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Baxter Reid, who was in the US on a five-year visa, arrested at Canadian border after delays receiving clearance meant he breached his visa conditions.
An Australian man has been handcuffed and locked up in a US detention centre after apparently breaching his visa conditions by just over one hour.
Sydney man Baxter Reid, 26, was in the US on a five-year visa and had travelled to Canada as part of a requirement for him to exit and re-enter America every six months to keep his visa valid.
But his American girlfriend Heather Kansco said Reid was arrested by US Border Patrol officers on 23 April after delays receiving clearance to cross into Canada meant he breached his visa conditions by just over an hour.
[US Border Officers Lock Up Australian Man After He 'Overstayed Visa By One Hour', by Elle Hunt, The Guardian, May 2, 2017]
There is a class of illegal aliens in the United States commonly referred to as visa overstays. These are illegal aliens who enter the United States with a non-immigrant visa of some sort, then stay beyond the date they are admitted to, e.g. the period of admission. This period of admission is unrelated to how long the visa is valid for, as a visa is only a permit to appear at a Port-of-Entry (POE) before an immigration officer, and apply for admission in a particular non-immigrant category. That a visa remains valid, or for that matter expires while that particular alien is in the United States is irrelevant. Once an alien is admitted, the controlling time period is the date to which the alien was admitted. Generally, visitors for personal or tourist visits apply using a B-2 non-immigrant visa and are admitted for a period of six months. Much too long, as most tourists stay for less than a month. But that is another issue. A visitor must have an unrelinquished residence abroad and the means to support himself while in the United States for the period they claim they will stay. Note that if they say they are planning to stay for two weeks, then stay for six months, that is a violation of the terms of admission, a deportable offense, and, since they committed fraud at entry, also a criminal offense, in violation of Title 8 United States Code, Section 1325, Improper Entry By An Alien, which besides criminalizing entry without inspection (EWI), the crossing of the border illegally, also prohibits fraud, e.g. lies to an inspecting immigration officer.
In the above case of Baxter Reid, we have a variation of the overstay. The overstay generally is admitted to the United States once, then never leaves. Mexicans and other third world aliens are the most common visa overstay violators. But in the case of many first worlders, those who can more easily afford international travel, use a variation. They enter, stay for the period of admission, generally six months, then leave, often to Canada or Mexico, but sometimes to their home country. I have seen First World illegal aliens fly home to Japan or Germany, then immediately return. Frequently the illegal aliens call this "renewing" their visa. Which in reality only means that they desire to have a document showing that they are lawfully present, though in most cases these First World illegal aliens are doing what most Third World illegal aliens do, they work illegally. Quite frequently, they are not employed by any one person, but do freelance work of some sort, carpentry, plumbing, etc. They work for themselves, e.g. are not employed by another, but work just the same. It is a way to rationalize their illegal behavior. They claim, "I was never illegally employed" when caught, but still worked illegally, in violation of the most important of the other conditions of their admission besides the period of admission, as work of any sort is illegal while on a B-2 visa.
According to Kansco's account, the couple were given "the runaround" for more than four hours at the US-Canada border. By the time Canadian authorities referred them back to US Border Patrol, Reid had "technically violated his visa requirements".
"The US Border Patrol ended up taking Baxter away, because after waiting for hours with the Canadians, he ... was illegally in the US for a SINGLE HOUR," wrote Kansco.
"This is where all the real problems began: they threw Baxter in cuffs and escorted him to prison ... This is going to make a criminal out of an innocent man."
Aside from the tortured use of the English language and the violations of the rules on capitalization, the story is outrageous for being mostly lies, and even then unclear to any reader. Only someone with extensive experience working at a Port-of-Entry as this author has. Therefore I can explain to the reader what really happened, and expose the lies being told by Reid and Kansco.
First, Reid was arrested not for overstaying his visa by one hour, he was arrested for the above scheme of living in the United States illegally by using a B-2 non-immigrant visa to live in the United States. The charging documents most likely also show that he was working illegally as well, as it is quite common for illegal aliens such as Reid to do stupid things, like leave an evidence trail. In my day, before the internet, we searched the alien appearing for inspection, usually finding evidence that he was either living illegally or working illegally on his person, usually in a wallet; work receipts, a business card showing what work he did freelance, pay stubs, credit cards, domestic driver's license, etc. Today, Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPO) at a POE can quickly find credit applications, evidence of work, and such by using government and commercial databases, or even social media.
Now what happened here was that Reid and his Kansco went to Canada over the land border to "renew" his visa. The officers of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) quickly realized he was living illegally in the United States and returned him to the United States as an equally inadmissible alien to Canada, correctly presuming him to be engaged in a visa fraud scheme or intending to live illegally in Canada in a similar scheme. The CBSA in such cases notifies U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) when they reject an applicant for admission coming from the United States and return that person, frequently under an unofficial escort to a CBPO, with a warning that they think the alien in question is living in the U.S. illegally.
Aggressive CBPOs, and not Border Patrol Agents (BPA) as claimed in the story, the Lying Press can't even get the most basic facts correct as it is CBPOs that inspect arriving aliens, not BPAs, conducted a very thorough inspection, discovered Reid's scheme to live in the U.S. illegally using a non-immigrant visa, and confronted him and he either clammed up or spilled the beans. Either way, he was subject to deportation for living illegally in the U.S. on a visitor's visa, and consequently a period in custody before a flight could be arranged for him back to Oz.
The girlfriend was of course desperate to spring him from jail while waiting for a flight, and decided that a series of lies was her best bet to shame CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the agency that holds illegal aliens before they are removed, into releasing him. Kansco probably reads VDare and the Federale Blog, and knows that ICE ERO and President Trump can be intimidated by sympathetic Democrats in the press and that public complaints can spring illegal aliens from custody. So, into spin mode she went, easily finding a sympathetic, deliberately ignorant, and duplicitous reporter to carry water for her, in this case one Elle Hunt; fool and liar.
So, Kansco concocted some lie about Reid overstaying his visa by an hour as an act of shameless baby-waving and the lying press jumped at the chance to attack the Trump Administration. Kansco's claim is nonsense. It is abundantly clear that Reid was living in the United States illegally, and most likely working illegally, as who can afford what appears to be a near five year long vacation in the United States. As an example, I once caught a Japanese man living in the United States on the Visa Waiver Program. Every three months for many years he would leave then re-enter the United States, basically living in the U.S. on three month increments. He never overstayed, but lived, and worked illegally in the United States, but he, like Reid, "renewed" his visa every three months for years. Now, such cases are easy to catch, and Reid must have stood out like a sore thumb with his childish scheme. Kudos to the CBPOs who caught him. It might have been easier to ignore such violations, but the new Regime has CBPOs emboldened, and the immigration patriots at CBP are doing their job!
But the important lesson, besides the fact that John Kelly and President Trump can be intimidated, is that the #Lugenpresse is just that, liars for open borders. They will either believe any lie spun for them in the most credulous manner, deliberately remain ignorant of the law and facts of individual cases, or duplicitously repeat the lies, or deliberately obfuscate the facts. Let us pray for our beloved country that Kelly and Trump don't back down from deporting this illegal alien, even if he is white.


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Fifty-five years ago, he invented rock & roll. A rare interview with the legend – who says he's just getting started
Fifty-five years ago, he invented rock & roll. A rare interview with the legend – who says he's just getting started
This story originally appeared in Rolling Stone. 9/2/2010, Issue 1112
OVER THE COURSE OF A CAREER SPANNING SIX DECADES, Chuck Berry, arguably the most important figure in the development of rock & roll, has established a few firm rules he lives by. Among them: There will be no performance unless payment has been received in full, in cash. No limousines and no drivers: Mr. Berry prefers to drive himself while on tour. The opening band may not mention the name Chuck Berry during its set. And finally, never trust a journalist. Because of Rule Four, not only does Berry turn down most interview offers, but he has been known to chase journalists off the grounds of Berry Park, his estate near St. Louis. Thus, at age 83, he has become one of the most misunderstood pioneers of rock & roll, often described as bitter, stubborn and cantankerous. As Keith Richards notoriously put it, "I love his work, but I couldn't warm to him even if I was cremated next to him."
So it was with slim hope of success that I visited Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and club in St. Louis where Berry plays a monthly concert. "If he doesn't like you or is uncomfortable, the interview will probably only be five minutes," Blueberry Hill owner Joe Edwards, a longtime friend of Berry's, says when I arrive. "And talk slowly. He gets frustrated when he can't hear and might walk out."
Berry stands waiting in the restaurant, just out of sight of the customers, near a framed poster advertising his first concerts as a bandleader in the early Fifties. The first thing one notices when meeting Berry is his hands: They are big, with long nails and thick fingers. They seem built not for subtle picking but for the loud, overdriven, spilling-over-the-edges riffs that made Berry's music seem so much younger, wilder and more dangerous than the rhythm & blues of his predecessors.
Then there is his outfit. It is that of a man who wants to stand out: a light-pink button-down shirt with a large sparkling brooch over the top button, sunglasses and a white ship-captain's hat. And, finally, there is the attitude: humble and friendly yet steadfast and unforgiving. "Oh, he made it," Berry says by way of a greeting, ribbing me for being late, although I'm actually two minutes early.
Edwards leads Berry through the restaurant, which is festooned with more memorabilia, including the Gibson guitar Berry used to record his 1958 hit "Johnny B. Goode."
As he enters a private dining room, Berry begins to take a seat at the head of the table but then reconsiders and modestly sits on the side of the table. It is the first sign that either Berry is much more humble than the reputation that precedes him or that he's mellowed with age. A little. The first words out of his mouth are "Can I see the questions?"
"He prefers conversational interviews," Edwards says, stepping in to persuade Berry to let go of that prerequisite. Berry starts to leave again when a tape recorder is brought out, but hesitates.
"I used to work at Kroger's," Berry says finally, settling back in his seat and launching into a lecture on punctuality. "When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up."
It seemed like this was going to be the dreaded five-minute interview Edwards warned about. Soon, Berry has found something new to pick on: diction, and how he's not hearing the t's and g's in the questions. He launches into the story of how he learned to enunciate by listening to Nat "King" Cole and how he has made an effort throughout his life to pronounce words properly instead of using their slang versions.
The minutes pass by tensely, but slowly Berry begins to relax. The moment where everything changes comes during a discussion about one of his favorite pastimes: gambling. "I play a slot machine, and the day before yesterday, I had four jackpots," he says. "I was sitting there waiting to see if I could get five. Now if that's greedy, I'm greedy. Like, I wonder if there's anything beyond raising the roof on a show. Is there more? And if so, I want to try! If that's greed, yeah, I have a bit of greed."
It's suggested that it could also be seen as ambition. "Well," Berry responds, gleefully slapping his meaty hands on the table, "I have lots of ambition! Hm-mmm, yes!"
When everyone erupts in laughter, Berry suddenly removes his sunglasses, puts in a hearing aid and breaks into a broad smile. "I can already feel that you're a very good interviewer, and these kind of interviews last a little while," he finally says. "We'll get into some things that I've been wanting to say for years!"
And so a five-minute interview turned into two sessions totaling more than four hours, during which Berry spent far more time laughing and discussing the future than acting cantankerous and complaining about the past. Berry is not focused on trying to bare his soul or look good in print or dutifully fulfill a work obligation. Instead, he engages in the conversation as if it were a theatrical event, questing either for illumination or laughter at each twist and turn of a topic. Every laugh he gets for one of his jokes, puns or gestures excites him on further, until he is proclaiming that the conversation should be staged as a Las Vegas show.
"I'm also a comedian," Berry says at one point. "I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend."
This is an unusual revelation, but it may explain why Berry still considers "My Ding-A-Ling" — his 1972 novelty hit about masturbation — to be as good as any song in his oeuvre, to the embarrassment of his devoted fans. It's also why when you discuss his appearances on the Johnny Carson show decades ago, he'll tell you the jokes and comebacks he should have said (even though, to anyone else watching, he came across as a perfectly fine yet eccentric guest). And why interviews with him are filled with random quips and one-liners.
Does he still want to be a comedian? "Every time I get a chance," he replies. "I'm still trying!"
"I can already feel that you're a very good interviewer, and these kind of interviews last a little while," he finally says. "We'll get into some things that I've been wanting to say for years!"
'MY FATHER IS STILL, IN his roots, a humble man raised by God-fearing parents, churchgoing folks, farmer folks," says his daughter Ingrid, 59, whom Berry calls in the middle of the interview and puts on the phone. "The country and the humbleness have never left him. And neither has his dedication to hard work." In fact, as engaged as he may be in the present moment, Berry is either unaware of or in denial of his place in history — despite John Lennon's famous quote that the words "rock & roll" are synonymous with the name "Chuck Berry." When asked whether he feels he was one of the inventors of rock, he responds, "No. There's Louis Jordan. There's Count Basie. Nat Cole for sure. This guy Joe Turner. There's Muddy Waters, Blue Eyes [Frank Sinatra], Tommy Dorsey."
While those artists may have inspired Berry, they were playing in predominantly blues, jazz or vocal-pop idioms. Berry was among the first to fuse blues and country over a rhythm & blues backbeat into something that the youth culture could claim as its own. "I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me," he says. "And I added my … I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.
"It means something to a lot of people," he concludes, "but I don't know what it means to them."
If Berry isn't clear about what his music means to his fans, he's always known exactly what his fans want to hear. Unlike most of the pioneering blues and country singers who preceded him, he wasn't writing about his own reality: He was a high school dropout who was in his early 30s at the time, singing about teenage drag races, young crushes and school woes. Back in the early 1950s, when he exploded onto the regional music scene, it wasn't because he was an inventor and innovator like Bo Diddley, but simply because he discovered a fusion of styles that audiences responded to. At the Cosmopolitan Club in East St. Louis, where he played in a trio originally led by his pianist Johnnie Johnson, he began modifying the hits of the day and adding the country music of Hank Williams and Bob Wills to the mix in order to keep the primarily African-American crowd on its feet, attentive and entertained. As his popularity grew, he had the additional challenge of playing to racially mixed crowds. He was often booked in segregated theaters where there were white kids on one side and black kids on the other. As Berry recalls, the whites responded to black music (the blues) while the blacks responded to white music ("hillbilly" country). So it was, in part, through trying to please both audiences simultaneously that Berry's contribution to rock & roll came to be. As Jim Marsala, who has played bass with Berry for the past 37 years, puts it, "His entertaining abilities have kept him where he is. Even when things don't go right, he can always keep the show going."
"Give people what they want — that's true," Berry says, speaking about his thought process when onstage. "I'm searching for who is attentive out there in the audience. I can look around and be singing 'My Ding-A-Ling' and stop and sing 'The Lord's Prayer' because some people will be sitting out there looking like they're from church. There's certain songs and thoughts, for that matter, that almost make tears come to their eyes. I'd give it to them if that's what they wanted."
Berry is interrupted by the ringing of his iPhone. Dick Alen, his booking agent for more than five decades, is calling about a possible concert with Jerry Lee Lewis. "You called in the middle of an interview," Berry tells him. "You know, the thing that Chuck Berry doesn't do."
"He was the first one to send me to Russia," Berry says after handing the phone around the room to let everyone talk to Alen. "He hasn't sent me to Africa yet. I'm not too interested in accepting until it gets a little more lovable. You know, because you lose your passport, and I'm done. Woo!"
But, Berry is reminded, he could always go to the U.S. Embassy and get a new passport. They'd probably recognize him there. "That's what I'm afraid of," he says, laughing.
BERRY DOESN'T LIKE TO DWELL on the past, but there are a few things he keeps coming back to — most having to do with the family. "Mom was a schoolteacher," he begins. "She was religious and did everything to get my dad to be a pastor. But he was never pastor, just a deacon in the church. He wound up being the best bass singer in the choir…. They stayed together 66 years, and then Mom fell off, and shortly after, Dad fell off. But anyway, they were a match, and they raised six kids. Only two of us left."
By day, his father was a carpenter, and Berry was originally groomed to work as his apprentice. But when Berry was a teenager, he fell in with a bad crowd and served three years in reform school for a three-day spree that included robbing shirts from a clothing store and carjacking.
When asked what advice he would give his younger self today, Berry thinks for a while, then giggles. "Not to take that man's car — and to leave the shirt that I took off of a counter of a dry-goods store. Anything to do with crime, I wouldn't do. And I would finish high school, because it took me three times as long to finish as it would have if I'd have stayed. I left in 11th grade."
After his release from reform school at 21, Berry married his girlfriend, Themetta (to whom he has been married for 61 years), and began working at a Chevrolet plant. Later, he followed his sisters into cosmetology school while also working for his father. He supplemented his income by performing locally in pianist Johnnie Johnson's band — which soon, due to Berry's onstage charisma, became his band. The group's break came when Berry saw Muddy Waters play in Chicago, and Waters suggested he visit Leonard Chess of Chess Records.
Chess asked Berry to return with some tapes of his music and said he'd prefer hearing original songs to covers. So Berry returned to St. Louis. "There wasn't nobody giving me their songs, so I knew I had to write," Berry recalls. "I wrote two from poems."
He breaks into a deep, dramatic voice and begins reciting Alfred Lord Tennyson: "Break, break, break on thy cold gray stones, oh, Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me."
His eyes grow misty as he finishes his recitation: "My dad's voice just willowed like that. I'm sure glad I'm his son."
As for the music, Berry says that because he didn't know how to read music — and affixing letters to notes didn't make sense to him — he developed his own system for notating music. Instead of using a letter like A or C, he assigned a number to each note, which enabled him to notate anything he wanted. "That's the way I learned to do music," he says, "through mathematics."
Chess ended up liking Berry's songs and scheduled a session for Berry and his band in May 1955. Later, when he received his first royalty statement, Berry discovered that one of the four songs he'd recorded — "Maybellene," a reworked version of the folk tune "Ida Red" powered by a driving beat and a story about a car race and a cheating girl — had two random, additional writing credits. One was to disc jockey Alan Freed as a form of payola and the other to Russ Fratto, Chess' landlord.
Today, Berry has mixed feelings about the songwriting credits, which have since been reverted to him. "With payola, I made more money because the song made more money," he says. "But who would have thought that 'Maybellene' would be a smash? It went straight to Number One. It shows there is some good to the song."
And thanks to that — and Freed's support — the single was all over the radio and climbing the rhythm & blues charts, where it soon hit Number One (and Number Five on the Billboard pop charts). The song changed Berry's life and, ultimately, all of popular music.
"He influenced everything," says country legend Merle Haggard, who modeled some early songs on Chuck Berry's music. "I liked the way he acted. I liked the way he played. I liked the way he sang. I liked the way he wrote songs. He wrote songs that made sense and were not halfway written like other songs of that time."
His literate and clearly enunciated story-songs of automobiles and high school and rocking-and-rolling began to shape the music that was to follow, with practically every important rock band of the next two decades building off i his foundation. Hits like "Rock & Roll Music," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven" melded a powerful backbeat, boogie-woogie piano, country rhythm guitar and a unique combination of short, catchy riffs and sped-up blues-picking.
"When I first heard that guitar, from that time on, every guitarist I auditioned would have to play 'Johnny B. Goode,'" recalls Ronnie Hawkins, the rockabilly pioneer.
But like many superstars, Berry's highs were followed by major lows. Thrifty and entrepreneurial after years of having to fend for his wife and children, he invested the money he made in everything from real estate to a movie theater to a nightclub, which proved to be his undoing.
In 1959, he met a 14-year-old Apache prostitute in Texas and brought her back to St. Louis to work as a hat-check girl at his club. After he fired her, she went to the police, and Berry served four years in prison for violating the Mann Act, which prohibited the transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes (though it was often used to prosecute black men sleeping with women of other races). While Berry was locked up, his renown grew: British Invasion acts like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered his songs, refashioned them into their own hits, and praised his name in interviews, while stateside, the Beach Boys turned "Sweet Little Sixteen" into their own Top 10 single, "Surfin' U.S.A." So when Berry was released in 1963, he was a bigger star than before he entered prison. Though he recorded a few more classic songs, Berry never quite found his creative stride again. He left Chess for a while in the Sixties to record mostly unremarkable albums for Mercury Records, and then returned to Chess in the Seventies and resurrected his career with the fluke Number One novelty, "My Ding-A-Ling."
"I'll get e-mails from, like, an 18-year-old kid who says, 'Thank you for turning me on to Chuck Berry because the only thing I ever heard by him was 'My Ding-A-Ling,'" Tom Petty says, discussing his Sirius satellite-radio show, on which he plays the Chuck Berry music that influenced him. "And that makes me feel good to, you know, complete the circle and give something back."
Berry doesn't see "My Ding-A-Ling" as a career aberration at all, but rather as a highlight. He says the song was originally going to be about a ring, and sliding a finger into it as a metaphor for intercourse. But he decided it was too extreme. Then he recorded it as "my tambourine," but he decided it didn't fit well. "'Ding-A-Ling' was clean," he concludes. "Made a lot of money: a $200,000 check. I'll never forget that check. And it's all dirt. Nice, cleeean dirt!"
Then, for the third time, Berry's life took a sudden plunge. Shortly after performing at the White House in 1979, he was sent back to prison for three months for income-tax evasion.
Though these scandals, setbacks and jail sentences have, over time, only added to Berry's legend, they still haunt him. "I want to try to patch some of the negative opinions that lie awaiting my assistance," he says. "I say assistance because if there was a comeback, there would be things I could hand out… charity. And it would appear that the negative things have faded."
THE CHUCK BERRY SITTING HERE is unlike the recalcitrant Chuck Berry of legend. He is almost too open, too trusting. Asked what he wants to talk about that he hasn't ever spoken about before, Berry drums his large thumbs on the table and thinks for a second. "Let me see," he begins. "I think I don't have as long as I perhaps feel I have to be here. And I want to do something that I know will last after I leave."
Almost anyone would say that Berry has already made a mark that will long outlive him. But Berry is a gambler, the type to go for the fifth jackpot. "In other words," he elaborates, "I want to do another 'Johnny B. Goode' in action or deed, something as powerful as 'Ding-A-Ling.'" Berry also says he has been racing to write down as many of his ideas and thoughts about his favorite subjects — life, mathematics, philosophy and sexuality — as he can. "Nobody's going to know what I think after I'm gone," he says. "It's over with. So if I put my thoughts in the computer, somebody will take care of it."
Berry says he wants to play some of the new songs he's been working on. First, though, he suggests taking a break and ordering food, which Edwards typically supplies him with for free. "I'll have two orders of wings," he tells Edwards.
"One for here and one to go?" Edwards asks.
"Yes, business is business," Berry says with a smile.
Berry's uncompromising and unusual way of doing business has long been a part of his legacy. On tour, he's known to be demanding, generally has the promoter hire random local musicians to back him, shows up minutes before showtime, plays without a set list and often leaves like a factory worker, punching the clock the moment the concert is scheduled to end.
Berry's touring habits were most likely shaped by experience. In the Fifties, when his band members started drinking and showing up late to shows or missing them entirely, he dropped them, because he had a family to support and needed the money. When promoters didn't pay him for concerts, he demanded cash before going onstage. When he got robbed after a show in Texas, he asked for the money to be sent to him before even traveling. When limo drivers left him stranded, he insisted on driving himself from the airport to concerts. When he turned his Berry Park estate into a festival venue and campground, and concertgoers trashed it, he shut it down and stopped allowing the public there.
So in his 80s, he has now amassed a list of strict rules, which gives others the impression of Berry being difficult. "Some of the stuff that promoters pulled on him before he knew any better got him to a point where he doesn't trust anybody," says Billy Peek, who played guitar with Berry in the late Sixties and early Seventies. "So when he does his contracts, everything he wants is there. For example, he likes a certain kind of amplifier — a Fender Dual Showman Reverb. So he'd put a rider in his contract that if the promoters didn't provide it, they had to give him this much more money per show. Well, the promoters would just assume that Chuck would be OK with another amp. And he'd come in and say, 'If you don't have that, give me that extra money.' So they'd get all huffy and pissed off and go around and tell everybody how difficult Chuck Berry was, and it's because they didn't do what they were supposed to do."
'You hear a lot about Chuck being mean, and you hear about him doing this and that, but the Chuck Berry that I know is one of the kindest people you've ever met in your whole life," says Bob Lohr, the pianist in Berry's house band now. "People misunderstand his hesitance to get involved with other people: It's because he's scared. He's been burned so many times that he's developed sort of a thick skin. But anybody who has spent a lot of time with him will tell you he's really a good guy and a fun guy to be around."
WHEN THE FOOD ARRIVES, Berry sifts through his iPhone and offers to play some "dining music" — the new songs he's been working on. Some are clear knockoffs of his older songs, such as "Lady B. Goode" (a sequel to "Johnny B. Goode") and "Jamaica Moon" (a new stab at the Calypso-tinged "Havana Moon").
"I didn't do my homework then," Berry says. "What's his name? Castro. He was in a world of trouble in America, and here I come with 'Havana Moon,' a sweet little song. Get outta here!"
Mixed in among these retro nuggets, however, are songs in an entirely new style — not blistering rockers but highly poetic spoken stories like "The Dutchman" and "Eyes of Man," set to gentle, atmospheric music more suited for a movie score.
"You know, as much popularity as I have had since my last album was out, I don't think it would be blasting like Michael Jackson or anybody," Berry says. "But, boy, it would sure buy six or seven yachts, at least, for people. Because everywhere I go, I get that look — you know, 'Is that him?'"
Meditating on a possible late-career windfall, Berry says he would invest in real estate, give some to Haiti and prison reform, and possibly devote some to rebuilding a perpetual-motion machine that his father invented. It debuted in front of the mayor's office, where it ran for eight days before petering out. "I can still draw it and see every one of those little balls rolling on a slot as it went around," Berry says.
Perhaps because he dropped out of high school, Berry has an insatiable drive to display his intelligence and learn new things. When speaking, he searches persistently for the right word and asks for the definition of any word he doesn't understand, and then doesn't let up with questions until he fully grasps its meaning and usage. It is this quality that made Berry's songs so different from those of the country and blues singers who preceded him. More than the music, Berry agonizes over the way his lyrics fit together, their ability to stand on their own, as literature separate from the music, and their precise and clear delivery.
After discussing the hours he spends working on getting each syllable, word and phrase of a song right, Berry says he has to leave to meet with a lawyer about a lawsuit filed against him over a missed concert. But rather than ending the interview, Berry says he'd like to continue talking. He suggests meeting back at the club at 9 p.m. before his concert.
AT 7:30 THAT NIGHT, AN HOUR and a half before our scheduled interview time, Edwards calls and says that Berry is already back at the club waiting to talk. I meet Berry and his band backstage. One thing that has always befuddled the band is that, despite being a stickler for the money he's due, Berry has never sold T-shirts, CDs or other merchandise at concerts. "I've brought it up many, many times," says Jim Marsala, his bassist. "I've told him there's a fortune in merchandising; bands have made their living off of that. But I don't know why he doesn't do that. I think he just doesn't want to get involved and take all that merchandise along and deal with it."
Berry suggests returning to the room where we were talking earlier. As we enter, he cuts ahead and takes a seat on the opposite side of the table from where he sat last time, then breaks into a mischievous smile and says, "To change things up."
The following hour-long discussion is so candid that, at times, it appears that Berry isn't even conscious he's doing an interview.
"He's for real," Berry says when discussing Little Richard's sexuality. "I know because he came on to me once, you know. And it just doesn't make sense. I couldn't believe it! And he believes it. By that, I mean, he doesn't deny it."
Most of the remainder of the discussion revolves around his favorite subject, and perhaps another element of his personality that made him a rock pioneer: his obsession with women and sex, especially cleavage and legs. (In the Nineties, Berry was sued by a group of women who claimed he'd installed cameras in the restrooms of a restaurant he owned in order to peep, though Berry denied it; the case was settled out of court.) It is a fascination that most likely came from his father forbidding him from looking at women as a child.
You were saying earlier you were broken in at 15?
Do you know what BYPU is?
It's the Baptist Young People's Union [hits table and laughs]. That's when I first knew — not knew, had contact with, because it didn't fulfill itself. Now let me be truthful. I couldn't…
You were too nervous?
That's what I'm saying. And it was a year before I did. I got a terrible beating, you know. There were sisters: One was 17, the other was 15, and I was 15. I met the 17-year-old, and she drove me to the back porch. And the people next door were looking right at us. I never thought about that because I was so excited! [Laughsi] See, that's the kind of stuff I can put in [a book or a song] without one dirty word. There's enough English where you could say "s-h-i-t" by putting different words together.
I like that about your writing: Everything is suggested without being explicit.
I want to get into it because I want to know — does anybody think like I think about sex?
Most people probably do but don't talk about it, because sex is still such a big taboo. It must have been even worse when you were younger.
My dad used to do carpentry work all around south St. Louis. And in south St. Louis, a lot of men work away from home, and the women keep the home. And here's the funny part: When I was young, I was pretty nice.
Not like now.
I'm talking about nice-looking! Anyway, I would be helping Dad to fix a lock, and the women would bring some oranges or something. Not all women, but some women were forward. Firstly, Daddy would ignore them. I would wonder why Dad wouldn't laugh if she would laugh. They would flirt with my dad and make comments about me, and they would try to encourage him to say something for me. And he taught us not to say anything and not to smile. If you did, you'd get your neck broke. He wanted to keep us alive.
Imagine what it was like when your dad was born.
Oh, when he came up, well, they didn't get a chance to answer. They'd hang you in a minute. You know, I didn't know that you were educated. I mean, sophisticated. Your sophistication is coming to realization, so to speak.
Thank you.
Rolling Stone, that's a sophisticated magazine. It's not as into sex as Playboy is, but it's way more into sex than Discovery.
You know, what's that yellow dictionary?
National Geographic?
Yeah! But you can see a little of something in there. I used to look at that! [Pounds table and laughs."] They show a little, because I remember looking at a lot of them. And of course Playboy. All youngsters did look at Playboy. It was so graphic! It shows right what you want to see. Whoever heard of a nipple covering a whole page? But that was very interesting. I've never been that close [laughs]. Oh, man, we could write a book about it.
IN FACT, BERRY SAYS, HE'S BEEN collecting stories of his sexual escapades for a possible book. "I have a computerful," he admits. "I've been talking to my son about it so he won't be shocked."
Berry has also amassed several thousand pictures. Most of them, he says, he wouldn't put in a book because they are, as he puts it, "very personal."
As showtime nears, Berry invites me to visit his Berry Park estate in nearby Wentzville, Missouri, where he lives part of each week when he isn't staying in town with his wife. On the 150 acres of Berry Park, there is a cluster of houses being demolished, in addition to the charred remains of Berry'sclubhouse, which burned down in 2003 along with tapes of some of Berry's last studio recordings with Johnnie Johnson, who died in 2005. Nearby, there's an old blue Ford pickup that has the words WH BERRY. 4410 HOLLY on the door — his father's old carpentry truck. Beyond it, there are three Kubota grass cutters, which Berry uses to keep the acres of grass trimmed on the property.
"I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass," Berry says. "And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying. Hm-mm-mm." He laughs and stamps his feet, jovial and excited.
Every blade of grass, he continues, tells a story. "It's like a person," he says. "A blade is a blade: When it's cut in half, it dies, for sure. But the half that isn't cut springs back to life."
And this is the story of Berry's life. At 83, he isn't looking back on the scandals that many say scarred him psychologically, but he is working hard to do something new that matters.
Where most people expect to see their whole lives or a vivid memory flash through their minds when they die, Berry says that won't be the case with him. "I wouldn't be having a memory," he says, breaking into a wide smile. "I would want to know what's next."
"Give the people what they want — that's true," says Berry who still tours regularly "There are certain songs I do that almost make tears come to people's eyes."
"I want to do something I know will last after I leave. I want to do another 'Johnny B. Goode,' or something as powerful as 'My Ding-A-Ling.'"
"I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. It's satisfying. Every blade that's cut in half dies, for sure. But the other half springs back to life."

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FEMA trailer park concerns residents in pricey Bridge City subdivision
Published 12:00 am, Wednesday, November 26, 2008
From her living room in central Bridge City, Ashley Martin has a front-row seat for viewing construction of a trailer park that will house 42 FEMA mobile homes for residents whose homes Hurricane Ike left unlivable.
"I know these people need a place to live, and I'm happy this is happening for them," Martin said Tuesday, watching large machines move dirt behind her house. "But I just bought this home in May, and I'm worried about my property value."
When Martin, 24, bought the new home, she understood that the empty property behind her home would be developed as an extension of her subdivision, Acadian Quarters.
"We have all these restrictions in the subdivision," Martin said. "I can't park a trailer in front of my house. But they're building a trailer park in my back yard."
The mobile home park under construction in Bridge City will be the first of several in Southeast Texas built by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house people whose homes were made unlivable by Hurricane Ike, which struck Sept. 13.
"We still have about 20 families around here that are living in tents," said FEMA administrator R. David Paulison, speaking at a news conference Tuesday at the mobile homes community site. "Those families are the No. 1 priority for the units that will be here."
Paulison said the families living in tents have been offered apartments. But he acknowledged that the available apartments, located about two hours away in Houston, would force displaced residents to commit to an impractical daily commute.
"(The residents living in tents) do not want to move to the apartments that we have," Paulison said. "The apartments are too far away, quite frankly. And I would make that same decision."
Local officials in Bridge City and Orange County had initially opposed the mobile home parks, concerned with the amount of time required to build the facilities.
But 10 weeks after the storm, Bridge City Mayor Kirk Roccaforte and Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux said Tuesday they were relieved to see housing under way for their displaced residents.
"There is a need for these types of sites," Thibodeaux said, speaking at the news conference. "I know there were a lot of questions raised about them. But there are situations where a park model or regular full length trailer will not fit in someone's lawn. And this is what we need for them. This is a part of the puzzle."
Of about 4,700 families and individuals that have requested mobile homes, FEMA has determined about 3,100 to be eligible.
As of Tuesday, about 1,400 mobile homes were occupied by people whose homes were wrecked by the hurricane in Orange, Jefferson, Chambers and Galveston counties. FEMA has placed most of these mobile homes on residential lots, allowing residents to remain at their damaged property while rebuilding.
Paulison, who acknowledged his agency responded too slowly to the region's housing needs, said building mobile parks would allow the agency to provide housing faster for residents who remain displaced.
FEMA will continue to place mobile homes on residential lots when possible, Paulison said, but the agency's focus is on community sites like the one under way in Bridge City.
"We have been putting these in people's driveways and in existing mobile home parks," Paulison said. "Where we really need to focus now is doing these types of sites, where we can put large numbers down at one time."
Officials in other counties slammed by Hurricane Ike have been slower to accept FEMA's trailer park solution.
Galveston County commissioners, according to the Houston Chronicle, delayed a decision last week to go forward with one of the FEMA mobile home sites. Calls Tuesday to Galveston County Judge James D. Yarbrough were not re-turned.
More community sites are planned in Orange County, but Paulison said FEMA would only proceed with the blessing of local communities.
"What we are not going to do, and I think you need to hear this very clearly, is come in and shove anything down anybody's throat," Paulison said. "We're going to work with the community to pick a site that is acceptable to everyone to put these group sites down."
But Martin and others in the small subdivision bordering the trailer park site said they were not consulted in any way before construction began behind their homes.
"We just found out by word of mouth, and that's about the most frustrating part of this," said Martin's fiance, Darrin Smith.
"We found out from a friend that there was a comment period and everyone in the neighborhood wrote letters," he said. "But we never heard back, no one ever called us or came to talk to us about it. We don't know anything about it."
FEMA officials said the mobile home park will be landscaped and will be surrounded by a privacy fence.
A request to FEMA for basic details about its lease for the mobile home park property was not fulfilled Tuesday. Calls to the owner of the subdivision and the park property were not returned.
Paulison said he hoped residents would move out of the mobile home park within 18 months, leaving the land open for redevelopment.
But, as the administrator noted, such a timeline was not achieved following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Mobile home parks built after the storm remained open until May 2008.
FEMA mobile homes requested by individuals and families: about 4,700
FEMA mobile homes occupied in Southeast Texas: 1,400
FEMA mobile homes occupied by county as of Nov. 22
Orange County: 1010
Jefferson County: 101
Chambers County: 99
Galveston County: 62
Other: 38


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Monday, Jan. 16: Today we observe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in memory of the civil rights leader. Attend the
annual commemoration featuring exhibits, children's art display and birthday cake from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Empire State Plaza, Albany, and a community march to the King monument in Lincoln Park, Albany. Or honor Rev. King on the King Day of Service by volunteering to clean 1 to 3 p.m. at the Albany Pine Bush. Meet at Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New Karner Road. Dress appropriately.
Tuesday, Jan. 17: Bring children three to five for a 30-minute program at 10:30 a.m. at the Schenectady County Public Library, 99 Clinton St., where the librarian will share children's literature and do finger play and occasional crafts.
Wednesday, Jan. 18: Listen to Pulitzer prize winning local author William Kennedy speak at 7:30 p.m. at the Irish American Heritage Museum, 370 Broadway, Albany. Part of opening celebrations for the museum.
Thursday, Jan. 19: Children five and older will love to meet Rosey the Reading Dachshund at an open house 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Troy Public Library, 100 Second Ave. Rosey visits at the monthly reading program at the library.
Friday, Jan. 20: The National Museum of Racing's Preschool Program will be held 10 to 11 a.m. for six Fridays at the museum, 191 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, and will offer story time, learning a letter and number and a craft project. An adult must accompany child. $30 a child. Reservations needed.
Saturday, Jan. 21: Skatefest will begin at noon at the Empire State Plaza ice rink in Albany, where 2002 Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes will join local ice skating instructors to provide free instruction. Register now. Or bring the children along and marvel at a 19-foot by 27-foot display of running O Gauge (Lionel) model trains from noon to 3 p.m. at the Schenectady Museum and Suits-Bueche Planetarium. Last weekend of this season for trains.
Sunday, Jan. 22: Families with school age children will enjoy Winter Lights, an inter-generational celebration with stories, song and dances from many religious traditions from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of the Americas, Albany. Suggested donation: $10 each or $15 a family. Refreshments served. 374-0637. Or attend A Winter Concert of bell music at 2 p.m. at Calvary United Methodist Church in Latham. Listen to a performance by The Calvary Ringers of seasonal music and favorites and put a few dollars in the basket to support the Bell Choir of the Presbyterian Church of Schoharie in recovery from the recent floods. 785-5142.


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Gingrich calls Palestinians 'invented' people - 12-10-2011, 12:25 PM
Republican presidential hopeful defends Israel and says Palestinians are Arabs who "had a chance to go many places".
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Gingrich mocked the US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling it 'out of touch with reality' [File: Reuters] Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred controversy by calling the Palestinians an "invented" people who could have chosen to live elsewhere.
The former House of Representatives speaker, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race, made the remarks in an interview with the US Jewish Channel broadcaster released on Friday.
Asked whether he considers himself a Zionist, he answered: "I believe that the Jewish people have the right to a state ... Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire" until the early 20th century,
"I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab
"And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it's tragic."
Most historians mark the start of Palestinian Arab nationalist sentiment in 1834, when Arab residents of the Palestinian region revolted against Ottoman rule.
Israel, founded amid the 1948 Arab-Israel war, took shape along the lines of a 1947 UN plan for ethnic partition of the
then-British ruled territory of Palestine which Arabs rejected.
More than 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their lands by Zionist armed groups in 1948, in an episode Palestinians refer to as the Nakba or "catastrophe".
'Irrational hostility'
Gingrich's comments drew a swift rebuke from a spokesman for the American Task Force on Palestine, Hussein Ibish, who said: "There was no Israel and no such thing as an "Israeli people" before 1948.
"So the idea that Palestinians are 'an invented people' while Israelis somehow are not is historically indefensible and inaccurate.
"Such statements seem to merely reflect deep historical ignorance and an irrational hostility towards Palestinian identity and nationalism."
Sabri Saidam, adviser to the Palestinian president, told Al Jazeera, "This is a manifestation of extreme racism and this is a reflection of where America stands sad, when Palestinians don't get their rights...this is sad and America should respond with a firm reaction to such comments that, if let go, more of which will come our way,"
"Let me ask Newt Gingrich if he would ever entertain the thought of addressing Indian Americans by saying that they never existed, that they were the invention of a separate nation, would that be tolerated?"
"Let's also reverse the statement; let's put ourselves in "the shoe of Jews who are listening now. Would they ever accept such statements being made about them?"
Saidam said, "I think it's time that America rejects such statements and closes the door to such horrendous and unacceptable statements."
Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Washington
on how other Republican hopefuls are targeting Gingrich
Gingrich also sharply criticised US President Barack Obama's approach to Middle East diplomacy, saying that it was "so out of touch with reality that it would be like taking your child to the zoo and explaining that a lion was a bunny rabbit."
He said Obama's effort to treat the Palestinians the same as the Israelis is actually "favouring the terrorists".
"If I'm even-handed between a civilian democracy that obeys the rule of law and a group of terrorists that are firing missiles every day, that's not even-handed, that's favouring the terrorists," he said.
He also said the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, share an "enormous desire to destroy Israel".
The Palestinian Authority, which rules the occupied West Bank, formally recognises Israel's right to exist.
President Mahmoud Abbas has long forsworn violence against Israel as a means to secure an independent state, pinning his hopes first on negotiations and more recently on a unilateral bid for statehood via the UN.
Gingrich, along with other Republican candidates, are seeking to attract Jewish in the US support by vowing to bolster Washington's ties with Israel if elected.
He declared his world view was "pretty close" to that of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and vowed to take "a much more tougher-minded, and much more honest approach to the Middle East" if elected.
The Jewish Channel Exclusive Interview With Newt Gingrich Excerpt: - 12-10-2011, 12:27 PM
The Jewish Channel Exclusive Interview With Newt Gingrich Excerpt: "Invented Palestinian People" - YouTube
what about the Jews who look totally european and settled in Israel stealing the land from Palestinians, Palestinians are the people of that land, they are not 100% arab, their language is arabic yes, they have been living there for thousands of years.
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Tjanaparh (12-10-2011)
He is himself an invented person. People like him shouldn't be even considered. He is the demonic face of humanity.
Palestinians are mentioned in so ancient times, but even if they wouldn't be mentioned, what does it change, they exist, and many even do nt see themselves as Arabs, but even if they would be Arabs like all the other Arabs, what does it change?
Why the invented americans couldn't settle on another place and leave the Natives in peace. It is absolutely usless to hear such peoples opinions, these people should be dressed in a boxershrt and put in a ring with a palestinian who could beat them up a bit.
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Zmarak (12-10-2011)
Palestinians are Arabs just like Arabs from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq despite all those countries/places having ancient cultures (Iraq being the oldest in the world).
Semetic people always lived on those lands and all those people share nearly the exact DNA as other Arabs.
But when the area was controlled/influenced by Greeks and later Romans they invented different names (such as Phonecians) to describe the local people. But in fact they were just a different tribe of Arabs who settled in Palestine.
They are as Arab as anyone else in the region.
What a shameless video. A pity that all American presidents are puppets of Zionists.
If zionists were s honest, they would have come as brothers to Palestinians and told - hi brother , we are originally from here as You, lets live side by side and help eachother - we can be 2 times stronger if we work together!
But instead they wanted to delete Palestinians from earth!
Would they even be pure Arabs, they live there, Jews don't! Why should anybody be killed for the crimes of a Germanic fanatic?
What is the difference between them? exactly no difference is.
Zionists and similars are a shame of humanity, the most people they hurt are simple jews, who are everywhere treated as a bad peoples, beacause they didn't find enough force do give a hard opposition to Zionists and say "Go away, you are not from ours, even if we are interested to turn to the land whhere we maybe originate, than only in a brotherfull way, without lies and violence and genocide".
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Ես ծովակ եմ առանց կարապ,
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I agree with you friend.
I just wanted to correct some misunderstandings about Palestinians not being Arab. Most of the Palestinians are descendants (from father to son etc.) from Arab tribes. There are hundred of them just in Palestine.
Surely the Levant region (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq) also have influences from other countries (also in terms of ancestry) but most of these people have J Y-DNA which means they all have a common ancestor. Just like in the rest of the Arab world.
But yes one cannot say how a people look like. For example there are different looking Arabs in the same country as there is different Pashtuns in Afghanistan/Pakistan and probably different Armenians despite having an shared ancestry.
Zionists are unfortunately the biggest problem for peace and they have been that since the Balfour agreement. The problem is that they made many of the Palestinians radical and now it would be nearly impossible to make peace and cooperate as they did before the Balfour-agreement. There were of course som disputes but in general they lived peacefully together.
Zionists are even very unpopular among the religious jews.
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The Cinderella Project of the Capital Region is now accepting referrals for financially disadvantaged sophomore, junior and senior girls to attend their 2008 Boutique Day.
The Cinderella Project of the Capital Region serves high school girls from the counties of Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga, Rensselaer, Colombia, Greene, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Schoharie, Warren and Washington.
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Yale President Salovey announced on August 27, 2014 a series of new sustainability initiatives at Yale, including the adoption by the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR) of new proxy voting guidelines to be implemented by the ACIR:
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CINCINNATI - Patients of Dr. Atiq Durrani were lining up on both sides Friday – some to add their names to lawsuits and others to defend him.
Interest in this case has spiked since Durrani's arrest Thursday and release on his own recognizance. More former patients are asking about joining lawsuits or getting their medical records. Many current patients emailed me to defend him and his spine surgery practice.
Ringing phones kept Amy Plewke and Whitney Issenmann busy Friday at Eric Deters' law office.
More than 80 people inquired about possible legal action against Durrani. Deters has already filed 160 civil suits against him.
"The common thread is that they had a surgery that involved the spine that was not necessary," Deters said.
At Lindhorst and Dreidame, Michael Lyon, Durrani's civil attorney, was getting four to five calls an hour from former patients saying they're outraged at the charges against the spine surgeon.
"They came to Dr. Durrani with serious and severe orthopedic issues, pain and disability, and as a result of Dr. Durrani's surgical intervention, they're much, much better off in their life," Lyon said.
Durrani faces federal criminal charges of suspected Medicare fraud and allegedly performing unnecessary surgeries.
After his arrest, federal agents seized records from his Centers for Advanced Spine Technologies in Evendale and Florence.
Many patients called 9 On Your Side Friday asking which files were taken and Lyon says only those involved in cases now before the courts.
"If your callers are not involved in the lawsuit, the records are safe. They're being taken care of and protected by Dr. Durrani," Lyon said.
Anyone needing copies of their records should make an appointment and then personally go to Durrani's office.
"The procedure is very simply," Lyon said. "They have a medical authorization they obviously have to sign to give permission to give the records to the patient. They sign the medical authorization and they get the records."
Durrani's next appearance at U.S. District Court is a preliminary hearing on Aug. 19. Federal prosecutors say they plan to present the case to a federal grand jury within 30 days.


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Welcome to the Creatively Crafty Link Party hosted by the Creative Crafters Blogging Group! You've worked hard on your project, and it looks great! Share it with us and get the kudos you deserve! Any and all creative endeavors are welcome…crafts, original writing, recipes, DIY tutorials, you name it!
Rick and I have arrived at home in the US and our grandchildren have been covered with kisses. We split the trip over two days which made it much easier. I'm still adjusting to the difference in time. The nice thing about being retired is I can take a nap if I need to. 🙂
Here's this week's featured post!
I like the look of this magazine and gel print collage from Rebecca Janusek. I'd like to do some experimenting with printing, so I've added it to my list. Right after helping my daughter make a quilt, helping my sister with a few outdoor projects and remodelling my bathroom!
Click the image to go to Rebecca's blog for an inspiring tutorial.
On to the party!
Do you have anything creative you'd like to share? We'd love to see it. Browsing through the projects is a pleasant part of my week! Thank You for sharing your creativity with us. Each week we will sponsor a new link party, and pin our favorites. With so many bloggers participating that means more exposure for YOU! Head over to the other co-hosts blogs to see all their fun stuff. Check them out here:
My Thrifty House | Try it – Like it
Our Daily Craft | Al Things Beautiful
Thanks for sharing your project with us! Keep an eye out as we'll be sharing posts on various social media channels during the week. We're growing and that's a good thing, although as the party gets larger it will be more difficult for me to visit and comment on every link. So I'm counting on you guys to help out. Please try to find time to visit a link or two yourself and congratulate your fellow crafters on a job well done!
There are just a few simple rules:
-Link to a specific post, not your home page.
-Link up something YOU made/wrote/created.
-Giveaways, other link parties, Etsy shops or business links are not accepted.
-Don't link and run. Try to visit at least one link and show them some love. You may make a new friend.
Please do not pin from these thumbnails. If there's a post you want to pin please click on the link title to visit the source and pin from their blog. Not a blogger? No problem! Anyone with an Instagram or Facebook account can link to a photo of your completed masterpiece or work in progress. Could you do us a favor and share the party on Twitter before linking up?
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WISCONSIN NEWS ROUND-UP: Gov. Walker asks Pres. Obama for help with propane shortage
MADISON - The dire propane shortage in the state is prompting Governor Scott Walker to ask President Barack Obama for help. Governor Walker sent a letter to the White House yesterday, urging the President to establish and lead a supply chain working group to move available propane to areas where it's needed.
In a statement, Governor Walker says the federal government has been cooperative with assisting so far and is proposing the working group as a follow-up. In addition to the shortage, experts say demand, weather and temporary pipeline closures is to blame for the short supply of propane across the Midwest, including Wisconsin.
Walworth County fire officials say they're trying to determine what caused a four alarm fire that destroyed a barn at an egg farm on Friday. Firefighters responded to the blaze at S&R Egg Farm in La Grange, just before 8:00 p.m. Investigators say firewalls helped protect the fire from spreading to other buildings. While a damage estimate has not been release, reports indicate an estimated 300-thousand chickens were housed in the barn. Founded in 1958, the family-owned business produces and distributes about two million eggs a year.
Authorities in northeastern Wisconsin say a man has died in a snowmobile accident over the weekend. The Florence County Sheriff's Office say 48-year-old Russell Krause, of De Pere, crashed his snowmobile into a tree. The incident happened just before 2:00 Saturday morning. Authorities say Krause was wearing a helmet, but died on impact. Alcohol and speed were factors in the deadly crash.


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Adriano Galliani credits Milan's January transfer strategy for their leadership during an injury crisis. "Without the new players, we wouldn't be in this position."
The Rossoneri went eight points clear at the top of the Serie A table after Robinho's winner at Brescia on Saturday evening.
"I am happy because we knew it would be an extremely important game, but the Scudetto isn't ours yet," said the Vice-President.
"Brescia play well and every big team has struggled to get a result here. Now we have to focus on Sunday, as we'll be without a host of players against Bologna.
"Rino Gattuso suffered a thigh strain in the warm-up, Mark Van Bommel will be suspended, while we're missing our three centre-forwards Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexandre Pato and Pippo Inzaghi. We'll have to make do and try to pick up some of the four points we need to win the title."
The club reinforced its squad during the mid-season transfer window, bringing in the likes of Antonio Cassano, Van Bommel and Urby Emanuelson.
"If we hadn't made those signings in January, we would not be eight points clear with four rounds to go," continued Galliani.
"Milan went on top thanks to the great players we have and the additional stars in August, then stayed up there because of the January transfer strategy.
"We have a very competitive squad with real strength in depth and now boast 31 players. Without those new players, we wouldn't be in this position."
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Hi there,
I just changed my blog to the 2012 Theme after 5 years using Blix. Everything looks great except I am having issues with how content is displaying on the sidebar on the right. It seems that words are being split in the middle in places when they reach the edge of the sidebar rather than being moved down to a new line since they won't fit. e.g. "Book" reads as Bo /new line/ ok. If you take a look at my twitter section on the sidebar, you'll see what I mean, but you can also see it in my category cloud. What can I do to fix this?
This is my blog: http://shelfelf.wordpress.com/
Thanks bunches.
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Yes, yes, yes, we know…
We've heard all of the complaints that some of you simply don't have the time to read all of the Nippertown.com news as fast as we write it. And, yes, there was a whole lot of news to write about this week, from the avalanche of new concert announcements to concert reviews of Bettye LaVette and Trombone Shorty…
So for all of you casual once-or-twice-a-week readers, here's a summary of the Top 10 most-viewed stories from Nippertown in the past week, from new concert announcements to live performance reviews:
1. Comin' Soon: New Concert Announcements (by Staff)
2. New Concert Announced for Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (by Staff)
3. EMPAC at RPI Announces New Season of Concerts (by Staff)
4. WTF? Sarah McLachlan's Super Bowl Ad (by Staff)
5. Two New Shows Announced for The Egg (by Staff)
6. New Concert Announced for the Glens Falls Civic Center (by Staff)
7. Palace Theatre Announces New Show (by Staff)
8. Proctors Adds a New Comedy Show (by Staff)
9. LIVE: Bettye LaVette @ Club Helsinki, 1/11/14 (by Tim Livingston)
10. LIVE: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ The Egg, 1/12/14 (by Greg Haymes, Andrzej Pilarczyk)


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Seahawk Inshore Fishing Report 2/24/2015 Redfish, Speckled Trout, Black Drum, and Striped Bass WINTER REPORT AND SPRING FORECASTFebruary 27th, 2015 Posted in Fishing Reports | Comments Off
Well it has been a up and down winter on the weather and the fishing. We are catching fish just not the numbers we usually catch in the winter months. With the cold temps recently, it has schooled some redfish in a few holes where we have had some good double digit days lately. We are also picking up a few speckled trout and black drum. The striped bass fishing has been good in the Cape Fear river above Wilmington.
Redfish report and forecast:
The redfish bite has been good on the days when the weather cooperates. A 10-12 fish day has been good this winter where normally a 30-40 fish day has been good. Most of the reds have been caught on shrimp pinned to a jighead or a Carolina rig. We have also had some good days sightcasting Gulp Shrimp and DOA paddletails to schooling reds in the creeks. There are some large schools on the flats, but these fish spook easily in the shallow water this time of year.
There are lots of schools of reds on the flats and these fish will start to feed when spring rolls around and the water warms up. There also lots of schools of reds in the creeks and the river and will be easier to find and catch in the early spring. There are huge schools in the ocean and these reds will move in as the water warms.
Speckled Trout Report and forecast:
We have had some decent days on specs over the winter on the warmer days. Speckled trout will lay dormant on cold days and feed on the warmer days. Casting Gulp Shrimp and Mirrolures in deep holes at lower stages of the tides have produced most of the specs on our trips.
Hopefully we won't have any major cold stuns on our trout populations and we'll have a good spring on specs. I have seen a lot of specs in the creeks this winter and they should start to bite as the water warms.
Black Drum Report and forecast:
We had a really good early winter on black drum and there are still a few around. Casting shrimp on Carolina rigs and jigheads in holes at low tide have produced most of our black drum this winter. We have also caught a few black drum fishing shrimp on float rigs above oyster beds at higher stages of the tides.
Spring can be the best time of year to catch black drum in the Cape Fear area. In the spring we usually catch them around docks and rock piles fishing shrimp on Carolina rigs and popping float rigs. There is a limit of 10 black drum per person, so we can fill up some coolers with these tasty fish. I have seen a lot of smaller black drum lately, so these fish should be growing and large enough to keep come spring.
Striper Fishing:
We have had a good winter Striper fishing in the Cape Fear River above Wilmington. We have caught them trolling deep diving lures and casting swimbaits and other soft plastics. Stripers will start to move farther up the river and we will not target them as spring rolls around.
The whiting will be showing up in March in the lower Cape Fear River around Southport and filling up coolers with these great eating fish is always a possibility in the spring months.
Flounder, Spanish Mackerel, Bluefish, and Sheephead:
We will have some of the other inshore fish showing up as we get into mid April. Flounder, Spanish Mackerel, Bluefish, and Sheephead will move in and provide us with some good action a little later in the spring.
We can't wait for spring, warmer temps, more and active fish. Thanks for reading the report and spring forecast. Check out the photos from our recent winter trips in the backwaters of the Cape Fear.
Capt. Jeff and Christian Wolfe
Seahawk Inshore Fishing Charters
Carolina Beach Inshore Fishing Blog


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Preparing for Valentine's dayHappy Friday Sizzix friends!!! Raquel is here again! Today I want to show you my first Valentine's project of the year. I've chosen a colour combination thinking of both him and her which is why I've used red, salmon and greys in this sweet project. Let me show you: [caption id="attachment_22867" align="alignnone" width="640"] Valentine's Day decoration[/caption] I've created a home ...
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Winter seasonHello Sizzix friends!!! I like to change some pieces of our home decoration when the season arrives. But our winter decoration always is delayed because of Christmas Festive. Now, that Christmas Holidays finished, I've create my first winter home decoration: a cute frame using wintery Sizzix dies. [caption id="attachment_22484" align="alignnone" width="444"] Winter season frame[/caption] ...
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Paper glass decorationHappy New Year Sizzix friends!!! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve. Today I show you a paper glass that I prepared for the 12 traditional grapes which we receive the New Year in Spain. [caption id="attachment_22014" align="alignnone" width="500"] Paper glass decoration[/caption] It's quite easy to surprise the guests with this paper glass. I have only used the Branch w/leaves ...
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Christmas wrapping and card setHi Sizzix friends!!! Today is the last Friday before Christmas so I want to show a quick and easy way to make your own wrapping decoration. Using only a die from Sizzix, which is not a specific Christmas die, adding a natural element and some sparkly decoration you will have a Christmas wrapping!!! And of course, I've created a card to match with the wrapping. [caption id="attachment_21698...
My Christmas albumHi Sizzix friends!!! Today I'm happy to show you my Christmas album which is finished and ready to be filled with our Christmas memories. I like to write about the decorations, the cards, the dinner my husband prepares, the presents the family receives and all the activities we do together at Christmas. [caption id="attachment_21512" align="alignnone" width="500"] My Christmas album[/caption]
A set of quick and easy Christmas cardsHi Sizzix friends!!! December is here!!! Every year I like to send a lot of Christmas cards for friends, family and so on. So for today I want to show you a set of cards which are so quick and easy to make that for sure you can create enough for all your family and friends. [caption id="attachment_21260" align="alignnone" width="500"] Christmas cards set[/caption]
A frozen layoutHi Sizzix friends, Today I've stopped my Christmas projects due to the winter temperature that has suddenly arrived in my city, which inspired me to create this winter layout. I've used the Texture Fades - Layered Snowflake die as the main decoration to represent the low temperature we experienced during our mountain expedition. [caption id="attachment_20977" align="alignnone" width="50...


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Complications from her knee-replacement surgery in January have forced Broadway legend Liza Minnelli to cancel several upcoming shows including her July 18 date in the Majestic Theatre.
Word came in to the Majestic earlier today that she wouldn't be able to make the show. There's no indication on whether the date will be rescheduled, although the Majestic folks indicated that was their goal.
After being forced to cancel a show in Atlanta last Friday, this statement was posted on her Web site:
Minnelli has been on tour in recent weeks to promote her forthcoming CD and the constant traveling has resulted in a very painful and swollen knee. There is concern that her knee may have become infected which is not uncommon after this type of surgery. Such infections are very dangerous and doctors have ordered her to return to New York for further evaluation.
Her tour began June 5 in St. Louis; the next show had been scheduled for Biloxi, Miss., July 16, followed by the Majestic show.
Tickets may be refunded at the point of purchase, including the Majestic box office, a theater spokesman indicated. Ticketmaster phone and internet orders will automatically be refunded.


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Indian Summer
We've had these twelve mangoes lying around the test kitchen for days now, which were off limits because Mom was going to use them to make mango soup. But they were getting ripe and I was getting impatient, and while the weather here isn't exactly warm (at all) it's going to be soon (I hope) and I knew that someday soon I would need to be refreshed and it would just stink if I let the opportunity to develop a perfect mango lassi recipe pass me by.
So I pulled out my trusty blender and got to work. There are several difficulties to successfully pulling off a mango lassi. The first is the mango. Many recipes call for Alphonso Mango Pulp, a pre-sweetened puree that you can buy on Amazon or at Indian Supermarkets. This is certainly the most authentic way to go about doing things, and it's made with super-flavorful Alphonso mangoes, that only grow in India. But I opted out for several reasons. First of all, I had twelve ripe mangoes sitting in my kitchen. Second, canned Alphonso mangoes are kind of hard to get, and really expensive if you do have to buy them online. And since I would never wish expense anyone (remember, I'm a college student), I decided to go with fresh. To mimic the sweetened puree, and maximize mangoey-ness, I mashed the mangoes first, to release the juices, and then mixed them with a little bit of sugar (but not too much) to intensify their flavor but not sweeten them too much. It worked perfectly.
Then I had to think about the yogurt. A bunch of recipes swear by goat yogurt, which I find a bit suspect. But I tried it anyway, and frankly, even if it were more authentic (which it's not) it doesn't taste that different from cow yogurt – just a bit more like goat cheese. It's delicious, but it's also much runnier than regular yogurt, so it hurts the lassi's texture. Regular yogurt, on the other hand, passed both flavor and texture tests.
Finally I had to consider what other ingredients they might need. Some recipes call for only mango and yogurt, several call for cardamom and many others call for milk. I made one with just mango and yogurt. It tasted delicious – like a fantastic mango smoothie. But it didn't taste like a lassi. I tried adding the cardamom – also delicious, and decidedly Indian, but definitely not a lassi. I decided to try one last time, eliminating the cardamom and adding a cup of milk. It was perfect. It was tangy, mangoey and creamy – everything a lassi should be.
Rest assured this recipe has been meticulously tested and adjusted to taste just like it would at your favorite restaurant – we would never stand for sloppy imitations. These are super healthy, and super easy to make. And they'll be perfect for keeping you cool when, any day now, summer shows up.
Mango Lassi
Serves 2-3… or 1 ;-)
2 cups mango in 1-inch cubes
1 tsp sugar
1-1.5 cups yogurt (less yogurt will taste more mangoey, which I prefer, but more will taste a bit more authentic)
1 cup milk
1. Mash mangoes in a large bowl, and stir in sugar. Let stand for 20-30 minutes. There should be around 1.5 cups of puree.
2. Pour mangoes, yogurt and milk into blender. Blend until completely smooth. I recommend going on your blender's highest setting, because otherwise the mangoes can end up stringy, which is gross.
3. Pour into glasses and try not to drink all of them yourself.
{note – for an exotic and delicious twist, add a pinch of ground cardamom}


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I'm trying to solve the problem of how many solutions (x,y) there are to:
for a fixed positive integer n and positive integers x and y.
I've been told that this equates to finding the # of divisors of minus the # of duplicate solutions, which in total equals (where is the divisor function).
My question is, what is the reasoning for being the number of duplicate solutions? Where does this come from?
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QuickerTek Announces Carbon Fiber Handle for PowerBooks
Date: Tuesday, July 20th, 2004, 07:24
Category: Archive
QuickerTek today announced new Carbon Fiber carry handles for PowerBooks. Available for the 12, 15 and 17-inch aluminum PowerBooks and the 15-inch TiBook, the carbon fiber and aluminum handles attach to the PowerBook case and offer an easy way to carry them as well as a tilted stand for desktop computing.
Why Carbon Fiber?
Because it is so strong, it's used in race cars, aircraft and now in handles for your PowerBook. When you want a handle for your PowerBook, you only want something that is strong enough – nay – way too strong! Sure, it's a bear to work with compared to metals, but there is nothing better. We could have made these handles with a lot of other materials, but what else would be cool enough for your PowerBook?
The new handles are now available for US$30 (15-inch Ti, 12-inch Aluminum) and US$35 (15 and 17-inch Aluminum).


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Ducati and Giuliano Mazzuoli's "3.6.5" sign new licensing agreement for branded pen collection
Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy) 16 April 2013 – Building upon the success of the Museo Ducati pen collection, Ducati and Florence based company "3.6.5" have now unveiled a new Ducati Multiwriting collection consisting of high quality pens and small leather items inspired by the famous Italian manufacturer's motorcycles.
Exclusively designed for Ducati by Giuliano Mazzuoli, the highly desirable pens are precisely milled from aluminium and finished in brushed chrome, red or black, recalling the colours of Ducati's iconic motorcycles.
The top-of-the-range Multiwriting Quattro set contains four stylish pieces consisting of Easy Flow ballpoint, pencil, fountain pen, and ballpoint pen, while the Multiwriting Due consists of two pieces that makes the innovative offering convertible from fountain pen to Easy Flow and another version from Easy Flow to pencil and vice versa. Easy Flow, fountain pen and pencil versions are also available individually.
Also new from "3.6.5" for 2013, is the Ducati range of small leather items created in top quality leather in four distinct models consisting of a wallet with money clip, traditional wallet, credit card holder and coin purse complete with snap-hook. Hand-crafted by experts from the famous Florence leather school, these models are created with a luxurious feel and fragrance that further underline their exclusiveness. All pieces are produced in black leather with Ducati red leather inners and white stitching. These unique and original items create the perfect partnership of quality and innovation, appreciated values for Ducati connoisseurs.
The new collection of Ducati branded multi-functional pens and sophisticated hand-made leather items, reflect the style, elegance, quality and distinctive Italian design of Ducati's iconic motorcycles. Available from April 2013 at specialist stores and the best stationery shops in Italy, France, Spain, Japan and the USA, the new collection will soon also be available from the shop section of the official Ducati website, Ducati.com


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The other night as we were getting ready for bed I complained of my lack of writing lately to my husband.
"I just feel so disconnected from my illness. Like I haven't been experiencing any symptoms so how can I write authentically on my blog?" I whined.
He smiled at me. "That's a good thing."
I'm not arguing that a lack of symptoms is anything but wonderful. These past four years I've felt better than I ever have. At about year five was when I crossed over to the point of understanding why my body did the things it did, and what I needed to do in order to control my illness lest it control me.
Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of scars from where I've been. I especially remember the emotional rips to my heart from the stigma I feared in talking about what I was going through early on.
I wasn't the only person affected this way by my illness.
Less than two months after my first two episodes and the hospitalizations that followed, Ben and I found ourselves in a tropical paradise. That fall we had booked a romantic February vacation to celebrate our birthdays and Valentine's day. I spent months researching bed & breakfast spots on the island before settling on one that looked absolutely breathtaking, cozy and perfect.
I still can't believe I made it through the trip.
The sunsets were magical and sitting across from this man who had cared for me so lovingly brought me to tears almost every night. Even though I was desperate to talk about what had happened to me, to try to figure out why my brain got so screwed up, we couldn't. It was too soon. It hurt too much to revisit those excruciating moments so soon after we had managed to pull through.
Our B&B host was welcoming and sweet, and I would have loved to have chatted with her if I would have been able to make it through three sentences before getting choked up. I could barely tell her how much I enjoyed her homemade breakfast let alone tell her how special this trip was to us, how we both needed the relaxation the island was providing more than she'd ever know. It was as if my story was caught in my throat. But why wouldn't it be? It was so raw and I hadn't yet been able to process everything that had happened so no wonder my words got stuck and jumbled. It was easier to let the tears speak for me.
My love. He must have been so scared of what was ahead of us. Would I recover? Would I ever be the same woman he fell in love with? Would he be able to hold on to our marriage until I was able to pull myself out of the fog I was sinking into?
{After I snapped this picture, Ben came face-to-face with a barracuda when he was snorkling!}
People often write to me and ask how I was able to make it. They look at my highlight reel and wonder how I make it look so effortless. But the photos of today don't reflect the pain and suffering of eight and a half years ago. If you look closely at pictures from 2006, my eyes show the trauma. My feelings may have been bottled-up back then, but photos can't lie. My smile isn't as bright and true. My eyes are distant, cold, afraid of the future.
The future keeps coming. And now I find myself here, ready for what is lies ahead still. But I haven't done it alone, that's for sure. My partner honored his vows and stayed by my side, cheering me on each and every day. Through the days when I said I didn't think I wanted to go on anymore. Through the days when I doubted whether we'd ever have a family. Through the days when I fell asleep crying for it to be over, for the clouds to make way for the sun again in my life.
The sun came back. And although I know that it will come and go at times in my life, I hold on to the past as a reminder of how far I've come and how grateful I am for the life I have today.