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In this game-day staple, blogger Matt Vensel makes four sometimes-courageous predictions for the game. All he asks is that you don't hold it against him whenever those predictions end up being embarrassingly wrong.
In a matter of hours, the Ravens will run onto the field together before they take on the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. It's fitting that they chose to be announced as a team, because their biggest strength this season has been their unity. They have overcome a lot to get to this point -- those story have been told over and over again the past two weeks -- and now they are 60 minutes away from achieving football immortality.
But so are the 49ers, who have shown a lot of moxie this season, too, especially while overcoming a 17-point deficit to win the NFC championship game. There is a reason why Vegas thinks they should be slight favorites.
In this space, which wasn't meant to be taken too seriously, I made dozens of bold predictions this season. But there is nothing bold about me saying that Sunday's Super Bowl will be compelling theater. We have been treated to exciting championship games the past five years, and Sunday has the makings of another fun one.
Don't worry, I have made five bolder predictions -- I usually make four, but I threw in a bonus one since it is the Super Bowl and all -- but, as always, please don't hold it against me if they ended up being wrong.
Let's just get this out on the table. I think the Ravens are going to win it all on Sunday, and I think it will be in large part due to the play of Joe Flacco. Flacco has thrown eight touchdown passes and no interceptions in these playoffs, and the Ravens are 7-0 in the playoffs when he doesn't throw a pick. While I can't guarantee that Flacco won't turn the ball over, I'm fairly certain he will be able to move the ball against a talented and physical 49ers defense. He needs three touchdown passes to tie the record for the most in a postseason. I think he will throw two, but that should be enough for both Flacco and the Ravens to take home some hardware.
One thing the Ravens defense has done consistently all season is slow down opponents once they got inside the red zone. The Ravens ranked second in red-zone defense during the regular season, and they fared well there again in the AFC championship game. The New England Patriots scored just one touchdown in four trips inside the 20-yard line, and their inability to get the ball into the end zone allowed the Ravens to hang around early and eventually pull away in the second half. The 49ers ranked in the middle of the pack in red-zone offense despite having a physical running game. If the Ravens can force them to kick field goals, I like their chances.
The 49ers have one of the NFL's most athletic tight ends in Vernon Davis. He is so fast and explosive as a route-runner and pass-catcher, a few Ravens players have remarked in the past two weeks that he is more like a wide receiver who happens to block sometimes. He had five catches for 106 yards and a touchdown in the NFC championship game, but in his previous seven games, he had just seven total catches. I think the 49ers will keep Davis heavily involved against the Ravens. Ray Lewis is a liability in pass coverage, and while Dannell Ellerbe has improved in coverage, he will have a hard time keeping up with the former Maryland star.
Ravens running back Ray Rice leads the NFL with 247 yards during the postseason, and his 64 carries are most among running backs. He is averaging just 3.9 yards per carry, though, and he has as many fumbles (two) as rushing touchdowns. The 49ers, who have a pair of All-Pro inside linebackers, don't leave many cracks for backs to wiggle through. Rice admitted as much this week. But he can have a major impact as a receiver. The 49ers will likely ask NaVorro Bowman to shadow him in man coverage, a matchup Rice feels he can exploit. Rice might not run for a lot of yards, but the Ravens will settle for big production in the short passing game.
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick burst onto the scene in his second season, burning defenses with both his arm and his legs since replacing Alex Smith in the starting lineup. He ran for 181 yards and two scores in a playoff win over the Green Bay Packers then picked apart the Atlanta Falcons secondary a week later. He is not afraid to take risks, like when he threw a pick-six early in the win over the Packers. It's what makes him so fun to watch, but it also makes him a potential liability. He has thrown just four picks, including the playoffs, but he has fumbled 10 times. Look for him to cough the ball up to the Ravens a couple of times on Sunday.


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Economic incentives matter. This is true for teaching, as for other professions. In the words of a recent academic study examining teacher wages and student outcomes, "If you pay peanuts, don't you get monkeys?" (hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan & Stephen Pampinella. While American public schools are still awful even after correcting for low wages (think Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey), the relationship between teacher wages and student outcomes is pretty clear:
The real decline in wages for teachers that occurred when society stopped massive de jure and de facto discrimination against women lobotomized the teaching profession.
The reason is obvious: workers have alternatives to teaching, and if you 'tax' teaching by paying it less, you get fewer high quality workers in it. This matters beyond just test scores: the collapse of teachers as an influential political bloc and teachers' embrace of such agitators as Diane Ravitch may well be explained by the emergent effects of lowering the quality of teachers through paying them less.
Teachers want money, and they want it in a way that avoids measuring teacher performance. Unfortunately for teachers as a political bloc, other powerful forces have entered the debate, including powerful federal and academic institutions.
I do not think it is politically sustainable for teachers to unaccountably deliver terrible results while loudly demanding comfortable wages. In fact, I believe this political strategy is downright foolish. It is a sign that the teaching profession has suffered the lobotomy of low wages. While teachers sit like vegetables as the world pass them by, other forces are replacing them (such as this example of a move by Districts and the Federal-Academic Complex to have some students taught by professors, not teachers at all).
If teacher advocates do seriously join the debate, and contribute to a discussion of how better paid teachers can be better measured, we will get "idiot-proof teaching" scripts and the replacement of teachers by completely fungible drones.

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by: Calvin Patimeteeporn (Calvirth)
While I would love to describe th intricacies of the Epic Book 1 and Prologue, I can't because of my horrible LOTRO skills. My inadequate skills of gaming has severely hindered my advancement to higher levels in the game and I apologize for not being able to reach these quests. However, I have a great substitute topic:
Why is this game SO. CONFUSING?
Today, I realized I have more than one sack to place my items in. I also realized that I can eat a numerous amount of food to regain health (morale? I dont know what to call it). I realized that I can, in fact, change weapons and sell items. All of this happened either today or yesterday. Did I mention I've been playing for a month?
Yes. A month.
Within that month I've discovered the wide variety of objects that can harm or kill me. Bears, wolves, man-eating spiders, and toads. YES. TOADS. How something so small can withstand 20 blows from an ax completely astounds me but I guess Shire toads are extremely resilient. I've also been called "n00b" in this game, or even better, completely ignored by other gamers who approach me and then quickly run away when I say, "Hi". This world confuses me so. A frog can hold up a fight against me but when I fall from a manageable height I am left limping. Or how other gamers interrupt my fight with beasts to land the final blow. Or how it is only when I have very little health left do I fall off a cliff and into a wolf den where I am basically ripped to shreds by "Snarling Wolf" and "Wolf Leader".
Besides my own frustration with the game, the virtual world of LOTRO that I actually HAVE experienced is amazing. The feeling that I have the entirety of Middle Earth to explore is real and the game designers attention to detail is amazing. It gave me great pleasure to walk around the Farthings and visit famous pubs, or even recognizing characters from the first book.
However, I am fully determined to reach the appropriate levels to enter these quest. Otherwise I would let down my avatar, and Calvirth will not stand for this.
Hear this Toads of The Shire! YOU WILL FALL BEFORE MY AX! I SWEAR TO IT!


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Koran-Verteilung: Radikale Muslime bedrohen Journalisten - B.Z. Berlin - Koran, Verteilung, Islam, Salafisten
Now German journalists critical of Islamicists are in the cross hairs: In a video on YouTube radical Mulsims showed private photos of an employee of the "Frankfurter Rundschau" - accompanied by threats against the "apes and pigs" who published "mendacious" reports.
Research by the newspaper "Die Welt" revealed that the film was created by a group associated with the Salafists, who presently are distributing 25 million Korans in German. The initiative began on Saturday in several towns. The day before the video was posted online. In Berlin, as far as we are aware, no Korans have yet been distributed.
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The movement, according to the Constitutional Protection Authority, has in Germany around 2500 followers. They support, among other ideas, the full veiling of women and believe non-Salafist Muslims to be infidels. The Ulm printer, Ebner & Spiegel, which has shipped so far more than 300,000 Korans wants now to check the contract before proceeding.
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NFC Forum's pick for its new executive director, Paula Hunter, will be taking over the day-to-day operation of the standards and trade group as it seeks to help spur more market adoption of NFC technology.
U.S.-based Sequent Software hopes the addition of two NFC industry veterans, including a former NFC expert at Microsoft, will help it compete for trusted service management contracts with the top three global smart card vendors.
The NFC Forum is looking for a new executive director to replace Paula Berger, who resigned from the standards and trade group last month.
The most important trade group promoting Near Field Communication, the NFC Forum sets standards for the technology and evangelizes its uses.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The head of transit payments gateway and processor Littlepay said he believes that Apple and Google are well-positioned to take a "big bite out of the payment chain," which could change their relationship with payments networks Visa and Mastercard from one of collaboration to one of competition.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based Cubic Transportation Systems and Israel-based trip planning app provider Moovit, now owned by Intel, have expanded their partnership to develop mobile services for transit agencies, seeking to enable transit customers to "look, book and pay" for multimodal journeys.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Major Brussels transit operator STIB-MIVB plans to begin accepting contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets on Wednesday, the latest European capital to launch open-loop payments following the success of the technology as demonstrated in London.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The massive new fare-collection system planned by Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, which will include open-loop contactless payments and an expanded closed-loop program, has had trouble getting off the ground. Late last week, the transit agency finalized its "reset" of the project, agreeing to increase the contract by nearly 30% to just over $935 million and to add two more years to the rollout schedule–all in hopes of getting the project back on track.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – As more consumers buy online, and to a lesser extent use mobile wallets for in-store purchases, because of the coronavirus pandemic, tokenized card transactions are expected to increase dramatically.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – In what is believed to be a first, a transit agency in Europe plans to accept contactless credit and debit cards using a third-party software-as-a-service platform this summer, UK-based platform provider Masabi told NFC Times, although the company declined to name the agency. The project is expected to begin as a pilot.
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Last year, Taylor Swift closed the "reputation" era of her career when she finished up her record-breaking arena tour, and since teasing the "next chapter" during her 2018 American Music Awards speech ('I'm even more excited about the next chapter"), Swifties everywhere have been keeping a look out for any clues possible to try and figure out exactly what is coming their way and when. Recently, T-Swift has given us all a plethora of clues, and now, there's a countdown involved.
Put on your detective hats, and let's work backwards, shall we? Because thanks to some very astute Swifties, there are so many theories. SO MANY.
Then, there is apriltwentysix.com, which redirects to Taylor's official website ... which, right now, contains a countdown clock to April 26th and also features a cotton candy cloud motif.
There is a site called julythirteen.com. Is it real? Is it not? Obviously, Taylor's number is 13 , and as one fan points out, when you save the main image, which is a similar cotton candy sky with palm trees, or look at the code of the site, the image is saved as "youhavemyheartinthecityofangels.jpg."
And in case you didn't know the City of Angels is Los Angeles. More on that later.
Then there's this Scrabble-related theory:
So, back in October, Taylor posted a photo of herself playing Scrabble with her mom Andrea. She captioned the pic on Instagram, "Let the games BEGIN." Well, OBVIOUSLY, this doesn't just mean Scrabble! Right?! If you look at one of the pictures, you can see that her letters read "IOIE" which if you flip the "E" around, so that it's backwards, it kind of looks like 1013 - 10/13, as one fan pointed out. But there's more, the fan also figures out that there's even meaning to the 4/26 date in the Scrabble picture. ...Ready For it? Because here it is:
"Taylor is coming for us on 4.26 and there are TWENTY SIX LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET. Also the blue seal ended up meaning (something is coming) *approximately 2 weeks away and the blue tiles are known for their 2x multiplier in scrabble."
Taylor hinted at the 4/26 countdown in her Elle "30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30" article.
One fact that she shares in this article is, you guessed it, lesson No. 26 (like in 4/26), and it's about the fact that she likes to create countdowns for things she's looking forward to. She wrote, "I make countdowns for things I'm excited about. When I've gone through dark, low times, I've always found a tiny bit of relief and hope in getting a countdown app (they're free) and adding things I'm looking forward to. Even if they're not big holidays or anything, it's good to look toward the future. Sometimes we can get overwhelmed in the now, and it's good to get some perspective that life will always go on, to better things."
Speaking of "dark, low times," the theme of Taylor's posts are just the opposite. Going from her "reputation" era to this new era, all of T-Swift's Instagram posts have been very light and magical, full of bright and pastel colors:
Taylor has been sharing a lot of Los Angeles-related clues lately. And if julythirteen.com and "youhavemyheartinthecityofangels" holds any meaning, then it's all connected. Let's take a deeper look:
There were THESE butterfly heels that Taylor wore to the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards in honor of the Monarch Butterfly Migration, which happens on the west coast of CALIFORNIA. And you best believe these beauties flutter around L.A.
Also: PALM TREES, PALM TREES, PALM TREES. Palm trees are ALL OVER LA, as well as Taylor's IG (and now also on julythirteen.com). FEAST YOUR EYES ON ALL OF THE PALM TREES:
Also, consider this: When Taylor first teased reputation, she posted a series of three videos featuring a snake's head, body and tail in that order. When she was posting photos of her iHeartRadio Music Awards outfit, she also posted her upper body/head, full body, and feet in that order, let alone the fact that she was wearing butterfly shoes. Does this symbolize her metamorphosis?
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Faces of Food Safety: Program Specialist Natasha Williams
As the daughter of an Air Force Officer, Office of Outreach, Employee Education and Training (OOEET) Program Specialist Natasha Williams grew up knowing that she wanted to do something big to serve her country. Today, she fulfills her lifelong ambition through a career in public health and outreach with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Food safety has always been a part of her life
Growing up, Williams would always see her parents carefully handle the chicken and steaks they were making for dinner, but never really understood why it was so important. "Before coming to FSIS, I had cooked often, but I did not realize that the meat needed to be cooked to a safe internal temperature," said Williams. After learning about food safety on the job, she now shares her knowledge with friends and family.
A native of Aurora, Colo., Williams received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Colorado. Shortly after graduating, she moved to Washington, D.C., and joined FSIS in May 2009.
Strengthening Collaboration
From the very beginning, Williams has been focused on building connections and bringing people together to achieve common goals.
Working for OOEET's Outreach and Partnership Division, Williams provides outreach to small and very small establishments that specialize in slaughtering and processing. This can include sharing technical expertise, agency updates, and advice to small and very small establishments on policies, implementation of food safety systems and enforcement.
Natasha's work facilitating trainings and her work to better inform plant operators complements the work of FSIS inspectors and other personnel, who ultimately work together to ensure the safety of the nation's meat, poultry and egg products. The work FSIS does is dynamic and demanding, and it takes all of us at FSIS to get the job done. This team approach is exactly how FSIS carries out its overall mission of protecting public health.
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Natasha is also extremely flexible, wearing multiple hats on any given day, Williams says, "The great thing about working in FSIS is that no day is exactly the same. There are so many initiatives that are important to both employees and stakeholders."
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Williams' work to educate small and very small plants is a vital part of ensuring a safe food supply, and it increases compliance by these establishments with FSIS regulations, creates stronger partnerships between the industry and FSIS in our combined efforts to provide safe food for dinner tables everywhere, and most importantly, increases public health.
According to Williams, supporting these establishments is the best part of her job.
"It's gratifying to work for an agency where you can see the difference you make everyday," said Williams. "Working for FSIS is rewarding because you can go into grocery stores and see our inspection seal on the products you purchase. You can say to yourself: this is my agency and I work here. It is so amazing. It is like getting an immediate return on your investment."


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He had a shoulder injury earlier in his career, right?
... and who was his daddy?
Bad Bad Leroy Brown?
Trivia:Who is referenced by the JLB on the Pirates' sleeves?
spot on, i'd say
The Yankees?
JLB had his own pre-game show in the '60s.
... and the young guys are playing.
John Layfield Bradshaw?
i just looked into the deal, crappy seats, far RF and LF corner and RF mezz.
Bill Mazeroski
yeah, I suspect we're looking at our 2011 starting infield tonight.
No double-switches AND no defensive substitutions!
Just coming back from the dc united match, how are the nats doing? Gimme a short summary
JLB ... Joe L. Brown ... GM of the Pirates ... his daddy was Joe E. Brown (comedian). Pirates trivia from an old Pirates fan who is now a Nats' fan.
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Tahoe area fishing report for Feb 26, 2011
We offer guided fly fishing year round on the Carson, Truckee and Walker rivers. Lots of snow has fallin around the Tahoe area right now.
East Carson River fishing report – Currently flowing at 159cfs. Above Hangman's Bridge – Closed till last Sat in April. Catch and release section below Hangman's Bridge Lots of snow has fallen the Tahoe Area, with this last storm. The East Carson tends to really slow down during the winter months. Nymphing with small baetis and midge patterns is the best bet during this time of year. Try nymphing the slow tailouts and deeper pools with wd-40′s, zebra midges, rainbow warriors and baetis patterns. For dries try size 18-20 blue duns and size 20-22 black cripples. Nymphs- Fox's poopah tan 16-18, size 18 Z-wing caddis, micro mayfly's black and olive 16-18, pheasant tails 16-18, zebra midges 18-20, Wier's sprinkles vanilla and chocolate 18-20. Streamers-buggers in Olive, White and black, woolhead sculpins, crystal buggers, meat whistle olive and black. Dries- Cutter's E.C. caddis 18-20, tan elk hair caddis 16-18, parachute adams 16-24, hackle stacker bwo's 16-18, Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
West Carson River fishing report – Closed till last saturday in April – Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
West Walker River fishing report– Closed till last Saturday in April – Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
East Walker River fishing report- Flows are 112cfs. The fish are concentrated in the deeper buckets. Nymphs- Small baetis and midge nymphs are still working well. Dries- try small para adams, blue duns and black cripples. Fun time to target a few risers during the warmer part of the day. Streamers- Olive and Tan cone-head sculpins, olive and white buggers, natural and pearl zonkers. Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Little Truckee River fishing report– Flows are down to 37s. No word on how the road has been after this last storm. Baetis and small midge patterns work well this time of year. rainbow warriors in black and red sizes 18-20, wd-40′s grey and olive 18-22, barrs emergers 18-20, Wier's sprinkle's 18-20. For dries try blue duns 18-20, para adams 18-22, black cripples Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Truckee River (Ca) fishing report– Flows on the Truckee are 140cfs near the town of Truckee and 411cfs below Boca bridge. Nymphing with small baetis and midge patterns has been working well. Look for fish rising to baetis and midges throughout the warmest part of the day. Nymphs- Fox's Poopah olive and tan 16-18, pheasant tails 16-20, Wier's sprinkles 18-20, prince nymphs 14-18, micro mays 18-20, black and olive zebra midges 18-20. Dries- Blue duns 18-20, hackle stacker bwo's 18-20, para adams 18-22 . Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Truckee River (Nv) fishing report- Flows on the Truckee in Nevada are from 384 -500cfs depending on what stretch of the river you are on. Nymphing has been the way to go all day. Fish have been coming up for BWO's in the afternoon, but will slow with this cold snap. Look to the longer, deeper runs to be holding fish. Nymphs- Pheasant Tails 12-18's, Tiger Worms 10, Copper, Copper Johns 12-18's, Psycho Prince 12-16. Dries- BWO's 12-16 (YES you read that right!) BWO emergers 12-16, Parachute Adams 12-18, there has been a lot of midges hatching as well but hardly any fish are keyed in on them. Streamers- Olive, White, and Black Buggers, Olive and Black Woolhead Sculpins on a slow swing will pick up fish aswell! Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Tahoe area Still waters:
Indian Creek Reservoir fishing report– Fishing is slowing down. Try buggers and aggravator princes with a slow strip. Midges and Small Baetis nymphs under the indicator has been working as well. Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Pyramid Lake- Fishing has been incredible the last week, but has slowed with the cold snap! Fish are still being taken stripping streamers, as well as on the Indicator. Look for fishing to improve with warmer temperatures! It's almost time for March Madness at the lake! Nymphs- Ice cream cone Midges in Black, Red, Purple. Holographic Attractor Patterns in Black, Red, Purple, and Green. Streamers- Black, Olive, White, and Purple Buggers.
Caples Lake fishing report– Lots of snow. Frozen, Ice Fishing is doing well! Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Red Lake fishing report– Frozen, Ice Fishing is doing well!. Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Marlette Lake fishing report– Closed for the season
Spooner Lake fishing report– Frozen
Blue Lakes fishing report– Road clased Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
Silver Lake fishing report– Lots of snow. Guides Available call (530-541-8208).
We have offered guiding on most of these waters for over 15 years. The shop is fully stocked with all the latest equipment and flies needed to fish the Eastern Sierra and more. Call 530-541-8208 or stop by the shop for more info. We will be updating our fishing report often so check www.tahoeflyfishing.com/blog for the most up to date info on fly fishing the Tahoe Region.
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Parenthetical Notes
Aunt Hen was my guardian. I always felt that was an interesting title. As a child I sometimes turned that word over in my mind thinking about what it meant. I knew it was official because it was something she would write down on paper and my Aunt Hen wouldn't write down anything if it wasn't true.
My Dad was out of town at least one night every week on business and when he was gone my aunt would sometimes have to sign papers for school or a note for the bus driver. When she signed those notes she sat down at the head of her dining room table and carefully wrote out her whole name. At the end, in parentheses, she would add the word guardian.
In some ways I was troubled by that parenthetical note. The formality of that designation seemed to add an unnecessary weight to the process of gaining permission. It suggested someone might question my aunt's authority on it's own. What's more those parentheses seemed to point me out as being different. No one else I knew of had anyone to sign papers with parentheses at the end of their name. All I really wanted in those days was to blend in and be like everyone else.
On the other hand, having a guardian was always a comfort. While I wasn't really sure what all of the legal implications of having a guardian might be, if nothing else, having a guardian meant I had someone to go to in times of need. It meant someone had my back.
Angels in the Kitchen
Throughout the years Aunt Hen continued to have my back. Even after I passed the age of needing a legal guardian she was there for me. When I was scared or lonely or just needed advice she was only a short walk or, later, a phone call away. Whenever I had a nagging question about what or how something should be done she was usually the one I would turn to, especially when it came to matters of the kitchen.
Angel Pie is a recipe Aunt Hen sent to me in one of her frequent letters a few years after I moved away from home. She recommended it highly and knew I would like it. With only some slight variation, it combines two of my all-time favorite recipes: Aunt Hen's Chocolate Bar Pie nestled into a crust of my mother's crunchy sweet Meringue Cookies. The result is a pie that strikes an elegant balance between light and satisfying.
Today would have been Aunt Hen's 102nd birthday. It has been nearly two decades since she passed on to dwell with the angels. That doesn't mean I don't still take those matters of the kitchen to her for advice. When I wonder what to make for dessert and need a recipe that is classic, dependable and not too complicated I know where to turn. Usually the answer is right there in Aunt Hen's own handwriting.
2 egg whites, at room temperature
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
½ cup sugar
½ cup sliced almonds
½ teaspoon vanilla
4 ounces chocolate (I used dark chocolate)
3 Tablespoons hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cream
Preheat oven to 300F.
In a mixing bowl, beat eggs whites with an electric mixer until foamy. Add salt and cream of tartar. Continue beating until soft peaks form.
Add sugar, 1 Tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in sliced almonds and ½ teaspoon vanilla.
Turn meringue mixture into a lightly greased 8-inch pie plate. With a spoon, make a sort of nest of the meringue, building up the sides to the rim of the pie plate, forming a thick pie shell. Bake in a slow oven, 300F, for 55 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
In a small saucepan or the top of a double boiler, melt the chocolate, stirring over moderate heat until the chocolate is soft. Add 3 Tablespoons hot water and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Blend until smooth. Set aside to cool.
In a mixing bowl, beat the cream with an electric mixer until stiff. Fold the cooled chocolate into the whipped cream. Spoon mixture into the meringue pie shell.
Garnish with chocolate curls, if desired.
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Despite disappointing finish, Mattingly proud
Manager finds positives in Dodgers' October run after postseason cut short
ST. LOUIS -- This wasn't how Dodgers manager Don Mattingly wanted it to end.
The Cardinals were celebrating on Friday night, a 9-0 victory against the Dodgers at Busch Stadium in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, allowing St. Louis to advance to the World Series.
And Mattingly and the Dodgers were packing their bags in the visiting clubhouse, getting ready to head home for the winter.
Mattingly relished every second of the postseason, until the final seconds.
"Obviously, I am really proud of my club," said Mattingly. "I felt like these guys hung in all year long. They were a great group to be around."
Talking in the past tense, Mattingly is looking at the future. He's going to meet next week with team president Stan Kasten and general manager Ned Colletti when, as well as reflecting on the past season, they will look at next season with every indication that Mattingly will return for his fourth year as the Dodgers' manager.
The team does have an option for next season -- at a reasonable $1.4 million -- and all indications in recent days were that it would be exercised and there might even be a year or two added to the deal.
Mattingly more than earned that with the way he nursed this high-priced, injury-prone team through a miserable start -- last place in the NL West and 9 1/2 games out the morning of June 22 -- into first place a month later and then saw the Dodgers clinch the division title earlier than any of the five other division titlists.
He earned it by not letting the fact he knew he was a loss or two away from being dismissed back in June or the constant second-guessing that comes with the managerial territory distract him from providing the Dodgers with management stability in how he dealt with each day.
And he earned it by maintaining the same calmness in the postseason that he had during the regular season.
"It's good to know that you can get in these games and it doesn't really change, didn't speed up on me," Mattingly said. "You all can question this move or that move, but nothing really caught me by surprise. I didn't feel overwhelmed by it. It was really a good feeling to know that you can get in there and slow it down and not get caught up in what game it is or anything else.
"Obviously, this isn't where we want to end it. But we were able to win a series in Atlanta. I thought we played well at times in this series."
Mattingly learned his lessons during his 18 years with the Yankees -- 14 as a player and four as a coach -- and their owner, the late George Steinbrenner.
"[Steinbrenner] was pretty tough," Mattingly said earlier this season, "but you knew what you were in for. That is a good thing.
"It doesn't make you do anything different. I asked a lot of myself as a player. Nobody could ask more. And I ask a lot of myself as a manager. I have a job to do, and because there are expectations that does not change what I do."
What he did this season was awfully good, but not good enough in a world where there's only one out of 30 teams that can enjoy the final day of its season.
Mattingly, in his 24th year in a big league uniform, hasn't gotten to dress out for a World Series game. Fourteen years and 1,785 days as a player, seven years as a coach -- including three with the Dodgers -- and now three years as a manager, but never a World Series moment.
It doesn't bother him, for himself, said Mattingly, but it does bother him.
"Going through the spring, the long season, and then it just comes to a crash," he said. "It's disappointing for all of us."
But it is the manager who finds himself in the spotlight.
Inexperience and injuries can hang over a team, but in baseball, more than any other sport, the manager is expected to have the medicine to cure what ails a team.
And when there are losses, it's the manager who is under the public microscope.
"That's part of the job," said Mattingly. "You understand that. You can't think about that. You have to do what you feel is the right thing to do."
Mattingly was hit hard during the postseason.
The Dodgers lost only one of four games to Atlanta in the NL Division Series, but it was that one loss, 4-3, at Atlanta in Game 2, that became a focal point when Mattingly mixed-and-match his way through three batter sequence in the bottom of the seventh only to see left-handed-hitting Jason Heyward deliver the two-out, two-run single off lefty reliever Paco Rodriguez to put the Braves up, 4-1.
A 13-inning, 3-2 loss to the Cardinals in Game 1 of the NLCS became an issue when in the eighth inning of a 2-2 game, he pinch-ran Dee Gordon for the one healthy, productive bat in the lineup, Adrian Gonzalez. Not only did Gordon get forced at second -- never even getting at a point where he attempted a stolen base -- but twice in extra innings, Michael Young got the at-bats that would have been Gonzalez's.
Both times Hanley Ramirez was walked ahead of Young. Both times the inning ended with double plays. Young flied to shallow right in the 10th, and A.J. Ellis was thrown out, trying to score, and it was a fourth ground-into-double-play in the 12th.
And what underscores the life of a manager is that what might be the most questionable move Mattingly made in the postseason -- having Clayton Kershaw pitch on three days' rest for the first time in his career in Game 4 of the NLDS -- was quickly overlooked because Kershaw pitched well (two unearned runs in six innings) and the Dodgers won.
"It's been fine," Mattingly said of the spotlight he has endured. "It's been that way the whole year. The postseason was actually a lot of fun, because it was good for me from the standpoint of just concentration and focus on the game at hand.''
And now, with his first October managerial experience in his rearview mirror, Mattingly's ready to start looking ahead and plotting the route that next year he hopes will allow him and the Dodgers to take a long journey down the winding road of baseball's postseason.


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Bamp for Great Justice! and a new trailer....http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/16/as-promised-we-have-a-trailer-for-the-2nd-super-robot-taisen-og/
Look nice but they added a bunch of character that I never heard of. BTW, are they going to model it after the game or the anime? Cuz the anime, while nice, was missing several key note from the game like drilling a certain hateful bastard to death.
you made a typo you meant to say R not D. also the anime is not cannon. the game follows the events of OGS version of OG2 and OGG. most of OG2 gba is still relevant however in OGS OG2 lee did not die. expect him to be in the not titans. aka GS.


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Did Dev Take a Shot at Kesha for New Haircut?
Cat fights are certainly nothing new in the world of pop music, but taking a stab at a fellow star for something juvenile will never earn you points. Dev learned that the hard way when she seemingly took a shot at Kesha's new haircut via Twitter, which resulted in hateful replies and plenty of unfollows.
"Homegirl is all late lol. That was cool a year ago friend," Dev tweeted on Tuesday, the same day that 'Tik Tok' songstress Kesha shared a photo of her new side-shaved haircut with her fans, also on Twitter.
Dev's followers must be pretty savvy, because they seemed to figure out that she was referring to Kesha's new 'do within just a few hours. After the initial tweet had time to sink in and sting a little, Dev returned to hundreds of angry tweets on her Twitter page, and quickly denied that she was speaking of her fellow pop music female. "I never said said no ones name, yall assume too much. Tsk-tsk," she tweeted the following day.
Unfortunately, her timing was a bit too coincidental — as are her own past hairstyles. In the photo of Dev above, shot in June 2011, the 'In the Dark' singer rocks a similarly shaved cut, which may have made some music fans feel as if she was just taking a stab at Kesha for copying her style.
Our two cents? Kesha's half-long, half-gone hairdo suits her perfectly, played out or not.


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A controversial French comedian at the centre of the Nicolas Anelka anti-semitism row has been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office said.
Dieudonne M'bala M'bala previously announced he would visit London to support the West Bromwich Albion footballer, who faces a ban for performing the comic's "quenelle" salute on the pitch, which is believed by some to be an anti-semitic gesture.
The Football Association (FA) charged Anelka over the pose, struck after scoring against West Ham on December 28, and he faces a minimum five-match ban if found guilty. Anelka has denied the charge and requested a personal hearing.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that Mr Dieudonne is subject to an exclusion order.
"The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so."
Dieudonne, who has been prosecuted for inciting racial hatred through anti-Semitic jokes and comments, is credited with creating the quenelle, a hand and arm movement alleged by some to be a reverse Nazi salute.
The 47-year-old comedian, who has previously said the gesture is anti-establishment, had several shows banned in France last month amid fears his portrayal of Jews and mocking of the Holocaust were a risk to public order.
He rewrote the shows, dropping much of the material deemed offensive but fans and civil liberties campaigners hit out at the French government for attacking free speech and censorship.
Anelka has also previously said his salute, which he described as a ''dedication'' to Dieudonne, was aimed at the French establishment. The player has insisted he is not anti-Semitic or racist.
Shortly after the West Ham game, West Brom released a statement to acknowledge the celebration had caused some offence and Anelka had been asked to refrain from doing it again, with the player agreeing to abstain.
Anelka did not play yesterday against Liverpool due to injury but started against Midlands rivals Aston Villa last Wednesday - Albion's first match since the player was charged.
West Brom's sponsors Zoopla earlier announced they had decided to end their association with the club in the wake of the furore.
But new West Brom head coach Pepe Mel has indicated he intends to keep selecting the frontman.
West Brom have said their own internal inquiry into the matter will be concluded once the the FA's disciplinary process has finished, with a hearing expected this month, and they will not be making any further comment.
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Oldspeak:"If you live in California, or anywhere along the pacific coast of North America, you should be concerned. Radiation levels 500% higher than normal are being found in coastal seaweed. Los Angeles and Anaheim, high population centers, are receiving the highest amounts of radioactive fallout right now, over 1 year later. (research shows chronic exposure to low level radiation is more dangerous than acute exposure to high doses.) Radioactive rain outs are expected to continue for some time on the pacific coast. Radioactive debris is beginning to wash up on the pacific coast, and radioactive seawater will soon lap west coast shores. Acceptable levels of radiation exposure have been raised, and measurement of airborne radiation has been stopped in the U.S. and Canada. Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska's Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals' fur coats. Seafood from Japan is not being tested for radioactivity. Why is this ongoing threat being reported so lightly, if atal in Corporate media? The health and well-being of millions is being threatened, while radiation detectors have been turned off. While more money is being poured into building more nuclear reactors. There's a lot of information about this ongoing disaster that's not being shared with the public. The people need to be asking more questions about what's going on and what is or isn't being done about it.
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Fukushima Radiation Plume Hit Southern and Central California
The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California "with greatest exposure in central and southern California", and that Southern California's seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada:
Projected paths of the radioactive atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and 35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in contact with the North American continent at California, with greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3
Anaheim is where Disneyland is located.
EneNews summarizes the data:
Corona Del Mar (Highest in Southern California)
- 2.5 Bq/gdwt (gram dry weight)= 2,500 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
Santa Cruz (Highest in Central California)
- 2.0 Bq/gdwt = 2,000 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
Simon Fraser University in Canada also tested North American seaweed after Fukushima:
- "In samples of dehydrated seaweed taken on March 15 near the North Vancouver SeaBus terminal, the count was zero; on March 22 it was 310 Bq per kilogram; and by March 28 it was 380 Bq/kg." –Vancouver Sun
- Seaweed in Seattle also tested positive for iodine-131; levels were not reported –KIRO
- No results after March 28 were reported
In addition, radioactive debris is starting to wash up on the Pacific Coast. And because the Japanese are burning radioactive materials instead of disposing of them, radioactive rain-outs will continue for some time … even on the Pacific Coast.
Of course, the government is doing everything it can to help citizens cover up what's occurring. We pointed out in January:
Instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem "safe".
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials [see this].
And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE's Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation….
American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation, and are not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising "acceptable" radiation levels.)
So – as in Japan – radiation is usually discovered by citizens and the handful of research scientists with funding to check, and not the government. See this, this, this, this, this and this.
The Japanese government's entire strategy from day one has been to cover up the severity of the Fukushima accident. This has likely led to unnecessary, additional deaths.
Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world's nuclear agencies are wholly captured by the nuclear industry … as are virtually all of the supposedly independent health agencies.
So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about what is happening.
And it's not just radiation from Japan. An effort by the Southern California Edison power company to secretly ramp up production to avoid public disclosure may have led to a leak at the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
And see these articles on California radiation exposure courtesy of EneNews:
- Anaheim, CA has highest amount of radioactive fallout of any EPA air monitoring station in Continental U.S. for iodine-131
- Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago
- USGS: Los Angeles area had highest cesium deposition in US after Fukushima
- "Tends to concentrate in the testicles": 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima
- Unprecedented Spike: 1501 atoms of radioactive sulfur per meter³ was detected in California air
- Radioactive sulfur in California spiked to highest levels ever detected: University researchers
- Controversy after US gov't estimate showed 40,000 microsievert thyroid dose for California infants from Fukushima — Data not released to public — "Very high doses to children"
- Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? "Abnormal" readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington — Devices now "undergoing quality review"
- Nuclear policy expert: "Striking" that radioactive iodine-131 in California rainwater is so far above level permitted in drinking water
- Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern California, and Seattle


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After wrapping up another season of Dancing with the Stars just last week, co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet is gearing up to undergo surgery for thyroid cancer this week.
Losties? Trekkies? Which TV show has the best fans? Vote now!
In a post on her Facebook page, Brooke-Charvet thanked fans for their positive wishes for her surgery and for sharing their own experiences with the illness. "I really do read your comments and they all mean a lot to me. I'm getting ready this week for my surgery and am planning on a speedy recovery," she wrote. "What a crazy time, but I am surrounded with love and support and that really makes a world of difference. Thank you for following me and for all your thoughts and prayers."
The host, 41, first revealed her diagnosis early last month and has been blogging about her experience on ModernMom.com.


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Vapor4Life recently came out with a ton of new drip tips, in all different colors and styles. There are photos of all the drip tips on the website. Each different style shows the various colors next to each other. This works great if you have decided on a style, and then want to choose a


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Why not use the template to make the lining? Just cut out the flap and 1/2 of the inside of the card.
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Lenovo released a new nettop today, but they've got bigger and better plans for their latest creation that might be worth waiting for.
• Lenovo's C100 nettop we first spotted a few weeks ago is now shipping, but we're still waiting on Lenovo to deliver some of the more exciting features they promised. The C100 features an 18.5" display, Windows XP, and your choice of either a single or dual-core Atom processor. We heard from Lenovo back in August that they're planning a touchscreen version of the C100 to take advantage of the Windows 7 touch pack, but that option won't be available until at least October. If you don't need all that fancy touchscreen witchcraft or just don't want to wait, you can grab the C100 over at Lenovo's online store today. Starts at $400. [Electronista]


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RE: Applying CPU to RAC with physical standby
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:22:32 -0700
Message-ID: <email@example.com>
Tony, yes, startup upgrade so not really open.
Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
IET Campus Data Center
(530) 754-6208
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of S. Anthony Sequeira Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:08 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: RE: Applying CPU to RAC with physical standby
Thanks for that, I'll have a look at it.
I got a reply from Oracle Support, after escalating the SR, and they give similar steps, except they didn't mention catpatch.
I did catch that, and am awaiting an answer on how and when catpatch should be run. I believe catpatch should be run with the database started up in migrate mode? In which case I believe all nodes should be shutdown, though I may well be wrong.
But thanks again, I'll have a look.
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 08:44 -0700, William Wagman wrote:
> Greetings,
> Metalink note 278641.1 gives instructions for applying a patchset with
> 10g physical standby in place and, although I haven't tried it in a
> environment, only with standby, but I suspect it could be
> Shut down the primary (in this case the RAC node which is the primary)
> and the standby, install the patch and then with both the primary and
> standby open run catpatch, then follow the instructions for a rolling
> upgrade on other nodes? I've not tried it but it seems like it should
> work.
> Bill Wagman
> Univ. of California at Davis
> IET Campus Data Center
> wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
> (530) 754-6208
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of S. Anthony
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:13 AM
> To: Oracle List
> Subject: Re: Applying CPU to RAC with physical standby
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 12:37 +0100, jason arneil wrote:
> > I think you should be OK to apply the catpatch.sql with the database
> > up, the patch instructions are clear on that. I don't think having
> > dataguard involved impacts on this, why should it?
> Yes, but the standby patch application note (187242.1) specifically
> mentions that all nodes must be down while the entire patch is being
> applied. This is what I'm querying with Oracle Support, and the list.
> I too believe that having a standby should not make a difference, but
> apparently it does.
> > You must however
> > start the database in upgrade mode to perform the view recompile -
> > but
> > you know this already!
> >
> > At this stage I can't see how you can have a node open for business
> > -
> > except if you want to offer your users some read only activity, then
> > you could use your standby read only while you were doing the view
> > recompile.
> We have scheduled downtime in a short window between batch runs on a
> Sunday afternoon. Oracle Support are dragging their heels on this, if
> have to take the database down for an extended period of time, it has
> go back to the business.
> > This though is far removed from the marketing hype of "rolling
> > upgrade".
> Agreed, this begs the question, why use RAC and pay through the nose?
> But that's probably been gone through many times, and is not really
> relevant to the thread.
> Regards.
-- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ NEVER RESPOND TO CRITICAL PRESS. IT IS A GAME YOU CAN ONLY LOSE, AND IT MAKES US LOOK BAD. -- Bruce Perens ++ -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed May 28 2008 - 11:22:32 CDT


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This afternoon I came across a rattlesnake by the side of the house. A big one. Western diamondback. I reached for my pistol, like always, lifted it from the holster and drew a bead. I took one step forward and the snake coiled, watching me with its black eyes as it began to rattle. I pulled back the hammer on the gun. That forked tongue flicked the air as the snake tried to assess the best way to handle a threat it couldn't even begin to imagine. I stood there for several minutes before I let the hammer slide slowly back into place. I holstered the weapon. It's only been recently that I've come to see beauty in things that can kill me. Maybe only in things that can kill me. I'm not talking about skydiving or driving too fast. This is something else. I can't say exactly what it is. Not with words, at least. I guess it's just one of those things.
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Monitoring the servers could be well – "not difficult" but boring and monotonous. And since this is something that you should ideally do on daily basis, so why not have a script for the same.
You can't possibly copy your ssh-keys to all the servers that you are monitoring, better if you can, then you need to do ssh to server with password. So, here is link to my github repo for monitoring servers with perl script. Preety straight forward script and you can schedule this in cron to get a daily mail.
The script covers solaris and Linux ( i.e. Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian/ideally any distro)
Do let me know in comments, if you feel something is missnig.


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Viglen's financial performance has improved, meaning chief exec Bordan Tkachuk and chairman Claude Littner will avoid Lord Sugar's fearsome finger - which is usually waved about when numbers are down or Apprentice wannabes get the boot.
For the year ended 30 September, the public-sector-focused provider of PCs, storage and servers pushed up sales by seven per cent to £66.2m and reported net profits of £2.1m up from £1.5m a year earlier.
The rise in turnover was due to new wins in the school academy sector which more than offset a decline in "low-margin public-sector sales", the firm said in a directors report.
"The company has not sought to win low-margin below-cost business. The company has focused on growing higher margin services," it added.
Hertfordshire-based Viglen said profits were boosted "despite the economy remaining difficult particular in the public sector" by keeping costs down, retaining customers and winning new ones.
It is not clear where the overheads were minimised, as operating costs increased to £63.5m from £60.04m, and included in that staff costs went up to £6.76m, versus £6.3m in the previous fiscal.
Headcount went up in the year to 176 from 164.
Viglen is forecasting a bumper 2013, particularly from its schools division. It is one of 15 suppliers on the Becta ICT services framework that was transfered to the Department for Education.
This framework is being used to supply tech to the government-favoured Free School programme, and Viglen has already reached preferred bidder status on more than £14m worth of contracts to be largely delivered in 2013.
As revealed by us, telly celeb Sugar, who still owns a chunk of Viglen, stepped back from the IT biz several years ago when he gave Littner the keys to the chairman's office. ®


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It is the costliest crime in America, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Organized crime drives it, money fuels it, and it has gone international. It happens nearly three times a day somewhere in America, and in California it happens twice as often as anywhere else in the nation.
We're talking about cargo theft — the high-cost, big-time crime that you've likely never heard about.
"It really is huge," said California Highway Patrol officer Xavier Spencer. "We estimate nationwide that it's a $35 billion loss annually just in cargo theft and obviously that only involves the cargo theft that we're made aware of. A lot of these thefts are not reported."
Spencer is part of the CHP's Cargo Theft Interdiction Program or CTIP, and is one of 10 people on the force assigned to fight cargo theft full time in the state. He and just three other men cover the entire region north of Los Angeles County up to the Oregon border.
For the past three months the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit went undercover with CTIP investigators to expose this major crime. Reporters and producers went behind the scenes to track down stolen shipping containers in Stanislaus County; rode along on stings to look for lifted cargo in Gilroy; watched recovery operations at the Port of Oakland and reviewed surveillance video the team used to track down suspects.
"A lot of times these guys will go park their trucks at the truck stop and go inside and clean up or get something to eat and they come out and their trailers and tractors are gone," Spencer said. "Somebody just stole it within 30 seconds."
He says often times truckers pull up to an unmanned cargo truck, attach their cabs to the containers and drive away. Other times he says thieves will simply unlock the doors of the trailers and hand-unload the cargo inside. They make off with tons of merchandise — everything from electronics to drugs, computers to military supplies and weapons to wine — that they steal, hide in warehouses and then sell for profit.
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Last year the National Insurance Crime Bureau logged 1,215 cargo theft incidents across the country. That's up 17 percent from 2010. According to a report from Cargo Net, an offshoot of NICB, California led all states with 304 occurrences of cargo theft in 2011. That's more than $390 million in theft in the state in just the last two years alone. Texas was second on the list with 173 instances of cargo theft, followed by Florida with 146 occurrences.
Those three states plus New Jersey, Illinois and Georgia accounted for 75 percent of all cargo stolen off of American highways last year. According to the report, food was the most commonly stolen item, followed by electronics, metals and clothing. Data from Freight Watch International, a logistics security provider, the largest cargo heist last year happened in Fremont when drivers made off with $37 million dollars worth of microchips in one haul.
Victims of cargo theft frequently take big hits to their businesses. Griselda Bautista, owner of the Oakland-based warehousing company PCCS Inc., lost $65,000 worth of merchandise in 2008 when a trailer carrying a load of copy paper was lifted from her parking lot.
"It was picked off by a trucker," Bautista said. "He just came in and broke the pin lock and took off. I couldn't believe it. I was very upset. Everything that we went through, we lost. I mean, we almost went out of business the year after that because it was a hit that was a mark on your name."
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Bautista eventually found the trailer in Oakland on International Blvd., but the cargo was gone.
"It's American pirates — that's what you got." Bautista said. "We definitely learned a lesson about leaving a load out there that was unattended."
In April Spencer filed a federal case that resulted in the indictment of five suspects accused of lifting more than $2 million worth of cargo over the past five years. The suspects involved in Bautista's case are included in those charges. According to federal court papers, stolen cargo was traced to and from California and places like Alabama and Maryland, even South Korea and Israel.
The CTIP team says cargo theft operations are often times run by organized crime, and international in scope. In June Spencer's colleague, CHP investigator Mark Locey intercepted a stolen cargo load of plastic resin worth $154,000 that was on its way to Asia.
"It eventually wound back up on the ship going to the Port of Hong Kong," Locey said. "It had been sold to a company in China."
Locey prevented the delivery of the plastic resin once he discovered that it had been stolen. He turned it back around in the Pacific Ocean, and seized the load once it returned to the Port of Oakland.
Over the past four months, Locey located more than $500,000 worth of cargo allegedly stolen by the same person who reportedly took the cargo load of plastic resin. That man is now facing 14 felony counts associated with stealing and selling cargo and shipping containers.
Right now cargo theft is a low-risk, high reward proposition because the crime carries minor criminal penalties. Steal a half-million dollars-worth of cargo and a criminal might get six months in jail, according to various law enforcement agencies. Compare that to ten years in prison if a thief gets caught with a half million dollars-worth of cocaine.
"It's very difficult to prove that everything you recovered was stolen," Spencer said. "So, sometimes District Attorneys are not willing to take a case that's going to take a little bit of work."
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Partly for that reason this crime has largely been kept a secret for years, even as it grows in California and across the country. The CTIP team says that the problem is also being kept quiet by the very industry being victimized.
"Some smaller companies would rather not let other trucking companies know they suffered a loss due to the fact that they don't want to lose business," Spencer said. "So, they'll just have the insurance company pay it off and really not report the losses, so there are a lot we don't know about."
And that, says the men who fight this every day, costs each of us in the form of higher prices passed on to consumers as companies lose more and more money off of stolen cargo loads.
"Every consumer that goes into the store to buy something," Locey said, "chances are they are paying for the cost of this type of theft."
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Types of Indexes
General and Subject
Online indexes may cover every subject or be focused on a specific subject. As a rule, start with the general indexes and move to the specific ones when you need more information.
Examples of general periodicals indexes:
- ProQuest Research Library
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
- New York Times Historical
Examples of subject indexes:
- CINAHL (nursing and allied health)
- Business Source Premier
- ERIC (education)
- Medline
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"Back again?" (no smile)
That's the response I got from the cashier when I returned to my local market for the third time in three days.
"Wow, you must really love peppers." (eye roll)
That's what she said when I gently placed my nine red bell peppers on the conveyor belt. That's after having bought six the previous day and three before that, all with the same cashier. Does she ever go home?
I took umbrage neither to her eye rolling nor to her indelicate handling of my pristine peppers. If she doesn't realize the mind-blazing deal of red bell peppers 3 for $1, then I can't help her. I also won't be sharing my garlicky roasted red pepper and almond dip with her. So, there.
This recipe is inspired by my friend Simona from the authentically Italian blog, Briciole. If you don't know Simona, then I suggest you visit her. You'll feel like you just spent some time under the Tuscan sun.
Makes just over 1 cup.
Printable recipe.
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1/2 cup blanched almonds, lightly toasted
1 1/4 cups drained roasted red peppers
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
A couple of pinches of salt
1. In a small pan over medium-low heat, warm olive oil. Add red pepper flakes and sliced garlic, and saute until golden and fragrant, about 3 minutes. Keep an eye on it, as it can burn quickly! Remove from heat.
2. Grind almonds in a food processor. Add garlic-oil, roasted red peppers, vinegar and a pinch of salt. Process until a thick sauce forms. Taste, and salt as desired. Cover and refrigerate, but bring to room temperature before serving.
You might also enjoy these red bell pepper appetizer recipes:
Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Spread recipe from Family Style Food
Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Feta and Mint recipe from Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Eggplant with Roasted Red Pepper Tapenade recipe from Food Blogga
Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Hummus Crostini recipe from The Perfect Pantry
Mini Grilled Pizzas with Shrimp and Roasted Red Pepper Pesto recipe from Cookin Canuck


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SubtropicalPenguin wrote:Is the deal 9.5 each year, or is there any variation by year? I know the new CBA limits back diving deals, but not completely.
If it is 9.5 per year, I wonder why they didnt try to do something a bit front-loaded to keep the cap hit down. My understanding of the new CBA is you can have no more than 35% variation year by year, and the lowest year can be no less than 50% of the highest year. I wonder if the Malkin camp would have accepted something like this: 12 - 12 - 12 - 9.0 - 8.0 - 6.0 - 6.0 - 6.0.
That comes out to 8 years, 71 million, cap hit of 8.875 per year. The time value of 12 million over 9.5 million for the first 3 years, if invested relatively conservatively at just under 8% would give an extra 2 million for the first year salary bump, around 1.7 million for the second year salary bump and around 1.3 million for the third year salary bump over the term of the contract. These are rough estimates with yearly compounding interest rather than continuous or monthly compounding interest. It would probably require some tweaking to get the figures everone would be ok with, but a few hundred thousand saved against the cap could be helpful down the road. This set up would net the functional equivalent of almost exactly 76 million over 8 years once you factor in the time value of the increased salary for years 1 through 3 and it saves 625k against the cap hit.
Either way, I'm happy to have the big man in the Burgh for the foreseeable future.
Cap in hockey is different than football. In football it varies, in hockey the cap is the average of the total amount divided by the number of years.


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