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The Freshman Class: Florida's New Representatives
The 2010 elections gave Republicans a veto-proof majority in the Legislature. In the Florida House, Republicans hold an 81-39 majority. In the Senate, GOP pickups included outgoing Sen. Dave Aronberg's seat, which went to Lizbeth Benacquisto, and Sen. Charlie Justice's seat, which sees a return of Jack Latvala. The Republicans now hold a 28-12 majority in that chamber. All told, Tallahassee welcomes 57 newcomers. More important than the Republican-Democrat tally, say political observers, is that the new senators, regardless of party, will be more business-friendly.
Larry Ahern (R), 55, owner/president, Larry Ahern Pool Remodeling
District 51 — part of Pinellas County
Net Worth: $896,024
Notable: Ahern tells Florida Trend he tends to be lucky. "In 1984, I won a 1984 Ford Ranger pickup truck in a contest and, two years later, a 1986 Nissan truck in a similar contest. The Ford truck came at the perfect time. I was hauling my chemicals and equipment around in a 1973 Chevy station wagon I bought for $300."
Ben Albritton (R), 42, citrus grower and managing partner for Albritton Cos.
District 66 — Hardee and parts of Highlands and Polk counties
Net Worth: $867,342
Notable: A citrus grower with a penchant for race car driving, Albritton was a competitor in the race to become House Speaker in 2016 but lost out to Rep. Richard Corcoran.
Frank Artiles (R), 37, owner/CEO of Pinnacle Appraisals and Umpire Services
District 119 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $134,500
Notable: An insurance adjuster, lawyer and military veteran, Artiles once told South Florida CEO magazine his ambition is to one day become a developer. "If you look at the history of millionaires in the United States ... most fortunes are won and lost in real estate."
Dennis Baxley* (R), 58, vice president/partner, Hiers-Baxley Funeral Services
District 24 — part of Marion County
Net Worth: $6,832,583
Notable: Baxter served in the Florida House from 2000-08. He says "one of the most important things I can do in the Legislature, and have done, is kill bills." The former Speaker pro tem had expressed an interest in serving as House Speaker but lost out to Richard Corcoran.
Lori Berman (D), 52, attorney; District 86 — part of Palm Beach County
Net Worth: $1,979,750
Notable: The real estate planning attorney and former aide to U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler ties social responsibility to a pro-business agenda with her first bill: HB 197, the "Homeless Tax Credit Bill," would provide tax relief to companies hiring employees residing in temporary, transitional or emergency housing facilities.
Mack Bernard (D), 35,
attorney (elected in a special election Sept. 22, 2009, re-elected subsequently)
District 84 — part of Palm Beach County
Net Worth: $162,715
Notable: A Haitian immigrant who moved to Delray Beach in 1986 at age 10, Bernard says immigration reform should be left up to the federal government. He says he supports an e-verify program allowing employers to check the legal status of potential employees and would support fines on private companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers.
Michael Bileca (R), 41, president, Towncare Dental Partnership
District 117 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $1,848,459
Notable: On his Facebook page, Bileca lists three of his favorite books: "Great Dialogues of Plato," Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," and James Thomas Flexner's "Washington: The Indispensable Man."
Jim Boyd (R), 54, CEO and co-owner of Boyd Insurance & Investment Services, licensed real estate broker, president of the Boyd Group
District 68 — parts of Hillsborough and Manatee counties
Net Worth: $3,540,000
Notable: Boyd's uncle, Wilbur Boyd, served in the Florida House and Senate in the 1960s and 1970s and his grandfather, Hugh Boyd, served in the Florida House in the 1940s.
Jeff Brandes (R), 35, certified commercial property manager, director of real estate for Tibbetts Holdings
District 52 — part of Pinellas County
Net Worth: $11,735,000
Notable: A political neophyte and Iraq war veteran, Brandes is also the wealthiest new lawmaker, with a fortune that stems from his family's successful lumber business. His grandfather, Linton Tibbetts, owned Cox Lumber until Home Depot bought the company in 2006.
Jason Brodeur (R), 35, healthcare consultant
District 33 — parts of Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties
Net Worth: $217,685
Notable: Brodeur caused a stir with his first piece of legislation — a bill supported by the National Rifle Association that would make it a felony for physicians to ask patients whether they have a gun in their home. The Florida Medical Association strongly opposes the legislation, arguing that doctors have legitimate reasons for making such inquiries.
Doug Broxson (R), 62, insurance broker
District 1 — parts of Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties
Net Worth: $3,259,000
Notable: Broxson generated national attention during his campaign last year, when a political opponent was videotaped removing his campaign signs. Greg Brown Jr. and Brown's wife were each charged with one count of petit theft, but a judge dismissed the charges. The judge ruled that the signs were either on the property of a man who had promised to display only the Browns' signs or on public right-of-way, and that the Browns "had the lawful right" to remove the signs.
Matt Caldwell (R), 29, manager and real estate appraiser with Maxwell & Hendry Valuation Services
District 73 — part of Lee County
Net Worth: (-$94,326)
Notable: Caldwell's hometown newspaper describes the former vice chairman of the county Republican Party as an avid "history buff" and "voracious" reader: "A question on role models becomes a dissertation on Reagan's fight against communism, the founding of the Republican Party by Abraham Lincoln and the oratory skills of Thomas Jefferson."
Daphne Campbell (D), 53, registered nurse
District 108 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $462,547
Notable: Campbell —?a native of Haiti who has worked as a critical care, pediatric, adult and geriatric nurse —?says one of her goals in office is to "champion the healthcare concerns" of her community."
Jeff Clemens (D), 40, energy contractor
District 89 — part of Palm Beach County
Net Worth: $31,700
Notable: Clemens has been a newspaper reporter, an aide to former state Rep. Mary Brandenburg and a planner for the Florida Institute of Public Health. The former Lake Worth mayor also plays guitar and sings with the Datura Street Band — and has shared the stage with such notable bands as the Counting Crows, Live, The Wallflowers, Cracker and Dave Matthews Band.
Richard Corcoran (R), 46, attorney
District 45 — parts of Pasco and Pinellas counties
Net Worth: $350,000
Notable: The one-time chief of staff to former House Speaker Marco Rubio has been named Speaker for 2017-18.
Fred Costello (R), 61, dentist
District 26 — parts of Flagler and Volusia counties
Net Worth: $3,052,000
Notable: As mayor of Ormond Beach last April, Costello appeared in a video in his hospital gown just before getting a colonoscopy in order to promote Colon Awareness Month.
Janet Cruz (D), 54,
optician/healthcare executive
(elected in a special election Feb. 23, 2010, re-elected subsequently)
District 58 — part of Hillsborough County
Net Worth: $433,500
Notable: Less than a year after being elected in a special election, Cruz was elevated to the post of deputy minority whip. She describes herself as a "good bridge builder" who will work to find ways to work with Republicans.
Daniel Davis (R), 38, executive director, Northeast Florida Builders Association
District 13 — parts of Clay and Duval counties
Net Worth: $484,000
Notable: The former Jacksonville city councilman was handpicked to replace new Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll and has said he intends to "be a good soldier" and doesn't care if he's "blocking or carrying the ball."
Jose Felix Diaz (R), 31, attorney
District 115 — part of
Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: (-$44,547)
Notable: Diaz was an unsuccessful contestant on NBC's "The Apprentice."
Reggie Fullwood (D), 35, president, Rhino Harbor Development
District 15 — part of Duval County
Net Worth: $359,500
Notable: Fullwood, the youngest city councilman in the history of Jacksonville, is president of Rhino Harbor Development, a multifamily housing development and consulting firm that focuses on affordable housing.
Matt Gaetz (R), 28, attorney
(elected in a special election April 13, 2010, re-elected subsequently)
District 4 — parts of Okaloosa and
Santa Rosa counties
Net Worth: $999,342
Notable: A one-time aide to former House Speaker Ray Sansom, Gaetz won the special election to fill the indicted lawmaker's seat in 2010. Gaetz's father is state Sen. Don Gaetz.
Tom Goodson (R), 60, owner, Goodson Paving and Seminole Curbs
District 29 — parts of Brevard and Indian River counties
Net Worth: $4,147,668
Notable: Goodson, a Cocoa businessman who served on the Canaveral Port Authority for eight years, says Florida should enact an Arizona-style immigration law.
James W. "J.W." Grant (R), 28, attorney
District 47 —?part of Hillsborough County
Net Worth: (-$5,780)
Notable: Grant is the son of former Florida Sen. John Grant and still works alongside his father at The Grant Law Group in Tampa.
Bill Hager (R), 64, attorney/reinsurance arbitrator
District 87 — part of Broward and Palm Beach counties
Net Worth: $6,557,000
Notable: Before moving to Florida in 1990 to run workers' comp and healthcare informatics company NCCI, Hager was Iowa's insurance commissioner. He is president of Insurance Metrics, which concentrates in insurance arbitration, reinsurance arbitration and expert witness services for insurance litigation.
Gayle Harrell* (R), 67, health information technology consultant
District 81 — parts of Martin and St. Lucie counties
Net Worth: $1,220,118
Notable: Harrell sat out a term because of term limits and made
an unsuccessful run for Congress in 2008, losing in the Republican primary by 1,006 votes.
Shawn Harrison (R), 46, attorney/founder of Medical Collection Group
District 60 — parts of Hillsborough and Pasco counties
Net Worth: $1,267,000
Notable: During his eight years on the Tampa City Council, Harrison led a drive to reduce property taxes. He vows to fight to keep taxes low by curbing unnecessary state spending.
Clay Ingram (R), 33,
real estate
District 2 — part of Escambia County
Net Worth: (-$17,900)
Notable: The former Florida State University football player was a four-year starter under coach Bobby Bowden and played in the 1999 national championship game. The Seminoles' long snapper cut his political teeth as chairman of the Young Professionals for Bush Coalition during the 2004 presidential race. He was chairman of the Escambia County Republican Executive Committee from 2005-08.
John Patrick Julien (D), 47, accountant
District 104 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $125,000
Notable: Julien, who emigrated from Haiti to New York at age 7, was on the North Miami Beach City Council for three terms. Among his recreational interests: "Reading" and "sleeping."
Ana Rivas Logan (R), 49, educator
District 114 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $177,912
Notable: Born in Nicaragua after her parents fled Cuba, Logan says her "strict upbringing" enabled her to attend college and live the American dream. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science and engineering and has served two terms on the Miami-Dade School Board.
Larry Metz (R), 56, attorney
District 25 —?parts of Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties
Net Worth: $443,185
Notable: Metz, who served on the Lake County School Board, says policymakers need to practice fiscal restraint, even after the economy rebounds. He supports a "taxpayer protection amendment" that would prohibit state government revenue from growing faster than population growth and inflation.
George Moraitis (R), 40, attorney
District 91 — parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties
Net Worth: $474,000
Notable: A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Moraitis was a submarine officer for seven years and later attended law school at the University of Florida, where he graduated first in his class. Moraitis says improving education is a key to job creation and would like to increase the role of charter schools.
Jeanette Nunez (R), 38, healthcare executive
District 112 — parts of Broward, Collier and Miami-Dade counties
Net Worth: $326,000
Notable: Nunez previously served as chief of staff to state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla.
Kathleen Passidomo (R), 57, attorney
District 76 — part of Collier County
Net Worth: $3,547,000
Notable: Passidomo told the Naples News that one of her primary goals is to help foster a "good working relationship between Tallahassee and our local governments." The New Jersey native moved to Florida in 1976. She was a founding chairwoman of the Collier County Juvenile Justice Council and served as president of the Collier County Bar Association from 2007-08.
Steve Perman (D), 54, chiropractor
District 78 — parts of Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach and St. Lucie counties
Net Worth: $625,000
Notable: The Queens, N.Y., native, who moved to Florida in 1993, calls himself "most involved chiropractic physician in the entire country when it comes to health-related legislation."
Keith Perry (R), 52,
roofing contractor/president, Perry Roofing
District 22 — parts of Alachua, Levy and Marion counties
Net Worth: $3,096,062
Notable: Perry skipped college to launch Perry Roofing Contractors, which today has three offices and more than 150 employees.
Raymond "Ray" Pilon (R), 66, communications director
District 69 — parts of Manatee and Sarasota counties
Net Worth: $440,515
Notable: Pilon's appointment to the Select Committee on Water Policy is a good match. The former Sarasota County commissioner has served as community and government affairs director for the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority since 2001.
Elizabeth Porter (R), 46, partner in Professional Electronic Revenue Consulting
District 11 — Gilchrist, Lafayette, Suwannee and parts of Alachua, Columbia and Dixie counties
Net Worth: $35,100
Notable: A former member of the Columbia County Commission, Porter was formerly a territory manager for Carnation and Nestle Foods, an account manager for Schering-Plough and a district supervisor for Procter & Gamble.
Pat Rooney (R), 47, restaurant owner and president of the Palm Beach Kennel Club
District 83 — part of Palm Beach County
Net Worth: $418,000
Notable: Rooney, grandson of late Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney, says he had a good feeling about his 2010 legislative bid. "I kind of sensed this was going to be a Republican year and if I wanted to run, this was probably going to be the time to do it." Rooney's brother is U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney.
Irving "Irv" Slosberg* (D), 63, president, "Slosberg Report From Israel," a 30-minute news magazine
District 90 — parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties
Net Worth: $7,688,049
Notable: Slosberg returns to his old seat after taking a hiatus because of term limits. During his previous tenure in the Legislature, Slosberg was instrumental is passing laws requiring mandatory driver signals, mandatory minor seatbelts and harsher penalties for DUI offenders. His signature effort, a mandatory seatbelt law that allows police to stop cars in which front-seat passengers are not buckled in, passed in 2009. One of his top priorities this year is raising the driving age from 16 to 17.
Jimmie T. Smith (R), 45, retired U.S. Army paratrooper; security guard
District 43 — Citrus and parts of Hernando and Levy counties
Net Worth: $17,739
Notable: The Tea Party conservative works as a security guard at Progress Energy's nuclear power plant in Crystal River. He also authors a blog, everydayconservative.blogspot.com.
Cynthia Stafford (D), 43, attorney
District 109 — part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $37,500
Notable: Stafford once worked for former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek. Her top priorities are promoting public education, spurring economic development and improving the healthcare system.
Greg Steube (R), 32, attorney and Iraq war veteran
District 67 — parts of Hillsborough, Manatee and Sarasota counties
Net Worth: $30,000
Notable: Steube, who was in his first semester of law school at the University of Florida during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, enlisted in the Army as an infantryman (through the delayed entry program), was commissioned as an infantryman lieutenant following officer candidate school and later transferred to the Army AG Corps. From 2006 to 2007, he served as the chief of detainee operations for Multi-National Division North in Iraq.
Carlos Trujillo (R), 28, assistant state attorney for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida
District 116 ?— part of Miami-Dade County
Net Worth: $35,000
Notable: Trujillo describes himself as a "fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican and a firm believer in the importance of family values, small government and low taxes."
Dana Young (R), 46, attorney
District 57 — part of Hillsborough County
Net Worth: $667,408
Notable: Young's grandfather, Randolph Hodges, served in the Florida Senate from 1953 to 1963, and her uncle, Gene Hodges, served in the Florida House from 1972 to 1988.
* Previously served in the Legislature.


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Sources of Sephardic and Jewish Genealogy
If you are Jewish and you are planning to trace the history of your Sephardic ancestors, you should know the right links to achieve your goal.
To an amateur genealogist, it is vital to know the best sources. Knowing the right sources will directly link to the right answers. It is like a mathematical equation, you need to know the right formula to get the right answer.
Failing to get the right sources might probably lead to frustration. That is pathetic. It is like getting a flunking grade in a final exam.
Anyhow, don't get discourage if you think you don't have a good source to get your goal. Failure and attempts will gradually lead you to the right sources. And instead of being frustrated, you should be the first one to encourage yourself.
The following are the traditional sources of tracing the Jewish and Sephardic ancestry. These sources are frequently applied by the professional genealogists. These are:
Interview. Definitely, this must be started among the eldest family members. Here, you would know the names of your previous ancestors as well as the related generations. You would also know here the places where they used to dwell. Not that alone, you would also get the clues for other possible sources that will strengthen your documentation.
However, the data accumulated through interviewing needs to be verified. You have to be very careful on your documentation.
Marriage registries, old letters, photographs, cemetery records and diaries; these are the classic sources to obtain the information on Jewish genealogy. These sorts of sources are useful for both the Sephardic and Ashkenazim genealogists.
Holocaust records like the records of Arolsen in the International Red Cross including the Pages of Testimony by Yad Vashem are also useful to the Sephardim. This is because many Sephardim suffered on the hands of the Nazis.
Yad Vashem decided recently to produce a list of names of these Holocaust fatalities. And then, he makes it accessible in the so-called electronically accessible database. This was made possible on the first year of the Millennium.
Definitely, this report was very advantageous to genealogists.
Unfortunately, the records of Arolsen in the International Red Cross are deprived to the searching of their families. The records are only made available only if the family can give the precise first name and surname.
Some other sources for a Sephardic researcher are the following:
Ketubbot. This is the marriage contract of the Jewish. Certainly, this is a significant part of Jewish genealogy. The wonderful thing in this source is that it usually presents numerous generations of two sides. Ketubbot is regarded as a bonanza for genealogists.
Archives of Alliance Israelite. This documents found in Paris beholds a marvelous data regarding the Jewish genealogy. This is because during the period of 19th century the Alliance Israelites created an immense effort in building schools and helping the Jews located in North Africa.
Lastly, the Internet, this is the easiest and most accessible form of accumulating data regarding the genealogy of any race.
However, you should also be cautious in getting the data. You can verify it by checking various sources.

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Legalities aside, that would be a crappy thing to do.


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A bad season for Houston got even worse tonight as rookie Astros pitcher Mickey Storey was knocked out of tonight's game on a play eerily similar to the one that left A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy with a fractured skull last week.
In the top of the eighth inning with the Astros down 3-0, Cubs outfielder Dave Sappelt drove a comebacker to the mound that Storey either attempted to field or deflect. Deflect it he did—right into his own face.
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Harold G. Womble
March 19, 1920 - October 16, 2013
Harold G. Womble passed away at home on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. He was born in Vallejo, CA on March 19, 2013 to his parents, Fred and Fredia Womble. Harold graduated from Vallejo High School in 1937 and then served as an apprentice in the electrical trade from August of 1937 to
January of 1941.
On March 19, 1942, he enlisted in the US Army in San Francisco. After Basic Training, Harold was a Fire Control Electrician in the 255th Anti Aircraft Artillery which shipped out to the Aleutian Islands in July, 1943. A majority of his time was spent on the island of Attu. Towards the end of World War II, his unit also served in Panama. Harold was honorably discharged in November of 1945 and as he used to say "was caught on the gangplank" by his fiancé, Nadeen Aldridge. They were married on December 22, 1945.
Harold returned to being an electrician and started Bockmon & Womble Electric Co. with his partner, Glen Bockmon, Sr. in January of 1955. After 35 years of business in Stockton, Harold retired but continued to be involved in various organizations. He was a member of the Morning Star Lodge #19 of the Free Masons, a member of the Scottish Rite and a Ben Ali Shriner. He earned a 50 year pin as a Shriner. He also served as an Electrical Contractor Representative on the Electrical Apprentice Board and taught electrical contracting courses at Delta College. Harold truly loved volunteering at the San Joaquin County Historical Society with the Tractor group and was awarded the Golden Acorn Award in 2006.
Personal interests included hunting, fishing and collecting classic cars. Harold caught a 72 lb. salmon on the Kenai River in Alaska. His cars have won awards at local car shows.
Harold is survived by his wife, Nadeen, his son, Greg and his wife, Gretchen. He has three grandchildren, Jill, Owen, Melinda and her husband Branden. His brother, Fred Womble, lives in
Memorial donations may be made in Harold's name to the San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum, P. O. Box 30, Lodi, California 95241-0030 or to Hospice of San Joaquin, 3888 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95204.


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I am looking for someone to hit with tomorrow afternoon. I think I am about a 4 and I am near the grosvenor metro station. There are two courts in my apartment complex.
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Hi Gabriel,
So apparently we either live in the same building or next to each other... haha. Im in GPII and also 3.5 - 4.0 ish. I'd love to hit with you today if you like (June 19th), perhaps around 4pm? I like hitting at the GP III courts, just because the building blocks the sun. Please let me know if you are interested.
I am off of tuckerman in the Park Side Apartments, so not quite neighbors, but close. Could you do 4:30, I might not be back home by 4. Also can you send the address so I know exactly where to go?
No problem. my number is 202 297 5535. I can come to your place if you'd like, i thought you were referring to the Grosvenor appartments, thats why i suggested the courts here. Give me a call and we can sort things out, and im fine with the timing --whatever works for you.
Hi Patrick, I should be able to hit next Saturday in the morning if you can.
9:30 should be fine. There are courts in my apartment complex on Montrose Ave, just off of Tuckerman
I am in Parkside. I will meet you at where Tuckerman meets Montrose at 9:30
Hi Gabriel, can you hit next Saturday (9/22) around 9.30 am?
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text: Monday, August 06, 2012 New World Physical Therapy Day Materials Available From WCPT The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) has developed new materials to help physical therapists organize activities and campaigns for World Physical Therapy Day 2012, celebrated September 8. As in previous years, WCPT's suggested theme is Movement for Health. This year's materials also include the message Fit for Life, encouraging physical therapists around the world to highlight the importance of physical activity throughout the lifespan. The following materials are available free for download from WCPT's website: World Physical Therapy Day logo, including web ads and banners posters and flyers/leaflets (aimed at patients and the public) banners clinical resources booklet for physical therapists with information and references about the profession's impact on noncommunicable diseases, which includes an article by WCPT President Marilyn Moffat, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, in addition to general facts and figures about the profession e-card to send with a personalized message to friends and colleagues to promote events stickers to print on standard printer labels ready-made tweets and Facebook postings t-shirt design press release template and guide to writing a press release Access the materials and start planning today.


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The Football Association will continue to review video footage of Eden Hazard's clash with a ballboy late on in Wednesday's Capital One Cup semi-final at the Liberty Stadium with at least one camera angle appearing to show the Belgian making contact only with the ball rather than the grounded teenager.
Hazard, whose reaction has prompted telephone calls of complaint to South Wales police and criticism from the Belgian Football Federation, was sent off by the referee, Chris Foy, for violent conduct after losing patience when the ballboy, Charlie Morgan, refused to hand over the ball. The player faces an automatic three-match ban and, while Chelsea are not expected to appeal against the severity of that sanction, the FA retains the power to add to the suspension if it deems it insufficient given the nature of the offence.
Any increased ban could be challenged by Chelsea, with the club then entitled to offer evidence on their player's behalf to a convened disciplinary commission. South Wales police had initially interviewed the 17-year-old Morgan, son of the Swansea director and millionaire hotel owner Martin Morgan, after the match in the presence of his father and were informed he did not wish to make a formal complaint. However, they have since confirmed that three telephone calls "from members of the public living in Sussex, Kent and west Wales are being followed up". It was a complaint emailed by an off-duty police officer that prompted an investigation into John Terry over the Anton Ferdinand affair.
The FA's disciplinary department spent Thursday scrutinising footage of the 78th-minute flashpoint, which occurred as Hazard attempted to retrieve the ball behind the byline with Swansea having been awarded a goal-kick. There was a minor tussle between the midfielder and Morgan, who duly flopped down on the loose ball with the Chelsea player's patience eventually snapping as he attempted to kick it free from under the teenager, who rolled over clutching his ribs. At least one camera angle suggests Hazard kicked only the ball, backing up the 22-year-old's post-match statement. While he subsequently apologised for becoming embroiled in the spat, he was clearly shocked at being dismissed for the first time in his professional career.
Chelsea, who sought to deal with the incident swiftly after the final whistle and invited Morgan into the away dressing room for Hazard to issue his apology, indicated after the game they would deal with the matter "internally", but there remains the possibility Hazard escapes a club fine. Swansea, for their part, will not face FA charges for the conduct of the ballboy, who had tweeted prior to kick-off suggesting he intended to waste time, with the governing body satisfied that such issues boil down to the judgment of referees.
The Capital One Cup finalists are adamant their ballboys were not under instructions to time-waste in the second leg of the semi-final, which Swansea had begun 2-0 up on aggregate. "There was no agenda, absolutely not," said Leigh Dineen, Swansea's vice-chairman. "Stoke, a few years ago, would get the ballboy to wipe the ball down for a long throw and that was something the ballboys were obviously told to do. But certainly we don't line up the ballboys and ask them to waste time. Definitely not."
Neither will Swansea be disciplining Morgan, who has worked as a ballboy at the club for six years and was drafted in at short notice on Wednesday because a colleague had been unable to attend as a result of the poor weather. His part in the matter has drawn stinging criticism from current and former players but there has been an acceptance that Hazard, too, should not have reacted as he did.
"It's unfortunate and, of course, it's not something we are proud of," said Steven Martens, the chief executive of the Belgian FA. "No football authority or person interested in football likes to see acts of violence or lack of respect and this is what happened. It might have happened in the heat of the fire but professionals are expected to be able to control themselves. They have to be able to control their emotions and when they don't that's unpleasant in general. But Eden is more than intelligent enough to understand that this is going to be a lesson learned for him. All of us make mistakes in life."
Those sentiments were echoed by Gordon Taylor, the chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association. "You can't take the law into your own hands," he added. "He lost his head, his actions were unacceptable and the referee had no alternative. He made the correct decision but you do not want people to be hung, drawn and quartered for things that happen in the heat of the moment."


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7th Annual Walk A Mile to Save Our Babies
In the most recently reported data, 27 babies died in Forsyth County before their first birthday. Please join the Forsyth County Infant Mortality Reduction Coalition and community partners as we walk through downtown Winston-Salem with empty baby strollers to commemorate each tragic loss in our community.
This year marks the 7th year of the Walk a Mile to Save Our Babies. Join the community on Thursday, September 29 at 11 am on the steps of Centenary United Methodist Church, 646 W. 5th St., Winston-Salem, to begin our march through downtown. Lunch and a program of awareness and remembrance will follow in the church banquet hall.
Commemorative t-shirts have been made available through the generous support of Forsyth County NC Healthy Start Baby Love Plus and will be available the day of the event on a "first come first served basis".
Register for the 2016 Walk A Mile To Save Our Babies here
Please share this story with friends, coworkers and especially with families that have experienced this loss.
FCIMRC Receives National Recognition
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials highlights North Carolina's approach to using 17P as one of six strategies at the forefront of reducing prematurity. Women who have had a previous preterm birth receive weekly 17P injections of a progesterone medication that reduces repeat preterm birth by up to one-third. Forsyth County Infant Mortality Reduction Coalition and community partners were recognized for their strong contribution to the NC 17P Project, including the production of a mom-to-mom DVD entitled "Footprints of Hope" that was used to educate women and health care providers about the benefits of 17P. Read more about 17P and other strategies being used to reduce preterm birth.
Read specifically about the NC 17P project and the role of Forsyth County Infant Mortality Reduction Coalition.
Keep Your New Year's Resolution
If you made a New Year's resolution to quit smoking – good for you ! Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States and in North Carolina. Resolve to make January 2014 your time to quit.
Find out how you can get the extra help you need to quit smoking.
2013 Forsyth County Infant Mortality Rates
Newly released statistics showed Forsyth County's infant mortality rate had increased slightly to 10.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate was higher than the state rate of 7.4 deaths, and is the highest infant mortality rate compared to the five most urban counties in North Carolina. Click here to read the press release and click here to read the 2013 Forsyth County Infant Mortality Fact Sheet.
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Install Clear On Windows Using Cygwin, Use Clear To Reset Console Output
When I SSH to Linux servers I use the clear command a lot. This allows me to quickly reset the shell interface so there is no output so depending on if I have typed the incorrect command numerous times or the screen is filled without from something like the locate command I find it really useful to reset the interface so the screen is blank again without having to hit enter 50 times. On all of my Windows machines I have Cygwin installed to provide as much of a Linux feel as possible however I never have taken the time to figure out what installs the clear command so I could have the same luxury of clearing the windows Command Prompt or the Console2 application I use on a regular basis. Below I describe how to install clear on Windows using the Cygwin application.


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"Hashtag" may have just been crowned 2012's word of the year, but it seems 2013 could be the year of "cord cutting."
Cord cutting is a growing trend threatening the cable industry's standard bundle package sales, as many are now opting for wireless broadcasting services such as Netflix, Apple TV, and Hulu.
According to a survey conducted by Convergence Consulting Group, "2.65 million people have forgone their cable subscriptions for alternative methods between the years of 2008 and 2011" to opt for low-cost Internet video streaming subscription services or other free video platforms.
Nielsen reports a similar figure, finding that the number of households paying a multichannel provider last year declined by 1.5 million. In fact, Nielsen noted a 22.8 percent increase in cord-cutters over the past year.
As of 2012, the cable industry is also seeing a reduction in subscriptions.
One new product that threatens the cable industry more than ever before is Intel's new Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service.
"For the past year or so, Intel has also quietly been working on a top-secret set-top box that could not only be better than what Apple, Google, and even Microsoft offer today, but also kill the cable industry as we know it," claims Forbes.
What's different about Intel's new platform is that consumers, for the first time, will be able to subscribe solely to individual channels or even TV shows—instead of having to buy bundled cable services with hundreds of channels from providers such as Time Warner.
Intel's new TV product allows viewers to pick and choose any channel they want a la carte and only pay for those channels.
And it seems Hollywood is on board, as Intel has negotiated licensing agreements with Tinseltown allowing customers to subscribe per-channel as well as have the ability to use "Cloud DVR" features.
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As Intel has approached Hollywood with much more dedication (and dollars), this is likely the single reason that Intel, more than any company before it, has the potential to really bring to consumers the things we have never seen in online content before, such as live sports, release schedules that match broadcast, and first episode through current libraries for video on demand ... Intel has made it clear to Hollywood they are serious about this product and dedicated to its longevity. Intel is also prepared to invest heavily in making it a success.
While Silicon Valley measures investments in tens of millions, Hollywood often drops more than $100 million into a single movie. Intel came to the table knowing this, and so was able to negotiate the licensing agreements with Hollywood that other tech giants have never been able to.
Intel also has the technology to create a product unlike its competitors, as the company has been providing chips for set-top boxes since 2005.
But some, like Business Insider's own Henry Blodget, aren't sold just yet.
In his March article, "Intel's Plan To Become A Cable Company Is One Of The Dumbest Ideas Ever," Blodget writes: "Nothing Intel knows how to do helps it in any way in going into this business. No one Intel knows helps it in any way in going into this business ... Mark our words: Intel's cable business will be dead on arrival."
(Intel was scheduled to hold a press event at CES last week but the company has since said they will not be announcing anything related to the product or holding any public demos.)
And Blodget's not alone.
One TV executive expressed to The Wall Street Journal that despite their dollars, no one wants to be the first to negotiate a deal with Intel, fearing disrupting relationships with cable and satellite operators.
But the competition for cord-free eyeballs is fierce.
Netflix is increasingly looking to create its own content and is even developing new seasons of "Arrested Development," for example.
Amazon also recently announced it is developing its own TV shows, and YouTube is betting $100 million per year on original content.
But in the TV industry, $100 million is a small sum compared to the $5 billion Jeff Bewkes says Time Warner spends on content in a single year.
And Time Warner is still holding tight to one of its entities: HBO.
The cable giant's subscribers can watch HBO programming via HBO Go, but they still have to subscribe to HBO through a cable provider.
Because HBO is owned by Time Warner, they will never allow a pure HBO Go option since HBO is the reason many people still subscribe to a broader bundled cable package.
Many cord cutters were up in arms because they want HBO content and are willing to pay, say, $10-20 for HBO Go without a cable package, but have no option to do so.
163,673 people even signed a Twitter petition saying they would pay for HBO Go as a separate entity, but the network known for their quality original programming refuses to change anything "for now."
Despite some cable giants still holding strong to the current cable model, it seems their grasp on the cable cord will only last "for now."
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The project team behind the $1.6 billion Quincy Center redevelopment project announced some significant road-closure changes Friday. The details can be found below.
In other project news, Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, said the $12 million Town Brook relocation project is winding down and should be completed this fall. M.J. Nicholls Landscaping of Quincy is installing two pocket parks around Town Brook on both sides of Mechanic Street, where Hannon Parkway and Revere Road meet.
Farther south, the underground portion of the Town Brook project on Centre Street has been finished, Walker said. Crews had been closing part of the road at night to help augment the flow of water into the brook. Walker said Centre Street will be repaved in October.
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text: Williams has not played competitively since winning Wimbledon last year [GALLO/GETTY] US tennis champion Serena Williams is recovering at her Los Angeles home after undergoing emergency treatment for a blood clot in one of her lungs, the former world number one confirmed on Wednesday. "This has been extremely hard, scary, and disappointing," Williams said in a statement. "I am doing better, I'm at home now and working with my doctors to keep everything under control." The 29-year-old Williams was photographed on Sunday at an Academy Awards party in Hollywood but fell ill the following day and was admitted to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles where she underwent surgery. Doctors discovered the blood clot after Williams travelled to New York last week for a treatment on a foot injury that has sidelined her for eight months, according to her spokeswoman Nicole Chabot. "Serena did indeed suffer from a pulmonary embolism last week and the hematoma was another unexpected scare," Chabot said. "Thankfully everything was caught in time. With continued doctor visits to monitor her situation, she is recuperating at home under strict medical supervision." Ongoing Injury Williams has not played competitively since winning last year's Wimbledon. Shortly after the victory she cut her foot on broken glass at a restaurant in Germany. The American has had two operations on her foot since then and was preparing to return to training soon in the hope of making a comeback in Miami later this month. Williams has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles but has slipped from number one to 11th on the world rankings during her extended absence and faces an uncertain future. Embolisms, often caused when blood clots form in the legs or arm then travel towards the leg and hearts, are usually treated by blood thinners. "Athletes travel a lot. Air travel and prolonged sitting in one spot can lead to blood clots," said Dr Mark Adelman, director of Vascular Surgery and member of the Cardiac and Vascular Institute at NYU Langone Medical Centre. "If a person has a pulmonary embolism they would need to be on an anti-coagulant like Coumadin for six to 12 months. "They would be able to play sports and be back on the court with an anti-coagulant. If the clot comes back the patient may need an implanted filter device to catch future blood clots." SOURCE: Reuters Health Environment Humanitarian crises Sport


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Eastpointe has included a public safety director to oversee both the police and fire departments in the 2013-14 fiscal year budget as a way to lower long-term legacy costs.
John McNeillance, who retired in 2011 as public safety director for Oak Park following a 29-year career there, is expected to take over in Eastpointe next week. The 58-year-old Troy native will earn a $88,110 salary.
'My first order of business will be to get to know the people I'm working for and working with, and establish those relationships. Then we'll work on evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the police and fire departments,' McNeillance said.
City Manager Steve Duchane said the appointment will help lower public safety costs as the city will not have to pay for the director's health care. The acting police and fire chiefs will become deputy chiefs.
'This move will help reduce the costs of leadership in the departments,' Duchane said.
The Eastpointe City Council this week began the process of reviewing the proposed $50.3 million budget, which includes $12 million for public safety.
Continued losses in property tax revenue due to the housing crisis, combined with cuts in state revenue sharing funds left Eastpointe with a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall. To make ends meet, the city has taken $3.6 million out of its $10 million fund balance.
If the city's spending patterns continue without major changes, Eastpointe could be cash insolvent by 2016.
One way the city hopes to increase revenue is asking the state to allow Eastpointe to create special assessment districts for police and fire services.
'The bottom line is if something doesn't change, we'll be out of business in a few years,' Duchane said. 'It's imperative for the state to look out for the city's survival.'
City officials have been cutting costs in recent years including another $200,000 in concessions from administrative workers through changes in pensions and health care.
Other proposals in the budget for new revenue include a fee-based garbage collection for residents and eliminating refuse collection for commercial and industrial businesses; a charter amendment asking voters to eliminate the pension board and retirement system and replace it with a third-party administration system for retirees, saving the city $400,000; a special assessment for street lighting that would raise $385,000; and a charter amendment to allow the city to levy up to 20 mills for general operations, or about .83 of a mill more than is currently being levied.
Also, the city will raise water and sewer rates to offset increases passed on from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. That includes 3.8 percent for water and 9.5 percent for sewer.
City council members will review the proposed budget and are expected to vote on the final version in May.


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Recent technological advances have stimulated a "new era" in human genetic epidemiology, with candidate gene association studies giving way to genome-wide association studies and mutation detection now possible at an exome or even genome scale. The large datasets resulting from this field has led to a substantial increase in the role of bioinformatics and statistical genetics, whilst the scale of the discoveries provides plentiful substrate for laboratory-based analyses.
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Friday the 13th - Oddfest
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
Posted 25 November 2013 - 03:00 PM
Sounds like fun; I'll start hitch-hiking from Texas this weekend. Ha!
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President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would act alone _ even on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration _ if a divided and uncooperative Congress continued to fail to act.
Obama will announce a set of executive actions at the end of the summer designed to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, across the southern border, following the departure of Congress last week for a five-week summer recess without agreeing on a solution or funding.
"In the face of that kind of dysfunction, what I can do is . . . scour our authorities to try to make progress," Obama said at a news conference at the State Department. "I promise you, the American people don't want me just standing around twiddling my thumbs and waiting for Congress to get something done."
Obama answered questions about a variety of domestic and international topics in his final news conference before he and his family leave on Saturday for their annual vacation to Martha's Vineyard. The Obamas are expected to return to Washington in two weeks.
The president has spent months administering more than 40 executive actions to push past a gridlocked Congress, some minor and some significant. Any additional actions, especially on immigration, are sure to anger House of Representatives Republicans, who already have voted to sue him for acting on his own on to make changes to health care legislation.
About 52,000 minors traveling without their parents have been caught at the border since October, according to the Obama administration. That number has slowed in recent weeks.
"We have a broken system. It's under-resourced, and we've got to make choices in terms of how we allocate personnel and resources," Obama said. "My preference would be an actual comprehensive immigration law. . . . Until that happens, I'm going to have to make choices. That's what I was elected to do."
In answer to a question, Obama said he can't solve the controversial practice that allows U.S. companies to relocate abroad to avoid paying billions of dollars in federal taxes, but that he is examining what he can do to at least discourage it.
The practice, called inversion, occurs when large U.S. corporations merge with smaller foreign companies, moving their headquarters to low-tax countries such as Ireland while making only minimal changes to their operations. The U.S. company, though, becomes a subsidiary and saves on taxes.
"We don't want to see this trend grow," Obama said. "We don't want companies who have up until now been playing by the rules suddenly looking over their shoulder and saying, 'You know what, some of our competitors are gaming the system and we need to do it, too.'"
The news conference came late Wednesday at the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind summit with leaders of nearly all Africa's nations designed to boost economic ties between the United States and Africa.
Thousands of heads of states, lawmakers, business leaders, development organizations and government officials flocked to Washington for the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which the White House billed as the largest gathering of African leaders ever in Washington. They discussed investment, democracy building, education and health care, though some of the summit was overshadowed by the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Obama announced $33 billion in new trade and investments in Africa and a goal to bring electricity to 16 million African homes and businesses. He said he and African leaders agreed the summit should be a regular event.
"This summit reflects the reality that even as Africa continues to face great challenges, we're also seeing the emergence of a new, more prosperous Africa," the president said. "Africa's progress is being led by Africans, including leaders here today. I want to take this opportunity again to thank my fellow leaders for being here."
Lesley Clark and Tony Pugh of the Washington Bureau contributed.


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Popular fiction is supposed to be essentially story-driven; the proof that it works is the sound of the pages turning. But a few of the great pop writers were stylists, above all, and their success is measured by a different sound, that of the snort of appreciation followed by a phrase read out loud to a half-sleeping spouse in bed at night. The pages stop turning while we admire the sentences. Few readers of Raymond Chandler can recall, or even follow, the plot of "Farewell, My Lovely"—Chandler himself couldn't always follow his plots. What they remember is that Moose Malloy on a Los Angeles street was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel-food cake.
Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon, the New York storyteller, newspaperman, and sportswriter who wrote for the Hearst press for more than thirty years, inspired a couple of Capra movies, and died in 1946. Runyon's appeal, though it has to be fished out like raisins from the dreary bran of his O. Henry-style plotting, came from his mastery of an American idiom. We read Runyon not for the stories but for the slang, half found on Broadway in the nineteen-twenties and thirties and half cooked up in his own head. We read Runyon for sentences like this: "If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business." And for paragraphs like these, at the beginning of "Lonely Heart":
It seems that one spring day, a character by the name of Nicely-Nicely Jones arrives in a ward in a hospital in the City of Newark, N.J., with such a severe case of pneumonia that the attending physician, who is a horse player at heart, and very absentminded, writes 100, 40 and 10 on the chart over Nicely-Nicely's bed.
It comes out afterward that what the physician means is that it is 100 to 1 in his line that Nicely-Nicely does not recover at all, 40 to 1 that he will not last a week, and 10 to 1 that if he does get well he will never be the same again.
Well, Nicely-Nicely is greatly discouraged when he sees this price against him, because he is personally a chalk eater when it comes to price, a chalk eater being a character who always plays the short-priced favorites, and he can see that such a long shot as he is has very little chance to win. In fact, he is so discouraged that he does not even feel like taking a little of the price against him to show.
Afterward there is some criticism of Nicely-Nicely among the citizens around Mindy's restaurant on Broadway, because he does not advise them of this marker, as these citizens are always willing to bet that what Nicely-Nicely dies of will be overfeeding and never anything small like pneumonia, for Nicely-Nicely is known far and wide as a character who dearly loves to commit eating.
Here are all the elements of Runyon's voice: the perpetual present tense, the world without conditional moods, the stilted, over-elaborate attempt at precision, and, above all, a way of life and a social class evoked purely through vernacular. And then there is the unchanging, perpetually nameless and anxious-eager Narrator, with his warily formal diction and his cautious good manners—a born exquisitist telling stories at Lindy's, trying to define a chalk-eater while using the mild word "discouraged." The Narrator is, crucially, one of the lowest-status figures in Runyon's bicameral world, where the petty hustlers and horseplayers who haunt Lindy's by day are set against their sinister opposites, hit men and gangsters, who mostly hail from Brooklyn and Harlem and arrive at night. (The chorus dolls of the Hot Box night club move between the two.) "One evening along about seven o'clock I am sitting in Mindy's restaurant putting on the gefilte fish, which is a dish I am very fond of, when in come three parties from Brooklyn wearing caps as follows: Harry the Horse, Little Isadore and Spanish John"—that's the essential Runyon opening. The Narrator has to be careful; he is telling stories, often, of what elaborate politesse it takes to keep from getting killed, and his care is the source of a lot of his comedy. A wiseguy on the lower end of the totem pole is of necessity an expert in courtesy. (And Runyon's world, let's note, is not Times Square and Forty-second Street, where the kids and the grind houses and the freak shows were, but up at Broadway around Fiftieth, where the night clubs and the restaurants and the drugstores were.)
Even the best pop writer, though, needs a pop monument to be entombed within, or the odds are long indeed, as the Narrator would say, of his staying the course. Just as Chandler fans must be grateful for Bogart, Runyon fans have to be perpetually happy that the pure idea of Runyon, almost independent of his actual writings, produced the best of all New York musicals: Frank Loesser's "Guys and Dolls," which made its début in 1950 and is just now reopening on Broadway in a lavish and energetic new production. But then "Guys and Dolls" is so good that it can triumph over amateur players and high-school longueurs and could probably be a hit put on by a company of trained dolphins in checked suits with a chorus of girl penguins.
There is something almost mystical about how much of Runyon resides in a show that contains so little of his actual matter. (And, no surprise, it was a producer's wife's reading Runyon in bed that started the show rolling.) A device of the new production has Runyon himself silently haunting his characters and "writing" the show, which is generous but misconceived: the "Runyonesque" floats free, spectrally, above the real Runyon. As one of the show's original producers, Cy Feuer, explains in "I Got the Show Right Here," the autobiography he published when he was ninety-two, the idea was just for a Runyon musical comedy, his world and sound, with the specific story to be filled in later. What passes for a plot in "Guys and Dolls"—Sky Masterson's attempt to seduce the missionary Sarah Brown, on a bet—isn't Runyon's at all but is lifted from an old wheeze in a very wheezy old play called "Sailor, Beware!," while the subplot of Nathan Detroit's romance with Miss Adelaide was the invention of the director, George S. Kaufman. (Though, as scholars of such things might point out, Runyon's story of the long engagement of Hot Horse Herbie and Miss Cutie Singleton anticipates the topos.) The book-writer Abe Burrows and the peerless songwriter Loesser, meanwhile, made up all the actual lines and lyrics. Yet the ambition to make a Runyon musical was genuinely accomplished, suggesting that the Runyonesque bears a complicated, Holy Ghost-like relationship to the bones of Runyon's stories.
Though Runyon is still in print, and still read, he has in recent years slipped into the netherland of ancient boozy anecdote and old photographs where newspapermen of his vintage end up. He died when Jackson Pollock was already painting, but he feels as remote as Thomas Nast. The best book about Runyon is Jimmy Breslin's slightly dispiriting biography, published in 1991, one of those "matches" that make a publisher feel wonderful until the manuscript comes in. Writers train for one length or another, and Breslin's is essentially a series of eight-hundred-word columns strung together, all told in that good Breslin style, where this guy said that to this other guy—quick glimpses of Prohibition, the Hearst press, stealing coats in the Depression—so that the total effect is like watching the world's longest subway train go by at night. Still, there is something more in Runyon, one feels on rereading him, than just old jokes and columns and nostalgia for "Runyonland." Pete Hamill, another newspaperman turned novelist, has written a lovely introduction to the best current collection of Runyon, "Guys and Dolls and Other Writings," emphasizing the artistry that it took to make funny stories from the resistant material at hand. And there is something genuinely artful, not just artisanal, in his writing. Musical comedies work by creating circumstances in which people can sing their loves and dreams. A kind of love and a kind of dream, deeper than might be apparent, must run through Runyon's writing to make it sing so well.
By a cosmic coincidence, Damon Runyon was born in Manhattan, but it was Manhattan, Kansas—as though God were giving him the right birthplace for the obit but keeping him away from his true home until he was ready. The young Runyon actually grew up in Colorado, and stayed there until he was thirty. The Colorado-Manhattan connection in that period is so singular as to look almost significant: the newspaperman Gene Fowler, who was the prime historian of John Barrymore and the other hard-drinking upper-Broadway thespians (as they called themselves), came from there; and so did this magazine's Harold Ross, the epitome of a country boy landing a biplane on Broadway. If there's any meaning to the pattern, it may be that Colorado wasn't Iowa. In the tales about the early years of all three guys, there is always an emphasis on con games seen, card games played, a quarrel with Bat Masterson just missed. These guys are not farming. A newspaper-trained poker player coming from Colorado in those years probably thought of himself as cannier and tougher than the city slickers, who were there to be taken. Runyon had met Harry the Horse, or another version of him, before he ever got to town.
And then, just as it takes a naïf to find Paris cafés adorable—the natives find them about as interesting as diners—it took another kind of naïf to think that the lowlifes of Broadway were charming. (Old-timers tell me that the cheesecake at Lindy's was actually very gummy.) When Runyon at last arrived in New York, in 1910, it took him a while to find his way. He went to work for the Hearst press—not at the Evening Journal but at the American. It's one of those distinctions that seem slight now but mattered then: the Evening Journal was the popular screaming tabloid, while the American was Hearst's attempt at a quality paper. So Runyon started out on the higher side of the ledger already, and at the top, covering the New York Giants.
He began his life in New York cautiously; he planted his wife, who followed him from Colorado, in the outer boroughs, and fathered a couple of children in that absent and absent-minded way of newspapermen of the time. Baseball, already the sacrament of the tabloids, was where he made his first mark, and where he seems to have made his first distinct turn: he had come to New York idolizing the great and virtuous Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson, whom he had been writing about back in Colorado for years, sight unseen. Discovering that the real Mathewson was a bit of a prig and a bore—he could play and beat six of his teammates at checkers all at once, but then, Runyon noted, the teammates could barely tell a jump from a julep—Runyon decided to look elsewhere for his stories. He wrote about Bugs Raymond, the drunken, carousing hurler who was Billy Martin to Matty's Tom Seaver. Runyon pitched his tent on the shady side of the street, where the stories were.
It was only slowly, and over time, that he insinuated himself into the night world that he made his own best subject. His method was a simple form of Broadway Zen: he went to Lindy's, then an all-night Jewish deli on Broadway, and sat. "I am the sedentary champion of the city," he explained. "In order to learn anything of importance, I must remain seated. Why I am the best is that I can last an entire day without causing a chair to squeak." It seems to have been true; the interesting bad guys of that era—the Frank Costellos and Arnold Rothsteins—apparently didn't mind having newspapermen around who were listening, perhaps because they assumed from first principles that newspapermen were harmless and too intimidated even to need to be bribed.
Basically, Runyon spent the twenties absorbing the material he would use in the thirties. He had published some bad poetry in a Vachel Lindsay manner, and only much later began trying to turn the gangster-talk he heard into stories. But his ambitions were in place all along. This pattern—sportswriter into writer—was so familiar that it is easy to forget its peculiarities. The great American humorists of the first half of the twentieth century divide pretty neatly into newspaper guys and magazine writers, drudges for the penny press and hacks for the slicks, as they thought of themselves. Runyon, Lardner, and Don Marquis were all newspaper writers; Perelman, Thurber, and Benchley all magazine guys. What divided them was education and the felt experience of the Great War. Runyon's style, like that of Lardner and Fowler and Ben Hecht, is still rooted in prewar expectations. The literary manners of the O. Henry age—particularly the marriage of the louche and the lugubrious—lingers in his work till the end and gives it, along with its energy, a certain stagy quality. So Runyon, though dreaming of "real" writing, dreamed of it in a very late-eighteen-nineties way. [#unhandled_cartoon]
The key moment for Runyon occurred in 1929, after Arnold Rothstein was murdered in a strange, never quite explained hotel shooting. Runyon, as the writer who knew him best, or, at least, was his best listener, felt obliged to produce something, but couldn't find a way to get it out—until he began to write about the gangsters he had come to know as fictional characters, and, weird stroke of genius, as comic fictional characters. He saw that he could dramatize his accumulated experience of violence on Broadway if he made it funny. He sat down and, in longhand, wrote, "Only a rank sucker will think of taking two peeks at Dave the Dude's doll, because while Dave may stand for the first peek, figuring it is a mistake, it is a sure thing he will get sored up at the second peek, and Dave the Dude is certainly not a man to have sored up at you." The story sold to a Hearst magazine for the nice sum of eight hundred dollars. Others followed. Fiction was a way of putting funny hats on hit men.
Stories of this kind, the Runyon story, began to pour out of him for the next decade. Sales figures are hard to find, but it seems fair to say that Runyon became a more genuinely popular writer in the thirties than almost any other American humorist. His stories got sold to Hollywood for twenty films, including "Lady for a Day" (which was later remade, with Bette Davis, as "Pocketful of Miracles") and "Little Miss Marker," which made Shirley Temple into a star. Like Anita Loos, he got his first real dose of highbrow appreciation when his stories were published in England, in the mid-thirties.
Reading the thirties stories straight through, one is startled by the lack of characterization. Runyon doesn't really study gangsters; he just makes up a cookie-shape called Gangster and bakes extras as needed. The lack of sentiment and the love of language are what's new in his work. Where the other newspaper-made writers tended to be, as newspaper columnists still are, moralistic—Lardner, although a master of common speech, is intent on unmasking the cruelty beneath the cheerfulness of American life—Runyon's stuff is strictly amoral, with a tearjerking moment set down here and there like last night's carnation floating by in the gutter. No one grows or changes or learns, everyone's motive is mercenary, everyone is flat as a pancake, no moral drama takes place—all the life is in the language. Like Wodehouse, whom he in some ways resembles, Runyon inherited a comedy of morals and turned it into a comedy of sounds, language playing for its own sake.
That language still dazzles and delights. The usual thing is to insist that Runyon had an amazing "ear" for natural idiom, but, as Cy Feuer points out, Runyon's dialogue is essentially unplayable, too far removed from any human idiom to be credible in drama. What Runyon wasn't doing while he was sitting in Lindy's was just listening and taking dialogue down. Writers with a good ear (Salinger, John O'Hara) certainly listen more acutely than the rest of us, but what they really have is a better filter for telling signal from noise, and then turning it into song.
There are two layers of idiom-making laid one on top of the other in Runyon's writing, a technique that accounts both for its complexity and for its comic, slightly out-of-focus nature—for its mixture of authenticity and unreality. As far as one can tell, Jewish crooks of the period really did speak a surprisingly elaborate and cautious diction. They didn't speak like Runyon characters, but they tried to speak high for the same reason that they polished their shoes and tipped their hats and dressed in suits: fancy was classy. This tendency still shows in Sinatra's recorded speech, which, when made for public consumption, is extremely "high," a Hoboken boy's idea of a class act.
But with Runyon the crucial added thing, as Hamill points out, is that the Narrator is not just telling his stories but writing them. He's reporting a slang of the streets and writing a yarn at the same time. A whole second story of over-elaboration is placed on top of the already stilted-up vernacular, like one of those buildings on Forty-sixth Street where the ground floor is a restaurant with waiters coming in and out while girls in leotards work out in a dance studio on the floor above. The ever-blossoming additional clauses are most often the Narrator's idea of written language stapled awkwardly onto his knowledge of spoken language:
Well, besides black hair, this doll has a complexion like I do not know what, and little feet and ankles, and a way of walking that is very pleasant to behold. Personally, I always take a gander at a doll's feet and ankles before I start handicapping her, because the way I look at it, the feet and ankles are the big tell in the matter of class, although I wish to state that I see some dolls in my time who have large feet and big ankles, but who are by no means bad.
But this doll I am speaking of is 100 per cent in every respect, and as she passes, The Humming Bird looks at her, and she looks at The Humming Bird, and it is just the same as if they hold a two hours' conversation on the telephone, for they are both young, and it is spring, and the way language can pass between young guys and young dolls in the spring without them saying a word is really most surprising, and, in fact, it is practically uncanny.
The naturally exuberant street language ("I always take a gander at a doll's feet and ankles before I start handicapping her") always gets topped off by self-conscious writerly gestures ("although I wish to state"; "by no means bad"; "is really most surprising"). The Narrator's half-conscious knowledge that there are rules out there that you've got to respect leads him to overcompensate by respecting the wrong rules; that is, using formal diction where there ought to be vernacular idioms and vernacular idioms where there ought to be formal diction.
So Runyon's key insight into American slang is double: first, that street speech tends to be more, not less, complicated grammatically than "standard" speech; but, second, that slang speakers, when they're cornered to write, write not just fancy but stiff. In prime Runyon, the two sounds—street ornate and fountain-pen formal—run together into a single argot and beautiful endless sentences: "This Meyer Marmalade is really a most superior character, who is called Meyer Marmalade because nobody can ever think of his last name, which is something like Marmalodowski, and he is known far and wide for the way he likes to make bets on any sporting proposition, such as baseball, or horse races, or ice hockey, or contests of skill and science, and especially contests of skill and science." When Abe Burrows brilliantly recast Runyonese for "Guys and Dolls," what he did instinctively was to scrub off the second, writerly patina and keep in the elaborate speech. This approach worked wonderfully onstage, where we easily accept a stylized dialogue, as we do with David Mamet now. (In the movies, that arch-naturalist medium, it still sounds like too much, and one aches all through the Samuel Goldwyn movie of "Guys and Dolls.")
The other oddity in Runyon's stories is how startlingly they reverse the normal ethnic roles in American writing. The Bellow generation has made us accustomed to ironically distanced Jewish narrators of violent or extreme events. But with Runyon the controlling sensibility is that of the Gentile author expressing his wonder (albeit through the puppet voice of the hamische narrator) at the violent antics of the Jews. A parallel case is "The Great Gatsby," where the narrator is horrified and amused by the Jewish gangster Wolfsheim, and toys with and hints at the idea, never quite firmed up, that James Gatz / Jay Gatsby is not just linked to Jews but is Jewish himself. Runyon's characters are not just gangsters but mostly Jewish gangsters, as is the nameless but gefilte-fish-loving Narrator—the steady run of gefilte fish is in there to type him, as corned beef and cabbage might an Irishman—and their Jewishness is, from Runyon's point of view, part of the joke, part of what makes them comic-sinister. They're tough Jews but family Jews, too. A lot of the comedy in Runyon comes from having gangsters who kill their friends but don't like to disappoint their wives. One of the weirdest of all the stories, "The Brain Goes Home," tells of how the Brain, the gangster patterned on Arnold Rothstein, after being knifed on Fifty-second Street, is driven in a taxi from one of his Manhattan homes to another, where each of his dolls in turn refuses to take him in.
Runyon's simple love poetry, moony eyed tough guys falling for calculating gals, turns out to be from the heart. With his long-suffering wife stuck out on Broadway and Ninety-fifth—Runyon was said to spend what little time he had at home picking out an outfit to wear to work; i.e., to Lindy's—he fell hard for a down-on-her-luck Spanish countess from Madrid named Patrice, who was, of course, actually an up-on-her-heels Mexican dancer from Tampico. She was twenty-six years younger than he was, and seems to have led him quite a life. But, miracle of miracles, she actually got him to leave his wife, and they were married—by Mayor Jimmy Walker, no less—in August of 1932, with the Depression falling hard on everyone's head. Walker fled the country shortly after, one step ahead of his own cops, while Runyon and his bride went off to spend their honeymoon in Los Angeles—he seems to have felt increasingly at home there—and then settled in at the Parc Vendome building, on Fifty-seventh Street, within walking distance of both Lindy's and the Hearst offices. Runyon resumed his sitting and writing life, and Patrice, as Breslin writes in a nice Runyon-Breslin sentence, "sat with him about as long as the form chart for these things indicated that she would." But he had his doll, at last.
A few years into the next decade, though, Runyon started ailing, from the smoker's throat cancer that would kill him. The doctors didn't have much that they could do, but did it all the same, slicing and cutting, leaving him voiceless. He kept on working through the end of the Second World War, and got to see his story "Little Pinks" made into the fine film "The Big Street." But by the time he died, in December of 1946, with a new population pouring onto Broadway, he already seemed to belong to the newspaper past.
It was two years later that the producer's wife looked up from her pillow and said that this stuff might make a show. "Guys and Dolls" is really quite late and retrospective—by 1950, Scarsdale theatregoers were already ruling Broadway—and the end of "Guys and Dolls," with the decidedly anti-Runyon marriage and reform of the guys, is a very fifties gesture. Television is already on its way in, and the suburbs beckon for Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson. As the new production reminds you, it's the last real musical comedy, before it became all musical theatre. What lifts the show to something nearly perfect, and, though Runyonesque, on the whole richer than Runyon, is the warmth and intelligence of Frank Loesser's music, which is full of knowing ironic pastiche of things that were already long over—burlesque numbers and Irish crooning and a bit of Gay Nineties cadence—but also has a couple of ballads that take the most beautiful left turns in the dark. (Think of the second strain of "I've Never Been in Love Before.") Runyon's people are deliberately flat, like the paper dolls of the original production's poster; Loesser's songs give them heart, and another dimension.
Yet Runyon remains a living presence. Writers with a great ear, like Chandler and Runyon, give us their words, but they also give us a license to listen—a license to listen to street speech and folk speech with a mind newly alive to the poetry implicit in it. One still finds echoes of Runyon's dialogue in David Mamet's. Mamet's ear, a thing of wonder, is not only as stylized as Runyon's but is eerily similar. One wonders, watching "Speed-the-Plow," whether studio heads ever really talked like this—until one grasps that Mamet's aim is to capture not their voices but their souls, the inner monologue of stilted present-tense self-justification, the slightly formal tone we all use inside when arguing in our own defense. Runyon's essential discovery was that the right way to get the soul of street-speakers was not to dress their language down but to dress it up. As much as American slang breaks toward the interrupted, partial, and incomplete, it also bends toward the fancy, overformal, and elaborate. Mamet gets this best, but Runyon heard it first.
And then there is something more in Runyon, something local, some energy on the page that still feels like it's ours, long after the last checked suit left Fifty-second Street. When he died, the story goes, they took his ashes up in a plane and sprinkled them on Times Square. A moment's thought about the reality of that—the plane, the aim, the height, the wind—tells you another truth. He ended up all over the island. ♦


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Most flood victims not covered by current programs
Drew Digby, Carlton County lead on a response to Flash Flood of 2012 damage, addressed the Carlton County Board at their last meeting of 2012. In a nutshell, Digby said there are over 400 active cases in the county with 91 residential homes approved for Small Business Administration (SBA) loans totaling $2,392,000 and two county businesses approved for $175,500 in SBA loans.
According to the Minnesota Housing Financing internet site, up to the middle of December only 93 Quick Start loans were awarded for $1.4 million. These loans were for all Northern Minnesota counties affected by the flooding. These funds were made available by the Minnesota Legislature in a special session in August.
Digby also reported that many flood victims were not signed up for any help. "There are still people out there that need help and do not know of the services available," Digby commented by phone interview. "The independent spirit of the local people to rebuild on their own and by their own means is admirable. But there is help to expedite the recovery process."
Commissioner Dick Brenner of Cloquet explained, "Elderly homeowners in their 70s and 80s have been offered a loan from Quick Start that will be totally forgiven in 10 years if they stay in their homes. They ask themselves the question — will I pass on a problem to my children if I die or end up in a nursing situation in which I am forced to sell and a 10-year forgivable loan becomes their burden? They don't want to make that choice. In some cases, elderly are living in housing that should be torn down. It is sad."
One problem with Quick Start loans is that they are not tailored for property older residents occupy that are set up in a life estate status. Quick Start loans use the property as collateral for the loan. This is not possible for life estate property whose interest is held by the children.
Brenner went on to relate that over 200 homes are not rebuildable because of extensive damages or in some cases are in a flood plain. DNR funding is available for purchasing the sites and razing the structures. This program has been available for some time to reduce the number of dwellings in watershed areas and reduce pollution and runoff into protected waters. "The end result is less homes in the area," said Brenner, "and less property on the tax roles. These waterfront properties are limited and market pressures add considerably to the local tax base. The developing tax impact could be huge."
The bottom line is that so far perhaps only a fifth of flood victims have received any help for their residences or businesses. The Quick Start program deadline has been extended to January 31, 2013, but the only catch is that you can only apply for that funding if you had first applied for a SBA loan and were denied. "Just by extending the deadline over 100 new cases were added to the active list," Brenner explained.
There are some positive avenues on the horizon. Carlton County has applied for Minnesota Investment Fund money to help flood-ravaged businesses and word on that possibility will come in shortly. Unfortunately, Carlton County is the only county in the region that has applied for the funding. Other regional businesses must look elsewhere.
Brenner explained that Carlton County is looking at avenues for more help through the Minnesota Legislature. Not all the funding appropriated for the Minnesota Investment Fund has been allocated. With Democrats in control of the House, Senate, and Governorship and Senator Tony Lourey and Representative Mike Sundin part of a strong DFL Northeastern Minnesota legislative team, a Legislative solution is possible.
One local county official summed it up best, "The vast majority of the flood victims did everything right. Paid their mortgage. Had current insurance. The flood was not covered by the insurance and these homeowners are stuck." Some agencies have said that a disaster such as this has a seven-year cycle of resolution. A flood turns into a disaster, which turns into a struggle to rebuild and that finally turns into an economic downturn.


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Gospel Witness to Israel Mission
Gospel Witness to Israel Mission (Mennonite Brethren) at Winnipeg, Manitoba, was founded January 1948 by Jacob Pankratz and his wife, who had done mission work among Jews in Toronto, Ontario. In September 1948 the General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America took over the responsibility for this mission and delegated the work to its City Mission Committee for supervision and financial support. The chief work the Mission did among the 20,000 Jews of Winnipeg was house to house visitation, and distributing New Testaments and other literature.
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Toews, John A. "Gospel Witness to Israel Mission." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 26 Aug 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gospel_Witness_to_Israel_Mission&oldid=81321.
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Toews, John A. (1956). Gospel Witness to Israel Mission. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 August 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gospel_Witness_to_Israel_Mission&oldid=81321.
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