission checking in HDFS. If "false", permission checking is turned off, but all other behavior is unchanged. Switching from one parameter value to the other does not change the mode, owner or group of files or directories. dfs.permissions.superusergroup supergroup The name of the group of super-users. dfs.block.access.token.enable false If "true", access tokens are used as capabilities for accessing datanodes. If "false", no access tokens are checked on accessing datanodes. dfs.block.access.key.update.interval 600 Interval in minutes at which namenode updates its access keys. dfs.block.access.token.lifetime 600 The lifetime of access tokens in minutes. dfs.datanode.data.dir file://${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/data Determines where on the local filesystem an DFS data node should store its blocks. If this is a comma-delimited list of directories, then data will be stored in all named directories, typically on different devices. Directories that do not exist are ignored. dfs.datanode.data.dir.perm 700 Permissions for the directories on on the local filesystem where the DFS data node store its blocks. The permissions can either be octal or symbolic. dfs.replication 3 Default block replication. The actual number of replications can be specified when the file is created. The default is used if replication is not specified in create time. dfs.replication.max 512 Maximal block replication. dfs.namenode.replication.min 1 Minimal block replication. dfs.blocksize 67108864 The default block size for new files, in bytes. You can use the following suffix (case insensitive): k(kilo), m(mega), g(giga), t(tera), p(peta), e(exa) to specify the size (such as 128k, 512m, 1g, etc.), Or provide complete size in bytes (such as 134217728 for 128 MB). dfs.client.block.write.retries 3 The number of retries for writing blocks to the data nodes, before we signal failure to the application. dfs.client.block.write.replace-datanode-on-failure.enable true If there is a datanode/network failure in the write pipeline, DFSClient will try to remove the failed datanode from the pipeline and then continue writing with the remaining datanodes. As a result, the number of datanodes in the pipeline is decreased. The feature is to add new datanodes to the pipeline. This is a site-wide property to enable/disable the feature. See also dfs.client.block.write.replace-datanode-on-failure.policy dfs.client.block.write.replace-datanode-on-failure.policy DEFAULT This property is used only if the value of dfs.client.block.write.replace-datanode-on-failure.enable is true. ALWAYS: always add a new datanode when an existing datanode is removed. NEVER: never add a new datanode. DEFAULT: Let r be the replication number. Let n be the number of existing datanodes. Add a new datanode only if r is greater than or equal to 3 and either (1) floor(r/2) is greater than or equal to n; or (2) r is greater than n and the block is hflushed/appended. dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec 21600000 Determines block reporting interval in milliseconds. dfs.blockreport.initialDelay 0 Delay for first block report in seconds. dfs.datanode.directoryscan.interval 21600 Interval in seconds for Datanode to scan data directories and reconcile the difference between blocks in memory and on the disk. dfs.datanode.directoryscan.threads 1 How many threads should the threadpool used to compile reports for volumes in parallel have. dfs.datanode.block.volume.choice.policy org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.RoundRobinVolumesPolicy The policy class to use to determine into which of the datanode's available volumes a block must be written to. Default is a simple round-robin policy that chooses volumes in a cyclic order. dfs.heartbeat.interval 3 Determines datanode heartbeat interval in seconds. dfs.namenode.handler.count 10 The number of server threads for the namenode. dfs.namenode.safemode.threshold-pct 0.999f Specifies the percentage of blocks that should satisfy the minimal replication requirement defined by dfs.namenode.replication.min. Values less than or equal to 0 mean not to wait for any particular percentage of blocks before exiting safemode. Values greater than 1 will make safe mode permanent. dfs.namenode.safemode.min.datanodes 0 Specifies the number of datanodes that must be considered alive before the name node exits safemode. Values less than or equal to 0 mean not to take the number of live datanodes into account when deciding whether to remain in safe mode during startup. Values greater than the number of datanodes in the cluster will make safe mode permanent. dfs.namenode.safemode.extension 30000 Determines extension of safe mode in milliseconds after the threshold level is reached. dfs.datanode.balance.bandwidthPerSec 1048576 Specifies the maximum amount of bandwidth that each datanode can utilize for the balancing purpose in term of the number of bytes per second. dfs.hosts Names a file that contains a list of hosts that are permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the file must be specified. If the value is empty, all hosts are permitted. dfs.hosts.exclude Names a file that contains a list of hosts that are not permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the file must be specified. If the value is empty, no hosts are excluded. dfs.namenode.max.objects 0 The maximum number of files, directories and blocks dfs supports. A value of zero indicates no limit to the number of objects that dfs supports. dfs.namenode.decommission.interval 30 Namenode periodicity in seconds to check if decommission is complete. dfs.namenode.decommission.nodes.per.interval 5 The number of nodes namenode checks if decommission is complete in each dfs.namenode.decommission.interval. dfs.namenode.replication.interval 3 The periodicity in seconds with which the namenode computes repliaction work for datanodes. dfs.namenode.accesstime.precision 3600000 The access time for HDFS file is precise upto this value. The default value is 1 hour. Setting a value of 0 disables access times for HDFS. dfs.datanode.plugins Comma-separated list of datanode plug-ins to be activated. dfs.namenode.plugins Comma-separated list of namenode plug-ins to be activated. dfs.stream-buffer-size 4096 The size of buffer to stream files. The size of this buffer should probably be a multiple of hardware page size (4096 on Intel x86), and it determines how much data is buffered during read and write operations. dfs.bytes-per-checksum 512 The number of bytes per checksum. Must not be larger than dfs.stream-buffer-size dfs.client-write-packet-size 65536 Packet size for clients to write dfs.namenode.checkpoint.dir file://${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS secondary name node should store the temporary images to merge. If this is a comma-delimited list of directories then the image is replicated in all of the directories for redundancy. dfs.namenode.checkpoint.edits.dir ${dfs.namenode.checkpoint.dir} Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS secondary name node should store the temporary edits to merge. If this is a comma-delimited list of directoires then teh edits is replicated in all of the directoires for redundancy. Default value is same as dfs.namenode.checkpoint.dir dfs.namenode.checkpoint.period 3600 The number of seconds between two periodic checkpoints. dfs.namenode.checkpoint.txns 40000 The Secondary NameNode or CheckpointNode will create a checkpoint of the namespace every 'dfs.namenode.checkpoint.txns' transactions, regardless of whether 'dfs.namenode.checkpoint.period' has expired. dfs.namenode.checkpoint.check.period 60 The SecondaryNameNode and CheckpointNode will poll the NameNode every 'dfs.namenode.checkpoint.check.period' seconds to query the number of uncheckpointed transactions. dfs.namenode.checkpoint.max-retries 3 The SecondaryNameNode retries failed checkpointing. If the failure occurs while loading fsimage or replaying edits, the number of retries is limited by this variable. dfs.namenode.num.checkpoints.retained 2 The number of image checkpoint files that will be retained by the NameNode and Secondary NameNode in their storage directories. All edit logs necessary to recover an up-to-date namespace from the oldest retained checkpoint will also be retained. dfs.namenode.delegation.key.update-interval 86400000 The update interval for master key for delegation tokens in the namenode in milliseconds. dfs.namenode.delegation.token.max-lifetime 604800000 The maximum lifetime in milliseconds for which a delegation token is valid. dfs.namenode.delegation.token.renew-interval 86400000 The renewal interval for delegation token in milliseconds. dfs.datanode.failed.volumes.tolerated 0 The number of volumes that are allowed to fail before a datanode stops offering service. By default any volume failure will cause a datanode to shutdown. dfs.image.compress false Should the dfs image be compressed? dfs.image.compression.codec org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec If the dfs image is compressed, how should they be compressed? This has to be a codec defined in io.compression.codecs. dfs.image.transfer.bandwidthPerSec 0 Specifies the maximum amount of bandwidth that can be utilized for image transfer in term of the number of bytes per second. A default value of 0 indicates that throttling is disabled. dfs.namenode.support.allow.format true Does HDFS namenode allow itself to be formatted? You may consider setting this to false for any production cluster, to avoid any possibility of formatting a running DFS. dfs.datanode.max.transfer.threads 4096 Specifies the maximum number of threads to use for transferring data in and out of the DN.


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Colombia rebel group frees captives held for 12 years
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia – Colombia's main rebel group freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, a goodwill gesture that President Juan Manuel Santos praised but called insufficient to merit a peace dialogue.
The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons, captured with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength.
But Latin America's oldest and most potent guerrilla band has since been weakened by Colombia's U.S.-backed military and Monday's release of six police and four soldiers highlighted its desire for a peaceful solution.
Flown from a secret jungle rendezvous aboard a loaned Brazilian air force helicopter emblazoned with the Red Cross logo, the freed captives waved jubilantly.
Some jumped for joy on the tarmac before reunions with relatives. Nurses helped others walk, while pets accompanied some: a peccary, a monkey, two small birds. A few wore the Colombian flag over their shoulders. Their loved ones were overjoyed.
"I shouted! I jumped up and down!" said Olivia Solarte when got first word her 41-year-old son, police officer Trujillo had been freed. He'd been held since July 1999.
The group was flown to Bogota where other relatives were waiting along with obligatory hospital stays for medical checks.
The rebel group, known as the FARC, had announced Monday's liberation on Feb. 26 in tandem with a halt in ransom kidnappings as a revenue source.
Santos called the release "a step in the right direction, a very important step" but cautioned against "pure speculation" that it augured peace talks.
He said he wants proof the FARC, which took up arms in 1964, is truly abandoning ransom kidnapping.
"When the government considers that sufficient conditions and guarantees exist to begin a process that brings an end to the conflict the country will know," he said.
To begin with, the government wants an accounting of two other security force members captured by the FARC in 1998 and 1999. It also wants a reckoning of ransom kidnap victims held by the FARC, along with their freedom.
The head of Colombia's anti-kidnapping police puts the number at least six, including four Chinese oil workers seized last June. Other officials put the number closer to two dozen.
The citizens' watchdog group Fundacion Pais Libre maintains a list of at least 400 people the FARC kidnapped or has otherwise held against their will since 1996 who were never freed. It doesn't expunge a name from its records until the person is released or a body is found.
Two serious government-FARC peace negotiations failed over the past three decades. And although the rebels have praised Santos' willingness to address land reform and return stolen property to landless peasants, recent weeks have seen an upsurge in violence in the conflict.
The FARC killed at least 11 soldiers in a mid-March attack in Arauca near the Venezuelan border and the military responded with two precision bombings on rebel camps that killed more than 60 insurgents.
The rebels have in recent years suffered their worst setbacks ever, beginning when Santos was defense minister from 2006-2009 and thanks to billions in U.S. military assistance and training.
Their main source of funding is the cocaine trade and military pressure has made holding kidnap victims increasingly difficult for the FARC.
Monday's mission was brokered by leftist former Sen. Piedad Cordoba, a friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has served as a go-between in the release of 20 FARC hostages since January 2008.
The FARC has only publicly acknowledged holding captives it considered "exchangeable:" police, soldiers or politicians it held for political leverage, hoping to swap them for imprisoned rebels.
It held scores of such prisoners in the late 1990s when it controlled about half the countryside but gradually released them all, never obtaining the hoped-for exchange.
Some captives were rescued. Franco-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors in 2008 were freed in a bold ruse involving Colombian soldiers posing as members of a phony international humanitarian group. But others, at least 25, died in captivity, many killed by FARC insurgents when rescuers real or imagined neared.
Among those in attendance for Monday's release was Rigoberta Menchu, the Guatemalan rights activist who won the 1992 Nobel Peace prize.
She said it is now time for Colombia's government to respond to the FARC's gesture with its own display of political willingness to attain peace.
But analysts caution that peace talks, even back-channel negotiations, could be a long time coming.
Many don't believe they could happen before 2014 presidential elections.


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#best cheap vacations
10 Best Budget Destinations for 2013
Year after year, friends and family of the Budget Travel staff inevitably ask us the same question: "Where's the coolest and most affordable place to go next?" Luckily, we work hard to get at the right answers for them. Each year before the holidays, the BT team combs through piles of data regarding new flight destinations, airline prices, places aggressively building new hotels, cities experiencing cultural booms, currency charts, and other statistics to compile our list of the 10 best Budget Destinations for the upcoming year. Some destinations were more interesting to us because they were so full of new and unique attractions (Northern Ireland!), and others were standby dream vacation spots that were suddenly more affordable than they've been in recent years (the Loire Valley, France). But the one thing they have in common is that they're completely accessible and ripe for exploring now. So read up, pick a place, and get planning!
Why in 2013: Toronto is seriously having a moment. The cultural, entertainment, and financial capital of Canada has not only undergone a huge building boom (with more than 30,000 new homes being built over the past year alone) but New York City exports are opening up here at rapid pace, like the new Thompson and Trump hotels, and David Chang's Momofuku empire. (In fact, foodie-ism is at its prime in Toronto—the St. Lawrence food market, with its 120 specialty vendors, is regularly considered one of the world's best.) But what makes it a great budget destination is that unlike the rest of the world, hotel prices didn't increase at all in the first half of 2012, with the cost of an average room remaining at $148, according to the 2012 Hotels.com Price Index. Like any good bustling North American city, there are myriad cultural options to be found here, from museums, great theater, art galleries, and shopping, but because this is a harbor town off Lake Ontario, there are also plenty of affordable outdoorsy activities like hiking, biking, and canoeing, especially around the Toronto Islands. And because about half of the population was born abroad, the ethnic food scene is as good as it gets anywhere in the world. Beyond Chinatown, Little Italy, and Little India, there is also a Koreatown, Little Portugal, Little Jamaica, and neighborhoods specializing in Polish, Japanese, and Greek cuisine. One last dollar-saving factor? You don't need a car while visiting. The TTC, or Toronto Transit Comission, is the third largest transit system in North America, and completely simple to navigate.
When to Go: Peak visitor season is in the summertime, which means both airfare and hotel costs are much higher. If you're aiming to save some money, try September through November, or March through May.
Where to Stay: The downtown Bond Place Hotel is a contemporary and charming hotel with ultra-modern rooms and an eye for urban-design—and is extremely affordable. The prime location at Yonge-Dundas Square is a quick walk from the Theater District and Eaton Centre (an enormous indoor mall), as well as within walking distance of many of the universities (65 Dundas St. East, bondplace.ca. doubles from $79 ).
Why in 2013: If you've never heard of the Turkish Riviera, you're not alone—Americans have thus far rarely ventured to the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey for holiday, unlike Eastern Europeans, who have been flocking here in droves for years. All that seems likely to change this year for several reasons: Average hotel prices have significantly and notably dropped from last year (from $193 to $146, almost 25 percent), and in 2011 it beat New York City to become the world's third most visited city by international tourists. The word is out about this city that's part beachfront, part metropolis, and part ancient town. And even though many of the tourists here are of the incredibly wealthy European variety (the city even boasts a megaresort, Rixos Sungate Hotel, with the world's second largest spa!), the 5-star all-inclusive resorts on the beaches offer rates as low as $100 a night. More adventurous types will also get a huge kick out of the city's proximity to some of the oldest known architectural ruins in the world. The nearby Catalhoyuk Mound is one of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic site to date, existing from 7500 BC to 5700 BC.
When to Go: It gets well into the 90s in the middle of summer, so it's best to visit in September through October, or May through June. While it never gets particularly cold in the winter months, you won't want to take a dip in the chilly Mediterranean then either.


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A 29-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to three months behind bars for illegally making more than $192,000 from confidential information tied to the Walt Disney Co.'s acquisition of Marvel Entertainment.
Toby G. Scammell learned details of the planned $4 billion transaction from his former girlfriend, who had landed a six-month externship in Disney's corporate strategy department in Burbank in the months leading up to the 2009 deal, according to his plea deal.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero ordered Scammell to complete four years of supervised release, including six months in home detention, following his release from prison.
The judge also ordered Scammell to pay $1,500 a month during his term of supervised release toward $800,000 he was previously ordered to pay to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a parallel civil case.
"In these types of cases, general deterrence is an important factor," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen A. Cazares said outside court. "For that reason, custody is important in this case. Insider trading is epidemic today."
Scammell has already paid $192,000 to the SEC, the prosecutor said.
The girlfriend — who was not charged — never revealed that Marvel was an acquisition target, but Scammell was able to piece together details of the deal from overheard conversations, access to her BlackBerry and conjecture, prosecutors said.
Scammell admitted acquiring call options in Marvel, based on nonpublic information that Disney was going to offer about $50 a share to buy the iconic comic-book publisher. The options entitled him to purchase the company's stock in the future at prices ranging from $40 to $45.
The day Disney publicly announced its planned purchase, Marvel's stock increased 25 percent, to $48.37.
After the announcement, Scammell placed orders to sell all his Marvel options, earning a profit of more than $192,000 on his initial $5,465 investment.
Scammell, a San Francisco resident, pleaded guilty in April to securities fraud. As part of the judge's order in the SEC case, he was permanently barred from working in the securities industry.


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Barefoot in Rome
Practicing the Faith, by John F. Kavanaugh, S.J.(11/4) gave me some comfort, the kind that comes from finding that one is not alone. Almost like Father Kavanaugh's student-friend, I am connected with Catholic history and tradition and sought a truth worth understanding, a good worth loving and a faith to die for. Unlike the student, I believe that I have found it. (I am also some 50 years older than she is.) I have opposed capital punishment all my adult life, regard abortion as a moral and social evil, abhor the School of the Americas, the evil (yes, Mr. Bush, evil) practices that it teaches so well and the hypocrisy that allows our government to sponsor it. I also regard Bush's obsession with war on Iraq as his own personal grudge match, no casus belli in any language. I regard many of my country's foreign policies as bullying and its domestic policies as shortsighted and oblivious to the needs of the poor.
Along with the late Malcolm Muggeridge, I would like to see Christ walking barefoot through the Vatican. Christ was a radical, and oddly, the older I get the more radical I seem to become. At least I'm not alone!
Conchita Collins
Tucson, Ariz.
Different Views
Different Christologies beat at the heart of the different views of evangelization expounded by Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., and by Mary Boys, S.N.J.M., Philip Cunningham and John Pawlikowski, O.S.M. (10/21).
Cardinal Dulles's Christology flows from interpretations of Jesus in the Bible. Strengths: (1) the focus is on belief in God, with Jesus the human touchstone, and (2) the Bible is a relatively stable referent through time. Weakness: when focusing on belief in Jesus as God and on literal interpretations of the Bible, people may divorce Jesus from what he stood for (e.g., Evangelical Christian Zionists).
Boys, Cunningham and Pawlikowski's Christology is Spirit-centered, flowing from interpretations of Jesus' Spirit for modern times. Strength: the emphasis is on what Jesus stood forloving neighbor as selfand on interpretations of what this means in our time. Weakness: a tendency to divorce the spirit of love from its ultimate referentJesusimplies the possibility of self-deception.
I believe circumstances can best dictate one's evangelizing strategy. For example, I don't think Cardinal Dulles would get very far expounding Jesus as the Son of God in the Knesset. On the other hand, Boys, Cunningham and Pawlikowski might touch the hearts of some Israeli legislators with appeals for showing the same basic fairness for Palestinians that they expect for themselves (such fairness being a type of love).
Bob Krasnansky
Ellicott City, Md.
Crisis in Housing
With regard to your editorial Crisis in Housing (10/14), I would make the following observations. You agree with the National Low Income Housing Coalition when it says an increase in the minimum wage would help remedy the shortage of affordable housing. But the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman has shown that every increase in the minimum wage since the 1940's has resulted in an immediate jump in unemployment among teenage African Americans. The factory that employed a half-dozen sweepers to clean up at night finds it more economical to fire four of them and buy a mechanical sweeper. Whenever one legislates in the economic sphere, the law of unintended consequences seems to intrude, and minimum wage laws are no exception.
You say that the struggle for affordable housing is more severe in some parts of the country than others. California and Massachusetts stand out as the least affordable states.... Hey, wait a minute! You have just named two of the most liberal-left states in the union! The politicians who have dominated, and still dominate, these states are the very ones who have been trying to solve the affordable housing conundrum using exactly the kinds of public policies you advocate. Their nostrums have failed so badly that you cite these states as the worst. California and Massachusetts have greater affordable-housing problems than states run by more conservative politicians. Food for thought here, but I doubt the National Low Income Housing Coalition will want to chew on it.
You point out that the affordable-housing problem is extreme in San Francisco. I lived there for 30 years and watched the problem grow, largely as a direct result of legislation aimed at helping tenants. Rent control is immensely popular with those who are protected against rent increases, but it results in driving away the people who once built rental housing. That pesky law of unintended consequences means sane investors do not build rental units in rent controlled areas, unless they are getting big, fat taxpayer subsidies. Price controls create shortages, and rent controls are no exception.
San Francisco sits on a peninsula. Land is limited. The only way to build inexpensive housing is to go up. But zoning codes say no to high-rises. Rent control and tough zoning policies have severely limited increases in the supply of housing by the Golden Gate. Limited supply generally means high prices.
Will building new low-rent public housing and stopping the ongoing demolition of public housing in areas where local housing authorities have deemed units too deteriorated to be usable really help? The suggestion raises the question, why are housing authorities destroying existing public housing? The answer is that public housing has a way of deteriorating to the point where it cannot be rescued. You suggest that lots more money to do more of the same will result in a different outcome. I do not think such reasoning would win a good grade in a logic class.
In Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher found an effective way to prevent public housing from deteriorating. She sold much of the council housing to the tenants. Very quickly, graffiti disappeared and the drug dealers were gone. Of course, there are always negatives in such matters. Some of the people who bought their council flats promptly sold them and blew the money on drugs and debauchery. But the most scary result was that many council tenants settled in to their new status as property owners and ceased their longstanding automatic support of the Labor Party. They began voting for Margaret Thatcher and the Tories. I'm sure that neither you nor the National Low Income Housing Coalition would want any such thing to happen on this side of the Atlantic.
Helping the poor to a better standard of living is an important goal for society. It can better be achieved by real-world economic approaches than by politically appealing nostrums that have failed in the past and have little chance of succeeding in the future.
William O. Sumner
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Canonical Chaos
Some Basics About Celibacy by John W. O'Malley, S.J., (10/28) provides a concise history of the development of celibacy as an ecclesiastical discipline, culminating in Canon 277, where it is described as a gift of God. Our American cardinals in their April statement, after meeting with the pope, echoed the same description, while denying any causal link between celibacy and sexual abuse. This denial continues in the higher levels of our church.
Celibacy has not always been God's gift to the church. In a recent 20-year period some 20,000 priests were lost from ministry; most left for marriage. Authorities have reported the abuse and rape of nuns by priests in Africa. I spent a month in the 1960's with a bishop in Central America. He told me that every one of his native priests was living with a woman. Chat with missionaries in Latin America and Africa. The abstract ideal does not always become the reality.
Bishops in the 1998 synods for Asia and for Oceania, short of priests, pleaded to be able to ordain married men. One told of sending airplanes to islands with consecrated hosts for services. But, he said, that is not the Eucharist. But their interventions never got by the Vatican secretariat that controlled publication of the propositions presented to the pope.
Such enforced silence and deceit will continue to obstruct efforts to resolve the intellectual, emotional and now, after Dallas, canonical chaos we are in. Our authorities seem to be in a state of panic. The pope's spokesman has said homosexuals should not be ordained; Brooklyn's bishop has just banned Voice of the Faithful in his diocese, as has also been done in Boston, Newark, Bridgeport and Rockville Centre. In that last diocese, the bishop, faced with a priest shortage, announced that he was importing 12 contemplative Nigerian nuns to pray for vocations! Our beloved church seems to be self-destructing.
(Msgr.) Harry J. Byrne
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior Katherine Thornton won three events and swam to a strong NCAA "B" cut in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:31.32 to help propel MIT to victory over Tufts University, 162-138, on Saturday afternoon in the Zesiger Pool. The impressive 1650 time places her sixth among Div. III swimmers in the country in that event.
The Engineers moved to 8-1 with the victory, while the Jumbos dropped to 5-3.
Thornton picked up individual victories in both the 1000-yard (10:31.96) and the 500-yard (5:12.16) freestyle events and was also part of the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team along with freshman Ashley Pinchinat, junior Sasha Brophy and senior Stephanie Sidelko, which touched the wall with a time of 3:46.66. The El Cajon, Calif., native outpaced her closest competitor in the 1000-yard freestyle by more than 30 seconds.
Head coach Dawn Gerken was thrilled with the senior's performance, saying, "Kate Thornton's mile today was a spectacular swim. She has been training incredibly well this year and has the confidence and talent to be a force at the national level."
Junior diver Doria Holbrook picked up the victory in the three-meter diving competition in style by breaking the Institute record for six dives with a score of 349.30. The co-captain is currently ranked No. 1 in Div. III for the event.
Sophomore Jen Chao led 1-2 finishes for the Engineers in a pair of butterfly events, as she touched the wall ahead of all other swimmers in both the 100-yard (1:02.23) and the 200-yard (2:16.19). Priya Parayanthal picked up second-place in the 100-yard (1:02.51) while Nicole O'Keeffe grabbed the number two spot in the 200-yard (2:18.69).
Stephanie Brown matched Chao's feat, taking first-place in 1-2 Tech finishes in both the 100-yard (1:03.96) and 200-yard (2:16.98) backstroke events. Parayanthal was next in the 100-yard (1:04.72) while Chao herself was second best in the 200-yard (2:18.62).
Other individual winners for the Cardinal and Gray included Brophy, who won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:58.94, and O'Keeffe, whose time of 2:34.00 in the 200-yard breaststroke was good enough to garner maximum points.
MIT's other victory came in the 200-yard medley relay in which the team of Ellie Souganidis, Parayanthal, O'Keeffe and Sidelko was quickest with a mark of 1:54.72.
Senior Chloe Young-Hyman was Tufts' top competitor, picking up a trio of victories in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:08.11) and both the 50-yard (25.36) and the 100-yard (54.73) freestyle events.
The Engineers will return to the water on Saturday, Jan. 27, when they travel to Amherst College to take on the Lord Jeffs in a meet that will begin at 1:00 p.m. The Jumbos will next compete when they host Bates College and Wheaton College that same day at 12:00 p.m.


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Lately I have heard a lot of buzz about Carrie Underwood's performance on the Sound of Music Live.
Lately I have heard a lot of buzz about Carrie Underwood's performance on the Sound of Music Live.
Word on the street is that she wasn't very good.
No one can replace Julie Andrews and I couldn't bring myself to watch something other than the original version that was branded on my heart long ago. I love the music. I love the story. I love the movie version of the musical. I hate change, and now, I'm not sure how I feel about Carrie Underwood. And it has nothing to do with the fact that she is no Julie Andrews.
"Ya know, Carrie Underwood is a financial supporter of the Humane Society of the United States," Hubby commented when I was debating whether or not to watch the live version.
I don't know Carrie Underwood personally, but she seems like a sincere, down-to-earth, compassionate, southern gal. Carrie is a girl who was born and raised on an Oklahoma cattle ranch. Does she fully understand what being a financial supporter of the Humane Society of the United States means?
It sounds like a good organization to support, right?
Unfortunately, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not what you think.
Sure, on television HSUS shows pictures of rescued pets–dogs and cats–while Sarah McLaughlin sings a hauntingly beautiful song about being rescued in the arms of an angel.
HSUS uses this misleading advertising to prey on the common misconception that HSUS is a pet-shelter umbrella in order to raise millions from the public, leaving many with the false impression that HSUS is affiliated with local humane societies.
The Humane Society of the United States is actually the largest animal advocacy organization in the world with more than 11 million American members and supporters.
According to humanewatch.org very little money given to the Humane Society of the United States ever reaches a pet shelter. HSUS is a political organization that spends less than .8% of its $100 million budget on animal shelters.
According to HSUS's website the organization "works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for sensible public policies, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about animal issues, joining with corporations on behalf of animal-friendly policies, and conducting hands-on programs that make ours a more humane world."
In laymen's terms the HSUS spends millions on lobbying for initiatives that target family farmers. The organization is focused on winning "rights" for animals—not helping the pets depicted in its TV ads.
I grew up as a farm girl and went on to marry a farmer. All of my life I've owned pets. I love farmers. I love my pets. I love Julie Andrews and the Sound of Music. But I do not like the cause that Carrie Underwood chooses to lend her name and likeness to.
This same girl who grew up on a cattle ranch is a PETA celebrity, vegan and has sponsored advertisements for "Got Milk." I think it's fair to say that money speaks louder that Carrie's inconsistencies.
The point is, when celebrities endorse a cause, they bring awareness to that cause and can inspire people to get involved.
Now, I'm no Carrie Underwood, but if there is one thing I hope I've inspired people to do is research organizations before you take a stand or donate your hard-earned money.
If you really want to help local pets, donate locally. And support your local farmers. After all, they are the one's feeding the world.


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Hile, Houck, Shreve, Pactor Honored as Class Agentsby Jim Amidon • September 8, 2007 Share:
The Society of Wabash College Class Agents honored their own on the eve of the 2007 Class Agent Forum.
At a gathering of about 100 Class Agents, spouses, Wabash faculty, and administrators, emcee Scott Himsel '85 extolled the virtues of the award-winning Class Agents, President Pat White gave welcoming remarks, and Dean of the College Gary Phillips talked at length about the longstanding tradition of excellence on the Wabash faculty.
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Receiving the R. Robert Mitchum Most Outstanding Young Class Agent Award was the duo of the Class of 2004, Jacob Pactor and Mark Shreve (pictured right).
Shreve and Pactor wrote six letters to their classmates over the course of the year, which not only engaged the alumni with the College, the letters led to increased class giving to Wabash.
"While they wrote an average of one letter every two months and that certainly exceeds our expectations, it doesn't begin to tell the impact those letters had," said Himsel in honoring them. "Their efforts generated a class giving percentage of 32.3%, which by the way, is higher than any class going back to 1991."
Pactor and Shreve's ideas for young alumni engagement and communication have become a model for other classes, Himsel noted. Shreve, too, serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Class Agents and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Wabash Men.
The Class Agents for the Class of 1967 — Duane Hile (left) and Earl Houck — received the Myron G. Phillips Most Outstanding Class Agent Award.
"Duane and Earl worked closely with their award-winning reunion chairman, Clark Dickerson, to send their class 15 letters — over three times the yearly expectation," said Himsel.
The results generated record attendance — 66 alumni — for the Class of 1967's 40th reunion in June. Hile and Houck were also credited for driving alumni giving from their class. Himsel noted that 96 members of the class gave to Wabash for an overall giving rate of 51%.
In his keynote remarks, Dean Phillips talked about Wabash's history of excellence in teaching, noting faculty legends over the years extended their reach to Wabash men far beyond the classroom. Many faculty from across the generations attended the Class Agent Forum Banquet. Phillips used as examples of excellence fourth-year chemistry professor Lon Porter and his student-centered approach to research collaboration, and sixth-year historian Michelle Rhoades' demanding, yet nurturing teaching style. Rhoades, too, was lifted up as a scholar with an international reputation, and Phillips recognized her work in developing immersion learning trips for her students.
Class Agents were in business meetings Saturday morning, working through an agenda that focused on improving reunions and overall communications.


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November is a month most of us express thanks for all that we have — for home, family, friends and faith.
But that was "so yesterday!"
November is a month most of us express thanks for all that we have — for home, family, friends and faith.
But that was "so yesterday!"
Today, Thanksgiving seems to be only a speed bump slowing us before our holiday buying frenzy, while the turkey and stuffing fuels our race toward the Black Friday sales.
If this holiday track meet leaves you frazzled, I want to offer you a choice of two very different running lanes. First, you can align yourself with denial and tell yourself that you are only spending more this year so that you'll have more to be thankful over next year.
Choice No. 2, is to pause before you get trapped in the StuffMart or CostlyCo aisles and recite what I like to call the Black Friday prayer.
While you'll likely recognize the prayer as "The Lord's Prayer," let's reframe it to see how it might be said to rescue us from our manic materialism.
The opening salutation, "Our Father," is best read in the tone of a small child who is asking a loving parent for help. The words assert that God alone is the giver of all good things, not credit cards.
"Who art in heaven." These words may sound like a description of a detached deity, but in truth, God contains the world. That means that our money can't buy our world, so why do we try?
"Hallowed be thy name." There seems little that is hallowed today, but when we find that hallowedness in God, it should reflect something outside of our own name and holiday wish lists.
"Thy Kingdom come" doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for God to come to us. It means that we must invite the presence of God into our own lives. It means that God's presence always outshines the pretense of presents.
"Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven."
This part means that seeking God's will in my life is not seeking an earthly plan. Simply put, I've never seen a U-Haul on a hearse, so I don't think God wants me to accumulate much more earthly goods than are useful for heavenly purposes. Reciting this part of the prayer makes it nearly impossible to exceed your credit card limit.
"Give us this day our daily bread." The recovering alcoholic knows this as the key to living "one day at a time," but the recovering shopper should see this as a way to express gratitude for the gifts we find in today, not the presents we'll return tomorrow.
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." This plea for forgiveness reminds me that God forgives me my selfish ways and that my overspending transgressions of the past, don't have to be repeated today.
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." This phrase reminds me that I am powerless before my shopping addictions, and I can only overcome them with God's help.
While Protestants add the closing line, "For thine is the Kingdom, the power, the glory, forever," both Catholic and Protestants end with 'Amen," which means, "Let all of this be so!"
I have to believe the last phrase is the best part of prayer as the word "This" points to the holiness God bestows in our lives through the fulfillment of this prayer.
[ Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He also serves as an Air National Guard chaplain and is board-certified in the Association of Professional Chaplains. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. ]


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KnowledgeBase 00114: Socket Inheritance
QM has support for socket based connections to other systems or other processes on the same system. This can be an incoming (server) connection or an outgoing (client) connection. The application at the remote end of the connection does not need to be QM but might be, for example, a web server.
It is easy to write a program that handles data arriving from or sent to a single socket connection. Processing more than one socket simultaneously requires use of multi-threaded sockets as described in KnowledgeBase article 23.
Although this allows actions on multiple sockets to be interleaved, it is not truly multi-threaded. An incoming message that requires lengthy processing will cause activity on other sockets to stall until it is complete.
An application that needs to process multiple incoming connections in a true multi-threaded manner requires that each socket connection is passed to a separate phantom process. The parent process becomes a network listener that uses ACCEPT.SOCKET.CONNECTION() to wait for and accept an incoming connection and then starts a phantom process to handle that connection. For this to work, the socket connection must be transferred from the parent to the phantom using socket inheritance.
Inherited Sockets
After accepting the incoming connection, the server should set the socket into inheritable mode using the SKT$INHERITABLE mode of the SET.SOCKET.MODE() function. Then, when the process starts a phantom, the inheritable socket is automatically passed to the new process, closing it in the server process. The phantom process can access the inherited socket using the @SOCKET variable.
Although incoming socket connections are the most likley use of this capability, the mechanism is equally applicable to outgoing connections.
A process can only put a single socket into inheritable mode at one time so this should ideally be done immediately before launching the phantom. Attempting to set inheritability on a second socket will cancel the inheritability of the previous socket. Server mode sockets opened with CREATE.SERVER.SOCKET() cannot be made inheritable.
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The Situation won't be denied ... the "Jersey Shore" star will continue to infect your television through 2012 ... now that he's signed a deal for a spin-off show with MTV.
Just like Snooki, Jwoww and Pauly D ... Mike Sorrentino has signed a "series development deal" with the network for an unnamed project ... but it's a safe bet it's a reality show.
To mark the occasion, Situation even released an especially douchey statement ... saying, "I'm excited to continue my relationship with MTV ... Hopefully, there will be plenty more situations in the future."
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Skyrocketing shrimp prices put squeeze on restaurants, stores
Anyone who eats shrimp can't help noticing that the price has jumped around the past four years and is now sky high.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the price for headless Gulf of Mexico shrimp off the boat is $10.05 per pound for the largest shrimp category (15 shrimp per pound) in the Western Gulf, which includes Texas ports.
In 2010, shrimp in that category cost $6.40 per pound in the Western Gulf, NOAA reported.
Shrimp isn't the only Texas staple that has seen costs skyrocket recently. See other food items that have been impacted, and how you can ease the pain of the price hike.
At Brasserie 19 in the River Oaks Shopping Center, 1962 W. Gray, the restaurant is paying $10.25 per pound for slightly smaller shrimp -- those in the 16-to-20 per pound category -- said Dan Jacob, co-lead chef.
"In some aspects, shrimp is now as costly as lobster or crab," Jacob said Tuesday.
One reason that Jacob said he'd been hearing for the price spike is a disease that has been killing off shrimp in Asia, affecting the global price.
"That's what I've been hearing from all my purveyors," he said.
Rather than passing the price increase directly to customers, Brasserie 19 tries to balance it out in other ways, he said.
Some flexibility is built in with the restaurant's "grand platter," which is listed on the menu as "market price," rather than a set price. The platter includes poached shrimp as well as lobster, oyster, fresh clams, tuna tartar, and snowcrab claws, Jacob said.
Goode Co. Seafood, which has restaurants in Houston and Katy, has not raised its menu prices for shrimp dishes yet but it in the process of evaulating it, said Tom Dayton, chief operating officer for Goode Co. restaurants.
"We are definitely challenged with the price of shrimp over the last 12 months," Dayton said.
Although the disease known as Early Mortality Syndrome has affected mainly black tiger and white shrimp in Asia, the impact has been felt in the Gulf of Mexico, where Goode Co. buys its shrimp, Dayton said.
"We're true to our roots," he said. "We serve what we can get within our state and our region. We've always stuck with Gulf shrimp no matter what the price is."
Gulf shrimp prices are up, Dayton said, because of the huge U.S. demand.
"The main thing is the U.S. demand is over 1.4 billion pounds a year, but the Gulf of Mexico produces only 175 million pounds a year," he said. "That's what's creating the price increase."
The shrimp consumption rate in the United States has doubled in the past 30 years, according to NOAA Fisheries.
In 1984, the U.S. average per-capita consumption of shrimp was 1.9 pounds per year and is now 3.8 pounds. The record-high consumption was 4.4 pounds in 2006.
Wild-caught Gulf shrimp account for a small percent of the market. Catches are smallest in March and April, due to the shrimp life cycle and the operation of the commercial shrimp fleet.