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As we all know, that Muslim Kenyan Socialist Communist Atheist Fascist Un-American TRAITOR who puts his feet on Ronald Reagan's desk has a lot to answer for! From Benghazi, to the Umbrella Scandal, to Benghazi, to Solyndra, to Benghazi, to World War II, to Benghazi, to Watergate, to Benghazi–the list goes on!
Obama has been socializing gay medicine for welfare queens in Detroit for too long! His IRS targeting of FOX News reporters has caused too many Obamacare cancellation victims. And all this to advance agenda 21 and bring about white slavery!
We've seen some pretty insane claims about President Obama, so we did what we do best: we've looked all over and rounded up what we feel are the six most batshit insane things for which President Obama has been blamed!
It's Obama's Fault This Girl Had to Have Her Wisdom Teeth Removed…Gas Prices, Too!
President Obama is killing education! The proof? One needs only observe his war on wisdom teeth.
Remember that YouTube video of that kid who was still doped up on the drive home from the dentist? Well, this is kind of like that–but with random Obama blame worthy of the Tea Partiest of Tea Partiers! She asks her mother how much gas is, and then goes on to blame President Obama for gas prices–and the fact that she just got her wisdom teeth removed! Given that she is still doped up from her dentist visit and incredibly irrational, we would put her on par with the paranoid rantings of insane embezzler James Neighbors of Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment infamy.
Obama Made This Burger Joint Pay More for Buns!
Meers, the home of the "Best Burger in Oklahoma," has a bone to pick with the President. Meers claims it is dealing with a bun crisis–and none other than President Obama is to blame! This message was placed at every single table.
That's right, folks! The restaurant, which features Freedom Fries on its menu, without citing any actual evidence of this moronic claim, blames a combination of labor unions and Obamacare for their loss of gigantic buns! In fact, President Obama forced them to use an overpriced local supplier instead of a large national one…and did the unthinkable–He held a gun to their heads and compelled them to fork over $3000 for a bun slicer!
This delusional rant has everything we have come to expect from right wing outrage– including a plethora of spelling errors, and a Margaret Thatcher quote/Socialism reference double whammy!
It's Obama's Fault That This Guy is a Lousy Tipper
A customer at Cupola in the Westfield San Fransisco Centre, upset over California's Proposition 30, which raised the state sales tax from 7.2% to 7.5% and created new tax brackets for people earning more than $250,000 per year.
Of course, that evil Obama was dabbling in state-level affairs in California! This obviously affluent individual was so financially strapped as a result of a tiny increase in sales tax and slightly higher taxes, that he just could not afford a decent tip!
It's OK, though–he's not an @$$hole or anything! He even left a nifty little printed card to explain! If he can't afford more than a $3 tip, how can he afford to print up these cards, you ask? Don't you worry about that! Socialism! BENGHAZI!
Obama Controlled the Weather to Win Re-election
According to right wing nutjobs far and wide, Obama was afraid he was going to lose his re-election campaign. Desperate, afraid, Obama did what any evil genius would do: he used his secret research facility to control the weather to ensure his continued dominance!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!
President Obama took advantage of the New World Order HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) facility in Alaska to create Hurricane Sandy, using the chaos to ensure a 2012 defeat of Mitt Romney. What a scoundrel!
Obama Caused Andrew Breitbart to Die of Natural Causes
Andrew Breitbart was a true Patriot. Keep in mind, we are using the Tea Party definition of "Patriot" here. Breitbart was a bigoted liar and alcoholic with a history of cocaine problems. He died of a heart attack days after he baselessly claimed that he had some damning video of President Obama.
Before Breitbart's body was cold, the Twitterverse exploded with claims that President Obama had Breitbart eliminated to save himself from the DAMNING revelations. Sure, Breitbart died of natural causes…if you believe the LAMEstream media and the LA County Coroner…SURE, he had a history of cardiac problems that were only exacerbated by his cocaine use, drinking, and paranoia…but we all know it was Obama.
Man Caught Licking Children's Feet Says Obama is Setting Him Up
49 year old Anthony Parri was spotted at Penfield Library in Rochester, New York removing a six year old girl's shoe, fondling her foot, and pressing it to his nose and mouth. He was also mentioned in a second incident by a concerned parent who was unaware of what had happened until the drive home.
Police were called, and Parri was arrested outside the library.
As he was being escorted off by police, Parri claimed that this was a "federal issue," and that he was "being set up by the President, Barack Obama, and city and federal governments." He claims his "family was killed here…This is a set up…they had women following me in Wegmans."
Investigators initially suspected that Parri was connected to at least five other incidents, all of which involved the smelling, licking, and fondling of the feet of girls between ages five and ten….but it seems those were a different foot-loving pedophile. How many of these sick f**ks are there?
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Some fuss was recently made over the role President Obama plays in "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," a docu-drama premiering on National Geographic Channel on Sunday. There were accusations that the timing — days before the election — and the late-hour insertion of additional footage of the president, including a voice-over describing the decision-making process, were designed to boost Obama's reelection bid.
Despite subsequent protests from the network and the filmmakers, the partisan kerfuffle can work only to their advantage; no doubt more people will watch "SEAL Team Six" in light of the mild controversy. And perhaps for a moment our nation will be united on one point: The president's screen time, which, frankly, does not seem excessive, is the least of this film's problems.
Docu-dramas are often dicey enterprises, especially when they involve a) classified material, b) political assassination, and c) an event that occurred in recent memory. It's one thing to engage in a little "loosely based" fudging about the court of Marie Antoinette or even the rescue of American Embassy workers in 1979.
TIMELINE: The path to bin Laden
But the dust from Operation Neptune Spear has barely settled. And despite the credentials of those involved, including director John Stockwell ("Into the Blue"), "Hurt Locker" producer Nicolas Chartier and the Weinstein Co., "SEAL Team Six" was worrisome from the get-go.

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Bob Jones: "This is my Dad" ... "This is my Dad too!"
Bob is a tremendously versatile and talented artist. The 'realistic' style he used for the romance stories he illustrated in the Saturday Evening Post (and many other major magazines of the late '50s and early '60s) are every bit as gorgeous and beautifully designed as those of his peers at the Cooper studio.
Recently Bob's kids must have stumbled across my series of posts on their dad from 2009. It brought a smile to my face to read their comments. There's nothing I like better than hearing the personal anecdotes that describe so much about the human quality of the artists whose work I admire.
"You have some really cool stuff [about my dad]," commented Pete Jones. "Thanks for the tribute. I am going to see him on Block Island in two weeks. He is still painting for pleasure."
Then a day or so later: "This is my Dad too... My brother Pete just sent this to me. Pete, those photos are of Dad. I saw the originals. I was only 4 when the Esso Tiger thing started. I remember we had Esso Tiger costumes that we wore for Hallowe'en."
"When Dad moved his studio home I remember wandering into his studio in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. I would crawl onto his lap and watch him work. When I fell asleep he would put me back in bed. For years I thought Dad never slept because he always seemed to be awake in his studio."
"Years later I told Dad what I thought. He got a good laugh about that."
"I feel very lucky to have such a wonderful dad. I am glad his work is appreciated."
And yes, it absolutely is. If you're interested in seeing more of Bob Jones' work and reading about his career, here are the links to my earlier posts:
Bob Jones in Grade 2: "Well, this is what I'm going to do!"
Bob Jones: "Drawing is drawing, whether it's realistic or not."
Bob Jones and the Esso Tiger
Bob Jones: Of Mice and... Mendola (oh, and Mad magazine)
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Thanks for this post Leif. I remember being a fan of Bob Jones back in the late '50s and early '60s, and am ashamed to say that I had forgotten about him. He sounds like a nice guy, and his adult kids sound pretty good too!ReplyDelete
clipt his animal work when I saw it--ReplyDelete
Gooood Block!!! Many information. Regards!!!ReplyDelete
I met him once, Barbara Bradley's old studio mate at Coopers, and he is not just a great multifaceted artist, but a genuinely nice man.ReplyDelete
I found 6 of his advertising sketches in a second hand store, a travel one, a couple of record covers, an unfinished fashion piece of a female model, and an advert for a department store in California. I mention this in case anyone has any interest in seeing these pieces, I'd be glad to post picturesReplyDelete
I've just come back from the San Diego Comic Con where I purchased a HUGE illustration by Bob Jones. It's a humorous piece showing American sailors capturing a Nazi submarine. I'm curious to know what it's from. Any way I can send a scan to see if someone can identify it?ReplyDelete


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But, as the series goes on longer, weve been seeing less realistic animals and more pokémon. This could be a sign of Ashs mind deteriorating. As hes in this coma, hes losing concepts of some animals and machinery and replacing them with pokémon. It could explain things like electric pokémon working as power generators. A sign that his memory of the old world is slipping more and more as time goes. The pokémon realm will be idealized continuously the longer he has no stimulus from the real world.
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The rest of the whole organization Including Butch and Cassidy is symbolic of his inability to escape his fathers machinations. Mime is actually a stand in for Ashs father, one that cant emotionally abuse him or his mom. He is a pokémon, a peace loving creature thats oddly humanoid, but that can never hurt a human. Ashs was never really hurt by a pokémon, so he sees them all as harmless; whereas, in the real world they may be quite feral or vicious (as seen in the early episodes). Again falling back to the theory that the only real pokémon are the ones from the first season, and everything else is just further speculation coming from his mind on what new species would love look like. The new teams ( magma, aqua, and galactic) are Ash attempting to work out the problems he has with his father. To do that he first needs a new bad guy to feel good about beating, and if giovanni isnt best leading a criminal organization he can more easily relate to him. If one recalls, there were real animals early in the show and references to animals in the game and show. For example, a clear case to point out is the aquarium of fish in the cerulean City gym or that by the pokédex that pikachu is a rat-like pokémon. But they dont matter to Ashs psyche so they dont come into play much. If Ash had loved puppies, everything would be about different breeds of dogs, and a dog fighting circuit.
As I said, team Rocket and the episodes they occupy are Ash dealing with ground he feels uncomfortable with tackling on his own. Jessie is Ashs vanity and gullibility, she will trick Ashs submissive homosexuality into doing her bidding so she can please father. James troubled childhood is his way of justifying his latent homosexuality. Now James is Ashs latent homosexuality, hence garden why he is constantly punished by pokémon and attacked by random attractive girls. I believe the split between Ashs parents was caused by this part of Ash, maybe an incident at school, bringing shame on the family and forcing them to move to the small, country town of Pallet. Ashs motivations for his journey were to escape mounting pressure at home. So in a way, ash is team Rocket.
It was something he was able to allow his gay/vain side to experiment with (and by virtue of that himself) When he found that it wasnt something for him, outsiders his Free side stopped playing with. Further, their methods of capture become more and more ludicrous (and physically impossible) because Ash is just a kid dreaming these things. This is the reason team Rockets disguises are always believed. He knows its them (on some level but chooses to ignore it, so he can better himself, in a sense the Ash who wants to escape is sabotaging the ash who wants to stay lost in his mind. So that there can be more conflict, and hopefully an eventual escape. The filler episodes that dont focus on Ash and the gang are his mind working through, and humanizing the parts of himself that he demonized. Its a way for him to deal with issues that Ash and crew wouldnt touch, because it involves treading ground he himself had sworn not to go near.
The split between ashs parents was likely over ashs homosexuality and some sort of incident as a catalyst, forcing his father to disown him and his mother to move out of the city and down to pallet town. This is why giovanni runs the faceless Vile corporation, and Why he berates Jesse, james, and meowth as much as he does, and why they keep trying to please him. Another thing to notice is the difference in uniform, The rockets wear Black and Red, where team Rocket wears White. A symbol of their purity and naievete. Theyre willing to please father despite his utter hatred of those parts of Ash. Team rocket are aspects of Ashs personality that he has deemed bad James implied homosexuality, and Jesses vanity. Youll remember that meowth has the potential for rehabilitation, and doesnt want to be evil, so yet again this fits in with the conflicting personalities and demonized self theory. Team rocket started cross-dressing because ash had to come to terms with that part of himself.
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Since he already established Misty as someone hes not likely to go anywhere with, he created a new super female, one that was more like him, and less violent all the time. (One will note that both may and Misty had no tolerance for Brock whatsoever whereas dawn seems to try and shrug it off.). Tracey, the Breeder was a possible future for Ash that he discarded. It was one that he sent off to work with the Professor (the professors being Ashs ultimate ideal of a father figure) when he disrupted the dynamic Ash had with his other possibilities. Ashs mind is fighting the coma and since Ash viewed this one as a companion he was quickly replaced with a more threatening rival. Pikachu obviously represents Ashs Humanity, hence the episodes where they get separated, and ash wants desperately to find him, even to the point of working with the rockets ( aspects literatur of himself he woould never normally associate with) but for some reason cannot. They want to steal pikachu (Ashs humanity) and hand it over to his father, giovanni.
Jesse and James will always oppose ash because ash is terrified of the thought of his humanity lying in the hands of his father. However this is the same reason that he will work with those aspects of himself in order to save his humanity from just becoming flat out lost. He couldnt evolve his pikachu without challenging his concept of who he was, something he wasnt comfortable with while he was still working through his original issues. Another thing is the narrator. The narrator is Ashs higher mind, recapping and explaining the progress hes made and the tribulations he will face allowing itself insight into how best to awaken him. Ash has issues With his Father; so he put him atop the evil corporation, and demonized him. There may be an actual team rocket, and Im positive theyre quite dastardly, but I doubt that ashs father is their leader, in fact the head of the rockets wasnt really identified as anyone until later on in the series.
Misty is an image that Ash had of a girl. This is why she plays so prevalently in the series but is ultimately unattainable because he never really knew her before the coma. Likely the one that helped get him to a hospital. I have a theory in line with this: Since misty was his initial love interest (if only subconsciously he needed her to reach a level of womanhood. He felt that people could only have relationships when theyve matured. But in practice, it turned out he couldnt cope with it and just wanted the normal, pushy, arrogant Misty he knew, and wouldnt let her keep Togepi anymore.
Misty is Ashs first attempt at a girl he could love, however, being a girl from the real world, all he really he knew of her was her anger, as a result she ended up quite hot headed in his mind. Constantly berating his sexuality, but eventually mellowing out until she had faded into the background. This was also traumatizing to him, being attached. Since then, the thought of anyone around him maturing to adulthood has been blocked, and anyone who shows signs of it will quickly end up leaving for another, more naive fill-in. Max came with may, she played the Id with great aspirations, and he played the sensible Ego that Session. They worked for a little while but Ash, being a teenager, eventually had his sexuality had to come back into play. He kept reinventing himself and eventually wrote new aspects, but his mind slowly brought back the old ones as a crutch to make the transition easier. Dawn is Ash giving himself a chance to love.
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Brock like isnt just Ashs latent sexuality, hes also his fatherly instincts, business neither of which Ash can come to terms with. Brock leaves his siblings to journey with Ash. Because Ash cant cope with having that much responsibility, much as his foray with a real relationship ends on mysterious terms. Ash just cannot handle commitment at his mental level. Brocks Stay with professor ivy was tempt to outright suppress his sexuality. Youll notice that James got much more dialogue in this part of the series, as well as getting more touchy feel-y with his pokemon and getting most of his backstory. Ash didnt enjoy this much, hence the reasons Brock comes back all horrified, and refuses to speak about. (ashs subconscious was repressing him at the time, so other than a general feeling of dread he has no idea of what went on then.) This is also why brock keeps coming back to the ually after ash meets a new girl aspect of himself.
Meowth especially wants to appease him because he remembers the good times with giovanni. This Places meowth in a category known as ashs (corrupted) innocence, and another fragment of ashs humanity. If you note that meowth can speak this quickly becomes apparrent. In fact right the whole reason for meowths speech is so he can help Ash accept team rocket as part of himself eventually. Brock is Ashs repressed sexuality. He fell into the coma a virgin and needed an outlet for his growing sexual frustrations. Since he can never experience sex, Brock must never succeed. Brock is a projection of his sexuality, and is constantly shot down because Ash could never know sex.
like they. It also explains a few other things, such as how a child can go off on his own in a world full of dangerous untamed animals, and why every pokémon center has the same exact nurse. Joy and Jenny he knew from his hometown, and they act as a safety net or anchor, allowing him to feel safe no matter where he goes. The professors, like the joys and Jennys represent stability, and ashs ideals. This is why gary became a professor. Its also the reason that every time he enters a new region, virtually no one has heard of him, despite his conquests, and why giovanni leads team Rocket. How could paul, the rival of the sinnoh area, not know of someone who has placed in at least the top 16 of all three leagues and has destroyed the Orange league and Battle Frontier? Ashs travelling partners are actually aspects of himself he can enjoy, but doesnt like to associate with himself. Team Rocket are his qualities that he deems negative, but is coming to terms with. Jesse and James want to appease giovanni, ashs Father.
Days later he was found and was hurried to the hospital and treated with heavy medications. This is why team Rocket became less menacing. The medication took effect and stabilized his coma dreams, instead of being terrifying, they became idyllic, and hes able to live out his pokémon master fantasies. If one had noticed, the early episodes of pokémon were of amazing quality. The rest of the series is just the results of his subconscious mind fulfilling his desires, as well as attempting to escape them. Should Ash realize hes in a coma, he would wake up, but suffer brain damage. So he has to take down all his mental barriers one by one until he can come to grips with what he is and escape his coma. This explains why he doesnt change much physically.
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Let me start off by saying this was not written. But I think this is one of the most well written articles on the internet and eksempel I just had to share. —, if youre prepared to soil a part of your childhood, proceed. Did one ever know the reason why the pacing and story development change after Ash was hit by lightning in the beginning episodes? How Ash and his world were relatively normal until after the incident? I have a theory. The accident with the bike put Ash in a coma.


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Researching Radio in Indiana - Bibliography
A Note Regarding Resources: Items are listed on this page that enhance work with the topic discussed. Some older items, especially, may include dated practices and ideas that are no longer generally accepted. Resources reflecting current practices are noted whenever possible
Student Reading
Balcziak, Bill. Radio. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Enterprises, Inc., 1989.
This is an excellent, easy-to-read history of radio that brings the reader to current times. Includes glossary and index.
Coyle, Rebecca. The Media: Radio. Freeport, Long Island, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1989.
A history of radio, how a radio works, and inside a radio station are included in this book. The author gives examples from the U.S. and Great Britain.
Wong, Michael A. A Day in the Life of a Disc Jockey. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1988.
This is an easy-to-read account of a typical disc jockey's day.
Advanced Reading
Alth, Max. Collecting Old Radios and Crystal Sets. Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1977.
This book tells how to get started on a collection and includes lists of organizations and museums; some interesting illustrations.
Arnold, Eleanor, ed. Party Lines, Pumps and Privies. N.p.: The Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, 1984.
This is the second volume in the Memories of Hoosier Homemakers series, based on the oral history project, Hoosier Homemakers through the Years.
Barnouw, Erik. A History of Broadcasting in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 3 volumes: Vol. 1, A Tower of Babel, to 1933, 1966; Vol. 2, The Golden Web, 1933-1953, 1968; Vol. 3, The Image Empire, Since 1953, 1970.
This is a standard source for the story of how radio and television became an important part of American life. An excellent resource.
Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting: 1899-1922. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
The author traces the early development of radio and broadcasting and includes information regarding its impact on society.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
This is an excellent resource that could be used by students and adults.
Lackmann, Ron. Remember Radio. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,1970.
There are hundreds of old photographs, scripts and copies of actual radio listings.
MacDonald, J. Fred. Don't Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life, 1920-1960. Chicago: Nelson-Hall,1979.
This work includes a history of radio and analyzes the types of programs and social themes during this period.
Ogden, Dale. "On the Air in Indiana." Outdoor Indiana, Vol. 51, No. 9, October 1986, pp. 4-7.
This interesting article gives an overview of radio history with examples from Indiana.
Organization of American Historians. Magazine of History, Vol. 6, No. 4, Spring 1992.
Seven articles in this excellent issue focus on the 1993 topic for National History Day, "Communication in History: The Key to Understanding."
Settel, Irving. A Pictorial History of Radio. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967.
This book reviews the history and programs of radio, decade by decade through the 1960s; includes many photographs.
Additional Resources
"On the Air: Indiana Radio, 1920-1950" is a permanent exhibit at the Indiana State Museum; it includes the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. Located at 202 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, 317-232-1637.
Indiana Broadcasters Association, Inc., Maximanage, Ltd. 11595 North Meridian Street, Suite 300, Indianapolis, IN 46290, 317-573-2995.
This organization will answer inquiries from the public.
Indiana Historical Radio Society and Ed Taylor Radio Museum, 245 Oakland Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46201, 317-638-1641.
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The lawsuit further asserted that Opurum and his BOCES Program Coordinator complained to Opurum's supervisor, but the hostile work environment continued. Opurum was called a "snitch" because he complained and forced to resign after the situation became intolerable. Medard was subjected to the same racially hostile work environment, according to the lawsuit.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race discrimination.
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Besides the monetary damages, Atlantic Chevrolet / Cadillac will also pay compensatory damages, uniform and lost tools, and lost vacation time, plus attorney fees for Opurum's lawyer. The three-year consent decree settling the suit includes injunctive relief enjoining Atlantic Chevrolet / Cadillac from race discrimination, harassment or retaliation. The company must adopt non-discrimination policies and complaint procedures; conduct anti-discrimination training; issue a memorandum to all employees of its commitment to abide by all federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination; post a notice about the EEOC and the lawsuit; and perform ongoing monitoring and reporting.
"This was a shocking case of racial discrimination where employees who were supposed to be mentors and teachers to a young high school student turned out to be his harassers," said EEOC Trial Attorney Kurt Jung. "All employees, no matter how old or young, have a right to work in an environment free of racial harassment."
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Sheriff's Maj. Tommy Bibb interfered in a patrol deputy's DUI investigation of a businessman's son following a late-night traffic stop, causing the deputy to let the driver off, according to an internal affairs investigation released Tuesday.
Sheriff's Maj. Tommy Bibb interfered in a patrol deputy's DUI investigation of a businessman's son following a late-night traffic stop, causing the deputy to let the driver off, according to an internal affairs investigation released Tuesday.
The investigation, conducted by retired investigator Leo Smith, found that Bibb, head of the Special Investigations Bureau, violated the department's code of conduct. He will be suspended for two days without pay and must apologize to the agency's patrol division.
The case came out of an early-morning traffic stop on Jan. 18, when Deputy Calvin Batts pulled over Matthew Tillander, son of businessman Bobby Tillander, for speeding. Batts reported that he smelled alcohol on Matthew Tillander's breath and asked the 26-year-old to perform field sobriety exercises. Though Tillander reportedly had some difficulties with the exercises , he never finished because Batts was interrupted by instructions to call Bibb.
Bibb told the deputy he was checking with the sheriff and would call him back. Bibb called back and, by his account, repeated the sheriff's words to "do what you would normally do and use your discretion."
That was enough information for Deputy Batts.
According to the internal affairs report, Batts said he told Bibb: "If he's got the ability to get you woke up and out of bed at 3 in the morning, and for you to telephone the sheriff and get him out of bed at 3 in the morning, maybe he (Tillander) just needs to get a ride home."
Batts told Matthew Tillander he was not being arrested but should not drive off because he had been drinking. The deputy said Matthew Tillander told him he was "free to go. I can walk off wherever the [expletive] I want" and walked to his truck.
"I can tell you I would have arrested him" if Bibb hadn't called, Batts said in his interview with Smith.
According to an incident detail report, Matthew Tillander received a warning for speeding.
Chief Deputy Fred LaTorre notified Bibb about his punishment in an email. LaTorre praised Bibb, a veteran detective, supervisor and bureau chief, for his "exemplary" service to the agency and citizens of Marion County.
"Understand that no one is questioning your loyalty or your personal or professional integrity," LaTorre wrote in the email.
However, LaTorre wrote, "your involvement in this matter has left both staff and members of the community questioning your intentions. … Although you may not have intended to interfere with his investigation, the very fact that you contacted Deputy Batts, an officer that does not serve directly under your command, and requested that he stand by while you reached out to the sheriff, by his admission influenced Deputy Batts to take action contrary to his normal course of action in similar situations."
Bibb, 62, declined to comment and referred to a statement he gave to Smith.
In that statement, Bibb said he "never intended in any way, shape or form to sway Deputy Batts' professional decision." He ended by apologizing to the deputy, the sheriff and the citizens of Marion County for "this entire incident."
"In my 33 years of serving the citizens of Marion County with the Sheriff Office," Bibb said, "I have never used my position with the Sheriff's Office to grant anyone special treatment, and anyone who knows me will attest to this fact."
Bibb's statement says he was contacted by Bobby Tillander, a businessman who owns a local nightspot and Florida Metal Building Services, because Tillander was concerned about his son being pulled over by a deputy on County Road 326, not far from where his son lives. Bibb said the elder Tillander wanted to know if his son was OK and the reason for the stop. Bobby Tillander, he said, was on his way to the stop.
Bibb said he called Batts, and the deputy told him he had the younger Tillander on a possible DUI. Bibb said he told Batts he was going to call Sheriff Chris Blair and would get back to him, which he did.
Bibb said he was "uneasy" about Tillander's call to him, so he called Blair and said that Tillander "only asked me to find out about the stop and if his son was OK," according to the statement. The sheriff, he said, told him they "cannot get involved with that" and to tell the deputy to "do what he would normally do and use his discretion."
Bibb said he told the deputy what Blair had said and that the sheriff had told him to call Bobby Tillander and tell him "not to interfere" and to stand by at the convenience store down the road.
Bibb was hired in 1985 as a deputy second class, became an assistant bureau chief under Blair while in the Special Investigations Bureau. He also worked in internal affairs, as a detective, and as head of the agency's Cargo Task Force. He retired several years ago but returned to the Sheriff's Office after Blair was elected. His current annual salary is $105,450, which is at the top of the pay scale.
Smith's investigation
Smith began his investigation on Feb. 3. The report indicates that Batts stopped Matthew Tillander at 2:23 a.m. on Jan. 18 at CR 326, west of U.S. 441, when he clocked the white Dodge pickup going 72 in a 55-mph zone. The driver told him he was coming from his father's home.
Batts said Matthew Tillander smelled of alcohol and Batts said he asked Tillander how much he had had to drink. Tillander said he had not been drinking.
Batts told Tillander to put the keys on the roof of the truck, which he did. Batts returned to his patrol car and was told that Tillander had an expired driver's license.
Batts turned off his microphone for a couple of minutes and then turned it back on. He went to the truck and told Tillander to get out. Batts told the driver his license was expired, not suspended, and that, because he detected alcohol, he wanted Tillander to perform five field sobriety exercises.
Deputy Beth Billings arrived. Batts tried to do the first exercise with Tillander — watching his eyes follow a pen — but, after Tillander kept blinking, gave up and moved on to another exercise. As Tillander was doing that one, he got a phone call from his father and gave his father directions to his location.
Batts told Tillander to hang up and Tillander said, "It's Chris Blair, sir, do you want to talk to him?" the report states.
The deputy declined.
Tillander continued to talk on the phone, giving the caller directions. Batts warned him not to, saying he or she could be arrested for obstruction. Batts then asked Tillander if he could speak to the person, and Tillander handed over the phone.
In his statement, Batts said Bobby Tillander told him he was going to make a phone call and that someone would be calling him, but did not say who.
After their conversation, the deputy gave Matthew Tillander instructions on another portion of the field sobriety exercise, about which Tillander seemed agitated, the report notes. Tillander finally decided to comply.
Meanwhile, Batts received a call from a dispatcher asking him to call Bibb. So he turned off his microphone and made the call.
Nearly 10 minutes later, the deputy shook Matthew Tillander's hand and said the exercise was done and he was free to go. They walked to Tillander's truck. Another vehicle arrived, and Batts turned on his microphone and left as a second vehicle arrived.
Smith reviewed calls to the communication center, which showed that Bibb called wanting to know about the stop and asked for the deputy to call him on his cellphone.
Batts said Bibb asked, "Who do you got?" After being told who it was, Bibb reportedly told him, "The reason I am asking is because the Sheriff is going to want to know."
Batts said he told Bibb he stopped Tillander for speeding and believed he was intoxicated. Bibb asked if he thought Tillander was over the limit and he told Bibb "yes, he's drunk, he is going to be over the legal limit," the report states.
Bibb told him he was going to call the sheriff and would call him back. Batts said he told Bibb it was 3 in the morning and he didn't need to wake up the sheriff over the incident. Batts said he told Bibb that if Tillander needed to get a ride home, then he had no problem doing that and that they didn't need to wake the sheriff.
Bibb told him he was going to call the sheriff.
About five minutes later, Batts said, Bibb called him back and told him to "go ahead and do what you got to do." Batts said he told Bibb he was going to release Tillander and Bibb told him, "Well, just do what you think is best."
After the incident, Batts said he checked his phone and noticed Tillander had "poked" him on Facebook. The deputy said he went to a district office to get on a computer and the "poke" was no longer there, so he took a screen shot of the "poke" from his phone.
Asked for a final comment, Batts told Smith that Bibb did not order or tell him not to arrest Tillander.
Matthew Tillander declined Smith's request for an interview.
But the investigator interviewed his father twice. In the first interview, Smith says Bobby Tillander said his son tried calling him but his phone was turned off so he called someone else about the traffic stop. Tillander didn't want to say who that was.
Bobby Tillander said he called Bibb because he "is a good guy, someone I trust." He said Bibb told him he would check on the situation. Bibb later called and told him his son was stopped and was OK. By then, Tillander said, he was almost at the location.
Bobby Tillander said he was not aware Bibb had called the sheriff and did not remember if he had talked with the deputy or with his son. At the location, Bobby Tillander said, Batts told him his son was free to go and added, "Everyone deserves a break."
When asked what his relationship with Bibb was that he could call him at 3 a.m., Bobby Tillander said, "I wouldn't say there is a relationship. It's just, we've become, I don't like to use the word friends that often, you know. We don't hang out together or anything like that. Tommy, he's just a nice guy, he is a pleasant person. He is one of the most straightest guys I know, him and the sheriff and a few other deputies."
In the second interview, Bobby Tillander acknowledged that his son called and told him he was fine. Bobby Tillander said he talked with the deputy, and the deputy told him his son was fine. He said Bibb then called back and also told him Matthew was fine.
Smith also interviewed the sheriff. Blair told him he received a call from Bibb about Tillander's son being stopped. He said Bibb "wanted to know what he should do." Blair said he told Bibb, "You tell that deputy to do what he needs to do" and that it was a direct order. He said Bibb later called and said the message was delivered.
In Smith's interview with Bibb, the major said he was concerned, among other things, about Bobby Tillander going to the scene. He also denied that Batts said he didn't need to call the sheriff at 3 a.m.
"No, I would remember that," Bibb told Smith.
Bibb said he did tell the deputy he was going to call the sheriff because Tillander called and was concerned about the traffic stop. He added: "I always keep the Sheriff up to speed on everything."
As for what Batts said about Matthew Tillander's ability to wake up him and the sheriff, Bibb said: "I never did anything to sway anybody."
He said he called the sheriff "because I was uneasy about the call" and that, if he had not reached Blair, he would have called Chief Deputy Fred LaTorre.
Bibb said Blair told him, "Tommy, we can't get involved in that, tell the deputy to do what he would normally do and to use his own discretion."
"I repeated that twice to the deputy," Bibb said.
Smith concluded that, while it is true Bibb has always kept his superiors "well-informed of ongoing matters," this matter "did not rise to that level, especially at 3 in the morning."
"The actions of Maj. Tommy Bibb after learning that the traffic stop was a criminal violation, by halting the investigation, and then contacting Sheriff Blair definitely influenced the outcome of this investigation." Because of that, he said, the code of conduct violation is substantiated.
Matthew Tillander currently faces felony and misdemeanor charges — but not DUI — for a December traffic stop in which Ocala Police Department officers suspected he had been drinking. Officers also reported finding marijuana in the vehicle.
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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. [Decorated initial "A" by Thackeray from Vanity Fair — George P. Landow.]
eople talk about the World Of London. London has a dozen worlds at least. For all that some of these know or care of others they might as well be shining in different planets. But there is one world with which most other worlds cannot avoid making occasional acquaintance -- that is the world of Westminster Hall. Apart from the legislative chambers, in whose proceedings everybody is concerned, it must be strange indeed for any member of the general community not to be interested, directly or indirectly, at one time or another, in a transaction connected with a Parliamentary Committee or a Court of Law. Certain it is that you will meet on most days down at Westminster -- and more especially in the height of the season and the session, during the last two terms before the long vacation -- representative men and women of all classes, drawn together by business or curiosity as the case may be.
The way down to Westminster -- that is to say, the way of those who go from the Temple -- has been made more easy than it was by the Thames Embankment, which will be a right royal road some of these days when it has intelligible approaches, and the trees have grown, and the small boys have been driven away, and carriages can be driven along it -- when, in fact, it has dropped its present dissipated character of a show and a playground, and has settled down into a respectable thoroughfare. At present the swiftest mode of making the journey is by a penny steamer. But penny steamers are of course available only if you do not happen to be proud. The penny public whom you see on board are not pretty to look at, and seem principally possessed by a keen sense of economy, extended not only to travelling expenses, but to the article of soap. Some philosophic barristers patronise the boats; indeed there is a plentiful sprinkling of these early in the morning; but being residents in chambers they are principally juniors, and do not include the great dignitaries of the profession. The latter are represented, however, by their clerks -- barristers' clerks are wonderfully partial to penny steamers -- who may be seen at all hours of the day going backwards and forwards with briefs and bags; and among them, with Melancholy marking him for her own and remaining in undisputed possession, you may surely note the clerk of some unhappy Mr. Briefless, who "brings his master's grey wig down in sorrow to the court," with a constancy worthy of a more successful cause. They are horrible means of progression -- those penny steamers -- but there is no reason why they should be so. With a supply of boats such as should be employed, the river might be as crowded as the streets, for the mode of travelling might be made far pleasanter than the mode of travelling by land, and in point of speed a steamer has an advantage over any carriage except a railway carriage. There are thousands upon thousands of the public who would be glad to make use of a better class of boats, say such as the Saloon Steamers that now ply above bridge, only of suitable size. With conveyances of this kind the journey between London and Westminster might be made a festive progress, and passengers would cheerfully pay, say, the prices charged on the Metropolitan Railway, first, second, and third class. I throw out the hint to speculators, who, I am certain, would never repent a little enterprise in this direction.
The way down to Westminster by road is broad and pleasant enough after you get out of the Strand; and scarcely have you passed Charing Cross than you come upon Westminster Hall, as represented by the people about you. It is, say, between eleven and twelve o'clock in the day. A few barristers, solicitors, and witnesses are still going down to the courts; also "parties" in actions, their witnesses, and their friends. But a great many more of all these classes are bound for the committees, which sit for the most part at twelve. Headlong Hansoms are dashing along, conveying gentlemen with that kind of cheerfulness in their faces which comes of being engaged, under profitable conditions, upon other people's business rather than their own. A large number of the same class are on foot, walking three or four abreast, and engaged in pleasant discussion. The happiest of all are the witnesses, for they have not the same cares upon them as the parliamenary agents and solicitors. All they have to do is to stay in London and wait day after day until they are wanted, receive their liberal diurnal allowances for their trouble, and in the end permit the counsel on their own side to extract from them such information as they may have to supply, and prevent, if possible, the counsel on the other side from demolishing their assertions. There are some members of Parliament among the crowd, riding, driving, or walking, as the case may be. They are the members of the committees, and, if the day be a Wednesday, their number is increased by those going down to attend the morning sitting, or rather the afternoon sitting of the House.
As you get lower down, into Parliament Street proper, Westminster is still more largely represented; for here, on the left, is the Whitehall Club, a handsome stone building of a few years' standing, which accomodates a large number of persons whose avocations call them to the neighbourhood. The members include M.P.s [members of Parliament], parliamentary agents, barristers, solicitors, engineers, contractors, and business men of many kinds; and the institution, I believe, is found to be a useful success. For the public generally the popular resort appears to be a restaurant, still lower down, where even now, to judge by appearances as you pass the window, lunch seems to be going on. The lunches, however, at this hour, are not very numerous, and are confined, it may be presumed, to people who have risen late and gone out in a hurry, and have not had time for breakfast. A couple of hours hence, besides the occupants of the tables, you will see a luncher on every high stool before the counter, forming together a serried [shoulder to shoulder] line of determined refreshers, escaped for a brief but pleasant period from their serious duties on the other side of Palace Yard.
Palace Yard, which you now approach, has become a noble expanse, and it will be nobler when certain old houses are removed. But turning your back upon these, there is no such fine spectacle in London as that presented by the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Hall, with the adjacent objects, including the handsomest bridge in the metropolis. If you are not a person of importance, which you probably are, you will at least fancy are; for the policeman at the crossing, struck, no doubt, by your imposing presence, rushes forward and behaves with despotic tyranny towards a waggon, a light cart, and a four-wheeled "grinder," which he compels to draw up in order not to interfere with your progress. He would certainly exercise the same arbitrary authority towards a Hansom which is also amongst the vehicles emerging from the bridge; but the Hansom cabby is too much for the minion of the law, and nearly drives over you while you are availing yourself of the facility afforded by judicious regulations.
Inside the Hall of Rufus there are a great number of the same kind of persons as those who have accompanied you down Parliament Street, with the difference that the barristers, pacing up and down, or staying to talk in groups, are all wigged and gowned, and produce the inevitable impression which Mr. Dickens has made immortal, having reference to "that variety of nose and whisker for which the bar of England is so justly celebrated." There are a great many idlers among these -- idlers in spite of themselves -- and some of them seem to find it difficult to keep up an appearance of pre-occupation. It would be a very valuable addition to a legal education if its recipient could manage to throw into his face an expression which should inevitably convey the idea to the public mind that he would be particularly wanted in court in a quarter of an hour. But I have never known perfect success attend an attempt of the kind: and the impression usually conveyed by a more or less unknown junior wandering about Westminster Hall is, that it does not particularly matter where he may be. To-day one of this unhappy class has the temerity to take two ladies about, with an evident mission to show them the lions [celebrities] of the locality. You can see at once that they are not "parties" or witnesses. Parties and witnesses may be as young, as blooming, and as fashionably dressed; but they would never be so smiling and so easy, wear that pretty fluttering manner, and talk with such charmingly volatile rapidity as the fair creatures in question. I should mention by the way, for the sake of the proprieties, that, besides the barrister, they are accompanied by a young gentleman who is evidently their brother, from the entire contempt with which he regards them and their proceedings. He gives them entirely up to their friend in the wig, who may be heard to say in the course of conversation --
"I think we might hear some fun in the House of Lords. They are engaged with appeals, and I think Miss -- -- - is still addressing the court. This is her tenth day."
The idea of hearing a lady conducting her own case finds immediate favour, and the party soon make their way to the bar of the House. As we also are idling and looking about us, we may as well follow them.
They are very inhospitable to strangers in the House of Lords, that is to say, when the House is sitting in its legal capacity. The court occupies a very small part of the legislative chamber, and the impression produced is that the members huddle together in order that they may not have to speak too loud. There is no accommodation even for counsel who are not engaged in the proceedings, and very little allowance is made for curiosity on the part of any class of persons; but you are free to push in at the bar and see and hear what you can.
Upon the present occasion there are only two lords besides the Lord Chancellor, and only one of these -- an ex-Lord Chancellor himself -- appears to take any interest in the proceedings. The central object is the suitor. This, as we have already heard, is a lady. She is addressing the Court when we enter, seems to have been addressing it for some time past, and evidently intends to address it for some time in the future. As she stands behind a table, upon which her papers are placed, she is in advance of us, and we can catch a glimpse of her face only at intervals, when she turns aside to place her hand upon a document which she wishes to consult. But we can observe at first glance that she is a little lady rather than otherwise, that she has a neat, slender figure, carefully and compactly clad in black, and that upon her head she wears a little hat, "of the period" as to size, and to some extent in the manner in which it is worn, but by no means exaggerated in any respect. Upon further observation you see that she has what is called a clever face, with an expression indicative of culture and refinement; and the latter conclusion is justified by the voice, which is clear and ringing, and remarkable for its nice intonation. The lady, too, enjoys the advantage of an easy flow of language, which she never halts for a point or an expression, and she has apparently a thorough mastery of her case. If the Lord Chancellor ventures to question a statement or criticise a conclusion, the fair pleader at once puts her little black-gloved hand upon the document containing her authority, and the great legal functionary is at once confuted. The next time he ventures an objection the same process is repeated, until his lordship at last seems to arrive at the belief that it is safest not to open his mouth. The other lords, when equally rash, meet with a similar fate; so, by degrees, the lady has everything her own way, and continues her address unmolested. The composure with which she goes over her ground is something wonderful. There is no flurry, no undue excitement, and only a certain serious emphasis which her arguments receive distinguish her manner from that of an ordinary advocate, and indicate that she is pleading her own cause and has a strong interest in the case. She has near her a legal adviser in the person of a Queen's Counsel, but she seldom consults him, and seems indeed to know her own business remarkably well. This is the tenth day of her address, and it threatens to last for many days more: it would be rash indeed to calculate when it is likely to conclude. The case, it may be here mentioned, is a very complicated one, involving a question of legitimacy; the documents connected with it are of a voluminous character, and the lady has a great tendency to read these at length, to refresh herself, through their agency, in the intervals of original argument. How the case will end I will not venture to surmise, but the reflection certainly strikes one that if ladies get called to the bar and advocate other people's cases with the persistency that they do their own, the proceedings of the courts will be considerably lengthened, and far greater demands than under present conditions will be made upon the endurance of the judges.
Happily we are doing no more than amuse ourselves; so, after half an hour's acquaintance with the great legitimacy case, we are content to follow the example -- set a quarter of an hour before -- of the young barrister and his interesting friends, and betake ourselves elsewhere.
There are several committees sitting up-stairs, and seeing a throng of persons proceeding thither we follow them, as in curiosity bound. The Commons' gallery is crowded with counsel, solicitors, agents, witnesses, and all the rest of the people of whom we have seen so many specimens in Parliament Street; for one of the rooms has just been cleared for the deliberation of the committee. Some are walking up and down; others are standing about in groups; everybody is talking; there is general excitement and some little hilarity on the part of those belonging to the apparently winning side. The witnesses are, as usual, more lively than anybody else. It is all holiday with them, far away as they are from their provincial homes; and their feet not being upon their native heaths, their names are all the more Macgregor. They begin already to take refreshment at the adjacent buffet, to compare notes as to who stayed latest, or did something most remarkable somewhere last night, and to make arrangements for dining together this evening and going to some entertainment afterwards -- the words "Gaiety" and "Alhambra" being not unfrequently heard in such discussions. Mingled with this kind of talk you hear a great deal about corporations, town councils, water supplies, preambles, clauses, traffic, trade, shipping, curves, gradients, and engineering in general to any extent. An Irish Bill which is under investigation in one of the rooms is a frequent subject of conversation. It is connected with the supply of water to a large city, and a certain corporation is more anxious, somehow, to confer that boon than the ratepayers are to receive it. We enter the room in expectation of some amusement, and are not disappointed.
It is a spacious and imposing apartment, conceived when the architect was in a massive mood, but with compensating tendencies towards lightness. The oak panelling and the window-frames are in antique style, but designed with a modern eye to business. The fashion is bold, with no gratuitous ornament. It is mediaevalism made easy; mediaevalism made light and cheerful, and receiving a modern character from green baize, blotting-paper, and wafers. At the upper end of the room, within the bar which excludes the profane public, is a table of horseshoe shape, at the upper end of which, on the convex side, sit the committee. On the right -- looking from the lower end of the room -- is an exclusive table occupied by the clerk of the committee, who makes minutes of the proceedings. In the centre of the horseshoe is another exclusive table, occupied by a shorthand writer, engaged, I suppose, by the promoters, whose business it is to take a full note -- that is to say, take every word -- of what passes. There are reporters for the press also, at another table, in a corner; but their office can scarcely be an arduous one, judging from the little you ever see in the newspapers of proceedings before Parliamentary Committees. At a long table in front are the counsel, agents, attorneys, &c.
One of the counsel -- a silk gown -- is addressing the committee; but the members thereof do not seem to be listening with much attention. Their attitude is one of keen and appreciative indifference; and but for an occasional question in reference to a doubtful point you would think they were not listening at all. The fact is that they are following the statement with much attention -- with more, indeed, than they would bestow upon the speeches of counsel in general; for the committee are for the most part men of business -- in a parliamentary way, but still men of business -- and regard counsel prima facie [at first considering] as imposters. But the counsel in question is a great man. He is one of the leaders of the parliamentary bar. He is allied to noble families, and makes fabulous sums of money. So the committee pay him some kind of deference when they make any sign at all; and when they speak to him it is always with social respect. They address him by his full name -- a double surname -- and always with a certain graciousness, even upon a point of difference. It is always -- "Excuse me, Mr. Verbose Jawkins, but I do not quite understand;" or, "I think, Mr. Verbose Jawkins, that the committee have some difficulty" -- and so forth. Mr. Verbose Jawkins, in the meantime -- (he is a big, bland, handsome man, with a grand society manner) -- is gliding through his brief in the pleasantest possible style, patronizing his facts, and setting forth his conclusions as if they were so many friends of his, who must make their way upon his introduction. He has to refer a great deal to his papers, and is occasionally coached by the keen gentleman at his elbow. But he talks all the time that he is reading; and when he pauses for verbal suggestions, always does so with the air of being unnecessarily interrupted, and, after receiving enlightenment in this manner, corrects previous statements of his own with a severe air, as if they had been made by somebody else. In this manner he goes on for forty minutes; and then, after a peroration [closing speech] which shows that he at least is quite convinced, runs away and leaves the rest of the business to his juniors. He has during the forty minutes been opening the case for the promoters, and his fee for this little attention is five hundred guineas [525 pounds], to say nothing for refreshers and consultations.
Mr. Verbose Jenkins being wanted in another committee, the examination of witnesses is proceeded with under the conduct of juniors, as I have intimated. But all goes well. Never were witnesses more willing; never were counsel more alive to the importance of their communications. One of the witnesses is an elderly gentleman, and the counsel who examines him is a very young gentleman. The former, in fact, is the father of the latter; but the coincidence of names is apparently not noticed, and the examination goes on as glibly as may be.
The counsel looks as if he had never seen the witness before. Referring to his brief, apparently for information, he says --
"Your name, I think, sir, is Mulligan?"
"It is," replies Mr. Mulligan, with an evident desire for frankness and fair play.
"You are an alderman, I think, of the city of -- -- -," rejoins the counsel, determined, in the interests of his clients, that their witnesses shall speak with the authority of the offices they hold.
"I am," says the witness, taking upon himself, with Roman fortitude, the responsibility involved.
"Then, Mr. Mulligan," pursues the counsel, "I shall be obliged if you will tell the honourable committee" -- and so forth. Junior counsel, I notice, are generally particular in referring to the committee as the honourable committee, which is a deferential concession not strictly enjoined by etiquette. I suppose they think that it looks parliamentary; and perhaps it does.
While the examination of the witness is being thus agreeably conducted, lunch-time arrives. There is no adjournment for this refreshment, and, indeed, the committee alone seemed to be influenced by the event. At about two o'clock stealthy waiters creep in and bring to the members small plates of sandwiches and little cruets of what appears to be sherry, the latter being imbibed from tumblers with the addition of water. As a general rule, members take in their lunch with an air of reserve, as if it were statistics which might be outbid, or arguments to be subsequently refuted. But one of the number I notice receives his with relish, as if he believed in it, and intended to give an opinion in its favour. Counsel are evidently not supposed to require extraneous support in common with the other assistants at the proceedings. Some, I suppose, are too busy; others too idle. Among the latter the clerk, I think, must be held to bear the palm. He is a young man -- always a young man -- scrupulously dressed, with an eye to dignity rather than display; and like all officials with too much leisure, he seems to hold work in supreme contempt. He does a great deal in the fresh disposition, from time to time, of his papers, but has little employment for his pen. I suspect that he considers the actors in the scene as so many harmless lunatics, who have a raison d'etre for his especial benefit, which benefit is rather a bore than otherwise. The most occupied person is one who has no formal recognition. He is the shorthand writer at the centre table, close by which is the chair assigned for the accommodation of the witnesses. His pen never ceases so long as anything is being said. He gets a little holiday if the counsel read something already on record, have to wait a minute or two for a document, or pause while refreshing themselves with facts; but these are but brief oases in the desert of his labours. He has one advantage, however, which those otherwise engaged do not enjoy. I suspect that he knows nothing of what is passing, and, while pursuing an almost mechanical task, is able to think about anything he pleases. He certainly never seems to take the smallest interest in the proceedings. The reporters for the press, who are digesting them into narrative form, evince something like an opinion, as you may hear in remarks from time to time, or see in the expression of their faces. But the official stenographer is unmoved as the Sphynx, and takes no account of the meaning of the words -- his business is only with the words themselves. He does not even feel bound to see; and I believe that if the chairman were to take his seat with his head under his arm, this imperturbable functionary would not consider himself called upon to record the fact. I have heard of a gentleman of this class, on the staff of a daily journal, being sent at Easter or Christmas time, when critics are in great request, to write a review of a theatrical performance. He attended with note-book and pencils as soon as the doors opened, was a little puzzled at the overture, but brightened up when the play began, and then proceeded cheerfully to take a full note of "Romeo and Juliet" from beginning to end. He was rather surprised, on arriving afterwards at the office, to find that he would not be required to "write out" the result of his labours. Upon another occasion, it is added, he was deputed to furnish an account of an eclipse of the sun which was exciting unusual attention. He attended with characteristic punctuality, note-book in hand, and waited with great patience during the progress of the event. But as nobody connected with the business in hand was heard to make any remark, he conceived that he had nothing to do, so contented himself with sending in a report that "the proceedings were devoid of interest." Such men as these are fortunate if they have much to do with parliamentary committees; for they escape from a great deal that is boring to other people.
There is nothing remarkable in the cross-examination of the witnesses, as far as the opposing counsel are concerned. But there is a gentleman representing a particular body of ratepayers, whose interests are affected by the Bill in a particular manner, who is not a barrister, but an attorney, and he imports into the proceedings any amount of liveliness that may be missed by his brethren of the law. He is a North-of-Ireland man, and does not care who knows it. His accent, indeed, proclaims the fact in unmistakeable tones. The question involved has nothing to do with politics; but the importance of the Orange element [Irish ultra-protestant party] seems inevitable in this case. Before he begins to speak, you can see "No surrender" visibly depicted on his countenance; and were he to volunteer to sing "Boyne Water," in illustration of his case, you would consider the song as a matter of course. He bullies the witnesses with forty-barrister power, and in the intervals of his questions persists, in defiance of all rule, upon addressing the committee in a similar strain. He is told that he must not do anything of the kind, so he does it more and more; and when he has abused everybody else he takes to abusing the committee itself. Like the gentleman of debating tendencies, who applied for the situation at the Bank, and was asked to state his qualifications, he "combines the most powerful invective with the wildest humour," and he treats his audience to an unlimited supply of both. The committee at first do not exactly know how to meet this kind of attack. They are protected in the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms, but here there is no functionary responsible for the preservation of order. A judge in court can invest an usher with terrible powers upon an occasion of the kind; but the committee have no usher, nor any analogous official. So, after enduring this belligerent advocate considerably beyond the limits of endurance, they order him to sit down and be silent. As well might they order a hurricane to take a calm view of affairs. The belligerent advocate only goes harder to work, and in connection, somehow, with a water supply and the rights of ratepayers, we have again a furious tirade, in which the seige of Derry figures in a prominent manner, and "Boyne Water" becomes imminent. So in this dilemma the committee speak to somebody. I believe the somebody is the clerk, who has a great deal in common with the stenographer, and is sitting patiently during the scene, considering it no business of his, as he cannot see his way to including it in the minutes of the proceedings. This functionary seems, however, aroused at last to the consciousness that something is the matter; and I fancy that it is through his agency that a messenger is found, and a policeman appears upon the scene. But one policeman is nothing to a belligerent advocate, with his head full of 'prentice-boys at Derry. No surrender, the victory of the Boyne, the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of King William, and the rights of wronged ratepayers, all at the same time; and he makes a sturdy resistance to authority. So more policemen are called; and when four of those functionaries have arrived it is found that constitutional rights are controllable, and that even resistance to the water supply may be kept within proper bounds. By this I mean that it is possible to eject the belligerent advocate -- not merely to push him out by the neck and shoulders, but carry him out by the arms and legs -- which extreme process is duly performed, despite protests which, I am sorry to say, besides the action of the tongue, are intimately associated with the hands and feet. The belligerent advocate, in fact, fights like a kangaroo, which is said to stand upon its tail, and use its four extremities at once as aggressive agents. The efforts of the police, however, are in the end successful, and the belligerent advocate is carried to the gallery outside, where he is left to finish his speech as he best may to a crowd of clerks and idlers. The business of the committee is then resumed.
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Researchers are responsible for following the procedures outlined in the Research Project Procedures and Guidelines.
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Research investigators, department heads, and thesis/dissertation or faculty advisors are responsible for insuring that ALL research involving human subjects is submitted to the IRB for review. Definitions from the federal rules for human subject research 45 CFR 46.102(f):
- Human Subjects: A living individual about whom an investigator (whether faculty or student) conducting research obtains:
- Data through intervention or interaction with the individual.
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- Research: A systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalize knowledge
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Some projects may be reviewed by the chair alone and whether or not a full board review will be necessary can usually be ascertained by contacting Elizabeth Hill, chair of the IRB.
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Project proposals being submitted for IRB review should be sent to the Chair and must include:
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Documents to be reviewed by the IRB must be submitted to the chair, IRB, at least three weeks prior to the next regularly scheduled board meeting.
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Since I don't have cable and use my TV for streaming shows and surfing the Internet, I was pretty stoked to receive the Logitech Couch Mouse M515 ($50) for review. Made to be used on your couch, bed, or carpet, the M515 has a sealed easy gliding base so you don't collect dust or fibers while you're mousing over fabrics. That's great news; since there are no openings on the bottom, you won't find a need for canned air on this mouse!
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The right wing won the 2010 election, fair and square, the way elections are supposed to work. So why are they gaming the system, re-writing the time-honored rules of democracy to give their side an unfair advanatage? Their beloved Founding Fathers (top) must be spinning in their graves. The voter ID bill that's wending its way through Harrisburg -- which would disenfranchise thousands of legitimate voters to catch four or five cheaters, if that many -- is a disgrace:
Doug Hill, the association's executive director, said none of the counties has reported even a suspicion of significant voter fraud.
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State figures show that of the nearly six million people who voted in Pennsylvania in the 2008 presidential election, just four were convicted of voter fraud.
Near the end of the article, a high ranking public official, House Majority Mike Turzai, raises a red herring, statiing with no proof that ""We have reports of thousands of false voter registrations during every big election cycle." I doubt these numbers are true for Pennsylvania but more importantly, voter registration fraud -- that's typically when people who are getting paid to sign up new voters make some names up to get more cash for themselves -- has nothing to do with voter fraud, the problem this bill claims to address. Turzai is playing a dishonest game of bait and switch. If he can't produce "reports of false voter registrations," he's lying to the people of Pennsylvania and he needs to be censured.


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Kathy Schmidt, a Maspeth resident and T.D. Customer of six years who was walking along Grand Avenue on Monday, said "it's good because the two T.D. Banks that are out here, one is up on Metropolitan Avenue and the other one is [on] Fresh Pond Road."
She added that there are already several banks along Grand Avenue, but asked, "what else are they going to put there, another nail salon?"
According to a T.D. Bank representative, the branch would offer seven-day banking with extended hours and will lend loans to local businesses.
In addition, the branch would hire about 15 full and part-time employees from the community, he said.
But the opening of the branch would take several months to accomplish, as T.D. Bank needs approval from the community and the city before construction can start.
A Maspeth resident of 18 years who wished to remain anonymous said she would rather have another place to get groceries.
"All there seems to be is nail stores and 99-cent stores and banks," she said.
Patty, a Glendale resident who walks along Grand Avenue while waiting to pick up the girl she babysits from I.S. 58, agreed that there are a lot of banks in the area.
"But I guess people have money and like options," she said.
Patty said a place to eat or a Walgreens would be a good way to fill the vacant space.
Maspeth Chamber of Commerce President Mike Terry said he did hear that a new bank was scouting the area. He said Grand Avenue wouldn't need another grocery store at that location, since its across the street from a Stop & Shop, but "we've got an awful lot of banks.
"But all business is good," Terry said. "I'd rather have a bank in there than have the building empty."
When asked what kind of business he would prefer to fill the space, Terry said "it would also be nice if we had something new retail-wise that might bring people in.
"We do seem to have more banks than we know what to do with," he said.