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Originally published at CNN by Ray Sanchez on 8/3/14
(CNN) — President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that the United States "crossed a line" and tortured al Qaeda detainees after the 9/11 terror attacks.
The comments at a White House news conference were the President's strongest on the controversial subject since he came into office denouncing what he described as the Bush years of torturing alleged terrorists, also known as "enhanced interrogation."
"When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line," Obama said. "And that needs to be … understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so that hopefully we don't do it again in the future."
In the remarks, Obama was referring to a soon-to-be-released Senate Intelligence Committee report detailing the CIA's controversial interrogation and detention program following the 9/11 attacks.
The document is a nearly 700 page summary of the full 6,800 page report that was approved a year and a half ago by a committee sharply divided along party lines.
Senators on the committee have said the report is critical of the CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects, saying it amounted to torture — an allegation CIA officials have denied. It also finds that those harsh interrogation techniques did not help disrupt future terrorist attacks as many in intelligence community have claimed.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said later Friday that the report's public… Continue reading
Originally published at The Guardian by Spencer Ackerman on 7/31/14
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials.
Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture.
Among other things, it was revealed that agency officials conducted keyword searches and email searches on committee staff while they used the network.
The admission brings Brennan's already rocky tenure at the head of the CIA under renewed question. One senator on the panel said he had lost confidence in the director, although the White House indicated its support for a man who has been one of Barack Obama's most trusted security aides.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd acknowledged that agency staff had improperly monitored the computers of committee staff members, who were using a network the agency had set up, called RDINet. "Some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between [the committee] and the CIA in 2009 regarding access to the RDINet," he said.
Asked if Brennan had or would offer his resignation, a different CIA spokesman, Ryan Trapani, replied: "No."
In March, the committee chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, accused the agency of violating… Continue reading
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Halifax, March 28, 2014 – Yesterday in Parliament Megan Leslie, NDP Deputy Leader and Halifax MP, was blasted by Conservative backbencher James Bezan for a community event that was posted by a constituent on her website.
Bezan was referring to the Halifax stop of a 17-city Canadian tour by architect Richard Gage, leader of 2100 architects and engineers who question the collapses of World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7. Many people do not know that an investigation was resisted by the Bush administration, and that the building collapses were never scientifically investigated.
Following major disasters such as the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, and the Challenger tragedy, commissions of inquiry have been appointed within a few days.
In the case of 9/11 no such inquiry was ordered. It took more than 14 months for the Bush administration, under sustained pressure from the "Jersey Girls" (who lost their husbands in the attacks) and other families who were calling for an investigation into the evidence, to finally launch the 9/11 Commission.
Funded by a paltry $3 million and hampered by a short deadline, the government appointed – amidst considerable controversy – White House insider Philip Zelikow as Executive Director.
The resulting July 2004 9/11 Commission Report was labeled "whitewash" by Harper's Magazine – "defrauding the nation."
More than 300 statements… Continue reading
By Elizabeth Woodworth
With polls consistently showing that approximately 50% of Canadians and Americans doubt the official story of 9/11, the feat of keeping the lid on a public debate for over 12 years has been nothing short of miraculous.
This article presents a simple case study showing that this miracle is being performed with the assistance of Google and YouTube search engine interference.
On September 8, 2013, the popular Russia Today "Truthseeker" program, with over a million subscribers on YouTube,[1] published a 13-minute newscast entitled "The Truthseeker: 9/11 and Operation Gladio (E23)."
Below the video frame ran the caption:
Bigger than Watergate': US 'regular' meetings with Al-Qaeda's leader; documented White House 'false flag terrorism' moving people 'like sheep'; the father of Twin Towers victim tell us why he backs this month's 9/11 campaign on Times Square and around the world; & the protests calendar for September.
This paragraph was followed by a list of interviewees, including four people representing three scholarly research organizations: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,[2] the 9/11 Consensus Panel,[3] and The Journal of 9/11 Studies.[4]
The "Truthseeker" video immediately started to gain popularity on YouTube, reaching 131,000 views in the first three days.[5](The history of the viewing statistics may be seen by clicking on the little graphic symbol under the video frame, and to the right)
Truthseeker posted its program to YouTube on Sept. 8. Russia Today tweeted the YouTube link to its 546,000 followers and to the… Continue reading
By Wendy McElroy
Two events recalled a passage from the Irish poet William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming":
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats (1865-1939) wrote "The Second Coming" in 1919 to describe the moral devastation of post-WWI Europe. The "mere anarchy" is not the laissez-faire version of contract and consent between free individuals which produces good will and prosperity. The "mere anarchy" is chaos, a Hobbesian society of all-against-all that comes in the wake of sustained violence. It is a society that guts decency, loots productivity, and rewards the worst within men.
Yeats could be describing America today. Or, at least, the America that might well be tomorrow. The center cannot hold.
The first event was a quiet one; as of yet, it is an event on paper only. On May 13th, 2013, a new rule went into effect. The US Code "Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies" was altered by the Department of Defense to read:
"Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances because:
(1) Such activities are necessary to prevent significant loss of life or wanton destruction of property and are necessary to restore governmental function and… Continue reading
If whistleblower Ali Stevenson is correct, it appears that yet again a terrorist attack, this time the Boston bomb, occurred at the same time as an official exercise was taking place.
The Norwegian attack, the London 7/7 bombings and the 9/11 attacks all turned out to be running in tandem with exercises which were eerily similar to the real terrorist attacks.
According to Stevenson, a sports coach, there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines. 'They kept making announcements on the loud speaker that it was just a drill and there was nothing to worry about,' he told a local TV channel.
In the case of 7/7 in London, retired police terrorist expert Peter Power, clearly in a state of shock, initially told radio listeners that the exercises he had helped organise even specified the same tube stations as the real attacks.
In the case of 9/11 the Pentagon seems to have gone to considerable lengths to hide the fact that they were running multiple exercises including an anti-hijack exercise on the morning of the real 9/11 hijacks. The 9/11 Commission discovered the evidence for the anti-hijack exercise after seizing and reclaiming tapes which the Pentagon had erased. By then, short of time and money, the Commission was not able to investigate further, even if the Washington insiders who made up its key personnel had wished to.
Washington has refused to release the details of the Pentagon's 9/11 hijack exercise script, but Richard Clarke, white House anti-terror… Continue reading
Preface: This is not a partisan post. We have repeatedly documented that Obama is as bad or worse than the Bush administration.
In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the program of torture carried out by the Bush administration was specifically specifically aimed at establishing a false justification for war. Dick Cheney is the guy who pushed for torture, pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture was legal, and made the pitch to Congress justifying torture. (The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture policies).
The type of torture used by the U.S. on the Guantanamo suspects is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the the U.S. used Communist torture techniques specifically aimed at creating false confessions (see this, this, this and this).
According to NBC News:
In fact, the 9/11 Commission Report was largely based on third-hand… Continue reading
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WHAT: Gold Star Mother and "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan will lead a Tour de Peace bike ride across the United States from the grave of her son Casey in Vacaville, Calif., to Washington, D.C., following the mother road, historic Route 66 to Chicago, and other roads from there on to D.C. Bicyclers will join in for all or part of the tour, which will include public events organized by local groups along the way. Complete route: http://tourdepeace.org/the-route.html
WHEN: The tour will begin on April 4, 2013, nine years after Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq, and 45 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed in Memphis. It will conclude on July 3, 2013, with a ride from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House.
WHY: This August will mark 8 years since Cindy Sheehan began a widely reported protest at then-President George W. Bush's "ranch" in Crawford, Texas, demanding to know what the "noble cause" was for which Bush claimed Americans were dying in Iraq. Neither Bush nor President Obama has yet offered a justification for a global war now in its 12th year. The Tour de Peace will carry with it these demands:
To end wars,
To end immunity for U.S. war crimes,
To end suppression of our civil rights,
To end the use of fossil fuels,
To end persecution of whistleblowers,
To end partisan apathy and inaction.
Watch… Continue reading
Campaigner and film maker Tony Rooke claimed a moral victory today after a UK court gave him a conditional discharge even though he has refused to pay his BBC license fee. Over 100 supporters from as far away as Denmark and Norway cheered in front of the court house as independent media people conducted interviews and photographed the crowd. Court officials had booked their largest room for the case but were at a loss to find that well over 50 people could not be fitted in.
Tony said: "I am taken a back and hugely grateful for all the support." He is asking for at least one person to take up the campaign by refusing to pay or taking other legal action (see below).
Rooke argued that the BBC's coverage of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York has been so distorted that it amounts to giving aid and comfort to the unidentified terrorists who demolished three World Trade Centre buildings in 2001. Two hijacked planes were flown into the famous Twin Towers and a third tower WTC7 collapsed later in the day. The attacks were used as the pretext for a decade of wars and the introduction of police state measures across the NATO countries. Vast personal fortunes were made by White House and CIA officials who failed to thwart 9/11.
The official 9/11 story was promulgated by the US media within minutes of the first collision, based on anonymous sources in the Bush White House. Despite a mass… Continue reading
by Ryan Gallagher
When a former senior White House official describes a nationwide surveillance effort as "breathtaking," you know civil liberties activists are preparing for a fight.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and monitor massive datasets about innocent Americans.
After internal wrangling over privacy and civil liberties issues, the Justice Department reportedly signed off on controversial new guidelines earlier this year. The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using "predictive pattern-matching," to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes "entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others."
Notably, the Journal reports that these changes also allow databases about U.S. civilians to be handed over to foreign governments for analysis, presumably so that they too can attempt to determine future criminal actions. The Department of Homeland Security's former chief privacy officer said that it represents a "sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public."
The snooping effort, which officials say is subject to "rigorous oversight," is reminiscent of the so-called Total Information Awareness initiative, dreamt up in the aftermath of 9/11 by the Pentagon's research unit DARPA. The aim of the TIA initiative was essentially to create… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
In the summer of 2001, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Robert Wright, a counterterrorism expert from the Chicago office, made some startling claims about the Bureau in a written statement outlining the difficulties he had doing his job. Three months before 9/11, he wrote: "The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States."[1]
Revelations since 9/11 have confirmed Wright's claims. FBI management did little or nothing to stop terrorism in the decade before 9/11 and, in some cases, appeared to have supported terrorists. This is more disturbing considering that the power of the FBI over terrorism investigations was supreme. In 1998, the FBI's strategic plan stated that terrorist activities fell "almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of the FBI" and that "the FBI has no higher priority than to combat terrorism."[2]
A number of people are suspect in these failures, including the leaders of the FBI's counterterrorism programs. But at the time of Wright's written complaint, which was not shared with the public until May 2002, the man most responsible was Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI from 1993 to 2001.
Agent Wright was not FBI leadership's only detractor, and not the only one to criticize Freeh.…Continue reading
by Ron Holland
This is a fictional story showing how the last vestiges of the republic, your personal wealth and gold could disappear in 24 hours.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." – Frank Zappa
Several weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Obama's sudden executive order favoring illegal aliens. This was just one of many presidential executive orders and actually not a big deal but this tool will likely be the legal mechanism used to financially lock down America similar to the way a warden limits privileges and movement in a prison complex. Executive orders, unless they are challenged, can allow a president to rule by decree. This is basically what our once great republic has been reduced to.
Presidential Executive Orders Are the Greatest Threat To Our Nation
Many presidents have used the power of presidential executive orders but among the most harmful were Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 6102 signed on April 5, 1933 that authorized the confiscation of private gold and Executive Order 9066 imprisoning 110,000 Japanese Americans in "War Relocation Camps." Lincoln also issued countless executive orders authorizing arrest and imprisonment of opposition newspaper reporters and editors as well as suspending the writ of habeas corpus widely across the Union.…Continue reading
"I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released," an expert tells Salon
June 19, 2012
By Jordan Michael Smith
Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the National Security Archive. The documents were released after the NSA pored through the footnotes of the 9/11 Commission and sent Freedom of Information Act requests.
The material contains much new information about the hunt before and after 9/11 for bin Laden, the development of the drone campaign in AfPak, and al-Qaida's relationship with America's ally, Pakistan. Perhaps most damning are the documents showing that the CIA had bin Laden in its cross hairs a full year before 9/11 — but didn't get the funding from the Bush administration White House to take him out or even continue monitoring him. The CIA materials directly contradict the many claims of Bush officials that it was aggressively pursuing al-Qaida prior to 9/11, and that nobody could have predicted the attacks. "I don't think the Bush administration would want to see these released, because they paint a picture of the CIA knowing something would happen before 9/11, but they didn't get the institutional support they needed," says Barbara Elias-Sanborn, the NSA fellow who edited the materials.
Let's start there. In 2000 and 2001, the CIA began using Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Afghanistan. "The idea of using UAVs originated in April 2000 as a result of a request from the NSC's Coordinator for Counterterrorism to the CIA and the Department of Defense to come up with new ideas to go after the terrorists in Afghanistan," a 2004 document summarizes.…Continue reading
by Philip Giraldi
The most recent issue of the National Counter Terrorism Center's annual Report on Terrorism [.pdf] came out last week, covering the year 2011. I would like to say that it is well worth a read, but actually it is quite tedious. For those who are interested, it is essentially a statistical and analytical breakdown of the terrorism phenomenon derived from the U.S. government–maintained Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, or WITS, which is based on publicly available open-source material reporting alleged terrorist activity around the globe. Most often the analysis is bare bones and avoids political coloration, not, for example, going deeply into the motives of the various terrorist groups but instead providing information in a pie chart and chronological fashion. This year's report is 33 pages long.
The United States is engaged in what most Americans still refer to as a global war on terror or, in shorthand form, a war on terror. The Obama administration avoids the expression because it is a legacy of the Bush years and because it uses the expression "war," so it refers to "overseas contingency operations," which has a nicer sound and does not appear to be so preemptive or premeditated. It also fudges the reality of what is taking place by pretending that the process is reactive, which it is not. The unrelenting expansion of U.S. military intervention is in response to many diverse overseas developments, most of which are not genuine threats. This was recently demonstrated by the White… Continue reading
June 20, 2012
Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
A document declassified this week by the National Security Archive reveals that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a briefing to the Bush administration which directly contradicts former Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta visited an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague.
The document (PDF), dated Dec. 1, 2001 and delivered to the White House on the 8th, claims that Atta "did not travel to the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000," and adds that "the individual who attempted to enter the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000… was not the Atta who attacked the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001."
Despite this briefing, just days later on Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney told the late Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, that the meeting in Prague had been "pretty well confirmed."
Well, what we now have that's developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that's been pretty well confirmed, that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack. Now, what the purpose of that was, what transpired between them, we simply don't know at this point. But that's clearly an avenue that we want to pursue.
Cheney's claim was one of the strongest rhetorical links between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and Iraq in the administration's arguments for war,… Continue reading
Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with
Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged
By Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington
May 8, 2012
A would-be "underwear bomber" involved in a plot to attack a US-based
jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and
the CIA, it has emerged.
The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the
disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American
target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.
The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of
an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10
days, had caused alarm throughout the US.
It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni
members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday,
one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.
But the news that the individual at the heart of the bomb plot was in fact
an informer for US intelligence is likely to raise just as many questions as
it answers.
Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed
informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given
the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport
The… Continue reading
By Russ Baker
When I got an email announcing an exclusive from NBC about the raid that, we're told, resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, I dared raise my hopes. The last time a major media organization, the New Yorker , had promised us the inside story about what really happened on that day in early May, 2011, we got a major bit of disinformation .
But, being an optimist, I set my TV to record the hour on NBC's newsmagazine show, Rock Center, and went out to dinner. When I returned, I settled in and began watching.
I heard the dramatic music, and listened to correspondent Brian Williams's dramatic intro. Then I began waiting for answers. I waited. And waited. The answers never came. Can you believe an entire hour (or about half an hour plus endless ads) and not one interesting revelation? Can you believe that almost the entire thing dealt with how people in the White House felt that day, what kind of chairs they sat in, etc, and almost nothing on the details of the raid or the disposition of the body? Even the details that sounded vaguely interesting, like the fact that the chopper that crashed was some kind of new, secret craft, were already known long ago.
I got a feeling that the whole thing had been carefully rehearsed, and then I thought: Why would the White House give NBC an exclusive, "first-time" look inside the White House Situation Room? Well,… Continue reading
March 25, 2012
Guest Post by Kevin Ryan, former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Mr. Ryan, a Chemist and laboratory manager, was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. In the intervening period, Ryan has completed additional research while his original questions, which have become increasingly important over time, remain unanswered by UL or NIST.
The U.S. Secret Service failed to do its job on September 11, 2001 in several important ways. These failures could be explained if the Secret Service had foreknowledge of the 9/11 events as they were proceeding. That possibility leads to difficult questions about how the behavior of Secret Service employees might have contributed to the success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Answering those questions will require the release of existing interview transcripts as well as follow-up questioning, under oath, of a few key people within the agency.
The most glaring example of Secret Service failure on 9/11 was the lack of protection for the President of the United States after it was well known that the country was facing terrorist attacks on multiple fronts. The interesting thing about this was that it was not a consistent approach. That is, the president was protected by the Secret Service in many ways that day but he was not protected from the most obvious, and apparently the most imminent, danger.…Continue reading


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TRIBUTES have been left to a Newport father of four who was found dead on Monday.
Dave Hampton, a 64-yearold from Pill who went missing last Thursday, was found in the Queensway Meadows area of the city.
Flowers and a Newport County scarf have been placed in Plover Close to honour him.
Tributes describe him as a "lovely man" and a "true gentleman who will be sorely missed".
Dr Hampton was last seen by his partner, Sara Webb, 40, and on Sunday more than 100 relatives and friends searched the south of the city, near where he was last seen.
A spokesman for Gwent Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
Dr Hampton worked as a biochemist in the pathology lab at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.
On Thursday evening Dr Hampton and Miss Webb attended a concert at Trinity College in Carmarthen, where Dr Hampton's son, Daniel, 20, was performing.
However, the couple left after the first half because Dr Hampton felt ill.
Miss Webb told the Argus he had felt confused, had a temperature and was tired.
Later that night Dr Hampton left his home, saying he had wanted to see if Asda was open.
He was later seen on CCTV buying a bag of chips and going into a pub, and was spotted at a travellers' site in Tatton Road, near Queensway Meadows, at 1.30am on Friday.
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The electronics and appliance store, based out of Minneapolis, Minn., has been voted the best electronics store in the Crossroads.
Home sales supervisor J.R. Bauer said he thinks his store beat out the competition because of the unflagging customer service.
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The salesman said his staff was excited about their win last year.
"We have the clipping posted in our break room," Bauer said. "All the employees were excited to know we won."
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on Feb 23, 2012 at 10:31 am
Not sure if anyone else has noticed the increase in burglaries since Bart opened up by the mall. It seems that I am seeing more people walking the streets that really do not belong in our srea. I hate to type cast but I have lived in Val Vista for more than 25 years and i've been seeing a lot of strange people walking in our neighborhood lately, I asked a couple of kids the other day if they were lost because I had never seen them before and they said no they were visiting a friend down the street and pointed to a house which was funny because that house was owned by friends of mine that have lived there for more than 25 years as well and I called them up and they said they were not expecting any vistors let alone teenagers. Another neighbor of mine said that packages have been disappearing from her front porch. This is quite sad.
on Feb 23, 2012 at 11:14 am
Ptown: "Not sure if anyone else has noticed the increase in burglaries since Bart opened up by the mall."
I haven't seen any evidence that there has been any recent increase in burglaries in neighborhoods surrounding Stoneridge Mall or the new BART station. There are of course a lot of incidents at Stoneridge Mall itself, just as there has always been. But as far as residential burglary, I see them scattered throughout most all of Pleasanton. No evidence of any crime hot spots in the neighborhoods surrounding the mall.
Furthermore, it wouldn't make a lot of sense for people to ride the BART into Pleasanton and then walk a mile or more to the nearest residential neighborhoods to commit burglary, would it? I know that many criminals aren't the sharpest people around, but even they must realize that committing a burglary and then walking a mile or more back to the BART station with the goods isn't a great escape plan.
on Feb 23, 2012 at 11:34 am
Never mind the SToneridge Bart, crime has increased in PLeasanton since the first BART station came in years ago. As for recent crime, I bet it has to do with the state of the economy more than there being a new BART.
Also, where do you think prisoners go when they are released from Santa Rita? They give them a BART ticket when they let them out....


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Sources: #Rangers pursuing #WhiteSox's Thornton. White Sox want Holland in return. #tradedeadline #MLB—
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Did you say Derek Holland Kenny?
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Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2011
John Danks? Kenny just hung up:
#chisox telling teams john danks is not available. makes sense. they are only 2 out in L column. #tradedeadline—
Jon Heyman (@SI_JonHeyman) July 30, 2011
But there is another suitor:
#mlb #Red Sox pushing hard for Carlos Quentin and LHP Thornton, but #White Sox would have to be overwhelmed with prospects# tradedeadline—
Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) July 30, 2011
You mean the Yankee$ aren't among the suitors? Well:
Sense #Whitesox have really fallen out love with Thornton, would love move $13M owed '12-'13. #Yankees among teams watching the LHR—
Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 30, 2011
One more:
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New York Times Book Review of "The Casual Vacancy" (Spoiler Alert!) UPDATENews
The New York Times released its first book review of The Casual Vacancy this morning (SPOILER ALERTS).The NYT states that the overall feeling of the book was emotionally disheartening: " The novel contains moments of genuine drama and flashes here and there of humor, but it ends on such a disheartening note ". The book is said to have "momentum" but it takes a while to get there. The reviewer, over all, was not very impressed with the novel, stating "it's dull", and did not feel Rowling's characterization. The New York TImes reports:
Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that "The Casual Vacancy" is not only disappointing — it's dull. The novel — which takes place in the tiny, fictional English village of Pagford, and chronicles the political and personal fallout created by the sudden death of a member of the parish council named Barry Fairbrother — reads like an odd mash-up of a dark soap opera like "Peyton Place" with one of those very British Barbara Pym novels, depicting small-town, circumscribed lives..
This is definitely not a book for children[!]
As "The Casual Vacancy" trundles along and Ms. Rowling starts grappling with the consequences of her characters' darker secrets, the narrative gathers momentum, but it takes a lot of pages to get there. In the meantime we are treated to tedious descriptions of the political squabbles exacerbated by Barry Fairbrother's death and historical accounts of class tensions in insular Pagford — most notably a face-off between one faction that is opposed to a public housing project and a clinic for addicts, and another that has a sense of duty toward the less fortunate. It's a subject with the potential to reverberate with an American audience — given the current battles between Republicans and Democrats over the role and size of government — but as laid out here it's oddly bloodless and abstract.
We do not come away feeling that we know the back stories of the "Vacancy" characters in intimate detail the way we did with Harry and his friends and enemies, nor do we finish the novel with a visceral knowledge of how their pasts — and their families' pasts — have informed their present lives. Of course, Ms. Rowling had seven volumes to map out the intricacies of the wizarding world in Harry Potter. The reader can only hope she doesn't try to flesh out the Muggle world of Pagford in any further volumes, but instead moves on to something more compelling and deeply felt in the future
The rest of the review can be read here.
"The Casual Vacancy is no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny," said Theo Tait in the Guardian newspaper.
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6 Golfers in the Field at Canadian Women's Amateur
Augusta James and Brittany Marchand are members of Team Canada's Women's National Squad.
James, Marchand Move to Match Play at Western Amateur
Augusta James tied for fourth, Brittany Marchand T7 after 36 holes of stroke play in Dayton, Ohio
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Ana Menendez fired a 2-under 70 to lead NC State on Saturday.
Pack Moves to T9 at NCAA Central Regional
The team leader board remains crowded with nine teams between third and 11th place separated by only four shots.
2011-12 - Freshman Season: Became NC State's first-ever ACC Freshman of the Year, and landed a spot on the 2012 All-ACC Women's Golf team... Set a school record with an 8-under par 208 at the Tar Heel Invitational, good for a tie for second... Set the school record with a 74.14 stroke average for the season... Fell in a playoff with teammate Brittany Marchand at the Cards Challenge after a 6-under par 210 three-day total... Carded 12 rounds of even par or better, exactly one third of her rounds played... Counted a score in 34 of 36 rounds... Shot a career-low 69 four times, twice at the Tar Heel Invitational and twice at the Cards Challenge... Led the team with five top-10s... Finished tied for 10th at the NCAA Regional with a 6-over par 222, earning NGCA All-Region... Named All-ACC Academic.
Summer 2011: Competed in the season-opening event on the 2011 CN Canadian's Women's Tour ... In the field of 89, finished 14th at 3-over 147 ... Later on that tour, took third at the event in Beloeil, Quebec ... Used six birdies during the two rounds and finished with a 1-under 141 ... Finished second at the Junior Girls CN Future Links Ontario Championship, posting an opening round 5-under 68 and finishing at 2-over ... Earned medalist honors with a 71 in qualifying for the USGA Women's Public Links Championship ... Advanced to the Round of 64 at the Public Links Championship after two rounds of stroke play, but fell 8&6 ... Finished eighth at the Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship ... She carded a final round even-par 72 and shot up the leaderboard on the last day to finish at 11-over 299 ... Captured the Investors Group Ontario Women's Amateur title ... Fired a course record-breaking 68 in the opening round, and cruised to a three-stroke victory closing with an even-par 213 ... Placed fifth at the Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls Championship ... Final round of 3-under 70 with five birdies helped her finish at 3-under 289.


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A recent CBS News report shows a dramatic rise in the number of school shootings in the past 13 years.
We've learned some schools are responding in a way that could be putting children in danger.That report also found that in three out of four school shootings, the suspect walked right in through the main entrance.
But that's not stopping schools from putting up fencing and gates without permits, and putting the lockdown on exit routes that are critical in an emergency. The horror of school shootings and parents in agony, scrambling to find their kids is a scene repeated too many times.
Those first few horrible minutes before help can arrive are so often the difference between life and death."You're not safe anywhere," one Mesa parent said. "You need to be prepared for anything." Today's schools are challenged to determine how best to keep kids safe. Fire Marshal Bob Barger said people need to be able to get away. So we're sounding the alarm after finding a troubling trend in schools. "It's probably been around the last six months that we caught up with the process of them actually locking the gates with chains and locks," said Bob Barger. Barger is the state's top fire boss. He says too many schools are locking bad guys out, and in the process, locking children in. Pictures show doors being secured with heavy chains and padlocks, clear violations of fire code. Barger says, "When you lock it and chain it, that egress pass is impeded and they can't get out and you can't get away." Calls to several fire departments across Arizona reveal it's a dangerous practice that's happening on campuses everywhere. "The challenge of keeping kids safe is probably not knowing what the next incident will be," Hellen Hollands said. Helen Hollands is with Mesa Public Schools, the largest district in the state. According to our sources, the district is the state's worst offender and is slow to fix the problem.
The State Fire Marshal says Mesa has a history of non-compliance dating back to 2011 and that risky behavior has continued.
This year, the district was cited for violations at 16 schools. "That's kind of scary," one parent said. "I don't bring my kids to school to be in prison," another parent said. Holland said, "In some situations, it was to prevent individuals from entering the campus." Photos from state inspectors show gates attached to the building, double secured with self-locking doors and heavy-duty chains and locks. So what's taking so long to fix the issue at this district?"Getting the funding for them," Holland said."We don't want to create a situation where, because of security, we cause tragedy," Frederick Durham said. Assistant State Fire Marshal Frederick Durham took 5 Investigates along for an inspection in Chandler.
He considers the Chandler School District a model of improvement. Nearly everyone understands the difficult balance schools must attain in trying to keep kids safe.But fire officials say breaking the law won't fix the problem. Durham said, "Their hearts were in the right place, but we can'tThe State Fire Marshalls Office now says the Mesa public schools have ramped up efforts to get the proper permits and fix those violations
They also say because of budget cuts, school inspections right now are running three years behind.
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It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest.
But a series of significant events nonetheless took place, that will have a lasting impact on the industry in years to come. Here's a look at some of the biggest turning points.
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SAP buys SuccessFactors, Oracle buys RightNow, both accept cloud reality
Collectively, SAP and Oracle spent nearly $5 billion this year to acquire software vendors based in the cloud.
Each sought different types of technologies, with SAP's purchase of SuccessFactors boosting its human-resources software offerings as well as general cloud know-how, and Oracle's RightNow buy giving it an array of customer-support capabilities.
But the deals have a common thread, marking a sea change for the traditional on-premise software world, said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. "[It] signals the realization that cloud deployment will be the predominant approach."
Oracle delivers Fusion Applications
It took a while, but Oracle finally managed to deliver the first wave of its next-generation Fusion Applications, and its launch strategy also showed how cloud computing has influenced the enterprise software market.
The company has taken pains to stress that Fusion Applications can be deployed in a highly modular fashion, with no need to remove existing systems, and at a time of customers' choosing. Users will also be able to run the software both on-premises and in cloud form, although some of the details of the latter remain to be made public.
Oracle's strategy is partly a nod to reality, since few customers will rush to rip and replace their core ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems with new software, and Oracle also wants to ensure early users are successful. But its message of easier, more flexible consumption for Fusion is straight from the cloud-vendor playbook.
Workday goes after large enterprises and succeeds
While its revenue is still small compared to the likes of Oracle and SAP, you had better believe that SaaS (software as a service) vendor Workday's continuing ability to land global agreements with companies such as Flextronics and Kimberly-Clark has prompted some chatter in Redwood Shores and Walldorf.
Workday announced the Kimberly-Clark deal in December. The consumer goods company is launching a global rollout of Workday's HCM (human capital management) software that will serve 57,000 workers.


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Welcome to the first month of Project MCP. In case you missed the big announcement, Project 12 is now Project MCP. Learn more about Project MCP and how it works here .
Each month the Project MCP Team will reveal four to five challenges, enough for a new challenge to start each Saturday of the month. On the first Saturday of each month, we will give you all of the challenges so you can work at your own pace. Do one or do them all. We hope this will keep you inspired and shooting through the year.
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Cider Beef Stew Recipe
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- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
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- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine flour, salt and pepper. Add beef, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. In a large saucepan, brown beef in oil; drain. Stir in the cider, water, vinegar and thyme; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until the meat is tender.
- Add the carrots, celery, potato and onion; return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Yield: 4 servings.
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LOVE to make this delicious beef stew on a cold winter's day! I increase the ingredients so we have leftovers the next night. Also, when adding the cider, I loosen the browned bits of beef on the bottom of the pot. As the liquid mixture boils, it enhances that flavor of beefy goodness to the stew!
I've made this recipe with apple juice and apple cider. Both are great, but the apple cider adds a little edge that makes it my favorite. I love to share this dish with friends.
This stew was really good. I used sparkling cider that I had leftover from the holidays, added a can of cream of mushroom with roasted garlic, and a half of green pepper. Also, I browned the meat according to the directions, but finished the rest in the slow cooker on low for 6hrs.From now on this is the only beef stew recipe I will use. Yum
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— Gregory Alan Scott "Scotty" died April 30 at his Danville home. He was 50.
Born March 9, 1963, at the Hendricks County Hospital, he was a son of Daniel R. Scott and Phyllis R. (Crane) Beck. He married Jessica Myers on Jan. 5, 1985, at Northview Christian Church, and she survives.
He had currently been employed with Citizen's Energy Group and was a member of the Phi Delta Kappa Gamma Theta Fraternity. He served 19 years on the Danville Fire Department before retiring.
Mr. Scott was a freshman football coach for Danville for many years and had coached several of his children's baseball, basketball, and softball teams. He enjoyed golfing, Sunday NASCAR races by the pool, watching Colts football, going to concerts, deer hunting, duck hunting, and camping at the farm.
Additional survivors include daughters Brittni Marie (Brian) Willis and Natalie Brooke Scott (Justin Horstman), all of Danville; a son, Brock Jordan Scott of Danville; his mother, Phyllis (Cliff) Beck of Texas; sisters Pat (George) Riggs of Virginia and Pam Greer of South Carolina; and grandchildren Amaya, Jaden, Cainnan, and Kya Willis and Landon Alan Horstman.
Calling is from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Baker Funeral Home in Danville. A Celebration of Life is set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Phi Delta Kappa House.
Memorials may be made to the Gregory A. Scott Memorial Fund, c/o North Salem State Bank, 704 W. Main St., P.O. Box 167, Danville, IN 46122.
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Reba McEntire tour, sponsored by Whirlpool Brand, benefits Habitat for Humanity International
2004 performances will raise awareness for families in need
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., March 22, 2004 – Whirlpool Brand announced today that it will sponsor Reba McEntire's 2004 concert tour, benefiting Habitat for Humanity International. The tour will begin June 4 in Connecticut and visit more than two dozen cities across the United States to raise awareness and support for Habitat for Humanity.
"It's an honor for Whirlpool to sponsor one of our country's greatest performers and support Habitat for Humanity at the same time," said David Swift, executive vice president of Whirlpool North America. "We believe that Reba embodies the Whirlpool brand image, as she is a successful career woman, mother, and homemaker and is also committed to various humanitarian causes. Reba's tour provides us with the opportunity to go directly to our consumers, talking to them about Habitat for Humanity in a new way and to align ourselves with a terrific performer."
Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, added, "Whirlpool and Habitat for Humanity are both committed to providing safe and affordable homes to communities across the country. We are thrilled to be joined by Reba McEntire in this effort, as we work to help families in need by inspiring hope and building lives, one home at a time."
Whirlpool donates a refrigerator and range to every Habitat home built in North America, and thousands of Whirlpool employees have volunteered their time at local Habitat builds in their hometown communities. Whirlpool has donated approximately 40,000 appliances to Habitat since 1999 as part of its $25 million commitment to the organization's "More than Houses" campaign, which will build more than 100,000 new homes by 2005.
Whirlpool Corp. is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, with annual sales of more than $11 billion, 68,000 employees and nearly 50 manufacturing and technology research centers around the globe. The company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul and other major brand names to consumers in more than 170 countries. Additional information about the company can be found on the Internet at www.whirlpool.com.
Habitat for Humanity International is a Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. Founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller, along with his wife, Linda, Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliates in more than 3,000 communities in 92 nations have built and sold more than 150,000 homes to partner families with no-profit, zero-interest mortgages. www.habitat.org


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Dark Souls 2 on the PC: Has From Software Learned its Lessons?
Kevin VanOrd looks at Dark Souls II for the PC to see how it compares to the console editions.
Kevin VanOrd looks at Dark Souls II for the PC to see how it compares to the console editions.
Namco Bandai confirms closed beta test for upcoming role-playing game scheduled to begin on October 5 in North America and Europe only on PlayStation Network.
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From Software's role-playing game goes double platinum since launch in October 2011.
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Translatable custom data object?
20 December 2010 at 1:46pm
Hi! I'm new to Silverstripe and although I like it's approach very much, I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the information. Here is what I would like to do:
Create something like a portfolio page with links to categories/types of projects and other attributes, e.g. client, year of completion, start date etc.
Each project should have a few custom fields, like the ones mentioned above, and a few images that will be displayed on it's page. Some fields should be just custom text, but others should be selected from a drop-down list.
And here is the funny part, the site should support 2 to 3 different languages..
Has anyone implemented anything like this in the past? Is it possible using SS, without having separate installations?
I don't seek a ready made solution, just a little guidance on how I should tackle this. I have already looked at modules like DOM, Uploadify etc, but I haven't found a solution regarding the multilingual and fields issue.
Thank you and sorry if I posted this in the wrong section.
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Re: Translatable custom data object?
21 December 2010 at 12:51am
Yes this is very doable!
Translatable is a part of the core so what you need to do is activate it in your _config.php file. Put this in the config
Object::add_extension('SiteTree', 'Translatable');
and then run dev/build?flush=all. After that you can use
to setup the languages you want to use on your site and the default language for your site. The fields issue isn't really an issue, you can add any fields you like to your classes. If you've used WordPress then SilverStripe handles "custom fields" very differently.
If you haven't gone through the tutorials on doc.silverstripe.org then I recommend you start there. If you decide to do your portfolio and projects as page classes then this should get you pretty far.
Re: Translatable custom data object?
21 December 2010 at 1:26am
Just in case the above does not answer the "dataobject" part of the question, this may be of interest.... http://www.silverstripe.org/data-model-questions/show/8397#post293654
Re: Translatable custom data object?
24 December 2010 at 3:53am
Hello and thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!
I've gone through the tutorials/docs and I think I have my pages/dataObjects relationships planned out.
I would like to ask some more questions though because I'm still confused about this. I'll try to explain it with an example.
Let's say that my relationships are these:
Project hasOne ProjectCountry (1 to many)
Project hasMany ProjectTags (Many to many)
Project hasMany ProjectImages (Many to many)
Now, ProjectPage is, as the name suggests, extends the Page class. The question is should I implement the additional objects (ProjectCountry, ProjectTags) as sub-classes of Page or DataObject?
How will the translations work in each case?
Will I be able to make translations through the Translations tab in the case of the DataObject or not (so I must define them as Page extensions)?
Thank you again for your help!
Re: Translatable custom data object?
24 December 2010 at 1:48pm
Ok, I have tried both approaches but I am definitely doing something wrong. When I added DataObjects to my Project page they wouldn't get translated and they retained their original values. Then I switched to adding Page objects but this still doesn't work.
I'm posting my code below just in case someone is interested:
class ProjectCountry extends Page {
static $has_many = array(
'ProjectPages' => 'ProjectPage'
static $db = array(
'Name' => 'Text',
'CountryCode' => 'Text'
function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->push( new TextField( 'Name' ) );
$fields->push( new TextField( 'CountryCode' ) );
return $fields;
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab( 'Root.Content.Main', new TextField( 'CountryCode' ), 'Content' );
return $fields;
class ProjectCountry_Controller extends Page_Controller {
class ProjectPage extends Page {
static $db = array(
'AwardingOrganization' => 'Text',
'ProjectOwner' => 'Text'
static $has_one = array(
'ProjectsCountry' => 'ProjectCountry'
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$tablefield = new HasManyComplexTableField(
'Name' => 'Country Name',
'CountryCode' => 'Country Code'
$tablefield->setAddTitle('Project\'s Country');
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.ProjectDetails', $tablefield );
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.ProjectDetails', new TextField('AwardingOrganization'));
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.ProjectDetails', new TextField('ProjectOwner'));
return $fields;
class ProjectPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
Re: Translatable custom data object?
24 December 2010 at 9:23pm
Did you follow the doc for page translation?
(this for nice flags for witch content)
Regarding the DataObject translation - I haven't done much apart from add it as an extension and try creating a translation back when I responded to that post, so there is not much I can help you there with yet...
Re: Translatable custom data object?
24 December 2010 at 10:13pm
Hi, yes I believe that I have followed them, but I could have done something wrong..
Right now I'm giving TranslatableModelAdmin a try. The one thing I havent figured out yet is how will I be able to display the localized dataobject on the project page (for selection on the 1 to many relationship).
It will be a shame if I can't get this to work as SS fits my needs perfectly for a CMS.
But I won't quit!
Re: Translatable custom data object?
24 December 2010 at 10:16pm
Maybe if you could explain a little more with where you are at I might be able to help...
Have you got the right stuff in your config.php? So you can see the option to translate a page within the cms?
Are you creating a translation for the page in the CMS? If yes to all of this, what happens when you add the code for the switching with flags to Page.ss?
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Matt and Dan break down the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Magic Johnson's group bought the Dodgers for $2.15 billion, do you think the team is worth that much?
Frank McCourt has been a naughty boy, but that won't stop him from petitioning Santa for help in his moment of need.
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Anna Kournikova's Biggest Loser Blog: Episode 5
October 19, 2011 at 10:35 am , by Sonia Harmon
This was a huge week for my blue team! We really wanted to keep our team intact and I knew I was going to have to push Bonnie and Becky harder than I had ever pushed them before.
The week started off with a big twist—one of the contestants would get to go home with their trainer. Even though I knew it would mean so much to Bonnie and Becky to see their families, I didn't want to have to leave one of them behind. I was relieved when the board chose Sunny, especially after we found out that her weight would be the only one that counted for the black team that week.
During the challenge, I was shocked to hear that Joe drank 8-10 cans of soda every day! Hopefully now that they know how much sugar is in soda, the contestants will think twice about drinking it so often. It's important for them to understand that nutrition is a huge part of losing and maintaining weight. Earlier in the week, Bonnie complained about being in pain, so when I saw her go down in the challenge I was really scared that she might be seriously injured. It was inspiring to see her fight her way back up and finish the course!
I decided to mix things up and do a workout in the pool to help take some of the pressure off of Bonnie's knees. The pool is a great place to do high-intensity, low-impact exercises. Becky was really pushing herself, but I was concerned that Bonnie wasn't focused. I pulled her aside to let her know that it's okay to let her emotions out, even if it's anger. Exercise is a great outlet to help you work through any emotion.
At the weigh-in, I wasn't surprised to hear that Bonnie was upset with me. We weren't seeing eye-to-eye all week and she felt like I was pushing her past her limits, but I wouldn't have been doing my job if I let her slack off. I really care about her and I know she's capable of anything, so I wanted to push her past her comfort zone and help her reach her full potential. And thankfully, with Becky's eight pound weight loss and Bonnie's four pound weight loss, our team was safe from elimination. All of our hard work and determination paid off this week—even if it meant Bonnie was upset with me. I can't wait to see what we accomplish next week!
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