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The John Murray Show Thursday 3 April 2014
A lively mix of entertainment, human interest and lifestyle, presented by John Murray.
This weekend the Aintree Grand National takes place on Saturday but one of the greats of the Aintree race will not be taking part. Joining John on the line is Ruby Walsh, who on the last day of Cheltenahm sustained a fracture to his arm.
John Bela Reilly takes to St. Stephen's Green where he asks a number of random strangers - a single pertinent question - whats on your mind first thing in the morning?
Having achieved enormous success both here & abroad, Mrs. Brown's Boys - D'Movie, will soon hit our cinema screens. The man responsible for directing the successful comedy, Ben Kellett joins us from the UK this morning.
The Irish drama Love Hate has been the most talked about tv series to hit our screens & is set to return in the autumn. It is currently being filmed in Phoenix Park & there is one new cast member been spotted on set, Paul Ronan joins John on the line this morning.
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Oscar and I enjoy 10 days at the Spice Resort
As you know from my first five chapters, my name is Irene. I am a forty-two year old mother of two living a comfortable life in Barcelona, Spain. Until very recently, I had never been intimate with any man other than my husband. But on a Friday night several weeks ago, that all changed. To celebrate Oscar's birthday, my husband dressed me in a very revealing outfit and took me across town...Read On
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"It's not everyday you get a squirter!"
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Phoenix and Destiny have a hard time behaving.
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Two girls get to know each other like they never have before.
Sabrina had noticed her friend Abby had been a little down lately. The pressures of a new-born baby and sleepless nights that entailed was surely stressful for her and her husband Mark. Sabrina had suggested she take a night off and come over to hers for a meal and some much-needed girly chat. Abby agreed. Sabrina spent her Saturday afternoon preparing a nice salmon curry for them both,...Read On
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Her hands ran up my inner thighs and felt how wet my pussy was for her
My name is Mrs Katherine Beale, a forty-five year old married manager, for a top firm company in New York City. My husband, Bill, was a professional writer. Bill and I made out to be the very happily married couple in public but behind closed doors we were both miserable. Our sex life was non existent. But all that changed for me when Isabella Lopez entered my office one day. She was one...Read On
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Simone gets more than she bargained for when she auctions off her virginity
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Riley was great, but her black sheep daughter and her stripper friend surprised me...
Riley had raised two girls as a single mother. One daughter was just getting out of college and the other, well, she was what the family called the "black sheep" of the family. Riley was a close acquaintance, since her sister and my wife were best friends. I never really knew much about Riley and her daughters until things fell into place and then I got to know them all very well and...Read On
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The first two chapters of my real story of how I discovered my submissive side
My journey into submission (ch 1-2) The following is an account of real things that happened to me. There is nothing particularly sexual about the events of this story, the purpose of this is to express how I felt about them in order for myself to better understand my feelings and find anyone with similar experiences and thoughts. Everything in this story happened after the age of...Read On
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Donna needed more than a broken shower head fixed . .I was happy to oblige . .
Donna had called, Becca, my wife to report that the showerhead in her shower had fallen off. Becca quickly dispatched me next door to help fix the issue, because I was such a great handyman. I knew instinctively, before I even showed up next door, what the real deal problem was. Donna's husband was gone on an extended business trip and Donna was wanting more than her shower knob fixed. ...Read On
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You only turn nineteen once.
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A street smart girl turns the tables on her manipulative employer.
I I had problems when I was young. I won't go into all the horrific details because I want this to be a happy story and no one likes a whiner. I've always been blamed for the decisions I've made going all the way back into early childhood when I didn't even realize I was making decisions. But they say children are not responsible. So at what point did I cross the line? at what point was...Read On
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A Change in Career Paths
Two months since my promising career in banking had crashed and burned. Two months since that fateful day when our department manager had called all the interns to the conference room and shattered our lives. The bank was very sorry but business needs dictated that they relocate the business to a country with more favourable tax and business regulations. The senior management would relocate...Read On
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The saga continues
'I have to admit,' said Vicktoria, 'I do love a knee trembler.' The kitchen is a large room equipped, as you'd expect in a country home, with a range cooker as well as a conventional type. The centre of the room is dominated by a long oak table and my bum was against as Vicky was fucking me, her hands on m shoulders. My kirt was up and my knickers still in place. She'd come into the kitchen...Read On
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Work isn't always boring.......
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Jessica's appetite for her takes Nicole by surprise in the most unexpected place
Then Jessica leaned forward and whispered in my ear, "Make me cum, Nicole… Make me cum. Right here. Right now. Please…" What? Was she serious? Right here? But God, how could I stop? I so wanted her to cum right there but the waitress was delivering orders to tables across from us. As my hand pressed against her soaked panties, her breathing started to get deeper and her hips and thighs...Read On
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Hot threesome at beach
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We had passed by the line of the professional and had entered into personal lust.
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Nicole discovers another side to Jessica in a public bar
God that felt so good. It had been a while since I had cum. Work had sucked all my sexual energy out of me and the length of time coupled with watching Jessica finger herself to orgasm had meant I had cum hard. As I made my way to the bathroom, I could smell my scent and feel my juices on my thighs. I loved the smell of pussy and brought my fingers up to my nose to get a better...Read On
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Two best friends become more.
Cassie and Savannah had been best friends since seventh grade and the summer before their senior year they became even more than that. With no school to get up in the morning for the girls spent almost every night sleeping over at each others houses. One mid July night they were at Savannah's place watching TV, bored out of their minds. Their parents were on vacation together and they had...Read On
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The sexual awakening of a timid school girl
I had always liked women from my earliest memories but it wasn't until a few weeks after my sixteenth birthday that I finally became aware that I was sexually attracted to, and aroused by women. I started to realise that seeing some of my class mates in the changing rooms after PE made me very sexually aroused. I was terrified and excited in almost equal measure. Terrified that the...Read On
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My attempt to defend my foster-sister goes much differently than planned
I grew up in the foster system, but unlike so many stories, my life wasn't all that bad. I lucky in that the handful of families I was placed with were kind, generous and quite loving. The last family I was with was especially wonderful. They had a daughter that was a few years older than me, but we became as close as sisters very quickly. To this day we still consider each other sisters....Read On
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The Student Becomes the Teacher
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Chance encounter with chat friend
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Preparations and Detachment
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Just maybe all the good ones aren't straight after all
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How I began
I started masturbating at around the age of seventeen. At school, I was quite popular, but more with girls than boys, I was well endowed and my pubes were quite thick, it fascinated me, I was always looking in the mirror! I did go with boys but I think they felt a little intimidated with my exotic looks, so no "close" encounters happened, and I was glad about that, as I was still working...Read On
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An Exotic Dancer is Hired to Teach a Uni Professor How to be a Whore
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When one gives in to temptation, one sometimes has to pay a price, of sorts!
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Riverbed Goes All In
Riverbed said a number of its products will support Amazon Web Services, including Cloud Steelhead WAN optimization, Whitewater cloud storage gateway, Stingray Traffic Manager, Stingray Aptimizer and Stingray Application Firewall.
Riverbed's products will help customers using public clouds via Amazon Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service, said Venugopal Pai (pictured), Riverbed vice president, global alliances and business development, in a statement.
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Public Interest Week keynote Greenberger shines spotlight on "war on women," encourages advocacy
By Kai Syuen Loh C'15
This year's Public Interest Week Honorary Fellow-in-Residence Marcia Greenberger C'67, L'70 shined a spotlight on women's rights during her keynote address at Penn Law's Silverman Hall on the evening of Wednesday, March 14.
Focusing on major issues facing women's rights today, Greenberger's presentation, "Working in Washington: Highs, Lows and What's to Come," drew upon her experiences as founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center, as well as her experience as the first full-time women's rights legal advocate in Washington, D.C.
"The highs are that there is lots of talk on the war on women [in America]," she said, adding that it was a positive sign that there was a great deal of focus on women's rights in the current news cycle and the present debate on government funding for contraception.
"The lows are, of course, that there are these attacks [as part of] the war on women in the first place," Greenberger said. "There are challenges being made on issues we thought were secure and could rely upon throughout time."
"The lows are, of course, that there are these attacks [as part of] the war on women in the first place," Greenberger said. "There are challenges being made on issues we thought were secure and could rely upon throughout time."
Greenberger spoke on major issues facing women that she has encountered in her time in Washington. The main issues discussed were the pay gap between female and male workers, childcare, health insurance, and education.
Stating that women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, Greenberger illustrated efforts to bridge the pay gap, citing the annual Equal Pay Day as the day when women catch up to what men had earned the year before. Greenberger recounted her involvement in the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and the intricate process of getting the legislation passed.
"It's all about seizing the moments that come and looking into the future," she said of the legislative process. "As events present themselves you have to take the opportunities that arise."
She also addressed the "abysmally small" portion of women and low-income families that get government aid to support childcare and sustain their families. Illustrating inequalities in healthcare, Greenberger said women are charged more than men for the same insurance, excluding maternity coverage not provided by employers.
In response to an audience member's question on her biggest worry in the "entrepreneurial" aspects of advocacy, she said it was "the serious state of education decline."
"There is a lack of understanding in how government decisions affect the public," Greenberger asserted. "There is an inability to sort what is the truth and what is not."
Reflecting upon her years at Penn, Greenberger described her experience as a valuable one. She noted that the Law School's multidisciplinary approach provided her with tools that have helped her run the National Women's Law Center.
Greenberger repeatedly invited students to talk with her at an individual level during her visit, welcoming the opportunity to engage. "Legal training is all about expressing yourself, becoming an advocate for what you believe in in the public sector," she stated. "Being a law student is all about speaking up and getting involved."
She also praised the concept of Public Interest Week, stating that during her law school years, "it didn't even occur to us that a Public Interest Week could possibly happen." Greenberger lauded the pro bono requirement for graduation and Penn Law's focus on public interest.
In his introduction, Michael A. Fitts, Dean of Penn Law and the Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, said Greenberger was respected for her capacity in "giving voice" to women and her influential role in shaping women's rights. "[She] understands what it means to have a public interest career in law," he said.
"I thought she was a wonderful speaker," said Asher Levinthal, a second-year Penn Law student. "I learned that we should always advocate for issues we think are important, and be aware of traditional and untraditional avenues to do so."
Public Interest Week began on March 12 and continues through March 16, and features a series of workshops, conferences, and special events. This year's theme is "Abundant Justice: Leveraging Our Collective Resources for Maximum Impact."


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When the Jolie family left the house yesterday morning, they turned off the heat to save energy. At the time they left the house, the indoor temperature was 70 degrees and the outdoor temperature was 30. In two hours, the house cooled down to 60 degrees.
Assuming that the outdoor temperature remains constant throughout the day, the house loses heat according to Newton's Law of Cooling.
Solve the IVP and determine how long it takes from the time the heat is turned off, for the house temperature to reach 50 degrees.
I got the first part. I found my model and found the time. What I don't get is the next part.
When the tempature reaches 50 degrees, the heat is turned back on, warming the house at a rate of 10 degrees per hour. Modify the DE to account for the heat being turned on.
Solve the modified DE and determine the house temperature will be 2 hours after the heat is turned on. The value of k is still valid.
Would the new DE become dT/dt= k(t-Tm)+10t ? where Tm is the outside temp


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Michelle Atherley does not know.
Her coaches do not know.
So, Atherley will try many different events during this track and field season to see if they can come up with the answer to: What is your best event?
The Port Charlotte High sophomore was the area's lone double winner at the Lady Tarpon Invitational on Thursday at Charlotte High.
She won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 2 inches and the 300 hurdles in 46.97 seconds. Atherley also ran a leg of the Pirates' 4x400 relay that took sixth in the final race of the cold, windy night.
"I really like the 4x4," she said. "We have to work together as a team."
So far in her first season competing in track and field, Atherley also has competed in the triple jump and ran the 200, finishing first at the Ram Invitational last week in 26.46 seconds.
"She can be a heptathlete in college," Pirates coach Bethany Heslam said.
That consists of 200-meter and 800-meter runs, 100-meter hurdles, shot put, javelin throw, high jump, and long jump.
In Atherley's first venture in the 300 hurdles, she ran 48.71, the top qualifying time in the prelims. She topped that with a 46.97 in the final.
Seeded at 5-1 in the high jump, she went over at 5-2.
"I'm learning the high jump," said Atherley, who cleared 4-10 in her first meet at the Ram Invitational, good for third. "I think I'm pretty good at it, but I can learn more and get better. I hope to improve on that one too."
Athlerly also competed in the 100 hurdles, posting a 16.12 in the prelims, the third-best time. She had a false start in the final, confused by the starter.
"The first time he shot it two times and he did that the second time and nobody moved," she said, coming off a first-place finish in the event at the Ram Invitational in 16.04. "So I'm thinking we're going to start over again because the same thing happened.
"Rookie mistake."
A soccer player growing up, Atherley turned her attention toward gymnastics. Competing with Universal Gymnastics, she does – you guessed it – everything.
"All events," she said. "It takes a lot of conditioning and endurance, so that helped me a lot in track."
For her strength, Athlerly competed on the Pirates' weightlifting team. In her first year, she not only reached the state meet in the 139-pound weight class, Atherley returned with a medal for finishing fifth.
"I could have done better," she said, benching 150 and lifting 170 in the clean and jerk for a 320 total. "It was my first time at weightlifting."
Heslam said the coaches will monitor Atherley progress in all her events and "look at what the state has and see where she can do the best," as a plan for the season.
"I'm not quite sure what I'm doing yet," Atherley said. "I'm still working on it, learning."


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Letang Is The Truth wrote:Kraftster wrote:Pavel Bure wrote:Letang Is The Truth wrote:in non-ppr leagues, the value of graham diminishes. if you get a td-happy TE you can easily negate graham.
And those TD happy TEs would be?
Heath Miller and Kyle Rudolph last year are probably examples.
and id venture a guess that at least heath was a waiver wire pick up last year
Yea, I had Heath last year and I loved him but... those guys are just too hard to predict. Graham has a ton of value imo


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Beautiful weather, a fast, flat course through the scenic and historic parts of Fayetteville and exciting prizes will comprise the 3rd annual Imagination Library Race.
On Sept. 22, at 8 a.m., runners will gather at Stone Bridge Park to join with others in the community to help raise money for this worthy organization.
The Imagination Library purchases books for infants through the age of five years. These books are free of charge and available to anyone who wishes to receive them. By participating in this year's 5K race or 1 mile walk, you will be helping provide books to all of our local children.
Race Director, Helen Fussell, would like to encourage everyone to come out and be a part of this race. Both adults and children are welcome to run or to walk the 5K course. Overall male and female winners will receive a generous gift card from Fleet Feet, as well as a surprise award. First, second and third in each age group will also receive gift cards, plus custom medals.
Following the race, there will be a 1 mile walk around the beautiful Stone Bridge Park. All walkers will receive a ribbon upon completion. There will be many exciting door prizes given away, as well.
To register for the race, you may go to Active.com and type in Imagination Library, or you may pick up applications at the Patrick, Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville Fitness Center, US Bank or the Imagination Library page on Facebook.
On race day, the 5K race begins at 9 a.m., with the 1 mile walk starting at 9 a.m. Awards will be presented at 9:45 a.m.
Cost is $30 for the 5K, which includes a T-shirt. Registration is $10 for the 1 mile walk and $15 for the walk plus a T-shirt.
Once you have registered, package pickup will be available at the Elk River Coffee shop on Friday, Sept. 21, from 3 until 6 pm.
Race Day registration will be available, but the cost increases, and you may not get the T-shirt size that you want. Race day registration opens at 7 a.m.


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AJ:This years list is packed with freaking awesome games, some you might not even expect! See if your favorites made the cut.
Hawken, Planetside 2 and Guild Wars 2..I know all 3 of those games are really fun but sadly I'm not a pc gamer, and the high cost and numerous inconveniences don't make things easier for anyone..
what the.. this guy didnt play Journey or The Unfinished Swan? how about Sleeping Dogs?


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the key core just isnt here. on offense we have not 1 playmaker even with holmes healthy. holmes paired up with the likes of edwards made them both playmakers in this offense. this team isnt what we thought it would be.
preseason was a preview of just how bad this offense was going to be and nothing was done to improve it signing hill and grimes and cutting conner wasnt the answer or the fix.
woody tanny and rex are all at fault.


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I have an action (controllerF/actionF) that permits the user to save a model by redirect to another action (controllerA/actionA). The user can be update the model after of submit.
how can redirect the user after saving to the first controllerF/actionF ?
note the actionA can be used directly, so I can't use
I tried to do that with
Yii::app()->user->setReturnUrl Yii::app()->request->urlReferrer; Yii::app()->user->returnUrl;
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Prospect Hill - Waltham, MA
After nearly two weeks of fighting briars and climbing hills, I needed a bit of a break. So we decided to head over to Prospect Hill in Waltham for the foliage. The, "prospect," of being able to drive to the top was attractive, and the views definitely didn't disappoint.But as I drove up the access road I spotted what looked like a possible balanced glacial erratic. I decided to stop and check it out on the way back down the hill.Although the erratic wasn't truly balanced, it was an impressive sight nonetheless as more than half its girth was suspended off the end of an outcropping. I decided to quickly look around -- but didn't find any rock piles.
However, on the opposite side of the access road across from the erratic, at a place called Dinosaur Rock, I spotted a very large split boulder.It was a remarkable boulder, but the question remained -- was it wedged? Sure enough, as I brushed aside the leaf litter down inside the split, there it was -- a small rock.I tried moving the rock but it wouldn't budge. It was definitely wedged in there and seemed as though the weight of the top portion of the split was resting on it.
Could there be more features on Prospect Hill? Perhaps in some remote part of the park maybe -- but I was happy just to find this split-wedge near that impressive glacial erratic.
[Click here] for more information on Prospect Hill.
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- pwax said...
Somewhere online I posted the same rock from Prospect Park, from the same angle. Can't find it at the moment.
Here we go: http://www.neara.org/WAKSMAN/waltham.jpg
Check it out.
- pwax said...
I should have said that the reason I photo'd this perched rock is because it is not a glacial rock but is made of the same bedrock as the outcrop it is sitting on and of Prospect Hill in general; and I thought a case could be made that this rock must have been moved by someone.
While we are talking about Prospect Hill, let me add that the hill is divided into a northern and a southern portion. According to Tim Fohl, the winter solstice sunrise line, passing through the gap between the two parts of the hill, back projects to the northwest over to the hill on the back side of the Cambridge Reservoir. That particular slope has a number of low earthen rectangular enclosures opening towards Prospect Hill. Although I am suspicious of claims that these enclosures are ancient, it does appear that sitting in one on the winter solstice, a person can see the sun rise through the gap in the two parts of Prospect Hill.
- JimP said...
Interesting! I assumed it was glacial, but I didn't take a very close look at it at all. I was supposed to be taking a break from rock pile hunting that day.
I think the mammoth split-wedge across the access road lends much credence to your theory that the boulder was indeed moved by someone. The two features are very near one another that it is unlikely to be a coincidence.
- Casino Slots said...
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After a year-long delay, finally, there is an interview worth translating! This time, a long, honest talk with Anna Jagrova, Jaromir's mother. So far, I translated about 1/2 of the article here:
There will be many grammatical errors, since I did not have much time to correct them.
The second half (which I'll translate later) talks about the "umlibical cord-like connection" that they share until now, and about Jaromir's (excessive?) gambling.


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Recent comments
I'm glad it works now, because i have no idea what was causing the previous error. Please ask if you need any more assistant.
That is really weird, because at the time of the first post above, clicking "Add More" went to adding more categories. Now it works just fine though (expect many games, a few at a time!).
Yes, i think so ;)
In the top menu there is a link called Add more try that one. From there it should be kinda well documented what you have to do.
Forum topic: Bernd und das Rätsel um Unteralterbach
I'm afraid this game was disabled because of its disturbing content.
Forum topic: linux game?
>can be run natively on linux.
true its a dos game ported with doxbox and sold and supported as Linux game. its also tagged as emulated( http://lgdb.org/category/feature/emulated )
ok i know it took me way to long to fix this... but now its done.
yup it's a known lgdb bug (the GOG distributor links are not displayed if no other distributor is linked/added)


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I'm developing an app where users send a link to a PHP scripts that passes the link to a server which downloads the file. My thoughts were for the downloading server to have another PHP scripts which handles the downloading but I'm not sure what the best route would be.
The downloading application need to support the following:
Files sizes upto 4gbs
Ability to resume download on error
Needs to handle multiple downloads at one time.
Thanks for your time!


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'''The Lost Brotherhood''' is an outlaw motorcycle club operating primarily out of [[Acter]], [[Alderney]] in [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] in 2008 and in [[
'''The Lost Brotherhood''' is an outlaw motorcycle club operating primarily out of [[Acter]], [[Alderney]] in [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] in 2008 and in [[in GTA V|]], [[in GTA V|]] in 2013.
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The Lost Brotherhood
The Lost Brotherhood's patch
The Lost and Damned
The Ballad of Gay Tony
GTA Chinatown Wars
Liberty City
Los Santos
|Alderney Chapter:
Billy Grey (? - 2008)
Johnny Klebitz (2008 - ?)
|The Angels of Death
Russian Mafia
The Pegorino crime family
Italian Mafia
Albanian Mafia
Hillside Posse
Brian's Faction
|Thomas Stubbs
Uptown Riders
Pretty Boy
Elizabeta Torres
Other various Lost chapters
|Drug Trafficking, Street Racing, Armed robbery, Gun-Running, Prostitution
|Lost MC Clubhouse
Globe Oil
|Billy Grey (? - 2008)
Johnny Klebitz
Jim Fitzgerald (? - 2008)
Brian Jeremy (? - 2008)
Terry Thorpe
Clay Simons
Angus Martin
Jason Michaels (? - 2008)
Lil' Joe (deceased)
Horse (deceased)
The Lost Brotherhood is an outlaw motorcycle club operating primarily out of Acter, Alderney in Liberty City in 2008 and in Los Santos, San Andreas in 2013.
According to the Lost website, the Lost began in 1964 with eight US Marines who met in Hanoi, Vietnam. After the war ended, they had a continued thirst for drugs and violence. Because of this, they began the club and named it "The Lost" because of their friends who were killed in action.
|Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details are in the text which follows.
Alderney chapter
At the beginning of The Lost and Damned, the protagonist Johnny Klebitz is the acting leader of in the absence of Billy Grey, who had been incarcerated for drug charges.
Prominent members of the Alderney chapter included the chapter's President Billy Grey; Vice President Johnny Klebitz; Treasurer Jim Fitzgerald; Club Secretary Brian Jeremy; Road Captain Clay Simon and Sergeant-at-Arms Terry Thorpe. Other noteworthy members were Jason Michaels and Angus Martin, as well as old ladies Leila Sharpe and Ashley Butler.
They, or at least their motto, may have been inspired by the Outlaws MC, as Billy Grey at one point stated their motto is "the almighty forgives... the Lost don't", which is identical to that of the Outlaws.
Alderney State Chapter Members
- Billy Grey- President.
- Johnny Klebitz - Vice President.
- Jim Fitzgerald - Treasurer.
- Terry Thorpe - Sergeant At Arms.
- Clay Simons - Road Captain.
- Brian Jeremy - Club Secretary.
- Jason Michaels - Enforcer.
- Angus Martin - Lieutenant.
- "Horse - Enforcer.
- Dave Grossman - Prospect.
- Ashley Butler - Old Lady.
- Leila Sharpe - Old Lady.
Liberty City chapter
The Lost MC also has a chapter in Broker, Liberty City. In 2008, Johnny met up with six bikers from the Lost's Broker chapter on the Broker Bridge. Jason also called for help from the Broker chapter when hired gun Niko Bellic attacked him.
While there is no chapter in Algonquin, Johnny and other members of The Lost have been seen in Algonquin.
Los Santos chapter
The Lost MC will appear in Grand Theft Auto V. At one point protagonist Trevor Phillips is seen fleeing The Lost in a plane while they are shooting at him in the second trailer. In the background is the Lost logo on a Slamvan, and scattered motorcycles while unseen characters in the same direction are taking shots at Trevor also a graffiti of the Lost MC have been seen in the trailer of Trevor.
- There have been ten presidents of The Lost Brotherhood's Alderney Chapter (the last two being Billy Grey and Johnny Klebitz).
- Billy Grey and Brian Jeremy were convicted of the same crime in the same year (murder in 1989). It's possible it was a two-man job and it might explain why Brian is so loyal to Billy.
- The Gunthugs MC is thought to be a separate MC, but a file from Grand Theft Auto IV proves that it is not.
- The Lost prove to be more aggressive to their rivals, the Angels of Death, despite being outnumbered.
- It's possible that members of The Lost are extorting or are employed by Globe Oil's offices in Berchem, Alderney, as Johnny refers to their rear parking lot as "Lost MC turf" during the mission "Liberty City Choppers".
- If the player looks at the memorial wall inside the clubhouse they can see that one of the fallen Lost members uses an Angel of Death model.
- The Lost MC do not have the crescent shaped rocker that states there home which real outlaw biker gangs with more than one Chapter will have. There should be a rocker with ALDERNEY on the bottom, as should the Broker Chapter have LIBERTY CITY. Strangely the Angels of Death sport their home town rocker, so it's strange the Lost was overlooked in this feature.
Notable tragedies
Before The Lost and Damned
- Night Hog died in 1982, as the first Lost casualty in their feud with the Angels of Death. Even after taking two shotgun shells to the face, he was standing up and firing his sub-machine gun before he died.
- Mitch died in 1985 when he was having sex on a moving bike, and was hit by a freight train.
- Bozo died in 1999 when he was shot directly in the head in a shootout with three police officers.
- Dirty Sue died in 2001 when he was drunk while driving his motorcycle, veered onto oncoming traffic and was hit by a truck.
- Harper died in 2006 in a methlab explosion. He had previously lost one of his ears in 2003 to a similar explosion. As told by the Lost website, he "didn't sell to homos - which is rare in this world of hypocrites and sellouts," suggesting the Lost are homophobic (though, unlike the Angels of Death, they are not racist and have befriended the Uptown Riders).
- Horse was captured by The Lost after turning state's evidence.
- Angus Martin is permanently crippled by an accident caused by Billy Grey.
- Wyatt is an arrested prospect caught with kilos of heroin.
- Moose shot an undercover cop who infiltrated the Lost and was subsequently arrested.
- Jose was caught with meth that "wasn't his" and was later arrested.
During The Lost and Damned
- The truce between The Lost and the Angels of Death is demolished when Billy Grey kills a Lieutenent of the Angels of Death.
- Jason Michaels and many bikers from the Lost's Broker chapter are killed by hired gun Niko Bellic on orders from Mikhail Faustin.
- Brian Jeremy defects to start his own chapter, feuding with former Lost brother Johnny Klebitz and his faction. Johnny murders most of Brian's trustees and, optionally, Brian himself.
- Many members of the Broker chapter are killed by Luis Fernando Lopez after an attempt to kill him and Anthony Prince.
- Jim Fitzgerald is killed by Niko Bellic after an extended motorcycle chase. Johnny describes him as "the man we all wanted to be".
- Billy Grey is arrested during a botched heroin deal, and was prepared to turn state's evidence on Johnny Klebitz and Angus Martin. before Johnny and other Lost members broke into the prison and personally murdered Billy.
- The Lost's clubhouse is destroyed by Ray Boccino, and then burnt down by the remaining members of the Alderney chapter.


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"Your Town Saturday Night"
Fresh off the state fair circuit—the combo headlined at our glorious state fair in September—hair-band giants Loverboy return to Duke City as part of their whirlwind tour of the Southwest, which somehow inexplicably wraps up next May in Montego Bay, at the Rock the Caribbean Festival. In any case, Mike Reno and Paul Dean will bring their brand of celebratory rock and roll to a slightly more intimate setting when they play Sandia Casino's Tlur Pa Lounge (30 Rainbow NE) tomorrow night at 9:30pm. It's almost guaranteed "Turn Me Loose" will be on the set list, plus it's only a 10-dollar cover to get in. Though that says something, one supposes, about the fate of certain early '80s MTV icons, we are sure you want to go because let's face it, everybody's working for the weekend, right? Tlur Pa Lounge, Sandia Resort and Casino • Sat Dec 28 • 9:30pm • $10 • View on Alibi calendar


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Kenley on Tuesday threatened to eliminate the $10 million in annual state funding for the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority unless Lake County adopts a local option income tax.
He said that to RDA President Bill Hanna during a meeting of the State Budget Committee.
State support for the RDA comes from the lease of the Indiana Toll Road. But that money is expected to run out at the end of 2015.
"We're getting down to the point where we can't just keep saying, 'OK, we'll give you another five years of subsidies' or something like that," Kenley told Hanna . . .
"We've kind of pushed this money at you for your own discretionary use with some positive effects … but I think we're really not doing anything like this for anybody else," Kenley said.
Kenley apparently forgets that RDA funding isn't a one-way street. Lake and Porter county government as well as the cities of Gary, Hammond and East Chicago each contributes $3.5 million annually . . .
And as long as we are talking about Lake County, how about the millions in casino tax dollars that the region sends to the state. That represents the third greatest source of revenue for Indiana.
And as long as we are talking Region money, let's not forget about all the taxes industry – particularly steel – sends to the state general fund.
And, Luke, as you renew the fight for an income tax in Lake County, let's not forget one thing. That tax is called a local option income tax. The operative word is "option."
And to date, Lake County elected officials have opted not to adopt the tax.Kenley must have already forgotten about the state bailout of the CIB he sponsored, which gives millions of state sales tax dollars generated within a downtown sports development authority to the CIB to spend annually, as well as the stadium authority he sponsored that allowed the state to build a more than $700 million new stadium for the CIB, which it, in turns, leases to the Colts rent-free.


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Even if he usually doesn't dip his toes into specifics, the tone of Ken Levine's games is more than enough to identify him as someone interested in history and politics. So it isn't very surprising that he's been paying attention to the recent Occupy Wall Street protests, and seeing parallels to his own upcoming game BioShock Infinite. The conflict between the xenophobic Founders and the communist-turned-militant Vox Populi is the centerpiece for a lot of the action, and Levine recently spoke about where the groups intersect with modern politics.
"As we developed these opposing groups, the Founders versus the Vox Populi, it was interesting to see this play out in real time, so that the fictional movements we're creating that are set in this heightened past are almost being duplicated in reality," he told the Washington Post (via Gamasutra). "Of course, we have these extreme movements [in the game], but they have to start somewhere. As you write, you ask, 'Do they evolve in a peaceful way or not?'"
He says the Vox Populi was originally based on a German student movement called the Baader-Meinhof Group. He calls the evolution of extremism fascinating. "They start in a peaceful, understandable place and end up somewhere very different."
He says the historical context could be "reassuring or concerning" in light of current events. "Some of those movements, dating back to the French Revolution, have had similar complaints to what Occupy Wall Street has," he said. Levine suggests that leftist movements are less organized because those groups rebel against authority. "So Occupy Wall Street has been helping me because I've been struggling to figure out how the Vox Populi get to the point in the demo. Throughout the game, you're actually watching them — you see in the beginning of the game that they're a dead movement and a movement that really fails, and it picks up steam based upon your actions."
Of course, the Vox Populi eventually breaks out into all-out violence, and no one wants that part of the game to be prophetic. "I hope the real-life movements don't head to the same place, though," Levine said. "I'm not going anywhere nice, I'll tell you that much."


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Green Arrow in Smallville. Justin Hartley is all that and then some for me!!
Green Arrow in Smallville. Justin Hartley is all that and then some for me!!
The Doctor - David Tennant (My lonely angel, I like Matt but David is my Doctor!)
Rose Tyler - Billie Piper (I lived through her during 2005 and 2006)
Donna Noble - Catherine Tate (Especially during Season 4, funny, cool and just awesome.)
Martha Jones - Freema Agyema (Grew to like her especially appearing in Torchwood and Season 4 of Doctor Wh.o)
Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen (Have been enjoying her on SJA & DW.)
Merlin - Colin Morgan (Cute, nebbish and funny, he was on DW Series 4)
Arthur - Bradley James (God this guy is hot, has anyone seen his hairy chest "drool")
Robin of Locksley - Jonas Armstrong (Cute Robin, nice everything, I did not like hm much in Series 3, but I still love him)
Sir. Guy of Gisborne - Richard Armitage (MY FANTASY HUSBAND "Watch North & South" If I had a vagina, I'd be wet all the time watching him.)
Dean & Sam Winchester - (I love Dean moreso but I loved Sam from the earlier seasons.)
Fox Mulder - David Duchovny (I miss Mulder already but Sam and Dean are kinda of filling in his place until he returns to form.)
Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson (Just cool to watch, awesome as Scully in earlier seasons, hope to see her again someday.)
Laura Roslin BSG - Mary Mcdonnel (I VOTED FOR ROSLIN!)
Col. Adama BSG - (I didn't like him at the start but he grew on me and have a deep respect for Edward James Olmos for it.)
George from Being Human - Russel Tovey (He is very cute, it helps that he is naked alot. He too appeared in DW in Series 4.)
Dr. Daniel Jackson - Michael Shanks (My fantasy lover, a sexy nerd although I think he got too buff in later seasons, losing his nerdiness a tad.)
Samantha Carter - Amanda Tapping (Great character from the outset of the show)
John Chricton - Ben Browder (Everything about him is awesome, I have the boxset and I COMPLETELY LOVE HIM! DO YOU HEAR ME... Aeryn can keep the other Chricton, I'll take the other.)
The Golden Girls - (I can't choose among them, they each fill a certain trait in me that I recognize from time to time) Fuck that sounds so gay!
so many others... I am a loving person.
I swear I have never heard of that show. I love her already.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi-The Sopranos: An extremely strong woman who unlike many people is willing to stand up to the main character/aggressor of the show (Tony Sopranos). Even after being sexually assaulted, she remains mostly levelheaded and falls apart only momentarily.
Nancy Botwin-Weeds: She's a rather realistic character who makes decisions as real people do, yet she stands by her family at all times without abandoning them. She's reckless and rather 'weaselly' and for that, I adore her completely.
There are plenty more. I'll probably be coming back to this thread a few more times, haha.
Tasha Mack from the The Game.. LOVE HER!!!
(the one on the end)
Maggie from Extras.
Kenneth and Jack and Levin and Dr. Spaceman and Liz and Jenna from 30 Rock.
Elaine from Seinfeld.
I'm LOVING Happy Endings' Penny and Max!!!
-From Dexter: Both Dexter and Debra Morgan
-From the Big C: Kathy and Andrea Jackson
-From Weeds: LOVE all the Botwins esp. Nancy. Also a shame Heallyuh and Conrad were taken off the show because they were great too
-From Parks and Recreation: Ron Swanson and Amy Phoeler and Aziz Ansari
-From 30 Rock: Liz Lemon and Jack Danaughy
- From Lost: Jack Sheapard[so hot!], LOVED Hurley, Kate and Juliete Burke [fertility doctor], Sawyer was cool too.
-The Office:Michael Pam and Jim, but almost the whole cast minus a few loose ends
and last but not least my favorite character of TV history
Pheobe Buffet from FRIENDS! She is hysterical definitely one of my favorite characters
Buffy Summers
"If you can't do something smart,do something right."-Jayne Cobb
Max from Happy Endings, he plays the best gay character i think on tv. he's just a dude that likes dudes.
Marty Saybrooke (User Name lol) from One Life To Live
Gigi Morasco from OLTL
Buffy and Tara from Buffy
And Lori from The Walking Dead
Is it really wrong to say Stewie Griffen. Not the child but whenever you see im as an adult, either in the family guy movie or episodes where he flashes to the future.
There are so many gay comments that come out of his mouth as a child, its funny to see him as an adult.
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Tara from buffy.. before they killed her off
Patsy & Edina (Absolutely Fabulous)
Uncle Ruckus (The Boondocks)
Tanya Turner (Footballers Wives) my all time favorite soap bitch diva!!!
omar little and marlo stanfield from the wire. my dudes.
Daria Morgendorffer from Daria
Morticia Addams from the addams family
Peewee Herman
Peggy Bundy from Married with children
and April Ludgate from Parks and recreation
Karen from will and grace. She always makes me laugh.
This is not an exit
I have a new favorite TV show, and a new favorite TV character, although I wouldn't say I love her with my heart and soul. The TV show is Gravity Falls, and the character is named Mabel. I won't post a picture or youtube link, because she's twelve. (Although she's animated, so maybe that's OK?)
What do I like about her? I've always had a soft spot for characters that some might quickly dismiss as "dumb", but upon closer examination, they're what you might call "differently smart". Gracie Allen is sort of a prototype. I also enjoyed Wildcat from the Talespin cartoon. Upon finding something refurbished extremely well, I say it's "good as pretty and twice as new", which I copped from him.
Mabel's in the same league, I think. She sort of wanders to the beat of her own mp3 player. Lots of what she does seems either a bit simple or a bit out there (or both, like when she successfully Bedazzled her face). She wears some weird sweaters - the ones below are just from the first ten episodes or so, and the "Mabel" one in the lower left actually plugs in. She wins a pig, names it Waddles, and enjoys dressing him up. And despite everything that's going on in Gravity Falls (lots of weird shit), she's nearly always happy.
Miss Cordelia Chase
Miss Prudence Haliwell
Miss Piper Haliwell (Before Prue's death)
Eternal youth and endless life. I'll sacrifice everything and everyone to obtain it
My Rebekah <3
Honorable mentions,
(Victoria Grayson, Katherine Pierce, Gabrielle Solis and Edie Britt)
I know they're from the same show, but Im absolutely obsessed!
Constance from American Horror Story;
Although all the actors on the show are amazing, she is my favorite character.
And Tate from American Horror Story;
^moreso when he's being cute, not a psycho lol
Both of the them are also in the second season, playing as different characters (the 2nd season has some of the same cast, but it's a completely different story so they play different characters).
If you haven't been watching the second season of AMH you need to be!!!


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Federal Election 2013
In a controversial break from tradition, Prime Minister Julia Gillard took many by surprise by announcing that the next federal election would be on September 14, more than seven months away. Never before in Australia has a federal election date been declared more than three months in advance.
What motivated the early announcement?
In giving her reasons, Prime Minister Gillard said she wished to clearly delineate "the days of governing" from the "days of campaigning" and to provide certainty for "individuals and business, investors and consumers" to plan ahead.
She also sought to "clear away the carry-on" that traditionally precedes election announcements; hoping to put the focus on policies rather than "petty politics". She stated that it was not her intention to start the nation's "longest election campaign".
Serving a full three-year term was also a condition of support from the Green and independent MPs who enabled the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to form a minority government after the 2010 federal election. This agreement was to ensure some political stability after an indecisive election result.
Many have congratulated the Prime Minister on her decisiveness and for providing certainty to the public. Others are less enthusiastic; fearing that the nation will now be forced to endure seven months of electioneering.
What rules surround the calling of an election?
Election dates are "fixed" in most Australian states except Tasmania and Queensland. Federal election dates, however, are not. The federal parliament cannot run for more than three years after the day it first convenes. During a government's third and final year in office, it nominates a date for the next federal election; often timing the announcement to suit its political agenda. Steady media speculation and secrecy customarily surround this decision. Also, a minimum campaign period of 33 days before election day is required.
In accordance with these rules, the official election campaign period for 2013 will begin on August 12, when "writs" (court orders) for an election will be issued. Consequently, the current House of Representatives will be dissolved; the Labor government will become a "caretaker government", and half the Senate will prepare for re-election.
Were other political motives at play?
Some say that in making the surprise announcement, the Prime Minister hopes to be perceived as a strong, decisive, open and transparent leader who can provide certainty to the nation. Others suggest the intention was to fend off another leadership challenge from former prime minister Kevin Rudd; or to limit the likelihood of a "no confidence" motion for the government, particularly after the controversies surrounding former Labor MP Craig Thomson and former speaker of the house Peter Slipper, as well as the recent resignations of senior MPs Nicola Roxon and Chris Evans.
Some say the decision provides certainty for the Opposition; enabling it to efficiently plan its election strategy and ration its campaign resources. However, many argue that it puts additional pressure on Opposition leader Tony Abbott to quickly produce viable, accurately costed policies.
What about fixed-date governmental terms?
Prime Minister Gillard's announcement has also reignited calls for a shift to fixed terms of government, with set election dates at national level. Those in favour argue that Australia's three-year federal terms are not long enough to implement government agendas and encourage "opportunistic, short-term politicking" rather than thoughtful, long-term reforms. Given the uncertainty of when an election may be called, they say governments ostensibly have only 2 1/2 years to govern, with the remainder devoted to being re-elected. In the United States, governments have a fixed term of four years with federal elections held in the first week of November at the conclusion of each four-year cycle. Some are now calling for four-year, fixed-date governmental terms in Australia.
Other fixed-term advocates argue that "wandering" election dates add to business uncertainty, take the focus away from important policy issues and often result in decisions being timed for political gain rather than the national interest. Tony Abbott, however, has argued against fixed terms, saying they force voters to wait a full term before removing an undesirable government.
Is Labor taking its lead from US politics?
Some argue that the Labor Party is attracted by US politics, particularly the 2012 re-election of President, Barack Obama (Democratic Party) after his embattled first term in office. Labor representatives have reportedly visited the US to research Democrat election strategies, hoping that the government's flagging popularity can be revived in time for the 2013 election.
Some suggest that in announcing the election early, Labor is planning to run a US-style election campaign, which requires a longer time frame, in an attempt to paint Mr Abbott in the same way the Democrats attempted to paint their Republican rival, Mitt Romney. Given a longer "campaign" period, some suggest that Mr Abbott, whose public communications have been described as "gaffe-prone", may issue a "fatal gaffe" before the election; enhancing Labor's re-election prospects.
Others oppose the strategy; arguing that American-style political campaigning, with its "nasty" personal attacks and prolonged duration would not be welcomed in Australia.
Recent Headlines
"PM announces election for September 14" – The Age, January 30
"Abbott has time to prove he's a leader – but is it enough?" – The Sydney Morning Herald, January 30
"Early call on poll places fixed terms back on agenda" – The Australian, January 31
"Labor's plot to make Tony Abbott into Mitt Romney" – Crikey, February 1
What The Age says
"Some might accuse Ms Gillard of giving us an ultramarathon campaign, although this has not been the result of fixed-date state elections. The battles of the past two years will probably rage through to September 14, but we would hope Ms Gillard can deliver on her commitment that "it should be clear to all which are the days of governing and which are the days of campaigning".
It would be even better if Ms Gillard restored Labor's promise of a referendum on fixed, four-year terms to permanently "create an environment in which the nation's eyes are more easily focused on the policies", in her words. That reform would be a more durable and democratically satisfying way to end the damaging uncertainty about election dates."
Editorial opinion, January 31
What people say
"This is a quasi-fixed-term parliament now. I think it is a good for democracy. We all know now when we'll be put out of our misery."
Independent South Australian senator Nick Xenophon, The Age, January 30
"In one fell swoop, she [Prime Minister Gillard] has blind-sided the so-called experts while also removing their chance to speculate endlessly about possible election dates throughout the year. Incidentally, the complaint that this will lead to a long, protracted campaign is entirely unwarranted. Tony Abbott has been campaigning continuously for the past three years."
Tim Rivett, The Age, February 1
"Deeply disappointed that Gillard chose to hold the election on Yom Kippur – the most solemn and sacred day of the Jewish year"
Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull, Twitter, January 29
"I welcome a seven-month build-up to the federal election as it will provide an opportunity for detailed debate, rather than a presidential-style, head-to-head, sound-bites campaign."
David Ringelblum, The Age, January 31
"Wouldn't [fixed three-year terms] be a great thing for the Australian people so that we didn't have all the game playing that has gone on in the past?"
Greens leader Christine Milne, The Australian, January 31
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Your View
What do you think of the Prime Minister's early election call?
Should Australia have fixed terms of government and fixed election dates? Why/why not?
Post your comments below.


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The race to fill the seat being vacated by Assemblyman Michael Gianaris in Astoria - who is in turn the clear frontrunner to replace the retiring George Onorato in the State Senate - featured Democrats Aravella Simotas and Jeremiah Frei-Pearson. Now it features only one of those.
Frei-Pearson decided to end his campaign earlier this week, citing that he was unwilling to run a negative campaign. Unwilling to run a negative campaign?! As people who make their living off writing about the various missteps and accusations that politicians make, very often in the heat of the very negative campaigns Mr. Frei-Pearson maligns, we can only take Frei-Pearson's stance on the moral high ground as an affront to our livelihood!
Here's a snippet from the statement his "positive" campaign issued:
"Unfortunately, the dynamics of the race have changed in the past week. After this past week's developments, we still have path to victory - but that path would require us to run a negative campaign against a fellow Democrat. This is a path that I am unwilling to take."
Well, that's no way to get elected in New York City!
Maybe Frei-Pearson was upset about the fact that he might have to get down in the mud and start slinging it at Simotas, and if he decided he just couldn't bear to do it because he would be unable to sleep at night, then good for him, we guess.
But as we here at Pol Position have learned, things aren't always what they seem on the surface.
A cornerstone of Frei-Pearson's campaign was the work that he did following the devastating 2006 blackout in western Queens that left businesses and residents without power, some for a week or longer. Frei-Pearson was part of a group that put the pressure on Con Edison to cough up rebates that paid out about $100 per affected customer.
Frei-Pearson was a big part of said group, which negotiated on behalf of the community with Con Edison to arrive at the $100 amount. Once the settlement was announced, however, local lawmakers immediately blasted it as a sweetheart deal for Con Edison. Even so, Frei-Pearson was using his work on the settlement as a key selling point in his campaign.
And then, Pace University (coincidentally about the same time as Frei-Pearson made his announcement that he was dropping out of the race) released a study that showed the blackout caused $188 million in damages. It also revealed that the settlement that Con Ed eventually agreed to, the same one that Frei-Pearson helped make possible, really only compensated the approximately 174,000 people affected by the outage by about one-tenth of what they were owed.
Perhaps Frei-Pearson didn't want to run a negative campaign, but maybe what he realized is that the study basically destroyed one of his main talking points, and that the only way he was going to be able to win was to go incredibly negative, and even then he probably would have had a hard road, so just decided to throw in the towel.
Don't forget to turn out the lights on your way out!


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Purses for the Hollywood Juvenile Championship and the Landaluce, fixtures on the Spring/Summer calendar, have doubled from $100,000 to $200,000 while the Cinderella Stakes and Willard L. Proctor Memorial have gone from $70,000-added in 2011 to $100,000 this year.
A Grade III at six furlongs, the Hollywood Juvenile will be run for the 73rd time Saturday, July 14. The Landaluce – restricted to fillies and also at six furlongs - will have its 68th renewal the same day.
Both the Cinderella, which is for fillies, and the Proctor will be offered Saturday, June 16. The two races are 5 ½ furlongs.
Captured in the past by such stars as Blind Luck, Surfside, Sharp Cat, Serena's Song, Very Subtle and Althea, the Starlet, which is run at 1 1/16 miles, is scheduled for Dec. 8.
The first payment of $250 for both the Starlet and the $750,000-guaranteed CashCall Futurity – a Grade I which will be run Dec. 15 - are due May 18, according to Martin Panza, Betfair Hollywood Park's racing secretary and vice president-racing.
"These increases reward those owners and trainers who support the 2-year-old program during the Spring/Summer meet,'' said Panza. "We've doubled the purses for two of our four stakes during the Spring/Summer and we have eight stakes for 2-year-olds – at different distances on two surfaces – during the Autumn season.''
Betfair Hollywood Park's 50-day Spring/Summer meet will begin Thursday, April 26 and continue through Sunday, July 15.


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Forest Service announces North Shore Restoration Project
The effort to reshape the forest along Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior is advancing, now with the U.S. Forest Service moving to help conifers reclaim their historic dominance along the lake.
The Duluth News Tribune reports Superior National Forest officials are preparing an environmental assessment of the so-called North Shore Restoration Effort. It's part of the larger North Shore Forest Collaborative that includes private landowners, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service, and county and tribal forestry agencies.
The Forest Service has scheduled a public open house on their plans for Jan. 10 in Grand Marais.
The problem is apparent to anyone who has driven along Highway 61 over the past 25 years. Acres of dead and dying birch trees are replaced by a sea of grass, shrubs and deer. An estimated 600 square miles of forest along the lake — from the shore to the top of the ridge, stretching from Two Harbors to Pigeon River — have been affected by the change in forest cover.
Unlike inland forests, about 70 percent of the North Shore forest is owned by private landowners.
The Forest Service part of the effort will focus on using selective logging and reforestation to restore white spruce, white cedar and white pine on nearly 40,000 acres (62 square miles) of federal land in the area, mostly along the upper ridge along the North Shore.
Nancy Larson, Gunflint District Ranger, said that experts from the NRCS, DNR and consulting foresters will be available at the open house to answer landowner questions about restoration activities on private property.


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KLRU broadcasts programming created by and about people from all cultures year-round, from public affairs to history to independent film to kids programming. In celebration of Women's History Month, KLRU offers a lineup of programs both onair and online focused on women.
Our Women's History Month offerings begin on with the official launch of the #SheDocs online film festival! The SheDocs series begins with a special online social screening March 3 at 5 pm of Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth. Watch the film and participate in exciting online conversations with filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Koritha Mitchell, a literary historian and cultural critic specializing in African American literature, racial violence throughout U.S. literature and contemporary culture, and black drama and performance.
#SheDocs showcases 12 documentaries that highlight extraordinary women and their accomplishments. You can watch the following films anytime this month online:
- Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
- Bhutto
- Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
- Good Country People
- The Graduates – Girls Hour
- Half of Her
- The Interrupters
- Kind Hearted Woman
- Not Another Word
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- The Revolutionary Optimists
- Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Makers: Women Who Make America
Monday, March 17, 9 pm to midnight
This comprehensive and innovative series, built on an extraordinary archive of interviews, tells the story of one of the most sweeping social revolutions in America's history, as women asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity and personal autonomy. It is a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, on grand stages like the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress, and humbler ones like the boardroom and the bedroom. No individual, nor any aspect of American life, has been unchanged. The series features the stories of those who led the fight, those who opposed it and those — both famous and unknown — caught up in its wake.
Performing Possibilities
Thursday, March 20, at 9 pm
Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population in the United States. Katherine Craft, seeing a great need for gender-specific programs for incarcerated women, founded Conspire Theatre in 2009 and has been run by Craft and coconspirator Michelle Dahlenburg since 2011. Through the use of theatre, Conspire seeks to provide women prisoners a revolutionary and creative approach to healing from trauma, increasing self-esteem, becoming better parents, and improving literacy. With a deep, abiding belief in redemption, empowerment, and connection through art, the Conspire team is undergoing their most ambitious project yet. No longer satisfied with keeping their organization's work in the shadows of the penitentiary, they is taking the performances out into the public.
Independent Lens "All of Me" followed by Civic Summit "Obesity, Weight Loss & Body Acceptance"
Monday, March 24, from 8-10 pm
'All Of Me'' follows a group of Austin friends, who are morbidly obese, as they make changes in their lifestyles. KLRU's Civic Summit takes a more in-depth look at the issues and experiences surrounding obesity and weight loss. Learn more about these two programs
Women In Chemistry
Thursday, March 27, at 9 pm
A documentary profiling eight remarkable women who have made important contributions to the field of chemistry. The program follows the lives and careers of eight leading women in chemistry, celebrating their shared chance-taking, thrill-seeking love of science. Against many personal and institutional odds, these women changed the world through innovation and entrepreneurship. Women featured on the program include: Nancy Chang; Uma Chowdhry; Mildred Cohn; Mary L. Good; Kathryn Hach-Darrow; Paula Hammond; Stephanie Kwolek and Kira Mazumdar-Shaw.
Women in Music Night
Friday, March 28, 8-10:30 pm
Live from Lincoln Center Patina Miller In Concert, Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Austin City Limits Esperanza Spalding, jazz/soul singer/bassist and Grammy Award winner
Hardly Sound The Villettes, an Austin folky-indie-pop band
Women and Girls Lead
KLRU presents stories about women and girls who are making a difference both locally and globally. Watch these inspring stories at klru.org/wagl


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Well, the 2010 Bruins are not off the hook.
Unlike last year's Boston squad, this spring's Vancouver Canucks allowed Chicago to rally back from 0-3 down in a best-of-seven series but then defended their home turf in Game 7 to the tune of a 2-1 win.
The top-seeded, Presidents' Trophy-winning Canucks are on to the second round with their Stanley Cup aspirations still intact, mostly thanks to Alex Burrows. The power forward scored twice, including the game-winner in overtime with just 5:22 elapsed. For his efforts, Burrows is the TheBruinsBlog.net Star of the Night.
Burrows' teammates bailed him out by killing his penalty earlier in the overtime. And then he relieved the tension of an entire team and city with his goal. Here's how Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun described the post-goal celebration:
[He got hit] by every one of his 19 teammates, who piled on him and hugged him and whooped it up as though they'd won the damned Stanley Cup — and maybe, if that's what happens six or seven weeks from now, it's not going to feel any better than this for a team that looked as though it had blown Game 7 the same way it had blown a 3-0 series lead.
So what hit Burrows was the weight of his fellow strivers, and of his franchise, and of his city, all wrapping him up in a great big thank-you for salvaging — at the end of a whale of a hockey game — their good name.
Every Game 7 needs a hero. The Bruins didn't find one last season. They're hoping one shows up tonight. For Vancouver, Alex Burrows might've just penned his own chapter of a victorious folk story.
Honorable mention: Roberto Luongo (31-for-32 saves) of Vancouver; Jonathan Toews (GTG with 1:56 left) of Chicago; Carey Price (31-for-32 saves) of Montreal; Brian Boucher (26-for-28 saves), Daniel Briere (1-1-2) and Braydon Coburn (G, plus-2) of Philadelphia.
Last night's scores
Montreal 2, Boston 1
Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 2
Vancouver 2, Chicago 1 (OT)
Tonight's games
Montreal at Boston, 7
Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 8