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On Saturday, December 4th, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies in North Dakota won a huge victory to protect their water from the potential of an oil spill. That was the day that the Army Corps of Engineers decided to not grant a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to pass through the tribe's territory and under a nearby river that is Standing Rock's only fresh water source. The DAPL permit was subject of a months-long battle between Native American protesters and the pipeline's developer, Energy Transfer Partners LP. While land rights were an issue, this was largely a battle for the right to clean water far into the future.
The fight resumed this year, however.
The Trump administration brought in swift and regressive change to the fate of Standing Rock's fight for clean water. In February of this year, executive action reversed the Army Corps decision. As of now, the pipeline is back in courts with Standing Rock's lawyers, Earthjustice, requesting motions for review.
Why care about oil, and what about pipelines?
There are around 2.5 million miles of pipelines nationwide carrying oil, gasoline and other fuels through a web that traverses landscapes and crosses many waterways. Many of those pipelines are also vulnerable to breaks and spill: they may be aging, sit on unstable ground, or are susceptible to corrosion that can eat through the pipes themselves.
There have indeed been many spills over recent years, raising concerns from environmental advocates and others. Based on data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) there were 326 "significant spills" in 2015 alone – or almost 1 per day. (For those who are interested, a full map of the 10,000-plus significant spills from 1986-2016 is available here).
When a spill does happen, the oil that is released can be damaging for nearby environments and – if a spill goes in a waterway – any areas downstream. Most media looking at oil spills covers the effect on wildlife (such as images of oil-covered sea otters and birds after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010).
However, oil and other liquids contain many toxic chemicals and carcinogens that can all be extremely dangerous for public health.
Benzene, for example, can have long-term effects including leukemia and other cancers. The entire concoction of chemicals in oil is so harmful that if any crude oil spills into a city's drinking supply, the whole water supply has to be cut off to prevent residents from ingesting any toxic substances.
The risk of pipeline spills have galvanized growing concern and spurred resistance to the construction of pipelines the first place. Communities on the front lines have been starting to fight back, as we see in Standing Rock.
Remembering Canada's Spill
Past pipeline spills shine a light on the danger that leaked oil can present to drinking water. One recent disaster in Canada provides a perfect example of a spill straight into a drinking water source. This has also served as proof for anti-pipeline advocates that real dangers exist to their water and lives. Here is the story:
In late July 2016, a pipeline carrying crude oil burst open and leaked an estimated 66,000 gallons of crude oil into the North Saskatchewan River, which provides the drinking water for several Canadian cities downstream. At least two cities – North Battleford and Prince Albert – were forced to shut off their water intake and both moved to back up water supplies, Including emergency water towers.
The Prince Albert water tower held enough to last for 48 hours as officials built an emergency 18-mile water pipeline to the South Saskatchewan River, which eventually saved the drinking water of the town's 35,000 residents.
The spill took months to clean up and still has lasting environmental damage.
That's the norm for pipeline spills. Reversing environmental and health damage is harder than preventing it.
Tar Sands, Dakota Access and Standing Rock
The story from Standing Rock starts with a radical transformation in how oil is being produced in Canada and US. There has been rapid expansion of "tar sands" operations in the Dakotas, certain parts of Canada and other states along the border. The process takes tar sands - an almost muddy Mixture of clay, sand, water and bitumen, a "Black viscous oil" - and smooths it down into a more liquid form to be sent to refineries and turned into oil products including gasoline, chemicals and plastics.
Most of the refineries used by tar sands companies are located in Western Canada and the US Gulf Coast, so tar sands operations need a way to transport that oil over thousands of miles. The only main options are freight trains and pipeline – and oil companies are locking down on the pipelines in a big way.
One of those pipelines, already under construction, is the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). If completed, DAPL will carry crude from North Dakota to refineries on the Gulf Coast by traversing landscapes and crossing rivers. One of those waterways is the Missouri River which passes by Bismarck, North Dakota – and right by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's territory. The Missouri is also the Sioux tribe's sole source of fresh drinking water, making it a precious resource to their livelihoods.
DAPL was originally slated to pass under the Missouri up river from Bismarck, but that route was redirected out of concerns that a spill could affect the water source for the city's 162,000 residents. The Army Corps of Engineers (which permits and approves pipeline routes) and Energy Transfer Partners (the operator of the proposed pipeline) then chose a different route through the nearby Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's territory.
The proposal raised massive objection from Standing Rock and its allies. DAPL's construction was viewed as a clear affront to tribal sovereignty as it would pass right over treaty land without permission; the construction itself would destroy sacred burial grounds; and any spill into the Missouri would endanger the drinking water of 4,000 Native Americans. It was also an egregious case of environmental injustice: government and pipeline operators were concerned enough about Bismarck's residents, so they rerouted the pipeline. When it came to Native American tribal lands and livelihoods, Energy Transfer Partners and local governments have ruthlessly pursued their plans to build.
The tribes have been treated by these interests as disposable in the name of the fossil fuel industry.
Fighting back, and being attacked
In August 2016, Standing Rock leaders and other self-described "Water Protectors" began protesting the pipeline in order to protect their land and water rights.
The Water Protectors called throughout their struggle: "water is life."
The White House stepped in to temporarily halt the construction on September 11 as it reviewed plans – however, the pipeline company continued moving forward and government actors did nothing to actively halt the construction. Energy Transfer Partners was especially aggressive in how it tried to stop the protests, as well.
At one point in early September, unlicensed ETP security guards released attack dogs on the Water Protectors (journalist Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! even caught video of those dogs with bloodied snouts) and it would only escalate from there. The crackdown also included police and other government entities: on October 11 the South Dakota Governor called for out-of-state deputies to help suppress protests, and the response became increasingly militarized. Riot police and military vehicles arrived through the following weeks, even raiding a camp at one point – something very out of proportion for peaceful protesters organizing for clean water.
As news of the struggle spread, the Standing Rock tribe received more and more support from allies across the United States. Many allies traveled to a makeshift camp directly in the way of the pipeline's route in an effort to block its continued construction. The crackdown expanded as well: in response, riot police at one point even released teargas and rubber bullets on nighttime protesters, injuring several and leaving one in the hospital with severe injuries.
The struggle at Standing Rock, though, continued spreading over social media and increasingly through news outlets - and public pressure grew and kept growing. Calls for environmental justice and solidarity with #NoDAPL spread nationally.
Energy Transfer Partners was also facing a danger of the ongoing protests: if the pipeline wasn't completed by the end of the year, its contract with oil producers would have been compromised and it would have to renegotiate (or abandon the project entirely, in the middle of its construction). With pressure on both sides and a severe public profile, the Army Corps of Engineers decided on December 4 to deny the permit for the pipeline. For a time, the Standing Rock tribe's water seemed safe.
Regressive Action: White House Reversals in 2017
The Trump administration swiftly acted to reverse much of the work fought for by Standing Rock and supporters. On February 8th, the executive office reversed the Army Corps decision, thus opening up way for Dakota Access, LLC to lay pipe under the river. Earthjustice, an environmental law firm representing the Standing Rock tribes, filed a "motion for summary of the judgment", which brings forward legal questions within a case that are undetermined. At present, the appeals and stalling of the decision remain in court.
In a conversation about the case and its history, environmental lawyer Jan Hasselman argues that the injustices that fueled #NoDAPL are part and parcel of the American tradition:
There is a time-honored tradition in America of putting the risks and the pollution of industry and toxic sites on the people who have the least political power—primarily low-income people and people of color. The concept is environmental justice. And I've never seen a balder case of environmental justice concerns than this one.
Water is Life
Pipeline spills have been a growing problem in the United States and will continue as our infrastructure gets older. Those spills can endanger waterways nearby and far downriver, even affecting drinking water in the process. The struggle at Standing Rock for environmental justice is not complete, and it will certainly not be the last.
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I suppose the real truth is that this eXposes me, and my lack of discernment and…well…X-ray vision, because that's what it would have taken (for me) to see past the fauX eXterior to the deceitful piece of eXcrement that he turned out to be.
I was told "I told you so" a thousand times (after the fact) by my parents, and especially by my mother. I could have lived without that, as I was already beating myself up enough on my own. Nevertheless, it was (apparently) necessary, so thanks for that. I guess. Which is not to say that I'm not immensely grateful for the lessons learned, but I'll come back to those.
In retrospect, it is eXtremely easy to see the glaring red flags that began popping up fairly early on, yet I of the newly minted "relationship," eXploring all kinds of new eXperiences with him, relishing the seeming coincidence of having gone on one date with him in high school and then reconnecting ten years later, was (as I see now) willfully blind. I suppose…no, I know, I should have started to question his veracity when the first (and thankfully only) Christmas we spent together was fraught with frustration (mine), lies (his), and anger (both of us).
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Then there was the decision to move out of his parents home (a temporary arrangement that had eXtended much longer than it should have), but rather than moving to a place in town, where his primary job was, he decided to move 35 miles away. Granted, it was the beach, but what the hell? Again, I thought it understandable because he was working a second job another city, and that effectively put him halfway between…a reasonable decision until I saw it in retrospect. In the immediate aftermath of the move (with which I helped, but his family did not), his car was stolen. Here is where I lost my mind!
A request from him to provide a rental reference. No, his currently landlord could not do it, because he had only be living there two months. No, he could not tell the truth because it would seem like he did not have a stable residence. No, he couldn't have any bills in his name because I owned the house and all the bills were in my name. Yes, according to the "reference" I stupidly agreed to provide, he paid me a fixed amount for rent & utilities, he did not have a cell phone (lie), and he had been "living" with me for more than six months. RED FLAG!
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The day I found out about his pursuit of alternative dating arrangements was a day we were going to the beach with another friend. Our relationship would have ended at that very moment had she not been with us. My purse was also stolen that day, which required that I head home to change locks and make sure nothing was amiss. And I thank God for that, because the juxtaposition of those circumstances lead me to end the relationship the next day, with finality, and with no regrets.
There was no fighting. There were no recriminations. I knew the truth, and that was all I needed.
I am so thankful now for the lessons of this relationship, because though they brought me to my darling husband with baggage, they brought me to him, and it was baggage he both understood and related to. During our courtship, one thing I repeated to him several times was that I couldn't survive in another relationship where I felt myself getting lost. He got that…completely…and the happy ending to the story is that it hasn't ended. Eight years married and still going strong.
So thank you, A.O., for showing yourself to be an unethical man of deceit and lies. For being a man who took advantage, and a man of amoral character. Thank you for making it easy for me to eXtract myself from that non-relationship. I think $300 (the money you still owe me) is a miniscule price to pay to be rid of you.
And thank you, God, for bringing me through that, because without your strength and providential protection, I would have been nearly destroyed by this, and I would not have known the contentment of a happy marriage with a good man. That is my most eXtraordinary (and wholly undeserved) blessing.


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It�s no wonder three-time long drive champion Sean Fister gave up pole-vaulting for golf. As a kid, he built a makeshift pole vaulting pit and practiced until he was able to make his high school team. He became so good at it; he earned a scholarship to college and had a chance at qualifying for the Olympic team. That was the good part. The bad? Using a pole to lift your self 16 feet into the air and landing in a pit sometimes leads to injuries. For Fister, that included a broken back, 12 broken feet, a cracked skull and he almost lost his thumb.
A medical chart like that would lead anyone to the golf course. But Fister doesn�t tee it up at his home course and swing easy. He makes his living under the bright lights of the World Long Drive Championship swinging a Dunlop driver at speeds of over 150 miles an hour and routinely sending his golf ball bounding 350 yards away. The guy they call �The Beast� once recorded a drive of 515 yards.
Now, thanks to Fister�s deal with Dunlop and his writing skills, you too can become a better driver of the golf ball. Fister is the author of a new book called The Long Drive Bible, (By Sean Fister and Matthew Rudy, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.). Fister�s book is an incredible read, as he recalls how he went from a big hitter at his local club in Arkansas to the tee box at the World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite, Nevada.
But more importantly, Fister � at the risk of creating more competitors looking to take future titles away � includes so many instructional tips, readers are sure to walk away from this tome routinely hitting their drives past the rest of their foursome.
Fister has compiled what he calls the �Ten Commandments of Distance.� These are not just ten tips off the top of his head. Fister is a voracious reader and resembles a NASA engineer when it comes to compiling data in search of the best golf tip. Fister collected seven years worth of Golf Digest magazine and in 1995, he spent two week reading every issue, compiling every instructional tip he could find � 397 of them!
�Once I had a list if unique tips, I went to the range and spent hundreds of hours trying every one of them. If one worked, it made it onto my �keeper� list. I boiled all the tips down to the ones that worked for me. I had my Bible,� recalls Fister.
Fister�s Bible is a small black book that he still keeps in his golf bag today. Your Bible can be Fister�s Ten Commandments that he admits may not get you into the Long Drive Championship, but can make you a longer hitter and a better golfer. (See inset)
�I truly believe you can take the information contained in my Ten Commandments and immediately get 20 yards longer,� says Fister. I�ve seen it happen for 65-year old guys who hit it 185 yards and 25-year-old guys who hit it 260. And I�ve seen it happen over the space of five or six balls on the driving range with guys I�m spending the day with at an outing.�
Fister says that one of the many keys to long drives is swinging your driver with the maximum speed. He feels that every player has a maximum speed that he can swing the club, and that varies among individuals.
�I win world championships because I get right up close to my max number, and my max number is very high � about 150 mph and I get 375 yards of carry under normal conditions. There are less than ten guys in the world that can say that.�
Fister discovered just how unique his swing was in 1997 when he went to Motion Reality Sports in Georgia to have his swing speed measured. He absolutely floored the technicians during his warm-ups with his incredible swings.
�They kept asking me if I could go any faster, so I dialed it up as fast as I could go � until I tore the skin on three fingers and broke the blood vessels around my eyes. The result: my top clubhead speed was 171.2 miles an hour. The fastest they had ever measured,� said Fister.
A swing like this plays havoc on Fister�s equipment. �I go through at least two hundred competition clubheads a year. When you are swing that fast, it�s like a car crash when the club hits the ball. When I collapse a clubhead, it looks like an orange that somebody dropped off the roof of a five-story building.�
Although he suffers far fewer injuries than he did in his days as a pole-vaulter, Fister almost met with near tragedy as the result of one of his huge swings.
�I hit a drive and the clubhead basically disintegrated. A shard of metal flew up and cut me pretty bad under my right eye. I�m already legally blind in my left eye from macular degeneration, so if that shard had gone into my right eye, I�d have had a problem.�
Fister admits that the key to his distance is the thousands of hours he has spent honing his craft. His voracious reading, his incredible will to get better and the constant grind of hitting ball after ball has led him to where he is today.
�I have hit more balls than most people think is possible You can hit a thousand balls in a day. I�ve done it. It takes seven hours,� says Fister.
His book is packed with numerous tips and his Ten Commandments but Fister says that he has one trick that is �positively guaranteed� to work for any player.
�No matter what you are built like, if you turn your shoulders more on your backswing and concentrate on keeping the butt end of the club as far away from the middle of your sternum as possible, you�ll pick up 20 yards on your tee shot. If you practice that, those yards are guaranteed.�
Fister is now using his golf knowledge as part of his professional association with Dunlop Golf. �I�ve been with them for 12 years now, which is practically unheard if in this business. I�m very involved with the company as far as design. I�ve been in touch with the foundry where the club heads are made and I do what I call an autopsy on the clubheads I play. I call the company and let them now what is and isn�t right and we work together to make the Dunlop product better,� says Fister who says his long term goal is to be even more involved with the R & D department at Dunlop.
Fister has not only won three driving titles, he has done so with equipment that is affordable as well as world class. � My last two titles have been won with a $150 Dunlop club head. There are $500 drivers out there, but I�m proving you don�t have to pay that much for quality.�
Fister is working with Dunlop on a signature driver and recenttly contacted them about a new ball. �I am playing a lot more now and working with them on a ball that is hard inside, but has a softer cover for touch around the greens.� Fister says that both will be available by 2009.
Fister is not just a �Beast� off the tee box. He boasts a plus-2 handicap at his home course, which he admits is pretty wide open, and is a legitimate 2 or 3 handicap anywhere he plays.
He hopes that his book can help the average golfer who is hoping for a bit more with the driver.
�If you�d like to get 10 or 20 more yards on your tee shot and win some more money in your weekend game,� says Fister, �than this book is for you�and it will pay for itself.
�Being 6�-5� and 245 pounds is nice, but fast hands are the reason I can do this for a living. You�ll just have to be satisfied with the 20 extra yards I find you for your driver. That�s not so bad, is it?�
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the official novelization of the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Written by author Alex Irvine, the novel is a retelling of the film's plot. The novel was released on July 15, 2014, exactly four days after the film's American release.
The Novel's OutlineEdit
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Main CharactersEdit
- Caesar - A genetically intelligent chimpanzee raised by humans, Caesar is the leader and king of San Francisco's Ape Colony and the father of a teenage son, named Blue Eyes and an infant son, named Cornelius. He is also the husband of Cornelia, the colony's Queen.
- Cornelia - Caesar's wife, the Queen of the Ape Colony and the mother of Caesar's teenage son, Blue Eyes and infant son, Cornelius.
- Blue Eyes - Caesar and Cornelia's teenage son and heir as well as the older brother of Cornelius.
- Rocket - An old friend of Caesar and one of his lieutenants as a well as Caesar's former rival. Rocket is also Ash's father.
- Maurice - A kind orangutan who befriended Caesar during his time in captivity and one of his lead lieutenants.
- Koba - Caesar's advisor and friend and later enemy.
- Ash - Rocket's son, Caesar's honorary nephew and Blue Eyes' best friend.
- Grey - a male chimpanzee who is a follower of Koba and assists him with his plans.
- Stone - a male chimpanzee who is a follower of Koba and assists him with his plans.
- Luca - a male gorilla who is a follower of Caesar.
- Sparrow - a female chimpanzee who summons Caesar to see Cornelia before she gives birth.
- Malcolm - A leader of the human resistance who teams up with Caesar and becomes his human counterpart.
- Dreyfus - Leader of the humans of San Francisco.
- Ellie, Malcolm's second wife and the step-mother of Alexander. The human counterpart of Cornelia.
- Alexander, Malcolm's 15-year-old son and step-son of Ellie. Is befriended by Maurice. The human counterpart for Blue Eyes.
- Werner, an ally of Dreyfus.
- McVeigh, an ally of Dreyfus.
- Terry, an ally of Dreyfus.
- Finney, an ally of Dreyfus.
- Carver, a member of Malcolm's group and a former Engineer. He has an attitude problem and a strong hatred for apes.
- Kemp, a member of Malcolm's group.
- Captain Haynes as The Captain, a ship captain who appears in the epilogue.
- Sarah, Ellie's deceased daughter. Mentioned when Ellie recalls a memory of her.
- Maddy, Dreyfus' deceased wife. Appears via Dreyfus' photo.
- Edward, Dreyfus' deceased son. Appears via Dreyfus' photo.
- John, Dreyfus' deceased son. Appears via Dreyfus' photo.
- Will Rodman, the adoptive father of Caesar. Appears via camera footage.
- Charles Rodman, mentioned only as "Will's father".
- Douglas Hunsiker, mentioned only as "Will's neighbor".
- Steven Jacobs, mentioned only.
Ten years after the Simian Flu outbreak, a middle aged Caesar now leads and governs a new generation of apes in a community located in the Muir Woods. The group includes comrades from the ape sanctuary (notably Rocket and Maurice) as well as Koba, the bonobo formerly experimented on at Gen-Sys. Caesar leads the apes on a hunting party for deer, where his adolescent son, Blue Eyes, is scarred by an attacking grizzly bear. Caesar is summoned by Sparrow to his home in the apes' village, where his sick wife has given birth to a newborn son. The next day, Caesar and Maurice wonder about the fate of the humans.
The next morning, Blue Eyes and Ash (son of Rocket) encounter a small party of armed human survivors in the forest led by a man named Malcolm. In a panic, Carver, holding deep distrust for the apes, shoots and wounds Ash. Caesar decides against retaliation and orders the humans to leave. Koba, Grey, and Stone follow the humans to the city. It is revealed a group of humans genetically immune to the virus have established a guarded safe-haven inside a semi-built tower in the heart of post-apocalyptic San Francisco. The next morning, Caesar pre-emptively leads the apes to a face-to-face confrontation with the humans at the tower where he speaks and orders Malcolm, the safe-haven's co-founder, to never enter ape territory again.
Malcolm convinces the human camp's leader Dreyfus to give him time to reconcile with the apes to gain access to a hydroelectric dam in their territory, which could provide long-term power to the city. Dreyfus is distrustful of the apes and arms survivors using an abandoned armory in preparation for war. Caesar's lieutenant Koba encourages him to wipe the humans out while they are desperate. Seeing possible peace, Caesar allows Malcolm to work on the dam's generator provided they work unarmed. The next day, trust comes to a standstill as Carver threatens Caesar's newborn with a concealed weapon, but later Ellie helps treat Caesar's sick wife with antibiotics.
Koba, along with his loyalists Grey and Stone, discovers the armory and questions Caesar's allegiance. Caesar heavily beats Koba for his insolence but forgives him, causing Koba to secretly plan his usurpation. The next day, Koba steals an assault rifle from the armory after murdering two human guards. That night, power is restored to the city, the humans rejoice and Malcolm's team celebrates with the apes while Koba beats Carver to death and has two apes set the apes' home alight. In hiding, Koba shoots Caesar as the two lock eyes, presumably killing him. The ape colony grows frantic with the loss of the Alpha Male and Koba blames Malcolm's team for Caesar's death and burning the colony, brainwashing Blue Eyes. He orders war with the humans as retribution. Maurice helps Malcolm and his family escape into hiding. Assuming leadership, Koba leads able-bodied apes to war in San Francisco. The pack overwhelms the armory and charge the tower's gates heavily armed. Despite heavy casualties, Koba helps the apes overrun the tower and imprison all the humans as Dreyfus flees underground. The next day, Ash refuses Koba's orders to kill an unarmed man, citing Caesar's teachings. Koba kills Ash before Blue Eyes' eyes and jails all Caesar sympathizers, including Rocket (angry at Koba for killing his son), Maurice (who stays silent), and a gorilla named Luca (who had bonded with Malcolm).
Malcolm, Ellie, and Alexander find Caesar barely alive and transport him to his former home in San Francisco. Caesar informs Malcolm that it was Koba, not Carver, who shot him as Malcolm's family discover Caesar's upbringing. Malcolm finds medical supplies for Ellie to operate and brings Blue Eyes back with him to Caesar. Caesar and Blue Eyes embrace, update, and forgive each other. Caesar laments that he was misguided when thinking apes were better than humans, having now seen what they're capable of and realizing the two are not so different after all. Blue Eyes frees the humans and the apes loyal to Caesar while a resting Caesar becomes nostalgic examining mementos from his childhood, including footage of Will Rodman teaching him how to play chess and how to sign "home". The freed apes join Caesar and confront Koba at the summit of the tower. Dreyfus informs Malcolm that his men have made radio contact with another band of survivors on their way to fight the apes in San Francisco. While Caesar and Koba battle for supremacy, Malcolm unsuccessfully prevents Dreyfus from detonating C-4 explosives underneath the tower. The explosion kills Dreyfus and collapses part of the tower, injuring and killing several apes. As Caesar and others assist the injured, Koba opens fire, wounding Maurice. Caesar gains the upper hand and overpowers Koba, leaving him grasping to a ledge. Koba taunts Caesar by reminding him of the law, "Ape will not kill ape". Caesar wonders whether he should be a good example to Blue Eyes by letting Koba live or let go of him to help Rocket exact revenge. Realizing that Koba has embraced what humans use to become powerful, Caesar remarks, "You are not ape", and lets him fall to his death.
Malcolm informs Caesar of the impending arrival of human reinforcements as the two mourn the lost chance for peace now that war has begun. Caesar tells Malcolm to leave with his family for safety. As Caesar and the apes stand on top of the tower, a ship full of humans sails under the Golden Gate Bridge at daybreak. The apes are spotted by the ship's captain, and Caesar waits to see who will make the first move in this game of chess.
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- When Dreyfus is looking through his photos, a year for the commencement of the Simian Flu is suggested: "And there was what he had come for: Maddie and their boys - Edward and John. Standing on the viewing platform at the top of the viewing platform, they smiled at the camera in that distant year of 2012, when the Simian Flu was just a public health concern and nobody had imagined what the next ten years would hold." This suggests that Dawn takes place in 2022. However, this contradicts the Dawn website's claim that it is 2026, as well as the Before The Dawn shorts by Motherboard, which contain text saying that Simian Flu began in 2011. Since this is a novelization and not the film itself, 2012 may not be the actual year in which Rise is intended to take place. It should be noted that the film itself contains a picture of Edward and John, who appear to be younger than their ages given in the official movie prequel (14 and 12). Furthermore, there is no apparent evidence that the picture was taken on the Coit Tower.
- During Caesar's final confrontation with Koba, it is written that it has been five days since Koba killed the bear. It has actually been more than five days.
- It is mentioned a few times that it has been ten years since the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Simian Flu outbreak.
- The events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm are alluded to in the novel; Dreyfus remembers mercenaries being sent to the Muir Woods, which ended up getting set on fire, causing people to believe that the apes were killed.
- In the beginning of the novel, gibbons are mentioned among the types of apes in the village. They do not appear in the film itself, nor have they ever appeared in a Planet of the Apes film.
- A female chimp who alerts Caesar about Cornelia being in labor is named Sparrow.
- Malcolm remembers that the city burned for over a year after the Simian Flu outbreak.
- Dreyfus says, "We spent four years fighting the virus, and another four fighting each other as the city came apart." A similar line was included in the trailer for the film.
- In the novelization, Malcolm is the one who expresses the belief that Alexander is safer with him than without him. In the film, Alexander is the one who expresses this belief.
- The novelization also includes a male gorilla named Luca, who assists Malcolm's group as they repair the dam.
- The epilogue might have been intended to be the stinger for the film, which was cut because Matt Reeves did not want to "box ourselves in."
- One notable difference in the novel is that Luca, leader of the Gorillas befriends Malcolm and becomes fond of him. This relationship is not seen or is it referenced in the film.
- Another difference in the novel is that Blue Eyes is seen to be envious of his baby brother Cornelius and is not afraid to express it. In the the film, this is not referred to at all.
- In terms of baby Milo, Caesar is asked what the baby's name is and he states that his new son has not yet got a name. While this is not stated in the film, the infant is not named. The name was only confirmed by Andy Serkis when he was asked about it during an interview to promote the film. This was later disproven as the baby's name was revealed in the sequel to be Cornelius.
- The audiobook is narrated by Christian Rummel.
External LinksEdit
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Alex Irvine (2014) - Lazarus' Lair review


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Congratulations to MATES Music Specialist FRANK LAGUARDIA!
The Conejo Schools Foundation will be honoring Pat Phelps & Frank LaGuardia during the first Starlight Soiree & Awards Ceremony honoring the Stars of the Conejo Valley. The event will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 6pm at the Gardens at Los Robles Greens.
Tickets are available at http://www.conejoschools.org/events/the-soiree


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Home > Android Tablet Reviews > Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite
What's hot: Unlocked 3G GSM (though not for US).
What's not: Specs are a bit behind the times relative to price.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2012 by Lisa Gade, Editor
in Chief (twitter: @lisagade)
I know many of you are eagerly anticipating Huawei's MediaPad 10 FHD Android tablet that's supposed to be shipping soon. In the meantime, we have its little brother, the Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite in for review. I'm not sure if this will hit US shores beyond importers; so far it's slated for Russia, China, Taiwan, South Africa, the Philippines and Malaysia. I also hear it's made an appearance in India.
Unlike the FHD model, the MediaPad 7 Lite is a budget-spec tablet with a high end unibody aluminum casing and a simply superb, though not high res, IPS display. The tablet looks embarrassingly like the HTC Flyer and has much in common with the Huawei-manufactured T-Mobile Springboard.
The tablet runs on a 1.2GHz single core ARM CPU, and that's certainly nothing to write home about. It scores 1378 on Quadrant vs. the 4,000 to 5,000 scores we see on top tablets. But still, it doesn't feel slow. It runs a clean version of Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and the software is clearly well tuned. The web browser is responsive and it plays 1080p video like a champ. You'll want o use an MHL adapter to fully make use of that resolution.
The MediaPad 7 Lite has one of the nicest 1024 x 600 IPS displays we've seen on a tablet. It compares favorably to the higher resolution Nexus 7. It's very sharp, clear and has good colors. Text doesn't look pixilated or jaggy. Go figure. The tablet has single band WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth and a GPS. There's a front VGA camera and a so-so 3MP rear camera. It's all powered by a 4100 mAh Lithium Ion battery.
The MediaPad has an unlocked 3G SIM card slot for use with GSM carriers. It's quad band GSM/EDGE, but as far as we can tell, it lacks US 3G bands. We tested it with an AT&T SIM card and it only found EDGE networks. The 13 ounce tablet also has a microSD card slot to augment the internal 8 gigs of storage.
Huawei MediaPad 7 Video Review
Price: $350
Website: www.huaweidevice.com
Display: 7" capacitive touch screen. Resolution:
1024 x 600, supports both portrait and landscape modes via accelerometer.
Battery: 4100 mAh Lithium
Ion Polymer rechargeable. Battery is not user replaceable.
Performance: 1.2GHz single core ARM Cortex-A8 CPU. 1 gig DDR2 RAM, 8 gigs internal storage.
Size: 7.60 x 4.72 x 0.43 inches. Weight: 13 ounces.
Cellular: GSM quad band with 3G HSDPA 3.6Mbps/UMTS on the 900 and 2100MHz bands (not compatible with US 3G).
Camera:VGA front camera and 3.2MP rear camera.
GPS: Has GPS.
Audio: Built
in speaker, mic and 3.5mm standard stereo headphone
Networking: Integrated
WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
Software: Android OS 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. Standard suite of Google Android applications including web browser, email, gmail, YouTube, Maps, Navigation, Gtalk, Search and the Google Play Store.
Expansion: 1
SDHC microSD card slot.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Waves crashed high against flood walls Monday and New Orleans' rebuilt levee system survived its first hurricane in three years, but Gustav exposed weaknesses the Army Corps of Engineers won't plug any time soon.
Gustav was no Katrina. It was smaller, and the worst rain and wind missed New Orleans. Its storm surge between 10 and 15 feet lower than Katrina's entered New Orleans through navigation channels in the east and washed over the Industrial Canal.
The Industrial Canal has been characterized as the Achilles heel in the system, and the corps is spending $700 million on a barrier at its mouth to stop surges. But the barrier won't be in place until at least 2011. On Monday, water overtopped parts of the canal's flood wall causing minor flooding.
Another major weakness in the flood protection system is in the area known as the West Bank, where about 250,000 live. Work on the West Bank is far from complete. The corps has repeatedly said it may be the city's weakest flank.


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This report is based on activity that took place on Nov 2.
- Estimate: Stage 2 Growth complete by Mar 19, 2011
- Strong Areas: PayBox referrals, Daily Surveys
Today our EarlyBird members were nearly as active as yesterday. There was a slight drop overall which caused a small slip for the date estimate.
Update: Debit Card Project
The developers are making progress on the new debit card project. They are working on having it ready for our users by some time next week. Again, this project will help us prepare for when our debit card program goes online, which can only happen once we "Open the Box".
Thanks for all your help. Keep up the good work!


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Merry Christmas!
Tetsu and I had a "different" Christmas Eve day. It was a holiday in Japan (not because it was Christmas Eve) and Tetsu had the day off and there was no school. In the evening our church had a Christmas Eve service and Y-kun (remember Y-kun? I write about him so much he is practically part of our family.) wanted to come to the candle service. But what with his grandfather in the hospital he wasn't sure if he could come.
"If your grandmother will bring you over to my house when she has time then you can go with me. I'll take you home afterwards."
Y-kun was very excited about that. What time can he come over? Can he come over in the morning?
In the morning? Well... I have things to do on the 24th. Tetsu was going to be home.
"If you come over that early, then expect to do chores around the house."
"I'll do chores! I can help!"
So it was arranged that Y-kun would come over at sometime on 24th. Maybe before lunchtime?
Yesterday morning at 7:30 am I get a phone call.
"What time can I come over? Can I come over now?"
"Hello. Good morning. Who ARE you? (I really knew who it was...) I'm fine thank you."
"This is Y. What time can I come over? Can I come over now?" (Y-kun can be very focused.)
Tetsu looked at me in alarm and suggested that 9:00 was a better time. 9:00 am on the dot, Y-kun arrived bearing gifts of rice and radishes.
Y-kun was true to his word and did chores. LOTS of chores. He and Tetsu raked and cleaned up the yard and then even started in cleaning the street gutter (our neighborhood job this month). No complaints from Y-kun and he ran errands back and forth from where he and Tetsu were working.
"Teacher! Tetsu-san wants something to drink! He wants cola! With ice! We are working hard. I want cola with ice too!"
Tetsu had to explain to a few neighbors that we had a new son visiting us that day... Maybe grandson is more age appropriate.
And the biggest breakthrough was that Choco accepted Y-kun too!
Choco and Y-kun have had a between bars relationship. Choco barks at Y-kun through her cage bars. But Y-kun fearlessly (with Tetsu in near proximity) encroached on Choco's kennel territory and...
"Now no biting..."
"Teacher look! Choco and I are friends!"
Well, will you look at that! Y-kun's patience paid off. Choco just needed a boy to play with her. Y-kun made her one happy dog and later Y-kun took Choco for a walk (with me tailing behind.)
Let's see. We went out to lunch at an all-you-can-eat place and Y-kun ate so much Tetsu was afraid he'd be sick on the way home.
Tetsu napped on the sofa while I quilted and Y-kun did a bit of pot-holder making (I'd bought a kit in the States this summer.)
Before the church candle service in the evening Tetsu and Y-kun and I followed the Japanese custom of having a Christmas cake.
"Great kid, that Y-kun" (Tetsu's comment.) "He sure eats a lot."
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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Bruins Advance to NCAA Round of 16
May 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES - The No. 9 UCLA women's tennis team will face No. 10 Duke in next week's NCAA Round of 16, as the Bruins advanced through regional play on Saturday with a 4-0 victory over 23rd-ranked Arizona State at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. It now marks 11 straight years that the Bruins (21-3) have advanced to the round of 16.
'It was just a solid performance all around,' said UCLA head coach Stella Sampras Webster. 'Everyone really competed well and responded to the pressure. I thought Noelle (Hickey) and Yasmin (Schnack) were outstanding today. They both lost to ASU during conference play so I thought it was great to see them come out and really dominate.'
Saturday's match was a sharp contrast to the regular-season meeting between the two teams, where the Bruins narrowly edged the Sun Devils, 4-3. UCLA led from start, beginning the match by claiming the doubles point with wins at court Nos. 1 and 3. Pamela Montez and Carling Seguso clinched the point for the Bruins with an 8-4 victory over Ashlee Brown and Sianna Simmons at court No. 3.
UCLA moved out to a strong start in singles as well, taking the first set on five of six courts. Hickey turned in perhaps the best performance of the day, losing just three games in a 6-1,6-2 victory over Kelcy McKenna at court No. 2. McKenna beat Hickey in straight sets during the previous encounter between the two teams on April 10.
Playing in just her first NCAA Tournament, freshman Pamela Montez seemed immune to the pressure, as she turned in a solid 6-3, 6-0 victory over Hannah James at court No. 4 to give UCLA a 3-0 advantage.
Junior Maya Johansson would get the clinching win for UCLA at court No. 5, as she defeated Michelle Brycki, 6-2, 6-4 to give the Bruins a 4-0 win. Johansson has been nearly perfect in dual matches this season, owning a 19-1 record, including an 8-0 mark at the No. 5 position.
The Bruins and Sun Devils also met in last year's NCAA Second Round, with UCLA winning that match 4-3. With the loss Saturday, ASU ends its season 14-6 overall.
UCLA and Duke will square off next Thursday at Noon (EST) in Athens, Ga.
'We are familiar with some of their players and know they have a good team,' said Sampras Webster about Duke. 'We haven't faced them this year and it's always exciting to play new teams. We can't wait to get to Athens and hopefully keep this run going.'
#7 UCLA 4, #23 Arizona State 0
May 15, 2010 at Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Tennis Center)
NCAA Second Round
|1. #4 Remynse/Schnack (UCLA) def. Hein/McKenna (ASU) 8-3
|2. Abdala/Brycki (ASU) def. Hickey/Nina Pantic (UCLA) 8-2
|3. Montez/Carling Seguso (UCLA) def. Ashlee Brown/Simmons (ASU) 8-4
UCLA Wins Doubles Point
|1. #6 Yasmin Schnack (UCLA) vs. #50 Micaela Hein (ASU) 6-2, 5-2, unfinished
|2. #46 Noelle Hickey (UCLA) def. #74 Kelcy McKenna (ASU) 6-1, 6-2
|3. #26 Andrea Remynse (UCLA) vs. Nadia Abdala (ASU) 7-5, 1-1, unfinished
|4. Pamela Montez (UCLA) def. #116 Hannah James (ASU) 6-3, 6-0
|5. Maya Johansson (UCLA) def. Michelle Brycki (ASU) 6-2, 6-4
|6. Stephanie Hoffpauir (UCLA) vs. Sianna Simmons (ASU) 3-6, 3-4, unfinished
|Match Notes
|Arizona State 14-6; National ranking #23
|UCLA 21-3; National ranking #7
|Order of finish: Doubles (1,2,3); Singles (2,4,5)
|UCLA advances to the NCAA Round of 16 in Athens, Ga.


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Below are the commands for this ribbon panel. Any commands specific to Civil 3D or AutoCAD/BricsCAD will be noted with the command.
Validate Codes
Due to the Description Key Set not being dynamic in Civil3D, the points can get out of synchronisation with respect to layers and scaling of symbols.
Selecting this command causes Stringer to scan all of the points in the drawing from the field Survey and validate their information against the Description Key Set/Stringer Settings codes you have set up for your firm.
This form will then display
If you expand out the code showing, you will be able to:
Its a modeless form so you can click in the drawing and zoom around again and then go and fix the codes up in the DKS
Verify Codes against DKS
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FORMER FEATHERSTONE Rovers captain Carl Hall has praised the club's officials after the LD Nutrition Stadium staged Doncaster's League One game against Oxford last night.
Doncaster won 34-16 in front of a 500-plus crowd in a game that was switched from their home at Keepmoat Stadium because of essential ground maintenance work.
Doncaster chief executive Hall, who captained Rovers in 1999, said: "I would like to thank the Featherstone club for putting everything in place for us to host the game there.
"We appreciate the support they showed and have had lots of positive feedback from our supporters and staff.
"The Featherstone club really went the extra mile for us, which will not be forgotten.
"I wish the Rovers all the best for the rest of the season and, once again, a big, big thanks goes to Featherstone - a great club."


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Location: AAPL
800 Fournier St Fort Worth, TX 76102-3597
Date: June 2, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Credits: 4.00 CEU
Speaker: Randolph L Marsh
Seminar Summary
So, you've arranged the capital, you've chosen the right structure, and you've acquired and drilled the acreage, or more likely acquired existing acreage and upgraded it, you've navigated the operator and non-operator (and everyone else) relationships, and avoided or successfully navigated workouts and workovers, and you've emerged on the other side with a valuable property with an opportunity to cash out. What now? We will examine the elements of a positive exit and how to successfully move on to the next deal, and minimize your "tail risk" attached to past deals. We will look at the tax ramifications of most of the standard transaction structures, including 1031 Exchange, and why they are chosen and how they interrelate to the choices made at the outset of the cycle. Finally, we will also look at asset protection, wealth planning and estate planning for the successful oil and gas entrepreneur, and how to keep what you've earned once you've got it.
Series Summary
The Landman 2.0 Series is going to be a six session series put on by Attorneys from Beckmen Law PC. The sessions will be held at AAPL Headquarters: 800 Fournier Street Fort Worth, TX 76102 from 10am-3pm. Four continuing education credits will be given every session. There will be a webinar and a live option and a discount will be given if you register for the whole series.


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Timmy is an award winning actor out of Chicago, IL. The only thing Timmy loves more than performing is his wife Tara Hazel and his daughter Una Nova.
Timmy has had the pleasure of working with the Illinois Lottery, Best Western, The Onion, Gildan, Tribeca Flashpoint College, PHP Insurance, Sprout Social, The Second City and more.
Timmy has been nominated for best actor in 4 festivals claiming the win at the NOLA Horror Film Festival for his work in "Cry It Out" by Glass City Films.
Timmy starred in Wayne Hancock's "I Killed Them Both" which won Best Special Stuff at the Music Video Underground, Honorable mention at DaVinci Film Fest and Nominated for Best Music Video at Portland and Austin Comedy Film Festivals.
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Heels flicking into the oblique rays of sun
and oblivious of the soft, dark shadows overcoming
the calm green scene, a sand colored calf
sashays off the pond bank as if to entice that sky-haloed
calf into a meadow romp amidst the grazing herd.
To this calf that does not know that Gorbachev
will come to the Fulton in a day, or that the wrath of pent up
fury strains in L.A., or how, in passing on the highway,
I've caught him at his play, and will long remember
west of Bourbon, early May:
I wish you frog song lullabies, sand-colored calf,
warm zephyrs sweet with hint of growing grass.
Dream calf dreams, for pond calf dreams them too,
and when the light returns, he'll be looking up for you!


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KU News Release
Sept. 14, 2009
Contact: Mindie Paget, School of Law, (785) 864-9205
KU law professor to testify on arbitration before congressional subcommittee
Stephen J. Ware
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas law professor Stephen J. Ware will testify before Congress this week during a hearing on "Mandatory Binding Arbitration: Is it Fair and Voluntary?"
Ware will present his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law at 1 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Arbitration is an alternative to litigation in resolving disputes between two parties. The parties present their evidence and arguments to a neutral arbitrator, much as they would to a judge or jury. Disputes go to arbitration only when the parties have previously formed a contract stating their agreement to arbitrate the dispute.
Several bills introduced in Congress would prevent courts from enforcing arbitration agreements in consumer, employment and similar transactions.
In his testimony, Ware will argue that such bills would hurt the very people they are designed to help. Empirical evidence indicates that arbitration tends to be quicker, more efficient and less costly than litigation, Ware said. Furthermore, consumers and employees fare as well, overall, in arbitration as litigation.
"In short, empirical studies do not support the notion that consumer and employment arbitration is unfair," Ware writes in his testimony.
"We currently have a very sensible system in which courts determine, case-by-case, which arbitration agreements should not be enforced and which provide for a fair process and so should be enforced. As every case is different and arbitration agreements can be written in a wide variety of ways, I believe these issues are better handled on a case-by-case basis in the courts, rather than with the overly broad brush of legislation."
Ware has devoted much of the past 16 years of his professional life to researching the law, economics and practice of arbitration. He is writing his third book on the subject and has published 20 arbitration articles in scholarly journals, as well as several arbitration-related articles in nonacademic publications. Within the field of arbitration law, he has devoted special attention to arbitration involving consumers, employees and other ordinary individuals.
The University of Kansas is a major comprehensive research and teaching university. University Relations is the central public relations office for KU's Lawrence firstname.lastname@example.com | (785) 864-3256 | 1314 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045