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It was enough to make Charlie Frye sit up and take notice, provided he was fully awake at the time.
Frye got to work at 6:30 a.m., and was pleasantly surprised to be joined by starting quarterback JaMarcus Russell two days after the worst day of his professional life.
"He got in here Wednesday, earliest he's ever been," Frye said. "I think he was in here at 6:30. That's step one. The things he continues to need to do is stay the course and just maybe do a little bit more."
Frye's input is significant because Russell listens to him. When quizzed by the media Thursday about his benching, his development and a series of question regarding his work ethic that have come just about every week, Russell named Frye as someone he talks to for advice.
"He's a guy that's been in the game longer than I have and always get tips and reminders or whatever it is from him," Russell said.
Last season, Frye became the first NFL quarterback to be named starter for the opener and be traded the following week, going from Cleveland to Seattle.
"I went through the same thing that he's going through right now, being booed, being benched, and it's tough," Frye said. `And if you don't have somebody there that you can talk to or just vent. You can't hold things in.
"You have to work through this. This is probably one of the toughest parts of his life. If he can get through this, it will make him a much stronger person. I'm much stronger for what I went through."
Frye said Russell comes in along with backup Bruce Gradkowski every Tuesday as well, but was particularly impressed to see him there early Wednesday about 90 minutes before the quarterback meeting at 8 p.m.
"There's a lot of time spent in here," Frye said. "For what had happened to him and for his attitude to get there that early Wednesday morning is impressive. That's him taking the first step to fix what's going on."
The natural inference is that Russell is only now starting to work hard, instead of taking his job more seriously during the offseason and through training camp.
"I just think it clicks differently for different guys," Frye said. "Some guys it happens really fast for them and some guys it takes a little bit longer. I think it took me to be able to go out there in Seattle and just sit back away from it and see how this thing really works.
"Some guys learn better through playing, through experience, other guys through film work. I know one thing, when the light switch does come on, you notice it really quickly. It's just different for everybody."
Russell seemed to concede there was some error in his play against against the Jets, something he was unwilling to do immediately after the game.
"There were mistakes out there," Russell said. "Everybody saw that."
Russell repeated that he simply wanted to be a "cheerleader" and do whatever he could to help after being removed. He said he's talked with Al Davis during the season and had a conversation similar to the one Davis had with a reporter from USA Today during the owner's meetings. The message was that he wasn't first young quarterback to struggle and that things would get better.
He said Davis also told him "how we could change things around, some of the things we could do to do it better."
Taking Davis' message to heart, Russell said, "It's gonna be OK, I promise. Just take my word. I can't tell you when, but I know they are."
He calmly took exception to a question about whether it sent the right message to be courtside at the Warriors' opener Wednesday night.
"What I do in my personal life is not really what's going on here," Russell said. "So now you're trying to tell me I can't go enjoy my life. Going to a basketball game . . . I want to go see those guys play, hey, that was just something in my off time I wanted to do. I don't think that was bad."
Russell has a point. Also in attendance were Kirk Morrison, Tommy Kelly and Thomas Howard, and probably others.
Russell reiterated that judging him on his sideline demeanor would be a mistake. He's said several times a high school coach taught him not to get too high or too low, to keep an even keel at all times. He said his teammates understand "a fire burns" within him.
Defensive end Greg Ellis compared Russell to quarterback Tony Romo, his teammate in Dallas.
"Tony Romo was not a take charge guy. If Tony were here right now, you'd all be mad at him because he'd be sitting here with a smile on his face," Ellis said. "That doesn't mean he's not trying to win a football game.
"Some guys they take over. Troy Aikman was one of those guys that took assertiveness and was like a coach on the field. Tony Romo is one of those guys that is even keeled and pats receivers on the back and says, 'Ok guys, that's all right. Catch it next time.' Where Troy is like saying some words you probably don't want to repeat to the guys. Both ways can be successful.
"One way is not wrong, one way is not right. You just have to make sure you're doing all you can do as a player to help your team."
Ellis said he thought Russell "had too many people in his ear" and echoed the same sentiment most everyone does with the quarterback or one time or another. Ultimately, Russell's success or failure will be because of Russell.
"God blessed him with a lot of talent. If he does everything, unturns every stone, then eventually he'll be one of those great quarterbacks in the NFL," Ellis said. "On the flip side, if he looks in the mirror and says, 'I'm really not doing everything I can do to be the best I can be,' then that's on him."
Frye's message: "I think as you're in this league more you see how things equal themselves out as the season continues to go on. It can't be bad the whole time. And a lot of bad stuff has happened. But I think as the season progresses, I think it will even out with some good things."
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Imagine finding out that your 18-year-old daughter had racked up $150,000 in credit-card and other debt. Except that she never owned a credit card or a mortgage.
Imagine finding out that your 18-year-old daughter had racked up $150,000 in credit-card and other debt.
Except that she never owned a credit card or a mortgage.
Imagine being told that you can�t get credit because you�re dead.
Except that you�re not.
Imagine learning that you are behind on your mortgage on a property in another state.
Except that you�ve never been to that state and own no real estate.
Imagine sitting down to buy a car, only to be detained and told you�re on a terrorist watch list.
Now, imagine going to the agencies that are charged with keeping track of your credit and establishing your credit score, only to be ignored or told that you�re wrong, and to be essentially powerless to do much about it.
If all of this is hard to imagine, you�re in for a rude awakening.
A yearlong Dispatch investigation into flawed credit reports and how credit-reporting agencies deal with complaints revealed horrifying examples of lives being turned upside down, of a bureaucracy that considers you guilty until proven innocent and evidence that the system needs an overhaul.
While we�ve done a lot of high-level, award-winning journalism over the years � helping to free wrongly convicted men, exposing wrongdoings of government officials, getting state law changed to protect schoolchildren, to name but a few � this project by Jill Riepenhoff and Mike Wagner may be the most important thing we�ve ever done.
And the most audacious.
Reporters combed through more than 30,000 complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and states. They created databases allowing them to analyze the reports as no one has ever done before and reveal important patterns.
�I think it�s a very difficult investigation you conducted,� said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. �It�s classic investigative reporting. It�s tough. It�s massive. There aren�t too many papers that want to do this kind of work anymore. It�s extremely valuable, and we�re going to take this and run with it.�
After learning of our findings � and before we could publish a word of it � DeWine reached out to other attorneys general to gauge their interest in taking this on. �There�s interest,� he said.
DeWine was offended by the apparent lack of concern credit-reporting agencies show toward the consumer.
�These credit agencies act like they�re God; they think they�re God and they lord it over people,� he said.
The credit-reporting agencies say they do a good job of getting their facts right (they estimate an error rate of less than 1 percent). If their estimate is accurate, that means about 14,000 central Ohioans have credit scores with mistakes in them. A Dispatch Poll puts the error rate at closer to 30 percent, meaning 500,000 of us could have mistakes on our scores.
While mistakes are problematic on a number of levels, they can be mitigated by being corrected.
And that�s where the problem lies.
The credit-reporting agencies are often unresponsive to complaints about errors, according to records The Dispatch obtained from 24 states.
In 17 states, the complaints aren�t public record, making it impossible for people to learn what is happening. Other states made it financially impractical to review the reports.
The complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission do little more than collect dust. The federal law effective in 1971 to help protect consumers does little to create oversight of the credit-reporting agencies. Instead, the commission does periodic audits of complaints to see how they were resolved. They don�t routinely investigate to determine why errors are getting into the system.
Interestingly, when the attorneys general get involved with consumer complaints, the credit-reporting agencies are responsive. But when individuals try to resolve matters themselves, they often get no response.
Industry observers say there is no real incentive for the credit agencies to get it right, because their paying customers are the creditors and it would cost them money if they conducted hands-on investigations.
And most people probably are unaware that there are two different credit reports: one for the consumer and one for businesses. Our investigation found that the reports we get don�t contain some of the damning, and sometimes erroneous, information that potential lenders see.
There are many lessons to be learned, the first of which is this: Check your credit report every year. You can get it free at AnnualCreditReport.com.
If you see an error, contact the attorney general�s office. They get results, and you won�t until reforms are made. (DeWine staffers will be available during a WBNS-10TV phone bank from 5-6:30 p.m. on Monday.)
DeWine sees no reason why reforms shouldn�t be implemented.
�I really don�t know why anyone would object to accuracy,� said DeWine, a former U.S. senator. Having errors in the system doesn�t really help anybody � not the businesses who want to loan you money or those trying to borrow it.
�Everybody should want accurate information. It is kind of surprising to me that we haven�t had any major reform in this area.�
Benjamin J. Marrison is editor of The Dispatch. You can read his blog here.

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Actor Sean Astin — a.k.a. Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings" — trekked across much of Middle-earth wearing hairy prosthetic feet.
It's easy to be motivated with a legion of orcs on your tail. But on the streets of Los Angeles on regular old Earth, Astin must find the drive to run from within. On March 18, Astin ran the L.A. Marathon for the third time — but as he explained in a recent interview, he doesn't always find it easy to push himself to lace up those shoes.
Tell me how you got into running.
I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son — who was more into basketball — didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.
Later, I ran cross-country for Crossroads School in Santa Monica. I really wanted a varsity letterman jacket, but you had to be in the top seven to race. I was ninth. But one guy got sick and another was hit by a car [he wasn't badly hurt], and I snuck my way in.
After high school, it became a lot more sporadic. I would run around UCLA sometimes and occasionally see a sign for a 10K race and register for that, but I wasn't that dedicated.
From 2007 to now, I have every single run recorded on my Nike Plus system. I've noticed a definite pattern to my running, where I'll go for two months without a single run, and then I'll run 20 miles in a month, and then 100 miles the next month, then 120 the months after that, then work my way back down to nothing again.
That's kind of a bizarre approach to training. What's going on here?
I'm not sure why I'm doing it. If you look at photos of me during the months off, I'm 20 pounds fatter, and at the peak I'm skinny. It's an unhealthy pattern, and I've tried to figure it out.
My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation. I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.
There are always a couple of months in the year when I'm really sloth-like, but when I'm on the upswing, you pass a certain threshold … where the addiction comes back. Then it's off to the races.
When you're not running, do you miss it?
I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated. You feel like you'll never get back to it, and that's just awful. It takes time to evolve out of it.
There is a bottom where my mind will start gearing itself up again. My mind knows that once it starts, it's going to go hard. The amazing thing is, you're one short run away from feeling like you're moving in the right direction. Something about the blood moving makes you feel better.
I think I am getting better at minimizing periods of inactivity. At 41 now, it takes almost no time to get out of shape and fat. And it takes longer to get back into shape. So a self-preservation instinct kicks in where you just don't want to do that hard work again. You just want to do the hard work of maintaining it instead.
Tell me about your marathon experiences.
This was my third, and they were all L.A. Marathons. My first was 1998, with a time of 4:04. I did 2010 but on a torn calf muscle, and my time was 5:16. It was a miracle I was able to run it. For 2012, my time was 4:25, and I feel it's not representative of what I'm capable of. I came out of the box too fast and never once was I comfortable during the race.
I am determined to get a sub-four-hour marathon. I want to do this by next year.
Being as you played Sam Gamgee, I have to ask: What's your opinion on barefoot running?
I saw a lot of people running barefoot in the L.A. Marathon, and it looks to me like it would be really hard. I wouldn't be a big proponent of it. I just don't think it would be a good thing for me to do.


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Wichita Falls Nighthawks Turn Bandits Upside Down in 66-6 Rout [PICTURES]
The wind was whipping once again this Sunday afternoon as several thousand fans poured into Memorial Stadium to see their Wichita Falls Nighthawks take on the Cooke County Bandits in their second home game of their inaugural season. This time around Tim Tebow was not on hand to cheer on the now 3-0 Nighthawks, but that did not stop the great people of Wichita Falls to come out and support their young minor league football franchise.
Former Heisman Trophy winners aside, there was still a ton of excitement as the Nighthawks dominated from the opening kick-off. Outside linebacker Devin Gonzalez was all over the field during the Bandits opening drive, which, thanks to great defense and a little help from mother nature, ended in a 0 yard punt, and gave the Nighthawks great field position for their first drive. That first drive ended with a Nighthawks touchdown in the form of a Justin Johnson scamper into the endzone. Good field position and an excellent running game continued early on in the game as Johnson had three touchdowns in the first 10 minutes of the game!
As if the dominating performance on the gridiron wasn't enough to whip Nighthawks Nation into a frenzy, there was also the much anticipated raffle of a custom made 2013 Dodge Challenger that was given away at halftime. Everybody that bought a ticket to Sunday's game received a raffle ticket and 20 lucky fans had their ticket numbers read and were given the chance to drive home in the Challenger. After a long and suspenseful wait as the 20 finalists attempted to unlock the Challenger's door with their key one lucky fan discovered he was the lucky fan that got to drive home one awesome example of American engineering and ingenuity richer.
After all was said and done, the Bandits proved no match for the Nighthawks in yet another dominating performance. The Nighthawks hit the road once again but will be back in the Falls on March 24th as they take on the Dallas Trojans at Memorial Stadium. I for one can not wait to see some more intense Nighthawks football action, not to mention get the chance to meet NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback and Notre Dame Alum Joe Montana!
I will see you there!
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I ran across these while checking game cameras. Does anyone know what these are? And are they edible? I've never seen these growing on my property before.
Those are puffballs and puffballs are edible
Puffballs are edible - but they have to be very very fresh. Any sign of yellowing or - even the slightest color change on the interior and they are past prime and not so great. The outer "rind" needs to be intact, and the center snow white for them to be very tasty. By the looks of at least the one - it's likely past prime eating stage. Remember where you found them though - you'll likely find them there again next year, or may find some fresher ones yet this year
Thanks for the feedback. There were 6 all within 20feet diameter. Do they taste like other fall shrooms like hen of woods or honkies (aka elephant ears)?
Hard to describe how they taste - I think kind of like scallops? Found a pile of them going in to the duck blind Saturday!
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The pundits are skeptical, but House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is an optimist.
At a breakfast meeting with reporters today, the Maryland Democrat said he believed that Texas Democrats could capture two Republican-controlled House seats in this November's general election.
Although he did not specify the district numbers, Democrats widely consider the 14th District in Southeast Texas and the 23rd District in Southwest Texas as their top two pick-up possibilities.
Former Rep. Nick Lampson, a Beaumont Democrat, is a strong candidate to replace the retiring Ron Paul of Lake Jackson in the Republican-leaning 14th District, which now stretches from Brazoria County to the Louisiana line. Two Republicans are engaged in a runoff battle for the GOP nomination.
In the 23rd District, freshman Republican Francisco "Quico" Canseco of San Antonio will face the winner of a July 31 runoff between former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez of San Antonio and state Rep. Pete Gallego of Alpine. Canseco narrowly defeated Rodriguez two years ago in a Republican tidal wave election. Most Washington Democrats believe that Gallego would be a stronger general election candidate, but Rodriguez finished atop the pack in the May 29 primary.
Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, made his comments at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. He included the Texas seats in a group of 15 highly vulnerable Republican districts.
"I think we could pick up four or five in Illinois, I think we could pick up four or five in California, pick up a couple, three, in New York, pick up one in Maryland," Hoyer said. "We're going to pick up two in Texas."
He noted that those districts were carried by either President Barack Obama in 2008 or by 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry. And he blamed a Supreme Court-ordered redistricting plan for depriving the Democrats of two additional wins in Texas.
"We should have picked up four in Texas," Hoyer said.
As he looked toward this November's approaching elections, Hoyer said that while optimism is "tough" to come by, he's confident Obama will remain in office.


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DENVER (Reuters) - A man shouted "get that man a beer" and sure enough, President Barack Obama soon had a cold pint in his hand and prepared to play billiards with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.
This Tuesday night out on the town in Denver, which included slices of pizza with a group of people who had written to him, was Obama's way of escaping the confines of Washington, where partisan gridlock reigns supreme.
It was a case of "the bear is loose," the president's own description of the times when he is able to break free of the trappings of Washington and experience what everyday Americans see.
Of course that's nearly impossible with the crowds that are attracted to his every move and his security detail. Shaking hands with dozens of bystanders along a Denver street, the "bear" came face-to-face with a person wearing a horse's head mask, in honor of the Denver Broncos NFL football team.
Inside Wynkoop Brewing Company, a local brewery that prides itself as being 337 steps from the Colorado Rockies' Coors Field, Obama met with Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and they took sips from pint glasses of Railyard Ale amber beer as dozens of people snapped selfie photos.
Moving over to the green felt billiards table, Obama and Hickenlooper faced off. It was slow going at first.
"He's leaving me nothing," Obama said, a mock complaint at the position on the table he was left with after an errant Hickenlooper shot.
But then Obama began sinking balls and Hickenlooper could not.
"Uh oh!" Obama said of an errant Hickenlooper shot, and pretty soon the president was waving over to the TV cameras to make sure they had recorded his victory.
Denver was Obama's first stop on a three-day trip out of Washington that will also take him to Texas. It is mostly aimed at raising money for Democratic candidates in the November congressional elections.
But on Wednesday, he will meet in Dallas with Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican who has been sharply critical of Obama's handling of the crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who have crossed into Texas from the border with Mexico.
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On the same day reports circulated that the reporters behind a fatally flawed, retracted 60 Minutes story may return to CBS News' airwaves as soon as early January, the program again faced criticism for a report that critics are calling a "puff piece" and an "infomercial."
On December 15, 60 Minutes aired a report on the National Security Agency based on unprecedented access to its headquarters and interviews with Agency staff, including its chief, Keith Alexander, who discussed the concerns many Americans have about its operations since the disclosures by Edward Snowden.
The segment opened with reporter John Miller's acknowledgement that he had once worked at another federal intelligence agency. It featured no critics of the NSA. Miller explained his thoughts on the story in an interview with CBS News, saying that the NSA's view is "really the side of the story that has been mined only in the most superficial ways. We've heard plenty from the critics. We've heard a lot from Edward Snowden. Where there's been a distinctive shortage is, putting the NSA to the test and saying not just 'We called for comment today' but to get into the conversation and say that sounds a lot like spying on Americans, and then say, 'Well, explain that.'"
Miller's report was immediately ripped apart by NSA critics and veteran journalists. Some have called the veracity of CBS News' reporting into question. Others termed the segment a "puff piece" and an "embarrassing" "infomercial," saying that it filmed was under guidelines that overwhelmingly favored the agency and proved the effectiveness of the NSA's communications staff.
The NSA report is only the latest of several heavily criticized 60 Minutes stories. Most notably, the network was forced to retract and remove from the airwaves the reporters responsible for a segment based on a supposed eyewitness to the 2012 Benghazi attacks who apparently fabricated his story. The day after the NSA story ran and less than three weeks after the leaves of absence were announced, Politico reported that those journalists, Lara Logan and Max McClellan, have "started booking camera crews for news packages" and could return to 60 Minutes as early as January. In recent weeks the program has also been criticized for reports on Social Security disability benefits and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.
This series of debacles was noted by former CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb, who was at one time the moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, who wrote that a program that "used to be the gold standard of network magazine programs" is increasingly "under fire." He concluded:
What's clear from this episode is that 60 Minutes is not facing another Lara Logan embarrassment. Miller did not get his facts wrong; he just did a story on 60 Minutes that should never have been on 60 Minutes. It was a promotional piece, almost by his own admission. In addition, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley did a story on the 60 Minutes Miller piece to help promote it, as though it were an exceptional exclusive, which it was not.
In a funny way, all of this fresh criticism can be seen as a compliment. People expect 60 Minutes to be a place on the dial for tough questioning and rigorous reporting. When it does anything less than that, it opens itself to snap judgments that may be unfair but should not be surprising. It should, though, suggest strongly that CBS has further need for continuing self-examination.
Politico's Dylan Byers similarly opined that 60 Minutes has had "a terrible year" and that the program "is desperately in need of a news package that earns it praise rather than criticism.It needs to put up a hard-hitting investigation, fact-checked to the teeth, that doesn't come off as a promotional puff-piece. Because its reputation as the gold standard of television journalism has taken some serious hits of late."
Miller referred questions from Media Matters about the segment to a CBS News spokesperson who declined to comment on the record.
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A Savannah man was denied bond Monday on aggravated assault charges in the shooting of a 53-year-old woman in Tatemville last week.
Lemarseilles D. Harvey, 19, of the 1500 block of Wendell Street, was denied bond by Chatham County Recorder's Court Judge Harris Odell, who scheduled a preliminary hearing July 10.
The victim was leaving a family gathering and driving her grandchild home near Sherman Avenue Thursday night when several gunshots were fled from nearby Staley Heights Park where several people were congregating, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman Julian Miller said.
One bullet went through the passenger-side window and struck the grandmother, who was later treated and released at Memorial University Medical Center, Miller said.
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Vishesh tagged me on 6 word one ages ago….but sorry Vishesh I was genuinely busy….had my company's ball,then we hadda 4 day celebrations for my dearest hubby's birthday on the 3rd….we took a trip to Skiing field but couldn't ski as it snowed a lot…..but nevertheless my friends buried me alive in the thick snow….and then I did the daring act of Black Water rafting ….I swear if I had the slightest clue about what was in store in the 60 ft deep cave underneath I'd have not even dreamt about it. I got drowned twice….lost my lenses and hence my vision but saw the glow worms glittering in total random darkness…it was an experience of a life time…I was glad having my life partner behind me holding me and taking care of me in that situation…I was blind, cold and numb…….his cold hands gave me a uniquely wonderful warmth all while…I love you angel- Thanks for being there as ALWAYS…..I love you the most!!
Well back to Vishesh's…all I have to do for this one is write 6 words! And it has taken foreverrrrrrr..
Here I am summed up in 6 words..6 being my lucky number..
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I leave the 6th one for all who by pass this blog or know me….give me the last one………
I pass this one to Abhinav and Abhimanyu…..will miss you once you guys are gone…hope you get an offer soon..
All the best…..
PS. I am now active again..back from hibernation mode…gonna reply to pending comments, and pending blogs written by fellow bloggers…
Thanks Abhimanyu for the wonderful post on the trip's memories….have added its link here….


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The nuclear lab was set to remain closed, at least through Wednesday.
Rod Torrez, a fire spokesman, said crews worked Monday to beef up the defensive perimeter by widening the fire lanes next to New Mexico Route 4, which runs through the lab's 40-square-mile property.
Kevin Roark, a lab spokesman, said no new fires have broken out there since a small one-acre blaze Monday. Torrez said winds had died down enough by Tuesday to allow the operation of helicopters that carry large water buckets to douse the fire. High winds precluded aerial operations yesterday.
Roark said the lab has cleared "large defensible areas" that contain nuclear materials, adding those materials are locked away in steel and concrete vaults. Roark said the National Nuclear Security Administration has deployed a Radiological Assistance Program team team as a precaution to identify and manage any releases of radioactive material.
Torrez, chief of interpretation at the National Parks Service's Bandelier National Monument, which is 22 miles from Los Alamos, said the blaze has burned between a third and a half of the park's 33,000 acres, but so far has left unscathed the almost 900-year-old cliff dwellings.


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A Day in the Life of SSP Students, July 18, 2008
By Roger Renteria
SOCORRO, N.M., July 18, 2008 – Summer science students are having fun and learning astrophysics during the Summer Science Program at New Mexico Tech.
Right: from left to right, students Sean You, Konrad Komorowski, Dr. Kevin Krisciunas, professor of physics, and students Morgan Lai, and Matt Goodwin, are viewing digital images of a supernova captured by one of the telescopes at Etscorn Observatory early morning (or late night) on July 4th, 2008.
For six weeks, the campus bustles with academic and extracurricular activities – from guest speakers and lab experiments to sporting excursions and movie nights. Students find it hard to simply rest with the variety of exciting activities on campus.
From late-night homework sessions to playing soccer past dusk, 35 high school juniors and seniors from around the world are enjoying every minute, including their main assignment – to calculate the orbit of an asteroid. The main project is observing near-Earth asteroids, writing software that calculates the orbits of asteroids and measuring their movements.
Dr. Kevin Krisciunas, professor of physics from Texas A&M, and Dr. Agnes Kim, professor of physics from University of Texas-Austin, and Dr. William Andersen, professor of physics from Eastern New Mexico State University lead the lectures. Three teaching assistants help students with homework and their main project.
Professors present college-level calculus and astrophysics and show examples of physics processes using visuals, drawings and hands-on equipment. The professors are kept on their toes with the variety of student input during class.
"They are very sharp," Krisciunas said. "They may be smarter than we are, but we have more experience."
Krisciunas shares over 40 years of physics background with the class.
"These students are quick to understand concepts, and are very social," he said. He praises his students for their proactive approach in the learning process.
Throughout the six-week program, students are treated to 10 guest speakers from many different disciplines of science. Two of the featured guest speakers from Tech were associate professor of geophysics Dr. Susan Bilek and associate professor of cave and karst science Dr. Penny Boston. Sometimes the guest speakers are slightly provocative, which keep students interested and offers them a chance to ask further questions about scientific knowledge.
"We learn for the sake of learning," says Marie Fuller of Las Cruces. "It's actually a nice thing."
Students spend their free-time playing on the computer, hanging out with their classmates, playing basketball, or swimming. Many said their favorite activity is Thursday nights' swing dance hosted by the New Mexico Tech Ballroom Association.
"This is very different than the normal social interaction that I have," said Erika DeBenedictis of Albuquerque. "It's a lot of fun to dance." DeBenedictis, who attends St. Pius X in Albuquerque, is something of a New Mexico science celebrity. She won a Grand Award at the 2008 New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair and was a competitor at the International Science and Engineer Fair, where she won over $5000 in prizes.
For some students, it has been the first time that they have ever danced. They practice outside in the athletic field next to the Student Activities Center learning new swing dance moves each week. Some students dress up for the occasion.
However, students have their priorities set in learning about asteroids and physics.
"We all want to learn; it's what makes SSP special," said DeBenedictis.
They balance their time between completing homework and having fun. It is expected that they are responsible for themselves, such as doing their own laundry, completing their homework on-time, and getting enough sleep. However, it's a learning experience that prepares them for college life.
Sometimes, it simulates college-life too well, such as sleepless nights and homework parties. The professors also share helpful insight of their experiences in college and offer life-long advice.
"Staying up and working on homework is normal," said DeBenedictis.
Working in groups of three, students search skies for known asteroids to collect trajectory data to record their orbits around the sun. They create a program that uses data to plot the asteroid's orbit. Students observe the heavenly objects through the digital imaging telescope at New Mexico Tech's Etscorn Observatory. Students use a computer to direct the telescope to observe a segment of the sky. Through careful study of the image, they find asteroids to track and calculate.
"It has been an awesome experience," says Konrad Komorowski, from Poland. "We are exposed to new equipment and software."
In addition to their main project, several students are working on an extra project observing a supernova with Dr. Krisciunas. The students are working on an international student competition paper about supernovas. While everyone sleeps, these students spend the early morning hours capturing exposures of the sky for analysis. They huddle over a computer screen looking at digital images of the sky captured on the telescope. Dr. Krisciunas asked his students to compare the images that were saved the previous week and see if there were any changes to the supernova. They meticulously compare the specks on the screen to see the stellar explosion.
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L (Hotel: Shin Osaka Sunny Stone Hotel or similar)
Arrive at 0500, connect to flight NH13 @ 0700 to Osaka. Upon arrival at 08:05, welcomed by your devoted local guide and transferred to your Osaka city hotel. On the way to city centre, you will visit the Osaka Castle. The ancient castle is the symbol of Osaka with over 400 years history was first built in 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a well-known warlord who brought the whole country under his rule in the late 16th century. It has been burned down in a series of battles in the 17th century, and reconstructed later. Once again it was destroyed by fire; its donjon only reduced to ashes this time, and was reconstructed at last early in the 20th century. After your included lunch, you will have some free time to explore the famous Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade. For food, why not visit the popular tourist district of Dotonburi street.You may like to taste the famous Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki, Kushikatsu, Kitsune Udon or Teppanyaki, it has been said that the people in Osaka spend more on food than on anything else; the term "kuidaore" ("eat until you drop") is used to describe the food culture here.
B (Hotel: Shin Osaka Sunny Stone Hotel or similar)
This morning board Bullet Train to Hiroshima, visit the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome and the Peace Memorial Museum. Continue to the Sacred Island of Miyajima, the cradle of the Japanese Shinto religion. We will visit the Itsukushima Shrine, best known for its "floating" torii gate. Return to Osaka in the evening.
B (Hotel: Grand Prince Hotel or similar)
This morning, we will travel to Kyoto, the amazing city with more than a thousand years of history. Your full day sightseeing tour starts from the world heritage listed Kiyomizudera Temple; Kiyomizudera Temple is one of the most celebrated temples in Kyoto built at the end of the 8th century. Later, proceed to Kyoto's famous Gion District. The Gion Geisha district is a representative downtown area of Kyoto. Wooden teahouses, Japanese restaurants and traditional town houses called machiya stand in line on the south side of Gion, which creates an appearance with atmosphere. Walking along at Hanamikoji Street and continue to theKamogawa River, relax and enjoy the lovely view of the riverbanks. In the afternoon, we will continue our visit to the Kinkakuji Temple (Golden Pavilion).
B/L/D (Hotel: Associa Takayama or similar)
Embark on a drive across the Japanese Alps to the UNSCO World Heritage site Ogimachi in the Shirakawa-goregion in Gifu Prefecture, one of the best-preserved rural areas of Japan. Ogimachi is a quiet village among the hills surrounded by mountains, with rice fields and a river running through it. The village is famous for its farmhouses, which are built in a unique architectural style known as Gassh-zukuri. You will have time to explore this enchanting villages and visit the Kandake house which is oneof the best preserved farmhouses now turned museums. We will continue our drive to the city of Takayama. We will visit the Takayama Jinya (Government house) and the Sannomachi old Town where wooden houses are the still the main architectural.
B/L/D (Hotel: Regina Kawaguchiko hotel or similar)
This morning we will visit Matsumoto city, situated almost right in the center of Nagano and known as the gate to the Northern Alps' climbing routes, theMatsumoto Castle is one of the most famous Japanese flatland castles and is designated as a national treasure. Afterwards, we will leave Matsumoto city behind and resume our journey toFuji Hakone National Park.With Mt Fuji at the background, the placid Lake Ashinoko, scenic mountains, hot springs and historic places, Hakone is surrounded by the natural beauty. If the weather permits, we will visit the Mt Fuji 5th station or visit theOshinohakai Springs which is another scenic spots. Tonight, you can relax and enjoy a traditional"Onsen" (hot spring bath) at your hotel.
B/L (Hotel: Shinagawa Prince Hotel or similar)
This morning, we will visit the beautiful scenic lake- Lake Ashi-no-ko the Crater Lake formed after a powerful volcanic eruption nearly 3,000 years ago in what is now Hakone National Park. Continuously, visit to the Owakudani, a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot springs bubbling pools inside the crater which still bear a trace of the Hakone Volcano.
Afterwards, we will take a short visit to the Peace Park. After included lunch, we are on our way to Tokyo, en-route visit the city of Yokohama- the Yokohama harbor and the World's largest scale of China Town. Shortly after, resume our journey to Tokyo. At last, we arrived in Ginza a world renowned shopping district; Ginza is a fascinating place where the latest trends and the oldest traditions meet. You will have some free time at the Ginza Dori before transfer to hotel.
B (Hotel: Shinagawa Prince Hotel or similar)
Our full day city tour takes from Asakusa, the Nakamise shopping Streetand theAsakusa Kannon Temple. After we will visit the Imperial Palace Plaza and the East Gardens
The Imperial Palace, where their Majesties the Emperor and Empress reside, is situated in the center of Tokyo. The palace is surrounded by a water-filled moat and tree-covered grounds a precious taste of nature within the bustling metropolitan city. The city in Shibuya with many large trees still growing in its grounds; Meiji-jingu is a precious wooded area founded in 1921 to enshrine the Emperor and Empress Meiji. After, we willhave some free time in Harajuku until transferred to hotel.
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Aging Seniors Aim to Stay Active
While some Americans are living longer with the help of medication and diet and striving to stay as physically fit as possible, one question arises: Are we acting our age?Senior citizens who desire activity are encouraged to find it, but apparently there are those who take risks and even push themselves dangerously close to their physical limits for their age. Medical experts encourage moderation. "Certainly in my practice I'm seeing more people who want to stay physically active well into their mid-80s," said Dr. Thomas D. Kohl, director of sports medicine in the Reading Hospital Medical Group. Statistics show that there are 39.6 million Americans over age 65. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appealed to that age group through "Never Too Old to Play," an initiative to encourage 30 minutes of moderate daily physical activity. Kohl encourages older patients to have an exercise regimen, but he cautions moderation, gradual progress and checking with a doctor before taking on activities deemed too strenuous. He also has seen instances where older people overdid it, remained couch potatoes too long, tackled an exercise with too much risk, suffered injuries and took longer to rebound. "Rule of thumb with anybody is to never increase your distance, frequency or intensity of exercise any more than 10 percent a week," Kohl said. One of his patients, Suzanne Ippolito, 69, of Spring Township, believes in living life to its fullest and having fun. She is willing to take some risks. And that even meant riding on zip lines running down the side of mountain while vacationing in Hawaii last year. "There were seven of them (zip lines) and I got through the first three, but on the fourth one the guy didn't catch me (when she came off)," said Ippolito, who was wearing a helmet. "When I jumped, I wound up banging into pads and hitting my arm, back and head. Although sore and shaken, Ippolito went on to finish the remaining three zip lines. Since Ippolito was in her 50s, diagnosed with rising blood pressure and cholesterol, she has made a commitment to stay in shape with diet and exercise. She has a personal trainer. "I like having fun and I enjoy doing things with my children," said Ippolito, mother of four and grandmother of three. Staying active Another of Kohl's patients, Elizabeth J. Iaeger, 70, of Bern Township, a retired insurance worker, has always had a commitment to an active lifestyle, running track, playing volleyball, hiking and biking in her youth and well into middle age. Even after triple bypass surgery in 1997, Iaeger remained committed to daily exercise. She currently works with a personal trainer at Gold's Gym in Wyomissing. "After surgery, I wasn't afraid to get back at it, lifting weights, doing the treadmill and cycling," she said. "The bottom line is that exercise makes me feel better. I do my own gardening and pull weeds. I walk three times a week." But Iaeger has suffered leg muscle strain at times from exercise. "About three years ago, I had to have a right shoulder operation because I was lifting furniture," she said. "As you get older, you do have to know when to quit and slow down when you feel something is not right." But Ken Moyer, 63, an insurance underwriter from Exeter Township, might more accurately typify others in his age group who still want to play pickup basketball and volleyball and hike to the top of Berks County's Pinnacle as he did in his youth. And he still does all that in spite of sprained ankles and dislocated and broken fingers or other aches and pains suffered in his activities. "I just enjoy it all," he said. "I don't really want to stop unless I have to." Admittedly, Moyer said he is not nearly as aggressive as younger and middle-aged players with whom he plays. But when he is on the basketball court, he still manages to stay in the game. "I'd certainly agree with the advice that if you haven't done much strenuous activity over the years, you should always see a doctor first before starting anything," he said. Older and stronger Whatever the motivation to stay active, whether a personal quest for the fountain of youth or just to enjoy a fulfilling and healthy life, geriatrician Dr. Ward Becker, 63, of Kutztown, said regular exercise can strengthen muscles and the immune system in older people. "The fact is people who are in better shape and go into an illness or operation in old age, do better in the shorter term when it comes to recovery," he said. "They can rebound." "You don't always have to be training for a marathon, but it's best to keep moving in most cases," Becker said. "Of course, exercise for people who have arthritis is a two-edged sword because too much (exercise) can aggravate the problem and too little can make things worse." Becker also stressed that exercise is a route to socialization, extremely important for the elderly whose circle of family and friends may be dwindling. It also can promote a more positive personal outlook. "For the elderly, activity goes hand in hand with a better mental outlook. There doesn't seem to be much doubt about that," he said. Contact Bruce R. Posten: 610-371-5059 or firstname.lastname@example.com. (c)2012 the Reading Eagle (Reading, Pa.) Visit the Reading Eagle (Reading, Pa.) at readingeagle.com


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What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?
Being complementarian doesn't mean believing that the man's job is to fix the car and the woman's is to wash the floor. It goes much deeper than a breakdown of jobs.
Christian complementarity is about the different roles of men and women that are meant to give us insight into the relationship between Jesus and his church. Mary Kassian explains in this two-minute video:
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Stress, Behavior, and Environment Can Change DNA
This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community.It has been pretty well established now that smoking can cause cancer, that poor diet and exercise can lead to obesity and heart problems, and that stress can cause physical and mental health problems. And for a long time, science has told us that each of us has a chance to start over, in a sense, that the behaviors of our parents can't or won't affect our ability to shape, to a large degree, our own futures. But a spate of research over the last few years has changed that view. This field of research is looking at how things like changes in our behavior and the environments we live in can exert small but powerful modifications to the chemical field that surrounds our DNA. This chemical field is called the epigenome, and it surrounds our genes like an exoskeleton. Think of it as the software that helps power the hardware of our genetic makeup. What scientists are finding is that things like stress, trauma, violence and unhealthy behaviors like smoking can change some of the chemical markers in the epigenome. When this happens, scientists say, it can turn on or off the genes that affect our health, our ability to regulate stress and our body's response to disease and pathology. What's more, these scientists say, these changes can be passed along to offspring. This is a profound realization. What it potentially means, this research tells us, is that our behavior and the environments we live in could have lasting consequences for our children, and this is the important part -- even if our children are never themselves exposed to those same situations. So, for example, if I live in a chronically violent neighborhood and as a result I develop a high level of toxic stress and PTSD, it may change my epigenome by altering the chemical markers that sit around my genes. These changes, in turn, may result in the gene that helps me regulate stress being "turned off." This could potentially affect my ability to cope, my response to stress, my socialization skills and my response to other people. OK, fair enough. But the new research is also telling us that these changes could potentially be passed on to my offspring. Several recent studies have also shown that the adult onset of illness, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, mental illness, anxiety and a host of other pathologies can be directly tracked to the prevalence of certain kinds of stress in childhood. The good news is that the epigenome is flexible and dynamic, in contrast with our DNA which is hard-wired and inflexible. So just as epigenetic chemical reactions can turn certain genes "off," a change in behavior or environment can also signal to the chemicals a change of course. Genes can be turned on again. The process can be reversed or altered. This is encouraging, of course, but the mechanics at work on a molecular level also remind us of just how important it is to think more deeply about the environments we create, especially for the most disadvantaged among us. This research has some far-reaching consequences, which I'll be writing about more in these pages in the coming weeks. Should we think differently about the way our neighborhoods look now, because we know that they are affecting us on a molecular level, even though we can't see it? Does this raise questions about how insurance companies compensate us? What about our behavior? Are there unseen legal ramifications? And what, exactly, will our children inherit from us. And what we have unknowingly inherited from our own ancestors? If your own neighborhood doesn't look different to you now, it probably should. Contact Scott Johnson at 510-208-6429 or email@example.com. (c)2012 The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) Visit The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) at www.insidebayarea.com


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International Conference of Young Chemists (ICYC) Fatima Mustafa | added on Jan 27, 2012 | Jordan The main aim of this conference is to "encourage interest in chemistry among young people, and to generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry" which is one of the IYC goals.
Distance Learning via Satelite on Small Scale Chemistry Supa Hannongbua | added on Jan 27, 2012 | Thailand the Workshop on Small Scale Chemistry has been held and hand-on practicing for High School Teachers in Thailand by Distance Learning via Satelite, during Jan 25-27 and Feb 8-9, 2012
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NESACS Celebrates IYC+1 in 2012 Morton Hoffman | added on Dec 27, 2011 | United States During 2012, the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) will continue and expand upon its activities of 2011 under the "umbrella" of IYC+1.
UBE Group Thailand Plant Tour Shigeharu Anpeij | added on Dec 26, 2011 | Japan Plant Tour in UBE Group Thailand at Rayong is planned in order to build a deeper relationnship between industry and academia. Professors and professional chemists fromJapan who attend 14th Asia Chemical Congress 2011 (14ACC) held in Bangkok are invited.
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Microscale Techniques in Experimental Chemistry Damodar Prabhu | added on Dec 14, 2011 | India A two day workshop on Microscale Techniques in Experimental Chemistry will be organised on December 16-17,2011 at AN College, Patna, Bihar, India for the benefit of Chemistry teachers of Patna based colleges. The focus will be on promotion of Green Chemistry practices and safety in the laboratory
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Jacob "Yasha" Katzenberg
a/k/a Jacob "Yasha" Katzenberg played a minor role in the history of organized crime, yet he helped bring down some major mobsters and then disappeared forever.
by Allan May
Jacob "Yasha" Katzenberg played a minor role in the history of organized crime. His short, but sweet appearance confirms that narcotic and drug dealing was going on during the 1920s and 1930s and involved both Italian and Jewish mob leaders.
Born in Russia, Katzenberg grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In Rich Cohen's nostalgic, if not somewhat misguided, "Tough Jews," he provides us with the following description of Katzenberg:
"I do not know what he looked like, but I have tried to imagine him. I see his eyes as mirrors, reflecting not what he is looking at, but what he will see: mountains, rivers, wars. I imagine him tall and slender, wearing a hood, taking his time – something long prophesied, a nomad who has crossed wastes to get here. Or maybe he was completely unremarkable, just another curly-haired Jew boy in back of Hebrew class, saying the words but thinking only of the presents his bar mitzvah will bring. To me, Yasha Katzenberg was the ultimate example of the wandering Jew, going country to country, east to west, always on the other side of the glass, lost in the wilderness."
In the mid-1920s, Arnold Rothstein saw illegal drugs as an untapped field, one that could be developed and profited from. The drug traffic was unorganized and there was little competition on the level Rothstein chose to enter. In fact, the only competition at that time was provided by unethical doctors. Rothstein's plan was to purchase and sell in quantities so large that no one could compete with him. He could regulate supply and demand on an international basis. In 1923, a kilo of heroin, 2.2 pounds, could be purchased for $2,000. It could then be cut and resold for $300,000.
Rothstein's interest in narcotics was strictly for wholesaling. He would need a network to sell the drugs and the rum running and bootlegging market already in existence would serve as his pipeline. Lucky Luciano and Waxey Gordon were in place in New York City and New Jersey. The Torrio – Capone Empire was interested in Chicago. Charles "King" Soloman was ready in Boston, as well as Harry "Nig Rosen" Stromberg in Philadelphia. In addition, mobsters in Detroit, Kansas City and St. Louis showed an interest.
Among the buyers Rothstein decided to do business with was Jacob Katzenberg, who was already serving the New York mob as a liquor buyer in Europe.
When Katzenberg teamed up with Rothstein in 1926, they began purchasing from European sources. Rothstein purchased "Vantines," a well-established importing house in New York City. The importing house had an excellent reputation and was known as a legitimate enterprise. When shipments arrived for them, customs officials gave their merchandise only a cursory search. Vantine's would become a perfect front for the smuggling operation. Rothstein also owned several art galleries and antique shops that would also serve as fronts.
Rothstein put all of his drug profits back into the business. When he was murdered in November 1928, he had untold millions invested. Upon his death Luciano and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter became the new overlords. Their first order of business was to make Katzenberg their principal buyer in Europe.
By 1931, the League of Nations had outlined a plan to reduce the world's drug production. Under the guidelines, countries could produce narcotics only in quantities large enough for domestic medical needs. As nations around the world ratified the agreement, the illegal drug supply line began to dry up. When Prohibition came to an end in 1933, Katzenberg was sent to Asia.
In the early 1930s, Katzenberg operated an opium plant on Seymour Avenue in Brooklyn. Buchalter and Meyer Lansky were rumored to be partners in the operation along with several other men. The plant processed raw opium into heroin. In December 1935, an explosion occurred which destroyed most of the manufacturing equipment in the plant. Enough evidence, however, was left to reveal to authorities what the plant's function was. However, Federal Narcotics Bureau agents were unable to put together enough evidence to indict the owners.
Buchalter, Katzenberg and Lansky met and agreed it would be too risky to establish another plant. Instead, Buchalter had a "fix in" with several United States Customs officials. So Katzenberg was sent packing again, this time to Hong Kong. Lansky supposedly bowed out of the operation at this time to focus his attention on gambling.
Katzenberg was soon making purchases in Hong Kong and Shanghai. After the heroin was purchased, it was brought to the United States by "mules" who were paid $1,000 plus expenses to bring the drugs into the country. Once the carriers were back with the drugs, bribed Customers employees would get the shipments through.
In the mid-1930s, clearance stamps were pasted on trunks and baggage to show that they had cleared inspection. Eight different colors were used, but agents would not know which color was in use until they arrived at work that day. For another $1,000 per shipment, Buchalter would be tipped as to the color of the day. The appropriate stamp would then be slapped on and the trunk containing the drugs would be carried through the gate by a porter to a waiting automobile. Officials estimated that between December 1935 and February 1937, six purchases made by Katzenberg generated a retail value of $10 million dollars. No wonder Sonny Corleone told his father, "lotta money in that white powder."
Harry J. Anslinger, who headed up the United States Narcotics Bureau, told this story about Katzenberg in his book "The Murderers":
"On his first trip to Shanghai he was to bring back two trunk loads of dope. Some of the crowd in Shanghai were afraid he might find out too much about their operations and blackmail them into lower prices. 'Shanghai streets are too dangerous,' they told him, 'you better stay right in the hotel room. We'll bring the trunks here.' This required a few days, and Katzenberg began to fume in his hotel prison. 'Hell, I'm on a kind of vacation. I want some action,' he told his 'protectors.' The boys said they would take care of that. They had access to a Russian princess. She was – they informed their impatient prisoner – 'the highest priced whore in Asia.' It would cost $1,000. But to give him a pleasant memory of the hotel and of their service they would provide the lady at no cost to him. They would pay the fee."
"When they brought her to the room, Katzenberg took one look at her and said, 'Hello there, baby.'"
"The Shanghai dealers looked startled. 'Oh, we didn't know you knew Her Highness,' one said."
"'Sure I know her,' Katzenberg told them. 'She was here last night. All night. For two lousy bucks.'"
In the late 1930s, the drug smuggling ring came to an end. As usual it would be informers within the gang that helped bring it down. Indictments were obtained against thirty gang members including Buchalter, who, at the time, was a fugitive from another indictment involving the garment industry.
When Katzenberg returned from China, he found out he was wanted and fled to Romania. Officials there refused to deport him back to America, but instead sent him to Greece. Friendly officials there held him until he could be brought back to the United States. By this time the League of Nations had declared Katzenberg an "international menace."
Katzenberg was convicted on narcotics charges, fined $10,000, and sent to prison for ten years. When Buchalter came out of hiding and was tried on the narcotics case, Katzenberg testified against him. Katzenberg would also testify at the tax evasion trial of Johnny Torrio.
Yasha's saga ends here. After serving his prison sentence, wherever the wandering Jew, Jacob Katzenberg, wandered to, he kept it to himself.
Copyright A. R. May 1999


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Companies also have to consider what put into their report. Littenberg noted that the conflict minerals rule is principles-based, so companies have discretion over how to put together the report. "This is not a fill-in-the-blank form," he said. "There's a lot of judgment that goes into this."
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Littenberg doesn't expect the SEC to tear apart companies' conflict mineral disclosures in this first year of filing. "I think there's going to be a multiyear process of improvement in the filings," he said, noting that that would match the way the agency has handled other new types of disclosures.
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Other parties interested in companies' use of conflict minerals include socially responsible investing groups, Goode said. "A lot of companies are proud of being included in socially responsible investing lists," he said, suggesting that conflict minerals could become a factor in such lists.
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