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Four volleyball teams started the week in a tie for first place in the Class 4A Greater St. Helens League.
Now, there are two.
Camas defeated Skyview in four games Thursday night, improving to 5-1. Meanwhile, Union swept Heritage to get to 5-1.
Camas and Union face each other Tuesday night at Union.
Lauren Harris had 17 kills, Tina Elliott recorded 37 assists, and the libero, Abby Young, even got a kill for the Papermakers on Thursday.
Camas trailed 17-11 in the first game before rallying for the 25-21 victory.
Union's Madeline Sutherland had 12 kills and Megan LaFond added 10 kills in the Titans victory over Heritage.
Stars of the day
• Brooke Van Sickle, Battle Ground volleyball, had 23 kills, 9 assists and 7 digs as the Tigers beat Evergreen in three sets.
• Page Heller, Columbia River volleyball, had 40 assists, 15 digs, one ace and two blocks as River improved to 6-0 in the 3A GSHL with a 3-1 win over Mountain View.
• Brielle Lindsay, Prairie soccer, scored three goals in the Falcons' 6-0 win over Fort Vancouver.
• Ellie Walker, Columbia River soccer, had two goals and two assists in a 7-0 win over Mountain View.
• Emily Griffith, Battle Ground soccer, scored three goals in the Tigers' 4-0 win over Heritage.
• Livi Cox, Union swimming, won the 200 individual medley and placed second in the 100 breaststroke as Union beat Camas 89-81 to secure the 4A GSHL title.
• Tanner Blake, Union tennis, scored a 6-3, 7-6 (5) win over Camas' Jonathan Ho to help the Titans beat Camas 5-0 to finish a 10-0 season in the 4A GSHL.


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#1 Jul 2, 2012
Any details about any of the miners getting laid off from darby mine? I heard more miners are getting laid off? I work at darby still? Lone mountain is up to something? Closing up middle splint and pardee wax mines for good. Anyone know about another lay-off coming?
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#2 Jul 3, 2012
Hate to bust your bubble but all you are gonna get on here is opinions and "I thinks". No one will know til lone mtn wants you to know. If they are shutting down, they sure are putting a lot of money up to get it going.
#3 Jul 3, 2012
I got the boot with other miners. Lone mountain can save some miner jobs. Get rid of a security company. Why pay for 2 when u just need one. Securitas and A&A lone mountain employees. Cut one loose and save a miner.
#4 Jul 3, 2012
I'm so sorry if this is effecting your families. I come from a coal mining family.
#6 Jul 3, 2012
I worked 12 years at powell mountain coal. I worked with anthony fee roger fleenor titus whitt tj harless and hawk eye. Loyal service to powell mountain. What happens walking papers for my services. The comment about two security companies is true. The A&A company is a waste. Guarding a empty prep plant and a run down mine. Save some cash put a gate up at middle splint. Pardee mine has a gate and no guard. They patrol the area and thats good enuff. We need a union to protect are jobs. Miners are bread winners for the coal company not the dead weight security. We got families and bills to pay. My daughter asked me why did I lose my job. How are we going to eat. Thanks lone mountain let security mine your coal.
#7 Jul 3, 2012
Vote for Obama again, this time he will finish off the coal industry.
#8 Jul 3, 2012
I'm so sorry this has happened to you and your family.
#9 Jul 4, 2012
I voted for Mccain. Not for some coon
#10 Jul 4, 2012
I guess you are gonna have to go get your G.E.D. and train for a new job and get used to making $ 7.25 an hour instead of $ 20. I don't think any high school drop out should be rewarded wth a $ 20 an hour job. People with a college education don't make that much.
#11 Jul 4, 2012
By the way, those security people deserve a job too.
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#12 Jul 4, 2012
Must b a thacker. That's all that support Obama
#13 Jul 4, 2012
I finished high school in 93 from lee high. I went mecc for 2 yrs. Its not my fault on how much i make. You sound like that jack ass lee co thinker.
#14 Jul 4, 2012
you are dumb as hell.....not all coal miners are high school drop outs and lots of them have college credits or degrees....you are sitting there on your sorry ass judging these men who work a deadly job to take care of their families.....YOU ARE AN ASS.......why don't you try and do something for yourself and you wouldn't have to hate on the ones that make more money than you.....get a life and have a great day!!!!!!
#15 Jul 4, 2012
My dad is a hard working man. He finished high school and lee votech. Leave the miners alone. The security part from obama 12. Paying for them keeps a miner out work. Get rid of their butts. Put real men to work. Obama 12 go back to africa with the other spear chuckers
#16 Jul 4, 2012
Coal miner daughter, sounds like you are trailor park trash,ever think that an adverage spear chucker can probally buy you and your family 10 times over. especially if you trash fron SW Va.
#17 Jul 4, 2012
My family lives in a nice 2800sq ft brick home. My parents own it with no payments. My parents make over 120000.00 a year. Obama 12 people like you get strung up or tied to back of truck here in swv. Coloreds are not welcomed in swv.
#18 Jul 4, 2012
Obama 12-16 ... turn your electric off for a while & sit in the dark w/out air or heat,hot water or any of the other finer things in life the COAL MINERS PROVIDE FOR YOU!!! Yes they risk their life every second of every day they work & no amount of money ( hourly pay ) would ever be enough. All of my family all the way back to my great,great,great grand parents were COAL MINERS & guess what it did not matter if they had graduated high school or not they were supporting their family.
#19 Jul 4, 2012
Poor little imbreed girl. I bet you own an SUV with the coal miners daughter emblem on your back windsheild,the one with the coal miner on his hands and knees, that says coal miners daughter: The lower my daddy goes, the hornier I get. And oh yeah as long as their is natural gas, I will not be sitting in the dark. Vote OBAMA in 2012.
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#20 Jul 4, 2012
Poor little inbred (imbreed lol) boy. I bet you own a shitty little hoopty. It amazes me that some people who live in coal country can have such a disrespectful view of coal miners. Is it that you are bitter that you are 3rd generation welfare and get pissed when you see blue collar working class families enjoy the fruits of their (hard working) labor? Grow up and try it sometime boy, then tell us if you think $20 an hr is too much.
#21 Jul 4, 2012
ignorance is rampant on this thread. colords arent welcome? wtf? you little girl need to get out of them there hills and realize there is a great big world beyond Lee County. backwoods morons.
I respect the coal miners they have a very hard job and work hard. but I will NOT fall at their feet like they and mostly their families expect. most of this belly aching are these stay at home wives who get out and run the roads and spend their husbands checks.
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This area is one the largest security concerns for apartment dweller's today. It has been the birth of more violations than any other area in the multi-housing family. It's knowingly the easiest way for a thief to gain entry.
I'm talking about the overhead garage door entry area. The area that spurs conversation on a daily basis between owners, especially when a resident drives in and out of the building oblivious to the world around them.
All the parkade stop signs in the world, don't mean a thing to the person who doesn't have 6 seconds to wait for an overhead garage door to close. A person who is more interested in catching the 6 o'clock news than a burglar in the act.
Shame on this person who individually is the biggest security risk in the building. A selfish, non caring person who values their time more than the safe keeping of the building's residents. So how do we deal with these non honoring weak links who constantly jeopardize building security by ignoring these "stop and watch "areas.
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Once the door has been activated the first stage of the sensor allows one vehicle or person through the door. Once through the door, the second stage of the sensor kicks into action monitoring the door for intruders until it fully descends.
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Wearing reflective harnesses and using equipment provided by the city, they pick up trash, sweep debris and water plants. The grant - $30,000 - isn't enough to employ as many as Atoa would like, but it's keeping six people busy for a couple of hours each morning. At $10 an hour, diey'll bank $100 a week-a start toward gaining independence. Atoa explains while the work provides paid employment, it's actually more of an employment-readiness regime, getting people who haven't worked in ages used to rising early, putting in a couple of productive hours a day and staying sober. When they're not working, Atoa conducts the sort of workshops that all employers HERALD PHOTO BY DAVID ROSSITER Joe Buck sweeps up around 4 Avenue and 6 Street South in a pilot employment project for the homeless shelter. could learn something from. "For them to get better with addictions we need to do workshops but for them to sit down and listen to life-skills lessons in a room doesn't work. So 1 take them fishing. We go along the river on the reserve and we talk about survival. But these guys are survivors. They've lived on the streets 24-7 and they know how to survive. They know what to do. "But it's making a difference. Instead of looking for what they're not supposed to do, they're saying Al, are we goin' fishin'?" For diose who want to stay in the work program, there's a no-alcohol rule during the week. Story CONTINUED on PageA2 11-year-old rescues drowning girl in Fort Macleod pool Rescue takes place while lifeguard was talking with a boy during the ordeal By DELON SHURTZ Lethbridge Herald A seven-year-old Fort Macleod girl nearly drowned while an on-duty lifeguard flirted with a boy only feet away. Jade Pack was at the Fort Macleod swimming pool last weekend when she jumped into the deep end, not realizing it was over her head. To her rescue came 11-year-old Samantha Bassett, who pulled Jade from the water only inches from where the lifeguard sat. 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Ayana was a powerful witch and descendant of Qetsiyah, the creator of the first immortality spell. She was also the best friend and mentor of Esther Mikaelson, with whom she moved to the New World in the late 10th century, along with the rest of Esther's family.
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Born during the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Ayana became a dear friend and mentor of another witch named Esther in the Kingdom of Norway. After Esther experienced what was believed to be the untimely death of her firstborn child, Ayana told Esther and her husband, Mikael, about a mystical land in far away in the New World where the inhabitants experienced good health, speed and strength.
After their arrival in the New World, Ayana became known as the healer and prophet of their new village due to her frequent communion with the Spirits and her insight into the metaphysical and spiritual realms of the universe. One night, shortly after the brutal death of the youngest Mikaelson child, Henrik, both Esther and Mikael begged Ayana to transform their family into a superior species. However, as a devout believer and follower of the Spirits, as well as a descendant of the witch who first created immortality and paid the price for it, Ayana refused to help Esther, as she knew what Esther was planning violated the fundamental laws of nature. However, Mikael was still determined to proceed with their plan. So, disregarding the advice of her mentor with the support of her husband, Esther tapped into into dark forces and succeeded in creating the very first vampires by performing an adapted version of Qetsiyah's original immortality spell.
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- Ayana is from African-American origin and the meaning is "a pretty flower."
- As a descendant of Qetsiyah, the creator of the first immortality spell, it is very possible that Ayana already knew of the dangers that came with eternal life.
- This is insinuated when she warned Esther that the Spirits would turn on her if she succeeded in turning her children into immortal vampires.
- Ayana is played by the same actress who played Mrs. Halpern, a trigonometry teacher from Season One.
- It is assumed Esther learned most of her spells from Ayana, since Ayana was her mentor, which suggests that Ayana was very powerful.
- Since the collapse of The Other Side, she most likely found peace or was sucked into oblivion.
- It is possible that Ayana had direct contact to the Spirits, as evidenced by Ayana saying "The spirits will not give you a way" when Esther desperately attempted to resurrect her son Henrik after he had been mauled to death by werewolves on the full moon.
- Ayana was Esther's best friend, and she performed the spell on Esther's body after her death that preserved it until it could be reawakened later by Ayana's descendants.
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A few of you may remember me from the Battlefield Earth Mega Recap. As you can imagine, participating in a recap for this site after several years of fanhood was like a dream come true. But even more than that, it had a profound effect on my life as a whole, and it even led me to the girl of my dreams. But, as Michael Ende often said, that's another story, and shall be told another time.
A few years back, I was thumbing through a glossy entertainment publication, which had a cover story about "The Worst Movie Characters Ever!" Supposedly, it was a detailed list of "those characters so awful their very presence destroys a film." I for one didn't put much stock in this article; a list of worst-ever characters that doesn't include Jessica Stein was not made by thinking people.
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This immediately reminded me of watching previews for NeverEnding Story III when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I had two thoughts upon recalling these previews. One was, "Oh my God, Jack Black was in that?" The second was, "I knew it was going to suck!"
Yes, even at that tender age, when I still considered The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones a cinematic gem to rival anything in the Scorsese canon, I just knew this movie was going to blow. Just from the previews, I could tell it was completely unlike the two movies that came before it, and the people involved were either entirely ignorant of what made those films successful, or they knew that the third movie in a series is required by law to suck, and were perfectly content to make, well, the Battlefield Earth of family films. Even back then, I could tell they didn't have smart children in mind when they made this movie.
Now, I'm not going to lie to you: I was never a huge fan of the NeverEnding Story films. I only ever had a passing interest in them, and really just the second one, on account of it having that Bugs Bunny cartoon before it, and on occasion I'd feel stupid for just watching that.
The first film, in yet another Battlefield Earth parallel, only covered half of the source novel. This is one of the reasons the author, Michael Ende, sued to have his name taken out of the credits. He was only half-successful—his name was taken out of the opening credits, but not the closing credits. Go figure.
The second film, according to most people in the know, was vaguely similar in plotting to the second half of the novel, but it was mostly just a new story. I have a feeling Ende wasn't too fond of that movie, either.
Regardless, it appears the previous two films made just enough money to justify a third. Unfortunately, with the first two NeverEnding Story movies having exhausted the original novel's material completely, the filmmakers must have felt they had free reign to come up with a completely new story. So did screenwriter Jeff Lieberman come up with something creative and original? No, that would have required effort. Instead, he just knocked off the Power Rangers.
Yes. Power Rangers.
Don't believe me? The plot is as follows: The bad guys steal a magic artifact, which causes massive mayhem involving people in latex puppet suits. They use magic to make children act mean to each other, and it's up to a group of other kids to save the day through the power of friendship. Throw in a wise mystic who gives them magical powers, then spends the rest of the time sitting on his ass and watching bad things happen, and the analogy becomes even more nauseatingly complete.
Only two things save this film from being a total rip-off of Power Rangers: One, a subplot where the lead character's dad gets remarried, and two, all the latex puppet suits were created by the Jim Henson Creature Shop. Unfortunately, this only makes the movie a rip-off of other, much better Henson Creature Shop productions, most notably the ABC series Dinosaurs. But it gets even worse than that.
To wit: The Atreyu character does not return for this film.
I know. Even in the source novel (of which I'm something of a fan) that warrior kid was the only thing that really held everything together. I grew up thinking he was the coolest dude ever, and I didn't even like these movies. Why they thought anyone would stand for a NeverEnding Story movie without Atreyu fails just about any common sense test I can think of. I mean, it's not as if they had the excuse of the actor not coming back. After all, they replaced the entire cast since the second film (and even the second film only kept on one actor from the original movie).
Knowing all this, you may ask, who would get involved with this project? The star, as this film never ever ever wants you to forget, is Free Willy's Jason James Richter. Clearly, Richter had a worse agent than the guy who played Mowgli in Disney's live action Jungle Book. He probably thought this would get him out of making whale movies for the rest of his life, but he was sadly mistaken. Sadly, sadly mistaken.
Most of the other actors had been, or would go onto, spending years doing one-shot guest appearances on various TV shows. For some, this movie is tragically their one and only chance at film immortality.
The man they got to direct? Peter MacDonald. At first this might strike you as odd, given the illustrious career he's had. Over the years, in his alternating capacities as a cameraman and second unit director, MacDonald has been involved with some of the most popular movies of all time, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Empire Strikes Back, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Batman, Superman I and II, the Harry Potter movies, and... Tango and Cash? Oh well, they can't all be winners.
How could someone so accomplished give us this piece of shit? Sadly, one of the drawbacks to having such a long career is one inevitably makes a lot of bad movies, too. If crew people were counted, Peter MacDonald would be a four-time Repeat Offender here at Agony Booth, because he served as a second unit director on Eragon and Batman & Robin, as well as a cameraman on Zardoz. (And if that's not enough for you, there are three genuine Repeat Offenders in this film.)
How could MacDonald, a second unit director for the Harry Potter films, be so bad at fantasy? I can't bring myself to blame him. The man obviously has talent. So I did some snooping, and learned that there were a total of five production companies involved in this movie. What's that they say about too many cooks, again?
And as if all this weren't red flaggy enough, this film was made in 1994, but held from American theaters for two years! That's right, even though the first one was a worldwide hit, and the second one made enough money to warrant a third, even the suits knew NeverEnding Story III wouldn't have a chance in hell at the box office. I'm sure at one point they contemplated burying all the negatives in the desert along with those Atari E.T. cartridges. But by 1996, they must have realized the competition wasn't going to get any weaker, so they released their flop and took it like men.
Being the fair person that I am, I usually try to include snippets of interviews from the guilty parties whenever I'm engaged in movie criticism. But, as if made privy to my intentions, our good friends at the internet seem to have obliterated all advanced press materials from this film's premiere. Seriously, I could not find a single interview given for this film, and as many big name people who are connected to it, that completely boggles the mind.
There isn't even a director's commentary on the DVD. Granted, with the way this film sunk, I doubt many people actually saw it, so MacDonald defending himself isn't really necessary in the cosmic sense. Still, it would have been nice if he cared enough to do it.
So, basically, between no real impact on the world at large, and nothing left of it in the media except barbed criticisms on the internet, and scholarly records of said barbs, this film could very easily not exist. And that goes double for the actual script.
Before I get started, though, there's a bit of Video Box Idiocy I wanted to point out. Wow, we haven't had an installment of that in a while! So here's what I found on the DVD cover:
Okay, skipping all that obvious Disney Channel-style marketing pap, I'd like to unveil what I'm calling The Empire Records Rule. This states that any movie that isn't Empire Records that uses its soundtrack as its main selling point is, officially, a piece of shit. And yes, I'm aware of the previews for Clerks, and how they hyped the soundtrack, but because society has since learned how good the movie is, they no longer market it that way, so it doesn't count.
But enough of my endless stalling! Join me as I plunge into the abyss, before we all regain our collective senses and go watch a good movie instead. If you make it all the way through, I'll even reveal a shocking twist!
Reading this helps me confirm my own sanity after watching that piece of crab movie.
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Hey what's up everybody! My name is Jackson Guthy and I'll be out on tour all summer, opening for Big Time Rush and Victoria Justice on The Summer Break Tour. I'll be checking in with you throughout the tour and sharing some of my adventures for Starpulse! It's been a blast so far, below is my first tour vid so check out Episode 1!
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Marcello Giordani is one of the key figures of the blooming Italian Disco scene. Being a producer, Dj and collector of rare "Disco" vinyls, he is on the very front of the exploding Disco movement in Europe with his "Italo Deviance" Blog and Label.
Marcello started djing back in 1992 when starting what would have been the golden age of the House Music scene.
He began playing in clubs nearby his town and at 20 become resident-dj of the historic Italian party called "Les Folies the Pigalle" which at the time was one of the points of reference for the National dance music and this allows him to have a high visibility and work in the best italian club's network. His vocation as a producer it's easy to feel and at 21 bought his first equipment and released a debut E.P.
Then he signed with labels like Dirt Crew, Players Paradise, Mule Musiq, Endless Flight. For more than a decade remains anchored to a pure "underground sound" and gives all importance to the music quality. His inspiration comes straight from the N.Y. Disco scene (Paradise Garage) an mid '80s Chicago House scene like Muzic Box and Warehouse but also from the early 80's Italo Disco and Cosmic.
Marcello also founded, back in 2008, an highly disco oriented blog called Italo Deviance and the self-named label.After the blog success Marcello started djing in many places around the world (Tokyo, NY, Philadelphia, Helsinki, Oslo, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Bucharest, Madrid, Athens, Kiev & more) he also works at prestigious events related to fashion brands and magazines as: MaxMara, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, D-Squared, Henrietta Ludgate, GQ Magazine.
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Medicinal and Hallucinogenic Plants Identified in the Sediments and Pictographs of the Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic
Boyd, Carolyn E., Dering, J. Philip, Antiquity
The setting of this study is the Lower Pecos River Region, located at the northeastern reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert within southwestern Texas and northern Mexico [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. Near the confluence of the Pecos River with the Rio Grande, the arid landscape within this region is incised by deep canyons and arroyos. Wind and water erosion acting on the limestone substrate have produced hundreds of cavities which provided convenient shelter for the prehistoric inhabitants. Periodic occupation of the rock-shelters left behind a well-preserved archaeological record. Excavations of these dry deposits have yielded an assemblage of desiccated botanical materials spanning the Holocene, from 9750 b.p. to European contact. Likewise, the pictographic images contained within the rock-shelters of the region provide a vivid body of evidence.
The purpose of this paper is to interpret the botanical assemblage in conjunction with the art, to understand better the role that each played in the lives of the region's people. As part of the archaeological record, art as an artefact serves as a window into all components of the socio-cultural system: technological, social and ideological. By identifying plants both in the sediments and in the art, we demonstrate how examining the plant remains in conjunction with the pictographs can aid in interpreting both assemblages.
Ecological setting
The lower Pecos region is situated at the boundary of three major vegetation zones in North America: the Tamaulipan Thorn Shrub of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, the Edwards Plateau Oak-Juniper and the Sotol-lechuguilla/Chihuahuan Desert Shrub of Trans-Pecos Texas and north-central Mexico. Rainfall decreases east to west from 48 cm on the Devil's River to below 38 cm just west of the Pecos River. Vegetation is governed locally by position in the landscape. All of the plants listed below grow in the study area, and have been identified in the archaeological sediments of rock-shelters.
The uplands are dominated by short grasses and microphyllous shrubs, including mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.), blackbrush (Acacia rigidula Benth.), whitebrush (Aloysia grattisima (Gill. and Hook.) Troncoso), guayacan (Porlieria angustifolia (Engelm.) Gray), Texas persimmon (Diospyros texana Scheele.) and several members of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). Other prominent members of the upland vegetation include the arid evergreen rosette Liliaceae, the yuccas (Yucca spp.) and sotol (Dasylirion texanum Scheele.). Typical canyon rim vegetation, especially along the very shallow soils and disintegrating bedrock outcrops, includes the evergreen rosette lechuguilla (Agave lechuguilla Torr.), leatherstem (Jatropha dioica Cerv.), coyotillo (Karwinskia humboldtiana (R.&S.) Zucc.) and wild oregano (Lippia graveolens H.B.K.). The relatively mesic conditions within the canyons and on the river terraces often support a low canopy composed of little leaf walnut (Juglans microcarpa Berl.), Texas mountain laurel (Sophora secundiflora), Gregg ash (Fraxinus greggii Gray), Mexican buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa Endl.), oaks (Quercus spp.) and Texas mulberry (Morus microphylla Buckl.). Springs, seeps and river-bank overflow ponds occur in the deeper canyons and support a variety of useful plants that include the grasses tanglehead (Heteropogon contortus (L.) R.&S.) and common reed (Phragmites communis Trin.), and sedges such as Scirpus sp. and Cyperus sp., all of which were incorporated into nests, storage containers, baskets, trays and snares.
TABLE 1. Chronology of the Lower Pecos Archaic.
period subperiod radiocarbon years b.p.
Early Archaic 9000-6000 Viejo 8900-5500
Middle Archaic 6000-3000 Eagle Nest 5500-4100
Late Archaic 3000-1000 San Felipe 4100-3200 Cibola 3150-2300 Flanders 2300-? …


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Daybreak Daily's afternoon study of the pop-culture world finds a dictator, an alleged thief, other things, and the mystery music video.
DICTATORIAL: Call Sacha Baron Cohen the the master of self-promotion, per the Los Angeles Times, with video, "(His) plan to show up at Sunday's Oscar ceremony in character as Adm. Gen. Shabazz Aladeen, the focus of his upcoming movie "The Dictator," may have been scuttled by the Academy. . . but Cohen (or at least his character) isn't taking the slight quietly. He's taking the fight to the media. Cohen called into NBC's "Today" show on Friday morning, in character as Aladeen, upset about being banned from the Oscars red carpet." http://lat.ms/wTyTam
CHRIS BROWN: Normal people don't do this, per TMZ, with video, "The woman who claims (he snatched) her cell phone was captured on video obtained by TMZ, clearly agitated as she tells cops, "He snatched my phone." . . . Brown is being investigated for the crime of "robbery by sudden snatching." If he's arrested, authorities in L.A. could move to violate his probation in the Rihanna beating case, and that could land him in California prison for 4 years." http://bit.ly/xuzzgX
'FRIENDS' REUNION?: Jennifer Aniston says it's highly doubtful, per the Hollywood Reporter, "I can't imagine how you would do it, unless you did it years from now. Then it would be: "Who are these guys? What are we watching?" I can't imagine what that would be. It's not normal. Friends is in your living room; Friends is not in a movie theater. It doesn't make sense to me. I think it would be going against its authentic self." http://bit.ly/Am3Ot0
ONE-TWO OSCAR PUNCH: This is a smart take - and preview, per the New York Times, "All season long Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo, the husband-and-wife writer-director and star of "The Artist," have been recording their adventures on the awards circuit, whipping out their smartphone or digicorder at each ceremony and red carpet. It's a memento for their kids, to show what mom and dad have been up to for the last few months. Well, the family is going to have a whopper of a home movie after Sunday if, as expected, "The Artist" wins best picture, and Mr. Hazanavicius, best director, at the Oscars." http://nyti.ms/z34Xqv
STAY PUT: Conrad Murray's not going anywhere, per the AP, "A judge who presided over the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor refused Friday to release him on bail, saying he would be a danger to any community where he might try to practice medicine." http://apne.ws/AexNQZ
GOOD READ: It's an in-depth piece on model-turned-rich businesswoman Kathy Ireland built her empire, per Forbes, "Given the likely cash flowfigure $35 million on that $50 million or so in royaltiesKathy Ireland Worldwide is worth, based on public licensor comparables, somewhere around $300 million." http://onforb.es/wXP2c3
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U.S. Law Firm Entangled in N.S.A. Ally's Spying Net ; Australia Offered Agency Data on Indonesia Trade Case, Document Shows
James Risen; Laura Poitras, International New York Times
A top-secret document shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States.
The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers.
A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance.
The government of Indonesia had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, according to the February 2013 document. It reports that the N.S.A.'s Australian counterpart, the Australian Signals Directorate, notified the agency that it was conducting surveillance of the talks, including communications between Indonesian officials and the American law firm, and offered to share the information.
The Australians told officials at an N.S.A. liaison office in Canberra, Australia, that "information covered by attorney-client privilege may be included" in the intelligence gathering, according to the document, a monthly bulletin from the Canberra office. The law firm was not identified, but Mayer Brown, a Chicago-based firm with a global practice, was then advising the Indonesian government on trade issues.
On behalf of the Australians, the liaison officials asked the N.S.A. general counsel's office for guidance about the spying. The bulletin notes only that the counsel's office "provided clear guidance" and that the Australian agency "has been able to continue to cover the talks, providing highly useful intelligence for interested US customers."
The N.S.A. declined to answer questions about the reported surveillance, including whether information involving the American law firm was shared with United States trade officials or negotiators.
Duane Layton, a Mayer Brown lawyer involved in the trade talks, said he did not have any evidence that he or his firm had been under scrutiny by Australian or American intelligence agencies. "I always wonder if someone is listening, because you would have to be an idiot not to wonder in this day and age," he said in an interview. "But I've never really thought I was being spied on."
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Most attorney-client conversations do not get special protections under American law from N.S.A. eavesdropping. Amid growing concerns about surveillance and hacking, the American Bar Association revised its ethics rules in 2012 to explicitly require lawyers to "make reasonable efforts" to protect confidential information from unauthorized disclosure to outsiders.
Last year, the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, rebuffed a legal challenge to a 2008 law allowing warrantless wiretapping that was brought in part by lawyers with foreign clients they believed were likely targets of N.S.A. monitoring. The lawyers contended that the law raised risks that required them to take costly measures, like traveling overseas to meet clients, to protect sensitive communications. But the Supreme Court dismissed their fears as "speculative."
The N.S.A. is prohibited from targeting Americans, including businesses, law firms and other organizations based in the United States, for surveillance without warrants, and intelligence officials have repeatedly said the N.S.A. does not use the spy services of its partners in the so-called Five Eyes alliance -- Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand -- to skirt the law.
Still, the N.S.A. can intercept the communications of Americans if they are in contact with a foreign intelligence target abroad, such as Indonesian officials. …


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