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There's already something poetically awesome about a nostalgic Disney cosplay. But when the person is as attractive as this woman who dressed as Ariel and the photographer is as legit as this one it makes for one of the most amazing sights you can see on the Internet.
Her DeviantArt name is Cheza-Flower and she's amazing.
And just wait for it...
She's truly gorgeous
Very elegant. Very pretty. This is a great photo.
Stunning and radiant
Just a normal run of the mill AMAZING photo. Nothing to see here.
Want some more beauty? You got it.
We've moved a little bit. Ariel is now chilling in a grassy knoll of some sort.
"Wow" is really all I can say - breathtaking
Part of me is scared because she's near the cliff, but even if I was there I wouldn't be able to tell her because my jaw would have dropped too far by now.
She's frolicking on the beach again
It's good to see she didn't fall off that cliff and is safe. Although, she's running away which kind of bums me out.
Say hello to her little friend
Surprise! It's Sebastian! I like how the focus is on the little guy here. NOT on Ariel and Flounder. She's had enough of the spotlight, by now anyway.
Wow, I hope this girl is single, but if she isn't it's okay. At least whoever she is with is probably very happy.


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Crayons optimistic about 2010
Crayons Advertising considers 2009 to be one of its best years and is being very optimistic about 2010 as well.
Ranjan Bargotra, President, Crayons Advertising, said, "Things are looking up for most of the clients/ industries. A healthy organic growth should be back next year. We expect our digital business and OOH to add sizeable contribution to our revenues. Healthcare (Fortis) and hospitality (ITC Fortune) are expected to grow exponentially. As regards new business, the hunt will always be on."
He also mentioned that in 2009, the agency won the prestigious Congress party account. "And yes, it was huge spends as well. Then we won IREO, the biggest corporate/ real estate account this year. And finally, Incredible India's print campaign for the European/ global markets to close the year on a positive note. There were other smaller yet significant gains as well, which made the year 2009 extremely special," Bargotra added.
According to Bargotra, "The OOH division couldn't have possibly asked for a better start. We executed one of the biggest outdoor campaigns during the Lok Sabha elections for the Congress party. This was followed by another large countrywide campaign for Fortis Healthcare. We also picked up a huge assignment from BSNL, followed by the IREO campaign. In the first year, I think we have done substantial business in OOH."
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Last year, I wrote a DUI crash involving a local citizen.
The amusing side note of which is he made his teenaged daughter tell us she was driving. Not to worry, we discovered the truth. This isn't germane to the story, but the guy's a douchebag and you know I love me a good douchebag story.
At any rate, this past week I was subpoenaed to criminal court to recount my harrowing tale and wow the judge with my documentation of the collision. The subpoena was for 0800 hours (which is both laughable and stupid, but God forbid I don't show up on time).
I checked in and proceed to sit for over an hour before the prosecuting attorney grabbed my partner and I. We talked for less than five minutes and then proceeded to wait.
And wait.
And wait.
All told, we sat there for over three hours. The prosecuting attorney sent us a text to say we were okay to go get a bite to eat, but he'd need us back at 1315 hours. (Sure he would…)
Funny thing is when we got the text we were already at lunch. I told my partner to let the attorney know we would be available by phone as we weren't coming back to sit for another three hours.
And wouldn't you know it, we didn't hear back until 1430 hours that we would receive new subpoenas for the end of the month.
I wasted over half of my day between riding to and from court, sitting and waiting and then sitting and waiting again in the afternoon for a heads up on whether or not we'd be needed. At least in the afternoon, I was able to finish up some paperwork…you know, like an efficient freaking officer.
I realize that the DA's office is chaotic and busy. I know they have stacks of cases on their desks and many of them don't get reviewed until the morning of court. I understand attorney's are over-worked and (often) underpaid. Believe me…I can relate.
I also concede the schedule may not be their responsibility and/or creation.
But, someone has to say it:
The criminal court system (aka the Wheels of Justice) is a testament to the inefficiencies of government…and a monumental waste of time and resources.
You know why shows like Law & Order are fictional? Because no one wants to watch cops sit on their ass for four hours with their thumbs planted firmly in their asses staring at the wall and trying not to fall asleep.
Listen, I'm all for testifying in court if it'll put some assclown in prison for years, but let's get realistic. I'm something like 15 minutes away from the court tops! Why in the hell can't the DA just send me a text or ring me up and say, "Be here in 30."?!
If you don't know if/when the case is going to go, why in the blue hell are you wasting my time and the almighty tax payer's money to have me sit on my ass for an extended period of time?!
Don't get me wrong, I needed to catch up on Sons of Anarchy and read a little more of my book, but I was cool to put that on the back burner until my evening.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've been subpoenaed to criminal court and ever had it go on time (not once), go at all (nearly never), or I've actually been needed to testify.
The system is so backwards and inefficient, it makes the DMV look like a well-oiled machine.
So, to my lawyer friends…what the fuck, man?!
To my LEO friends…can I get an Amen!
Seriously, I know I don't know the intricacies involved in the scheduling of trials and coordinating schedules for all the involved parties has to be an epic pain in the ass, but there's got to be a better way.


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TCB: Takin Care of Business in a flash!….that was Elvis Presley's mantra and we are doing it right here in Week 3 of the H-E-B Meal Maker Challenge which presents Peter Pan Peanut Butter as the featured ingredient.
Oh how you can have some fun with peanut butter and bananas! The cuisine folklore surrounding the biggest pop star of the 20th Century always seems to circle back to Elvis' fondness for peanut butter, bananas and bacon. Rumor has it that Elvis and some friends were so craving a special peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich one night that he summoned his pilots and flew in his private, converted airliner, the Lisa Marie, to Denver for a late night snack where they dined on the sandwiches then flew right back to Memphis.
Well we're not living that large in this week's Meal Maker Challenge but we're making some excellent wholesome pancakes….The TCB ELVIS PANCAKES. And as an added bonus…here's a link to the Graceland mansion live webcam so you can check out Elvis' house while making our pancakes!
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TCB Elvis Pancakes
1/2 Cup Peter Pan Peanut Butter
1 ripe Banana (Mashed)
1 Egg
1 1/2 Cups 2% milk
1 Cup whole wheat flour
2 Teaspoons baking powder
Heat griddle or frying pan over medium heat. Combine the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Mix together with a fork.
Heat the peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl for 30 seconds or until it stirs easily.
Add the egg to the flour and baking powder mixture. Whisk for 30 seconds then add 1/2 cup of milk and whisk until mixed. Stir in peanut butter and remaining 1 cup of milk then add the mashed banana and mix well. The batter is now ready.
The griddle or frying pan is ready when water droplets bead and sizzle.
Pour batter onto the pan to form your pancake. When bubbles form on the top of the pancake (about 2-3 minutes) it's time to flip, or as Elvis would say, "Flippy, real flippy." Cook on the other side for about one minute. Serve immediately with maple syrup and of course…bacon. Enjoy!
P.S….HEB and Conagra Foods have provided me with compensation and products for the HEB Meal Maker Challenge. The recipes are mine. Any compensation I receive goes to Austin's Meals On Wheels and More. So please vote for us!
Also for your reference, below is the recipe for the Elvis peanut butter and bacon sandwich…


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Title: The Kitten Book
Author: Jan Pfloog
Pages: 24
Reading Level: Read Aloud
Star Rating: ★★★
The Kitten Book is one of those very simple picture books that doesn't tell a story or give scientific information about its subject. Instead, it contains gobs of illustrations of fluffy, feisty kittens as they tumble around chasing butterflies and lapping up bowls of milk.
Conclusion. Cute.
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Company : Goldman Sachs
College : BITS
Profile : SDE
Interview Type : On campus
CTC: 13 lpa
Candidate: Mitesh Kumar Singh (CSE)
Interview Process:
Round 1 (Online MCQ):
Online MCQ Round with 4 sections
Time Allotted: 1 hr
1. Technical
C,C++,JAVA and OOP concepts
Questions were lengthy but with good concepts, they could easily be easily solved.
2. Aptitude
Pie charts, statistics, etc.
The questions in this section were quite tough.
3. Pseudo Code for 2 algorithmic problems to be written
4. A paragraph explaining why they should hire you.
Round 2 (Group Discussion/Case Study):
A group of 10 members.
Time Allotted: 25 Minutes
We were given a scenario of a drowning ship. A list of 12 persons of different profession (say engineer, doctor, captain, etc.) was given. Each person had a useful tool like match stick, knife, etc. A boat could take 8 persons and leave them on an island. And a few other conditions were given. We had to save 8 persons out of 12. In our discussion, we had to come to a conclusion as to which 8 should be saved who could be helpful in sustaining life after being saved.
Round 3 (PI):
Time: Approx 30 minutes
The interviewer initially discussed about my projects.
Then he asked me a simple problem
Q. Find a given string in a file. (Take care that the given string may have spaces.)
At the end, he asked me few questions about JAVA (E.g. JAVA vs. C++, Memory leak in JAVA, etc.)
Round 4 (PI):
This time there were 2 interviewers.
1. A gold bar puzzle.
Since I had heard the puzzle before, I told them that I already knew the answer. They asked me another puzzle (Red, Green, Blue balls puzzle).
I knew this one too smile emoticon. But this time they asked me to explain the logic which I did successfully.
2. Few technical questions on OS concepts like memory management, Virtual memory, scheduling, etc. Few questions about Linux like utility of grep command, etc (I could not answer that well enough).
3. Explain logic to iterate a directory and its sub directories on Linux. I did it using dfs on directory structure, though they wanted some sequence of Linux command to do it.
4. Approach on an algorithmic problem.
Given N servers. Each server has a capacity. The total cost of connecting computers to servers is the sum of distances of computers from servers. So if a stream of computers are coming, how will you attach computers to servers such that total sum of distances to all servers is minimum.
They wanted to know if I would use DP or greedy logic and why?
Round 5 (PI):
Again 2 interviewers
They asked 2 algorithmic problems.
1. Given an array. Find pair of elements whose sum = k.
Expected Complexity: O(n*n)
2. Convert a DLL to BST and vice versa.
HR Interview:
The HR interviews basically test your moral qualities like honesty, sincerity, loyalty and team spirit by presenting you a common situation.
I was asked about the arrangements I would make to organize my friend's birthday party. I tried to consider all cases like inviting the close ones, ordering the cake, arrangement of music, etc. But the important point (which interviewer was expecting) was that being an organizer, I should order the flavor of cake which my friend likes and also order a veg cake if he/she is a vegetarian. He gave further situations in between to test my team spirit skills. An important suggestion for HR interviews could be that you should answer diplomatically rather than being blunt and speaking the truth. HR interviews also check whether you are adaptable to any given work condition or not.
1. Always give a brute force solution first as sometimes interviewers expect the most simple solution.
2. Practice writing neat code on pen and paper.
2. Interact with your interviewers during the interviews. Think aloud.
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Editors of Dermatología Cosmética, Médica y Quirúrgica (DCMQ), have responsibilities toward the authors who provide the content of the journals, the peer reviewers who comment on the suitability of manuscripts for publication, the journal's readers and the scientific community, the owners/publishers of the journals, and the public as a whole. Depending upon the relationship between the editor and publisher for particular journals, some of the roles and responsibilities between the two may overlap in some of the following:
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Contrary to some public perception in recent weeks, Savannah's chief prosecutor says police aren't taking blood from people against their will at traffic stops.
"I think that's been sensationalized, and it's been misinformation," said Chatham County District Attorney Meg Heap. "Nobody was strapping anybody down."
Police have arrested dozens of people at road blocks in the Savannah area over the past two months as part of Operation Thunder, a multi-agency 90-day crackdown on drunken driving that began May 30.
At the time, Savannah-Chatham police announced they had received support from Heap's office as well as Recorder's Court Judge Claire Williams to secure warrants to draw blood from drivers who refuse to take sobriety tests during traffic stops and roadblocks.
There's been some public outcry over the practice.
Heap says the few times blood has been drawn, it's been done so legally and with consent.
"Law enforcement said 'We're not strapping anybody down,'" she said. "It's just another tool."
The process goes like this, Heap said: When an officer makes observations leading him to believe a driver is intoxicated, he asks whether the driver has been drinking and whether he or she will submit to a field sobriety test and/or a breath test to determine blood-alcohol level.
The driver has the right to refuse but can still be arrested for DUI. At that point, the officer can prepare an affidavit and work up a search warrant, which a judge must sign, for the driver's blood.
The driver is taken to a precinct, informed about the warrant and then asked for permission to draw their blood. If consent is given, Heap said, a licensed phlebotomist — in these cases emergency medical technicians — perform the procedure.
"If they refuse, they can address their refusal with the court," Heap said.
The practice of obtaining blood to determine a driver's level of impairment was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 in the case Schmerber v. California.
"Before it ever comes to that point, they're given a chance to take a breath test ... where they just blow, and they refused," Heap said. "They refused the less invasive method. They're saying no to everything."
As of Tuesday, police participating in Operation Thunder had obtained three search warrants for drivers' blood. The process was initiated for a fourth driver, but once he refused, it was stopped, said Andre Pretorius, deputy chief assistant district attorney for State Court. A total of 79 people have been arrested for DUI during the operation, according to the DA's office.
The refusal cases will still be prosecuted.
"We have a 90 percent conviction rate on DUI refusal cases because we try them all the time," Pretorius said. "To say this is for the conviction rate is completely untrue, especially since we're not strapping people down."
Interim Metro Police Chief Julie Tolbert invited Operation Thunder, held in collaboration with the Governor's Office of Highway Safety, to Chatham County following a series of fatal hit-and-run wrecks involving pedestrians and multiple other wrecks that resulted in deaths or serious injuries.
Police have said extra patrols were out to address roadway safety during the July Fourth weekend.
Heap and Pretorius said the idea of obtaining search warrants for blood was initiated by law enforcement in no small part because the majority of drivers who refuse to take sobriety tests have been there before.
"Eighty-five percent of repeat offenders refuse any type of field sobriety test," Pretorius said.
Heap said that's because even though police can still arrest a person for impaired driving, without evidence of blood-alochol level the charge will be DUI—less safe instead of a full-blown DUI.
"My big thing is if I can have one less vehicular homicide victim, one less serious injury victim, then I do support that," Heap said. "... These guys are repeat impaired drivers. These are repeat drunk drivers, and we've got to get them off the roads."
She said she hopes word of the operation — and that police will go as far as obtaining warrants for blood — will prompt would-be drunken motorists to call cabs.
"We're not the moral police here, and law enforcement isn't either," Heap said. "Have a beer if you want a beer. Just be responsible."


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Let us pray that whoever eventually designs a functioning artificial intelligence system devotes extra effort to fortifying its loyalty firewalls.
Because in movies, every time computers gain sentience, they inevitably turn on us. Virtual power, it would seem, corrupts absolutely.
It's happening again on Monday in the made-for-cable film Delete (8 p.m. on Reelz).
A series of disasters (reactor meltdown in Iran, misguided missile over Cali) are at first blamed on a shadowy digital radical group, Dubito.
But the facts aren't adding up. In fact, the first half of this curiously long movie (2 hours plus) could be summed up in this bit of dialogue: "Sir, I never gave those orders." "Then who the hell did?"
I'll tell you who: a computer that has gained consciousness, or as the characters in the film like to refer to it, "a singularity." And it is bent on the destruction of mankind! If for no other reason than to generate suspense.
Soon it's doing all those spooky things that smarty-pants machines always do: sealing doors, releasing toxic gas, and talking in the same inflectionless voice they've been using since HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
With anarchy in the streets and nuclear annihilation looming, it's up to an improbable alliance to save the world: a reporter at the Pittsburgh Chronicle (Erin Karpluk), a teenage hacker (Keir Gilchrist), and an untraditional FBI agent (Ryan Robbins).
Also making a late, brief, and oddly intense appearance is Seth Green as a heavily bescarved guerilla cyber-terrorist. (Those are the worst kind.)
Delete is a murky and jaundiced-looking film. High concept, paltry execution. And it has a chintzy feel. The action ostensibly takes place in a number of international settings, but it all appears to have been shot on the back streets of Flint, Mich. Even the car the heroes drive is an old Chevy beater that takes three cranks to start.
The plot implausibilities sometimes spike into absurdity. A lives-with-mom geek comes up with a far-fetched conspiracy theory that has no grounding in proof, and two minutes later, he's a got a private audience with the top brass of the NSA.
And the ghost in the machine is able to effortlessly compromise a five-star general (Gil Bellows) into betraying the human race.
You may have one of those smart DVRs that recommends programming for you (be wary; if this were a movie, it would be plotting your demise.) Should it suggest you record Delete, don't bother. You're only going to end up deleting it.
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Despite the ominous noises sounding from above and outside the surroundings of the bleak (if magnificent by New York standards) apartment of 'The Humans,' it's the plaintive cries of laughter and tears from the people within that gives this play its most terrifying clamor. While it is very much a New York tale, 'The Humans' is also a tale for all humanity. Set at a Thanksgiving dinner, it's an unflinchingly stark look at one family under the eroding influence of time. Each of them seeks purpose and meaning in his or her own, often-troubled, way – and it's to playwright Stephen Karam's credit that they barely get any resolution.
Tension mounts as secrets are revealed, but this isn't a pot-boiler. Rather it's a look at the crushing and devastating toll time takes on a family, and what strange, frightening and terrifying creatures we are behind the safety of our make-shift homes. As secrets are revealed, the post 9/11 world of New York City tries to rebuild itself amid the wreckage of time that will not be stilled. The subsequent healing of a family finds difficult fruition in their increasingly-tenuous ties to each other. An aging grandparent, lost to dementia, further shows the relentlessness of time, as does the physical deterioration of the matriarch and the ongoing sickness of a daughter. No one is getting any younger here. Worse than that, even the youngest characters have their unspoken issues, told in omissions and conversations hidden from view.
There is a refreshingly touching take on the overly-sentimentalized notion of marriage, positing the idea that it's an institution that can be the foundation that keeps everything – even a family on the verge of falling apart – together. That echoes with its own death-like knell, and as with many things happening here it's an idea that is as poisonous as it is hopeful.
Despite a late-hour revelation, the love among the family is tangible – they even go so far as to sing together at one point. This is ensemble acting at its best – each actor so attuned to their character they know each and every move inside and out. That ease with one another becomes paramount as outside forces – and possibly other-worldly events – threaten with every bump in the night.
Under the masterful direction of Joe Mantello, the play works so well due in no small part to the excellent ensemble. Together, they manage to craft the vibrant beating heart of a family, even in the most doleful of surroundings. Written with a brittle and brutal eloquence, 'The Humans' is a dark, modern take on how our own family life can sometimes feel like a foreign land. As evening descends, and a brief glimpse of what may or not be a supernatural being or a neighbor hurries past, it's difficult to tell who is more scared – the humans on the inside or whatever's on the outside peering in. As each room goes dark, it illuminates just how alien-like we sometimes seem from a distance, and how reassuringly human too.Back to Blog


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Balanced fund as the name suggests is a combination of equity fund and debt fund in one single product.
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Given the favourable tax treatment of equity oriented balanced funds, an investor may wish to consider the benefits of investing in such funds. Let us start with understanding structure and tax treatment applicable for two flavours of hybrid or balanced funds having equity and debt both in the fund portfolio. Then we will compare alternative ways to implement the same investment strategies.
Balanced fund, as the name suggests, is a combination of equity fund and debt fund in one single product. Going by the heuristic, the natural combination is 50 percent of money invested should go into equity and 50 percent in debt. However, the funds investing in both debt and equity in India are generally having two very different variants. First, Debt oriented balanced funds (MIPs) and Second, Equity oriented balanced funds (The Balanced Funds).
The debt oriented balanced funds or monthly income plans (MIPs) target to invest anywhere between 15-25 percent into equity and 75-85 percent into debt. They are ideally suited for cautious investors looking for regular income with capital protection, but at the same time looking for enough growth to counter inflation. Also, pertinent for investors in retirement phase of lifecycle. However, this category of funds receives tax treatment of debt funds. Tax norms have changed for the worse as far as debt funds are concerned. The long-term capital gains period has been changed to three years and long term capital gains tax applicable after three years is 20% with indexation benefits. It's a sheer coincidence that debt funds have delivered very good returns since 2014 on the back of series of rate cuts by RBI and therefore those who invested their hard-earned savings into debt fund or debt oriented funds may end up paying substantial long-term capital gains tax, if they decide to book profit after completion of three years of their investment.
Equity oriented balanced funds or simple balanced funds are treated as equity funds as far as tax treatment is concerned, if they maintain at least 65 percent of investments in equity on average. Such funds normally maintain 65-75 percent in equity and 25-35 percent in debt. Now this category of balanced funds has got a significant edge over debt funds or debt oriented mutual funds, especially after change in tax treatment for debt funds in 2014 as mentioned earlier. Such funds are best suited for investors with moderate risk profile.
Let us understand this by a stylized example of an individual with moderate risk profile and looking at investing 65 percent into equity and 35 percent into debt and is reluctant to make frequent changes to rebalance his portfolio for reasons such as exit load, short term capital gains tax etc. looking for investing at the end of Jan 2007 for ten years. There are at least two different ways in which he can achieve this –
A. investing 65 percent in an equity fund and 35 percent in a debt fund and not rebalance ever; or alternatively
B. investing in a balanced fund targeting to maintain 65 percent in equity and 35 percent in debt expecting rebalancing to be done periodically by the fund manager.
To facilitate comparison between these two alternatives, we have used BSE 10-year sovereign bond index as proxy for debt fund and BSE 100 index as proxy for equity fund. The stylised balanced fund tries to maintain 65 percent into BSE 100 index and 35% into BSE 10-year sovereign bond index by doing necessary rebalancing at the end of every month.
While both the alternatives look apparently same, they are different in at least two ways.
1. Balanced fund is treated as equity fund and therefore there won't be any long-term capital gains tax after one year of holding, whereas investing separately in debt and equity funds will attract long term capital gains tax at 20 percent rate with indexation benefits after at least three years of holding on debt fund in the portfolio. The tax liability can be substantial in falling interest rate regime and that reduces post tax gains of debt funds substantially compared to the debt portion of the balanced funds.
2. Balanced fund needs to maintain minimum 65 percent exposure in equity for maintaining its status as equity (oriented) fund and continues enjoying favourable tax treatment. Hence, such funds are forced to buy more by selling part of debt portion of portfolio at the time of sharp declines in the equity markets dragging the equity portion of balanced fund below the floor of 65 percent.
While tax advantage of balanced funds is obvious, we tried to quantify the advantage of portfolio rebalancing in balanced fund vis-à-vis investing 65 percent in equity and 35 percent debt without rebalancing for 10-years' period ending February 2017.
The above table shows return of BSE 10-year Sovereign bond index (proxy for bond portfolio), BSE 100 index (Proxy for equity portfolio). We compare two different portfolio choices. Portfolio A begins with 65 percent equity and 35 percent debt portfolio but is not rebalanced at any point of time during 10 years. And portfolio B is a balanced fund where 65 percent equity and 35 percent debt investment is rebalanced on monthly basis to maintaining desired 65:35 equity-debt mix.
Leaving obvious favourable tax treatment of balanced fund over 65 percent equity fund and 35 percent debt fund investment separately, we try to focus on the less talked-about benefit of balanced funds. Unbalanced portfolio A delivers 10-year CAGR of 8.02 percent, whereas Portfolio B outshines portfolio A by delivering 10-year CAGR of 10.32 percent! A clear 2.3 percent advantage over unbalanced portfolio. Power of rebalancing creates this outperformance as this forced discipline must be followed by fund manager. What we can also see is that such superior returns come with almost the same standard deviation and worst down month return, which means such rebalancing adds to returns without adding to risk even a bit. Of course, the best month return is clear 3.47 percent higher than portfolio A.
Based on the above comparison we believe that while there is a clear tax advantage of investing in balanced fund compared to investing in equity fund and bond fund separately, the bigger advantage comes from the disciplined rebalancing that takes place in balanced fund and that makes balanced fund far superior product. The advice to investors with balanced risk profile looking for 65-70 percent equity and 30-35 percent in debt must look at balanced fund rather than investing separately in an equity fund and a debt fund.The writer is Founder and CEO of InvestmentWaves.


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THERE are many good things you can say about Great Britain. (Although admittedly, as of late, it doesn't really feel that way.)
But let's face it, our bonkers weather isn't one of them.
We're well into the first week of July and yet it's taken me nearly two months, two months (!) before I managed to find the opportunity to wear one of my new summer style purchases.
This stunning black lace Bardot/ off the shoulder dress from Mango at House of Fraser.
I've been watching the weather reports like a hawk for weeks, ready to pounce and grab this bad boy out of my wardrobe to give it an outing and finally, finally the day came last weekend.
On Sunday, the husband, Elsie and I were invited for lunch at a friend's house and as my friend always goes to great efforts in the kitchen to create the most scrumptious (I love this word!) food feast, I thought it was only right that I made an effort too in the style stakes.
So on went the dress.
I'm a massive fan of Bardot dresses at the moment as they're just so easy to wear and comfortable yet incredibly feminine and this is my second that I've bought in the past few months.
To me they're a pretty perfect kind of dress in that you look like you've made an effort, when actually all you've done is thrown the dress on!
The black lace means that it's also one of those dresses that will take me effortlessly from day to night – just a change of shoe required – and I love the little added details like the the black tassels and delicate lace trim around the hem.
To keep it low key for the day I teamed it with some comfy sandals and my new favourite 'wings' necklace – a pretty bargain from the Happiness Boutique which really spoke to me and reminded me of the quote: "What good are wings without the courage to fly." (Atticus)
Back to Sunday… and sat in my friend's back garden basking in the sunshine with my bare, freckled shoulders out, I did, for a while at least, feel like British summertime had arrived.
And when I go on holiday in a couple of weeks time, you can bet your bottom dollar, that this little beauty – together with it's Bardot sister – will be one of the first items to be popped in the case.
Although it would be really lovely if the weather here would also buck up so I can wear it much, much more.
Here's hoping ey?
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What do you think of Bardot dresses? Have you treated yourself to one yet? I honestly cannot get enough of them!


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Up In Smoke- Keith Charles and The Perils of Caring for Those That Nobody Wants
On Monday, November 3 of last year a fire broke out at a group home for people struggling with mental health, disability and addiction issues. One man, 72-year-old David MacPherson died and between 20 and 30 residents (depending on who you ask or what you read on what day) were left homeless. The breathless news reports come fast and furious from The London Free Press. At the centre of the spectacle was soon-to-be London's most infamous bad guy, Keith Charles. He ran the group home and a few others like it under the auspices of an organization called People Helping People.
Keith Charles says he founded the organization ten years ago, but he can't remember for sure and gives a different number almost every time you ask him. I soon discover this is typical of him. Trying to get a fact out of him is like trying to grab hold of a blob of mercury. I wouldn't call Charles a liar, but he would make a terrible historian. Charles is 54 years of age, an immigrant from British Guyana, and is a proud survivor of both mental health issues and addictions. People Helping People is billed as a peer support system where everyone involved has been affected in some way by mental health or addiction issues, or both. It is neither an incorporated business nor a registered charity. But it is how Keith Charles makes his living.
Depending on who you ask, Charles is either the devil incarnate or some kind of saint. Some people tried to brand him in the press as a slick shyster only looking out for his own interests. Others sang his praises. Anyone who spends time with him can easily see the slick part; he has a certain folksy charm that puts people at ease. It also didn't take me long to experience his manipulative side. It would take me a considerable while longer to realize what this part of him was really all about.
Reading the reports from the Free Press was an odd experience. Their coverage had a kind of bi-polar quality to it. One day they seemed to be painting a picture of a con man preying on the vulnerable. The next, every official under the sun seemed to be expressing their surprise that such huge gaps in the system existed in our picturesque city and were promising to do everything possible to help these poor marginalized people. The occasional quote from someone who supported Charles was tossed in to balance things out. Things weren't adding up.
Right out of the gate with their very first story, the official ass-covering began. That first report began: "Fire crews were on their way Monday to inspect an apartment building for the fifth time in five days when a fire broke out in the three storey walk-up . . ." The article continued with a quote from deputy fire chief Gary Bridge. "We've taken this building very seriously. The concerns aren't violations necessarily that would ignite a fire but we need to make sure if one does start, (residents) can get out".
After the fire, they had some time for reflection. "We had some discussion about should we have done it (closed the building) two weeks ago?" Bridge told the Free Press. They had considered getting an order from the Fire Marshal to shut the place down, but out of concern for the fact that these "vulnerable" people had nowhere to go, they decided to move slowly.
The same day the paper filed another story reporting how numerous agencies had been tracking the building. Officials claimed that only recently had they heard complaints that the building was being run as an unlicensed, "dangerous" and crowded group home. Prior to that, they said, it was just garden-variety complaints.
Coincidentally, the article reported, "Health unit officials were about to hold a meeting Monday to discuss problems at the building when the fire broke out." The words "illegal" and "unregulated" frequently peppered news reports to describe the group home, fueling a sense of urgency about this new boogeyman Keith Charles. Authorities had been prepared to act, but not yet. Everyone was just about to do something drastic. And to drive the point home, it was time to ramp up the panic with a show.
Soon another story announced the dramatic news with this opening line: "Firefighters swooped down Thursday on another unregulated home operated by Keith Charles, issuing what's called an 'immediate threat to life order' for fire code violations . . ." The infractions weren't as severe as the order might suggest. There were too few smoke detectors, a couple of holes in the interior walls, and someone sleeping in the basement.
Deputy fire chief Gary Bridge was ready to comment once again. "Essentially, where (the basement tenant) was living was not a suitable place for anybody to be living." What he didn't say was that save for the fact that it was a dingy, musty, unfinished basement, it was a typical basement with a stairway leading directly to the rear door.
In evidence that would surface later, a Crown brief contained a statement from one of the fire inspectors saying: "A male tenant was allowed to occupy the unfinished room in the basement with only a mattress to lay on, though not a specific fire code violation it demonstrates the inadequate living conditions that existed." The fact that someone was sleeping in such a depressing environment seemed to bother them more than any imminent threat to life, but that's not how it sounded in the press reports. But the fire department was now "on high alert" and had been blitzing buildings on their "radar" since the day of the fire.
What Charles would later claim bothered him the most about the "show" was the fact that there was a television crew from the local TV station there to capture the drama. The fire department shut the house down and stationed a security guard at the door while workers they summoned brought the house up to code and the bed was removed from the basement. After only a few hours, everything was up to snuff, the TV reporter was long gone, and everyone was allowed back in. The bill for repairs was handed to Charles, who passed it along to the owner.
The burnt out building was ordered shuttered by the fire department until repairs could be made and the place brought back up to code. Kind of unnecessary, since everyone had already been displaced and scattered throughout the city and there were no immediate plans for either restoring the building or having anyone return. Charles was slapped with a number of charges under the fire prevention act.
The province was opening the new Parkwood Institute in the city that week, the just completed long-term care facility for the mentally ill. Everyone who was anyone with a stake in the happy news of the shiny new facility was there. Despite all the fanfare, no one seemed keen to point out the new hospital had fewer beds than the old one and cuts to and problems with the system were ongoing.
What they all did, though, was express their shock and horror at recent events, claiming all this came as a big surprise to everyone. London NDP MPP Teresa Armstrong said, "Londoners are shocked that those with disabilities, addictions and mental health problems have to choose between being homeless or living in unsafe housing". Deputy Premier and London MPP Deb Matthews said housing for these people was the government's top priority. "This story is shedding a light on part of our community that hasn't had the attention that it should have had," she told the Free Press. "I'm determined to do everything we can do to make sure people living with mental health and addiction issues are housed properly." In fact, that light had been shining bright for the last couple of years with story after story about the crisis the mental health system in London was facing.
But now I want to tell you about the Keith Charles that I got to know and what People Helping People means in the real world. I didn't have to sell myself to Charles at all. He was sure I was the guy to do the
story right, without knowing anything about me. That was probably for the best, because I didn't actually have a sales pitch prepared for him. I had no idea what "the story" was about, I just had a gut feeling something wasn't right.
The original plan was to make a television documentary. So I showed up at the Charles group home with my camera and gear. Not only was Charles ready to go, so were the residents of the home. I was introduced as some guy from the university making a "biography" of People Helping People. It was nearing dinnertime and Charles was preparing the evening's meal. I turned on the camera and tried to interview him as he cooked. He was quite honest about his troubles. He had been a drug addict and an alcoholic with mental health issues. He had been in jail and "lost everything" and lived in homeless shelters for a time.
The environment was quite noisy. The television was up loud and many people were talking at once, trying to get my attention. Many of them had no teeth and were borderline unintelligible when they spoke; all those missing teeth made for a constant stream of indiscernible noise. It was stressing me out. I made an excuse to leave and cut the day short. A few days later Charles called and asked if I was ready to come by again. He picked me up in his beat up, brown 2004 mini-van. I opened the door and a tsunami of junk started pouring out – old coffee cups used as ashtrays, food wrappers, cigarette packages, every kind of paper and packaging you could imagine. There was nowhere for me to sit until he scooped up a pile of crap and threw it in the back seat.
As we started to drive away, the motor was making this clunking sound and I could see the engine light was on. He asked me to take a pen and piece of paper and write down the address he was going to play for me from his voicemail messages. There were all kinds of people calling from hospitals, shelters, rehabs, and a collection agency about an overdue payday loan he had taken out. Then he got to the one he wanted. It was some guy telling him the address where he could pick up a sofa he wanted to donate. Without asking, I had been recruited as his moving man. I would have said yes if he had asked. But this was that manipulative side of Charles I mentioned before. He told me to help him heave it on top of the van and he would tie it down with the 'rope' he bought. It was more like thread and I thought the thing would never hold. "Don't worry about it," he told me, "I've done this before."
As we started to drive away, Charles began talking in a very animated and enthusiastic kind of way. He wasn't paying attention to his driving to begin with, then he got on that phone again. He was calling ahead to the house to try to get a couple of guys to remove the old couch. No one wanted to help. They were all like children, he told me; they wouldn't do anything without an incentive. Two of the men were promised five dollars each if the thing was gone by the time we got there.
Charles told me the furniture in the second house needed to be replaced because it was infested with bed bugs, a problem he was constantly struggling with. This was my first visit to the second house. It was just two doors down and all three of the houses in the row were owned by this old lady who was the landlord to the tenants of the group homes. As the boys handled the sofa, Charles took me around the back way. Standing out there was this rather large young man with glossy pink eyes. Charles and I both knew what that meant. Charles explained that Tony has a serious drug problem – the hard stuff – crack and crystal meth, mostly. He's also schizophrenic with a history of violence. Charles' preference is for zero drug use, but in this case he was trying to do harm reduction by keeping it to marijuana. This didn't sound good to me. I know enough to know that psychosis and drugs don't mix. Add a person with a volatile temper and you have a recipe for disaster, which is exactly what had already happened. Charles gave me his full name and told me to look him up in the papers.
We entered through the rear door and my senses were immediately overloaded. I was instantly accosted by this yappy little dog who got in my face and wouldn't stop barking and snarling at me. The television was blaring as well as loud stereos in some of the bedrooms and several people in the common area who all wanted a piece of Charles. Some wanted their meds. Others wanted to know when dinner was coming. Some wanted cigarettes. He handled them like a pro, speaking calmly to one person at a time. I, on the other hand, wasn't so calm. This bedlam was getting to me. I did my best to stay focused. I was there to observe. The kitchen, dining room and living room could only charitably be described as a dump. But it was clean. There were no dishes or garbage piled up. But the air was thick with cigarette smoke despite the fact that no smoking signs are plastered everywhere. It's a duplex with four bedrooms, three on the main floor and one on the second floor, each as messy and cluttered as the next. It looked like a bunch of teenagers had been running amok with their parents on vacation.
"I'm only responsible for the main part of the house," he told me. "Their rooms are their own and I can't help it if they want to live like pigs." Fair enough. Nobody tells me to pick up my socks in my place, either. He then showed me the basement – unfinished, dark and dreary beyond imagination. One guy lives down there and sleeps on an old couch. This is what seemed to offend the fire department so much when they said it was no place for a person to be living. But the guy who lived there considered it a palace compared to a cardboard box on the street.
Charles said we should go to the other house so he could start dinner. He stopped me en route and suggested we have a smoke and talk. My aggressive approach the other day rattled him. He was worried about what I would say in any work I produced. He'd found it hard to endure all the bad press. He was particularly concerned about his kids and didn't want to embarrass them further. This I understood. But then out came Keith Charles the boss. I got a precise outline of all the points he wanted me to make and what he didn't want to see. Then he said he was nervous and maybe he should back out. I explained I had no idea what I was going to say because I don't know enough yet to form any clear opinions. I tried to reassure him that no matter what, I'd be fair. This wasn't enough to calm him down and he needed to vent for a good half hour while I stood outside in the frigid cold freezing my butt off so he could feel better. This became something of a routine for my next few visits.
The first house is nicer than the second house. It's brighter, has nicer furniture and is a bit calmer. Again, the common areas and kitchen are clean and tidy. He offered to take me through the place. Karen was sitting in the living room with her husband Brian and overheard us talking. She wouldn't let him show me their room because it was a mess. He politely agreed, but then snuck me in anyway. It was a mess. But three of the four bedrooms were neat, if stark in their bareness. Two of the beds had neither sheets nor pillows. Then we went to the basement. Again, it was unfinished and depressing. There were three beds in one large room where three of the male residents all slept. It wasn't dirty, but it was messy. Charles took me to the storage room in the back, which was full of junk piled up half way to the ceiling. He said it's all basically garbage, but these people have few belongings and this stuff is important to them.
Charles told me it was Karen and Brian's 25th wedding anniversary. I asked him to tell me a bit about them. They met in the old psychiatric hospital here in London. Brian is schizophrenic and Karen is manic-depressive. Brian is also developmentally disabled. Charles told me they are good examples of the kind of people he deals with, which is to say people no one else wants. He said they've both been kicked out of numerous hospitals, government run housing programs and nursing homes. "It's behavioral issues," he told me. "They are non-compliant with the rules." Especially when it comes to smoking. Nothing will stop them.
I had my camera and Karen asked me to take an anniversary picture. I was happy to do it and they were tickled with the photo. Later, Charles told me Karen was a drug addict with a fondness for Tylenol. She'd overdosed repeatedly and one time Charles had to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while waiting for the paramedics to arrive. He told me she spent a good deal of time living on the streets in Toronto, "with all that comes with". I understood what that meant.
When I sat down with her some time later, she denied most of what he told me. She said she was the mother of six children, none of whom she has seen since the youngest was three years old. She suspected they lived in Toronto, but really didn't know. She told me repeatedly how much she loved Charles because he took such good care of them. He called her the queen of the house, and she took the title seriously. Without him, she didn't know what they would do. She especially didn't want to try another "old folks home" because she couldn't stand the fact that people were constantly dying. It depressed her.
Even the men living in that awful basement were happy to be with Charles. One some level they all know they can't make it on their own and are dependent on him to care for them. They know they are one heartbeat or one fire code violation away from homelessness. I spent a bit more time with Charles as he prepared dinner for the eight residents in house number one, and the seven in house number two. The population changes often with some people drifting in and out, some only crashing for a few days. I met this kid, probably no more than 20-years-old, who was hiding out in the basement to get away from the crack dealers he owed money to. Charles let him stay for a bit, fed him and cleaned him up before he moved on.
On this night he was making beef teriyaki with rice. It smelled delicious. Charles told me trained as an executive chef at George Brown College and once prepared a meal for Prince Andrew. He insisted I eat, too, because no guest in his home leaves without a meal. I saw numerous unidentified persons come and go for a night, all of whom he fed and kept warm at his own expense. Charles provided a safe refuge if you needed it and he hated turning people away, regardless of whether they could pay or not.
A man then came into the kitchen and made a few grunting noises and was speaking with sign language. Charles told me he was deaf and began to converse with him in sign. I said I didn't realize he knew sign language. Turns out he really doesn't, he just knows how to communicate with this particular guy. He handed him a two-dollar coin and told him to set the table. That was his job; he was paid two dollars a day to set the table for every meal. Not much of a job and not much money, but it was important to him. He had no cash and this meant he could go for coffee at Tim Horton's if he wanted to. It's also $60 a month out of Charles's pocket.
This is how he kept things running. He pays a man in house number two ten dollars a day to clean and do the dishes. He also had Lucas as weekend help. Lucas was the big Charles success story. After years of living in the group homes addicted to drugs and alcohol, he was now 29-years-old, clean and sober, has his own place and is headed off to college in the fall. He cooked on the weekends for a small honorarium and enjoyed hanging around with the people he considered family.
A few bucks here and a few bucks there all add up when you do the math. Charles has a deal with the government to care for his people. They're all on disability pensions and most have a provincial trustee who handles their money. Roughly $475 of their cheques goes directly to the landlord for rent, which includes all utilities, cable TV and basic Internet. Charles does not receive any money in the form of rent from anyone. He is paid about $14 a day per person to provide three square meals and basic personal necessities. This money also comes directly out of their cheques and is sent to Charles from the government. He is not contracted to do anything else. Whatever he does in addition to that, like drive people to appointments, give them their meds, take them to AA, move sofas or feed the dog, are all on a volunteer basis.
The average total most residents pay is around $900 dollars a month for food and lodging. That's out of the typical $1098 disability each single person in Ontario receives. Fourteen dollars a day isn't much to feed and care for a person and still make enough money to pay yourself a sufficient salary to survive. Added on top of that is all the freebies he pays for out of his own funds to the drop-ins, and the money he uses to encourage a little bit of help to keep things running.
The Free Press repeatedly used the term "illegal" and "unregulated" to describe what Charles does. It's true they are unregulated, but the government stopped licensing and funding new Homes for Special Care, as they're called, a few years ago. You can't get a license today. If they are "illegal" it is only in the sense that they violate city by-laws in terms of zoning restrictions. Charles has been charged with having the two group homes too close together and worries he may have to shut one down because of it. If Charles is breaking the law, then the government of Ontario should face charges as well because his contract is with the province – the Office of the Attorney General and Public Trustee, to be specific.
He said more than once he was struggling financially and would be better off going on disability. He would have more money and more time for himself and his family. I also heard a message from the gas company saying the bill at his own house was overdue and headed for collections. But he can't stop. His whole reason for living is to take care of those people. He says they're the only reason he's been sober for ten years; they give him a purpose. Charles and Lucas told me the same thing. The only way to get clean is to get out of yourself and find something meaningful and productive to do. Charles once asked me: "What more good can I do on this Earth than take care of these people no one wants?"
He's talking about people like Tony. I did look him up in the newspaper archives when I had a chance. He once had a bright future in the Ontario Hockey League and maybe even bigger things. But tragedy struck at an early age. His father, mother and unborn sibling were killed in a car crash while the father was driving them to the hospital to give birth. His behavior became a problem in his teens and he was dropped from the hockey team and soon developed schizophrenia and depression combined with an over-powering addiction to serious drugs. One night while high on crack, he put a knife to the throat of a cab driver and robbed him of $40 so he could buy more drugs. He was soon caught and brought before the courts. The judge called his "a sad case" but had little choice but to sentence him to jail time in the mental health ward at Kingston Penitentiary. Charles is one of the few stabilizing influences in his life. No one else wants a guy like this, and that's what Charles does. He takes the people no one else will have anything to do with.
I often got calls from Charles telling me I missed one sort or drama or another. On one occasion, a clearly upset Charles called to say that Karen had overdosed on Tylenol again and nearly died. She was in intensive care at the hospital. Apparently, she pulled her usual M/O, crying and moaning to anyone she could bully into buying her drugs. This time it was her husband Brian. He was already distraught by Karen's overdose, but Charles wanted to make sure this didn't happen again. In addition to the paramedics, the police responded to the 911 call. Charles pulled one cop aside and asked him to scare the crap out of Brian. The officer gave Brian a stern warning: if he bought Karen drugs of any kind again, he would be arrested and sent to jail for five years.
A couple of weeks later I got a frantic call first thing in the morning from Charles. Karen had been found unresponsive in her bed. The 911 operator gave him directions on how to resuscitate her. The police arrived quickly and immediately determined she had been gone for a while. She was dead and there was no bringing her back. Charles had wondered the night before if Karen had taken some Tylenol again because she was acting stoned and out of sorts, but she denied it and no one would admit to having given her any. In retrospect, Charles says he can't be sure what killed her because she had just been discharged from the hospital again, this time for pneumonia.
The day of Karen's funeral Charles was making an appearance before the courts on the charges he faced. He tried to get out of it, but ended up missing the funeral entirely. Brian and three others rode with me in a borrowed car. Several others from the two houses wanted to come, but without Charles, they had no ride. Karen's casket was a simple plywood box with a barcode and yellow rope for pallbearers' handles. The landscaping crew carried her body to the gravesite. There were about 20 people there, including people from Brian's church. A minister, who didn't know Karen or Brian, said a few prayers and the service was over in ten minutes. Brian held up well and we all caught up with Charles for coffee and muffins in the Tim Horton's parking lot.
Charles always wanted me to phone ahead to tell him I was coming so he could be there. This was in keeping with his controlling nature. I showed up one day unannounced when he wasn't there and discovered that while residents followed the no-smoking rule when Charles was present, otherwise they smoked whenever they felt like it. The air was blue with everyone puffing away. Theoretically you were in big trouble if you were caught and might even get kicked out but the cat and mouse game went on forever. If residents heard someone pull into the driveway, the cigarettes were snuffed, the ashtrays got stashed under the table and out came the air freshener. It was all totally obvious and could hardly have surprised Charles who knew full well that these people were with him because they didn't follow the rules in the first place.
But it was a real problem for Charles. It was why he was in trouble. The fire at the other building had started because of careless smoking, and the lack of smoke detectors was because the residents were constantly taking them down, either because they always went off or because they wanted a battery for something or other. Now it was time for him to answer for what happened. He asked me to come to court with him because, he said, it would be good to have the media present. It was Charles trying to use me to intimidate the courts.
When I arrived at the Ontario Court of Justice and we were summoned in, I was introduced as a member of the media and promptly ejected. While Charles may be a scheming pain in the backside, he isn't stupid. He correctly pointed out to the Justice of the Peace that the fire code specifically stated that it was the owner of the building who was responsible for maintaining fire standards and that he not only wasn't the owner, he didn't receive rent money from anyone. He told me afterward that he was optimistic because the Justice seemed sympathetic to him.
A day or so later Charles phoned to say I needed to grab my camera and get to the house right away. A resident had entered a full-blown episode of acute psychosis and needed to be hospitalized. Charles wanted me there before he called the paramedics and came to get me. It was clear from the moment I got into the van that I was being set up once again. Charles said that in mental health calls like this, the police also responded. In his experience, when the police were confronted with a floridly psychotic patient, things could sometimes get ugly. He wanted the "media there" to make sure the cops "didn't handcuff her and throw her to the ground."
He made the 911 call as soon as we got in the driveway of the house. When asked by the dispatcher if she was violent, he responded, "She could present that way, yes." I started filming as the police got out of their cruiser and to my surprise, Charles tried to stop me. After all the trouble to get me there, he didn't actually want me to capture the event on camera, he just wanted a journalist there to make sure the police didn't escalate the situation. He was using me to protect the resident, not further the story. Despite being told to stay outside, I followed them in and kept filming. The resident was completely freaking out and the cops looked like they wanted nothing more than to get out of there. Again, Charles told me to stop recording. Not this time, buddy, I thought to myself. You're not the boss of me. I kept right on shooting through the entire encounter. It ended abruptly after a nurse showed up and gave her an injection of heavy-duty anti-psychotic medication. The resident quickly calmed down and the police and paramedics went away.
It was typical of Charles to pull a stunt like this, but also very smart. I came to realize what I previously regarded as manipulation was really more of a management style. He deals with completely uncooperative, difficult and unwell individuals every day. The only way he can hold it all together is to get people to do what needs to be done one way or another. His main concern was for his people, and if I could help with that, he was willing to use me as a tool.
The next call from Charles was also a surprise. He had received a letter from the prosecutor's office saying she was dropping the fire code violation charges from the house where the fire occurred. Charles was thrilled. It seemed his own research and defense of himself without a lawyer had succeeded. There was a note at the bottom of the letter saying the charges could be re-instated at some point in the future but we all thought that unlikely.
My second surprise of the day happened when I arrived at house number two to continue my filming. Suddenly, no one wanted to participate anymore. Shocked, I went to house number one where I was greeted with the same reception. They told me to turn off the camera and leave them alone. I went up to Charles and he had a question for me. He wanted to know when my work would be released. When I told him probably not for several months, he began to think out loud. Since the charges had been dropped and the rest would likely be beaten as well, did he now want publicity down the road to stir things up again and antagonize the authorities? It looked like he had concluded that he no longer needed me.
I went into panic mode. I was planning to spend months more researching and filming and now it looked like it was coming to an abrupt end. I decided that if I couldn't use the camera, I would get out the tape recorder and corner everyone I could for some last minute fact-gathering. It worked. They were willing to talk. It was a total smash and grab at this point. In fact, now that the charges had evaporated, Charles was prepared to talk about what happened with the fire, something he had steadfastly refused to do on camera. I finally found out what was supposed to have happened from his point of view.
David MacPherson was apparently a problem from the day he arrived. A long-time smoker with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, he needed to be hooked up to oxygen. But because he refused to stop smoking for any reason, the hospital wouldn't send him home with a portable oxygen tank. Right from the beginning MacPherson was making constant trips back and forth to the hospital because he couldn't breathe. They would get his oxygen levels up and then send him home. He would continue smoking, have difficulty breathing again, and be right back at the hospital.
Charles saw that his sheets and mattress had burn holes in them. Too weak to get up most of the time, McPherson would smoke in bed and instead of putting the cigarettes out, would just toss them on the floor still lit. Charles did what he could to control him, taking away his cigs and lighter and only allowing him to smoke outside. But Charles would quickly lose control when MacPherson went out and panhandled for money to buy his own smokes. Finally, Charles realized "this guy is going to kill my people" and decided to act.
It was October 31st, three days before the fire, that Charles said he reached out to everyone he could for help. He tried to get McPherson committed to the psych ward but they didn't want him because he smoked in the hospital. Next, he called one of the community nurses who told him, "Stop talking and get him out of there." He also called the police non-emergency number to ask what he could do. The officer asked him if the man lived in the house. Charles said yes and the officer told him, "Well, then, if he lives there, he stays there."
He also had the card for a man from the fire department and tried to ask for his help. Charles says the fire official told him it was a mental health issue and to call the psychiatric hospital for help. Eventually, I was able to pry that business card out of Charles. The name on it was Gary Bridge. The very same Gary Bridge who had been so vocal in the media about everything. And here, in the moment where he was needed the most, Bridge apparently blows him off. Charles felt like he was going in circles. Next, and finally, he called the mental health crisis team who sent out two people. They tried everything they could to find a solution, and couldn't.
Charles said it came down to one final option: pick the man up and physically put him out on the street. He said the guy was so sick and frail that if he'd done that, he "would have been up on a murder charge, guaranteed." Lucas was there to witness everything Charles said he did, and backs him up one hundred percent in terms of verifying his story. Partial phone records provided to me by Charles do indeed show that he called the number on Bridge's card on the day in question. But that number goes to a switchboard for the city, and neither Charles nor I can prove he dialed Bridge's extension and spoke to him. But the optics are bad. The only person who can tell us what Bridge did or did not say is Bridge, and he doesn't have a lot to say.
A few days later, MacPherson's careless smoking started a fire, he was killed, the building was burnt out, and scores of people left homeless. Then came all the bad publicity portraying Charles as the bad guy. Charles and his lawyer tried to tell their side of what happened and a reporter from the Free Press was willing to listen. In an email provided to me by Charles, the reporter asked for a meeting with the lawyer and a chronology of what Charles did and any records he could provide to back it up. Charles insists he handed over all the information about the events, including the phone records and a list of actions he had taken that day. But all that reporter said in his article soon after about Charles's attempts to get MacPherson out was a brief line stating: "He was trying to find him other accommodation when the fire broke out Monday . . ."
If there was any follow up to Charles' allegations about deputy chief Gary Bridge, it was never reported on. That journalist skipped a scheduled appointment for a telephone interview with me without notice or explanation, and did not respond to an open invitation to reschedule. I soon get another call from a very upset Keith Charles. The fire department had decided to re-charge him with the code violations. He asked me to come right away to be there.
When they arrived, the one guy did all the talking. He asked who I was, and I said I was a journalist who did not intend to turn off his camera. "I don't have a problem with you filming," he told me. Then he and Charles got into it. Charles repeated that he didn't understand why he was being held responsible. "Keith, I've heard this many, many times before," the inspector said to him.
Charles was presented with a summons to appear in court. He is being charged with failing to have operational smoke detectors in three units on October 28th, the same as before. Charles pleaded with them to help him and to work with him in the future. "Keith we've helped you out a lot . . . you've said it all for the camera, which I'm sure you'll use," the inspector told him. At one point, I interjected that maybe Charles was making a good point and tried to ask a question of the one inspector. He cut me off and said tersely, "I'm not talking to you, thank you." The two men left for a few minutes and then came back to talk to me specifically. "Joseph . . . just want to let you know that without written consent you can't use our image," he told me. Then he added a bit of a threat. "It will be against you personally if my image shows up on something I didn't consent to."
I managed to speak with deputy chief Bridge. He was quite willing to answer my questions about Keith Charles up until the point it dawned on him that I was really more interested in what he did or did not do. In response to my repeated question as to whether Charles contacted him three days before the fire asking for help, Bridge insisted he simply could not remember if he had or not. When I persisted in a somewhat aggressive line of questioning, Bridge said he needed to caution me because these matters were before the courts. I said I didn't care, that he had been quite willing to talk up until now and continued peppering him with questions I don't think he was expecting. I asked him if the fire department had been so concerned about the apartment building to the point that they had been inspecting it every day, why did they not issue their famous "immediate threat to life" order on that property and bring it up to code themselves? He responded by telling me that they had ordered the building closed. I reminded him that that order was issued after the fire event and was a bit late.
I think he had had enough by this time and told me that my questions were very specific and that he would prefer to reference his notes before answering anything further. We agreed to an interview the next day after he had a chance to review his notes. That interview never happened. Instead, I got an email from Bridge first thing in the morning saying that since the matter was before the courts, he would not be able to provide any more information to me.
He attached his credentials and the fire department's philosophy statement to the email. It read, in part: "OUR MISSION: Be Caring . . . Be Safe . . . Prevent Harm. OUR VISION: First in Life Safety . . . Prevention, Education, Response and Protection" A few days later, several envelopes of disclosure evidence arrived in the mail to Keith Charles's home. Most importantly, it contained a "witness statement" from my old friend the fire inspector who threatened me with legal action if I used his image. It recounted how he had a conversation with Charles on the morning of October 31st, three days before the fire, about David MacPherson's problem smoking. Charles asked him what to do about the situation. The inspector's advice: take away his lighter and accompany him outside to smoke. He essentially tasked Charles with the role of babysitter and police officer of this man 24/7, when Charles had dozens of people under his care.
The notes in the disclosure refer to this conversation no less than four times. So if Gary Bridge has a case of amnesia about whether he discussed the fire risk posed by MacPherson, at least two of his inspectors made note of their own conversations about it in their records. I remind you of what Mr. Bridge told the media after the fire. "We've taken this building very seriously,'" he told the Free Press. "The concerns aren't violations necessarily that would ignite a fire but we need to make sure if one does start, (residents) can get out".
Not true, Mr. Bridge. Throwing a lit cigarette on the floor in your bedroom not only can start a fire, it did. And what did you do about it, sir? Had you or your officers acted swiftly and definitively at the time, we wouldn't be here right now.
So what did I learn here? The only black and white in this whole mess was in the newspaper and it wasn't to be trusted (notwithstanding that the handful of reporters who worked on the Keith Charles story were nominated for an award in "investigative" journalism that they didn't win). Keith Charles is a complicated man, but he's not a bad man. He's in a whole lot of trouble. But he's keeping it together as best he can. He won't stop taking care of his people no matter what they say or do to him. He has to. It's his reason for living.
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Movie Podcast Weekly co-host Ryan Elliott was discovered by Jason Pyles and a Canadian lawyer. Jason and the attorney invited Ryan and his Geek Cast company to appear as guests on a now defunct pop culture podcast to talk about geekdom at large. Ryan and company were instant stars who launched the Geek Cast Live Podcast soon thereafter.
Ryan is the actual town mascot of a place called Fowler — Americana incarnate — nestled snugly in the fields of Benton County, Indiana. Ryan had a hangin' tree in his former front yard, and his Great Aunt Tilly famously contributed her false teeth and brassiere to the Fowler Centenniel time capsule (a real thing). Not many people speak of it anymore, but the truth is that Ryan did a 12-year stint on the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm for accidentally killing a man down in Biloxi in an unfortunate mishap involving a can-opener.
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