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On the 41st anniversary of her arrival in the United States, Marguerite Mishkin peered at a 44-year-old photograph tacked to the bulletin board of a hotel lobby here, and was shocked to see a face that looked like her own.
The photo, posted at a conference here of people who as children were hidden by Gentiles during the Holocaust, showed a group of Jewish children at an orphanage, like the one in Brussels that Mishkin was taken to after the war.
But Mishkin wasn't completely sure until Tandy Stewart, who put up the photo, produced a card signed by Mishkin and her older sister.
A group of Jewish girls at the orphanage, all of whom had lost their parents during the war, had signed the card just before Stewart, then known as Annie Klein, left to join the family in Pittsburgh that was to adopt her.
The Mishkin girls, who were hidden during the war by a Catholic family near Antwerp, were later adopted by a family in Chicago.
The reunion was one of many such encounters that took place here Sunday and Monday at the First International Gathering of Children Hidden During World War II.
The exchanges of stories and mementoes did more than revive long-buried memories. They proved the fact that these survivors, who often knew little or nothing of their own families, had indeed had childhoods of their own. It proved, in fact, that they existed.
It was an awakening for people who had been dogged by a sense of having missed out on the first parts of their lives.
"It makes it real," said Mishkin, 50, who was taken in by a Catholic family before her first birthday and never knew any of her family out side of her sister.
Mishkin had not anticipated running into this human link to her past.
After more than 40 years, the childhood friends discovered tremendous similarities in their lives. Both Mishkin, a Chicago high school teacher, and Stewart, who lives in Hillsdale, N.J., lost their parents at Auschwitz.
"I had no idea how overwhelmed I'd be," said Mishkin. "I've never felt that I belonged. I felt utterly alone, and now I've found somebody out there who could almost be my twin!"
The gathering, a joint effort of the Hidden Child Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, brought together some 1,600 child survivors and their spouses, along with many of their Christian rescuers.
One of these survivors, Abraham Foxman, who is now national director of the ADL, said there are an estimated 10,000 to 100,000 hidden children throughout the world.
Many of those children protected by Gentiles during the Holocaust will never know their true identities, because no family members survived the war. And many of the Christians who protected these children were and are still afraid to admit that they harbored Jews.
Some Jewish child survivors, particularly in Eastern Europe, have in fact not gone public with their true identities. There, it could be dangerous to be a Jew, Foxman said.
Foxman hopes that one result of this gathering will be a new ability for those hidden in their past to come out into the open. "Perhaps if this story is told, if it is put in a positive light," it will "help bring some of them out of hiding," he said.
Most of those attending the New York gathering were confronting their memories for the very first time, according to Foxman.
Among those was Jacqueline Sheirr, who stood in front of the bulletin boards scanning hundreds of scraps of paper and photographs. She saw the names of people alive and long dead, coming from all over Europe.
She searched in vain for some recognizable name, perhaps the name of the Catholic boarding school near Paris where she had been sent to survive the war. Unable to find anything that would bring recognition, she turned away in tears.
"The loneliness never, never goes away," she said, crying.
Sheirr, who saw her parents and grandparents for the last time as she watched the Gestapo round them up, was hidden by a Christian woman who then took the young girl to each of the homes where Sheirr's mother had left some of the family's possessions, threatening to turn over the 10-year-old girl to the Gestapo if the items were not given to her.
The woman, who had succeeded in taking of the family's possessions, then sent her to a boarding school, bringing her back to her home on school vacations only to cook and clean.
Since she was brought to the United States by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in 1947, Sheirr has not had much contact with other survivors or the French Jewish community.
She was not completely sure why she decided to spend her day off from her job as an assistant manager at a Manhattan clothing boutique attending the conference.
"I don't know what I came to look for," she said. "There are things I have totally blocked out. But after 50 years, I realized it's all right to be alive."


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I have a "See Also" block that appears on all my nodes of type page (except the front page). This is created with Views. I use a list view. The only field I include is the node title. For Arguments, I have Taxonomy: Term ID set to Display All Values. Then, there's argument code that gets the taxonomy of the page the block appears on and passes it as an argument:
$tids = '';
if($type == 'block' && arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1) ) ){
//$vid = 2; // this is the vocabulary id to search through...
//$terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms_by_vocabulary(arg(1), $vid);
$nid = (int)arg(1);
$terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($nid);
foreach($terms as $term){
$tids[] = $term->tid;
$tids = implode('+', $tids);
return array($tids);
I filter on nodes of type "Page". I also configure the resulting block not to show on generated pages (e.g. other views, admin and edit pages, etc.) because otherwise I get an error, since these pages have no taxonomy tags. I should add an if statement to check to see if there are any tids before the implode line, because on a page without taxonomy tags, this generates an error otherwise. I haven't had a chance to make this correction yet.
What this does is cause a block to appear on every page that lists links to other pages that have the same taxonomy. And it almost works correctly.
However, there is an annoying bug: I get multiple listings of the same pages if there are multiple taxonomy terms that the pages have in common. For example, I am administering a website for a college. I have a taxonomy vocabulary that describes departments, and also a vocabulary for different audiences, e.g. prospective students, current students, etc. Suppose one of my departments has special admission requirements. Then I want to add the taxonomy term for that department and also for prospective students. Now suppose there is also a special orientation event that the department holds for prospective students. I tag that page with both the department and prospective students. Now, on the department page, these two pages will show up in the links block, and on the prospective students page these two pages likewise show up. But if you are on the special requirements page, both the special requirements page and the orientation page will show up TWICE. I haven't figured out how to solve this yet. It seems to me that the view should only return each page once, since it does an AND between filters, but clearly something in the arguments code isn't working the way I think it does.
You should be able to see an example of this problem here: http://18.104.22.168/apache2-default/drupal-5.1/BS_Bus_Admin
This page has 2 taxonomy tags, and the page itself shows in the "See Also..." block 2 times, and several other pages that have both tags also show up in the list twice. What can I do to eliminate this duplication, other than only use one tag per page? I would still like to show all pages that match all taxonomy terms, so it's not that I want to force the terms to be ANDed together, but I don't want to see overlapping pages more than once.
Comment #2ultraBoy CreditAttribution: ultraBoy commented
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I had the same issue and emdalton's advice really helps. As the author doesn't respond, I think we can close it.
Comment #3anoopjohn CreditAttribution: anoopjohn commented
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I have been trying unsuccessfully to create a taxonomy block based on views. I wanted to create a block that lists nodes that matches a couple of different taxonomy terms. When I create the view the resulting block inevitably has duplicates unless I select the "Is All Of" operator in which case it works fine. I finally gave up on this after having tried different options and settled with Taxonomy block which allows you to create a block for a term in a taxonomy. But I feel that this is the domain of views. I tried the distinct option and like discussed in several different posts I tried the "delete filters create again" and "delete view create again" "add distinct option first" alternative strategies. None worked. The site is http://www.zyxware.com. I wanted the view for both the pricelists block and the Linux and ubuntu block. Currently the pricelist block is a view with "Is All off" selected while the Linux block is a taxonomy block.
Comment #4werushka CreditAttribution: werushka commented
is it possible to hide the node:distinct filter from the users.
Comment #5Erco CreditAttribution: Erco commented
I believe I had the same problem than yours.
Tracing the source code behaviour, I found DB queries are properly set so you have:
$total_rows which value defines the number of distinct nodes
$num_rows which value defines the number of "duplicated" nodes.
unfortunately, I was no able to figure out how those two arguments are used in the code (it seems they are not used).
So I did the following modification in views.module:
!!!! THIS WORKS FOR TEASER & NODE DISPLAY, the same modification would have to be done in theme_views_view_list for LIST display
* Display the nodes of a view as plain nodes.
function theme_views_view_nodes($view, $nodes, $type, $teasers = false, $links = true) {
if ($view->total_rows != $view->num_rows) { // IF statement to handle the case where there are duplicated nodes
$nid_distinct = array(); // Setup an array to hold nid that as already been processed
foreach ($nodes as $n) {
if (!in_array($n->nid, $nid_distinct)) { // Do something ONLY IF if that nid as never been processed
$nid_distinct[] = $n->nid; // Add that nid in the "reference array" because we are processing it
$node = node_load($n->nid);
$output .= node_view($node, $teasers, false, $links);
} else {
foreach ($nodes as $n) { // use initial code elsewhere
$node = node_load($n->nid);
$output .= node_view($node, $teasers, false, $links);
return $output;
* Display the nodes of a view as plain nodes.
function theme_views_view_nodes($view, $nodes, $type, $teasers = false, $links = true) {
foreach ($nodes as $n) {
$node = node_load($n->nid);
$output .= node_view($node, $teasers, false, $links);
return $output;
Hope it help,
Comment #6sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
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Sorry, this support request is way too specific. Please have a look at the issue queue - Views maintainers are buried already.


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In recent weeks, there have been a number of news stories following the first U.S. cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) and the first transmission of the virus that occurred on U.S. soil. This novel coronavirus (the common cold is a coronavirus; so is SARS) can cause respiratory failure and death. So far, the number of identified cases are relatively few, though the numbers are growing. Disease surveillance has been aggressive since the first case was identified in Saudi Arabia.
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Everyone goes through "little messes" in life, so we definitely need to concentrate on the blessings even more during those times.
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Over at The Economic Collapse Blog, an entry caught my eye. Below are 17 recent news stories that are aren't the rosiest. Actually, they are pretty shocking in a bad way.
These facts speak to the contention that many observers have regarding the patchiness of this economic recovery. Many areas of the country that were hit hard by the recession aren't necessarily falling further, but are not bouncing back. It's sort of like a fighter that has been getting punched a lot. Now that they aren't getting hit over and over they feel a heck of a lot better than when they were getting smashed, yet they're not in a state where they're playing offense.
Here's the list…prepare to be blown away…
#1 The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.
#2 Consumer spending for durable goods has dropped by 3.23 percent since November. This is a clear sign that an economic slowdown is ahead.
#3 Major retailers are closing stores at the fastest pace that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
#4 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of all families in the United States do not have a single member that is employed. That means that one out of every five families in the entire country is completely unemployed.
#5 There are 1.3 million fewer jobs in the U.S. economy than when the last recession began in December 2007. Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow steadily since that time.
#6 According to a new report from the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the jobs that have been "created" since the end of the last recession does not match the quality of the jobs lost during the last recession…
- Lower-wage industries constituted 22 percent of recession losses, but 44 percent of recovery growth.
- Mid-wage industries constituted 37 percent of recession losses, but only 26 percent of recovery growth.
- Higher-wage industries constituted 41 percent of recession losses, and 30 percent of recovery growth.
#7 After adjusting for inflation, men who work full-time in America today make less money than men who worked full-time in America 40 years ago.
#8 It is hard to believe, but 62 percent of all Americans make $20 or less an hour at this point.
#9 Nine of the top ten occupations in the U.S. pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year.
#10 The middle class in Canada now makes more money than the middle class in the United States does.
#11 According to one recent study, 40 percent of all Americans could not come up with $2000 right now even if there was a major emergency.
#12 Less than one out of every four Americans has enough money put away to cover six months of expenses if there was a job loss or major emergency.
#13 An astounding 56 percent of all Americans have subprime credit in 2014.
#14 As I wrote about the other day, there are now 49 million Americans that are dealing with food insecurity.
#15 Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs.
#16 69 percent of the federal budget is spent either on entitlements or on welfare programs.
#17 The number of Americans receiving benefits from the federal government each month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million.


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ATLANTA, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vystar Corporation (OTCBB: VYST), the creator of Vytex® Natural Rubber Latex (NRL), has announced an agreement with two long time textile industry veterans to launch the Vytex brand into the home textile industry. Vytex NRL is a patented, all-natural raw material that significantly reduces the protein allergens and other non-rubber particles found in natural rubber latex.
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Doyle further commented, "We are delighted to have an agreement with Beacon Sales and Business Solutions' managing partners, Steve McGee and Tedd Smith, to oversee our entry into the marketplace. We are confident that our joint efforts will result in significant expansion of the Vytex NRL brand into the natural rubber latex pillow and foam mattress markets."
Beacon Sales & Business Solutions Managing Partners, Steve McGee and Tedd Smith bring over 60 years of experience in the textile industry. Steve McGee served as VP of Sales for both Thomaston Mills and WestPoint Stevens, while Tedd Smith has a long history with Cannon, Owen, Beacon Blankets and International Home Fashions. "It is really exciting to find such a solution oriented product that can be used in home textiles. We are pleased to have the opportunity to help Vystar launch their unique technology into foam pillow products as well as explore possible new product offerings using Vytex NRL in various home textile products," says Smith.
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Over the past eleven years Quinn has logged 35,000 nautical miles cruising the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard on her thirty-six foot sailboat. Miss Inclined is Quinn's fifth CD; it's clear that she's out for the long haul both as a cruiser and a songwriter. For confirmed Quinn fans, her newest offering explores known territory: songs about sailing and living aboard boats that blend humor and poignancy. She makes light of the small stuff that frustrates all boaters, such as docking in tight places, and then draws our attention to bigger issues of personal relationships and independence. But there's a slight edge to this CD largely not found in her earlier albums. She challenges listeners who are living their lives by default. Quinn draws on her cruising lifestyle, both literally and metaphorically, to encourage us to escape from convention and conformity. The message is at it's most direct in 'Always A Choice': you've got yourself a mortgage a day job, a wife may not love it right now but you've got yourself a life but there is always a choice The bluesy title track, 'Miss Inclined', is a Mae West take on stepping outside of established mores in the quest for love and adventure: hear those whispers on the wind my good name maligned they used to call me Miss Upstanding now they call me Miss Inclined In 'Where Have All The Pirates Gone?', Quinn skewers the Caribbean cowboy whose dreams of a Buffett-like existence never extend beyond his perch on a bar stool: he'll bluff about the beaches the bikini babes, the boats and the endless sea of overproof on which this whole myth floats The theme of taking control of one's life appears again in the hard hitting 'Sailing On'. A terminally ill sailor chooses to cruise rather than submit to the false hope of a miracle cure. This song, though painful, is a fierce celebration of independence: well I rage against the darkness with each heartbeat since he's gone but I sure as hell won't tell you the choice he made was wrong For all the weighty material, this is a very funny album. Quinn is a clever lyricist and her songs are packed with wordplay and double-entendre. There's the wayward sailor 'searching for true luff' and the unfaithful snorkeler announcing, 'honey, look, I got a case of crabs'. And Quinn knows only too well from personal experience that knocking out the pump-out station while attempting to dock will 'raise a royal stink'. In terms of musical genre, there's a contemporary sound to the album that's difficult to pigeonhole. Quinn likes to call her work 'bluewater music' and while there's a definite blues tilt to many of the tunes, folk and country rock influences are also apparent. The final song, 'Dancing With The Moon', is probably best described as gypsy music. It closes the album with a hedonistic call: farewell toil, hello pleasure tonight escape the careful measure that keeps us all so neatly pinned throw caution to the wind Good citizens be forewarned. Quinn is downright subversive.
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Card processor faces scrutiny over collapse of travel firms
• Card processor E-Clear owes £30m, administrators claim
Confusion surrounds the UK business interests of Greek Cypriot travel industry entrepreneur Elias Elia, chief executive of the payment processor company accused of precipitating the collapse last week of Scottish airline Globespan, as his travel agency failed over the weekend.
The collapse of Allbury Travel, previously called Libra Holidays, stranding almost 100 customers overseas, comes days after the failure of no-frills airline Globespan left 4,500 holidaymakers marooned, mostly in Mediterranean resorts and the Canary Islands.
Globespan's collapse has proved controversial after administrators from PricewaterhouseCoopers claimed E-Clear had for months been choking off payments due to the airline from credit card customers. Joint administrator Bruce Cartwright has suggested between £30m and £35m is owed by E-Clear, which, he explained, is at least double the sum needed to cover any potential refund claims E-Clear might face from customers whose flights never took off.
Last night PwC said discussions had taken place with E-Clear but "progress has been limited". It added: "To address concerns expressed by creditors ... administrators have requested that the funds held by E-Clear which are estimated at £35m be placed in a joint account immediately."
E-Clear could not be reached for comment.Meanwhile, reports over the weekend that Begbies Traynor had been appointed as administrators to Hertfordshire-based Allbury Travel appeared premature and were denied by the insolvency practice.
The Civil Aviation Authority described Allbury as having "failed" on Friday night for the purposes of its licence under the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Atol) scheme. The Allbury website said the firm, which operates under brands such as Jetlife, Argo Holidays and Priceright Holidays, had ceased trading. Suppliers were told "The company is not in a position to make any payments at present. Once the company's financial position is clarified we will post a further announcement on this website."
Filings at Companies House indicate Allbury is controlled through a British Virgin Islands-registered company by Elias Elia. It is also said to have used E-Clear to process credit card payments. The firm was previously called Libra Holidays.
E-Clear management has in recent weeks insisted the company remains in a strong financial position but it emerged over the weekend that Globespan had filed a petition calling for the payment processor to be wound up.
Amounts owing by E-Clear to Globespan for completed flights had been growing by about £1m a week since the summer. During that time – despite concerns at E-Clear's conduct – Globespan entered into talks with a would-be white knight investor Halcyon Investments, a Jersey-based vehicle backed by E-Clear and a Greek shipping entrepreneur.
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Welcome to another great shopping experience in Jacksonville, Florida in the Riverside area. Just think you will be ready to visit this area if you love the hunt. Like "5 Points Antiques" we were graciously welcome to roam around and snap the photo you see. If you love old silver, jewelry, Hummels, china, and the […]


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Hopes of deal to save some HMV stores with Game group's talks
50 outlets may be bought but future of Irish business unclear
HOPES have been raised that some of HMV's stores may be saved after Game group expressed interest in the business.
UK-based Game, which was itself bought out of administration last April, said it had approached HMV's administrators Deloitte about a possible deal.
The computer games retailer is believed to be interested in around 45 of HMV's shops, however, it is not clear if it wants any of the company's Irish business.
Overall, Deloitte said it has received interest in 50 of HMV's shops.
Unlike the UK business, which is still operating through administration, the Irish arm has gone into receivership and has shut its doors.
That has led staff at stores in Ireland to take part in a sit-in over unpaid wages.
Yesterday a sit-in began at another store.
Staff at the music retailer's flagship Patrick Street store in Cork began a sit-in protest after gaining access to the premises.
The sit-in brings to three the number of Irish stores now occupied by staff who fear the loss of wages, overtime and holiday pay.
Over a dozen staff started the Cork protest after their colleagues in Limerick locked themselves into two stores – at the Crescent shopping centre and Cruises Street – since Wednesday.
Deloitte has been appointed receiver for the 16 Irish HMV stores and is in ongoing discussions with the redundant workers.
However, no agreement on outstanding wages has yet been struck.
In a gesture of solidarity, the HMV workers received a message of support last night from the Vita Cortex workers who last year maintained a seven-month factory sit-in in support of their redundancy claims.
Up to 30 redundant staff have spent a third successive night locked into the two Limerick stores.
The unemployed workers have vowed to remain on until they receive what they are owed.
Emer Walsh (39) from Caherdavin, Limerick has worked for HMV for seven years at their Cruises Street outlet. She said she is owed more than €3,000 in wages.
She said they felt betrayed by the manner in which the company had behaved towards them.
Ms Walsh said she and her colleagues are determined to fight for what they are entitled to.
"There is great camaraderie among the workers.
"We are friends, not just colleagues. I was last paid on December 21," Ms Walsh said.
"We worked very long hours over the very busy Christmas period and I estimate I am owed over €3,000 – which is a lot money," she added.
Manager Dearbhail Peters said the receiver is "proposing to pay them on the day we are due payment – next Friday".
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With our U.S. headquarters located in Southern California, Innovative DTV Solutions, Inc. (IDTV) is the sales, distribution and marketing arm of a dynamic Korean-based consumer electronics research, development and engineering company. Incorporated in 1995, the company mission was to design, develop and apply ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner technology to new products. ATSC is known as the HDTV standard in the USA. With leading design and engineering capability, the company has supplied tuners to Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and others for many of the world's leading consumer electronics brands over the past 20 years.
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Charities spend much less on fundraising then the public thinks, new research by the Charities Aid Foundation indicates.
CAF asked more than 1,000 UK residents how much they thought charities spent to raise £1. The average came out as 42p.
Analysis by CAF of data from more than 162,000 charities showed the actual figure spent by charities is 12p to raise £1.
Richard Harrison, director of research at CAF, said the results showed "the huge gulf that exists between the perceptions of charity fundraising and the reality.
"We have seen the creation of an urban myth about the efficiency of charities – people think that most of the pennies in a pound don't go to the charity," said Harrison, who blamed media coverage and a lack of understanding of charities for the misperception.
When people were asked how much charities should be spending to raise a pound, the average came out as 26p – more than double the actual figure.
Jay Kennedy, head of policy at the Directory of Social Change, said that although it was broadly very positive to have robust information about fundraising costs, there was "no magic number" and lower fundraising costs were not necessarily better.
"You can't fundraise out of thin air, and the idea that administrative costs are not helping the end cause is erroneous," he said.
Kennedy said all charities were different and the most important factor was how a charity justified and explained what it did with its money in its reporting, he said.
The cost of fundraising a pound was 10p in 2007 and 2008, according to an analysis of 162,500 charities' data from their annual returns, held on CAF's Charity Trends website, but this increased by 2p in 2009.
CAF said inflation and the fall in donations meant charities are having to spend more on fundraising.


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College Professor Sentenced to 13 Years for Flying to Detroit to Have Sex With a 5-Year-Old
|U.S. Attorney's Office March 19, 2009
Terrence G. Berg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced that Irving MITTLEMAN, 62, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today in Federal District Court following his September 2008 guilty plea to charges of Enticement to Commit Illegal Sexual Activity and Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct. Mr. Berg was joined in the announcement by Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Division.
MITTLEMAN was sentenced by the Honorable Denise Page Hood to 13 years in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
According to court records, from October 9, 2007 until November 3, 2007, MITTLEMAN engaged in a series of online and telephone conversations with a Macomb Area Computer Enforcement Unit (MACE) undercover detective whom he believed to be a single mother of a 5-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy. During the on-line chats and in subsequent telephone conversations, he indicated a desire fly to Detroit to engage in oral sexual contact and sexual intercourse with the 5-year-old girl. As a result of the investigation, it was determined that MITTLEMAN possessed an extensive child pornography collection and had been communicating with and exchanging child pornography with numerous others via the Internet.
As a result of these conversations, MITTLEMAN traveled to the Detroit area to meet with the woman and her children on November 3, 2007. Upon his arrival, MITTLEMAN was arrested by authorities from the FBI and MACE.
United States Attorney Terrence Berg said: "This case highlights the clear connection between the desire to collect child pornography and the actual intent to sexually abuse children. In this case, the defendant developed an on-line relationship with a single mother in hopes of securing access to her children that he intended to abuse. Today's lengthy sentence shows that my office's Child Protection Initiative is working, that criminals who engage in similar conduct will be aggressively prosecuted, and that the United States Attorney's Office will do everything we can to keep the Internet from functioning as a haven for child molesters."
Special Agent Arena said, "The FBI is committed to protecting our most precious resource, our children, from sexual predators. We stand side by side with our state and local law enforcement to bring these individuals to justice. This sentence should serve as a warning that we will diligently pursue and arrest those individuals who would target and endanger our children."
Berg praised the work of the FBI, the Macomb County Sheriff's Office, and their joint task force, the Macomb Area Computer Enforcement Unit. Through the Project Safe Childhood Initiative, the two agencies have focused efforts on investigating and apprehending these internet offenders. The two agencies further coordinate the prosecution of the offenses in state or federal court. "Their dedication of time and skill necessary to work to reveal and apprehend these predators has been most successful" said Berg.
Assistant United States Attorney John N. O'Brien prosecuted case for the United States.