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Before the Collapse |
2012.07.12 00:50:43 | |
A few observations: 1. The Media is controlled by the government and most of what you see and hear from it is a lie. 2. The United States is engaged in wars all over the planet for resources. 3. Sociopaths run our government. 4. The U.S. government is attempting to destroy our basic civil liberties to consolidate their power. 5. The Bankers are stealing America's wealth. 6. Our economy in America is collapsing. 7. Anyone that is critical of the current policies is considered to be mentally ill, a malcontent or a "terrorist". 8. The U.S. is in an economic depression. 9. There is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans. 10. (Most importantly) Many people understand what is going on (and the numbers are growing larger every day) and the government of the USA had no this would come so swiftly. Tags: Hits: 7420 | Read more... |
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Planet Earth close to tipping point |
2012.07.04 19:53:11 | |
Despite a dire warning issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) about the catastrophe that Planet Earth was headed for, the recent United Nations Rio+20 Conference at Rio de Janeiro on sustainable development proved to be a damp squib. Tags: point | tipping | earth | planet Hits: 3878 | Read more... |
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Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA |
2012.06.24 09:46:58 | |
The problem with these checkpoints is that they're warrantless, arbitrary searches. This goes against all standards of civilized behavior and is not tolerable in a free society. Not only are checkpoints violating our rights they're not effective.
Tags: protest | cars | checkpoint | Constitution | dictatorship | DUI | filming | fourth Amendment | government | liberty | nullification | nullify | Pennsylvania | police | roads | Upper Moreland | Valley Forge Revolutionaries
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An Israeli own goal |
2012.06.20 00:33:53 | |
It took three months of hunger strike before decision was reached to release the Palestinians soccer player held without trial and without charges In this affair the state of Israel scored an own goal. Tags: Hits: 4055 | Read more... |
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Living under the occupation, 45 years |
2012.06.11 00:33:59 | |
by Adam Keller Tags: Hits: 4117 | Read more... |
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Interned Japanese Canadians receive degrees |
2012.06.01 06:41:30 | |
The music was momentous and appropriate, the gowns flowing and scholarly. Faculty members marched in procession, led by a man holding a ceremonial mace. Tags: Hits: 3604 | Read more... |
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I Don't Remember |
2012.05.29 02:32:21 | |
by Luke Hiken Tags: Hits: 3465 | Read more... |
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Indians will soon find survival difficult |
2012.05.20 15:27:22 | |
A time seems to have come when people should give up cooking. A recent report said that a domestic LPG cylinder is soon going to cost Rs. 996/- (around $20), virtually a thousand rupees, for those who have an income of more than six hundred thousand rupees ($12000 app.) per annum. The Standing Committee on the matters relating to petroleum ministry has made the recommendation indicating that those who are rich should not be supplied the subsidised LPG. For all one knows, the recommendation may even get accepted regardless of the fact that identification of those who are in receipt of the specified income is going to be a tough proposition. If implemented, only the salaried class would get trapped while others, who are professionals, traders and self-employed, etc. and have to declare their own incomes (which most don't do entirely) are likely to continue to get subsidised LPG. Hits: 4198 | Read more... |
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Inside Friday prayer in Tehran |
2012.05.19 02:03:44 | |
by Imran Khan Tags: Hits: 3904 | Read more... |
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Oz censorship |
2012.05.10 01:16:05 | |
Internet censorship by the Australian Government-funded ABC and The Conversation. Censorship is repugnant because it prevents basic human communication required for democracy and in particular short circuits risk management that is crucial for societal safety and which successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. Tags: Hits: 6610 | Read more... |
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Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest at Lockheed Martin (video) |
2012.04.07 22:05:43 | |
Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest and Civil Disobedience at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, PA http://www.brandywinepeace.com/ Tags: Brandywine Peace Community | Lockheed Martin | King of Prussia | Upper Marion | Pennsylvania | war | defense contractor | corporation | profiteer | peace | protest | civil disobedience | Good Friday | peaceful | resistance | arrest | police | security | arms | manufacturer | cops Hits: 6318 | Read more... |
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Come Home America at Nullify Now! Philadelphia |
2012.04.02 06:01:09 | |
Darren Wolfe with Come Home America speaks at Nullify Now! Philadelphia on march 31, 2012. He spoke about peace activism, the Tenth Amendment Center's Defend the Guard legislation, and the upcoming End the Fed rally. Tags: Tom Woods | nullification | national guard | Defend the Guard | war | peace | Darren Wolfe | Come Home America | Nullify Now | Tenth Amendment Center | Philadelphia Hits: 6735 | Read more... |
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Jerusalem soccer hooligans attack |
2012.03.25 08:46:09 | |
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Trade Mission to Israel |
2012.03.25 08:16:16 | |
Attn: The Hon Bill Shorten MP Ref: Trade Mission to Israel Dear Mr Shorten, I have recently read an open letter to you from fellow Australian Dr Vacy Vlazna, which I have included with this letter. I write to emphatically support the views expressed in that letter by Dr Vlazna. Your Trade Mission to Israel is an outrageous offence against human decency in general, against our often celebrated and ostensibly shared Australian values in particular and against the pride and, of special concern to me, proud of two grandfathers who (misguided as they were) risked their lives in European wars for noble values, the self-respect of all Australians. The obsequious flattery inherent in the statement of your mission's objective (to "attempt to understand how is it that Israel-a country of 7.2 million people, a third of the size of Tasmania, sixty per cent desert, only sixty three years old, with limited natural resources-produces more start-ups than large, peaceful and stable nations like Japan, India, Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.") reflects either a startling ignorance or a willful blindness to reality and is utterly insulting to anyone who understands the truth. Tags: Hits: 5531 | Read more... |
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40 embarrassing things America are known for |
2012.03.10 03:25:14 | |
Is the USA still #1? Well, there are many things that America is still the best in the world at, but unfortunately a lot of those categories are nothing to be proud of. Once upon a time the United States was the greatest nation on earth, but now we are a nation that is in a horrific state of decline. Just consider a few of the embarrassing things that America leads the world in: obesity, crime, divorce, teen pregnancy, child abuse deaths and government debt. Tags: America Hits: 5963 | Read more... |
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A threatened Ramsar Site |
2012.01.31 22:26:20 | |
One can be reasonably sure that on the 2nd of February next the ministers concerned of the government of the Central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh will mouth some platitudes about conservation of the Upper Lake and its adjunct the Lower Lake which together constitute Bhoj Wetland. In practice however, the local officialdom is more concerned about its "development" and by that they mean providing means for attracting more and more visitors to its shores or to its close proximity. Conservation is a word which does not seem to figure in their lexicon in so far as this fantastic natural asset of Bhopal is concerned, particularly when it is a Ramsar Site – a wetland of international importance, the only one in the state. Tags: Hits: 5986 | Read more... |
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Hunger and riches in 'incredible India' |
2012.01.31 22:20:11 | |
A national daily presented the other day two contrasting pictures of India. On its front page were the findings of a research indicating the extent of hunger and malnourishment in the country and in one of the inside pages was a report on the explosion on its roads with millions of private vehicles causing traffic jams in its urban centres. Hits: 6062 | Read more... |
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The King of Love is dead |
2012.01.17 03:18:37 | |
On this Martin Luther King Day it is good to remember the unseemly truth behind the pompous posturing. All the inflated homage to the "I have a dream" secretly veils the real relief of our public officials who thank their gods that there remains no seer, prophet or revolutionary thinker left that can match the vision and the strategic intelligence of the man who called out the conscience of a nation and died at the hands of our government for his trouble. Tags: Comments 1 | Hits: 11004 | Read more... |
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The Republican hopefuls |
2011.12.30 01:56:10 | |
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Occupy Monique's house |
2011.12.29 01:57:46 | |
By John Terrett Millions of Americans are facing a bleak holiday new year as they wait to hear if the banks will foreclose on their homes. Tags: Hits: 4840 | Read more... |


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Bogan Via is a duo from Phoenix that plays a mesh of indie folk and pop music. Tonight is the CD release party for Bogan Via's new EP Wait Up.
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The MTA is on track to roll out a $104 monthly MetroCard.
Agency chief Jay Walder said yesterday that riders dislike the idea of a card that limits the number of rides they can take, despite it being the cheaper option.
"There hasn't been a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for the idea of a capped pass," Walder said after nine hearings in which riders were supposed to pick their fare-hike poison.
That puts the MTA in position to charge $104 for a 30-day MetroCard and $29 for a weekly pass, both with unlimited rides.
The other choices are a 30-day MetroCard that would cost $99 and be capped at 90 rides, and a seven-day card going for $28, but restricted to 22 trips.


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Topic: High Speed Rail
Canada's Rail System May Have Peaked...in 1968
The Turbo train once took riders between Toronto and Montreal in less than 4 hours. Now all we have left are these incredible promotional videos.
Jerusalem Bets on a Skyscraper Forest
Officials hope to build a jobs center near a new high speed rail station.
How High Speed Rail Could Revitalize the Northeast
Shrinking the distance between vibrant urban cores and smaller communities could spark an economic boom.
The Urban Message Missing From the State of the Union
The issues facing the nation's cities were largely ignored in the president's speech
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A Solution for California's Transportation Woes
A report suggests that high-speed rail would make the state healthier, greener and less congested
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And I certainly do not want to give a false impression, that this is the only article you'll ever have to read to succeed. But these are the building blocks, and you have to put it to work with your business to build a career.
This is the most assurdly several high priority areas to focus on:
1. Develop your skills – It is stated clearly that you always need to keep learning all the methods up-to-date to ensure that you will always be top of your profession. Continuing education is a fact of life for all people who will do anything to achieve and actually succeeded.
And no matter what field we are working on … we all must strive to keep your motivation up. And that always makes us look for all the different ways to keep up-to-date with everything that happens in our industry. Not one of us admit right out of the gate, we all have to push ourselves to improve our skills constantly.
2. Develop your customer service skills – Many of us only think about how much money we can make without thinking about how we need to make absolutely sure that our customers get everything they deserve. The best way to build your wealth is to make sure that your customers have their wishes taken care of first. Zig Ziglar that most of you already know as a successful entrepreneur said, "When you take care of the needs of their customers will take care of you."
So one important key to success is making sure that your customers love what you do for them and for them. I mean you have to be absolutely sure you do not just what they want but exceed their expectations to be postive that they will only want you to be their stylist for a long time to come.
3. Develop you give an extra – This is really a pretty clear philosophy … always give more. There are so many extra little things that you can give to your clients that I can not even begin to list them all here. But there are some obvious to bring your attention:
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buy a cookie or muffin in the morning and cut up into small bit size pieces and forward it to your first 5 customers.
In the afternoon make some popcorn and get some small paper cups and giving half a cup to your customers.
Network with several other local companies such as car washing or lubricating oil to provide free oil changes once a week. These businesses get new customers to experience their service and you just give some extra value for your customers. You can even do a drawing to decide who is the lucky winner.
4. Develop your marketing – all experienced marketers will state the same thing, never stop learning how to incorporate better marketing for your business.
Marketing is not a handful of magic beans that you bury it once and voila … it's spring and flowers into a thriving business.
Marketing is not a magic wand that you wave and you're instantly a success.
Marketing is the strategy you employ to develop a systematic step by step plan increase your client base and increase your income.
Marketing is important for you to be successful in your business. Without you implement a solid marketing plan you will fall in with all the others that just make life and never really build a business.
5. Develop your ability to make money – Okay, if you get into this industry to make money? Then you need to work on all the way to do it.
How much do you use to make more money?
Do you have plans to bring in more customers?
Do you have plans to sell more products?
Do you have ideas on how to increase loyalty with your customers?
Do you have a referral system set up to continually bring your friends and family of your current clients?
Do you have set up a network system that allows you to continue to meet and build relationships with people who will come to your customer in the future?
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On the Job: Grant Humphrey performs Aug. 16
August 16, 2012 at 5:48 am in River Falls Journal
Grant Humphrey, 17, will kick off open-mic night at Yo-Joe's Frozen Yogurt and Coffee Shoppe, 123 South Main Street, from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16. Performing since he was six-years-old and writing music since 11, Humphrey plays the guitar, piano, and drums. His first CD, "The Follow Through," was produced when he was 14-years-old and is available on iTunes. Continue Reading


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Message from Chair Lynne Byers:
This week marks the 2011 Annual Meeting of Rx-360, and we will be taking time to celebrate our many achievements. Rx-360 is still a young organisation, born in 2009, but we have quickly grown into a respected organisation. The most recent testament to this was the request Martin VanTrieste received to testify before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) regarding securing the pharmaceutical supply chain. He provided this testimony two weeks ago on behalf of Rx-360. He shared what Rx-360 is doing to help protect patients, and his testimony was very well received. (You can watch the testimony at here). The organisation now has a membership of 67, including 24 manufacturers and 25 suppliers to the pharmaceutical industry. The shared audit programme has moved from pilot phase to a routine operation, so companies may now put forward redacted audit reports for submission and sharing in the database. The joint audit pilot is nearing completion, with 17 audits performed, and only 2 left to do. The last audit is scheduled for the first week in October, and we have already sold one of those reports to a non-member. Data are being collected for the routine programme. We have maintained excellent communications with those who are interested in supply chain security. The data are impressive: more than 200 flash reports have been issued and there have been 48 summaries of proposed/passed legislation. This demonstrates how we can all benefit by sharing the effort. I look forward to continuing to lead Rx-360 through 2011 and 2012 and see us grow. I would ask everyone to talk to their contacts, both within and outside their own companies and share what you know about Rx-360. We appreciate your continued support. Regards, Lynne
Message from the Chair
Upcoming Events
Rx-360 Testifies Before US Senate HELP Committee
Rx-360 Launches Audit Sharing Program
Rx-360 Working Groups Updates
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 15: Will Chase attends Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Global Roll-Out Of Sheraton Social Hour With A 'Toast Around The World' celebration on May 15, 2013 in New York City.
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just a very meta event." 54 Below, the intimate concert venue below Broadway's Studio 54 — where 2013 Tony Award nominee Will Chase was seen earlier this season in Roundabout Theatre Company's The Mystery of Edwin Drood — was, in fact, very meta as cast members from Playbill Read more »
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Land Rover CEO Says "We Are NOT Scion" When Asked If They Will Chase Gen Y Buyers
Asked by an interviewer from Automotive News whether they would start chasing Gen Y buyers like every other automaker searching for a clue, Andy Goss, the CEO of Jaguar Land Rover North America, had this to say: "You should not pigeonhole yourself so much. from Auto Spies Read more »
Playbill Video Interviews Mystery of Edwin Drood Stars Stephanie J. Block and Will Chase
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Disparities in Usage of Assistive Technology Among People With Disabilities
By Kaye, H. Stephen; Yeager, Patricia; Reed, Myisha; Assistive Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 194-203Publication Date: Winter 2008
Study explored differences in assistive-technology (AT) usage across disability subpopulations in California. A 2005 survey of nearly 2,000 adult consumers using the services of Independent Living Centers (ILCs) throughout the state was used as a statistical basis for the study. Respondents were typically working-age adults with relatively low incomes and one or more types of disability, mobility impairment being the most common, who were using an average of two AT devices. Survey results showed an overall disparity of AT usage, where groups negatively affected included people with cognitive or mental-health disabilities, people with less than a college education, Latinos, African Americans, and people with acquired congenital disabilities. Beyond these basic disparities were differences in the level of sophistication of the devices used: (1) Digital devices, reflected in lower usage of high-tech devices by older adults, people with less than a college education, Latinos, African Americans, and people with lower household incomes; and (2) Powered devices, such as power wheelchairs and hearing aids, negatively affecting users with less education, lower income, acquired disabilities, and Latino ethnicity. The authors conclude that the study findings highlight approaches needed to expand usage and to promote equal access to technologies that enable greater social and economic participation for people with disabilities.
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Serving as an umbrella organization since 1892, the Graduate School currently oversees 100 graduate and professional programs. We work to guarantee a standard of quality and cohesion across all disciplines, ensuring the continuing integrity and value of a CU-Boulder graduate degree. The Graduate School also helps make possible the many connections between the campus and outside constituencies, in the state, the nation, and the world.
Dr. David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the CU-Boulder physics department received the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and internationally recognized for developing the technique of using lasers to cool ions to near absolute zero. He joins four other Nobel Laureates at CU-Boulder. Read more.


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North Valley Forge is proud to present to you its Ultimate Collection of exclusive designer gates. They really do have to be seen to be believed as anything else is just a gate...
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With privacy being an important factor to many of our customers, we have now created a complimentary range of hardwood gates..
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We have a collection of gates that you can simply buy off the peg. Give us the dimensions to your driveway and we will make the particular style you want to your specific requirements.
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These garden gates and railing sets are made to measure and you can choose the style of the gate and we can match the railings or vice versa, if you like the look of a particular railing we can make a gate to match.
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Railings can be a thing of beauty and can make a home stand out from the rest, we can match the style to the gate of your choice or we can match to your existing gates if you so wish.
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Staircases and Ballustrades are the things we do least here but they can often be the most beautiful and stylish to look at. All are truly bespoke and as you'll see are quite simply stunning.
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Gates and railings are everywhere and we pride ourselves on the range and diversity of small gates & railings we have produced over the years. All have been designed and built by our in house experts.
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Here we have a collection of gate we have currently for sale in our showroom and you may also be delighted to know you can now find us on eBay.
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Although it's been overshadowed by the SUV as the symbol for family transport in third-millennium America, large numbers of families still opt for the arguably more functional minivan. Chrysler is widely credited with inventing the modern minivan and is now the only domestic manufacturer left in the game, as GM and Ford have effectively replaced their slow-selling minivans with three-row crossover SUVs. For the 2009 model year, the Dodge Grand Caravan and its slightly ritzier Chrysler Town & Country sibling, arrive with attractive seating and entertainment options to compete with the remaining minivans from Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai and Kia.
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Pirates blogger Jon Anderson was just a year old the last time his hometown team had a winning record.
Ryan Godsey's earliest Pirates memory is the 1992 season, when the roster showcased superstars Barry Bonds, Jay Bell and Andy Van Slyke.
Chris Barron first experienced the Pirates in the 1979 World Series when the Baltimore Orioles lost to the Buccos—the last major pro sports team to win a Game 7 championship on the road until the Penguins defeated the Detriot Red Wings 30 years later.
"I was 5 years old, and I remember thinking the Orioles sounds like Oreos, which is a cookie, which sounds like a dumb name for a baseball team, so I'm going to root for the Pirates," Barron reminisced, smiling.
The Pittsburgh Pirates' history continues 20 years of struggle and loss, capping off the 2012 season with modern sport's most epic collapse. Fans remain vigilant, knowing the Pirates will one day reward their steadfast loyalty and dedication.
On Aug. 6, the Pirates were statistically poised for their first postseason run in a generation. This Pirates team is officially the first Major League team ever to be 16 or more games over .500 108 games into the season and end with a losing record. How do fans continue knowing this is baseball's largest collapse ever?
Anderson, a 21-year-old senior at Waynesburg University, explains, "A lot of people are losing their minds over it, but I'm pretty good at realizing it's just a sport."
Anderson is able to keep his emotions away from the game, claiming that placing personal stock in sports yields misery.
Growing up part of a generation privy to baseball failure, Anderson recalls his classmates' ridicule and jokes because he supports the Pirates. In 2009, he started blogging, naming his blog The "Mc" Effect, a play on the many Pirates with "Mc" in their surnames (McDonald, McKenry, McPherson, two McCutchens). The persistent losing doesn't deter Anderson, though, from blogging and enjoying baseball.
"Nobody wants to support a loser, and nobody wants to be viewed as a loser," he said. "But just liking that team doesn't mean that you have anything to do with it (the losing).
"It's not my fault."
While Anderson patiently awaits his first chance to experience a Pirates postseason, he has enjoyed the ride this season and the excitement the Pirates created, filling PNC Park almost more than ever. However, he recognizes that, for others, patience is virtually nonexistent. Fans are coping by using nasty jokes and cynical remarks.
"It seemed like, at the very worst, they'd finish above .500," Anderson said, "and that would be something to be happy about. But then everything fell apart.
"It's just a sport, and it doesn't mean much at the end of the day."
Conversely, not all fans are levelheaded like Anderson.
Barron, who is 38, epitomizes the emotionally invested fan. In a Skype interview, Barron proudly wore a Pirates T-shirt, gesturing passionately as he spoke.
"I wish I could be apathetic," he said. "I wish I couldn't care. Life would be easier if I didn't care."
But Barron does care, and while he understands that the team's collapse isn't personal, he can't help but take it personally sometimes.
Pirates President Frank Coonelly has said that no front office changes would be made to the team for next year, which outraged Barron. He raised his voice, criticizing the organization.
"It was like someone kicked me in the gut. Even after a historic collapse, no changes are going to be made?"
It hasn't been all bad for Barron through these past two seasons.
He recounted the Pirates' 2011 home series against the Boston Red Sox.
"There were 40-percent Red Sox fans (at PNC Park). There was something even better about having that many Red Sox fans there and us winning those two games. It was like David and Goliath."
For Barron, baseball is a family sport and pastime. He bonds with his father and brother over baseball, and though he is not native to Pittsburgh—growing up in North Carolina—this is his team.
He knows deep down that Pittsburgh is truly a baseball town and that "people are so hungry to have a decent baseball team."
Godsey, 25, stands in the middle emotionally, steadily becoming more detached.
"I stick with my team, but I'm a realist," he said matter-of-factly.
Late in the Pirates' season, Godsey watches the games but not with the same heart as he did earlier in the season. It is now more background noise, and the thrill is gone, especially now that they statistically chalked up a 20th losing season with a 1-0, no-hit loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Sept. 28, hammering the final nail into the coffin.
Godsey seemed slightly exasperated, yet apathetic, regarding the Pirates' demise.
"I'm just shut down by it all," he said. "It's laughable for me now. I'll put the game on on mute and do something and look over, and it's, 'Here we go again.'"
Like many fans, Godsey is used to the Pirates falling apart, and reality is a hard pill to swallow. But he doesn't abandon his team.
Godsey recalls the night of the infamous "Sid Bream Slide." However, he did not see it; his father sent him to bed before the game ended.
He does remember his father breaking a TV remote.
"That's the only time he's ever done something like that."
Loyalty is the common thread binding Anderson, Barron, Godsey and the Pirates.
They all agree there is nothing the Pirates can do that will force them to turn in their fan cards, but their level of expectation for the future is cautiously optimistic.
Anderson believes that the Pirates cannot lose forever, relying on "statistics and probability."
Barron's thoughts mirror Anderson's, stating that, "You think it's impossible: that the streak can't go on that much longer."
After following the team for 33 years, Barron is here for the long haul.
"I'm already planning my trip to spring training, and I'll fully have myself talked into 'This is the year.'"
Godsey's foresight tells him that next year has to be it for this team.
"If they don't win 88 or 90 games, everyone's head is gonna roll, including Frank Coonelly's."
Anderson looks forward to the days ahead when the Pirates are more than a joke's punch line.
"It wouldn't be 'The City of Champions and the Pirates,'" he said. "A few games over (.500) could change everything."
Win or lose, Wild Card or blockbuster collapse, Pittsburgh is a baseball town, and it just takes one winning season to make it click.
Anderson, while keeping himself at an arm's length from the team, understands the Pirates' importance to Pittsburgh.
"A winning season would have changed the whole perspective on the Pittsburgh Pirates."
The writer is a Baldwin Borough native and Baldwin High School graduate.
Scott Baret
11:11 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012
Although I will always be a loyal Pirates fan no matter where I live or what the team's record is, I am still shaking my head after the team failed to upgrade the team the right way. In fact, nearly every move they made from July onward was a downgrade.
1. Brad Lincoln was easily the team's best reliever at the time of the trade. Instead of shipping him for Travis Snider (see below), why not hold on to him and use some other bargaining chip, perhaps one of the younger pitchers, to get an upgrade for the outfield?
2. It made little sense to trade for Snider since Jose Tabata is so similar and was actually sent down shortly before that trade was made. Alex Presley is basically Tabata/Sinder with extra speed. Why not get something we don't have a bunch of already? Also, if they're going to try some sort of project where they try to pump life into another team's failed prospect, why do it in the middle of a playoff run? It didn't work with Brandon Wood last year.
3. Why trade for Chad Quallis and release Juan Cruz, replacing him with Hisinori Takahashi? Sure, Cruz made a miscue in that extra inning game, but he hadn't been too bad. A bullpen with Cruz, Grilli, Hanrahan, Lincoln, and Doug Slaten (sent down in spite of success) would have looked good at the end of the season.
4. Releasing Erik Bedard wasn't the best idea. Then again, neither was letting Paul Maholm, who was better than Bedard, walk for nothing.
Scott Baret
11:16 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012
5. The coaching seems to be a huge problem, especially in the instruction department. They knew James McDonald was falling apart. Why let him struggle and not fix something? The same goes for Bedard, who was fine in the first two months, and also for Jeff Karstens, who regressed this year. Why couldn't we figure out Nate McLouth earlier in the year--yet the Orioles were able to turn him around? How did Alex Presley manage to take a step backward? The baserunning and bunting blunders are also a disgrace.
6. In short, the team is making all the same mistakes they did in the past. They don't know who to hold on to (see also the 1997 Expansion Draft/Joe Randa and 2003 Rule 5 Draft/Jose Bautista and Chris Shelton), make bad trades (see also Jason Bay and Aramis Ramirez), lock up the wrong guys too quickly (see also Pat Meares), and sign over-the-hill free agents (see also Jeromy Burnitz). Huntington and Stark need to be replaced with experienced guys, not more Littlefields or Bonifays. Where is Sid Thrift when you need him?
Oren Spiegler
5:53 am on Monday, October 8, 2012
I love Pirates baseball win or lose, and enjoy the great PNC Park experience. I fear, though, that us Pirates fans must accept that the team seems to be doomed. Even if management were willing to pay to acquire great players, the losing mentality that has set in after twenty years is difficult to diminish, and makes it more impossible with each passing year that top-notch free agents would be willing to join the Pirates regardless of how much money thrown at them.
We have seen this already; this year we attempted to acquire pitcher Edwin Jackson, offering him a generous multi-year contract; he chose to sign with the Nationals for a one-year deal. We sought to talk to pitcher Roy Oswalt with the intention of tendering an offer; he would not return the club's calls, now he is a member of the Texas Rangers, a team currently playing post-season baseball.
I became a partial season ticket holder this year and will be next year as well. Hope springs eternal, but as a realist, I note that if the Pirates ever become end-of-season winners, it will be a delightful surprise. It will be more reasonable to expect that they shall be a perennial fourth place finisher.


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Air conditioners are getting in full use and appreciated, these hot days and nights. In the "good old days" all we had to use was a "fan" into the night when we could finally get to sleep.
As these items are written we need rain showers badly.
Lots of folks were on the lake over the fourth weekend. Many trucks pulling boats line the highways. Gas prices are still high priced, but it doesn't seem to slow down the traffic.
The Frontier Church will host the Men's Prayer breakfast this coming Saturday.
A Gideon speaker will be at Lilly Ridge Church Sunday morning before church service.
The Little Vine quarterly meeting is Tuesday evening, July 12, at Hammond Mill Camp, at 7 p.m.
A planning meeting for VBS is Sunday, July 10, at 5 p.m. at Lilly Ridge.
Our bi-monthly dinner was enjoyed by several folks of the church Sunday following morning services.
Marcia Lyon is seeing her doctors in Mtn. Home this week. Hopes are for her to get a good report from her tests.
Maxine Smith's daughter, Marsha Hallam, from Tempe, Arizona, with her daughter-in-law and children are to be here this week for a few days visit.
I had a birthday dinner with a good strawberry cake made by daughter, Karen K. Davis, along with two granddaughters, Cindy and Jaycee, daughter, Dana Taylor, and husband, Chet. They brought birthday gifts that I appreciated. I also received a gift in the mail from my son, Marlyn Pitcock, in Forsyth. I received phone calls from son, Lyndon, in Fair Grove, and daughter, Kristin, in Tillamook, Oregon. Also gifts in the mail from cousin, Helen Conardy. I was treated royally.
My church family sent cards and good wishes. It's not so bad growing older with all the attention.
It was nice to get calls from club sisters (local) Edith McKinnon, and Amy Galyardt, in Loveland, Colorado.
Marlyn Pitcocks' in Forsyth had his granddaughter and family from Bridgeport, Kansas, Michelle and Casey Bar and two children, to visit them over last weekend.
Sid and Vicki Smith took a church bus load of young folks to St. Louis last week to a Christian crusade there.
Our adult class at Sunday school misses Marcia Baxley since her son came and took her to his home, then to a nursing facility, we have heard. Best wishes Marcia.
There seems to be some prank calls going on. Perhaps a scam when Hilda Simpson received a call from Mexico City and wanted money sent for a rental vehicle, (which didn't exist.) She advises people to be cautious when answering the phone, and giving information.
Gene and Marvaloe Carter took Hilda and Jimmy Simpson out for a steak dinner Monday evening for Jimmy's 79th birthday. He celebrated July 2.
The lady, Ivy Jones, who Lanell Long took care of for many years, along with others who helped her, passed away Saturday, June 25, at 107 years of age, on Hwy. 62 East of Mtn. Home.
Best wishes to Nina Blair in her health problems, and a Happy Anniversary wish to her and Bernis, their 54th on June 30.
Richard and Rene Blackburn had their son and family and their daughter and their family visiting over the fourth weekend from Thursday until Tuesday when the last ones left. Only three of their family didn't come this time. Richard and son fished Monday evening to finish up the fourth get together.
Jeri Miller had a niece and husband, Connie and Roland Hanna, from Louisana, visiting her over the fourth holiday. He caught a lot of fish and Jeri said he was a good cook.
Congratulations to Alan and Shelly (Uchtman) Finley who now moved to Columbia, MO. with daughters, Isabella and Juliette. After five long years in school in Fort Collins, Colorado then at Fort Equine and Weatherford, Texas, internship in veterinary school where he practices Equine Medical Services as Dr. Alan Finley. His folks, Don and Mary (Finley) Newton live on Theodosia near the lake. Shelly's parents are Wilburn and Edna Uchtman.
Wilburn and Edna Uchtman took their grandson, Will, to Colton's in Mtn. Home for his 9th birthday last Friday.
Graveside services were held at Howard Ridge Cemetery for Ernestine Hicks, (widow of the late Lue Hicks), Wednesday.
Theresa Bridges and daughter, Carlin, came Friday evening to her parents, Joe and Ernestine Gaddy's, for the weekend. Carlin stayed to visit a week.
Having a good garden, they made pickels, harvested corn and dug their potatoes. They all attended church at Liberty on Sunday.
Jim Kyle is busy harvesting all the hay at Satterfield's and Miller's farm. Wes Uchtman helped finish baling on part of the land.
A thought to ponder: "Live as though every day is your last – and someday you will be right."


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Subject: | [xacml] REST Profile - PAP Issues | |
From: | Hal Lockhart (hal....@oracle.com) | |
Date: | May 16, 2012 3:28:58 pm | |
List: | org.oasis-open.lists.xacml |
I have a number of different kinds of comments about the REST Profile and Media
types which will post separately to allow the discussion to take place in
distinct threads.
As I said on the last call, whereas the Access Decision functionality has an
existing model (the SOAP-SAML protocol) which we may take as a point of
departure to replicate or simplify, the policy management features break new
ground. The previous work I have done in this area appears in the wiki item #62
here: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xacml/IssuesList
The focus of my prior work was on policy distribution (provisioning). The REST
Profile tackles the Policy Editor to PAP interface, so they may be completely
independent problems. However I would like to survey the entire landscape and
decide what to provide in the REST Profile in light of that.
Here is a brief summary. I have defined the concept of a Policy Cohort, which is
a set of policies (and/or policy sets) which are intended to be in force at a
given time at one or more PDP. A cohort is the unit of testing and distribution
of policies. When a PDP evaluates its policies, they consist of a single
<PolicySet>, however the top level <PolicySet> may be virtual. Further the use
of Admin policies means that there may be holes in the tree which will be filled
by policies provided at decision time for the duration of that decision and thus
are not part of the cohort. (Although probably part of the testing)
It seems to me that Policy management has two general phases: creation and
distribution. Creation involves creating, modifying and testing policies and
Cohorts. Distribution involves creating schedules for every PDP identifying what
Cohorts will be in effect at what times and physically distributing the Cohorts
to the deployed PDPs in advance of them becoming in force.
It seems to me that policy creation is similar to software development and
probably should involve similar tools. For example, it seems useful to be able
to check out, edit, fork, merge, compare, define Cohorts, unit test (one
policy), system test (a Cohort), check in and stage to be distributed. (We need
to decide as a matter of terminology whether to consider the staging point to be
apart of the PAP or a distinct architectural entity.)
In particular, one aspect of XACML policies which creation tools should support
is Policy ID and Policy ID Reference. XACML Core says that policies visible to a
PDP must have unique IDs. In my terminology, no Cohort can contain policies with
the same id. XACML also supports a versioning and sub versioning scheme which
allows references to be to a specific (minor) version or the latest (minor)
version. Given that, it seems like when you change a policy, particularly one
which has previously been in effect, you might want to increase its version
number and keep the old version around, rather than deleting it. It might also
be useful for the policy creation tools to generate policy IDs according to some
organizational template and prevent race conditions between users simultaneously
creating different policies.
Given this background, I am not sure how useful the functionality proposed in
the REST Profile will be. I grant that having a central point where policies can
be collected and inspected and compared could have value, but it seems to me to
be somewhat apart from the core tasks of creating and distributing policies.
Specific comments on wd 03:
Section 2.2.3 says creating policies with duplicate ids gets a 409. I see a few
issues here. First as I mentioned, the constraint is on a Cohort. There might be
convenient to have duplicate policy IDs in a PAP. Further, having to scan a list
of 100 or so policies to determine what a unique ID would be seems inefficient
and error prone. Then there is the issue that policies have an ID and a URI.
What if I have policy 22 at URI X and policy 23 at URI Y and I update URI X with
a new policy 23?
The next sentence says that creating a reference to a non-existent policy also
gets a 409. I can see at least 3 problems with this. 1) It is often inconvenient
when doing things of this type to be constrained to create things in a certain
order. 2) Dangling references are explicitly allowed when Admin policies are
supported. 3) The PAP will have to understand the XACML reference semantics
(exact vs. newest) in order to enforce this.
Overall, I don't see that much benefit from the proposed PAP functionality, but
I won't oppose it if others do see value. However, I would object if the
implication is that what is being managed is the policies currently in force at
some PDP. Updating policies on the fly seems like a recipe for disaster, but if
the polices in the PAP are not the ones currently in force, then I see little
probability that the PAP functions and PDP functions would be implemented in the
same software component.
As a final note, I am still interested in the policy distribution problem and
would like to specify something there, whether REST or SOAP based (or both).


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It's quite a rarity to come across a song that's truly heartfelt and genuine, but Los Angeles vocalist Jhené Aiko has done just that on For My Brother. Written for her brother Miyagi, who passed away last week after a long battle with cancer, For My Brother is a somber yet beautiful record in which Aiko reminisces on time spent with her older sibling and best friend. On top of her haunting vocals, Aiko also provides For My Brother with its airy production. According to Aiko's Tumblr, the singer reveals that her brother was fortunately able to listen to this fitting tribute before his passing. While For My Brother, which serves as Aiko's second solo Booth feature, isn't attached to any upcoming projects, the singer is working closely with producer No I.D. on her formal debut album on Def Jam.
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A touching, heartfelt ode to her brother. We get very few odes to mothers and fathers, but how often do we hear tunes dedicated to siblings? Almost never. Something to think about. Lets make music for our families while they are still around to enjoy it.
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I'm in love with Jhene's voice!!! This song just made me think of my little sister and love you have for all your family. Very heart felt! I loved it! And R.I.P. to her brother Miyagi.
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Moon phases, or lunar phases, refer to the different appearances that the Moon takes on over the course of a lunar month. At the beginning of a lunar month, the Moon is dark. And then, over the course of the month, more and more of the Moon is illuminated until we see a full moon. Then the amount of illuminated moon decreases to a new moon again. Then the cycle starts all over again. These are the phases of the Moon.
When thinking about what causes the phases of the Moon, you've got to realize that the Moon is always half illuminated by the Sun. This is the same for all the objects in the Solar System. We see the different moon phases from here on Earth because our perspective of the Moon changes as it orbits around the Earth. When we can see the Moon fully illuminated, then the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth; this is a full moon. The situation is reversed when the Moon and the Sun are on the same side of the Earth. This is when we see a new moon. The other lunar moon phases occur when the Moon makes various angles compared to the Earth.
8 Phases of the Moon
Although the lunar phases actually transition smoothly from one phase to another, we have developed different terms for the 8 moon phases that look distinct. The Moon's appearance moves through each of these moon phases as the amount of sunlight falling on it changes from our perspective. this is a cycle that always moves in the same direction. The Moon will always go from new moon to first quarter then full moon, then last quarter and back to new moon again.
Here are the 8 phases of the moon:
- New Moon – When the illuminated side of the Moon is away from the Earth. The Moon and the Sun are lined up on the same side of the Earth, so we can only see the shadowed side. This is also the time that you can experience solar eclipses, when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun and casts a shadow onto the surface of the Earth. During a new moon, we can also see the reflected light from the Earth, since no sunlight is falling on the Moon – this is known as earthshine.
- Crescent – The crescent moon is the first sliver of the Moon that we can see. From the northern hemisphere, the crescent moon has the illuminated edge of the Moon on the right. This situation is reversed for the southern hemisphere.
- First Quarter – Although it's called a quarter moon, we actually see this phase when the Moon is half illuminated. This means that the Sun and the Moon make a 90-degree angle compared to the Earth.
- Waxing Gibbous – This phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon is more illuminated that half, but it's not yet a full Moon.
- Full Moon – This is the phase when the Moon is brightest in the sky. From our perspective here on Earth, the Moon is fully illuminated by the light of the Sun. This is also the time of the lunar month when you can see lunar eclipses – these occur when the Moon passes through the shadow of the Earth.
- Waning Gibbous – In this lunar phase, the Moon is less than fully illuminated, but more than half.
- Last Quarter – At this point of the lunar cycle, the Moon has reached half illumination. Now it's the left-hand side of the Moon that's illuminated, and the right-hand side in darkness (from a northern hemisphere perspective).
- Crescent – This is the final sliver of illuminated moon we can see before the Moon goes into darkness again.
And so, the Moon passes through each of these phases each lunar month. It takes a total of 29.53 days to go from new moon to new moon.
Here are all the 8 Moon phases for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Want a schedule for every phase of the Moon over a 6000 year period? Here's a handy list from NASA. And here's an updated schedule of moon phases from the US Naval Observatory.
You can listen to a very interesting podcast about the formation of the Moon from Astronomy Cast, Episode 17: Where Did the Moon Come From?


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Blackstone Group, which made headlines in 2006 for its acquisitions of real estate companies, was again the talk of the industry last year, thanks to two major purchases. The firm picked up Equity Office Properties for $39 billion, at the time representing the largest private equity buyout in history. Some months later, the firm paid $26 billion for Hilton Hotels Corp.
The EOP transaction closed in February after a months-long bidding war with an investment group led by Vornado Realty Trust. The price factors out to $55.50 per share. According to a GlobeSt.com report, the purchase price includes some $16 billion in debt, and the per-share figure represents an 8.5% premium over EOP's closing price on Nov. 17, 2006, the day before the merger was made public. It's also 20.5% more than the REIT's three-month average.
Blackstone gained a portfolio of 543 office buildings comprising 103 million sf in 16 states and the District of Columbia, along with some 2,100 employees. Soon after the transaction closed, the firm entered into deals to shed several EOP properties, earning a few billion dollars in the process.
Meanwhile, in October, Blackstone closed on its purchase of Hilton for $47.50
Buyer: Blackstone GroupAcquired Firm: Equity Office PropertiesBuyer's Advisors: Goldman, Sachs &Co., Bank of America, Bear Stearns,Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, EastdilSecured, Morgan Stanley, BlackstoneCorporate Advisory and SimpsonThacher & Bartlett LLPAcquired Firm's Advisors: Merrill Lynch,Pierce, Fenner & Smith and Sidley AustinLenders: Goldman Sachs & Co., Bank ofAmerica, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, CreditSuisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanleyand Wachovia
per share, 40% higher than what the stock was trading for on July 2, the day before the deal was publicly announced. The acquisition of one of the world's largest hotel chains gave Blackstone 2,896 lodging properties with about 490,000 rooms in 76 countries and territories. Hilton owns, manages or franchises a portfolio of brands including
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Blackstone financed the purchase with $20.6 billion of mortgage and mezzanine secured debt incurred by subsidiaries of Hilton and approximately $5.7 billion of equity invested by funds affiliated with the Blackstone Group.
Unlike the EOP deal, however, Blackstone indicated that it doesn't intend to sell off many properties. Rather, it will hold the company as an important strategic investment that it wants to build upon.
Buyer: Blackstone GroupAcquired Firm: Hilton Hotels Corp.Buyer's Advisors: Bear Stearns, Bankof America, Deutsche Bank, GoldmanSachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch,Morgan Stanley and Simpson Thacher& Bartlett LLPAcquired Firm's Advisors: UBSInvestment Bank, Moelis Advisors andSullivan & Cromwell LLPLenders: Bear Stearns, Bank ofAmerica, Deutsche Bank, GoldmanSachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynchand Morgan Stanley
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The Lightstone Group entered the hotel sector in a big way last June with the $8-billion acquisition of Extended Stay Hotels. Arbor Realty Trust Inc. joined Lightstone in the deal as an equity investor. The portfolio included 687 hotels totaling 76,000 rooms in 44 states and Canada. The company operates five flags in the mid-priced extended-stay segment. Blackstone Group sold the assets, which it acquired in 2004 for $3.1 billion. Lightstone's financial advisor was Citi, and financing for the acquisition came from Wachovia Bank, Bear, Stearns & Co., Merrill Lynch Mortgage Lending Inc. and Bank of America. Herrick, Feinstein, Proskauer Rose and Dechert LLP provided legal advice to Lightstone and Arbor. Blackstone's financial advisors were Bear, Stearns, Banc of America Securities, Merrill Lynch and Blackstone Corporate Advisory. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was the legal advisor for Blackstone and ESA.
Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management won a bidding war in February for Chevy Chase, MD-based Mills Corp. SPG and Farallon paid $7.9 billion for Mills, which terminated its original $7.5-billion buyout agreement with Brookfield Asset Management of Toronto. SPG offered $1.5 billion in debt financing to Mills to repay the firm's senior term loan and revolving credit line with Brookfield. Merrill Lynch & Co. served as financial advisor and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP acted as legal advisor to SPG. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP were the legal counsel to Farallon. JP Morgan Securities Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. were financial advisors to Mills while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Hogan & Hartson LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP served as legal counsel.
Morgan Stanley made a couple of notable buys last year, first acquiring CNL Hotels and Resorts Inc. in April, then taking Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. private in August. For $6.6 billion, the firm gained CNL's business and eight luxury properties located throughout the US. Banc of America Securities, UBS Investment Bank and Houlihan Lokey acted as financial advisors to CNL. Sidley Austin LLP and Venable LLP served as legal counsel. Morgan Stanley was represented in-house, while Goodwin Procter


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Minnesota News-- Just over Minnesota's western border in Grand Forks Monday, close to 100 people at Valley Middle School were tested for tuberculosis.
(Grand Forks, ND) -- Just over Minnesota's western border in Grand Forks Monday, close to 100 people at Valley Middle School were tested for tuberculosis.
It's the latest chapter in a TB scare with 13 active cases in the area over the last month. Some parents are wondering if their children are safe. Don Shields of public health says probably, because tuberculosis is not normally something that's transmitted easily in a school, a cafeteria, in hallways or outside. He says the bacteria is very fragile and breaks down quickly. Shields says testing the students and staff is precautionary because a couple of those with active TB attend Grand Forks schools. Nearly 70 students were tested earlier at an elementary school. Officials say the outbreak was transmitted by homeless visitors who stayed with a family.
It's been cold across Minnesota but there's no safe ice out there yet. Even around International Falls in far northern Minnesota, the DNR's Kevin Peterson says yesterday two dogs went broke through in a little bay that's been frozen for a few days. Peterson says ice development is about where it was last year at this time, and it could be awhile yet before people can walk out on ponds and lakes.
Authorities have released the name of a 16-year-old girl who was hit and
killed while crossing Highway 10 in Anoka on Monday night. Investigators say Hannah Craft was jogging across the road when she was hit and died at the scene. The driver of the car that hit Craft, 39-year-old Shawn Cole of Mound, suffered minor injuries. Authorities say there was no crosswalk where she was trying to cross.
A St. Paul man who helped coordinate an extensive drug-smuggling operation has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison. Jesus Mendoza pleaded guilty last year to charges of conspiring to distribute drugs and aiding money laundering. Prosecutors say the 45-year-old arranged for cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to be driven or flown to Minnesota from as far away as California. Some of the proceeds were used to buy cars, property and an airplane. Nine other people have also pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the drug operation, including Mendoza's wife.
The Republican presidential hopeful who won Minnesota's caucuses but didn't make it to the convention says he's open to another run for the White House in four years. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania tells CNN he's "open to that possibility" in 2016. Santorum says he's focused right now on making sure lawmakers do the right thing on Capitol Hill. He finished first in the Minnesota GOP straw poll with 45 percent of the vote, Ron Paul came in second with 27 percent and Mitt Romney was third at 17 percent.
Students at St. Cloud State University are voting on a non-binding referendum question this week that would incorporate "homecoming" back into one of the school's "Celebrate SCSU" events. A university program board decided to replace homecoming with four "Celebrate SCSU" events but never consulted with university students in the decision to end what has always been known as "homecoming." Student Government Association President Jarrod Wiggins says the intent is to bring back the word "homecoming" into one of four celebrated events that SCSU students have come to love. Election results will be released Thursday.
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Mary Gaitskill Recommends Saul Bellow
Vol. 8, No. 3 EDITOR'S NOTE
Years ago I had a conversation with a friend comparing John Updike and Saul Bellow. At the time I liked Updike a little better, but she said something on Bellow's side that nearly changed my mind on the spot. "Updike sees," she said. "He sees the world and he knows what he is looking at. Bellow looks and he doesn't always know. Bellow is stunned by the world." By that she meant that Bellow's vision is deeper.
I'm not sure that she was right (I'm not sure, for one thing, that Updike is always so knowing), but I'm still thinking about what she said. This blunt and exquisite little beauty, "Something To Remember Me By," is a small example and counter-example of what she was talking about. The narrator is a worldly old man with a sophisticated eye and a wise-ass sense of humor describing an incident from his boyhood. But for all his wise-assedness, he remains amazed by the force and plenitude of physical life: pocket lint, soiled snowbanks, a tile wall with gaps "stuffed with dirt," the "salt, acid, dark, sweet odors" of strange pussy. Then there's social life: the order of family and religion, the chaos of morality, crime, goofiness, love, deception and holy books, some of which hide money, others of which cost 5 cents and come apart in your hands. As his scornful older brother says, this boy "doesn't understand fuck-all," and through this boy's eyes, who would?
The story takes place in depression-era Chicago and it is told almost like a fairy tale: the boy, whose mother is slowly dying, goes on the "journey" of his day at school and work. At its very start he kisses his bed-ridden mother; though he lives in a city, he then encounters hunters, steps over the blood they've spilt and enters a park (or wood). Later he enters a strange home to deliver flowers; in the dining room he sees a young girl lying in a coffin. Her frowning mother gestures with her fists. He sees "baked ham with sliced bread" on the drainboard, a "jar of French's mustard and wooden tongue depressors to spread it;" there's a dead body, but it's these daily things that make him say "I saw and I saw and I saw." Under this mortal enchantment the boy then goes to see his uncle and instead meets another girl, also supine, but naked and very much alive. The boy forgets his mother and is falsely seduced. He is humbled, does service, is punished. There is mercy and knowledge.
Actually punishment comes last, but mercy and knowledge have more power—which would say that my friend was wrong, that Bellow does look and know. Except that the knowledge of the story, which comes from the world of objects and cheap books, plus people who make fun, speechify, cheat and punch hell out of the kid—this knowledge is peculiar; blunt, yet hard to read, right in your face, but off the color spectrum.
"That was when the measured, reassuring, sleep-inducing turntable of days became a whirlpool, a vortex darkening towards the bottom."
"I myself know the power of nonpathos, in these low, devious days."
The boy turned old man thinks both these thoughts close on each other; his knowing and his amazed unknowing come together and fall apart again.
Mary Gaitskill
to Support Free Fiction
Something to
Remember Me By
by Saul Bellow
Recommended by Mary Gaitskill
WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH GOING ON, more than you can bear, you may choose to assume that nothing in particular is happening, that your life is going round and round like a turntable. Then one day you are aware that what you took to be a turntable, smooth, flat, and even, was in fact a whirlpool, a vortex. My first knowledge of the hidden work of uneventful days goes back to February 1933. The exact date won't matter much to you. I like to think, however, that you, my only child, will want to hear about this hidden work as it relates to me. When you were a small boy you were keen on family history. You will quickly understand that I couldn't tell a child what I am about to tell you now. You don't talk about deaths and vortices to a kid, not nowadays. In my time my parents didn't hesitate to speak of death and the dying. What they seldom mentioned was sex. We've got it the other way around.
My mother died when I was an adolescent. I've often told you that. What I didn't tell you was that I knew she was dying and didn't allow myself to think about it—there's your turntable.
The month was February, as I've said, adding that the exact date wouldn't matter to you. I should confess that I myself avoided fixing it.
Chicago in winter, armored in gray ice, the sky low, the going heavy.
I was a high school senior, an indifferent student, generally unpopular, a background figure in the school. It was only as a high jumper that I performed in public. I had no form at all; a curious last-minute spring or convulsion put me over the bar. But this was what the school turned out to see.
Unwilling to study, I was bookish nevertheless. I was secretive about my family life. The truth is that I didn't want to talk about my mother. Besides, I had no language as yet for the oddity of my peculiar interests.
But let me get on with that significant day in the early part of February.
It began like any other winter school day in Chicago—grimly ordinary. The temperature a few degrees above zero, botanical frost shapes on the windowpane, the snow swept up in heaps, the ice gritty and the streets, block after block, bound together by the iron of the sky. A breakfast of porridge, toast, and tea. Late as usual, I stopped for a moment to look into my mother's sickroom. I bent near and said, "It's Louie, going to school." She seemed to nod. Her eyelids were brown; the color of her face was much lighter. I hurried off with my books on a strap over my shoulder.
When I came to the boulevard on the edge of the park, two small men rushed out of a doorway with rifles, wheeled around aiming upward, and fired at pigeons near the rooftop.
Several birds fell straight down, and the men scooped up the soft bodies and ran indoors, dark little guys in fluttering white shirts. Depression hunters and their city game. Moments before, the police car had loafed by at ten miles an hour. The men had waited it out.
This had nothing to do with me. I mention it merely because it happened. I stepped around the blood spots and crossed into the park.
"Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment."
—Mary Gaitskill'The Secretary' by Mary Gaitskill
nerve.comThe story the film Secretary is based on posted in its entirety. I haven't read it yet, but I might put up a response when I finish.
"Today the clerk in the fancy deli next door asked me how I was, and I said "I have deep longings that will never be satisfied." I go in there all the time so I thought it was okay. But she frowned slightly and said "Is it the weather that does it to you?" "No," I said, "it's just my personality."
—Mary GaitskillBecause They Wanted To Play It As It Lays
Somehow, while I was in New Orleans, I decided to chase Mary Gaitskill's collection, Because They Wanted To, with Didion's Play It As It Lays.
Let me tell you something about reading Didion and Gaitskill in tandem while wading through humid heat even New Orleans residents complain about.
Don't do it.
In heat like that, when you're used to life in a small office, hunched in front of a computer, you want narratives that wash off you like aloe. Gaitskill and Didion are not that. Their narratives clamp onto you. They chafe.
They're good. They're both so good. And maybe reading them in a climate that makes their harshness harsher is how they should be read, but I found myself putting them down and cradling my head, ready for the headache of feeling too much in too small a space with the heat bearing down like aliens.
Their characters lie down and let the worst of them breathe out, intoxicating the room's air. Their stories stick to the skin like sunburns, smarting for days after. The rawness of it all suffocates. There is no way to put the book down and forget about Maria Wyeth or any of Gaitskill's characters, whose propensities tend toward veiled honesty, sexual deviancy, and purposeful bruises. They stayed with me in that way the chalk from a pill sticks to your tongue when you don't swallow it properly.
I tried to explain the experience of reading these two together to my cousin and she said it made her claustrophobic just listening to me. But they're both so, so good, I insisted. It's worth it, really, it's just … Intense.
Last week I went to "Sleep No More." Early in the performance, one of the witches grabbed me and took me into a pink room, draped with nightgowns, for an individual monologue. She took my mask off and stepped with me into a closet. In the dark, she clutched at my elbows and said, desperate: "We must not go back to Mandalay." She repeated herself, a crack in her voice: "We must not go back to Mandalay."
These books had that same feeling. Like: we must not do any of this again, but here, again again again. Wait with me while the scars on my ankles heal, while I wait for the answer I will never get. No, but, please. I can feel their character's delicate clutch at my wrist and there's no question. I stay.
After the witch finished her monologue, she gave me my mask back and pushed me further into the closet before disappearing. I had to find my way out by shoving past unfamiliar coats and dresses, surrounded and claustrophobic and hoping I'd find myself back in a familiar corridor so I could start again.


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IRC is a form of instant communications, like Instant Messenger, but older, and more suited for group discussions. Unfortunately, it is a communications medium that is easily automated and used by "bots," which can include virus infected computers, known as "zombies."
Unlike most other "friendlier" chat applications, IRC doesn't have a single login server, but nearly anyone can create an IRC server, each server capable of hosting many group conversations, or "channels." Popular IRC servers include IRCNet, EFNet, Freenode, and Undernet. For help and information on IRC clients, please see the Wiki article or consult IRChelp.org. There are also clients that work with multiple chat applications, such as Trillian or Gaim for Windows or Adium for Mac, if you like.
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"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within our self."–Paracelsus
What are your dreams trying to tell you? Are you listening?
Dreams have been a source of fascination throughout humanity's history; yet only recently have we begun to understand exactly what purpose they serve. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, asserted that dreams were unconscious wishes, fears, and urges that surfaced when the conscious mind was at rest. Jung built on Freud's theory, suggesting that the language of dreams is symbolic and that the unconscious mind uses universal symbols to bring unconscious messages through to the surface of consciousness. Campbell built on Jungian theory even further, proving the connections between symbols through time and across cultures by identifying themes common to mythologies the world over. These themes also manifest themselves in dreams, weaving stories for the conscious mind to decipher upon waking. But how? Read on for tips that you can use to immediately begin decoding your dreams and using their wisdom to gain access to your own inner truths.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." — C. Jung
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." — Virginia Woolf
- Begin with intention. Create a physical and emotional environment conducive to nurturing dreams. Turn off the television. Spritz your pillow with a mild and pleasant scent. Lavender is said to encourage peaceful sleep, or you may use a scent that you find personally soothing. Make sure the room is cool and quiet. Then simply relax. As you drift off to sleep, you can invite your unconscious mind to reveal its wisdom to you and mentally affirm your intention to remember your dreams. Or you can just say the word "dream" to yourself as a mantra. The intention will be understood.
- Consider using a journal. Have fun choosing a journal and a pen. It can be as simple or as elaborate as you like, but reserve it for dreams only. This signals your subconscious that your dreams are important to you, which creates more opportunities to write. If you'd prefer, you can use a handheld recorder to record your dreams and write them down later. I do encourage you to take the time to write your dreams out eventually. Your mind will analyze the content differently as you're writing than it does when you're simply recalling it aloud. If you decide to keep a notebook and pen, also consider a lamp, bright nightlight, or free-standing flashlight for those nights when a dream just can't wait until the sun rises.
- Phone a friend. Beyond writing your dreams, describing them to an objective third party can sometimes prove enlightening. "What does it mean when my boyfriend's driving me somewhere, and as we're going, I start to feel like I'm slowly going nuts?" my sister asked one morning. "It's like he was driving me… oh…. crazy." Enough said.
- Combine intuition with common symbol interpretations. You can find a million websites that will tell you what each symbol means. Scan some of these, but keep in mind that you are your own best resource. If you frequently dream about flying or falling but you enjoy skydiving in your spare time, your dream may mean something completely different than it would mean according to dreammoods.com. The emotions and thoughts you encounter in dreams can reveal quite a bit about what the symbol means for you. Pay attention to emotional cues and what seem to be randomly occurring thoughts.
- Put the pieces together. Like any good puzzle, your dreams need you to take the pieces and link them together to get their points across. Once you've contemplated what the symbols mean separately, consider how they relate to each other. Your unconscious may present a number of symbols to reinforce the same message. Considering symbols in context can also show you specific areas or times of your life that the dream pertains to.
- A few cheats. Following are a few simple and common elements of dreams. Use them to guide your analysis and to provoke further insights. It may also help to create an index of your own interpretations for later use. This can act as your own personal pocket guide to your dreams. It can also help you in interpreting others'.
BEING CHASED: Anything behind or to the left typically represents your past, just as anything in front or to the right typically represents the future. Being chased often represents that your past is catching up with you in some way, or it could represent that a memory is trying to resurface.
HOUSE: The house represents your perception of your life as it is. Rooms within the house indicate various aspects of your life. Below ground rooms (basement) represent the unconscious, and rooms typically represent the aspects of your life associated with the activities that take place within those rooms. Social gatherings represent the people within your life. Note how you feel and your attitude toward the house. Are you trapped? Do you feel safe? These reveal important clues about how you perceive your life overall.
WATER: Water represents emotions and the unconscious. Pay attention to emotional content and the appearance of the water. Is it deep, or is it a drizzle? Is it clear and clean or cloudy and polluted? These provide important clues into your emotional state.
VIOLENCE: Keep in mind that characters in your dreams may represent others, but they may also represent some aspect of yourself. Violence indicates a desire to control or an anger toward something or someone. If someone else is acting in a violent manner toward you, you may be feeling victimized or a sense of shame or powerlessness associated with that person. Pay attention to surrounding clues.
FREEZING or BEING IMMOBILIZED: Symbolizes a feeling of powerlessness. Incidentally, this also occurs when the conscious mind awakens before the brain allows the body to awaken. While not a pleasant sensation (it can sometimes cause a heavy feeling on the chest and the sensation of not being able to awaken), this is the brain's way of preventing you acting out your dreams, which sleep walkers can attest is not a pleasant sensation, either!


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PCH Safety Meetings Start This Week
The City of Malibu, in collaboration with SCAGthe Southern California Association of Governmentswill be conducting a series of four public meetings on Pacific Coast Highway.
The schedule of meetings includes: Study Area 1, Topanga Canyon Road to Cross Creek Road, Thursday, Sept. 13, 6-8 p.m.; Study Area 2, Cross Creek Rd. to Busch Drive, Thursday, Sept. 20, 6-8 p.m.; and Study Area 3: Busch Drive to Western City Limits, Thursday, Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m.
The fourth meeting set for Oct. 4, from 6-8 p.m. "will review material presented at the first three meetings and provide the community another opportunity to offer input and feedback," according to a municipal press release.
All meetings will be held at Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road. In addition, residents have the opportunity to provide feedback through Oct.12 on the PCH Safety Study Interactive Website at malibu.metroquest.comthe site will be operational through Oct. 12.
Additional information is available at www.malibucity.org