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7 steps to a stronger password
NEW YORK - Rarely does a week go by without news of another hacking incident. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that a Russian crime ring had amassed some 1.2 billion username and password combinations.
The Times report, based on information from Milwaukee-based Hold Security, called the data "the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials." Hold's researchers did not identify the origins of the data or name the victim websites, citing nondisclosure agreements.
The company also said it didn't want to name companies whose websites are still vulnerable to hacking, according to the Times report.
A representative for Hold Security could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday afternoon.
Security threats have long been part of online life, but the increased attention on them makes now a good time to review ways to protect yourself.
If there's reason to believe any of your passwords might have been compromised, change them immediately. One of the best things you can do is to make sure your passwords are strong. Here are seven ways to fortify them:
¦ Make your password long. The recommended minimum is eight characters, but 14 is better and 25 is even better than that. Some services have character limits on passwords, though.
¦ Use combinations of letters and numbers, upper and lower case and symbols such as the exclamation mark. Some services won't let you do all of that, but try to vary it as much as you can. "PaSsWoRd!43" is far better than "password43."
¦ Avoid words that are in dictionaries, even if you add numbers and symbols. There are programs that can crack passwords by going through databases of known words. One trick is to add numbers in the middle of a word - as in "pas123swor456d" instead of "password123456." Another is to think of a sentence and use just the first letter of each word - as in "tqbfjotld" for "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
¦ Substitute characters. For instance, use the number zero instead of the letter O, or replace the S with a dollar sign.
¦ Avoid easy-to-guess words, even if they aren't in the dictionary. You shouldn't use your name, company name or hometown, for instance. Avoid pets and relatives' names, too. Likewise, avoid things that can be looked up, such as your birthday or ZIP code. But you might use that as part of a complex password. Try reversing your ZIP code or phone number and insert that into a string of letters. As a reminder, you should also avoid "password" as the password, or consecutive keys on the keyboard, such as "1234" or "qwerty."
¦ Never reuse passwords on other accounts - with two exceptions. Over the years, I've managed to create hundreds of accounts. Many are for one-time use, such as when a newspaper website requires me to register to read the full story. It's OK to use simple passwords and repeat them in those types of situations, as long as the password isn't unlocking features that involve credit cards or posting on a message board. That will let you focus on keeping passwords to the more essential accounts strong.
The other exception is to log in using a centralized sign-on service such as Facebook Connect. Hulu, for instance, gives you the option of using your Facebook username and password instead of creating a separate one for the video site. This technically isn't reusing your password, but a matter of Hulu borrowing the log-in system Facebook already has in place. The account information isn't stored with Hulu. Facebook merely tells Hulu's computers that it's you. Of course, if you do this, it's even more important to keep your Facebook password secure.
¦ Some services such as Gmail even give you the option of using two passwords when you use a particular computer or device for the first time. If you have that feature turned on, the service will send a text message with a six-digit code to your phone when you try to use Gmail from an unrecognized device. You'll need to enter that for access, and then the code expires. It's optional, and it's a pain - but it could save you from grief later on. Hackers won't be able to access the account without possessing your phone. Turn it on by going to the account's security settings.

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Healthy Eating: March is National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month — a perfect time to breathe new life into stagnant winter eating patterns.
A long, cold winter can take its toll on healthy eating habits. The once-anticipated winter menu of Shepherd's pie, broccoli quiche, crockpot chili and the like, by March is so overdone many give up on finding other healthy alternatives and call for greasy take-out meals instead.
Less sunlight, frigid temperatures and huddling inside can bring out the bear in us, too — with a yearning for sweets and sleep.
All we need is a whiff of spring to revive our palate though, and this tends to happen just in the nick of time in March. Don't worry if the New Year's resolution to lose weight went haywire. It's a great time to jump back on the nutrition wagon. Pounds may shed naturally, or even if they don't, a higher energy level and overall good health are worth the effort.
When motivation wanes with winter cooking, we can get into a rut of only focusing on the main entrée and neglecting to balance meals with vegetables.
This can limit beneficial nutrients and bump up calories. For example, if lasagna, pizza or the like are the only choices on the plate, the tendency is to eat more of it, which increases the saturated fat, sodium and calories of the meal. But add a large salad or a side vegetable, like green beans or broccoli, and not only does the nutritional value of the meal go up, but overall calories typically drop.
Use March as a springboard to bring balance back to meals with fresh seasonal vegetables, like asparagus, artichokes, baby carrots, young beets, sugar snap peas, radishes, baby spinach, mustard greens, watercress and arugula salads with Vidalia onions or scallions. Spring cherries and fresh strawberries can offer a sweet nutritious treat, too.
With warmer air on the way, think lighter and consider making meals without heavy starches. When our population washed their own clothes, cleaned all day, walked to work or labored in machine shops, there was a need for filling, starchy foods.
But today washing machines, cars and desk jobs have negated this problem. To lighten up your food routine, try skipping the rice, pasta, bread, and potatoes and instead serve meals with large portions of fresh vegetables along with a lean protein, like fish with spinach salad or chicken with asparagus and carrots, for example.
To break out of the winter doldrums, try a weekly meal plan. Visualize healthy, balanced meals for each day of the week and jot them down before food shopping. Then use this information to create a food shopping list. Chop and prepare vegetables to be ready for the busy week ahead. Post your plan in view to stay focused, to defrost items for the next day and to limit impulse eating.
Imagine glancing up and seeing your plan of lemon chicken and arugula salad, prepped and ready to go, on Wednesday, for example. Wouldn't this make calling for pizza less appealing?
Joan Endyke is a registered dietitian with a master's degree in food and nutrition. Send your questions to her at wickedgoodhealth.com. This column is not intended to diagnose or treat disease. Check with your doctor before changing your diet.


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Super Bowl notebook: Looking at Weeden vs. Kaepernick
San Francisco head coach Jim Harbaugh apparently thought Colin Kaepernick was a No. 1 overall value, but he took a calculated risk in the 2011 draft.
The conclusion can be drawn from something Jim's dad, Jack, said Wednesday.
As the elder Harbaugh's story went, the first day of the 2011 draft had ended. The second round would begin the following day.
"Jim called on his way home and he asked what I thought," Jack Harbaugh said. "He had not expressed to me who they were thinking about drafting at the quarterback position, so I said, 'Jim, tomorrow in the second round, surely you're going to draft a quarterback, but which one is it going to be?' And it was dead silent.
"Then he said, 'Are you talking to anybody?' "
That's how wary Jim Harbaugh was about the 49ers' big secret falling into enemy hands. He was grilling his own father.
"I said, 'I swear, I'm not talking to anyone,' " Jack Harbaugh said. "He said, 'We're drafting Colin Kaepernick. I not only think that he's the best quarterback in the draft, I think he's the best football player in the draft, and we're going with Colin Kaepernick.'
"And I thought to myself, 'Wise decision.' "
Taking the story at face value, the 49ers ultimately thought they could wait and still get Kaepernick. Otherwise, why would they have risked losing him, as opposed to spending their first-round pick, at No. 7 overall, on linebacker Aldon Smith?
The 49ers got nervous when Cincinnati drafted quarterback Andy Dalton at No. 35 overall. Had someone from the Browns camp talked? Were the Browns ready to pounce on Kaepernick with the No. 36 overall pick?
Was the Harbaugh spy network getting busy? Jim's brother John, the head coach in Baltimore, had been with Browns head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert in Philadelphia.
Did someone alert Jim Harbaugh that Cleveland, which wound up going into 2011 with 2010 third-round pick Colt McCoy as its man, would pounce on Kaepernick?
Jim Harbaugh's 49ers made a deal with Denver, trading up to No. 36 and snatching Kaepernick. The Browns went next, at No. 37, picking defensive end Jabaal Sheard.
Cleveland entered 2012 looking for an upgrade over McCoy, the upgrade, perhaps, that might have come from Kaepernick. With the No. 23 overall pick, the Browns took quarterback Brandon Weeden. Before replacing Heckert, speaking as a media analyst, Michael Lombardi called the move "panicky."
Lombardi's point: Weeden would have been available in the second round.
The unanswered question: Was the Weeden pick a Kaepernick-induced panic?
In the beginning
Before Super Bowl coaches John and Jim Harbaugh ever had a chance, their parents had to meet at Bowling Green.
Jack Harbaugh recalls sitting in a class taught by then-Bowling Green head coach Doyt Perry.
"It was Football 101," Jack Harbaugh said Wednesday. "There were 35 guys in the class.
"On the first day, Doyt stood up and he said, 'How many of you want to be coaches?' Of course, 35 hands went up.
"Then he said, 'I'm going to tell you the three things necessary for you to be a coach.
"No. 3, you have to have a love and passion for the game. No. 2, you need to outwork the people you are coaching against. I've been around you for about a year and there's not many of you here that are going to outsmart anybody.'
"And he said, 'No. 1, if you want to be a coach, marry wisely.' "
Jackie Harbaugh, seated beside him in New Orleans, smiled when he said that.
"She's the one that moved us 17 times in a 43-year coaching career," Jack Harbaugh said. "She sold houses at every stop and she bought houses at every stop.
"She took them in to school and out of school. This is my hero right here, Jackie Harbaugh."
Steve Doerschuk writes for the Canton, Ohio, Repository.


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If you thought you knew all there was to know about the Nats' racing presidents, Kris Coronado at the Washington Post Magazine this week features a "Closer Inspection" of our Rushmore favorites.
The interview with Nationals Entertainment Coordinator Tom Davis reveals even a few details we didn't have on our presidents race facts page. For example, did you know that Teddy's #26 jersey is made from the same Majestic Performance Apparel COOL BASE polyester wicking fabric that the players wear?
A worthy read for any presidents race fan. Thanks to both Kris and Tom for the nod to LetTeddyWin.com.


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Dr. Murray Feingold: Smartphones can be hazardous to your mental health
The first phone was patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. I am old enough to remember when picking up the phone to make a call, you would hear the pleasant voice of the operator asking, "Number, please?" How easy was that? No stress on your mental health.
As the telephone operator made her exit, a phone with a rotary dial made its entrance. The caller dialed the phone number, and since the phone was quite large, it was easy to dial. Again, not much stress.
The rotary dial phone was then replaced with the push button phone, and phone sizes became smaller.
And then before we knew it, there were wireless phones enabling people to take their phones with them and make calls at almost any location.
Now, smartphones are the latest innovation, and they can do almost everything and anything but clean windows.
Sometimes smartphones are smarter than the person using them, and that may be part of the problem. Although very useful, they also are responsible for producing a lot of stress and anxiety in our already overly stressed lives.
Let me cite a few examples.
Some people, for myriad reasons, including tapping in the wrong number, have difficulty contacting the person they are calling on the first or even second or third attempts. This can be very bothersome.
Because of smartphones, we have coined a new term, "butt dialing" — numbers that are mistakenly dialed when your phone is in your pocket or purse. They are particularly annoying to the person receiving them who continually shouts, "Hello, hello," with no response.
Speaking of annoying, how about those obnoxious individuals who shout into their phones while others are trying to enjoy their meal in a restaurant? This can cause your blood pressure to rise somewhat.
Because people rely so much on their smartphones, they can have a "meltdown" or acute anxiety attack if they lose or think they lost their phone. It's as if they lost part of themselves.
I think you get the picture and probably have many more personal examples of how smartphones emotionally disrupt your day.
It certainly makes some of us yearn for the good old days when making a call, all you heard was the melodious voice of the telephone operator asking, "Number, please?"
Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president of the Genesis Fund. The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that funds the care of children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.


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You must download and install the Xiaomi USB Driver on your computer device if you want to connect the phone with your computer for data transfer, Root Xiaomi, Install official Rom and Custom Rom, backup, or restore and retrieve data.
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Today's News: Our Take - The Tuesday Playlist: Family Affairs on New Girl and NCIS
What kind of family must it be where slacker bartender Nick Miller (Jake Johnson) is seen as the responsible one? That answer becomes clear in a sporadically amusing road-trip episode of Fox's New Girl (9/8c) that takes the roomies to Chicago to lay Nick's scoundrel of a dad (former guest star Dennis Farina) to rest. The formidable Margo Martindale (Justified, The Americans) presides over the ridiculous antics as Nick's gruff but needy mom, and cable clown Nick Kroll hams it up as his emotionally volatile brother. As usual, Schmidt (Max Greenberg) hijacks the proceedings with his death neuroses, and while he wonders "What's with this open casket thing?" it's his encounter with said coffin and its contents that provides the episode's biggest laughs.
In a comedy casting stunt worthy of a sweeps month, NBC's Go On (9:01/8:01c) reunites Matthew Perry with his Friends soulmate Courteney Cox. Their date - she's a new widow, he's a widower - is complicated when Anne (Julie White), who set them up, comes along and it's unclear who's flirting with whom. ... Cox and her co-stars over at TBS' Cougar Town (10/9c) have cause to celebrate, as their show just got picked up for another year. As the first cable season winds down, Shirley Jones guests as one of the new neighbors who bought Grayson's old house. ... And one week before its season (and possibly series) finale, NBC's The New Normal (9:31/8:31) gets topical with a touching storyline that reveals David's (Justin Bartha) passion for scouting. The "Eagle Scout for life" is thrilled to don the neckerchief and knee socks again to help chaperone a troop's camping trip, despite the Boy Scout organization's current policies about homosexuality. While Bryan snarks, "Maybe you can earn your hypocrisy badge," David learns much about the values of perseverance and courage when initial acceptance turns to ostracism. He won't give up without a fight, and I'd like to think the same is true of this unique little series.
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NCIS: THE NEXT GENERATIONS: If you think you recognize McGee's dad, a Navy Admiral implicated in a murder at sea on CBS' NCIS (8/7c), it's because Jamey Sheridan has been around the TV block quite a few times - including as the boss on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and most recently as Homeland's ill-fated vice president (and, in flashbacks, as Arrow's dad). ... The two-part "backdoor pilot" concludes on NCIS: LA (9/8c) as the "Red" team hits the road in their mobile units, nicknamed "Laverne and Shirley," to chase a terrorist. Odds are we'll be seeing these folks again in the fall.
AFTER THE MANHUNT: It's time for a woman-hunt on the penultimate episode of another great season for FX's Justified (10/9c), as all eyes turn toward reformed party girl Ellen May (poignantly played by Abby Miller) when the captured Drew Thompson refuses to cooperate until she's brought in to safety. Easier said than done, as forces of good and not-so-good converge on Limehouse's digs in Noble's Holler (with Mykelti Williamson savoring every moment of these showdowns), because as an agitated Boyd Crowder puts it, "A man who speaks out of both sides of his mouth deserves to have it permanently shut." Our favorite marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) won't let a little thing like suspension keep him from joining the chase, and as he goads his fellow travelers Tim and Rachel, "Did you not wake up this morning thinking today was another opportunity to mess up some bad guy's day? I did." Which may be my favorite line of the season. Plenty of folks' days will be messed up by the end of this tense but enjoyable hour.
SONG AND DANCE: While the blind auditions continue on NBC's The Voice (8/7c), Josh Groban performs with an 18-piece band as the first celebrity is eliminated on ABC's Dancing With the Stars (9/8c). ... And here's something new: On NBC's Smash (10:01/9:01c), low-rent Jimmy clashes with new director Derek over the direction of their indie-pop musical "Hit List." Who didn't see that coming? And how soon before it ends up in Michael Riedel's column?
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Energy growth in 2013 will be tightly coupled to economic growth and that will remain true for at least a decade. Supply fades as a factor while getting the correct fuel portfolio balance will be a key to quality of life worldwide for the foreseeable future.
We have once again returned to a world where energy discussions are dominated by demand. It's a very different world than that where all the focus is on supply.
As has been a recurrent theme on this blog, I need to note that many have not recognized this sea change. Organizations ranging from the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are still basing their forecasts on potential supply bottlenecks rather than watching how demand is calling forth new supplies from all over the world.
The stories on the DOE's EIA webpage tell part of the story–from their perspective, trying to give their 'customers' (us) what they want. A story of supply. 'The Availability of Petroleum and Petroleum Products From C0untries Other Than Iran.' 'Crude Oil Inventories.' 'Weekly Coal Production.'
This focus on supply has led these agencies to underestimate the growth of energy for the future. Regular readers will see me banging the drum again on this.
Energy supply has changed. China is currently building 308 hydroelectric facilities–large dams to generate electricity–in 70 countries worldwide.
Growth in U.S. energy has reached the top of the hill and now has surpassed the very modest growth in energy consumption in this country.
The world has 66 nuclear power plants under construction, 26 in China alone.
While the U.S. plays in its own sandbox with fracked natural gas, Australia, the Ukraine, Israel and plans in Brazil are changing everybody's ideas about electricity generation and even automotive fuel.
Renewable energy continues to grow, providing almost 17% of all energy used in 2012.
Basically, folks, increased demand from the developing world called forth successful efforts to increase supply.
This is great news–the developing countries will have access to the energy they need to develop up to and perhaps beyond the living standards of the rich world. I am ecstatic.
This is terrifying news, as well. Despite the growth in non-emissive energy sources, the primary sources for fuel remain coal and petroleum. The annual growth rate in coal consumption since 1999 is 4.4%.
This weblog is titled 3,000 Quads because unconstrained growth will lead to that level of energy being consumed by 2075, far more than the supply-oriented organizations are projecting now.


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Shopping for furniture can be as daunting as shopping for the right car and nearly as expensive. The shopping process often entails lying on dozens of beds, reclining on hundreds of overstuffed chairs and upholstered sofas, pulling out numerous dresser drawers or sitting on an abundance of decorative wood dining chairs. Choosing the right furniture piece or room suit is a quest, but the adventure should be as exciting for you as the day your new piece of furniture is delivered.
Whether your style is Traditional, Contemporary, Shaker, French Country or Cottage, each room of your home has a distinct and dynamic personality. Your "style" should come from your interests and tastes; put a little of yourself into designing each room of your home. More and more furniture retailers are offering interior design consulting. Take advantage of an opportunity to hear directly from an expert.
Some shoppers like to follow furniture trends, pulling from the latest manufacturer collections. For those who like to emulate and adapt new styles, furniture manufacturers rarely disappoint even the savviest shoppers. If you fall into this category, the trends are awash with color and not just from the primary color palette; BHG.com claims that persimmon (1970s' burnt orange) is back and showing up in several collections.
Not surprisingly, woods are popular especially in the form of chests and tables. Many manufacturers are using different wood products and enhancing their designs with veneers and inlays. And, the silent, yet useful ottoman that was once used simply as a foot rest has been transformed over the years and now houses hidden storage, fold-out beds and even pop-up coffee tables. Upholstered toile is also showing up, and it is no longer just for the French Country collector. Some new toile designs are using more modern graphic designs. Others are incorporating an Asian pattern that can be used for various design purposes.
Once you've decided on your style, the process of furniture buying comes down to a few key components. Believe it or not, there are hundreds, probably thousands of books devoted to the subject of furniture buying. It shouldn't be so difficult, but there are a few things you should consider before beginning your mission, namely budget, room size and furniture usability.
There is well-made furniture in nearly every price range. Once you determine your budget, measure the size of the room where your new furniture will rest, especially the dining room. China cabinets, buffets, tables and chairs take up more room than you might expect. Tall bookcases can also be challenging so measure the length, width and height of a room before making your purchase.
When you find a piece of furniture you like, try it out. Sit around that dining room or breakfast table. Wiggle the arms, look under the table for signs of good craftsmanship. Bounce up and down on that comfortable sofa, feel the fabric and ask the salesperson about its construction. What kind of wood was used to make the frame of the sofa? Is the fabric stain resistant? Finally, ask about the manufacturer's warranty. Most offer anywhere from one to five years of coverage for any breaks or cracks.
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Robert Chew, actor on 'The Wire' dies at 52
BALTIMORE - Robert Chew, who played Proposition Joe on the HBO series "The Wire," has died. He was 52.
His sister, Clarice Chew, said he suffered a heart attack and died at his Baltimore home Thursday.
Robert Chew grew up in Baltimore and studied music at Morgan State University for two years. His sister said he worked as music director for the Arena Players community theater.
The character Prop Joe was a highly intelligent and ruthless yet polite and diplomatic Baltimore drug lord. Another sister, Maureen Brown, said strangers would approach Chew on the street in Baltimore and tell him what a great job he did in that role.
He also appeared in TV shows "The Corner" and "Homicide: Life on the Street" and the 2004 TV movie "Something the Lord Made."


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In this opinion piece, a cybersecurity researcher argues that loopholes in a new data retention bill push those wanting to use the 'Net anonymously into cafes, libraries, and fast food restaurants. The following op-ed does not necessarily represent the opinions of Ars Technica.
On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in support of mandatory data retention legislation. The bill that they have proposed requires that Internet Service Providers, such as Comcast and Time Warner, save records of the IP addresses they assign to their customers for a period of 18 months.
Data retention is a controversial topic and loudly opposed by the privacy community. To counter such criticism, the bill's authors have cunningly (and shamelessly) named it the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. This of course means that anyone who opposes data retention must go on record as opposing measures to catch sexual predators.
As a thought experiment, let us give the bill's authors the benefit of the doubt. Let us assume, for a moment, that this additional data is not sought as part of the war on filesharing, but is in fact necessary to catch those who commit one of the most horrible, indefensible crimes. With this in mind, let's ask the question: will this bill be effective at catching sexual predators?
The wireless loophole
The bill includes a curious exception to the retention requirements: it doesn't apply to wireless data providers, such as AT&T and Verizon, or operators of public WiFi networks, such as Starbucks and McDonalds.
When questioned about this, a Republican committee staffer told CNET in May that the wireless loophole was added because wireless networks are designed in such a way that IP addresses are assigned to multiple users or accounts and they are "not technologically capable of retaining the type of data that law enforcement needs because that's not how their system works."
This explanation is completely bogus. Wireless providers, like wireline broadband providers, are quite capable of retaining logs of the IP addresses they temporarily issue to their customers. Many wireless providers, such as Sprint and Verizon, already retain IP logs for at least a year.
The true explanation for the loophole is, I believe, that the wireless carriers have powerful and remarkably effective lobbyists.
McDonalds: last refuge for the anonymous
If this legislation passes with the wireless loophole intact, residential broadband providers will be forced to retain identifying records that can be used to link users' online activities to their authenticated identities. Mobile phone carriers will continue to retain data voluntarily, and public WiFi networks will remain one of the last places where people, whether angels or devils, can browse the Internet anonymously.
If the House Judiciary Committee is truly concerned about protecting children, why is it proposing legislation that will encourage sexual predators to visit McDonalds restaurants in order to share their illicit contraband online? These are, after all, restaurants packed with innocent children, who have convinced their parents to take them there in search of a Happy Meal.
Of course, McDonalds aren't the only places with free, public, anonymous WiFi access. There are also public libraries, schools, and parks.
Christopher Soghoian is a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University.


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CHICAGO — In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana.
The plants grew even taller than the tallest Chicago Bulls. However, just days before the crop on a chunk of land the size of two football fields would have been ready to harvest, a police officer and county sheriff's deputy in a helicopter spotted it as they headed back to their hangar about three miles away.
On Wednesday, a day after the discovery of the largest marijuana farm anyone at the police department can remember, officers became farmers for a day as they began to chop down about 1,500 marijuana plants that police said could have earned the growers as much as $10 million.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday, and police were still trying to determine who owns the property that housed the grow site on the city's far South Side. But police said they were hopeful that because of the size of the operation, informants or others might provide tips about those involved, including a man seen running from the area as the helicopter swooped low.
James O'Grady, the commander of the department's narcotics division, said they've never seen anything like it before, in part because Chicago's harsh winters mean growers have a lot less time to plant, grow and harvest marijuana than their counterparts in less inclement places such as California and Mexico. The bumper crop was likely planted in spring, O'Grady said.
Add to that the urban sprawl: there are few spots in Chicago where such an operation could go unnoticed because of all the buildings, roads and residents. The growers took pains to ensure their crop was largely hidden by a canopy of trees and surrounding vegetation.
"Somebody put a lot of thought into it," O'Grady said. "But they probably didn't anticipate the helicopter."
Chicago Police Officer Stan Kuprianczyk, a pilot, said police helicopters flew "over it all the time," to and from their hangar, without spying the grow site. Yet somehow, a number of factors came together to allow Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Edward Graney to spot the plants.
"We had the right altitude, the right angle, the right sunlight, and I happened to be glancing down," said Graney. He said he initially spotted five plants or so through the trees before he asked Kuprianczyk to circle around for a closer look.
"We just happened to be right over a small hole in the trees and we looked down," Kuprianczyk said.
They also happened to have the right training, Graney said, explaining that just a few weeks earlier a much smaller operation in suburban Chicago prompted them to fly over and videotape the scene so they might be able to recognize marijuana if they ever saw it from the air again.
So, by the time Graney spotted the marijuana plants, which are a much brighter shade of green than the surrounding vegetation, he had a pretty good idea what he was looking at.
Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whose officers are more used to intercepting shipments of marijuana grown elsewhere or discovering hydroponic growing operations inside buildings, said the discovery of the marijuana is significant in a larger fight against street violence.
Those involved with narcotics, whether it is marijuana, heroin or cocaine, purchase firearms with their profits and have shown they're willing to use them to protect their business, he said.
"That's where the violence comes in, the competition for the markets," he said.


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That's what kept running through my mind this past week as I listened to politicians, union leaders and government employees talk about the state's pension woes.
None of the plans Illinois lawmakers are considering will go anywhere near solving the state's long-term pension crisis.
And yet even the most modest proposals have government workers angry.
For example, I read this in a central Illinois newspaper the other day:
'''My wife and I planned carefully for retirement and left a sensible cushion," said retiree John Kilgore, who taught English literature at Eastern Illinois University from 1978 to 2010. His wife, Dollie, was a nurse at the student health center, and both receive pension benefits through the state's university retirement system. Kilgore said any pension reform adjustments to medical insurance or the pension's COLA provisions 'is more than our budget can stand.'"
A pensioner facing poverty?
Kilgore collects an annual pension of $91,692.
He retired two years ago at age 58.
He's making more retired than most Illinoisans can ever expect to make working.
And those working Illinoisans are the ones being asked to pay for his pension.
In 2011, the Illinois Legislature jacked up income taxes by 67 percent – and nearly every dime of it went to cover pensions. That's the equivalent of an extra week of pay being taken away from every working Illinoisan.
Taxpayers are finding it hard to save for their own retirements because they are busy paying for someone else's.
It's time for the state to get out of the pension business altogether. Eighty-five percent of us in the private sector have 401k-style retirement plans, after all.
Why not government workers, too?
I have a whole lot more confidence in individual workers making smart investment decisions for themselves than I do in politicians making decisions for them.
The transition from defined benefit to defined contribution plans has happened in industry after industry. Tragedy did not follow.
Pensions are based on the idea that workers can be guaranteed a certain benefit in retirement.
But that is a fundamentally flawed idea because no one has crystal ball to predict life expectancy, future investment returns, possible inflation rates and a host of other factors.
And in the case of state government, the biggest variable is the politicians themselves – no one can predict what retirement benefits future politicians will promise government employee unions as they seek votes and campaign dollars.
A 401k-style plan is superior because it gets the state out of the business of predicting the future.
It also empowers workers to make investment decisions for themselves.
Pensions are a vestige of a paternalistic culture where the boss knows best – not only for your work hours but for your golden years.
As Illinois has clung to its outdated pension system, the state has sunk deeper and deeper into debt.
Illinois has the largest unfunded pension liability in the nation and Moody's Investors Service gave Illinois the worst bond rating of any state in the country.
It time for the state to step away from pensions altogether.
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Some call me son, brother, godfather, cousin, uncle, writer, author, veteran, and friend. That may be true, but mostly I am me - a unique human being who has run the race of life through many different forests, down many roaring rivers and along some tangled paths. All in all it has been a good journey of growth and expansion of self. I am a lover of family, animals, food, laughs, poetry, books, compassionate people and chasing the light. My first journey into writing is Quiet Thoughts: Written Reflections. It is a book of poems and reflections - a small flicker of light into my life journey. I currently reside in Emmaus, PA and enjoy all that the Lehigh Valley has to offer. View all posts by rogerrcoyle


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Given Teddy Roosevelt's pitiful record
in the Washington Nationals' presidents race, he can hardly afford
to be thinking ahead to the next series, but that's what he did on Wednesday night at Nationals Park.
At the start of our favorite 4th-inning ritual, a self-assured Abraham Lincoln once again spotted the other presidents a big lead, giving Teddy a chance at victory, but as the racing presidents came down the first base line, Teddy stopped and posed for Dave the videographer with a sign reading "Bring On the Sausages!", and Thomas Jefferson raced on to beat Abe to the finish line.
In addition to disappointing his rooters in the stands, Teddy's move also confused those in right field who couldn't see the sign, including youtube user tsbicca:
The reference on the sign is, of course, to the Memorial weekend series which begins Friday night at Nationals Park against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers' Miller Park is home to the famous Sausage Race, which deserves credit for starting this whole racing mascot thing back in 1995 (it started at the old Milwaukee County Stadium as a promotion for Milwaukee's Klement's Sausage Company).
Earlier this month, when the Pittsburgh Pirates came to town, they brought the Racing Pierogies to Nationals Park. Could it be that we'll see the original racing sausages in town this weekend?
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The following takes place between 1:47 AM and 1:55 AM EST inside The Bar on Giralda in Coral Gables on December 23rd. An entertaining live band, The 540's–the band [pictured] proved to be surprisingly good despite featuring an attorney as their lead singer–were completing a 4 hour performance.
Events occur in real time.
- 1:47 AM – Kiss between Wilfredo and [Redacted], a couple in their early 20's, begins in the anonymity of a booth in The Bar. Couple surrounded by standing older couples who are basking in their own anonymity. The time frame for them to be blend in with the type of crowds which typically enjoy live bands is closing. Soon they will closer resemble older interlopers who exit tourist buses, but for tonight, all was well.
- 1:48 AM – The first sign of trouble, Wilfredo begins to think. While grateful for [Redacted]'s apparent passion, his thoughts run to the powerful, yet unarticulated, Hippocratic Oath for amorous male Homo sapiens, 'interrupt no positive dynamic.' The problem lies in that he wasn't sure what he had done right, but certain that he must not mess it up.
- 1:49 AM – Absent an insight on the above, he would focus on technique. Properly modulated breathing, saliva secretions reduced to maintain adequate moisture and restricted tongue forays. There is a fine line between the dexterous movements of a confident male and the early stages of an attack by the Lizard King.
- 1:50 AM – Momentarily distracted by the passage of a tall attractive woman with a borderline-dwarf in tow, he blanked out. Seemingly awoken by the continuous kiss, he now desperately tried to recall what his life had been like for the last 3 minutes. Wilfredo amused himself by realizing that his thoughts about avoiding tongue in cheek, were not tongue-in-cheek.
- 1:51 AM – Fear gripped Wilfredo. Was this kiss it? Was that the reason for the PED-like length of the lip-locking? Was this his goodnight kiss? How could pure lust have devolved into this? He was simultaneously aroused and despondent.
- 1:52 AM – His thoughts now ran to Joseph Stalin. Solzhenitsyn would tell the story about how ovations after speeches by Stalin would go on forever because everyone was afraid to stop applauding first. If this kiss was a Homeland episode, it would be titled, Stalemate with Soulmate.
- 1:53 AM – Wilfredo begins experiencing concussion-like symptoms, as evidenced by entertaining thoughts of love. Well thoughts about love is more accurate. A friend of his father, one of those harmlessly boring religious types whose uninvited musings on faith always challenged his manners, had cornered him for a mini-symposium on the C.S. Lewis book about different types of love [storge (affection), phileo (friendship), eros (romantic love), and agape (charity or God-love)]. At the time Wilfredo could only focus on the fact that 'storge' phonetically reminded him of an NFL quarterback, Jim Sorgi. And yet, why had the planted idea chosen this moment to sprout?
- 1:54 AM – But what if he got the dreaded question again? A young lady had once asked if he loved her at a critical moment and his answer had surprised even him. No, he replied, choosing peace of mind over treating her as a mere piece. In the postmortem, he racked his brain to understand where the answer had come from, but could not. The closest he got was a movie that he had liked. But who knows?
- 1:55 AM – It finally ended. A mini-crowd surrounded them like winners of a dance marathon of days gone by, a reminder of how odd courtship appears to all those on the outside. "Call me, Wilfredo," she asked? Dazed, dehydrated, but intrigued, he replied, "love to."


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'5 Questions' Interview With G.L. Jones!
Today I'm thrilled to welcome author G.L. Jones to the blog as part of the '5 Questions' with authors interview series!
If you are an author who would like to participate in the series, fill out the questionnaire here! And if you are a reader who wants to suggest an author for the series, just send me an email!
Describe your book Thief & Mage (The Corrin Chronicles) in ten words or less
Adventure Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery
Where or how did you come up with the idea for your story?
I've been sort of frustrated by the lack of stuff to read that I like. So my intent was simple, write something that I would like to read.
I wanted to create a character with a 3 book story arc where the character would be in a different "place" in each book. From that skeleton of and idea, I came up with the first book, second book in process.
From the title, you can presume that he's a bit of a scoundrel, thus the word Thief in the title.
The next book is tentatively called, "Mage and Hero". Once I knew what the character was going to do, I let my imagination run wild.
What was your favorite part to write and why?
I love the action sequences. I'm attempting to write "not boring" stuff targeted at Males, maybe 13-30. So I keep the book moving quickly, this is not Tolstoy. But, this is my target market, so I try to remember what it was like to be 15 and write to that level. Two books from now will be time for something completely different.
So having an idea of what my target market is, the most fun I have is writing intense action sequences.
Do you have a day job? If yes, tell us about it and how did that affect your writing / publishing process?
Yes I have a day job that requires lots of overnight travel.
This means you can find me sitting up late at night in a quiet hotel room somewhere hunched over a laptop with take out nearby tapping away at my keyboard.
Tell us about an upcoming book or project you're excited about
The project after book two in my 3 part series is the one I'm most excited about. It's going to be set in modern day, I'm going to target older males this time, so I can turn loose on language, graphic depictions of action (people getting their heads lopped off, etc..) and maybe some sexual inuendo which I toned way down in my younger male books.
The thing that excites me is I've come up with a plot twist that's pretty cool, and will keep readers guessing throughout the book. When they get to the end, they will go oh yeah I get it, that's pretty cool.
Of course I can't tell you what it is, that would spoil the fun.
Thanks again for stopping by, G.L. Jones! You can learn more about the author via the website: www.gljonesbooks.com.
Thief & Mage (The Corrin Chronicles) is available on Amazon (Kindle).
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- Put My Poker Face On (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- The Trouble With Kids Is... (Adam, Kris, PG-13)
- So Much to Say (Adam/ Kris, Charles, PG-13), Overdue (sequel), Fair (sequel), What's True (sequel)
- Take What We Want And Give The Rest Away (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- At The End (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Ain't No Sunshine (Adam, Kris, Cook, PG-13)
- Till There Was You (Adam/Kris, AU, PG-13)
- Sing Your Melody (I'll Sing Along) (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- From My Mouth to Yours 1/? (Kris/Adam, PG-13), 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?
- Random Drabbles (Kris/Adam, Matt, PG-13)
- Drabbles : You Name It 1/2 (Kris, Adam, PG-13), 2/2
- Mark The Day (Kris/Adam, Kris/Katy, PG-13)
- All the More For That (Kris/Adam, Allison, PG-13)
- Lay Down My Heart (Kris/Adam, PG-13)
- Borrowed and Blue (Kris/Adam, PG-13), Complicated Melody (Adam/OMC, Kris/Katy, PG-13), Crash and Burn (Adam/OMC, Kris/Katy, PG-13)
- Home Is Where the Heart Is (Adam/Kris, PG)
- Love and War (Adam/Kris, G-PG)
- Small Things (Adam/Kris, PG-ish)
- Just One (Adam/Kris, PG-13ish)
- Where The Heart Is (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- A Song For You 1&2/7 (Adam, Kris, G - PG), 3/7, 4&5/7, 6/7, 7/7
- The Burden of Universal Adoration (Adam, Kris, All, PG)
- Unless the Dreamer is the Real You (Adam/Kris, PG), Bonus Scenes
- Lasso the Moon (Adam/ Kris, Kris/ Katy, AU, PG - 13)
- If You Ain't No Punk Holla, "We Want Pre-nup!" (Adam/ Kris, PG - 13)
- Somewhere Waiting For Me (Adam, Kris, PG - 13)
- The Right Decision (Adam, Kris, PG -13)
- It's Easier to Lie (Adam/ Kris, PG -13)
- A Spring Awakening (Adam/ Kris, PG - 13)
- Think of Nothing Tonight (Adam/Drake, Kris/Katy, PG-13)
- Voices Which Are Silent (Adam/ Kris, PG)
- Events Unnerve Me (Adam/ Kris, PG)
- The Notepad (Adam/ Kris, PG)
- The Truth's In His Eyes (Adam/Kris, Brad, PG)
- The Fine Art of Falling Apart 1/6 (Adam/ Kris, Katy, PG), 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6
- All We'd Ever Need 1/10 (Adam/ Kris, Matt, PG-13), 2/10, 3/10, 4/10, 5/10
- Literally Glittery 2 parts (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Husband-Revealing Magical Lemonade (Adam/Kris, Kim, PG-13)
- Physics Makes Us All Its Bitches 2 parts (Adam/Kris, Brad, PG-13)
- Shame Those Stars (Adam/Kris, AU, PG-13)
- Be My Winding Wheel (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Last Call (Adam/Kris, AU, PG-13)
- You've Got Music (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- There and Back Again (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Never Saw Blue (Adam/Kris, Katy, PG-13)
- You Know My Heart (Can Make You Happy) (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Powers of Ten (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Call Me Baby (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- The Meaning of No (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- In Restless Dreams I Walked Alone (Adam, Kris, PG-13)
- Mint Condition, Special Edition, Very Rare and Lined With Glitter (Adam, Kris, PG-13)
- Little Lies (Cook POV, Adam, Kris, PG-13)
- Insights (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- A $500 Bottle of Bordeaux (Adam/ Kris, AU, PG-13)
- Never Too Old for Santa Claus (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- Any Other Way (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- Soul Kiss (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- The Couch (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- Fools and Kings (Adam/ Kris, PG-13), Over Land and Sea (Sequel)
- Merry and Bright (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- Stardust of Yesterday (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- The Tale of the Sad Panda (Adam/ Kris, Anoop, PG-13)
- That Old Black Magic aka the Fate Fic (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- The one with the tabloids (Adam/ Kris, PG-13)
- New and a Bit Alarming 3 Parts (Adam/ Kris, AU, PG-13 -R), Learning (Sequel)
- And So It Goes 1/? (Adam/ Kris, Katy, PG - R), 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?
- Way Down Inside (Kris/Adam, PG-13)
- Last Call for Sin (Kris/Adam, PG-13)
- Sinking to the Bottom of My Everything (Kris/Adam/Katy, PG-13)
- Hiding in Plain Sight (Adam, Kris (Kris/Katy), PG-13, Warning: Hints of s/D)
- Everything All the Time (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Paint It Black (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Wanderlust (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- The One With Adam's Nearly Royal Pain (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Untitled - Last night of tour (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- It Was Only A Kiss (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Affection (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- They Come In Threes (Adam/Kris, Merlin, AU PG-13)
- Full Circle (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Walk Down Your Broken Line (Adam/Kris, PG-13)
- Out of My Mind (Adam/Kris, PG-13), Set My Soul On Fire (Sequel)
- A Series of Movements 1-9 (Adam/Kris, Katy, PG-R)
- Let's Do Everything For the First Time Forever (Adam/ Kris, PG-R)
- Here in Secret Harmonies 1/2 (Adam/ Kris, Brad, Everyone, PG-R), 2/2
- Wizard Not Included (Adam/Kris, Adam/Brad, PG-R)
- Halfway to Heaven, Still Halfway to Hell (Adam/Kris, PG-R)- Be My Singing Lesson, Be My Song (Sequel)
- Preacher Man (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Here Where We Are (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Many Ways to Believe (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Turning Saints into the Seas (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Steampunk! story 1/?(Adam/Kris, PG-13-R), 2/?, 3/?
- Hungry Boys [will do anything] (Adam/Kris, AU, R-ish), Contemplating [every step in the struggle] (Sequel)
- Comfortable Distance (Adam/Kris, AU, R-ish)
- Virtue and Vice (Adam/Kris, R-ish)
- Don't leave me here [to let you down] (Adam/Kris, Grey's Anatomy, R-ish)
- Paper Gangsta 1/2 (Adam/Kris, R-ish), 2/2, Rhinestone Brass Knuckles (Epilogue)
- EGBDF (Every Good Boy Does Fine) (Adam/Kris, R-ish)
- Road to Somewhere (Kris/Katy, Adam/Kris, R)
- Brand New Shoes (Adam/Kris, R)
- In The Mirror Of Invention (Adam/Kris, R)
- Tlk drty 2 me (Adam/Kris, R)
- The Dangling Conversation 1/3 (Adam/Kris, R), 2/3, 3/3
- This House Just Ain't No Home Parts 1-3 (Adam/Kris, Katy, Drake, R), Parts 4-5
- Kris & Adam's Infinite Playlist (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Sing Me Something Brave From Your Mouth (Adam/Kris, PG-R)
- Percentages (Adam/Kris, PG-R), What Happened Next
- The Devilstone Registry: Ch 1 Head of the Trail (Adam/Kris, PG-R), Ch 2 The Tale of Matty the Mute, Ch 3 The Foundation, Ch 4 Turning Blue, Ch 5 Among the Fragments, Ch 6 Snoop and Ye Shall Find, Ch 7 A Distant Bell, Ch 8 Female Troubles, Ch 9 The 3:10 to Little Rock, Ch 10 The Western Boys - PART 1, Ch 10 The Western Boys - PART 2
- Salvation is a Four Letter Word 1-11/14 (Adam/Kris, Danny, PG-R, Warning : Slavery theme), 12/14, 13/14, 14/14
- In Any Other World (Adam/Kris, AU, R)
- Many Ways To Believe (Adam/Kris, R)
- Fall of the Media (Adam/Kris, R)
- Sick Cycle Carousel - 2 parts (Adam/Kris, R)
- Lullabye (Adam/Kris, Katy, R)
- Tomorrow Takes Me Higher - 4 Parts (Adam/Kris, All AI, R), This Is Ourselves (Follow-up)
- Apple Blossom Creek (Adam/Kris, AU, R)
- Glambert, meet Darwin (Adam/Kris, R)
- We're the Ones Who are Out Here (Adam/Kris, R)
- True Love Leaves No Traces (Adam/Kris, Kris/Katy, R)
- Sweet Nothings (Adam/Kris, R)
- Hollywood Is Not America 1/3 (Adam/Kris, R), 2/3, 3/3
- Hang the Sense of It (Adam/Kris, R)
- Bumpy Ride (Adam/Kris, AU, R)
- Until the Dance Becomes Your Own 1/6 (Adam/Kris, R), 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5a/6, 5b/6, 6/6, Heel, Toe, Docie-Do (Sequel)
- Indefinable Series : A Taste of Things to Come (Adam, Kris, G-NC 17), Enter With Abandon, Slightly Cracked, Love is Dawning, These Awkward Moments, Watch Well Our Beginnings
- The Last Remaining Light (Adam/ Kris, G)
- Uninvited 1/6 (Adam/ Kris, PG-NC 17), 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6, Epilogue, At The House (Sequel)
- Rain in June (Adam/Kris, PG-NC 17), Rusted Pipe, October Sky, Broken Open, Night Beasts, Cabaret, Bête Noire
- Mixing it Up 1/2 (Adam/Kris, Kris/Katy, PG- NC-17ish), 2/2
- Rain (Adam, Kris, PG - NC 17ish), Tea (Sequel) , Backwards and in High Heels (Sequel), Lights On (Sequel)
- Aftermath (Apocalyptic, Mature due to theme)
- If You Really Fell 1/9 (Adam/Kris, PG-NC-17), 2/9, 3/9, 4/9, 5/9, 6/9, 7/9, 8/9, 9/9
- More Myself with You (Kris/Adam, Katy PG- NC 17), Mirror Link, Ever After (Sequels)
- Epiphany (Kris/Adam, PG-13 - NC 17), The Date, Be Cool, Stay
- We Will Break Our Own Hearts 3 Parts (Adam/Kris, R- NC-17ish)
- In the Wake of Dreams (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish)
- The Rescue Blues 1/2 (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish), 2/2
- Far Along This Road (Adam/Kris, Allison, Neil, R-NC 17), Mirror Link, Like a Heart Needs a Beat (Sequel), Sunday Morning (Sequel), Backstage (Sequel)
- Vegas, The Universe And Everything (Adam/Kris, Tommy, R-NC 17)
- The Post-Tour Blues (Adam/Kris, R-NC 17)
- On Neptune It Rains Diamonds (Adam/Kris, R)
- Rebound (aka Waking Up In Vegas... Kradam style) (Adam/Kris, R)
- Boys Keep Swinging (Adam/Kris, AU, R)
- And If I Move (Adam/Kris, R)
- Did I Find You, Or You Find Me? (1/2) (Adam/Kris, G-NC 17ish, Warning: Not for Gokey fans), 2/2
- You Should've Left the Light On 1/2 (Adam/Kris, PG-NC 17), 2/2
- Just a Glance Away (Adam/ Kris, Allison, PG-13 - NC-17), What Were the Chances (Sequel), Something in Your Eyes (Sequel)
- Bygone 4 Parts (Adam/Kris, R - NC-17ish)
- If It Kills Me - 4 parts (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish), Here We Are - 2 parts (Epilogue)
- Apples Are Not The Only Fruit (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish)
- (Every Heart is) Like a House on Fire (Adam/Kris, R-NC-17ish), Escape Routes (in Every Room)(Sequel), House of Cards (Sequel)
- Causality (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish)
- Up Against the Wall (Adam/Kris, NC-17ish)
- Chimera Parts 1-6/18 (Adam/Kris, Other AI, R-NC 17), 6B/18, 7/18, 8/18, 9-10/18, 11/18, 12/18, 13/18, 14/18, 15/18, 16/18, 17/18, 18/18
- Mixing it Up 2 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17 at end), Breaking it Down 2 Parts (Sequel)
- In the early light (Adam/Kris, HS AU, NC 17 at end)
- To Soar on Chromatic Wings 5 Parts (Adam/Kris, AU, SciFi, NC 17)
- Between Two Lungs (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- Eye of the Beholder (Adam/Kris, AU Heroes, NC 17)
- Fantasy for Real (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- The Groupie (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- Undercover (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- (Plain)Clothes Don't Make the Man (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- falling slowly (upwards spiral) (Adam/Kris, AU Werewolf, NC 17)
- Hands Down (This is the Best Day I Can Ever Remember) (Adam/Kris, Future fic, NC 17)
- 100 hours (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (Kris/Adam NC-17 Futurefic)
- Through the storm we reach the shore (Kris/OMC, Adam/OMC, Kris/Adam NC-17 Futurefic)
- I've Got Your Number (Adam/Kris, NC 17), Sleepyhead (Sequel), Smile Upon Me (Sequel), Better Things (Sequel)
- Darkness Visible 4 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC- 17)
- God is a Gambler, the Universe His Casino 5 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC- 17)
- Stained in You (Adam/Kris, AU, NC- 17)
- Never Find Nobody (Adam/Kris, Adam/Brad, NC- 17)
- In Fiction There Are No Mosquitoes (Adam/Kris, AU, NC- 17)
- Tightly Knit (Adam/Kris, AU, NC- 17)
- The Road Less Travelled (Adam/Kris, NC- 17 Warning: Dark Themes)
- Like Gasoline (1/2) (Adam/Kris, NC 17), 2/2
- The Many Ways to Fall (1/2) (Adam/Kris, NC 17), Open Arms (2/2)
- Take This Sinking Boat (1/2) (Adam/Kris, PG-NC 17), 2/2 , (Epilogue) Then We'll Throw It On The Fire
- A Matter of Inconvenience (Adam/Kris, R-NC)
- House of the Living (Adam/Kris, R-NC)
- We May Fall Then Stumble Upon a Carousel (1/2) (Adam/Kris, R-NC 17), 2/2
- A Little Down That Road (2 parts) (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- A Solar Landing In My Eyes (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Burn it up (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Light of Different Stars (Adam/Kris, NC 17), The Hours Before Morning (Sequel)
- Everything In Its Right Place (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- I've Been Waiting for You (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Way With Words (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Words On Skin (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- From the Moment (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- The World in an Hourglass (Adam/Kris, NC 17, X-dressing), A Million Dreams to Fulfill (Sequel)
- Southside Of Heaven 2 Parts (Adam/Kris, Matt, NC 17, Warning Drug use)
- Hanging Like Bricks Don't 4 parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17, Aliens kidnap Kradam), a.k.a. aliens make them do it
- Serendipity (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Turn It All Around 2 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Fairy Tale (Adam/Kris, NC 17, Mpreg (!) but totally hilarious)
- Box of Rain (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- The Sound of Pulling Heaven Down 1/2 (Adam/Kris, NC 17), 2/2
- And Play a Favorite Song 1/3 (Adam/Kris, NC 17), 2/3, 3/3
- Set Our Watches Forward Like We're Just Arriving Here (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Melt Into Time 3 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Blind Leading the Blind (Adam/Kris, NC 17), Waking Up (Sequel)
- Kris Allen: Worst Personal Assistant Ever (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Start Me Up (or The Backseat Mustang Fic) (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Burning Brightly Now 2 parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Nurse This Infection (Adam/Kris, Katy, NC 17)
- Doesn't Have To Be Perfect, Just Has To Be Real (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Future Legend 7 Parts (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- The Monroe (Adam/Kris, Megan, NC 17), You Break Me Down (Sequel)
- Model Behavior (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- We Are Golden (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- From This Moment (You Are The One) (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Our Song Remembered 2 parts (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17)
- I Would Be 4 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- (This Is) Not A Statement 10 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Covington Marshes Bylaws, Section 13.D: Community Rules for Hauntings 1/6 (Adam/Kris, AU, NC 17), 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6
- Falling All Over You Series 7 Parts (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful 2 Parts (Adam/Kris, Post-apocalyptic, NC 17)
- Sings the Song Without the Words (Adam/Kris, NC 17)
- Stephen Part 1, Ch 1-10 (Adam/Kris, Stephen, NC 17, Warning: disturbing subject matter), Part 2, Ch 1, Part 2, Ch 2, Part 2, Ch 3, Part 2, Ch 4, Part 2, Ch 5, Part 2, Ch 6
- Only Forward 2 Parts (Adam/Kris, Kris/Katy, NC 17)
- City of A Thousand Wonders (Adam/Kris, Katy, NC 17)
- Publicity (Adam/Kris/Katy 3-some, NC 17)
- White Rabbit (Adam/Kris/Katy 3-some, NC 17)
- Bingo (Adam/Kris/Katy 3-some, Warning: Hardcore NC 17)
- Gonna Close My Eyes (KAra POV, Matt, Adam/Kris, R-NC 17)Team Lambliff (Adam/Tommy Joe Fic) Recs
- Bass Line (Adam/Tommy, Kris, Pg-13 - R)
- Could You Be M-Mine? (Adam/Brad, Adam/Tommy, Adam/Drake R)
- Little Boxes (1/2) (Adam/Anoop, Kris, NC 17), 2/2
- Fortunate Son (Cook/Archie, PG-R), Above Water (Sequel)
- Woke Up Married (Cook/Archie, NC 17)
- Crossing of Kings: Snakes and Singers (Adam/Snape, PG-R), 2/?, 3/?, 4/?
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This was from a blogger in Taiwan, and of course everything was written in Mandarin. You can have a look at hers here.
Not much changes have been made here, I used some pandan paste for the strawberries leaves instead..;p And why is my rolls got holes ha? Maybe I've folded it too much..:(


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Morning Jolt: Powerball winner gets $241 million cash
In the news
In a game where oftentimes the winnings are split among five, seven or 10 people, a single ticket was sold at a Michigan gas station that matched the numbers 6, 27, 46, 51, 56 and Powerball 21. The winner of Powerball, who has not yet been identified, gets $337 million, which comes out to $241 million in cash value. Click the link above to read more from CBSNews.com.
Gas prices
Today's lowest gas prices are in Arizona at $3.39 a gallon and South Carolina at $3.39 a gallon. -- gasbuddy.com
Motivational quote
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
Watercooler talk: Boy's head stuck in stone balcony
A Chinese boy gave authorities in Hezhang Country a bit of a headache on Sunday when he managed to get his head firmly lodged in a stone balustrade. He was freed using hydraulic spreading pliers. Scroll down to watch the video.


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Ongoing exhibition, opened June 11, 2010.
Bob Hope, who entertainment historian and critic Leonard Maltin declared "may be the most popular entertainer in the history of Western civilization," was arguably the nation's best-loved topical humorist during the twentieth century. Hope for America draws from the personal papers, joke files, films, radio and television broadcasts, and other materials donated to the Library of Congress by Bob Hope and his family. To put the history of the involvement of entertainers in politics into perspective, the exhibition also profiles the politically oriented activities of other prominent figures represented in the Library's vast collections.
The exhibition invites visitors to examine artifacts that represent an array of viewpoints and draw their own conclusions regarding the interplay of politics and entertainment in American public life and its consequences for the nation's political culture.
This exhibition has been made possible through the generous contributions of Bob and Dolores Hope and their family.
Exhibition Location
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Friend of the blog and past contributor, Wichi, weighs in on his new least favorite television show(s):
In the midst of the killing season, i.e., bashing our least favorite candidate for the Office of the President, permit me a brief cease-fire from the festivities to draw our collective eye to what I believe is a real and insidious virus in the American corpus, reality television. This ubiquitous form of programming has become a way of celebrating, if not worshiping, the worst characteristics [crass, dumb, insipid, loud, petty, stupid, violent, and vulgar, to name a few] of our fellow citizens.
In terms of how we think of our place in society, the sub-culture exposed by the popularity of reality shows, is scary enough to force me into rethinking my allegiances. Requiring a new cultural fantasy draft, if you will. For our draft preparation, let's begin by determining, who is NOT the enemy?
It is not Mr. Obama, although I cannot wait to cast at least one, and if I move to the right district of Miami, several votes for Romney. While left-leaning and, in my opinion, a new age version of Jimmy Carter (never a compliment to compare anyone to Carter), he is a law abiding, smart, learned man; it is NOT Mr. Romney, whom his political opponents believe to be a rich, out of touch (isn't getting out of touch the GOAL of making money?), flip-flopping, corporate stool pigeon.
I've come to the realization that the enemy is not the far right, or far left, or disgraced politicians, or spineless ones. Regardless of brains or motivation, I have always believed than most on the national stage mean well for America. Maybe its just THEIR America, but dammit, a nice chunk of America nevertheless.
The Enemy, my good people, for lack of a better sub-grouping, are the audience for reality TV shows. I include in that group, people who watch to reaffirm their superiority over those they are watching. They are something worse than dumb, they are cruel.
Sometime in the middle of the technological night, as we and others debated Bush/Clinton/Kerry/McCain/Palin/Obama/Biden, et al, they, — as in millions and millions of our fellow American citizens — turned to Honey Boo Boo.
I submit that we, the anti-reality show part of society, do no good bashing the other smart guys "guy," because, and this chills me more than ObamaCare and a Biden press conference — they are not the biggest problem we face. In reality [get it], our problem is maintaining a great society when a significant portion of that society is watching and enjoying their reality TV.


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Thanking my friends for 2012
I'm taking up a little space here to thank my friends for helping me get through the most emotionally draining year I have ever experienced.
I started the year off finishing writing my book, "Beer Lover's New England," and my friends were always supportive of the effort, despite the exhausting work in the last few weeks. Stress was at high levels until it was done.
You were also all there for me when my mother had to be rushed to the hospital in April. Unfortunately, my mother was never able to come home again and passed away in August.
My mother was so proud of me writing the book, and I'm glad she got the chance to see it.
For those who know me, they know my mother, Donna, was the most important person in my life, and I was devastated. I don't know how I would have gotten through the pain of losing her without my friends.
The year did have a lot of highlights, mainly through beer. Not just drinking, but about the connections I made.
I made some true friends – other beer writers, brewers and just plain better beer drinkers – in 2012. My friendships with them blossomed from beer buddies to real friendships.
Ben Roesch and Tom Oliveri of Wormtown Brewery were kind enough to name a beer after me, Norm. It was one of the nicest things that anyone has ever done for me. I found out about that about two weeks after my mother has passed.
I know this is a little rambling, but I couldn't let 2012 escape without thanking everyone. So thank you.
See you in 2013.


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