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True Blood - Season 5 Episodes
True Blood - Season 5
The fifth season of the HBO supernatural drama series True Blood premiered on June 10, 2012 and features twelve episodes, bringing the series total to 60. It picks up right after the events of season four. It is loosely based on the fifth book in The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, Dead as a Doornail, but incorporates much more of the following books than the previous seasons have.
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) struggle with the aftermath of Tara's (Rutina Wesley) shooting, while also cleaning up after Debbie Pelt. Meanwhile, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), cleaning up a mess of their own, are visited by the Vampire Authority, one of whom is Nora (Lucy Griffiths), a woman from Eric's past. In search of the missing Marcus, Alcide's (Joe Manganiello) werewolf pack comes after Sam (Sam Trammell). With Bill away, Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) enjoys her new freedom by partying with local college kids; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) is visited by the recently turned Rev. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian); Terry's (Todd Lowe) PTSD is reignited by Patrick Devins (Scott Foley), an old Iraq War buddy; and Alcide turns up at Sookie's to warn her about the recently resurfaced Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare).
"Authority Always Wins"
At the Vampire Authority headquarters in New Orleans, Bill and Eric meet Salome (Valentina Cervi) and become acquainted with the Authority's interrogation techniques. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) recalls her human life as the madam of the Comstock Brothel in San Francisco, and her first encounter with Eric. Werewolves J.D. (Louis Herthum) and Rikki (Kelly Overton) pay tribute to Marcus, but Alciderefuses to participate or take his rightful place as the new packmaster. Martha Bozeman (Dale Dickey) shows up wanting to see her granddaughter, causing conflict for Sam and Luna (Janina Gavankar). Fearing Russell's return, Sookie procures a home-protection system; Arlene (Carrie Preston) tries to get to the bottom of Terry's erratic behavior; Steve Newlin stops by with an offer for Jessica; and Jason feels the brunt of hiswomanizing ways.
"Whatever I Am, You Made Me"
Bill and Eric barter for their lives with the Authority Chancellors and their leader, Roman (Christopher Meloni). Salome and Roman enlist a new ally in the face of Russell's return. Sookie goes to Fangtasia to ask for help from Pam, who is still caught up in her memories of Eric and the strange murders at the Comstock Brothel. Andy's dalliance with Holly (Lauren Bowles) comes back to bite him in the butt; later, he's visited by Gordon (Steve Rankin) and Barbara Pelt (Linda Purl), who are searching for Debbie. Jason bumps into an old high school teacher, but their reunion brings up conflicting feelings.
"We'll Meet Again"
Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) have doubts they will survive the search for Russell (Denis O'Hare). Sookie (Anna Paquin) opens up to Alcide (Joe Manganiello). An irate Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) unwittingly puts Sookie's life in danger. At Authority headquarters, Roman (Christopher Meloni) and Salome (Valentina Cervi) continue interrogating Nora (Lucy Griffiths) about the Sanguinistas – and a possible traitor within the Council. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) forcesTara (Rutina Wesley) to toe the line; Andy (Chris Bauer) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) go to a burlesque party; Sam's (Sam Trammell) shifter friends invite him for a run; Terry (Todd Lowe) flashes back to a deadly night in Iraq; Hoyt (Jim Parrack) tests the fangbanger waters; Sookie drowns her sorrows.
"Let's Boot and Rally"
With time running short, Bill and Eric enlist Sookie to probe for clues on Russell's hiding place. Unable to deal with the demon magic inside him, Lafayette calls out to Jesus' spirit for help. Patrick Devins (Scott Foley) and Terry are held hostage in the bunker of their Iraq War buddy Brian Eller (Brian Geraghty). Jason wakes to a disturbing dream; Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) gives Tara advice on adjusting to vampire life; Sam visits Luna (Janina Gavankar)with bad news.
The aftermath at the asylum leaves Sookie with an eerie sense of foreboding. At Fangtasia, Pam breaks up a vamp-girl fight, praising Tara for her tenacity. Lafayette visits Ruby Jean (Alfre Woodard), who also received a disturbing message from Jesus. Fearing for his family's safety, Terry blames his curse for his troubles with Arlene (Carrie Preston). Alcide challenges J.D. (Louis Herthum); Sam offers to help Andy investigate the recent shootings; Roman lays out his plans to take out Russell.
"In the Beginning"
Bill and Eric get a powerful taste of sacred blood. A revelation at Hot Wings causesSookie to wonder what her life would be like without faerie powers. Meanwhile, Sam sniffs out several shifter shooters; Hoyt finds camaraderie in a new group of friends; Alcide prepares for the worst in his faceoff with J.D.; Andy attempts to reconnect with Bud; Lafayette finds an unlikely ally searching for Jesus' body in Mexico; Lettie Mae (Adina Porter) pays Tara a visit; Arlene takes a sentimental journey as her concerns for Terry deepen.
"Somebody That I Used to Know"
At Authority headquarters, the Chancellors revel in the afterglow of recent events; Eric gets a message from Godric; Bill is shaken by a distant memory. Helped by Claude (Giles Matthey) and his sisters, Sookie and Jason visit the site of their parents' deaths, with shocking results. An emotional Luna tries to walk in Sam's shoes. Hoyt's new pals bring him a present; Lafayette leads a séance to purge a curse; J.D. ups the stakes of his fight with Alcide.
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
As the Authority proceeds with Lilith's plan, Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) plots his escape. Gran (Lois Smith) directs Sookie (Anna Paquin) to a clue to her parents' murderer. Andy (Chris Bauer) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) search for leads to the identities of the people behind the shifter killings. Alcide (Joe Manganiello) recalls his pack induction; Arlene (Carrie Preston) gets caught in Terry (Todd Lowe) and Patrick's (Scott Foley) crossfire; Steve (Michael McMillian) gets a new pet.
"Gone, Gone, Gone"
With vampire-on-human attacks increasing, the Authority attempts to woo public favor. Meanwhile, Nora (Lucy Griffiths) tries to convert Eric to Lilith's gospel. Jason finds a mysterious scroll; Elijah (Keram Malicki-Sanchez), the new vampire sheriff of Area 5, pushes Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) and Tara (Rutina Wesley) to obey a new mandate; Sam (Sam Trammell) and Luna (Janina Gavankar) search for Emma (Chloe Noelle); Russell (Denis O'Hare) seeks a higher calling.
Slipping further into religious fervor, Bill (Stephen Moyer) gives Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) an order she's loath to carry out. Armed with a damning video of Russell (Denis O'Hare) and Steve (Michael McMillian), the military delivers an ultimatum to the Authority. Claude (Giles Matthey) and Maurella (Kristina Anapau) take Sookie (Anna Paquin) to meet the faerie elder, who may know something about an ancient family secret. Alcide (Joe Manganiello) reconnects with his father; Sam (Sam Trammell) and Luna (Janina Gavankar) hitch a rideinto the Authority.
"Save Yourself"
Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) embarks on a final, desperate mission to overthrow the Authority – and save Bill from losing his humanity. Andy (Chris Bauer) faces the consequences of a light pact he made; Alcide readies for a second showdown with J.D. (Louis Herthum); Sam and Luna test their limits in trying to escape the Authority.


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[quote user="dezzzR"]Are the New York Football Giants in Tom Bradys head?
probably. He's beaten everyone else....lol

and btw, this team deserves to be confident. they are playing the best football of their lives as far as im concerned. I dont get why ppl think it's arrogant, or out of place, or ****y.

like i said....I think fans rightfully have better expectations this time around. we're a well-rounded football team, better than 07....and the pats are not the 07 pats. they limped into the superbowl as far as I'm concerned.
So while im not overly confident and dont want to sound like im guaranteeing anything.....yea i still think we're winning this *****
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Some people can't have their cake and eat it too, unless it's gluten free.
Coeliac Disease is an inflamation of the small bowel after a person eats gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, barley and oats.
To find out more about the disease including its symptoms and causes Sonya Feldhoff spoke to Dr Jason Tye-Din who is a gastroenterologist and a coeliac disease researcher.
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08/04/2013 , 12:38 PM by Narelle Graham
I'm on a mission to learn as much as I can about our local Riverland and Mallee wildlife.
Alice in Wonderland went down the rabbit hole, this morning I took a trip down the spider burrow, not to find spiders (heck no!) to find pygmies! The endangered, Pygmy Blue Tongue Lizzard that is.
Julie Schofield, Project Officer, Biological Data from Natural Resources SA Murray Darling Basin, guided me on the journey. Turns out the lizards kick the spiders out of their homes and take over.
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Discussion in 'LA - Louisiana Chevy Truck Forum' started by rileyjr16, May 2, 2012.
Ok lets find all 4 of the Louisiana members :lol:. If you're from Louisiana chyme in.
I'm sitting down here in Kenner, or as they say, "Kenna, Brah!"
Lol Kenners a cool place (except right across from the pd). Kenner seafood is pretty good spot to eat.
Dry Prong, La. Currently going to school at LaTech in Ruston though.
We need to start recruiting people....thats what GMTC.com stickers are for. Cannot wait for them to come in
Out here in Covington. I see a lotta Chevy trucks out here!
Just South of you in Mandeville. Yeah we do have alot of nice truck on the Northshore!!
Not from Louisiana but currently residing at Fort Polk. Been here since 2007 minus a year spent in South Korea.
Yes indeed. Hunted just west of Covington in Robert for a while and saw a GM truck every 5 seconds
Thats a good thing. Used to fish around the Northshore until, well until I stopped going :lol:
Nonsense, you're a Louisianian too in my book. And Thank You for your service. I'll be joining you although in a Navy uniform in November
Welp here I am. Now this makes all four of us! Residing in West Monroe! No I don't quack...
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With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight ("Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss."), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon. This is an election year, after all, and those trying to escape the issues are just going to have to stay home and watch all the campaign ads on TV. These movies take the word "fall" seriously, tending toward the dark and apocalyptic, from Fernando Meirelles's adaptation of José Saramago's BLINDNESS to John Hillcoat's rendition of Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD. And speaking of the Apocalypse: we'll be getting War (Spike Lee's MIRACLE AT SAINT ANNA), Pestilence (John Erick Dowdle's QUARANTINE), and Death (Ricky Gervais's GHOST TOWN), plus Bill Maher making an appearance as the Antichrist in Larry David's RELIGULOUS.
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SEPTEMBERBefore getting into the heavier items on the agenda, let's start with a tip of the hat to those who made those huge summer grosses possible: the FANBOYS (September 19). Kyle Newman directs this tale about a bunch of Star Wars fans who travel cross-country to break into the Skywalker Ranch so their terminally ill buddy can see Episode I — The Phantom Menace before he dies. If they'd really wanted to do the kid a favor, they'd have let him die in blissful ignorance. Nerd-of-the-moment Jay Baruchel stars.
These are the kids who a generation or two earlier would have been playing cowboys-and-Indians, like Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in the latter's adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel APPALOOSA (September 19). They're a couple of gunslingers out to clean up a Western town in thrall to an evil rancher until a pretty young widow comes between them. I can buy Jeremy Irons as the bad guy, but Renée Zellweger as the femme fatale?
Also on the escapist side is IGOR (September 19), an animated comedy about the hunchbacked assistant to an evil scientist with dreams of becoming an evil scientist himself. John Cusack takes a break from his politicking to provide his voice, along with John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, and Jay Leno. Tony Leondis makes his directorial debut.
The real world, however, makes a comeback in Neil LaBute's LAKEVIEW TERRACE (September 19), in which an interracial couple's marital bliss collides with the ill will of an unfriendly neighbor, an African-American cop. Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, and Kerry Washington star. At least their antagonist is a living person, unlike the specters that haunt the hero of GHOST TOWN (September 19) — he's plagued by demanding dead people after he recovers from a near-death experience. David Koepp directs; Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, and Téa Leoni star.
So much darkness and dread and we haven't even reached the autumn equinox. That arrives September 22, and Hollywood marks the occasion with releases whose titles sound like a checklist of stroke symptoms. In BLINDNESS (September 26), the title malady overwhelms a city; the victims are quarantined in a prison and a microcosmic allegory develops. Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Gael García Bernal fumble in the dark. In first-time director Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's CHOKE (September 26), a con man pays his mother's hospital bills by pretending to choke to death. Who needs health insurance? And did I mention that the guy's a recovering sex addict working in a colonial theme park? No fight club, though. Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston star.
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This song is dedicated to all the G-men lost to free agency - thanks for the memories.........
Hey I forgot who it was complaining about there being no good new underground hip-hop, but the demigodz(i know the name sounds dumb but they're good) just released a new album on the 5th? or somewhere around there. Check it out.
Does anybody know this artist name or style of music this is?
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Here's a band I saw in Vegas few years ago. A Led Zeppelin tribute band that can seriously jam. And their hot as well. ZEPPARELLA
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A lineage of awsome Irish people, whom survived many trials and tribulations in the county of Meath, and now spend most of their time on the shitter, at the pub, or being exceptionally awesome.
After spending his day on the shitter, he went on to the trying task of drinking all the extra Guinness at the pub, and then saved a family from a burning house whilst accompanying himself on the fiddle (which he never studied), that my friends is a true McNamee.
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Naughty Dog explicitly expained that even though they know about jak 4 they have moved away from it and are focusing on a new IP for a new game. The possibility of a Last of Us 2 is not possible and the making of an uncharted 4 doesn't seem certain. Don't get me wrong Jak and daxter is awesome but my feeling is that it won't happen.
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well im afraid that's not possible because jax and daxter are no longer a naughty dog's game!! something like that! as far as i know the lastest version of jax and daxter ( the lost frontier) isn't made by baughty dog but by some other company, and to be honest...it kinda sucks...some positive aspects on that game but we all know that only naughty dog can do a badass version of jax and daxter...its a shame tho...i just finished the last game of this amazing game and im disapointed! pls if it's possible pls do it naughty! i mean this legacy is gold we all know that! and we have so much things to explore and discover! we are like begin! would be awesome a new jak 4...think about it


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Alastair Gordon is a non-executive Director and chairman of the Group. Mr. Gordon has over 15 years' experience in global information management, software and e-commerce.
Mr. Gordon spent 12 years at SDL plc, a provider of global information management and software services, where he served as chief financial officer from 1998 to 2008 and executive director from 1998 to 2010. He played a leading role in the company's initial public offering and helped to grow the business, both organically and by acquisition, to become a FTSE350 company. Mr. Gordon retired as the chief financial officer in 2008 but remained on the board for a further two years as an executive director.
Prior to working at SDL plc, Mr. Gordon spent 10 years at Berisford International plc, where he held a number of divisional and group financial roles, including chief financial officer of the company's US operations.
Prior to working at Berisford International plc, Mr. Gordon spent 13 years at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was a senior audit manager specialising in small and medium sized businesses and venture capital.
Mr. Gordon served as senior independent non-executive director of Active Risk Group plc (LON: ARI) (formerly Strategic Thought Group plc), an enterprise risk management technology company, since 2008. He also served as a non-executive director of Alterian plc, a marketing analysis software business, from 2010 until 2012. Mr. Gordon is a Qualified Chartered Accountant and is a member of the ICAEW.
Charles Fairbairn is a non-executive Director, the senior independent director and chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Fairbairn has held similar positions for a number of AIM companies over the past 14 years including Research Now Ltd, the online research company of which he was a founder investor, Statpro Group plc, providing analytics for asset managers, and Brightview plc, an internet service provider.
Mr. Fairbairn graduated from Durham University with a BA (Hons) in Economics in 1983 and then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in London in 1986. Having spent seven years at Deloitte Haskins & Sells, he joined Pearson Plc in 1990 as group accountant, group chief accountant and latterly finance director of Pearson New Entertainment, a start-up division. Over the following 17 years, since leaving Pearson New Entertainment in 1998, he has held a number of positions as finance director, executive and non-executive director of a portfolio of companies, helping to develop and scale growth companies from start-ups into global companies. Mr. Fairbairn is an active investor in growth companies and reviews new business and turnaround opportunities, exposing him to a multitude of sectors and business models. He also holds an investment management certificate.
Daniel King is a non-executive Director and chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee. Mr. King has over 18 years' experience in e-commerce technologies, data and analytics, digital and online media and has extensive knowledge in developing and scaling high-growth companies.
Mr. King is currently the President & COO for Profitero, a SaaS provider of online insights and e-commerce intelligence for retailers and brands. Previously Mr. King worked for UK Trade & Investment as Head of High Growth & Emerging Markets, working with companies and individual investors looking to set up their businesses or investment in the UK. Mr King was previously managing partner of Blue Leaf Capital, a private boutique venture capital and advisory services company based in London. Prior to this Mr. King held Managing Director roles with Compete, a WPP company; MySupermarket.co.uk; and Experian Hitwise, overseeing the company's EMEA operations and was a key member of staff that led to the eventual acquisition of Hitwise by Experian in June 2007.
Mr. King is also a Non-executive Director of several public and private companies and advises companies on their business model, growth strategies, and international expansion plans. He is a mentor and judge on London Business School's MBA Entrepreneurship Programme, and is also an advisor and mentor with technology incubator Seedcamp, (www.seedcamp.com) a programme aimed at bringing together next generation start-ups with entrepreneurs, business executives and venture capitalists.
Ms. Judd is a non-executive Director. Ms. Judd is a chartered accountant with over 30 years of experience in Compliance, Regulation, Corporate Finance and Audit.
Ms. Judd was for the last three years managing director and EMEA Head of Compliance in Nomura International Plc. Ms. Judd was previously the managing director and EMEA Head of Compliance in in UBS investment bank for nine years. She was a consultant to the London Investment Banking Association (now AFME) and a corporate finance executive in Cazenove & Co, as a senior member of the transactions team. Ms. Judd has been the UKLA Head of Equity Markets for six years, during which she was a member of the EU "Informal Contact Group" of competent authority representatives across Europe. Ms. Judd has also worked for ten years in KPMG as a corporate finance manager and auditor.
Mr. Gal Haber is Managing Director and an Executive Director of Plus500 Ltd. Mr. Gal Haber has nearly 15 years' experience in software programming and business development. One of the Company's founders, he currently holds the position of the Company's joint chief executive officer and is responsible for the day-to-day running of operations. In particular, he has led the design of the userfriendly Trading Platform, which represents one of the key competitive advantages for the business. As announced in February 2016, commencing 30 April 2016 he will become the Managing Director of the Group.
Mr. Haber holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel. Before founding Plus500, Mr. Haber served as chief operating officer of InterLogic Ltd, a 'skilled games' programme provider for the internet, and mobile devices, which he co-founded in 2004.
Mr. Asaf Elimelech is Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Plus500 Ltd. He previously served as the CEO of Plus500AU Pty Ltd. Asaf is currently responsible for managing Plus500's subsidiaries, working with the senior management team to ensure that the group, through its subsidiaries, is meeting its strategic goals. and has worked for the Group for the last three years.
Prior to joining Plus500, he was a supervisor at PwC from 2008 to 2012, specialising in biotechand commercial audit as well as providing tax services to clients. As part of his role he managed several audit teams and was responsible for the preparation of financial reports for private and international public companies.
Mr. Elimelech holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Haifa University and is a certified accountant in Israel.
Elad Even-Chen is the chief financial officer of the Group. Mr. Even-Chen's responsibilities cover a broad range of finance and business functions including managing the Group finance departments, and is responsible for the financial aspects of Plus500's company strategy and global business development projects. Mr. Even-Chen joined the Group in 2011 and was appointed to the Board on July 2016.
Mr. Even-Chen is a certified accountant in Israel and, prior to joining the Group, he was a senior associate at KPMG, specialising in commerce and real estate audit. Mr. Even-Chen holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Tel-Aviv University, an LL.B Degree from the College of Management and an MBA (specialising in Financial Management) from Tel-Aviv University.


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LSU head coach Les Miles. (Associated Press)
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1:10 PM
BATON ROUGE (AP) — After a tough loss to Ole Miss, LSU is delaying a decision on raising football ticket prices.
The LSU Board of Supervisors announced Wednesday that a proposal for price hikes on football and baseball tickets and some parking costs has been removed from the agenda for its Friday meeting.
The proposal would start with the 2014 football season and the 2015 baseball season.
Blake Chatelain, chairman of the board's athletic committee, says the board will hear a presentation Friday and will vote on proposed price hikes in December.
He says board members wanted time to consider the changes, which include adjustments to the way future increases would be handled. Chatelain says the Ole Miss loss had nothing to do with the vote delay.


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2008: Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleads guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge and receives a three-year suspended sentence. Vick had previously been sentenced to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges in connection with bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed. He would serve 21 months in prison, followed by two months in home confinement, before being released. [ + - ]
2002: President George W. Bush signs legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security. It was intended to consolidate U.S. executive branch organizations related to "homeland security" into a single cabinet agency. [ + - ]
1999: Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. Gonzalez, his mother, and 12 others had left Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine, but Gonzalez's mother and 10 others died in the crossing. Federal officials initially placed the boy with paternal relatives in Miami. Those relatives sought to keep him in the U.S. against his father's wishes that he be returned to Cuba, but a series of court decisions went against their petition for asylum on his behalf. After he was seized by federal agents on April 22, 2000, he was returned to Cuba in June 2000. [ + - ]
1998: Actor and comedian Flip Wilson, best known for his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning 1970s variety series "The Flip Wilson Show," dies of liver cancer at age 64 in Malibu, California. [ + - ]
1992: The Disney animated movie "Aladdin" opens in theaters, grossing $19.2 million in its opening weekend to premiere at No. 2 at the box office, behind "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." It would rise to No. 1 over the course of eight weeks, eventually breaking the record for the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve with $32.2 million. It would become the most successful film of 1992, earning $217 million in the United States and $504 million worldwide, representing the biggest gross for an animated film until "The Lion King" was released two years later. [ + - ]
1986: During the Iran-Contra affair, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese admits that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. On that same day, National Security Advisor John Poindexter resigned and National Security Council staff member Oliver North was fired by President Ronald Reagan. Here Reagan meets with (left to right) Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of State George Shultz, Meese, and Chief of Staff Don Regan in the Oval Office. [ + - ]
1984: A group of 36 top musicians assembled by Bob Geldof gather in a London, England, studio to record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Among the participants were Phil Collins, Bono, George Michael, Sting, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Boy George. The song would become the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone and staying at No. 1 for five weeks. [ + - ]
1981: Actor Jack Albertson, best known for movies such as "The Poseidon Adventure," "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" and "The Fox and the Hound," and the sitcom "Chico and the Man," dies of colorectal cancer at age 74 in Hollywood, California. [ + - ]
1981: Barbara Pierce Bush (left) and Jenna Welch Bush (right), the twin daughters of President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush (center), are born in Dallas, Texas. [ + - ]
1976: At the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the original lineup of The Band plays their last concert, which is filmed by Martin Scorsese and would be released as the classic concert movie "The Last Waltz." Guest performers included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison and Neil Young. [ + - ]
1974: British singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake dies from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 26 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has never been resolved. Drake failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime but his work has gained wider notice and recognition since his death. He's seen here on the cover of his 1970 album "Bryter Layter." [ + - ]
1971: Actress Christina Applegate, best known for the TV series "Married? With Children" and "Samantha Who?" and movies such as "Anchorman," "The Sweetest Thing" and "Hall Pass," is born in Hollywood, California. [ + - ]
1968: American author Upton Sinclair, best known for the muckraking novel "The Jungle" and as a passionate crusader for social reform, dies at age 90 in Bound Brook, New Jersey. [ + - ]
1968: Actress Jill Hennessy, best known for her roles on the TV series "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan," is born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [ + - ]
1965: Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter, an eight-time Pro Bowler who played most of his career with the Minnesota Vikings, is born in Troy, Ohio. Carter began his season with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1987 but was let go in 1989, mostly due to off-the-field issues. He signed with the Vikings in 1989 and revived his career. He played with the Vikings until after the 2001 season and then briefly played with the Miami Dolphins before retiring in 2002 with 13,899 career receptions and 130 career touchdowns. [ + - ]
1963: President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery three days after his assassination in Dallas, Texas. At the funeral, which took place on the third birthday for Kennedy's son, John F. Kennedy Jr., the younger Kennedy stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father's flag-draped casket was carried from St. Matthew's Cathedral, creating an iconic image of the 1960s. [ + - ]
1961: The Everly Brothers join the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, arriving at California's Camp Pendleton. [ + - ]
1960: The final "Amos 'n' Andy" radio show is broadcast. Shown here are the show's creators, Freeman Gosden and Charles Carrell, white men who played two black men from the Deep South who moved to Chicago to seek their fortunes. By the time of its cancellation, the format of the show had changed to a daily half-hour show that also included recorded music between sketches and had been renamed "The Amos 'n' Andy Music Hall." Throughout the show's run, both on radio and television, it was a frequent target of criticism for promoting racial stereotypes. [ + - ]
1960: Singer Amy Grant, one of the best-selling contemporary Christian music singer ever, is born in Augusta, Georgia. Grant is also known for the crossover success of such pop hits as "Baby Baby," "Every Heartbeat" and "The Next Time I Fall." [ + - ]
1960: John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, is born in Washington, D.C. Kennedy, who was born 17 days after his father was elected to the presidency and is seen here with his father in October 1963, went on to become a socialite, journalist, lawyer and magazine publisher, co-founding George Magazine. He died at age 38 in a plane crash along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her older sister Lauren Bessette on July 16, 1999. [ + - ]
1951: Author Charlaine Harris, best known for "The Sookie Stackhouse Novels" series that served as the basis for the HBO series "True Blood," is born in Tunica, Mississippi. [ + - ]
1950: The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, known at the time as the "Storm of the Century," strikes the eastern United States, killing 353, injuring more than 160, and causing $66.7 million in damage. The Northeast was hit especially hard, with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge causing damage, including in New York City. The storm also brought blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. [ + - ]
1947: Actor John Larroquette, best known for the sitcoms "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show," is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. [ + - ]
1944: Actor, lawyer and author Ben Stein, who first rose to fame as a speechwriter for U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, is born in Washington, D.C. Stein has become better known for his acting career, including a role in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and on the game show "Win Ben Stein's Money." [ + - ]
1941: R&B and soul singer Percy Sledge, best known for the 1966 No. 1 hit "When a Man Loves a Woman," is born in Leighton, Alabama. [ + - ]
1940: Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs is born in Mocksville, North Carolina. During his first stint as a NFL coach with Washington from 1981 to 1992, Gibbs led the team to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles and three Super Bowl titles. He initially retired at the end of the 1992 season to focus on his NASCAR team, Joe Gibbs Racing, but returned as Washington's head coach from 2004 to 2007. His racing team has won three championships, one with former driver Bobby Labonte and two with Tony Stewart. [ + - ]
1937: The world's fair of Paris closes with a final attendance of 31.2 million visitors. The fair, most notable for the competing German and Soviet pavilions built directly across from each other, was formally known as the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, or the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life. [ + - ]
1926: The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving Day. Nearly 30 strong tornadoes were reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastated Heber Springs, Arkansas. The storms killed 51 in Arkansas alone and left 76 people dead and another 400 injured overall. [ + - ]
1920: Actor Ricardo Montalbán, best known for playing Mr. Roarke on the TV show "Fantasy Island," and the "Star Trek" villain Khan Noonien Singh, is born in Mexico City. He died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 on Jan. 14, 2009. [ + - ]
1914: Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, who only played for the New York Yankees during his 13-year career and is best known for his 56-game hitting streak during the 1941 season, is born in Martinez, California. Joining the Yankees in 1936, he would help the team to World Series titles in each of his first four seasons with them and add five more championships before he retired in 1951. He died of lung cancer at the age of 84 on March 8, 1999. [ + - ]
1902: Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Eddie Shore is born in Fort Qu'Appelle, Northwest Territories, Canada. Shore, who played the majority of his career with the NHL's Boston Bruins, won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player four times, the most of any defenseman. Only fellow Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe have won it more often. He also was a part of two Stanley Cup championship teams with the Bruins, in 1928-29 and 1938-39. Shore was known for his toughness and violent style of play, setting a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season. He was also the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, and the Eddie Shore Award is given annually to the AHL's best defenseman in his honor. He died of a lung infection at age 82 on March 16, 1985. [ + - ]
1844: Karl Benz, the pioneering founder of automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz and generally considered the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, is born in Mühlburg, Germany. [ + - ]
1835: Andrew Carnegie, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company and led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century, is born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. [ + - ]


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Aid to Muslim Brotherhood run Egypt was 1.5 billion or 5x times the amount of money that would have made up for the Mars shortfall. Aid to the Muslim Brotherhood alone would have covered the entire cost of the Mars mission.
Apparently the last Mars mission determined once and for all that there are no Muslims on Mars making further visits there unnecessary. Also deeply disappointing to Obama was that despite its name of the"Red Planet", what looked like a giant image of Marx's head, turned out to just be a volcanic formation.
So the story of America's greatness marches on. No more national defense. No more space exploration unless it can advance the primary goal of Unionized Gay Muslim marriages by illegal welfare aliens on Mars.
We could have paid for the entire Mars mission with the money that Obama gave to the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. But Obama has his priorities.
Last year, the Obama Administration killed Project Constellation, NASA's Human Spaceflight program to return American astronauts to the Moon. This year, Obama has killed NASA's ExoMars Robotic Spaceflight program aimed at dispatching two ambitious missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018 to search for signs of life.
Both ExoMars probes involved a joint new collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) carefully crafted to share costs in hard times and get the most bang for the buck
ESA is now looking to partner with Russia as all American participation in ExoMars is erased due to NASA' s forced pull out.
What amount of money are we talking about here?
On Feb. 13, NASA's Fiscal 2013 Budget was announced and the Obama Administration carved away nearly half the Mars mission budget. Altogether, funding for NASA's Mars and Planetary missions in the Fiscal 2013 budget would be sliced by $300 million – from $1.5 Billion this year to $1.2 Billion in 2013.
300 million is a lot of money, but not by the way that Obama spends it. Where could we have found that money?
US aid to Pakistan in 2012 was 3 billion dollars or ten times the amount that we needed to go to Mars.
US aid to Obama's homeland in Kenya was $625 million or twice the cost of the scrapped Mars mission. Aid to Jordan was 676 million, also more than twice the amount needed to resume the Mars mission.
Aid to Muslim Brotherhood run Egypt was 1.5 billion or 5x times the amount of money that would have made up for the Mars shortfall. Aid to the Muslim Brotherhood alone would have covered the entire cost of the Mars mission.
"Before I became NASA Administrator he charged me with three things," Charles Bolden said. "One, he wanted me to help reinspire our children to get into science and math, and for me to expand our international relationships, and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering."
Obama has his priorities.


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Research Findings: "The Truth About Public School Teacher Pay"
Original post made by teacher, Amador Estates, on Nov 1, 2011
An Excerpt:
"Existing public-school teachers receive wages that are at least as high as comparably skilled workers,†they explain, "while their benefits and job security exceed what they could earn in the private sector. Overall, public-school-teacher compensation exceeds private levels by approximately 52 percent, for a total of more than $120 billion annually in excessive labor costs.â€
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The PUSD teachers are paid at a higher end of the National percentile range.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 1, 2011 at 2:56 pm
""More fundamental reform of teacher compensation," they continue, "would scrap the existing rewards for education and experience—and instead pay market rates to teachers who are measurably effective."
Ultimately, these changes will benefit students, parents, and teachers alike by providing a more competitive teaching and learning environment."
To do so would require teacher union reform.
a resident of Downtown
on Nov 1, 2011 at 3:05 pm
You will never get pay and benefit reform from a group of people who would not even freeze S & C. They not only refused to take any cuts -- they refused to stop the raises.
Pay them based on performance, let them leave if they choose. There are a hundred or more waiting to take the high paying Pleasanton jobs for every opening.
a resident of Danville
on Nov 1, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Numbskulls, all. The Heritage Foundation... right-wing big bucks pay mucho bucks to half-wits who aren't good enough to make tenure at most decent universities. The half-wits sit around, mostly, eat good food, and occasionally produce a schlock piece of work that is immediately debunked for its bad research. In this case? Counting the salaries of priests, brothers and nuns at private schools is going to skew the numbers just a weeeeee bit. The Heritage Foundation is a joke. Then you have idiots like 'no argument' and 'teacher' (right, sure thing) lapping up the lies without hesitation, without thought. Nice there's always an audience of dunces out there, places like the Heritage Foundation will thrive.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Nov 1, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Anyway, no parcel tax, 'kay?
a resident of Amador Estates
on Nov 1, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Dear "Please!"
Since you are such a "genius" (not) compared to the Heritage Foundation researchers whose character you try to bash (since most liberals first engage in character attacks when they cannot constructively debate content), let me make this suggestion.
How about at least trying to pinpoint where the researchers/authors of this research have it wrong. Is there something wrong with their methodology? Have at it 'genius' and let's see where you 'tower' above these people at the Heritage Foundation.
(By the way, I have a PhD from Northwestern in Research Methodology (Psychology Department) and will be very interested in your constructive criticism of their research.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm
To "Please", I thought you did a very good job in describing the studies of the California Teach Association (CTA). Only difference is they are financed by the left-wing and you are associating this organization with the right-wing.
a resident of Danville
on Nov 1, 2011 at 6:30 pm
So-called "teacher." You seem to have missed my criticism of the Heritage Foundation smear job. Please re-read it, with all of your erudition.
Then, please explain to us what in the world is a Ph.D. in, um, "Research Methodology." I'll tell you what it is: it's a Ph.D. in lying. Go lie to some other audience, you fraud.
Ph.D. in a reputed social science discipline
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 1, 2011 at 9:57 pm
"The PUSD teachers are paid at a higher end of the National percentile range."
PUSD test scores are at the higher end of the range too. Seems like we are getting results.
UC Berkeley professors are paid at the high end of their range too. Cal grads earn higher starting salaries and are more sought out by employers than other schools.
I'm OK with a parcel tax. We have a top school district. Why do you you say no?
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Nov 2, 2011 at 2:16 am
I do not have a problem with salaries per se. My feeling is that the district needs to stop wasting money before it hits me up for more cash.
a resident of Birdland
on Nov 2, 2011 at 8:21 am
Same ole whiny whiny.
a resident of Foothill High School
on Nov 2, 2011 at 8:30 am
'The PUSD teachers are paid at a higher end of the National percentile range'
Isn't this to be expected as our cost of living is at the high end of the of the National percentile? I'm sure that my hairstylist rates, the fees charged for sports (BUSC, Rage) and dance as well as food, and taxes are all aat the nigh end of the National percentile. It only makes sense.
Nurses here are very well paid (more than double in what they get in some other states). I dont' hear anyone complaining about that.
Our schools are performing at the top. Our high schools are consistently ranked at the top of country. We are getting a return.
Quit bashing the teachers. They work hard and do an awesome job with our kids. I have two kids in the schools and they are a very caring and compassionate group. They have a passion for what they do.
Let's take up with the administrators at the district office... they are ones messing everything up. I like the suggeston on a previous thread... 'Occupy PUSD'.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 2, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Julie is a registered user.
Thank you "Mom" for your reasonable post!
a resident of Foothill High School
on Nov 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Mom, I agree with you! What you said seems so obvious to me, that I'm not sure why the person who started this thread didn't see that point. Sounds like they are just trying to stir up some ranting and teacher bashing. Your post is the only one worth reading here.


text: None of my favorite athletes were humble, from Ali to Michael Jordan... it's called personality. What does that have to do with how they perform? You guys make me laugh with this humble mess. Everybody doesn't act like Eli. D Rose is a humble guy but like I said, everybody has a different personality... if not we would be robots.


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Looking for accommodation on time or budget accommodation for your stay in Leipzig?
We are a clean and nice little family consisting of father and daughter and would like to rent out our apartment to tourists or travelers. The child friendly and lovingly renovated 2 room apartment invites you to linger and relax. The apartment is 70 square meters and is located on the ground floor in the well-kept house. Your car can be parked for free in the street outside the house.
The apartment is bright and has space for 2 people and a child. The premises consist of a large living room, nursery, kitchen, bathroom and hallway.
Living room:
In the living room is a fold-out couch (sleeps 2 people with lying surface 200 x 180 cm) and a dining table, which is intended as a work area. For this purpose also provides a printer for free. Fresh bed blankets and covers are available for free.
In the kitchen there is a kitchenette with a stove, oven, fridge, sink and a small dining area. Also a common kitchen items such as dishes, cutlery, coffee maker, kettle or toaster are available and can be used. In addition, the kitchen has a small basic set of ingredients like oil, tea, coffee, vinegar, salt and pepper ....
In the lovingly decorated nursery there is a cot to sleep on, a small desk, a game table, and of course my 10 year old daughter numerous toys that can be used by your children if necessary. Again, you may re-fresh bedding available. I note that the room is designed for children up to 13 years. Any other use requires prior arrangement. Otherwise, the room remains locked at best.
Bathroom / Toilet:
The bathroom is small, but fine, with shower, toilet and sink. The washing machine can be used as needed like. In addition, you towels and small amenities are available and are included in the price.
In the hall there is a small seating area and a clothes rack.
On request can be placed here shortly also a separate wardrobe for you.
Obtaining the apartment is subject to availability. I myself use the apartment mostly only every 2 weeks with my daughter from Thursday (18:00) to Sunday (22:00).
We are also happy to be interested in a permanent lease to keep the condition the apartment free for 2 weekends a month. Ideal for trainees or commuter! The rent may be interested, then also like to make by appointment.
The multi-storey apartment building is located in the district of "Suedvorstadt" in Hardenberg road, a quiet side street close to green areas / parks, restaurants and shops for daily needs.
The Leipzig Suedvorstadt directly adjacent to the city center and is very popular with residents and visitors to the city. Overall, the district is adjacent to the south Connewitz as a mixed embossed trendy. Here the doctor next to the housewife, the craftsman lives next to the architect and the family in addition to the single.
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, also affectionately called "Karli" is a cultural center of Leipzig and is only a five minute walk away. Here you will find almost exclusively small shops, cafes, bars, pubs and restaurants. When shopping in the trendy stores on the "Karli" is something for everyone's taste. In the many free seats can comfortably eat and drink from dawn to dusk.
The district thus has a good infrastructure and it usually only takes a few minutes to target. The connection to the Leipzig transport network is very good, so ride the tram lines 10 and 11 on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße every 10 minutes. Near the house there is also a stop for the bus route 89, which goes directly to the center.
*** 5 minutes walk to Karl-Liebknecht-Straße and the tramway station
*** 15 minutes to the city center by bus or tram
*** 8 km to the nearest freeway (A38)
Another note for guests arriving by car. Please think of the green environmental badge. Leipzig also has an environmental zone since 01/03/2011!
Be our guest and have a fantastic time in Leipzig.
Sincerely, Alexander Metzger
House rulessmoking
This apartment is a Non smoking apartment. Smoking is not permitted in consideration of other guests. Please use for smoking the courtyard or the exceptionally small kitchen with the windows open and closed kitchen door.
The guest apartment is designed exclusively for overnight or short-term and not for parties / celebrations / parties.
If you fall or something should go wrong, then that's no problem. Please let me know and we can find a solution. Nothing is more annoying than trying to determine in retrospect, that is only half as much as dishes or the facilities for the following guests may not be fully available.
Although we like animals very much, pets are not allowed under Hauordnung.
Order and cleanliness
Our kitchen is small, as is the parking area and the trash. If the bin is full, you can dispose of residual and other garbage in the garbage cans in the yard. New trash bags are available. Please do not forget to wash the dishes after use and dry, we can provide no dishwasher available to lack of space. The other living spaces require maintenance and should be cleaned by appropriate cleaning before departure absolutely.
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Reviews of this property
Beautiful apartment located in the southern suburb, nice managers and completely uncomplicated organization of arrival and departure (keys and final acceptance). To be recommended.
Schöne Wohnung in der Südvorstadt, netter Verwalter und völlig unkomplizierte Organisation der An- und Abreise (Schlüsselübergabe und Endabnahme). Zu empfehlen.
It all worked out great ... agreements ... Felt like home ...
Gladly again Peter
Es hat alles super geklappt...Absprachen, Wohnung...alles tiptop...
Gerne wieder Peter
Great apartment, great contact. Impeccable! Thank you
Tolle Wohnung, prima Kontakt. Einwandfrei! Danke
Alex has a chic apartment in a great atmosphere. Much emphasis is placed on every single detail. It has helped us very well here in the evening to relax for a while.
The children really loved our son. Dear, potential guests, ensures that it will continue to inspire other children.
Greetings from Güstrow family noesse
Alex hat eine schicke Wohnung in tollem Ambiente. Hier wird viel Wert auf´s Detail gelegt. Es hat uns sehr dabei geholfen am Abend auch einmal abschalten zu können.
Das Kinderzimmer hat unseren Sohn wirklich begeistert. Verehrte, potenzielle Gäste, achtet darauf das es auch weiterhin andere Kinder begeistern wird.
Grüße aus der Barlachstadt Güstrow von Familie Nösse
Top apartment! Keys 1 + + + Had a couple of very nice days in Leipzig. The only drawback we had was to get shut a parking lot from 22 clock. Otherwise highly recommend the apartment.
Top Wohnung! Schlüsselübergabe 1+++ Hatten ein paar sehr schöne Tage in Leipzig. Das einzigste Manko was wir hatten, ab 22 Uhr einen Parkplatz zubekommen. Sonst sehr zu empfehlen die Wohnung.
Very nice apartment, a central starting point for all activities in Leipzig. The children enjoyed the kids with lots of facilities. The contact was very nice and easy. We like to come again ;-)
Sehr schöne Wohnung, ein zentraler Ausgangspunkt für alle Unternehmungen in Leipzig. Die Kinder freuten sich über das Kinderzimmer mit vielen Spielmöglichkeiten. Der Kontakt war sehr nett und unkompliziert. Wir kommen gerne mal wieder;-)
Although we only stayed one night at Alexander's apartment in Leipzig Suedvorstadt a guest, but have the same feel very welcome. Everything was clean and we did not miss anything. The key handover went smoothly. 'll Be back! The location is perfect for activities in Leipzig!
Wir waren zwar nur eine Nacht in Alexanders Wohnung in der Leipziger Südvorstadt zu Gast, haben uns aber gleich sehr wohlgefühlt. Alles war sauber und es hat uns an nichts gefehlt. Die Schlüsselübergabe lief problemlos. Gerne wieder! Die Location für Unternehmungen in Leipzig ist perfekt!
wonderfully comfortable apartment, easy handing and taking over, we will remember us ... Thank you and best regards
wunderbar gemütliche Wohnung, unkomplizierte Übergabe und Übernahme, werden wir uns merken ...
Vielen Dank und viele Grüße
The apartment is very conveniently located (everything you need is close to the center and also it's not that far) and really nice. We felt very comfortable and would definitely come again. Even with the settlement of "Mietmodalitäten" We were very pleased. It was a nice touch ... Thank you!
Die Wohnung ist sehr günstig gelegen (alles was man braucht, ist in unmittelbarer Nähe und auch ins Zentrum ist es nicht so weit) und wirklich schön. Wir haben uns wohl gefühlt und kommen gerne wieder. Auch mit der Abwicklung der "Mietmodalitäten" waren wir sehr zufrieden. Es war ein netter Kontakt...
Vielen Dank!
There were 12 year old son in the apartment. We had great days in Leipzig. The apartment is very centrally located, near the K. Liebknecht - Straße.Dort in the evening you can relax very well. With the keys everything went very quickly. Have you called from the road and then identified the time. Next time gladly again! Curtains were also available now.
Wir waren mit 12 jährigen Sohn in der Wohnung. Wir hatten schöne Tage in Leipzig. Die Wohnung liegt sehr zentral , in der Nähe der K.-Liebknecht -
Straße.Dort kann man am Abend sehr gut verweilen. Mit der Schlüsselübergabe hat alles sehr unkompliziert geklappt. Haben von unterwegs angerufen und dann die Zeit ausgemacht. Nächstes Mal gerne wieder ! Vorhänge waren jetzt auch vorhanden.
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By Thomas Wilhelm, ISSMP, CISSP, SCSECA, SCNA
Many people are familiar with John the Ripper (JTR), a tool used to conduct brute force attacks against local passwords. The application itself is not difficult to understand or run... it is as simple as pointing JTR to a file containing encrypted hashes and leave it alone. In a professional penetration test, we don't always have the time to allow JTR to run to completion, and we must rely on some additional techniques to speed things up including the use of wordlists or dictionaries. JTR comes with its own wordlist containing supposedly common passwords, and we can use that dictionary to identify some low-hanging fruit. However, in most cases, the supplied JTR wordlist is woefully inadequate in identifying a wide-range of commonly-used passwords, especially when people prefer to select passwords that have some meaning to them (e.g. hobbies, partner names, child names, and pet names). So how can we improve our use of JTR to catch passwords that have relevancy to the users of our target system? It may be a bit more complicated than it seems.
The Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) provides an adequate methodology when focusing on password attacks and includes the suggestion of using dictionaries. For those who conduct penetration testing, the use of dictionaries is only one of two prongs used in attacking a local, encrypted password list; brute force attacks are conducted after we have attempted to break passwords using dictionaries. In this fashion, we can (hopefully) obtain weak passwords to work against during the pentest; anything discovered during the brute force attack (assuming it is too late in our pentest to use then) can simply be added to our wordlist for future penetration test projects.
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I have (or had) two top bar hives this past summer that I'm overwintering now. I started my original hive from a package and then ordered a new queen and made a split later. Oddly enough my second hive seems more populated and robust going into winter than my original.
Either way, over the past months I've seemed to notice less and less activity from my original hive until the point that I was pretty confident that it was going to die out. My second hive has been perfect this whole time. Every day we have that's a little warmer than normal they are working away and bringing in bits of pollen. I'll sometimes look through the window on the side of the hive and see them balled up together to stay warm on cooler days.
Well, last night while I was out to feed my dog I decided to take a quick look through the windows of both hives, really just to see if the original still had any live bees balled together. It was 100% empty! The only bees I could see anywhere where just a few here and there dead on the bottom or side of comb. So then I go the the second hive and it's packed full of bees! It was cold last night too, and I know the usual size of the ball they are packed into in that hive. This was about twice the size as it normally is.
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Lauren Byrnes, Sara Mele, Daniel Faber
SACRIFICE ZONES: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. Steve Lerner. xvi + 346 pp. The MIT Press, 2010. $29.95.
Steve Lerner, the research director of Commonweal's Fair Growth Project, always has an important environmental story to tell in his books. His latest, Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States, is a compelling and unnerving account of 12 communities fighting for their right to a clean and healthy environment. The book shows that in towns from Florida to Alaska, residents are discovering that the air they breathe, the water they drink and the homes they live in have been invaded by one or another of a host of dangerous toxins that are associated with a plague of environmentally induced diseases. The industries and U.S. military bases responsible for the pollution appear to be following a clear strategy of sacrificing entire communities as a matter of expediency or to protect bottom lines. To avoid the expense of installing highly effective pollution control systems or disposing of toxic substances safely, they are dumping billions of pounds of pollutants in communities where residents have little political or economic power. It follows that those suffering the most are African Americans, Hispanics, working-class whites and indigenous peoples such as the Yupik Eskimos.
The "fenceline" communities that Lerner has chosen to investigate are adjacent to some of the most environmentally hazardous sites and facilities in the country. He believes that mixing residential and industrial zones is a dangerous practice and should be avoided. The book demonstrates that companies freely displace, or "externalize," costs of production onto the public by polluting neighborhoods just outside the factory gates. Yet time after time these companies escape accountability for the damage they cause. The costs may then be absorbed by the state and the larger economy, through government-funded cleanup operations, emergency-response programs, increased medical and disability costs, and lower commercial and residential property values. But sometimes the government doesn't want to pay for the cleanup either. Lerner says that agencies and state officials often duck their regulatory responsibilities, sometimes because they find it politically expedient to protect the profits of the polluters.
The environmental regulatory system in the United States is proving to be grossly ineffective at addressing such "pollution hot spots" once they are created. Residents of these environmental "sacrifice zones" (a term originally used during the Cold War to designate areas that had been contaminated with radioactive materials from nuclear weapons production) are expected to forgo their fundamental right to a safe and healthy environment. But instead, as Lerner vividly describes, the ecological crises and social injustices they confront have led at least some of them to mobilize into a powerful new movement for environmental justice.
Part of what makes Sacrifice Zones such an interesting read is that Lerner gives names and faces to these local heroes. The book is based on hundreds of interviews with the people who are living, working and sometimes dying in these communities, and Lerner lets them tell their stories in their own words. Each chapter highlights the perspective of grassroots leaders. Their discussion of their experiences in organizing and mobilizing their communities reminds us that even those in difficult circumstances have the ability to create positive change. Each story offers unique insights into the history of a particular community, the hardships of chemical exposure, or the personal sacrifices that must be made by those fighting corporate polluters and the state.
Consistent patterns are found in all of these sacrifice zones: the pollution of less fortunate communities with little means to resist, the failure of industry and government agencies to inform residents of known contamination, the reluctance of regulatory agencies and officials to ensure thorough and quick cleanup of contamination, and the insistence that no action be taken until absolute proof of serious human health effects is available. On reading the first case study in the book, one is likely to think, "What an extraordinary situation!" But then the same political roadblocks show up in one case study after another. Fortunately, Lerner has some major victories to report. He outlines the forces required for bringing about social change, including effective community leaders and grassroots organizing, critical support from dedicated people in the scientific community, legal assistance, organized evidence and a long-term commitment to building the movement.
The first two sacrifice zones described are African-American communities in Florida. One is in Ocala, where black soot from the Royal Oak charcoal factory rains down on residents and their homes, and the other is in Pensacola, where excavated sludge containing chemicals such as dioxin, pentachlorophenol, benzene, toluene, dieldrin and asbestos has been piled up into a mound 60 feet high, aptly named "Mount Dioxin." Both communities consider themselves to be victims of environmental racism, and the evidence suggests that they are right. Early racial segregation in Ocala forced blacks onto unwanted land, and afterward the city invariably found black neighborhoods to be the ideal site for highly polluting facilities. Black Pensacola residents demanded and eventually won relocation to escape environmental health threats, but most were paid very little for their homes or were given inferior replacement housing; white homeowners in a polluted community in Pennsylvania were given much better treatment.
One sad truth that emerges from the book's case studies is that government and industry often fail to adequately inform residents of contamination risks. Lerner explores the devastation that residents feel when they are informed of serious chemical exposure only after health problems and diseases are already rampant in the community. In the tiny African-American town of Tallevast, also in Florida, townspeople didn't learn of a severe pollution problem until a resident asked members of a drilling crew why they were boring a hole in her lawn and discovered that they had been hired by the high-tech weapons plant down the street to test the groundwater for toxins. The company that owned the plant, Lockheed Martin, had long known about spills of cancer-causing chemicals into the soil and groundwater and had informed county environmental officials but had decided against informing the townspeople, even though they depended on wells for their drinking water. Kept in the dark for three years, residents were denied their right to make informed choices to protect their health.
Similarly, residents of Greenpoint, a Polish-American community in Brooklyn, New York, where 17 to 30 million gallons of oil have leaked into the ground over the past 100 years, were not made aware of a deal between state regulatory officials and oil companies: The companies would gradually remove the oil themselves, and in return the state would not impose fines or a timetable for the cleanup. Residents have been living with contaminated groundwater during what has proved to be a slow and inferior cleanup process. The officials who made the secret deal, Lerner argues, denied citizens important information, thereby failing to protect them from harm.
One of the most disturbing patterns Lerner finds in the sacrifice zones is that government agencies (including the Environmental Protection Agency) and local and state officials have often blocked efforts to bring about environmental reform. Citizens rightfully expecting regulatory agencies to be proponents of clean air, water and soil have sometimes been shocked at their unresponsiveness. In Corpus Christi, Texas, state regulatory officials claimed that there were no health concerns when their own air monitoring stations indicated that levels of benzene (a carcinogen) were seven times higher than the acceptable standard. In Pensacola, residents were actually harmed by the grossly inadequate and dangerous EPA "cleanup" that created Mount Dioxin. The agency dug up more than 300,000 tons of contaminated soil and placed it in a giant pile in the community under a plastic cover that is now 10 years older than its intended lifespan. Although he recognizes that the EPA had limited funds at its disposal, Lerner argues that their failure to remove the contaminated soils from Pensacola warrants a fuller evaluation of how the agency is handling toxic exposures nationwide.
Lerner shows that despite the barriers to enforcing better pollution control, change can occur in these communities when dedicated individuals fight for a cleaner environment. In Corpus Christi, spurred by illnesses in family members and "fed up with what she saw as the do-nothing approach of state regulators," Suzie Canales founded a group called Citizens for Environmental Justice. She researched the health effects of environmental pollution in the city for years, pushing for health studies and data on air quality. Unsatisfied with the information provided by regulators, she conducted health surveys and carried out surveillance of refineries. She was questioned by the FBI for "suspicious activity" when she filmed heavy particulate pollution coming off a Citgo facility. Monitoring the air for toxins became much easier for her when an activist working for cleaner air in Port Arthur, Texas, supplied her with an expensive monitor. With the help of environmental organizations, she has begun successfully contesting the air permit applications of refineries.
Why does this grandmother have to do the work that regulators should be doing?, Lerner asks. That individuals must invest so much time and effort to protect their right to clean air and water reveals a serious problem within our regulatory system.
Lerner's in-depth exploration of the often-ignored stories of those living and dying in America's most polluted and neglected communities forces us to contemplate the wide disparity between the privileged and the less fortunate. The cost of pollution-control technology is hardly comparable to the toll that contaminants take on residents, some of whom pay with their lives.
The thoroughness of Lerner's research into effective strategies for fighting pollution should prove invaluable for those who struggle for environmental justice. This book offers an inside view of a new form of activism, one that promises to fuse struggles for ecological protection, economic and social justice, and human health into a more transformative environmental politics.
Lauren Byrnes and Sara Mele are research assistants with the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative in Boston. Daniel Faber is director of the Collaborative and a professor of sociology at Northeastern University. He is the author of several books, including Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
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