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[QUOTE]The Maid's Husband[/quote]
"What is it?"
"Where have you kept my tie. I just can't find it anywhere. "
"It's inside the wardrobe. "
Amit always expected her to attend to him when he was getting ready for office. When they had got married ten years back she could do that. But now with their two kids going to school her morning schedule was hectic. Getting up early, preparing breakfast, waking up the kids, serving breakfast... it went on and on until Amit left for his office and she took the kids to the bus stand to catch the school bus.
Anita either slept nude or in a panty and that is why she made it a point to get up before the children. She had been asleep when the doorbell rang. She asked Amit to open the door but he was too sleepy. She tiptoed on her bare feet and peeped through the key hole. It was the maid Lakshmi. Anita opened to door. Lakshmi had had seen her nude off and on and so there was no problem in letting her see the breasts once again. Once in a while they had also discussed the lovemaking aspects of weddings. Lakshmi went to the kitchen and Anita saw that one of her anklets was missing. That is what happened when Amit made violent love. Before going to the kitchen she pulled on a knee length nightie and went to the kitchen.
Mornings were even tougher when the maid didn't turn up. Lakshmi was a nice person and always went out of her way to help Anita. She never refused to do anything, quite unlike most of the maids employed by her friends and neighbours. When they had moved into this beautiful bungalow in Pratap Ganj, in the eastern suburbs of the city, she had felt elated. The apartment blocks would no longer stifle her. No doubt to it, she hated living in apartments.
But then Lakshmi had her own share of problems – her drunkard and abusive husband. He would return home late most of the days just managing to keep himself steady and would beat her up for flimsy reasons. Whenever the thrashing got too hard she had to stay away from work for a day or two. Anita pitied Lakshmi. Why did she stay with him? At times she tried to imagine an abusive Amit. If anything like that ever happened she would, surely, walk out. It was not a question of how much it hurt physically; it would be an intolerable insult on self-esteem. Then she would laugh at her idea of an abusive Amit...after all they had been college sweethearts and knew each other so well.
Whenever Anita expressed her opinion to Lakshmi, she laughed patiently.
"You don't understand everything. " Lakshmi would say, leaving Anita wondering.
But, Lakshmi had agreed that next time he repeated it she would bring him over for Anita to try to talk him out of this beastly habit. Yesterday when Anita learnt from another maid that Lakshmi wont turn up for work for a day or two she had expected them. They hadn't turned up till now.
"Vipin and Varsha, I want you to finish your breakfast within five minutes. " She warned. The kids were in their usual habit of messing up with the breakfast. Vipin with eight summers behind him was capable of taking care of himself but his six year old sister was still the baby of the family.
She looked up at the wall clock. It was eight-thirty.
"Honey, I'm off. Might be late in the evening. Amit stood beside her in the kitchen just long enough to plant a kiss on her cheek and if the situation permitted he would just slide the nighty aside and give a peck on her nipples. It's one of those gestures that have stayed with them for the last twelve years. She followed him out of the kitchen, yanked the kids out of the table and sent them off to the bedroom to get dressed for school. They managed to do that on their own.
As she started to get dressed standing in front of the wardrobe mirror she mused that there was at least one bright side to her tough schedule. It definitely helped her to stay in shape. She was slim, tall – almost five feet seven and medium complexioned. She knew that even at thirty-two she was attractive.
"You are still a head turner, honey. " Amit was always saying that. It was a harmless leg pulling on his part but going by the way people stared at her she knew he wasn't wrong. Having put on her pale blue saree she turned, her side facing the mirror and arranged her shoulder length hair. That's perfect, she decided. No unwanted prominence.
"Mama, we are ready. " Their shout brought her back to her senses. It was time she took them to the bus stop for their school bus but luckily they went with Mrs. Pareek.
She flopped down on the bed. She felt too tired even to change her clothes. The blast of cool air from the ceiling fan helped her relax. It went just like that on day's Lakshmi didn't turn up. Later, she would get up, change and have her breakfast. A brief flip through the newspaper before she returned to the kitchen to get on with her daily chores. Now the only thing she could think of was to relax under the fan. Everything else could wait. She closed her eyes just to enjoy that stupor of sleep come over her.
The ringing doorbell brought her back to her senses. She looked at her watch. It was almost ten o'clock.
"Who can it be?" She murmured rising from the comfort of the bed. Peeping into the door-eye she could see Lakshmi standing outside. She opened the door to let her in. It was then that she noticed the man standing a couple of yards behind her, right on the driveway. She wondered whether she should let him in. She was wearing only a sleeveless nightie with no bra and a thong pantie which Amit liked. But since Lakshmi was there Anita decided to let them in.
"Do I need to tell you what happened day before yesterday?" Lakshmi said.
No, she nodded. "I have brought him with me. See whether you can talk him out of this beastly habit. I have my doubts. "
Anita made way for Lakshmi to get into the house. As Lakshmi went past her she looked at the man standing there.
"Come in and close the door behind you. "
She walked into the drawing room and sat down on the sofa. She was in a fix, should she invite them to sit on another sofa or on the floor. Before she could decide, Lakshmi made herself comfortable on the floor. Her husband followed suit.
"What's your name?"
It was for the first time Anita had a close look at him. Unshaved, it looked he was having a hangover. That's nothing surprising considering his habits. Otherwise, his hair was neatly combed and the shirt he was wearing was one of those she had given to Lakshmi. He looked fine in it. He must be around forty or so, she decided. He was couple of inches taller than she. Lakshmi had told her that he was a mason. Anita saw that his eyes were locked on her breasts. She wondered whether he could see her nipples through the thin material.
The next quarter of an hour she talked to them, at length, about the virtues of being a teetotaler. He seemed to understand everything, agreeing with her that he should get rid of this habit. While talking to them she bent down to pick a ball that the children had left on the floor. At that time the nightie also fell and she was sure that Bhasu saw her breasts.
"Nobody had explained to me the problems of being a drunkard the way you have done. " He went on. "You are definitely younger to me in age but you are more matured. I guess, that's what education does to you. Don't worry, from this moment onwards I'll concentrate on earning a decent living rather than wasting our earnings on drinks. "
As they left, she could make out the gratitude on Lakshmi's face.
More than an hour had passed by. She was still leafing through the newspaper...not feeling like starting the chores in the kitchen. But first, she had to change. She got up and started towards the bedroom. Just then the doorbell rang.
Must be the postman delivering the registered mail, she thought.
She opened the door to find Bhasu with a cloth bag.
"What is it?" She felt irritated, but controlled herself.
"I have put all the bottles that I had back home in this bag. As a tribute to the way you helped me I request you to throw these away yourself. "
She agreed reluctantly, taking the bag from his out-stretched hand.
"Can I have a glass of water?"
"Sure. " She replied putting down the bag on the floor.
When she returned with a glass of water, she found him standing inside. He gulped the water down and returned the glass to her. She took the glass but before she could move it away he caught hold of her hand pulling her to him. It was unexpected and fast...she just couldn't react. All that she managed to do was to turn around so that he was behind her. At that moment panic struck her and the glass slipped out, shattering itself into pieces as it struck the floor. His hands were on her breasts gripping them so hard that it hurt. She bent forward to free herself form his amorous bear hug.
That didn't help. To keep her balance she had to shove her behind at him. He responded immediately, his loins ramming against her behind. He was squeezing her breasts rather painfully.
"Stop or I'll shout. " She found her voice at last.
"I know you won't do that. All that you need is a good fuck. " He was panting. Recovering from her panic she fought back, her hands catching hold of his hair forcing him forward and her bare feet kicking at his shin.
He deserved it. Desperately, she clung to his hair. Unexpectedly, his right hand relinquished its hold on her. But it was only a brief respite. She felt his hands on her nightie, trying to pull it off. To her horror he succeeded, throwing it away from her reach. It lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.
Suddenly he released her.
She staggered, trying desperately to maintain her balance.
He slapped her hard, the sting ringing in her ears. Tears swelled in her eyes. Then came the second one, sending her reeling onto the floor. She was pinned down to the floor as the blows rained on her. She tried to resist, but most of them got through her defenses. Before long her strength began to wane away and the slaps coming in quick succession became unbearable.
"Please! I beg you..." She wailed.
Instantly it stopped. She started crying, drops of blood trickling down her nose.
"It's nothing. Will be okay in a minute. " He sneered as she felt his hands on her panties, tearing them off.
She couldn't believe this was happening to her.
"Oh God! Let this be just a nightmare. "
He couldn't shift his eyes from what he had unveiled...long legs, firm thighs and neatly trimmed
pubic hair just covering her mons.
'That is a nice pussy. If you are so fond of Lakshmi why did you not ask her to trim her pussy as
It was overwhelming. She was just what he had fantasized sitting on the floor in front of her,
listening to her crap on drinking.
He buried his head between her thighs inhaling the musk of her sex. Tentatively, he started licking her.
Oh God!" She shuddered clutching his head with her hands and trying to move him away. Amit never did that to her. As his tongue became more insistent increasing it's rhythm and pressure she began to lose control. With a startle she realised that the body was capable of accepting what the mind rejected.
"Aah!" She moaned and moved her hands, putting an end to her feeble attempts to move him away.
Soon her moans became louder as she shuddered under his maneuvers. She was beyond all caring now...her background, education, husband, children...nothing mattered. There is no way out. She will have sex with this man...her maidservant's habitually drunkard husband.
Abruptly, he got to his feet and started undressing. In his hurry he tore of his shirt and trouser. Lying on the floor, she had a fleeting glance of his manhood as he joined her. He is huge...certainly bigger than Amit, she thought. He raised her legs, arranged them on his shoulders and placed the tip of his cock at the entry of her pussy with just the head buried slightly in the folds of her pussy.
'You want this inside? Do you get fucked daily?'
'No, please don't do it.'
"Hmm. so you don't get fucked daily. Too bad. Perhaps he fucks Lakshmi."She found the thought revolting. How could Bhasu think such a thing?
Slowly and steadily he started pushing. Anita was already wet and as her pussy held Bhasu's foreskin back, his cock slid in smoothly.
'I am so sorry but you did not resist enough and see it is already inside. It is nice, tight and warm. Obviously you don't get fucked regularly. That is why you need me.' And he increased the rhythm by fully withdrawing and then thrusting wildly. All the while he kept sucking her nipples and playing with the breasts.
'Lakshmi had told me that you have nice breasts but these are just too good. Lucky man, your husband.'
"Oh God!" She sighed as her vagina stretched to accommodate him. She put her hands to her mouth stifling her moans as the tip of his penis drove all the way to her cervix again and again.
Bhasu seemed to carry on and on. Involuntarily she had locked her ankles around his back. An explosion that left them panting for breath. He discharged entirely inside her.
She looked at him.
"I told you that's what you needed. You scare me the way you moaned. " He was smiling. Embarrassed, she looked away.
When she tried to get up he pulled her back to him.
"Where are you going, my dear? We are not through as yet. Wouldn't you like to fuck again?"
"I need to go to the bathroom. " She tried to sound detached.
"But you can't go like this. "
He stood up and helped her to her feet. He had already stripped her naked. He turned her around.
"You can go now. " He said patting her naked behind.
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When she came back into the living room he was sitting in front of the television watching Sun TV.
"Come, sit over here. " He was indicating his lap. She hesitated for a moment, acutely conscious of her nudity but then relented. He placed his cock at her pussy and wanted her to sit on it but the cock was limp after the discharge and did not go in.
Nevertheless as soon as she was on his lap his hands started caressing her again.
Half an hour later the smoldering fires began to burn again. But this time he wanted it differently...to come in her mouth. She had never performed fellatio, not even with Amit. It was perverse... something that you can read only in those English paperbacks. Certainly, she can't do it.
"I won't do that. " She stood her ground.
Moments of his ecstasy he will not be able to hold onto her. Wanting to get over the whole thing she started to suck him vigorously.
The pressure of his hand on her head increased...she could feel his approaching orgasm. He was hard and huge inside her mouth. She started choking and gasped for air but there was no respite. She knew it was time to pull away...this would be the last time she would suck him in. He moved swiftly catching her unaware. His hands moved to the back of her head and powerfully pulled her to his groin. It was as if he knew from the very beginning what she had in mind. Tightly pressed against his groin, she was suffocating. She struggled to free herself, but he was too strong for her. Then suddenly he relaxed, allowing her to create just enough space to breathe. It was only a brief respite. The next instant she was again forced against his groin. As his penis hit the back of her throat he exploded. She had no other way but to gulp down his secretions to prevent herself from choking. When he released her she fell back, heaving a sigh of relief. Her cheeks and chin were covered with his semen that had escaped her mouth. Almost immediately she started retching and rushed to the bathroom, somehow managing to reach the wash basin, before throwing up. That gave her immediate relief from the nausea. When she looked up she found Bhasu standing beside her. She offered no resistance as he took her in his arms and gently ran his fingers through her hair to comfort her.
"Are you comfortable now?" He whispered. She nodded yes.
Bhasu helped her to clean up before leading her back to the living room. He helped her onto one of the sofas and then sat opposite her.
"Take it easy. " Soon they were engrossed in the television.
"Okay its time. " His words startled her bringing her attention back from the television.
"For what?"
"Come here on your knees. " He ordered, opening his legs.
"Bhasu! Please don't force me to do that again. I have never done that before. "
"Okay, Okay. " He seemed to understand and walked over to her.
She didn't even get the time to flinch as he slapped her hard. Tears and stars sprang to her eyes.
He went back to the sofa.
"How many times do I have to tell you that your preferences don't count. You don't know your preferences, anyway. Just follow my orders and soon you will start enjoying it. Now crawl over here and you better keep it down this time. " He threatened...
This time there was no nausea. When it was over she sat down on the floor, her head on his thigh – only inches away from his now satiated manhood. She felt too embarrassed to even look up at him. He knew how to have his way with a woman, there can be no doubt about it.
Anita looked at her watch and jumped. It was time for Varsha and Vipin to return home. Hurriedly she extricated herself from his embrace and got to her feet.
"Bhasu you have to go now. It's time my son and daughter returned from school. "
"Let me kiss you there one more time. " He was looking straight at her naked crotch. "You look very nice when you are naked. Do you trim the hair there yourself or does your husband do it?"Anita remained quiet.
"Okay go there, stretch your arms overhead. Let me examine you. No hair under the arms, nice, very nice. A Mangalsutra in your neck. Good earrings. A diamong nose pin. A golden girdle around your waist, very expensive, no!But nice. Turn around. Oh nothing in your asshole. All it needs is a tight slap. Turn around again. Glass bangles on one wrist and gold one in the other along with a watch. And a combination of silver anklets and chain along with small toe rings. Nice red nail polish on your hands and toes. This is the way I want to see you when I come to ... you tomorrow. You want to get... badly?Remember nothing else or else?" He said sneeringly
"You are nice to look at and nice to fuck. But we have missed out on one important thing."said Bhasu "God!" Thought Anita. "Now what is it?"She was exasperated.. "Come closer, very close." Anita complied. Bhasu too stripped quickly. "Now stand on your toes, cup your breasts and keep your nipples on mine." Anita hesitated. "No! Why all this. You have had sex with me. Now why all this?"
"Shut up. Do it and you won't get hurt. Or else you will get hurt and then do it. And don't say that I had sex with you. Say that I fucked you" She stood on tip toe and placed her large pink nipples on Bhasu's brown. He cupped both her buttocks and pulled her closer to him. However because of the difference in height his cock could not enter Anita's pussy. It just kept pushing on the mound of her sparse pubic hair. "Now kiss me as you kiss your husband. Suck my tongue. Take your hands behind my head." Anita wondered whether he would ever go. Since she wanted him to go early she was complying with his instructions willingly. She darted her tongue inside his mouth, found his tongue and sucked at it wildly. This again set her body on fire and gave Bhasu an erection again. "Good. One last thing. Get your cordless phone. Quick." Anita picked it from the nearby cabinet. "Lie down. Open your legs"He then placed his cock at the tip of her ass-hole, and kept her ankle on his shoulder. With the wild kisses given by Anita his cock was rock hard again. "No, not in there."Anita pleaded. Bhasu's cock was slippery and placed just at the tip of her ass-hole. He kept his hands near Anita's belly button and pulled her but the hole was too tight. 'Please don't put it there. It will be painful.' Anita was almost begging him. "Well, okay your choice bring your hand and keep it wherever you want it." Cursing Bhasu under her breath she held his cock and kept it at the opening of her pussy. "Now dial your husband."
"Why?"Anita pleaded. "If you want to fuck me, do so. Why bring my husband into it?"
"Do as I say. Why do I have to repeat myself once you know that you have to do it. If you delay your children will come and they will not be too happy to see you like this." Anita dialed Amit. As soon as she said hello Bhasu thrust his cock in. "Hi, love. How are you" Amit said. "Fine!" Anita replied. As the conversation proceeded Bhasu kept thrusting his cock in very slowly till it was fully embedded in Anita's pussy. His strokes were also discreet. All the while he kept pulling her nipples and also nibbling at them. He withdrew only after the conversation ended, wiped the cum over her breasts and proceeded to get dressed. "Remember. Tomorrow. Now the pussy kiss."
She came over and opened her thighs, allowing him to kiss her sex. He opened the lips of her pussy and darted his tongue inside. "The good part is that your pussy lips are visible even without opening them and Lakshmi has such a bush of hair there. You have seen her bush there?''
Anita shook her head.
"But she has seen you naked. Okay I understand. She comes to your house and in the house you can be naked. Since you don't come to our house how can you see her naked?'
What had actually happened was that after making love she had fallen into deep slumber. Amit got up before her. He had put the latch from outside so as not to disturb her. Just as Amit was taking the children to school Lakshmi arrived. Amit completely forgot that Anita was sleeping naked. When he returned he took off his shoes as per his habit and entered. He saw that Anita was still asleep. Her left leg was straight. The right sole was on the left knee. One arm over the head and the other by the side. In this pose even the pubic hair trimmed as they were could not provide much protection. The lips of her pussy were slightly open and the breasts were rising and falling rhythmically. Lakshmi was sweeping the floor and was completely normal. She did not appear to be even slightly surprised that Mem Sahib was naked. Later when Amit told this to Anita she was not embarrassed by the fact that Lakshmi had seen her pussy as well but was surprised that she slept so soundly. He started getting dressed. She found it surprising that she no longer felt embarrassed to stand before him stark naked.
"I will be back tomorrow, same time. You will open the door wearing nothing. When I say nothing I mean nothing except of course, all your rings, necklace, bangles etc. "
She nodded trying to get him out of the house as soon as possible.
She bumped into him as he suddenly stopped in front of the door. Turning around he cupped her breasts and sucked one nipple after another.
"Tomorrow you will receive a good thrashing first and the you will offer me your last virginity. "
Was she a willing victim? It was then that Lakshmi's words had struck her... "You don't understand everything. " Now she understood what lay behind the physical abuses that Lakshmi silently suffered.
"The way he dealt with me was no different. " Anita thought. And like Lakshmi she had endured his physical abuse to satisfy her hideous animal passion.
The stillness of the night was unbearable. She got out of bed and tiptoed to the terrace. The cool southern breeze brought comfort.
How could she betray Amit with a moments passion, she wondered. They loved each other dearly, didn't they? And is this what he expects in return? His beloved wife fucking and illiterate drunkard. What a shock it will be for him if he ever came to know of it. Didn't her culture, education and children mean anything to her? She fought to control her tears. There's no way she would allow Bhasu to have his way with her again.
"I am sorry Amit. I beg you to forgive me. I promise never to do that again. " She murmured to herself. She resolved to straighten things out with Bhasu tomorrow. She will shut the door on his face...to let him know that whatever they did today meant nothing to her. She felt the burden lift from her heart.
"I love you Amit. " She cried out into the stillness of the night.
She had asked him.
"What will happen if Lakshmi comes to know of this?" She looked at him expecting some sort of assurance.
He broke into laughter. "If you want you can go ahead and tell her. In fact, I was planning to have both of you together in bed someday soon. "
"What do you mean? Are you crazy?" Startled, she sat up.
"I can assure you that nobody other than the three of us will ever come to know of this. You want me to carry on fucking you this way or do you want this to stop?'"
'I want this is to stop.' 'Good. So I will fuck you no more. However tomorrow when I come you should be nude in the house, just as you were today. The only change is that when Lakshmi comes you will remain nude. Not only that after a while when I come still you will not run here and there like a fool hiding your breasts but remain casual. Okay? By the way what does your name mean?' 'I don't know.' 'Well, so before I go won't you give a nice long suck to this cock affectionately. Your husband's would be slightly different, so enjoy this.'
"Why are you so late?" Lakshmi asked. "Why? What happened?"
"I have to go to Anita Mem Sahib's place. As it is I am late. There is so much work."
"Tomorrow Mem Sahib's younger sister Sunita Mem Sahib is coming for two weeks." Hearing this Bhasu started salivating again and imagining what Sunita would be like. With and without clothes.
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- 1½ cups grapefruit segments, cut into bite size pieces
- 2 cups diced, cooked chicken (leftovers work great)
- ¼ cup chopped celery
- 1 green onion, minced
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup fresh parsley, minced
- ½ cup toasted slivered almonds
- Mixed salad greens
- Shredded carrots
- In a large bowl, combine the grapefruit, chicken celery, green onion, mayonnaise, and parsley. Mix thoroughly.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- To Serve: Place a bed of mixed greens on the serving plate.* Place the salad on top of the greens and garnish with the shredded carrots and slivered almonds.
- * You can also serve the salad on individual plates.
- This recipe can be doubled or tripled.
Kashrut Instructions
- Remove and discard all side leaves and branches.
- Holding celery stalk firmly under a heavy stream of water, brush down both the inside and outside of the celery stalk with your finger or a vegetable brush.
- If a worm is spotted in the celery stalk, slit open celery stalk, remove worm and wash thoroughly.
DESCRIPTION: Fresh Chives, basil, cilantro, dill, mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, and thyme are often used as spices or garnishing.
Please Note: Curly leaf parsley is very difficult to check. It is therefore recommended that only flat leaf parsley be used.
INFESTATION: Aphids, thrips and other insects may often be found on the leaves and stems of these herbs. Insects tend to nestle in the crevices between the leaves and branches of herbs. These insects can curl up and stick to the leaf once they come in contact with water.
Vegetable spinners, power hoses, and light boxes are not always available in the home. We therefore recommend the following alternate procedure.
RECOMMENDATION: In order to determine if a particular bunch of herbs is infested prior to washing, bang it several times over a white cloth. This is most important when checking oregano, rosemary, sage and thyme. If only one or two insects are found proceed with the steps below. If three or more insects are detected in a particular bunch of herbs it should not be used.
- Soak herbs in a solution of cold water and vegetable wash. The proper amount of vegetable wash has been added when some bubbles are observed in the water. (In the absence of vegetable wash, several drops of concentrated unscented liquid detergent may be used. However, for health reasons, care must be taken to thoroughly rinse off the soapy solution.)
- Agitate the herbs in the soapy water, in order to loosen the sticking excretion of the bugs.
- Using a heavy stream of water, thoroughly wash off the soap and other foreign matter from the herbs.
- Check both sides of each leaf under direct light.
- If one or two insects are found, rewash the herbs.
- If any insects are found after repeating the agitation process twice, the entire bunch must be discarded.
Please note: To prepare herbs such as cilantro, dill, or parsley for use in soups wash them thoroughly and place in a cooking bag.
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- A vertical cut should be made from the top of the scallion's green shoot to the bottom of the bulb. Examine three scallions from each bunch, paying careful attention to the area between the branches that protrude from the bulb.
- If no insects are found, wash thoroughly under a heavy stream of water or power hose and use.
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So often, when people consider life insurance they are thinking about it solely as a tool to replace income or pay final bills. As a working mom, I have life insurance so my family can have a lump sum of cash to replace my income should something happen to me. Many of my senior adult clients have kept some life insurance after their retirement so that their surviving family members will have the cash needed to pay final medical expenses or to afford a funeral. However, income replacement and cash for final bills are not the only reasons to have life insurance. You should consider how life insurance can be used in other ways.
First, life insurance can be used to create liquidity to divide your estate between your loved ones. If you have invested mainly in real estate, then dividing your assets between your loved ones after life may be very difficult. Children whom you meant to gift with rentals, may be forced to either sell the rental and divide the equity, or to mortgage the property in order to keep it. What was meant to be a gift is converted into a weight because there was not enough cash to divide between your loved ones. Life insurance can be leveraged to create the liquidity to balance out the distribution between your loved ones. Now, instead of having to mortgage the property, one child can receive your gift of real estate while a different child can take cash to balance out the transaction — and no one is left under the unexpected weight of a mortgage.
Second, life insurance can be used to create liquidity for a loved one who has special needs. If you have a loved one or family member or loved one who is disabled and needs government assistance, then there are strict rules about what they can own. An inheritance from you, even a small one, directly to a special needs person may mean that this person loses needed assistance, such as a housing allowance or Medicaid coverage. Instead, you can create a special needs trust. Such a trust protects the inheritance you leave, and ensures that is it properly used for you loved one, without your loved one losing the assistance they need to live. There are, of course, many ways to fund a special needs trust — including by directly gifting the special needs trust assets from your estate plan. However, I recommend using life insurance because you can leverage a small payment, over time, to create a sizable gift of cash that goes immediately to support your special needs person. There is little to no delay through a probate or trust administration process, and your loved one immediately gets the support they need.
Third, life insurance can be used to create liquidity for charity. Sometimes I have clients tell me they want to get rid of their life insurance policy. Maybe they do not feel they need it anymore, or maybe the small premium is simply a cost that they feel is wasted. This same individual, though, that tells me about the wonderful things they are doing to support the community. They share their love for volunteering, or a particular organization. I love hearing about the passions of my clients, and so I ask them how they can continue to invest in these charities after they have passed away. Many people have never considered that they can invest in these passions through their estate plan, and continue their volunteer work even after they have passed away. One way of doing this is to maintain a life insurance policy that you might otherwise cancel and have it pay directly to the charity of your choosing. The small policy that you might think is not worth paying a few hundred a year for, could be very worthwhile if leveraged into a lump sum of cash for the charity of your choice. It could change lives for generations. You can use life insurance to leave a legacy of giving.
Life insurance has many uses beyond just replacing income or paying your final bills. It can be leveraged as a gift to the next generation, to care for your loved ones and to continue to support the things you are passionate about. It can be the gift of liquidity your loved ones need to carry out your legacy.
Cassandra Jones is an elder law and family law attorney in Gardnerville. She can be reached at 782-0040.


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Coppelia is being presented as a special tribute to Royce Flavel "Lee" Green (1946-1997), as a special tribute to honor his memory by his lifelong friends in the Nashville theater and dance communities. During the 1970s to the 1990s, Green was a driving force in Nashville and Middle Tennessee theater, directing and acting in a variety of memorable shows for companies like Theatre Nashville, Circle Players and the St. Augustine Players.
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note gmpassos First, the XML module is slow to load! The first idea was to use XML, but since every app will use XML, I decided to make my own parser to avoid the time load. GML has some adds, the use of the + and * to tell the type of the content of a tag, or to tell that a tag need or not a closer: </tag>.
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 I saw that a lot of peoples think wxPerl confuse, because wxPerl is wxWindows on Perl. In other words, the people need to know wxWindows to use wxPerl, and what I'm doing is to make this more easy. But I do not take off any merit from wxPerl (Mattia), wxPerl is very very good, for me is the best GUI lib for Perl in the moment, but the ordinary user will want something more easy, but if you know wxPerl you still can use it with HWX, since I don't cut any feature.
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I can't speak for ORA management, but I feel like the boom days of computer publishing are gone for good. The 90s Internet boom raised demand for books on Perl, PHP, Unix, and so on. But now that the world has realized that not every service can and should be delivered through the Internet, e-commerce expectations and implementations are being scaled way back, the whole computer industry is going to shrink again.
The next economic boom might come from nanotech, from biotech, from the military, or from somewhere else. I don't know. What I am pretty sure of is that it's not going to come from PHP, Perl, Unix, or any of the things we're currently strong in. It's a depressing thought, but I just can't see the future being any brighter.
I can't see us ever ceasing to publish Perl books. But we might be pickier about what we take on. And we might be a smaller company in a year's time. About the only consolation to be had is that it's not like anyone else in the industry is doing better.
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Jennifer Lawrence Gets Her Training On For 'The Hunger Games', Plus First Set Pics [PHOTOS]
Jennifer Lawrence was a "huge fan" of The Hunger Games, even before she was cast as Katniss Everdeen. "I was a huge fan of the books before I even really knew about the movies," she told MTV News. "I met with [director] Gary Ross, and we had a very long, nice meeting before the audition," she explained. "And then by the time the audition came around, we were familiar with each other."
Production on the film is already underway in North Carolina. Lawrence was spotted yesterday on the set along with co-stars Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, McKenzie Lintz, and Suzanne Collins. She's done some intense training thus far to prepare for her role, including archery, rock and tree climbing, and "vaulting." She's even doing yoga to remain "catlike." We can't wait to see this movie.
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Lawrence wasn't aware that fans of the book weren't happy with her initially. It wasn't about her acting chops, but more about her hair. "I wasn't aware that everybody was so upset until I after I got my hair dyed, and people were like, 'Oh my gosh, blond hair can turn brown. Wow. It's a miracle,'" Lawrence explained. "So now is the only time that I'm being told that people hated me at first."


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Escaping a Great White Shark attack
Rhomeez Petersen and Troy Henri had a lucky escape last month when they were out surfing in Hawston in South Africa's Western Cape.
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Troy takes up the story of his miraculous escape.
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John Brennan, an adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh this morning to urge him to sign and implement an agreement that would allow the president to step down in exchange for his, and his family's, immunity. During the call, Brennan called the agreement the "best way forward" for Yemen.
The people who live in Yemen, however, appear to disagree.
"They don't understand. We won't accept political immunity for Saleh's crimes against the Yemeni people. We will simply hold more marches and call for more civil disobedience," Mohammed Bakil, a protester, told GlobalPost's Jeb Boone in Sanaa earlier this month.
Penned by the Gulf Cooperation Council — a political and economic grouping that includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — the agreement has been hammered out by foreign governments, Saleh and the country's political opposition. But it did not include any representatives from the tens of thousands of protesters who have been camping out in Sanaa's streets since the middle of February.
Brennan told Saleh during the call that the agreement would pave the way for Yemen to become a more "secure, unified, and prosperous nation" and for the Yemeni people to "realize their aspirations" for peace and political reform.
The "aspirations" of the people are clear. They want Saleh to step down and then be brought to justice. Yemeni protest leaders have long said that the president should face trial for authorizing violent attacks on peaceful protesters, attacks that have so far killed more than 100 people. They said he should also face trial for the decades of corruption that are partly responsible for turning Yemen into the poorest country in the region.
Protesters have also said that the political opposition, known as the JMP and which is negotiating the agreement, does not represent the people and is, in fact, illegitimate. Parliamentary elections were supposed to be held last year but were delayed.
"I don't know what gives the JMP the right to negotiate for the transfer of power. The current parliament is illegal. We have not held parliamentary elections and the parliament has no electoral mandate," said Adel Al-Sarabi, a prominent youth organizer in the capital.
The United States, concerned primarily with the state of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates from Yemen, has sought to coax an end to the conflict.
During his conversation with President Saleh, Brennan called the agreement set forth by the Gulf Cooperation Council "historic," adding that all parties must refrain from violence and proceed with the transition in a peaceful and orderly manner.
Meanwhile, protesters have ratcheted up their demonstrators and are planning to widen the protest camp outside Sanaa University and to march on the presidential palace in the coming days.


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Cambrian Windows: 120 jobs under threat in Pembroke Dock
Up to 120 jobs are under threat at the Cambrian Windows factory in Pembroke Dock after the owners started a 90-day consultation on closing the site.
The UK Window Group blamed the move on an industry-wide drop in demand for PVC windows, calling trading "significantly tougher than anticipated".
A statement from the company said the move was part of a strategic review of its manufacturing sites.
However it said no final decision had been made to close the factory.
The site on the outskirts of Pembroke Dock mainly manufactures windows for the retail replacement sector.
The company claimed overall PVC window requirements in the UK had halved since 2007.
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Injuries. They are a given in the sports world, and every player who laces up a pair of cleats and puts on a helmet knows that they are taking a chance of sustaining a few throughout their career.
Some injuries are small, some are big, and some may end a players career in the very instance it happens. Others can be surgically repaired, and with some hard work and rehab, that player can overcome the injury, and play another day.
That is just what Arkansas State freshman QB Phillip Butterfield is hoping to do after having surgery to repair his knee this past week.
He recently sat down with ArkansasVarsity.com publisher Luke Matheson to talk about his injury, and the road to recovery.
"It is ok right now since I am not moving, but when I try to get around it doesn't cooperate very well." said Butterfield. "This just was not the way I wanted to start out."
He also discussed how he suffered his knee injury.
"I was taking a drop, and I hit the step to transition my weight forward for a throw. said Butterfield. "When I did that, it popped and twisted. I suffered a full meniscus tear. It will be okay though. I have got a lot of rehab ahead of me, but I am ready for it."
Butterfield also said that though he was most likely going to red shirt this season, this is not necessarily how he wanted to do it.
"I was most likely going to red shirt anyways, but this is a bad bummer because I was just starting to learn the offense by getting reps." said Butterfield. "I will just have to watch a lot of film now."
He also wanted to thank all of the fans for the support he has gotten so far.
"I've gotten a lot of support [from the fans]." said Butterfield. "Thats been really helpful. I also want them to know that I am staying positive, and that I am ready to undergo my physical therapy and am eager to watch a lot of film and learn the offense. I will be back and ready to go for next season, and ready to fill whatever roll the team needs."
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Mandarin Picking at Watkins Orchard, Wisemans Ferry
Posted on | June 20, 2014 | Fruit Picking | 2 Comments
I love mandarins, especially the imperial mandarins. They are so very sweet and juicy. I love that mandarins have a delicious citrus fragrance every time you peel it. I especially love that they make a very convenient snack which has been great for the school lunch boxes.
We are at the very end of the imperial mandarins season at the shops and boy they are getting very expensive. Lucky for me the mandarin orchards are at the start of their season for pick your own mandarins. We made a trip to Watkins Orchard in Wisemans Ferry for mandarin picking on their opening weekend. We love going to pick your own orchards as it's such a fun activity and the reward at the end is the getting the freshest fruits to take home.
Watkins orchard has different varieties of mandarins depending on the time of year. The season starts end of May or early June to until fruit finishes. But it's always best to check with the orchard before you go. At Watkins Orchard the mandarins are sold for $10 per bucket full. We weighed our mandarins at home and they were around 6kg a bucket which make it super cheap.
The drive to the orchard is very scenic but on narrow and winding road. Make a day trip out of it and explore Wisemans Ferry. Check out Hawkins Lookout for panoramic views of the Hawkesbury River. Also do what we did and catch the car ferry across the Hawkesbury just for the heck of it.
There are three mandarin orchards in Wisemans Ferry.
Watkins Orchard
1125 Singleton Road, Laughtondale (via Wisemans Ferry), NSW, 2775
Phone: (02) 4566 3107
Watkins Family Farm
1006 Singleton Road, Laughtondale (via Wisemans Ferry), NSW, 2775
Phone: 0418 233 466
Fords Farm
1275 Singleton Road, Laughtondale (via Wisemans Ferry), NSW, 2775
Phone: (02) 4566 3127
2 Responses to "Mandarin Picking at Watkins Orchard, Wisemans Ferry"
June 22nd, 2014 @ 2:34 pm
i love mandarins, picking your own sounds like fun!
Olivia @ mademoiselleinsydney
September 13th, 2014 @ 2:26 pm
Mandarin picking sounds great! I've never done this before!
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TAMPA — Police are searching for a man they believe posed as an undercover narcotics officer Thursday night to rape and rob a motorist along Bayshore Boulevard.
The attacker parked a beige, four-door 2006 to 2009 Chevrolet Impala with a satellite-style antenna on the roof and a standard antenna on the trunk, similar to a police vehicle, in the median of Bayshore Boulevard about 10 p.m. He used a blue laser flashlight to flag down a woman driving near Howard Avenue, police said.
The impersonator told the woman, in her early 30s, that he thought she was intoxicated, police said. He handcuffed her, said she was going to jail and put her in the back of his car.
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He returned her to the Bayshore area and parked at Patriot's Park. There, he climbed into the back seat with her and raped her, police said.
The man let the woman go and told her he would follow her home. She lost sight of him after a few blocks, arrived home and called police about 1 a.m.
Tampa police said the attacker may be a Hispanic man with a dark complexion, about 6 feet 2 to 6 feet 4 and weighing 190 pounds. He was wearing a gray T-shirt and dark jeans.
Laura McElroy, a spokeswoman for the Tampa police, said officers do not usually make DUI stops with flashlights.
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She urges anyone who has seen or sees a man with a blue laser flashlight parked in a median to call the Tampa police at (813) 231-6130.
"This is very rare and a very brazen and bold suspect," McElroy said. "He's obviously a threat to our community."
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Index CRSs
This page describes how to use and interpret Index Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs): how they differ from other linear coordinate systems and especially how they differ from the internal grid CRS, known as CRS:1.
GML definitions for Index1D, Index2D and Index3D are already embedded in our SECORE resolver and their official acknowledgment is on OGC table.
As you can verify by looking at the "extra" (non-EPSG) CRS definitions provided by SECORE, among others there are three new Index CRSs, namely 1D, 2D and 3D reference systems.
The index prefix refers to the fact that integral coordinates shall be used in the coordinates. The n-dimensional (cartesian) Coordinate System (CS) is supposed to be bound to a multidimensional array (marray) of cells: the origin of the CS is placed in the centre of the 0-cell. This represents the datum, and completes the picture to define the CRS.
Using index CRSs can be useful especially when using rasdaman for applications not related to the geo-referenced world of satellite products, or more generally to remote-sensing imagery. For instance, rasdaman could be used to process large bio-medical images, which do not need a geo-reference.
The previous case is out of scope in the OGC services, and it is probably better handled via direct rasql requests (also via Petascope rasql web interface). However, more interestingly, index CRSs could also be used to access "pixel" coordinates from a geoimage, or to access layers of height/time via their ordinal position in the stack (this requires CRS extensions available).
Index CRSs exploit indexed cartesian CSs by defining the Unit of Measure (Uom) of each of its axes to be an integral. The specific terminology that is used is GridSpacing, defined by OGC in the context of the deprecated (2D) Image CRS. Indeed index CRSs are considered the n-dimensional extension/generalization of the previously defined Image CRSs: this means replacing the typically-2D terminology of pixels, rows and columns with the more general cells and axis terms.
The following picture clarifies what is the space of coordinates covered by a standard 2D (linear) cartesian CS, and an indexed one:
The 2D space is fully covered on a geometric space with no additional constraints, whereas limiting the coordinates to integrals confines the address space to a grid of 0D points. While this can be easily understandable, it has some important consequences: sample sizes (footprints) of a coverage's points are confined to be 0D on an index CRSs since the areas between CRS points are not reachable by the indexed coordinates.
In the regular 2D case a pixel usually represents its extent/area (though not always of course), while a (GML) coverage point is always a 0D point: on an index CRS the point is on integral coordinates, and the footprint would be half-pixel away from it, over unreachable spaces at '0.5 GridSpacing' distance. Truncating this footprint to the legal index space, the footprints/pixels reduce to the point itself.
Grid origin and offset vectors
When assigning an index CRS as native reference system of a coverage, there are a few things that needs to be kept in mind: where to put the origin and which offset vectors (relative vectorial offsets) are needed. If you are not familiar with origin and offset vectors, please check this section.
rasdaman users are typically familiar with the CRS:1 keyword, which is a shortcut to tell the service that you are going to use internal marray (grid) coordinates in the subset:
for cov in ( <coverage_name> ) return encode( cov[ Long:"CRS:1"(0:100), Lat:"CRS:1"(0:200) ] , "csv")
The internal CRS:1 space needs not be confused with Index CRSs (although there are ways to make them coincide): an important premise is that rasdaman, in line with common GIS practice, puts the origin of a grid coverage in the upper-left corner of an image. This means in practice that picking the first row of an image (slice 0 on the northings axis) will return the top row, and increasing internal coordinates will yield negative steps in the geo-CRS.
The internal representation of a grid is represented by an origin (usually in [0:__:0:__:0]) and unit integral spacing. When using index CRSs, in order to correctly visualize an image, you must take care to properly set the offset vectors.
Lookig at the picture above, you can see correct and faulty ways of defining the external index representation of a grid (2D case):
- I quadrant (+/+): origin is upperleft corner, i-vector is the positive i-versor [1,0] while the j-vector points down ([0,-1]) so that inverse proportionality between the second grid axis and the external j axis is correctly maintained.
- II quadrant (-/+): j-vector is set as [0,1] and as a consequence the origin becomes the lower-left corner of the image: as a result we will see the image upside-down (WC*S viewpoint)
- III quadrant (-/-): origin is correctly set in the upper-left corner, but offset vectors have norm greater than one: while this is a technically viable solution, it also means that we lose the pixel-index correspondence: one internal index step equals a jump of 2 indexes in the external representation.
- IV quadrant (+/-): similarly, it does not make much sense to define vectors with norm less than one: moreover this solution would even prevent from slicing those point which do not lie over a legal area of the index CRS (at fractional positions).
Additionally, you could observe how oblique vectors (i.e. vectors with both components != 0) are not even taken into account here (I am not declaring there are no unforeseen applications that might need such a configuration though).
This example is aimed at underlining the difference between the CRS:1 internal grid representation and the set of index CRSs. Albeit they are different concepts, they can also coincide in case i) the i/j coordinates of the origin equal the internal indexes of the grid (which is usually but not necessarily in [0:0:__:0]), ii) the offset vectors are the versors of the nD cartesian CS.
For some hands-on RasQL/WC*S query, our test datasets are actively using index CRSs: mr and rgb are 2D un-georeferenced images, whereas irr_cube_1 is a fictitious toy 3D cube (with irregular spacing on the third k dimension) which purposely synchronizes its internal and external representation. See this page for more information.
Changing axis labels
A final section is dedicated to the customization of axis labels when using an Index CRS. This can be useful when migrating existing application to 9.x releases: prior versions of rasdaman do not support index CRSs and client applications usually require at least a change in the subsettings labels when migrating to 9.x.
The management of CRSs metadata was usually done in house, with default axis labels to x, y, z, t, and so on, independently of the native CRS assigned to a coverage. The outsourcing of CRS metadata handling to the SECORE resolver (official OGC resolver for CRS related resources) imposes less freedom on the choice of axis labels on one hand (you have to use the official abbreviations), while developing a more transparent and more ruled framework.
While geodetic reference systems from EPSG are not customizable (let's say they are read-only CRSs), our index CRSs (and as well time ones) are constructed by splitting each "concept" of CRS into a template and a parametrization of the template.
Indeed you can see in our resolver that every OGC:IndexnD CRS is associated with its template OGC:.IndexnD-template, the latter being the template and the former being its parametrization. You can notice the period . prefix in the templates CRS code, which (like in unix file systems) denotes an hidden resource: indeed users shall not reference the templates when setting the native CRS (URI) to a coverage, but rather always use the parametrizations. A Parametrized CRS (P-CRS) is like piggy-backed on a template, and at the same time it hides it from external interfaces: it provides one or more parameters to the enduser for customizing the content of the template target CRS definition. Parameters are set by the user by means of key-value pairs in the query of a URI.
When default values for all the parameters offered by a P-CRS, then querying the P-CRS URI without any query part (?key=value[&key=value[&...]]) is legal: the template resource is returned (that is, the template resource where parameters values have been set to their defaults defined in the P-CRS), and the user can blissfully ignore the (relative) complexities of parametrization.
Our index CRSs indeed are P-CRSs with parameters to customize the labels of the axes, which by default are i, j and k (4+ dimensional index CRSs are yet to be defined). This was also due to the necessity to avoid label clashes when 2+ index CRSs of the same kind have to be used within the same coverage.
If a P-CRS is requested with no subelement expansion (expand=none, but see #364), then the behind-the-scenes definition of a P-CRS can be visualized. For instance, our OGC:Index2D CRS is:
<ParameterizedCRS gml:id="param-index1d-crs" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/crs-nts/1.0" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <gml:identifier codeSpace="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986"> http://rasdaman.org:8080/def/crs/OGC/0/Index2D </gml:identifier> <parameters> <parameter name="first-axis-label"> <value>"i"</value> <target>//gml:CartesianCS/gml:axis[1]/gml:CoordinateSystemAxis/gml:axisAbbrev</target> </parameter> <parameter name="second-axis-label"> <value>"j"</value> <target>//gml:CartesianCS/gml:axis[2]/gml:CoordinateSystemAxis/gml:axisAbbrev</target> </parameter> </parameters> <targetCRS xlink:href="http://rasdaman.org:8080/def/crs/OGC/0/.Index2D-template"/> </ParameterizedCRS>
The content is sufficiently intuitive to understand that it provides two parameters -- 'first-axis-label' and 'second-axis-label' with defaults to 'i' and 'j', respectively -- to change gml:axisAbbrev abbreviation of the first and second CRS axis. Thus if we want to use index CRSs but with the good old x/y labels, we need to set the following URI as native reference system: http://rasdaman.org:8080/def/crs/OGC/0/Index2D?first-axis-label="x"&second-axis-label="y".
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Johannesburg - South Africa's maternal and child death rates remain unacceptably high, BHP Billiton chairman Xolani Mkhwanazi said on Tuesday.
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Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was expected to address the delegates but was not present. Deputy director general Dr Yogan Pillay spoke on his behalf.
Pillay praised BHP Billiton's efforts and urged companies not to pressurise women into returning to work too soon after giving birth, as exclusive breastfeeding played a major role in child development.
He said government needed the help of private companies to push for National Health Insurance, as private health care was "unsustainable".
"Public health centres need to be strengthened, and projects like this will assist," said Pillay.
According to BHP Billiton, the five-year project would impact the health and development of 750,000 pregnant women and children. - Sapa