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A Vancouver Island woman missing for more than a week has been found dead.
Twyla Roscovich's body was found Friday, according to friends who had been updating her Facebook page during this week's search.
"We are deeply saddened to inform everyone that our dear Twyla's body has been found," the posting reads. "No foul play is suspected."
Friends request that Roscovich's family's privacy be respected.
A Gofundme page is being set up for Roscovich's daughter.
"We also wish to express our heartfelt appreciation for those who took part in search efforts, as well as all of those who reached out with concern and support over the last few days," the post reads. "Twyla is so loved. This coast she loved and fought for with all of her heart is a lonelier place for her passing. She left us too soon."
Roscovich, a resident of Sointula who grew up in Campbell River, was a 38-year-old independent filmmaker and environmental activist.
She left Sointula on Sept. 6 travelling alone toward Campbell River. Her friends and family became worried after not hearing from her for over a week. She had been reported missing Sept. 12.

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Cops: 1 killed, 1 injured in Sayville multicar crash
One man was killed and a woman was seriously injured when an SUV struck at least seven cars in Sayville Sunday night, Suffolk County Police said.
Police received a 911 call about 5:15 p.m. reporting a "multicar" crash on West Main Street, police said.
A 46-year-old man driving a Chevrolet TrailBlazer west on West Main Street hit five cars, collided with an eastbound sedan and a westbound Honda Accord, then crashed into a utility pole near 290 W. Main St., police said.
The 82-year-old man driving the sedan died at the scene. Police withheld his name, pending notification of his family.
A 79-year-old woman in that car was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore and was listed in serious condition, police said Sunday night.
The Accord's driver was not injured and refused to be taken to a hospital.
The TrailBlazer's driver, whom police did not identify, was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Patchogue with nonlife-threatening injuries.
Police said the investigation continues, and no charges have been filed.
It was not immediately known if any of the occupants of the first five vehicles struck were injured.
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April 18, 2012
Women's studies professor presents at Association of Asian American Studies Conference
Submitted by Shireen Roshanravan
Shireen Roshanravan, assistant professor of women's studies, participated in the "Working Papers Session: Situating Asian American Critique: The Poetics of Resistance in Place" at the Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., April 11-14.
Roshanravan co-wrote an essay with Taiwanese scholar Jen-Feng Kuo titled "Reading the Political Navigations of Asian American Women: Methodological Interventions from the Decolonial Turn," which was circulated one month prior to the conference for comment by faculty experts on the session theme. During the session, each author received detailed feedback on their contributions from senior and junior scholars in the field of Asian American Studies.
Roshanravan and Kuo's paper centers acts of community affirmation by Chinese American women in the early twentieth century and South Asian American women of the post-1965 immigrant bourgeoisie to elaborate a decolonial feminist methodology for reading Asian American women's political resistance to histories of Western imperialism and European colonization. The paper seeks to contribute a methodological approach that can better identify the often unrecognized ways that Asian American women affirm their racial-ethnic identities. Roshanravan and Kuo collaborated across continents on this paper, writing together via Skype, for a year prior to its presentation.


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Dozens of Bernie Sanders delegates walked out of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night following Hillary Clinton's nomination for president, and many promised to leave the political party in protest.
Vincent Venditti, a Georgia delegate pledged to Sanders, said outside Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center that he considers himself a political independent effective immediately.[[388324462,C]]
Their protest and exodus is in line with what hundreds of protesters had been saying outside the convention's security perimeter. Many said Hillary Clinton's nomination as the Democratic candidate for president would prompt them to quit the party.
"They know where to find me," Venditti said, noting that he would consider returning to the party if Clinton's candidacy was abandoned.
The group held a sit-in at a tent for journalists, some with tape over their mouths. It dispersed after about an hour, but the protesters' point was made.
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The Democratic Party and their convention have been roiled by an email controversy. Hacked emails published by Wikileaks appeared to show some in the Democratic National Committee favoring Hillary Clinton, a charge leveled throughout the presidential primaries but which party leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz had denied.
But the email scandal led to her ouster on Monday — she had been supposed to gavel in the convention on Monday, but did not do so. Even Sanders was booed at an event Monday, when he told supporters it was in the country's best interest to elect Clinton president.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump "strongly condemns" a graphic and violent parody video that depicts a likeness of him shooting and stabbing opponents and members of the news media, the White House said Monday. But his press secretary said he hadn't yet watched the two-minute clip.
The video, which drew widespread condemnation, was played during a conference held by conservative supporters of the president at his Miami golf resort last week.
It depicts a gruesome scene inside a "Church of Fake News" in which a figure whose face has been replaced with an image of Trump goes on a shooting rampage, targeting a long list of political rivals, including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, former President Barack Obama and numerous news organizations.
The video, the existence of which The New York Times was first to report, was notable for its level of violence. It is part of a growing genre of pro-Trump memes that routinely earn thousands of views on sites like YouTube and Twitter. Many use superimposed faces and feature the president and his chief supporters valiantly conquering challengers or members of the media.
The one featured at the Florida conference appears to have been first posted in July 2018 on the YouTube channel "TheGeekzTeam," where it has been viewed more than 250,000 times. It uses a violent clip from the 2015 spy thriller "Kingsman: The Secret Service." In the original scene, actor Colin Firth is depicted shooting a crowd of possessed churchgoers.
TheGeekzTeam's parody of Trump in "Kingsman" was taken down for a copyright claim late Monday. An email listed for TheGeekzTeam did not respond to a request for comment.
The channel frequently posts violent parody videos of Trump playing popular movie superheroes or assassins. One depicts Trump as a comic book vigilante from the Netflix show "Daredevil" who stabs, punches and kills the superimposed faces of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, as well as CNN reporter Jim Acosta, among others.
Memes, which often feature photographs of politicians with snappy text or edited video clips, have become a highly shareable form of political communication on social media sites. While many are innocent, highlighting facts or opinion, both liberal and conservative sites have used such images to push false claims and outlandish suggestions for years.
And Trump has regularly elevated that content, sharing memes that support him or attack his opponents. The president used his Twitter pulpit in July 2017 to promote a doctored clip of a World Wrestling Entertainment bit to portray Trump tackling and repeatedly pummeling a man whose face had been obscured by the CNN logo.
Trump had yet to weigh in on the video personally by early evening, despite firing off more than a dozen tweets Monday, including one that called on his millions of supporters to vote for former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who is a contestant on the show "Dancing with the Stars."
The current White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, said in her own tweet that Trump would be viewing the video later and that, "based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns" it.
The genre has become so popular online that the American Priority conference featured a contest for meme-makers to submit their best pro-Trump images and videos to be showcased alongside talks by some of the president's high-profile backers, including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and another former press secretary, Sarah Sanders.
That contest was promoted online by a Twitter user who goes by the handle @CarpeDonktum and, as one of Trump's favored meme-makers, was among several conservative social media provocateurs invited to meet the president at the White House earlier this year.
The video of Trump slaying his political opponents was part of a loop of videos that was played in a "meme exhibit" at the Miami event, Carpe Donktum said in a statement, adding that the "Kingsman" video was "CLEARLY satirical." Carpe Donktum has declined to identify himself to the AP in the past, due to concerns for his safety. He did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
The event's organizer, Alex Phillips, distanced himself from what he called the "unauthorized video" in a statement, saying that it was shown last week "in a side room."
"This video was not approved, seen, or sanctioned" by the event's organizers, Phillips said, adding through a spokeswoman, "AMPFest condemns all violence in the strongest terms and only wants to unite Americans."
Many political meme creators insist their work is meant to be viewed as political humor — even when the images they create use hateful language, violent imagery or misinformed talking points to get their message across.
But social media comments often promote or cheer on the false or incendiary rhetoric in the memes, said Lanier Holt, an Ohio State University professor who researches political communication.
"When the person who actually created it gets busted or identified, they say, 'Oh, it's a joke,'" Holt said.
The video controversy comes as the president has increased his criticism of the news media as Democrats press ahead on their impeachment inquiry.
The fake Trump is depicted killing a series of political figures in his gruesome rampage, many of whom Trump has criticized in real life. He stabs the late Sen. John McCain, hits and stabs TV personality Rosie O'Donnell in the face and lights Sen. Bernie Sanders' head on fire. Other targets include the Black Lives Matter group, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Rep. Adam Schiff, who, as Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is a leader in the impeachment inquiry.
The video also features the fake Trump unleashing his fury on news outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, BBC, PBS, NBC and Politico. The president has derided some of those same organizations as "fake news." Trump also has labeled journalists as the "enemy of the American people."
The video was condemned by the White House Correspondents Association, which represents journalists covering the president and said it was "horrified" by the content.
"All Americans should condemn this depiction of violence directed toward journalists and the President's political opponents," said Jonathan Karl, WHCA president. "We have previously told the President his rhetoric could incite violence. Now we call on him and everybody associated with this conference to denounce this video and affirm that violence has no place in our society."
The White House News Photographers Association also released a statement, saying it "vehemently condemns this and all other depictions of violence against journalists" and asking that "the president and all others do the same."
The video features the logo for Trump's 2020 campaign, but campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said it "was not produced by the campaign, and we do not condone violence."
American Priority has branded itself as a group aimed at promoting Trump's agenda, "as well as an open and vigorous dialogue about free speech, free association and American culture," according to a press release for the event.
Supports of the president had responded with outrage in 2017 when comedian Kathy Griffin posed for a photograph holding up what was meant to look like the president's bloody, severed head.
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text: Haydn, Franz Joseph (b Rohrau, 1732; d Vienna, 1809). Austrian-born composer of pure Ger. stock. The son of a farmer-wheelwright, Haydn showed immediate mus. precocity and at the age of 5 was given into the care of a Hainburg schoolmaster called Franck, who taught him the rudiments of mus. At 8 went to Vienna as choirboy at St Stephen's. When his v. broke at 17, he lived in poverty as a teacher and became accompanist and servant to the It. composer and teacher Porpora. He worked for two aristocratic patrons in 1750s, and in 1761 was engaged as vice-Kapellmeister at Eisenstadt, Hungary, by Prince Paul Esterhбzy. Haydn remained with the Esterhбzy household for 30 years, for both Prince Paul and his successor Prince Nikolaus, who reigned from 1762 to 1790, were passionate mus.-lovers. In 1766 Nikolaus built the palace of Eszterhбza (modelled on Versailles) on the south side of the Neusiedlersee, spending the greater part of each year in this isolated home. Haydn's art benefited from this seclusion. 'There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original', he said. His duties were numerous; besides administrative work and caring for the court musicians, he cond. the orchestra, arr. and dir. operatic perfs., played in chamber mus., and produced a stream of works in many genres, incl. incidental mus. for plays, to please his patron. Haydn's fame spread from Eszterhбza throughout Austria, Ger., and It. as his syms. were pubd. Fr. edns. of his works began to appear in the 1760s and later in London. In 1785 he was commissioned by Cadiz to compose an oratorio without words on the Saviour's 7 Last Words, and by the Parisian soc. Concert de la Loge Olympique to compose 6 syms. By this time he had become friends with Mozart, for whom he had the highest admiration. Their works from this date (1781) betray mutual influence. Haydn's life at Eszterhбza ended in 1790 when Prince Nikolaus died and his successor dismissed the musicians, though leaving Haydn his salary and title. Haydn left the castle for Vienna where he accepted an invitation from the impresario J. P. Salomon to visit London. He stayed in England from 1 Jan. 1791 to the middle of 1792, being fкted, lionized, and entertained by royalty. He comp. syms. 93-98 on this visit, when he was deeply impressed by the 1791 Handel Fest. in Westminster Abbey. In July 1791 the hon. degree of D.Mus. was conferred on him by Oxford Univ. On his return to Vienna he bought a house there and accepted Beethoven as a pupil, an uneasy relationship for both great men. In 1794 he visited Eng. again, having been commissioned by Salomon to write 6 new syms. This 2nd visit lasted from Feb. 1794 to Aug. 1795 and was even more successful artistically and, especially, financially than the first. The Esterhбzy family had now reconstituted their mus. est., but Haydn comp. only for special occasions and was allowed to concentrate on his work as a composer. Between 1796 and 1802 he wrote 6 magnificent settings of the Mass. In 1797 he comp. his Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, which was adopted as Austria's nat. anthem. But his chief pre-occupation at this time was his oratorio Die Schцpfung (The Creation), f.p. privately in Vienna, 1798. This was followed by Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), f.p. 1801. From then on, Haydn's health began to fail and, though he made several more public appearances, he died during the Fr. occupation of Vienna. If Haydn's life was comparatively uneventful, his vast output of mus. is notable for the number of delights and surprises contained in almost every work. Yet though the number and magnitude of Haydn masterpieces are constantly amazing, his mus. for long failed to exert as powerful a sway over the public as that of Mozart and Beethoven. He is regarded as the 'father' of the sym. (which he was not) and of the str. qt., but some treasurable Haydn lies in his vocal mus., in his oratorios, masses, and in his operas (which are still in process of re-discovery). In all his mus. his inventive flair seems inexhaustible. He delighted in exploiting the capabilities of solo instr. and virtuoso performers, and every genre in which he worked he enlarged, extended, and re-shaped. The syms. are a remarkable example of his development of a particular form, hallmarked by deep feeling, drama, elegance, wit, and, in the final 12, a Mozartian perfection of all these qualities combined. But much the same can be said of the qts. and masses; nor should the kbd. sonatas be overlooked. The cataloguing of Haydn's works has been the object of considerable scholarship. It was begun in 1766 by Haydn himself, aided by the Esterhбzy court copyist Joseph Elssler, whose son Johann (1769-1843) later became Haydn's copyist and faithful servant. Haydn worked on this list until about 1805. Pohl prepared a MS catalogue, and for the Breitkopf and Hдrtel complete edn. Mandyczewski assembled his list of 104 syms. (omitting 3 now acknowledged as such). Modern scholarship, led by H. C. Robbins Landon, has amended this list, and a thematic catalogue has been ed. by Hoboken in which works are given Hob. nos. in the manner of Kцchel's Mozart catalogue. Haydn's works are too numerous to be listed in full detail. The following is a concise list of the prin. comps.: OPERAS: 20 were comp., some of the first being lost. The extant 15 incl. La Canterina (1766); Lo Speziale (1768); Le Pescatrici (1769); L'infedeltа delusa (1773); L'incontro improvviso (1775); Il mondo della luna (1777); La vera costanza (1777-8, rev. 1785); L'isola disabitata (1779, rev. 1802); La fedeltа premiata (1780, rev. 1782); Orlando Paladino (1782); Armida (1783); Orfeo ed Euridice (1791); also 5 puppet operas incl. Philemon und Baucis (1773) and Dido (1776). MASSES: No.1 in F (Missa brevis) (1750); No.2 in Eb (Grosse Orgelmesse) (1766); No.3 in C (St Cecilia) (1776); No.4 in G (1772); No.5 in Bb (Kleine Orgelmesse) (c.1775); No.6 in C (Mariazellermesse) (1782); No.7 in C (In tempore belli—Paukenmesse) (1796); No.8 in Bb (Heiligmesse) (1796); No.9 in D minor (Nelson) (1798); No.10 in Bb (Theresien-messe) (1799); No.11 in Bb (Schцpfungsmesse) (1801); No.12 in Bb (Harmoniemesse) (1802). Also Mass in G (c.1750). CANTATAS & ORATORIOS: Stabat Mater (1767); Applausus (1768); Il Ritorno di Tobia (1774-5); Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlцsers am Kreuz (The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, 1st version (str. qt.) 1785, choral version 1795-6); Die Schцpfung (The Creation) (1796-8); Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) (1799-1801). SYMPHONIES: Nos. 1-5 (1757); No.6 in D (Le Matin), No.7 in C (Le Midi), No.8 in G (Le Soir) (c.1761); No.9 in C (c.1762); No.10 in D (c.1761); No.11 in Eb (c.1760); No.12 in E, No.13 in D (1763); No.14 in A, No.15 in D (1764); No.16 in Bb, No.17 in F, No.18 in G, No.19 in D, No.20 in C (all before 1766, prob. 1761-2); No.21 in A, No.22 in Eb (The Philosopher), No. 23 in G, No.24 in D (1764); No.25 in C (c.1761-3); No.26 in D minor (Lamentatione) (c.1770); No.27 in G (c.1760); No.28 in A, No.29 in E, No.30 in C (Alleluia), No.31 in D (Horn Signal) (1765); No.32 in C, No.33 in C (c.1760); No.34 in D minor (c.1766); No.35 in Bb (1767); No.36 in Eb (c.1761-5); No.37 in C (c.1757); No.38 in C (Echo) (c.1766-8); No.39 in G minor (c.1768); No.40 in F (1763); No.41 in C (c.1769); No.42 in D (1771); No.43 in Eb (Merkur), No.44 in E minor (Trauer) (c.1771); No.45 in F# minor (Abschied), No.46 in B, No.47 in G (1772); No.48 in C (Maria Theresia) (c.1768-9); No.49 in F minor (La Passione) (1768); No.50 in C (1773); No.51 in Bb, No.52 in C minor (c. 1771-3); No.53 in D (L'Impйriale) (c.1780); No. 54 in G, No.55 in Eb (Der Schulmeister), No.56 in C (1774); No.57 in D (1774); No.58 in F, No.59 in A (Feuersymphonie) (c.1776-8); No.60 in C (Il Distratto) (1774); No.61 in D (1776); No.62 in D, No.63 in C (La Roxolane) (c.1780); No.64 in A (c.1775); No.65 in A (c.1771-3); No.66 in Bb, No.67 in F, No.68 in Bb, No.69 in C (Laudon) (c.1778); No.70 in D (1779); No.71 in Bb (c.1779-80); No.72 in D (c.1763-5); No.73 in D (La Chasse) (1780-1); No.74 in Eb (1780); No.75 in D (1779); No.76 in Eb, No.77 in Bb, No.78 in C minor (1782); No.79 in F, No.80 in D minor, No.81 in G (1783-4); No. 82 in C (Bear) (1786); No.83 in G minor (La Poule) (1785); No.84 in Eb (1786); No.85 in Bb (La Reine) (1785); No.86 in D (1786); No.87 in A (1785); No.88 in G, No.89 in F (c.1787); No.90 in C, No.91 in Eb (1788); No.92 in G (Oxford) (1789); No.93 in D, No.94 in G (Surprise), No.95 in C minor, No.96 in D (Miracle) (1791, London); No.97 in C (1792, London); No.98 in Bb (c.1792, London); No.99 in Eb (1793, Austria); No.100 in G (Military), No.101 in D (Clock), No.102 in Bb (1794, London); No.103 in Eb (Paukenwirbel, Drum Roll), No.104 in D (London) (1795, London). CONCERTOS: vc. in C (c.1765), in D (1783); Klavier in D (c.1784), Klavier and str. in G; hn. No.1 in D (1762), No.2 in D (c.1764); 2 hn. and str. in Eb; for lira organizzata No.1 in C, No.2 in G, No.3 in G, No.4 in F, No.5 in F (c.1786); org. conc. (1756); for tpt. in Eb (1796); for vn. No.1 in A, No.2 in C, No.3 in G (c.1765); for vn., pf., and str. in F (1766); Sinfonia Concertante in Bb for ob., bn., vn., vc. (1792). STRING QUARTETS: Op.1 (6 qts., 1760); Op.2, Nos. 7-12 (Nos. 9 and 11, with 2 hn. added) (1755-60); Op.9 (6 qts., 1771); Op.17, Nos. 25-30 (1771); Op.20, Nos. 31-6 (1772); Op.33, Nos. 37-42 (1781); Op.42, No.43 (1758); Op.50, Nos. 44-9 (c.1787); Op.51, Nos. 50-6 (1785, Seven Last Words from the Cross); Op.54, Nos. 57-9 (c.1788); Op.55, Nos. 60-2 (c.1788); Op.64, Nos. 63-8 (c.1790); Op.71, Nos. 69-71 (1793); Op.74, Nos. 72-4 (1793); Op.76, Nos. 75-80 (c.1797); Op.77, Nos. 81-2 (c.1799); Op. 103, No.83 (1802-3). KEYBOARD: 62 sonatas (c. 1761-94), Variations in F minor (1793). CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 pf. trios; 6 sonatas for klavier and vn.; fl. qts; lute qt.; divertimentos for str. trio; str. trios; 126 baryton trios; 32 pieces for mechanical clocks; and Notturnos for lira organizzata. SOLO CANTATAS: Arianna a Naxos for sop./mez. (1790); Berenice che fai (1795). VOCAL: qts. and trios (1796 and 1799); Alfred—Chorus of the Danes (1796); 12 canzonettas to Eng. words for solo v. and pf. (1794-5) incl. My mother bids me bind my hair, Spirit's Song, Piercing Eyes, She never told her love; 450 arrs. of Brit. folk-songs (1791-1805).


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CRUICKSHANK, ROBERT, silversmith, merchant, office holder, and militia officer; b. c. 1748, probably in Aberdeen, Scotland; d. at sea 16 April 1809.
The paucity of sources has led to various hypotheses about Robert Cruickshank's origins; according to the most plausible one he was born in Aberdeen, where the family name was common. Cruickshank appears to have learned the silversmith's craft in the British Isles. He may have visited the United States: an Alexander Crouckeshanks, who came from London, opened a silversmith's shop in Boston in 1768; it is conceivable that he was one of Robert's relatives and that Robert worked with him. Whatever the case, by 1773 Cruickshank was settled in Montreal. A year later he signed a petition to the king asking for the restoration of habeas corpus and trial by jury in civil suits, which had been abolished that year by the Quebec Act.
By 1782 Cruickshank was solidly established in business. He owned a house on Rue Notre-Dame, next to the former prison; his resources and the volume of his affairs made it possible to undertake building and renovation on a large scale. To his property he added a shop measuring 23 feet by 12, with an impressive "forge chimney." Thus, just as Ignace-François Delezenne* had done in 1758 and Pierre Huguet, dit Latour, would do in 1803, Cruickshank progressed from a craftsman's shop in his own house to an enterprise requiring premises separate from his private residence, in which to install a workshop and store. These three were the only silversmiths in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to make the transition. The change was not wholly fortuitous: they were forced into it by the phenomenal volume of orders for trade silver. In moving from the status of craftsman to that of bourgeois they had to provide a workshop and suitable tools for their numerous apprentices and journeymen. Their large clientele also had to have access to adequate premises – hence the store.
Judging by his partnerships with other craftsmen and the number of apprentices he took on, Cruickshank led a busy professional life. A soup-tureen in the museum of the church of Notre-Dame in Montreal, which bears the marks of Cruickshank and Jacques Varin*, dit La Pistole, suggests that the two silversmiths collaborated. In 1777–78 Cruickshank seems to have had Michael Arnoldi as an apprentice; they later became partners. The firm of Cruickshank and Arnoldi, which may have used the mark CA, was not finally dissolved until 1789. In 1790–91 Cruickshank was in contact with the silversmith Jean-Henry Lerche, whose mark JHL imitated the style of writing in the mark RC. Cruickshank seems to have gone into partnership with Peter Arnoldi around 1793–94, for a tea service in the Henry Birks Collection bears their respective marks. Cruickshank was also connected with clockmakers, jewellers, and engravers: his "good old friend" John Lumsden until 1802; Charles Irish, who had been hired in London in 1803 for a three-year period; and perhaps Charles Arnoldi, Michael's brother, who is believed to have replaced Irish. In addition to silverware, therefore, his store carried clocks, jewellery, trinkets, and hardware, and certainly included many objects imported from England. Cruickshank took on the following apprentice silversmiths in turn: Michel Roy in 1791 for six years, Frédéric Delisle in 1795 for seven years, René Blache in 1796 for four years, Peter Bohle, son of the silversmith Charles-David Bohle, in 1800 for seven years, and Narcisse Auclair in 1805 for seven years. (Auclair's apprenticeship papers were transferred to Nathan Starns, his brother-in-law and guardian, on 16 Oct. 1807.)
Cruickshank belonged to the Montreal group of silversmiths. There was a clear division between this group and the one in Quebec: the former were businessmen, the latter primarily craftsmen. The marks of François Ranvoyzé, Laurent Amiot*, and François Sasseville* belonged to craftsmen who did their own work; Cruickshank's and Huguet's can be called studio marks, because an associate, journeyman or apprentice, may have made the piece. With the Quebec silversmiths it is possible to follow the logical evolution of the craftsman's style, but study of the Montreal group becomes very complicated, since ten pieces of work bearing the same mark may have been executed by as many different silversmiths. Furthermore Cruickshank seems to have put his mark on imported objects. Nevertheless his work, which is characterized by refinement, shows greater homogeneity than does Huguet's. That was an inevitable consequence of their respective training: Cruickshank was a professional silversmith, but Huguet was a wig maker who became a silversmith overnight around 1780.
In addition to conducting his trade Cruickshank served as a banker, issuing promissory notes and lending money at interest. He proved a skilful, well-organized, meticulous administrator. Towards the end of his career he was, moreover, active mainly as a merchant. His full professional life was matched by an intense social one that gave him a place among the important people of Montreal. He made a contribution to the paving of the Place du Marché in 1785–86 and to the Agriculture Society in 1791. He held the office of justice of the peace (1795–1809) and served in the militia, first as a lieutenant (1788–97) and then as a captain (1800–9), in the town's 1st Militia Battalion. As a magistrate he signed a petition to Sir Robert Shore Milnes* for the reconstruction of the Montreal prison, burned in 1803. His name also appears on the list of founders of Christ Church in 1805 [see Jehosaphat Mountain]. Although less is known of his private life, he associated with the English-speaking élite, particularly James McGill, Edward William and Jonathan Abraham Gray, Joseph Frobisher, and Stephen Sewell*.
In August 1789 Cruickshank married Ann Kay, a widow with eight children; she died the following year. His only daughter, Elizabeth, married the merchant Arthur Webster in 1803, at which date the couple were both of age. Webster quickly won his father-in-law's confidence. Just before leaving for Great Britain in October 1807, Cruickshank left him full power of attorney to run all his business affairs "wherever they are in Upper or Lower Canada or the United States of America." The exact reasons for his trip are not known, but both business matters and his private life were probably involved. No doubt Cruickshank had to import many articles from London suppliers. During his return voyage in 1809 he died on board the Eweretta.
All of Cruickshank's estate must have gone automatically to his daughter and son-in-law; thus there was no inventory after his death, which would have been of considerable value. It may be hazarded, however, that he owned a very large business, comparable to Huguet's. In addition there were certainly numerous properties, including a piece of land bought after the Château de Vaudreuil burned in 1803. But his departure in October 1807 had already marked the end of the career of one of Lower Canada's most important silversmiths who had initiated a profound change in both the product and its marketing. He had introduced a new treatment and a new aesthetics that met with great success and enabled his production to compete with contemporary English and American work. With him the silversmith's craft in the colony had moved away from French influence into the British tradition.
ANQ-M, CE1-63, 14 Aug. 1789, 12 Dec. 1790; CN1-16, 13 déc. 1802; CN1-29, 2 Sept. 1786, 17 Feb. 1789, 11 Sept. 1795; CN1-121, 2 nov. 1796; CN1-128, 1er juin 1801, 20 déc. 1803; CN1-184, 14 Aug. 1789; CN1-185, 31 Dec. 1800; 21 Sept. 1803; 7 Jan. 1804; 4 Nov. 1805; 15 Oct. 1806; 9, 16 Oct. 1807; CN1-313, 19 avril 1782; 21 janv., 6 sept. 1791. MAC-CD, Fonds Morisset, 2, C958.8/R639. PAC, RG 8, I (C ser.), 77: 101–6a. Quebec Gazette, 14 Oct. 1784, 22 June 1809. Quebec almanac, 1791, 1795–1809. Robert Derome, Les orfèvres de la Nouvelle-France, inventaire descriptif des sources (Ottawa, 1974); "Delezenne, les orfèvres, l'orfèvrerie, 1740–1790"
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California's ongoing ban on single-use plastic carryout bags, approved by 52 percent of voters, is setting a notable precedent for other states. A coalition of environmental groups, grocers and others are collaborating, and Mark Murray, of Californians Against Waste, welcomes elimination of the 25 million plastic bags that pollute California every day, threatening wildlife.
In 2007, San Francisco first banned plastic shopping bags, setting off a movement that led nearly half the state, including its biggest cities, to do the same. Although the legislature passed a statewide ban on plastic bags two years ago, paper bags are still for sale at grocery stores and other outlets for a nominal fee.
This article appears in the March 2017 issue of Natural Awakenings.


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Otto Vermont (Buck) Brandt
August 28, 1931 ~ January 16, 2009
Otto Vermont (Buck) Brandt age 77 of Waterflow, NM went home to be with our Lord at his home on January 16, 2009, after a long courageous battle with emphysema.
Buck, known to all by his family and friends, was born August 28, 1931 in York Town, TX to Otto G. and Henrietta Brandt.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta, sons James and wife Christina, of Monticello, Anthony and wife Linda of Monticello, daughter Debra Brandt of Farmington, son Jeffery and wife Wendy of Monticello, son William and wife Jeanne Brandt of Monticello, 14 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, brother Andrew Hodge of Cuero, TX, stepson Obie and wife Carol Hilgenfeld of Moab, UT, stepdaughter Shauna O'Leary of Farmington and 3 step grandchildren.
Buck is preceded in death by his parents, wife and mother of his children, Wanda Lee Slavin Brandt, brother Charles Brandt and granddaughters Laura Lee and Tasha Lynn Brandt.
Buck graduated from high school in 1949 in Cuero, TX. He worked at a five and 10-cent store and a filing station until he went in the Army in 1952. He served two years in Korea and left the Army as a decorated corporal.
He stayed in the Army Reserve until September 1960 after returning to the US from Korea he went to work on a drilling rig and ended up in Utah, where he met and married Lee.
He went to work in the uranium mines in Utah and Arizona until it was time for the oldest son to start school in 1963. Then Buck made his home in Monticello, where he would spend all but the last six years of his life.
Buck had many jobs but loved farming the most. He retired from the Utah state Road Deptartment in 1993 and enjoyed doing farming jobs for friends and neighbors. He spent some time at the Dugout Ranch in Canyonlands farming and herding cattle.
He had a unique sense of humor and loved to tease his grandkids. He made their greatest challenge trying to beat him at dominoes.
He relocated to New Mexico with milder weather and lower altitudes, for health reasons in 2002.
He loved southern Utah and will be laid to rest next to his first wife Lee, in Lockerby Cemetery, Eastland Monticello, UT.
He will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved him Rest in peace Dad.
Buck has been entrusted to Alternative Choice, 804 North Dustin, Farmington, NM.
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LDS Women Are Incredible!
Much of what we accomplish in the Church is due to the selfless service of women.
Author and historian Wallace Stegner wrote about the Mormon migration and gathering to the Salt Lake Valley. He did not accept our faith and in many ways was critical; nevertheless, he was impressed with the devotion and heroism of our early Church members, especially the women. He stated, "Their women were incredible."1 I echo that sentiment today. Our Latter-day Saint women are incredible!
God placed within women divine qualities of strength, virtue, love, and the willingness to sacrifice to raise future generations of His spirit children.
A recent United States study asserts that women of all faiths "believe more fervently in God" and attend more religious services than men do. "By virtually every measure they are more religious."2
I was not surprised by this result, particularly as I reflected on the preeminent role of families and women in our faith. Our doctrine is clear: Women are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves them. Wives are equal to their husbands. Marriage requires a full partnership where wives and husbands work side by side to meet the needs of the family.3
We know there are many challenges for women, including those striving to live the gospel.
Heritage of Pioneer Sisters
A predominant attribute in the lives of our pioneer ancestors is the faith of the sisters. Women by divine nature have the greater gift and responsibility for home and children and nurturing there and in other settings. In light of this, the faith of the sisters in being willing to leave their homes to cross the plains for the unknown was inspiring. If one had to characterize their most significant attribute, it would be their unwavering faith in the restored gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The heroic accounts of what these pioneer women sacrificed and accomplished as they crossed the plains is a priceless legacy to the Church. I am moved by the account of Elizabeth Jackson, whose husband Aaron died after the last crossing of the Platte River with the Martin handcart company. She wrote:
"I will not attempt to describe my feelings at finding myself thus left a widow with three children, under such excruciating circumstances. … I believe … that my sufferings for the Gospel's sake will be sanctified unto me for my good. …
"I [appealed] to the Lord, … He who had promised to be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless. I appealed to him and he came to my aid."4
Elizabeth said she was writing the history on behalf of those who passed through like scenes with the hope that posterity would be willing to suffer and sacrifice all things for the kingdom of God.5
Women in the Church Today Are Strong and Valiant
I believe the women of the Church today meet that challenge and are every bit as strong and faithful. The priesthood leadership of this Church at all levels gratefully acknowledges the service, sacrifice, commitment, and contribution of the sisters.
Much of what we accomplish in the Church is due to the selfless service of women. Whether in the Church or in the home, it is a beautiful thing to see the priesthood and the Relief Society work in perfect harmony. Such a relationship is like a well-tuned orchestra, and the resulting symphony inspires all of us.
When I was recently assigned to a conference in the Mission Viejo California Stake, I was touched by an account of their four-stake New Year's Eve youth dance. Following the dance, a purse was found with no outside identification. I share with you part of what Sister Monica Sedgwick, the Young Women president in the Laguna Niguel stake, recorded: "We didn't want to pry; this was someone's personal stuff! So we gingerly opened it and grabbed the first thing that was on top—hopefully, it would identify her. It did, but in another way—it was a For the Strength of Youth pamphlet. Wow! This told us something about her. Then we reached in for the next item, a little notebook. Surely this would give us answers, but not the kind we were expecting. The first page was a list of favorite scriptures. There were five more pages of carefully written scriptures and personal notes."
The sisters immediately wanted to meet this stalwart young woman. They returned to that purse to identify its owner. They pulled out some breath mints, soap, lotion, and a brush. I loved their comments: "Oh, good things come out of her mouth; she has clean and soft hands; and she takes care of herself."
They eagerly awaited the next treasure. Out came a clever little homemade coin purse made from a cardboard juice carton, and there was some money in a zippered pocket. They exclaimed, "Ahh, she's creative and prepared!" They felt like little children on Christmas morning. What they pulled out next surprised them even more: a recipe for Black Forest chocolate cake and a note to make the cake for a friend's birthday. They almost screamed, "She's a HOMEMAKER! Thoughtful and service minded." Then, yes, finally some identification. The youth leaders said they felt greatly blessed "to observe the quiet example of a young lady living the gospel."6
This account illustrates the commitment of our young women to Church standards.7 It is also an example of caring, interested, dedicated Young Women leaders all over the world. They are incredible!
Sisters have key roles in the Church, in family life, and as individuals that are essential in Heavenly Father's plan. Many of these responsibilities do not provide economic compensation but do provide satisfaction and are eternally significant. Recently a delightful and very capable woman on a newspaper editorial board asked for a description of the role of women in the Church. It was explained that all of the leaders in our congregations are unpaid. She interrupted to say her interest had diminished significantly. She said, "I don't believe women need any more unpaid jobs."
We pointed out that the most important organization on earth is the family, where "fathers and mothers are … equal partners."8 Neither one is financially compensated, but the blessings are beyond description. We of course told her about the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary organizations that are guided by women presidents. We noted that from our earliest history both men and women pray, perform the music, give the sermons, and sing in the choir, even in sacrament meeting, our most sacred meeting.
The recent highly acclaimed book American Grace reported on women in many faiths. It noted that Latter-day Saint women are unique in being overwhelmingly satisfied with their role in Church leadership.9 Furthermore, Latter-day Saints as a whole, men and women, have the strongest attachment to their faith of any of the religions studied.10
Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offer—from marriage or lack of marriage, children's choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problems—they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently "succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees."11
One Relief Society president who acknowledged this extraordinary service said, "Even when the sisters serve, they are thinking, 'If only I could have done more!'" Though they are not perfect and all face individual struggles, their faith in a loving Father in Heaven and the assurance of the atoning sacrifice of the Savior permeates their lives.
Role of Sisters in the Church
During the last three years, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve have sought guidance, inspiration, and revelation as we have counseled with priesthood and auxiliary leaders and worked on the new Church handbooks. In this process I have experienced feelings of overwhelming appreciation for the essential role that sisters, both married and single, have historically played and now play both in the family and in the Church.
All members of the Church of Jesus Christ are "to labor in his vineyard for the salvation of the souls of men."12 "[The] work of salvation includes member missionary work, convert retention, activation of less-active members, temple and family history work, … teaching the gospel,"13 and caring for the poor and needy.14 This is administered primarily through the ward council.15
Specifically, it is intended in the new handbooks that bishops, sensitive to existing demands, will delegate more responsibilities. Members need to recognize that the bishop has been instructed to delegate. Members need to sustain and support him as he follows this counsel. This will allow the bishop to spend more time with the youth, young single adults, and his own family. He will delegate other important responsibilities to priesthood leaders, presidents of auxiliaries, and individual men and women. In the Church the role of women in the home is highly respected.16 When the mother receives a Church calling that requires significant time, the father will often be given a less-demanding calling in order to maintain balance in the lives of the family.
Several years ago I attended a stake conference in Tonga. Sunday morning the three front rows of the chapel were filled with men between 26 and 35 years of age. I assumed they were a men's choir. But when the business of the conference was conducted, each of these men, 63 in total, stood up as their names were read and were sustained for ordination to the Melchizedek Priesthood. I was both pleased and stunned.
After the session I asked President Mateaki, the stake president, how this miracle had been accomplished. He told me that in a stake council meeting reactivation was being discussed. His stake Relief Society president, Sister Leinata Va'enuku, asked if it would be appropriate for her to say something. As she spoke, the Spirit confirmed to the president that what she was suggesting was true. She explained that there were large numbers of wonderful young men in their late 20s and 30s in their stake who had not served missions. She said many of them knew they had disappointed bishops and priesthood leaders who had strongly encouraged them to serve a mission, and they now felt like second-class members of the Church. She pointed out that these young men were beyond missionary age. She expressed her love and concern for them. She explained that all of the saving ordinances were still available to them and the focus should be on priesthood ordinations and the ordinances of the temple. She noted that while some of these young men were still single, the majority of them had married wonderful women—some active, some inactive, and some not members.
After thorough discussion in the stake council, it was decided that the men of the priesthood and the women of the Relief Society would reach out to rescue these men and their wives, while the bishops spent more of their time with the young men and young women in the wards. Those involved in the rescue focused primarily on preparing them for the priesthood, eternal marriage, and the saving ordinances of the temple. During the next two years, almost all of the 63 men who had been sustained to the Melchizedek Priesthood at the conference I attended were endowed in the temple and had their spouses sealed to them. This account is but one example of how critical our sisters are in the work of salvation in our wards and stakes and how they facilitate revelation, especially in family and Church councils.17
Role of Sisters in the Family
We recognize that there are enormous forces arrayed against women and families. Recent studies find there is deterioration in devotion to marriage, with a decrease in the number of adults being married.18 For some, marriage and family are becoming "a menu choice rather than the central organizing principle of our society."19 Women are confronted with many options and need to prayerfully consider the choices they make and how those choices affect the family.
When I was in New Zealand last year, I read in an Auckland newspaper of women, not of our faith, struggling with these issues. One mother said she realized that in her case, her choice about whether to work or stay home was about a new carpet and a second car that she didn't really need. Another woman, however, felt "the biggest enemy of a happy family life was not paid work—it was television." She said that families are TV rich and family-time poor.20
These are very emotional, personal decisions, but there are two principles that we should always keep in mind. First, no woman should ever feel the need to apologize or feel that her contribution is less significant because she is devoting her primary efforts to raising and nurturing children. Nothing could be more significant in our Father in Heaven's plan. Second, we should all be careful not to be judgmental or assume that sisters are less valiant if the decision is made to work outside the home. We rarely understand or fully appreciate people's circumstances. Husbands and wives should prayerfully counsel together, understanding they are accountable to God for their decisions.
You devoted sisters who are single parents for whatever reason, our hearts reach out to you with appreciation. Prophets have made it clear "that many hands stand ready to help you. The Lord is not unmindful of you. Neither is His Church."21 I would hope that Latter-day Saints would be at the forefront in creating an environment in the workplace that is more receptive and accommodating to both women and men in their responsibilities as parents.
You valiant and faithful single sisters, please know that we love and appreciate you, and we assure you that no eternal blessing will be withheld from you.
The remarkable pioneer woman Emily H. Woodmansee penned the text of the hymn "As Sisters in Zion." She correctly asserts that the "errand of angels is given to women."22 This has been described as "nothing less than to do the direct and immediate bidding of our Father in Heaven, and 'this is a gift that … sisters … claim.'"23
Dear sisters, we love and admire you. We appreciate your service in the Lord's kingdom. You are incredible! I express particular appreciation for the women in my life. I testify of the reality of the Atonement, the divinity of the Savior, and the Restoration of His Church, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, a town near the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant, is warning his country that radiation contamination is affecting Japan's greatest treasure – its children.
Asked about government plans to relocate the people of Fatuba to the city of Iwaki, inside the Fukushima prefecture, Idogawa criticized the move as a "violation of human rights."
Compared with Chernobyl, radiation levels around Fukushima "are four times higher," he told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze, adding that "it's too early for people to come back to Fukushima prefecture."
"It is by no means safe, no matter what the government says."
Idogawa alleges that the government has started programs to return people to their towns despite the danger of radiation.
"Fukushima Prefecture has launched the Come Home campaign. In many cases, evacuees are forced to return. [the former mayor produced a map of Fukushima Prefecture that showed that air contamination decreased a little, but soil contamination remains the same.]"
"I demanded that the authorities substantiate their claim in writing but they ignored my request."
Once again, Idogawa alludes to the nuclear tragedy that hit Ukraine on April 26, 1986, pleading that the Japanese people "never forget Chernobyl." Yet few people seem to be heeding the former government official's warning.
"They believe what the government says, while in reality radiation is still there. This is killing children. They die of heart conditions, asthma, leukemia, thyroiditis… Lots of kids are extremely exhausted after school; others are simply unable to attend PE classes. But the authorities still hide the truth from us, and I don't know why. Don't they have children of their own? It hurts so much to know they can't protect our children.
"They say Fukushima Prefecture is safe, and that's why nobody's working to evacuate children, move them elsewhere. We're not even allowed to discuss this."
The former mayor found it ironic that when discussing the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for 2020, Prime Minister Abe frequently mentions the Japanese word, "omotenashi," which literally means that you should "treat people with an open heart."
In Idogawa's opinion, the same treatment does not apply equally to the people most intimately connected with Fukushima: the workers involved in the cleanup operations.
"Their equipment was getting worse; preparation was getting worse. So people had to think about their safety first. That's why those who understood the real danger of radiation began to quit. Now we have unprofessional people working there.
"I'm really ashamed for my country, but I have to speak the truth for the sake of keeping our planet clean in the future.
Idogawa then made some parallels with one of the most tragic events in the history of Japan: the use of atomic bombs on the industrial cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the end of World War II.
"The authorities lied to everyone (about the effects of the atomic bombings)...They hid the truth. That's the situation we are living in. It's not just Fukushima. Japan has some dark history. This is a sort of a sacrifice to the past."
When pressed on the details of a United Nations report that says there have been no radiation-related deaths or acute diseases observed among the workers and general public, Idogawa dismisses it as "completely false," before providing some of his own experiences at the height of the crisis.
"When I was mayor, I knew many people who died from heart attacks, and then there were many people in Fukushima who died suddenly, even among young people. It's a real shame that the authorities hide the truth from the whole world, from the UN. We need to admit that actually many people are dying. We are not allowed to say that but TEPCO employees also are dying. But they keep mum about it."
When asked to provide solid figures on the actual number of people who died under such circumstances, Idogawa refrained, saying "it's not just one or two people. We're talking about ten to twenty people who died this way."
Asked about other options that Japan has for providing energy sources to its 126 million people, he responded that despite having many rivers, the government neglects to promote hydro energy.
Why? Because it's not "profitable for big companies!"
Idogawa goes on to provide a blueprint for fulfilling Japan's energy needs that sounds surprisingly simple.
"We can provide electricity for a large number of people even with limited investment, without taxes. Just use gravity, and we may have so much energy that there'll be no need for nuclear plants anymore."
Premonitions of disaster
Even before the massive failure at the Fukushima nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, the day northeastern Japan was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami that caused the meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors, Idogawa knew the facility was dangerous."I asked them about potential accidents at a nuclear power plant, pretending I didn't know anything about it, and it turned out they were unable to answer many of my questions," he said. "Frankly, that's when it first crossed my mind that their management didn't have a contingency plan. It was then that I realized the facility could be dangerous."
The former mayor, who happened to be in a nearby town on the day the tsunami struck, recalled driving back to Futaba upon news of the earthquake. Only later did he discover how close he came to losing his life in the approaching tsunami.
"I managed to get there before the bigger tsunami came. It was only later that I realized that I escaped the water... I got lucky. The tsunami came after I drove off that road and up the mountains."
Once in his office, Idogawa looked out the window and was confronted by what he described as "a terrifying sight."
"Usually you couldn't see the sea from there, but that time I could see it just 300-500m away," he said.
It was at that point that the mayor realized that the nuclear power plant had probably suffered some sort of damage. After spending the night watching news reports on television, the only source of information since even mobile phones were not working, Idogawa announced an emergency evacuation early the next morning. Not all of the residents, however, heard the emergency broadcast.
"Later, I learned that not all Futaba residents heard my announcement. I feel guilty about that…I found out that the Fukushima prefecture hadn't given me all the information in a timely fashion. And now the government isn't taking any steps to ensure people's safety from radiation, and isn't monitoring the implementation of evacuation procedures."
Beyond nuclear energy
Katsutaka Idogawa believes a transformation to a cleaner, safer form of energy source for Japan would require a willingness to change the country's laws."There are many laws in Japan, perhaps too many. There are laws about rivers and the ways they're used. We could change laws regarding agricultural water use and start using rivers to produce electricity. Changing just this law alone will allow us to produce a lot of energy."
All of this could be accomplished "without contaminating our planet."
However, such bold proposals do not "appeal to big companies, because you don't need big investments, you don't need to build big power plants. It's not that profitable for investors, for capitalists."
But for the former mayor of a devastated Japanese town, lost to nuclear radiation, Idogawa senses a sea change forming in public opinion.
The Japanese people are beginning to "realize that we need to avert nuclear disasters, so 60-70 percent of the population is in favor of using natural energy."
"It took us a long time, but one day we'll follow the example of Europe, of Germany."


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WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced a $35 million civil money penalty against Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., for violations of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, and ordered the bank to reimburse $150 million to 2.5 million affected consumers.
The OCC order also requires the bank to stop the sales and marketing of any debt suspension product, debt cancellation product, credit and identity monitoring products, or any other similar products, and to take other corrective action to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws, including the FTC Act.
The OCC based its $35 million penalty on the bank's failure to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective enterprise risk-management program to detect and prevent unfair and deceptive practices, and the duration of and failure to correct those practices.
The estimated $150 million restitution will include reimbursement to several groups of consumers enrolled in debt cancellation and credit and identity monitoring products that were marketed and sold by the bank and bank vendors. The bank will reimburse certain credit cardholders who enrolled or were retained, by telephone, in Payment Protection and Intersections credit monitoring products on or after August 1, 2010, the full amount of fees paid for these products, and associated overlimit fees and finance charges.
For cardholders in that group who were denied a claim because the cardholder's loss occurred prior to the time of enrollment in Payment Protection, the bank will reimburse the higher of the average amount of the Payment Protection benefit they would have received had their claim not been denied or the full amount of fees they paid for Payment Protection, and any associated overlimit fees and finance charges. The bank also will reimburse consumers harmed by the bank's unfair practices in connection with charges for these products, that occurred between March 1, 2006, and June 21, 2011, related to Affinion credit monitoring products, and unfair billing practices that occurred between May 13, 2002, and May 31, 2011, related to Intersections credit monitoring products.
This action is being taken in coordination with the separate action of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is assessing a $25 million civil money penalty against Capital One for violations of section 1036 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (12 U.S.C. section 5536), and is ordering restitution to harmed consumers. Restitution payments made by the bank pursuant to the OCC's order will also satisfy identical payment obligations required by the CFPB action. The civil money penalties assessed by the OCC are payable to the U.S. Treasury.
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text: Michael Will wrote: >Veritas has something called VxFS that could be used for that, and there also special cluster-filesystems > > Hmmm... Last I heard VxFS was limited to 4 or 8 hosts. Not very HPC like... >like gfs and lustre that are supposed to solve that problem. In that case, you can also have just some >compute nodes act as storage nodes, and so you don't need fibre channel cards in all of them. The >storage nodes then act similar to redundant nfs servers. > > I remain skeptical on the value proposition for a SAN in a cluster. In short, you need to avoid single points of information flow within clusters. The absolute best aggregate bandwidth you are going to get will be local storage. At 50+ MB/s, a SATA drive in a compute node multipled by N compute nodes rapidly outdistances all (save one) hardware storage design that I am aware of. And it does it at a tiny fraction of the cost. Unfortunately you have N namespaces for your files (think of the file URI as file://node/path/to/filename.ext, and the value of "node" varies). Most code designs assume a single shared storage, or common namespace for the files. This is where the file systems folks earn their money (well one does anyway IMO). >Another interesting case is PVFS (and hopefully soon PVFS2) that accumulates local storage of the >nodes into a parallel virtual filesystem allowing distributed storage and access. In case of PVFS > > Having used PVFS (or at least tried to use PVFS) for a project, I discovered rather quickly some of the missing functionality (soft links, etc), resulted in large chunks of wrapper code not working (and no, it made no sense to change the wrapper code to suit this file system), and at least 2 MPI codes that I played with did not like it. I don't want to knock all the hard work that went into it, but I am not sure I would try PVFS2 without a very convincing argument that it implements full unix file system (POSIX) interfaces, and things work transparently. >the data is not distributed redundandly, which means that one node going down means part of >your filesystem data disappears - so unless you have rock solid nodes connected to a UPS, this >might be good only for a large fast /tmp. > > There are alternatives to this that work today. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615


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Your home is so lovely and festive ! Such beautiful collections and displays! Sending wishes for a very Merry Christmas to you!
Beautiful collection Paula. Love the Santa's. I am also obsessed with Santa's. I have them all over. You are right about not having enough trees,. I have put 5 up this year. I am now on the hunt for a white one.
I could swear I saw you at Cracker Barrel this weekend. Actually on saturday. But I was not sure so I did not go up to you.
I did not see these Santas, if not I would have purchased one for sure.
Beautiful post. Loving all your collections.
You have lovely decorations. Our oldest daughter gives us a White House ornament for Christmas every year! They are beautiful! Wishing you well! Cathy
Lovely collections, loving the decorations...Thank you for hosting, I left a what it is wreath? Have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas. Di@cottage-wishes
Love your collection. I think the chocolate nutcracker may be my favorite. Merry Christmas.
I love all of your beautiful dolls and brown Santas! My favorite is the pretty brown caroler I just know shes singing "Oh Christmas Tree"!I have been on the hunt high and low for one beautiful brown angel but alas nothing yet!
I love all of your collections. That's what makes your vignettes and displays to interesting. Have a very Merry Christmas. Hugs, Marty
You have beautiful collections. The Santas and Waterford ornaments are gorgeous and so is the Wedgwood.I'm completely blown away by the Philco TV, amazing that you kept it and it looks like new. Thanks for hosting again this week. Have a wonderful Christmas.
Patti....you have such a vast and lovely collection of things. Wonderful....so interesting to see.
Many thanks for hosting. Merry Christmas to you and your families!
Barb ♥
Paula, what gorgeous collections!! You have displayed everything beautifully; and I love the sentimental pieces from your family members! Your home looks so festive and inviting! Thanks so much for sharing! Merry Christmas!!!
You have a lovely collection of Christmas decor. Love the Santas! Have a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you for hosting!
oh i am in love with your collection but that stunning beautiful lady in the red filigree dress is just to die for!!!! WOW!!!! thank you for sharing with us all -- just gorgeous!!!! sending holiday hugs...
Beautiful decorations and tree. I love your collection!
Your home looks stunningly beautiful!
I really loved this post and tour of your Christmas decor and oh my those snowmen are so cute.
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones xxx
You have so many beautiful Christmas items that have wonderful memories. Thank you for hosting this linky party and sharing with us.
Merry Christmas,
Love that chocolate nutcracker!!
Hi Gals, thanks so much for the wonderful shout out! What a great collection of Christmas figures you have! So many neat ones! Hope your having a wonderful Christmas Week! xoxo
Love all your holiday decor. I'm a biggy on Santa's, and yours are so adorable. Thanks for hosting.
How in the heck have I missed your beautiful blog?? Oh my goodness! That is not going to happen again. I just hit the follow button! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and inviting me to your party! I will be visiting often. ♥ ♥
Hi Paula! Oh, my goodness! Look at all of your Christmas pretties! You just never disappoint us with your treasures. Love seeing your collectrions - your Santies, snowmen and your beautiful decorations! Love the little snap os your grandmother, you and your little son!
Thank you for hosting your wonderful party.
be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Paula, what a treat this was to see and I especially love your tradition of the two gold angels at the dinner table. Thank you for hosting and have a very merry Christmas. xo
Hi Paula ~ you have quite the Christmas collection! Wow, so many amazing things! I'm glad I stopped by. I have to say, you are too, too sweet for the comments you left about my tray! Haha. Creative Genius. You don't mind if I quote you, right!? At least with my husband anyway! Linked up and I am gladly a new follower! Have a very Merry Christmas!
I love your chocolate Santa's
My MIL collected many Wedgwood ornaments, too. Your collections are wonderful! And I love it that you honor the strong women in your family -- our mothers and grandmothers were creative and resourceful in troubled times...
Wishing you and your family a joyous Christmas, Paula, filled with love and laughter. xoxo
...how fun to see all these different christmas collections:)
merriest christmas!!
xo, Rosemary
Love love your vintage Christmas decorations...such memories...how wonderful...The collections are marvelous...thanks for sharing...I am a new follower and I will be back soon...
This is such a gorgeous collection - I don't know where to begin. Everything is beautiful! I think one of my favorites is the very first angel (is she in a bird cage?) I love, love, love her! Thanks for hosting and Merry Christmas to you and Patty!
Hugs, Cindy
Well, this is just all toooo gorgeous for words!!! And so are your spotlighted guests' pieces!!! They are some totally awesome women with fabulous style!!
Thank you so much for hosting this party~Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Your home looks gorgeous, I love the angel inside the metal cloche. Such great vignettes and beautiful Santas and things all over the house. Thank you for hosting and having me Paula and wishing you the merriest of Christmas.
You are welcome to join my very little show off.
Hi Paula... oooh, your collections are just stunning!... soo hard to pick a favorite Santa, but I think it would be the darling Santa cookie jar, too cute!... everything is so pretty and festive, I bet Christmas at your home is just pure enchantment!... wishing you and Patti and your families a very Merry Christmas!... xoxo Julie Marie
HELLO THERE PATTI AND PAULA! Paula, you may not know me, but Patti knows me and I just want to thank you for being such a kind friend and commenting on my posts. Your decorations are fabulous and I love that beautiful woman in her red dress and turban, signifying the strong women in your family. BRAVO!!!!!!!!! And Merry Christmas to you all! Anita
Patti and Paula, Thanks so much for selecting Cottage and Broome as one of the posts you featured from last week! Loving all your collections but I think my favorite item was the figurine with the red dress representing your 4 generations of strong women, beautiful. Hope you both have a wonderful holiday season! Laura
Such wonderful collections...Merry Christmas.
your house looks like Christmas heaven!I love your collection and the first angel is just beautiful!
Paula, you truly have a wonderful collection of Christmas decorations, how lovely to have so many things with deep meaning and sentimental value around you at Christmas!
Have a wonderful Christmas!
What a great collection of Christmas! I love you pretty dishes too!
I think this is the first time linking to your fun party! Thank you!
Merry Christmas
I always love and admire everything you gals post. You both have exceptional taste. Merry, Merry Christmas to you and yours from...Lu
You do have some beautiful ornaments and I love how they are from generation to generation. The old Philco is a treasure and my Mom made a ceramic tree like that too.
Thank you for inviting me over and the kind comments on my blog. Merry Christmas!
you have a delightful Christmas home. I love the beautiful ambiance and your pieces are esquisette. Thank you for having me here. Marry Christmas to you and your. Mica
Your Christmas decorations are all so lovely.
I hope you have a delightful and blessed Christmas.
I love seeing all your wonderful collections! Your Christmas decorations are so wonderful to look at. Thank you for sharing and hosting this weeks party.
Hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you soooo much for featuring me:) I am is great company aren't I?
~Debra xxx
Capers of the vintage vixens
Paula, thanks so much for inviting me to your party!!! I LOVE all YOUR santas too! We Santa lovers are a rare breed:):) I just this year heard about the White House ornaments! So pretty. Love that globe with the train too! Have a beautiful, blessed Christmas!!!! XO, Pinky
Patti and Paula....as always I love visiting your lovely blog! Your collections are wonderful and what I love most is the great way you celebrate the strong women in your family tree. It's very inspiring. Merry Christmas to you all!
at Pretty Victorian Delights
Soooo many pretties! I love the waterford ornies too, they are gorgeous! Thank you for the party... I need to visit those features from last week, beautiful! t.xoxoox
Paula, you have an amazing collection of Christmas ornaments and decorations! I have never heard of the White House ornies- I'd love to see them. Thanks for hosting the party, again. Merry, Merry!! Sue
Hi Paula, I love all of your wonderful vignettes! Thank you for your kind words on my blog and for following. I am excited to be here among such talented people. It's so inspiring!
Merry Christmas
Hi lovely lady.
Your Christmas collections is so Beautiful. You did a lovely job putting this all together for the Holidays. Thanks so much for your sweet comments on my new Tablescape,
And thanks for having your sweet linky party also. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family.
XXOO Diane
These are beautiful...love it all.
I, too, adore the regal Santas. Something so comforting about them.
A joyful, blessed Christmas to you, Paula and Patti!! Many wonderful blessings...
Sending hugs,
- Irina
Merry Christmas.
Thank you for hosting. Great collection of Christmas decorations.
Your Christmas collection is amazing! AND Beautiful! I love the picture of your Grandmother and the one of you. Merry Christmas!
Your home must be quite magical at Christmas, Paula! And that's quite an impressive collection of Santas you have there. ;)
Thanks for linking to Time Travel Thursday this week, and have a WONDERFUL Christmas!
Liz @ The Brambleberry Cottage
This a very lovely post of favorite treasures of Christmas and the elegant way you display everything. Your way of honoring your strong women in your family says everything about you. You have my admiration and that includes this beautiful endearing and sentimental Christmas post. No wonder you have become so many of your blogging friend's favorite place to visit.
Merry Christmas with many blessings to you both and to your families.
Hugs, Jeanne
Hello, Paula, and Merry Christmas! You have the most amazing collection of ornaments and Santas! I don't know where to begin...each one was more amazing than the last! You looked SO cute in that little sailor outfit!!! I think we all wore one of those little outfits at one time or another in our childhood. Mine was for my 5th grade photo, and I thought I was really stylin'!!! I think it's cute that your son as been such a "longtime collector" of ornaments, too! It's good to start them young! He will come to appreciate the beauty and nostalgia of it all. I hope that you and your family enjoy all the blessings of the Christmas season. Have a great holiday weekend!
Hi Paula
Thanks for the invite, it is festive over here! Your ornament collection is amazing!
Wishing you a very blessed Christmas
Hi Paula
Thanks for the invite, it is festive over here! Your ornament collection is amazing!
Wishing you a very blessed Christmas
Wonderful collection !!! Wishing you both a lovely Happy Christmas ! Gail x
Paula, I love your collection of Santas and your home is so beautiful decorated for Christmas. A very Merry Christmas to you.
Xmas hugs,
Wow! What a feast for the eyes!! I love that you've incorporated so many things that have special meaning and a history behind them! The pictures of you as a little girl are just too adorable!
Wow! Everything looks so awesome! Really beautiful! Thanks for inviting me to your linky party. Thanks also for adding your link to the Creative Thursday Blog Hop. I am now a new Follower of your wonderful blog. Take care and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Judy - JUDY H-J'S THOUGHTS
Paula, everything is simply lovely! Looks like you are all ready for Christmas! Thanks so much for your sweet comments about my BIL's omelettes! Please let me know how you like them! Thanks so much for hosting! Merry Christmas!...hugs...Debbie
Things sure look festive at your house. I love your lovely angel. I have a Santa collection too. And I love the White House ornaments. I have back to 1999 -- I'm gradually going backward and getting the older ones. Hope to have the full collection one day.
So I am in love with cookie jar Santa! What a wonderful collection you have -- I especially love how you honor the women in your family.
Merry Christmas, new friend!
How wonderful to display your Grandmother's Christmas Tree Paula.
I love unpacking the tree ornaments and finding a memory in every one.
Wishing you the very best Holiday weekend.
Hello darling Patti and Paula!
WISHING YOU BOTH A FABULOUS CHRISTMAS!!!!!! WIth much love, Anita
You have wonderful Christmas collections...love the Santas and carolers!
A very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
It's so neat to see what everybody has collected over the years for the holidays. Your collections are very beautiful, and I'm sure will be heirlooms for the future.
Thanks so much for hosting!
And for joining me for Pearls and Lace Thursday!
Blessings, Doni
Merry Christmas my new blog friend. I hope you and your loved ones have a blessed season and the Happiest New Year ever. I love all your '"people of color," inspired decorations,I had Santa's at my shop this year in hand blown glass ornaments and they were a big hit. I hope to see you real soon. Merry Christmas, Richard from My Old Historic House.
Wow! What a collection you have. I love the chocolate nutcracker and especially ... the Philco television! Thanks for letting me know about your linky party.
Look at all of your Christmas collectibles! Wonderful! Thank you for hosting this party for a creative group. Thanks for including me. Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much for inviting me to your party! I love how your decorations reflect you and your family's heritage--that is what Christmas means to me. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit, and for the wonderful complement! I have joined your party and am so honored that you asked! I will be your newest follower just as soon as I am done typing...and I can't wait to be able to come back and look at your blog more closely...waiting for company right now...or I would be doing it now...from what I can see of it...I will probably be spending quite a bit of time here! Thanks again,
I'm so glad to link up! Your home is beautiful!!! I LOVE it! I'm glad to be your newest follower and would LOVE to have you return the "love" on your next visit!!! XO, Aimee
So much to enjoy here! Hard to pick a favorite! I enjoyed my little trip around Blogland with you recommendations, too. Merry Christmas to you!
Thank you for inviting me to your awesome blog party :)
Merry Christmas Patti and Paula... Your home is so warm and inviting.. I just adore your collections... What a beautiful post... I can see all the love that has gone into everything.
Happy holidays,
So glad to be part of your party. Love your Christmas decor, isn't this the most beautiful time of the year?! Merry Christmas to you and your families.
Your home is beautiful and all decked out perfectly for Christmas. You have some awesome collections and it is a pleasure to see them all. I am your newest follower too! Merry Christmas.
You have such amazing collections of Santas, Nutcrackers, Angels and more. You can just tell they have each been chosen with care, making them extra special. Hope your Christmas was merry and bright!
WOW - SO MANY WONDERFUL features.. I LOVE these.. : )) Wishing you a WONDERFUL and AMAZING NEW YEAR TO COME.. Thanks for being a great bloggy bff this year.. Cheers to SO much more.. xoxoxoxox..
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Looks like I missed out on playing along last Wednesday, but it was such a busy week. Thanks for the feature Pattie and Paula!:) Hope your Christmas was fabulous and I wish you a wonderful new year 2012!
xoxo~ Carola
these decors are all lovely
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Hi Girls!
Wow, you shared some just gorgeous and beautiful Christmas decor with us in this post! What a wondeful collection you have!
Paula I'm a little speechless....So many wonderful traditions and ornaments and decorations and...and.....great stuffs! *winks* It's Christmas beautiful at your house!