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Two years after ex-New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey stunned the country by announcing he was gay, he talks to Jeanne Marie Laskas about living the lie
He really doesn't look any different: blue blazer, light blue shirt, yellow tie, clean-shaven, perfect eye contact, loves being here with you, wants to take you into his condence and talk the talk he has been groomed his whole life to talk. Only now he's promoting a book, The Confession.
I don't know. Maybe a talky politician is always a talky politician, no matter how far he falls, no matter how cinematic, no matter how embarrassingly operatic the descent. I don't know. Somehow, I expected different. We've been sitting here discussing his life for hours in this ne Four Seasons restaurant, and the one thing I'm getting is: He's a talker. His theme has been authenticity, a word he uses repeatedly.
"To discover your own authenticity," he says, "to recapture your own spirituality and rediscover your own sense of personal mission—it's been the most amazing, unforeseen process. I mean, if you had told me in August of 2004 that I would've come out of this process integrated, whole, spiritually grounded, healthy, you know, that would've been some far-off ideal that I thought I could never grasp, that never would have been achieved. So it's been—in many respects it's been lled with grace, but it's been diffcult. It's been excruciatingly painful."
Here, he says, is the new Jim McGreevey, the authentic Jim McGreevey, the integrated Jim McGreevey who never before had the courage to be known. And isn't it ironic The authentic Jim McGreevey is the boy. The boy before he decided, at age 11, to publicly deny his homosexual self. Finally, the man has reclaimed the boy and all that he once denied. Isn't it ironic Well, no. Fortunate, maybe, but not ironic. He uses the word irony almost as often as he uses authentic, dropping it without connection, without antecedent, and often coupling it with the word ultimate, as if to invite you to hear a rigorous and playful intellect but not really expecting you to listen to it.
His book is a tell-all, a page-turner if only in urging you to jump to the good parts, images of a perfectly put-together New Jersey governor whose real history is a tale of lurking in Times Square sex shops, pulling his pants down with strangers in seedy turnpike rest stops, and of a blinding love for a handsome Israeli PR flack, Golan Cipel. He writes of bringing Cipel Stateside and having sex with him while Dina, his second wife, was in the hospital recovering from the traumatic birth of his second daughter. He writes of the decision to bring Cipel onto his staff as a homeland-security adviser with a six-gure salary and the sincere hope that nobody would quite notice the fact that Cipel, an Israeli citizen, had no FBI security clearance—not to mention that he was not qualied for the job. But they did. And in short order, everything spiraled down and down to hell itself, ending with Jim McGreevey, at age 47, on national TV talking about looking "deeply into the mirror of one's soul" and declaring his "truth":
"I am a gay American."
Maybe, at rst, we all thought, Aww. Or: How brave. Poor guy being forced by a repressive culture to live a lie, but at least he can be happy now. Even his wife was right there by his side, holding his hand, smiling a brave "I'll always love ya, Jimmy" smile. And his parents. Okay, his mom looked mortied, and his dad gazed heavenward, but they were there by his side. And emotionally, that's where we were supposed to be. That's where we were left when he disappeared. We were left with that image.
Then he vanished for two years, avoiding the media completely. Now, a cynic might think: He was waiting for the big book advance (which he got, to the reported tune of a half million). A more generous person might think: He went off to lick his wounds, and to heal.
Yeah, he did that, too. He went into a twelve-step program.
"It is true that I suffer from an addiction," he writes in his book, "though I barely drink and have never touched drugs in my life… I'm not addicted to sex, as one might reasonably surmise from my story so far. Rather, my addiction is to being central in the world, to being accepted and adored in the way that celebrities are adored—by strangers, in abundance… My ego—that was the dopamine receptor for my addiction, the thing that needed feeding."
Putting aside how difficult that might be to swallow, he believes himself to be very (pathologically) good at promoting himself—and that's what he's here today to do.
He wrote the book, he tells me, as an expression of self-discovery, of authenticity, of personal integration, and in order to help others.
For hours he talks about this, talky, talky, talky, all word and proclamation and explanation, no time to slurp his tomato soup, eat his salmon, or sip his Shiraz.
"You should eat," I say.
One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know:
Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was good at it. Not only that—it helped him become a better politician.
"Now that," I say, "is the ultimate irony."
"The cruel irony," he says, closing his eyes briefly as if to absorb the remorse. "It was almost on a parallel track. So many of the adaptive skills I learned shielding my sexuality and feigning straightness, the skills that I learned as a child and as a young man—you sort of repeat those skills in American political life." He is unfailingly sincere in his presentation, a steady-talking bobblehead. "It was about maintaining separate and distinct realities."
He traces the divided self back to eighth grade, when, as an unwaveringly good Catholic altar boy, a Boy Scout, the son of a nurse and a Marine drill instructor, he needed to understand his thrilling journey to "the last gate on the farthest pasture of gay sexual exploration" with a skinny seventh grader he knew from school. He was terried of his own willing, eager, desperate participation in the sex. But there was no one to talk to about it. He didn't know anyone who was gay; back then there was no one even on TV except maybe Liberace and probably Uncle Arthur on Bewitched. So he went to the Woodbridge Public Library, only to nd that "homosexuality" wasn't even in the card catalog. Eventually, he found what he was looking for under "Sexuality, deviant."
"I was like, whoa, this isn't good," he says. "This is not a bandwagon I want to get on. I need to end it, I need to reverse it. Is this a phase Is this temporary Is this psychological How did I absorb this thing I've got to expunge this from my system." He bought Playboy magazines and tried masturbating. He locked himself away, vowed to win this war.
He lost. In high school and college and law school, he had sex with men—scores of men—but dated women, advancing the straight-guy image that he believed his planned political future was dependent upon. The anonymous sex in New York with the losers in the sex shops was decidedly less satisfying than the anonymous sex in D.C., in the alley behind the synagogue on the corner of Sixth and I Streets. Now, those guys, those guys wore suits, and they had wedding rings—they had their lives beautifully bracketed. He often went two and three times a week.
So it was: Columbia, Georgetown Law School, Harvard School of Education, assistant county prosecutor by 24, state assemblyman by 32, mayor of Woodbridge by 34, and New Jersey state senator at 36. His rise was as swift as it seemed inevitable. He was charming. He was a workaholic. He was driven. But even back then, people wondered what, if anything, was beneath the ambition. Newspapers during his bid for governorship asked if he was anything more than an empty suit. There was a sense that he was somehow slippery, "eerily hollow," that there was probably a lot more to the guy than he was letting on.
At 34 he married Kari Schutz, a librarian he met on a cruise ship, and had a daughter, Morag. They split up four years later, ostensibly because she couldn't handle the rigors of political life. To this day, he insists that she never knew he was gay. But by then he was already living a double life—secretly gay, publicly a straight God-fearing guy who sure as heck needed a beautiful wife and daughter to complete the look. He had learned to live with a divided self.
"You begin to think, which is the ultimate act of hubris, that you can manage it," he tells me, his eyes widening, his face opening. "I mean, so now I'm the master of my own universe!"
It became the perfect asset for a man with designs on the White House. "Because what happens in American politics" he says. "You portray an image, and then you poll that image, and then you determine, does the public nd it credible"
He repeats this point several times, making sure I get it loud and clear: He was terrically good at deceiving people, and deceiving people is exactly the way to win in politics. Isn't that terrible Isn't he terrible He was so terrible. Watch him now: He's gonna punch himself in the face. He wants you to know he sinned, and sinned bad. He wants you to know that he knows what a terrible person he was—taking preemptive strike after preemptive strike until you catch yourself thinking, Aww.
I ask him why he resigned as governor. Could he not have claimed his sexuality and remained a public servant, become an authentic public servant, a leader legitimately qualied to advance the cause of human rights
"If it had happened differently," he says, "if I had had the courage, which I didn't, to say, 'This is who I am,' I think I could've done it. But the difficulty was the circumstances against which this arose. It was, you know, well…"
McGreevey claims that Cipel threatened to sue him for sexual harassment, demanding $5 million to keep quiet. (According to Cipel's lawyers, the idea for hush money was McGreevey's, and a subsequent investigation turned up no evidence of extortion.) No one ever quite bought the sexual- harassment story—or Cipel's simultaneous denial of his own homosexuality, which indeed seems curious, if even a portion of McGreevey's account is true. If not for a love affair, why would McGreevey have hired him in the rst place He had few qualications for the job. McGreevey's version of the story was always the more believable one, if only because it was plenty damning all on its own: The governor had a secret gay lover.
"It was a mess," I offer.
"A mess," he says.
If McGreevey's welcome into the gay community has been lukewarm, it's because his coming out was not voluntary, was not about personal integrity or some courageous sudden realization, but rather about being forced out, trapped, a cornered mouse. He admits he would have never come out were it not for Golan forcing him to fold. He would have gone to his deathbed as a closeted gay man.
McGreevey's coming out was about nothing so much as changing the subject, saving his own ass, moving the public discourse away from the turmoil he had made of the governor's office and spinning it. (The widely rumored homosexual affairs were not the only dragons at the door; a federal fund-raising probe aimed at his biggest campaign contributors was creeping steadily toward him.) It was about offering up a perfectly true and believable mythology as damage control: Here was a sexually repressed man claiming himself, admitting his deceit, seeking the forgiveness America loves to give, and offering resignation as his act of personal penance (writ public).
"I had this blackmail situation," he tells me. "I didn't know how Golan was going to act. I didn't know what would be said or not said during the course of a trial. I just felt that was the best course of action, that it would end any prospect of litigation and allow the state's citizens to move on."
He did it for the People. And for Dina, his wife, who was standing by his side at the press conference, gripping his hand.
Now, Dina. It would seem that Dina should have popped into the conversation before now. But Dina appears to be something of an afterthought.
I tell him I feel sorry for Dina. It's one thing to nd out you're married to someone who has been lying to you since the day you met but quite another to have to then wear your shame and your grief and your stunned embarrassment before a public that can't get enough of this juicy shit. He put her there. He used her as a prop. He made a fool out of her. I ask how he was able to live with himself, given all that.
He says he admires Dina, appreciates her courage, and that, sure, the reason he married her was for a political kind of companionship: "She was interested in politics, she enjoyed politics. I mean, she was wonderful politicking. She was natural, she was flawless."
McGreevey writes that he wasn't sure if Dina suspected that he was carrying on a secret gay life. But she found out for certain two days before his announcement to the people of New Jersey. Surely, she had no idea that while she was in the hospital recovering from a C-section, cradling the premature baby she had almost lost—she had no idea that while this was going on, her husband was at home, sharing cold cereal with his lover, kissing him, inviting him up to his bed—her bed—undressing, making "a boastful, passionate, whispering, masculine kind of love."
How do you look a person in the eye after you have deceived her so… theatrically
"But I was also deceiving myself," he says. "That's what's so basically absurd. At some fundamental level, I thought I was in charge. I maintained a public image of being straight, with a wife and a kid, and then on the side I had these furtive liaisons. It was a violation of my marital vows, it was a betrayal, it was morally wrong, it was objectionable—and I can't say that strongly enough. But what had happened for so many years, the fact that I didn't lead this integrated, authentic life, it became too easy to accomplish. The entirety of my sexuality, my life, wasn't integrated, wasn't authentic, so you can compartmentalize, and that's the harm."
Right. But what about the harm to Dina
"The punishment is in the sin itself," he says. "The act itself is the punishment, and that's the basic moral violation. If you're not integrated, if you maintain two worlds, if you're not aligned with your higher power, it becomes all too easy to fracture. And I, ironically, paid the ultimate price for that."
Okay, forget about Dina. What about his parents How did they handle their high-prole son leading such a high-prole double life—and, as Catholics, believing it to be a fundamentally sinful one Were they angry
"I think everyone goes through different emotional cycles, myself included," he says. "At times I was angry with myself. I said, 'How did I sacrice everything that I've worked for, for such a relationship, such a seemingly stupid relationship, an illegitimate affair' It goes back to, you know, when I acted out of truth and integrity I produced good things, and when I acted out of fear and secrecy I produced bad things."
Right. But what about his parents
"My parents have, you know, total love for me, and they clearly were disappointed. I mean, this required hundreds of thousands of hours of work with a brutally painful experience, but yet I believed on some level they could see growth."
Okay, forget about his parents. Forget about really anyone but him. Ask him about the people he's hurt and he'll tell you about his pain. He was a terrible person and he feels terrible pain about that, and pain is a terrible thing to feel. But it's not his fault. Blame all that bad behavior on his "addiction," blame it on his "affliction," blame it on original sin or the freakin' human condition, mankind's God-given capacity to split the self in two. One's severed connection to one's higher power can, after all, allow one to thwart any responsibility to anybody for anything.
In his book, he writes all about this: "I came to understand how my affliction had motivated me to make my pacts with the warlords, how it made me believe that I could get away with hiring Golan. And I saw how it ruined my home life, how it ultimately brought me no more permanent happiness than heroin use satises a junkie."
It. It. It. The disease made him do it. His addiction to adoration. This is the understanding with which he proclaims his authenticity, after thirty-seven days as patient number 05271 at the Meadows trauma and addiction-recovery clinic in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, where he was diagnosed with "severe adjustment disorder" and treated for an "adapted ego state."
"Okay," I say nally. "Let's talk about Golan."
He smiles. He picks up his fork. He knew this was coming. "He's back in Israel."
"He never led the lawsuit," I say.
"I've had no contact with him," he says.
"You loved him…," I say, feeling like I'm somehow prepping him for his Barbara Walters interview.
"It was instant," he says. "It was an honest, true desire. It was what I was hoping for. I mean, I was hoping for a great passion, the great love of my life in this man. The ultimate irony is what I wanted was something so ordinary, you know, a loving relationship. I mean, what I wanted was so fundamental to who we are as people. A loving, supportive, committed relationship, with all the joys and all the sacrices that all of that requires."
And his way of getting that was to…hire him as homeland-security adviser
"Yeah, that was all wrong, bringing him into the state government. I wanted to make him happy. I enjoyed his company. And it made the divided self easier to bear."
So Golan—the one person powerful enough to tumble his entire empire—turned on him and gave him no choice but to go ahead and topple it himself. I point out that these are the sorts of offenses that might cause an ex-lover to boil over with rage.
"I am not angry at him," he says. "I had no choice of being gay or not being gay, I couldn't control that, and at some basic level I also had to accept it, and Golan enforced that acceptance, and so now I'm blessed with that acceptance."
Blessed. Everything about him just keeps getting more and more blessed. I am reminded of Jim Bakker and other high-prole evangelists who have gotten caught with their pants down, only to confess and confess and then attempt to rebuild their empires on that foundation of exposed humanity. I am reminded, more charitably, of people who bravely struggle through twelve-step programs. There is often a period of a high. I am reminded of anyone I've ever known who has stopped living a lie. There is every reason to do a freedom dance.
I ask him if he intends to return to politics.
"What I'm interested in is advocacy work," he says. "Focusing on children, focusing on poverty." Also, he says he's headed to China to work on a project to build an American-style university there.
Well, poor children certainly need our help. And…Chinese coeds These would not seem to be causes that grow organically from the story of Jim McGreevey. I ask again if he's planning to return to politics and perhaps work toward a gay-marriage amendment, civil-union legislation, antidiscrimination policies in employment and housing, tolerance of same-sex- couple adoption.
He speaks generally of his outrage that the political landscape is so antigay while the American public is so increasingly accepting of its gay citizens; he speaks of walking in gay-pride parades and of lending a hand to programs designed to help gay adolescents. But he says he thinks his main responsibility on behalf of the gay community is, simply, to talk about himself. "I want to share my story," he says. "My goal would be to have families understand that being gay isn't a choice. And what I seek in my life is love, commitment, and an opportunity to serve my community. So in terms of sharing my story, and recognizing my frailty and my humanness, my gayness, I mean, hopefully people will take a second look. And so, in that sense, I want to share, but my real focus is, you know, we've got 14 million kids every night in America who don't know where their next meal is coming from. The fastest-growing percentage of the population who are in poverty is children, and that's becoming more prevalent all across America. You know, I was in Appalachia seeing children who don't have any of the benets that so many of us take for granted. Or most recently, a couple of weeks ago I was in New Orleans not only witnessing the disaster of Katrina but also children having no mechanisms for coping with the disaster that befell them…"
I probably should have never asked about returning to politics.
"…the citizens, the families who comprise America, they have good hearts. This is a great country."
As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man. Now, as he sits before me portraying an authentic man, it is hard to feel anything for him besides very, very tired.
"Here, wait, you will love this!" he says, shoving his chair back, yanking his briefcase from the floor, and propping it on his lap. It's an oily, weathered tan case, more rumpled professor than New Jersey governor, more "I'm into organics" than "I wanna be president."
"Oh, wait, this isn't it," he says, pulling out a copy of a sermon he recently heard at St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal church he attends every Sunday with Mark O'Donnell, the man with whom he has fallen in love. "But this one is good, too. Here. Take it. You'll love it. No, really, you can have it. That is great, great. Oh, here's the one I was looking for! 'Live larger!' Now, that is a great homily. Uch, both of these are so constant with, you know, living larger and embracing change and embracing authenticity and rocking the boat. Uch! Uch."
Now, the "uch" is brand-new. I have not heard that until now. It is the "uch" of a Jewish grandmother, that low, guttural utterance that translates to: I have no words. It is too big for words. This feeling I have is beyond the capacity of language to express.
"If you ever want to read a great book, get The Spirituality of Imperfection," he continues. "You would love it. Uch. It's so powerful. I must have read it ve times. And on the cover, there's a vase with a crack. That's where the light comes in. That's where grace comes in. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uch. If you get a chance. The Spirituality of Imperfection.
"Yeah, yeah," he says, smiling, shaking his head. "Uch." He is quiet. For the rst time this evening—unrehearsed. Off the talking points. Thoughtful. I have no idea where this is coming from, but it makes the other McGreevey, the scripted, authentic McGreevey, all the more glaringly weird.
A crack in the vase. Uch. How refreshing to hear all this "uch."
"You just carry sermons around in your briefcase" I ask.
"Oh, I just happen to have those. Yeah, if you get a chance, you gotta read those."
He loves church. He has always loved church. If there's a real casualty in all of this, it's his relationship to Catholicism. He has gay friends who are Catholic. He knows a lot of gay priests. He remembers with sorrow when the pope announced last year the restrictions of gay men entering the seminary. As a young man, he had considered entering the seminary, believing that perhaps a vow of celibacy would help him conquer an identity he believed to be sinful. "When the pope came out with that, I said to my friend who's a gay Catholic, I said, 'What are we going to do' And he said, 'Pray.' He said, 'Go to church tomorrow and pray.' And I'm like, 'You know, God bless you, you're better than I am. Because I can't sit there and have someone tell me that I'm less valued than they are… I can't. No. I just got really…in a weird way. I said, 'God bless you for hanging in there, but you know, I'm not going to be around for 2,000 years. This isn't happening on my watch!' "
He laughs, mutters a few thoughts about Catholics believing that they've got the one true path to heaven, says that's still hard to let go of. He seems genuinely grateful to the Episcopal Church for its warm welcome and speaks glowingly of sharing a life with Mark. They just bought a house—eight bedrooms, circa 1914, with expansive gardens—in Plaineld, New Jersey, right down the street from where his mom works. They have two dogs, Rikey and Utah, and two cats, Miss Kitty and Kaitlin, and just last weekend both his daughters, now 13 and 4, were over, and so were his parents. And it would seem, really, that if he just drifted away into private life, went on being happy without having to swear to it on a stack of Bibles, no one would doubt it.
And no one would care. Maybe that's the whole problem right there. If his addiction is to "being central in the world" and "to being accepted and adored by strangers…in abundance," well, then it would seem a private life is never going to satisfy the ol' dopamine receptor. (Accordingly, he recently auditioned to be part of a talk show on Bravo with Joan Rivers.)
"You know, early Catholicism offered the hope of gradual transcendence," he says. "And the understanding that man is caught between the beast and the saint, and the goal of life is to move closer to the saint. I mean, the early church understood. And not to condemn the person! Because damn it, this is the human condition! We can kick the sh—We can kick the heck out of a person, but that's what being human is about! It's the imperfection that lets in the grace. That lets in spirituality. That causes the change and the growth. Not being perfect. Not feigning perfection. Which is what we could do. Which is what I tried to do."
Tried to, or is still trying I wonder if the new McGreevey is any different at all from the old. Does anyone know this man
"It must be exhausting," I say, referring to the prospect of now going on tour to promote his confession.
He shakes his head, stares into his empty cup, smiles. "This has been so great. Uch. You should get that book. The Spirituality of Imperfection. Yeah. Read that book. And go to St. Bart's. Ha! And thanks for dinner. I really enjoyed it. I did! Uch. Oh. I've grown. That's the best part of it. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's like my dad said, 'You have a lot to be humble about.' Ha! I said, 'Thanks, Dad.' Exactly."
Jeanne Marie Laskas is a GQ correspondent.


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Maybe another two carries by Matt Forte would have changed the Bears' fate Sunday night.
While the talk of the town will be Charles Tillman giving up a 99-yard touchdown to ex-teammate Bernard Berrian, the Bears inability to punch it in on first-and-goal from the 1 was equally crucial in a 34-14 loss to the Vikings.
Without the Vikings' goal-line stand in the second quarter, Berrian wouldn't have gotten a chance to burn his old teammates. With a score right there, maybe the Bears would have ridden the momentum of a 14-3 lead to victory and stayed atop the NFC North.
Instead, the Bears dipped to 6-6, while the Vikings took over sole possession of the division race at 7-5.
"This one hurts more than the Green Bay loss," defensive end Alex Brown said.
Forte agreed.
"It's a tough situation," he said. "We're right there on the goal line, and we couldn't punch it in. That's something we have to address, because I think that's happened like twice this year. ... We just have to find a way to get in there, no matter what."
The four-play stall began with Kyle Orton throwing a play-action pass to tight end Greg Olsen that fell incomplete. Then Forte ran left for no gain, followed by fullback Jason Davis going up the middle for no gain. It was Davis' first action of the season fresh off the practice squad, as he was inserted to replace injured starter Jason McKie.
Offensive coordinator Ron Turner defended the play-calling when asked about his strategy.
"We had a goal-line plan going in," he said. "We saw what they did. We thought we had a chance to use play-action on first down, so we took a shot there. Obviously, that didn't work. Then we ran base plays, goal-line plays that we thought would work."
On fourth down, the Bears ran Forte to the right, and he was stopped in his tracks by Vikings star end Jared Allen.
"I think I caught on the backside a little bit," Forte said. "The guy just made a good play. But you've got to get into the end zone."
Instead, the Vikings set up what turned out to be the game-changing play.
On first-and-10 from the 1, Vikings quarterback Gus Frerotte dropped back to pass and found Berrian way ahead of Tillman, who had dipped inside and left Berrian wide open. Frerotte hit him in stride as the duo combined to tie the longest offensive scoring play in NFL history.
The Bears sat stunned on the bench, with Tillman shaking his head in disgust.
Corey Graham, playing the other cornerback spot, described the play from his view.
"They pumped one way and came back to [Berrian] on the backside," he said. "Just a good scheme by them ... a good play. They knew that we cheat over. It's just a good call.
"The No. 2 [receiver] was coming down the seam. When the quarterback looks away, we've got to cheat. We play off the quarterback. We just have to find a way to fix it and make plays out there."
The defense made plays early but not enough to slow the Vikings. Adrian Peterson ran for 131 yards and a score as the Vikings gained 378 yards. For the Bears, Orton struggled through a miserable game, with three interceptions to end a streak of 206 passes without one. He completed 11 of 29 passes for 153 yards with a passer rating of 39.1. And the Bears had a season-low 228 yards.
Forte finished with 96 rushing yards against the league's second-best rushing defense and had a touchdown reception.
Tillman had a first half he would rather forget. After his gift to Berrian, he was penalized 15 yards for a horse-collar tackle on Berrian, setting up the Vikings with first-and-10 on the Bears' 22. Two plays later, Frerotte's 1-yard dive put the Vikings up 17-7.
The second-quarter explosion by the Vikings negated the early firepower supplied by Devin Hester, who scored the game's first touchdown, lining up outside against Antoine Winfield, then taking a short slant pass from Orton and streaking down the field for 65-yard score. Hester darted by weak tackle attempts by free safety Darren Sharper and linebacker Chad Greenway.
It was his longest play of the season, kick and punt returns included.
Defensive tackle Dusty Dvoracek injured his arm on the game's second play and did not return.


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Our Favorite End-of-Summer Cycling Destinations in Northern California
Ever hear the old saying that life's about the journey, not a destination? Out here in Northern California, we tend to take it a step further: Here, sometimes the journey is the destination. Transit time in our lovely region isn't just a way of getting from Point A to Point B – it's an eye-opener in and of itself. Just ask anyone who's ever taken a bicycle tour, big or small, around our neck of the woods!
With summer winding down, now's the perfect time to saddle up and see for yourself: heatwaves are fading in favor of sunshine and mild temperatures all over the region, even as San Francisco's perpetual layer of fog is taking a vacation. And to help you take advantage of the perfect weather while it lasts, we're bringing you the best biking destinations and routes in the mountains, along the coast, and more.
The Marin Headlands
Between its high-altitude views of San Francisco, its abundance of beach-and-forest scenery, and its close proximity to the Golden Gate Bridge, it's no wonder the Marin Headlands is a popular destination for cyclists of all kinds. Conzelman Road, which winds around the edge of the national park, is a favorite route for those with hamstrings of steel. While it's a tough mile-plus climb up the road, past carloads full of fellow picture-snappers, the views from the top are well worth the effort: think postcard-worthy panoramic Bay vistas and a full city skyline. Further inside the park's boundaries, there are valley trails for beginners and ridge trails for mountain bikers (check out a full map of the Headlands' bike trails). Didn't bring your own bike? No problem: check out day rentals of mountain bikes from Stoked SF in the nearby town of Sausalito.
The Headlands also boasts a loop track taking cyclists around Conzelman Road, through historic Fort Barry, and down to the posh waterfront town of Sausalito. For a truly relaxing ride, even the most casual of cyclists can always opt to tool around town on a rental from the Sausalito Bike Company.
If you go: Stay at HI Marin Headlands, housed in a cluster of historic buildings near the Marin Headlands Visitors' Center.
Casual biker? Hardcore cyclist? Something in between? It doesn't really matter how you'd classify yourself: Monterey's the place for people who pedal at all levels. The swanky-quaint little beachside town just a few hours south of San Francisco has long been known to surfers, shoppers, and strollers, but can now at cyclists to that list.
The region's Coastal Trail, which runs from Castroville, just north of the city, to Pebble Beach, just south of the Monterey Peninsula, covers some pretty spectacular ground. For a long-distance outing, whir past the enormous Fort Ord dunes near the town of Marina, down past Steinbeck's stomping grounds in downtown Monterey, and on to the edge of Pebble Beach, where golf courses, spas, and million-dollar views are as easy to spot as million-dollar houses. It's all a smooth ride down the paved trail, which accommodates both walkers and riders – but no cars – while hugging the California coast line.
If you go: Stay at HI Monterey. An affordable option in the land of pricey stays, this little gem of a hostel has an unbeatable location just minutes from Cannery Row and the aquarium, plus secure bike storage and a wealth of local cycling information. Fancy a casual roll through town? Hostel guests get a discounted rate of $18 per day at nearby Blazing Saddles, making afternoon rides easy and affordable.
Point Reyes
The Point Reyes National Seashore may be best known to hikers, beachcombers, and wildlife-watchers, but it's also a fantastic destination for adventurous cyclists. The bulk of the bike trails here are off-road and shared with walkers and horseback riders, so they're best for more experienced cyclists. But if you've got the skills and the equipment, they're well worth your time: trails here will take you through forests, along coastal land, and past much of the wildlife the National Seashore is legendary for.
If you enjoy photo-snapping as much as biking, you can even cycle along several of the trails favored by HI Point Reyes front desk agent and photographer extraordinaire Lacey Bediz. Pack up your camera and lens and bike along the Estero Trail, the Tomales Bay Trail, or the Bolinas Ridge Trail for a glimpse of the settings that inspire Lacey and other serious photogs every day.
If you go: Stay at HI Point Reyes, the only accommodation within the boundaries of the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Half Moon Bay
A quaint little town on the Pacific Coast, Half Moon Bay is an easy stop on Highway 1 between HI Point Montara and HI Pigeon Point. Half Moon Bay's got a compact downtown area that's a breeze to cycle, but the town's real draw for bikers is its Coastside Trail. Connecting four different beaches over the course of three miles, the trail makes it easy to take in the rugged coastline without dealing with rugged terrain. Rent bikes in town by the hour or the day at Bike Works, about a mile inland from the southernmost part of the trail, or bring your own cycle and store it at your hostel.
For more cycling fun while the sun's still out, why not take in views of the city skyline on a Bike the Bay tour with one of our three San Francisco hostels? For adventures further afield, hit up HI Portland Hawthorne or HI Portland Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Our hostels are a great jumping-off point for cycling adventures around town and around the entire Pacific Northwest. Plus, HI Portland Hawthorne is super bike-friendly, with dedicated cycle storage, a fix-it station, and a $5-per-night discount for guests staying over during bicycle tours!


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Hey, I got a thumbs-up from starmaker SIMON WATSON... now my career is ready to GO. I will never have to promote myself, after this, again. Simon is giving the thumbs-up to one of my paintings in the Building Picturing show, at The Painting Center.
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by Mike Masnick
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We recently wrote about a series of cases where young computer hackers were either charged or threatened with criminal charges for doing things that don't seem particularly criminal at all. The NY Times now has a blog post on more or less the same subject, but focusing on the "fuzzy and shifting line between hacker and criminal." While it's good that more attention is getting paid to these kinds of questionable cases, I wonder if that framing is really accurate. I don't think there's a "line" -- fuzzy, shifting or not -- between "hacker" and "criminal." The two things are different. Can you be a criminal hacker? Sure. But the problem is that many non-techie folks seem to assume that any kind of hacking must be criminal. And that's the problem. It's not that some imaginary line is moving around, but that some people don't seem to understand that hacking itself is not criminal, and that there are plenty of good reasons to hack -- including to expose security holes.
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silverscarcat (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 7:41am
This line sums it up best..."Whew! All this computer hacking is making me thirsty, I'm going to order a tab." - The Simpsons
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:10pm
Re: This line sums it up best.......and fire up the IMSAI
GMacGuffin (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 9:10amI don't think there's a "line" -- fuzzy, shifting or not -- between "hacker" and "criminal." The two things are different.
. . . some people don't seem to understand that hacking itself is not criminal . . .
You could replace "hacker" with "Muslim" and "criminal" with "terrorist" and find tons of folks in that camp as well.
But then, what kind of a world would it be if there weren't people everywhere with unfounded beliefs and opinions...
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 2:28pm
Re:...A world without humorous happenings?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 9:50amI have to say i'm kinda in their boat that "Hacking" is against the law, but then again you have to look at the definition of hacking. To me, hacking is "gaining unauthorized access to another computer." While your intentions may be honorable in reporting bugs later, if you manipulated your way into a system without others authorizing you to do so, you have broken the law.
It's like a stranger throwing a brick through a store window, walking inside, walking out, and then coming back the next morning and telling the store owner that he should have used laminated glass.
But I am somewhat mixed about this because I don't think the people that expose these vulnerabilities responsibly should be repremanded (Like telling the business before going public, and waiting a reasonable amount of time for them to have a fix). But there are others that find the hole and immediately take to the internet to get their 15 mins of fame, and put the users of the service at real risk.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 9:59am
Re:The problem with that is that Andrew Auernheimer didn't gain unauthorised access to another computer. There was no authorisation at all! He just incremented the ID he was passing to the public API, and got device owners' email addresses by doing so.
It's not really analogous to throwing the brick. It's more analogous to discovering the lack of glass in the store's windows.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 11:31am
Re: Re:By the logic applied in this case, a person sitting in a car using an open WIFI can be charged with a felony if the do not have the WIFI owners permission to use it.
Carheart, 17 Jul 2013 @ 3:08am
Re: Re: Re:That's called Wardrving, and Warc Chalking... its technically illegal.
John Fenderson (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:00am
To me, hacking is "gaining unauthorized access to another computer."
Your definition is incorrect.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:09am
Re: Re:But that's kinda my point, Hacking has different meaning to different people...
To me, a DDOS isn't 'hacking' to mainstream media it is.
To me, sending different GET data to a web server isn't 'hacking' its just a poorly designed website... to law enforcement it is.
To me, sending specialized packets designed to trick an SQL server to give you access without the proper username and password... is hacking... you have now gained elevated user access to someone else's system without their authorization...
But this is my perspective. Without a standard definition of 'hacking' you can't have the conversation of whether 'hacking' is criminal or not.
Beech, 29 Jan 2013 @ 11:09am
Re: Re: Re:People do have a lot of different definitions for the word "hacking." the problem is that all but one of those definitions (including yours, apparently) are wrong. Use the correct definition and there is no misunderstanding.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 12:33pm
Re: Re: Re:"Without a standard definition of 'hacking' you can't have the conversation of whether 'hacking' is criminal or not."
Indeed. So perhaps the first thing to do is to allow people who know what they're talking about to define it, rather than tabloids?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 2:29pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:Oddly enough, the hacker community has a term that covers this kind of thing - it's called cracking. White hats hack, black hats crack.
JMT (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 2:58pm
Re: Re: Re:"Hacking has different meaning to different people..."
When it comes to law enforcement there should be one clear and accurate definition. Any other meanings would be irrelevant.
PaulT (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 12:07pm
Re:So, what you're saying that if you redefine words to mean something other than they were originally intended, you can accuse them of all sorts of crimes! Brilliant. I will now redefine "locksmith" to mean "burglar", "mechanic" as "car thief" and "soldier" as "assassin". After all, they can all use those skills in those ways, right?
I know what you're saying, but your definition is so far off the mark from its intended meaning, it's barely usable.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Jan 2013 @ 1:03pm
Re:"without others authorizing you to do so, you have broken the law."
I can see no compelling reason what-so-ever that this would be a crime in and of itself. Tort? Maybe you could argue that. Crime? Not seeing it. For an actual crime I think you'd need to be hacking in connection with an actual crime.
Zakida Paul (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 9:55amIf you are doing your hacking from your basement in your underwear - Criminal
If you are being paid handsomely by law enforcement agencies to do your hacking - Not criminal
Machin Shin (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:05am
Re:Dang it, I knew I should have just done my hacking in the buff.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Jan 2013 @ 1:06pm
Re:What if I put on pants?
John Fenderson (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 9:59am
We already lost that battleUs hackers started fighting this semantic battle at least 25 years ago, and although it's not completely lost, we've not fared well. Remember the attempt to replace using "hacker" in the sense of "someone who breaks into computer systems" with the word "cracker"?
The fact is that, as the article points out, hacking is a mindset and activity that is not correlated with criminal activity. It's not even correlated with computers. A "hacker" is a person who is interested in how things work, any things, and spends time figuring them out.
Every scientist, for example, is a hacker.
Rich, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:38am
Re: We already lost that battleYes, and unfortunately, even technically capable people are using "hacker" in a derisive way these days. A few weeks ago I overheard a colleague call a horrible software patch a "hack." That would be a "kludge." A "hack" is an artful piece of code.
John Fenderson (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 1:15pm
Re: Re: We already lost that battle
That would be a "kludge." A "hack" is an artful piece of code.
It's funny you bring this up -- I had this exact discussion with a coworker just yesterday.
BeachBumCowboy (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:08am
Modern TinkerersHackers are the tinkerers of the modern age. The inventors, the builders, the creative yet practical thinkers in a technological world. Watt, Savery, Fulton, and Whitney were all hackers of an earlier era. Were would we be if we had considered them criminals. Were are we going now if we consider hackers, the ones that don't actually break the law, to be criminals nonetheless.
DannyB (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 11:24am
Re: Modern TinkerersYes. Hackers are indeed the inventors and builders of the modern age.
That is why Hollywood wants the word that describes them to be a negative and undesirable slur.
What industry would you suppose might be most responsible for the word Hacker having lost its original positive meaning to have the currently well known negative meaning?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:20am"Expose" and "exploit" both start with "exp", so they must be equally criminal!
And come to think of it, "explode" starts with "exp" too! The hackers must be planning to blow up the White House! Terrorists!
Quick, we need to give the TSA another billion in tax dollars so they can keep terror hackers from using their terror smartphones (terrorphones?) to crash planes into the White House! Otherwise it'll be cyber-9/11! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???
Shmerl, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:27am
Meaning of the term "hacker"A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet Users' Glossary, usefully amplifies this as: A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
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DannyB (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:33am
Crimes should have sharp, bright linesThe boundaries of what is crime should not have fuzzy borders. The boundary of what is and is not a crime should be a sharp, bright line that is easily recognized.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:41am
Re: Crimes should have sharp, bright linesBut then it is so much harder to make examples of people the government doesn't like.
Michael, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:58am
Re: Crimes should have sharp, bright lines...but not rounded corners.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 10:51amPart of the problem is that corporate interests have gotten laws with draconian punishments passed that criminalise mistakes. These have been coupled to a prosecution system that values headline punishments. This is coupled to a management attitude that any data leaks from their system must be due to criminal activity.
The problem is that badly written laws have blurred the line between legal and illegal behaviour by definitions so broad that reasonable actions can be viewed as illegal.
DannyB (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 11:28am
Why everything is becoming a crimeThe owners of the government need everything to be a crime, or everyone to be a criminal so that they have an effective workable mechanism to rant "Off with their heads!" whenever any of the little people offend them with some slight.
It's part of the same underlying problem as High Court vs Low Court.
I Forgot, 30 Jan 2013 @ 9:36am
Re: Why everything is becoming a crimeThe new arrogance same as the old arrogance with more ability to spy on people and cut off the heads of their own kind. Its now a sport, especially since foxhunts were deemed inhumane and the cost of speaking out or up could cause one's picture on their driver's licence to disappear. I'm KIDDING!! X:-0
Anonymous Coward, 30 Jan 2013 @ 1:12pm
Re: Re: Why everything is becoming a crimeThe tools of the new political aristocracy. Just like the old aristocracy only "term-limited."
Ninja (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 11:33amWell, people call me a hacker because I can deal with simple visual basic coding.. I'd say the entire thing is fuzzy for the mainstream...
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jan 2013 @ 12:32pm"Hacker" the 21st century equivalent of "Witch".
Lord Binky, 29 Jan 2013 @ 1:47pmThe problem is there is a fuzzy line between 'Alive' and 'Criminal'. Do not worry though, work is being done every day to resolve that line into being synonymous terms.
Bergman (profile), 29 Jan 2013 @ 4:50pmHacking is a method and philosophy of interacting with technology.
Lockpicks are a way to interact with locks. The fact that some people who know how to use lockpicks use them to break the law does not mean that all professional locksmiths are criminals.
Anonymous Coward, 30 Jan 2013 @ 1:09amI remember a time in the mid-70's when one of our clients locked his keys into his late '60's Toyota. It took me maybe 5 seconds to pick the door lock and provide him entry. From that day forth, my boss regarded me as a potential thief, simply because I knew how to pick locks. Technical "geeks" of all flavors are in the same boat because, like my boss, if the general public doesn't understand it, it must be witchcraft and/or illegal.
Andreas (profile), 30 Jan 2013 @ 2:17amThe term "hacker" has lost all of its original meaning on 15th September 1995. For more information look at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
PaulT (profile), 30 Jan 2013 @ 2:41am
Re:...and we all know how realistic that film is! It certainly fits with the fantasy version of the term presented by tabloids, but I think laws should be based on something more associated with real life.
Are we letting movie titles define words now? This film must make family life uncomfortable if that's the definition you have to give your mother and father - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098068/
Andreas (profile), 25 Feb 2013 @ 3:13am
Re: Re:Society defines, what a word means, by using it in a certain way. You can't reverse these processes by using it in a different way. You can try, but people will always hear, what they want to hear, and what fits with their perspective of the universe. It's a lost cause. Same happened to "Kung-Fu" and "Parkour" and many other terms...
I Forgot, 30 Jan 2013 @ 9:17am
Peaceful Protest, Hacking & CookiesA lot of it seems more like peaceful protest than hacking to harm..
Hell, every corporation and cowboy(girl) and JoeBlow wants to sneakily place cookies in our PCs(Personal Computers in case you forgot) all over the planet. For exactly what, seems more nefarious to me.
Zhaligkeer, 8 Apr 2013 @ 7:15pm
Hacking Vs. Crackingbasically what I learned in a basic computer course (I believe it was intro to various OS's?) is that hacking is pretty much anyone who writes code, of any kind. cracking is what most think of as hacking, typically malicious, writing virus's, stealing sensitive information, etc. though even cracking, if done in a security type situation, can be perfectly harmless and legal.
Linda, 1 Jul 2013 @ 6:26am
HACKINGFor me, probably the most nontechnologically oriented person on the planet, hacking is very costly. I'm on social security (I know, your thinking boo-hoo), but hacking is very costly to fix. So far it has cost me hundreds of dollars and not sure if it is fixed or not. Have to hire the next crook in line -- who claims to be a computer wizard-- find out he isn't, pay him for screwing things up worse, and then deal with the next one in hopes they are honest.


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We have been pretty quiet on UR since too many months. We know you have a lot of questions and concerns left without answers about the game you (used to) love.
Not everything we have done those past months and year was good. We know this, and we are not afraid of rolling back about those features. You are waiting for changes, updates, corrections ; I am going to give you some of our plans for the next months about UR.
- bug / issue corrections. If you want to help us by reporting issues we may not know about, please check this topic : http://www.urban-rivals.com/en/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&forum_page=0&id_subject=2412404&subject_page=0#answers
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-> 1 pack = 1 random Cr
-> there will be several Cr packs ; the higher Cr pack's price, the higher value of the Cr you will obtain by opening it
-> Cr tokens will most certainly NOT be sold in the shop, which means you will have to play one way or another to get a Cr pack
-> a Cr pack will be expensive, so it will take time to get Cr's this way
-> what issues this Cr tokens system solves : a lot less randomness in DT's prize awarding (thus more fairness) ; Cr's (a bit) more accessible, as you will unavoidably get one at some point
- Pack shop rollback / modification : the newest packs we made half a year ago (new Nb, etc.) were controversial. Thus, we are studying a new pack shop, combining the strength of the old and new pack shops to provide you a better offer with a large price range
- a surprise for the beginning of the new year, which will be the starting point of UR's rebirth time
So this was what is coming for sure during the next months. More will come. What is for sure is that UR is going to evolve in many ways and catch up.
edited by Goralion friday 13/12/2013, 09:15
Wicked Witch Titan Wise Men Distracted Thursday 12/12/2013, 10:06
Very nice. thanks for the heads up
(Tiny-Glitch) Colossus E X C A L I B U R Thursday 12/12/2013, 11:35
By random cr you mean either kwamashi or dj korr?
Isolator GUB Mediator GUB PRO Thursday 12/12/2013, 11:40
Sounds good.
"a Cr pack will be expensive, so it will take time to get Cr's this way"
This is the most important point. The CR prices are just recovering and you can't afford another market slump.
- Pillman Colossus Open Casket Thursday 12/12/2013, 11:54
Finally some news,and yes no more Cr lotterys in DT and YES T1 BACK YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Isolator GUB Mediator GUB PRO Thursday 12/12/2013, 11:56
Yeah just forgot this....
T1 back!!! OLEEE OLEEEEEEEE
Londafettuc Colossus Masters of Battle Thursday 12/12/2013, 12:46
So....the new packs will be more expensive? bad news for me
Coldberg Titan URBAN MADNESS Thursday 12/12/2013, 13:42
It's taken ages but at least there is finally an admittance that getting rid of T1 & T2 was a mistake. So many players gave up because of that change & you won't get them all back.
Still, better late than never.
AznRepublic Guru Thursday 12/12/2013, 13:52
Aaaaaaaaand.... how about you fix the DM mode?


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Anthem, Inc.is one of the nation's leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 company. At Anthem, Inc., we are working together to transform health care with trusted and caring solutions.
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Metrics Advisor, Senior or Metrics Executive Advisor-may be located at any Anthem location or work from a home office
Works as part of a financial performance reporting team to support the Program Integrity division in combatting Healthcare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse; ensuring that proper payments are being made to legitimate providers for reasonable services provided to eligible members.
Creates World Class monthly financial reporting packages, including Tableau Dashboards, to track Program Integrity Functional Area (FA) actual performance vs. Cost of Care and Total Program Savings targets. Creates budgets and financial forecasts for Program Integrity FAs. Interacts heavily with Program Integrity FAs, acting as a financial consultant to assist FAs in achieving goals. Supports Anthem Transformation efforts, acting as part of a team to provide WAVE L2 and other Financial Coaching to PI FAs. Communicates financial results to FAs, management, and other stakeholders.
Understands, predicts and implements measures to control healthcare costs and to make healthcare more affordable for Anthem's members. Understands, and is able to describe data nuances, caveats, and sources, and help drive data credibility process improvement.
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I was waiting on it. I spent two weeks waiting on it. But here we are.
Fernando Martinez, potential Astros outfielder, has been linked to the Miami-based Biogenesis clinic which has already prompted denials from Alex Rodriguez, Gio Gonzalez, Ryan Braun, Melky Cabrera, among others.
Martinez, who has spent more time on the DL than he has on an active roster*, apparently/allegedly owes Tony Bosch $4000 - $2000 in each February and March 2012.
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The Chronicle's Brian Smith notes that Martinez is represented by ACES, owned by Seth and Sam Levinson. Ten of the 25 players implicated in the Biogenesis "scandal/non-scandal" are ACES clients.
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Does this mean Jeff Bagwell won't get into the HOF next year?
In all seriousness, this is a bummer.
- February 19, 2013 at 10:20 PM
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- February 19, 2013 at 10:40 PM
To be fair...we don't know what the money was for.
However, for a young guy like Martinez, it could be the difference in whether he gets a good look or not....unfortunately, it's very clear that a lot of guys will take their chances with PEDs, and as the Melky Cabrera case shows, you'll always be welcome back by some team if they think you can play.....
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Carlyle said he's pleased with the strength of the accountability pieces that would prevent a repeat of that 787 shift when it comes to the 777X future. But he also said he would have like to have seen stronger language in the deal to prevent Boeing from moving parts of its non-777X lines to other locations.
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Inslee's office released a letter Thursday written by a Boeing official that states that "transportation infrastructure improvements" and other measures will ensure Boeing's lasting competitiveness in the state.
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