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As many people know, original creditors are treated differently than debt collectors. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) applies, by and large, just to debt collectors and gives original creditors a relatively free ride. So where do lawyers fit in? And should you sue them if you can?
Lawyers Can Be Debt Collectors
Lawyers are not protected under the FDCPA. They can be, and as a practical matter the one suing you probably is, a debt collector. However, if the lawyer is representing an original creditor and acting in its name, he will be treated as an original creditor. If you are being sued by a debt collector, chances are good that the lawyer is also a debt collector, you can pretty much count on it. He can be sued for things he does wrong.
Before you go suing the lawyer, though, there are two things you should know: one has to do with your legal rights, and the other is more of a practical consideration.
Respondeat Superior
There is a concept in the law that makes people responsible for the things people who are acting as their agents do. This is known as "respondeat superior." With a few exceptions, an employer is liable for the actions of an employee. That means a client is responsible for the actions of his or her lawyer. In general, this means that a debt collector is responsible for anything that its attorney does. Or to put it differently, you don't need to sue the lawyer to attack the debt collector.
Should you do it anyway, though?
Tactical Considerations
Whether or not it makes sense to sue the lawyer is not an easy decision. I know you take the lawsuit personally-it represents a large threat to your personal and financial well-being. Naturally you want to strike back, personally, at the human person you see on the other side. The question is, though, is this the decision most likely to give you the most benefit? Is it most likely to cause them to drop the case and leave you alone?
I don't know. Most of the time, the lawyers suing you regard your case from a purely business perspective attempting to maximize their profit and minimize the cost of suing you. And much of my approach to debt litigation has been to suggest that people exploit this business perspective by making your case unprofitable. That is relatively easy to do, although of course this isn't always enough. If you sue the lawyer, you change her motivation. Then, instead of it being a merely business decision, you increase the personal stakes for the lawyer. It makes things unpleasant for the lawyer, no doubt, but it also motivates them to work much harder in many cases. You have multiplied your enemies.
A Final Legal Consideration
If you are suing the lawyer, your claim is not exactly a "counterclaim." Instead, what you would probably do is counterclaim under the FDCPA against the debt collector and bring a third-party suit (within the same lawsuit) against the lawyer. The pleading is just called a third-party suit and names the lawyer as third-party defendant and states your claim in the same way the counterclaim did. Then the lawyer has to be served a summons. None of this is specially difficult, but it is time-consuming. Given the questionable benefit of suing the lawyer, I rarely thought it was worth spending the extra time. You'll have to decide what makes sense to do in your case.


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Bucket List, chores, crafts, DIY, lifestyle, lists, nature, outdoors, project life, Summer, sunburn, swim
So I began writing this neat and orderly post and just thought it was pretty boring. Instead this will most likely resemble the ramblings of a typical mom! I'd like to say I'm more organized and put together but the truth is, just like most moms I have good days and bad days. And lots of interruptions.
I really did have the best intentions! I was so proud of myself for creating a chore list that the kids were actually using and a bucket list with the promise of a perfect summer! Last week I even came out of my room to find my kids huddled around the fridge checking out what chores were to be done! This was one of those moments that went incredibly right! I was sure this was due to my amazing parenting skills and my angelic children. As it turns out it was the moment that was perfect and sadly it did not last too long.
As the week marched on we began our activities. We did go to one of the local pools and enjoyed the lovely weather. I was diligent enough to lather on the SPF 50 on my sweet kiddos (I even re-applied twice!!). Being the diligent mother I completely forgot to apply my own sunscreen! Ooops! Well after several hours of conquering the majestic water slides and floating in the lazy river it was time to head home!
It turns out that my kids still took in more sun than their delicate skin could handle. 😦 Of course you can conclude if they burnt I was roasted!! Next time we will definitely break out the SPF mayonnaise!! I suppose I should have realized how warm it was when even my poor phone gave me a temperature warning and quit!
Does everyone else get their initiation sunburn at the beginning of the summer? I mean it's not like I don't know how hot it is and that there is a possibility of turning into a crispy critter! [This same principle applies in the fall somewhere around Halloween. I see candy corn in a cute little bowl and think oooo a treat! I put one in my mouth only to realize I really really dislike candy corn!!]
Tangent aside, I was at the store a couple of days ago and upon my daughter's insistence we purchased SPF 110. I can't wait to test that one out!
After spending so much time in the sun and lathering on the aloe vera we have been hibernating inside with the air conditioning cranked down! We have crafted, watched movies and even worked on our Project Life album! I am still getting the hang of this but the kids are catching right on. Both of my girls are happy to write about their daily adventures!!
I can't wait to see what new adventures await our family this week!!

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There are many silicone skins for Apple's iPod, and the latest is from iPod gear specialist Proporta.
The Proporta Dual Skin Silicone Case for iPod nano features not one but two protective skins. These should prevent scratching and limit minor impact damage, and certainly stops the iPod slipping through your fingers with its distinctive side grips.
You can buy it in Black with Pink grips, White with clear grips, and grey/black.
There are the usual cutouts for access to the iPod's ports and controls so it is fully functional while wrapped up.
It comes with a "removable leash" or lanyard if you fancy swinging it around with you.
The Dual Skin Silicone Case prevents slips but this also means it doesn't slide in or out of you pocket as easily as it would uncased. Its double-layer skin probably offers better protection than one-skin silicon cases, but we doubt it would save the iPod from a particularly nasty drop.
The Dual Skin range is also available for the iPod touch, iPod classic and Apple iPhone.
The Proporta Dual Skin Silicone Case for iPod stands out from the silicon crowd with its two skins and fancy colour options.


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Top 10 Online Database App Builders to Create your PM Tool
Initially with static pages only, web development technologies such as scripting language allowed for more dynamic websites and web apps. Now, these technologies have advanced significantly to include APIs, web development frameworks, online work platforms, apps marketplace and software-as-a-service. In addition, online app builders are giving users the power to create their own business tools. Companies of all sizes, especially small and mid-sized enterprises, now have ready access to affordable and customizable web applications to boost their productivity and profitability.
The Top 10
In spite of the great number of choices, some companies and organizations with unique requirements are still looking for online applications that will work specifically for them. Below are our favorite ten that not only provide dependable core functions but also flexible technical platforms for the best possible combination.
1. Zoho Creator (* Editor's Choice *)
Zoho Creator is one of the more than 25 online applications that have been launched by Zoho Corporation. It allows for the user to easily build custom applications without the need for a developer or an extensive knowledge of programming. It is an app builder that uses drag-and-drop action and rules-based logic. It can get data from different sources but keep yours in one central place. The variety of apps that can be built is great including for project monitoring, project plans and tasks. It also has apps that integrate with iOS and Android devices.
2. Caspio
Caspio is a cloud-based platform that offers ready-made web applications as well as point-and-click tools to make your own. It allows users to create their own forms, reports, and database applications to help them run their business without being restricted by long and costly application development. Caspio, Inc., is a privately held Silicon Valley company that provides a complete solution of an online database software, app builder, cloud infrastructure and expert support. It also has a wide selection of instant apps that include task management and a very flexible price plan.
3. TeamDesk
TeamDesk: An easily accessible online database software by Long Grove, Illinois-based ForeSoft Corporation. With the help of many predefined database templates such as for project management and other business and industry-specific applications, users can build their database and customize their web-based application solutions. Clients all over the world are very satisfied with the flexibility of the software as well as the excellent customer support provided.
4. Knack
Knack is a simple online database software and app builder based in New York City, USA. It does this in three steps which are defining the database, building the interface, and sharing the data. From its experience in helping companies build online databases and web applications, it has recognized similar requirement patterns. Therefore, they made it easy by creating the building blocks of the applications for these requirements. Some of these applications are store locators, job portals, and for project management.
5. TrackVia
TrackVia is a business application platform with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Building an application can be started by uploading a spreadsheet containing data or starting from scratch. Users can then follow the step-by-step guide to build their own reports, dashboards, and input forms or connect to other web applications. It also has pre-built applications that provide complete business solution applications such as project management that has time tracking, milestones, automated reminders, reporting and collaboration.
6. Podio
Podio: A Citrix company with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark; and San Francisco, CA, USA. Podio is a work management platform with integrated chat, social collaboration, project management and automated workflows features. It is a highly flexible software that enables users to customize according to their specific structure and processes, easily include external partners for fast communication and collaboration, use data visualization on dashboards and reports, and provide granular administration control over user access. Apps are components that users can choose and combine from its Marketplace to create their own solutions using drag-and-drop technology. It also integrates with online file sharing services and other productivity apps, has extensions created by third-party developers, and email integration. The open API and mobile SDK allow users to build their own custom integrations.
7. QuickBase
Quick Base is an online database platform that can be used for any business solution. When a company's data is stored online, it can be accessed anywhere by the people who need it at anytime. It offers many kinds of web applications to make sense of this data. For example, it has ready-to-use project management, CRM or customer service solutions. Users can take advantage of team collaboration and full customization features.
8. ZenBase
ZenBase: An online database application builder created by Kayson Group Ltd, the Hong Kong-based creator of phpGrid. With a simple and easy-to-use interface, even non-technical users can create their business application in minutes. Data can be created from scratch or imported easily through a simple form. Some of the solutions that can be created on an accessible online platform are project management applications, product catalog, inventory management, employee directory and more. The hosted database service that supports role-based user and table permission control allows users to create, update, read and delete records, and use many interactive and inline editing controls, including images, progress bars, autocomplete texts and more.
9. Zengine
Zengine: An online database management platform from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based WizeHive. Non-technical business users can build powerful data-driven applications quickly with different workspace templates, an intuitive drag-and-drop forms builder, or by importing data from spreadsheet. It has advanced features, API's, Javascript developer tools, and a plugin marketplace that further enhance a flexible relational database application that links data to tasks, files and activities. Customer success stories always mention customer support's passion and care to assist clients.
10. Fusioo
Fusioo: An online database service from Fusioo Ltd, a Luqa, Malta-based IT software and service company. Together with a customizable database, ready-made template use cases and a growing apps marketplace, users are given the flexibility to build solutions they need as they need it. Features include a point-and-click, drag-and-drop interface to quickly set up an application that can collect, manage and track different types of data entered as records. Data grid controls, dashboards and charts for reports provide users more control of their information and real-time feedback. Secure ISO-compliant data centers, MS Azure servers and role-based permission provide a safe and accessible collaboration platform. A simple per user pricing scheme enables easy scaling up or down of users, and also allows external partner collaboration for free.
All these app builders have the ability to help a company build their own custom web applications. Quick Base and Knack seem to be more suitable for companies with a large database. Zoho Creator and Caspio are ideal for the more technical user as it allows for a high degree of customizability in the kind of applications that can be built. TrackVia and Zoho Creator leverage their easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface, while Quick Base offers several feature-rich, pre-built project management solutions, such as for simple projects and budgets, or the complete project manager apps.


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Or maybe have some levels with "potion eaters" : once discovered, everytime you move (uncover new tiles) they have a chance to eat one potion.
Other possible mecanism : when you hit them, but don't kill them, they teleport on one potion (whether it had been discovered or not). If it was an health potion they recover, if it was mana they get a stronger attack. To encourage picking potions, you could ahve them to teleport to the location of the potion at the beginning of the game. So if you picked some up, the potions are less likely to be eaten (and the monsters to regenerate).
Another solution : these monsters move slowly toward a potion until they get it (if the path is not blocked)


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This Day in Sports History — June 9
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on June 9:
1899 — James J. Jeffries knocked out defending world heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons in the 11th round of their fight at Coney Island in Brooklyn. (More info.)
1914 — Future Hall of Famer Honus Wagner became the second MLB player to record 3,000 hits. (More info.)
1973 — Ron Turcotte rode Secretariat to the first Triple Crown in 25 years via a 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes. (More info.)
1978 — Larry Holmes beat Ken Norton in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title. (More info.)
1985 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in the sixth game of their series to win the NBA championship in Boston Garden. (More info.)
1991 — The London Monarchs defeated the Barcelona Dragons 21-0 in the World League of American Football's first World Bowl. (More info.)
1993 — The Montreal Canadiens beat the L.A. Kings, four games to one, to win the Stanley Cup. (More info.)


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Obama to take 'year of action' to Minnesota
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is taking his "year of action" tour to Minnesota, heading to St. Paul on Wednesday to announce a new competition encouraging investments to create jobs and restore infrastructure.
Obama will be speaking at St. Paul's newly renovated Union Depot transportation hub.
The White House did not provide further details of the competition but described it as part of the president's "year of action," a series of policy initiatives the White House is undertaking without the help of Congress.
Last week, for example, Obama touted increased fuel efficiency standards for trucks at a Safeway distribution center in Maryland, highlighting steps the grocery store chain has taken to use less fuel in its fleet of trucks.
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This is a great help to the students as it gives them the overview of what we will be working with and shows them how quick and easy it is to create a JEE application in Netbeans - It takes the complexity fear out of them (to a certain extent).
I thought it would be a great help if this were available as a blog for others to follow. Comments will be most welcome, but not that this is pretty much off the cuff and bares no relevence to a real application.
I'll provide a time line to give you an idea of speed, my slow laptop and making it up as I go along should handicap my normal coding dexterity :)
10:51 - music selection, hmm, Black Keys, Brian Eno and David Byrne, Cake.
Ahh, Thickfreakness!
10:55 - Project creation
Using the defaults: Glassfish V2, Java EE 5, Create EJB Module, Create Web Application Module
This will create three projects - BooksDemo 'containing' BooksDemo-ejb and BooksDemo-war
11:02 - Create the Datastore
services' tag, right click on 'Java DB' and select 'Create Database' and create a database called 'BooksDemo' with username and password set to 'books' (I've found it doesn't work so well to not have username and password - go figure).
The creation will also start the database, if you go back to the services tab, you will be able to open and view the database.
Back to the project tab: select 'BooksDemo-ejb', right click -> new -> other -> Persistance -> Persistence Unit - > Next
I use the default unit name (BooksDemo-ejbPU) and for datasource select 'New Data Source' at the bottom of the dropdown. Then select the BooksDemo database you created earlier and make the JNDI name 'jdbc/booksDemo', leave the rest as default and finish.
Now for the Entity Object:
Back to the project tab: select 'BooksDemo-ejb', right click -> new -> other -> Persistance -> Entity Class -> Next
Classname 'Book', package 'com.example.book.model' the rest default and finish.
In the Book class, create a new field 'name' as a String field: <alt>INSERT -> Add Property: make the name 'name' and select OK.
11:15 - Create the SessionBean
In the project tab: select 'BooksDemo-ejb', right click -> new -> other ->Java EE -> Session Bean -> Next
Call it 'BookService', package 'com.example.book.service', the rest default.
Now we are going to create two 'business' methods: getAll and add for retrieving all books and add a book to the datastore.
<ALT>INSERT -> Add Business Method with name 'getAll' with return type 'List<Book>'
<ALT>INSERT -> Add Business Method with name 'add' and add a parameters called 'book' of type 'Book'.
Next fix the imports - <CTRL>-<SHIFT>-I (in the interface as well)
Next we need a handle on the persistance unit: Right click in the BookServiceBean -> Persistence -> Use Entity Manager
You will now have something like the diagram above.
Now we need to use the EntityManager to store and retrieve the books: for the getAll method:
return em.createQuery("select b from Book b").getResultList();
for the add method:
11:31 - The Web
We are going to edit the index.jsp ading a form to add a book and retrieve a list of books.
hmm, we need a Servlet to act as the action storing the book first:
On the 'BooksDemo-war' (note its 'war', dammit) right click -> new -> other -> Web -> Servlet -> Next
Class Name: 'BookAdd'
package: 'com.example.book.web.action'
the rest is default, click 'next' and 'finish' (note that the servlet will be called using '/BookAdd' in the URL.
Add the SessionBean by <ALT>-INSERT (in the servlet class) -> Call Enterprise Bean and select the BookServiceBean and OK.
Edit the 'processRequest' method, take everything out and replace it with the following:
Book book = new Book();
We can see if we are on the right track so far: in the project tab, select the 'BooksDemo' projec, right click and 'Run'
This took me 1 min 6 sec..
You should see 'Hello World!' in your browser, this is the index.jsp we haven't edited yet.
Add 'BookAdd?name=test' to the URL in the browser navigation thingy, you should be redirected to the index page, so you will not see anything of value in the browser. this is good. if you see stack traces, bummer.
Go to the Services tab, select Database, select the BooksDemo database, Tables, Book -> right click -> View Data, you should see a record in the table with the name 'test', Hurrah!
11:50 - The index.jsp
Under 'Web Pages' in the 'BooksDemo-war' project you will find the index.jsp page, open it and add the following code after '
Hello World!
':
<form method="post" action="BookAdd">
<input name="name"/>
<button type="submit">add</button>
Save it, reload your browser and you should see a form with one input field and an 'add' button, enter a name for a new book and press 'add'. Check that you have a new record in the database.
Custom Tag
BooksDemo-war' right click -> new -> other -> Web -> Tag Library Descriptor -> next
TLD Name: books
default for the rest and click 'finish'
On the 'BooksDemo-war' right click -> new -> other -> Web ->Tag Handler -> Next
Class Name: BookTag
Package: com.example.book.web.tag
default for the rest and click 'Next'
TLD File: WEB-INF/tlds/books.tld (browse to it)
Tag Name: book
default for the rest and click 'finish'
In the BookTag class, <ALT>-INSERT -> Call Enterprise Bean and select BookServiceBean.
Next, remove everything from the 'doTag' method and add the following:
BookServiceLocal bookServiceBean = lookupBookServiceBean();
List<Book> books = bookServiceBean.getAll();
for(Book book: books){
getJspContext().setAttribute("book", book);
You will also need to throw the IOException.
Back to index.jsp,at the top of the page add the following directive:
under the '<%@page' directive,
Note: you can <CTRL>-SPACE to auto complete the uri.
(sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell)
Then add the following under the form:
If you reload your browser you should have a list of your book under the form:
The project seems to slow down once we reach the web side of things, but maybe one day we'll have a better way of creating web applications :)


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On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial showing you how to use Swift Mailer, a popular (and well-established) mailing tool.
Sending emails programmatically is a common task that programmers must deal with often. Although you can use PHP's native functions, they can be too low-level, especially when you want to attach one or more files to your message. If you don't want to use the native functions, or if you want to send mail using an object-oriented approach, then this is the article for you. I'll introduce you to Swift Mailer, a powerful component-based library that let's you send emails easily. Started in 2005, Swift Mailer is a library that provides several classes that allow you to send emails from within your PHP scripts or web applications.
Included in the post are a basic example of sending a plain-text email, working with attachments and including a template into the body of the message (with spots to fill text in).


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Last winning a sixth term on February 27, 2007 by a 70% majority, most observers expected he'd seek another in 2011, but not so. The Chicago Tribune, on September 7, announced it, headlining, "Daley won't run for re-election: 'I have done my best,' saying:
"Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011," saying it's:
"time for me, it's time for Chicago to move on. The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months. In the end, this is a personal decision, no more, no less. I have always known that people want you to work hard for them. Clearly, they won't agree always with you. Obviously, they don't like it when you make a mistake. But at all times, they expect you to lead, to make difficult decisions, rooted in what's right for them."
For 21 years, that's what I've tried to do. But today, I am announcing that I will not seek a 7th term as mayor of the city of Chicago."
One reason may be his wife's health, battling breast cancer since 2002 as well as recovering from leg surgery, damaged by cancer and radiation treatment.
His popularity is also at issue, summer polls showing over half of Chicago voters saying they don't want him back:
Besides crime, corruption, and other issues, the weak economy is key. It forced budget cuts, staff reductions, mass teacher layoffs, and a record $655 million budget shortfall, a combination leaving all city politicians vulnerable and defensive. At least half a dozen aldermen won't run again, voter dissatisfaction affecting them like Daley.
In early 2010, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel expressed interest in the job, though never by challenging the incumbent, whom he served as strategist and fundraiser in his first campaign. He's now unencumbered, the UK Telegraph's Alex Spillius headlining on June 20, "Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House," saying:
At issue are policy and style differences as well as burnout from the pressure of "one of the most high profile jobs in US politics," a leading Democrat consultant saying:
"Nobody thinks it's working but they can't get rid of him - that would look awful. He needs the right sort of job to go to but the consensus is he'll go."
Another insider expects he'll announce it after the November midterm elections that look grim for Democrats. "It is well known in Washington" that Emanuel often clashes with other administration officials, his abrasive style "rubb(ing) some people the wrong way," while struggling to smooth Obama's legislative program through Congress. "Every vote has been tough, from health care to energy to financial reform," and some have been stalled.
"Emanuel (also) reportedly told friends that his role as White House chief of staff was 'only an eighteen month job' because of its intensity." It involves controlling and promoting the president's agenda, enforcing discipline, and liaising with Congress. Look for his announced decision, perhaps shortly after November 2 when the results are in, the new Congress is announced, and the dust settles. According to friends, he wants to go home, his birth city, where he served six years in the House representing Illinois' 5th congressional district.
On September 8, The Hill writer Jordan Fabian headlined, "Axelrod hints Emanuel may run for Chicago mayor," saying:
He "hinted strongly" that he's "weighing a bid for Chicago's open mayoral" position....(Obama's senior advisor) Axelrod's comments....one of the strongest suggestions" that he plans a run. On NBC's Today Show, he said he'll "make his decision in due time."
On September 14, Chicago Sun Times writer Lynn Sweet headlined, "Rahm's pollster asking about a run for mayor," saying:
Stanley Greeberg will "survey Chicagoans about (his) potential mayoral bid," Emanuel also "activat(ing) his Chicago network of pals to reach out to (local) political figures....on his behalf." Last week, in fact, Obama "said he would make an excellent mayor," but he'll need more than that, as well as handling potential challengers. Former Senator Carol Mosley Braun is one, signaling a comeback under the "Carol for Chicago" banner.
Born in Chicago, his political career began in a number of capacities in local and national politics, including:
He joined his 1991 primary campaign, worked in his "War Room," and served as senior advisor from 1993 - 1998. Initially he was Assistant to the President for Political Affairs but was fired for his profane, abrasive style, rubbing many around him the wrong way, earning the nickname "Rahmbo."
In the late 1980s, he once sent a rotting fish to a pollster whom he accused of conducting inaccurate and poorly prepared research, and clashed often with others around him.
Nonetheless, he recouped by lobbying Congress for NAFTA, worked to reinvent Clinton as a centrist, and became a leading White House strategist. Politico called him "a consistent voice for anti-crime measures, welfare reform and other initiatives that pushed against liberal orthodoxy," besides being one-sided for Israel and pro-business, essential credentials for aspiring politicians.
From 1999 - 2002, he was managing director for the Chicago investment bank firm Dresdner, Kleinwort, Wasserstein, earning a reported $18 million, a near impossible feat for a newcomer leaving some to ask how. He then left after being elected to Congress, his first term beginning on January 3, 2003.
In 2005, he was named Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair, heading fundraising efforts to increase the party's congressional representation, saying in his new role "winning is everything." On November 6, 2008, Obama named him chief of staff. With the nation facing economic depression, he told the Wall Street Journal:
"You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is that's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before," and he didn't mean populist ones.
In Congress, he was the fourth ranked House Democrat. A hawk, neoliberal, and pro-Israeli hard-liner, now deceased Chicago activist/investigative reporter, and founder and chairman of the Citizens Committee to Clean up the Courts, Sherman Skolnick, called him the "acting deputy chief for North America of Mossad."
His father, Benjamin Emanuel (changed from Auerbach in 1936 by his grandfather Exekiel), a Jerusalem-born pediatrician, was involved, pre-1948, with smuggling weapons to the Irgun. The terror group, headed by former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, conducted regular massacres and targeted assassinations, including the infamous 1946 King David Hotel bombing, killing 91 and injuring dozens more.
Emanuel is as hard line as his father, dismissive of Palestinian interests, and in 1991, served as a civilian IDF volunteer during the Gulf War. It's believed he holds dual citizenships, a dubious status for a top White House official.
In Congress and as chief of staff, he supports Israeli belligerency and ruthless occupation. He also backs the Iraq and Afghan wars, other proxy ones, America's imperial dominance, the "War on Terror," and as a shameless neoliberal, drastic social cuts to pay for them. He's for business, not populist interests, and his abrasive style makes him intolerable of other views and people sharing them.
He's also a prominent Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) member, the far-to-the-right-of center organization Ralph Nader calls "corporatist (and) soulless," ideologically like Republicans. He and the DLC are anti-populist, anti-labor, anti-welfare, pro-business, strongly for US imperialism, militarism, global wars, and world dominance. Nader explained that:
"To the DLC mind, Democrats are catering to 'special interests' when they stand up for trade unions, regulatory consumer-investor protections, a preemptive peace policy overseas, pruning the bloated military budget now devouring (the federal budget), defending Social Security from Wall Street schemes, and pressing for universal health care coverage. So right-wing is the DLC....that even opposing Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy....is considered ultra-liberal and contrary to winning campaigns."
DLC members are hardline against rights for Blacks, Hispanics, Latino immigrants, Muslims, labor, the poor, consumer protections, populism, progressivism, environmental protection, peace and those for it, prosecuting corporate criminals, honest elections, and democratic governance.
Emanuel strongly advocates these and other far right positions, leaving longtime residents like this writer uneasy over him as mayor. If he runs the city like the White House, Chicagoans may yearn for Daley back, despite his pro-business, anti-populist agenda, earning him Time magazine's 2005 recognition as "the nation's top urban executive," and 2009 Wall Street Journal praise as "The President's Mayor, a fix-it, problem-solving man."
Emanuel replacing him will create, not alleviate the many now plaguing the city, a cross ordinary Chicagoans bear most plus whatever greater burden he'll add. Where are you Harold Washington when you're needed? By defeating the Daley machine, he became Chicago's first Black mayor (April 29, 1983 - November 25, 1987) until his premature death, remembered fondly as "Harold, the People's Mayor," the title of Dempsey Travis' 1988 book about him.
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New York Theatre Ballet Moves Its Relevés Downtown
By Marina Harss, The New York Times
Friday February 13, 2015
New York Theatre Ballet Moves Its Relevés Downtown
By Marina Harss, The New York Times
Friday February 13, 2015
A Treasured New York Icon Fights to Survive: New York Theatre Ballet Evicted
By Carla Escoda, The Huffington Post
Wednesday September 11, 2013
A beloved New York City institution is losing its home after 34 years, its impending demise another reminder that this world capital of arts and culture has become inhospitable to all but the behemoths. Details
The Scoop on New York Theatre Ballet
By Jill Feigelman, New York Family
Tuesday January 1, 2013
New York Family's Jill Feigelman visits our studio and discusses NYTB, teaching, our LIFT program, and the love of dance with Diana Byer.
Diana Byer: How I Teach Cecchetti
By Jenny Dalzell, Dance Teacher
Friday June 1, 2012
... artistic director Diana Byer uses the Cecchetti syllabus to train her dancers. Though it's one of the oldest existing systems of ballet pedagogy, she stresses that it is not an antiquated method as teachers continue to breathe life into the training. It's an ideal syllabus for students who also study modern and jazz dance and perform a wide range of choreography. Its unadorned qualities train students to move strongly and purely, without stylistic idiosyncrasies.
Outfitting The Nutcracker
By Alexandra Cheney, The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday November 15, 2011
Twenty six years after she designed the costumes for choreographer Keith Michael's production of "The Nutcracker," Slyvia Nolan still has sugar plum fairies dancing in her head. Although she spends most of her year as the resident costume designer for the Metropolitan Opera, a position she's held since 1997, this year Ms. Nolan is reuniting with Mr. Michael and the New York Theatre Ballet to help create a fresh "Nutcracker," with new costumes, sets and dances. Details
One Apartment, Two Very Different 'Nutcrackers' by James Barron, November 2011
By James Barron, The New York Times
Monday November 14, 2011
"It's the grueling time," Mr. Michael explained. "It's Nutcracker' season." He and Mr. Parker are choreographers working on two distinctly different versions of "The Nutcracker," the ballet that, for audiences, is a hardy holiday perennial, with Drosselmeyer, toys that come to life and even fighting mice. Details


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No sooner had Gabby Douglas dismounted from the podium clutching gymnastic gold, then observers began speculating on the other riches she'd be pulling in from corporate marketing deals. Her face already graced the boxes of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, and that was just the beginning.
Every four years, it's same the story: an athlete wins a high-profile event, and the buzz starts about the millions of dollars to be raked in from corporate sponsorship deals. For US high achievers like swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte and gymnasts Aly Raisman and Ms. Douglas or their peers from other nations – here's looking at you, Usain Bolt – the Summer Olympic Games look like a financial bonanza. The fame of gold medals could be worth as much as several million dollars per year.
But these tales of personal riches are the exception, not the rule. Of all athletes, Americans enjoy some of the richest potential for reaping income from corporate sponsorships and product endorsement deals. But the flow of money is uneven and sometimes comes with pitfalls.
Take the example of US hurdlers Lolo Jones and Dawn Harper. Their excellence is in a sport that, unlike tennis or basketball, enters the TV limelight only once every four years.
Ms. Jones has had more success with corporate sponsors than Ms. Harper, who was a gold medalist in Beijing. That contrast served as the backdrop when Jones found herself this week in a negative spotlight for the financial side of her career. A New York Times article painted Jones as an athlete whose "sad and cynical marketing campaign" has made her more visible than teammates who are better performers on the track.
Jones, who crashed over a hurdle and out of gold contention in 2008, said she had been "ripped to shreds" by the criticism, which she called unfair. In the end, she proved to be a contender in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing fourth and just a tenth of a second out of a bronze medal. Harper again medaled – silver – while Australian Sally Pearson won gold and US teammates Kellie Wells got the bronze.
The big story here is not whether Jones deserves to have more sponsors than Harper. It's the more basic point: Like Harper, most Olympic athletes aren't rolling in money. The corporate deals that do come their way (Harper is backed by Nike) enable their athletic quest but not a cushy lifestyle.
This reality came into view early in the London Games, when many athletes used the social network Twitter to publicize their protest against an International Olympic Committee mandate known as rule 40. The rule says athletes can't advertise for their sponsors during the two weeks in London, unless the company is an official sponsor of the Olympics.
US track and field athlete Nick Symmonds, among others, tweeted that "many have gotten rich using Olympic athletes' free labor." He and others made the case that athletes would be valued more highly by corporations if their marketing visibility could extend to the Olympic Games themselves. That, in turn, might give more athletes the means to train and compete in their sports.
A few superstars, inevitably, become the most visible in ads targeted at the mainstream. For Ms. Douglas and Ms. Raisman, who have become instant household names, the first offers are likely the start of a flood of opportunities.
Mr. Phelps already enjoyed a ubiquitous presence even before these Games. Now, with his London performance making him the most decorated Olympian ever, he stands to rake in big money for years to come.
Sometimes, young athletes face tough choices about whether to accept corporate cash or not.
Missy Franklin, who may be the US women's answer to Phelps in the swimming pool, has launched her Olympic career by winning four golds and a bronze (plus setting two world records) as a teenager in London.
Sports marketing experts say Ms. Franklin might earn $2 million a year or more by saying "yes" to companies that want to hitch their products to her rising star.
Yet her avowed interest, so far at least, is to pursue college-level competition, where amateur-only rules ban such income.


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In late 2005, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) executives in the agency's Office of Information Management realized they were plagued by aging infrastructure and spiraling maintenance costs as they kicked off an effort to modernize IT service offerings.
Like many organizations with a growing base of servers, they turned to virtualization, a process that uses software to partition a physical server into multiple virtual environments.
Older servers dedicated to a single application might use only 10 percent of total computing capacity. By virtualizing those machines and moving to fewer physical servers, organizations can realize savings in maintenance, energy and floor space. The method offers relief to fast-growing organizations that are running out of space and power in the data center.
"We got into virtualization originally for the cost avoidance on maintaining a sprawling fleet of aging servers," said the FDA's CIO, Timothy Stitely. Cutting back on the 800 Wintel servers also reduced the data center footprint as the FDA prepares to move to a new building in 2008.
"In January 2006, we identified 325 servers that could eventually be virtualized," he said. Two months later, with help from consultant Booz Allen Hamilton, the FDA used VMware software for a pilot project that migrated 28 physical servers to a virtual machine environment on a cluster of three physical servers.
The move eliminated the need for almost two full-sized racks in the data center. "We were able to cut maintenance costs $75,000 per year for the first 20 servers virtualized," Stitely said. The goal is to virtualize 400 of the FDA's 800 servers by the end of fiscal 2009.
Other benefits of virtualization include improved application stability and uptime. When they need to do hardware maintenance, network staff can do a "live migration" to another physical server. Then, they can finish the maintenance and migrate back to the original server. It eliminates downtime for users.
Joseph Klosky, the FDA's chief technology officer, said virtualization drastically reduced the time it takes to set up new servers. "Our virtual server team can create a server that is loaded with all our add-ons and patches on a disk image. Then, they can just pull the trigger to create a new instance of a server."
Moving Into the Mainstream
The FDA example is fairly typical of how organizations begin virtualizing, said Barb Goldworm, president of Boulder, Colo.-based Focus Consulting. They start looking at it as part of a consolidation strategy and are drawn by the total-cost-of-ownership benefits, said Goldworm, who is also the author of Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs.
Although virtualization has entered the mainstream, the transition process is still in the beginning stage. About 75 percent of large organizations have started down the path to some degree, Goldworm said, but only about 5 percent of those organizations' servers have been virtualized. She estimated that only 20 percent to 40 percent of government organizations have begun the process.
"But smaller groups like city governments, because they tend to be in a homogeneous environment that is not as complex, are able to achieve results more quickly than larger organizations," she said.
The virtualization market is hot. Research from IDC projects that the virtualization services market will grow to $11.7 billion in 2011 from $5.5 billion in 2006. So far, virtualization software has been dominated by Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, a subsidiary of EMC Corp. But both Microsoft, and Citrix Systems, with its recent purchase of virtualization software firm XenSource, are poised to challenge VMware in this developing market space.
Speeding up Provisioning
CIO Debbie Karcher said virtualization has brought multifold benefits to Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The Florida district, the fourth largest in the country with 367 schools and a $5.7 billion budget, began implementing VMware in conjunction with HP BladeSystem servers three years ago. The district now has 240 virtual servers in use, and it hasn't purchased new server hardware in a year.
The virtualization effort came just in time. Karcher's Office of Information Technology Services was running out of rack space in the computer room and faced limitations on air conditioning and electricity.
"The quiet savings of the virtualization process is that it has extended the life of our 30-year-old building," said Karcher.
The school district has retired more than 100 aging servers, which Craig Rinehart, administrative director of business and operational services, called "just the low-hanging fruit."
One key benefit, Rinehart explained, is the ability to establish new application servers much more quickly. When the district was buying physical servers, it could take up to six weeks between the user request and getting the application operating on the server. In the virtual environment, that can happen in half an hour. The school district eliminated a backlog of requests and now has greater flexibility when provisioning new applications.
The school district executives count $1.5 million in savings in hardware, maintenance and staff time. Those estimates don't include space, power and cooling savings, Karcher and Rinehart said.
But cost savings haven't persuaded some IT executives to move forward with virtualization. Some have decided not to pursue it because they don't think their staff has the skills to pull it off, said Steve Kaplan, president of AccessFlow, a virtualization consulting firm in Sacramento, Calif. Those fears are usually unfounded. "You do need to smart, competent people," Kaplan said, "but this is going to save your staff time."
Karcher and Rinehart said they feel lucky that they had a strong team with an interest in new technologies that could handle the transition to virtual servers.
But even if they had been forced to hire consultants to manage the transition, they would have gone ahead anyway. "This is such a big, good deal that even if you have to buy services to do it, you should still do it," Rinehart said.
Besides, he added, all organizations are running up against cooling and power limitations in their data centers. "If you are going to continue to grow, it can't be with all physical servers. Virtualization has to be part of the solution."
Still, there are obstacles.
Some software vendors are reluctant to support products in a virtual environment. When customers call with service problems, vendors might ask customers to load the software onto a physical server before addressing the problem.
If internal customers or vendors try to argue against virtualization, Karcher said her organization pushes back hard. She asks people to prove it won't work in a virtual environment.
The growing virtualization market may force software vendors to support it, yet Goldworm suggests CIOs check with their key software vendors about support and licensing policies about virtualization before proceeding.
Getting New Orleans Up and Running
Virtualization can also become an essential part of a disaster recovery plan. By separating the software from the physical box, IT groups aren't bound to a specific piece of hardware, explained Goldworm. "That makes disaster recovery much simpler to do," she said.
Virtualization helped the city government of New Orleans begin the city's ongoing recovery after Hurricane Katrina struck, said Anthony Jones, CIO of New Orleans.
Before Katrina, New Orleans had servers in 40 different locations, and the city was working on a consolidation plan. When several buildings were damaged in the flood, many city employees couldn't access servers, he explained.
"Our connectivity was underwater," Jones said.
Working with consultants from systems integrator Ciber Inc., the city quickly deployed 20 Dell Blade Servers and VMware software. "Using backups, we gathered data, created virtual servers and got departments back up and running," he said. "Without the virtualization, we could have done it eventually, but it would have taken a lot longer." New Orleans also set up an agreement with Austin, Texas, to replicate its critical servers as a redundancy measure.
Jones said virtualization is helping to change the way the city does business. "We were moving in this direction, and Katrina just escalated what needed to be done."
While consolidation is usually the motivating factor behind virtualization efforts, CIOs are finding many other benefits involving maintenance, disaster recovery and provisioning. Above all, they like the flexibility to respond more rapidly to internal customers' requests for new servers.
As Jones put it, "It's so much more convenient to easily scale up than by adding hardware. If there's a new application to support, we don't have to add another server. We can configure and deploy almost instantaneously, so we cut our implementation costs drastically."


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Even in the afterlife, ghosts like to get it on, according to an Ohio family who says they saw it first-hand in their living room and caught it on camera.
Don't worry, their local station is on the story, complete with shadowy footage, Halloween music and a host speaking by the light of a single match. From Fox 8:
According to Dianne Carlisle, there is some afterlife hanky-panky going on inside her Euclid home. "It look like, like ghosts having sex in my living room! They are having sex, you can see the lady's high heeled shoes!"
Dianne swears it's true and she has pictures of the dirty deed, if you believe. The photos were snapped by her granddaughter, Kimora, 4, while she was playing with Dianne's cell phone in the living room. According to Dianne, an apparition is visible showing some ghostly relations.
"I never seen anything like this," said Dianne. "I mean, ghosts still have feelings? [They're] having sex?"
In the past, Dianne has experienced visits from the beyond. Several years ago, in fact, she claims to have seen a little girl that also appeared before her daughter, De'Onna Burnett. "I'm not playing with no ghosts, like, it was just standing there watching me," said De'Onna.


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Art museum attendance statistics are never far from the headlines. A more forensic look below ranks museums by the number of visitors relative to their Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). This allows for a comparison based not on total attendance alone, but on performance relative to the available audience. The results are skewed somewhat, since museums in the largest metropolitan areas have mass tourism, which benefits their ranking. Taking that factor into consideration, in a recent study the best attended art museum relative to its potential audience was the Toledo Museum of Art:
To the Editor:
For decades, American cultural leaders have looked to Europe with admiration for government support of the arts. But as reported in " 'This Space for Rent': In Europe, Arts Now Must Woo Commerce" (Arts pages, Jan. 24), European authorities have skipped past reforming their tax codes to encourage private patronage as the United States does, and have gone straight to emulating commercial enterprises. The Dutch government has even announced its intention to index public support to museum attendance.
It's essential to measure the contribution a museum makes to society — and easiest to count heads. Art museums in the United States have accordingly turned to populist fare to build attendance. But the vast majority of museum expense goes not to shows but toward caring for collections and engaging visitors — which is why museums can't charge their way to solvency.
The contribution they make rests on being stewards of our shared creative past and on offering one of the last noncommercial harbors of experiences and ideas.
The "blockbuster" was the name invented for a bomb intended to devastate targets. Let's not let blockbusters reduce our treasure houses to multiplexes with adjoining but neglected permanent collections.
Maxwell L. Anderson
Indianapolis, Jan. 27, 2011
Essays on the burgeoning commercialization of the art world.
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Irish food is dreadful.
I am allowed to say that as I am mostly Irish — a bit black Irish on my father's side, a wee bit lace curtain Irish on my mother's. Growing up, our father frequently reminded us that we were a shunned minority, the Irish Catholics. Newspapers in New York would portray Irish revelers as angry, drunken monkeys. Seriously. We knew all the Irish jokes: What is a seven-course Irish meal? A six pack and a potato. Irish foreplay? "Honey, I'm home!" Ha ha.
Struggling to find palatable Irish recipes on the Internet I came across the Irish food pyramid. At the bottom, potatoes. Next, meat, then whiskey, ales, stouts, and lagers. At the narrow top, "everything else." Ha ha.
Interestingly, the dish most associated with Irish cuisine and St. Patrick's Day, corned beef and cabbage, isn't even Irish. It's British, and the Irish originally prepared it with fatty bacon, not corned beef. It was the Jewish butchers on the Lower East Side who introduced poor Irish immigrants to corned beef as a substitute for the more "dear," that is expensive, bacon.
Who was St. Patrick and why do we celebrate him on March 17th? Well, faith and begorra, he wasn't Irish either! He was a British lad who, at the age of 16 (in the 5th century), was captured by Irish raiders and worked as a sheep herder for years. Lonely, shy, and isolated, he was reportedly prone to visions. One of these visions urged him to escape and return to his homeland. When he did, he became a priest and returned soon after to Ireland to convert the pagans to Christianity. He used the beloved shamrock, a symbol of spring and rebirth, as a three-sided symbol to represent the Holy Trinity. He also had a knack for converting wealthy women who became nuns, opened nunneries, and used their wealth to convert others. He died on March 17, 461.
The first St. Patrick's Day parade was not held in Ireland. It took place in New York City on March 17, 1762, to honor Irish soldiers serving in the English military. New York City's parade is the world's oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States.
The staples of the early Irish diet were cereals and dairy produce. Oats, barley, wheat, and rye were used to prepare porridge, gruel, roasted grain dishes, meal pastes, and coarse flat breads. Wheat flour was considered a luxury and only used for raised breads during festivals and holy days. According to the rules of hospitality, around the 7th and 8th century, if any noble folk showed up at your door, you had to give them "four cakes to each man with their condiment, and their seasoning." These could be stalks of fresh onion, or fish, or honey.
Because dairy products — milk, cheeses, and butter — were considered of greater value than beef, the Irish ate more pork, lamb, and mutton. In medieval Ireland, the deciduous woodlands and inland waterways provided venison, wild boar, hazelnuts, berries, crabapples, watercress, wood sorrel, wild garlic, and freshwater fish. Salmon was served fresh or pickled.
One reason native Irish foods remain peasant in character is that until well into the 19th century standard cooking utensils were as limited as the foods available in most rural communities. There was an open cooking pot, a cast iron pot, and a griddle. Cooking was confined to an open fire; boiling and baking were the only options. The national dishes, Irish mutton stew, boxty, champ, colcannon, soda bread, and oatcakes have survived in popularity because their roots run so deep.
Perhaps you'll celebrate St. Patrick's Day by going into the city and watching the 251st parade with grand marshall Francis X. Comerford, chief revenue officer and president of commercial operations for NBC. Or perhaps you'll head out to Montauk on March 25th for the 50th annual St. Patrick's Day parade and drink and dance and be merry, and perhaps do your best to enlarge the local newspaper's police blotter.
As for me, I'll be sipping a Guinness and wrestling with some ancient Irish recipes, attempting to turn them into more modern and palatable dishes. I'm allowed to say that, I am Irish. Kiss me.


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Juan Alameda spent the past year in the Ramsey County Jail, trying to prove he shouldn't be deported to Mexico.
Except for the work of a volunteer legal team, he could be on the way back to a country he hasn't seen in nearly two decades, away from his children.
Born in Mexico in 1962, Alameda has lived in the United States since 1991, when his father, a U.S. citizen from Texas, sponsored him so he could legally enter the country and obtain permission to work here.
His mother, a native of Mexico, died in Willmar, Minn., several years ago. Though he was born abroad, as the son of a U.S. citizen Alameda was eligible for U.S. citizenship. But the burden was on him to prove it.
If he couldn't, he would join the dozens of people federal authorities deport to Mexico every Wednesday at noon, when a flight leaves the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport bound for the Mexican border. Federal authorities repatriated more than 6,000 people from the Upper Midwest last year, the vast majority to Mexico.
Most of them have no legal way to stay in the country, or little or no wherewithal to press their case. Alameda did.
Alameda followed his brother to Minnesota about 10 years ago. He had a green card and worked in poultry processing plants in Willmar and St. James.
He and his girlfriend had two daughters together, 12-year-old Selena, named for the Tejano music superstar who died in 1995, and Karla, 7. The girls' names are tattooed in cursive on his neck. For years, Alameda didn't see them.
Authorities charged him with beating up a man he suspected was dating his girlfriend. Then Alameda was jailed on a drug charge.
He served 35 months in prison for those two crimes. Then Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to deport him. The agency's top priority is deporting criminals.
When Alameda arrived at detention court in Bloomington last February, volunteer attorneys and law students with the Detention Project screened his case. Overseeing the legal triage that day was Paula Duthoy, who runs the immigration clinic at William Mitchell College of Law.
When the lawyers interviewed Alameda they asked if he had a green card. When he said "yes," that led to more questions -- and opened a potential path to freedom.
"How did you get your green card? How did you get your residence?" the law students asked. "Well, my dad's a U.S. citizen," Alameda replied.
"Oh! Well then we'd better look," recalled Duthoy. "Are you a citizen?"
The Detention Project claims to rescue U.S. citizens from deportation proceedings each year. Duthoy remembers the day she found two citizens on their way to being deported. She kept them in the United States.
"I would say that it's quite rare," said Tim Counts, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. "What is not rare is people who are not U.S. citizens who falsely claim to be U.S. citizens. In fact, that's something that happens every day across the country."
The federal government spent nearly $30,000 to keep Alameda in custody while he fought his citizenship case. He was a mandatory detainee because of his criminal record.
From behind bars, Alameda had to furnish proof that he met the criteria for "birth abroad" citizenship. With the help of Roger Junnila, a volunteer attorney with the Detention Project, and William Mitchell law students, Alameda proved his father is a citizen of the United States, that his parents were married, and that he was born in Mexico.
Citizenship would hinge on meeting a fourth requirement: That the elder Alameda, born in 1930, lived in the United States for 10 years before his son was born in 1962.
Five of those years must have been after his father turned 14. Today the requirement is five years total.
Sam Alameda is certain he's been here for decades.
"Most of my life I lived here in the United States," Alameda, 79, said by phone from his home in Beaumont, Texas.
Sam Alameda has a fourth grade education. He always worked in restaurants that paid him in cash. He never held a driver's license or owned a car. Because he lived with his aunt in Texas as a young man, he didn't have rent receipts.
Junnila describes the elder Alameda's existence as "sub rosa." He left no paper trail. And there was another problem.
Even if he had hung onto some scrap of paper placing him in the United States during the 1930s, '40s or '50s, hurricanes Rita and Ike swept through the Texas gulf region, flooding his home twice.
"In my living room it was raining," Sam Alameda said. "It took all the papers. I don't have nothing like that."
Alameda couldn't help his son.
So Junnila and the William Mitchell law students contacted every state and federal agency they could think of to piece together Sam Alameda's early life in Texas. The only public document linking him to Texas was a selective service registration for 1956.
Junnila's folder on the Alameda case was thick with dead-ends.
"In desperation, we started having Juan write letters to his father and to his relatives saying, 'Would someone please help my dad find information?'" said Junnila. "Juan would sit in jail and write these letters, and I'd mail them out to his siblings and his father and everybody else."
Nobody wrote back.
Juan Alameda's pro bono legal team finally had to rely on affidavits from people who knew Sam Alameda back in the decades before his son was born, and could vouch for him living in Texas. The team members crossed their fingers and waited. They'd pursue the case as long as Alameda was willing to stick it out in jail.
Last week the lawyers got a call from Alameda, who told them he would receive his citizenship and be released. Federal immigration authorities say they can't comment on the case because of privacy rules.
A few days later, Alameda stood in a suit and tie outside the Citizenship and Immigration office in Bloomington, holding his signed certificate of citizenship.
"I'm happy," he said.
Alameda thanked God for giving him citizenship.
Paula Duthoy, the William Mitchell attorney who first flagged his case, spent that morning helping new detainees sort out their legal options. None of them were U.S. citizens, and most chose to be sent back to Mexico, the Philippines, Senegal and other countries.
When Duthoy congratulated Alameda and eyed his certificate, she noticed something.
"They wouldn't let you change your clothes when they took your picture?" she asked Alameda.
"No," he replied.
Alameda's permanent document of citizenship shows him in his orange jail uniform -- a reminder of the price he paid to prove it.


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Merry Post-Christmas!
Of course, my teenage son thought this would be a good time to go out and visit some friends. He was very put out when I told him to stay home.
That evening, one of the local ambulances got stuck in the driveway at the firehouse, effectively bottling the emergency services in the station until the ambulance was pulled out by a tow truck. Number One Son began to have an idea of how bad the roads were.
Christmas morning, I went out to begin shoveling the driveway before the rest of the family awoke. Since the blizzard started with sleet, there was a layer of frozen pellets firmly attached to the pavement. My puny snow shovel had no effect, so I was forced to leave that layer at the bottom of the driveway. The wind produced three drifts too, the deepest one about four feet. I shoveled a path so we could get in and out, and left the bulk of the work for later. The cars were buried, but we weren't going anywhere. I'd shoveled enough snow to make my back hurt, so I gratefully went inside to take a break.
Number One Son had other ideas. He desperately wanted to get his girlfriend to our house for Christmas dinner, so he went out to do some shoveling too. I went out to check on his progress only to discover that all the snow he'd removed from in front of his car was now piled in front of my car! He seemed genuinely puzzled when I objected, but removed all the snow with good grace. I should point out that he was out there shoveling snow while wearing shorts. Sometimes I wonder about that kid.
This morning I started chopping through the ice with a heavy scraper. I bought this tool to remove flooring and it does an equally effective job on thick ice. It's like a heavy spade handle with an 8 inch wide blade, and it's heavy enough to chop ice. I alternated between chopping and shoveling, taking breaks when my body ran out of oomph.
I was chopping the last, thickest section of ice when Number One Son appeared. "I could use some help," I said, so he went back inside for a pair of gloves and a hoodie. He shoveled for about 10 minutes, then rested with his forearms on the shovel handle, not exactly panting, but breathing a little harder than usual. "Who would imagine that shoveling snow could be so hard?" I asked. He gave me a withering look. I'd been out there working off and on for over 4 hours. In another 10 minutes, we were done.
Now, with all that shoveling snow and ice, I missed out on post-Christmas shopping. Imagine my disappointment. And that makes for a truly merry Christmas!
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This past weekend, I had a poetic family moment. You know, one of those greeting card moments where you visualize a leather bound book opening to a picture of the exact scene you're sitting in. It was Saturday morning and my husband and I were lounging in bed while our son, who as usual had been up since the crack of dawn, was playing in the kitchen. I heard our daughter waking up, so I went to get her but after changing her diaper I realized that my husband hadn't yet gotten out of bed. I brought my daughter back in to see if the two of us together could rouse him. My daughter, always thrilled to see her father, laid down on his pillow and turned to me saying (in her angelic, two year old voice), "I love daddy". I smiled, laying my head down beside her and said, "I love daddy too." Her reply was simply a smile that could melt glaciers, and then… she sighed.
Yes, my two year old actually sighed with happiness.
That's when I had a thought. Or maybe, not so much a thought, but an epiphany. An idea that came barrelling through my Hallmark moment like a wrecking ball, smacking me upside the head. You see, I have often wondered why it is that so many of us children of divorce end up emotionally detached from our parents. I've considered that it might be due to our trust issues. Our sense of betrayal. I've wondered if it was the collateral damage of us simply shutting down emotionally, a well used protective mechanism of divorced kids. But you know, I think it may be more fundamental than that. I think it may be the result of the misalignment of love.
Mutual affection creates bonds. And not insignificant ones. Mutual affection can create the foundation of friendships, romances and even marriages. It can keep relationships going; making them endure. We tend to gravitate towards people who like the same things as we do. Who love what we love. And do you know why that is? Because in a relationship, affection towards something outside of each other gives us something tangible that confirms we are alike, that we belong, that we are…kindred.
Think about it. When you start raving about a book or a movie or a song that you love only to have someone proclaim their distaste for whatever you've been gushing about, leaves a sour taste in your mouth, doesn't it? It makes you wonder why you don't have that in common. And even if that person follows up their proclamation up with a declaration that your feelings are acceptable, that difference between you represents a bond you do not share.
Children of divorce feel very much like this sometimes. They love their parents. Both of them. But they are acutely aware that those same people no longer love each other. It becomes a bond they no longer share.
Now imagine that same someone from the previous scenario told you they didn't want to hear about that book/movie/song anymore? I guess they really wouldn't have to; knowing they didn't share your affection would preclude you from sharing any more of your true feelings. What if they completely tuned you out when you showed any interest? What if they pointed out every negative thing they could find or shared every negative tidbit others had shared? The situation could create a fissure in the relationship. A fissure that could easily grow into an abyss. Do you notice the parallels?
Parental love is fundamental. It is woven right into the fabric of our souls. And the dissolution of that bond of mutual affection between our parents puts us children of divorce in an awfully awkward position. The thought of losing that bond with both parents can sometimes feel too overwhelming, often resulting in us aligning ourselves with one parent while dispelling the other. And if you don't understand that, then you don't understand how important it is for a child to feel analogous to a parent. To feel like they belong.
Because, what's the alternative?
The alternative, is what the bulk of us do. Accept the loss of such a significant bond with both of our parents. That loss brings a sense of isolation. To correct it, we may try out some masks, putting on a different facade with each parent. And with that we risk losing ourselves. Many of us find the answer in indifference. But the love we feel for our parents is no less than the love they feel for us and pushing it away via our indifference comes with severe consequences. With indifference to our parents, comes indifference to ourselves. Apathy swirls us back into isolation and of course, our self esteem suffers.
As a parent of divorce, it is integral to your relationship with your child that you carry even a hint of that bond of mutual affection for your ex. And I don't mean that you have to be physically affectionate or chat like girlfriends or vacation together. You don't even have to show any actual affection to your ex, you only have to show it to your child. Show your child that you're sad if you hear that something negative happened to your ex and show happiness if you hear something positive. Tell your child what you admire about their other parent or what qualities you are glad to see in them that remind you of your ex. Be engaged when you are being graced with stories about their visits and also be engaged in their plans to go. Simple things that pay great rewards with very little effort from you.
Simple things that will not only benefit your relationship with your child but will also benefit their relationship with themselves.
Aren't those two relationships worth working on?


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