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The independent counsel team led by Huh Ik-bum requested an arrest warrant for Gov. Kim around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on suspicions of obstruction of business. The prosecutors view Gov. Kim, President Moon Jae-in's close associate, as an accomplice of Kim Dong-won, a blogger known as Druking, who is currently standing trial over obstruction of business for using illegal automated software to generate fake online comments, among other charges.
|South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo
About an hour after the investigators sought the arrest warrant, Gov. Kim expressed regret in a Facebook post.
"It is very regrettable. I was the first to ask for a special investigation when the scandal broke out. I cooperated with the investigation in all the ways the independent counsel team wanted," Gov. Kim said in the post. "I wished for the independent counsel team to find out the truth. I keenly express regret for the misguided judgment of the independent counsel team."
According to the investigation team, Druking introduced the automated software King Crab to Gov. Kim when he visited Druking's team in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in November 2016.
After that meeting, Gov. Kim started sending URLs of news articles to Druking, who would then use the automated program to create manipulated comments that favored the liberal Democratic Party, the investigators said.
Gov. Kim admitted that he had visited the team's headquarters in Paju, but flatly denied other allegations. Gov. Kim insists he was never introduced to the automated program there and had only sent the news articles because he thought it would be good for Druking.
Seoul Central District Court will review the request early Friday, and the result is likely to come out late Friday night or early Saturday.
Wednesday's decision comes after the special probe team conducted two overnight questioning sessions, on Aug. 6 and 9.
Gov. Kim, who was elected to the post in the June 13 local elections, is also suspected of having violated the election law by allegedly asking the blogger Druking and his organization to help him win the governor position. In return, the governor is accused of having promised a consular representative position in Japan.
The ruling Democratic Party strongly criticized the independent counsel team, saying the warrant request was politically motivated.
Citing how the main opposition Liberty Korea Party had strongly demanded the team's launch, the ruling party also said the counsel team could not overcome its "ingrained limitations."
The Liberty Korea Party hit back at the ruling party's reaction.
"It is unacceptable that the ruling party is discrediting the independent counsel team, which it also approved of," the party's spokesman Yoon Young-seo said.
"This is democracy, when investigations are conducted and arrest warrants are requested according to the law."
The conservative party also called for an extension of the operation period of the investigation team, which is due to end on Aug. 26.
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October 8 – 14, 2017 Bali , Indonesia
Set on the lush and unspoilt East Coast of Bali, Hotel Komune Resort and Beach Club is blessed with a hypnotizing view of the world famous Keramas surf break. Our resort is conveniently only 50 minutes away from Ngurah Rai International Airport. With its pristine volcanic beach, this 4 star beachfront Bali resort offers a wonderful experience of spending leisure time in a natural luxury hotel.

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The Do's And Don'ts Of Online Gambling
For each positive, there's a negative which goes along with it. There exists an established technique to skip that grizzly creature on your own video match and a way to seriously screw it up. Even the Colts can actually be defeated; the important thing is drawing up a strategy is effective. For any field, of development a set of policies for Do's and Don'ts employ. This certainly holds true in regard to the successful business of internet gambling. Since cash is usually included, any interested player needs to know exactly what and what to not accomplish in the means of casino games.
DO Discover YOUR GAME
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One of the hardest things a player can ever do would be always to grow a bet after losing a couple rounds. By doubling up you're going to get a bigger reward yet taking more dangers. Some apply this strategy since they think the pendulum will eventually swing into their own favor. That is normally an indication of stress and an act of despair. Do not ever move on your economic bounds. In the event you shed sequential hands move with caution. Whether it really is on the strip or an internet casino, A-player never wishes to drop attention and make irrational bets.
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Sherwood Returns to the Kennel
Capalaba Football Club is excited to announce the signing of Josh Sherwood for the 2019 Football Queensland Premier League Season. Josh returns to the Bulldogs after a three year stint in the Brisbane Premier League with Logan Lightning and Holland Park.
Head coach David Booth highlighted the fact Sherwood is a long serving Capalaba player and how his inclusion to the squad will strengthen an already strong attacking front-line.
"I have been speaking with Josh since the start of the year, he's a great lad and a dangerous attacker, I am really pleased to see him back at this club and ready to help us push for the top."


text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- GenVec Inc. gnvc said late Tuesday a clinical study of its investigational drug TNFerade has demonstrated its potential utility in treating patients with esophageal cancer. Study investigators determined that TNFerade may reduce the rate of disease progression and recurrence in patients with locally advanced resectable esophageal cancer, the Gaithersburg, Md.-based company said. In addition, GenVec said a study of TNFerade in patients with pancreatic cancer showed it was generally well tolerated and that there were positive effects on disease progression, local tumor response and resectability, as well as overall survival. The findings were presented at the Digestive Disease Week meeting in Los Angeles.


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No Dating to Kiss goodbye
My parents didn't forbid me from dating as a teenager, but my pool of eligible young men was restricted to church and my homeschool group. And thanks to a book written by a twenty-one year old homeschooled kid about the foibles of dating, we were all about courtship. Terms like "boyfriend," "girlfriend," and "dating" were dirty words.
There were a few good humored, sensible young men in my homeschool group that were very easy on the eyes. But although hope sprung eternal, I think I knew deep down that it was fruitless to imagine that any of them would solicit my father's permission to come over once a week to sit stiffly in our parlor to pay me court.
But I imagined anyway. I was pretty sure it would look something like this (sans the dancing, but definitely including the hamster):
It wasn't until my last semester in college that I fell in love for the first time. Throughout college, I'd always had a thing for one gent or another, but this was the first time I'd experienced anything mutual.
Though I had yet to experience reciprocal inloveness, I wrote about love constantly in high school and in those early college days. It amazes me how frequently and authoritatively I wrote about romantic love before I had ever had the experience of being in love. As I sorted through my paper files this weekend, I came across this fragment of writing from about ten years ago that I think I meant to work into a love story:
These few paragraphs say so much about how I understood love and inloveness in my early college days. They drip with a hope in the magic of inloveness, but also the impulse to kill that hope in magic before it exposed me for a fool.
I've been in love for over seven years now, and I can't speak with authority on some kind of universal experience of inloveness, I can say something provisional about the potentials of romantic love. Or at least do better than viewing all inloveness as parasitic by default.
The Dazzle of Real Fantasies
Those early stages of dazzle are not unreal or (necessarily) unhealthy phantasms, the bubbles that will be burst once we get down to the daily nitty-gritty of "real love." I think that's actually a very suspicious disposition toward love. Rather, sometimes our deepest and most emotionally raw realities are fantasies of the loveliest kind, real fictions to be nurtured and elaborated on.
Our experience of what people might think of as the "highs" of inloveness are (or at least can be) co-authored realities that produce a heightened sense of mutual awareness (the "us" factor). They are not the fake stuff that we must beat back to get to the real stuff of love, but the beginnings of a delightfully fabricated reality of life together that we must continue to fashion anew.
Likewise, "the daily grind" of ordinary life is not the foil to these concentrated moments of awareness of being in love, but the necessary food of a relationship that is contingent and changing. I'll dare to contradict Shakespeare and say that love isn't ever-fixed mark, but a perpetual movement. And I'll affirm (contra Hartley Coleridge) that love is a fancy and a feeling, not "immortal as immaculate Truth" unless we own that immortality is contingent upon perpetual transformation and "truth" is anything but spotless. The surest way to kill love is to expect it to be always the same, and it's from this expectation of sameness that we get the inloveness/daily grind dichotomy.
My pre-inloveness writings have a common theme: a roiling hope in the realities of deep connection, and also an abject fear that such love would never materialize (and, further, that if it didn't it would be my fault for failing to engage the "really real"). What I missed (among many things) was the concept of creation and cultivation. Love isn't a matter of "real" vs. "fake," but of creating an awareness of the environs in which love grows and learning how best to tend and nourish.
Magic sweeps in, washes over and into us. It's the spell of the tide that flows over us and ebbs back into the dark sea, the undertow tugging us into its uncertain deeps. Don't be afraid of its unfathomed worlds or the strength of its grip. In time, the sea will cast you up again onto dry land. You will trace the sand with your finger, the wet sand that (scientifically speaking) did not exist until you perceived it.
You will touch the solid, shifting earth and wonder which was real: the magic of the sea or the rootedness of dirt? And you will be answered by the crash of waves and the sensation of particles moving beneath your hand.


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By Eduardo Lauriano
I am writing this to let people know about the hate crimes directed at homeless people on the streets of Cleveland, from building materials thrown from construction sites to bottles and cans from moving vehicles. We have seen violence against homeless people, such as stealing book bags, radios, tents, and other items. These are not residents of the City of Cleveland or homeless people, they are people who don't like homeless people and kick us around.
There has been targeting of homeless people by people who don't like homeless people. I have gotten into a home, but I cannot visit my friends on E. 20th and Superior. My family gets pushed around by the Cleveland police every time I go down there. I have made a police report in the past against the people who were throwing the bottles. I had the plate number and make of the car, and the Police never did anything about it. I even went to the prosecutor's office and reported this incident. The prosecutors never did anything about it. So these hate crimes are still happening, the same cars, the same people are still doing this.
I would like to let the public know that we are not at fault for this happening. People are really doing this to us, taking our stuff, abusing us and sticking their private parts out at us.
I also want to touch on what happened since the assault on Camelot. We have a new addition, a newborn, his name is Ferin Camelot Lauriano, he weighted 8 lbs. 6 oz. And was 19 inches long when he was born October 30th tat 8:42 p.m. He is known as Camelot. Pamela Wagner is his mother; she is recovering and she is doing good, she has over 1,100 staples in her stomach and she is getting back on her feet. I went to surgery for hernia and had 12 staples in my stomach; I am recovering and coming around now.
On East 21st and Superior we were fighting with those throwing bottles for about one or two hours. We never saw city cars, no police, no security, nothing. We were fighting and nobody from the city heard or saw anything. Just to show you thta the City doesn't care about the homeless people. Remember that Mayor Michael White directed the police to sweep homeless people off the street last year at this time November & December. When he came to office, he swept the homeless and I was one of them. Once I was taken outside the city. The second time, I was taken to the Justice Center and arrested for sleeping on Public Square.
I also wanted to say something about the City break in. City Hall was broken into. The computers and disks were allegedly taken that I believe had information about Camelot. The paperwork about the future of the building is unclear. They weren't going to do anything with that building they just wanted us out of there. The paperwork and everything is gone. We believe he Mayor had something to do with it because there wasn't a forced entry into City Hall. I think that somebody from inside City Hall went in there and took all the stuff that we needed. We cleaned it up, ran off the drug pushers, the prostitutes and took it over for the homeless people and talked to Councilwoman Lewis. We cleaned up Camelot.
The city break in has something to do with the Mayor, the police, and city officials because they refuse to talk to us. When we went to court they said they were going to get us housing, we are still out here homeless. Camelot people are still out here homeless, freezing sick & going in to hospitals. The city scheduled one day to meet with us after the court hearing. They cancelled, because they wanted to meet with the attorneys and not with the homeless people themselves. That is what we were trying to express to the judge: we wanted to talk to the city officials, because only the homeless know what the homeless need. The city and a bunch of lawyers don't know what the homeless need.
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Gaaaah! I am finally finishing up our honeymoon blog posts! Today I'm sharing our last stop, on Maroma Beach just outside of Playa del Carmen.
Before I go off sounding ungrateful about having the opportunity to stay at such an incredibly nice resort, it took us about three days to adjust to being at this property. While we really enjoyed our time there, we definitely learned that we are not all-inclusive people. There's something incredibly wonderful about not having to worry about paying for each drink and each meal but there's a very specific atmosphere that comes with that luxury. We prefer to just... be... and not be bothered. The staff do absolutely everything they can to make sure that you are feeling completely taken care of - which resulted in us just leaving the "do not disturb" sign on the door for most of our stay because the interaction was overwhelming for us. There were a lot of amenities at El Dorado Maroma and if you love amenities, being pampered and feeling like there is someone at your beck and call 24/7, this property (and the entire El Dorado line of resorts) is the perfect place for you. There is even a pillow menu. Not kidding. They have anything you could possibly want.
It's hard for me to even type that paragraph because it sounds so bratty and ungrateful. Those feelings actually hung over me for quite a few days. A storm + construction next door caused the beach to be pretty much unusable. A resort is being built adjacent to the property and they have to completely clear out a mangrove to do that. Staff told us that they were draining the mangrove into the ocean causing smelly and dark water along the other close properties. That was a big bummer for me as Maroma Beach is continually rated one of the best in the world. A client shared a similar sentiment with me when I posted about this on Facebook and really the best thing I can say is that we learned so much about ourselves and how we want to travel in the future. We have always been trip-planners not vacationers. While we thought it would be amazing to just have a do-nothing vacation, it's not in our blood.
* Cue me planning more trips. *
With all of that said, we did come to love our time at El Dorado Maroma after a day or so of adjusting. The outdoor shower was so nice, the private infinity pool was amazing, the food was delicious and the "drink team" totally knew how to make us happy. Thank you, Diego and Rene!
We took a walk up the beach one day and stumbled across this massive concrete mansion that is unfinished. It was surrounded by a tall chainlink fence and there were some hammocks hanging in the doorways. I read a bunch of theories about the origin of the building online but nothing that truly explained exactly why it's unfinished/abandoned! It was so cool regardless.
We took a day trip to visit Chichen Itza which is farther west (inland) in the peninsula. This was a freakin' long day... but it was amazing! Our guide was really focused on getting us to understand that the Mayan people are not "extinct" which is a common misconception. Chichen Itza isn't like Pompeii - the people weren't completely wiped out. The geographic center of political power just shifted away from that area of the Yucatan and the city eventually was abandoned in favor of other more modern, usable locations. Throughout the day we interacted with plenty of Mayan people! We also swam in a very deep cenote (sink hole) resulting in sh*tty pictures that I'm not proud of but honestly it was one of the coolest things we did on our trip so... oh well!
Our last few days we basically reached peak honeymoon. We spent 60% of our days eating and drinking and the other 40% sleeping. Unlimited drinks result in an embarrassing amount of bad selfies.
I'll tell you, if you ever want to make it easier to come home, get a dog. We were so ready to come home and snuggle our Butters that it made it less sad to leave the warm temperatures and drinks we didn't have to make ourselves. She was happy to see us and we have to give a big shout out to our moms, my Nana and Pappaw and finally Ashley of Ashley's Adventures Pet-Sitting Service!
So, all in all... our trip was wonderful and Kyle is very happy and content but I've just had a fire lit under my butt and I'm ready to go somewhere else right away!
Best thing we learned in Mexico:
"Taco is the action of folding a tortilla. So, put anything on a tortilla, fold it and boom... taco."
Go forth, eat tacos, go to Mexico.


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I am a fully qualified and insured counsellor and an accredited and registered member of BACP. I hold an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service which is continuously updated and allows me to work with adults, children and young people.
I qualified and graduated in 2012 from York St John University. I am an experienced counsellor working with adults, adolescents and children. I work either face to face or on the telephone to suit the individual. I have experience of facilitating groups for adults and young people with a focus to improve self-esteem and emotional well being and with an aim to build resilience and work on strategies to deal with issues to include anxiety, depression and managing difficult emotions.
I have also worked as a Case Manager and Telephone Counsellor for a Well being at Work organisation.
I am an Associate Counsellor working for a number of organisations to include charities, Employment Assisted Programmes and the Private Sector. I use practice rooms in Harrogate town centre which is close to the bus and rail network and there is disc parking in the area.
I offer free initial telephone consultations to discuss your needs and for you to ask any questions you may have.
I have completed extra counselling training to allow me to work therapeutically with children and young people. I work from my private practice rooms, schools and other local venues and offer one to one counselling and therapeutic group work. I am also trained to teach mindfulness to groups of young people aged 11 to 18 years.
I have written and delivered a number of therapeutic courses for adults and young people which use evidence based material. I am currently running bespoke courses with Simon Oldroyd within schools and organisations. For further information about us please visit www.sperosupport.co.uk
Training & qualifications
Level 2 Certificate in Introduction to Counselling Skills
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Professional Practice)
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Enter the Marathon Challenge – celebrating 50 years since the BCN society started.
Join in this friendly competition, starting at 08:00 on Saturday 26 May wherever on the BCN you want, finishing at 14:00 on 27 May 2018 at Titford Pump House.
You must stop for six hours rest some time during these thirty hours.
Entry Forms can be downloaded, as a word document Challenge Entry Form 2018 or a PDF Challenge Entry Form 2018.
The Route Planner and Information links are to the 2017 challenge. These change slightly every year – but the broad principle remains the same.
Plan your ideal route so that you cover as many miles and locks in the 24 hours as you can.
There are more points per mile or lock for traversing the lesser used parts of the system. If you are not familiar with the pattern, you can download the 2017 Route Planner here. The 2018 route planner will be in the envelope that you will receive, that must not be opened until 08:00 on 26 May.
Shortly before the Challenge you get an envelope that you open at 8am on Saturday, with questions, and a diary to fill in as you travel round.
The winner is determined by a point system, with extra points for full length boats, butties, small crews, cruising the lesser traveled parts of the BCN. The details are in the BCNS Marathon Challenge 2018 Info & Rules
Any questions, contact Roy Kenn and John Carrington via firstname.lastname@example.com
All entries will receive a commemorative plaque on completion, and the winning entry will also receive a shield. Additional plaques are available at a small extra cost – see the entry form.
Join in the final evening of the Pumphouse Rally. There will be real ale on sale – rather more than we had for the challenge finish in 2017!


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Tangipahoa Parish Fair
Louisiana Recipes Weekly
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|Tangipahoa Parish Fair
Wed. 5pm - 10pm, Thur. 11am - 11pm, Fri. 7:30am - 11pm, Sat. 9am - 11pm and Sun. 11am - 6pm
History tells a story of days gone by. It allows us to relive the events of the past while looking forward to the future. The Tangipahoa Parish Free Fair has proven, over time, to be an evolving force within the parish. Created in 1888, the Tangipahoa Parish Fair was held in Amite, Louisiana. Amite is considered the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, with the town being created in 1849 and the parish created in 1869. Most of the information contained within this report is due to the efforts of E.E. Puls and the unknown author of 'Looking Back 110 Years'. The Tangipahoa Parish Fair, at the time (1888), consisted of 75 acres of land that featured a grandstand, racetrack, and exhibit rooms. While detailed written information on the first fairs is hard to obtain, personal interviews and stories handed down through local families give us details that would otherwise be lost.
The Tangipahoa Parish Fair is the oldest fair in Louisiana.
|Tangipahoa Parish Fair Grounds
|404 Reid Ave, Amite, LA
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BALSAM is from
Latin balsamum; it is a gummy plant resin used for perfume. BALSAMIC
means fragrant.
בשם BoSeM is the term for
the fragrant spices used in Temple worship. Spelled with a ש Sin/S
in Exodus30:23, it is spelled בסם Boa$eM, with
a ס Samekh/$, elsewhere. Both spellings render
words which mean perfume and the verb "to be fragrant:" Song ofSongs4:16
"Awake, 0 north wind, come, 0 south wind! Blow upon by garden, that its perfume
may spread." In Exodus 35:8 the similar fricative-nasal words are
presented near each other in the Torahs typical incremental repetition of
comparable terms: שמים SaMeeYM
(spices), then סמים $aMeeM(incense).
The fragrant סמדר $MaDaR,
(blossom Songs 7:13) should be a combination of סם Samekh-Mem
(smell) + דר D-R
(release), as דרור
DROAR (freedom, release Leviticus 25:19.)
BALM is from Greek balsamon (balsam).
For the built-in opposite of B-S sweet smells, see BISON.
SMELL has no Indo-European root. Beside the S-M smells
above, a scent of something is like a sense of it
SHOOM (garlic- Numbers 11:5) is similar in Akadian (shumu).
Song of Solomon 4:16 עורי צפון ובואי תימן הפיחי גני יזלו בשׂמיו יבא דודי לגנו ויאכל פרי מגדיו׃
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.
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75g pine nuts
2 lemons (for juice and zest)
1 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves… half finely chopped and half left whole
135ml extra virgin olive oil
95g parmesan cheese freshly grated, plus extra for shaving
30g pecorino cheese freshly grated
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
320g good-quality tagliarini or tagliatelle
Smash up half of the pine nuts to a paste, then put it into a big heatproof bowl with the rest of the whole pine nuts, the lemon juice and zest, the finely chopped parsley and the extra virgin olive oil.
Stir and add the Parmesan and pecorino. What you should have now is a reasonably thick sauce, which you should think of more as a dressing, so taste it and think about how the different flavors are coming through. I want you to balance the flavors so you end up with something quite zingy because as the sauce heats up and the cheese melts the flavor of the lemon will calm down a lot. S
Season with some freshly ground black pepper. Taste it and if you think you haven't got the balance right, simply add a little more oil and Parmesan.
Put a large pot of salted water on to boil for your pasta. Sit the sauce bowl on top of the pan while the water's heating up this will take the chill out of the sauce and warm it through slightly. When the water starts to boil, remove the bowl and add your pasta to the water.
Cook it according to the packet instructions then drain in a colander, reserving a little of the cooking water.
Toss the pasta with the sauce and a little of the reserved cooking water to help loosen it up a bit. The heat from the pasta will melt the cheese, allowing all the lovely sauce to coat it. If you find the sauce is too thick then add a little more water. It's not supposed to be ver thick, but rather silky, fresh and fragrant.
Have one last taste to balance the flavors, and serve with a little extra parmesan shaved over the top and a sprinkle of parsley leaves.
Eat immediately and enjoy!


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Diabetes not only doubles vascular death risk but also substantially raises risk of death from nonvascular causes, including cancer and infectious disease, researchers found.
A 50-year-old with diabetes can expect to die six years earlier than a nondiabetic peer, with nonvascular deaths accounting for about 40% of the survival difference, John Danesh, MSc, DPhil, of the University of Cambridge, England, and colleagues in the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration reported.
Action Points
- Explain that an analysis of 97 prospective studies found that diabetes and fasting blood sugars >100 mg/dL were associated with an increased all-cause mortality.
- Note that an association with increased mortality was found for vascular disease but also nonvascular conditions such as cancer, infectious diseases, injury, liver and renal disease, self-harm, and nervous system disorders.
By comparison, smoking takes about seven years off life expectancy, the group noted.
Their patient-level pooled analysis of 820,900 individuals across 97 prospective studies appeared in the March 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The magnitude of both the study and the risks highlights how serious and complicated diabetes is, commented Richard Bergenstal, MD, of the International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet in Minneapolis, Minn., and immediate past president of the American Diabetes Association.
"We should be taking a broader view of diabetes," he told MedPage Today. "We sometimes get completely wrapped up in the metabolism of the A1c and the glucose and we forget about the associated effects on quality of life and depression and other consequences."
The researchers examined 12.3 million person-years of mortality follow-up for individuals without a history of vascular disease at enrollment in the 97 studies. The baseline diabetes prevalence was 6%.
Those with diabetes were 80% more likely to die from any cause during the study periods, after adjustment for age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index (95% confidence interval 1.71 to 1.90).
Vascular disease took top place as a cause of death, followed by cancer.
Not surprisingly, diabetes patients carried a 2.32-fold higher adjusted risk of death from vascular causes than their nondiabetic counterparts (95% CI 2.11 to 2.56).
But they were also at significantly elevated risk of death from cancer (adjusted HR 1.25, 95% CI 1.19 to 1.31) and from other nonvascular, noncancer causes (adjusted HR 1.73, 95% CI 1.62 to 1.85).
Diabetes moderately increased risk of death from the following as well:
- Cancers of the liver, pancreas, ovary, colorectum, lung, bladder, and breast
- Renal disease
- Liver disease
- Pneumonia and other infectious diseases
- Mental disorders
- Nonhepatic digestive diseases
- External causes
- Intentional self-harm
- Nervous-system disorders
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Links with kidney, digestive, and infectious disease could reflect nephropathy, fatty liver disease, and suppression of cellular immunity from diabetes, the researchers suggested.
The greater risk of injury-related deaths could be related to end-organ complications, such as neuropathy and eye disease, or episodes of hypoglycemia, they added.
The elevated mortality risk with diabetes appeared independent of blood pressure, lipids, the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, alcohol use, kidney function, and socioeconomic status.
Fasting glucose or glycosylated hemoglobin, though, appeared to account for some of the mortality risk of diabetes, as adjustment for these factors "considerably" attenuated the excess risk associated with diabetes.
Each 18 mg/dL higher fasting glucose level above 100 mg/dL was associated with a 5% higher risk of death from cancer, 13% higher risk of vascular death, and 10% higher risk of death from other causes -- for a 10% overall higher risk of death from any cause, all statistically significant.
Fasting glucose levels in the 70 to 100 mg/dL range were not significantly associated with death.
These findings support a direct impact of hyperglycemia on mortality risk, Danesh's group argued.
A consensus statement from the ADA and American Cancer Society last year cautioned that it wasn't clear whether the elevated cancer risk seen with diabetes is direct or due to shared risk factors or other indirect factors.
Bergenstal warned that this is still the case.
"We still can't say if it's the glucose or something associated with the hypoglycemia," he told MedPage Today, noting that the study did not control for diet, activity, and many other potentially confounding factors.
However, he agreed with the researchers that the findings reinforce the need for people with diabetes to get appropriate cancer screening tests on a regular basis.
"We should be taking a broader view of diabetes," he said. "We need to be supporting the patient in improving metabolic parameters but also looking at their whole life experience."
The study was supported by grants from the British Heart Foundation, the U.K. Medical Research Council, and Pfizer (to the ERFC Coordinating Centre), as well as the Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship, an Overseas Research Studentship Award, and an Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust Clinical Research Fellowship.
Danesh reported grants to his institution from the British Heart Foundation, Pfizer, and U.K. Medical Research Council; board membership with Merck Sharp & Dohme and Novartis; and grants or grants pending to his institution from the British Heart Foundation, BUPA Foundation, Denka, diaDexus, European Union, Evelyn Trust, Fogarty International Centre, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, U.K. Biobank, U.K. Medical Research Council, and Wellcome Trust.
Bergenstal has reported owning stock in Merck. His institution has received consultancy fees or research grant support, or both, with receipt of travel and accommodation expenses in some cases, from Abbott Diabetes Care, Amylin, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Intuity Medical, Hygieia Medical, LifeScan, Mannkind, Medtronic-Minimed, National Institutes of Health, Novo Nordisk, ResMed, Roche, sanofi-aventis, United Health Group, and Valeritas.
Primary Source
New England Journal of Medicine
Source Reference: Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration "Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death" N Engl J Med 2011; 364: 829-841.


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THE ECLECTIC SECTION SELECTION Psych - Prog - Folk - Private Pressings & Beyond
Note: photos of laminated/shrinkwrapped covers may show reflections from flash.
New titles added December 15, 2018.
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NEW! Music in Sweden 7 ALTERNATIVE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (Caprice) Sweden 1980
Ambitious comp with Kebnekajse, Arbete & Fritid, Bo Hansson, Fläsket Brinner, Tillsammans, Samla Mammas Manna, Spjärnsvallet, Iskra, Archimedes Badkar, Anita Livstrand, Ramlösa Kvällar. Comes with a great 12-page booklet, full of pics & notes in Swedish, German, French, English.
Record: looks strong F with very light surflines/marks/scuffing only - plays WAY better.
Cover: G; some seam/spine/cornerwear; minimal ring/shelfwear; 1" split top seam: small tofc; very thin tears/scratch marks obc; light cornerbend; a bit of creasing along seams/spine & ofc; light wear f/b at opening; light ding bottom back. Booklet.
Price: SOLD
ANTHOLOGY OF THE BRITISH BLUES Me And The Devil (Imperial) USA 1968
Tony McPhee, Jo-Ann Kelly, Simon & Steve, Dave Kelly, Andy Fernback.
Record: s1 VG, s2 strong G.
Cover: very strong VG; very light seam/cornerwear; very light ring/shelfwear; minimal cornerbumps; two pinholes in one corner.
Price: SOLD
NEW! ASH RA TEMPEL - same (?) Euro? 90s/00s
I gambled on a sealed copy listed with somewhat vague pressing information, hoping it'd turn out to be a sealed US import copy - which it wasn't. I can't however say exactly what it is though, but most likely one of the not-quite legal 90s or 00s Euro reissues, complete with the gimmick cover design.
Record: sealed/unplayed.
Cover: VG+; sealed; fo; downgraded because of two light x-acto knife cuts ofc & very faint cornerbumps.
Price: SOLD
NEW! THE BAND - same (Capitol) USA 1969
US orig of their coveted 2nd; personally, it's still somewhat of a struggle getting into this.
Record: F; lots of light marks/lines/scratches, esp s1, but nothing too bad & it plays rather enjoyably.
Cover: rather nice F & about average for this easily-aged cover; fo; seam/spine/corner/edgewear; some ring/shelfwear; 3" split top seam at opening; small stain ofc; minor stain inside gatefold; some wear f/b at opening.
Price: SEK 120 / $13
THE BAND - Stage Fright (Capitol) USA 1970
Record: very strong F; light lines/marks only; mostly detectable through some minor crackle betwwen tracks.
Cover: G; seam/spine/cornerwear; tiny ss; top 2" of spine's worn/frayed; light ring/shelfwear; small tobc; minor wobc; very light soiling.
No outer thingie.
Price: SEK 40 / $5
THE BAND - Moondog Matinee (Capitol) USA 1973
No outer cover, just regular one.
Record: VG; some very light surflines + a few tiny pressing bubbles - you'll hardly notice anything though.
Cover: VG+; two pin-holes near opening, otherwise very light overall wear only.
Price: SEK 60 / $7
BANGOR FLYING CIRCUS - same (Dunhill) USA 1969
Early prog with guys who had been in/went onto H.P. Lovecraft, Madura & more.
Record: Sealed
Cover: Sealed; has a small tear in shrink at one corner where there's a tiny bit of wear to corner/spine; micro wear to another corner as well; drillhole.
Price: SOLD
NEW! BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - Baby James Harvest (Harvest) UK 1972
A whole lotta Harvestin' here & it ain't even fall yet (at least it wasn't when I originally wrote this - time flies, baby).
Record: F; lots of light lines & marks, but nothing deep or serious.
Cover: VG; very light spine/cornerwear; some ring/shelfwear; light lamination crease bottom front + some light general creasing as well; one light cornerbend; a tiny bit of lamination loosening obc at spine; really light wear f/b at opening. Original inner.
Price: SEK 60 / $7
NEW! SALIH BAYSAL - The Myth (Sonet) UK 1978
Great Turkish folk jazz recorded in 1972-73 together with Maffy Falay & Okay Temiz.
Record: s1 VG, s2 G, both with light lines/marks/scuffing only.
Cover: strong G; downgraded because of some sealing stkr residue f/b, but apart from this it's a nice VG with minor overall wear only.
Price: SOLD
B.B. BLUNDER - Workers' Playtime (united Artists) UK 1971
Basically the third Blossom Toes LP & an unholy mess of late decade-turning mixed bag of sounds... think I saw a brief E.G. McMuffin
write-up in the PT forum not too long ago?
Record: VG+
Cover: semi-weak VG; fo; seam/spine/corner/edgewear; light ring/shelfwear; minimal tobc; superlight soiling f/b.
Price: SEK 200 / $24
NEW! BEAT CLUB '68 (Polydor) Germany 1968
Comp with Who, Move, Cream, Blossom Toes, Hendrix & more.
Record: looks F, but plays better most of the time.
Cover: F; seam/spine/cornerwear; ring/shelfwear; 1" split mid-spine; light soiling/stains f/b; wear f/b at opening; bends/creases.
Price: SEK 50 / $6
BEATLES - VI (Parlophone) UK 1966
Rare UK export copy. No "Sold in the UK subject to..." on label.
Record: VG+
Cover: overall VG; front is very nice, back has some light soiling/faint stains; very light cornerwear; very light ring/shelfwear; really light wear f/b at opening; a few really gentle, small creases ofc.
Price: SEK 2500 / $278
BELT & BRACES ROAD SHOW BAND - same (no label) UK 1975
Mildly folky UK prog private press; 7-piece band with arty/weird vibe/sound. Mixed vocals, flute & keys, cello, some prominent electric soloing. Pretty interesting LP.
Record: EX
Cover: VG+; has a very discreet 1" ss mid-top, otherwise this is like new. Insert.
Price: SOLD
NEW! BELT & BRACES ROADSHOW BAND - Treasonous Thinking (MNW) Sweden 1977
Unplayed copy of their 2nd/last, recorded in Sweden under the guiding light of Greg FitzPatrick (Handgjort &more).
Record: sealed/unplayed.
Cover: G; some seam/spine/cornerwear; ring/shelfwear; very light cornerbumps; sealing stkrs f/b; really light wear ofc at opening; very light soiling obc; some faint creasing. Insert.
Price: SOLD
BERITS HALSBAND - same (Forsaljud) Sweden 1975
Great progressive jazz rock on micro-label; long tracks that head into some really interesting places.
Record: VG+
Cover: strong G; downgraded from a strong VG because of ugly sealing stkrs f/b, otherwise nothing but light overall wear. Original inner.
Price: SOLD
DAVE BERRY - This Special Sound Of (Decca) UK 1966
OK - if wimpy - mid-60s pop, but has some r'n'b moments too, including a rather cooking "I Love You Babe" with great lead guitar, likely from Jimmy Page who (along with John Paul Jones) guested on some Berry recordings. This has a partially different track list (and running order) than what's listed in the Discogs discography, also different sleeve notes (& design of them) obc... and it's two years earlier (i e not 1968) as well. Mono.
Record: nice F; lotsa lines, but light ones only - I spotchecked thoroughly & it plays nicely; micro warp nap.
Cover: strong G; light spine/cornerwear; light ring/shelfwear; sealing stkr f/b; faint stkr stain obc; light age-yellowing/soiling obc; light wear at opening f/b; some light creases, mostly at spine; thin/light tobc.
Price: SEK 80 / $9
JOHN BISHOP - Plays His Guitar (Doesn't He) (Tangerine) USA 1971
Cheap & somewhat overlooked LP - side one's good easy-on-the-ears guitar/organ jazz rock, sort of; laidback groovy backbeat, slightly loungey feel with good playing. Nice late night spin. Unfortunately side two dives too deeply into the sappy lounge pool.
Record: G; lotsa lines/light scratches cause surfnoise, audible between tracks mostly; micro warp nap.
Cover: nice VG; very light spine/cornerwear; light ring/shelfwear; a couple of really tiny/light stains ofc; minimal wear ofc at opening; a couple of light manufacturing wrinkles obc; drillhole.
Price: SEK 50 / $6
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid (Verigo) Italy 1970
Scarce Italian swirl orig.
Record: beautiful EX.
Cover: VG+; some light shelfwear + minimal overall wear only.
Price: SEK 800 / $95
BLACK SABBATH - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (WWA) Norway 1973
Record: visually s1 VG+, s2 strong VG with just some minor surflines/scuffing & overall playing these grades & better, but there's a slight hissing sound between tracks - barely audible in some cases, a bit more in other, but never too bad.
Cover: VG; fo; some seam/corner/edgewear; ring/shelfwear ofc, barely anything obc; some gentle creasing ofc; small tofc.
Price: SEK 200 / $24
BLACKWELL - same (Astro) USA 1970
Texas band doing pretty good psych & early prog as well as some softer/sappier tracks. The good stuff's full of swirling organ & fine lead guitar, peaking on the classic "Mr. Jupiter", all spacey sound effects & fuzz. I've always felt that the singer had an odd voice for its time - almost like he's predating glamrock or something. Promo copy.
Record: VG+; wlp.
Cover: VG; minor seam/spine/cornerwear; very light ring/shelfwear; two light cornerbends; minimal wear ofc at opening; really tiny sawcut.
Price: SOLD
NEW! BLAGO BUNG - Kärleken & Döden (Heartwork) Sweden 1981
Arty, offbeat experimental & electronically charged 12"; "Auto/Suggestion" is excellent & adds an unexpected garagey vibe via a 60s sounding organ. Good & scarce.
Record: very strong VG with just a tiny few surflines & some very light paper scuffing.
Cover: semi-weak G; seam/spine/cornerwear; ring/shelfwear; light cornerbends + general minor creasing; sealing stkr/residue/small toc from removal f/b at opening; very light wear f/b at opening.
Price: SEK 200 / $22
BLANDAT BAND (Tibet 46) Sweden 1974
Scarce V/A LP on tiny label, consisting of demos that various underground acts sent in to a radio show. Ragnar Borgedahl, Sanitetsgruppen, Jämmer & Elände, Sjön Suger a o. All exclusive material, if I remember correctly - folk, rock, prog, several great acts/tracks.
Record: M-; looks unplayed.
Cover: EX; really tiny cornerding, otherwise minimal overall wear only. Booklet + insert.
Price: SOLD (I have another copy though - ask if interested.)
NEW! FREDDY BLIFFERT - You'll Like Bliffert (O) USA 1972
Communal-sounding hippie folky rock from ex-member of Freddy & The Freeloaders; sometimes a bit Youngbloods-esque heading down the same type of urban/rural route as Point Reyes Station's finest. Full band with the usual + mixed vocal harmonies, congas, flute, some femme lead vocals too & plenty of stoner vibes. Private pressing with paste-on front cover.
Record: nice VG (cheap pressing though); micro warp nap.
Cover: G; minor seam/spine/cornerwear; ring/shelfwear; small ss; light cornerbend & bumps; some age-yellowing/light soiling; really light wear f/b at opening. Insert.
Price: SOLD
NEW! BLOND - same (Fontana) USA 1969
US issue of sole LP by this post-Tages outfit; very UK-sounding pop/freakbeat/psych.
Record: very nice VG; some light lines/marks do very little.
Cover: semi-weak G; fo; some ring/shelfwear; small wofc; stofc; light cornerbend; a few very light creases; some light soiling; light stain inside gatefold & even lighter obc; two drillholes.
Price: SEK 100 / $11
BLOODSTONE - Unreal (London) USA 1973
Record: beautiful EX; looks unplayed.
Cover: VG+; tiny cornerbump + very liggt overall wear only; punch hole. Orig inner.
Price: SEK 40 / $4
BILL BLUE BAND - Streetpreacher (Feather) USA 1975
2nd from native American blues guy; his first was an excellent folkblues thing, but this goes for a full band blues rock sound. Cool cover art (pic on back leaves no doubt that these guys killed beercans with their shotguns inbetween recording sessions) & a scarce private press on Bill's own Feather label, out of Virginia. "Ain't It Funny" is excellent with great guitar/keys interplay atop a moodily swingin' groove.
Record: VG; looks a lot better, but there's some very light surfnoise in places + a tiny mark at the very end/beginning of s1t1/2 cause a tiny few brief ticks/pops.
Cover: lower end of G; seam/spine/cornerwear; some ring/shelfwear; small ss at opening top/bottom; budding/tiny split mid & top spine; some soiling f/b; minimal wear at opening f/b; two cornerbends.
Price: SOLD
BUDDY BOHN - Places (Happy Tiger) USA 1969
Quiet folkie; both he & the neat sorta generic-looking cover must've been impossibly outdated by the late 60s... but a zone of his own is better than no zone at all. Also: "proud breasts of Bali".
Record: s1 VG, s2 G.
Cover: nice G; minimal spinewear; seam/cornerwear; really small splits top seam at opening & spine; 3" split mid-bottom seam; light ring/shelfwear.
Price: SEK 40 / $5
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - same (Harvest) Germany 1971
Record: VG
Cover: very strong G; fo; some spinewear; very light seam/corner/edgewear; light ring/shelfwear; very small tofc; tiny cornerbend ofc; top left corner has been wet at some point & is now very slightly wavy, a few really light lamination creases.
Price: SOLD
NEW! ODELL BROWN - same (Paula) USA 1974
Mostly instrumental laidback funky grooves with flute, sax, keys, congas etc; long tracks.
Record: very nice VG+ with just a tiny few near-invisible surflines. Paula pressings tend to be subpar though.
Cover: VG; seam/spine/cornerwear; light ring/shelfwear; less than 1" light fraying top seam at spine; very light cornerbends/bumps; minimal wear ofc at opening; drillhole.
Price: SEK 160 / $18
BROWNSVILLE STATION - same (Private Stock) Sweden 1977
Record: strong VG+.
Cover: strong F; seam/spine/cornerwear; rw; stoc; minor creasing at spine; very light cornerbends/bumps; light wear at opening f/b.
Price: SEK 60 / $7
NEW! HASSE BRUNIUSSON - Mannaminne (Alternativ) Sweden 1983
Solo release from ex-member of Samla Mammas Manna, helped out here by Roine Stolt (Kaipa, Flower Kings) & Thomas Arnesen (Panta Rei).
Record: nice & shiny G; light surflines/marks only.
Cover: VG; minor seam/spine/cornerwear; really light ring/shelfwear; minimal split top seam at opening; light bending/creasing along seams & spine; tiny stkr stain/residue ofc; minimal toc; very light wear f/b at opening.
Price: SEK 80 / $9
SOLOMON BURKE - We're Almost Home (MGM) USA 1972
Record: Sealed
Cover: Sealed; two very gently bent corners.
Price: SOLD
THE BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - In My Own Dream (Elektra) USA 1968
Record: G; light scratch pops briefly beginning of s1t4, then ticks very lightly for about half the track; minimal warp nap.
Cover: F; fo; some seam/corner/edgewear; quite a bit of spinewear; light ring/shelfwear f/b, more inside gatefold; faint wofc; very light
soiling/age-yellowing; some bends & creases.
Price: SEK 60 / $7


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Donna Hilley
June 30, 1940 - June 20, 2012
1999 Inductee
Donna Hilley, the Birmingham, Alabama native, joined radio station WKDA, run by the late Jack Stapp, who also founded Tree International. Eight years with WKDA were followed by eight years as assistant to the president of a Nashville advertising and public relations firm. Hilley then rejoined Jack Stapp by going to work at his fledgling Tree organization.
Named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Tree International in 1978, Hilley became president and chief executive officer in 1994. Hilley has been personally responsible for taking Tree far beyond the boundaries of country music. Under her direction, the publishing company has branched into film and television industries, as well as advertising and Broadway musicals. She was the first major publisher to conceive of the idea to merge contemporary Christian music with the country music industry, foreseeing the increasing popularity of contemporary Christian music in the 90's.
Hilley has also established herself as a leader in both the business and music communities. In 1994 she was named to the prestigious American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) board. In the same year, she was elected to the National Music Publisher's Association (NMPA) board. She has served on the board of directors for the Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt; the Country Music Association; the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce; the Gospel Music Association, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences among others.
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I'm going to attempt to write this without any hesitation. No emotional edits. No disclaimers. I'm going to attempt to write it, really, with all my unfiltered thoughts and feelings pouring onto the page. Knowing me, ever the diplomat who is always sensitive to the effect of words, this will be quite the feat. And if you are reading this at all, it will most likely be an edited and emotionally correct version of my self*. Nevertheless… here we go.
I have heard, over and over again, the assertion that when a "fat girl" loses weight she develops a "chip on her shoulder". As in, she suddenly thinks she is "too hot to handle". And won't give people, whom she would have "happily given a chance before", the time of day. And she becomes, among more colorful words, "conceited".
Soooo… by this estimation, I'm left to assume that it's perfectly okay to be rejected because of my weight, but when that's no longer an "issue", I'm suddenly a hypocrite for having preferences? Of course you're not shallow for only caring about my physical appearance, you're just being honest. But heaven forbid I should express any of my "honest preferences" while my weight is "still an issue"! Obviously, I'm expected to accept whatever schlep is thrown my way.
You see this woman – with her back fat, and her thighs that rub together, and her giggly midsection; this woman with her lungs about to collapse, who panics at the thought of running a mile and wants to cry in the face of burpees; this woman right here is the only one strong enough to fight for the woman you'll claim to love later. If you don't like her, if you can't imagine yourself being attracted to her, how could you possibly love the one she's building? The one only she is strong enough to become?
Why should I feel guilty for wanting to be with someone who's adopting the same healthy lifestyle as I am? I've worked so hard to leave where I was, why would I want to be with someone who's going to drag me back there. Lean or Not… Fat or Skinny, I don't want to be with someone who's not active. Someone who I have to drag to the gym kicking and screaming. Someone who's "put off" by the thought of eating healthy. In the same way I don't want to be with someone who doesn't want to serve in church. I want someone who finds those things just as important as I do so we can be working towards the same goals. It's called being compatible! But if you want to call it a chip, tattoo it on my shoulder with permanent ink.
A friend asked me if I thought losing weight would change me. And the fact is, yes it does. It is. It continues to change me. This isn't about replacing a few items on your plate. You have to go through so much. You have to give up so much. You have to accept so much. Of course it changes you. How could you possibly stay the same as your life morphs into something unknown?
Yes, you develop more confidence. You feel better about yourself. Your looks. Your abilities. But I've never really had an issue with being confident. If anything, I am often accused of being borderline intimidating because of my confidence. But even that has changed. Previously, I used my confidence as a heavy shield – to protect myself from the painful judgments caused by my weight. Now this confidence is morphing into an adorning accessory. It's beautiful to wear, but I don't need it to protect me anymore. And if that's a chip, I'll gladly wear it on my pretty little shoulder.
~that's life… in no particular order
*This post has been sitting in my draft box since December 1, 2014… reviewed, reevaluated, and reconsidered multiple times… But never changed from my original thoughts and feelings.


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Franklin County
Frankfort woman sentenced to prison for stealing from non-profit
A Frankfort woman was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for stealing more than $40,000 from Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass, a non-profit organization that serves disabled children.
Mary Margaret Tincher, 39, who was a financial manager at Child Development Centers, had pleaded guilty in November to one count of felony theft by deception.
"I just got in a bad spot. I wasn't thinking," Tincher told Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone just before being sentenced.
Tincher said that she was on the verge of losing her home and that her family had hospital bills at the time she stole the money.
"If granted probation, I promise you'll never see me again," she told the judge.
Scorsone told Tincher that he appreciated "the situation you're in," but that "people go to jail for shoplifting $30 items."
He called Tincher's crime a cold, calculated theft.
Tincher was hired as a financial manager at Child Development Centers on Aug. 1, 2009. She was accused of stealing money from the organization beginning in September 2009 by electronically transferring money from the non-profit into her personal bank account.
A third-party funding partner had noticed that "something wasn't right" and told employees of Child Development Centers, which led to the discovery that money was missing, police have said. Police were notified on June 28. Tincher turned herself in several days later.
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Art Loss Register and Jack Solomon facing lawsuit over their part in Norman Rockwell title dispute
|Norman Rockwell, Russian Schoolroom
It took years, and cost her a fortune in legal fees, but in 2010, US art dealer Judy Goffman Cutler finally won title to the Norman Rockwell painting which she legitimately bought and rightfully owned but which had been challenged by the painting's former owner, Jack Solomon.Solomon, who for a time pressed his claim with the support of the Art Loss Register (ALR), was eventually described by the presiding judge in the case as "not credible."
Now Mrs Cutler has filed an official complaint in Las Vegas Federal Court, suing Solomon, the Art Loss Register, and Christopher Marinello, executive director of the ALR, seeking "punitive damages for abuse of process and conspiracy."
The original case was a tangled web of claim and counter-claim, but at its heart was an attempt by Solomon to claim ownership of a painting for which he had already benefited financially on two previous occasions. Courthouse News Service, the California-based nationwide news service for lawyers and news media, reported on Thursday that Christopher Marinello of the Art Loss Register was listed as one of Solomon's attorneys in his original complaint. The Courthouse News article goes on to state: "But Marinello would later testify in a separate proceeding that he never was Solomon's attorney and that he agreed to add his name as the attorney of record in order to 'give it some kind of added cachet or publicity that the Art Loss Register, as an organization, was blessing [Solomon's] cause.'" Why a connection with the ALR could be assumed to "add cachet" has never been explained.
Solomon, a Missouri-based art dealer and Rockwell specialist, bought the painting — Russian Schoolroom, (above left) — in 1971 for $5,000. Two years later, he sold it through his Arts International gallery in Clayton, Missouri to Bert Elam, a collector, for $25,000. Elam agreed to leave the picture on temporary display at the gallery for the duration of a Rockwell exhibition. A few days later, on 24 June 1973, the painting was stolen from the gallery by persons unknown. Solomon and his gallery reimbursed Elam for the loss and made an insurance claim, which was duly compensated by the gallery's insurer, Chubb.
In 1988, the painting resurfaced at Morton M. Goldberg Auction Rooms in New Orleans, consigned for sale by "a couple" whose identity has never been established. Solomon was contacted by the auctioneer and was sent a catalogue, the front cover of which showed a colour illustration of the painting. The auction was also widely advertised in the trade press, including a page in Antiques and the Arts Weekly in October 1988, in which the painting was illustrated (right).Judy Goffman Cutler was also contacted by auctioneer Morton Goldberg, who was aware of her status as America's pre-eminent dealer in Norman Rockwell's work. Mrs Cutler has a New York gallery specialising in American illustration and is also co-founder, with her husband Laurence, of the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island. Prior to the auction, Morton Goldberg requested Mrs Cutler's interest in Russian Schoolroom in a price range of $90,000-100,000. She politely declined it at that price level, but made an index card to take note of it, which she filed away.
Soon after, on seeing that the painting was coming under the hammer at Goldberg's 'Louisiana Purchase Auction,' where it was now estimated at $80,00-100,000, Mrs Cutler requested a catalogue for the sale (below left). She then began conducting her own extensive due diligence inquiries into the picture's provenance. Finally satisfied that it could legitimately be bought, Mrs Cutler bid for the picture and secured it at the sale on 29 October 1988 for $64,000 ($70,400 including auctioneer's fees).
Being the new proud owner of the painting, Mrs Cutler set about alerting the Rockwell collectors among her clients and advertising it for sale. What she was unaware of at this point, but which emerged in the subsequent court case, was that behind the scenes Solomon had cut a deal with Goldberg Auction Rooms prior to the sale. Despite having been paid out by his insurers in 1973, Solomon arranged with Goldberg that 10% of the auction proceeds would go to Goldberg, $20,000 would be paid to Chubb and that Solomon and the consignor would split the remaining proceeds 50/50. The identity of the consignor remains shrouded in mystery. What is also unclear is why the consignor — who must have acquired it in good faith — agreed to split the proceeds with Solomon, who had already been recompensed for the original theft and thus had no legitimate title to the painting. Unfortunately (one is tempted to say 'conveniently'), Goldberg Auction Rooms long ago went out of business and its records have vanished. Who consigned the painting to auction? How, and from whom, did they acquire it?
In September 1989, Mrs Cutler sold Russian Schoolroom to her long-time client, the film director Steven Spielberg, who is also an enthusiastic Rockwell collector. Nothing further emerged until 2004 when an unknown person alerted the FBI to the 1973 theft. The FBI staff were unaware at that time that the case had been effectively resolved in 1988 when Solomon consented to the auction. In 2007, one of Steven Spielberg's staff became aware that investigations were being conducted and contacted Judy Goffman Cutler.
Mrs Cutler then gave Steven Spielberg a Rockwell painting of comparable value and importance in order to remove him from the case and thereby save him the embarrassment. The Russian Schoolroom was placed into storage and Mrs Cutler and Solomon proceeded to argue their claims to title.
In April 2010, Judge Roger L. Hunt, presiding in the District Court for the District of Nevada, awarded title to Russian Schoolroomto Mrs Cutler.
Whether Mrs Cutler will succeed in her official complaint against Solomon and the ALR just filed in the Las Vegas Federal Court remains to be seen. However, one can understand how an honest art dealer who conducted extensive due diligence before acquiring a picture would seek recompense for the enormous sums subsequently expended in defending both her good title to the work in question and her reputation. At the very least the outcome of the case should act as a warning to all those who attach themselves to an illegitimate claim, either wilfully in order to acquire some prospective reward, or by failing to do their own due diligence into the parties involved.
As Julian Radcliffe, Chairman of the Art Loss Register himself commented recently with regard to another title dispute: "Anyone, including lawyers, who think that they can obtain rewards for the return of stolen art without providing full information on who had them and why, should be prosecuted."
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Selling patientsBMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b5201 (Published 14 December 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b5201
All rapid responses
I enjoyed the humour of Nugus et al's article (1), though it raises
some important points. Five months into my FY1 year, the most unexpected
difficulty encountered lies in inter-specialty cooperation. It is usually
very easy to obtain the assistance of physiotherapists, pharmacists,
occupational therapists and nursing colleges. Compare this to the
frequently found difficulties of getting a review from, or worse referring
to, a fellow doctor outside one's team.
Of course this reluctance is often understandable. The need to avoid
inappropriate referrals and to avoid adding more patients to an
overburdened service are important explainations for this resistance – as
is borne out by the authors' qualitative data. Perhaps mismatching views
of the proper role of the proposed destination specialty further explain
conflicts in referral. The referrer's over-broad view of the remit of the
specialty clashes with the more restrictive interests represented on the
other end of the phone.
Such conflicts are perhaps inevitable and I was naive to not
anticipate them. However, it may serve the interests of cooperation, and
more to the point patient care, to call to mind the position that your
colleague, on whichever side of the "sale", finds themselves in when
discussing referrals.
1. Nugus P, Bridges J, Braithwaite J. Selling Patients. BMJ
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Competing interests: No competing interests
The findings of "Selling Patients" by Nugus, Bridges and Braithwaite,
are good examples of how rhetoric is used in the practice of medicine.
Rhetoric, the art and the study of persuasion, is widely used in medical
practice on a daily basis. Doctors must persuade patients and their carers
that they know what they are doing and that their decisions are sound. As
the authors show, doctors must develop the skill to persuade colleagues.
What is often not well appreciated is that doctors must also persuade
themselves of the decisions they make. Despite the claims of medical
decision theory, doctors do not calculate diagnoses and management plans -
they persuade themselves. As Billig (1996) pointed out, what we call
thinking can be usefully thought of as an internal conversation in which
individuals will assess all the available facts and persuade themselves
one way or another. Rhetoric is an integral part of thinking. It is only
in recent years that we have begun to appreciate just how important
rhetoric is in many aspects of healthcare (Segal, 2005). Rhetoric is
especially important in the clinical reasoning that forms such a central
part of medical practice (Loftus & Higgs, 2008). Nugus, Bridges and
Braithwaite (half jestingly) suggest that we teach marketing techniques to
doctors. However, marketing techniques are themselves based on rhetoric.
If doctors do spend so much time persuading themselves and other people
then there is a very good case to integrate some basic rhetoric into the
medical curriculum.
Billig, M. (1996). Arguing and Thinking: a rhetorical approach to
social psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Loftus, S., & Higgs, J. (2008). Learning the language of clinical
reasoning. In J. Higgs, M. Jones, S. Loftus & C. Christensen (Eds.),
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions (3rd ed.). Edinburgh:
Segal, J. Z. (2005). Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press.
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Bridges Ventures, founded in 2002, is a specialist fund manager dedicated to sustainable and impact investment. As at December 2015, it has almost £600m in funds under management. Bridges Ventures focuses on opportunities where investments can generate investor returns through helping meet pressing social or environmental challenges, such as job creation in underserved markets or provision of environmentally friendly care homes for the elderly. Bridges Ventures is majority owned by its senior management team, who donate the equivalent of 10% of their own profits to the Bridges Charitable Trust (a minority shareholder of Bridges Ventures) for philanthropic activities.
Prevention of youth unemployment, preventing entry into care, supported adoption, therapeutic fostering, support for young homeless people, and social prescribing for patients with long-term conditions.
As at December 2015, the Fund has positively impacted approximately 10,000 beneficiaries to varying degrees. For example, some of their programs assist a comparatively low number of beneficiaries but at a deep and transformative level (e.g. finding a permanent adoptive family for a child), whereas other programs impact more beneficiaries with a lighter touch intervention (e.g. providing training or educational support to teenagers).
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- It's All About Me: Finding families for children who otherwise would not have a home across the UK, delivered by a number of organisations including Action for Children, Caritas Care and Adoption Matters.
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It was a cold, gray, wintry morning in Virginia. It was January, 10th, my birthday, and I thought an hour or so of bird watching would be a nice way to start my big day. The lighting wasn't good, there was a mist in the air, and I figured I wouldn't see much in the way of birds, but I knew I would enjoy the walk anyway.
My time was about up and even though I enjoyed the walk and the scenery, I was feeling a little down that I hadn't even taken one picture of a bird. So becoming a little frustrated, I thought I'd wander over to the nearby marina just to enjoy all of the boats, the reflections, and that feeling I get being by the water.
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I have many other scenes of Great Blue Herons I want to paint, but I knew I had to paint my birthday bird. He was just what I was looking for; a classic pose, in the water, with an overall tonal background. I wanted the painting to be mostly about the bird, but also to have his surroundings interesting without being distracting.
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How do you draw the attention of someone in the world of shortened attention spans? 18-year old artist Ben Salley tries to do so by making art that begs for the viewers' attention. He includes a lot of detail so people have to look at it for a while to really take it in. Check out his intricate work below and be sure to read or interview with Ben that follows.
Click any of the above images to open a gallery of Ben's work.
Describe your style of work.
I think my style of work relies on the intricacy of being everywhere. Most visual mediums are not given much more than a quick glance. As the worlds attention span is getting shorter, people enjoy to be gratified quickly hence the popularity of vine and social media. I work to create an art with an almost claustrophobic feeling so that the viewer's eyes are forced to travel around the paper instead of being able to take it in within seconds.
How long have you been making art?
I have been making art since I was a small child but it wasn't consistently my primary focus. I was interested (and still am) in many other things such as writing and reading, but I have now realized that art is what I want to pursue during my lifetime.
What mediums do you work in?
I work in whatever medium fits best, you know? Depending on the piece any medium could accentuate what the artist is trying to get across to the viewer. But currently, my favourite medium is a ballpoint pen as it is cheap, versatile, and feels good in the hand. I also enjoy India Ink, Photoshop, Colored Pencils, and Markers.
Describe your creative process.
I don't think I currently have a concrete one at the moment although I think about it quite a lot. Sometimes I will be walking or taking in some form of creative work like a novel or a movie and ideas will pop into my mind one after another. Of course, this is the best thing that can happen to a creative and I couldn't wait to get back to a piece of paper and put it down. But its never as easy as that, for perfectionism and anxieties come into play. So for now, my "creative process" is simply to be an artist, for myself of course, take in the world around me and hopefully be able to translate that into art. The absence of creative thoughts is definitely not fake but I can assure anyone that it'll last only as long as you don't go out and find inspiration. The world is too amazing to not be able to!
Who and what are your biggest influences?
My influences are constantly changing but some of them are Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Basquiat, David Bowie, Prince, Yung Lean, JVC Force, Nas, My Parents, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Mosse, James Jean, Vivian Maier, Tokyo Street Racing, Lil Tracy, George Condo, Rammellzee, Norm Macdonald, Hunter, Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Cobain, Elon Musk, and everything else in the world. I know that may seem like a lot but it's hard not to name at least that many.
What does art mean to you?
I don't really know what art means to me, not yet at least. One can't really talk about what art means to them, they can only talk around it. If you could explain it with words why would you bother to draw it? All I know is that I need it and I love it.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
In 5 years I see myself as a drifter in Tokyo, selling art on the street while I fill my life with sensations. Or something else, I really can't tell.