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SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking
Mon, April 7 - Sat, April 12, 2014
Day six of SEC660 was a fantastic conclusion to a very enjoyable, fun, and valuable course. It was money well spent.
SEC660 has great instruction with the right mix of lecture and labs. The Capture-The-Flag challenge brought everything together for the week.
SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking is designed as a logical progression point for those who have completed SANS SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, or for those with existing penetration testing experience. Students with the prerequisite knowledge to take this course will walk through dozens of real-world attacks used by the most seasoned penetration testers. The methodology of a given attack is discussed, followed by exercises in a real-world lab environment to solidify advanced concepts and allow for the immediate application of techniques in the workplace. Each day includes a two-hour evening bootcamp to allow for additional mastery of the techniques dis- cussed and even more hands-on exercises. A sample of topics covered include weaponizing Python for penetration testers, attacks against network access control (NAC) and VLAN manipulation, network device exploitation, breaking out of Linux and Windows restricted environments, IPv6, Linux privilege escalation and exploit-writing, testing cryptographic implementations, fuzzing, defeating modern OS controls such as ASLR and DEP, Return Oriented Programming (ROP), Windows exploit-writing, and much more!
It is well-known that attackers are becoming cleverer and their attacks more complex. In order to keep up with the latest attack methods, one must have a strong desire to learn, the support of others, and the opportunity to practice and build experience. SANS SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking engages attendees with in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. This course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit, and shows penetration testers how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws.
SEC660 starts off by introducing advanced penetration concepts, and an overview to help prepare students for what lies ahead. The focus of day one is on network attacks, an area often left untouched by testers. Topics include accessing, manipulating, and exploiting the network. Attacks are performed against NAC, VLANs, OSPF, 802.1X, CDP, IPv6,VOIP, SSL, ARP, SNMP, and others. Day two starts off with a technical module on performing penetration testing against various cryptographic implementations. The rest of the day is spent on network booting attacks, escaping Linux restricted environments such as chroot, and escaping Windows restricted desktop environments. Day three jumps into an introduction of Python for penetration testing, Scapy for packet crafting, product security testing, network and application fuzzing, and code coverage techniques. Days four and five are spent exploiting programs on the Linux and Windows operating systems. You will learn to identify privileged programs, redirect the execution of code, reverse-engineer programs to locate vulnerable code, obtain code execution for administrative shell access, and defeat modern operating system controls such as ASLR, canaries, and DEP using Return Oriented Programming (ROP) and other techniques. Local and remote exploits, as well as client-side exploitation techniques are covered. The final course day is dedicated to numerous penetration testing challenges requiring you to solve complex problems and capture flags.
It is well-known that attackers are becoming cleverer and their attacks more complex. In order to keep up with the latest attack methods, one must have a strong desire to learn, the support of others, and the opportunity to practice and build experience. SANS SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking engages attendees with in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. This course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit, and shows penetration testers how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws.
SANS SEC660 Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking starts off by introducing advanced penetration concepts, and an overview to help prepare students for what lies ahead. The focus of day one is on network attacks, an area often left untouched by testers. Topics include accessing, manipulating, and exploiting the network. Attacks are performed against NAC, VLANs, OSPF, 802.1X, CDP, IPv6, VOIP, SSL, ARP, SNMP, and others. Day two starts off with a technical module on performing penetration testing against various cryptographic implementations. The rest of the day is spent on network booting attacks, escaping Linux restricted environments such as chroot, and escaping Windows restricted desktop environments. Day three jumps into an introduction of Python for penetration testing, Scapy for packet crafting, product security testing, network and application fuzzing, and code coverage techniques. Days four and five are spent exploiting programs on the Linux and Windows operating systems. You will learn to identify privileged programs, redirect the execution of code, reverse-engineering programs to locate vulnerable code, obtain code execution for administrative shell access, and defeat modern operating system controls such as ASLR, canaries, and DEP using Return Oriented Programming (ROP) and other techniques. Local and remote exploits, as well as client-side exploitation techniques are covered. The final course day is dedicated to numerous penetration testing challenges requiring you to solve complex problems and capture flags.
When SEC660 is offered at conference, the course will have extended bootcamp hours on Days 1-5. Please refer to the event schedule for exact times.
Course Syllabus
SEC660.1: Network Attacks for Penetration Testers
Stephen Sims
Mon Apr 7th, 2014
Day one serves as an advanced network attack module, building on knowledge gained from SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. The focus for day two will be on obtaining access to the network; manipulating the network to gain an attack position for eavesdropping and attacks, and for exploiting network devices; leveraging weaknesses in network infrastructure; and taking advantage of client frailty.
The first part of day two focuses on exploiting and bypassing network access control (NAC) as well as techniques for exploiting common weaknesses in IEEE 802.1X authentication and the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). We also examine multiple techniques for VLAN manipulation and VLAN hopping attacks with multiple lab exercises to reinforce these topics. This section is concluded with IPv6 for penetration testers!
We continue by examining techniques for manipulating networks, taking advantage of man-in-the-middle attack opportunities against multiple protocols including (e.g., ARP, HSRP, VRRP) and internal routing protocols, including OSPF. We also discuss custom network protocol manipulation and demonstrate how to modify the behavior of common protocols to an attacker's advantage using various tools and lab exercises.
Once we've examined techniques to gain access to and manipulate the network, we look at network exploit techniques. We examine practical attacks against common network protocols, such as SNMP, with a focus on Cisco SNMP attacks as well as attacks against client systems and software updates. We also look at techniques to bypass strong security controls achieved through encryption technologies, such as SSL.
CPE/CMU Credits: 8
- Bypassing network admission control
- Impersonating devices with admission control policy exceptions
- Exploiting EAP-MD5 authentication
- Custom network protocol manipulation with Ettercap and custom filters
- Multiple techniques for gaining man-in-the-middle network access
- IPv6 for penetration testers
- Exploiting OSPF authentication to inject malicious routing updates
- Using Evilgrade to attack software updates
- Overcoming SSL transport encryption security with Sslstrip
- Remote Cisco router configuration File file retrieval
SEC660.2: Crypto, Network Booting Attacks, and Escaping Restricted Environments
Stephen Sims
Tue Apr 8th, 2014
Day two starts by taking a tactical look at techniques penetration testers can use to investigate and exploit common cryptography mistakes. We begin by building some fundamental knowledge on how ciphers operate without getting bogged down in complex mathematics, and then we move on to techniques for identifying, assessing, and attacking real-world crypto implementations. We finish the module with lab exercises that allow you to practice your newfound crypto attack skill set against reproduced real-world application vulnerabilities.
The day continues with advanced techniques but focuses more on attacking hosts by abusing environment features. We manipulate pre-booting environments to deliver bootable payloads to the host. The booting exercise demonstrates stealing drive contents remotely.
We continue leveraging situational context to escape restricted environments. First we will build up knowledge of local restrictions on hosts. Once we establish a set of possible restrictions, we leverage that knowledge to circumvent them. We will escape a typical situation: a Linux chroot environment isolating a vulnerable application from the rest of the host. Using these skills, we get a better foothold to continue our attack from.
Then we take on restricted desktops in Windows. We will cover the core components that restrict the desktop and a variety of escape possibilities. The Windows escape exercise is a perfect, real-world demonstration of the risks of relying on obfuscation and blacklisting to thwart attacks.
The day ends with a challenging boot camp exercise against a full network environment comprised of a variety of modern, representative, and fully patched systems with no weak passwords to be found anywhere.
CPE/CMU Credits: 8
SEC660.3: Python, Scapy, and Fuzzing
Stephen Sims
Wed Apr 9th, 2014
Day three brings together multiple skill sets needed for creative analysis in penetration testing. We start with discussing product security testing. The day continues with a focus on how to leverage Python as a penetration tester. It is designed to help people unfamiliar with Python start modifying scripts to add their own functionality while helping seasoned Python scripters improve their skills. Once we leverage the Python skills in creative lab exercises, we move on to leveraging Scapy for custom network targeting and protocol manipulation. Using Scapy, we examine techniques for transmitting and receiving network traffic beyond what canned tools can accomplish, including IPv6.
We continue by discussing the techniques and the philosophy used for penetration testing against products, proprietary applications, and commercial products are also discussed. The focus throughout the course is centered on how advanced penetration testing techniques and exploitation can be used to perform comprehensive assessments that go far beyond typical penetration tests. Next, we take a look at network protocol and file format fuzzing. We leverage fuzzing to target both common network protocols and popular file formats for bug discovery. In class we develop custom protocol fuzzing grammars to discover bugs in popular software with hands-on lab exercises. Finally, we carefully discuss the concept of code coverage and how it ties hand-and-hand with fuzzing. A lab is performed using the Paimei Reverse Engineering Framework and IDA Pro to demonstrate the techniques discussed.
CPE/CMU Credits: 8
- Becoming familiar with Python types
- Leveraging Python modules for real-world pen tester tasks
- Manipulating stateful protocols with Scapy
- Using Scapy to create a custom wireless data leakage tool
- Product security testing
- Using Taof for quick protocol mutation fuzzing
- Optimizing your fuzzing time with smart target selection
- Automating target monitoring while fuzzing with Sulley
- Leveraging Microsoft Word macros for fuzzing .docx files
- Block-based code coverage techniques using Paimei
SEC660.4: Exploiting Linux for Penetration Testers
Stephen Sims
Thu Apr 10th, 2014
Day Four begins by walking through memory from an exploitation perspective as well as introducing x86 assembler and linking and loading. These topics are important to understand for anyone performing penetration testing at an advanced level. Processor registers are directly manipulated by testers and must be intimately understood. Disassembly is a critical piece of testing and will be used throughout the remainder of the course. We will take a look at the Linux OS from an exploitation perspective and discuss the topic of privilege escalation. We continue by describing how to look for SUID programs and other likely points of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. The material will focus on techniques that are critical to performing penetration testing on Linux applications.
The next section goes heavily into stack overflows on Linux to gain privilege escalation and code execution. We'll first cover using a debugger to expose weak passwords. Then we'll go over redirection of program execution and, finally, code execution. Techniques such as return to buffer and return to C library will be covered, as well as an introduction to Return Oriented Programming (ROP). The remainder of the day takes students through techniques used to defeat or bypass system OS protections such as stack canaries and address space layout randomization (ASLR). The goal of this section is to expose students to common obstacles on modern Linux-based systems.
CPE/CMU Credits: 8
- Stack and dynamic memory management and allocation on the Linux OS
- Disassembling a binary and analyzing x86 assembly code
- Performing symbol resolution on the Linux OS
- Identifying vulnerable programs
- Code execution redirection and memory leaks
- Identifying and analyzing stack-based overflows on the Linux OS
- Performing return-to-libc (ret2libc) attacks on the stack
- Return Oriented Programming (ROP)
- Defeating stack protection on the Linux OS
- Defeating ASLR on the Linux OS
SEC660.5: Exploiting Windows for Penetration Testers
Stephen Sims
Fri Apr 11th, 2014
On day five we start off with covering the OS security features (ALSR, DEP, etc.) added to the Windows OS over the years as well as Windows specific constructs, such as the process environment block (PEB), structured exception handling (SEH), thread information block (TIB), and the Windows API. Differences between Linux and Windows will be covered. These topics are critical in assessing Windows-based applications. We then focus on stack-based attacks against programs running on the Windows OS. We look at fuzzing skills, which are required to test remote services such as TFTP and FTP for faults. Once a fault is discovered, the student will work with Immunity Debugger to turn the fault into an opportunity for code execution and privilege escalation. The student will learn how to take a discovered exploit and port it over as a Metasploit module. Advanced stack-based attacks, such as disabling data execution prevention (DEP) and heap spraying for browser-based applications, are covered. Client-side exploitation will be introduced, as it is a highly common area of attack. A continuation on Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) is performed demonstrating the technique against a vulnerable application, while looking at defeating hardware DEP and ASLR on Windows. Next, a module on porting over an exploit into the Metasploit Framework is covered, and how to quickly identify bad characters in your shellcode and as input into a program. An introduction to Windows Heap overflows rounds out the end of the day. Finally, we'll take a quick look at shellcode and the differences between shellcode on Linux and Windows.
CPE/CMU Credits: 8
- The state of Windows OS protections on XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003 and 2008
- Understanding common Windows constructs
- Stack exploitation on Windows
- Defeating OS protections added to Windows
- Dynamic and static fuzzing on Windows applications or processes
- Creating a Metasploit Module
- Advanced stack-smashing on Windows
- Return Oriented Programming (ROP)
- Windows 7 and Windows 8
- Porting Metasploit Modules
- Client-side exploitation
- Windows and Linux shellcode
SEC660.6: Capture the Flag
Stephen Sims
Sat Apr 12th, 2014
This day will serve as a real-world challenge for students, requiring them to utilize skills obtained throughout the course, think outside the box, and solve simple to complex problems. A web server scoring system and CTF engine will be provided to score students as they capture flags. More difficult challenges will be worth more points. In this offensive exercise, challenges range from local privilege escalation to remote exploitation on both Linux and Windows systems as well as networking attacks and other challenges related to the course material.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Additional Information
Laptop Required
You will use VMware to run multiple operating systems when performing class exercises. Linux VM's with all necessary tools will be provided on a DVD on the first day.
You must bring your own Virtual Machine image of Windows XP SP2 or XP SP3. This must be a base install with no updates applied. Windows 7 is also recommended, but not required.
Tools needed for Windows will be issued in class. Ensure that you have the administrative ability to disable all security software and protection, including antivirus and personal firewalls. You will not be able to complete the exercises without this level of control. Also ensure that you can install software that may be blocked by administrative or security controls due to their nature. You will be installing various debuggers and vulnerable applications onto the VM's.
You must have VMware Workstation installed on your system prior to class beginning. You need to use at least VMware Workstation Version 6 to support the VM's that will be distributed in class. If you do not own a licensed copy of VMware, you can download a free 30-day trial copy from www.vmware.com. VMware will send you a time-limited serial number if you register for the trial at their Web site. You may also use VMware Player; however, there are limitations such as the inability to take snapshots. If you choose to use VMware player, you must use at least version 2.5.1.
Attention Mac Users: VMware Fusion will work with the majority of the exercises for SEC660 on Mac OSX; however, there is the potential for some serious issues with networking over bridged connections. You may experience some of these issues which could inhibit your ability to complete some of the labs. VirtualBox, version 4.2.4 or later, is recommended as the optimal way to complete the exercises on Mac OSX with the SANS SEC660 course. You must be running OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" or newer. If you elect to stay with Fusion, please be prepared for the possibility of experiencing more difficulty in lab set up than using VMware Workstation on a PC. You will need to map function keys such as F7 and F9 through any virtualization application on OSX in order to perform debugging. It is strongly recommended that you bring a USB Ethernet LAN adapter since you will not have the ability to natively boot your Mac using BackTrack. Please verify that you are able to use the external adapter with your Mac while having Backtrack running in a virtual machine.
Mandatory Laptop Hardware Requirements
- PIII 1Ghz CPU Minimum / M Series 1.5 GHz or higher is recommended
- DVD/CD Combo Drive
- 2 Gigabytes of RAM minimum, 3 Gigabytes or more is highly recommended
- 40 Gigabyte Hard Drive minimum (HARD DRIVE SIZE IS CRITICAL)
- 30 Gigabytes of Free Space on your Hard Drive
- Download and install 7-Zip for free at: http://www.7-zip.org/
- Bring your INSTALLATION CD-ROMS or DVDs to the course
- Ensure that you have administrative access over your system
- Verify that your processor architecture supports your VMware version. Do not wait until the day of class.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Network and Systems Penetration Testers - SEC660 gives penetration testers the training needed to perform advanced penetration testing against known or unknown applications, services, and network systems. SEC660 gives students the expertise to perform complex attacks and develop their own exploits for existing and new frameworks.
- Incident Handlers - SEC660 gives incident handlers the knowledge needed to understand advanced threats. Often, a handler is tasked with determining the threat level associated with an attack. The ability to understand advanced attack techniques and analyze exploit code can help a handler identify, detect, respond to an incident.
- Application Developers - SEC660 teaches developers the ramifications of poor coding. Often, a developer or code reviewer is required to clearly demonstrate the threat and impact of a coding error. SEC660 provides developers with the knowledge to create proof-of-concept exploit code and document their findings.
- IDS Engineers - SEC660 teaches IDS professionals how to analyze exploit code and identify weaknesses. This knowledge can be used to write better IDS signatures and understand the impact of an alert.
This is a fast-paced, advanced course that requires a strong desire to learn advanced penetration testing and custom exploitation techniques. SANS courses such as SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling, SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, and SEC610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques are recommended prior to or as a companion to taking this course. Experience with programming in any language is highly recommended. At a minimum, students are advised to read up on basic programming concepts. Python is the primary language used during class exercises, while programs written in C and C++ code are the primary languages being reversed and exploited. The basics of programming will not be covered in this course; however, there is an introductory module on Python. You should be well versed with the fundamentals of penetration testing prior to taking this course. Familiarity with Linux and Windows is mandatory. A solid understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts is required. Please contact the author at email@example.com if you have any questions or concerns around pre-requisites.
Other Courses People Have Taken
This course is appropriate for alumni of the following course:
- SEC560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
- SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling
- SEC617: Wireless Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, and Defenses
- SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
- FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
- FOR508: Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response
- SEC580: Metasploit Kung Fu for Enterprise Pen Testing
- SEC575: Mobile Device Security and Ethical Hacking
You Will Be Able To
- Perform fuzz testing to enhance your company's SDL process
- Exploit network devices and assess network application protocols
- Escape from restricted environments on Linux and Windows
- Test cryptographic implementations
- Model the techniques used by attackers to perform 0-day vulnerability discovery and exploit development
- Develop more accurate quantitative and qualitative risk assessments through validation
- Demonstrate the needs and effects of leveraging modern exploit mitigation controls
- Reverse engineer vulnerable code to write custom exploits
Press & Reviews
"For the first time ever, I actually understand assembly. Excellent lesson." - Alexaner Cobblah, Booz Allen Hamilton
"Sec 660 has been nothing less than excellent. Both the instructor and assistant are subject matter experts who have extensive knowledge covering all aspects of the topics covered and then some." - Brian Anderson, Northrop Grumman Corporation
"Most comprehensive coverage of fuzzing - I would have signed up for the course for that alone." - Adam Kliarsky, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
"No frills and goes right to the point. 1st day alone is what other classes spend a full week on." - Michael Isbitski, Verizon Wireless
Great preparation for students planning on taking the following courses:
SEC710 Advanced Exploit Development
Author Statement
As a perpetual student of information security, I am excited to offer this course on advanced penetration testing. Often, when conducting an in-depth penetration test, we are faced with situations that require unique or complex solutions to successfully pull off an attack, mimicking the activities of increasingly sophisticated real-world attackers. Without the skills to do so, you may miss a major vulnerability or not properly assess its business impact. Target system personnel are relying on you to tell them whether or not an environment is secured. Attackers are almost always one step ahead and are relying on our nature to become complacent with controls we work so hard to deploy. This course was written to keep you from making mistakes others have made, teach you cutting edge tricks to thoroughly evaluate a target, and provide you with the skills to jump into exploit development. Contact me at email@example.com if you have any questions about the course!
- Stephen Sims


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Every square meter is so densely populated that it's impossible to remain anonymous.
Walking through Cairo I never get the chance to be alone. Whenever I come to a halt I'm caught up in small networks of coffee houses, laundries and shops. Every square meter is so densely populated that it's impossible to remain anonymous. Western cities like Amsterdam, New York or Berlin are divided into individuals. A Third World city like Cairo works differently. Here it's the groups of families and working relationships that rule the streets, all small villages with the coffee house as the connecting center. Cairo is a friendly city. Wherever I stop I'm welcomed with open arms. Everyone looks at you and feels for you. Everything always has somebody's name on it. If this city were a sea, then every ripple on its surface, every wave, would be populated by thousands of people who would call it home.

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text: Share: October 12, 2008 | by Catherine O'Reilly Climate Change, Environmental Policy Last year, we received certificates that featured attractive artwork, Alfred Nobel's name, and the King of Norway's signature. No, we didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. But in 2007, our scientific contributions did help Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win theirs.Al Gore's efforts to increase climate change awareness have been relentless; most of us are familiar with his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." The International Panel on Climate Change is less of a household name. It was formed by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide decision makers with an objective source of information about climate change.The panel consists of hundreds of scientists from around the world. They are tasked with assessing: Whether the Earth's climate is changing and, if so, why. What effects rapid climate change will have on natural and human ecosystems. What options and adaptations we can take to mitigate these effects. Your neighbors at the Cary Institute and Bard College have played a role in this process.In the words of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, we were thanked for our "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."Our certificates are a reminder that strong scientific recommendations (in this case, on climate change) are built on research provided by large groups of scientists that engage in the peer-review process. The panel's report is based on published data amassed by more than 4,000 global change experts. Hundreds of International Panel on Climate Change scientists worked in collaboration to distill this information into objective and balanced reports about climate change.These reports provide the data behind Al Gore's advocacy: the Earth is warming and our fossil fuel dependency is at the heart of the problem. They also illustrate several important aspects about science.First, and foremost, they highlight the fact science is an open, community process. Individuals pose ideas and hypotheses, test them with experiments, and then share their results and conclusions with colleagues in open meetings and publications. Other scientists can then test these conclusions by repeating the experiments and/or by doing other experiments.Over time, a scientific consensus builds up as numerous investigators conduct numerous experiments and come to the same conclusion. And so it is with climate change. Thousands of scientists conducting thousands of experiments have come to the same conclusion: the world's climate is changing because of human activities.So why is climate change still a controversial topic? The short answer is lots of people make their living from the extraction, sale and use of the fossil fuels that cause climate change. The scientists who participated in the panel reports did so without monetary incentive. It was done to make objective findings available to decision makers, to provide a unified voice about an issue that was politically unpopular.In the media, a handful of paid skeptics challenge the validity of climate change. It's important to remember their view is very much in the minority. When you are trying to decide where you stand on the issue, keep in mind the International Panel on Climate Change's findings were based on an open process with no vested interests and thousands of pieces of evidence.When the panel was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an important message was sent to society about the value of the scientific process and reality of climate change. For the sake of future generations, the panel's report needs to be taken seriously by both politicians and citizens. We were honored to be part of the process. Share: Feature Local scientists aided Nobel-winning panel › October 12, 2008


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It takes more than a village {hellip}
It takes more than a village for youths from America's barrios and ghettos to attend elite universities. It also takes great teachers and government-funded, college-prep programs catered specifically to historically disadvantaged students. I know, because I benefited from both.
Growing up on welfare in a poor village - East Los Angeles' Ramona Gardens housing project - I am well aware of the obstacles young people from the inner city confront on a daily basis. In addition to attending overcrowded public schools, these youths must cope with living in blighted environments plagued with abject poverty, institutional racism, low educational attainment levels, high gang activity and drug addiction, along with rampant police abuse.
Despite these tremendous obstacles, my Mexican immigrant parents managed to send four of their eight children to elite universities. In my case, if not for the support of my late parents, key teachers, college-prep programs and, today, my wife Antonia, I would not have received my bachelor's and master's degrees from UCLA, nor been accepted into a UC Berkeley Ph.D. program.
From Day One, I had to maneuver a broken public school system that put up roadblocks throughout my academic journey. Despite excelling in mathematics, for instance, when it came to reading and writing at the university level, the public school system - Los Angeles Unified School District - failed me.
How in the world can a kid from the projects, who was only assigned one book, John Steinbeck's "The Pearl," and one two-page essay in high school, compete with privileged kids from the suburbs? To compensate, as a math major at UCLA, I literally taught myself how to read and write at the university level to compete on equal terms with America's brightest students.
I've been very successful in my academic career, and I owe much of my scholarly accomplishments to key teachers and my participation in Upward Bound at Occidental College. While Ms. Cher at Murchison Elementary School motivated me in school, Upward Bound - a summer residential, college-prep program for historically disadvantaged students - provided me with a college-oriented path that escaped most of my childhood friends.
Always cheery, Ms. Cher, who had hair like actress Lucille Ball, helped foster my mathematical skills. Once I had exhausted the assigned sixth-grade math books, she took the extra time to teach me algebra using an old middle-school text. She also took me, along with other class members, on a field trip to her Big Bear cabin, providing us with a rare opportunity to see a world beyond the railroad tracks, freeways and polluting factories surrounding our neighborhood.
Attending Oxy during the summers of my high school years allowed me to take college-prep courses not offered at my public high school. The college teachers and staff created a rigorous and supportive academic environment for us all to excel.
While by no means a scientific study, my story is an example of how it takes more than a village for someone from the inner city to attend elite universities like UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Alvaro Huerta is a graduate student in UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning.


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Decline of a Species
In 1941, the entire population of whooping cranes consisted of 21 birds. Many believed the species would become extinct. It did not. The recovery of the whooping crane has become a conservation success story. The species is no longer near extinction but the recovery story spans the better part of a century and will continue long into the future.
The historical range of the whooping crane reached from the Arctic coast to central Mexico. They occupied territory from New Jersey in the east to Utah in the west. During the 19th and 20th centuries, major nesting areas were found in the northern Midwestern states. Wintering grounds included the entire Gulf Coast between Louisiana and the Rio Grande delta in northeastern Mexico. During the 1800s, there was both a western migration route between Louisiana and the Canadian breeding areas and an eastern route that took birds through the Appalachians to the Atlantic Coast before reaching their nesting grounds near Hudson Bay, Canada.
By the mid-19th century, many decades had passed since the whooping crane had been seen on the Atlantic seaboard. The population was estimated to be around 1,300 birds in the 1860s, which declined to approximately 600 individuals by 1870. Between 1890 and 1910 a rapid decline occurred in Midwest migration numbers and on the Louisiana wintering grounds.
By 1941, only 21 birds, in two breeding populations, remained. Six birds remained in a non-migratory colony in southwestern Louisiana. However, no documented reproduction occurred in this colony after 1939, and the population ceased to exist in 1950. The other breeding colony nested in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas and by 1941, reached an all-time population low of 16 individuals. The main cause of this devastating population decline was habitat loss due to wetland drainage, conversion of grassland to agricultural fields and hunting.
Many people had lost hope that this species could persist in the wild. However, a small group of scientists and conservationists made it their mission to save the whooping crane and over the last 60 years, the recovery effort has brought this species back from the brink of extinction
Whooping Cranes Were Here…History of Whooping Cranes in Louisiana
- 1890's. Records indicate "large numbers" of both whooping cranes and sandhill cranes on wet prairies year-round and whooping cranes also used coastal locations in winter.
- 1890's-1920. Conversion of prairies to mechanized agriculture leads to both whooping and sandhill crane numbers declining in the prairie region.
- 1918. 12 whooping cranes shot north of Sweet Lake. Last official record of whooping cranes on the Louisiana prairies.
- 1930's. Trappers report whooping crane nesting activity and young in the freshwater marshes north of White Lake.
- May 1939. Biologist John J. Lynch (U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey (pre USFWS)) sights 13 whooping cranes north of White Lake. Two of the cranes are "young-of-the-year." This record confirms a resident colony of breeding whooping cranes in Louisiana. This is the last record of the species breeding in the wild in the United States prior to experimental and captive-raised whooping cranes hatching several eggs and fledging chicks starting in 2000 and 2002, respectively.
- Late 1930's-early 1940's. Last records of wintering whooping cranes on southwest Louisiana's chenier ridges and in brackish and saltwater marshes near the coast.
- August 1940. Hurricane and flood from associated rainfall scatters the resident White Lake whooping cranes. Only 6 cranes return.
- November 1941. One of the "lost" cranes of White Lake is found in Evangeline Parish after the storm. She is captured and donated to the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans. The bird is named "Josephine;" for many years, she was the only breeding female whooping crane in captivity.
- 1941-1945. White Lake whooping crane flock loses 1 bird each year...only 2 cranes remain in 1945.
- 1947. Only 1 whooping crane remains at White Lake.
- March 1950. John J Lynch and others chase and capture the lone White Lake crane, which is transported to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
- February 2011. Nonessential, experimental population established at White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area.
*Based on Louisiana whooping crane chronology compiled by Dr. Gay Gomez, McNeese State University.
Whooping Crane Facts
Grus americana
- Are the tallest North American bird. Males can reach up to 5 feet.
- Have a wingspan of up to 7 feet.
- Are all white except for black feathers on the tips of their wings; and have dark olive-gray bills, which lighten in color during breeding season.
- Are cinnamon brown when immature and take on a mottled appearance as their white feather bases begin to extend.
- Live approximately 22 to 24 years in the wild.
- Are omnivorous. Summer forage includes frogs, fish, rodents, small birds and berries. Winter feeding centers on blue crabs and clams.
- Form life-long, monogamous pairs, though they will re-pair after the death of mate.
- Make a spring migration to Wood Buffalo National Park in Saskatchewan, Canada. They occupy approximately the same area within the breeding territory each year.
- Share parental duties, such as egg incubation and brood-rearing.
- Begin an autumn migration in September and reach their Texas Gulf Coast destination by late October or early November.
Today about 400 whooping cranes survive in three populations in the wild. There are about 150 individuals in captivity.


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Fallout casemods for the Xbox 360 are great, but you can do so much more with a PC.
Reader Ryan passed this along when he saw the Xbox 360 mod we posted the other day, saying he thought we'd be interested in it. Well yes, Ryan, we are interested in it.


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Consider the problem description below:
John proposed an algorithm balancedBracketsByCounting(String s), as follows, that takes a string
as an input and checks whether the brackets \[" and \]" in the string are matched correctly. He
claimed that his algorithm is correct. For example, balancedBracketsByCounting("[x][[xy]]")
would return true but balancedBracketsByCounting("[[x[y]]") would return false.
This is John's algorithm:
Study carefully John's algorithm andboolean balancedBracesByCounting(String s) { numOfLeftBracketRound = 0; numOfRightBracketRound = 0 numOfLeftBracketSquare = 0; numOfRightBracketSquare = 0 balanced = true while (not at the end of the s) { if (the next character is an open bracket '(' { numOfLeftBracketRound++ } else if (the next character is an open bracket '[') { numOfLeftBracketSquare++ else if (the next character is a close bracket ')' { numOfRightBracketRound- - } else if (the next character is a close bracket ']') { numOfRightBracketSquare- - } } return {(noOfLeftBracketRound==noOfRightBracketRound) and (noOfLeftBracketSquare==noOfRightBracketSquare)} }
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awed case in which, with the aid of an example of input, the algorithm may
return a true for a wrong match.
3. Identify as many errors or weaknesses as possible in John's algorithm, and correct or improve
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Our transsexual founder Stephanie Anne Lloyd has not had an easy life. She was born in 1946 as Keith Michael Hull to parents who were Jehovah's Witnesses so nothing about her life was easy.
After pouring herself into a career she made it as a man all the way up to director of a UK FTSE 100 company with 6,000 employees. She seemed to have it all, a beautiful wife, 3 children, big house, luxury lifestyle yet the nagging from her inner self led to her giving it all up. Stephanie is a true transsexual who could only fight the inevitable for so long. Her stark choice – suicide or admit she was a male to female transsexual & undergo hormone therapy & gender reassignment surgery
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The rebirth of Lara Croft, simply known as Tomb Raider, may be the prettiest entry yet—even if Lara herself looks like she's gone through hell.
If you haven't already seen what the new Tomb Raider looks like in the pages of Game Informer magazine, the outlet has published a big gallery of screen shots, concept art and renders of Crystal Dynamics' next game. They're worth ogling, especially if you like your Lara Croft muddied, beat up and/or tied up.
There's no date yet for the forthcoming action adventure for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
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Doing Qualitative Research
SAGE, 24 aug. 1999 - 406 pagina's
Popular in its first edition for its clear delineation of the issues and the way it prepared readers for Doing Qualitative Research, particularly in health settings, this new second edition will show readers new ways of knowing, how to ask questions at multiple system levels (from global to family to the cell) and the incursive interaction between these levels, and ways to expand existing research approaches. New to this edition is more on various collection methods as well as more detail on the interpretive process. Chapters are written by a gifted researchers, many of whom are also clinicians, who define their topic, reveal themselves and the context of their discussion, define the key themes and processes, provide interesting descriptive examples, explore theory, recognize the importance of culture, and share their excitement of discovery. Organized to follow the structure of the qualitative research process, the book begins with an overview of how to decide what methods to use based on aims, objectives, questions, and paradigms of knowing. New, sampling issues and options are highlighted followed by comprehensive coverage of such topics as participant observation, key information interviewing, depth interviews, focus groups, the interpretive process, detailed descriptions of actual analyses using different analysis organizing styles, and the use of computer software for qualitative data management that includes a detailed demonstration of two particular programs, NUD*IST and FolioViews. The last sections of the book covers specific qualitative designs that are relevant to primary care research, a summary of our present understandings concerning standards in qualitative research, and the role of qualitative research in the future of primary care research.
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A Multimethod Typology and Qualitative Roadmap
Data Collection Strategies
Chapter 2 Sampling in Qualitative Inquiry
Chapter 3 Participant Observation
Chapter 4 Key Informant Interviews
Chapter 5 Depth Interviewing
Chapter 6 The Use of Focus Groups in Clinical Research
Strategies of Analysis
Chapter 13 Using Videotapes in Qualitative Research
Chapter 14 An Armchair Adventure in Case Study Research
Chapter 15 Participatory Inquiry
Part V Putting It All Together
A Case Study Approach
Studying What Makes a Difference
Part VI summary
Chapter 18 Standards of Qualitative Research
Chapter 7 The Dance of Interpretation
Chapter 8 A Grounded Hermeneutic Editing Approach
A Template Organizing Style of Interpretation
Chapter 10 ImmersionCrystallization
Chapter 11 Data Management and Interpretation Using Computers to Assist
Part IV Special Designs
Chapter 12 Narrative Approaches to Qualitative Research in Primary Care
Perspectives on the Future
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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3 new Greek opinion polls show conservative New Democracy slightly ahead of leftist SYRIZA
ATHENS, Greece – Three opinion polls, to be published in Greek Sunday papers, show conservative New Democracy, the main coalition government partner, slightly ahead of the opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA).
The polls in Sunday papers To Vima, Proto Thema and Real News show New Democracy with between 21.5-23.1 percent, compared to 20.2-22 percent for SYRIZA. New Democracy's leads are below 2 percent but confirm a recent trend in favor of the party.
The government recently backed more spending cuts and tax rises to get more bailout funds from international creditors. SYRIZA opposes the austerity but says it supports Greece's membership of the euro.
Extreme right Golden Dawn is third in the polls with between 8.4-10.5 percent.
All three surveys had a sample of around 1,000 and error margins of around 3 percent.


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New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is apologizing after a voter used a gay slur to refer to his opponent, Christine Quinn, who is a lesbian.
In the encounter observed by the Washington Post, Weiner was campaigning and asked a woman if she was a registered Democrat.
"I am," she said. "And I'm not voting for uh, what's her name? The dyke."
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Weiner said, "OK. I just need you to sign the petition to get me on the ballot."
According to the Post, Weiner then noticed a reporter's incredulous reaction and added "and really, you shouldn't talk that way about people."
After she apologized, according to the Post, he said "that's OK. It's not your fault."
Weiner's campaign spokeswoman tweeted an apologetic statement from him Thursday, saying "homophobia is vile and destructive."
"I admonished the woman amid a large crowd on a street corner and by no means believe that anything about her comment was appropriate," he said. "If the impression is that I did, I apologize because behavior like this will absolutely not be tolerated in my administration."
Quinn told reporters Friday that Weiner had called her and "clarified the interaction."
"I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city -- the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born -- that that type of language cannot be tolerated," she said. "And I was grateful for him to call and clarify that."


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The Kroger "Kids Come First" campaign runs now through June 22, 2013. Customers at all central Ohio and Ohio Valley Kroger grocery check-outs will have the opportunity to purchase a paper bear for $1 (or donate more) with every dollar raised benefitting Nationwide Children's Hospital.
In partnership with the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance, at participating local Kroger stores, customers may also purchase "Bunker," the 2013 limited edition plush bear, for $10. Customers may either take home or donate Bunker to a patient at Nationwide Children's. Proceeds from the sale of the plush bears will also benefit the hospital.
Kroger's Kids Come First campaign not only supports Nationwide Children's, but also focuses on childhood safety awareness. As part of the campaign, summer safety tip flyers for parents are available, and kids 12 and under may participate in a coloring contest for the opportunity to win prizes.
In 2012, through the Kids Come First campaign and other fundraising events, Kroger customers donated more than $400,000 for Nationwide Children's.
Kroger has been a long-time supporter and community partner of Nationwide Children's. In October 2012, a family lounge located in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at Nationwide Children's was dedicated and named in honor of Kroger to recognize the grocer's continued support of the hospital. The family lounge provides patient families respite and comfort during stressful times as their children recover from cardiothoracic surgery in nearby patient rooms.


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Still working on that hot first release.
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VERSION 1.05 The following details the list of fixes made and included in this patch. ITEMS - Removed a bad item from random treasure available in Dragon's Eye. - Fixed THAC0 reduction effect on the Amulet of Corellon Larethian. - Fixed magic resistance effect on the Shadowed Robe. - Fixed a problem with Nym not giving a dagger to the party. - Fixed an alignment problem with the +4 Life Defender. - Fixed a problem with spells being removed when unequipping the Sanctified Warhammer. - The various badges will now not decay when dropped. - Lonesome Road and other CON-raising items will no longer give a healing side effect when unequipped and then re-equipped. GENERAL - Cheats have been readded to the game. - Fixed the Ettins that don't respond in Dorn's Deep when attacked. - Fixed some display problems during the final conflict and end game. - Fixed a potential crash when killing Frost Giants. - Potential fix for a rare problem with small, unpassable areas left when monsters are killed. - Fix for doors not appearing the same on different machines during multiplayer games. - Greatly improved framerate of static steam animations. - Adjusted location of Yxunomei when leaving the level, resting, and coming back. - The shadow in Lysan's area will no longer lock the party in a cutscene mode. The shadow previously could have trouble pathing to the party. - On some systems, selecting the "Female Fighter I" sound set would not play the sounds in the game. This has been corrected. - Modification made to rest code for fatigue. - Synchronized clock between saved games and current game time. DIALOGUES - Fixed captive villagers "attacking" the party in Dragon's Eye. - Fixed a blank dialog node with Mother Eugenia. - Fixed a problem with the Undead Lieutenant in Dragon's Eye locking the party in cutscene mode. - Fixed Orrick the Gray's dialog problem when returning the Book of Mythal Theory. - Fixed a problem with a quest related to Kerish. - Fixed a minor problem with Therik's dialog. RULES - Fixed an incorrect defense adjustment given in very low Dexterity scores. - Fixed a bug in the Cleric XP table that would make them level 10 at 250,000 xp. SPELLS - Fixed a potential swap on the icon for Emotion: Hopelessness. - Fixed problem with priest spell Cloak of Fear: In some cases, it would not go away after death. - Fixed problem with wizard spell Identify: Conjurers were not able to memorize or write the spell. - Fixed a problem when casting Raise Dead on creatures that aren't dead, or on undead that cannot be raised. - Fixed a potential crash bug with Purge Invisibility. - Bards with the Identify spell memorized can now use it to identify items in the GUI. - Creatures killed within the effect of Death Fog now yield experience points.
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GOP Establishment Quashes Dissent in Party
October 3, 2014
Video exposes how the GOP fails to listen to it's own members regarding rule changes
Social Profiles
Trump & William Barr Interference In Roger Stone Sentencing
Republicans Want to Cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Trump State of the Union Lies and False Statements
Trump Greatest Economy in History Claim, Another Lie
Republicans are Lawless and Corrupt
Republicans Admit They Will Violate Their Oath to be Impartial
Conservative Republicans Call For Trump's Removal from Office
Trump & Republicans Appointing Unqualified Judges
Benefits Russia has Received from Trump Being President
Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Republican's Hypocrisy over Hillary Clinton's Private Server
Ukraine Scandal Videos
Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Massive White House Cover-Up
Republicans Block FEC Probe Of NRA's Russia Money
Trump Violations of the Emoluments Clause
Republicans are Anti-Democratic, Fascist Authoritarians
Trump Demanding Russia be Re-Included in the G7 is an Outrage
Republicans Refusing to Stop Russian Election Interference
Republican's Hypocrisy and Double Standards Exposed
Fed-Up Republicans are Quitting the Party
Mueller Report Proves Trump Obstructed Justice
Republican Discrimination Laws Against Gays / LGBT
Trump's Horrible Picks
Republicans War on Women
Consumer Protection Agency Destroyed Under Trump
Why Susan Collins Should be Voted Out of Office
Adam Schiff Calls Republicans Out
Trump's History Of Praising Dictators
Trump Sides With Dictator Over Death of Otto Warmbier
Trump Lies About Border Wall
Federal Investigations Linked to Trump
Republicans are Socialist Hypocrites
Trump Unfit to Be President
US Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump
William Barr Unfit to be Attorney General
Similarities between Trump and Richard Nixon
PROOF: Republicans are Anti-Democratic Authoritarians
Trump Refuses to do Anything About Khashoggi Murder
Fox News: The Republican Network
Trump Trails Obama in Creating Jobs
Trump and Republicans LYING about Pre-Existing Conditions
PROOF: Republicans Rigs Elections
Trump Providing Cover for Saudi Arabia over Murder of Reporter
Republicans War On The Poor
2 Presidencies & 3 Supreme Court Seats Stolen From The American People
Donors with Russian Connections Funneled Millions into GOP Campaigns
Trump Kissing Putin's Butt in Helsinki
Republicans Attempt to Destroy FBI Investigator Peter Strzok
Brett Kavanaugh Unfit for Supreme Court
People Regret Voting for Trump
No Democracy in the United States of America
Immigrant Children Taken From Parents at U.S. Border
Trump Abuse of Power
President Trump Mar-A-Lago Visits Cost More Than Russia Probe
Right-Wing Propaganda Forced on Viewers at Local TV Stations
Scott Pruitt Wasting Taxpayer Money
Republican Voter Obstruction
Republicans Block Bills to Help Military Veterans
Eisenhower: The Last Legitimate Republican President
Republicans Wasting Trillions On The Military
Trump Is A Serious Threat To U.S. National Security
Florida Republicans Refuse to Ban Assault Weapons
Consumer Protection Disappearing Under Trump and Republicans
Nunes Memo Exposed as a Partisan Hack Job
Trump has NOT Helped Keep Jobs in the United States
Trump's Threat to Democracy & Freedom of Speech
Trump's Broken Promises
Fox & Republicans Efforts to Protect Trump
Trump's Unqualified Picks Exposed
GOP Steals From the Poor & Gives to the Rich
Fox News Wants Trump-Russia Investigations Shut Down
Women Accuse Trump of Sexual Misconduct
Trump Dossier Explained
Trump Reverses Ban Against Elephant Trophy Hunting
2016 Election Rigged by Republicans using Crosscheck
Uranium One Clinton Russia Story Proven False
Republicans Believe No One is Entitled to Healthcare
Trump's EPA Run by People Who Wants to Destroy The Agency
Senate GOP Moves to Repeal Consumer Protections
Teenager Blocked From Getting Abortion by Trump Anti-abortion Extremist
Republicans Tax Cut Scam is for the Rich
Republicans Ban Disclosure of Hazardous Materials to the Public
Republicans Want to Legalize Hitting Protesters With a Car
Republicans Bought and Paid for by the Rich
Trump Wants to End Net Neutrality
Obamacare Versus Trumpcare
Trump's Broken Promises Regarding Healthcare
Republicans Propose Cuts to Vets Benefits
Republicans Plan Will Strip Health Care from Millions
Donald Trump Infrastructure Plan Scam
Republican Lunch Shaming
Right Wing Media is Destroying Our Democracy
Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey to Stop Russia Investigations
Trump Behaving Like a Authoritarian Dictator
Trump Puts Millions of Lives in South Korea at Risk
Trump's Travel Expenses Will Surpass 8 Years of Obama's
Republicans Repeal Online Privacy Protection
Are Trump Scandals Inuring Americans to Government Corruption?
Russia's Efforts to Influence the 2016 Election Exposed
Mike Flynn Wants Immunity In Exchange For Testifying
Bill Passed Allowing Internet Carriers to Sell Browsing History
Fox News Reacts to AHCA / Trump Care Loss
U.S. War on Drugs has been a Horrible Failure
Republican Appointed Judges Stack the Deck Against Citizens Rights
GOP American Health Care Act Could Cause 24 Million to Lose Insurance
Republicans Want to Keep Trump's Tax Returns Secret
Jeff Sessions Caught Lying About Russia
Responses To Trump's Speech To Congress
Republicans Responsible for High Prescription Drug Prices
Republicans are Hypocrites about State's Rights
Republican Lawmakers Face Angry Constituents At Town Halls
Steve Bannon Admits Trump's Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies
Polls Show Trump with Historically Low Approval Ratings
What Democrats Stand For
Donald Trump's Threat to Democracy
Rachel Maddow Tells Backstory of Charles Kushner Prosecution
Proof Republican Rule is Bad For Jobs & Economy
FBI SMEAR Tactics Destroyed Hillary Clinton's Campaign
Wikileaks Julian Assange Attack on Democracy
Free Legal Help to Defend Against Trump Lawsuit Threats
Mike Pence's Record
Red States Uses Welfare More Than Blue States
Republicans Lie More Than Democrats
Obama the Founder of ISIS Claim by Trump
Republicans Anti-Transgender Laws & Policies
Trump's False Claim About RNC Convention Ratings
Hillary Clinton a Criminal?
House Republicans Bill Would Make Poor School Kids Go Hungry
Republicans are Unpatriotic
Did Clarence Thomas Lie Under Oath?
North Carolina Transgender Discrimination Laws are Inhumane
Donald Trump LIED About Support for Gays / LGBT
North Carolina Republicans Legalize Transgender Discrimination
Republicans Blocking Wall Street Reform
Trump's Fundraisers Checkered Pasts
Republicans Blocked Jobs Bills
Republicans Let 9/11 First Responders Bill Expire
Donald Trump False Statements, Flip Flops and More
Republicans Responsible for Shipping American Jobs Overseas and Outsourcing
Republicans Legalize Discrimination in Mississippi
Republicans Rig 2012 Convention & Ignore Their Delegates
US News Media Engaging in Censorship
Republican who says Obama Care Saved His Life
Republicans Block Student Loan Bill
Republicans Block President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee
Infrastructure Bill Blocked by Senate Republicans
Republicans Support Tax Breaks for Companies Sending Jobs Overseas
Mitch McConnell and GOP Traitors Exposed
GOP's Plan To Steal The Ohio And National Elections
Antonin Scalia Subverted Democracy
John Kasich Exposed
Justice System for the Rich… Rigged Against Average Americans
Ted Cruz Exposed
Republicans Caught Trying To Rig An Election
Ted Cruz Lie About Reagan Freeing Hostages
Republicans Responsible for Lead Poisoning in Flint Michigan
Ben Carson Exposed
Why ALL Republicans Should Be Fired
Marco Rubio Exposed
Paul Ryan Exposed
Mistake To Let Women Vote?
Dick Cheney Exposed
Benghazi Investigations Politically Motivated
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Not a Traitor
George W. Bush & Dick Cheney: War Criminals
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Cross over our little bridge and your life will change. The quiet serenity, breath taking views and fun you have been waiting for in the mountains of Western North Carolina is here. Meet your host David who will take you to your cabin to get comfortable and then show you around our grounds. Listen to the running stream, the rustle of the leaves and hear the many varieties of birds sing. You will quickly know this is where you will make memories that will last forever.
Visit our Deck on the Creek for relaxing or a friendly card game. The picnic area, Bar-B- Grill, fire pit and play areas are ready for your family fun or a romp with your dog. Or maybe the two of you want to spend some special time together cooking out on your porch while you enjoy cocktail hour and the view. It's all here for you at our beautiful retreat in the mountains.
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David will give you some hints on the many great things to do while your here. If he can't find what you are looking for he can tell you where the local guides and mountain craftsmen can be reached. Hiking, fishing, white water rafting or tubing, the out doors are at your call. Don't forget to trust your luck at the gemstone and gold mines we are famous for. There are lovely caverns to explore, water falls and only a short trip to Grandfather Mountain. Or visit Ashville for shopping and stop at the beautiful Grove Park Inn.
We have the best of all seasons. Spring time with the colorful flowers popping up, cool nights for hiking and fly fishing at it best. Balmy summers when "the livin is easy" and the lake fishing is great. Beautiful fall where the leaves paint a picture we are known for through out the world, And Old Man winter with just enough chill to make it feel like Christmas every day. You can put on your coat and boots and head out to hunt or just hike the mountain and visit the many lakes. When you return you can build a fire in the fire pit and bring out the Hot Chocolate, Hot Toddy, Cider and S'mores.
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Wisconsin man pleads guilty in school arson
HUDSON, WI (AP) — A 25-year-old man has pleaded guilty to starting a fire at a western Wisconsin elementary school that displaced students and caused an estimated $4 million in damage.
Justin Nelson of Roberts pleaded guilty to arson of a building last Friday in St. Croix County. Court records say charges of criminal damage to property, burglary and possession of THC were dismissed.
Nelson was accused of starting a fire at St. Croix Central Elementary School in Roberts during a break-in April 30. The fire forced more than 600 students in kindergarten through fourth grade to finish the school year at a nearby Girls Scout camp.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports repairs were made over the summer, and students were back in the building for first day of school Tuesday.


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