text: The conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) receives fuel during a replenishment at sea from the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Success (AOR 304). The guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) and the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) trail astern. Kitty Hawk is currently operating in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia's Queensland region as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2005. Talisman Sabre is an exercise jointly sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Command and Australian Defense Force Joint Operations Command, and designed to train the U.S. Seventh Fleet commander's staff and Australian Joint Operations staff as a designated Combined Task Force (CTF) headquarters. The exercise focuses on crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations. U.S. Pacific Command units and Australian forces will conduct land, sea and air training throughout the training area. More than 11,000 U.S. and 6,000 Australian personnel will participate. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class William H. Ramsey.

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Jake Finds a Shower Buddy
The Jake Stories Chapter 1 Jake Finds a Shower Buddy I stayed after school to work out in the weight room as I did several times a week. I like to keep fit even though I am not on any of the organized teams. I'm a senior now, 18 years old, and we were just starting the Christmas break. The school was pretty much deserted since most of the kids lit out like jackrabbits as soon as the final...Read On
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Opposites will always attract and sexy stud Rudy loves Herr Heinz's big, beefy butt.
Rudy was bored out of his skull on another stinking hot day stuck in the vast, whitewashed desert fort that he was defending. Only there was nothing to defend it against; the fort had not come under attack for well over two years and there was nothing for the men to do but work out and keep themselves fit. Rudy's body was as fit and as hard and as sun-bronzed as he had ever wanted it to...Read On
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Fifty two year old divorced man Ralph finds love in a younger man's arms.
Not for the first time Ralph cursed his rotten luck as he cleaned up the mess other people had left behind in their offices. A scant six months ago he had been one of these office types but that was before he had lost his job and, to add insult to injury, his wife had left him for his boss. Somehow his life had spiraled out of control after that. He had hit the bottle and gotten deeper...Read On
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a straight man, single after 30 yrs gets drunk and goes home with another man.
I do not know how it happened. All I wanted was a quiet drink and maybe someone to talk to, let off some steam. My wife had died just over a year ago and I was feeling depressed. We were together for 30 years! So after work I stopped into a small bar. Never been there before. I rarely drank, not use to it. Did not know it was a gay bar. There were maybe 7 customers inside, all male. Hell I...Read On
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A hung twink mounts three beefy butts on a beach.
Phil was sitting alone on a nudist beach and just about to pack up and head home because the beach was deserted. He had driven over a hundred miles to get to this place and he was very disappointed. Instead of wall to wall cocks and beefy butts all he saw was empty sand and pounding surf. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, three stocky guys appeared and looked like they had just stepped...Read On
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My stay with a friend turned out to be so much more.
It was the final week of the summer semester and I was supposed to be flying that Friday night to California to see my parents for the summer. It was going to be fun, and free. Living in Seattle leaves little money for any type of travel and my parents accidentally made my flight for Monday. Which would not have been a problem if I had not given away my dorm already since when I came back I...Read On
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Craig remembers when he lost his cherry out camping with six horny buddies.
My first time was really wild. I had it off with six young studs, five of whom were straight. It was the summer after I finished high school and the seven of use went on a camping trip to celebrate our last few weeks of freedom before going off to university. We hiked way off into the countryside and found a stream with a sandy bank. As the weather was so mild we didn't even bother to pitch...Read On
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Joe and I have been friends for as long as I could remember. After all, his family was the closest humans to us for miles around. They were a large family, Joe being the third child out of five, and so he sometimes came over to help me, an only child, on the farm when my dad was away. One day, a few years back, my dad was away again for two whole days. I promised to do all of the farms...Read On
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I accidentally discover that my neighbor is looking online for a man to suck his cock, and I do it.
I am a mid-level executive in the insurance industry, and my wife Margaret and I have lived in the Omaha area for most of our lives. We live in a nice middle-class suburb and have some really great neighbors. We are best friends with one of our next door neighbors, Bill and Helen Tindal, and we are all middle-aged with Bill and me being 52 years old, and Margaret and Helen being 50. Our...Read On
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As a curious teen James had always wondered about sex. Not just straight sex, nor lesbians, but gay sex. He wondered, what would it be like to taste semen in my mouth or occasionally, does it hurt having another man inside my ass? These were all thoughts he had never acted upon and doubted if he ever would. Yet as a sportsman he would often see his team mates in the showers, and...Read On
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The timid panting of the young man beneath me was stifled by the pillow his glistening fingers clung to as I rhythmically impaled him with a passionate dedication. Despite his best attempts to be quiet he would let out a little moan now and again that caused a delectable twitching deep in my lower abdomen and I would counter the sensation by taking a deep breath and turning my face up toward...Read On
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Me and my friend go camping, but when we start drinking our desires come out.
When I was 16 me and my best friend wanted to go camping really badly. We finally decided to go rent a cabin in the woods and go camping just the two of us. At the last minute we decided that it would be more fun if we drank that night as well so we took a twelve pack of beers and some hard liquor and drove off. Jeremy had just broken up with his girlfriend and on the ride up he explained...Read On
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Mark gets his mouth round his best friend's rod.
It was the day before my 21st birthday and I was getting ready for a weekend camping with the lads. I was especially looking forward to seeing my good friend Kane. When we was 17, he told me that he was gay when he was drunk and that he fancied me but we never spoke another word about it. Now growing up I always knew that I was gay or at least bi. I'd had relationships with girls but that...Read On
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My first story so hope you like it
Hi, my name is Pete and this is the story of how I realized that I fancied men, more specifically my friend John. Now that we were both turning 18, we went out for each other's birthdays and because my friend lived a lot closer to the bar he said I could crash at his place to save the long trip home afterwards. We had a great night and were both a little drunk as we made our way back to our...Read On
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"You're still incredible," Peter uttered as he looked deep into my eyes.
With some apprehension I slowly began to pack an overnight bag; for out of the blue I had received a phone call from Peter asking me to attend his graduation. I was truly flummoxed, for it must have been 6 months or more since we last made contact and I truly thought he had forgotten all about me. All through my journey I kept wondering whether I should really be doing this; OK we had a...Read On
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Prom. The last night of this life. Scott was on the dancefloor, particularly handsome tonight. The grey suit he was wearing made him look older and wiser. But he was also very, very drunk, dancing with a friend of ours; a beautiful girl who, unfortunately, had a terrible reputation. I saw their bodies get closer, his crotch rubbing against hers. As usual, he got hard very fast. I laughed...Read On
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To: You, For three years, you have been my best friend. And for three years, I have been terribly and quite pathetically in love with you. We met at the gym, I admired the definition of your perfect muscles, the peculiar colour of your skin. Your laugh sent shivers throughout my body. You never found it weird that I'd pass my hands through your hair, that I'd jokingly grab your crotch...Read On
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I was on business and was staying a couple of nights in a hotel. I had just phoned my wife and now was wondering what to do with myself. I decided rather than hit the bar I would go for a swim in the hotel pool. When I got there I had it all to myself and was enjoying the luxury of swimming alone. I had done a few lengths and was having a breather when I heard someone else coming into...Read On
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One Builder and One Uni Student, see what they get up to
It was a hot Australian summer afternoon. I'm home from university for the summer and I can't wait. Beach parties, drinks with friends, will make up most of the time. But hanging out at home with the family also takes a certain degree of importance. So anyway, I was spending the day at home. It was a scorcher of a day outside and because the pool was "out of use" for me today, I was confined...Read On
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Mike's cock shot hot milky onto my hand and nylon covered thighs. He sighed a collapsed back on the bed smiling. His hand stroked my back. Mike and I were old friends and 6 weeks ago we had started playing sexually. My cock was hard in his mum's black lace panties and his cum was drying on her black fully-fashioned stockings. We were both 17 and I was staying at Mikes as his family had...Read On
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Jacques takes on a raunchy rugby team in his restuarant of a slow Friday evening.
Jacques owned a small restaurant in a little town and business was real slow. Each day he sat down and looked at the numbers and wondered how the hell he would be able to stay in business much longer. Early one Friday evening he was hovering around, waiting anxiously for any sign of customers when suddenly a rugby team poured through the doors. Jacques couldn't believe his luck! Not only...Read On
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Stefan was a first-year violin student referred to me by my professor. A rather average posh kid of limited talent, he was only admitted into the conservatory because his father had called in a favour from a brother in-law who happened to be on friendly terms with the head of one of the departments. That aside, he was actually an altogether agreeable young man and, as different as we were,...Read On
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A married man is seduced by the young man waiting on his table in a restuarant.
Jake cursed as he pulled on his dress pants; he could only just do up the zipper and his big cock and balls bulged obscenely. It had been years since he had last worn those pants and the only other thing he had with him was his dirty jeans. His company had sent him on a short training course in Edmonton . It was the first time that he had been in the city and he didn't feel at all...Read On
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At last, a bit a male action again provided relief...
I was recently on a Stag weekend where I finally had anotherguy on guy experience. Thought I'd share this with you. It's not a quickie, but it is pretty much what happened. I'll call him Jack. Years ago, I was at a party hosted by the groom where there included a group of three girls, one of which was called Jo. She was with her then boyfriend and to some extent she become part of our circle...Read On
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A sodomite and his new flatmate cooped up at home on a rainy night
Vienna, 1899 "Gustav!" a warm and familiar voice called and I turned to find a fellow student smiling at me, hands buried deep in his coat pockets to stave off the chilly April breeze. "Ah, Christian!" I called back, returning the smile as he approached me and shook my hand. After the customary comments on the weather he asked where I was going, and when I replied that I was on my way...Read On
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Does this sound like your best mate?
It was a Saturday night and me and my mate Tom had been invited to a party, it was at one of the local clubs for one of our friends 22nd birthday. The theme was tight and bright. I was wearing a fluro green singlet and small pink shorts that were not't quite as tight as my boxer briefs but were just as long so they were showing off my man region quite nicely. Tom had gone to the trouble of...Read On
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He saved me from drowning. I couldn't show my gratitude enough
Continud from part one... Having saved me from drowning after I had "accidentally" fallen into the water, the handsome park ranger straddled my chest and fucked my mouth. When he said that we should then go to his cabin and get our wet clothes off, I was all for it. I picked up my shoulder bag ("man purse" some would say) and my cigarette holder, which I had dropped when I "slipped" and...Read On
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Two friends who are soccer players discover that they are more than just pals.
Out in Left Field Chapter One "Fuckin hell!" I screamed as I looked in my locker for my deodorant. I was sure that I had brought some in my bag but much to my chagrin, I had forgotten it. The wrong time to do so too considering I had a date with a hot girl, Irene, from London. I met her after one of our matches last week. As I was going under the tunnel, she yelled out my name asking...Read On
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The conclusion and sex that didn't appear in part one of my story.
I had probably overstayed mywelcome by a few hours. I couldn't help but want to stay longer in Rion's company. I looked up at the clock when there was a small gap in our conversation and realized it was nearly five hours later. Rion glanced up at the clock, following my gaze, and gasped. "Oh my god I can't believe how late it is!" He looked at me nervously and rubbed his arm. I wasn't ready...Read On
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* Army's share of cuts could be $12 bln-14 bln a year
* No "buzz saw" approach to programs
* More agile, affordable approach to acquisition
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army's share of massive defense budget cuts will be up to $14 billion a year over the next decade, which may force the service to cancel a variety of weapons programs, a top Army official said Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Robert Lennox, deputy chief of staff for weapons programs, told Reuters at the the annual Association of the U.S. Army conference (AUSA) that program cancellations were "certainly a possibility" and could affect a mix of large and smaller programs.
He declined to identify which programs could be affected and said no decisions had been finalized. The Army's plans also still required approval by top Pentagon leaders, he said.
Big Army suppliers like General Dynamics Corp , BAE Systems Plc , Boeing Co , Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co are keeping close tabs on Army budget plans, given widespread speculation that the service will be hit especially hard in the coming defense budget crunch as U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Army officials acknowledge big problems with their weapons buying process in recent years but say they have learned important lessons from the Pentagon's decision to cancel its big Future Combat Systems modernization program in 2009.
Lennox said the service also had racked up some successes, including the rapid development and fielding of MRAP vehicles that could withstand roadside bombs, body armor for soldiers and hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Lennox told the conference that White House order to cut defense spending by over $450 billion over the next 10 years would shave $12 billion to $14 billion from the Army's annual budget each year.
The "brunt" of the cuts would come in modernization and training, since cuts in the number of active-duty soldiers would not kick in quickly enough to generate needed savings.
Lennox said Army budget officials were working on a budget plan for fiscal year 2013 and a related five-year budget plan but hoped to know the outcome of congressional deficit-cutting efforts before the budget is finalized.
Defense spending could be cut by up to $600 billion more if the so-called congressional "super committee" fails to identify $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction measures.
Acting Army acquisition chief Heidi Shyu told reporters that the Army did not favor taking a "buzz saw" to all programs, which officials say could slow them all down and make it more difficult to move ahead later.
Instead, she said, the service was trying to weigh the risks involved in possible program cancellations, factoring in the age of current weapons, existing multiyear contracts and whether putting off new purchases would sharply increase maintenance costs for existing planes and ground vehicles.
Lennox said the service was also trying to factor in how quickly it could recover if it made the wrong decisions. For instance, he said, it took five years to build a new attack helicopter but far less time to build new trucks.
The Army has already twice revamped its plan for developing a new ground combat vehicle and recently issued revised rules for a new light vehicle program to replace its workhorse Humvees. It also invited companies to demonstrate existing light helicopters, in a third attempt to replace the aging fleet of OH-58 Kiowa Warriors.
Analysts say all three programs -- which together would be worth tens of billions of dollars to companies in coming years -- could be scrapped or delayed because of the budget cuts.
Shyu said the Army was developing a more agile and affordable process for buying weapons, injecting more competition and figuring out early how much military requirements added to the cost of new weapons, she said.
Lennox said Army acquisition officials were trying to set priorities within weapons portfolios and make trade-offs earlier in the process that should damp cost growth.
"I really hate to think that because you screwed up 10 years ago, that you're going to be forever stupid," Shyu said. "We are learning ... what we need to do to change our processes."


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19 June 1991 Drama, Romance 102 mins
Georges Deblache is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he suspects he has cancer. His partner is Didier Theron, who has recently married a woman whom he has worshipful feelings for -- feelings which don't stop him from routinely bedding the many women of color he encounters while doing his job. Georges takes a keen interest in his partner's unrealistically appreciated wife and pushes his way into her not entirely unwilling arms.
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When Goggles first came out, it was a great idea with potential but not that useful in practice.
 With the latest version, though that potential has wowed a lot of people. Being able to take a picture of a logo and get the company history from Wikipedia or other related information is pretty cool. Far more impressive though, is taking a picture of a few words on a French menu and getting back the name of the dish in English in seconds.
 But that's just this version. Imagine what's going to happen when this image recognition technology gets even better(and Google are working on it)
 Imagine being able to watch a video on YouTube and thinking 'that phone looks cool', clicking on it and being able to buy it. I'm pretty sure that that's Google's big-picture idea for this technology.
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He stood staring at the oak-stained door in front of him. It was just a cheaply made, economy-style door, but right now it was a symbol of all that stood between them. All the petty fights and the little annoyances, the often irrational anger and that bone-deep suffering that only love can cause; all of it came together to be represented by this one door.
The threshold itself was a choice, a defining moment in his life. Would he allow all of the pain and misunderstanding of the past to be his excuse for not taking that great leap of faith or would he move forward, open the door and jump?
On the one hand, he had come this far. After three weeks, five days and approximately ten and a half hours of regret, anger, hurt, anger and just general indecision he now found himself starring at this poorly constructed door to her apartment.
On the other hand, he was still really angry over all that had happened. There were trust issues to be dealt with and apologies to be made on both sides and he wasn't sure that what was left over was worth all the work that was needed.
The truth was that he felt like he didn't know her anymore. She hadn't called him at all since their last fight and now he wondered whether she even wanted to fix things between them. Perhaps she had been glad to see him leave and wouldn't want to see him now.
Maybe this wasn't the best idea to have just come by rather than calling her first. Maybe this wasn't the best idea at all. These problems and fights had been part of their relationship since the very beginning and perhaps it was time they both simply walked away.
He'd been standing outside her door now for at least ten minutes and he still didn't know whether to knock or whether to just turn and walk away. There were so many questions to be answered. Did she love him? Did he love her? Did he even want her love anymore?
He thought back to the good times. There wasn't that many really. They seemed to always be fighting or just getting over a fight. Sometimes they were just about to start a fight. Why was this so hard? People always say that love is worth fighting for, but was their fight worth loving? Did that even make sense?
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The only problem was that he wasn't sure that he was sorry. She had played a part in all this too and he was sick of always having to be the villain. He said sorry first every single time. She always made him feel like he was in the wrong.
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Then he turned around and walked away. As he headed outside he couldn't help smiling a little to himself.
He had finally made a decision and it was the best thing that he had ever done.
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The Type Of Information We May Collect; How We May Use It
Personal Information
In general, you can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. The company does, however, offer website visitors the opportunity to contact, communicate and transact business with us directly via our website. If you choose to take advantage of any of these opportunities, we may ask that you voluntarily provide us with personal information to facilitate the communication or transaction. More specifically, we may collect and store personal information when you voluntarily provide it to us via our website, such as by:
• Completing and submitting any of the electronic inquiry, information request, contact or comment forms made available to you.
• Sending us email through any of the email addresses provided via the website.
• Registering, applying for or setting up an account with the company via any of our websites.
• Accessing or using any password-protected portions of our website or any customer or employee-specific portions of the website.
• Signing up for company email alerts or for one or more of our mailing lists.
• Submitting a resume to us via email or other means made available through any of our websites.
• Requesting information from us.
• Conducting other online transactions with us.
In connection with these activities, we may collect various types of personal information from you, including your first and last name, job title, company or business name, physical street address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, social security number, other demographic information, username, password and any other personal information you provide. If you do not wish to submit personal information to us via our website, we encourage you not to engage in any of the activities listed above.
The personal information that you provide to us via one or more of our websites may be stored, processed and used by us (at our discretion) for the following purposes:
• To fulfill information requests and enable the company to respond to questions.
• To process and track applications, and transact business with you.
• To review, evaluate and respond to job applications and resumes you submit to us.
• Internal record keeping.
• To improve our products and services, and to develop new products and services.
• To periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• To contact you from time to time. We may contact you by email, phone, fax, mail or text message.
• To compile, generate and/or analyze information for trends and statistics.
• To track whether leads and applications arise from user contacts with us.
• For internal marketing and research purposes, and to learn about customer needs and interests.
• To customize our website according to your interests.
• To complete the application process, activate, maintain and/or administer your account(s) with us. This may include providing information to a reputable credit bureau or similar information reporting agency.
• To help conduct internal reviews of, administer, address problems with, modify and improve our website.
• To protect the security and/or integrity of our website.
• To make our website easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information.
• To match personal information collected via our website with information about you collected offline, including, but not limited to, for purposes of ensuring its accuracy.
• To notify you about changes to our website, including without limitation this policy.
• Any other purposes authorized by you or for any other purposes disclosed on our website at the time you provide your personal information.
Non-Personal Information; Cookies
As part of the standard operation of our website, we may use technology to collect certain aggregate and non-personally identifiable information concerning our users, including, but not limited to, your computer's IP address, domain name from which you accessed our website (e.g., google.com), browser type (e.g., Chrome or IE), pages viewed, the date and time you visited our website, operating system (e.g., Windows or Macintosh), Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), the areas or pages of our website that you visit, the amount of time spent viewing our website, the number of times you return to our website, and other click-stream data.
Non-personal information that we may collect from you via our website is not used by us to personally identify you. Instead this information may be compiled and/or analyzed by us on an aggregated basis to measure our users' habits. This helps us to measure the use of our website, improve the content, functionality and operation of our website and to better understand and serve our users.
We may also utilize "cookies" in connection with our website. A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your computer's hard drive. They enable servers to recognize your computer when it visits a website again (which, in some cases, eliminates the need to re-enter your information). Cookies help website owners analyze data about web page traffic and improve site functionality to meet customer needs or desires. Cookies also allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can then tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall, cookies help provide you with better websites, by enabling website owners to understand which web pages you find useful and which you do not.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. The "help" segment of the toolbar on most browsers typically explains how to configure a browser to reject new cookies, how to have the browser inform a user when they receive a new cookie, and how to erase cookies from a computer's hard drive. However, disabling cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website you are browsing.
With Whom Your Information May Be Shared
We may disclose personal and non-personal information among our subsidiary, affiliated and parent companies for marketing, promotional and business purposes. This would include our affiliated company, Interstate Auto Group, Inc. as well as any of its subsidiaries, all of which do business as CarHop.
Like most companies, we hire third parties such as agents and contractors to provide certain administrative and other business-related services on our behalf (e.g. accountants, shipping companies, companies that help administer our website or process transactions for us, etc.). We may disclose personal and non-personal information to these third-party service providers as needed to perform the services for which they have been hired.
In addition, we may disclose personal and non-personal information outside of our company if you direct us to do so, or if we are required to do so as specified in more detail in "Disclosure Exceptions" below.
Disclosure Exceptions
Notwithstanding the above policies, we reserve the right to disclose, without notice to you, your personal information to appropriate third parties if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary:
• To comply with legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order.
• To protect the company's rights and property or defend against legal claims.
• To protect any other party's rights, property, and safety.
• To report to any law enforcement agency any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.
• To investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving harassment, abusive messages or potential threats to the physical safety of any persons.
• To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website.
• During emergencies, such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk.
• In the event that one or more of our companies is ever sold, acquired, merged, liquidated, reorganized, or otherwise transferred, we reserve the right to transfer our user databases, together with any personal and non-personal information contained therein, to the third party acquiring the respective company.
Under the United States Patriot Act, we may be restricted from notifying individuals that such information has been disclosed.
Children's Privacy
Our website and any products or services provided via our website are not intended to target, and are not structured to attract, children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly market our products and services to children under the age of 13. If we discover personal information submitted via one or more of our websites from a child under the age of 13, we will eliminate that information. If a parent or guardian notifies us that we have unknowingly collected (via one or more of our websites) personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will eliminate that information at the parent or guardian's request.
Tracking Tools
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the site are usually sent to a server of Google in the U.S. and stored there. In the case of activation of the IP anonymization on the website, the IP address will be truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to a Google server in the USA and is shortened there. On behalf of us, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity together and to provide other services related to the website and internet use. The IP address submitted by your browser will not be merged with other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser, we point out, however, that in this case you might not be able to use all the features of our website. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie relating to the use of the site (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the available browser plug-in. The current link is http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Our company strives to provide both functionality and security to our employees and users of the website and other systems we maintain. Our approach to security involves many different facets including, but not limited to, firewalls, proxy servers, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates, password policies, data encryption and Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients.
Unfortunately, no electronic communication over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to take great care to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you submit to us via the internet, and you do so at your own risk. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser. Also, remember to sign off of our website and close your browser window when you are finished. This is to help ensure that others cannot pose as you online.
Links To Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest, which are owned, operated and/or controlled by third parties or our affiliates. However, once you have used these links to leave our website, you should note that we may not have any control over the other third-party website you visit. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the content, security and/or privacy of any information which you provide while visiting third-party websites, and such websites are not governed by this policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to each website in question before browsing that site and submitting personal information over the Internet.
California Privacy Rights
Under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who have an established business relationship with us and provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us (once per calendar year) information about the customer information we have shared, if any, with third parties for their own direct marketing use. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information shared and the names and addresses of those third parties with whom we shared customer information. For instance, we may share customer information with Interstate Auto Group, Inc. or its subsidiaries regarding a customer's change of address, payments, or transaction or experience information.
The information we will provide in response to your request would be for the immediately preceding calendar year. For example, if you make a request during the 2012 calendar year that is covered under the law, we will provide you with information regarding any sharing activities covered under this law during the 2011 calendar year.
Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
To obtain this information please contact us as set forth below under "How to Contact Us," and include "Request for California Privacy Information" in the subject line of your correspondence. If your request is covered under the law, we will provide the requested information to you in writing or at the e-mail address you provide.
Additional California Online Privacy Protection Act Disclosures
We currently do not collect Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") from visitors to our website. Because of this, we do not respond to do not track signals concerning PII in Web browsers (although as discussed in "Tracking Tools" above, we do respond to do not track signals regarding non-PII).
There is an exception. As discussed in "Personal Information" above, website visitors who choose to communicate with us via our website, such as by submitting an online application or contacting us via our website, will be sharing their PII with us. But after their online application or contact is completed, we do not track any future web activity from that visitor.
We also currently do not authorize third parties to collect PII from visitors to our website.
Other Information
UAC and CarHop purchases its receivables from Interstate Auto Group d/b/a CarHop ("IAG"), which originates the financing on every receivable owned by UAC and CarHop. UAC and IAG are separate companies. UAC and CarHop employees cannot provide any information on IAG accounts.
UAC and CarHop/IAG are not credit repair companies. Customers do not pay UAC or CarHop/IAG to help them improve their credit. The only credit benefits customers receive result from making their payments in a timely manner and otherwise performing under their contract with UAC or CarHop/IAG.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this policy, if you are a California resident and would like to make a request for California privacy information, if you would like to review, update, correct and/or delete any personal information that you provided us via our website, or for other online privacy inquiries, please contact us at email@example.com, or at: P.O. Box 398104, Minneapolis, MN 55439-8104.
* UAC and CarHop's subsidiary companies currently include: Universal Acceptance Corporation (CA), Universal Acceptance Corporation (CO), Universal Acceptance Corporation (IA), Illinois UAC Corporation, Universal Acceptance Corporation (KS), Universal Acceptance Corporation (MN), Universal Acceptance Corporation (MN-AR), Universal Acceptance Corporation (MO), Universal Acceptance Corporation (NE), Universal Acceptance Corporation (OK), Universal Acceptance Corporation (OR), Universal Acceptance Corporation (PA), Universal Acceptance Corporation (SD), Universal Acceptance Corporation (TX), Universal Acceptance (UT) Corporation, Universal Acceptance Corporation (WA), and Universal Acceptance Corporation (WI).
Updated: December 30, 2013
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Happy Monday!! I can't believe we are at the end of October!! The weather is getting a lot colder and because of it I am fighting the sniffles today. BUT onto happy things like the Studio Calico November Homemade kit! I have a few sneaks to share today, hoping to share a fourth one with you tomorrow as well!
ps...Thanks for stopping by and posting comments (read every single one)! I see a lot of you feel my pain from my ooc post and it is okay to have a pile of layouts. :) I do look through them more this way because as soon as they go into an album that's it! S2 pull out albums more than I do and that's what I love about this passion we share....the captured memories! :)
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Published: Thursday 29th January 2015 by The News Editor
A hostage who died during a siege in a Sydney cafe was killed when she was struck by fragments of a police bullet, an inquest has been told.
Lawyer Jeremy Gormly told Glebe Coroner's Court Katrina Dawson was killed as police stormed the cafe to end the 16-hour siege last month.
Ms Dawson was struck by six fragments of a police bullet that had ricocheted off a hard surface, he said.
An inquest into the deadly siege is determining exactly how gunman Man Horan Monis and two hostages died.
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Huge tornado kills 16 in Arkansas on day of violent weather; other twister kills 1 in Oklahoma
VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — Three years after a tornado devastated the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, its residents found themselves huddling in the dark early Monday wondering how they would rebuild again after the most powerful tornado yet this year carved a path through their city and others nearby, killing at least 16 people.
The tornado touched down Sunday about 10 miles west of Little Rock at around 7 p.m., then carved an 80-mile path of destruction as it passed through or near several suburbs north of the state capital, including Vilonia. It grew to be a half-mile wide and remained on the ground for much of that route, authorities said.
Among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that was set to open this fall.
"There's just really nothing there anymore. We're probably going to have to start all over again," Vilonia Schools Superintendent Frank Mitchell said after surveying what was left of the building.
The tornado was the largest of several produced by a powerful storm system that rumbled through the central and southern U.S. Another twister killed a person in Quapaw, Okla., before crossing into Kansas to the north and destroying 60 to 70 homes and injuring 25 people in the city of Baxter Springs, according to authorities in Kansas. A death was reported in Baxter Springs, but it wasn't yet known if it was caused by the tornado, making the Oklahoma death the only confirmed death from Sunday's storms outside of Arkansas. The overall death toll stood at 17 early Monday.
Pro-Russian insurgents seize council building in another city in eastern Ukraine
KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Masked and armed militants on Monday seized a council building in yet another city in eastern Ukraine, expanding their onslaught in the region, while Barack Obama said the U.S. would levy new sanctions on Russians for Moscow's alleged involvement in the unrest.
The building housing the city hall and the city council in Kostyantynivka, just 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border, was seized by masked men who carried automatic weapons. About 15 armed men, some wearing a symbol of the pro-Russian movement, guarded the building.
Kostyantynivka is just 35 kilometers south of Slovyansk which has been in insurgents' hands for more than three weeks now.
Since November, Ukraine has been engulfed in its worst political crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Months of anti-government protests in the capital Kiev culminated in President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing to Russia in late February.
Ukraine's acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion. Last month, Russia annexed Crimea weeks after seizing control of the Black Sea peninsula.
Obama: US to levy new sanctions Monday on Russian individuals, companies
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Seeking to ratchet up pressure on Vladimir Putin, President Barack Obama said the United States will levy new sanctions Monday on Russian individuals and companies in retaliation for Moscow's alleged provocations in Ukraine.
Obama said the targets of the sanctions would include high-technology exports to Russia's defense industry. The full list of targets will be announced by officials in Washington later Monday and are also expected to include wealthy individuals close to Putin, the Russian president.
"The goal here is not to go after Mr. Putin personally," Obama said. "The goal is to change his calculus with respect to how the current actions that he's engaging in could have an adverse impact on the Russian economy over the long haul."
Obama announced the sanctions during a news conference in the Philippines, his final stop on a four-country Asia swing. The president has been building a case for this round of penalties throughout his trip, both in his public comments and in private conversations with European leaders.
The new sanctions are intended to build on earlier U.S. and European visa bans and asset freezes imposed on Russian officials, including many in Putin's inner circle, after Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine last month.
Egypt judge sentences 683 to death in mass trial, including Muslim Brotherhood leader
MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president on Monday over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in Egypt that included the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, defense lawyers said.
Under the law, Monday's verdicts in the southern city of Minya have to be referred to Egypt's Grand Mufti, the top Islamic official, said one of the attorneys, Ahmed Hefni.
Such a move is usually considered a formality but the same judge in the trial on Monday also reversed most of the death sentences out of 529 that were passed in a similar case in March, and commuted the majority of them to life imprisonment.
Monday's case is linked to deadly riots that erupted in Minya and elsewhere in Egypt after security forces violently disbanded sit-ins held by Brotherhood supporters in Cairo last August.
Hundreds were killed as part of a sweeping campaign against supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, who was removed by the military last July.
Report: US high school graduation rate at 80 percent; more progress needed to meet 90 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma.
Citing the progress, researchers are projecting a 90 percent national graduation rate by 2020.
Their report, based on Education Department statistics from 2012, was being presented Monday at the Building a GradNation Summit.
The growth has been spurred by such factors as a greater awareness of the dropout problem and efforts by districts, states and the federal government to include graduation rates in accountability measures. Among the initiatives are closing "dropout factory" schools.
In addition, schools are taking aggressive action, such as hiring intervention specialists who work with students one on one, to keep teenagers in class, researchers said.
Democrats hope Senate minimum wage vote will draw November support from women, young voters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Win or lose — and they'll probably lose — Democrats hope this week's Senate showdown over raising the federal minimum wage reaps them benefits in November's congressional elections.
Whether they'll get an Election Day payoff is uncertain.
In a Senate vote expected Wednesday, Republicans seem likely to block the Democratic measure, which would gradually raise today's $7.25 hourly minimum, reaching $10.10 as soon as 2016. Even if the bill, one of President Barack Obama's top priorities, somehow survives in the Senate, it stands little chance of even getting a vote in the GOP-run House.
Who would the proposal most directly affect? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women and young people make up disproportionate portions of the 3.3 million people who earned $7.25 or less last year. Both groups traditionally skew Democratic, and the party would love to drive them to the polls in November as it battles to retain Senate control.
"It's a powerful values issue for middle-class voters," Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin said of the minimum wage push. "And it's a powerful motivator for voters in the Democratic base who are a focal point of Democratic efforts to turn out voters in the midterm elections."
Volunteers quietly help families of SKorean ferry's lost in manifold ways, from cabs to kebabs
JINDO, South Korea (AP) — The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock's edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for her son's return.
"They are really suffering," said the monk, Bul Il, who came from the southeastern port city of Busan to help the families of the more than 100 still missing in the sunken South Korean ferry. "It's painful for me to watch their misery," he said, his face peeling and red from long chants on a platform facing the sea.
Bul Il is one member of an impromptu city that has sprung up at this normally sleepy port for the families of those lost in the disaster. The city runs on the kindness of strangers.
A sense of national mourning over a tragedy that will likely result in more than 300 deaths, most of them high school students, has prompted an outpouring of volunteers. More than 16,000 people — about half the island's normal population — have come to help.
They handle much of the care that relatives of the missing receive in Jindo as they wait for divers to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from the wreckage of the ferry Sewol.
Australia says missing plane's search area to be expanded in 2nd phase of underwater hunt
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search, Australia's prime minister said Monday.
The U.S. Navy's Bluefin 21 robotic submarine has spent weeks scouring the initial search area for Flight 370 in the remote Indian Ocean far off Australia's west coast, but has found no trace of the missing aircraft, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. Officials are now looking to bring in new equipment that can search a larger patch of seabed for the plane, Abbott said.
"It is highly unlikely at this stage that we will find any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk," Abbott told reporters. "Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area."
An aerial search for the plane that has dragged on for six weeks will officially end on Monday, the search coordination center later confirmed.
Radar and satellite data show the jet carrying 239 passengers and crew veered far off course on March 8 for unknown reasons during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Analysis indicates it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. But not a single piece of debris has been recovered since the massive multinational hunt began.
With players anxious for resolution to Sterling matter, all eyes now on NBA's Adam Silver
The Los Angeles Clippers have Monday off.
Adam Silver likely won't get that same luxury.
Facing the first real crisis of his short tenure as NBA commissioner, Silver is under pressure to swiftly bring some sort of resolution to the scandal surrounding Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the racially charged comments he allegedly made in a recorded conversation, portions of which were released over the weekend by TMZ and Deadspin.
The matter will not go away anytime soon, but the players' association is hoping Silver rules before the Clippers play host to Golden State in a critical Game 5 of their knotted-up Western Conference first-round series on Tuesday night. That means plenty of eyeballs will remain on the commissioner's office Monday, waiting to see if any word is coming.
"This situation is a massive distraction for the league right now," said Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the former NBA All-Star who is serving as an adviser to the National Basketball Players Association while the Sterling matter plays out. "It must be addressed immediately."
Obama says new military pact with the Philippines will improve security in Asia
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama said a 10-year agreement signed Monday to give the U.S military greater access to Philippine bases will help promote peace and stability in the region and that he hopes China's dominant power will allow its neighbors to prosper on their own terms.
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement signed as Obama arrived in the Philippines will give American forces temporary access to selected military camps and allow them to preposition fighter jets and ships. It is being seen as an effort by Washington to counter Chinese aggression in the region, and Obama said his message to China is, "We want to be a partner with you in upholding international law."
"Our goal is not to counter China. Our goal is not to contain China. Our goal is to make sure international rules and norms are respected and that includes in the area of international disputes," Obama said at a news conference with Philippine President Benigno Aquino at the Malacanang Palace.
Obama's overnight visit to the Philippines is the last stop of a weeklong Asia tour that also included Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. At each stop along his tour, Obama reaffirmed the U.S. treaty commitments to defend its Asian allies, including in their territorial disputes with China.
"We don't even take a specific position on the disputes between nations but as a matter of international law and international norms we don't think that coercion and intimidation is the way to manage these disputes," Obama said. He added that when the U.S. has disputes with its neighbors, it works them out through dialogue. "We don't go around sending ships and threatening folks."


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As a co-founder and 30+ years on staff of the Thomas Merton Center, I welcome fair-minded and accurate criticisms of the Center, a grassroots organization funded mostly by our members.
This coming year marks our 40th anniversary as a peace and justice center. I suggest you go to our website for more information, www.thomasmertoncenter.org. Our newspaper, the New People, covers the many peace, justice and ecology movements active in the region and beyond.
On Nov. 3d we are honoring Vandana Shiva, internationally known leader in the struggle for food security, economic and environmental justice and women.
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As a member of the Board, former staff member of 30+ years and co-founder of the Thomas Merton Center, I am very sorry that this person has chosen to make unfounded attacks on the Center and individual board members.
Members have received five-page single-spaced letters from the same person.
As with most non-profits, the Center has to struggle economically in these hard times. This has required cutbacks in administrative expenses. Despite this, due to the work of an amazing group of volunteers and board members, the Center has increased its membership by 30% over the past year.
Hundreds came together in the spring for our Annual New Person Award honoring the three attorneys who are strong advocates for civil liberties for many years and who served as the legal team for peace and justice groups during and after the G-20 meeting.
In November over 700 attended the annual Thomas Merton Award dinner honoring Noam Chomsky, which was a sellout.
I suggest that people check our website, www.thomasmertoncenter.org and read our publication, The New People for a fuller understanding of the work of the Center.
When I innocently came onto the Board in January 2010, after several years of volunteering with one of their fiscal projects, I never expected that four members of the Thomas Merton Center Board including the communist president would steal mail and donation checks from two of their projects including my project, let alone attack me and my project in various ways for more than a year. Merton Center did so much harm to the books-to-prisoners project that it was robbed of its primary worker (me) and split up, to where Book'Em could no longer serve all 50 states as we had for ten years.
Two Merton Center members grabbed power in Book'Em exactly the way the Board had stated they wanted, and proceeded to sell off and throw away half of our inventory of books that had been specifically donated for the use of prisoners; they then cut off 47 states' worth of prisoners, many of whom we had served for ten years. They kept all the money and the remaining books and can't even keep up with our own state, while I rescued thousands of prisoners' letter-orders which I am serving from a lady's basement with my own money; I am attempting to start a new prison books program and to find a public location and to get funding. This NEEDLESS and totally uncaring and disrespectful disruption of our services has meant that thousands of people behind bars, especially those in solitary, did NOT get books at all or in a timely manner.
The vice-president Carole Wiedman had said at a meeting, "We could all go to prison except for Rose (me) and Jonah," then they got busy purging the files; they had taken in $25 million dollars in 25 years but hadn't paid off the little $50,000 mortgage on the fine, stable old building which they called as unsaleable. Besides the Unemployment Insurance fraud they'd committed regularly, members were asking us, "Where did all the money go and why should we donate more?" Due to their sudden preoccupation with knowing who was in the building at all times plus the fact that TMC was nearly out of money, I believe that they may have been going to set fire to the building for the insurance money. They turned down an offer from a community coalition for $104,000 because the building was valued at over $150,000, then they sold it for $90,000 to a group which gentrified the neighborhood further but the building was renovated for a fraction of what TMC claimed was needed.
This was one of the most horrible experiences of my life, particularly since those completely immoral lying troublemaking thieves on the Board were joined by two more Board members in attempting to FRAME me for alleged Harassment. With NO EVIDENCE for that and despite evidence to the contrary, these creeps proceeded to drag me into court FOUR times and even manufactured a foot-tall stack of paper claiming that I had sent many harassing emails in the previous few months--something that I would never do under any circumstances. They assassinated my reputation to my fellow TMC members and to the community at large. This cost me two thousand dollars including $400 for a lawyer to come to court with me the last time, which was wasted money since the Merton Center liars finally chickened out and didn't show up, at which point the DA withdrew the charge against me and he and I shook hands.
Merton Center which is supposed to stand for peace and social justice, actually spent a great deal of time and energy MAKING WAR on me and on one of the two most valuable social justice projects they have. Who knows how many checks they stole from how many projects? Under no circumstances would I EVER give time or money to this place again.
Furthermore, they discriminate against poor and minorities by refusing to answer letters from prisoner-members and by withholding Board election ballots from them this last time. The communist president has been quietly replaced but remains on the Board and wrote alot of the articles for their newsletter, and it seems to report on the activities of other groups for the most part...since Merton Center does virtually nothing.
At no point have any of them ever apologized to me or cared enough to ask how I am. Those seemingly normal people nearly gave an innocent person a criminal record, after driving another volunteer to attempt suicide over their game-playing with our mail and donation checks. If you want to donate to a prison book program, please donate to Spring Grass Book'Em, 1401 Hodgkiss Street, Pittsburgh PA 15212. Thank you for your time, Rosemary C. Anderson, Executive Director firstname.lastname@example.com
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Thomas Merton Center (TMC) has lost two-thirds of its membership locally including many young people, and is famous for its incompetence and lack of caring for many community groups it could be supportive of or working with. They have been almost all white along with most of the staff despite their location in a black neighborhood. As a former Board member, I know that they failed to insulate their huge old building or to even plug up a 10-inch hole in the foundation with a clear shot to the outside air FOR YEARS & it still has a large gap of an inch or so under one back door. While lamenting huge utility bills & expenses, they heated all rooms and floors including vacant ones to 70 degrees--and refused to rent them out although small community groups had no place to start up an office. While being unable to get grants because they did nothing, this year a group of B.members seized power and attacked and harmed and nearly destroyed their largest project in residence. They broke their own rule when they refused to deal with the project head who was handicapped/Native American Indian/poor/senior in order to deal first with one unwilling parttime volunteer then another one who were coincidentally both white/middleclass/ablebodied and young. They fail to post all their monthly meeting minutes, and were heard saying that they don't want the black staff person to represent TMC because she's on psychiatric medication--but they say nothing about at least one of their white members who is/are also on psychiatric medication. One B.member communist Courtney Smith loudly announced twice that she was taking a bunch of stuff (books, CDs,?) as payment for all the free time she volunteered here--then I noticed office supplies kept going missing too even when I donated more. The Board laid off all the staff in April and added to their financial crisis by renting next door to an almost paid off solid building, without looking at more than one rental, then refused to sell the old building to a community coalition while being willing to sell to anyone who comes along although it will gentrify the neighborhood further. I would never ever give them money nor any of my time again, unless the entire Board were removed and there were major changes in attitude. One old woman who came in to volunteer was treated rudely by the young staff who spent most of their time yakking and partying, and she went elsewhere. As one fine intern told me, "It's a joke."
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The Merton Center has accomplished many things in the past two years. With the help of dedicated board members we have improved our financial standing by moving to a new location that has significantly lowered our expenses so the board and its members can focus on peace and justice work in the community. We have also begun working on improving our organizational capacity through a strategic planning process that involves the community in our efforts to create a more peaceful and just world.
I have been a board member for 6 years and had two projects at the Thomas Merton Center. In fact, I am one of the 2 members Rosemary has alluded to in her definition of the corruption at the Center. I joined the Center awhile after moving to Pittsburgh from California where I was active in the peace movement and grape boycott of the '70's in my hometown--Pittsburg, CA (also known as Pittas Califas). Countering the charges made are very hard and I believe there are only two things to be said. 1st: We have been living through hard times (the perfect storm) as an organization and all board members had to make really difficult financial decisions (our bookkeeper retired) for the good of our members and all projects, without a staff. 2nd: *None of us* are indispensable (including Rosemary) and Book 'Em continues to thrive.
The TMC has continued to exist because it is the one place everyone can come to where peace and social justice is not just a side issue. We welcome anarchists, socialists, the spiritual, the religious, atheists -- everyone who is willing to recognize the need for a nonviolent movement for social change and peace. It is not an easy task and we are all *far* from perfect. What we share is a longing to recognize and raise up those who have a love for constructive engagement with strangers offering a home for those who point in new directions to insure a safe and equitable future.
All that being said, I miss the former staff and think Melissa's criticism is justified. As justified as it is, I will continue to work to encourage what is very good about the TMC, encouraged by a Trappist who knew anger and humility in equal doses. I still believe that when we all work together for the good, when we all encourage one another, members, volunteers, and Board, our presence will make a difference. We have a good track record!
I am one of the newest board members for the Thomas Merton Center. I would first like to thank the reviews from our members and donors because those carry so much weight. And I think cleighs has hit the rest of the points pertaining to the 1 star rating, so I'm not even going to address it.
As one of the newest members (and the youngest), the learning curve for me has been challenging considering the long history the Thomas Merton Center. The more I learn, the more I not only realize the important work it has done and continues to do, but also the effort the members put improving it every year. In no way is it a perfect organization, but I believe it is definitely an important one. And for this reason I continue to support it and will do so for the foreseeable future.


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Australia actress Nicole Kidman has ruined her co-star Hugh Jackman's hunky image - after revealing he fainted on the first day of shooting the Baz Luhrmann epic.
Kidman stars opposite the X-Men actor in the World War II blockbuster set in the Aussie outback. In November (08), the pale actress admitted she had to be rushed to hospital after fainting on horseback while filming her scenes in the blistering heat.
And the Oscar winner confesses she wasn't the only one to struggle with the scorching temperatures - Jackman collapsed just hours after the cameras started rolling.
She tells Britain's The Independent newspaper, "Obviously, I'm very fair-skinned and that's not where I'm at ease (the outback). I remember sitting on a horse and thinking, 'Gosh, this is what you feel like before you faint,' and then I fainted."
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2012 NFL Scouting Combine, No team was more decimated by injury in 2011 than the Kansas Chiefs, losing safety Eric Berry, tight end Tony Moeaki and star running back Jamaal Charles for good, early last season.
Matt Cassel, also injured in 2011, appeared in just nine games as well, but general manager Scott Pioli told the media today at the scouting combine that Cassel will be the team's starter in 2012.
The goods news is that each of those players was injured early in 2011, so they should be ready to go for training camp later this summer.
More so than the draft, getting healthy players back will greatly improve the Kansas City Chiefs.
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy has issued the initial recommendations of President Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis without one reference to medical marijuana as a part of a plan to address the ongoing epidemic of opioid misuse and abuse.
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The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017, HR 1227, eliminates federal criminal penalties for possessing and growing the plant. This legislation gives states the power and flexibility to establish their own marijuana policies free from federal interference.
With the recent confirmation of militant marijuana prohibitionist Jeff Sessions to the position of US Attorney General, and with comments from the Trump administration warning of a coming federal crackdown in adult use states, passage of The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act is necessary to ensure that marijuana consumers are protected from undue federal interference.
With public support for reforming marijuana laws at an all time high, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Don Young (R-AK) have formed the first-ever Congressional Cannabis Caucus to develop and promote sensible cannabis policy reform and work to ease the tension between federal and state cannabis laws.
Never in modern history has there existed greater public support for ending the nation's nearly century-long experiment with marijuana prohibition. The continued criminalization of adult marijuana use is out-of-step with the views of adults throughout America, 93% of whom support medical marijuana (Quinnipiac, 2017) and 60 percent of whom endorse the outright legalization of recreational cannabis (Gallup, 2016).
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Care workers caught on camera abusing patient jailed for seven months
TWO care workers caught abusing a quadriplegic man by secret cameras set up by his family have each been jailed for seven months.
Daniel Moran, 21, was routinely called "scummy boy, scummy lad" and "bastard" by Lynette Crook and Rita Page, who were supposed to be looking after him.
Page, 69, also slapped the patient's leg in a "loss of temper" while Crook, 33, on one occasion jabbed her pen towards his head then tapped it repeatedly on his leg.
Both women worked at the time for The Priory Highbank Centre in Bury, Greater Manchester where Mr Moran was a patient.
He had suffered serious brain injuries and was left in a "minimally conscious state" after a car crash in April 2008, in Speke, Liverpool.
Mr Moran, then aged 17, from Halewood, Liverpool, was a Tranmere Rovers squad player at the time of the crash, which left two other teenagers in the car dead.
Crook admitted three counts and Page two counts of ill treatment of a person lacking mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act at an earlier hearing and were sentenced today at Bolton Crown Court.
Jailing the pair, Judge Timothy Clayson, said: "By behaving as you did towards Daniel each of you broke in a fundamental way the trust placed in you by Daniel's family.
"Your duty was to care for him, to show him respect and kindness, to afford him dignity and to protect him: you chose instead to belittle and demean him.
"Furthermore, society as a whole rightly deplores abuse towards the vulnerable.
"In addition, and importantly, your misconduct was not limited to a single event of mistreatment but involved multiple occasions of abusive language as well; it is no mitigation to suggest that the victim was not or may not have been aware of how he was being abused indeed medical opinion indicates that he may have some degree of awareness."


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I think we figured out the trails pretty good now. Found some good stuff like this

dennis, ill bring your camera(as you can tell i finally remembered mine) and a bunch of towels to keep your truck clean.
Maybe we should try parking down by the softball field for one run and play around the other side of the mtn.
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i'll see you guys in the upper lot @11 will bring my digital camera as well. lets try to get some nice action shots like the ones you guys posted. Its going to be a great day...see you then
aight sounds good, i need to make a bike rack for the bed of my truck some how with 2x4's maybe ill work on that one day haha.
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The top 15 scholars from our 15 PromiseLand schools were the guests of the InterContinental Hotel in Warsaw from July 1-3rd. Each of our 15 PromiseLand Schools selected their best all-around student to qualify as an InterContinental Scholar and board a bus for a trip of a lifetime.
This was the 4th year in a row that the InterContinental Hotel hosted the InterContinental Scholars Program for our PromiseKids. The kids graduated from their respective schools in June and with little rest under their belts embarked on a 3-night four day trip they will never forget.
Natalie, Meg, Basia, and the Hotel staff arranged a very full schedule of events for our kids that included visits to the Royal Castle, the Presidential Palace, Lazienki Park, the Planetarium of Copernicus, the zoo, and lots of swimming in the award winning InterContinental swimming pool. The trip was topped off with a final awards banquet and the awarding of Scholar Plaques by InterContinental Hotel General Manager, Christian Henkemeier.
Thanks InterContinental Hotel. You are the best…
Two of our PromiseKids, Andrzej Mikulko and Marcin Raulin, were selected to be Ronald Reagan Fellows this year and to participate in the Reagan Legacy Tour of the United States. Both boys were selected from a pool of former PromiseKids who had participated in our Foundation's Interactive English Program, "Dreams Come True." The criteria for selection was formative and Andrzej and Marcin were the last two left standing at the end of the rigorous competition.
Andrzej and Marcin are High School students in the Swidwin High School and graduated from the Brzezno Middle School (one of our 15 PromiseLand Schools). English proficiency was a major part of the selection process, and both boys give credit for their English skills to the Foundation's "Dreams Come True" Interactive English Program. We thank all of you who helped support this program.
Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." For many young people today, the struggle for freedom and liberty is merely a chapter in a history book. The Reagan Legacy Foundation Liberty Education Tours seek to change that. This unique student exchange program offers future leaders tangible education in the principles of liberty as they study the words and actions of President Reagan and other great leaders while visiting sites significant in the history of freedom in the United States and central Europe.
The U.S. Tour visited three areas: Washington D.C., Central Illinois, and Southern California. The sites they visited in Washington are too numerous to list, but included the U.S. Capitol Building, White House, Supreme Court Building, National Mall, Arlington National Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Smithsonian, etc. While in Illinois they attended a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field where Michael Reagan threw the "First Pitch." They also visited Ronald Reagan's birthplace in Tampico, his boyhood home in Dixon, Lowell Park where he was a lifeguard and his alma mater, Eureka College. While in Illinois they also visited Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Library.
The thirteen students from Europe and the U.S. came together in Southern California to attend seminars, workshops and activities at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley and the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara. A day touring Hollywood was a must. A highlight was a VIP tour of the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo in the mountains above Santa Barbara, and a day at Disneyland.
Virginia and I along with Foundation Member Craig Smith attended the Farewell Banquet and Graduation Ceremony at the Reagan Library where each student was awarded a certificate officially identifying them as Reagan Freedom Fellows. Michael Reagan, the President's son, entrusted them with the charge to represent Ronald Reagan's legacy in all their future endeavors.
All expenses for Andrzej and Marcin while in the U.S. are borne by the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Our Foundation was responsible for transportation while the two boys were in Poland, and for their flights to and from the U.S. Once again we thank Air France, InterContinental Hotel, Ghelamco, and Travel Express for making the trip possible for Andrzej and Marcin.
Randstad did something very special for our PromiseKids on August 18-19th. Randstad Poland is the Polish subsidiary of the Randstad Group, one of the largest staffing organizations in the world, and they love our PromiseKids.
Forty-six fifth and sixth grade PromiseKids aged 12-13 years, from the Nowe Worowo, Lekowo, Oarzno, Brzezno and Bierzwnica PromiseLand Schools were taken on a cruise they will never forget aboard the Clipper Stad Amsterdam. A painting contest called the "Sailing Clipper" was held in the above schools during the month of May. The artists of the best pictures from 180 entries were selected for the cruise.
The kids wore costumes, painted their faces and sang a host of naval seagoing songs. A highlight of the trip was the "Baptism at Sea" ceremony. We thank you Randstad and General Manager Kajetan Slonina for this special event for our Promisekids.
We are pleased to announce that Foundation Member Hotel Sheraton Warsaw will once again host our fall CEO breakfast. Sheraton's General Manager Thomas Schoen will host our Foundation's CEOs at 0830 on October 17th.
It was a wonderful event last year and we suggest you make your reservation by return mail.
The new school year has just begun and thoughts turn to our Interactive On-line English Program for our PromiseKids. As most of you know, this program has been funded in the past by the generosity of a few of our member companies.
We would like to include 243 PromiseKids in the program this year and hope you will consider helping by providing licenses for one or more of our kids. The cost per license is 140 PLN, and we need 28 more licenses to reach our full complement of students.
Please let me know if you would like to help.
Aug 24th –Sep 7th - Makro "Back to School" collection at all Makro Stores.
October 17th – Fall CEO Breakfast hosted by the Sheraton Warsaw Hotel, 0830. Please make reservations now.
February 13th – 8th Annual Dinner Dance at the Warsaw Hilton Hotel. Mark your calendars for this special event.
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