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My column from last week about religion-related questions I'd ask Mitt Romney produced a bit of response. Among my favorite comments was one that included this:
"Name one other presidential candidate you have ask questions of their religion? Have you ask Obama about Black Liberation Theology? Leiberman about how being Jewish will inform his relationship to the middle east?"
The reason I liked it so much is that, in 2000, I had the privilege of spending 22 minutes alone with Lieberman, where I asked him about how his faith informed his governance. And four years ago, I spent a ton 'o time analyzing the theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and writing about Barack Obama's religion.
It's a fair point, however, that I should write about the Democrat that is almost certainly to face Romney in November. So I'll get to that presently.
But also in fairness, I'd like point out exactly what I did last week -- and why the situations of Romney and Obama vis-à-vis religion are not particularly parallel.
I did not suggest that Romney be asked to explain Mormon doctrine, nor was I interested in any aspects of Mormon theology regarding God, Jesus, the afterlife or the like. I listed official Mormon doctrines that could have an impact on secular governance. And I asked whether Romney's understandings of those doctrines informed his policy positions.
The reason I felt particularly justified in posing those questions is why the situations of Romney and Obama are not parallel.
For a decade, Romney was a member of the clergy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was ward bishop and stake president. (And thank you to the many Mormon readers who pointed out my dumb inversion last week of the responsibilities of those two positions.) As such he was a recognized authority, expected to understand and agree with official church doctrine and to apply it while working with members of his congregations.
I would only ask these kinds of questions to someone for whom religion is a central part of their public persona. Dick Cheney, for instance, is Methodist but never much talked about it. So it isn't politically relevant. His former boss, however, famously said that Jesus Christ was his favorite political philosopher.
I count it a signal failure of the national media that candidate George W. Bush was not queried sharply and repeatedly to explain how his understanding of the political philosophy of Jesus would inform his governance.
President Obama, like his predecessor, has made his faith a key element in his public persona. By contrast to Romney, however, Obama was a guy in the pew, free to listen and agree or not with what he heard. He has never claimed particular expertise with religion. And has rejected narrow acceptance of Christian doctrine. A more parallel set of questions for Obama would be about Constitutional law, since he was a law school professor in that subject.
But Obama has been speaking and writing about his faith and its effect on him since before he was a senator and through the last campaign and his presidency. Whether or not people are satisfied with -- or even believe -- what he's said is one thing. But only the willfully ignorant or dishonest can claim that he's not been asked questions and given answers about how his understanding of his Christian faith has informed his approach to governance.
What has he said? There's no quick reply to that. So if you're actually interested, strap yourself in and I'll provide some highlights and some links to more complete accounts. Bring some refreshments. We will be here a while.
On the one hand, among the oldest and most complete texts are Obama's two memoirs. Dreams From My Father has a long account of his journey of faith -- from the child and grandchild of people who were indifferent or hostile to organized religion to crying in the pew of a Chicago church. The Audacity of Hope has an entire chapter titled, simply "Faith."
But for me, the uber-source is a remarkable interview Obama gave in 2004, when he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate and long before he was even whispered about as presidential timber.
He sat down with Cathleen Falsani, then a religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She did a news story off the interview at the time. Later, when Obama became a bit more important than a mere senate candidate, Falsani posted the entire transcript of the interview on her own website. You can read it here.
Here's how Obama explained his approach to his faith back then:
"I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith. On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences. I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10. My father was from Kenya, and although he was probably most accurately labeled an agnostic, his father was Muslim. And I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith."
And here is how he explains his attitude toward specific doctrines:
"I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt. I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding."
And here is where he starts to explain how his understanding of his faith helps inform his ideas about governance:
"I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values that inform my politics that are appropriate to talk about... I can give religious expression to that. I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, we are all children of God. Or I can express it in secular terms. But the basic premise remains the same."
For the next eight years, he's come back to the same basic themes: That he's motivated by his understanding of the Christian social gospel as an inspiration for his personal service and as a guide for the kinds of policies that he pursues. But he rejects narrow and sure interpretations of religion. And he's careful to say that government policy must not be narrowly tailored for any faith or none.
Four years ago, the specifics of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago became a huge part of the presidential campaign. Obama's friend and pastor, Rev. Wright, became a huge part of the campaign because of sound bites of a particular sermon titled "Confusing God and government" that he'd given many times all over the country. Based on the sound bites, it quickly became known as the "God Damn America" sermon.
I listened to the whole thing and did a couple of detailed pieces about it. Here's one that has lots of quotes. And here's one that puts it in context with the history of African-Americans and the black church.
Purely as a matter of theology, those who object to the sermon likely don't think much of the biblical texts of Jeremiah, Isaiah and other prophets. Wright lists a long set of what he counts as national sins and suggests that a nation that sins without repentance deserves to be condemned -- damned -- by God. As I wrote back then, when a Christian pastor says "God damn" from the pulpit, it's a pretty safe bet that he's not simply uttering an epithet.
As a matter of history, Wright's list of putative sins include examples that are as bogus as birtherism. He claimed that AIDS and crack cocaine were government-produced plots aimed at blacks. That the U.S. government knew about the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened.
But other items on his list are true: The Vietnam war was justified on a pretext and the government lied about bombing Cambodia. The CIA helped the South African apartheid government jail Nelson Mandela. The founders of America refused to give full rights to blacks and women.
Obama was hammered with questions about Wright. He gave a remarkable speech repudiating the racism of some of Wright's sermons:
"I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy and, in some cases, pain. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in the church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely -- just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed. But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial...
"The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress had been made; as if this country -- a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black, Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen -- is that America can change. That is the true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope -- the audacity to hope -- for what we can and must achieve tomorrow..."
And after Wright told the media that Obama was playing politics, Obama held a news conference where he repudiated Wright personally.
"His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church."
What exactly did Obama get out of Wright and his church to begin with? Long before the presidential run, he wrote about it in his first memoir. There was something in that church, Obama wrote, that was both particular to the black experience but universal and connecting with the larger Christian faith:
"And in that single note -- hope! -- I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones.
"Those stories -- of survival, and freedom, and hope -- became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world. Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn't need to feel shamed about, memories more accessible than those of ancient Egypt, memories that all people might study and cherish -- and with which we could start to rebuild.
"And if a part of me continued to feel that this Sunday communion sometimes simplified our condition, that it could sometimes disguise or suppress the very real conflicts among us and would fulfill its promise only through action, I also felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams."
That's what Obama said he took from Wright's message. Believe it or don't.
In 2006, he gave a speech where he explained how he understands the relationship of American law to moral and religious standards:
"Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King -- indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history -- were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their 'personal morality' into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition."
Let's jump to Obama's inaugural:
"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness."
In 2008, Obama was asked how he can reconcile his position on same-sex civil unions with what some Christians say is a clear Biblical position against homosexuality. His reply:
"If people find that controversial, then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans."
Here's a quote from a 2009 speech that he builds directly on one of Jesus' parables to justify his proposed economic policies:
"Now, there's a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was soon destroyed when a storm hit. But the second is known as the wise man, for when 'the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.'
"It was founded upon a rock. We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity -- a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest; where we consume less at home and send more exports abroad."
Here's an interesting quote from a 2010 news conference where he directly addresses how important his Christian faith is in informing his policy decisions:
"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. And as somebody who relies heavily on my Christian faith in my job, I understand the passions that religious faith can raise. But I'm also respectful that people of different faiths can practice their religion, even if they don't subscribe to the exact same notions that I do, and that they are still good people, and they are my neighbors and they are my friends, and they are fighting alongside us in our battles."
Now we'll jump to a series of quotes from prayer breakfasts. He's regularly attended the annual prayer breakfast that presidents have been attending for more than four decades. He instituted a separate prayer breakfast now held before Easter. And I found a quote from an event I didn't even know about: the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast.
Here's a quote from the 2010 National Prayer Breakfast where he links his understanding of his faith to civility, environmental protection and immigration policy:
"Empowered by faith, consistently, prayerfully, we need to find our way back to civility. That begins with stepping out of our comfort zones in an effort to bridge divisions. We see that in many conservative pastors who are helping lead the way to fix our broken immigration system. It's not what would be expected from them, and yet they recognize, in those immigrant families, the face of God.
"We see that in the evangelical leaders who are rallying their congregations to protect our planet. We see it in the increasing recognition among progressives that government can't solve all of our problems, and that talking about values like responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage are integral to any anti-poverty agenda. Stretching out of our dogmas, our prescribed roles along the political spectrum, that can help us regain a sense of civility."
Here's the quote from the 2011 National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast:
"So, yes, immigration reform is a moral imperative, and so it's worth seeking greater understanding from our faith. As it is written in the Book of Deuteronomy, 'Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.' To me, that verse is a call to show empathy to our brothers and our sisters; to try and recognize ourselves in one another.
"And it's especially important that we try to do that when it comes to immigration -- because this is a subject that can expose raw feelings and feed our fears of change."
And from the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast, where he discusses the idea that tax rates should be raised for the wealthy:
"For me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required...
"It's also about the biblical call to care for the least of these -- for the poor; for those at the margins of our society.
"To answer the responsibility we're given in Proverbs to 'Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.' And for others, it may reflect the Jewish belief that the highest form of charity is to do our part to help others stand on their own.
"Treating others as you want to be treated. Requiring much from those who have been given so much. Living by the principle that we are our brother's keeper. Caring for the poor and those in need. These values are old. They can be found in many denominations and many faiths, among many believers and among many non-believers. And they are values that have always made this country great -- when we live up to them; when we don't just give lip service to them; when we don't just talk about them one day a year. And they're the ones that have defined my own faith journey."
So to recap:
Based on Obama's own words, he's a man who took a journey of faith. From someone broadly if vaguely interested in spirituality to a specific and Christian understanding of his role in society and the world. He said that both the specific message about black history and the broader Christian gospel touched him at the black Chicago church where he became a Christian. During the last campaign, he publicly rejected the racist statements made by his friend and former pastor.
He does not claim special expertise or even adherence to the letter of any particular Christian doctrine -- saying that his faith is marked by doubt and questions. But he says that his faith is an important tool for him as he makes policy decisions -- decisions that nonetheless must also be understood and be justifiable to people of different faiths or no religion.
He has cited both Jewish and Christian scriptures as helping shape his ideas, with an apparent particular fondness for the Sermon on the Mount. He's used it in connection with discussions of civility, tax policy, immigration, and health care reform.
Do you want more? There's a lot more you can search out and read. I particularly commend his memoirs to your attention.
Do you find his exegesis or his applications to be inappropriate or unconvincing? That's up to you. I'm certainly taking no position one way or the other.
But there can be no question that Obama has spoken frequently -- more frequently than some of his less religious supporters would like, in fact -- about how his understanding of his faith informs his approach to governance.
As I said last week, I think it is past time for Romney to do likewise.


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Arthur Nadel, the manager of the Sarasota Florida based Viking, Valhalla, and Scoop hedge funds, went missing a couple of weeks ago amid allegations that his funds were nothing but ponzi schemes. Nadel left only a suicide note, and frozen assets of about a million remaining from funds that once totalled 350 million. At the time, we wrote about how trivial, even quaint, Nadel's alleged crimes seemed amid the bigger scandals, criminal and non-criminal, of Bernard Madoff, Lehman, GM, and the like.
It appears that Nadel read our thoughts. In an effort to boost his public profile, Nadel turned himself in to the FBI this morning, ending a two week manhunt. Like stunt pilot and alleged fraud artist Markus Schrenker, even Nadel's suicide note was a lie. Yet here, again, Nadel disappoints. Rather than engaging in DB Cooper style avionics and subterfuge with hidden motorcycles, as Schrenker did, Nadel just hid in a swamp. Or a hotel room in Tampa, as the case may be.
Mike at Crime and Federalism, who originally alerted us to the Nadel story, writes often of psychopaths in business. Not Norman Bates-style serial killers, mind you, but people utterly devoid of empathy and conscience just the same. People wonder, on reading of psychopaths and the harm they wreak on their clients and co-workers, how the psychopath went down that path, or what went wrong? What people should wonder is how to detect other psychopaths, and avoid doing business with them.
If anything about a psychopath in a suit (as Nadel and Schrenker may well have been) could be predicted, it's that he would run, leaving a suicide note to the remorse of his family and friends. It's equally predictable that the psychopath would fail to follow through.
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Ah, the old place. Well, the second old place, anyhow.
It's hot out there for Adam Warren's big league debut [2]. The ball should be a-jumpin', even though the White Sox are throwing a good young pitcher tonight. I keep waiting for Adam Dunn to hit one into the upper deck in right field.
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Adult Learning and Change: An Autobiographical Portrait of a Chinese Woman in Canada
The themes of adult learning, cross-cultural learning, and transformative learning are common to many continuing educators working at universities across Canada. In this essay, I narrate my experiences as a mature, adult learner returning to university. Following a literature review and discussion of methodology, I begin this autobiographical portrait with a description of my initial education and life experiences in China. From this foundation, I describe and interpret my cross-cultural sojourn as a graduate student in Canada.
This sojourn was both happy and sad, both empowering and disempowering. My story is one of learning—learning as an adult, learning in a cross-cultural setting, and learning that ultimately had a transformative impact on how I view myself and my world. Through exploring my own experiences with learning and change, I hope to offer readers of the Canadian Journal of Continuing Education a unique opportunity for insight into personal processes that are difficult to truly understand at a theoretical level alone.
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STUDENTS should be able to start returning to fire-damaged Lytchett Minster School next Wednesday, education chiefs have confirmed.
Demolition work is taking place at the gutted creative arts block to make site safe, but because of a classroom shortage, not all students will be able to attend on every school day.
Those who stay at home will be expected to complete work set by their teachers, and to submit it for assessment when they go back to school. The plan that year 7 pupils stay home on the first day of the new term; year 8s on Thursday 10 and Monday 14; year 9s on Friday 11; and year 10s on Tuesday 15. Parents are being warned that this type of arrangement could remain in place until half term (February 18 to 22).
The school has promised to keep them informed through its website and Parentmail, and will try to give them at least a week's notice of plans for subsequent days.
Students at the top end of the school – years 11, 12 and 13 – will be able to attend every day because they are in the final stages of GCSE, AS- and A-level courses.
The school is working towards securing more temporary classrooms and has thanked parents for their messages of support and offers of help.
Exam boards have been told that important coursework and assessment was lost in the blaze.
A spokesperson for AQA said: "We will discuss all the students affected, whether any evidence of their work still exists and what the best plan of action is over the next few months.
"We will apply special consideration in the summer, based on any evidence we've been able to retrieve and what other work the students have been able to complete."
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Barclays was recently fined $450m, which is nothing compared to the money their questionable activities made them. When drug dealers are arrested, police seize their illegal money and all the possessions bought with it, why do bankers instead get big payouts and massive pensions?
Right now the punishments don't fit the crime and so law breaking is incentivised, but this could end if our politicians act boldly. Years ago they said the banks were too big to fail and poured trillions of our money to bailout the banks. Now they need to stop the criminal culture by making sure that this money is regulated, and that anyone who acts illegally faces the full extent of the law.
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North Dakota and Idaho State will tangle in Pocatello for the second time in six seasons on Saturday when the two teams square off in a Big Sky Conference tilt at Holt Arena.
UND holds a 3-0 edge in the all-time series with Idaho State.
Idaho State dropped its Big Sky opener on the road last Saturday at UC Davis. The Bengals pulled to within three points of the Aggies early in the fourth quarter, but UC Davis scored two unanswered touchdowns to put the game away and post a 30-13 win.
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Little is known about R. H. Kingsbery, compiler of the collection.
This collection contains two letters collected by R. H. Kingsbery concerning the military life of two soldiers during the Civil War. There is a Christmas day letter in 1861 addressed to all by Union soldier Ralph Chauncey of Company D. The letter is written on stationery with two large United States flags crossed with the words
Arrangement is chronological.
Open for research by appointment.
Copyright has not been assigned to the San Jacinto Museum of History. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Library Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Jacinto Museum of History as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Mrs. R. H. Kingsbery,
Processed by Lisa M. Lomas, 2011.
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The photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting. When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!"
The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the air.
"Fly over the north side of the fire," yelled the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes."
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(May 8, 2012) On May 6, 2012, the Egyptian People's Assembly approved the abolishment of article 6 of the Law on the Military Judiciary. This article allowed the President of the Republic to refer civilians for trial before military courts. The deletion grants the right to the Military Prosecutor's Office to refer all cases involving civilians to the Civil General Prosecutor. Furthermore, the Assembly approved a revision of article 48 of the Law which provides the military judicial authority with sole jurisdiction over certain types of crimes cited in the Law, regardless of whether they were committed by a civilian or a member of the military.
According to a representative of Human Rights Watch, the amendment fails to protect civilians from being tried before military courts. Although the new text is designed to prevent the President from referring civilians to the military court, the spokesperson stated, the military retains its authority to try civilians by virtue of article 48 of the Law. (People's Assembly Approves Amendment of the Military Judiciary Law [in Arabic], ELAPH ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER (May 6, 2012).)


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BETWEEN 6pm on Thursday, May 29 and 10am on Saturday, May 31 criminals forced the fuel cap off a car parked in the driveway of a house in West Malvern Road, Malvern, and threw it into a flower bed before siphoning fuel from the vehicle's tank.
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Shares of LinnCo (LNCO) and LINN Energy (LINE) rose 5.4% and 2.8% in Thursday's trading session, respectively. LinnCo, which indirectly focuses on the development and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties and LINN Energy announced the acquisition of Berry Petroleum Company (BRY).
The Deal
LinnCo announced that it has agreed to acquire Berry Petroleum, an independent energy company focused on the development and exploration of oil and natural gas. Shareholders in Berry Petroleum will receive 1.25 shares of LinnCo shares for each share of Berry Petroleum they currently own.
LinnCo is a publicly listed holding company, which solely holds participation units in Linn Energy. LinnCo's offer values Berry at $46.2375 per share, a premium of 20% compared with the day before the offering. Including the assumption of debt, the deal values Berry at $4.3 billion.
Berry's long-life and low-decline assets are an excellent fit for LinnCo according to the company's presentation. With the acquisition LinnCo can report meaningful growth in California, the Permian Basin, East Texas, and the Rockies.
The deal will increase production with roughly 240 MMcfe/d, or approximately 30%. Proven reserves of 1.65 Tcfe are 75% based of oil, thereby boosting LinnCo's total reserves by 34%, the majority of which is oil. Additionally, Berry's 3,200 producing wells across 200,000 net acres could boost possible reserves by another 3.8 Tcfe.
CEO and Chairman Mark E. Ellis commented on the deal, "This transaction creates tremendous value for LINN Energy, LinnCo and Berry equityholders. We are pleased to have been able to achieve such a mutually beneficial outcome. Berry's assets are an excellent fit for LINN, and we believe this transaction generates significant accretion to our distributable cash flow per unit."
LinnCo's offer of $46.2375 per share values the equity of Berry at approximately $2.5 billion and assumes the $1.8 billion in debt outstanding.
Berry Petroleum generated annual revenue of $920 million for its full year of 2011. The company reported a full-year loss of $228 million for that year on the back of $645 million in one-time charges. Excluding one-time charges and assuming a normal tax rate, profits would have come in around $200 million. The deal values the company's equity at approximately 2.7 times annual revenue and 12-13 times annual earnings
LinnCo expects significant accretion to the distributable cash flow per unit as a result of the deal, in excess of $0.40 per unit. Consequently the firm proposes to increase the payouts to its unitholders.
The deal is subject to shareholder approval of both Berry and LinnCo as well as unitholders of LINN Energy. The deal is furthermore subject to common closing conditions, including ant-trust approval. The deal is expected to close by June of this year.
LINN ended its fourth quarter of 2012 with $6.0 billion in short- and long-term debt and negligible amounts of cash, for a sizable net debt position. The company generated annual revenue of $1.77 billion on which it net lost $386.6 million as a result of the high debt position as well as an impairment charge of $422.5 million.
LINN's market valuation of $7.5 billion values operating assets at 4.2 times annual revenue, a premium compared with Berry's 2.7 times multiple.
As a result of the significant accretion expected from the deal, LinnCo will increase its quarterly distribution to $0.725 per share for an annual dividend yield of 7.4%. LINN Energy boosted its quarterly payout to $0.77 per share, for a yield of 8.2%.
Some Historical Perspective
Shares of LinnCo have traded in a tight $35-$40 trading range since its public offering in October of 2012. Similar price ranges apply for LINN Energy, which went public at the same time. The company is growing rapidly, partially as a result of acquisitions. Total revenue growth has not been that strong over the past year, mainly due to lower natural gas prices.
Over the past year, total production grew to 671 MMcfe/d per day and even reached 800 MMcfe/d on average per day in the final quarter.
Investment Thesis
As a result of the deal with Berry Petroleum Company, LINN will boost its production by roughly 30% to 1,040 MMcfe/d per day, or roughly 175,000 barrels of oil equivalent. LINN values Berry in total at $4.3 billion, or 32% of its current enterprise value. This is fair given the 30% boost in production and 33% increase in proven reserves. More interesting, the reserve base of Berry consists of 75% in oil, which is beneficial given the higher oil prices relative to natural gas prices.
The impact of a relative greater oil production is noticeable in the revenue of Berry. Its revenue of $920 million for 2011 will boost annual revenues of LINN Energy for 2012 by little over 50%. Berry trades at merely 5.6 times 2013's annual EBITDA which compares to a valuation of 8.0 times for LINN Energy itself.
Overall the deal seems very favorable to LINN's shareholders. The firm can increase its exposure to oil at very fair prices. The total reserves exposure to oil will increase by 8 percent points to 54% as a result of the deal. Over the past year the company already acquired natural gas reserves from BP in both Kansas, and Wyoming, for a total of $2.2 billion.
Shareholders could expect more acquisitions from LINN Energy as the company can more easily attract capital due to its legal structure to reduce the tax burden by passing cash flows directly to unitholders instead of passing by the Internal Revenue Service.
Shares of LINN Energy continue to offer excellent value, especially for dividend investors. Because of its unusual structure, the company does not have to pay corporate income tax allowing LINN to pay out higher dividends compared with competitors. An 8.2% dividend yield offers excellent value for yield hunters at the moment.
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Hassan Melehy and Joyce Johnson discuss Jack Kerouac's life and work, exploring his constant cultural and linguistic translation between French and English.
Scholars of translation studies discuss current teaching methods, as well as the place and function of translation in the university curriculum.
A renowned poet and critic, and one of the most important translators of modern French poetry, Serge Gavronsky has taught in the French Department at Barnard College for over 50 years.
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I got a dysport injection on September 1st, had a little headache when I got home, no big deal. The injection did take effect faster than botox and the results are great... BUT on September 9th I was laying on my couch watching tv when suddenly out of nowhere my throat started to close up, my toungu became swollen, lost my ability to speak, the whole right side of my body went limp and I felt... READ MORE
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Digitally remastered and expanded two disc (CD/DVD) edition of the Prog Rock band's classic 1974 album, released to coincide with King Crimson's 40th anniversary. The CD features three extra tracks (two previously unreleased) including pre-overdub mixes of the title track and 'Fallen Angel', which illustrate perfectly why the album has been such an enduring influence. The DVD features a 5.1 DTS mix and high resolution stereo mixes plus rare performance footage of four tracks broadcast by French TV in 1974. Presented as digipak in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by Robert Fripp and King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos and archive material.


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A new arrangement between Disney and Netflix will enable Daredevil and several other characters to go back in action in 2015.
Disney and Netflix are teaming up to stream at least four original series based on Marvel characters
such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage. These shows will start streaming in 2015.
In a joint announcement released Thursday, November 7, Disney and Netflix revealed that the four thirteen-episode series will culminate in a miniseries titled "The Defenders". Apt to its title, the miniseries "reimagines a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters."
The project comes on the heels of a deal that gives Netflix exclusive rights to stream Disney films in premium TV channel starting 2016. It is also by far Marvel's most ambitious project in live-action development.
"This deal is unparalleled in its scope and size, and reinforces our commitment to deliver Marvel's brand, content and characters across all platforms of storytelling. Netflix offers an incredible platform for the kind of rich storytelling that is Marvel's specialty," Marvel Entertainment president, Alan Fine, said in a statement.
"This serialized epic expands the narrative possibilities of on-demand television and gives fans the flexibility to immerse themselves how and when they want in what's sure to be a thrilling and engaging adventure."
Meanwhile, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said, "Marvel's movies, such as Iron Man and Marvel's The Avengers, are huge favorites on our service around the world. Like Disney, Marvel is a known and loved brand that travels. With House of Cards and our other original series, we have pioneered new approaches to storytelling and to global distribution and we're thrilled to be working with Disney and Marvel to take our brand of television to new levels with a creative project of this magnitude."


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The Eagle Talon is a sports coupe that was manufactured and sold between 1990 to 1999 by the Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors of Japan in a joint corporate venture known as Diamond-Star Motors (DSM).
The Talon was sold under the Eagle marque, a brand developed by Chrysler to compete with Japanese imports in the late 1980s. It is a re-badged model of the Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, Eclipse GS-T and Eclipse GS. The Talon was offered in numerous trims including; TSi, TSi AWD, DL and ES.
The second generation model is the only Eagle Talon featured in the Need for Speed series.
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
The Eagle Talon appears in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit as a police pursuit vehicle. It is drivable by entering the cheat code go18 at the main menu.
It mostly spawns on the tracks Redrock Ridge and Lost Canyons in the PC release, but only spawns in Empire City in the PlayStation 1 release.
Need for Speed: High Stakes
It reappears as a non-driveable police vehicle in Need for Speed: High Stakes with a black and white colour scheme. In the PC release, it can be driven by the players if they switch police cars with the AI cops. Just like in the PC release of Need for Speed III, it spawns only in Redrock Ridge & Lost Canyons.
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Black Hat shows hacker exploits getting more sophisticated
LAS VEGAS Fresh evidence that the Internet has become saturated with hacking groups relentlessly striving to crack into company networks grabbed attention as the Black Hat cybersecurity conference got underway here Wednesday.
Anti-virus giant McAfee revealed how a single hacking group, dubbed Shady Rat, has infiltrated at least 72 companies and governments over the past five years, including some 49 victim organizations in the U.S.
And Dell SecureWorks senior researcher Joe Stewart presented results of his analysis of nearly 1,000 corrupted servers. Stewart isolated 18 servers actively being used to relay information to and from infiltrated PCs inside company networks to command servers in two regions of China.
Security analysts and researchers at the conference say that's the tip of the iceberg. Nation-state spies and cybergangs "are trying to get at sensitive intellectual property and government information every hour and every minute of the day," says Andy Grolnick, chief executive of tech systems-monitoring company LogRhythm.
The majority of hacks fail, but "sophistication is increasing, and some are getting through," says Grolnick. "There's value in the data they're trying to get at."
McAfee has been aware of Shady Rat's activities since 2009. Then, last March, Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research, located a server storing a list of successfully infiltrated organizations.
Some 49 of the 72 hacked companies were in the United States, four in Canada and the rest sprinkled through Europe and Asia.
The hackers most likely targeted a specific employee to receive an e-mail carrying an infected Web link or attachment, then tricked the employee into activating the infected link or file, McAfee says.
McAfee declined to name any of the 72 organizations that were infiltrated. The shortest time the hackers remained inside a company's network was less than a month; the longest, 28 months.
Stewart's research zoomed in on two hacking groups going after intellectual property.
"The final destination for all the activity we're seeing is a couple of hubs in China," says Stewart. "It tells us that somebody has invested specific resources to control this operation."
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For the big kid in you, don't settle for the same ol, same ol boring desk stuff. Get organized with the Animated Desk Set by Chiasso ($34/3 piece set). Elvis holds the tape, Dimitri holds your cds, and Dionis holds your scissors and what a conversation piece!
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Santa Cruz, Calif. (UPI) Jul 3, 2013
Military sonar can change the behavior of whales, causing the ocean giants to avoid their usual feeding spots, a U.S. study found.
Writing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers said some blue whales off the coast of California have been seen to change their behavior when exposed to the sort of underwater sounds used during U.S. military exercises.
Researchers exposed tagged blue whales to simulated sonar sounds significantly less intense than the military uses.
"Whales clearly respond in some conditions by modifying diving behavior and temporarily avoiding areas where sounds were produced," said lead author Jeremy Goldbogen of Cascadia Research, a non-profit research organization based in Washington state focusing on marine mammal studies.
The whales were tagged with non-invasive suction cups sensors, which recorded acoustic data and high-resolution movements as the animals were exposed to the controlled sounds.
The area of the ocean off the California coast, where blue whales often feed, is also the site of military training and testing exercises that involve loud mid-frequency sonar signals, the researchers said.
"These are the first direct measurements of individual responses for any baleen whale species to these kinds of mid-frequency sonar signals," Brandon Southall, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said. "These findings help us understand risks to these animals from human sound and inform timely conservation and management decisions."
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New York • Lupita Nyong'o wowed in a sexy, caped red silk strapless gown from Ralph Lauren and Lena Dunham showed up Sunday night in form-fitting canary yellow — tattoos out — for the Golden Globes, one of Hollywood's biggest fashion fests.
Kerry Washington complemented her baby bump in a sleeveless white gown with a low neck and jacket-like top from Balenciaga.
"I also feel like I have the best date of the night, my little accessory here," she told E! Entertainment dressed in a signature color for her Olivia Pope on "Scandal."
Also in white was Jennifer Lawrence. She chose Dior, with two tiers on a full skirt cinched at the waist and below by black trim. Julia Roberts wore a black gown topped by a white, button-down collar shirtwaist look from Dolce & Gabbana.


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Growing police use of military-type equipment is scrutinized
WASHINGTON – The image of Ferguson, Mo., police officers in camouflage pointing high-caliber rifles from armored vehicles at unarmed protesters has crystallized a debate over whether a decades-long flow of military-grade equipment to the nation's police departments has gone too far.
On both left and right, political figures as varied as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pointed to Ferguson, denouncing what Holder referred to this week as "unnecessarily extreme displays of force" by police.
That debate fits into a larger pattern: A huge upsurge of mayhem in the 1970s and 1980s led to tough-on-crime measures across the country. Now, after two decades of improvements in most places, policies such as long, mandatory prison sentences and expansions of police surveillance are being questioned.
The use of military-style equipment by even small-town police departments is the latest tactic to come under scrutiny.
For years, the money and equipment has flowed copiously. Since 1995, the Pentagon has distributed $5.1 billion in surplus military equipment to U.S. police departments – sleeping bags, cameras and office equipment, but also assault rifles, mine-resistant armored personnel carriers and helicopters, said Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright.
The goods come free of charge except for the cost of picking them up.
The Department of Homeland Security gives more than $1 billion a year to state and local police, much of it for equipment.
This year, the Pentagon program is up for what would normally have been a noncontroversial renewal. An effort in the House to repeal it failed this summer by a lopsided 355-62 vote.
Friday, however, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the program needed to be reviewed "to determine if equipment provided by the Defense Department is being used as intended."
In an age of mass shootings and terrorist threats, with local budgets flat, police chiefs face a huge temptation to fill their arsenals with federal largess, said Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation and a former chief in Redlands, Calif.
"A lot of departments jumped at the opportunity to acquire things they normally could not afford," Bueermann said. But "just because we can get the equipment, it doesn't mean we should use it."
In some cases, the pitfalls become quickly apparent.
Last year, the small police department of Banning, Calif., ordered an 18-ton tank complete with gun turret. A police sergeant was assigned to pick up the vehicle and drive it home. Along the way, he blew a tire on Interstate 10 in southern Arizona, careened across the roadway, totaled a pickup truck and knocked out the windshield of another vehicle.
No one was injured, but the accident cost Banning $42,000. Angry city officials and residents demanded to know why police needed a tank.
In other cases, departments have acquired equipment they could not afford to maintain. For some armored vehicles, "a tire can cost $10,000 or $12,000" to replace, said Mark Lomax, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association, a nonprofit group based in Doylestown, Pa., that trains SWAT teams.
Los Angeles Deputy Chief Mike Downing, who oversees counterterrorism and other special operations, noted in a recent report that police SWAT teams, created in the 1960s, have morphed into military battalions.
Police departments that seek "to justify their existence and budgets" often begin using heavy equipment for relatively routine missions such as serving warrants, he said. That has become "a dangerous and unnecessary temptation."
Departments need to ask, "Do we need the type of weapon they are offering?" said Chris Nanos, chief deputy of the Pima County Sheriff's Department in southern Arizona. "A 14-ton armored vehicle? I don't know what you would do with that."
Lack of training and leadership can be as big a problem as excessive equipment, said Ron McCarthy, a former Los Angeles police SWAT team supervisor who now works as a consultant for police departments. "If you're not going to provide the appropriate training, you shouldn't have the equipment," he said.
Armored vehicles, military uniforms, assault rifles and police dogs escalated tensions in Ferguson, he said, adding that the equipment should have been on standby, out of view, but ready to respond quickly if needed.
Still, he and other police experts said that military-grade equipment has an important role when used properly.
Eugene O'Donnell, professor of law and police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said some critics were "in denial" about the need for police to use force.
"This week's story is police overreaction. Next week's story is going to be police under-reaction," O'Donnell said.
The events in Ferguson showed that "there are going to have to be serious strings attached to handing out military weaponry," he said. "There are 18,000 police departments in the U.S., and some of those police departments are scary places indeed."
But, he said, "shootings and heavily armed people are a fact of life, and, like it or not, terrorism hangs over us."
Some police departments already have begun rolling back the militarized approach, with the LAPD in the forefront.
The turning point came in May 2007, when hundreds of LAPD officers swept through the city's MacArthur Park in a poorly orchestrated, chaotic attempt to clear out a large gathering of immigrant rights protesters. Officers fired scores of rubber bullets and struck protesters with batons as they pushed through park.
Today, the department takes a far more patient approach. But the LAPD has been an exception, said Jody Armour, a law professor at the University of Southern California who studies police use of force. "Using this equipment tactically, using it sparingly and wisely is a very hard thing to do," he said.
"When it's possible to get your hands on something for cheap or even for free," he said, "it's hard to say no."


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It must have been 6 weeks ago that I got an email from Adrian through our website.
He told us that he had caught a baby Tarpon on Aruba on a previous visit.
Benny and I mostly chase Bonefish, Jack and Barracuda and I could not help getting a bit curious.
Having lived in Belize before, I have had a few encounters with Tarpons before!
For my friend Benny this was all quite new and after briefing him on the subject we had a new mission; Tarpon needs to be on our trophy list!
Adrian (who we would like to thank for his patience with us) mailed that he was coming to Aruba and would love to come fishing with us.
As soon as we could, we met up with him and went where Adrian was successful before in the hunt for Tarpon.
The spot; where the lagoon comes out by the sea, (Benny and I could not believe that we didn't find this spot ourselves and we had to learn about it from an Englishman who lives in Kansas!) is beautiful but hard to cast from. We decided to take turns.
By arrival it was still daylight and we saw no disturbance or signs of any fish.
This all changed after darkness and tarpons started jumping all over the place!
We where amazed that this was happing on "our island" and we never knew.
Everyone of us had a few hits on the fly, some very spectacular but we could not land them!
It felt like they knew how to unhook themselves (any information on how to solve this problem is welcome).
After leaving frustrated that night, we had to drink a few beers and talked; knots, flies and tactics.
The next week the 3 of us went back and had the same experience and we became even more frustrated than the first time, even the fraise "the one that got a way" turned up.
The next day when Adrian left, I thanked him for helping us and promised him we would not give up and as soon we would catch one, we'll put the picture on our website.
Wecome to Fly Fishing Aruba.
So last night the 2 of us went out again and after a few hits and jumps, Benny managed to land this beautiful tarpon.
This was by far his biggest fish on the fly rod so far and he was jumping for joy!
Standing next to him I can remember some mixed feelings .I was excited / a little jealous but most of all; very proud that the man who I thought how to fly-fish over the last 6 months now is beating me in the race to catch the first Tarpon!
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In May, I posted about LACTAID, a dairy product for those with lactose intolerance. In that post, I shared that I was surprised to learn that LACTAID is 100% dairy, with a natural enzyme to help aid milk digestion.
In June, I ran out of cream. Sniff. I . ran. out. of. cream. And that is just so not okay. I cannot will not drink black coffee, so I thought I'd have to go without coffee, but then I noticed the half gallon of LACTAID in the fridge. My mother, who was visiting, had purchased it since she struggles with lactose intolerance.
I didn't think it would taste good, but you know what? The LACTAID was a great replacement for cream in my coffee. I survived to live another day.
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THE AGONISING wait is now over for A-level students at Marlwood School in Alveston who have now received their results.
Many students capped off a successful year in spectacular fashion after receiving brilliant grades and smiles were aplenty.
The number of A*s and As achieved by Marlwood pupils was up on last year and 88 per cent of pupils had applied to continue on to university.
At least two pupils will be on their way to the prestigious University of Cambridge next year to further their studies.
One of them was Chris Wong, who achieved an incredible four A*s and will now be studying maths at Cambridge, he said:
"I didn't think I'd get the results to get in. I tried to check for my results last night but it didn't update so it's great to finally have them."
Robbie Cecere, 18, will be joining Chris after being accepted to study natural sciences at after getting three A*s including biology and physics.
He said: "I checked online this morning and couldn't believe I'd got in to Cambridge, coming in and picking up my results was just the icing on the cake."
Eight per cent of students of Marlwood's students managed to achieve at least one A*.
Head of sixth form, Trish Rosevear said: "We're pleased with the results as a whole and we're up on the number of top grades that our students are achieving.
"Staff are delighted with the outcome and we've now got two, and hopefully a third, going to Cambridge next year.
"A lot of students got their places, which is great and on the whole it has been very successful. The students have done very well and we're continuing to get more of them in to university.
"Congratulations to all our students for their commitment and hard work over the last two years. All the staff wish all students well in their future endeavours."


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Tropical Storm Karen weakened "significantly" overnight, but New Orleans remains in a state of emergency as the system continues its track toward the Louisiana coast, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Saturday.
"The latest storm projections are encouraging, but we're not out of the woods yet," Landrieu said. "As we've all seen many, many times, these storms are unpredictable. They have minds of their own."
While the sun was out and a comfortable breeze blew, the National Weather Service said residents in the metro area should expect to experience 20 to 30 mph winds, with gusts of 35 to 40 mph, and 1 to 2 inches of rain beginning just after midnight Sunday until about 9 a.m.
Residents outside of the levee protection system should expect half-foot to 1-foot tides, Landrieu said.
While the tropical storm has lost strength, Landrieu urged residents and businesses to remain vigilant until it passes.
The National Hurricane Center said Karen's maximum sustained winds were down to 40 mph and that i was moving north at 10 mph. The storm is forecast to slow down later Saturday before it turns toward the northeast.
Karen is expected to make landfall on Sunday night near the coast of Missippi and Alabama and weaken to a tropical depression.
All 24 of the Sewerage & Water Board's drainage pumps are operational, and the Army Corps of Engineers is monitoring water levels in Lake Pontchartrain, Landrieu said.
Meanwhile, other city agencies are operating as usual. No changes are expected to any RTA streetcar or bud schedules unless the weather becomes too severe, Landrieu said.
Entergy has pre-positioned restoration crews in case power is cut for customers, said Charles Rice, president and CEO of Entergy New Orleans.
The Army Corp of Engineers has closed storm surge gates on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal at Lake Borgne and Industrial Canal to help prevent any water from surging into areas such as New Orleans East, Gentilly, the 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish.
"This is a city that is totally on alert," said City Council President Jackie Clarkson.
Some cruise ships that were to dock at the Port of New Orleans on Saturday would instead arrive on Monday. Louis Armstrong International Airport has not changed any operations.
As the day progresses, Landrieu said, residents could be lulled into a false sense of security because of the lack of any noticeable effects from tropical weather. But, he noted, problems can often come after the storm or when people let down their guard.
"I myself have witnessed in the last day and a half a (higher) level of anxiety." Landrieu said. "I would ask everybody just to slow their roll for the next 24 to 36 hours. It's gonna be OK."


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Frances Louise Stewart, 52, of San Carlos, was taken into custody on Wednesday, Dec. 30 at approximately 3 p.m., said police spokesperson Steve McCoy. McCoy said Stewart was arrested at a friend's residence in Redwood City. There had been a warrant out for her arrest since Dec. 24.
She was booked into the county main jail in San Jose on one count of embezzlement, one count of burglary, one count of grand theft and for the unauthorized use of others' personal information. Her bail was set for $300,000.
McCoy would not release further details regarding the case as it is still open, though he said Stewart was cooperating with investigators and that she is the sole focus of the investigation.
According to Amy Cornell, spokesperson for the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, Stewart was arraigned on Dec. 31 and gave no plea. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 27 in Department 84 at 9 a.m. in Palo Alto.


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As developers, it's good for us to think of interfaces in more than one way to increase the knowledge transfer to the user, and reduce the chance of errors. Stoplights are based on both color and position, and street signs use color and shape. Why don't we do this more?
Not exactly log files, but...
I belong to a list about generative music generative.net [generative.net] and this thread reminded me of a posting on there by someone who generated a MIDI representation of a mailing list archive...with Perl! Check it out [generative.net]
Not exactly log files, but there is Peep: The Network Auralizer [sourceforge.net]. You run various clients that send notifications when certain events happen to a central server that plays whatever sound is assigned to that event. In theory if you get it configured right you can hear when something's abnormal about your network. (Disclaimer, I've never actually gotten around to really using it so I can't say how useful it is; but hey it's got Perl client libs.)