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Mumps is a viral infection. The infection causes fever and swelling of the parotid glands. These glands are located on the side of the face, near the ear. Because of the mumps vaccine, this condition is not as common as it once was in the United States.
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The virus is usually spread through contact with an infected person's saliva. The mumps virus spreads easily among people in close contact.
These factors increase your chance of developing mumps:
- Being unvaccinated and exposed to people who have mumps
- Being born after 1956 and never having mumps, or not being vaccinated after first birthday
- Age: 10-19 years
- Season: winter
- Having a weakened immune system, even if you have been vaccinated
About one-third of cases do not have symptoms. Symptoms often occur 2-3 weeks after exposure to the virus.
Mumps may cause:
- Painful swelling of the parotid glands
- Fever
- Discomfort
- Lack of appetite
- Sore throat
- Headache
- Stiff neck
- Nausea and vomiting
- Drowsiness
Other areas may also be affected, such as:
- Swelling and pain under the tongue, jaw, or front of the chest
- In males: painful inflammation of the testicles
- In females: inflammation of the ovaries, which results in pain or tenderness in the abdomen
There is no specific treatment for mumps. Viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics.
In general, mumps will last about 10-12 days. Try these comfort measures:
- Apply hot or cold compresses to swollen areas.
- Gargle with warm salt water to soothe a sore throat.
- Treat high fever with acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
- Drink plenty of liquids. Avoid tart or acidic drinks such as, orange juice or lemonade
- Eat a soft, bland diet.
Note: Do not give aspirin to children or teens with a current or recent viral infection. Check with your doctor before giving a child aspirin.
In most healthy children, complications are rare. When complications do occur, they include:
- Deafness, which may not be permanent
- Swelling or infection of the brain, pancreas, heart, or other organs
- Testicular inflammation
- Problems with male fertility
Getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent mumps. The vaccine contains live viruses that can no longer cause disease. The mumps vaccine is usually given in combination with:
- Measles and rubella vaccine (MMR)
- Measles, rubella and varicella (chicken pox) vaccine (MMRV)
The regular schedule for giving the vaccine is at age 12-15 months and again at age 4-6 years.
Ask your doctor if the vaccine is right for you. In general, avoid the vaccine if you:
- Have had severe allergic reactions to vaccines or vaccine components
- Are pregnant — Avoid pregnancy for 1-3 months after receiving the vaccine.
- Have a weakened immune system
- Have a high fever or severe upper respiratory tract infection
If you are not vaccinated, avoid contact with someone who has mumps. Discuss the benefits of vaccination with your doctor.
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Mitt Romney sought to downplay a comment he made during an interview on CNN on Wednesday, in which he said he's "not concerned about the very poor Romy claims the poor are taken care of, REALY, we beleive you. Soup lines, FEMA camps, stadium accomidations, tent citys, Ya Rom you care allright. The industrial revolution put the USA on top, then they sent industrys to foriegsn nation. Made in the USA was once a stamp of approval worldwide, not any more...Romney responds to 'very poor' criticism: 'My energy is gonna be devoted to helping middle income people, all right?'.
Is this not a perfect illustration of how corporate-whore Republicans continually give corporate-whore Democrats like Obama "left cover"?
Geo. Whats your take on this. First big industry went foriegn and the citizens wonder where the jobs went, 2.. Bailouts for banksters Wall streeters-insiders cashing in who obviously took part in the scheme, industry bailouts that haven't done squat for the working man, the Fed Reserve lackeys who are obviously beating their chest, the Pentagon and their MIC- no ceiling payoffs, Gov expansion- DHS-TSA-etc. I'm sure I missed a beat here, there is much more. NWO- (private) elites only club. The poor and struggling, I have a gut feeling the elites see us scoungers as totaly mornic,eaters, nothings, military cannon fodder, lab rats, body parts, zits on an old dogs behind, numbers to be diminished to a controllable number.
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March 12, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Direct and Agency-to-Agency Shipping of Formula
SUBJECT 2: Revised Procedures for Shipping Extra Formula from Agency to Agency
SUBJECT 3: Revised Breastfeeding Handout
SUBJECT 4: Workplace Support for Nursing Women
SUBJECT 5: Updated WIC/Breastfeeding Resource Supply Request form (WIC-8)
Direct and Agency-to-Agency Shipping: The State WIC Office would like to remind Local WIC provider staff about formulas requiring direct shipping or agency-to-agency shipping arrangements. As a reminder:
- Please call 800-392-8209 for formulas requiring direct ship or agency-to-agency shipping arrangement.
- The State office nutritionist will take direct ship calls until 4:00 p.m. All formula calls after 4:00 will be handled the following day.
- The most current WIC 27 must be scanned into MOWINS before a formula shipping order is made.
- Direct shipping orders should not be made until 3 weeks prior to first date to use on the participant FIs.
- Formula ordered through direct shipment or agency-to-agency shipping needs the shipping slip or WIC 80 scanned into MOWINS. When no other WIC foods are issued (this includes instances when the formula issued is from on hand stock), notify firstname.lastname@example.com to receive the participant count.
- Revised Procedures for Shipping Extra Formula from Agency to Agency: The REVISED following steps in shipping extra formula from Agency to Agency will be as follows:
A. State Office (Ellen Whittington) will go online to UPS and create a "RETURN SHIPMENT" label.
B. Once the label has been made, Ellen will also send a follow up call/email to the LWP.
C. LWP will no longer be "downloading" labels sent to you by the staff at the State Office. UPS will be bringing the label with them at the time they pick up the package.
D. If there are any questions or concerns please contact email@example.com for assistance.
UPS will attempt to pick up the package and put the label on it three times. After the third attempt, the procedure must start all over. There should not be any reason for failed attempts under this process.
- Revised Breastfeeding Handout: The handout titled, "Breastfeeding and Sore Nipples" has been revised and is located on the WIC website. This handout is only available for download. Feel free to print and share with breastfeeding mothers as needed. If you have any question about this handout or other breastfeeding materials that are available please contact Kathy Mertzlufft at 573-526-4792 or by email at email@example.com.
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Four people injured in U.S. 224 crash
Four people were injured when a minivan collided with a trailer being towed by a pickup Thursday afternoon on U.S. 224, east of Findlay, the Hancock County Sheriff's Office reported.
William Laugherty, 30, of Tiffin, the driver of the minivan, and his three passengers, Rhonda Laugherty, 30, Aubrey Laugherty, 2, and Morgan Guernsey, 6, were all taken to Blanchard Valley Hospital with non-incapacitating injuries, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office said Phillip Aretz, 39, of Findlay, was driving a Chevy pickup west on U.S. 224 near Biglick Township 255, and was towing a skid loader on a trailer. The frame broke on the trailer, the sheriff's office said, causing Aretz to lose control of the pickup and drive into the eastbound lane. The trailer was struck by an eastbound Dodge minivan driven by Laugherty about 4:27 p.m., the sheriff's office said.
Aretz and a passenger in the pickup, Jeff Warnimont, 46, of Rawson, were not injured, the sheriff's office said.
The accident remains under investigation.
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It's not uncommon for gamers to want to share their favorite video games with others. In fact, the viewing of other people's gameplay has all but turned into a spectator sport popularly known as "eSports". Currently, there is a small number of devices available to allow gamers to record or stream their gameplay footage; but none do it quite so well as the new Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition. Its quality and capabilities, though, come at a price.
Completely disagree about this doing the job. I put out $150 for it and it does a weird blinking with the passthrough. Makes playing games like CoD while capturing IMPOSSIBLE. The software included is also a joke and even on my "beast" of a computer (i7 3770K, 16GB RAM, GTX 670), it starts to lag the recording. Extremely displeased.
I wouldn't mind going for a HD capture device. Right now I'm using a SD BlitzBox and it's serving me really well. Almost no complaints, after a little setup.
Just a few more months and we'll never need capture cards again hopefully. I dipped into streaming for a solid month and it was the most hassle I've ever had with technology.
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(August 8, 2013) A national wine consumer group has slapped Michigan with a grade of "D" for the consumer-friendliness of state laws that reguate the sale and consumption of wine.
In a study released yesterday, The American Wine Consumer Coalition ranked Michigan 35th out of 51 states (including the District of Columbia).
The AWCC downgraded Michigan for laws that prohibit retailers from shipping wine to consumers, and prohibit restaurants from letting patrons carry in their own wines, with or without a corkage fee.
Michigan's "ban on allowing consumers to have wine shipped to them from wine retailers severely limits consumers' access to imported wines, hard to find wines and out of vintage wines," the AWCC report said.
The study evaluated each state's regulations for consumer-friendliness in six areas, listed in decreasing order of importance:
Weighting of the six areas was based on a 2011 survey of 1000 wine consumers.
"Eighty years after the end of Prohibition, consumers in numerous states still live under archaic laws that disregard their interests," said David White, president of the AWCC. "These laws harm consumers and enrich special-interest groups."
"Fortunately, there are several states—those that received an A+—where consumers can conveniently access the wines they want. These states can and should serve as examples for those that are failing, said White."
Wine-producing states California, Oregon and Virginia tied for top "A+" scores in the AWCC ranking. Others with "A" grades were Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska New Hampshire, Oregon, as well as the District of Columbia.
Utah, where the state controls wine distribution and prohibits sales on Sunday, was rated as the least wine-friendly state.
The entire report is available on the AWCC website.
Spot the difference between those two bottles?
Both are 2010 Pinot Grigio, sold by Bowers Harbor Vineyards on Old Mission Peninsula. The label on the left affirms that most of the grapes grew in "Michigan, USA".
The bottle on the right carries no geographic designation. But it's made from grapes that grew in Washington State, according to a winery employee.
This isn't something Michigan winery owners or winemakers are eager to discuss. Most of them built reputations on a commitment to locally-sourced grapes, frequently grown in their own vineyards. But sharply rising customer demand and shaky weather that's hammered yields for two straight vintages have forced some northern Michigan wineries to adjust their business strategy, at least short-term.
The adjustment: they're now buying out-of-state grapes, juice and pre-made wines to augment shrunken in-state supplies.
At Old Mission's Brys Estate, long a strong proponent of estate-grown wines, operations manager Patrick Brys lays out the stark facts.
"We had two bad years back-to-back, 2009 and 2010," Brys said. "In 2010, the grapes were wonderful but the crop was down 40% because of a frost on Mother's Day."
An unusually cool summer the preceding year, in 2009, forced growers to reduce yields and left many wineries unable to ripen grapes sufficiently to make satisfactory wine, especially the later-harvested red varietals.
But if crop yields are down, demand is up -- way up. On Saturday, October 8, over 1000 tasters jammed Brys Estate for its annual Harvest Celebration, a 67% increase from last year. Patrick Brys called it "our most successful day ever."
The result?
"Last winter, we closed the tasting room doors from December 1 to April 1, because we didn't have wine to sell," Brys said. "No business can continue to do that."
Dan Berger, of Santa Rosa, California, is one of America's leading independent wine journalists. Head of California's Riverside International Wine Competiton and prime mover behind the Riesling Sweetness scale, he publishes the weekly Vintage Experiences newsletter.
He wrote this piece for that newsletter after judging at the Michigan Wine Competition. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how a well-informed, objective outsider views Michigan wines and their position in the larger wine world. Reprinted by permission; the original can be viewed here. --JG
LANSING, Mich.--A lot can go through your mind when you're judging regional wines, as I did this past Monday here.
The Michigan Wine and Spirits competition has been staged for decades, and only in the last few years has the event displayed the sort of quality about which the wine makers here have been crowing for decades.
The early praise wasn't unwarranted. There were flashes of brilliance as long ago as the late '90s, when I first visited. Former colleague and long-time friend Christopher Cook exposed me to Michigan's vinous hospitality back then and I saw huge potential.
Problem was that almost none of this was available to the American public. Bottles could all have been labeled "Sold in Michigan only," a horrid situation that exists to this day, exacerbated by the state's antediluvian shipping regulations. Even if you know about the superb Rieslings, Pinot Gris and other wines, you'd have to travel to Michigan to get them.
Even then, finding them here is well nigh impossible. Michiganders routinely disparage Michigan wine.
Little has changed since I last visited the Boskydel Vineyards tasting room. But that was 1984, and much has changed in Leelanau winemaking over the intervening 25 years.
Owner and winemaker Bernie Rink, 83, is a bit stooped these days, and fights a tremor when he pours your samples. He is affectionately known as the "Wine Nazi" (after Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi") because he allows no nonsense on the premises. When more than eight people arrive in his tiny tasting room, he starts to shoo them away.
Early results from an experiment by Chateau Margaux's Paul Pontallier indicate that screwcaps may age red wine better than natural cork -- plus eliminate any risk of corked bottles, as reported in The Drinks Business.
The 2011-2 mild weather was healthy for Michigan's vineyards, but it's played havoc with state winemakers who leave grapes on the vine in hopes that they'll freeze for the production of icewine, reports AP writer John Flesher.
Recently-deceased Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was a wine geek (and reputed alcoholic) with a 10,000-bottle cellar, according to ex-Slate wine columnist Mike Steinberger. Kim earlier gave up Hennessy Cognac on doctor's orders.
Warming climate may help cooler grape-growing regions -- like England -- but could damage places like Napa, writes jounalist John McQuaid in Yale's environmental magazine.
Western Farm Press reports that Cornell Prof Miguel Gomez is studying how smaller wineries can jointly create a successful cool-climate wine region. He'll look at emerging areas in Michigan, New York and Missouri.
Here's one for some Michigan entrepreneur to try! A just-opened Long Island outlet mall store will sell nothing but New York State wines. Starting inventory at Empire State Cellars: 400 labels from 150 wineries.
Want a refresher about Michigan wine history and potential? Get a quick two page cheat-sheet by Layne Cameron in Western Farm Press, and make some allowances for the MSU-centricity (the author's employer).
Links to wine news from Michigan and elsewhere. Use the Contact Form to let us know what should be here.
New York wine writers Lenn Thompson and Evan Dawson won't judge at wine competitions, and urge other journalists to follow suit. The complaints are valid -- but their prescription doesn't work for states like Michigan.
Michigan's consumer-unfriendly laws make most BYO illegal. So publicizing places that quietly allow it doesn't necessarily do them any favors.
Ode to the Leelanau Winemaking pioneer Larry Mawby pens a poem about his home
The South Will Rise! Wyncroft's Jim Lester likes his region's future


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Oregon trucker who killed women now free in McMinnville
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Friday afternoon, Scott William Cox was released to the Yamhill County Jail; Saturday morning he woke up as a free man for the first time in 20 years. Since he has no home, no job and no family in the area, he remains at the county jail from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. each night. During the day he is free, but monitored.
Cox wears a GPS device allowing law enforcement to monitor his whereabouts. Saturday, he walked throughout downtown McMinnville and north along Baker Street, twice walking along the edges of areas he cannot enter such as City Park.
Cox was released to Yamhill County because he lived in Newberg when convicted. He is out of prison five years early, must remain on probation for life, and still is considered dangerous by some law enforcement officials.
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PORTLAND — An Oregon man who was convicted of two murders in the 1990s and is a person of interest in other killings is set to be released from prison in two weeks.
Scott William Cox, 49, will return to Yamhill County for post-prison supervision after his Feb. 22 release, the Department of Corrections said Thursday afternoon.
The long-haul truck driver pleaded no contest in 1993 to two counts of murder. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison but is leaving early because of good behavior and credit for time served in a county jail before his conviction, agency spokeswoman Liz Craig said.
Cox was convicted before the state passed tougher sentencing laws.
He was charged with fatally stabbing 34-year-old Reena Ann Brunson outside a northeast Portland grocery store in November 1990 and strangling 32-year-old Victoria Rhone at a Portland rail yard in February 1991. Both women were prostitutes.
Reena Brunson's mother told KPTV she he had not been told of Cox's impending release and declined further comment. There was no answer at her phone number Thursday afternoon.
At the time of his arrest, police agencies in cities along his routes examined the unsolved deaths of young women who frequented truck stops. The trucker had been in cities where 20 similar crimes occurred.
"There's a lot more than just that 20, but those look like the ones that we can do something with," Newberg, Ore., police Detective Ken Summers told The Associated Press in 1992.
Police in Mountlake Terrace, Wash., told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003 that they considered Cox the only suspect in the 1990 slaying of a young woman.
Cox was never charged with any additional crimes.
Yamhill County sheriff's Capt. Tim Svenson said advances in DNA testing might help investigators connect Cox to unsolved cold cases. He said local detectives have already been in contact with law enforcement agencies in California, alerting them that Cox is getting out.
Before his arrest, Cox was living in a Newberg motel when not on the road. He will be returned to that county for his post-prison supervision.
Because Cox has no job or place to go, he will initially be housed in a barracks-type setting at the jail. Cox will be able to leave in the morning but must return at a certain time each night, and he's forbidden from crossing the county line.
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By Adam Reilly
Yes, it's all very, very confusing. It's also been a lot of fun to watch. Until Loscocco bailed out a week and a half ago, the 2010 governor's race had been kind of a snoozer. No candidate was generating the sort of excitement Patrick created four years ago. What's more, there was a distinct lack of the inside-baseball drama that marked the entire '06 campaign. (Remember Marie St. Fleur's LG bid? How about Killer Coke-gate?) Now, all of a sudden, the 2010 race is making 2006 look downright sedate. But how will the wackiness of the past week affect the campaign?
Let's start by considering Friday's Loscocco missive. If the charges leveled by Loscocco are legit, and Cahill embraced a spoiler role in order to get Patrick re-elected -- well, that's a bombshell that could conceivably clinch this thing for Baker. (Among other things, the implied coordination between the DGA and the Patrick campaign would be illegal.)
At this point, though, it's hard to take Loscocco's claims seriously. When Loscocco explained his defection at Baker's HQ eight days ago, there wasn't a single reference to dastardly coordination between Cahill, Patrick and the DGA. Instead, Loscocco's comments were pretty bland: Cahill and I made our case to voters, they didn't buy it, and now anyone who supports Cahill risks getting Patrick re-elected. Fast forward a week and Loscocco's telling us that he jumped ship after discovering an incredibly Machiavellian political plot. If so, why didn't he mention that in the first place? (I asked a Loscocco spokesman about this strange omission/delay, but still haven't heard back.)
Meanwhile, Loscocco's defection -- which seemed like a total coup for Baker a week or so ago -- suddenly looks like the worst thing that could have happened to the GOP candidate's campaign. Baker should be making his final case to voters right now; instead, he has to talk about Loscocco-gate and what he did or didn't know. And the story isn't going away. In fact, when the parties return to court next Wednesday, it could get even bigger. If I'm Baker, I'm wishing that October 1 presser never happened.
And Cahill? As Greater Boston's Beat the Press noted on Friday, Cahill was the beneficiary of some major media love after Loscocco jumped ship. But I'm skeptical that the press's sympathy -- and any similar pity from the electorate -- are going to put Cahill in a position to actually win this thing. The last Rasmussen poll had Cahill down around 6 percent among likely voters; meanwhile, Patrick was pushing fifty and Baker was just a few points behind. Even taking Rasmussen's pro-GOP leanings into account, that's an incredible amount of ground to make up. What's more, even if Cahill was wronged by his running mate and ex-staffers -- and the email trail suggests that he was -- his campaign is still plagued by some serious intellectual inconsistencies. Those aren't going away.
Meanwhile, the governor can be forgiven if he's feeling like Fate's chosen candidate. My former Boston Phoenix colleague David Bernstein recently noted how odd it is that Patrick has any hope of victory at all. But now, as his opponents and their surrogates trade barbs over this bizarre political subplot and the media covers every new twist and turn, Patrick can take the high road, talking up his administration's accomplishments and offering a demure "no comment" when he's asked about the Loscocco freak show.
At first, Patrick didn't seem to realize that was the way to go. Instead, the governor seemed inclined to play it cute: he told the press about a slightly unctious consolation call he'd paid to Cahill, for example, and also called Loscocco's defection "tacky." But now, it seemed, someone has convinced the governor to pipe down and keep his distance. That's a smart shift. The longer Loscocco-gate goes on -- and the longer Patrick can stay out of the story -- the better his chances of re-election become.
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* All eyes on when quantitative easing program will end
* U.S. central bank could taper asset purchases - Lockhart
* Lockhart raises concern over large Fed presence in markets
By Jonathan Spicer
* All eyes on when quantitative easing program will end
* U.S. central bank could taper asset purchases - Lockhart
* Lockhart raises concern over large Fed presence in markets
By Jonathan Spicer
NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will very
likely need to continue its large-scale asset purchases into the
second half of this year, since a big improvement in the U.S.
labor market is unlikely to have happened by then, a top central
bank official said on Thursday.
"My own sense of this is that it is probably going to be a
struggle to see by mid-year a clear indication that the outlook
for the labor markets are in a new phase, and it's quite
optimistic," Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said at a
conference hosted by Bloomberg.
"So I would tend to believe that this bond purchasing will
need to continue longer into the year," he added. "Whether it
goes beyond that, I think, is a question that the (Fed policy)
committee will take up in trying to weigh efficacy, costs and
To speed up the tepid U.S. economic recovery, the Fed is
buying $45 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds and an
additional $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities per month
under its quantitative easing program, dubbed QE3.
Lockhart, a centrist monetary policymaker who does not vote
on policy this year, later told reporters the Fed could taper
its bond buying, and could also selectively reduce purchases of
either Treasuries or MBS, when the time finally comes.
Investors are intensely focused on when QE3 might come to an
Minutes from the Fed's December meeting revealed that
several policymakers expected to stop or slow the purchases well
before the end of this year, yet Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and
other U.S. policymakers have said any decision will depend on
how well the economy is doing.
Lockhart said he cannot see where a strong acceleration of
growth would come from this year that could push U.S. economic
expansion beyond his 2 to 2.5 percent forecast.
Meanwhile, the central bank's balance sheet has more than
tripled to nearly $3 trillion since the financial crisis, as the
Fed's presence has grown in bond markets. U.S. Treasuries
touched a record high last year in large part due to the
Lockhart cautioned that the more the Fed's balance sheet
swells, the more the potential for unanticipated outcomes,
including the possibility that banks could retreat from markets.
"When a party (the Fed) is in control of such a large part
of the market, maybe it doesn't make sense for individual
institutions to deploy people and resources to participate in
that market," he suggested.
"Over a long period of time, you'd have to be concerned that
everyone who has got a Treasuries desk or a mortgage-backed
securities desk is beginning to wonder whether it makes sense to
continue to have that number of people on the desk," Lockhart
told the conference.
"You could lose over a period of time the real human
infrastructure it takes to have free markets in these
securities," he added.
Still, Lockhart said he was "very comfortable" that the Fed
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AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts coach Derek Kellogg is going to have to keep coming up with new phrases if his team continues to rally.
Three days after overcoming a late deficit, Trey Davis rebounded from a poor shooting game by nailing a pair of key baskets in the closing two minutes as the No. 19 Minutemen stormed back for a 73-68 win over St. Bonaventure on Saturday.
After UMass overcame a late nine-point deficit for a win against Saint Joseph's on Wednesday, Kellogg praised his team's "will to win."
"I think we might stick with that one," he said, smiling as he headed out to get ready for the school's annual alumni game. "It was more gut-check time tonight. (St. Bonaventure) really had everything going. They had the flow they wanted and were playing really well. I thought our guys had to really dig down inside and make some plays."
Raphiael Putney led the Minutemen (14-1, 2-0 Atlantic-10) with 17 points and eight rebounds. Cady Lalanne scored 16 and Davis finished with eight.
UMass point guard Chaz Williams, the team's leading scorer, missed 6 of 7 shots and finished with eight points and nine assists.
"We're trying to stand our ground as much as possible and be ready for whatever is thrown at us," Williams said. "We know it's not going to be easy. Today we got down on ourselves early and had to play comeback. That's not how we want to play, but, fortunately, an ugly win is a great win."
Charlon Kloof led St. Bonaventure (11-5, 1-1) with 15 points and seven assists, and Youssou Ndoye scored 11.
The Bonnies lost their 23rd straight game against a ranked team, with the last win coming against then-No. 20 Temple on Jan. 15, 2000.
"I think we did a lot of the things we wanted to do. I thought we did a good job on Williams and competed on the backboard," Bonnies coach Mark Schmidt said. "The thing that hurt us was turnovers. We wanted to keep it under 12 and we had 20. Against UMass, out on the open court, that's what hurts you."
With UMass trailing by four, Davis, who missed eight of his initial nine shots in the game, banked in a shot off a drive down the lane and nailed a long 3, pushing the Minutemen ahead 69-68 with 1:12 to play.
Williams hit two free throws with 10 seconds left and Putney sealed it with one from the line.
UMass trailed by 13 with just under 10 minutes to play and the Bonnies became conservative offensively, running the shot clock down before taking tough long-range jumpers over the next few minutes.
"I think their initial game plan was let's attack the press. They do a good job against us," Kellogg said. "At the end, I think they were a little apprehensive of which way they wanted to go with it."
Despite his shooting woes, Williams started to take control, setting up Putney and Lalanne for easy baskets during a 12-3 run that closed it to 63-59 on Putney's short bank shot with 4:53 to go.
St. Bonaventure maintained a two-possession lead until Putney's conventional 3-point play narrowed it to 67-64 with 2:42 to play. Ndoye had a free throw for the Bonnies before Davis hit his two baskets.
The Minutemen entered the week with their highest ranking in the AP Top 25 since 1998.
The Bonnies, who led by seven at the half, scored 11 of the initial 16 points in the second half, taking a 43-30 lead on Matthew Wright's short jumper in the lane with 16 1/2 minutes to play.
Sampson Carter scored consecutive baskets for the Minutemen, the second shot a 3-pointer that closed it to eight. But St. Bonaventure went on an 11-6 spree, opening it to 54-41 on Kloof's back-to-back foul-line jumpers with just over 12 minutes left.
In the first half, both teams started slowly in an opening few minutes filled with sloppy passing, bad ball handling and poor outside shooting before the Bonnies went on an 11-1 run late in the half en route to their 32-25 edge at intermission.
Late in the half, the Minutemen had as many turnovers (13) as missed shots (5 of 18).
Kloof started St. Bonaventure's run by splitting UMass' fullcourt press and driving down the middle for a layup. He added a pair of free throws in the spree before Jordan Gathers capped it with a 3-pointer from the right wing.
UMass went nearly seven minutes with a field goal late in the half, but went to the locker room with a bit of momentum after Carter nailed a 3 at the buzzer.


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The Poteau Lady Pirates won last year's LeFlore County Fast-Pitch Tournament, and they have only lost once so far this fall season.Based upon those facts, the Lady Pirates were named the top seed for this season's LeFlore County Tournament, which will be Sept. 12-15 at the Poteau Area Recreational Complex.Four teams received byes into the winner's-bracket quarterfinals. Along with Poteau, getting byes were second-seed Spiro, third-seed Panama and fourth-seed Panama.As last year, there will only be 12 teams in the field, instead of the usual 13 — but there is a change.Last year, Arkoma did not have enough girls to have a high school team. Now that the eighth-graders are freshmen, the Lady Mustangs are back in the tournament field.However, this year, it's the Cameron Lady Yellowjackets who don't have the numbers.The Lady 'Jackets have yet to play a game this fall because of lack of players.Rounding out the final eight seeds are No. 5 Talihina (which has not played softball for about two weeks because of lack of players, partly caused by a player's injury), No. 6 Wister, No. 7 Howe, No. 8 Pocola, No. 9 Whitesboro, No. 10 Arkoma, No. 11 Bokoshe and No. 12 Leflore.


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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 06, 2013
The Mount Sinai Hospital is pleased to announce leading cardiac surgeon, Allan S. Stewart, MD, has been appointed Director of Aortic Surgery and Co-Director of the Valve Center in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Stewart joins Mount Sinai from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
"We are excited that Dr. Stewart has joined our team at Mount Sinai to lead and expand our Aortic Surgery program," says David H. Adams, MD, the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "Dr. Stewart is recognized for his technical skills and innovations in aortic surgery, and is an important addition to our already outstanding heart valve team."
"With the birth of the new Mount Sinai Health System it is a very exciting time for me to join Mount Sinai Hospital, steeped in such history and expertise in heart surgery," said Dr. Allan S. Stewart, who will also serve as Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "I look forward to partnering with Dr. David Adams, a world leader in the field of cardiac surgery, and the premier team at Mount Sinai Heart, to bring greater innovation to our patients with aortic disease."
As an experienced cardiac surgeon, Dr. Stewart has performed more than 2,000 combined elective and emergency procedures in his career, including 1,000 heart valve operations. He specializes in the treatment of aortic valve disease through surgical aortic valve repair, aortic reconstruction, aortic valve-sparing surgery, aortic root replacement, aortic aneurysm repair, aortic dissection, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, and mechanical aortic valve replacement. Additionally, his clinical research focuses on creating and testing novel treatments and technologies for aortic valve repair and patient mechanical circulatory management during complex aortic surgery. He has published approximately 30 peer-reviewed research publications.
As a heart surgeon, Dr. Stewart's goal is always to develop new ways to treat structural heart disease more minimally invasively, while increasing patient survival, improving patient outcomes, delivering more long-lasting, durable surgical results, while decreasing overall costs. Dr. Stewart pioneered a novel technique in stentless biological aortic root replacement. Also, Dr. Stewart developed a novel hybrid endovascular procedure for minimally invasively performing aortic repair, aortic replacement, and treating complex aortic aneurysms.
Since 2005, Dr. Stewart has served as the Director of the Aortic Surgery Program and attending surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Also, his fellowship training was completed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. He completed his internship training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. At the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine Dr. Stewart received his medical degree.
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Since 2011, Dr. Stewart has been listed by Castle Connolly, Ltd. as one of "America's Top Doctors" and "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area," and also as one of New York Magazine's "Best Doctors." In addition to his accolades, Dr. Stewart is an avid marathon runner and tri-athlete.
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"I just want to say," I said as the meeting closed, "that we have sat here and consistently called books by women small and books by men large, by no quantifiable metric, and we are giving awards to books I think are actually kind of amateur and sloppy compared to others, and I think it's disgusting." (I wasn't built for the board room.) "But we can't be doing it because we're sexist," an estimable colleague replied huffily. "After all, we're both men and women here."(Be sure to read the whole essay; it's a smart and sharp attack on a problem that we should be past at this point.)
But that's the problem with sexism. It doesn't happen because people -- male or female -- think women suck. It happens for the same reason a sommelier always pours a little more in a man's wine glass (check it!), or that that big, hearty man in the suit seems like he'd be a better manager. It's not that women shouldn't be up for the big awards. It's just that when it comes down to the wire, we just kinda feel like men . . . I don't know . . . deserve them.
The good people at Publisher's Weekly are probably speaking what they think is the truth when they say, about their all-male list of 10 "best" books of the year, that "We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz." I believe them when they say, "It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male."
But being disturbed is not enough. What they have done is shameful.
This is not just some blogger's list of favorite books of the year. This is the publishing industry's trade journal telling the world what ten books from 2009 deserve most acclaim and attention. This list will affect how books are stocked in stores and it will affect what books are bought by libraries. The fact that the list only includes male writers contributes to a problem.
The editors who created this list have chosen to perpetuate sexism. They have deliberately and knowingly made it easier for male writers to have access to sales and publicity at the expense of women writers. Their list perpetuates the idea that the best, most serious, and most consequential books are written by men, and that idea will continue to have an effect out in the world.
Our society has made plenty of great strides over the past centuries and decades in terms of reducing institutional sexism, but moments such as this highlight just how entrenched the patriarchy is. Yes, patriarchy. Male dominated, male identified, male centered. It's insidious, and it is self perpetuating.
There is no objective, essential "best". There is stuff we like and stuff we don't -- texts we have developed techniques for appreciating and texts that we do not, for myriad reasons, appreciate. There are texts about which we have built large critical apparatuses for justifying as "great". Perceptions of gender, race, sexuality, class, and other broad social categories mix with our experiences as readers, our educations, etc., to produce the judgments we make. Though we may struggle to create vivid and convincing justifications for our judgments, there are still mysteries to any evaluation that strives for nuance. But even so, we can expand our awareness, question our gut instincts, analyze our justifications, wonder why we are doing what we do and saying what we say. To assume that we can simply "not pay attention" to some of the central forces structuring our perception of reality is naive. We might be powerless to change them, but we might also be in a position to avoid perpetuating them and adding strength to them. We don't have any choice about whether the society we're born into is racist, sexist, heterosexist, whatever. But we do have some choice about how we relate to that society, how we work within it, what we pay attention to, and how we choose to make our choices.
I'm not ranting from a position of innocence -- most of the writers I most deeply value are men (many of whom are white, middle class, born within the last 150 years, and not from the U.S.). I have some hunches for why this is, hunches related to early reading experiences, prejudices about language and its relationship to reality, etc. Personal taste and judgment are too complex to explain simply or conclusively. Individual readers are strange creatures, full of prejudices and whims and blind spots and allergies. Individually, I expect there are weird particulars other than race, class, and gender that affect our taste more profoundly, more forcefully than those social categories themselves (if those social categories could ever be isolated, which I am skeptical of anyway -- any discussion of them is provisional and strategic). But when we move beyond the individual, as lists try to do, we're moving into the realm of systems and social structures -- means of distribution and consumption, gravitational forces that shape and warp how we talk about the realities we perceive, the tides we choose to sail with or against. And that talk itself then goes on to shape some more realities and turn some tides.
All of which is just me noodling around and trying to say the same basic thing: An institution with the power of Publisher's Weekly has more responsibility than an individual has, because the power that institution wields is greater than the power of most individuals (certain folks like Oprah excepted, although I can imagine people could argue that "Oprah" should be considered more of an institution than an individual).
Or, more basically, what I said above: The editors at Publisher's Weekly should be more than disturbed. They should be ashamed.
Here's a book to add to a best of the year list: A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter. I've got plenty of quibbles with the book, especially Showalter's dismissive attitude toward Gertrude Stein, but I'm also finding it (still reading; it's big) a rich source of information and delight. I've already begun seeking out writers I hadn't heard of until reading Showalter, and revisiting ones I had not paid enough attention to. Check out Katha Pollitt's review of Showalter at Slate or Rebecca Hussey's at The Quarterly Conversation or Sarah Churchwell's at The Guardian or Susan Salter Reynolds's at The L.A. Times.
Or watch Sarah Nelson, former editor-in-chief of Publisher's Weekly, interview Showalter.
I haven't read nearly as many books published this year as the editors at PW have, but I'm perfectly happy to propose A Jury of Her Peers as the best book of the year on a single criterion: It's the book we, the litterateurs and taste proclaimers, seem to need the most.


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Tour of Homes is this weekend, too
The annual Lewiston Christmas Walk, hosted by the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce, is taking place this weekend and next in the Village of Lewiston.
Thousands come to Lewiston each year to welcome Santa, observe the lighting of the Christmas tree, visit the beautifully decorated storefronts on Center Street, and enjoy the charm and unique character of the village.
One of the highlights of the Christmas Walk is Santa's arrival by helicopter, sponsored by Rainbow Air. He'll fly into Academy Park on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 11:30 a.m. (weather permitting). This holiday event has grown into something the community and retailers look forward to every year.
Center Street will be alive with musicians and carolers on Saturday and Sunday, both outside and inside various businesses.
Check out the Niagara University carolers and WNIA Radio from 10 a.m. until noon Saturday, Dec. 1, outside of Mangia Café & Bakery on Center Street.
Also on Saturday, Stu Stu Studio Photography will be available to take each guest's picture with Santa from noon until 4 p.m. at the "Lewiston Wintergarden" (aka The Binational Peace Garden). Digital downloads of images will be available for purchase for $3 each.
Also, stop by the Stu Stu Studio table to enter its raffle for a chance to win a family portrait session (a $175 value). Gift certificates will also be available for purchase.
New this year, on Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9, Santa Claus will greet children from noon until 3 p.m. in the "Lewiston Wintergarden."
Take a look at the Santa when you see him. He just might resemble a familiar elected official in Lewiston.
Also, visit the petting zoo outside of The Country Doctor on Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m. This feature is sponsored by Ellicott Development.
Don't forget, the Town of Lewiston's ice rink will be open at Academy Park; Santa will receive letters via special mailboxes outside of Angel to Apple and Town Hall American Bistro on Center Street; and Lewiston retailers will offer special sales throughout the month.
For an updated listing of activities, visit www.NiagaraRiverRegion.com or call 716-754-9500.
Find more holiday news, events and photos at www.wnypapers.com.
•The Historical Association of Lewiston's eighth annual Tour of Homes is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at select addresses in Lewiston.
The theme for the 2012 Tour of Homes is "A Town and Country Christmas." It will feature six homes, each dressed in holiday finery by Western New York's most notable designers and retailers. Each home will also feature at least two tablescapes offering holiday decorating ideas.
Participating decorators include Vanderpool: design; RTM Design and Interiors; Sophia Smith; Canterbury Place; Melissa Morinello; Le Creuset; Soft Inspirations; Patricia's Back Barn; Summertime Blooms; Richard Nashwinter; Ob's Paper Barn; Accentric; The Country Doctor; and A-1 Land Care Inc.
Tour of Homes ticketholders are invited to attend a dessert sampling and cocktail reception from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa. Desserts will be provided by DiCamillo Bakery and the Village Bake Shoppe, with "poinsettia cocktails" compliments of Supermarket Liquors & Wines and Wegmans - Niagara Falls.
The Tour of Homes is self-guided. Trolley service for ticketholders will be available from the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa, compliments of Great Lakes Real Estate.
For more information, visit www.LewistonHomeTour.com.


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SOURCE: Wyndham Worldwide
May 02, 2014 11:00 ET
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwired - May 2, 2014) - Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN), one of the world's largest hospitality companies, was once again named among the Best Places to Work in New Jersey by NJBIZ. This is the fifth consecutive year that the Company has been named to the list. The annual survey honors the top places of employment in New Jersey that benefit the state's economy, its workforce and businesses.
"Receiving this recognition is a tremendous honor and reflection of our associates who are highly engaged in our values and our mission. This is an important achievement and point of pride for us as it acknowledges the unique culture built by them," said Mary Falvey, executive vice president and chief human resources officer, Wyndham Worldwide. "In order to remain a successful company, industry leader and a great employer, it is essential that our associates feel that the Company provides a supportive environment for them to advance personally and professionally."
With a diverse workforce consisting of different values, attitudes, expectations, needs, and motivations, the Company recognizes that a one-size-fits-all approach isn't right for its employees, and offers a flexible environment to pursue their interests, create a personalized career path, including customized schedules and Associate Business Groups designed for employees to engage in the business expansion process, and networking and affiliation with colleagues across the Company that share common interests and experiences. Additionally, Wyndham Worldwide offers a variety of personal and professional development programs like mentoring and networking events and the flexibility to move throughout the organization to pursue areas of interest.
In addition to offering employees a wide variety of exciting and challenging opportunities to explore and develop their personal and professional potential, Wyndham Worldwide is committed to helping associates achieve a work/life balance through a variety of programs that focus on the health and wellness of the body, mind and spirit. Programs include an on-site, full-time nurse practitioner, a no-cost, on-site fitness center that is open 24/7, allowing associates to utilize it at times that best fit their schedules, no-cost flu shots and a corporate mammography service in coordination with a local medical center's breast center.
As part of its people-focused culture, the Company also offers many family-friendly benefits, including a variety of personal, on-site services such as car wash/detailing, a credit union, a shoe shine service, dry cleaning, an on-site store for basic items, free shuttle service to/from a local train station, a barista serving Starbucks and a cafeteria. Additionally, the Company hosts employee functions and celebrations including, a Kid's Day, a Halloween celebration, a summer picnic, and a holiday party.
"We value our associates for their unique talents, attributes and personalities that they bring to their individual roles and to the overall company culture," said Falvey. "Through the programs and services we offer to support our associates, both at work and at home, we aim to provide great experiences for our team so they can provide great experiences for our customers around the world."
Produced by NJBIZ and managed by Best Companies Group (BCG), the survey included evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics in addition to an associate survey to measure associate experience. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking.
About Wyndham Worldwide
One of the world's largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) provides a wide range of hospitality products and services through its global portfolio of world-renowned brands. The world's largest hotel company based on the number of properties, Wyndham Hotel Group is home to many of the world's best-known hotel brands, with approximately 7,500 franchised hotels and 646,900 hotel rooms worldwide. Wyndham Exchange & Rentals is the worldwide leader in vacation exchange and the world's largest professionally managed vacation rentals business, providing more than 5 million leisure-bound families annually with access to over 107,000 vacation properties in over 100 countries through its prominent exchange and vacation rental brands. The industry and timeshare ownership market leader, Wyndham Vacation Ownership develops, markets, and sells vacation ownership interests and provides consumer financing to owners through its network of over 190 vacation ownership resorts serving approximately 907,000 owners throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Based in Parsippany, NJ, Wyndham Worldwide employs approximately 32,800 associates globally.
For more information, please visit www.wyndhamworldwide.com.
Stacy Dixson
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October 30, 1998
To: Deans, Chairs, Directors and Administrative
From: President Robert L. Caret
Subject: Approval of Travel Request and Delegation of Authority
The attached CSU Executive Order, No. 688, delegates to each campus President the authority to approve out-of-state and in-state travel requests.
By this Presidential Directive, I am sub-delegating the authority to approve out-of-state and in-state travel requests on this campus to the appropriate Dean, or Vice President.
International travel must be approved by the Provost or Vice President for the employee's unit.
These authorizations may not be sub-delegated further.
Please note that the criteria for travel requests has been expanded to include trips that relate directly to campus programs, including development activities.
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The California State University
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Long Beach, California 90802-4275
Date: September 16, 1998
To CSU Presidents
From: Chancellor Charles B. Reed
Subject: Delegation of Authority Approval of Travel
Supersedes: Executive Order No. 156
I am transmitting a copy of Executive Order No. 688 which delegates authority to each president to sub-delegate authority to approve out-of-state and in-state travel requests.
Executive Order No. 688 changes Executive Order No. 156 as follows:
- The authority of presidents to sub-delegate authority is not limited to delegation to a single officer at the vice president or dean level.
- Only international travel for presidents needs to be approved by the chancellor or the executive vice chancellor in advance, not domestic travel.
- Criteria for travel requests have been expanded to include trips that relate directly to campus programs including development activities and objectives.
- Presidents no longer need to certify to the chancellor actions taken with respect to campus travel requests. In accordance with the policy of The California State University, the campus president has the responsibility for implementing Executive Orders where applicable and for maintaining the campus repository and index for all Executive Orders.
Vice Presidents, Academic Affairs
Presidents, Administration
Chancellor's Office Staff
Attachment #2
The California State University
Office of the Chancellor
400 Golden Shore
Long Beach, California 90802-4275
(562) 985-2800
Executive Order No. 688
Title: Delegation of Authority - Approval of
Travel Requests
Effective Date: September 16; 1998
Supersedes: Executive Order No. 156
This Executive Order is issued pursuant to Education Code Section 89753(c) and Standing Orders of the Board of Trustees Chapter III, Sections No. 2 and 4-e. It supersedes Executive Order No. 156 which delegated authority to the presidents of The California State University to approve out-of-state and in-state travel requests for campus personnel. Effective this date, the president may further sub-delegate authority to approve these transactions. Actions taken by the president or designees are subject to the following requirements:
- Presidents' international travel must be approved prior to departure by either the chancellor or the executive vice chancellor. Presidents' domestic travel need not be submitted for approval.
- If the president sub-delegates authority to approve in-state and out-of-state travel requests, the president shall remain responsible for approval of the travel.
- At least one of the following criteria shall apply in
approving requests:
- A trip is certified by the president or designees to be essential to campus operations;
- The trip relates directly to campus programs including development activities and objectives;
- The trip is to a meeting of a professional association or society to deliver a paper, to serve as moderator or group leader, to serve on a panel, or to fulfill obligations as an association or society officer,
- The trip' has as its primary purpose recruitment of faculty and administrative personnel.
- The travel must conform to the requirements of the law including, but not limited to, the rules and policies of the Trustees of The California State University.
Date: September 16, 1998
Chancellor Charles B. Reed


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For the first few days of his trial, Whitey Bulger had been sitting at the defendant's table wearing bad clothes and a blank expression. He looked like some guy waiting for a bus at South Station.
But on Friday he smiled. He smiled at Dickie O'Brien, a bookie he used to shake down.
Dickie is 84 now and arrived at the federal courthouse in a wheelchair. But he still has his fastball and told some great stories, stories that even made Whitey smile.
Dickie grew up in Quincy and his dad was a bookie, so he was a bookie. Father and son had an office in the South End, and they had a team of agents who took bets all over town. But the guy they used to lay off their bets to got pinched and sent to prison, so a buddy told Dickie O'Brien to go see one Raymond L.S. Patriarca in Providence.
Patriarca was the head of the New England faction of that fine fraternal organization known as La Cosa Nostra, more commonly the Mafia.
"It was a short meeting," Dickie recalled. "It was the day Jimmy Hoffa got arrested and they were up in arms."
As upset as he was about the arrest of his favorite Teamster, Patriarca carved out some time for the earnest young Irish bookie. He was so impressed with Dickie that he set up a meet for Dickie with the Angiulo brothers, who ran the North End of Boston for the Mafia.
They met at Jerry Angiulo's bar, Jay's, but Jerry wasn't there. Instead Dickie met with Peter Limone and Larry Baoine.
"Larry was a very capable man," Dickie said, capable meaning Larry was capable of killing anyone at the drop of a hat.
The Mafia guys were more than willing to take Dickie's lay-off bets and, as he put it, "if there was a problem they would straighten it out." Meaning if anybody gave Dickie any trouble, the Mafia would kill them.
But everything went pear-shaped when all the Italians in the North End got lugged. Peter Limone and three other guys were framed by the FBI for a murder they didn't do.
"Peter served 30 years," Dickie told the prosecutor, Zach Hafer, and the rest of us.
So Dickie was independent, but not for long. Some guy called him and said he had to meet some guys at Kimberly's, a bar in Quincy that had its share of wiseguys. So Dickie walks into Kimberly's and he's staring at the Winter Hill Gang: Howie Winter, Johnny and Jimmy Martorano, and Whitey Bulger.
At this point, Hafer asked Dickie to identify Whitey. Dickie pointed to the defendant's table and he smiled and Whitey smiled. They know the drill.
At that meeting in the 1970s, Whitey told Dickie, "You're by yourself. You should be with us."
"I was with the North End," Dickie replied.
"Forget the North End," Whitey told him. "You're with us."
It wasn't negotiable.
"Their reputations preceded them," Dickie said, which means they killed people who defied or angered them.
So Dickie was with the Hill. Not that they did anything for him. If somebody didn't pay him, that was his problem. They just collected rent from Dickie.
One of Dickie's bookies got too ambitious. "I'll go my own way," he said.
Whitey told the ambitious young bookie he could not go his own way. "We have a business beyond bookmaking," Whitey told the ambitious young bookie.
"Oh, yeah," the guy replied. "What's that."
"Killing [expletives] like you," Whitey replied.
The guy changed his mind and kept paying Whitey rent.
Whitey was cute, Dickie said. Whenever Dickie delivered the rent, Whitey wouldn't pick it up in Dickie's presence. Dickie would leave it on a table at Triple O's, the dive bar on West Broadway in Southie that Whitey used as his lair, or the liquor store down at the rotary across from the Old Colony projects. If Stevie Flemmi, Whitey's partner in crime, was there, he'd pick up the money. Whitey never did. Cute.
Dickie paid Whitey and Stevie rent for 14 years, topping off at $2,000 a month, until he moved to Florida in 1993.
But he wasn't done with them. One of Dickie's six daughters took over the bookmaking business; like father, like daughter. His daughter was going out with a guy who worked at Steve Flemmi's bar. The guy flew down to Florida and told Dickie O'Brien and his daughter to be very careful, because a bunch of bookies in Boston had rolled on Whitey and Stevie and were going before a grand jury.
Obviously, the fear was that Dickie O'Brien might roll, too.
So one night, Dickie's wife is giving a speech at the local PTA in Florida and she looks up and who's looking at her but Johnny Martorano, the Winter Hill hit man who had gone on the lam 15 years earlier. Johnny said they needed to have a meet with Stevie Flemmi. Dickie was unnerved, but at least Johnny would be with him.
"I liked John," Dickie O'Brien said. "I considered him a friend."
But Dickie wasn't stupid.
Before he left for the meeting with Stevie, Dickie O'Brien told his daughter, "If I don't come home, go to the FBI. Don't go home. Go to the FBI."
Actually, if Steve Flemmi killed Dickie O'Brien that night, going to the FBI would have been a waste of time. They were still busy covering up for their informants, Whitey and Stevie.
"That goddam Chico," Flemmi complained to Dickie O'Brien about Chico Krantz, the biggest bookie in Boston who became a government witness. "He turned over. I should have taken care of him when I had the chance."
Dickie spent the meeting trying to reassure Flemmi that he was the last person who would turn on them. Basically, Dickie O'Brien asked them to trust him, asked them not to kill him.
At that very moment, from the stand, Dickie O'Brien looked at Whitey Bulger.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A sales recovery at Ericsson's key networks unit raised hopes on Thursday the world's top mobile telecom gear maker is beginning to shake off the global downturn.
Ericsson's biggest business, which builds mobile networks, showed fourth-quarter sales growth - the first rise in more than a year - helping the company as a whole to post year on year sales up 5 percent. Margins in the unit also rose from the previous quarter.
The telecom equipment industry is under stress from price pressure and lower orders as the operators that are their clients battle a slump in consumer spending, even though increased smartphone surfing is driving demand for higher-capacity and higher-speed networks.
Ericsson's recent poor business mix in its networks unit of more hardware products and fewer software sales has also hurt the company, which is fighting tough competition from Chinese rivals Huawei and ZTE Corp, as has its focus on gaining market share with an eye on future contracts for network capacity upgrades against a short-term margin squeeze in Europe.
But the fourth-quarter results showed a recovery in networks, supporting hopes of a turnaround, with high-speed, 4G networks in North American business and Japan driving growth.
Ericsson's turnaround fits a trend predicted by market research group Gartner which forecasts sales of network equipment to carriers to rise 2.3 percent to $79 billion in 2013, after falling 6.6 percent to $77.3 billion last year. North America and Latin America will grow by 4 percent, while Asia excluding Japan will be up 3.6 percent.
"It is encouraging, with a solid gross margin, Networks back to growth and a margin improvement," said Alexandre Peterc, analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, regarding Ericsson's figures. "They guide for capacity project increasing in the second half, which is bound to be good for margins."
Increasing capacity in networks requires new software which has bigger margins than the hardware Ericsson sells when operators build geographical network coverage.
Ericsson shares surged on the earnings news, gaining 8.9 percent by 3:14 a.m. ET to 74.90 crowns, the highest share price since August 2011.
Ericsson was hit by a 8 billion-crown charge for loss-making chip set joint venture ST-Ericsson, which pushed it into a net loss of 6.3 billion crowns for the quarter.
Ericsson's earnings before interest and tax, excluding joint ventures and including restructuring charges, rose to 4.8 billion crowns from 4.1 billion to beat a mean forecast of 4.3 billion in a Reuters poll. Group sales reached 66.9 billion crowns, against a forecast 65.3 billion.
Ericsson is looking at its options for ST-Ericsson, which could include a sale, though it is likely to keep the modem business. Its partner, STMicro, plans to exit.
With revenue and profit growth at telecoms operators stalled, some analysts have wondered whether margins and network sales would recover at Ericsson or stay depressed.
The earnings report could ease such doubts. Ericsson expects the impact of less profitable network contracts in Europe to wash out in 2013, part of a market share push, and a shift broadly to more profitable contracts this year.
"With present visibility of customer demand, and with the current global economic development, (the) underlying business mix is expected to gradually shift towards more capacity projects during the second half of 2013," Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg said.
The results chime in with a turnaround at rival Nokia Siemens Networks. The 50-50 joint-venture between Nokia and Siemens reported a strong increase in sales and profits for the fourth quarter.
Like Ericsson, Nokia Siemens is fighting to reduce costs to offset the global slowdown, aiming to find 1 billion euros in cost savings.
Ericsson has said it would cut 1,550 staff, mainly in networks, adding on Thursday it would keep a focus on costs.
Rival Alcatel-Lucent is cutting around 5,000 jobs and exiting unprofitable markets to find 1.25 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in savings.
China's second-largest telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp issued a profit warning in January. Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No.2 telecom equipment maker, bounced back from a disappointing 2011 with a 33 percent rise in net profit for 2012.
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The School of Business has offered a Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) degree for over 25 years. The MAcc was established to satisfy Utah's requirement of 150 hours to take the Certified Public Accounting exam. The MAcc degree is designed to satisfy the 150-hour requirement with 30 hours of post-graduate education.
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