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Northern Arizona University (NAU) recently became an Air University Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative (AU-ABC) partner, allowing members of the United States Air Force who are earning an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) to start earning their bachelor's degree now at NAU.
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Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has resigned from Detroit-based Dykema Gossett PLLC, the law firm he joined as a senior attorney one year ago this week, to launch a suburban solo practitioner law firm, Dykema's former CEO confirmed today.
"Mike has decided he wanted to have a solo practice, that would let him have a little more flexibility in working with the law firm," said Rex Schlaybaugh, partner and Chairman Emeritus at Dykema who was managing the firm when Cox joined last January.
"He's still obviously very interested in politics, and in speaking out on issues of the day and being involved in the political process. He felt that direction would be better for him."
Cox, 50, confirmed Thursday he is interested in being more vocal on public policy in the new firm -- but insists that is a far cry from seeking another political office.
"I get calls about a lot of issues. from contacts who want my views or insight as a former attorney general. And if I take a certain position on Obamacare, for example, then you have to consider how in that role (at Dykema) what you say affects some of the firm's clients," he said. "Now that I'm on my own, I can explore the issues more."
As in his Dykema role, Cox said the new practice will focus heavily on commercial litigation, antitrust and trade regulation cases – he was recently co-counsel for PVS Chemicals Inc. in antitrust litigation against several companies in an Illinois federal court. In time, Cox said he hopes to bring three to eight associates aboard to assist in his caseload at the new firm.
"I'm not running for office. I'm a lawyer. I only ran for two offices in my life, one was for AG and once was governor. I'm not a serial runner for anything."
Cox told Dykema of his intentions late last year and departed in December to launch a new solo practitioner firm in Livonia. He incorporated the Mike Cox Law Firm PLLC last November according to state records, and his State Bar of Michigan membership entry and electronic business card both list a registered domain name, mikecoxlaw.com, for a Web site that is under construction.
He was a litigation senior attorney at Dykema working in litigation, white-collar criminal law and the firm's federal and state government regulatory compliance practice.
His departure cames just before the firm promoted Litigation Department Director Peter Kellett to Chairman and CEO of Dykema on Jan. 1 – but Schlaybaugh said there is no connection.
"Mike was in the litigation department, so they already worked together closely. When I talked to (Cox) about it, he wanted to do something different and closer to home," he said.
"We appreciated that and parted much the same friends that we were even before he joined us. And I would expect him to have a continued relationship with (the firm. We were collaborating with him on a number of matters and expect that collaboration to continue."
Cox was attorney general for eight years ending last January, and was previously a Wayne County assistant prosecutor.


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Dan Maes hints another candidate will enter GOP chairman's race
Who is Dan Maes going to support for chairman of the Colorado Republican Party? Stay tuned, he says, for a possible announcement from another candidate.
"I believe that you're going to hear a name in a few days that I will probably support, but I have pledged confidentiality," the 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate
Maes wouldn't give any hints but said I'd know who it was if I heard the name. I asked whether the mystery candidate would be getting in the race if Dick Wadhams were still seeking a third term. Maes declined to comment.
Wadhams said he doesn't know who it could be, then added, "Who would want Dan Maes' endorsement?"
Ouch! And here Maes praised Wadhams for running a "fair and open election" although he did say it was time for a change.
Wadhams in a stunner dropped his re-election bid Monday, and has been a hot national news item ever since, in part because of his candid remark to The Denver Post:
"I have loved being chairman, but I'm tired of the nuts who have no grasp of what the state party's role is," he said.
When Wadhams got out, the state party's legal counsel, Ryan Call, got in. The other high-profile candidate is state Sen. Ted Harvey, of Highlands Ranch.
"Ted Harvey is a traitor to the Republican Party," Maes said. "Although there are a lot of things about Ted's conservative positions I like and respect, I can't endorse someone who openly endorsed a third-party candidate for governor."
That was a reference to former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, who briefly jumped ship to the American Constitution Party to challenge Maes and Democrat John Hickenlooper for governor. Maes argued he had a shot at beating Hickenlooper until Tancredo got in the race and started peeling off influential Republicans. (Hickenlooper ended up with 51 percent of the vote, Tancredo with 36 percent and Maes 11 percent.)
Tancredo, registered as a Republican once again, is backing Harvey.
Tancredo said Wadhams got out because he knew he was going to lose to Harvey. Perry Buck, the former vice chair of the party and wife of Senate candidate Ken Buck, said Wadhams had the votes to beat Harvey.
We'll never know.
At one point there were two other chairman contenders: John Wagner, who ran Cleve Tidwell's Senate campaign in 2010, and Bart Baron, a recent transplant from Michigan.
But they announced this week they were running as a slate with Baron running for chair, Wagner for vice chair and Jeremy Goodall, a political operative based in Colorado Springs, for secretary.
The election is set for March 26 at Douglas County High School. Already, the chairman's is shaping up to as interesting and as unusual as the governor's race was last year.


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Owen Hill, a rookie state senator who is taking on Udall in 2014, took ribbing for his comments that a "well-respected member" of the legislature and a source inside Udall's operation told him about Udall's concerns.
Hill later identified Nordberg as his source, but Nordberg was unavailable for comment at the time. I ran into Nordberg, a Colorado Springs Republican who once worked for U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, today at the Denver Rustlers luncheon.
"When talking to everyone at the Capitol this past session about Owen Hill and the job he did as a new freshman and the new energy he brings," Nordberg said, "he has the rare ability to bring a new dynamic for our party and actually appeal to a cross section of voters we need to win statewide races."


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NBC's Revolution There will be Blood TV Show Review. Revolution: Season 2, Episode 2: There will be Blood picked up with Miles (Billy Burke) as a prisoner of apparent savages and Aaron (Zak Orth) trying to wrap his mind around his eleventh hour resurrection. With Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) still after prisoner Munroe (David Lyons) and Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) intent on Miles' rescue (consequently finding her way out of her season one finale funk), the stage was set to introduce or further develop the season's new plots and players.
Miles and the town of Willoughby's Sheriff (Adam Beach) were taken back to the war tribe's camp and imprisoned. Faced with dire prospects, beyond a red door no captive has returned from, they bond. Sheriff Mason got the spotlight before being taken out of the equation, in a manner meant to jar viewers into nervous insecurity; but sadly, we were not really given a reason to care. Miles managed to get loose and kill a few tribesmen. The local enforcer shut him down, however, by taking another captive from Willoughby hostage. We are introduced to Titus Andover (Matt Ross), a former Headmaster who viewed the blackout delivering him from child porn charges as divine intervention. The tribe, it turned out, was mostly comprised of his former students, allowed to grow in a state of anarchy (Miles did make a reference to Lord of the Flies, for any viewer that didn't already catch it). For his previous escape attempt, Titus gave Miles a physical handicap. This handicap allowed for some brief bonding with the remaining prisoner, before Miles is taken beyond the red door.
Aaron's resurrection brought conflict to what had, up to this point, been the most well adjusted set up in Willoughby. Cynthia (Jessica Collins) saw his resurrection as a miracle and wanted him to embrace it as such. As a non-believer, he rejected this, driving a wedge between them. A lucid vision of deceased Ben Matheson (Tim Guinee), and the events back at the tower, however, left him questioning both himself and the nature of miracles.
Rachel spent much of the episode trying to get a rescue party together for Miles. This allowed her to truly interact with her father, Dr. Gene Porter (Stephen Collins), for the first time since his introduction, as well as a several other residents (including Aaron). Her dedication and zeal eventually won her a posse but along the way they were met by a field of dead rats, extending as far as they could see.
Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos), in her new role as a rogue, tries to get at Monroe but was captured by his abductors. She was lightly questioned and tended to by abductor Adam (Patrick Heusinger), with an exchange of perfect smiles that screamed: "Hello, I'll be your future love interest, this season." Yep, for all the bare knuckle bashing that has gone on since the power went out, everyone managed to keep all of their perfectly white teeth. I can go on about Revolution's aesthetics, but those transgressions go beyond any one episode. Of course, I shouldn't have been noticing them at all but the show hasn't been offering much else.
Monroe's two abductors turned out to be bounty hunters, tasked with taking him back to Federal authorities. Apparently, the Fed wanted him alive, which Charlie objected to, despite Monroe's efforts to convey his remorse to her. Her concerns about him being a flight risk were ignored and she was released. When those concerns were realized, one bounty hunter was killed, Charlie returned in time to save Adam, and Monroe had to reluctantly fight her off to make good his escape.
Tom (Giancarlo Esposito) and Jason (J.D. Pardo) Neville, having switched their priority from finding wife and mother Julia (Kim Raver), to figuring out the seeming re-emergence of the U.S. Federal government, set about getting closer to its representative, Secretary Justine Allenford (Nicole Ari Parker). Tom was convinced that Allenford and the Fed had something to do with the nuclear strike and a pact, between the Nevilles and a former rebel, seemed the best bet to getting to her. Tom had a more cynical solution.
Just prior to receiving Tom, Allenford read, then burnt, a message sent to her by Titus' enforcer. The message was sealed with the mark of the Illuminati.
It was unfortunate that Revolution's creative team saw fit to take it in a new direction but opted to keep all of its inherent flaws: its lack of scientific grounding mirrored by a lack of imagination or originality, its occasionally obvious ambitions hampered by poor writing and characterizations.
Miles was never meant to be an altogether sympathetic character; but I have yet to find a reason to root for him.
Rachel's efforts to launch a rescue expedition brought her back as a contributing member of the cast, but that transition, from near total shutdown to woman-on-a-mission, seemed sudden and forced.
Aaron, while remaining the most likable character, still seemed out of place, given the show's settings and history. A generation of post-blackout life had changed everyone. Fine, it took the events of last season to change Charlie, but she had no pre-blackout life. For Aaron to go from Google guru to survivalist, without any change- visible or otherwise- made for a stretch. The question of faith was probably introduced to mark future developments for Aaron and the nanites but seemed more like an injection fix.
Charlie, once one of the show's most annoying characters for being a naive emo, had now become just as annoying as a violent, self-destructive emo. The problem was, Tracy Spiridakos made for an even less believable bad girl than wide-eyed idealist.
Monroe had clearly been put on a path of redemption, as his character's evolution has thus far been handled without the subtly of, say, Ben Linus' from Lost.
Walker, Texas Ranger and Ghostbusters were referenced but the delivery fell flat- clearly done for the audience's benefit rather than any form of in-show interaction.
While the truth behind the red door was disturbing (though predictable), Titus and his enforcer seemed like a recycling of the Monroe/ Neville dynamic and the cult that was Monroe's militia. The Illuminati connection between Titus' camp and Allenford was to present an over-arching conspiracy element, likely with series wide implications but seemed all too reminiscent of Jericho to have the desired impact.
The field of dead rats was meant to be a serious harbinger of doom, but I don't think it was really thought out. It definitely painted a starker picture than a field of dead crows but overlooked the fact that rats are considerably hardier than birds. Anything that can wipe out a rat population will likely kill off humans that much sooner. Then again, maybe we were meant to realize this just to stick around for the explanation.
The town of Willoughby, Texas has been set up as a besieged garrison, drawing parallels to the past season of The Walking Dead. Even worse, it served to anchor the cast, removing the element of uncertainty and discovery that gave season one much of its potential. As long as the series revolves around this town, a more expansive scope for the series – involving the remaining States and perhaps even the world beyond – cannot be realized.
To ingratiate himself with Allenford, Tom declared his desire to "be an American again." All I could think of it was how there wouldn't be a U.S.A. had the settlers shared such sentiments about being English. Power or no power, would restoring an old republic be that much more preferable to founding a better one? The Founding Fathers weren't loyalist to The Crown, so why should we champion the restoration of the U.S.? To me, this question amounts to Revolution's only shot at actually being revolutionary.
Two episodes into Revolution's second season, and the fresh, new direction, more or less promised in the season premier, no longer seemed so invigorating.
Post-apocalyptic stories, whether by zombie, alien, or some other design, have enjoyed something of a resurgence. Back in the 80s, they were all the rage – due mostly to The Road Warrior and The Terminator, fueled by cold war fears – but that well was pretty much tapped dry. This time around – over reliance on zombies aside – the emphasis has been on exploring the post-apocalyptic landscape and the hearts / minds of survivors. Revolution has not done this. Its new direction seems to be more about mining from other shows in its genre rather than finding new ways to tell old stories or even compelling ways of telling the same stories.
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|Why was doctor kidnapping in Afghanistan kept secret?
|News about the rescue of American doctor Dilip Joseph by US Special Operations Forces in a raid on a Taliban hideout Sunday surprised many who were unaware that the
The operation was launched when US military officials gathered intelligence that Dr. Joseph was "in imminent danger of injury or death". A member of the special ops rescue team was wounded during the raid and later died. Expressing his condolences, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, "The special operators who conducted this raid knew they were putting their lives on the line to free a fellow American from the enemy's grip."
It's little wonder that the Special Operations Forces community like to keep all of the details under wraps. But why is it so important to keep even the identity of the kidnapping victim, including the fact that anyone was kidnapped at all, secret?
|Posted by:ryuge
|#4 They had to exfil a spook?
The doc worked his way in to a high priority asset/target?
|Posted by: Skidmark 2012-12-11 12:54
|#3 I think the Obama administration didn't want to publically admit that the Taliban were still a viable source of opposition...
From Threat Matrix: Ten days ago, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta claimed that the green-on-blue attacks, in which Afghan security personnel are killing Coalition forces, were evidence of the "last gasp" of the Taliban.
September 27, 2012 1:12 PM
|Posted by: juandos 2012-12-11 12:03
|#2 Success has many fathers....?
|Posted by: Besoeker 2012-12-11 03:00
|#1 Yes, because they wanted the rescue mission to work.
Next question?
|Posted by: gromky 2012-12-11 00:28


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Stop Killing Animals in Cruel Lab Tests
This petition had 5,930 supporters
For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator worked undercover at Sinclair Research Center, a laboratory hired by Iams, and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer. The happy dogs bounding across a field in Iams dog-food commercials are light-years away from dogs in the laboratory that Iams hired to conduct nutritional studies. An undercover investigation in an IAMS lab found the following:
- Workers talking about dogs lying dead in their cages
- Dark dungeon-like kennels that were stifling in the summer and frigid in the winter
- Dogs circling endlessly in their small prisons from loneliness and boredom
- Dogs dumped onto cold concrete flooring after large chunks of muscle were cut from their thighs
- A procedure in which tubes would be stuck down dogs' throats to force them to ingest vegetable oil
- Dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat
- Veterinary technicians with inadequate training and inexperience in performing invasive procedures
The investigator, from US animal rights group PETA, videotaped Iams representatives visiting the laboratory, witnessing the animals in these dreadful conditions – and doing nothing. Even her please that the dogs be given resting boards, toys and the socialisation that they so desperately needed were ignored. To her horror, the lab director even ordered that the dogs' vocal cords be cut because their frightened and lonely barking irritated him.
Dogs had gone crazy because they were confined to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs were left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after chunks of muscle had been hacked from their thighs, dogs were surgically debarked, and horribly sick dogs and cats were neglected and left in cages to suffer without any veterinary care.
Footage shows that Iams representatives toured the facility and witnessed dogs who were circling in their cells and sweltering in the summer heat. Iams knew the truth yet did nothing to protect the animals.
When PETA went public with this evidence, Iams officials lied and said that they had no idea what conditions were like inside the laboratory that their own staff regularly visited! Iams then cut ties with the lab.
But Iams and its owner, Proctor and Gamble (P&G), still do business with dozens of outside laboratories that might be just as bad as the one investigated. Iams also conducts studies on dogs and cats in its own facility, which it refuses to allow investigators representatives to see.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture investigated PETA's complaint and agreed that the laboratory had failed to provide veterinary care and pain relief to suffering animals, failed to provide animals with adequate space, and failed to train employees—along with nearly 40 other violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. Sinclair Research Center paid a penalty of $33,000 for its violations.
After intense pressure from PETA and its supporters, Iams agreed to make the following significant changes in its testing program:
Iams bowed to pressure and severed its ties with Sinclair Research Center.
Iams ended all invasive and terminal experiments on dogs and cats.
Iams agreed to begin conducting humane in-home tests for palatability studies.
According to Iams, about 70 percent of the animals now in its tests reside at home with their families. In these studies, people volunteer their companion animals to participate in food and nutrition experiments from the comfort of their own homes. The human guardians can easily be trained to feed the animals and properly collect fecal and urine samples for laboratory analysis to determine the quality of the animal's food. "In-home" studies have been shown to work and have strong scientific support, as shown by the successful PetSci program, which was developed by Dr. Charles Abramson and Dr. Timothy Bowser of Oklahoma State University.
Even so, Iams still keeps up to 700 dogs and cats in its Dayton, Ohio, laboratory for non-invasive nutritional studies. They claim that this laboratory provides a decent environment for the animals, but they refuse to allow a PETA representative to see inside. Iams claims that some studies are too complex for in-home programs, but PETA urges Iams to collaborate with veterinary clinics for studies such as these. Veterinary clinics regularly see patients who suffer from ailments that a particular dog or cat food might help alleviate.
Iams has also refused to end invasive experiments on species other than dogs and cats. For one study, Iams gave Purdue University nearly $200,000 to conduct a two-year study in which experimenters taped the tails of mice to the tops of cages to keep their hind legs suspended in the air. This was done to cause muscular atrophy—the wasting away of muscle tissue. When PETA protested, the experiment was cut short.
Iams has also fought the release of information from a public university that had conducted a study funded by the company in which a painful disease was induced in dogs. What was Iams hiding?
Iams has made progress, but as an industry leader, it must send an even clearer message: No animal deserves the fate of those who remain in their laboratories. Safe, healthy cat and dog food does not require harming cats and dogs.
PETA continues to press Iams to ban conducting and funding invasive or terminal experiments on all species and to adopt 100 percent humane, non-invasive, and cage-free "in-home" testing, as many of Iams' compassionate competitors have done.
Call, write, e-mail, or fax Iams and Proctor & Gamble. Tell them that you won't buy Iams products for your animal companions until they stop conducting experiments on animals and, instead, rely on laboratory analysis of formulas for nutritional composition and in-home studies using dogs and cats who have been volunteered by their human companions.
Dan Rajczak, General Manager
Iams Company
7250 Poe Ave.
Dayton, OH 45414-5801
Contact Iams
A.G. Lafley, CEO
Procter & Gamble Co.
1 Procter & Gamble Plz.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Bill Miller, Director of Sales
Iams Canada
920 Gana Ct.
Mississauga, ON L5S 1Z4
1-800-658-5657 (press 5 for the name directory)
905-565-4711 (fax)
Gianni Ciserani
General Manager
Procter & Gamble
The Heights
Brooklands, Weybridge
Surrey KT13 0XP
+44 (0)1932 896000
If you email Iams, they will say they are doing entirely in-home and humane testing, but they won't let anyone inside their facility to see if that is true.
Until Iams agrees, we urge consumers to purchase dog and cat food from companies that do not test on animals.
p.s. Here are some other petitions you can sign:
Rowena Godaire: Stop the purchase of 3,600 goats to use in cruel trauma training
Kenneth Regan: Stop Cat Mutilation: don't force people to Declaw their cats!
Ukraine & Romania: Stop "euthanizing" dogs with axes, knives, burning them alive and electrocuted!
Support Sen. Harb's Bill to End the Seal Slaughter for Good!
National Geographic: Stop promoting Dog Abuse!
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GamersBliss.com writes: "Welcome to the best of 2013… errr so far! We are officially in the 5th month of the year and with so many great games we bundled a top 3 list of the best of 2013. The next target on our list is none other than games you can play on across many platforms, also known as cross-platform or multi-platform games. Dare to guess what makes our top 3 list?"
Big fan of Bioshock Infinite, thought about Tomb Raider but just havent come around to playing it
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My wife is a Cali kid. Like most Californians, she scoffed at the earthquake that shook the East Coast yesterday. Still, it was my first earthquake and I had some reflections long after the rumbling stopped.
First, I had never experienced one, so none of my "training" kicked in. I didn't run for a door jam or dive under my desk. I just never did a drill other than an air raid drill (Cold War East coast kids know what I'm talking about). So, the initial experience was one of taking in something new.
The subsequent actions I took and, more importantly, the thoughts that bounced around, were interesting.
Here are the things I worried about and how I handled them. What is interesting to note is that as time went on I started to plan/ think about more remote low probability scenarios. After feeling the shakes, and then getting a grip on my surroundings, my focus was on mentally keeping myself engaged with being logical and sound.
Tsunami: So, my kids were at the beach with my Mom and Sister, and since I did not know the initial epicenter I was concerned with where the quake originated and getting them back. Once I found out they were well on their way home, my mind was at east. I was texting with my wife, so I knew she was safe.
Power Lines, Gas Leaks and Cracks in the foundation: I went immediately to Twitter and followed my feed and heeded the warnings about staying inside. I was on the phone with a customer, but cell lines started to conk out and we were forced to reschedule. So, after quick survey of my surroundings, I was able to feel comfortable with my house and my safety in it.
Aftershocks and Train derailment: I had a meeting in Manhattan and needed to take the train. My inner risk mitigation considered cancelling and re-scheduling. I didn't want to let the earthquake win. My son was crying as I left saying he didn't want me to go and the thought crossed my mind that somehow he has some sixth sense and I was getting on a train of doom. I thought about a derailed train and what I would do should the catastrophe ensue, but realized that I was going into a bad place needed to change azimuth. Crisis management is not healthy for me, so I moved onto other thoughts about my meeting.
Big City, Big Piles of Rubble: As I got off the train I again thought of the aftershocks and the problems that can happen. I saw flashes of a city wide 9/11 building collapse and how I would get the hell out of the city. But, again, those thoughts would not serve me any good and I flushed them from my mind.
So there you have it, the low probability taking its toll. Between travel and people and the thoughts, I was up pretty late trying to wind down. Still, I am pleased that I didn't back away from my responsibilities, that I identified and took control of the harmful thoughts, and I did it all with style.


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The nature of Cluny lay in the circumstances of it's foundation. It was endowed with a measure of independence by it's founder, Duke William, allowing the monks to elect their own abbot, placing the abbey directly under the guardianship of St Peter and the Apostolic See. As a house dedicated to reviving strict Benedictine observance Cluny was not unique, but it was this indepencence, the succesion of talented abbots and it's organisation set up by Abbot Berno that laid the foundations of the abbey's later greatness.
The independence granted Cluny in it's foundation charter was esssential in the development of Cluny free from the interference of lay magnates and local bishops. It's direct dependence on Rome was not initially of great importence; other foundations had beemn bequeathed to the apostles before. However, this was an important foundation upon which later abbots were to build. By seeking papal approval for Cluniac reforms the abbots forged a valuble direct link to the papacy, whilst gain officail public regognition and endorsement of the Cluniac regieme. In obtaining the right to accept monks from other orders in 931 Odo had confirmed the righht of the Cluniacs to reform others houses, while Cluny gained freedom from the local bishops under Abbot Odilo in 998. it was 'the subsequent growth, under far straiter papal oversight, of Cluny's exemption from episcopal control in spiritual matters, that did most to consolidate Cluny's subject houses under it's own central authority' . This meant Cluny was immune to challenges to it's authority from both without and within the church. Cluny became of particular note to sucessive Popes, with it's reputation for reform, and the papacy continued to support the cluniacs, with Pope John XIX giving Cluny's monks complete freedom from interference whereever they were in 1024.
However, this would have been nothing without the exemplary spiritual life that was seen to exist at Cluny. The continual use of vocal prayer was popular with the laity, with many wishing to be included in the prayers of the monks. The personal qualities of the abbots were also much admired, as was the way of life practised at Cluny. The cluniac model of benedictine obervence was seen by many by the time of Abbot Hugh to be an achieved ideal, the most perfect way of life and worship. Individual monks were also praised by comtemparys for their ascectism and monkish qualities, and the eremetic qualities which could be found within the common life of the monastry. Charity and almsgiving also formed a regular part of life at Cluny, which again showed the holiness and faithful observence of the monks.
It was a combination of the personal authority of the abbots, the benedictine observence of the Cluniacs and the repute and public esteem in which the order was held that resulted in the expansion of the Order. The success of the order in it's resoration of benedictine observence attracted invitations by lay magnates for the Cluniacs to reform their monastries, and gifts of houses, some new foundations, some old abbeys. Such reform was not always welcomed by the monks of the profered houses, such as the monks of Fleury. Papal paronage, and the will of lay benefactors meant that from the time of Odilo these reformed houses became dependecies of Cluny. This was not always put into effect immediately, and the tightness of the bond varied from house to house. It was the independence granted in the founding charter that allowed the Order to expand this way, and develop independently. Not only was Cluny free from control of any local magnate or bishop, it was also trusted by all due to this autonomy.
Cluny attracted gifts from all levels of society and of all sorts, from monstries, churches and lands, to child oblates, gifts of money large and small and goods. It also attracted many new recruits to it's cloisters. This swell in numbers had both positive and negative results. Expanded numbers meant that Cluny could no longer support it's community from the surrounding lands and their own produce.
Increased numbers also brought increased problems with disicpline and regulation. The more brethern, the less like the ideal Benedictine family the monastries became, and the more remote the abbot. The expansion in the number of houses meant that by 1095 real supervision of them became impossible. The abbot of Cluny was continually on the move, while many houses only rarely saw their abbot.This led to a slackening of discipline and observence, leading to infractions of the rule
One of Cluny's early strenghts was it's abbots, many of whom were canonised. Berno and Odo were both men of distinction, with Odo being called upon to reform other houses, and whose good relations with lay rulers gained the abbey two important charters, one from Rudolf of Burgundy in 927, one from Louis d'Outremer in939, which confirmed the abbey's independence and rights. Aymar was not such a statesman but under him the abbey's holding were consolidated and their affairs well ordered. Odilo was another abbot of great spiritual energy and an active reformer and builder. Throughout his and Hugh's riegn the powers of the abbot over the Order increased, until by the time of Hugh the abbot had become almost a monarchial figure. The abbot was also becoming more removed from the community of brethern, through his increased power and role in public life, and becoming above the daily disciplines of the benedictine observence. This was not nessercarily a good thing, since it was damaging to the benedictine ideal of humility, austerity and familial bonds, although the strenght of the abbot brought many benefits to the Cluniac Order and to their mission of restoring benedictine observence. Hugh himself was a great man, with particular ties with the Popes of his time, often being asked to act as legate and mediate between disputants on the Popes behalf, as he did with Henry II and Pope Gregory. That Hugh was trusted by both sides in the disputes testifies to his personal integrity and talents, from which the order also benefited. These men were all synonmous with the order they represented, with Cluny reflecting the characteristics of its great abbots, and they of their abbey to the benefits of both. However, the strenght and prominent position the abbot had aquired were only as good as the man. Pons left a trail of disruption in his wake, with the order suffering from internal splits, lack of discipline and a tarnished reputation. Peter the Venerable tried to reform the Order, but it was a hard job, facing oppostion from supporters of pons and those houses where observence had slackened, and while he was largly successful, peter could not entirly repair the damage done to Cluny's reputation and spiritual energy. The factionalism was so bad because pons had been the head of all the cluniac houses, and so any disruption at Cluny disturbed the whole order. Pons had also left financial hardships and debts behind him, which were to plague peter . Not only had pons emptied the coffers, the turmoil at Cluny stemmed the flow of monetary gifts upon which Cliuny had become reliant to purchase supplies for it's expanded numbers.
Earlier Monetary gifts led to the splendifing of the churches and monastry buildings, and of the implements used. This was contrary to the benedictine ideal of poverty, and criticised by newer orders commited to genuine poverty and severe acsetism. Religious ideals had changed, and the Cluniac way was no longer seen as the ideal. There was a new spiritual climate I n which Both laxity and cluniac practises such as allowing oblates and dying men into the order, and the splendor of the churches were criticised. This 'crisis of prosperity' could hardly be avoided, being as it was a reaction against the riches of success. The Cluniacs were criticised by those who favoured a more eremetic style of monasticism, and the stricter Cistercians. They were also criticised by laymen and other factions within the church. As an order, their popularity was on the wane by the twelfth century.
The main strenghts of cluniac monasticism lay in its independence, it's early spiritual energy, it's observence of the benedictine rule and it's sainly abbots. These provided very well for Cluny for a significant period, but over-growth of the order led to a slackening in observence of the Rule, and with the disasterous abbacy of Pons and a basic shift in religious opinion these strenghts became weaknesses that
Evans, Monastic Life at Cluny 910-1157 (Oxford University Press, 1931)
Ed. Hunt, Cluniac Monasticsm in the central middle ages, (Macmillan, 1971)
Lynch, The Medeval Church, (Longman, 1992)
Cowdrey, The Cluniacs and the Gregorian Reform, (Oxford, 1970)
Lawrence, Medeval Monasticism, (Longman, 1989)
Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, (Pelican, 1970)
Ed. Holmes, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medeval Europe, (Oxford, 2001)


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The WA state student assessments ask for more open ended student
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girls are scoring as well or better on the assessments. There is
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How to Bake Cod With Spinach
When you cook something with spinach as a primary ingredient, you are creating a Florentine dish. In other words, when baking cod with spinach, the result is cod Florentine. Cod is a delicate fish, so spinach complements its flavor. The only two major requirements for making cod Florentine are cod fillets and spinach. Beyond that, you can create a distinctive sauce that will further enhance the taste of both the of the key ingredients.
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Step 1
Wash 1 lb. of fresh spinach under running water. Let the spinach sit in a colander for several minutes to drain.
Step 2
Place the spinach in a skillet and heat them on medium. Stir the leaves with a wood spoon as they cook to avoid scorching. When the spinach wilts, transfer it back to the colander to drain. Spread the drained spinach along the bottom of a baking dish.
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Mix 4 tsp. dried basil, 1 cup chopped red peppers and 2 tbsp. skim or low-fat milk in a blender or food processor to create a sauce. Pour 1/2 of the sauce over the top of the spinach.
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Set the cod fillets on top of the spinach and season them with a sprinkle of salt. Pour the remaining sauce over then fish.
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Cover the baking dish with a lid or aluminum foil. Bake the fish in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove the cover and poke at the cod with a fork. If done, it should flaky when touched.
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Mix 1/4 cup breadcrumbs and 2 tbsp. of grated Parmesan cheese together in a bowl. Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the top of the fish and bake uncovered until the top of the fish browns.


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As young teenagers, we traveled by chartered bus from summer camp in New York to participate in the march. We had no idea of the magnitude of the crowd nor the future momentous effects on our nation's history. It was thrilling but also very, very hot. When Dr. King started to speak, the humidity seemed to disappear. He shook the world and changed our lives forever. I have never experienced a speaker so mesmerizing, so mellifluous, so powerful (and never will).
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Last week the Tampa Bay Buccaneers returned from their bye week refreshed and ready to play their best game of the season in a 38 - 10 win against Kansas City.
The Saints return from theirs this week hoping the pause that refreshes leaves them similarly ready for their second road trip in the NFC South against a Tampa Bay team after a week two loss at Carolina.
It won't be easy. Under new coach Greg Schiano the Bucs are vastly re-built by design and circumstance. From a year ago the Saints will face new Tampa starters at wide receiver, tight end, left guard, running back, safety, linebacker, defensive end, and cornerback.
And after 15 years on the corner Ronde Barber moves to free safety where he contributed a 78 yard interception for a touchdown to last week's win over the Chiefs.
Tampa's defense is fourth best against the run. The Saints offense...second to last running the ball. In week one the Tampa defense held the Panthers to 10 yards rushing. The next week Cam Newton had 71 on the ground himself against the Saints.
For years the Bucs were a grind-it-out offense with a paucity of down-the-field weapons. With the off-season addition of Vincent Jackson...no more. He's a perfect compliment to Mike Williams. Both are in the top 5 in the league in yards per reception. Jackson had two touchdowns last week, Williams one. They contributed to Josh Freeman completing two passes for 62 yards, a 42 and a 36 yard completion.
This will be a "throw-back game" for the Bucs who will break out their creamsickle orange jerseys from their inaugural season in 1976. Those unis figure to be the only reminder of the old Bucs, their past identity, and former ineptitude.


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I got a lot of questions last night at our Foreclosure and the Economy continuing education class about this topic, so I figure its one on everyone's mind.
Under the The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 a taxpayer can generally exclude from gross income monies that are forgiven under a short sale or deed in lieu situation. This is a great situation because the bank's agreement to not go after deficiencies should not result in the government making the borrower pay a huge tax. The purpose is to help someone without money, not to harm them. Yet, there are exceptions for qualified principal residence indebtedness, which is not related to the home's purchase or improvements (i.e. cashing our to pay other bills). Moreover, there are other means for a taxpayer to avoid paying income tax on other cancelled debt whether it be from credit cards or business properties. For 2 great articles on the topic, I direct your attention to this link, which is a great summary of the topic and this link, which is Publication 4681 from the IRS as the last word on the topic (from the government's perspective).
Remember, an insolvent debtor can always avoid paying income tax on cancelled debt.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Which Hampton is Your Hampton
Have you picked up this month's Homes of the Hampton's Magazine?
Sharing with you Andrew's most recent feature... "Which Hampton is Your Hampton".
Volume 23, Number 2, Page 44
Which Hampton is Your Hampton?
While sitting poolside this past Friday afternoon, my wife and I received a call from our friends, Ted and Luisa, who inquired what to bring to their Hamptons retreat from the City, and I began to wonder, do I live in the Hamptons? I know my house is located in a boating community within East Moriches, but is that the Hamptons?
In fact, what are the Hamptons? Are they the Hamlets and Villages that comprise the Towns of East Hampton and Southampton or are they the beaches, farm stands, boutiques, and restaurants that comprise the South Fork of Long Island? Are the Hamptons marked by the division of local governance or by the unique cultures that they emulate? And, what are those unique cultures? Where are those Hamlets? Better yet, what is a Hamlet?
Moreover, what's the difference between a Town, a Village, and a Hamlet; and why does it matter? Before I delve into the answers to these vast inquiries I first thought it appropriate to put forth this proposition: "Your Hampton is your Hampton, even when it's not a Hampton".
Let's start by understanding the legal answer to our inquiry. Technically, there are two (2) Towns within Suffolk County whose names include the word "Hampton", to wit: Southampton and East Hampton. In such, it's also important to note that there are only ten (10) Towns in Suffolk County, to wit: (1) Babylon; (2) Brookhaven; (3) East Hampton; (4) Huntington; (5) Islip; (6) Riverhead; (7) Shelter Island; (8) Smithtown; (9) Southampton; and (10) Southold.
Wait a second. I imagine that you are now shaking your head and asking yourself, isn't Westhampton a Town? What about Bridgehampton? No and no. To be clear, Suffolk County only includes ten (10) Towns. Moreover, a Town is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as "a center of population that is larger and more fully developed than a village, but that is not incorporated as a city". Yet, as New Yorkers often do, we ignore this definition and require our Towns to be incorporated.
A Hamlet is defined as "a small village", although again we are difficult in Suffolk County and add the word "unincorporated" to the definition. Lastly, a Village is defined as "a municipal corporation with a smaller population than a city". At last, we in Suffolk County can join the rest of the country in this definition. To be clear, all of the beautiful residences within the pages of Homes of the Hamptons exist in a Town, but none exist in both a Hamlet and a Village. A purchaser gets one or the other, but not both.
While those legal definitions sound like a big headache, there is a practical reason that these definitions should be considered in your purchasing decision: TAXES. That's right TAXES. If you purchase a home in a Village there is an additional level of governance and accordingly where there is additional government there are additional taxes. Plus, there are also additional services, which many find to be a requisite aspect of their life, but both are beyond the breadth of this
So with a better understanding of these definitions, let's name the Villages and Hamlets within the Town of Southampton. There are seven (7) Villages within Southampton's boundaries, to wit: (1) Sag Harbor; (2) North Haven; (3) Quogue; (4) Westhampton Beach; (5) Westhampton Dunes; (6) Southampton and (7) Sagaponack.Moreover, there are nineteen (19) Hamlets within Southampton's boundaries, to wit: (1) Remsenburg; (2) Speonk; (3) Hampton Bays; (4) Westhampton; (5) Westhampton Beach; (6) Quiogue; (7) Flanders; (8) Riverside; (9) Northampton; (10) East Quogue; (11) Eastport; (12) North Sea; (13) Bridgehampton; (14) Water Mill; (15) Sagaponack; (16) Noyac; (17) Shinnecock Hills; (18) Tuckahoe; and (19) Southampton.
Let's also explore the Villages and Hamlets within the Town of East Hampton. There are two (2) Villages within East Hampton's boundaries, to wit: (1) Sag Harbor; and (2) East Hampton. Moreover, there are six (6) Hamlets within East Hampton's boundaries, to wit: (1) Amagansett; (2) East Hampton North; (3) Montauk; (4) Northwest Harbor; (5) Springs; and (6) Wainscott.
Now the question remains, are East Hampton and Southampton the only Towns in the Hamptons? Well, certainly the Western Suffolk Towns of Babylon,Huntington, Islip, and Smithtown are out, as well are the Northern Suffolk County Towns of Riverhead and Southold. That leaves Brookhaven and Shelter Island. Are they in the Hamptons? If you believe that the Hamptons are an area abutting the Southern Bays and Oceans of Long Island, then Shelter Island, located within the Peconic Bay is out, and only Brookhaven remains. Parts of Brookhaven are also located in Northern Suffolk County and must be excluded, but parts, such as the Hamlet of East Moriches, are located within a stone's throw of Southampton and must be considered. Moreover, any local can tell you that the Hamptons are moving West. So, in the end
I am choosing not to correct my friends. They are coming to the Hamptons for the weekend. East Moriches is my Hampton, is it yours?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Spring home buying guide for long island - newsday
A great little article that goes into the different regions in Long Island and what is happening with current sales. A must read by Kristin Taveira if you want to learn what is happening this spring in sales. Click here for a link to the article.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
HAMP is Alive
Many in the news are saying that Home Affordable Modification Program is dying. They point to insufficient income as the cause, I submit its insufficient application skills. My firm has many alive HAMPs. I am lecturing attorneys in Nassau this evening on how to navigate the program as well as the rest of Making Home Affordable. The problem is all of the press that says homeowners can do this themselves and that they don't need help. Yes, homeowners can technically submit their own application, but having a lawyer seems pretty important in all other aspects of citizens legal lives (for instance Miranda Rights), why not here? Lets get some really trained attorneys who can fight for our clients in CPLR 3408 Settlement Conferences and you will see HAMP be reborn!
Monday, May 17, 2010
CLE Class - Foreclosure Filibusters
Andrew M. Lieb, Esq. will be teaching "Foreclosure Filibusters, beyond defenses there are solutions", hosted by First American, on both Tuesday and Thursday evening at the Omni Building in Uniondale from 6 - 8pm. The class will be expanded and broken into 2 Real Estate Agent Continuing Education courses at the Real Estate School in the coming months. Until than, please know that a foreclosure proceeding is not the end, but instead a crisis that requires a strategic intervention by trained professionals in order to optimize the situation for the homeowners. With proper guidance and advocacy, every distressed homeowner can find a solution that will ultimately work for them.
The Countdown to Grievance
The clock is ticking until Grievance Day!!! Get your forms together and go down to the Town tomorrow and file right away. All you need is 3 comps and some good luck. Go make it happen!!!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Next Class - Seats Available
We are teaching Mold is Money at Bethpage Federal Credit Union tomorrow, 5/13/2010 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. There are still a few seats left, to register go to www.liebatlaw.com.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Home Price Index - what should your house be worth?
The HPI serves as a timely, accurate indicator of house price trends at various geographic levels. It also offers a calculator that does not project the actual value of any particular house, but instead what a given house purchased at a point in time would be worth today if it appreciated at the average appreciation rate of all homes in the area.
Very fun tool provided by the Federal Government if you click here
Here is some information about Long Island:
Nassau-Suffolk, NY (MSAD)
Rank 198
1 Quarter -1.36
1 Year -5.80
5 Years 1.30
So while prices are down this year, they are still up over 5 years.
Very fun tool provided by the Federal Government if you click here
Here is some information about Long Island:
Nassau-Suffolk, NY (MSAD)
Rank 198
1 Quarter -1.36
1 Year -5.80
5 Years 1.30
So while prices are down this year, they are still up over 5 years.
Class Tonight - Intro to Commercial Real Estate
There are still 2 seats open, to register go to www.liebatlaw.com
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Andrew M. Lieb, Esq., MPH; Jennifer Pendzick
Summary: For both residential agents looking to expand their know-how and commercial professionals looking to hone their skills. This survey course discusses the commercial value add, land use (zoning), property management, commercial valuation, the 1031 exchange, and the tenants in common ownership structure.
Cost: $0
Course Certificate - Commercial Real Estate
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Andrew M. Lieb, Esq., MPH; Jennifer Pendzick
Summary: For both residential agents looking to expand their know-how and commercial professionals looking to hone their skills. This survey course discusses the commercial value add, land use (zoning), property management, commercial valuation, the 1031 exchange, and the tenants in common ownership structure.
Cost: $0
Course Certificate - Commercial Real Estate
Mansion Tax
To find FAQs regarding the additional tax on transfers of residential real property for $1 Million or More click here
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Aug 12, 2011
Oglethorpe head men's golf coach Jim Owen has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in college athletics. Entering his 31st year of service to the university, Owen has guided the Stormy Petrels to their only national championship and won 9 SCAC titles.
To read the complete announcement about Owen's induction, go here.


text: Last week we conducted a webinar for mobile service providers on Customer Experience – "In-Service Customer Experience Management – Include the Customer for a Holistic Solution" – which generated many interesting insightful questions on Customer Experience implementation challenges and solutions for wireless, fixed, online, and cloud services. We received more questions than we were able to answer in the time, so I wanted to make sure and take the time to answer all of the questions. The responses for these questions are detailed below.


text: Words between friends - how they cross the land, skim the oceans, ride the skies! Like birds, they have wings, and ''neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain'' nor anything can stay their flight. But the heart of the words stays home, safe in the embrace of the one who gave them birth. Perhaps some message goes astray - it matters not. The heart of it, still safe at home, may wing it on its way again, and it will reach the one who waits its coming. But should the message find this friend has left his home, for one too far from here, the words may fail to reach him, but the thought will still ring clear - You are remembered, You are loved, You are dear!


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Sometime around 1990 my neighbor Eric Lefcowitz– author of The Monkees Tale and Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles' Last Concert– lent me a cassette mix-tape of various 60's Freakbeat and Psych odds and ends cryptically entitled "daddy rollin' on 45"- at least I thought that was the title, and a random one at that since there was no song called that on the tape. Plenty of Koobas, Action, Creation, but nothing called "Daddy Rollin'". Students of one Dion Dimucci will have already gleaned that the pencilled label referred to the b-side of his 1968 smash Abraham Martin and John, but I wouldn't put that together for a few years when I finally found a cheap-o Laurie Records "oldies" LP featuring a few gems and a lot of dross and an absolute killer track called "Daddy Rollin' (In My Arms)" by Dion. I pulled my copy of the eponymous LP that contained "A,M andJ" (and a brilliant version of "Purple Haze") feeling like I must have missed this somehow, only to be alerted to its absence thereon. "Ah! Daddy Rollin' ON 45"! – as in not on 33 1/3! Handwritten label decoded.
Other writers have since exposed this track for its greatness and I can only say 'thank you' to them- the internet has allowed us to widen the margins of popular interests, highlight the marginalia, and put it into the center of the page. Not to sound all "way-back-when"-ey, but it used to require a bit more bin-diving and dumb luck to find these things out. When a slow-cooked morsel like my "Daddy Rollin'" finally came off the back burner of the mind, it felt personalized and valuable. Serendipity might have let me wait another five years or longer, or I might have stopped wondering altogether without the clues that have since become predictive text in the Google query. I'm happy for all the access, of course, as any music fan (or any fan of anything except ignorance) should be. I just miss the feeling of discovery that happened on its own.
I named this blog after a handwritten cassette label that kept me wondering for a few years, just long enough to prime me for a heart-leap when its mystery was solved. I hope that by staying alert to the clues life leaves us I will make more "discoveries" to share here. I hope that readers will be intrigued and pleased with the odd entry. And I hope there will always be some unsolved mysteries, of course.


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Very very cheap price :)
I am looking for two guys. One for twin room(available now) and one for triple room available from 11th of September.
It's nice chance to live with awesome people
Minutes to UTS, TAFE. 3 Minutes to Woolworth, 5 minutes to Central station. 10 minutes to the city.
It's very nice and cosy house. Everybody is very kind and we are living like a family.
We go out all together for drink, leisure and fun. Everybody is easygoing and likes to hang out with people.
Also nobody makes problem. Everyone keep rules very well. No smoking in the house, No crazy party.
We clean the dishes and kitchen right after meal. Also regularly clean all the house, twice in a week.
Everyone has being lived more than 4 months. Almost all people moved in to hang out with new people and they love this house. Even though some people already moved out due to private reason but they often come and have dinner together :)
Rent is $150 per week Bond is $300
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All bills are included (Water, electricity, Unlimited wifi)
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Cold Feet
Theoretical Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 231-259, 2007
31 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2009
Date Written: December, 24 2009
Individuals often lose confidence in their prospects as they approach the `moment of truth.' An axiomatic model of such individuals is provided. The model adapts and extends (by relaxing the Independence axiom) Gul and Pesendorfer's model of temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time approaches. In a variation of the model, the individual becomes more optimistic at an ex post stage in order to feel better about her available options.
Keywords: cold feet, pessimism, temptation, choice of belief
JEL Classification: D81, D83
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Our friend Alex Christ inspired us to make this line so we dedicate this model to him.
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If you want another good reason to make sure your sensitive data is adequately locked down, look no farther than the Veterans Affairs Department, which last week agreed to pay $20 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the 2006 loss of a laptop containing records with personal information about up to 26.5 million veterans and active duty personnel.
That's a lot of money, and it will be paid from taxpayers' dollars, but VA got off lucky. The suit originally asked for $1,000 for each person whose data was exposed, which could have been more than $26 billion. That's nearly enough to bail out a good-sized bank.
The settlement demonstrates that the repercussions of exposing data can be long-lasting and that the cost can go far beyond the immediate expense of cleaning up the breach. For companies it has long been known that negative publicity resulting from public notification of a data breach can quickly translate into millions of dollars of lost shareholder value as stock prices tumble. Agencies do not have to worry about stock prices, but the threat of other costs is real. The VA agreed to the settlement even though the department has said there is no evidence that the information on the stolen laptop was used or than any person involved was harmed by it.
Lesson: It could be a lot cheaper to secure your data in the first place than to pay for damage control later.
To its credit, the VA generally has responded well to this incident despite an initial three-week delay after the theft was reported before possible victims were alerted back. Since then the department has gotten serious about improving protections on data and has been a major user of Microsoft's Rights Management Services, which places controls on the use of documents. Security still is not perfect, but it is a huge department with hundreds of facilities and offices located around the country offering a multitude of services, so it is gong to take a long time to get everything under control. But the department did the right thing in stepping up and taking responsibility for the huge 2006 loss and agreeing to the payout, even if it does hurt the taxpayers.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington by five veterans groups in June 2006, a month after news was released of the theft of a laptop on which a VA data analyst had loaded the data. The laptop was recovered with the data apparently intact. But it is impossible say with absolute certainty that the data was not accessed and copied. Millions of persons whose names, birthdates and Social Security numbers were in the data were put to the trouble of monitoring their credit and worrying about data theft.
The settlement calls for payments of from $75 to $1,500 to persons who can show some harm resulting from the incident, which could include physical symptoms of stress or expenses for credit monitoring. Any money left over from the $20 million fund will be donated to veterans' charities.
Let's hope that few of the veterans whose data was exposed in the incident were badly harmed by it and that actual payouts of damages will be small. The upside of the incident could prove to be twofold: A sizeable chunk of money could go to deserving charities, and a lesson will have been learned about the value of preventing a breach rather than responding to it after the fact.
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i received a letter from the VA stating that my info was stolen back in 2009. And just now found out that there was a settlement that veterans received. And I was never notified by the VA about this matter again. Untill today, I had no idea that it even existed. And then i hear that they received 0.51 cents. Can you explain how this happens in America? P.S. I guess the attorneys and orginzations made all the money? Veteran, Steve Grady
It astounds me that the taxpayers must shell out 20M to settle a case where for a lost and recovered laptop where there is no evidence that a single record was accessed. This is very different from cases where the information (not the hardware) ends up in the hands of the bad guys.
This was not a case of "lax security"!This is another case of political correctness runamok. A VA employee with more work than he could do in the office was taking work home with him-WITH HIS SUPERVISOR'S KNOWLEDGE-a common practice at the time. His work was stored on a laptop PC. His work was stolen, when the laptop was stolen from his home. It was later recovered and it was proven that the data had been secure and was not accessed! But the facts don't give politicians a grandstand opportunity and don't make sales for software security programs like the melodrama that's been oft repeated.
It looks to me like the only real winner's are the attorneys. It is just too bad the VA didn't offer make an estimate of how much time it would take to check on credit etc and make an then offer to compensate anyone who requested it. I would think even at $20.00 an hour it could not have been more than 2-3 hours. That would have saved everyone money and made a bad situation seem like the VA was recognizing its Veterans value.
My wife and I both recieved letters saying our info had been exposed, yet we werent asked to take part in any class action lawsuit, what is this just some orginizations trying to get money without truly looking out for vets.
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Irina Shayk, Dakota Johnson & Sarah Jessica Parker Buddy Up at Intimissimi Grand Opening!
Dakota Johnson strikes a pose alongside Irina Shayk while attending the Intimissimi Flagship Boutique Grand Opening held on Wednesday (October 18) in New York City.
The 28-yeare-old actress and the 31-year-old model were joined at the event by Sarah Jessica Parker and cookery author and entrepreneur Ana Ivanovic.
"Don't wear it for a man," Irina, who is the brand ambassador, told Us Weekly. "My lingerie is for me and I have to feel it like it's my second skin and have to be comfortable, so definitely wear it for yourself, and just love your body."
"Intimissimi is known for very good quality," Irina revealed. "I still have my first bra that I got 10 years ago from them and still wearing it… it's time to get rid of it, but I can't!"
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Loft in Toronto's Distillery District for Sale
Sold - No Longer Available
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"The Distillery now really feels like part of the city - a web of sensible development (both underway and planned) has really connected this historic neighbourhood to the core."—Paul
A bright, south facing loft in Toronto's Distillery District. 1 Bedroom + Den in the Pure Spirit building, with upgrades throughout. 10 foot ceilings help create an open feeling in this loft, which is completed with hardwood, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, abundant built in storage and sliding frosted glass panels to the bedroom.
The home's extensive custom lighting is also included – stylish and perfect for setting a mood for entertaining.
An ideal spot to explore Toronto's growing east side, from the shops and galleries of the immediate Distillery, to the restaurants and bars in Corktown and King East. This dynamic neighbourhood is undergoing a remarkable "reconnection" to the city, as new residential development to the north begins to connect, while the extensive Pan Am Games developments further encircle it.
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Led by CEO Rodney Thomason, MAHC's executive team has built a broadly diversified holding company from the ground up in less than a decade.
Beginning with four employees in 2000, management has grown the company through mergers, acquisitions and internal growth to nearly 300 employees and $70 million in annual revenues.
Within the management company are nearly 40 discrete businesses representing diverse categories of the healthcare management, delivery, services and supplies categories, along with hospitality and real estate holdings.
Chief Executive Officer
Rodney Thomason is a successful entrepreneur and corporate leader who has proven himself in diverse businesses. When the medical device company for which he was working sold in 2000, Thomason founded Medical Imaging Sales and Service – later renamed Southeast Imaging LLC – which now serves five states and represents well-known imaging brands such as Sectra PACS, Carestream, Quantum and Fuji Medical.
Thomason has since developed several additional medical-related companies, which include medical billing services, health care facility development and management, and senior living centers. He and his team established Medical Assets Holding Company in 2000 to provide administrative, payroll, financial management and other services for companies within the corporate family.
A native of Arkansas, Thomason attended the University of Arkansas and began his professional career in pharmaceutical sales before transitioning to medical equipment and real estate development. He is a member of the Arkansas Heart Hospital Foundation Board of Directors.
Scott Peek served in high-ranking management positions at Chambers Memorial Hospital in Danville for 32 years. As CEO, Peek oversaw all aspects of the facility – named a Top 100 hospital six years in a row – and answered to a seven-member board. Peek also oversaw $30 million in upgrades during his tenure.
Today as president, Peek is continuing his pursuit of quality as part of the Medical Assets Holding Company team. He now oversees overall operations, financials and goals for the company, which serves a wide variety of health care businesses.
Peek is a member and past president of Danville Chamber of Commerce, a member of the City Planning Commission, a member and past president of Lions Club, and a deacon at First Baptist Church in Danville. He holds a bachelor of business administration degree and a bachelor of science degree in economics and finance from Arkansas Tech University. He and his wife, Lisa, have three children and two grandchildren.
Director of Operations / Controller
Ann McClure has more than 10 years public accounting experience working in tax and management consulting. She brings over 20 years of overall accounting experience, from being accounting manager for a Memphis-based retail chain operating 400 locations to 5 years with a minor league baseball club where she was brought in to restructure the accounting and controls system, which eliminated massive amounts of waste. Her past experience became a valuable asset to Medical Assets Holding Company when McClure came on board in 2013. She works directly with Fox Ridge administrators, assisting in the operational decisions of each facility. In her role as controller, she works with the CFO in developing budgets for all entities managed by our organization while making sure the directors appropriately track progress within those budgets.
McClure holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting. She is originally from Memphis and relocated to Maumelle in 2003 where she resides with her husband, Jimmy. When she is not busy working, she enjoys following the University of Memphis Tigers basketball / football team and riding her bike along the banks of the Arkansas River.
Chief Financial Officer
Elwood Bonner joined the team in 2008 following a career of more than 30 years in public accounting. As president and owner of Bonner & Company, CPAs, from 1983 to 2008, he managed a 500-client firm specializing in construction and medical facilities. His career includes a number of noteworthy achievements: his management consulting business assisting two small mom-and-pop businesses to expand to multimillion-dollar companies; providing tax planning and consulting for a corporate retail chain with more than $40 million in annual sales; and developing specialized small-business fraud detection plans and uncovering 25+ cases totaling more than $2,000,000 in fraud.
As the external CPA for Medical Assets Holding Company since its formation, Bonner has been involved with tax returns and financial strategies for our companies throughout their development.
Bonner received his BBA in accounting from the University of Central Arkansas in 1976. He loves golf, hunting, fishing and traveling with his wife and daughter. Bonner and his wife attend New Life Church in Maumelle.