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CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 --
All dollar references are in U.S. dollars unless noted otherwise.
Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. (TSX:BRP)(NYSE:BRP) ("Brookfield Residential", "we" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into an underwriting agreement with a syndicate of underwriters in connection with its previously announced offering of common shares (the "Offering"). The Company also announced that it is entering into a subscription agreement in connection with its previously announced private placement of 8,000,000 of its common shares with Brookfield Asset Management Inc., which is conditional upon the closing of the Offering (the "Concurrent Private Placement").
The net proceeds from the Offering, together with the net proceeds of the Concurrent Private Placement, will be used to repay a portion of the outstanding debt owed to Brookfield Office Properties Inc. The remaining net proceeds will be used to fund working capital and general corporate purposes, including the pay down of a revolving credit facility with Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
The Company has also granted the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 common shares of the Company at the Offering Price, exercisable for a period of 30 days following the closing of the Offering. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, are acting as book-running managers for the offering and CIBC World Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., RBC Capital Markets LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and TD Securities Inc. will act as co-managers for the offering.
The underwriters have agreed to purchase 8,000,000 common shares of the Company at a price (before the underwriters' discount) of $14.49 per share (the "Offering Price") for net proceeds before expenses of approximately $111 million. The Offering will made under a prospectus supplement (the "Supplement") to the Company's short form base shelf prospectus dated November 1, 2012, to be filed with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada. The Supplement will also be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") as a supplement to the Company's registration statement on Form F-10 in accordance with the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System established between Canada and the United States. Pursuant to the Concurrent Private Placement, Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has agreed to purchase 8,000,000 common shares of the Company at the Offering Price, net of the underwriters' discount, for net proceeds of approximately $111 million.
The Offering is expected to close on November 20, 2012, subject to a number of customary conditions, including approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
The Offering is being made concurrently in all provinces of Canada and in the United States pursuant to the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System established between Canada and the United States. The common shares will be offered in the United States and Canada by the underwriters either directly or through their respective U.S. or Canadian broker-dealer affiliates or agents, as applicable.
A copy of the Supplement filed in connection with the offering and the short form base shelf prospectus, including detailed information about the Company and its management, as well as financial statements, can be obtained by contacting Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by calling 1-800-831-9146, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 or by calling 1-800-221-1037 or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attn: Equity Syndicate Dept., 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10152 or by calling 1-800-326-5897 and are available on the SEC's website www.sec.gov.
This release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Brookfield Residential Properties Inc. is a North American land developer and homebuilder, active in ten principal markets with over 100,000 lots controlled. We entitle and develop land and build homes for our own communities, as well as sell lots to third-party builders. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol BRP.
Please note that Brookfield Residential's unaudited quarterly reports and audited annual report are filed on EDGAR and SEDAR and can also be found in the investor section of our website (the contents of which are not incorporated in this press release). Hard copies of the quarterly and annual reports can be obtained free of charge upon request.
For more information, please visit our website (the contents of which are not incorporated in this press release).
Note: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States federal securities laws. Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts, including information concerning the Offering and Concurrent Private Placement, and those statements preceded by, followed by, or that include the words "believe," "projected," "planned," "anticipate," "should," "goals," "expected," "potential," "estimate," "targeted," "scheduled" or similar expressions, constitute "forward-looking statements." Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results to differ materially from the anticipated future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forward in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in general economic, real estate and other conditions; changes in interest rates; mortgage rate changes; availability of suitable undeveloped land at acceptable prices; adverse legislation or regulation; ability to obtain necessary permits and approvals for the development of our land; availability of labour or materials or increases in their costs; ability to develop and market our master-planned communities successfully; laws and regulations related to property development and to the environment that could lead to additional costs and delays; confidence levels of consumers; ability to raise capital on favourable terms;
our debt and leverage; adverse weather conditions and natural disasters; relations with the residents of our communities; risks associated with increased insurance costs or unavailability of adequate coverage and ability to obtain surety bonds; competitive conditions in the homebuilding industry, including product and pricing pressures; ability to retain our executive officers; relationships with our affiliates; any increase in unemployment or underemployment; decline of the market value of our land and housing inventories; significant inflation or deflation; inability to raise capital on favorable terms or at all; failure in our financial and commercial controls; changes to foreign currency exchange rates; difficultly enforcing civil liabilities in the United States against us and our directors and officers; higher cancellation rates of existing agreements of sale; major health and safety incident relating to our business; utility and resource shortages or rate fluctuations and additional risks and uncertainties referred to in our filings with the securities regulators in Canada and the United States, many of which are beyond our control. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. However, any further disclosures made on related subjects in subsequent reports should be consulted.
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Agreed, upstart doesn't seem like news, but I'd be curious to hear a bit of back-and-forth as to the benefits of the various initscript replacements. Ubuntu makes a case for upstart on their site; it would be nice to known what others think.
Similarly for kvm vs. xen: xen is on roll these days, with everybody and their dog using it, but it seems like the company behind it is moving in an increasingly proprietary direction, so it would be good to hear what's up with that, and how kvm compares.
Because KVM requires hardware support for the virtualization, it won't work on any of my computers.
Xen does.
We will have to see how many have the type of hardware that one seems to need for VMware server 2. U
And I for one would like to welcomeSlashdot shares a corporate overlord with Linux.com.
Please note that this program was designed for use in package main-
tainer scripts and, accordingly, has only the very limited functional-
ity required by such scripts. System administrators are not encouraged
to use update-rc.d to manage runlevels. They should edit the links
directly or use runlevel editors such as sysv-rc-conf and bum instead.
Thus is from Ubuntu 7.10 x86_64.
I think you'd better prefer not to have the time and effort to analyse those different things: of course the more similar the choices the lesser risk to be wrong. But that's not freedom; it's lazyness.
I disagree. Myself, I would try more distros, if I didn't have to spend the time learning a new way of thinking each time. Why? Because of lazy? No, I have a single computer that I use for my work. The more time spent on system tweaking/learning is less doing the work I have an interest in.
I believe Linux could be completely seamless between most all distros
If they were so seemless among, what would be the segregating factor to choose one over the other?
The community, preformance etc etc. Remember, your parent is discussing the interface
There is no way Apple will agree on agreeing with anyone else - especially if it's some pesky open-source distributors or Sun, who are not in the desktop, but the server market (mostly).
Actually, Apple frequently adopts technologies and standards from both Sun and Linux distros. The thing is, Apple also is not willing to compromise on all things and will sometimes roll their own when they think they can do it better and cleaner (sometimes just better for them). They are less interested in being just like everyone else than they are in doing what is right for their developers and users. I think LaunchD is one example of this and Webkit is another. In the first case they created a new solu
IIRC, in the time of discussions, it was said that Xen can always use KVM.
KVM is essentially official kernel interface to virtualization hardware. But Xen has to work even without hardware support so they do lots of things on their own.
As soon as number of servers with hardware supported virtualization reaches critical mass, Xen would start using KVM where available since it is part of kernel, since it is official interface.
IOW, in long term Xen and KVM are complementing, not competing technologi
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Submission + - Editorial in ACM on open-access publishing in computer science (acm.org)
call -151 writes: An editorial appearing in the ACM notices complains about the effects of the Elsevier boycott particularly with respect to academics refusing to do unpaid review for for-profit journals, particularly the extortionate Elsevier journals. Mathematician Tim Gowers' post gave energy to this about a year ago and recently he reflected on progress in several directions, including developing new arXIv overlay journals. Not disclosed in the ACM editorial is that the author serves on three Elsevier editorial boards; I take it that his complaining about the difficulty of finding referees is an indication that the boycott is having some good effect. Open access issues in academic publishing have been discussed on slashdot before and it's a good sign that the broader issue has been getting good exposure, including a reasonable White House directive in response to a strong petition effort.


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As public fumes, AIG says will not sue U.S. over bailout
As word of this potential lawsuit leaked out this week, virtual torch and pitchfork bearing mobs descended on AIG on the Internet and media. The company is now saying it wasn't really thinking of joining the lawsuit but was just doing due diligence in reviewing the request. Right.Facing anger from Congress and the American people, AIG Inc said on Wednesday it would not sue the U.S. government over terms of the company's multi-billion dollar bailout.
Insurer American International Group had been weighing whether to join a lawsuit filed by its former Chief Executive Hank Greenberg and his company Starr International, which owned 12 percent of AIG before its $182 billion rescue that started in 2008.
Greenberg claims the rescue was unfair to shareholders and that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York charged an excessive interest rate on its initial loan. He is seeking billions of dollars in damages.


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Sarah Levison 37.6%
Heath Carroll 27.89%
Ron Gallegos 25.19%
James Young 9.33%
Levison, who had come into office in 2007, said she'd still be able to work with the new council.
"I worked with the councils elected in '07 and '09 and I'll work with the council in 2011 and beyond," Levison said. "You work with the people the voters choose."Levison led throughout the night on Tuesday, while her nearest challengers, former councilman Ron Gallegos and funeral director Heath Carroll, fought it out for second place.
"Maybe it's just that I work really hard and people recognize that I'm going to continue to work hard ," said Levison, who has cultivated a reputation for reading the council's lengthy information packets cover-to-cover. "The expectation is you're going to do everything you can and it's necessary."
Carroll, whose backers included the Longmont Association of Realtors, said he was pleased with his first-time run and would be back to try again.
"I'm proud of what we did," he said. "When you've got four people going up against each other, it's hard to defeat an incumbent."
'We knew it was kind of an uphill battle," Gallegos agreed. "We ran a good 'idea' campaign, but I did not count on receiving a lot of money -- and money is the mother's milk of politics."
Retail worker James Young, who brought up the back of the pack, said he enjoyed the experience and would try again. Young was the only candidate to spend and receive no money during the campaign.
"It's not heartbreaking," Young said. "It is disappointing, but nothing more. ... I will run again and I'll be better prepared."


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Why Is The Administration Fighting Transparency On TARP?
from the this-is-not-good dept
Apparently, that doesn't apply to the bailout, though.
Here's a disturbing story about the guy who's in responsible for being the independent watchdog over how the TARP money is being spent. While he's a long-term Democrat and Obama supporter (so his views aren't political), he's been quite critical of how the administration is not being at all transparent concerning how TARP is being used. He wanted the administration to force the banks to explain what they were doing -- and was told that was impossible. So he did it himself -- and asked the banks to let him know how the funds were being used, which they did. He used that and some other info to put out a report, suggesting that the funds aren't being used as was expected. That sounds exactly like what the independent watchdog should be doing.
But the administration (mainly the Treasury Department) has been fighting him, and is now trying to have it declared that the independent watchdog actually is under the control of the Treasury Department -- which would basically take away the whole "independent" part. That seems to go against the very concept of the transparency we were promised. It's great that this guy and his very small team of folks are actually monitoring what's happening with our taxpayer money (whether you agree with how it was used or not). It's not a good sign that the Obama administration is now trying to muzzle him. That's not transparency people can believe in.


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French winger Franck Ribery is set to sign a new contract at European champions Bayern Munich.
Ribery joined Munich in 2007 and his current contract is set to run out in 2015. He played a significant role in the German teams season, which saw them win an historic treble and now he wants to extend his stay.
With Pep Guardiola replacing Jupp Heynckes as Bayern Munich manager, Ribery has confirmed he is close to signing a new contract.
"We have discussed it all," stated Ribery. "And saying 'yes' means 'yes' to me. We would not really need a player (to sign on).
"But I know we have to sign and this will happen as soon as possible, although there is no use to feeling like being in a rush."
Ribery has also stated he is very happy at Bayern and even hinted at finishing his career at the German giants.
He continued by saying: "I am excited about being at Bayern Munich. I am very happy too, like I have never been in my life before. Why should I join another club? To move elsewhere and potentially feel less happy?
"If I am going to retire from the game as a Bayern Munich player I would like to do it as a 'Grand Seigneur', with a testimonial match."
The 30-year-old had been linked with the likes of Chelsea in previous seasons but instead opted to join Bayern Munich.
Bayern have already improved their treble winning squad with the signing of Mario Gotze from Borussia Dortmund. And with Ribery set to stay at Munich, Guardiola will look to continue the success of the Bavarians in the coming years.
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The April 27th, 2012 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim including Scioscia not worried about Hunter's criticsim, history shows the Angels have a good chance at bouncing back into contention, introducing the Emo Albert Pujols face and much more…
The Story: Mike Scioscia does not believe there are any issues in the wake of Torii Hunter's post-game criticism.
The Monkey Says: Scioscia obviously has to downplay this, but I really doubt there is an issue. Hunter was clearly just frustrated and ran his mouth more than he should have. It is probably no coincidence that there was a players-only meeting before yesterday's game either, which I suspect was mainly aimed at trying to clear the air with all the frustration the Angel players must be going through in the wake of this brutal stretch.
The Story: From a historical standpoint, the Angels aren't in as big of trouble as you might think.
The Monkey Says: This makes me feel a whole lot better. I'm totally not going to swallow this fistful of pills in my hand now, maybe just six or seven.
The Story: Introducing the Emo Albert Pujols face.
The Monkey Says: Please, just make it stop. I'm just going to go crawl in a dark hole somewhere. Give me a call when the Angels are over .500 again. And in case you are wondering about the player who was anonymously complaining about the "Scioscia stranglehold," I'll give you three guesses and the one's that aren't Bobby Abreu don't count.
The Story: Maybe Mike Scioscia should just try lightening up?
The Monkey Says: Amazingly, somewhere in this pile of steaming Simers-dung, he actually makes a valid point, that Scioscia actually could stand to lighten up. This team looks like they are in the midst of the Bataan Death March.
The Story: Mark Trumbo might be the key to the Angels turnaround.
The Monkey Says: That's not true at all. Trumbo needs to be playing almost everyday, there is no doubt about that, but the turnaround is only going to happen when Pujols starts playing like his old self and other underachievers, like… everyone else, start playing up their ability as well.
The Story: Could Mike Trout be the spark the Angels need?
The Monkey Says: Trout definitely has the ability to be the lineup catalyst they need, but now is not the time. I was on the fence about this up until recently, but Rob McMillin at the 6-4-2 blog made the great point that it is completely unfair to call up Trout and put him in the position where he has to be the team's savior. If there is a good way to ruin a top-tier prospect, it is to saddle him with an unreal amount of pressure to perform at All-Star level right away. I do believe Trout could be up by the end of May, but it shouldn't be until the team has righted the ship or at least started to.


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TRANSPLANT TRIUMPH: Transplant tolerance induction staff with several patients
"How can I put into words the difference you all made in my life?" asked Jen Searl, MLS, health educator at the Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center at the MGH. Searl had tears in her eyes as she addressed the crowd gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the transplant tolerance induction program at the MGH. "You gave me the chance to be who I am today and who I was meant to be, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart."
In 2002 Searl became the first patient in the world to successfully undergo a procedure developed at the MGH that intentionally induced her immune system to accept another person's kidney as her own through a combined kidney and bone marrow transplant. The immune system tolerance produced by this protocol allowed Searl to receive the kidney without needing to take immunosuppressive drugs, which can have debilitating side effects, for the rest of her life.
The Oct. 1 celebration at the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation brought together Searl and three of the 10 previously treated patients with their MGH physicians, nurses and other staff members involved in the program. It was a reunion of sorts in which the patients and clinicians thanked each other for their shared contribution to medical history.
"I am so grateful for this procedure and for the MGH team," said patient Matt Knowles. "I have a smile on my face every time I come to this hospital."
"The patients are the courageous ones. They're the ones who say 'Yes! We will try this!'" said David Sachs, MD, director of the Transplant Biology Research Center.
While the procedure is not yet widely available because it is still regarded as experimental, MGH and international research efforts continue.
"This was a major milestone for Mass General, for the folks in the Transplant Center and the field of transplantation in general," said Benedict Cosimi, MD, chief emeritus of the Division of Transplantation. "We are here to recognize a long journey and to look forward to what's next." Read more articles from the 10/5/12 Hotline issue.
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GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain gave a press conference to address allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward female employees and a woman seeking job advice in the 1990s. Cain emphasized that the accusations were false. NPR's Tamara Keith joins Robert Siegel to explain.


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Designing Women: Jane Seymour
Our Designing Women issue is usually dedicated to women in the visual arts world. And this one deserves our extra attention and admiration. Art, drama, and Golden Globe / Emmy levels should be enough. But sharing with and benefiting children takes Jane way over the top! February 25, 2011


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A longtime Texas A&M ag professor and Nobel peace prize winner has been honored by the president.
President Bush awarded the National Medal of Science to Norman Borlaug.
Borlaug was honored for his work in creating disease resistant and high-yield wheat, providing a new quality food source for millions of people around the world.
The 91-year-old ag scientist took part in a White House ceremony on Monday.
Borlaug flashed a double gig 'em sign to President Bush, who draped him with the medal, drawing some chuckles and an Aggie "Whoop!" from the audience.
Borlaug is a professor of international agriculture. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing the high-yield dwarf wheat that reversed food shortages.
Bourlag divides his time between College Station, Dallas and Mexico. He teaches at Texas A&M in the fall. His family lives in Dallas.


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GARRARD COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - They say they came home and found a burglar inside.
But a central Kentucky couple turned the tables on the intruder, and police say the husband shot him.
It happened late Monday afternoon on Jennings Road in Garrard County.
Police arrested the suspect nearby, and neighbors tell us that they're relieved he's in custody.
The burglar was shot but able to get away but police soon caught up with him.
"You gotta protect your home," said Carl Jennings, who owns property on the road.
State police say David Baker and his wife did just that when they came home to an unwanted visitor inside their house.
"He yelled into the residence, 'If you're in my home, you need to show yourself right now,' and he caught the suspect actually attempting to leave. It wasn't a struggle but a brief verbal altercation ensued and the homeowner shot the suspect in the arm," Trooper Frank Thornberry, with Kentucky State Police.
Instead of jumping in his vehicle, the suspect 26-year-old Jarred Pitman ran.
However, Pitman was soon caught, but people nearby are still on alert. Carl Jennings in particular knows this road well. After all, it is named after his family.
"I own my mother's home down there. I came to see what, if anything, had happened down there," said Jennings.
And Jennings says if put in the same situation that he'd do the same thing.
"What else you gonna do? You got a guy in your house, and you don't know whether he's armed or not. And I would have done the same thing David did," said Jennings.
Unfortunately, Jennings says he's not surprised this happened on the road he's grown up knowing like the back of his hand.
"We've just got a nice community here and it's a shame that this type of stuff happens, but it's happening everywhere," Jennings.
State police tell us they are looking into whether this suspect is also involved in other burglaries or home invasions.
State police say Pitman's charges are pending but that he will definitely be charged with burglary.


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An anonymous reader writes "Save the planet by blogging. EnergyAustralia and Sydney Water have opened a tender for a family to live rent-free for a year in an energy-efficient house to be built in a 'smart village' in Sydney's west. Smart Village houses are equipped with in-house displays driven by home-area networks connected to the utility's smart grid that has sensors at sub-stations and elsewhere on the network to manage power use. 'The home will provide a real-life laboratory, integrated with the intelligent electricity grid, for testing products that will help minimize energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions,' EnergyAustralia said."


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HONG KONG (CNN) -- Security threats from mobile malware are on the rise and nearly 95% of targets operate on the Android operating system, according to a new report from NQ Mobile.
The mobile security firm, with headquarters in both the U.S. and China, estimates that nearly 33 million Android devices were targeted by malware in 2012 -- a jump of more than 200% from the year prior.
"Android is one of the most powerful operating systems in the world. It allows developers to develop some of the most innovative applications out there," said Omar Khan, Co-CEO of NQ Mobile, to CNN's Nina dos Santos. "But because it's so open it also gives the opportunity for bad actors in the system to take advantage of that openness to develop malicious applications as well."
According to the NQ report, one type of malware is delivered through app repackaging in which a user downloads a mobile application that looks legitimate but is actually a harmful program.
Malware can also be downloaded through fake websites when a user clicks on a URL that appears authentic but is not.
Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
And while personal information is one casualty from malicious software, personal harm could occur with new programs being developed. Earlier this month, a German hacker -- and licensed commercial pilot -- raised eyebrows with claims he developed an app that could remotely hijack an airplane using an Android phone.
With the increase in mobile malware, consumers need to be smarter in how they protect themselves and where they click.
Nearly 25% of malware on mobile devices comes from pornography websites, according to a recent study from Blue Coat, a Web security and optimization company.
Also, more than three of every 10 smartphone users have no password on their device according to a global survey by Web security firm McAfee. NQ's Khan puts the number even higher -- at one out of every two.
"The simplest thing we can do is put passwords on our phones. Installing security and encryption solutions (are another) way to do it. Also educating our consumers and our enterprise users not to connect and leave open wi-fi connections or Bluetooth connections -- only to connect to trusted sources. A lot of times we'll connect to anything."
The NQ report also revealed that China, India and Russia were the top three countries with infected mobile devices.
"In the emerging markets it's our only lifeline to the internet so hackers are finding that information more and more valuable which is why they're going after these devices," said Khan.


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Judy Dallas is used to getting compliments for her work with Busy Fingers, but that doesn't mean it's expected.
Sometimes, the kind words can be as surprising as a patch of brown fabric with hot pink spots.
"He had a deep voice that went all the way down to his toenails," said Dallas, recalling a six-foot-plus man who approached her in the hospital. She dropped her voice to a lower register: "And he said, `Thank you for the baby hat'."
Times like that give Dallas a sense of accomplishment as she and around 25 other ladies gather at 2 p.m. at Down Manor on the first Wednesday of each month to knit and crochet afghans, lap robes, capes, baby caps and booties, shrugs, layette and blankets for visitors to Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital.
According to hospital figures, Busy Fingers members spent a total of 7,211 hours last year working with yarn donated by the public.
"That's a low estimate -- it's probably closer to ten thousand hours," said Lynn Berens, director of volunteer services at the hospital.
Staggering as the figure is, it pales in comparison to the hours of experience that Busy Fingers members have accumulated in their lifetimes.
"I was trying to remember how many years of experience we have put together, and decided not to tell anybody," said Dallas to Olga Gonzalez, a hospital housekeeper who visited Busy Fingers for the first time Wednesday. Gonzalez handed Dallas a baby cap she had knitted and asked for an appraisal.
"That's pretty good for the first whack out of the barrel!" said Dallas. Her own first "whack out of the barrel" came when she began to crochet at the age of eight; she started knitting 12 years ago. Taking over the helm of Busy Fingers in 1991 wasn't too much of a stretch, although the hospital volunteer services program didn't earn its official name until last year. Irene Best founded the program in 1990, which joined other volunteer service projects like the pet therapy program.
"Irene Best was pretty sneaky!" Dallas said to the gathered ladies. "She was going to leave, and I said I could stay and help her. Famous last words!"
Since then Dallas has proven that she has the skills to serve as program coordinator, though she prefers the title "Cheerleader."
"We call her the program Cheerleader because she is so full of energy, and really rallies people together," said Berens. "We're just so thrilled that Busy Fingers is growing. Everyone who volunteers does what they can do to make it a fabulous program."
Dallas was certainly energetic Wednesday, sitting at the head of a table piled high with yarn and spinning out a stream of instructions and comments to the ladies gathered there. At the moment, she was discussing toe warmers for people wearing foot casts.
"We have more broken legs in this area because of the skiing, snowboarding and windsurfing," Dallas said knowingly.
The ladies also knit caps and booties for newborns, but not every creation of theirs is destined for such happy circumstances. Dallas also laid out specifics for premature demise kits designed for stillborn infants.
"These little kits have been received by lots of grateful mommies and if they bring even five minutes of comfort than every stitch is worth it," said Dallas. "We're not in this for gratitude -- we're in it to bring comfort to other women. We're all sisters under the skin."
Most of the Busy Fingers garments are bestowed under better conditions. Since the opening of the Ray T. Yasui Dialysis Center in 1998 the ladies have produced 65 afghans measuring 40-by-60 inches each. They also make "Linus blankets" for children to keep with them if they have an overnight stay at the hospital.
"They all give up their time free-heartedly," said Dallas. "We like giving something back to the community. After taking out for so many years, it makes you feel good. And when you hold the little baby hats in your hand, it makes you feel fantastic."
Busy Fingers garnered recognition last October at the Oregon Association of Hospital Auxiliaries conference in Eugene. The group was awarded a gold certificate for having the best display of handcrafts on hand. It was also gratifying for Dallas to see that the ladies' patterns, which had been given out at a regional meeting of volunteers, were beginning to show up all over the convention.
Dallas and Berens both observed that the ladies practice a fading art. But Dallas is trying to revive it, and hopes to pass along her skills at the high school.
"The heart isn't dying if you're willing to share. If you get just one person to start, it snowballs," said Dallas.
"When I teach people, my price is usually a hat or two, depending on how long it takes," she laughed.
To donate yarn or join the Busy Fingers group, contact Berens at the hospital's Volunteer Services department at 387-6242.
Busy Fingers volunteers over the last year included: Judy Dallas, Irene Best, Margaret Boytz, Virginia Eversole, Maude Gulliksen, Ruth Johnson, Sylvia Klahre, Mae Kniskern, Madeline Martin, Virginia Paul, Delma Roush, Francis Stolhand, Jean Tamiyasu, Julia Zweerts, Roberta Clayton, Frances Dakan and Margaret Smith, and the late Lena Young and Kay Higgins.
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Spoiler warning: There are spoilers for the patch 4.3 content that is currently on the public test realms. If you do not want to be spoiled, I wouldn't read the rest of this.
Intrepid explorers began to notice some oddities going on in the forests surrounding the Darkmoon Island proper, now live on the patch 4.3 public test realms. Then earlier today, we were tipped off to an awesome blog post detailing the ghosts of Darkmoon Faire Island on Mia's Azeroth, giving us a comprehensive look at the spirits floating around this new island.
According to Mia's Azeroth, you will eventually run into sparkles on the ground while exploring outside of the Faire-grounds. If you get yourself killed and run around the island as a ghost, those sparkles manifest as six different ghosts of Darkmoon members now freed from their mortal coil. So far, these are the six ghosts you'll find wandering the island:


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Hey all,
Having surfed my 7.2 fun board for a few months I decided to try and get this duck dive business on the go.
It seems I can sink the front a bit, but cant really get the back down to then bring my self onto it?? Do you think it is possible to duck dive this? I am a small guy, 5,6 and about 60 kgs...
Any help greatly appreciated... mega frustrating having a great day one day and the next day not being able to get out!!!


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The Violence Against Women Act passed the House of Representatives on Thursday and now heads to the president's desk for his expected signature.
The law -- provisions of which created the National Domestic Violence Hotline -- used to be uncontroversial. A simple reauthorization seemed to get tripped up with the proposed expansion to Native American women, and gay and lesbian people.
But it also had the appearance of being one of the many, many laws tripped up by the failed effort to make President Barack Obama a "one-term president" by blocking everything he supported. We hold out hope that since that divisive, unproductive attempt fell flat on its face -- and helped contribute to the lowest Congressional approval ratings, ever -- members of Congress will see fit to work together now that we're solidly into Obama's second term.
In the Senate, 78 members approved of it, including all women senators and 23 out of 45 Republicans. The 22 members opposed were all Republican men (and eight of them tried to block the Senate from even voting.)
After the Senate was able to muster bipartisan support for the bill's reauthorization, Vice President Joe Biden -- who helped craft the original bill as a senator in the early 1990s -- urged the House to come together.
"This is not a Democratic or Republican issue -- it's an issue of justice and compassion," Biden said.
And come together they did. In the House, the vote was 286 to 138. Here, too, there were no Democrats opposed, but 87 Republicans voted in favor of it.
The gridlock that grips the seemingly no-brainer idea of compromise is of course more apparent in the impasse over sequestration (Happy March 1, America!) But the Violence Against Women Act can stand as its symbol. Two years of bickering and bluster made it lapse for the first time in almost two decades. After all that infighting come the fact that a brand-new-spanking version that stripped it of major provisions was introduced this week in order to guarantee its failure.
And then Congress passed it anyway.
How much better would it be for our economy and legislation that protects the vulnerable if our elected representatives could act more like the leaders we need them to be. Perhaps planted in this bipartisan approval of a decades-old bill are seeds of hope.
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 29th Jul 2008 18:33 UTC, submitted by Kaj de Vos
The Syllable project has reached another long-time milestone. It was always planned to factor out the web rendering engine of its web browser, ABrowse, into a library with a native Syllable View widget on top, so it can be embedded into more applications than just a web browser. Kristian Van Der Vliet did just that: building on Arno Klenke's WebCore port, he updated that and then stepped up the modularisation by creating the WebView class. He rewrote the browser on top of that and named it Webster [screenshot]. The first alpha version is available in the project's applications downloads. The latest Syllable 0.6.6 development build is required to run it, as several bugs in the system were fixed for the new browser. The next development build will have Webster included. The source code is available on the development site.
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Fork or improvement?
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RE: Fork or improvement?
by Vanders on Tue 29th Jul 2008 21:40 in reply to "Fork or improvement?"
I'm not sure I understand: what is the status of this 'webview class': was-it an improvement which has been added to WebKit or is-it a fork?
WebView is a library that implements a series of native Syllable classes on top of WebCore which can be used by applications to render and control a "web view".
Maintaining a fork of WebKit is likely to be a highly time consuming task!
Yes, it would be. Simply maintaining our port is plenty enough as it is.
However WebKit the library is not actually a fixed, solid entity: it naturally has to be specific to each platform, so for instance on OS X it is an Objective C API. So you can in fact get the entire engine without "porting" WebKit, which would really involve writing an entire version of WebKit for your platform anyway. So instead WebView is a much more simple API that does the same job that WebKit does on other platforms.
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Office Space to Rent in Salem Road, W2
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Salem Road, W2. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Salem Road, W2. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
6000 sq ft property – two floors available on conventional let (floors 2/3). Two serviced units available on the first floor: unit 101/104 (7-12 workstations respectively). Both units are air-conditioned, serviced with furniture.
Bordering Hyde Park and close to the West End, Queensway is a bustling cosmopolitan centre in the fashionable district of Bayswater. With outstanding transport links into and out of London.
The centre consists of an open-plan freelancer/small company zone and a handful of separate private offices. The spaces are all newly furnished and have plenty of natural light. There is no parking on site but there are several public car parks within a couple of minutes walk which offer reasonable rates on a daily or monthly basis.
This business centre is a beautiful terraced building, perfectly situated in the heart of London. It offers non branded, private office space across 5 storeys which also cater for 3 communal kitchens and over 5 showers. Tenants benefit from unfurnished offices, with neutral interior ready to make your own. Included within the rates are utility bills, insurance, services, business rates and flexible terms. The building also offers 24 hour access and an onsite cleaning team for communal areas.
This highly fashionable, boutique-style space accommodates companies of no more than six people. The open plan period studio has high ceilings and 100% natural light. The studio already accommodates PR, advertising, design and publishing companies. The studio offers friendly atmosphere amongst a group of hard working entrepreneurs.
This building is within Paddington Station itself and can be accessed via Platform 1. The building was designed and built by Brunel, is Grade I listed and dating from 1854. The building was part derelict but DMFK architects restored everything to its former glory. With private office space, co-working space and meeting rooms on site this is great for the commuter into Paddington.
This centre has a range of office solutions available bang on Notting Hill Gate for 2 to 200 people. This is short term flexible space and features plentiful natural light, 24/7 reception and access, as well as economical rates well below usual long-term market prices. The views to the south and north of Notting Hill Gate are superb from these modern offices which feature very large windows as well as one of the very best office locations in West London. These offices can be offered on a very flexible and short term basis, if required, and come fully furnished and ready-to-go. The managing company looks after everything for you in your Notting Hill Gate offices including: cleaning, furniture, business rates, rubbish disposal, heating bills, water rates and office supplies – so you can spend your time managing your business, not managing your office.
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QPR's basement battle leaves Harry Redknapp struggling for sleep
Harry Redknapp admits Queens Park Rangers' struggles at the foot of the Premier League table are keeping him awake.
Last Updated: 11/12/12 4:27pm
Redknapp has only been in the Loftus Road hot-seat for a fortnight, but he is already feeling the pressure which accompanies a top-flight basement battle.
QPR remain winless 16 games into the 2012/13 campaign and have already slipped eight points adrift of safety.
Redknapp concedes that trying to mastermind a survival bid is giving him sleepless nights, with one of the most experienced managers in the business painfully aware of the size of the task he has inherited from predecessor Mark Hughes.
"I've got stuff on my mind and it's not been easy (to sleep)," he said in the Evening Standard.
"I was sleeping very well two weeks until I came back to work. It's more difficult because you're lying there waiting for that alarm clock to go off very early.
"You're thinking what you can do, how you can improve it, what's the best team, who can play where? It's a tough job."
While Redknapp is still working on a winning formula, QPR skipper Ryan Nelsen believes performances have improved under the new boss.
He said: "I think we've been a lot better. We've had two awkward away games and got points out of them, so we have to take the positives."
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Hey everyone my name is Abe and im glad to be back on the forums.
im 19 and from california (wich is not good if your trying to hide from the sun).
Favorite main character is Edward because im with the vampires and im trying to find my Bella.
Favorite minor character is Carslie because hes like a grown up version of Edward (i think).
Hobbies include writting my books/poetry/whatever and learning to play piano and guitar.
Oh and my little brother got me into twilight some time ago and now we have two cousins hooked so i guess twilight guys run in the family more than girls.


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A local theater is back open after a bomb scare where customers had to be evacuated.
Police say yesterday afternoon they were called to the Cinemark in College Station for a report of a suspicious bag.
Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about the decade-long hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. Many local people wanting to watch the film had an unexpected change of plans.
"It is pretty shocking to hear that something like that happened here," said Lauren Smart, a theater customer.
College Station Police say Sunday afternoon, some people attending an afternoon showing of the movie at the Cinemark Hollywood USA noticed an unattended bag. Investigators were immediately called to the theater.
Police say everyone in theater 11 was evacuated for about 30 minutes as a precautionary measure to make sure everyone was accounted for and that they could have witnesses that they could interview. During the investigation it was revealed that the bag in question actually belonged to a local church.
The church uses the theater for their service in the morning. Turns out, the suspicious bag left behind was a duffle bag with sound equipment for the church service.
The false alarm still makes some customers uneasy, especially after the horrific shooting at the Cinemark Theatre in Aurora Colorado.
"It makes me think twice if I want to go to the theater or stay home and watch TV," said Gloria Saenz, another theater customer.
Police urge everyone who sees a suspicious object or activity to contact police immediately.


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Transfer news: Crystal Palace won't be signing Carlton Cole or Dan Gosling
Crystal Palace co-chairman Steve Parish says that his club will not be signing Dan Gosling or Carlton Cole.
Last Updated: 26/07/13 1:05pm
The Premier League new boys were reported to be in talks with the pair about a move to the south London club but Parish says that it is now unlikely to happen.
Quoted in the Daily Star, Parish said: "It's very unlikely Dan and Carlton will be signing, we have decided to move on.
"We are now looking at alternative targets."
Gosling has struggled with injury for most of his time at current club Newcastle United while Cole is a free agent after leaving West Ham and has also been linked with Hull City.
Palace start their league campaign with a London derby against Tottenham Hotspur.


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Volkswagen hopes to charge into the upcoming Detroit Auto Show with a pair of battery-based vehicles including a new hybrid version of its hot-selling Passat sedan.
The German maker is better known for its commitment to diesel technology, so-called "oil burners" accounting for as much as a third of the sales of some of its U.S. models. But to win over the growing "green car" segment, both here and abroad, VW has been putting a bigger emphasis on electric propulsion.
The arrival of a Passat hybrid would follow the launch of the maker's first gas-electric model, the Touareg Hybrid, last year. The newer offering is due to market by November as a 2013 model.
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DAVIS, Calif. (AP) -- A Sacramento County jury is calling for the death penalty for a man convicted of killing two University of California, Davis students more than 30 years ago.
The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/123vnK9) reports jurors recommended the sentence for 63-year-old Richard Joseph Hirschfield on Thursday after less than four hours of deliberation.
Hirschfield was found guilty of murder last month in the deaths of college sweethearts John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves, who were 18 when they were killed on Dec. 20, 1980.
Two days after they were abducted, their bodies were found later in a ditch 30 miles away. Gonsalves had been sexually attacked.
Hirschfield was in a Washington state prison for child rape eight years ago when cold-case investigators matched his DNA to evidence from Riggins' van.
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Back in 2011, Square Enix announced an HD remake of Final Fantasy X. And then, it disappeared.
Lo and behold, Square Enix has decided to remind the world that the game still exists at a recent Vita-focused press conference. Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto showed off the game running on a Vita, whilst apologizing for the game's lengthy disappearance. According to Polygon, the game is expected to release in Japan "soon." (Whatever that means to Square Enix.)
Although the upcoming PS3/Vita game is simply a "remaster," and not a remake, Square Enix promised "much more beautiful" visuals than before. Take a look at this screenshot from the original PS2 game and then compare it to this newly released video:


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Emotions ran high in Wednesday night's softball showdown between Pella Christian and Pella High – heard live on kniakrls.com – with the Lady Eagles leaving the field feeling both the joy of victory and the sadness of a loss in a 6-2 triumph over the Lady Dutch.
Pella Christian entered the game with heavy hearts, having learned that morning of the passing of friend and classmate Megan Hoogeveen – who had been battling illness since the spring.
After Pella put up two quick runs in the first inning, Lady Eagles' Head Coach Nate Van Wyk thought the emotional day may have taken its toll on the team. But Pella Christian held strong through three scoreless innings before breaking out with three hits and three runs in the fifth inning and three more in the sixth to earn the win.
Van Wyk said some changes in the bottom of the line-up and capitalizing on some opportunities helped his girls secure the win.
"We shuffled some things around there a little bit in the bottom [of the line-up], and then a combination of key hits by us a couple of mental errors by Pella opened things wide up," said Van Wyk. "As you saw tonight, you don't have to hit the ball all that hard, you just have to put the ball in play and make the defense work."
Shelby Weaver scored twice while going 3-for-3 at the plate and stole two bases. Ashley Van Kooten also stole a pair of bases and scored twice for Pella Christian as she went 2-for-3 from the batter's box.
In all, Pella Christian had 11 hits, while pitcher Paige Blom limited Pella to five hits. Blom struck out seven and walked two in the winning effort. Her counterpart, Pella's Mandy DeMeulenaere, also pitched well, striking out six and walking just one.
The Lady Dutch did, however, commit three errors, along with some other mistakes in the field that coach Krista DeMeulenaere says the team will have to put behind them to get ready for Knoxville.
"There were definitely some miscues defensively for us. We struggled to pick up the ball a little bit a couple of times; struggled to cover some bases," said DeMeulenaere. "We've been playing fantastic softball [lately], so I have no worries for Friday. I think that Pella High's going to brush themselves off and we're gonna come play."
Whitney Williams led the Pella offense, going 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.
The loss drops the Lady Dutch to 16-7 overall and 9-3 in the Little Hawkeye Conference entering Friday's game at Knoxville, while the Pella Christian softball team improves to 16-7 overall and 9-4 in league play entering a game Thursday evening with Norwalk.


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An elaborate identity theft and fake check scheme has cost Kentucky banks thousands of dollars.
Police say several women have cashed the checks at banks in Lexington, Georgetown, Mt. Sterling, Nicholasville, Somerset, Shelbyville and Winchester.
An alert store owner in Georgetown noticed some of the suspects and called police with a description of their vehicle. Police stopped the car and arrested four suspects Monday night. Vanessa Regalado, Alexis Ramos and Jacqueline Barnes are all now charged with 50 counts of forgery.
A man, 23-year-old Marcus Jones, was also arrested. He is charged with trafficking physical evidence.
Police had been looking for two other women, who went by the aliases of Tiffany Scott and Sade Easley. There is no word on whether they have been caught, as well.
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JERSEY CITY (AP) — New Jersey's second-largest city will hold a fundraiser to aid the victims of the typhoon that has devastated parts of the Philippines.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and City Council President Rolando Lavarro Jr. will host the event on Thursday night at Porto Lounge.
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The Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella organization that claims a membership of 3,600 local groups across the country including 134 in Florida, has quietly replaced its leadership in the Sunshine State.
Out is Everett Wilkinson. In is Pam Wohlschlegel.
Both are from Palm Beach County, where the pair battled over direction of the South Florida Tea Party until Wohlschlegel eventually split and started her own group, the Palm Beach County Tea Party. (Watch her video about the new group below.)
The decision to install Wohlschlegel rested with Dawn Wildman, a Californian who coordinates the Patriots' state coordinators.
"It really wasn't working out for him," Wildman said of the decision to replace Wilkinson. She said the squabble between the Wohlschlegel and Wilkinson didn't influence her decision.
"What happened with Pam and Everett and their group happens all over the country. People can leave and start their own groups and do it their own way," Wildman said. "Pam has been great recruiting new people - young people, families. So whatever change happened there looks like it's worked out well for the community."
The tea party is holding its state convention this weekend in Daytona Beach.
Contact: Donald H. Tiller III firstname.lastname@example.com
Everett Wilkinson and South Florida Tea Party Response to "Tea Party Patriots Replace Florida Coordinator" by M. Bender
Mr. Bender,
I am contacting you on behalf of South Florida Tea Party. The facts in the story are simply false and Dawn Wildman of Tea Party Patriots should be required to confirm the facts on the record or recant. Specifically, it should be asked of her whether Mr. Wilkinson resigned from the Tea Party Patriots in June of 2011 on his own accord (long before this event article was published) or if he was removed and replaced as this story states. This story gives the impression that Mr. Wilkinson was kicked out of this organization and Ms. Wohlschlegel was given his position.
I do not believe that you want to post false information fed by Tea Party Patriots in an attempt to promote Pam Wohlschlegel, the Tea Party Patriots or any other individual or organization in an attempt to spark some life in Florida.
Mr. Wilkinson left the Tea Party Patriots after resigning in June 2011. The written resignation email post is available here. According to Mr. Wilkinson, the departure resulted from differences over the direction of the organization, lack of focus on the original mission, and lack of leadership. Several other state coordinators and local coordinators also left the organization. Mr. Wilkinson is the Chair of South Florida Tea Party and its affiliated organizations as he always has been. Tea Party Patriots is just one of the many Tea Party organizations throughout the nation and the association of Mr. Wilkinson with that group did not further the goal or the mission of our members.
Ms. Wohlschlegel was a county coordinator for the South Florida Tea Party for Palm Beach County but this article gives the impression, through the quote by Dawn Wildman and otherwise, that she was a rival within the leadership of the organization when she departed. Her departure was due, among other issues, to Mr. Wilkinson's disagreement with, and Ms. Wohlschlegel's endorsement of, the Ryan Plan advanced by the GOP (as she stated when asked in a Palm Beach Post article after her departure). As we all know now, the Ryan Plan has been widely rejected as bad policy but at that time it was the GOP endorsed plan despite its obvious defects by those who actually read the proposal and could properly analyze its contents. At the time of this rebuke by Mr. Wilkinson, his stance was contrary to that of many GOP party-liners. South Florida Tea Party is not affiliated with the GOP and Mr. Wilkinson's rejection of the Ryan Plan offended those who believe the Tea Party is just a department of the Republican Party.
Mr. Wilkinson and the members of South Florida Tea Party made a conscious decision not to engage in the intra-movement squabbles that have plagued the movement and which seem to be increasing as various weaker organizations falter to gain support and members. As most people in and around the movement are aware, South Florida Tea Party, led by Everett Wilkinson, is one of the largest Tea Party organizations both in size and prominence and continues to organize people interested in the movement for the right reasons.
It is unfortunate that some in the movement cannot refrain from intra-movement disputes and attempts to control the best qualities of the Tea Party Movement- independence from political parties, decentralization, and the non profit/non-commercial purpose of the movement.
Over the past several months, South Florida Tea Party has urged the movement to remain independent from the GOP and to encourage its members to distance themselves from fringe elements that distract the movement by advancing extreme views. Apparently this has not been well received by individuals and groups that that cater to both.
More importantly, as the movement gains in popularity and size certain groups see it as a competition for members, money, and influence. Tea Party organizations are not ours to control nor are the people and the ideas that compromise them. We continue to encourage the various organizations to focus on the true intent of the party and resist the natural human instinct of self-promotion and reckless political maneuvering as this behavior will not only hurt the reputations of those involved in the self-promotion and the organizations that support them, but it will continue to hurt the movement itself.
Donald H. Tiller III
Vice Chair – South Florida Tea Party


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Hell, the funniest thing is that my reply has absolutely nothing to do with Tebow, yet your goofy ass had to come along and turn this into a Tebow discussion.
That's farking hilarious. Go ahead, step up and say something else incredibly stupid.
Funny, when Tim was here you didn't bad mouth the team.
Now that they finally rid themselves of a player devoid of talent, you come by just to rip the team?
OK, has nothing to do with Timmy being released.
Go back and check. As the season went along and the stupid decisions kept being piled on, I damned sure did "bad mouth" any number of things.
That's the way it usually works with most fans. You have optimism going into the season. Depending on what happens, that optimism might begin to wane. At the end of the season, when you are 6-10 and sitting at home, your disposition is much different than it was at the beginning of the season.
Now, go back and look at my first post in this thread. What did I do ? I pointed out the BULL**** in the op. FACT: Geno was no where close to the #1 career passer in the NFL draft. FACT: Just prior to the draft, most analysts who had Geno in the top 10 did so based off of TEAM NEED and predicting that a team would REACH for him.
Now, which of those facts do you want to contest ? Which of those facts have anything to do with Tebow ?
The other FACT is that I'm actually sitting here trying to discuss FACTS and FOOTBALL and then along comes SouthPark to turn this into a discussion about Tebow.
You showed up when Tim came on board and be honest , you were one of his loudest supporters. You like the kid and there is nothing wrong with that. When he gets picked up by another team either in the lower 48 or up in Canada then you can start supporting him again.
My question is why, now that Tim is no longer a Jet , are you still here? You know and we know your a Tebow fan and not a Jets fan, time to move on, don't you think ?
Dude, you are so full of ****. I've talked about any number of subjects here that have absolutely nothing to do with Tebow. Where do you want to start ? Talks about trading Revis ? About how badly Sparano sucked ? The poor line play and terrible coaching by Guges ? How even though the line wasn't opening many holes, Shonne Green still had a propensity to find the nearest Jet lineman and run straight into his back ? How the Jets would be better off without Santonio Holmes.
My only "agenda" here is that I wanted to have a winning season and a team in the playoffs.
As I alluded to, your glasses are so damned fogged up that all you see is Tebow, Tebow, Tebow.
I don't care why he fell but the reality is the guys that count, the 32 NFL GM's, many of whom need a franchise QB as much as we do passed the first time around and about a third of them passed a second time around.
I hope the guy turns into a great franchise QB but this is not Andrew Luck, Dan Marino, RG 3 or Cam Newton type of prospect and anyone who spouts stats from the Air Raid O they ran is as full of crap as the rumor mongering assassination job being done on this kid by "unknown" sources.
That decision screwed up the entire season and then got the GM who made it summarily sh1tcanned at the end of the season.
You loved it and posted 476 adoring positive posts about your hero and only criticized the Jets when it became apparent that they had somewhat come to their senses and decided to just about NEVER let that useless turd on the football field AFTER he proved even incompetent at protecting the punter
Those are the facts, hypocrite and they are UNDENIABLE
Go get in your trailer and follow your hero to Canada or wherever he ends up. Your credibility on a Jets message board is 15 BELOW ZERO
Dude, GFY.
First of all, it was one draft pick as the Jets and Broncos swapped a 6th and a 7th. Secondly, there were valid "football reasons" for the trade and who knows, if the Jets would have had a real OC last year, things might have been different. Nearly EVERYONE on the planet will readily admit that Tebow was completely misused last year and that Sparano was/is horribly inept.
As for facts, you couldn't recognize an actual fact if someone smacked you in the mouth with it.
The Jet's season was screwed for any number of reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with Tebow. You want to doubt that ? Then explain 2011's miserable season ending performance when Tebow wasn't even on the team.


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|2012-02-14, 00:30
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What, why is the teacher suddenly bringing a knife to class? Gonna prepare a tuna? For homeroom?
Now that's a good teacher.
Still, from the PV, it looks like he doesn't do a good job. Gotta do it cleaner if you are gonna do it in front of a class.
In the meantime, I just hope everything turns out to be supernatural, and not try to give "realistic" explanations like Umineko.
Protagonist needs to actually taunt the class, instead of dreaming about it.
|2012-02-14, 00:46
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|2012-02-14, 01:59
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1) Koichi is alive and thus can't be the "another"
2) Koichi's memories (and thus his perception of current events, or more specifically - perception of the people involved in them) can't be trusted, since they differ from his father's (Who is outside the influence zone, thus serves as both affirmation of Koichi being alive, and a source of information that isn't suspect to manipulation) - he has fallen victim to the memory altering phenomenon as well.
Personally I'm starting to suspect that Reiko might actually be the "another", or at least clues seem to be pointing that way (unless it's another lead by the nose) - The Grandpa's "My poor Ritsuko ... my poor Reiko too ..." being the most telling one, coupled with the fact Koichi apparently visited Yomiyama 1.5 years ago. I'd throw a wild guess and say the reason he did so was to attend Reiko's funeral.
We also have the parrot, who keeps constantly saying "Why, Rei-chan, why?". Besides the fact that Rei-chan is apparently the parrot's name as well, Rei-chan is short for "Reiko". Also note how the bird got excited right after the grandpa sobbed out Reiko's name, with his "Cheer up, cheer up" routine. Also note that the grandpa said previously that he has "gotten tired of funerals" - while not impossible, seems like a slightly odd thing to say after one funeral, no matter how much of a blow it was. It would, however, make a good deal more sense if he had to bury both of his daughters, which would also better explain his current distraught mental state.
Which brings us to the next point, his obviously slightly unhinged mind. I suppose it might be possible that Ritsuko's death affected him so much he has started treating Reiko as "dead" as well, but that seems pretty far fetched - instead, I would hazard a wild guess that his messed up mind might actually somewhat "protect" the grandpa from being messed with, because ... well, he is already pretty messed up to start with.
there is the obvious issue of Reiko not being a student of the class 3, but I think this episode actually subtly and cleverly refuted that being a necessary requirement as well - classmates mentioning that the number of seats was actually spot-on during the start of the year. And yet, the "Another" certainly exists this year, seeing the phenomenon is going full force and people keep dying. I think we can infer a few things from this:
The "another" doesn't necessarily have to be someone from the class, but most likely is still someone connected to it (In the same two-generation gap that the phenomenon affects I suppose). The class itself still serves as the trigger though, seeing that Koichi's addition (and thus throwing the initial seat number off) apparently triggered the curse this year.
Which would also tie nicely in to the librarian's comment that this "countermeasure" is only about 50% effective - perhaps it works when the "Another" is indeed someone from class 3, but doesn't during the times when "Another" isn't someone directly from the class, merely someone connected to it via bloodline.
... ok, my head is starting to spin now
Regardless, this episode provided a lot of information and clues in what could be the right direction, more so than what might seem obvious at a first glance. Although it requires a couple of assumptions to work, unless the underlying hints are misleading us on purpose, I'm leaning heavily towards the assumption that Reiko is the "Another".
|2012-02-14, 02:36
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Perhaps ... though poor Rei-chan will have to live with being called a parrot for now (Maybe that's why the bird is upset all the time ? )
Speaking of which, I wonder if animals would be susceptible to memory manipulation as well ? Assuming they are indeed untouched by the phenomenon, I guess that could explain why it keeps "mourning" Rei-chan, despite Reiko seemingly being right there all the time. And then we have her comment how she can't stand the bird ... of course it could be her being annoyed at the noise it keeps making, but I doubt it's something as simple as that, especially with the other suspicious clues pointing in her direction.
|2012-02-14, 02:50
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Hm... The thing about parrots, is that they are animals. They don't understand human speech, they just mimic what they hear. If they mimic something enough, it would become somewhat of a verbal tic or habit. Habits aren't stored in the same way that past recollections are, so it's very possible that the parrot's incoherent babbling is unaffected by memory alterations.
I also believe that when the guy said "the number of seats was spot on" means there was already an extra seat reserved for Sakakibara, but when he arrived they were one seat short regardless of that. So I don't think the "another" is somebody outside of the class. It cannot be Ritsuko, since her name still appears in the records of the class that many (27?) years ago. Same goes for Reiko, btw, because everyone's memories place her in the class of 15 years ago. This episode has just established that the extra student disappears off the records of their old class for the duration of the year.
I think the key to figuring this thing out is if anybody were to actively notice and remember the tiny inconsistencies. Not the memories themselves, but what is said -about- the memories. For example, someone saying that "A happened", and someone would say "No it didn't, it was more like B", and then the first person would be like, "You're right, B happened, where the hell did I get the idea that A happened?", if someone were to pick up on that stuff, maybe they could follow the clues to their conclusion.
|2012-02-14, 03:28
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The very fact it was considered "the right amount" means Koichi wasn't factored in, during the time said assessment was made (start of the school year).
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|2012-02-14, 04:36
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Then again he talked to Sakakibara before he got ignored...
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If the memory cheat works on everyone in the town, the another's 'afterlife' is forgotten after graduation and both rosters get back to "normal" (the deceased disappearing from the recent one after graduation and reappearing in their original class roster) then yea - no bloody clue how they figure out who was the another.
> I cannot comprehend the logic behind this.
Why the hell couldn't they show the full roster for that year to make it clear? Maybe people who actually know Japanese and can figure out the order could fill us in where the deceased should be located on the list? I assume there is some alphabetical order.
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|2012-02-14, 04:40
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For those who haven't seen it or just plain forgot, the dance sequence is an obvious reference to Pulp Fiction. It's based on John Travolta and Uma Thurman's famous dance in that movie.
And yes, that was a level of moe that was almost too great for my heart to handle.
|2012-02-14, 04:56
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Well, this episode sure threw a monkey wrench in my theory. With Chibiki coming out to explain everything, I don't know where to start.
We now know that Misaki (the mom of Mei) is central to the mystery, there's now a Mikami-sensei, who was a teacher in 1996, who may be important, and the date of 1996, 2 years ago, where it is hinted that there has been some memory-alteration going on.
Everything in the episode is just plain weird. I didn't understand most of it and they all seemed to me like false flags, red herrings to throw people off the right track.
At least now with the very very very very very cute "dance" sequence we can confirm that in Umineko style, the narrator's (Sakakibara) perspective is unreliable, not everything can be taken as literal truth.
Oh and before I forgot
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|2012-02-14, 05:03
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|2012-02-14, 05:58
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I still maintain that there is a "human" solution to the mystery rather than relying on a supernatural explanation though.
What I do know is that Japanese culture dictates that kids take the surname of their male parent. Then there's further confusion because Misaki can be both a surname and a given name.
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Now, why is it that so? Why did Mei not take on her father's surname? And why is the shop called "The Hollow Eyes of Yomi at Twilight"? And how does that relate to the central mystery?
My answer is that Misaki Kirika and Yomiyama Misaki married/were a couple, and their child is called Misaki Mei. Misaki Fujiwara is Misaki Mei's twin sister, and for unknown reasons died in April. The tension between Misaki Kirika and Misaki Mei is due to the nature of the curse, and she sees Mei as bad luck.
My second, more radical theory is that
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This, I hope, explains why I think Chibiki is mistaken about Yomiyama Misaki's gender.
|2012-02-14, 06:11
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If we go by what's been given so far, Chibiki shouldn't be affected by the memory alteration anymore because he is no longer affiliated with Class 3, hence why he can talk with the ignored ones just like the art club students.
|2012-02-14, 06:14
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|2012-02-14, 06:28
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Well, I don't know according to Mei, the clause that she describes in the last episode:
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This could be another (pun not intended) case of bad translation though. I don't know. But logically speaking, I think that there's no difference.
To use a metaphor, If "I forget where my car keys are", it would be the same as saying "I forgot where I originally put my car keys." I am not arguing that "My car keys do not exist", I simply "Forgot the looks and location of my car keys and it is very hard to find them without remembering."
We saw in this episode that even Kouichi's dad fell victim to the "memory-alteration" part of the curse if you believe in the supernatural.
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I don't think we can rule Chibiki out as not being part of "the curse", because after all, he is still intimately connected to the incident in 1983. It would seem rather unfair that he got a free get-out-of-jail-card while running away while Kouichi's mom died.
Also, I liked the metaphor in this episode
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|2012-02-14, 06:33
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|2012-02-14, 07:28
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Wow Skyfall, a lot of thought went into this post, I am impressed.
If however Reiko is the another, it would explain why she is behaving so weird, why the parrot keeps saying "why Rei chan, why?", basically asking her why she returned and it would also explain why the countermeasure of ignoring one student works only 50:50 of the time.
But if we asume, that the extra dead person can appear outside the cursed classroom, why would they be short on one desk? This part doesnt make sense, because obviously there is one extra student in the classroom. Not an aunt who sits at home all the time and complains about headaches.
I think I need to rewatch the last episode one more time, I wasnt paying full attention to the explanation given by the librarian. And I think this part was crucial for the understanding of the curse.
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Accused bank robber Steven R. French, 48 of Dover, N.J., was arraigned in the Wayne County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon by Judge Raymond Hamill.
Accused bank robber Steven R. French, 48 of Dover, N.J., was arraigned in the Wayne County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon by Judge Raymond Hamill.
On March 1 the Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards and the Honesdale Borough Police Department announced the charging and arrest of French for the robbery of the Citizens Bank in Honesdale on Feb. 20.
He is charged with robbery, graded as a felony 2, terroristic threats, graded as a misdemeanor 1 and simple assault, graded as a misdemeanor 2.
His bail was set at $250,000. French was placed in the Wayne County Correctional Facility. His next court appearance will be on March 20 at 9 a.m. in the main courtroom.
At approximately 1:51 p.m. on Feb. 20 the Honesdale Borough Police Department was dispatched to Citizens Savings Bank on 335 Willow Ave. Upon arrival the bank teller gave a description of French to police and stated that he approached her and handed her a handwritten robbery note demanding cash and indicating he had a gun and a partner outside.
The note also advised to act quickly, naturally and everyone will be safe. The suspect also handed her a cloth tote bag and said, "hurry." The teller responded by putting money in the tote bag, later determined to be $2,420 in cash, and gave it to him.
French then exited the front door. The note was recovered and it was handwritten on a plain piece of 8-1/2" x 11" paper. Surveillance footage and still photographs were obtained.
The video footage revealed that French removed a black glove from his hand, while at the teller line, and that he had a white, rubber glove on his hand.
Witnesses outside the bank said upon exiting the bank he ran southbound on Willow Avenue, crossed the road and ran onto Old Willow Avenue. Surveillance video was viewed at Rent-E-Quip, a business located at 416 Old Willow Avenue.
Footage showed French running southbound on Old Willow Avenue at approximately 1:52 pm. Responding Pennsylvania State Police officers assisted with the investigation and a PSP officer located a single set of shoeprints off the left side of the roadway near 461 Old Willow Avenue, approximately 200 yards south of Rent-E-Quip. The shoeprints were in the snow and they led upward into a wooded area. The prints were followed through the wooded area.
The prints led to a side door of a tattoo parlor on Grandview Avenue. It was located at 164 Grandview Ave. The shoeprints were later photographed and measured and appear consistent with a 9-1/2 size.
Pennsylvania State Police officers entered the tattoo parlor business, which was open at the time, and made contact with French. A photo of him was taken and the investigation continued.
Shortly thereafter French went to Cordaro's Restaurant 186 Grandview Ave. and then obtained a Maple City Taxi Cab and was taken to Dover, N.J. He paid $160 cash for the cab fare and a $20 tip.
The complaint was filed with Magistrate Theodore Mikulak's office on Feb. 28 and French was apprehended by the Secaucus, New Jersey Police Department.