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Earlier this year, at a town-hall meeting at the Fantasy of Flight aircraft museum, in Polk City, Florida, Cindy McCain introduced her husband, the Republican Presidential nominee, with a speech about the nature of "the man." There are, she said, many things "that make a great man, but being a good father and a good husband are most important to me." She wore a tight black leather blazer over a black turtleneck, and her hair was styled stiffly in a ponytail. "I was working one day, one day a long, long time ago, in Bangladesh," McCain said. "I stumbled upon a little girl in Mother Teresa's orphanage, and she had a really bad cleft palate and she was sick and tiny and she was only ten weeks old. And I got to know her a little bit, and I was with her for quite a while. Mother Teresa—as only she could do at that time—prevailed upon me and said, You know, you can get help for her. You could, you can get her out . . . and, being a tenacious woman, I thought, Yeah! I can. Sure."
McCain said that on the flight home from Bangkok she "realized that this child had chosen me and I could not give her up." But there was something even more remarkable: "What you don't know about this story is I didn't tell my husband." McCain smiled mischievously as she said that, and several members of the audience tittered. "I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, with this baby in my arms, and in front of a thousand reporters and a whole lot of people he whispered down to me and said, 'Well, where's she going to go?' And I said, 'I thought she'd come to our house.' And he looked at her and he loved her just the way I have ever since. And I think that says a great deal about the man."
McCain's account of bringing home a daughter without first informing her husband of her decision has become the core of the Cindy stump speech. She revisits the narrative routinely in her brief but frequent campaign appearances, and the Republican National Committee offered a version of it in a video that was played before her speech at the Convention last week. Almost every friend of the McCains with whom I spoke offered his or her own retelling of the tale. It is fact and fable: last month, the Christian Science Monitor reported that Mother Teresa was not actually at that orphanage at the time of Cindy McCain's visit. (The McCain campaign subsequently revised the story on its Web site.) The story certainly helps to portray John McCain as openhearted and charitable. But it also happens to reflect the nearly separate lives lived by the two McCains, and the peculiar defiance that is characteristic of Cindy—a woman who claims to pride herself on being traditional.
In her size-0 St. John skirt suits, and with her lacquered coiffures, Cindy McCain appears pampered and brittle. She was taken to a hospital with a sprained wrist after a fan shook her hand with too much gusto at a campaign event in Michigan last month. Her movements are quick and sharp—birdlike—and she often seems skittish, wary-eyed, and fidgety, fussing with her nails or her BlackBerry. McCain has said that she kept her phone with her at all times so that she wouldn't miss a call from her son Jimmy, a marine, while he was in Iraq. But he returned in mid-February, and the BlackBerry remains in his mother's hand much of the time. She seems to be vigilant on behalf of all her children: Meghan, twenty-three, a recent Columbia graduate; John Sidney IV, twenty-two, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy; Jimmy, twenty; and Bridget, the daughter from Bangladesh, who is now seventeen. At times, Cindy McCain seems to be channelling Nancy Reagan in her nervousness and her apparent conviction that without her protection harm will befall her family in the dangerous sphere of public life.
But McCain has unusual grit, too. She has taken up race-car driving and flying, and she has a long history of going on charity missions to Third World countries. According to her spokeswoman, Melissa Shuffield, McCain spends between two and three weeks a year travelling with Operation Smile, an organization that provides surgery for children with cleft palates, and the Halo Trust, a group that removes land mines from countries still riddled with unexploded ordnance. Like her husband, however, she does not support an international ban on land mines. "As much as I know her, I don't get in any big political discussions with Cindy or intellectual discussions about poverty," Dr. Bill Magee, the co-founder of Operation Smile, said. "It's more like, What can we do for these kids today? People have a great time. It brings together the risk-taker with the compassionate. If you take a look at Cindy, she does crazy things in terms of most people's idea of normal." Magee went on to talk about McCain's race-car driving, and offered his version of her decision to adopt Bridget: "She's on the tarmac, she's got this impoverished black kid with a hole in the roof of her mouth, and John says, 'Fine!' It's crazy."
When I travelled with the campaign in late spring, I asked the McCains, who were seated on the curved banquette at the back of the Straight Talk Express, how they imagined Cindy's role as First Lady might affect her humanitarian work.
"I think some of her travels might be curtailed," Senator McCain, who was wearing a blue Navy baseball cap, replied. "She's been to Cambodia, where land mines are very dangerous, and no one knows exactly where they are, so that may be a little bit of a downside of her involvement."
Staring into the middle distance, as she often does, Cindy McCain proceeded to contradict her husband. "What I tell everyone is, regardless of whether we win or lose, I will continue to do what I do because it's so important to be an example," she said firmly. "To my own children, and also for other kids in the community. Regardless of whether we win or lose."
"Stop saying that," John McCain interrupted.
"Say 'when we win,' " Janet Huckabee instructed. She and her husband, the former Arkansas governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, were travelling with the campaign that day.
Cindy McCain gave a flicker of a smirk. "When we win," she said. And she didn't say anything more.
The streets of Phoenix sound as if they were named by a movie cowboy: Camelback, Copperhead, Buckeye. The famously dry heat hurts your eyes and chaps your lips and makes you wonder about the sort of person who elects to endure it. Cindy McCain "is very strong and independent," Sharon Harper, who has been a friend and neighbor of McCain's for more than twenty years, told me. Harper is a commercial real-estate developer in Phoenix, with whom Cindy has invested in two properties. "There's something very special about the West," she said. "There's a real tradition of independence here. I don't know if you've read Sandra Day O'Connor's book about growing up on the Lazy B?"—an Arizona cattle ranch. "Cindy's that kind of woman. People are supposed to be strong and independent growing up here; it's an expectation."
McCain has a complex relationship with independence—a quality that many people attribute to her. "I'm a stay-at-home mother," McCain told voters at a town-hall meeting in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1999, when John McCain was running against George W. Bush, who was then governor of Texas. "I don't like labels, but, if there's a label for me, it would be 'traditional,' and I'm very proud to be traditional.'' Last December, in an interview with the Arizona Republic, her home-town paper, she said, "I think the American people truly still want a traditional family in the White House."
In that interview, she added that she was "reluctant to get involved" in this year's Presidential race because of the treatment that her family received in 2000. "You can see the toe marks in the sand where I was brought on board," as she put it. She was referring to what happened after McCain won the New Hampshire primary by a nineteen-point margin: the McCains were subjected to a smear campaign in the days leading up to the South Carolina primary. Anonymous calls and "push-polling," believed to be the inspiration of Karl Rove, convinced many voters there that Bridget was John McCain's illegitimate daughter. Rove and the Bush campaign always denied involvement, but McCain lost, and Cindy McCain wept in front of reporters.
It's possible, though, that Cindy McCain's reluctance to enter this race also had to do with the fact that her family is not actually that traditional—far less traditional, in fact, than the Obamas. Since childhood, McCain has been expected to embody certain pillars of conventional femininity: beauty, refinement, altruism, and an inclination to encourage the ambitious men in her life. She is probably better suited to this particular formulation of public wifehood than the outspoken, muscular, and frankly powerful Michelle Obama. But, if you watch her closely, from time to time you can see Cindy McCain slip out of character.
Cindy Lou Hensley was born in 1954 and grew up on North Central Avenue in Phoenix, a street lined with pepper trees and large adobe-style houses with salmon- or sand-colored stucco façades. That street remained the axis of her life for fifty years. The house at 7110, where Cindy was brought up by her parents, James and Marguerite Hensley—and where, years later, she reared her own children—is a long, low ranch-style house, comparable in size to the small strip malls that are occupied by tanning salons and dry cleaners a few blocks to the south. The house is imposing, with four bucking-horse statues around a fountain on the front lawn (Cindy had horses of her own, which used to be stabled in the back yard), but it is not obvious that this was once the home of one of the richest men in Arizona.
"When I was growing up and when Cindy was growing up, Phoenix was a small town," McCain's friend Betsey Bayless, the former Arizona secretary of state, who grew up in the same neighborhood, said. "Now the place has just exploded." The Hensleys, she continued, "were well known because they had a beer distributorship, but there was no such thing as being socially prominent—any business owner was as socially prominent as you get in small-town Phoenix."
James—whom everyone called Jim—and his brother Eugene Hensley built their wealth on alcohol. After Jim returned from service as a bombardier in the Second World War, the brothers entered the wholesale liquor market and began operating two warehouses—United Sales Company, in Phoenix, and United Distributors, Inc., in Tucson—in partnership with Kemper Marley, Sr., a Phoenix businessman. (Police reportedly suspected Marley of having had a hand in the 1976 murder of Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic who had written extensively about Marley's business and political machinations. Marley died in 1990.) In 1948, the Hensleys were convicted on federal conspiracy charges after filing more than twelve hundred fake invoices to cover up under-the-table sales of liquor to night clubs and bars throughout the state. Eugene was sentenced to a year in prison, Jim to six months, but, with the help of their lawyer, a former mayor of Phoenix, Jim had his sentence suspended.
Despite his criminal conviction, in 1955 Jim Hensley was granted a liquor license to start an Anheuser-Busch distributorship, which he called Hensley & Company. Hensley was the first Anheuser-Busch distributor to invest in refrigerated warehouses, which are now an industry standard. "Jim was always willing to take that first step that perhaps other businesses weren't," Robert Delgado, the current C.E.O. of Hensley, told me. Since 1975, when Jim Hensley hired Delgado, the company has grown to be the third-largest Anheuser-Busch wholesale distributor in the nation, and the largest in Arizona, selling twenty-three million cases of beer a year. "Mr. Hensley acquired this business when Phoenix was a small town," Delgado said. "We've had tremendous population growth in the fifty-three years since, and tremendous market-share growth." Delgado said that Hensley now controls approximately sixty per cent of the Arizona beer market.
Jim Hensley, who died in 2000, was "the quintessential Western gentleman," in Delgado's opinion. "He was a cowboy, is a good description. A guy who enjoyed horses, loved Arizona, loved everything about the West."
Oliver Harper, a doctor in Phoenix who is married to Cindy's friend Sharon Harper, remembers Hensley as "the Gary Cooper type of larger-than-life, very manly guy." (For many years, the McCains and the Harpers went on an annual family trip to Lake Powell, and the Harpers own the property that abuts the McCains' ranch in Cottonwood, near Sedona.) "Cindy would go on these wonderful vacations with Jim—they'd go on these horse rides where you'd be out and you'd be packing overnight, and you'd be twenty-five miles a day on a horse. When we went to Africa together"—in 1995—"I remember Cindy saying her father had taken her to the Mt. Kenya Safari Club years ago, when she was a little kid. I think they did a lot of father-daughter stuff, the more adventurey, outdoorsy type of stuff, and Cindy loved that."
Cindy attended Central High, where she was the best-dressed girl in school, according to her senior yearbook. In 1968, she was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona. "I could have been a brain surgeon at twelve and my father would not have been as proud of me," she told Vogue recently. Her mother, Marguerite, nicknamed Smitty (after her last name, Smith), was "a very refined woman," according to Sharon Harper. "She was polite and always dressed in such a lovely way. She taught Cindy impeccable manners." At the University of Southern California—or the "University of Spoiled Children," as her husband is fond of telling reporters—Cindy pledged the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, and graduated in 1978, with a master's in education. Her father gave her a Porsche as a graduation present. She crashed it. He replaced the Porsche with a gold Mercedes.
Many of McCain's friends noted that after graduation she took a low-paying job as a special-education teacher at Agua Fria High School, near Phoenix, rather than a more lucrative position at her father's company. McCain, too, frequently refers to his wife's teaching background. She worked at Agua Fria for just one year.
In 1979, Cindy Hensley was on vacation with her parents in Honolulu when, as she has said, "this awfully nice-looking Navy captain in dress whites" started following her around at a cocktail party. John McCain was eighteen years her senior, and a celebrity after five and a half years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese in Hanoi.* Cindy was taken with this warrior—a different variety of cowboy. "Having a strong father, I wanted an older man," she told Harper's Bazaar recently. And there he was. Just over a year after that first meeting, they were married.
"I think John very much saw her as reclaiming the life he had lost," McCain's friend Pete Lakeland told Robert Timberg, McCain's biographer. "Cindy stood for everything he didn't have in prison. This was the sweet, innocent, pure American dream." Cindy Hensley also came with enormous wealth and useful connections.
When the couple met, John McCain was serving as the Navy's liaison to the U.S. Senate, and he was eager to give up the military—the world he was born into as the son and grandson of Navy admirals—and enter the realm of politics. He signed his Navy discharge papers in 1981, the day that his father was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Soon after he married Cindy, McCain began working for Hensley & Company as the vice-president of public affairs. He was paid to travel around Arizona promoting the company; in the process, he laid the groundwork for his first campaign.
John and Cindy McCain had signed a prenuptial agreement, but Cindy's assets were, from the beginning, crucial to her husband's success. In 1982, she received six hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars from a Hensley subsidiary. On the very day that John Rhodes, a fifteen-term Republican congressman, announced his retirement, the McCains bought a house in his congressional district. McCain was elected to the Ninety-eighth Congress. Today, the fortune at Cindy McCain's disposal has been estimated at a hundred million dollars, and, according to the Times, she owns ten houses.
In 1986, after two terms in the House, McCain won the Senate seat that Barry Goldwater had relinquished. For two years, Cindy McCain attempted to make a life with her husband in Washington. But there were no wide-open spaces, there was no privacy, and the credentials that made Cindy prominent in Phoenix had no value in the capital. She returned to Phoenix to bring up her family; her husband joined them on weekends. That has been the pattern of their lives ever since.
"She was very much a mother—she always relished that designation," her friend Betsey Bayless told me. "She was always driving her carpool, up and down Central Avenue. She really maintained the home fire." Staying in Phoenix was also an assertion of Cindy McCain's determination to remain in her own territory. She moved back into the house she'd grown up in, her children went to private schools on Central Avenue, and the family attended the massive North Phoenix Baptist Church, just a few blocks down the road, an island in a sea of asphalt.
On an outrageously hot day in June, Pastor Dick Stafford was sitting in his office on the ground floor, amid the extensive collection of elephant statuettes that he amassed as a missionary in Africa and Southeast Asia. "It has no political statement," he said. "They have lifelong family relationships—we could learn a lot from elephants." Stafford said that North Phoenix Baptist is "very careful about not taking a partisan stance," and serves a diverse community. "We have some of the most expensive property straight up Central Avenue; we have a large population of multifamily housing, heavy Hispanic population. We're multiethnic, multiracial, multigenerational, and we want all that here in the church on Sunday." (Cindy McCain was brought up as a Congregationalist. John McCain's great-grandfather was an Episcopalian minister. He has never been baptized.) The majority of the congregation opposes abortion, and, of homosexuals, Stafford said, "We would want to help a person who's struggling with any of those life issues find a healthy way to resolve it." (When he was asked for an example of another such life issue, Stafford replied, "Materialism.") The memorial services of both Jim and Marguerite Hensley were held at North Phoenix Baptist. "Cindy's dad's service was quite large, because of his business connections," Stafford said.
When Jim Hensley died, Cindy inherited his business and became the chairman of the board of Hensley. "Cindy came in, and of course I've had a thirty-three-year relationship with her, and she has never been a day-to-day operator—that's not what she is," Robert Delgado said. "I would contrast her more as an owner than an operator."
"The legacy of her father is very important to Cindy," Bayless said. "She wants her dad to be proud of her. She was so good to them when they were older; she was very, very attentive." In 1990, Jim and Smitty (whom Cindy has called "my best friends") moved across the street from the house at 7110 to be close to Cindy. It was her parents, not her husband, who noticed, in 1992, that she had become addicted to the prescription painkillers Percocet and Vicodin and was taking ten to fifteen pills a day.
"When the kids were young and I was alone with all these babies, by Thursday I'd have a pity party, and John would walk in, see me hanging off the ceiling," McCain told Harper's Bazaar. "Did I get angry? Sure, I'm only human." She has often referred to herself as a "single parent," except on weekends.
In his memoir "Faith of My Fathers," John McCain writes about the tradition of the absent father which he was born into as a third-generation Navy man, and which he continued as a politician:
You are taught to consider their absence not as a deprivation, but as an honor. By your father's calling, you are born into an exclusive, noble tradition. Its standards require your father to dutifully serve a cause greater than his self-interest, and everyone around you, your mother, other relatives, and the whole Navy world, drafts you to the cause as well. Your father's life is marked by brave and uncomplaining sacrifice. You are asked only to bear the inconveniences caused by his absence with a little of the same stoic acceptance. When your father is away, the tradition remains, and embellishes a paternal image that is powerfully attractive to a small boy, even long after the boy becomes a man.
On the campaign trail in 2000, Cindy McCain remarked that "for most of the twenty years we've been married he's been in Washington all week while I'm in Arizona with the kids. I've never spent this much time with my husband.''
Here is how Cindy McCain described learning to fly, when she appeared on the "Tonight Show" on April 30th, wearing a suit the color of daffodils, with a strand of turquoise beads around her neck: "I decided what I would do without telling him is that I would go to ground school and learn a little bit about it," she said. "I did that and then I wound up going to the flight school itself, and learning how to fly, getting my license, buying an airplane, without ever telling him." The audience was charmed by this tale of sneaky pluck, and particularly by its culmination, when—yet again—Cindy McCain surprised her husband with a revelation at the airport. This time, instead of presenting him with a baby, she took him on a flight.
Then she told another favorite story: she was twenty-four when she met John McCain at that cocktail party in Honolulu, but she told him that she was twenty-seven. McCain claimed to be thirty-seven; he was in fact forty-two. Cindy McCain giggled as she explained that they did not fess up until their marriage announcement was published in the local newspaper. "We started our marriage on a tissue of lies," she said with a smile, as the audience laughed.
McCain then went on to something more serious: the story of her addiction to painkillers, from 1989 through 1992, another secret that she kept from her husband. "He never knew," she told Jay Leno. "My parents came to me one day and said, 'You know, Cindy, there's something wrong with you' . . . and I said, 'You know, you're right, you're absolutely right,' and I put them down and I never touched another one again."
The stories that Cindy McCain tells all tend to have the same elements: secrecy, unilateral action, revelation. She is a kind of blond Lucille Ball in these tales, always up to something, never wanting to be found out by Ricky. But her madcap (if genteel) fifties-housewife sitcom persona is complicated by the more troublesome aspects of these anecdotes. She often leaves out a detail or two, omissions that change the shade of the story.
For example, on that first Hawaiian night when Cindy Hensley and her suitor were coy about their respective ages, John McCain was already married—to Carol McCain, a former swimsuit model, with whom he had a daughter, Sidney, and two adopted sons, Doug and Andrew. He had married Carol in 1965, two years before he was captured in North Vietnam. On Christmas Eve, 1969, Carol was seriously injured in a car accident while she was visiting her family in Philadelphia. She spent six months in the hospital, with a ruptured spleen, both legs crushed, a broken pelvis, and a broken arm. She did not send word of the accident to her husband, according to Timberg, because she felt that he was suffering enough, nor did she tell him what was going on when, in the course of the next two years, she underwent twenty-three operations. After all the surgeries, Carol McCain was four inches shorter than she had been before the accident.
In his memoir "Worth the Fighting For," John McCain said that when he started dating Cindy Hensley he "was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980." However, in his court petition for divorce, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, McCain stated that he and Carol had "cohabited as husband and wife" until January 7th of that year—nine months into his romance with Cindy Hensley. His divorce from Carol was finalized on April 2, 1980; he married Cindy five weeks later.
McCain has attributed the divorce to his own "selfishness and immaturity." Carol McCain told Robert Timberg that "the breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning forty and wanting to be twenty-five again than I do to anything else."
This pattern must have seemed unremarkable to Cindy Hensley, whose own father had left his first family in much the same way. Jim Hensley met Marguerite Smith at a military facility in West Virginia in 1945, after he was injured while flying a B-17 over Europe with the Army Air Forces. He was married to his high-school sweetheart, Mary Jeanne, and they had a daughter, Kathleen. Within months, Hensley had divorced Mary Jeanne and married Marguerite.
Cindy McCain regularly calls herself an only child. In fact, she has two half sisters: Kathleen Portalski and Dixie Burd, Marguerite's daughter from a previous marriage. "I feel bad about having a father that wasn't there, and then having my face rubbed in this—having her stand up and say she's an only child—makes it even worse," Kathleen Portalski told me. The video played before Cindy's speech at the Republican Convention declared that Cindy Lou Hensley "got all the attention of her father. . . . They were truly best friends."
Jim Hensley visited Kathleen on her birthday and on Christmas throughout her childhood, and took her shopping for school clothes. He escorted her down the aisle when she married Stanley Portalski, a wedding at which both Cindy and Marguerite were guests. He paid for the education of her son, Nicholas, and her daughter, Stephanie, who named her son James Hensley, after her grandfather.*
Kathleen Portalski visited her father almost every day in the months before his death. When he died, Cindy McCain inherited the Hensley empire; Kathleen Portalski and her family received ten thousand dollars. Stephanie Portalski found that a credit card her grandfather had given her had been cut off days after his death. "It makes absolutely no sense," Kathleen Portalski said. "It makes me wonder what happened."
When I asked Portalski if she had ever contacted her half sister, to discuss the situation, she began to cry and spoke angrily: "You think she'd give a flying fuck?" Portalski said that she has not spoken to Cindy McCain since their father's funeral, at North Phoenix Baptist. Portalski sat in the front row as McCain gave a eulogy from the lectern, where she spoke of her father's generosity and kindness and referred to herself as his only child.
John McCain stood in front of an audience of a hundred African-American men in a classroom at Arkansas Baptist College one spring afternoon. A poster on the wall behind them read "Arkansas Baptist College: It's a GOoD Thing!" "We started out this trip in Selma, Alabama," the Senator said. "I know you know Selma, Alabama, the place that will ever remain engraved in our memories as long as we cherish our Founding Fathers' belief that all of us were created equal—all of us!—and endowed with certain inalienable rights. We stood by the bridge, the famous bridge, that you are very well aware of, where Dr. King and others marched."
A few minutes later, a young man asked why, in 1983, McCain had voted against making Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s birthday a national holiday. McCain said that he had been wrong and had come to realize that he had made a mistake. Another asked what the Senator thought was the most pressing issue facing African-Americans. "First of all, assuring equal rights for every single American," he replied. "As Dr. King said, a person is judged not for the color of their skin but the content of their character. I believe that's an exact quote. The second thing I think is what's being done here. We've got to give people the education and training they need to compete and go as far as their ambitions will take them. . . . The third thing, if I may say so, is the encouragement of the family." He emphasized the importance of having "at least a two-parent situation, and so we have to do whatever we can to foster and encourage the family."
There was something almost comic about an older white man who had moved on from his first family lecturing a group of young black men about family values, but McCain did not appear awkward or uneasy until Mike Huckabee joined him at the microphone and put a finer point on the negative aspects of single parenthood.
"The fact is that if a child grows up without the benefit of both the mother and the father there is a seven hundred per cent greater likelihood that child will spend a good portion of his life in poverty," Huckabee said. "It becomes an accelerated problem, which the Senator, I believe, understands, and I think he understands it better than anybody else running for President. Because you can't separate the breakdown of a family and the breakdown of an economy and ultimately the breakdown of individual lives and what it does in terms of the long-term cycle. So it really does get to the heart of what we're doing by emphasizing, as he has said, strong families help create strong community, and that's the basis for a strong economy and everybody has a chance to succeed."
Cindy McCain, who was wearing a forest-green pants suit with a diamond Marine Corps pin in her lapel, was sitting near the lectern with Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. who is the Republican National Committee Victory Chairman; the former congressman Asa Hutchinson; and Fitzgerald Hill, the president of Arkansas Baptist College. She whispered something to her husband, who then asked a man in the audience if he would share his story. The man, Brian Miller, spoke of being abandoned in a hotel room by his mother, a drug addict, when he was an infant and growing up with his alcoholic father in Sacramento, surrounded by violence, crime, and drugs. He joined the Crips and was arrested three times before he was sixteen. Since then, he had turned his life around and was currently working at the college as the director of student life.
After the event, Cindy McCain approached Miller. "I hope I didn't put you on the spot," she said. "Dr. Hill told me a little about you, and I was just so moved by what you've been through."
Cindy's profile on the McCain campaign Web site begins with the sentence "Cindy Hensley McCain has dedicated her life to improving the lives of those less fortunate both in the United States and around the world." Charity work, as she put it in a video posted on her daughter Meghan's campaign blog, "is inspirational to me and it does absolutely invigorate me and keep me going." The two to three weeks a year that she spends on her missions are, she says, her best times: "I think I'm happiest when I'm out in the field working and being a part of what I can do to make the world a better place."
The campaign has attempted to portray McCain's past addiction to prescription painkillers and her public statements about it as a Betty Ford-style story of altruism and accountability. "It is a problem that is a national problem," McCain has said. "Particularly with women. And so I try to talk about it as much as possible, because I don't want anyone to ever wind up in the shoes I did at the time." But Cindy McCain's openness about that period has not been entirely voluntary, and hers was not the only life damaged by her addiction.
From 1988 to 1995, McCain ran and funded her own charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, delivering supplies and assistance to countries in crisis. In 1991, she hired a young man from Nebraska named Tom Gosinski, the former manager of government and international affairs for America West Airlines, to be a director of A.V.M.T. He became a close friend of the McCain family, and gave swimming lessons to Cindy's sons.
In the summer of 1992, Gosinski began to notice that his boss was behaving erratically. He kept a journal, which was later obtained by two reporters, Amy Silverman and Jeremy Voas, and published, in 1994, by the local alternative weekly paper, the Phoenix New Times. On July 20, 1992, Gosinski wrote:
I do not know what Cindy is up to but it appears as though she is trying to use several doctors' DEA #'s so that she can acquire drugs for personal use. . . . I certainly hope that Cindy does not get herself or AVMT in trouble. The journal entries grow increasingly fretful throughout the summer. In late August, Gosinski wrote about an upcoming mission to Africa:
August 28, 1992: Mark Salter in John McCain's Washington office has stated that the State Department and the Department of Defense believe it is not safe to travel to Somalia or the northern regions of Kenya. Cindy insists that we are going to go on the trip and that it may be wise for us to pack guns. She is absolutely crazy—I don't know how to load a gun let alone shoot one. About a month later, the situation came to a head:
October 2, 1992: Well, it is done. Last night Jim and Smitty confronted Cindy regarding her dependency to prescription drugs and she admitted to her addiction.
In December, Gosinski discovered a prescription for painkillers that had been made out in his name by the charity's doctor, John M. Johnson. Cindy McCain had filled it at her neighborhood pharmacy. Gosinski was fired in mid-January, and soon afterward met with the Drug Enforcement Administration to discuss his former boss's behavior.
A year later, Gosinski filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit. The McCains retaliated by enlisting John Dowd, a Washington lawyer who had helped extricate them from an earlier scandal, when McCain was one of five senators accused of interfering with the 1989 federal investigation of Charles Keating, Jr., the disgraced chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan Association. McCain had accepted more than a hundred thousand dollars in contributions from Keating, a family friend. Keating had a vacation home in the Bahamas, and the McCains had flown there with him several times. Cindy claimed to have misplaced receipts that supposedly showed that the McCains had reimbursed Keating for these trips. (With her father, Cindy had also invested three hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars in a shopping mall that Keating was constructing. When a writer for the Arizona Republic first called McCain to ask about his wife's business ties to Keating, McCain called the reporter a "liar" and an "idiot.") McCain was eventually exonerated, but he called his involvement with Keating "the worst mistake of my life."
Cindy McCain wrote in a column for Newsweek in 2001 that during the Keating Five investigation "the painkillers cushioned me. The newspaper articles didn't hurt as much, and I didn't hurt as much. I can remember sitting in the Senate hearings, listening to Howell Heflin saying terrible things not just about my husband but about me. The pills made me feel euphoric and free."
By the late summer of 1994, the New Times and the Arizona Republic were on the verge of exposing Cindy McCain's addiction and her misconduct at A.V.M.T. When the McCains learned that the story was about to come out, they called a press conference. Cindy admitted stealing drugs from A.V.M.T., and claimed to have completed a federal diversion program. She made no mention of Gosinski or of implicating her employees in illegal activity. John M. Johnson lost his state medical license. Tom Gosinski let his wrongful-termination suit expire and went back to work for America West.
Betsey Bayless recalls seeing McCain at a Republican women's luncheon the day the story broke. "I remember walking up to her and giving her a hug and feeling so bad for her," she said. "I don't condone abusing drugs in any way, but she had a problem and she had dealt with the problem and that was over, and then it's all over the media."
This marked the beginning of Cindy McCain's sour relationship with the press. In contrast to her garrulous husband, she avoids members of the press on the campaign trail as though they had a pox. In the time that I spent with the McCains, Cindy never looked me in the eye, even when she was speaking to me. Unlike Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain has had no public schedule of events that the press is invited to cover. Requests for access are frequently met with evasion.
In April, at a barbecue for the travelling press that the McCains hosted at their ranch in Cottonwood, guests said McCain kept herself apart from the group while her husband indulged in his usual japery with the "jerks," as he affectionately calls reporters. If the group was on the lawn, Cindy moved to the porch. If the porch was invaded, she drifted elsewhere. She was like a bird that stays within view but takes flight if you come too close.
The goals of the press are irreconcilable with Cindy McCain's craving for privacy, secrecy, discretion. A member of the McCain staff told me that Cindy was "scared shitless" of harming her husband's campaign. After Michelle Obama's endlessly replayed comment about being really proud of her country for the first time in her adult life, Cindy McCain told a crowd at a campaign stop, "I don't know about you, if you heard those words earlier, I am very proud of my country." A few weeks later, McCain talked about that remark to Jill Zuckman, of the Chicago Tribune: "It just spilled out of my mouth. And then I got back on the bus and I thought, Oh, my God, what have I done? I thought, Oh, I should never have opened my mouth. How did that happen? I'll put duct tape over it." When Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, joined the campaign, Cindy became markedly perkier: suddenly there was another woman around to deflect attention from her.
McCain zigzags constantly between the two roles she was brought up with: she is the brave, individualistic Westerner who can ride the range and fly a plane and then the polite, fragile lady of the house with the flawless outfits and the duct-taped mouth. These are very different roles, but they both require privacy. Being a campaign spouse—or the First Lady—is an exceedingly public role. It is little wonder, then, that when she is on the campaign trail Cindy McCain often looks miserable.
John McCain seems to gravitate towards women who endure pain in silence. Like Carol McCain, Cindy McCain has struggled through the worst times of her life without her husband. In 2004, at the age of forty-nine, she had a stroke, after which she retreated to one of her condominiums in Coronado, California, for four months to recuperate, alone. McCain first became addicted to painkillers after spinal surgery for a ruptured disk. She has said of her husband that she "didn't want him to come home to this woman who couldn't do anything. I completely masked it and completely kept myself somewhat pain-free and [with] the ability to function and do everything he wanted." McCain did not reveal her drug abuse to her husband until 1993, when she was being investigated by the D.E.A. and there was no way to prevent his finding out. Even then, she couldn't bring herself to tell him face to face: John McCain learned of his wife's addiction when she called him from her lawyer's office. "It was hard for him to admit he didn't know," Cindy McCain told Harper's Bazaar, "even though I explained, 'It was my job not to let you know.' " This is women's work, as the McCains have defined it: to keep their own suffering quiet.
"My father admired my grandfather above all others," John McCain wrote on the very first page of his memoir "Faith of My Fathers." "My mother, to whom he was devoted, had once asked him if he loved his father more than he loved her. He replied simply, 'Yes, I do.' "
Until recently, the McCain campaign was a distinctly masculine environment. Steve Schmidt—whom McCain promoted to campaign manager in July—is a tough-talking Karl Rove protégé with a shaved head who is nicknamed the Bullet. Mark Salter, a longtime aide and the co-author of McCain's books, is a chain-smoker who sports the classic manly accessories—aviator sunglasses and a mustache. Even McCain's most soft-spoken adviser, Charlie Black, has an intimidating air of country-club paternalism. This is McCain's understanding of the way it should be: men are your fellow-soldiers, the ones you really depend on.
It was therefore a great surprise when McCain announced that he had chosen a woman as his running mate. But the choice of Sarah Palin, specifically, was telling. As Cindy put it in her speech at the Convention, "John has picked a reform-minded, hockey-mommin', basketball-shootin', moose-huntin', fly-fishin', pistol-packing mother of five for Vice-President." Unlike Hillary Clinton, to whom Palin referred in her first public appearance with McCain, and whose supporters the McCain campaign is courting, Palin has thin credentials as a national leader. McCain's selection of a woman with less than two years' experience running a state with a population a quarter the size of Brooklyn, suggests that his decision was based in large part on Palin's symbolic value rather than on substance.
Entrées in the form of Popsicles were popular at the Iowa State Fair, in late August. There were pork chops on sticks, corn dogs, skewered smoked-beef bits, and barbecued chicken. Men in ten-gallon hats and women wearing cowboy boots roamed the vast livestock tents, and a farmer proudly showed off Freight Train, his prize-winning twelve-hundred-and-fifty-nine-pound pig.
Cindy had no speaking role that day, but the day before she had introduced her husband in Lima, Ohio, with a speech about service and suffering. "I just recently returned from the country of Rwanda, in Africa," she said. "I observed something that to this day, that all of my life, I will take with me, and it was a woman that had survived the genocide. She had survived unspeakable atrocities, and had decided that what was best for her, what was best for what was left of her family—which wasn't much—was to overcome and put her country first." (The woman was brought to the Convention, and she stood and waved to the crowd.) "What it did was remind me point-blank of something about my husband. And, truly, what this was all about was putting your country first." It was confusing, but the audience applauded wildly.
At the fair in Des Moines, people had waited in the heat for several hours behind a barricade of straw bales for John McCain to materialize. "Here's a lady you may recognize," McCain said. "My wife, Cindy!" Everyone clapped, and someone called out, "Hello, First Lady!"
"She keeps John on his toes," said Wayne Jackson, a Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair, who was wearing a Navy baseball cap with a John McCain button pinned to the front. "When she was over with Mother Teresa, she brought a baby home from India!" Jackson had heard McCain speak six or seven times and said that he feared Barack Obama. "He's not African-American—he's Arab-American."
"My opponent doesn't want nuclear power, he doesn't want us to drill offshore, and the other day he mentioned that what we need to do is inflate our tires," McCain said, his voice ringing out over the P.A. system. "That's a public-service announcement, not an energy policy!" Applause and catcalls rippled through the crowd. "So we're havin' fun in this campaign, my friends, and I want you to have fun, too," he continued. "I want you to enjoy this campaign."
Cindy McCain stood by her husband's side, her eyes rendered invisible by sunglasses, her mouth a lipsticked slash across her face—a straight line, unsmiling. A woman in the audience, wearing tight chinos, T-shirt, tube socks, and tennis shoes, motioned toward the candidate's wife with her chin and whispered to the man beside her, "She doesn't look like she's having any fun at all." ♦
*Correction, December 12, 2008: John McCain was a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, not of the Vietcong, as previously stated.
*Correction, December 12, 2008: James Hensley is Stephanie's only son, not one of her sons, as previously stated.


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While Peter Parker is easily the best known character to take on the secret identity "Spider-Man," he is not the only one. From Miles Morales (who became Spider-Man after the death of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics) to Miguel O'Hara (who was a futuristic version of Spider-Man in the 2099 series) to Ben Reilly (who was actually a clone of Peter Parker), there is a good history of other characters taking on the arachnid moniker, even though they aren't quite as well known to the public. This naturally begs the question, could we ever see a Spider-Man movie that featured a hero other than Peter Parker? As exciting as that prospect may be, it definitely won't be happening any time in the near future.
Following comments from Amazing Spider-Man 2 star Andrew Garfield suggesting that his big screen version of Spider-Man could one day be replaced by the Miles Morales version of the webslinger, producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach have completely shut that talk down. In a recent interview, The Playlist asked the two filmmakers if there was any chance we could ever see a non-Peter Parker Spider-Man on the big screen, and their answer was a firm no, explaining that none of the other versions of the character have the history required for a cinematic adaptation. Explained Arad,
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Asked for confirmation that Peter Parker will always be the one in the Spider-Man suit on the big screen, Arad gave an affirmative, "Absolutely," while Tolmach added, "As far as we're concerned. The guys who take it over after us… Who knows…"
Obviously the Amazing Spider-Man franchise is just getting going at this point, but I must that that this approach seems very short-sighted. Arad and Tolmach, I'm sure, want the series to go on for years and years, but the reality is that Andrew Garfield isn't always going to be around (let's not forget that part of what makes Spider-Man such a special hero is his young age) . When Garfield leaves they can replace him with another actor to play Peter, but wouldn't it be so much cooler to instead have the Peter die and move forward with something new and exciting that audiences have never seen before and further expands the universe? I don't think audiences are as afraid of new things as Arad and Tolmach seem to think they are.
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If you have a television set, you could not have missed the almost nonstop commercials attacking Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton. What happened to Tuffy is an example of intolerance and legislative bullying.
Tuffy is an affable, East Texas boy with seniority in the Texas House of Representatives, respected by his peers and chair of one of the major committees. He is being attacked mainly by special interests for the sin of standing by his constituents.
In short, what this campaign is about is money and power. Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR), having dropped millions in numerous races around the state, wants to make an example of Tuffy for not having marched to the beat of its drummer. The critical vote in this case was the vote of whether to protect insurance companies or Tuffy's constituents. Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is an agency created to allow insurance carriers who offer homeowner insurance to escape the threat or risk of insuring homes against storm losses. Prior to the recent session of the Legislature, an investigation revealed the corruption and incompetence of TWIA. There were payoffs to adjusters, hiring of incompetents, ignoring of pleas of homeowners desperate to have their homes repaired from storm damage and almost every abuse an insurance adjuster is capable of. Under the leadership of such lobby groups as TLR, instead of holding the managers of TWIA responsible, and instead of taking insurance companies that fund this association to task, the Legislature decided to simply insulate this insurer of last resort and reduce its liability while making it harder for homeowners, particularly those in Southeast Texas, to recover from storm damage.
Given a choice, Tuffy had the courage to stand up to this special interest and vote with his constituents. Unfortunately, Tuffy paid the price of a tough campaign. Because the pro-insurance, anti-lawsuit lobby is so stout in Austin, many of our statewide leaders are afraid to cross them or stand up to them. This is evidenced by the fact that upon their urging, Gov. Perry and other statewide elected officials have seen fit to attempt to tell Southeast Texans whom they should vote for in a state representative's race. This makes the issue crystal clear. Either the Texans in Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton's district will own a state representative, or the special interest lobby will own one.
To be kind, Mr. James White, Tuffy's opponent, made it extremely clear early after his election that he did not know his way around Austin. Rumor has it Rep. White was shocked to learn the salary of a state representative was not the same as a United States congressman. His approach to politics appears to have been throw as much mud at Hamilton as possible without offering one single solution to the multiple problems faced by the Texas Legislature. We have not heard from White on how he proposes to adequately fund public education, colleges, provide money for new roads and highways in Texas, or deal with the medical needs of older Texans.
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By Ryan Faulkner - September 18, 2012
Domino's Pizza sucks. Not just in the sense that it treats its workers heinously, the pizza itself is of a low quality. Eating a slice of Domino's pizza is a similar experience to swallowing a salt shaker. So its not surprising that on a Saturday night in Berkeley, the Domino's storefront was dead. A delivery car would run out the back every 15 minutes or so, but business was not booming.
Us Wobblies posted up at a Chinese restaurant next door, waiting for 6 PM, when our demonstration was set to begin. We had committed to stage an action in solidarity with Domino's Delivery Drivers in Australia, who have received an arbitrary wage cut of 19%, a punishment for the 23 delivery drivers who raised complaints over a trend of paychecks that came up short of their promised salaries.
The consensus in the Chinese restaurant was that this was going to be a git 'er done and out kind of deal. Walk around with signs in front of the location for a couple hours, chant some angry chants, and flyer passersby. Hopefully, by the end of the night, we'd cost Domino's a few customers, get the workers thinking about the stability of their own wages, and bother the boss enough that they'd give corporate management a call.
But we got so much more.
The first step we took was to enter the Domino's, tell the workers what was happening, give them flyers for informational purposes, and make it clear that we were on their side. But one of the workers at the front end wasn't having it. She ran to the back, screaming for her boss like we were trying to rob the place.
Her boss came out in a ridiculous fury, charging us with disrupting the operation of some sort of mom n' pop shop.
"I treat my people well here!" she said. "And you're trying to mess that up! This is a franchise! I'm a small business owner! YOU DAMN WOBBLIES!"
It's strange to think that someone would have the nerve to argue that a store with the Domino's logo on it had no relationship whatsoever with the Domino's Pizza Corporation.
So at first there were 4 of us, marching in a circle. Then a veteran wob showed up and we had 5. Then 3 comrades from the WSA appeared, followed by two more fellow workers, and we had quite a mass rally going on. Some guy I'd never met before was walking down the street, saw what was going on, thought it made sense, and joined in.
It was nice, but not very exhilarating. The cops had been called, but Berkeley PD doesn't exactly make small demos on the sidewalk a high priority. Eventually a cop did show up, but he only stuck around for a few minutes, told us our rights, and left. He was almost sarcastic in how little he seemed to care about what was going on. There was a quality of excitement lacking from the whole affair.
Fortunately, the boss changed that in a bigger way than we could have ever hoped.
Suddenly, workers started running outside with flyers and pizzas, and started passing them out to anyone that seemed interested. A fellow worker who had been passing out flyers at the corner asked what the deal was, and ran back to us with an big grin on his face:
"That idiot is giving free pizza away to everyone. She thinks it's gonna convince people that Domino's isn't so bad."
That's right, the boss' response to our attempt to cost Domino's money was… to cost Domino's way more money than we could have ever anticipated.
Not wanting anyone to miss out on this opportunity, 3 of us split up and ran to the busiest intersections in Berkeley, telling everyone that they could get free pizza just by asking for it. Most folks were skeptical, but hordes of hungry teenagers were willing to take the risk that we might be pulling a fast one. Within minutes, twitter was crackling with the news. From Telegraph to Shattuck, crowds of Berkeley's nightlife were descending upon Domino's.
By the time I had returned to the pizza joint, a dense line was stretching out the door and down to the corner. Domino's workers were passing out free sodas to everyone waiting. As we observed the people coming out the door, it was obvious that they weren't just getting free slices, the boss was throwing away full pies. Some even had the gall to ask for sides… and got them.
Wobblies soapboxed to the crowd waiting in line, educating them on what had happened in Australia. People who had came just wanting to take advantage of the situation left shocked at the contempt with which Domino's treats its workers. We were congratulated on our ability to help people by hurting profits.
By this time, the boss had clearly realized that her clever plan was a disaster, but there was nothing she could do but wait it out. The people were too many and too hungry. Delivery drivers were rolling in laughter at the spectacle, thanking us for also getting all the workers inside free pizzas, apparently out of the boss' fear that our demonstration would get them to think about organizing. The bribe didn't seem to work at all.
Eventually it was decided that we should leave, figuring that if a riot ensued when Domino's ran out of commodities, we didn't want the IWW banner across it. We had done our part. But after our demo had dissipated, we drove past the storefront one more time, only to behold the sight of a line just as long as we had left it, the costs to the corporation still spiraling even in the absence of our presence.
Someone estimated the damage we did that night puts the cost to Domino's somewhere between $2,000 to $4,000.
Just out of curiosity, I called the location several hours later to see how they were handling the fallout:
Domino's Worker: "Thank you for choosing Domino's, how can I help you?"
Me: "Hey, I heard y'all are giving away free pizza. What's going on?"
Domino's Worker: "No, no, that just ended, we ran out of… no that just ended."
Me: "Oh, ok. So what's the deal with that? Is it a Saturday thing, or just a random event, or what?"
Domino's Worker: "No, we just did that to get rid of… I mean, that was a… spur-of-the-moment customer appreciation thing."
Domino's obviously won't tell the real story, so it falls to us. If anyone asks what went down in Berkeley that night, just tell them that the biggest pizza company in the world was thrown into such a panic by the sight of Wobblies at the door that they threw a couple grand worth of surplus value down the drain.


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A14. Yes. These would be where an account holder has a loan on which they are claiming tax relief on the interest paid, for example a mortgage or home improvement loan. In order that the Revenue Commissioners can correctly apply the Tax Relief at Source (TRS) provisions to such a loan, some Financial Institutions notify the interest details to Revenue using the PPS No. as a unique identifier. Note that not all Financial Institutions use the PPS No. in this regard.
The Regulations implementing the EU Taxation of Savings Income Directive require Financial Institutions (Banks, Building Societies, Credit Unions etc.) to establish the identity of prospective customers. In order to comply with the document retention requirement contained in the Regulations, Financial Institutions may retain a manual record or a photocopy of a document containing the PPS Number. The PPS Number must not be recorded on the bank's computer system and the PPS Number must not be used by the bank for any other purpose.
A15. No, generally once a PPS number is allocated it remains unchanged unless there is a material change in your circumstances or status. Historically, on marriage, the female partner in a relationship assumed her husband's number with the letter "W" appended. The policy has since changed to ensure that every individual holds a unique PPS number. Where the female partner had a PPS number in her own right prior to marriage this number will be reactivated. If a pre-marriage number did not exist a new number will, be assigned. Any holders of a PPS number ending with the letter "W" may contact Client Identity Services Division of this Department to arrange a new PPS number.
You can contact Client Identity Services at
Department of Social and Family Affairs,Social Welfare Services,Shannon Lodge,Carrick-on-Shannon,County LeitrimTelephone: Lo Call 1890 927999
A16. No. The PPS Number is not a national identity number. It is designed to be used as a service enabler for the purposes of public service administration. The number forms an essential element of your Public Service Identity (PSI) which provides a speedy and efficient means of establishing identity for the purposes of access to and dealings with all public service bodies. The PSI comprises the PPS Number and a defined set of personal data. Your PSI is to be used exclusively in dealings with public bodies or with agents acting on behalf of public bodies


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Yes, at random, Environmental Tuesday is back. As I've been decluttering, I have not been able to toss out the mason jars full of wine corks I've collected for years. I never really intended on making a corkboard out of them (though this is a good idea and a great way to recycle them), but I could not bring myself to add them to a landfill even though I was trying to purge clutter like crazy. Perhaps I sensed that there was somewhere out there that would take them all along, because…
…There is a great new organization called ReCORK by Amorim that combines two of my favorite things, WINE AND SHOES! They want your used corks. Started California wine country in 2008, ReCORK is partnering with restaurants, wineries and airlines to collect used corks so that they can be reused in products like floor tiles, building insulation, automotive gaskets, craft materials, soil conditioner and sports equipment…and SHOES! In particular, they have partnered with a shoe manufacturer called SOLE to make shoes out of the wine corks.
A quick glance at how it works: Check the ReCORK site for drop-off areas in your city and take your corks. If you don't have a drop off area, ReCORK will send you a shipping tag, however, in order to keep carbon footprint down and not erase all of their good efforts, they want 15 pounds of corks at a time. Atlanta, even though I first read about ReCORK in the AJC, according to the site, we don't have any drop off centers yet! Atlanta restauranteurs and wine shop owners, how about it? You may sign up just to recycle your own corks, or to be a collection partner, so that people can drop off their corks with you.
By the way, if you have any green resources or ideas you'd like us to spread the word about, please let me know in the comments section. I'd love to revive this series.
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Thomas E. Schindler closes out our "Derailed but Undeterred" essay series with this touching reflection on his daughter's battle with cancer.
In the final installment of our "Derailed but Undeterred" series, F. Peter Guengerich writes about how working on his family's farm conditioned him to become a disciplined researcher. He writes, in part, "When I was 10, Dad told me one night that he thought I was old enough to drive a tractor. He gave me an operating manual, told me to learn the gearshift pattern and said that he would show me how the next day."
In the second to last installment of our "Derailed but Undeterred" essay series, H. Jane Dyson writes about the expectations she faced when starting her career, the disappointments that made her question her path and the decisions that sealed her fate.
In this month's contribution to our Derailed but Undeterred personal essay series, Harvey J. Armbrecht writes about his wife's diagnosis of Lewy body disease and about the SAMP8 mouse, a spontaneous animal model for early memory loss.
Bethany Brookshire, otherwise known as SciCurious, talks about a condition that makes often highly accomplished people unable to feel or internalize their own accomplishments.
In her contribution to ASBMB Today's essay series "Derailed but Undeterred," Christine Guthrie of the University of California at San Francisco candidly recalls how she, as a young investigator, survived a particularly dark period.
In his contribution to ASBMB Today's "Derailed but Undeterred" essay series, Jonathan Gitlin of the National Human Genome Research Institute recalls the challenges he experienced as a noncitizen forging a career in U.S. science policy.
The third piece in our essay series is by Aditi S. Iyengar, who writes with honesty and wit about the gantlet that is graduate school.
The second piece in our essay series is by Martha Lewis, who fled Sierra Leone as a child and who is now pursuing a life in science.
Wendy Knapp Pogozelski's contribution to the "Derailed but Undeterred" essay series begins: "Blurred vision was the first sign that something was wrong. The front row of the freshman chemistry class I was teaching looked strangely fuzzy. Then, over the next few days, I was gripped by an unquenchable thirst and was constantly fatigued. Seemingly overnight I lost eight pounds. I recognized the symptoms of diabetes, but I was young(ish), slim(ish) and an avid kick-boxer. Mine was not the typical diabetic profile."
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Up for auction: Spanish airport costing up to a reported $1.5 billion, little used.
Starting price? $150 million.
If that sounds improbable, you haven't been keeping up with the fallout from Spain's burst property bubble.
The fire sale of the country's first private international airport has become a powerful symbol of the economic downturn triggered by that implosion.
With a 4,400-meter-long runway, Europe's longest, on which the world's largest airliner, the Airbus 380, can land, Ciudad Real International Airport sounds as if it has quite a lot going for it.
Accepting bids from this week until December 27, the five-year-old facility 200 kilometers south of Madrid also has a passenger capacity of 10 million people a year and, something rare for an airport, star quality.
Last year, the Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar shot part of his last film, the high-flying romp "I'm So Excited!", at the so-called "ghost airport,"
the Australian reports
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'Don't land here!'
CNN's Dan Rivers takes a look inside Spain's "ghost airport" in this 2011 Backstory report.
Plus points aside, what the airport equivalent of real estate agents might try to gloss over are the huge yellow crosses painted all over the runway.
Like hoardings on an abandoned building to keep squatters out, they're designed to stop pilots landing at the airport by accident, where they could only recently have found themselves surrounded by a gaggle of Almodovar's actors playing screamingly camp air crew.
Which would have been confusing.
Another downside is that location, which sounds as though it might have been breezily dismissed amid the giddy excitement of the aforementioned 10-year development boom.
No one really goes to Ciudad Real, at least not on vacation.
Lonely Planet calls it "an unspectacular Spanish working town."
The sparsely populated surrounding region of Castile-La Mancha is where the Spanish literary character Don Quixote famously "tilted at windmills."
Indeed, the airport was first called Aeropuerto Don Quijote.
Cervantes' hero also gave rise to the word "quixotic," meaning extravagant, unrealistic and impractical.
More: Man wakes up locked in on United jet
'Near Madrid'
The airport was meant to serve the Spanish capital and the Andalusian coast by high speed rail, but it appears to have been planned in the same vein as other far-flung but optimistically named airports, such as Paris Beauvais Tillé (85 kilometers from the French capital).
Low-cost carriers such as Ryanair and Air Berlin flew in to Ciudad Real International, but the airport opened in the same year, 2008, as the bursting of the Spanish property bubble tipped the country's economy into double-dip recession.
By 2012, the airport's custom had dwindled to a few private arrivals, including Prince Harry
reportedly flying in for a boar hunt
Later that same year, its operators having filed for bankruptcy, the airport closed for business.
Only to open up, now, for bids.
In a statement to CNN, however, Francisco Perez, one of the bankruptcy administrators, insisted that widely published reports about the $1.5 billion cost to build the airport were untrue.
The actual construction cost was only about one-third of that, he said, but it was difficult to determine the overall price tag due to a large number of pending court cases by property owners over expropriation costs for the land where the airport was built.
"We are aware that inside and outside of Spain there's the idea that building this airport was absurd and doesn't make sense economically because it's an airport 'without passengers,'" Perez wrote.
"Nevertheless...that has nothing to do with reality.
"It's an airport mainly aimed at business and industrial activity -- air cargo and [other] businesses in the aeronautical industry," he said in the statement.
"There is a large amount of unbuilt land, zoned for industrial use, around the airport that is being offered to the buyer as part of the airport package," he added.
Princely sum
Who'd buy an airport?
An idle Saudi prince? They probably get enough sun.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos could snap it up: he might save on freight.
Or maybe Ryanair should actually buy its own airport.
They say every cloud has a silver lining. For now, Ciudad Real International is waiting for one to appear.
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Hope things go well for Target / Trader Joes: Public Hearing Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012
Ryan Company's retail development director, Tony Barranco, explained the 4 changes to the approved plan and gave the reasons for the requests. All 4 seem very reasonable.
Though I have been in favor of the Target anchor store, at the Underwood Crossing Retail Center on Bluemound Road, I was wary when I heard they were requesting higher density.
But my fears were quickly alleviated. The request for the increased density from 35% to 40% is for the Jr. Anchor store adjacent to the Target only, not for the entire project. If you look at the drawing, you see the yellow is the original sizing, the red the requested size.
In fact, the density or Floor Area Ratio--F.A.R. (proportion of building structure to overall area) is well below the 30% standard. Underwood Crossing was approved at 16. If the increase in density for the Jr. Anchor is approved, it would be 17.2. If you notice the out buildings to the north, the Trader Joe's in right corner is now larger, but the center building is about half its original size. The bank to the west is smaller. (My adjustments in red are NOT to scale, and not yet approved, it is just so you get an idea of what they are asking for.)
The Jr. Anchor (still undisclosed but is some sort of home product store), is asking for an additional 5,900 square feet to be used mostly for merchandise storage, not retail floor. The additional space would be added to the east side of the building, with the majority to the back (loading area).
The other major issue is the request to increase the overall height of the light poles from 20' to 25'. Brookfield's standard is 20 feet. Here a 5' increase in pole height would result in 11 fewer light poles and less energy consumption. From what I could tell from the renderings Tony Barracano showed, the light pool would remain the same--in other words, here, they can do more with less. Because of the topography, the neighborhood is at a higher elevation than the retail center; the 5 foot increase shouldn't create a problem for the neighbors.
A 3rd request is to add Trader Joe's name to the monument sign on Bluemound. To me, Trader Joe's is the MAJOR attraction here. Target may be the largest anchor store, but Trader Joe's is the real star. Motorists should be able to see at a glance where the Trader Joe's entrance is. Trader Joe's logo is just their name in big red letters. It should go nicely with the Target. Ryan Company is not asking for a larger sign, just that Trader Joe's name be added.
I don't know if people realize what a feather in Brookfield's cap a Trader Joe's is for us. I know I have been wishing for one for some time. Evidently, Dan Ertl has been wooing them since they entered the Milwaukee market at Bay Shore.
Currently, that is the only Trader Joe's, and it is in a congested parking lot that is an accident waiting to happen. Still, people travel from more than 25 miles away just to shop at Bay Shore's Trader Joe's. I think we can safely conclude Brookfield's Trader Joe's will increase the success of every retailer located at Underwood Crossing. The least we can do is put their name on the sign!
The last item needing approval regards the berm. Initially, the berm's vegetation was not to be touched by the developer, but a section had to be cleared to connect to water. When the neighborhood saw how much better the berm looked after Ryan Co. restored the plantings with mixed evergreens, they wanted to see additional evergreen plantings incorporated into the berm. The neighbors are asking that undesirable trees such as Buckthorn and Box Alder be removed, and that Ryan replace with a variety of evergreens. They are willing to do this if they are granted the 25' light pole height variance. Ryan figures the money saved by using 11 fewer but taller poles would help pay for the $40,000+ additional evergreens to the original plan.
Bottom line: It is a case of give and take. From what I hear, Ryan Co. has been very receptive to the requests of the neighborhood. They helped clean up the former Quebecor site. They created a development that comes in well under the zoning FAR.
Their requests do not seem out of line to me for what we are getting. I hope it goes well for them with the Plan Commission and Common Council. Share your opinions at Brookfield City Hall Common Council Chambers Tuesday, January 17th at 7:45pm.
Submit your comments before the next Plan Commission meeting on Monday, January 23, 2012: I asked Alderman Mellone if comments could be emailed in, as we have in the past. She said yes. Send your comments to Alderman Lisa Mellone: email@example.com , Alderman Renee' Lowerr: email@example.com , Dan Ertl: firstname.lastname@example.com and/or Mayor Steve Ponto: email@example.com . After the Jan. 23rd Plan Commission meeting (if all goes well), Underwood Crossing Retail Center PDD goes before the Common Council for approval on February 7th. We are almost finished, but Dan Ertl informs me there would still be a "modest amendment to the project development agreement at a subsequent meeting".
Brookfield considers changes to development plan in advance of Trader Joe's Dec. 14, 2011
Public Hearing Notice
Past Posts: A Whole Lotta Diggin' Goin' On in SE Brookfield Aug. 24, 2011
Brookfield's proposed Target Store Public Hearing: Dec. 7, 7:45pm, UPDATE and maps Dec. 7, 2010
Can it be? A Target in Brookfield? How about a Trader Joe's too? March 12, 2010
In Praise of Aldi's AND Trader Joe's: Wish We Had Both! June 4, 2008
Links: Practically Speaking, Fairly Conservative, RandyMelchert, Betterbrookfield, Jay Weber, Vicki McKenna, WisPolitics Quorum Call, CNS News, Mark Levin, Breitbart BigGovernment, The Heritage Foundation
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A queen of suffering's beauty and seductiveness tempts even other immortals. Treated as royalty among succubi, she commands both love and respect from her lesser cousins. She often travels with a small coven of devoted succubus followers, serving as both her students and handmaids.
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