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Coming of Age in Samoa
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|Margaret Mead
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Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands, primarily focusing on adolescent girls. First published in 1928, the book launched Mead as a pioneering researcher and as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Since its first publication, Coming of Age in Samoa was the most widely read book in the field of anthropology until Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamö: The Fierce People overtook it. The book has sparked years of ongoing and intense debate and controversy on questions pertaining to society, culture, and science. It is a key text in the nature and nurture debate, as well as in discussions on issues relating to family, adolescence, gender, social norms, and attitudes.[1]Although Mead's work has been very influential some of her most significant claims about Samoan culture have been criticized and contradicted by subsequent research. Particularly the anthropologist Derek Freeman has contested many of Mead's claims, and argued that she was hoaxed into counterfactaully believing that Samoan culture had more relaxed sexual norms than Western culture.[2]
In the foreword to Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead's advisor, Franz Boas, wrote of its significance that:
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
Boas went on to point out that, at the time of publication, many Americans had begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (particularly women) as they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment". Boas felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating.
Mead described the goal of her research as follows: "I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?" To answer this question, she conducted her study among a small group of Samoans; a village of 600 people on the island of Ta'ū, in which—over a period of only six weeks—she claimed to have gotten to know, lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) 68 young women between the ages of 9 and 20. She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood (adolescence) in Samoa was a smooth transition and not marked by the emotional or psychological distress, anxiety, or confusion seen in the United States.
Mead concluded that this was due to the Samoan girl's belonging to a stable, monocultural society, surrounded by role models, and where nothing concerning the basic human facts of copulation, birth, bodily functions, or death, was hidden. The Samoan girl was not pressured to choose from among a variety of conflicting values, as was the American girl. Mead commented, somewhat satirically:
... a[n American] girl's father may be a Presbyterian, an imperialist, a vegetarian, a teetotaller, with a strong literary preference for Edmund Burke, a believer in the open shop and a high tariff, who believes that women's place is in the home, that young girls should wear corsets, not roll their stockings, not smoke, nor go riding with young men in the evening. But her mother's father may be a Low Episcopalian, a believer in high living, a strong advocate of States' Rights and the Monroe Doctrine, who reads Rabelais, likes to go to musical shows and horse races. Her aunt is an agnostic, an ardent advocate of women's rights, an internationalist who rests all her hopes on Esperanto, is devoted to Bernard Shaw, and spends her spare time in campaigns of anti-vivisection. Her elder brother, whom she admires exceedingly, has just spent two years at Oxford. He is an Anglo-Catholic, an enthusiast concerning all things medieval, writes mystical poetry, reads Chesterton, and means to devote his life to seeking for the lost secret of medieval stained glass. Her mother's younger brother...
As Boas and Mead expected, this book upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observation that young Samoan women deferred marriage for many years while enjoying casual sex but eventually married, settled down, and successfully reared their own children.
The use of cross-cultural comparison to highlight issues within Western society was highly influential and contributed greatly to the heightened awareness of anthropology and ethnographic study in the United States. It established Mead as a substantial figure in American anthropology, a position she would maintain for the next fifty years.
As a landmark study regarding sexual mores, the book was also highly controversial and frequently came under attack on ideological and academic grounds. The National Catholic Register argued that Mead's findings were merely a projection of her own sexual beliefs and reflected her desire to eliminate restrictions on her own sexuality.[3] The traditionalist conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute listed Coming of Age in Samoa as #1 in the list of what it thinks are the "50 Worst Books of the Twentieth Century".[4] Anthropological critics—most notably Derek Freeman—claimed that Mead failed to apply the scientific method and that her assertions were unsupported.[5]
The Mead-Freeman controversy[edit]
Margaret Mead and Samoa[edit]
In 1983, five years after Mead had died, Derek Freeman—a fluent Samoan speaker who was inducted into Samoan tribal society—published Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, in which he challenged all of Mead's major findings. In 1988, he participated in the filming of Margaret Mead in Samoa, directed by Frank Heimans, which claims to document one of Mead's original informants, now an elderly woman, swearing that the information she and her friend provided Mead when they were teenagers was false:[citation needed]
"She must have taken it seriously," one of the girls would say of Mead on videotape years later, "but I was only joking. As you know, Samoan girls are terrific liars when it comes to joking. But Margaret accepted our trumped up stories as though they were true." If challenged by Mead, the girls would not have hesitated to tell the truth, but Mead never questioned their stories. The girls, now mature women, swore on the Bible to the truth of what they told Freeman and his colleagues.
Another account of Mead which Freeman attacked particularly was her claim that Samoan girls could and do lie about their status of virginity by the use of chicken blood.[6] Freeman pointed out that virginity of the bride is so crucial to the status of Samoan men that they have a specific ritual in which the bride's hymen is manually ruptured in public, by the groom himself or by the chief, making use of chicken blood impossible. On this ground, Freeman argued that Mead must have based her account on (false) hearsay from non-Samoan sources.[7]
The argument hinged on the place of the taupou system in Samoan society. According to Mead, the taupou system is one of institutionalized virginity for young women of high rank, and it is exclusive to women of high rank. According to Freeman, all Samoan women emulated the taupou system, and Mead's informants denied having engaged in casual sex as young women and claimed that they had lied to Mead.[8]
Anthropological reception and reactions[edit]
After an initial flurry of discussion, most anthropologists decided to claim that Freeman systematically misrepresented Mead's views on the relationship between nature and nurture, as well as the data on Samoan culture. According to Freeman's colleague Robin Fox, Freeman "seemed to have a special place in hell reserved for Margaret Mead, for reasons not at all clear at that time."[9]
Moreover, many field and comparative studies by anthropologists have since found that adolescence is not experienced in the same way in all societies. Systematic cross-cultural study of adolescence by Schlegel and Barry, for example, concluded that adolescents experience harmonious relations with their families in most non-industrialized societies around the world.[10] They find that, when family members need each other throughout their lives, independence, as expressed in adolescent rebelliousness, is minimal and counterproductive. Adolescents are likely to be rebellious only in industrialized societies practicing neolocal residence patterns (in which young adults must move their residence away from their parents). Neolocal residence patterns result from young adults living in industrial societies who move to take new jobs or in similar geographically mobile populations. Thus, Mead's analysis of adolescent conflict is upheld in the comparative literature on societies worldwide.[11]
First, these critics have speculated that he waited until Mead died before publishing his critique so that she would not be able to respond. In 1978, Freeman sent a revised manuscript to Mead, but she was ill and died a few months later without responding.
Second, Freeman's critics point out that, by the time he arrived on the scene, Mead's original informants were old women, grandmothers, and had converted to Christianity, so their testimony to him may not have been accurate. They further allege that Samoan culture had changed considerably in the decades following Mead's original research, that after intense missionary activity many Samoans had come to adopt the same sexual standards as the Americans who were once so shocked by Mead's book. They suggested that such women, in this new context, were unlikely to speak frankly about their adolescent behavior. Further, they suggested that these women might not be as forthright and honest about their sexuality when speaking to an elderly man as they would have been speaking to a woman near their own age.[11]
Some anthropologists criticized Freeman on methodological and empirical grounds. For example, they claimed that Freeman had conflated publicly articulated ideals with behavioral norms—that is, while many Samoan women would admit in public that it is ideal to remain a virgin, in practice they engaged in high levels of premarital sex and boasted about their sexual affairs among themselves.[12] Freeman's own data documented the existence of premarital sexual activity in Samoa. In a western Samoan village he documented that 20% of 15-year-olds, 30% of 16-year-olds, and 40% of 17-year-olds had engaged in premarital sex.[13] In 1983, the American Anthropological Association held a special session to discuss Freeman's book; to which they did not invite him. Their criticism was made formal at the 82nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association the next month in Chicago, where a special session, to which Freeman was not invited, was held to discuss his book.[14] They passed a motion declaring Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa "poorly written, unscientific, irresponsible and misleading." Freeman commented that "to seek to dispose of a major scientific issue by a show of hands is a striking demonstration of the way in which belief can come to dominate the thinking of scholars."[15]
In the years that followed, anthropologists vigorously debated these issues. Notable scholars who published on the issue include Appell, who stated "I found Freeman's argument to be completely convincing",[16] Brady, "Freeman's book discovers little but tends to reinforce what many anthropologists already suspected" regarding the adequacy of Mead's ethnography, Feinberg, Leacock, Levy, Marshall, Nardi, Patience, Paxman, Scheper-Hughes, Shankman, Young and Juan.[17]
Much like Mead's work, Freeman's account has been challenged as being ideologically driven to support his own theoretical viewpoint (sociobiology and interactionism), as well as assigning Mead a high degree of gullibility and bias. Freeman's refutation of Samoan sexual mores has been challenged, in turn, as being based on public declarations of sexual morality, virginity, and taupou rather than on actual sexual practices within Samoan society during the period of Mead's research.[18]
Lowell Holmes—who completed a lesser-publicized restudy—commented later: "Mead was better able to identify with, and therefore establish rapport with, adolescents and young adults on issues of sexuality than either I (at age 29, married with a wife and child) or Freeman, ten years my senior."[19]
In 1996, Martin Orans examined Mead's notes preserved at the Library of Congress, and credits her for leaving all of her recorded data available to the general public. Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticism—that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa'apua'a Fa'amu (who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead)—was false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that corresponds to Fa'apua'a Fa'amu's account to Freeman; and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa'apua'a Fa'amu. He therefore concludes—contrary to Freeman—that Mead was never the victim of a hoax. Orans points out that Mead's data supports several different conclusions, and that Mead's conclusions hinge on an interpretive or fabricated, rather than positivist, approach to culture. Taking the positivist stance, Orans concludes that—because of Mead's interpretive approach, which is common to most of contemporary cultural anthropology—her hypotheses and conclusions are essentially unfalsifiable, and therefore "not even wrong".[20]
In 1999, Freeman published the book The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research, including new material, in particular interviews that Freeman called of "exceptional historical significance" and "of quite fundamental importance" of one of Mead's then adolescent informants by a Samoan chief from the National University of Samoa in 1988 and 1993, and of her daughter in 1995.[21] Correspondence of 1925-1926 between Franz Boas and Margaret Mead was also newly available to Freeman. He concludes in the introduction to the book that "her exciting revelations about sexual behavior were in some cases merely the extrapolations of whispered intimacies, whereas those of greatest consequence were the results of a prankish hoax."
See also[edit]
- Culture of Samoa
- Heretic - A play by Australian playwright David Williamson on the controversy.
- ^ Felder, Deoborah G. (2003). A Century of Women : The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's History. Citadel Press. pp. 135, 135. ISBN 0-8065-2526-6. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ Pinker, Steven (June 22, 2009). How the Mind Works. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393334775. Retrieved 15 September 2014. "Margaret Mead disseminated the incredible claim that Samoans have no passions -- no anger between parents and children or between a cuckold and seducer, no revenge, no lasting love or bereavement,... no adolescent turmoil. Derek Freman and other anthropologists found that Samoan society in fact had widespread adolescent resentment and deliquency, a cult of virginity. frequent rape, reprisals by rape victim's families,... sexual jealousy and strong religious feeling."
- ^ Wiker, Benjamin (May 19, 2002). "Margaret Mead's Flights of Fancy in Samoa". discovery.org. National Catholic Register. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Henrie, Mark; et al. (Fall, 1999). "THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW — Fall 1999 3 The Fifty Worst (and Best) Books of the Century". mmisi.org. The Intercollegiate Review. Retrieved 29 September 2014. "So amusing did the natives find the white womanís prurient questions that they told her the wildest tales and she believed them! Mead misled a generation into believing that the fantasies of sexual progressives were an historical reality on an island far, far away."
- ^ "Mead ignored violence in Samoan life, did not have a sufficient background in—or give enough emphasis to—the influence of biology on behavior, did not spend enough time in Samoa, and was not familiar enough with the Samoan language." Library of Congress, "Afterward: Derek Freeman and Margaret Mead."
- ^ Freman, Derek (March, 1972). "Social Organization of Manu A (1930 and 1969) By Margaret Mead: Some Eratta". The Journal of the Polynesian Society 81 (1). Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "In 1943, knowing what I did of the rite of fa'amasei'au, I felt certain that Mead's account was in error and could not have come from any Samoan source.Derek Freeman, "All Made of Fantasy": A Rejoinder to Paul Shankman, American Anthropologist 100 (4): 972-983, 1999.
- ^ Derek Freeman (1983). Margaret Mead and Samoa. Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-54830-2.
- ^ Fox, Robin 2004 Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, page 339.
- ^ Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1984). "The Margaret Mead Controversy: Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Inquiry". Human Organization 43 (1): 85–93.
- ^ a b See Appell 1984, Brady 1991, Feinberg 1988, Leacock 1988, Levy 1984, Marshall 1993, Nardi 1984, Patience and Smith 1986, Paxman 1988, Scheper-Hughes 1984, Shankman 1996, and Young and Juan 1985.
- ^ Brad Shore 1982 Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery New York: Columbia University Press.
- ^ Freeman, 1983: 238-240.
- ^ Shaw, John (2001-08-05). "Derek Freeman, Who Challenged Margaret Mead on Samoa, Dies at 84". The New York Times.
- ^ Shaw, John (2001-08-05). "Derek Freeman, Who Challenged Margaret Mead on Samoa, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ http://www.gnappell.org/articles/freeman.htm
- ^ Appell 1984, Brady 1991, Feinberg 1988, Leacock 1988, Levy 1984, Marshall 1993, Nardi 1984, Patience and Smith 1986, Paxman 1988, Scheper-Hughes 1984, Shankman 1996, Young and Juan 1985, and Shankman 2009.
- ^ Shankman, Paul (1996). "The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead-Freeman Controversy". American Anthropologist 98 (3): 555–567. doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.3.02a00090.
- ^ Holmes & Holmes, 1992.
- ^ Orans, Martin 1996 Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and the Samoans.
- ^ The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research, Acknowledgments
- Acciaioli, Gregory, ed. (1983). "Fact and Context in Etnography: The Samoa Controversy (special edition)". Canberra Anthropology 6 (1): 1–97. ISSN 0314-9099.
- Appell, George (1984). "Freeman's Refutation of Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: The Implications for Anthropological Inquiry". Eastern Anthropology 37: 183–214.
- Mary Catherine Bateson, With a Daughter's Eye. 1984 ISBN 0-688-03962-6, (2003 ppb ISBN 0-06-097573-3)
- Brady, Ivan. (1991). "The Samoa Reader: Last Word or Lost Horizon?" (PDF). Current Anthropology 32 (4): 263–282. doi:10.1086/203989. JSTOR 2743829.
- Hiram Caton, Editor (1990). "The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock". University Press of America. ISBN 0-8191-7720-2.
- Feinberg, Richard (1988). "Margaret Mead and Samoa: Coming of Age in Fact and Fiction". American Anthropologist 90: 656–663. doi:10.1525/aa.1988.90.3.02a00080.
- Leonora Foerstel and Angela Gilliam (eds) (1992). Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire and the South Pacific. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
- Derek Freeman (1999). The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research[1]. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3693-7.
- Hilary Lapsley (1999) Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-181-3
- Lowell D. Holmes (1987) Quest for the Real Samoa: the Mead/Freeman Controversy and Beyond. South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey
- Howard, Jane (1984) Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Leacock, Eleanor (1988). "Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and All the Rest of Us". Central Issues in Anthropology 8 (1): 3–20. doi:10.1525/cia.1918.104.22.168.
- Levy, Robert (1984). "Mead, Freeman, and Samoa: The Problem of Seeing Things as They Are". Ethos 12: 85–92. doi:10.1525/eth.1984.12.1.02a00060.
- Mageo, Jeannette (1988). "Malosi: A Psychological Exploration of Mead's and Freeman's Work and of Samoan Aggression". Pacific Studies 11 (2): 25–65.
- Marshall, Mac. (1993). "The Wizard from Oz Meets the Wicked Witch of the East: Freeman, Mead, and Ethnographic Authority". American Ethnologist 20 (3): 604–617. doi:10.1525/ae.1993.20.3.02a00080.
- Nardi, Bonnie; Mead, Margaret; Freeman, Derek (1984). "The Height of Her Powers: Margaret Mead's Samoa". Feminist Studies 10 (2): 323–337. doi:10.2307/3177870. JSTOR 3177870.
- Patience, Allan, and Josephy Smith (1987). "Derek Freeman in Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of a Biobehavioral Myth". American Anthropologist 88: 157–162. doi:10.1525/aa.1986.88.1.02a00160.
- Paxman, David B. (1988). "Freeman, Mead, and the Eighteenth-Century Controversy over Polynesian Society". Pacific Studies 11 (3): 1–19.
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- Schlegal, Alice and Herbert Barry III 1991 "Adolescence: An anthropological inquiry". New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-927895-6.
- Shankman, Paul (2009). The Thrashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-23454-6.
- Young, R.E., and S. Juan. (1985). "Freeman's Margaret Mead Myth: The Ideological Virginity of Anthropologists". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 21 (1): 64–81. doi:10.1177/144078338502100104.
- Virginia, Mary E. "DISCovering U.S. History", Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948), online edition, (ed Detroit: Gale), 2003


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After 11 years in the Formula 1 World Championship, Ralf Schumacher (32) will race this year with the Trilux AMG Mercedes C-Class in the DTM, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport announced today. Ralf Schumacher's DTM debut will take place at the season opener in Hockenheim on 13th April 2008.
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WASHINGTON, DC - A drop in some mortgage loan limits for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration scheduled to occur on Oct. 1 will reduce housing demand and place downward pressure on home prices in major housing markets, according to a new study from the Economics and Housing Policy Group at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
When they come up for sale, the homes that will become ineligible to be purchased and securitized by the GSEs or to be purchased with FHA-insured financing as a result of the lower limits "would likely require financing with higher mortgage interest rates and other less favorable loan terms, such as higher required downpayments and more stringent credit history thresholds," according to the report.
"The lower limits will place a constraint on home buying in high-cost housing markets, such as those along the coasts and in California. It is the last thing we need in a housing market that is still struggling to get back on its feet," said NAHB Chairman Bob Nielsen, a home builder from Reno, Nev.
The downward pressure on prices could extend beyond the homes directly affected by the lower limits, the study warns, because first-time and trade-up home sales are interrelated.
The size of "conforming" mortgages for the GSEs is currently limited to $417,000 in general, but that ceiling can rise to as high as $729,750 using a statutory formula based on local median home prices.
Unless Congress acts to extend these levels, they will revert to the lower permanent criteria for high-cost areas under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
The base limit will remain at $417,000, but the formula for establishing limits for high-cost areas will change from 125 percent to 115 percent of the area median home price, and the national ceiling will drop from $729,750 to $625,500.
Purchasing homes that go above the GSE ceiling will require non-conforming loans that currently have been about 60 basis points (0.6 percentage points) higher than conforming loans, the study finds, and based on a report by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) the non-conforming mortgages are expected to be 50 to 75 basis points higher.
Looking at limits published by the FHFA, 204 counties -- or 6.5% of the 3,143 counties in the U.S. -- will see a decrease in their high-cost conforming loan limit. These counties represent relatively dense concentrations of population and housing and contain 20.7 million owner-occupied units out of the 75.3 million nationwide, or 27%.
In the counties facing a decline, the average decline in the loan limit will be $67,018, down 11% from current levels.
Under present law, 3.63 million owner-occupied homes are priced above the conforming loan limits. Under the changes set to take place on Oct. 1, an additional 1.38 million owner-occupied homes will be above the limit, leaving a total of 5 million homes that will not be eligible for GSE funding.
Lowering the limits will take an even bigger toll on homes eligible for FHA-insured financing, the study finds.
As with the GSEs, the national ceiling for FHA loans will drop to $625,500 on Oct. 1, and for counties whose housing is priced somewhere between that amount and the lowest ceiling of $271,050, the FHA mortgage loan limit will also decline from 125 percent to 115 percent of the area median.
According to the limits published by the FHA, 620 counties -- or 20% of the total -- will see a decrease in their FHA loan level. The affected counties contain 44.3 million owner-occupied housing units, or 59% of the owner-occupied housing stock in the U.S.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Damage from last week's tornadoes and storms in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is awash in debt, is far worse than initially thought and will hit the county's sewer revenue, the county commission president said on Tuesday.
The county, saddled with a $3.2 billion sewer bond debt, is struggling to avoid declaring what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The tornadoes and storms killed around 250 people in Alabama, including at least 19 in Jefferson County where 3,000 homes and 5,700 structures in total were "lost", Commission President David Carrington said.
In addition to its sewer bond debt, Jefferson County faces a general obligation fund debt and because of a court decision in March that ruled a tax for the county unconstitutional, it could run out of operating funds in July.
Last week Carrington said the storms would not directly impact the county because repairs would be funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
On Tuesday, he revised that view in the light of fresh information.
The damage is "far worse than I was initially told. This loss will materially impact our net sewer revenues," Carrington said in an email.
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The new cost estimate on debris clean-up alone is $400 million and the county, like other storm-hit cities, may be responsible for 15 percent of the costs, though this could be waived by President Barack Obama, Carrington said.
In addition, one of the county's sewer treatment plants received "significant damage", Carrington said, though he gave no details on what impact this might have.
By law, funds to repay the county's sewer bond debt come from sewer revenues. Under normal circumstances, this helps to shield the debt from financial shocks but significant property damage could in theory reduce overall revenue.
Jefferson County is one of several U.S. municipalities facing debt trouble and bond markets watch it closely because of the size and protracted nature of its crisis. It ran up its sewer debt through auction and swap rate instruments it purchased to refinance an upgrade to its sewer system.
The county is also key to Alabama's economy, in part because its main city, Birmingham, is the largest in the state. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is due to address the state later on Tuesday on the impact of the storms, the worst U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Circa Simply Irresistible Sampling Kit Includes a $40 Gift Card
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The Circa smorgasbord — and virtually free to boot
Go ahead — sample all the flavors of Circa, compliments of the chef. This comprehensive collectanea of Circa sizes and formats lets you try them all and create one or two custom notebooks. Once you've decided the formats and sizes you like best, season to taste: Come back and redeem your $40 Gift Card toward refills, covers, pockets, colored discs and other accessories. Kit includes:
Includes a $40 Circa Gift Card
Translucent covers (front and back), Letter (8 1/2W x 11H)
Translucent covers (front and back), Junior ( 5 1/2W x 8 1/2H)
11 1-inch discs
8 3/4-inch discs
20 sheets of annotation-ruled paper, Letter
20 sheets of full-page ruled paper, Junior
10 sheets of full-page ruled paper, Compact
5 sheets of Things To Do, Letter
5 sheets of Things To Do, Junior
4 Page Finder tabs, Letter
1 tab divider, Letter
1 tab divider, Junior
1 pocket divider, Junior
1 Task Pad
Substantial, archive-quality 90-gsm paper
Note: Substitutions of equal or greater value may be made in order to ensure speedy delivery of this item
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I was turned onto levenger by a colleague of mine and am currently in love with the products. We have to maintain multiple books and take lot of notes. It is great bit would be better of a military discount or even a military package was created. In addition I got a 40 dollar gift card for my purchase and it went quick for what I needed to maintain my equipment for the price. Overall I thank the person for turning me onto it and would greatly appreciate a miitary discount or larger gift card.....thank you levenger for the minor help.
September 20, 2014
Best Notebook Available!!!
I have seen many of my CEO's and leadership toting their Levenger Circa Notebook, some large, some small and was amazed to see they always had their up to date calendar printed and at the front of their book. My sloppy notes and pieces of scratch paper were a mess on my desk and I had piles of spirals. I couldn't keep up with my schedule and had trouble staying organized. I finally asked my leadership for guidance and they all suggested Levenger. They said once you get it, you'll never go back. And they were right! I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW AMAZING THIS PRODUCT IS! I have my important notes all in a binder, regardless of paper type (thanks to my Levenger Hole Punch) and always have my schedule printed and in the front of my notebook. Now my co-workers look at me with impressed expressions and ask how I keep up. I tell them all, easy, LEVENGER!
September 18, 2014
In Love!
This is absolutely amazing! I was so excited to see the Levenger box on my porch when I arrived home from work! And the sampler pack has everything you need in it, plus a $40 gift card! I've already ordered a punch and more disc! Thank you!
September 12, 2014
What an incredibly versatile system! I love this easy intro into the Circa system. This set comes with everything you need to work out how you like to use the system, plus a $40 gift card so that once you know what exactly you want, you get a discount. It's almost a free trial set. I love the ability to move the pages around as needed, and have found it great for working on complicated projects.
September 11, 2014
Love the versatility
If you love organization the way I do, this is the system for you! I can add and remove documents as needed, tab for organization and it's light weight. I even decorated the covers with a strip of washi tape.
September 4, 2014
Excellent deal!
with the gift card this package is a no brainer - great opportunity to try a few items and make some extra books for journaling, notes etc.!
August 25, 2014
Great option to test out the Circa
If you are unsure if you will like the Circa, like I was, this is a great option! As you can see by what it includes, it provided me a way to test out some of the different features. I really appreciated the $40 gift card which allowed me to purchase more of the paper that I liked or just other items I wanted to try. The one thing I would have liked to be different, is providing enough of the smaller disks to complete the letter size notebook. I enjoy both, but I LOVE the junior but had to purchase additional larger sized disks for it or leave my letter uncompleted. Overall, I HIGHLY recommend this product for those wanting to experiment and test out the circa. I was really unsure about it (it looks like just another fancy notebook), but I have found it incredibly helpful and glad I decided to try it.
August 22, 2014
Great intro to Levenger paper products
I am new to Levenger products and this set was recommended to me. I love the quality of the paper (great weight) and used the notebooks that came with the kit. I also purchased a portfolio and filled it with paper from this kit. A great buy for someone trying to explore organizing options.
August 1, 2014
Finally Organized
I have tried just about every organizing system on the planet. Finally found Circa. It works, period. I bought the Simply Irresistible Sampling Kit. I am now using the Junior size for everyday notes and quickly bought a July-December 2014 calendar insert for it. I use the Letter size notebook to organize my printouts for travel. I am able to use the included Page Finder tabs to break down transportation, itinerary, hotel, and sightseeing information and have everything at my fingertips. I can't wait to use it on my upcoming trip to Alaska! Best of all, it's basically FREE with the gift card! All in all, my only outlay was the shipping costs, a real steal of a deal!
July 18, 2014
A nice deal
Great chance to try out some Circa products I wouldn't have tried otherwise. And, of course, I love the fact that it's pretty much free. :)
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These are probably the same group of poachers who killed 300 elephants in February of last year, Bas Huijbregts, head of WWF's campaign against illegal wildlife trade in the region said to the AFP.
Cameroon has deployed military helicopters and troops to its national parks to protect the animals, Reuters's reports.
"The killing of 86 elephants, including pregnant cows, is evidence of the callous brutality demanded to feed the appetite of the ivory trade," Celine Sissler-Bienvenu, head of IFAW in France and Francophone Africa, said in a statement.
The booming ivory trade — mostly in jewelry and ornamental items — is driving an increase in elephant poaching. According to NBC News:
From about 11,500 elephants illegally killed in 2010 in areas observed by the Monitoring Illegal Killing of Elephants programme, estimates for 2011 and 2012 rose to around 17,000.
The money from this illegal ivory trade is possibly being used to fund armed groups, according to the WWF.


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Or maybe we need more people to stop and pay attention to people who break the law like obama. 100% of the vote in 21 precincts alone in Cleveland. That is possible isn't it. Maybe if coservatives just stopped treating criminals so nice and went out and went after them they would win. obama deserves no respect at all. So he needs to start being shown less respect by more and more people all the time. The biased press cant'ed cover for him forever.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --- California Baptist University continues its difficult start to the season with the 2013 UC Santa Barbara Winter Invite. The No. 18 Lancers played in two games Friday, against No. 5 Arizona State University and the No. 15 UCSB Gauchos.
CBU fell to 0-3 on the young season following a 14-7 loss to the No. 5 Sun Devils and a 10-5 loss to the hosting Gauchos.
"The UCSB invite is a high level tournament and we get a great chance to play some of the best teams in the country," said Head Coach Jacob Medina. "Arizona State and UC Santa Barbara are always great programs with loads of talent and posed very tough challenges for our young squad."
The day began early as the Lancers took on Arizona State at 10:15 a.m. The Sun Devils came out blazing, outscoring CBU 6-1 in the first quarter and leading 11-1 at the half.
Seven different Lancers scored, including five in a strong final quarter, but their efforts were not quite enough to take down one of the top teams in the country.
The inexperienced CBU team got goals from three freshmen, Samantha Banks, Morgan Barrows and Hannah Evans each scored the first of their Lancer careers.
"Often, with a young team like ours, finishing offensive opportunities is the last to click but I believe we are making positive progress," said Medina.
Leticia Perez played the first half in goal for CBU and Meghan Rowland subbed in for the second half. The two goalies combined for 10 saves. Perez allowed 11 goals and Rowland three.
The strong final quarter against ASU should have given CBU the momentum heading into their next game against the Gauchos, but they had to sit around for six hours before getting the chance to face the hosts at 4:45 p.m.
The Lancers came out shooting against UCSB, and played them tough to a 3-2 score through the first quarter. Rowland played the entire game in the goal for CBU, holding the Gauchos to 10 goals while picking up eight saves.
"Both games really told the same story as we struggled to find the back of the goal," said Medina. "The positive is that we have opportunities and our offense is creating chances in front of the goal. Now we have to start shooting with more confidence."
The Lancers five goals came from three players, Kim Latschaw tallied two, Evans put two in the back of the cage and the leading scorer among returning players, Molly Gritchen, tallied one. All three women play two-meter for CBU.
"Molly (Gritchen), Kimberly (Latschaw) and Hannah (Evans) are starting to produce more for us at the center position which has helped our offense," said Medina.
Despite the chances that the Lancers had to score, they fell short to UCSB because of the tough play from the Gaucho goaltender. Ruth Milne compiled 15 saves for the home team.
The Lancers have improved, and the goal differential between them and their opponent has decreased in each game this year, but the winless team will continue its search for their first win tomorrow.
CBU concludes its play in the invite as they face No. 1, and defending National Collegiate Athletic Association champion, Stanford at 9:00 a.m. and Sonoma State at 4 p.m. on Jan. 26.
"Tomorrow things don't get any easier as we play No. 1 Stanford in the morning," said Medina. "(We are) getting a great opportunity to play the best team in the country and the defending NCAA national champions."


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Pink Lips that "Close the Deal," Backstage at DVF
Being a designer backstage on the day of your own show comes with a few perks—including on-site touch-ups with some of fashion's best hair and makeup people. "Can you do what you did before," Diane von Furstenberg beseeched James Kaliardos as he was applying the show's look to a model in his chair. Von Furstenberg was looking to re-up on her ruddy smoky eye—and to dole out a few words of wisdom in the process. "The idea with the color," she said, motioning to the MAC Chromagraphic Pencil in Process Magenta that Kaliardos was blending with its Lip Conditioner for a semimatte finish, "is whatever you're doing, close the deal."
"It's a look that makes you win in life," Kaliardos continued of the seventies glam-rock makeup, which featured diffused red lids, courtesy of MAC Cream Eyeshadow in Rusted Red from its forthcoming Fall trend palette that he blended with its Cream Eyeshadow in Oyster, a shimmering champagne, to add a highlight to the inner corners of eyes. Sculpting skin with warm shades of MAC Face and Body Foundation, Kaliardos filled in brows with its Eye Shadow in Omega before swiping on a few coats of its Haute & Naughty Mascara to enhance the drama. Toes were painted with a combination of Essie's fuchsia Plumberry and Miami Nice to match models' mouths.
Orlando Pita added to the "life is a party" inspiration—von Furstenberg's party, specifically—with seventies-style sets that he side parted and treated to a few spritzes of his T3 Elevate Heat-Seeking Iron Volumizer hair spray and a one-and-a-half-inch curling iron to implement a slightly disheveled wave. "Diane is about inspiring women," he said, prompting him to skip hair extensions to avoid total uniformity, catering instead to models' individual lengths.
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British geneticist says yetis are descended from ancient polar bears
After studying two DNA samples that supposedly were taken from a yeti in the Himalayas, a British geneticist has concluded that the samples are not from anything living, but are nearly identical to ancient polar bears. Somehow, the idea of ancient bears roaming around just out of the corner of your eye is cooler than bigfoot.
Sasquatch DNA analyzed, seems to be an unknown hominid species
Whenever someone claims to have found Bigfoot or any part of him, the question of DNA evidence always comes up. Well now, a lab in Texas says they've analyzed DNA from from supposed Bigfoot hair has yielded surprising results— it's not human, but it's not human. I WANT TO BELIEVE.
Did something like Bigfoot ever exist?
Whether you call it Bigfoot or Sasquatch, scientifically, such creatures don't exist. There has been no evidence and no real proof that giant ape-like creatures are roaming the mountains of the Pacific NW or the Himalayas. But once, something like that did exist. Kinda.
So this is the irrefutable proof of yetis in Siberia?
Several weeks ago, we told you about how a group of Russian yeti hunters claim they found "irrefutable evidence" of the existence of yetis in Siberia. And this is that evidence. A nest, a rough "footprint" and some trees bent over.
Russian yeti hunters say they have indisputable proof that yetis exist
According to a group of Russian yeti hunters, they've gathered "indisputable" proof that yetis are real and live in the mountains of Siberia. This proof has supposedly been sent to an independent lab for verification, but everyone knows that yetis actually live on the sun.
NC Hillbilly Swears He Encountered A Bigfoot With "Beautiful Hair"
Tim Wheeler from Cleveland County, North Carolina (which is about as far into the moutainy boonies as you can get in NC) claims to have encountered a sasquatch with six fingers and "beautiful hair".


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- Stories:
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- Baths:
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- Width:
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- Beds:
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- 1/2 baths:
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- Depth:
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- Blueprints - 1 study set $700
- Blueprints - 5 sets $775
- Blueprints - 8 sets $825
- Reproducible Master $900
With its compact footprint, this delightful Victorian-style home is a great choice for narrow lots and would be perfect for building in an established city neighborhood. Decorative facade details, including a railed front porch, fishscale shingles, delicate fretwork and a sidelighted entry, are pleasantly reminiscent of yesteryear. To the left of the spacious entry, the family room features French doors that open onto the porch. Up above, a ceiling fan provides soothing breezes on warm summer days and nights. When the autumn winds begin to blow, you'll be grateful for the chill-chasing fireplace. The formal dining room boasts two sets of French doors-one leading to the family room and the other opening to an enormous rear deck. Why not enjoy dessert alfresco? The kitchen and the adjoining breakfast nook are hidden from the dining room's view, allowing you to present special meals without your guests seeing any prep mess. An island in the kitchen provides space for chopping and kneading-or just chatting with the kids after school. Upstairs, the master bedroom boasts its own bath with twin vanities, which flank a corner garden tub. Both secondary bedrooms privately access a shared bath. One of these bedrooms features a cozy window seat, while a bay window extends the square footage of the other.
Extras: Windows Seats, Doors - French, Fireplace, Walk-In Closet, Bay / Box / Bow.
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- House Style
- Country, Victorian
- Bedroom Extras
- Dual Sinks
- Garden Tub
- Master Suite - Shower
- Water Closet
- Kitchen Extras
- Breakfast Nook
- Island
- Walk-in Pantry
- Foundation Type
- Crawlspace
- Unfinished Walkout Basement
- Key Information
- 1,985 Square Feet
- Beds: 3
- Baths: 2
- ½ baths: 1
- Stories: 2
- Garage Bays: 0
- Width: 31'
- Depth: 42'
- Room Summary
- Family Room
- Formal Dining Room
- Laundry Room - Second Floor
- Special Features
- Windows Seats
- Doors - French
- Fireplace
- Walk-In Closet
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Tanjong Bungah Condo Rental Photos and Description
Condo, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, (Sleeps 2-6)
The Apartment
This beautifully decorated apartment is in one of Penang's newest and most well know 'Super Condo' gated developments. It is called 'The Cove' and it feels like a resort.
The apartment is newly completed and is furnished and equipped to the highest standard. It is very spacious spacious (2500 square feet) and bright and airy with views of the ocean from every room. . . even the bathrooms.
The apartment is available as a 1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartment and was designed to have the flexibility to be the perfect 'home away from home' for couples, friends or colleagues traveling together, or for families on holiday.
The super-sized balcony leads directly off the living and dining room giving a spacious indoor outdoor feel. The living room has a 46' HD TV and surround sound cinema system.
The kitchen has all appliances guests could possibly need - including a dishwasher, and for the convenience of guests there is also a combined clothes washing / drier machine provided.
All the bedrooms are very large. The master bedroom is huge. It is furnished with a king size bed, dressing table, desk, large robe and it has a private bathroom with a shower stall. If the apartment is being booked in its one bedroom configuration, twin single beds can be offered. The second bedroom is also large and can be made up with a King bed or twin singles. Even the third room is huge and has a Queen bed as well as a very large desk making it a perfect office for business customers. The second bathroom is accessed by both the 2nd and 3rd bedroom and has a shower over bath.
The Cove is in Tanjung Bungah which is a fantastic location. It has the convenience of all the shops and restaurants over the road and it is both beautiful and a convenient place from which to explore Penang. It has the benefit of being right on the beach so it is generally a bit cooler and it is exactly half way between the world heritage area of Georgetown with its fantastic shop houses and colonial buildings in one direction and the well know tourist strip of Batu Ferringhi with its beach sports and night markets in the other.
Just outside the front gates you can cross the road to Tanjung Bungah Village with its many convenience shops, food stalls and restaurants. A 15 minute taxi ride ($7-$10) will get you pretty much every where you would wish to go and the taxi rank and bus stop, are also just outside the front gates. A taxi to the airport would be $15-$20.
Guests staying in this Condo will not have to lift a finger as there is complimentary housekeeping who will come in 3 days a week.
This condo is the perfect holiday apartment for a romantic getaway for two, two couples or business people traveling together or for a family holiday .
The Cove has all the feel of a resort with its beach-side location and its three swimming pools with views out over the ocean. There is an infinity pool with Jacuzzi, a lap pool and a free - form pool with a children's pool and water-slide. There are also poolside steam and sauna rooms. If fitness is your thing then a quick walk up nearby Pearl Hill to see the view from the Chinese tea house at the top is always fun, or alternatively just hit the gym, weight room or outdoor fitness garden on site.
A stay in this apartment will certainly help make a visit to Penang a comfortable and enjoyable one....and most definitely make it harder to leave.
Note: The parents of young children should consider if the property is suitable for them as it is on the eight floor and the living area opens up onto a large balcony. The large sliding glass doors onto the balcony can be locked.
Keywords: Condo, condominium, unit, apartment, ocean views, beach, pool, 5 star, luxury, self contained, serviced, Penang, Malaysia
- Suitability:
- Minimum Age Limit for Renters
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- wheelchair accessible
- pets not allowed
- Low Allergen Environment
- Long-term Renters Welcome
About The Owner
Australian born, I have enjoyed making Malaysia my second home. Coming from a background in boutique tourism I enjoy creating environments where people can relax and enjoy their holidays. I have spared no expense in making this apartment a special place to help people feel at home whilst they explore and experience all that is great about Penang. I will happily provide the benefit of local knowledge about anything from where you can do a local cooking class, shop for something special or simply where to find the best curry mee.
The Owner purchased this condo in 2010
Why The Owner chose Tanjong Bungah
After living in Penang for some time now, I recognized that there was not any properties offering 3 bedroom high quality self contained apartments for short to medium term rental. I decided that I would enjoy creating and offering this level of accommodation to people coming to Penang from all corners of the world.
What makes this condo unique
To make sure everyone gets the most out of their holiday, complimentary housekeeping services are provided 3 days a week.


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Attorney General Corbett announces formation of Public Corruption Unit
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the formation of a Public Corruption Unit within the Attorney General's Office. The unit is designed to primarily combat corruption through the prosecution of elected officials and government employees.
Corbett has assigned seven seasoned prosecutors to the unit who will be specially designated to investigate and prosecute public corruption cases.
Corbett said, "By creating a Public Corruption Unit, the Attorney General's Office is putting a spotlight on investigating and prosecuting public corruption cases at a crucial time in our state's history when slot machines and casino gaming is about to become reality."
Corbett noted that the Pennsylvania Legislature created an elected, independent Attorney General's Office in 1978, in part, as the reaction to the abuse of power and widespread public corruption in the Shapp administration.
Corbett said in 1978, the General Assembly's Joint State Government Commission on the Office of the elected Attorney General said that it was giving specific authority to the office to implement the intentions of the electorate that the Attorney General function as a "watchdog" of State Government to prevent official corruption. Additionally the Investigating Grand Jury Act tasks only the Attorney General with the responsibility for investigating multi-county public corruption.
Corbett, who prior to being elected Attorney General, was a former United States Attorney in the Western District of Pennsylvania, said, "Just as the United States Department of Justice has a Public Integrity Section, with a specific mission of fighting corruption at the federal level, I believe the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office should have a Public Corruption Section to combat public corruption."
Corbett said the Attorney General's Office presently investigates and prosecutes public corruption cases through its Criminal Prosecutions Section. However, by creating a special unit, with seasoned prosecutors assigned specifically to public corruption cases, he believes that the efficiency and effectiveness in which these cases are prosecuted will be improved.
Corbett said that when a public corruption case is opened, it will be assigned to one of the seven prosecutors in the unit. These prosecutors will give the cases the highest priority and ensure that they are thoroughly investigated in a timely manner.
Corbett said that two of the prosecutors will be assigned in the Philadelphia region, two in the Harrisburg region and two in the Pittsburgh region with a chief in Harrisburg.
Corbett said conflict of interest referrals from district attorneys regarding allegations of public corruption of county and municipal officials, including local law enforcement officials, will also be assigned to the prosecutors in the Public Corruption Unit.
Referrals from the State Ethics Commission that involve allegations of public corruption will be assigned to the unit. Additionally, serious allegations of election law violations will be prosecuted by the unit.
Corbett also urged the General Assembly to pass pending legislation which would give the Attorney General's Office concurrent jurisdiction on gaming. He noted that gaming investigations, which often involve public corruption, will be assigned to the prosecutors in the Public Corruption Unit.
Corbett said that many of the lawyers in this section are currently involved in public corruption cases. He noted that the office recently won a conviction of State Representative Jeff Habay and that the trial for the former Mayor of Erie is scheduled to begin on March 13.
Below is a list of the prosecutors assigned to the Public Corruption Unit and a brief biography on each of them:
Chief Deputy Attorney Frank Fina, Harrisburg Office
Fina, who will be the chief of the Public Corruption Section, has been an attorney since 1992. He is a former federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice Inspector General's Office and with the United States Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia. He also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Union County.
Fina joined the Attorney General's Office in 2003 and worked in the Appeals and Legal Services Section prior to being named chief of the Criminal Prosecution Section by Corbett in 2005.
Senior Deputy Attorney General E. Marc Costanzo, Norristown Office
Costanzo has been a lawyer since 1984. He joined the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office in 1987 and rose through the ranks to the Homicide Unit. While in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office he tried more than 90 jury and 1,000 bench trials.
Costanzo joined the Attorney General's Office in 1993 and has prosecuted a wide variety of cases, such as homicides, economic crimes and public corruption, including the Second State Senatorial Election in Philadelphia.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Patrick J. Blessington, Norristown Office
Blessington has been a lawyer since 1983 and joined the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office in 1986, where he investigated and prosecuted cases in Municipal Court, Juvenile, Juvenile Habitual Offender, Major Trial, Career Criminal, Narcotics, and Homicide Units.
In 1997, Blessington joined the Attorney General's Office and has been involved in the investigation and prosecution of cases involving murder, economic crimes, political corruption, and various other offenses.
Among the public corruption cases he prosecuted are Lebanon County District Justices Betty Ann Smith and Michael Smith; Craig Cummons; Philadelphia Election of Judges; 7th Ward; Francis Eagen; Jonathon Saidel/Diana Roca; Barbara Landers and Philadelphia Election Case involving Michael Stack.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Jonelle Harter Eshbach, Harrisburg Office
Eshbach began her career as a prosecutor in the York County District Attorney's Office where she rose to the position of First Deputy. During her nearly 12 years in the York District Attorney's Office, from 1988 to 2000, she handled criminal trials and appeals and prosecuted many murder cases, including such capital murders as the Route 30 double homicide of two Harley-Davidson employees.
Eshbach joined the Attorney General's Capital Litigation Unit in July of 2000, specializing in capital appeals. She has handled the capital appeal of Luzerne County mass murderer George Banks, and other capital murderers such as York County's Hubert Michael and Daniel Jacobs, Lancaster County's Robert Zook and Lebanon County's Freeman May, as well as many others throughout Pennsylvania state and federal courts.
Eshbach returned to trial work in September 2005 and is currently involved in a number of criminal and ethics prosecutions of public officials.
Deputy Attorney General James Reeder, Harrisburg Office
Prior to becoming an attorney in 1995, Reeder worked in the banking and educational fields. He was a prosecutor in the York County District Attorney's Office for eight years and joined the Attorney General's Office last year. He is currently involved in a number of criminal and ethics prosecutions of public officials, including the two employees of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Anthony J. Krastek, Pittsburgh Office
Krastek has been an attorney since 1979 and was a Deputy District Attorney in Allegheny County, where he supervised the Crimes Against Persons Unit and specialized in the prosecution of homicide, sex offenses and child abuse cases.
He joined the Attorney General's Office in 1997 and has successfully prosecuted a contracted health care provider at several State Correctional Institutions who over-billed the Department of Corrections by $400,000. He has won convictions against the former Executive Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Corrections, a local tax collector and several police officials for misusing their public positions. In December, 2005, he obtained a jury conviction against six-term incumbent State Representative Habay for violating the State Ethics Act.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Margaret Cassidy, Pittsburgh Office
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Cassidy joined the Attorney General's Office in 2001 and has successfully prosecuted a McKean County Commissioner for Election Code violations as well as a Fayette County police officer for official oppression. Currently she is prosecuting the former mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania and his colleagues for public corruption.


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