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This private efficiency apartment with outside entrance is located at the end of a 2001 built private home in the woods. Your accommodations include a full kitchen, bath with shower, living/sleeping area, and outside deck.
Located only minutes from downtown Boothbay Harbor, this apartment is on a picturesque peninsula in East Boothbay, a quiet, quaint shipbuilding village. Within walking distance are unlimited ocean views of the picturesque, rockbound Maine coast. Nearby is an association dock which offers full benefits for ocean access, and boating in the briny deep. Owner's 32 foot inboard boat is moored within this harbor, and a guest tour of harbor, lighthouses, and offshore islands, ( time and weather permitting ) is a possibility.
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Known as Eleanor & Pete Yes, we retired here in Maine and drove local school busses. Pete's job before he retired included extensive travel throughout North America and other countries. Eleanor was a stay at home Mom with a lot of interesting part time jobs such as dog officer, welcome wagon hostess, school bus driver ( 36 years wow! ), newspaper reporter, and dog groomer. We sold our two acre 200 year old farm in MA to retire to Maine and built a new home in the heart of the Mid Coast, and we love it here and want to have you enjoy it too..
The Owner purchased this house in 2000
We chose the area of the Boothbay region for it's uniqueness: we are a community of boat builders, fishermen, beautiful islands, rocky shoreline with some sandy beaches, unusual seabirds, a gorgeous new Botanical Gardens, quaint shops, great restaurants for unusual dining of fresh seafood along with standard fare, lots of wonderful hiking trails, and lovely conservation areas.
When we had our home built on the coast in East Boothbay 19 years ago, we added a unique benefit in the form of an "in-law" apartment for Eleanor's Mom. After she passed on, we decided it would be fun to share our wonderful world here with those who have never seen the Maine Coast, or those who love it the way we do! The apartment has been updated with new furnishings, kitchen appliances etc. and we delight in taking our guests off-shore in our 32 ft lobster-style yacht to see the islands, quaint coves, lighthouses, and harbors.
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Adam Moss, Better Homes Top A-List Winners
BOCA RATON, Florida—In a competition that says more about the power of the award program's branding than the winners themselves, New York magazine editor Adam Moss and Better Homes and Gardens topped Advertising Age's 2007 coveted A-List, announced here at American Magazine Conference at the Boca Raton Resort & Club Sunday evening.
The luxury setting was on the mind of many of AMC's 500 attendees. "For the journalists in us, we like when you pick a place to moor our yachts," Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom quipped before announcing the list. "I have the slip next to Keith Kelly this year."
 Moss [below right] collected editor-of-the-year honors while Better Homes won magazine of the year as orchestral versions of U2's "Beautiful Day" and the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" played in the background.
 "We desperately tried to find someone that was more deserving," Bloom said of Moss, who took home five Ellies at the National Magazine Awards earlier this year.
Condé Nast—which won the comparatively trivial "publishing company of the year—celebrated its win for the launch of the year for high-end parenting title, Cookie.
And in a surprise to many, Better Homes and Gardens, up 35 percent in newsstand sales this year, took the top spot on the A-List, beating out More and Real Simple in the process.
Launch of the Year: Cookie
Editor of the Year: Adam Moss, New York magazine
Publishing Company of the Year: Condé Nast
The 2007 A-List
10. Harper's Bazaar
9. Elle
8. Everyday with Rachael Ray
6. Prevention
5. Vogue
4. Economist
3. Real Simple
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Highlight Reel: The face of USA Basketball
Is Kevi Durant the most humble superstar in league history? I can't think of anyone else. By the way, that was a 6'10″ man who just crossed the hell out of one defender, Euro-stepped the next and then finished with a monster dunk. I shiver at how good Durant could become by the time it's all said and done.


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The Race is on:
|"The Other America
If it is possible to establish a guideline in such a vast need of analysis, one should start with The Other America (L'autre Amérique, directed by Bernard Faroux, France, 2007), an urgent document that puts into perspective the rest of America not aligned with the Republican directories. Frame precisely, this is a film which shows there was a guerilla movement — intellectual, artistic, philosophical — which has grown with Bush and will continue to grow in the years to come, one that is now co-current with the American need for a Socratic critical understanding of itself. In one sentence, as George Orwell puts it, quoted within Faroux's film, "in a time of universal deception, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act".
That's exactly what Secrecy (directed by Peter Galison and Robb Moss, USA, 2008) does, a film that proves the conspiracy of America on the world — and on itself —, because the Bush administration has led to the extreme, the principle of a secrecy state. What exactly is that? A key to victory in the struggle of the war on terrorism — or, quite simply, a smokescreen excuse for all kinds of illegal interceptions, manipulation of data, highly questionable prison orders, torture, or a assorted variety of operations in the area of imperial capitalist exploitation (let's stick again to oil and think of Iraq, Nigeria, or the Amazon quarters of Ecuador…). The film is full of concrete data, excellent research and conjugates a handful of testimonies from trusty insiders.
|"Let's Make Money"
So, it is official: America is under attack from contemporary documentarists. And the list keeps growing: Let's Make Money (Erwin Wagenhofer, Austria, 2008), although it was not entirely devoted to America, is triggered by its imperialist principle. It is a harsh Austrian lesson in 107 minutes that simply asks: "Until when will we have to finance the life of the rich?" The answer is an autopsy of cash and the engineering grotesque ways in which we live today, unbalanced between the infinity of the bottom of the trading for a minority of the 3 % that rule the world and the bottom of the pit to where is thrown the other 97 %, on five continents, 97 % of billions living in the dark. It is an autopsy showing that the financial monster is still alive, alive and kicking. The film is full of accounts, reports and experts, able to leave bloodless the lucidity of globalization. With some type of Babel on the global economy, the film is only for the firm stomachs in the audience.
Crude (Joe Berlinger, USA/Ecuador/England, 2009), is another case of real, horrendous, raw exploitation of man by man. Once again, it is supported by the lie of the state, with the W Administration in the role of the villain again (Bush Jr. and his troupe of Condoleezza's, Donald's and Dick's were definitely the most infamous favorites of Thessaloniki 2009). The case in question, and still ongoing after 14 years, is the hard fought opposition of the Cofán Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon to the Chevron company, the giant corporate carnivores of oil that were close to the White House for the last eight years.
It is by turns a fascinating case, a contemporary epic of David against Goliath, known as Amazon Chernobyl, which documents the devastating effects of 30 years of American expropriation of Amazonian oil, between 1960 and 1990, and the toxic stain left behind, the inhumane effects on the ecosystem and the lean body of men and animals there — deformations, swim-dead, children and old men with cancer. The case, which has appeared on Live Earth, on Vanity Fair, on the CNN Heroes and even had the support of tantric Sting, has continued for 14 years and could last for ten more, say experts, ensuring that the Chevron strategy is one of exhaustion that bets on the bankruptcy of the opponent. Again, the bad guys continue to win.
|"Courting Condi"
And now, something completely different: Courting Condi (Sebastian Doggart, USA, 2008). This film is a baffling hybrid — "a musical documentary comic tragedy" — which traces the biography of Condoleezza Rice, from her birth in Birmingham, Alabama (the Ku Klux Klan attacks on blacks, 1963, a Sunday church full of children to burn…), until she grew and studied, in all her ascent from the Stanford University (where she began discriminating Latinos when a lay off was suggested…), until the high rankings of administration in the Chevron enterprises and, finally, the rise to Secretary of State, becoming the intimate tutor of W. Bush — and the 9/11 commission of lies, the sucking of Iraq, the Abu Ghraib scandals, the infamous weatherboardings in Guantanamo…
The film breaks with impressive sarcasm the cynicism of the American administration of the last eight years and presents an even greater challenge: it reports what was that falsehood in the most unexpected of genders, becoming a kitsch hyper comedy. This wavy ride is lead by a large and hopeful man, an all American man that thinks, in his naïve and brutal ignorance that he is in love with Condi Rice, the ex-most powerful woman on the planet, so he goes on a journey to conquer her heart, sniffing on her past, visiting neighbors and nannies, composing and delivering on the way pinky poems and corny songs, unprepared for the wolfish and tigerish truth. This bestial documentary is no less than brilliant — because it all starts as a joke, but we quickly realize that the joke is on us.
José Miguel Gaspar writes for "Jornal de Notícias", the major Portuguese daily (www.jn.pt), and has been a film critic for the past 15 years. By formation a reporter, he has spread himself across humanitarian perspectives, doing so in a variety of genres. He recently published "JP 1825", his first multimedia reportage, about the dreams of a 25 year old ex-junkie / online: http://jn.sapo.pt/Reportagens/Interior.aspx?content_id=1005421
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UALR Seeks to Include Neighborhoods in Its Success
by Jamie Walden on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 12:00 am
(Editor's Note: This is the latest in a series of business history feature stories. Suggestions for future "Fifth Monday" articles are welcome. Please contact Gwen Moritz at (501) 372-1443 or by e-mail at email@example.com.)
What began 82 years ago as Little Rock Junior College, tucked away in a few classrooms on the second floor of what is now known as Little Rock Central High School, has developed into a behemoth higher education institution that occupies more than 2.5 million SF under roof on more than 272 acres in central Arkansas.
And the explosive growth of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is by no means slackening.
In addition, the school has tackled the revitalization of the area surrounding its campus. UALR's strategic growth plan will benefit homeowners and potential homebuyers in nearby neighborhoods. Participants in a program fostered by UALR could be eligible for a $20,000 tax credit.
"We are of the view that the fate of the city and the fate of the university are intertwined," said Chancellor Joel Anderson. "And if the city prospers, the university prospers. If the city suffers, the university suffers."
"So that brings with it an obligation on our part to do what we can to make the community a healthier and better place to live and work," he said.
UALR recently completed two bond issues, the proceeds of which will fund, among other things, a dormitory for up to 400 honors students and the school's first outdoor athletic complex.
The most recent bond issue, sold at about 4.4 percent and completed a couple of weeks ago, generated $30 million, which will fund the $23 million student housing facility and the $4 million sports complex.
The 18- to 20-month dorm project is expected to be much like the existing dorm - about 137,000 SF of apartment-style spaces. The school expects to break ground in early 2010 on the site, which is currently a parking lot immediately west of the current dorm.
The new soccer and track and field complex, which comes in response to growing demand, Anderson said, will be the university's first facility built south of Asher Avenue.
"One of the first things it's going to do that we're excited about is upgrade and strengthen our intramural program," Anderson said. "And that's been a need for a long time, and it's one that only grows as you have more students living on campus."
The facility will also bolster the arsenal of athlete recruiters.
"At minimum it will make UALR a more attractive place to athletes who want to be intercollegiate athletes in those sports. And the facilities will strengthen the hands of the coaches in recruiting athletes," Anderson added.
The other bond issue, sold at 3.85 percent in September, will fund a series of projects, including construction of a new nanotechnology science center and a student services center, converting an administration building to a health and wellness building, upgrading elevators for safety, renovating the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall and completing the Donaghey Engineering & Information Technology building, which will open in the spring.
Anderson expects many of the changes, particularly the new facilities, to affect the university's image as a commuter college. "I think our image has very much been changing over the years as you have more honors programs, as you have more students living on campus, as you have more graduate programs, as you have notable research activities going on on the campus," Anderson said. "The image has changed because the university has changed."
'A Perceived Need'
As he recounted for a reporter UALR's history, a theme in Anderson's story began to emerge. Many pivotal decisions in the life of the institution were steered by the needs of central Arkansas residents.
UALR began in 1927 when John A. Larson, principal of Little Rock High School, now called Little Rock Central High School, petitioned the Little Rock Board of Education to fill a need for higher education in the area.
Little Rock Junior College began that year, using a set of second-floor classrooms in the north wing of Little Rock Central's facility at West 14th and Park streets.
The school soon outgrew that space and moved in 1931 to the Uriah M. Rose Grammar School, which is now Philander Smith College.
After 18 years of growth in that facility, Little Rock Junior College received a donation from Raymond Rebsamen, owner of Rebsamen Insurance (now Regions Insurance), of an 80-acre tract of land just off of Hayes Street, better known now as University Avenue, that would in 1949 become the first home LRJC didn't have to share.
Though Rebsamen's donation resolved the issue of space, big changes were still in store for the two-year school.
"Following the Second World War, all across the country in urban and metropolitan centers, states were finding that they needed public universities that they did not have," Anderson said.
"And that was a time when there was quite an explosion of demand. You had the G.I.'s coming home with the G.I. Bill. You had, just in general, people recognizing that a college education was more important than it had been," Anderson said. "You had a need on the part of states to serve place-bound citizens, particularly minorities and women that were not in a position to move away and go to college. So if you put all that together, correctly there was a perceived need in central Arkansas for a public university."
Anderson speculated that, to offer a four-year university, the administration at the time figured it would be easier to go private than to try to sort things out with the board of education. After all, LRJC already survived mostly on tuition, so transitioning to a private school wasn't much of a leap. In this way, LRJC became Little Rock University.
But as the trend of public universities began to trickle into the South and as the school began to realize that a private university didn't fully serve the needs of the community, Anderson said, LRU decided to merge with the University of Arkansas to become the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1969.
Though UALR has retained its name and location for more than 40 years now, the school has continued to adapt and grow.
In 1975, the UA law program in Little Rock transferred to UALR. A couple of years later, UALR also added a graduate school. Over the years, UALR absorbed several other UA programs that had branches in Little Rock.
In 2005, the school built a new gym with a donation in the name of the late Jack Stephens, the Little Rock financier.
UALR also is about to complete its Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology.
A Good Neighbor
As part of its mission, UALR aims to revitalize the community - a lofty goal likely held by many organizations for public relations purposes, but pursued by few.
However, UALR incorporated some specific tactics into its strategic plan to accomplish that goal.
For some time, UALR has purchased residential properties with the intent to remodel and then rent those houses to graduate students or faculty. The area the school has targeted sits between Fair Park Boulevard and Filmore Street and 24th and 30th streets.
"We do purchase homes that come available there in that area, and if they're in good condition, we will do a minor renovation and then rent them," said David Millay, associate vice chancellor for facilities management at UALR. "And if they're not in good condition, we generally just demolish them and just leave the land unoccupied for some future use."
However, UALR has a much bigger plan in the works for the Fair Park and Broadmoor neighborhoods.
Anderson said that UALR had fostered the University Initiative, which last year gave birth to the University District Development Corp., a nonprofit that works with the Broadmoor Property Owners Association and the Fair Park Residents Association.
The UDDC's main function will be to buy houses and remodel and sell them to first time homebuyers.
The UDDC hopes to soon get a $200,000 grant from the HOME program, UDDC Director Ron Copeland said.
The HOME Investment Partnerships Program is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development that provides grants through states and localities to increase affordable housing. Such money is often channeled to nonprofits like UDDC to buy, build or rehabilitate properties with the intent to sell or rent.
The UDDC expects to either build or remodel six single-family units with that $200,000.
"Hopefully, it will not take 18 months and we can apply and get funding for more," Copeland said. "But we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. We don't have a track record since we're new. And so we want to be sure and be prudent about it."
However, the UDDC already has some funding through banking partnerships, which allowed the nonprofit to buy its first house. With the help of Arvest Bank of Fayetteville, the UDDC closed on a property at 1516 Harrison St. on Nov. 12.
The UDDC staff of three will manage the subcontracting process of all the projects, and bid out the plumbing, electrical, mechanical, carpentry, painting and roofing jobs.
Copeland added that all of the UDDC projects would focus on energy conservation by installing Energy Star appliances, insulation and efficient doors and windows.
But here's the kicker: First-time homebuyers with good credit can qualify for a $20,000 tax credit to buy a home that has been redeveloped by the UDDC. The only catch is that the buyer must stay in the home for 10 years. If he sells within that time, part of the tax credit is prorated for the remaining portion of the 10-year period.
"And if we can succeed in revitalizing [the University District]," Anderson said, "we're confident that those good effects will just continue to ripple throughout the rest of the city."
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Worldly Wise: Christopher Gow's Manhattan Apartment
He fills his store with finds from his global travels, but Christopher Gow always brings the best stuff home
By Peter Terzian
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Sometimes the line between objects and artwork is blurred. Another photograph, by Juan Manuel Echavarría, is a close-up of a tattered red towel shared by a group of Colombian women taken as political prisoners in 1999. A half-century of conflict is captured in a piece of cloth, says Faria, but, at the same time, "it suits our aesthetic love of fabrics and folds." Indeed, the house is filled with textiles that Gow has discovered in disparate corners of the world: a suzani from Uzbekistan, ikats from Indonesia, throws from Bhutan and Yemen. "Texture is our common ground," says Gow.
In the living room, midcentury floor lamps flank a photograph by Juan Manuel Echavarría; the chandelier is by Vistosi, the brass stool is from Creel and Gow, and the hanging Lucite-bead ornament is Turkish.


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Jul 3, 2013
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Suppose the government of the United States gets its hands on Edward Snowden and brings him to trial. Have you wondered what happens then?
I've predicted that no jury of Snowden's peers will convict him, regardless of how clear it is that he broke laws. I would be highly disappointed in my fellow citizens if they sided with the perpetrator (the government) over the victims (themselves) and decided to screw the whistleblower (Snowden) who is on their side. But let's consider the alternative.
If Snowden gets convicted, many of the citizens of the United States will go all Egyptian and take to the streets. It was bad enough that the government was collecting all of our private communications. But convicting the guy who blew the whistle? That's throwing a match on the gasoline. So I believe the government doesn't want to see him convicted, or at least the top people don't. It's too risky to the system.
On the other hand, the government has an absolute legal obligation to pursue criminal charges against Snowden. Society doesn't work if people think they can break laws whenever they have good reasons.
We also know there is big money involved in domestic surveillance. And while I'm late to the party on this, all evidence suggests that the government is controlled by corporate interests. So one presumes the government needs to punish the whistleblower to satisfy its corporate overlords and to keep the domestic surveillance cash cow mooing.
This puts the government in the awkward position of trying to avoid some sort of accidental competence that ends up convicting a martyr and sparking a popular uprising. They need to put Snowden on trial to satisfy their corporate sponsors. But they need to fail in getting a conviction to satisfy the public.
I think there is a 100% chance that some dark department of the government, along with its foreign proxies, is planning an "accident" for Snowden before he reaches the United States. Putin would probably do it in return for secret concessions. He might need some of his own spies freed, for example. In the end, I don't think the U.S. government will authorize a hit on Snowden because it would be too obvious. But you know they discussed it. That much seems certain.
If I were President Obama, I would start seeding the media with the idea of a trial and conviction followed by a presidential pardon. You'd want to float that idea and see what the public thought of it. A conviction and a pardon are as close as you can get to a "tie" in this situation, and that would be the best case scenario for the public. We want to know that lawbreakers are dealt with, but we also appreciate justice.
If Snowden gets a lot of attention during a trial, and somehow gains his freedom at the end, I wouldn't be surprised to see him run for President in a few years. This is the sort of situation that gives a person instant legitimacy. If Snowden ran on a platform of exposing corporate control over the government and preserving individual privacy he'd be a credible player on day one.
Things will get interesting when Snowden reaches our shores, and I'm fairly sure that will happen.
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Jul 3, 2013
Your assumption that Snowden is a whistleblower is not necessarily accurate. A whistleblower is someone who notifies the appropriate authorities of potential wrongdoing while protecting the security of confidential data. Snowden copied files, fled the country, and turned it over to the foreign press. There's a right way and a wrong way to do the right thing, and there's no evidence that he ever attempted the right way. Even going up against the NSA, there are several organizations he could have alerted, including any member of Congress, that would have protected him from retaliation. Yes, he still should have copied the files and perhaps held a press conference, but leaking classified data is not the same thing as blowing the whistle. We'll never know what would have happened because he didn't even TRY to do it the right way.
The black-helicopter conspiracy theory folks (some of whom are present) love to get all spun up about how bad the government is and how we need to overthrow the system. But how can you say that if you've never once tried to let the system work?
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Jul 3, 2013
There won't be a trial. He will mysteriously die shortly after being taken into custody. (Like Vince Foster.)
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Jul 3, 2013
remember occupy wall street? no? it was this American "Arab Spring" grass roots movement that took the country by storm for... several minutes. once.
The sad truth is that the government has no reason to fear the people over this or any other abuse. Whatever we once were, we are pure consumers now. All they have to do is stifle the media, then buy us off with tax breaks or some other carrot to balance out whatever residual anger we hang on to until our attention span expires.
Edward Snowden better have a much more committed and powerful ally than the American people or he doesn't stand a chance.
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Jul 3, 2013
The NSA has had access to EVERYTHING for a few years now and they're addicted to it. They won't give it up without a fight.
Since Snowden is not dead yet, he must have an ace in the hole. Or a bunch of them.
That's why the government will pull out all the stops to distract Americans as Snowden releases follow-on bombshells. It might go like this: Snowden implicates A and Lindsey Lohan is arrested for drunk driving. Snowden implicates B, Honey Boo Boo comes out as a les bian. Snowden implicates C, NFL owners announce a lockout.
Say Snowden implicates someone in the Executive branch just as nationwide use of weed is OKed. Cash for Clunkers is revived. Minimum wage is doubled, Medicare for everybody, income tax abolished, age of consent is lowered, free cable, beer stamps, etc, etc. The government has been withholding a lot of stuff just for this day. Don't underestimate them.
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Jul 3, 2013
I think modern crony capitalism is a lot more give-and-take between the government and corporations, and not so much the "corporate overlords" that you suggest here.
The rest I think is spot on, Snowden broke treason laws in order to do the right thing, and in order to uphold law and order we have to simultaneously make a show of punishing him while also celebrating him for being a whistleblower. A conviction followed by a pardon would fit the bill just fine.
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Jul 3, 2013
I love you Scott but I hope you're being tongue-in-cheek here or else I gotta say you are pretty naive. A Snowden conviction will be like that of Bradley Manning and Assange if they can get a hold of him, behind closed doors and with evidence that is not provided to anyone. American's won't care because the media will tell them it was necessary to 'sport the troops' and none of those still living were around during the last period that the Constitution was still obviously necessary. This ignorance of the point of liberty will eventually be painful, I promise you that.
Much more interesting will be Europe's reaction to the whole thing. If you haven't been following the coverage by Der Spiegel, I suggest you do. German's understand the whole fascist, totalitarian thing better than the rest of us and they are understandably pissed off about the NSA listening in on them. Washington has been able to bribe and bully European countries individually into supporting them for a long time but the Big Brother vibe coming out of the US these days has gotten pretty painful and I doubt it will be swept under the rug. If the EU can cooperate and form some defensive legislation, US corporations that cooperate with the spying may suffer financially. That is the language Washington understands.
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Jul 3, 2013
I dunno how much people really DO care; if you notice there's already been a character assassination thing going on in US media.
And I'm STILL skeptical they'd even have him tried by a jury of his peers. Seems more likely they'd figure out a loophole to have him tried by military tribunal behind closed doors, after leaving him to rot in a prison cell long enough while waiting so that the public moves on.
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Jul 3, 2013
Not going to happen. The gub'mint already had a plan to assassinate Occupy leaders "if necessary". They've droned a handful of citizens already. No outcry over that. The US is too old, fat and comfy to take to the streets or even act like an ethical citizen. We'll do what our masters dupe into doing. 'Merica!
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Jul 3, 2013
[I think you vastly overestimate how much people care about this.]
Between this and Scotts recent post on polygamy I sense that he's failing to understand that there are a lot of folks out there who dont think the way he thinks. Why else would he think religion can be dismissed in a discussion about polygamy? Or that a Snowden conviction would result in more unrest than the government can handle?
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Jul 3, 2013
"If Snowden gets convicted, many of the citizens of the United States will go all Egyptian and take to the streets."
No, they will do what they did on 9/11 and the days after: Watch TV at home.
And, as soon as they can reasonably fantasize about mainly foreigners being targeted, they will hunger for the traitors conviction.
Your government has successfully brainwashed your population that what it does is good and if it does something it must be good because they are doing it.
Much like a child dying of illness must be good because it has been "god's will" and because got wanted it (or did nothing to prevent it) it MUST have been a good idea, otherwise said god wouldn't have killed it.
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Jul 3, 2013
Isn't it simpler for them to just leave him in some other country? That way it appears that they tried to prosecute him, but they didn't actually have to do anything.
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Jul 3, 2013
"the government has an absolute legal obligation to pursue criminal charges against Snowden. Society doesn't work if people think they can break laws whenever they have good reasons."
{cough!}WALL STREET!!!{cough!}
otherwise you're spot on!
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Jul 3, 2013
I think you vastly overestimate how much people care about this.
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Now that Hurricane Sandy has passed on to Midwestern climes, the rats are crawling out of the woodwork — and writing me. Incredibly, they believe the mainstream media needs their help defending Leviathan, and they excoriate those of us questioning Our Rulers' reaction to the storm. Several demanded that I apologize for denouncing New York City's decision to close the subways, given that some of the track and stations flooded, while others gloated that the storm proves me — and by extension, anarchy, or at least hatred of the State — definitively wrong. Again, they cited the subways' flooding as my Waterloo, so to speak.
I'm kinda baffled that the failure of a State-built, State-controlled monopoly testifies to the idiocy of anarchism and the wisdom of Our Rulers, but rats seldom reason well (especially when they're swimming through flood-waters. Yes, Leviathan's subway is overrun with rats, as all New Yorkers know. I have amused myself many a time, in many stations, watching these vermin scavenge for garbage on the tracks. Meanwhile, imagine an anarchic world, with private companies transporting us and competing for our business: how many rats would entertain customers then?). And I remind those who applaud the closing of the subways that none of New York's previous potentates ever so responded over the 108 years of the system's existence, despite a century's worth of hurricanes, blizzards, torrential rains, and floods. Yet Nanny Bloomberg et al. have shut them down twice in 14 months.
I suspect most of my critics have little experience with hurricanes. Two readers who live in Florida independently wrote me to cheer my skepticism; one of them, DJ, said, "I'm a lifelong resident of the Miami area so I've been through a few hurricanes before. We always go outside and go to local businesses during the storm. We never stay in or think of evacuation for anything less than a category 4 [Sandy was a Cat 1]. I always get some good laughs when weak hurricanes make their way up the coast and the northeastern government goons get their panties in a bunch." Bingo.
But this debate about Our Rulers' judgment begs larger questions than the subways. For starters, there's something of a "broken-window" fallacy here: the two-legged rodents assume Our Rulers mitigated the storm's danger, damage, and inconvenience. And that is demonstrably false. Rather, they exponentially increased all of them.
First, some of the areas that suffered the worst flooding here are built on landfill, out into the ocean, courtesy of our taxes and the State. Battery Park City is a good example. The State conceived this boondoggle and executed it; to this day, it still controls this "reclaimed" acreage. Would a private company, on the hook for the billions this project cost, have gambled its own money that the water wouldn't re-reclaim it? Nope: only politicians risking our resources are that reckless.
Second, the State's stranglehold on the city's infrastructure and its fascist running of various industries such as transportation horrifically worsens a bad situation — especially for the poorest and most vulnerable among us. My husband is a partner in his firm: He can work at home if he has to, and he earns enough for us to live in Manhattan. But the porters and other staff in his office building can do neither. We walked to his office today to find that these folks had been there, in the building, since Saturday. With the subways and buses idled, they cannot travel between their homes in Brooklyn and Queens and work in Manhattan — and with licensing and the State's other restrictions on hiring, jobs are scarce. These guys know that hundreds of unemployed workers covet their jobs, so they're living in the building until Our Rulers resume service on the subways and buses.
Our walk showed us other examples of the State's exacerbating troubles. We were still some blocks from the 59th Street Bridge when we saw traffic at a standstill. In fact, the cars had been stalled in the jam for so long that one man had turned off his ignition; he turned it on again as we crossed the street in front of him. Nor was the storm causing this: there were still some clouds this morning, but the weather was fine. Rather, Our Rulers had closed the bridge despite the hundreds of vehicles needing to cross this link between Manhattan and Long Islands.
The bridge has no trees on it that could have toppled and blocked it, so why was it closed? Actually, I misuse "closed": when we reached 59th Street and the bridge's entrance, I watched thugs — sorry, cops — standing there allowing their buddies and "officials" access while waving everyone else on — regardless of how long those drivers had waited.
Millions of New Yorkers tonight are agonizing. One of my husband's colleagues fled her home near Coney Island when ocean water burst through her door. She had time to grab her cell phone but nothing else: no wallet or ID (a necessity as essential as money in the police-state). She's staying with her daughter but fears for neighbors she cannot find or contact. The last thing this poor woman needs is more grief from exploitative tyrants constricting her options and choices, ordering her to obey, forcing her to consider their dictates ahead of her own emergencies.
Far from feeling chagrined at castigating Our Rulers, I am completely vindicated. The State has once again exceeded any anarchist's lowest expectations.
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With the AC around the corner it seems there have been a few comments about some bbers and there conditioning (or lack of!)
This is the same story whenever there are a couple of shows close together. I'll explain.
Some people are suggesting Beyeke didn't come in as sharp, as he may be trying to peak for the AC?
My problem here or rather question is why can bbers like Dorian, Branch, Evan and others be ready literally 2-4 weeks out from a show (or at least be in as good a condition as many pros are in who are winning shows) and maintain that for a few weeks and get it exactly right on the day? And then do other shows (such as grand prixs after the O) and still look amazingly conditioned?
Is it because if you work hard for it, then you get out what you put in... OR is it because they are just gifted in that area?
This brings me to the point of the thread - Are pros like Beyeke lazy? Could they actually come in peeled for a show if they want and then simply show up again in 2 weeks or whenever and do the same again just like we've seen from countless top pros at the O and then again a week later and sometimes another show after that?
Or are they simply just not gifted in this area of prep for shows and they're not physically capable of doing so??
I just get the feeling some pros are goin all out and sacrificing a lot to be in condition and to ensure that they are just right on the day and others are simply dieting down slowly and steadily and hopin to 'peak' just at the time of the show, meaning they're not sacrificing as much and more or less gambling to be just right on the day... And that I feel is where the pros are letting the fans down!
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Sometimes you just need time to calm down and spend some time alone.
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6. What have I struggled with in the past that might also affect the upcoming week? Winter depression. Feeling lonely. Listlessness. Being afraid of failing in my studies, and life in general. Eating 'too much'.
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Organizing everything necessary for my thesis, that is basically finding someone who allows me to carry out a small study.
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Deciding to study something else and stop studying what I'm into right now. Just kidding.. But I feel like doing some else, going abroad.
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#2 – Asking Mrs. W.
#3 – Talking to the professor.
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#2 – ask some of my former roommates?
#3 – see #2
17. What am I looking forward to during the upcoming week? going to the christmas market with m. and with j. big family reunion next sunday :-)
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Failing in my final exams and not passing my thesis.
I'm afraid of gaining weight – something I've been struggling with for a long time. I'm afraid of losing control.
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This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'
I believe one of the most telling signs of the approaching end of this age is the speed with which events and conditions are falling into place. When I began to study Bible prophecy in earnest, in the mid-50's, we got excited when we saw identifiable prophetic movement every decade or so. And we were right to do so, because before the mid-part of the twentieth century, discernible developments in prophecy occurred over the course of centuries. Today, those developments are occurring every few months, even weeks.
There are two stories, from Washington and Rome, that perfectly illustrate how prophecy is developing before our eyes.
The specter of a "national identity card" is back in the news. This time, it's being promoted as a valuable tool for "immigration reform." If you don't have the national ID card - which proves you are in the United States legally - you can't get a job. It seems that for that to work, everyone in America will need to possess the national ID card, with its implanted chip and biometric information. Then, employers will be required to ask for the card to verify that a new applicant qualifies (by being a legal resident) for the job.
If that is the law, then it won't be long before even Americans who already have jobs will be required to possess a card. And the RFID chip implanted in it? Even though the card's proponents say it won't be "trackable," do you really believe that? Maybe Big Brother won't be "tracking" it at first, but it's a safe bet that it won't be long before the federal government will find an excuse to begin keeping track of the movements of all those who hold the national ID card - which will surely be everyone! And if you need the card to get a job, then maybe before long, you'll need the card in order to conduct business, or buy and sell things.
Is this beginning to sound familiar?
Call me a conspiracy nut if you want, but it's not a giant step from a "trackable" national ID card to a tiny chip implanted just beneath the skin that will do the same thing and be a lot more "convenient" and safer than a card that can be misplaced, lost, or stolen.
Actually, this is exactly the implanted RFID chip (which would include medical and financial dossiers) that proponents of Obamacare wanted for participating patients. Thankfully, that part of the legislation was defeated in the Congress. But, as with all of the Left's defeated legislative proposals, you can be sure they'll bring it around again and again until it finally becomes law - either by legislation or executive order!
From Rome, we're learning more every day about the titanic power struggle being waged behind the scenes at the Vatican. Many observers believe that it may have figured into Pope Benedict XVI's decision to retire from office. As I've discussed a couple of times in the last three weeks, Saint Malachy's predictions in 1139 suggested that the pope who will be elected later this month will be the last pope of the Roman Catholic church. Bishop Malachy prophesied that the final pope would lead the church during "tribulations" and eventually see it - and Rome - destroyed by the evil men that he helps achieve world control.
It would be hard to deny that these are exciting times in which we live!
This week, I will also examine the critical Bible prophecies that describe the events we are watching unfold today. Those prophecies describe the two leaders who will emerge to lead the one-world government that now looms in our future.
Folks, I know I keep saying this to you, but each time I repeat it, it's even more true: Get ready! Jesus is coming soon! You see, the 'man of lawlessness' that will lead the one-world government cannot be revealed until the One who restrains him has been removed from the earth. 'The restrainer' is the Holy Spirit. And since the Holy Spirit dwells in all true believers, to remove Him from the earth means we must be removed, also. That's what we call the 'Rapture.'
Because we see the Antichrist's government now being created by the nations of the world; because we see the world plunged into financial chaos and desperately searching for a solution (which is precisely how the Antichrist will achieve worldwide control); and because we have a blow by blow blueprint of these final days provided us by the ancient prophets, I can say with authority that time is short. Make sure you've accepted the pardon that Jesus died to purchase for you. Make sure your friends and family have the opportunity to accept this pardon, too.
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This week of Redding college sports was absolutely convoluted with admirable performances.
Simpson University and Shasta College men's and women's basketball, as well as both wrestling teams, were all in action and making moves.
I narrowed it down to two, in Simpson women's basketball's Tiffany Aaserude and Nichole Jones. In an 83-79 win over Northwest University on the road in Washington this weekend, Aaserude posted a massive night with a career-high 26 points, with four steals, four rebounds, two blocks and two assists. Jones had an unlikely double-double, with 15 points and an exceptional 10 steals with seven assists.
For their effort in leading their team to a win, in a program that's on the rise, Aaserude and Jones are my College Athletes of the Week.
Aaserude is a 5-foot-7 junior and Redding native, who graduated from Redding Christian School in Palo Cedro. She played varsity hoops all four years with the Lions, as well as playing softball and running cross country. She was section finals MVP in basketball and was all-league four times.
Jones is also a 5-7 junior, but from Puyallup, Wash., where she played basketball and ran track and field at Rogers High School.
BRITTNEY GARRETT, Shasta women's basketball
GRACE FOX, Shasta women's basketball
STEVONTE YOUNG, Shasta men's basketball
IAN CORELLA, Simpson men's basketball
GUY VARSEK, Simpson men's basketball


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1 in custody following SWAT standoff
Updated On: Nov 15 2012 04:21:56 PM MST
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department said one person is in custody following a SWAT standoff near Wyoming Boulevard and Candelaria Road.
Around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Task Force in cooperation with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's SWAT Team, performed a Search Warrant in the 8800 block of Los Arboles NE.
Authorities were searching for Billy Ray Porter. Porter was being sought on multiple felony warrants from both Valencia and Sandoval Counties, including felon in possession of a firearm, aggravated assault and a probation violation.
Porter tried to barricade himself in a home, but surrendered quickly.
No injuries were reported, no schools were placed in lockdown and only side streets were closed off for a short time.
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Everyone has a favorite moist banana bread recipe. This Banana Coconut Bread is my personal favorite and has gained recognition from a few other prestigious critics as well.
This vivid memory of my four year old son makes me smile every time I think of it.
I walked into the kitchen one afternoon to see his pale-blue eyes, half covered in disheveled hair, peeping over the counter top. …No, let me correct that. Intensely glaring over the edge of the counter, at the bananas that sat there.
I asked, "Carson, are you hungry?"
"Yes," he sheepishly replied.
"Would you like a banana?"
He paused a moment, then in a tormented tone answered, "No. (long pause) I'm waiting for the bananas to DIE, so I can eat banana bread!"
Banana Coconut Bread, the utopian state to which all bananas aspire. Or at least that is the belief in my house. Everyone enjoys a ripe banana. Yet they all, husband included, leave them sitting there. Hoping, if there are 3 bananas left when they turn dark, this supreme treat will emerge.
Ah, the lesson of delayed gratification.
I'm enormously intrigued watching my children ponder this virtue of patience. Mediocre satisfaction now, or jovial bliss later. Hmmm…
This ultra moist banana bread recipe is a must-try. The butter, applesauce and bananas create a dense tender texture that is hard to resist. The addition of shredded coconut and almonds provide that extra something that take this bread to the next level. I've tried many moist banana bread recipes over the years, but this Banana Coconut Bread is the best in my opinion!
Yield: 8 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
1 cup sugar
1 stick of softened butter
1/4 cup applesauce
2 eggs
2 large or 3 small very ripe bananas, smashed
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
¾ cup shredded coconut
¾ cup chopped nuts (almonds, pecan, walnuts…)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease and flour a 9X5 loaf pan. (1.5 quart capacity)
Using an electric mixer, cream the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy. Then add the applesauce, eggs and bananas. Mix until combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together all the dried ingredients. Slowly beat the dry mixture into the wet.
Add the coconut and chopped nuts. Mix well.
Pour the batter into the loaf pan. Bake for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 325 degrees F and bake another 40+ minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow the bread to cool for 10 minute in the pan, then flip it out onto a cooling rack.
Other Irresistible Breads:
Cinnamon Raisin Bread ~The Comfort of Cooking
Nutella Swirl Tea Loaf ~ All Day I Dream About Food
Cheddar Scallion Monkey Bread ~ Foodie with Family


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In another victory for account holders, one more of America's biggest banks has canceled its plans to charge for debit card use. Atlanta-based SunTrust announced that it no longer plans to charge a monthly fee for using a check card. If you're a SunTrust checking account holder, here's some additional good news: You can expect
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Week in Review
Monday, September 21, 2009
These embraces between our middle infielders may be an endagered species, with Dan Uggla acknowledging he might be traded this offseason
Overview: The fish took two of three in St. Louis before splitting a four-game set with the Reds. They finished the week 4-3.
Positives: The starting pitching has shown up again with four quality starts, including a surprising but encouraging outing from Sean West. The team also came through with some late heroics on back to back nights in Cincinnati to win in come from behind fashion. To emphasize how poorly we've done in Cincinnati in recent years, those were Fredi Gonzalez' first wins in Great American Ballpark.
Negatives: 4-3 weeks just won't cut it anymore. If the team wants to get a postseason berth they will need to reel off a significant winning streak. The offense by in large has been quiet, scoring just over three runs per game this week.
Highlight of the Week: I'm going to give a double shot of love to Brett Carroll who gave us two web gems. First was a leaping grab on Thursday. And who doesn't love a runner being gunned down at third from right field?
Line of the Week: Leo Nunez had a very unconventional save against the Cardinals on Wednesday night. He hit the first two batters he faced (forcing in a run) and then got a huge double play to end the game.
Looking Ahead: The Fish have three each at home with the Phillies and then the Mets.


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Honoring the fallen - High Point Memorial Day ceremony set for Monday
More than a decade ago when he was a teenager, Nick Ruden decided he wanted to make a personal statement about the ultimate sacrifice made by those in the military through a public recognition in the city.
He organized a Memorial Day service at a location downtown that features a monument garden to the men and women who served their country in battle.
Eleven years later, Ruden works at High Point University where he earned his college degree. The 26-year-old resident director at HPU maintains the spirit that compelled him to start the High Point Veterans Memorial Day Service.
This year's ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 10-11 a.m. Monday at the High Point Veterans Memorial at S. Main Street and High Avenue across from the train depot.
The guest speaker is scheduled to be Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, a decorated, retired U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran and TV commentator. The service also will feature the Asheboro Color Guard.
Ruden, who launched the Memorial Day service when he was a student at Hayworth Christian School, said it's been sobering to note how many veterans who attended the initial ceremonies have since died.
"Especially World War II vets," he told The High Point Enterprise. "It's to commemorate what people give up for this country and memorialize them."
Ruden wants to sustain the Memorial Day service, to make sure it lasts at least another decade or beyond.
"My goal is for it to last for a very long time," he said. "I want it to continue because I think it's necessary."
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Nitze Alumni: Where are they now?
The world finds Nitze Scholars in a wide range of walks of life. Cookie cutters have their place...in the kitchen.
The Nitze Experience
The Paul H. Nitze Program offers:
- three special seminars for each student
- cultural outings to DC/Baltimore paid for by the program
- special meetings with high-profile campus visitors
- an international study tour paid for by the program
- a stipend of $3000 per year for participants
- How is the name of the program pronounced?
- Who should consider joining this program?
- What does the program offer?
- What are the obligations of the participating students?
- Are the 3 Nitze courses extra work for students?
- Can Nitze Scholars play varsity athletics, participate in music groups, and be in theater productions?
- What is the selection process?
How is the name of the program pronounced?
Okay, first things first. The surname of Paul H. Nitze is pronounced NIT-zah. As Ambassador Nitze himself used to explain it, it's said like "KNITS a" scarf. This is not the Nietzsche Scholars Program; those looking for such program are advised to look elsewhere--presumably starting with the nearest mountaintop.
Who should consider joining this program?
All students, regardless of their intended majors, who are excelling academically and who are willing to reflect on the philosophical, social, and ethical aspects of their specific fields of study should consider participation. The program attracts students with a passionate commitment to the communal enterprise of learning and a desire to extend their quest for knowledge into a commitment to the public good. The Nitze Scholars Program is not a major and attracts students from every major, including double-majors. The NSP also attracts students who play sports, are in plays, and who perform music. The NSP aims to add value to the college experience, not to hijack it.
What does the Paul H. Nitze Scholars Program offer to participants?
Students accepted into the program will receive a scholarship of $3000 during each year of study in the program. (Students are eligible for up to eight semesters of merit scholarship, and must achieve a 3.0 GPA in each semester in order to be eligible for St. Mary's merit scholarships. Students who on independent grounds receive full tuition waivers from St. Mary's due to, for example, an employment benefit from a family member, are not eligible for additional scholarship support, but are otherwise full participants in the Nitze Scholars Program.)
Students are also eligible to participate, for no extra charge, in a one-to-two week international study tour (with only some meal costs paid by the student).
Nitze Scholars in a given year take a sequence of three seminars together, culminating in the study tour.
First Year
First Semester All Nitze Scholars enroll in a Leadership Seminar, which also serves as the introduction to the program. Although its topic varies from year to year depending on the professor who teaches it, the underlying concerns remain the same. Students study how people create worldviews to make sense of their experiences and to gain control of their lives, and how these worldviews are modified and replaced by others. They investigate how leaders arise, how they interact with their communities, and how forms of leadership differ in different times, cultures, and disciplines of study.
Second Semester The leadership seminar is followed in the second semester by a two-credit Leadership Tutorial. This tutorial, led by the Director or Assistant Director of the Scholars Program, is organized around various projects, like developing a Leadership Engagement Project (wherein students, alone or in groups, plan and execute some project in which they take a leading role), or the Alumni or Trustee project (wherein students interview Nitze alumni or members of SMCM's Board of Trustees about some aspect of leadership, like what their experience has been of the intersection of gender and leadership).
Second Year
Fall or spring semester Nitze Scholars take a seminar about leadership in an international context, which culminates with a one-to-two week study tour, paid for by the NSP (except for some meal costs). Students will use the insights and skills they acquired in the Leadership Seminar to study political, social, or environmental issues in a particular region of the world. The professor who teaches the seminar will focus on the relationship between that region and the US, invite comparisons, and encourage students to discuss local issues from a global perspective.
After the second year in the NSP, as students are focusing on advanced courses in their majors and many of them studying abroad for a semester (St. Mary's has a variety of programs abroad, for students with different tastes and majors), the Nitze Scholars still participate in a number of special activities on and off campus. On-campus opportunities include special meals with visiting speakers, as well as events of a more social nature. (An example of this latter type is the annual Bonfire of the Inanities, held each fall, in which each Nitze Scholar brings to a bonfire some item or image of an item which that student finds to be inane, describes to others what he or she finds to be inane about it, and then burns it.) Off-campus outings include trips to D.C. and Baltimore to see plays and visit museums.
What are the obligations of participating students to the Paul H. Nitze Scholars Program?
In addition to participating in the two seminars and the tutorial, students develop a portfolio in which the student reflects on his or her education, on his or her philosophy of leadership and service, and on how that philosophy is exemplified (or not) by the student's leadership and service activities.
Like all St. Mary's students, Nitze Scholars are encouraged to participate in leadership and service activities on or off campus. Their participation can take many different forms, from involvement in student government to participation in the artistic life on campus, from writing for the college newspaper to tutoring children in local schools. In addition, Nitze Scholars are expected to use what they have learned in their seminars, tutorials, and through their study tour abroad to reflect on their leadership and service activities, to put them in context and to develop a leadership/service philosophy. Under the guidance of the director or assistant director of the Program, students will work on a portfolio that they present to the Nitze Scholars Committee during their final semester at St. Mary's and that will be evaluated by the members of the committee. I n evaluating a portfolio, the committee will consider (1) a student's documented ability to work both independently and collaboratively towards the common good, (2) the demonstrated depth of reflection, and (3) the quality of its articulation in a coherent leadership/service philosophy.
Are the 3 Nitze courses extra work for students?
The two seminars both satisfy already existing college requirements, so only the 2-credit (half-semester, in the second semester) leadership tutorial is extra work.
Can Nitze Scholars play varsity athletics, participate in music groups, and be in theater productions?
Not all in the same semester!
But seriously, yes--serious engagement with any one of these co-curricular activities is not only compatible with the Nitze program, but is encouraged. That is, there are plenty of Nitze Scholars each year who play varsity sports (and even more who play club and intramural sports), plenty who play in the orchestra, jazz band, or the like; who sing in choir, chamber singers, or one of the a capella groups; or who are involved with various theater or dance productions.
Little known fact: 100% of Nitze Scholars can play the oboe!
(Just not very well.)
What is the selection process?
The NSP is a dual-entry program, which means that some students are accepted each year during the time they are applying to St. Mary's (about a dozen each year), and some are accepted each year in their second semester at St. Mary's, to begin the program in their second year at St. Mary's. (The requirements of the program can be completed in three years.)
The Nitze Scholarship and the Nitze study tour are available to all Nitze Scholars regardless of how they entered the program.
The selection process for those who are in the midst of applying to St. Mary's begins in mid-January, with the Office of Admissions screening all applications for students with records of outstanding academic and co-curricular achievement. The strongest applications are forwarded to the Nitze Scholars Committee, which winnows the list to about 100-120 who are invited to apply. Letters of invitation go out in the latter half of January, with the application deadline in late February. Each applicant has an interview, either in person or by telephone. Acceptance decisions are made in March, with notifications going out by the end of that month.
The selection process for those who are in their second semester at St. Mary's begins in March with nominations sent from faculty members to the Nitze Scholars Committee, and with academic records from the first semester provided to the committee by the Office of the Registrar. E-mailed invitations to apply go out to about 70 students just prior to spring break, with the application deadline in early April. Interviews are conducted later that month. Acceptance decisions are made in early May, before final examinations begin.
Although most applicants (from both groups: incoming to St. Mary's and in their second semester at St. Mary's) are not accepted into the program, those who are denied acceptance as incoming students will have a second chance to be invited to apply (namely, in their second semester), in which case no information from the first application is used in acceptance decisions.


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A. The Forester may prune, control insects and disease and maintain or
cause to be pruned, sprayed and maintained, all of the trees in the streets,
parks and other public areas and those other trees on private property which the
Forester determines it is in the public interest to maintain to control
infestations of insects or disease or to maintain public safety.
B. It is the duty of every owner of property adjacent to which or in
front of which any tree is standing on any street and of every owner of property
upon which any tree is standing which projects into the street to maintain and
prune such tree using proper arboricultural procedures, according to the
requirements for tree branch clearance over street and sidewalk areas and signs
as set forth in Titles 16 and 17 of the Code of the City of Portland. The
Forester shall give, with each permit printed, standards for proper
arboricultural procedures.
C. Every property owner shall be liable to any person who is injured or
otherwise suffers damage by reason of the property owner's failure to maintain
or prune trees as required by Titles 16, 17 and 20 of the Code of the City of
Portland. Furthermore, every property owner shall be liable to the City of
Portland for all expenses, including attorney fees, incurred by the City in
defense of or paid by the
City in settlement or satisfaction of any claim, demand, action or suit
brought by reason of that property owner's failure to satisfy the obligations
imposed by Titles 16, 17, 20 and 33 of the Code of the City of Portland.
D. Whenever the owner or owners, lessees, occupants or persons in
charge of private grounds shall neglect or refuse to prune any tree as provided
in this Section, the Forester may prune or treat or cause to be pruned or
treated such tree. The person remedying the condition shall be authorized to
enter the premises for that purpose.
E. Pruning for or by a utility. Upon obtaining a written permit from the
Forester, a utility maintaining its utility system in a street may prune or
cause to be pruned, using proper arboricultural practices in accordance with
said permit, any tree located in or overhanging the street which interferes with
any light, pole, wire, cable, appliance or apparatus used in connection with or
as a part of the utility system; but no tree shall be pruned without the consent
of the abutting owner until the utility shall have given a written or printed
notice to the owner or occupant of the premises. The owner or occupant has one
month after receipt of notice to have said trees pruned by a qualified line
clearance contractor, at the owner's or occupant's expense, and in accordance
with the terms of the permit. If the owner or occupant fails, neglects or
refuses to have such tree pruned as required by the notice and permit, the
utility may prune or cause to be pruned, the tree at its expense in accordance
with the conditions of the permit. The Forester, at his/her discretion, may
waive the notification and single tree permit process if the utility adequately
demonstrates the ability to meet the performance requirements of this Section
and to apply consistently proper arboricultural practices to the pruning of
F. Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to impose any liability upon
any member of the City Council or the City, or any of its officers or employees
nor to relieve the owner of any private property from the duty to prune trees in
accordance with Titles 16, 17 and 20 of the Code of the City of Portland.
G. The City may accept gifts which are specifically designated for the
purpose of planting or maintaining trees within said City.


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2013 News Items
2 Oct 2013 - The 2013 Reunion just wrapped up in Sacramento. We had a great time (as always) and enjoyed both seeing old friends and meeting new ones. There were 97 members and guests at the banquet, and some additional former 55th WRS people who stopped in for cocktails beforehand. Still need to track them down and get them to join AWRA.
We have a few pictures posted on the reunion page. Click on the reunion web page link above. I'm looking for a few names that my brain cells have not yet processed, so if you can help, contact the Web Master at: email@example.com
Any photos from other attendees greatly appreciated. Send to the same E-mail address.
15 Jun 2013 - The Reunion Registration Form is now online. Go to: http://www.awra.us/reservation.pdf and download the form. Members should also be receiving a copy in their 2013 Newsletter which was mailed on 16 Jun. If you have not gotten the newsletter via USPS, contact the Web Master to check on whether we have a valid mailing address for you. Many of our mailing have been returned as undeliverable.
27 May 2013 - Hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day. Remembering all of of our fallen comrades is the focus today. The weather reconnaissace squadrons lost many crews over the years while preforming our missions. Please take a minute to reflect on those who have made the ultimate sacrafice. The names can be found on our Gone But Not Forgotten web page.
1 Jan 2013 - Welcome to another great year for weather reconnaissance veterans. I hope you all had a Joyous Christmas Season, and we are all looking forward to a great 2013. For starters, the reunion web page has been updated with information about the next REUNION OF MEMBERS. This year, AWRA is returning to McClellan AFB in Sacramento, CA. Hope you can join us. See yoou there.
The reunion dates are 25-29 Sep 2013. Check the reunion web page for information about registration and hotel rooms.
Questions or Comments? Contact the Web Master: email@example.com
One feature that was added during 2005 was an AWRA discussion forum in Yahoo! Groups.
The group has been great for those of us currently participating. We need to get more folks involved. To join, follow this link. Click on the "Join This Group" tab and you will be asked to log in if you already have a Yahoo! account. If you are new to Yahoo!, it will walk you through the steps to set up your account. Please join us!
The URL for our group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AWRA/
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They have been archived at the following locations:
2012 News can be found here
2011 News can be found here
2010 News can be found here
2009 News can be found here
2008 News can be found here
2007 News can be found here
2006 News can be found here
2005 News can be found here