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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Industrial Rustic Shelf Tutorial
103 comments:
Totally unbelievably cool! I just adore how you staged your shelves as well! I hope you're ready for this one to go viral... it's wonderful!ReplyDelete
Shared on FJI Facebook and pinned for SNS 133. :)
Amazing-, where can I build these because I do need to! Hmm, office? Bathroom? Kitchen?ReplyDelete
I would love these in my kitchen! Thanks for the step-by-step.ReplyDelete
I Love this!ReplyDelete
seriously, these are AMAZINGGG!!!! I love them. Just showed them to my husband and I do believe we might/will/must/ill-beg-untill-he-does-it build some!ReplyDelete
xo em
love this alotReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 13, 2012 at 6:56 AM
This is amazing! and beautiful! How much did it end up costing you ?ReplyDelete
This is so awesome, I'm pinning it. :)ReplyDelete
This looks so cool, found it on pinterest and I'm repinning it now! Thanks so much!!!ReplyDelete
Visiting from Funky Junk! These are FANTASTIC!! Beautiful and functional. Love, love, love!ReplyDelete
Love these, pinning and hopefully making them when I find a spot!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tutorial!
Thanks so much for the sweet comments! You all make me want to create something more for you to see!ReplyDelete
These are AMAZING!!! I love them so much! Great job!!ReplyDelete
these are GREAT! Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
NOW you've done it!!! Sooooooo awesome!!! Wish I didn't have plaster everywhere. Maybe the next house?!?!?ReplyDelete
Hi... I have been wanting to do this but the pipe and fittings are so expensive. May I ask how much this cost.ReplyDelete
That's not too bad. They are at least $600 to buy one. I will send pics if I make one. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Wow- this is such a great tutorial. I found this on Pinterest and decided to check out your blog- so much great stuff on here. I am excited to go through your other posts- you make things look so easy and I very appreciate the step by step instructions!ReplyDelete
Found this on Pinterest via Anna (above). May be perfect for my family room! Was thinking of 2 of Ballard's wood & metal bookcases (but at $500 each!). Your ceiling-hung shelves are a real space saver. Thanks for the post :)ReplyDelete
Hey! Found this on Pinterest and pretty much going to make this ASAP... already have my printed list and things we need. Curious how far apart you spaced the 3 rows of pipes?ReplyDelete
Found this link on Pinterest, and I am so in love with these shelves. I think I might see a DIY project in my near future!ReplyDelete
What was the total space dimension for these shelves? Also, how did you go about estimating what pipe conduit and sizes ect you would need? We would like to replace our kitchen cab's with this kind of open shelving but I'm not sure how to measure and estimate for materials in respect to the pip conduit....Any advice??ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey Stacey! The total space is 6'6"x4'. I chose to use 3 brackets to land on every other stud. The boards I used were 10" wide, so the pieces going from the front of the brackets to the wall all had to be 10". I wanted different heights of shelves, so I divided the 4' height into inches, and found the combination of heights that would suit my needs. Then I drew up a sketch to figure out how many flanges, 90s, and Ts I needed. Does that all make sense? I know home Depot will cut and thread pipe to any size you want, but I'm not sure if that costs more than the pre cut pipes... Any other questions? Feel free to ask! :)Delete
I love this so much!! I am working on a little 1905 house and will be making these for the pantry - I will be sure to link to your tutorial. And I pinned it :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2012 at 7:30 AM
Just found this article through Google. We're looking to do something similar to this for a bookshop. Unfortunately we're based in the UK and we're having the hardest time finding threaded metal pipe/bars cut to size. No Home Depot over here. Can anyone please point me in the direction of somewhere we can get hold of this stuff in the UK?ReplyDelete
Oh they would be so neat in a bookshop! Sorry, I wish I could help you! :(Delete
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2012 at 3:17 AM
Managed to find them! Took some serious googling but they're ordered and on the way.Delete
Oh good, I'm so glad you did! I would love to see a pic of them when they are complete! :) Have fun putting them together!Delete
You can email me a pic at sylvieliv(at)yahoo(dot)com if you'd like!
Did you actually attach them to the ceiling or just butt them up to the ceiling?ReplyDelete
This is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Love this project! I saw your industrial chic shelves on Pinterest and now want to make a set for my husband's office. Thanks for sharing the tutorial!ReplyDelete
Thanks guys! :) I hope you do make some!ReplyDelete
Loved this so much I tried it myself. You can see it on my blog at www.lazygirldecor.wordpress.com. I linked to your tutorial since it's one of the best I saw while researching my project. Nicely done!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you tried out some pipe shelves! Yours look great! :)ReplyDelete
Out of curiosity, are the boards simply resting on the pipes, or did you attach them somehow?ReplyDelete
Hey Wil! The boards are simply resting on the pipes. :)ReplyDelete
Love these shelves! What wood stain did you use?ReplyDelete
Hey Becca! Thank you! :) The can says "MinWax -Wood Stain- Classic Gray 271" It is from The Home Depot.ReplyDelete
Awesome, love this look. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Just installed my shelves yesterday! Def a two person job! Love it!!! I went with a darker stain and it looks great! Thanks for the easy to follow directions and materials list! Very helpful!!!ReplyDelete
FYI- you'll need a good hour or so at Home Depot when you go to purchase pipes. They have to cut and thread everthing!!
Thank you for the tip Colleen! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the tip Colleen! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Thank you so much for sharing this. I love it and hope to incorporate it in my home one day.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 3:21 PM
Thanks for the fantastic tutorial! What type of wood did you use?ReplyDelete
Thanks! We just used regular cheap pine lumber from Home Depot!ReplyDelete
Hi, Great looking shelves and thanks much for the Turorial. Any guess how much weight these shelves can bear, screwed to the Stubs. I have a couple of hundred vinyl records that would look great on that but they're heavy.ReplyDelete
thanks again,
Hello Manny,ReplyDelete
Thank you! I'd say the shelves could hold about 300 lbs if properly anchored to the studs. Ok, actually Mr. Liv would say. ;)
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Has anyone figured out where to get all the pieces for cheap?ReplyDelete
I wanted to do a similar project and need 36 flanges and those along come out to $100.
Just wanted to say thank you for being so thorough! I didn't want to drill holes through the boards like every other pipe shelving tutorial on the internet did, and then I found yours. It was just what I was looking for and now my tiny room has an amazing focal point. FYI – Zoro Tools is a great online source for all the pipe parts and pieces. It does take a bit of searching but I found everything I needed for under $80 total. The key is to search for gas pipes as they're cheaper (but just as strong) than water pipes.ReplyDelete
Here's my finished product.
hi Samantha!ReplyDelete
I love how yours turned out!
it makes me so happy when I can help someone else. :) thanks for taking the time to comment!
Love them! I'm going to use PVC pipe and spray paint them black to cut down on weight and cost of iron pipe. Love the idea! Great execution on these too!ReplyDelete
How big was the area it covered? I have a 6ft high area I'm wanting to put these in and am not sure lengths I need.ReplyDelete
How big was the area it covered? I have a 6ft high area I'm wanting to put these in and am not sure lengths I need.ReplyDelete
Can you tell me how tall in inches it is from ceiling to the last flange? I'm wanting to do this in a nursery and want to make sure it's not too low to put the dresser under it. I love this and I've pinned it so we can make it this summer. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hey Brooke and Kalle! The total unit is about 55" tall and 78" tall. You can buy different pipe lengths to fit your needs! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2014 at 6:34 AM
My husband and I just bought all the materials and are working on putting together. We are hiring a professional for the installation, but all parts were just at $200 at Home Depot. Our space doesn't allow for 3 support bars, so we are building with 2 bars to fill a space of 5'6" x 5'6". Can't wait to get these up!ReplyDelete
thanks so much for this… Found a similar thing at Restoration Hardware for $1995! I made this a few weeks ago, with a few slight variations: I used 3/4" pipe instead of 1/2", I used reclaimed wood (still 2x10's) instead of standard lumber, and I made mine go all the way to the floor. Came out great! Let me know if you care to see pics, I can send 'em. Thanks again!ReplyDelete
Hey there! Great post! I'm wondering how much weight those shelves will hold? ? I'm thinking of doing the same things in my living room, though I have a number of books to display. I worry they might be to heavy. Secondly, I'm wondering if there is a way to build these so they are not attached to the ceiling nor the floor. Any ideas?ReplyDelete
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Hey! Thank you for your interest in my shelves! I have no experience with structural engineering, so I am not sure how much weight the shelves will hold. I would recommend that these shelves are attached to the studs for the best support, but I do not know just how much weight they can hold. My shelves are not actually screwed into the ceiling, the flanges are just resting on the ceiling for looks. I am sorry I could not be more help!Delete
if attached to studs, at all three locations they can hold a lot of weight. Make sure you use proper screws.Delete
how tall are your walls? Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM
You stated that the shelves are not secured to anything, has that posed a problem as you try to distribute the weight equally? And can suggest how to secure the board to the pipes? Only thing I have seen is drilling through the boards and run pipes and attach flannel under each hole.... Thanks for these simple and yet complete instructions. I love your designs.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM
Super! How do you not scar the pipes when you screw them together? Do you use special wrenches?ReplyDelete
This is the coolest post I have ever come across! I love that you give instructions. We plan to do this!ReplyDelete
Best post I've ever come across. I love that you give all the instructions! We plan on doing this!ReplyDelete
This is great! Exactly what I had in mind but this put it together for me. We have some old scaffolding boards and have been looking for a way to use them and so will be doing this in our laundry room - 39in length. I am turning the T on the top shelf support so that I can add a 10in length of pipe to go out to an elbow and up since the ceiling joist is about 21 inches from the wall. I will be adding removable hooks and pipe from those top elbows that will hold hanging clothes when doing laundry. Very excited and will probably be posting finished product when all finished!ReplyDelete
Thanks again!!
Finished mine this weekend. LOVE how it turned out and the hubby did too (bday surprise for him)! :) Thanks for the great tutorial!ReplyDelete
This is so great! Where did you get the matching desk?ReplyDelete
Did you attach it to the ceiling? If so, how?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2015 at 6:08 PM
thank you for posting in such detail.. that really helps. Also giving the materials list was key in helping me understand the process. Keep these great tutorials coming. I'm trying this one out.ReplyDelete
cheers from Canada.
Love those! you did a great job!!! Do you know the brand and the shade name of the stain you used on the wood?ReplyDelete
Love those! you did a great job!!! Do you know the brand and the shade name of the stain you used on the wood?ReplyDelete
Love those! you did a great job!!! Do you know the brand and the shade name of the stain you used on the wood?ReplyDelete
I love these shelves and am wanting to do something similar in my kitchen to display my Pyrex collection. Did you attach the top flanges to the ceiling? If so did you bolt them into a rafter or just do drywall anchors since they are secured into the studs?ReplyDelete
I like that. :) Looks amazing! You are very talented.
Hi Silvie! This is amazing! Planning on using this as a template for our kitchen shelving. May I ask what the overall height is from the very bottom of the flanges just beneath the bottom shelf? Thank you!ReplyDelete
Hi! Your bookshelf is absolutely amazing! We've always wanted something similar but haven't figured out how to do t. We need a floor to ceiling bookshelf as a room divider. Do you have any suggestion how we secure the tubes to the ceiling and floor? Also we need the wood planks to be secured to the tubes since we have a kid. Do you know how we can do it? Thank you so much for sharing!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Xing He! Oh it would be lovely as a floor to ceiling room divider! I am not sure what the best way to secure it to the floor would be. For the boards, maybe use pipe brackets- screwed into the wood, and wrapped around the vertical pipes? Have fun! I'd love to see it when you're done.Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2016 at 6:48 AM
An unbelievable wood shelf. This blog will indisputably be definitely recommended to my friends as well.internet<ReplyDelete
Hi Sylvie, I wasn't able to find the 1/2" - 16" black threaded pipes. Is that a standard size that you can find at any Lowes's or Home Depot? As far as the wood, did that have to be cut? I didn't quite understand the instructions to cut the boards to 6'6".ReplyDelete
Hi, Has anyone tried building these with drywall anchors instead of using the studs? I wanted to make these that cover an entire room wall however my studs are not even so the center pipe would be off set to the left and so would the rest. From a visual standpoint it would look "off" I was also planning on flipping the design upside down so there would be legs/feet resting on the carpet. Thoughts?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello Kristopher! Thank you for stopping by. I have not tried using anchors. It seems like it surely would help the stability to have it set into the floor. I wonder if some of them landed in the studs, and some of them were drywall anchors, maybe that would be fine? I'm not 100% positive though. Sorry I couldn't be more help!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2016 at 6:40 AM
Hi, I am thinking of putting these next to my fireplace in the living room, can I make the shelves little more deeper than given here? Like instead of 10" - using 15" pipe with 10" shelf in it? I am just skeptical on how those would hold up on the wall.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this tutorial. We followed it for our play room shelves and they came out great.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 27, 2017 at 6:41 AM
Love these , going to do it this weekend...but how did you get the shelves not to move back and forth?ReplyDelete
Did you start these about a foot over your desk?ReplyDelete

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Trout is one of my favorite fish, and what I love about fish (aside from the brain health benefits that I so desperately need) is the speed with which you can prepare it. I'm not terribly experienced with cooking whole fish, so I used this Whole Trout en Papilotte recipe from the Food Network. Place some chopped onion on a piece of parchment paper, lay the fish on top and cut slits into it. Season it inside and out with salt and pepper.
Stuff the fish with herbs, coat the top with shallot butter (see instructions below) and cover it with a layer of lemons.
I wrapped it in the parchment, grilled it for 20 minutes, and it was done! Moist, tender, and makes you smarter!
WHOLE TROUT EN PAPILLOTE (from Food Network)
- 2 whole trout, dressed
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup sliced sweet yellow onion
- 2 handfuls fresh herbs (thyme, parsley and rosemary)
- 3 tablespoons lemon-shallot butter, recipe follows
- 1 lemon, sliced
- 2 tablespoons dry white wine
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- Parchment paper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees (I used a grill — either will work!). Cut 2 sheets of parchment paper large enough to completely cover the fish when folded. Wash and dry the trout. Using a knife, score the fish on 1 side by cutting slits into the flesh just until you feel the bone. Season the trout generously, inside and out with salt and pepper. Spread 1/4 cup of the onions on each sheet of parchment. Place fish on top, scored side up. Stuff the inside of the fish with herbs. (It's ok if they stick out a bit). Top each fish with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the shallot butter. Cover with the lemon slices. Drizzle 1 tablespoon white wine and 1/2 tablespoon olive oil over each fish. Fold the parchment over the fish. Starting at 1 end, fold the paper on itself, making sure to completely seal it. At the end, fold it underneath itself. Repeat. Place fish on large baking sheet and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes. To serve, place trout en papillote on a platter. Cut the parchment at the table to ensure that all the aromas stay inside the package.
Lemon Shallot Butter
- 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 lemon, zest finely minced
- 1 small shallot, finely minced
- Salt and pepper
In a food processor, combine all ingredients until mixed. Place whipped butter mixture onto a sheet of plastic wrap and roll into a log. Freeze until ready to use. Butter will keep in the freezer for at least a month.


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The Excommunication of Margaret McBride (2009–2010)
In 2010, the Catholic Church excommunicated Margaret McBride, a nun and ethics board member at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. McBride was excommunicated latae sententiae, or automatically, for approving a therapeutic abortion, which is an abortion that is required to save a pregnant woman's life. McBride approved an abortion for a woman who was twenty-seven years old, eleven weeks pregnant with her fifth child, and suffered from pulmonary hypertension, a life-threatening condition during pregnancy. Following McBride's decision, St.
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Subject: Ethics
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry H. Laughlin
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century in the US focused on altering the genetic makeup of the US population by regulating immigration and sterilization, and by discouraging interracial procreation, then called miscegenation.
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Subject: Outreach, Legal, Ethics, Publications
Leon Richard Kass (1939- )
A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others and engage important cultural issues. This he has accomplished over the course of many years by studying biochemistry, teaching humanities, writing articles and books on ethics, and serving as chair of the President's Council on Bioethics.
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Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility treatment, medical services ancillary to infertility treatment such as embryo storage, and all human embryological research performed in the UK. The law also defines a legal concept of the parent of a child conceived with assisted reproductive technologies.
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Subject: Legal, Reproduction, Ethics
Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005
Hwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time cloned a human embryo and that they had derived eleven stem cell lines from it. Hwang was a professor at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. In the Science articles, Hwang stated that all of the women who donated eggs to his laboratory were volunteers who donated their eggs (oocytes) without receiving any compensation in return. In 2006, Hwang admitted that many of the results were fabricated.
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Subject: Legal, Ethics, Reproduction
Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven weeks after fertilization. Experts predicted that this ability may encourage the use of prenatal sex screening tests by women interested to know the gender of their fetuses. As more people begin to use non-invasive blood tests that accurately determine the sex of the fetus at 7 weeks, many ethical questions pertaining to regulation, the consequences of gender-imbalanced societies, and altered meanings of the parent-child relationship.
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Subject: Reproduction, Ethics, Legal
Adolescent Family Life Act (1981)
The 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, is a US federal law that provides federal funding to public and nonprofit private organizations to counsel adolescents to abstain from sex until marriage. AFLA was included under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981, which the US Congress signed into law that same year. Through the AFLA, the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, funded a variety of sex education programs for adolescents to address the social and economic ramifications associated with pregnancy and childbirth among unmarried adolescents.
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Subject: Legal, Outreach, Ethics, Reproduction
Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria
During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators as treatments for what was called female hysteria. Until the early 1900s, physicians used female hysteria as a diagnosis for women who reported a wide range of complaints and symptoms unexplainable by any other diagnosis at the time. According to historian Rachel Maines, physicians provided pelvic massages for thousands of years to female patients without it being considered erotic or sexually stimulating.
Format: Articles
Subject: Reproduction, Technologies, Ethics
Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)
As of 2022, Trisomy 21 is the most common type of trisomy, or a condition where the person has three instead of the normal two copies of one of the chromosomes. Trisomy occurs when abnormal cell division takes place leading to an extra copy of a chromosome. That extra copy of chromosome 21 results in a congenital disorder called Down syndrome, which is characterized by a cluster of specific traits including intellectual disabilities, atypical facial appearance, and a high risk of heart disease.
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Subject: Reproduction, Disorders, Ethics
Quickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been considered a pivotal moment in pregnancy. Over time, this experience has been used in a variety of contexts, ranging from representing the point of ensoulment to determining whether an abortion was legal to indicating the gender of the unborn baby; philosophy, theology, and law all address the idea of quickening in detail. Beginning with Aristotle, quickening divided the developmental stages of embryo and fetus.
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Subject: Processes, Ethics, Reproduction


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AOL (AOL) shares swelled more than 7% after the web portal reported revenue growth for the first time in eight years. Fourth quarter profits were in line with expectations.
Credit ratings agency Moody's (MCO) also reported profits that met expectations. Still, shares edged downward in premarket trading on worries that the government might sue the firm over its ratings of mortgage securities, as it did rival Standard & Poor's earlier this week.
The trade deficit shrank in December to $38.5 billion, down from $48.6 billion the previous month, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Data on wholesale inventories is due at 10 a.m.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (BP) — Mohammed Khidir Khalil Hassan, a Sudanese convert to Christianity from Islam, has to be careful what songs he sings to his sons.
Nearly a year ago, after his wife left him, a Sudanese court had ruled that as a convert from Islam he was forbidden to see his children, then ages 3 and 5. An appeals court overturned the ruling last October and allowed him visits, but he knows any pretext could be used to keep him from them.
During one recent visit, one of the boys asked him to sing a Christian praise song entitled "Hosanna," but he refrained — knowing his ex-wife and her Muslim family could use that as evidence that he was trying to convert the children to Christianity and automatically cancel his visitation rights.
"I see no freedom at all," he said, pointing out that his ex-wife and her mother closely monitor his visits. "Such a system needs to be confronted. We have to decide to work for change in Sudan."
A Sudanese court had ruled in March 2012 that his wife, as a member of "the popular religion," be awarded custody of the children. His wife had presented a copy of a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees certificate showing Khalil's testimony as a Christian, as they had obtained asylum in Egypt from religious persecution in Sudan. The certificate was proof enough for a Sudanese judge to rule that the marriage be annulled and the children handed over to the spouse professing Islam.
The ruling perhaps reflects the prevailing anti-Christianity hostility in the air since South Sudan seceded in July 2011. Harassment, violence and arrests of Christians have intensified since largely Christian South Sudan seceded and Sudan President Omar al-Bashir vowed to root the country more deeply in Sharia (Islamic law).
Hassan now visits the boys twice a month, Friday and Saturday of the first and second week for four hours each.
"What surprises me is that my wife denied that she was or has ever been a Christian before, yet we had a Christian wedding and during the birth of our first born, women from the Dinka community came to celebrate with us, as well as offering to us Christian prayers," he said.
Khalil, who converted to Christianity in 2001, had met Manal Hassan in 2007. At that time she said she was neither a Christian nor a Muslim. The bride's Muslim family learned that Khalil was a Christian but had no objection to the marriage, he said.
By 2010 the couple had joined an undisclosed church and had become visibly active in it; opposition from their families grew, and after threats from family members and others intensified, the couple fled to Egypt in January 2011. Hassan and his young family obtained asylum as refugees in Egypt, and he was heartened that his wife was attending church with him.
In August 2011, his Muslim mother-in-law visited them in Egypt. Without his knowledge, she took his wife and children back to Sudan, he said. Hearing nothing from them, on Christmas Day 2011 Khalil decided to return to an undisclosed town in Sudan to search for them. He was shocked to discover that his wife had filed for divorce on grounds that she was a Muslim and he a Christian.
A Sudanese court had granted her custody of their two sons and forbade him to see them, he said.
"How does she deny the house of Christian marriage after four years?" Hassan said. "I am happy that people have known of my Christian conviction in Sudan, and I am ready to stand to the end. When the churches in Sudan are being destroyed, I tell my brothers and sisters that we need to come out boldly, but many shy off."
Silence, he said, is not the answer; he said Sudanese Christians need to confront but in a peaceful manner.
"I will continue working for freedom for my children and for change in Sudan," he said. "Some of my brothers and sisters did nothing, but yet they were jailed. We need to reflect the life and the truth of Jesus."
This story first appeared at MorningStarNews.org, an independent news service focusing exclusively on the persecution of Christians worldwide.


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Trump's commitment to infrastructure vow is being questioned
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not at all clear that President-elect Donald Trump's plans to spend massively on infrastructure are going to unfold as he promised.
Trump made rebuilding the nation's aging roads, bridges and airports very much part of his job-creation strategy in the presidential race. But lately lobbyists have begun to fear that there won't be an infrastructure proposal at all, or at least not the grand plan they'd been led to expect.
From the day he entered the presidential race to the moment he declared victory, Trump pledged an infrastructure renewal. He cited decaying bridges, potholed roads and airports like New York's LaGuardia that he said reminded him of the "third world."
Trump or his campaign also mentioned schools, hospitals, pipelines, water treatment plants and the electrical grid as part of a job-creation strategy that would make the U.S. "second to none." It was a rare area in which House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats hoped for common ground with the president-elect. The possibility of a major infrastructure spending plan is one of several factors that have fueled the recent run-up in stock prices.
But did he mean it?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to tamp down expectations last week, telling reporters he wants to avoid "a $1 trillion stimulus." And Reince Priebus, who will be Trump's chief of staff, said in a radio interview that the new administration will focus in its first nine months with other issues like health care and rewriting tax laws. He sidestepped questions about the infrastructure plan.
In a post-election interview with The New York Times, Trump himself seemed to back away, saying infrastructure won't be a "core" part of the first few years of his administration. But he said there will still be "a very large-scale infrastructure bill."
He acknowledged that he didn't realize during the campaign that New Deal-style proposals to put people to work building infrastructure might conflict with his party's small-government philosophy.
"That's not a very Republican thing — I didn't even know that, frankly," he said.
Since the election, Trump has backed away — or at least suggested flexibility — on a range of issues that energized his supporters during the campaign, including his promises to prosecute Hillary Clinton, pull out of the Paris climate change accord and reinstitute waterboarding for detainees.
Trump transition officials didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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"We're worried," said Brian Turmail, a spokesman for the Associated General Contractors of America, which represents more than 26,000 construction companies and 10,500 service providers and suppliers.
"Are we hearing signs that people just don't know what the plan is?" he asked. "Or signs that people don't want any kind of plan? We don't know the answer."
Lobbyists have responded by flooding the Trump transition team with briefing memos, lining up meetings and privately pitching their proposals to what they hope will be a more receptive Congress.
Trade associations are urging their local members to seek out their senators and House members while they're home for the holidays. The contractors' association held a news conference in front of a bridge construction project in Little Rock, Arkansas. The American Road and Transportation Builders Association has given members form letters to send their lawmakers, while quietly floating a plan for new transportation fees to provide reliable sources of additional income for the federal Highway Trust Fund.
Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors emphasized their support for an infrastructure program in a recent meeting with Trump and urged him to protect the municipal bond tax exemption, one of the primary ways localities raise money for projects.
The Airports Council International-North America is lobbying to raise the limit on fees airports charge airline passengers. The money goes to renovate or expand terminals and increase the number of gates.
Trump's campaign pitch for infrastructure improvements included few details. A paper circulated after the election recommends using $137 billion in federal tax credits to generate $1 trillion in private-sector infrastructure investment over a decade. To offset the cost of the credits, U.S. corporations would be encouraged to bring home profits that they have parked overseas to avoid taxes, in exchange for a lower tax rate. But private investors are typically interested only in projects that create revenue, such as tolls, so that they can recoup their investments.
What states and communities need most is more direct spending, rather than tax credits, to help pay for upkeep and replacement of existing roads, bridges and transit systems, said Bud Wright, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. "Those aren't necessarily projects that lend themselves to generating revenue," he said.
It's also possible tax credits would provide a windfall to investors in existing projects while failing to generate new ones.
Some lawmakers from both parties are urging the creation of a federal "infrastructure bank" to make low-cost loans to projects.
"Everybody is putting together their Christmas lists for what they want to see in an infrastructure bill," said Kevin Gluba, executive director of the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure. "The biggest question: Who is going to pay for it? Many of the ideas floating around are far too pricey to make into law."
AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to place the value of potential tax credits at $137 billion, not $167 billion.


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New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) Eight new ministers were inducted into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's team Monday in the fourth major reshuffle of the cabinet and the council of ministers.
The first cabinet appointments of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the Congress, were made May 23, 2009, when seven cabinet ministers were appointed. Another 30 ministers were inducted May 28, 2009.
Since then, there have been six railway ministers, five ministers for water resources and four law and justice ministers.
The railways ministry portfolio, which was earlier held by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, was handed over to Dinesh Trivedi when Banerjee became West bengal chief minister in 2011.
Trivedi was soon asked to leave, and Mukul Roy took the charge in March 2012. After the Trinamool Congress left the UPA in September 2012, Congress leader C.P. Joshi was given the charge of the railway, followed by Pawan Kumar Bansal and Joshi again.
In Monday's cabinet rejig, Mallikarjun Kharge has been given railways.
The Ministry of Water Resources has had five changes. Meira Kumar was the first appointee, who left soon after being made Lok Sabha speaker. The portfolio was then held by Pawan Kumar Bansal, followed by Salman Khurshid and Bansal again before finally settling with Harish Rawat.
The Ministry of Law and Justice has had four changes: M. Veerrapa Moily, Khushid, Ashwani Kumar and Kapil Sibal.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has had four changes as well: Khurshid, Murli Deora, Moily and Sachin Pilot.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has also had four changes: Prithviraj Chavan, Bansal, Vilasrao Deshmukh S. Jaipal Reddy.
Key ministries like finance and home have been comparatively stable, yet seen some change. The finance ministry was with Pranab Mukherjee, which he quit when he contested the president's election. He was replaced by P. Chidambaram, who quit as home minister, paving the way for Sushilkumar Shinde.
The first major reshuffle after 2009 came in January 2011. It was called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an expansion, rather than a reshuffle after the UPA started witnessing turmoil over the 2G spectrum scandal. By then, UPA-II had seen two resignations: Minister of State for External Shashi Tharoor April 19, 2010, and telecom minister A. Raja Nov 15, 2010.
The second reshuffle came soon after on July 12, 2011. This was a major rejig that saw some ebeing elevated and some being shunted out.
In between, Ajit Singh was appointed civil aviation minister in December 2011, when the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) joined the UPA.
A year later, there was another reshuffle October 28, 2012. It came after Trinamool Congress withdrew support in September 2012 and several posts were left vacant. The reshuffle also saw a younger tinge being given to the council of ministers, handpicked by Rahul Gandhi. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sachin Pilot, Manish Tewari, Jitendra Singh and Bharatsinh Solanki were all assigned independent charge of ministries.
This reshuffle, expected to be last before 2014 general elections, however saw age take over youth, with several veterans being given plum posts.
(Information compiled by think tank PRS Legislative Research.)
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29 June 2012 – The United Nations has announced that, as of Saturday, people who fled the civil wars in Liberia and Angola and remain abroad will no longer be regarded as refugees by the world body and host governments, bringing to an end two of the most protracted refugee situations in Africa.
Cessation clauses will enter into force tomorrow for refugees from Liberia and Angola on the basis that these countries have both enjoyed many years of peace and stability after bitter civil wars, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
"We are working with the governments of origin and of asylum to find solutions for those refugees who wish either to return home or to remain in their host countries due to strong ties there," UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told journalists in Geneva today.
He added that voluntary returns will continue to be assisted while possibilities for local integration and/or an alternative legal status are also being discussed.
In addition, refugees with protection concerns about returning to Liberia or Angola have the option to ask for an exemption to cessation, he noted. If approved by the authorities in their host country, they will maintain their refugee status.
In Liberia, the ending of refugee status will apply to people who left the country during the two civil wars that tore the West African nation apart between 1989 and 2003, killing more than 250,000 people and forcing some 750,000 to flee their homes.
From the time that voluntary repatriation to Liberia was launched in 2004, UNHCR has helped almost 135,000 people return, including more than 8,500 this year. A further 16,641 Liberian refugees have registered to return home and will be repatriated by UNHCR in the coming weeks.
"Liberian refugees who wish to remain in the country of asylum will have to meet the necessary legal requirements of that country," Mr. Edwards pointed out.
UNHCR and its government partners have worked to ensure that they have the necessary documents and are also supporting integration through livelihood projects and training, as well as ensuring that refugees have access to education and health facilities. About 12,300 Liberians in exile for more than 20 years recently reconfirmed their desire to locally integrate.
In Angola, the ending of refugee status will apply to those who fled that country during the 1965-75 war of independence from Portugal and the subsequent civil war, which ended in 2002.
Last year, UNHCR and the Angolan Government launched a new organized return programme for Angolan refugees in neighbouring countries. Nearly 23,000 Angolans have returned home since then, and a further 26,000 have confirmed their intention to return.
The refugee agency is also discussing with host countries local integration options for people who do not wish to return to Angola. Some 51,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said they do not want to repatriate, and the Zambian Government has offered to locally integrate up to 10,000 Angolan refugees, with international support.
UNHCR has also been supporting projects to help returnees reintegrate in Liberia and Angola. In Liberia, returnees have been given cash grants to help them get to their places of origin and to help rebuild their lives, and some of them have attended UNHCR-supported skills training programmes.
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In a brief stop in Wilmington on January 17, on his triumphal train ride into Washington for the inaugural, President Barack Obama told a story. Actually, he told a number of stories, from the personal history of Vice President Joseph Biden and his triumph over hardship, to the brief stories about a truck driver, a machinist, a nurse's aide, and a teacher he'd met on the campaign trail.
"Theirs are the stories that will drive me in the days ahead, and this is the moment that we must come together for the sake of our country," Obama said. "For while we come from different places, as Americans we share a common story. That story began over two centuries ago in Philadelphia, where we started today's journey, and where are forefathers declared the birth of our nation and the creation of our Constitution."
For the 47 percent of Americans who voted for Obama's opponent, the reference to "a common story" animating his administration may sound strange to the ears. But it is impossible to understand the new president unless his brilliant use of narrative is first grasped. It is a potent political strategy that has not been used this well since the White House was occupied by the Great Communicator himself, Ronald Reagan.
Reagan biographer Lou Cannon told the Chicago Tribune last year that Obama has "a narrative reach" and a talent for story telling that reminds him of the late president. Reagan "made other people a part of his own narrative, and that's what Obama is doing," Cannon said. "By doing it, it expands his reach, because he isn't necessarily just another partisan Democrat."
Indeed, in January 2008, Obama noted how Reagan "changed the trajectory" of America, put the country on a "fundamentally different path," when the nation was ready for it. "He just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing," Obama said.
Any effort by religious conservatives or free market advocates to counter Obama's agenda in the cultural or economic spheres will have to come to grips with the way in which the new president is using the grand narratives of American history – and key figures like Washington, Lincoln, and King – to connect and inspire supporters who see the Obama phenomenon really more as a social movement than political campaign. Obama the story teller has tapped into powerful currents of feeling, touched the deepest aspirations of millions, in a way that has given him tremendous political momentum.
If religious conservatives and free market advocates are to oppose Obama on those issues where there is fundamental disagreement, they will have to craft their own counter-narrative to "change the trajectory" – no small task.
When Obama invokes, as he did in his inaugural address, Washington's inspiring words at Valley Forge about "hope and virtue," it is not merely a matter of the new president finding a politically expedient way to link current troubles to the American revolutionary struggle. The story is, first of all, filled with truth. In telling and retelling the Valley Forge story, we understand ourselves as a nation. But it is not Obama's story to do with as he pleases, one he can freely make use of without anchoring it to how Washington understood "hope and virtue."
If there is to be an alternative telling of the American story against Obama's narrative, it will have to be rooted in the moral imagination, what Russell Kirk described as "the bank and capital of the ages, the normative knowledge found in revelation, authority, and historical experience" which offers as touchstones the great works of art and literature on questions of morals, politics and culture. The moral imagination has had its champions, as far back as Edmund Burke to twentieth century writers such as G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Kirk and, in our present day, Vigen Guroian.
Narrative, which moves the senses and feelings, works in powerful ways on the moral imagination. It has its own power distinct from rhetoric – policy papers, lectures, punditry – which appeals primarily to the mental faculty. "In certain ways," Kirk said, "the great novel and the great poem can teach more of norms than can philosophy and theology." Obama is creating a story – call it a myth, if you will – which first invites people to see themselves in the grand American narrative. Out of that connection, he can then mobilize his "movement." He can do this (with the help of those 13 million e-mail addresses) without the media or the Congress. He, like Reagan, will go directly to the people. And, as president, he has the world's biggest stage on which to play out this political drama.
Little wonder, then, that Obama has so heavily employed references to Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, a president who looms like an Old Testament patriarch over the great moral struggle of the American people over slavery. And with his many references to Martin Luther King Jr., Obama also positions himself as the inheritor of that legacy, adapted to a twenty-first century, transnational multi-culture. This is something close to a universal narrative, which explains why Obama's popularity extends deep into Europe and Africa. For this reason, the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, the civil rights leader who offered the inaugural benediction, has described Obama as "the first global president."
But the narrative that has perhaps most enthralled supporters may be Obama's own. His Dreams from My Father autobiography recounts Obama's early life: the Kenyan father who abandoned him, his white mother's second marriage, and the family's relocation to Indonesia, and then the move to Hawaii where he encountered racism in the predominately Asian-American school. In composing the narrative of his own story, Obama draws his own meaning out of what looks like just another broken family, albeit with more exotic locales. But he does something more. He places the meaning of his own narrative into the historical stream of the American struggle for racial equality long after the big battles have been fought and won. Obama locates his narrative in the context of the increasingly multi-racial, middle class – and muddled – situation of American race relations in the twenty-first century. The subtitle of Obama's autobiography: "A Story of Race and Inheritance."
Obama's inauguration's theme, "The New Birth of Freedom," is drawn from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. His inauguration speech was delivered only days away from the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. (The Acton Institute's serendipitously titled "Birth of Freedom" documentary also looks at Lincoln and King and humanity's long struggle for freedom as it is rooted in religious truth. View the trailer here.)
Obama started early on adopting the Lincoln narrative. He announced the start of his presidential campaign in February 2007 on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois – the site of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech. Obama told the assembled crowd:
It was here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge – farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard.
Obama has his story. It is compelling and it has inspired millions all over the world. The question now: Will those who work in the tradition of the moral imagination provide a counter-narrative on those questions where there is a fundamental clash? Do they understand, as Kirk did, the need for "the renewal of our awareness of transcendent order, and the presence of the Other"? Will they find their voice?


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THURSDAY, March 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Knee replacement patients can continue to enjoy sports -- such as skiing, tennis and dancing -- without worrying that high-impact activities might compromise their new joint, a small, new study finds.
The researchers tracked patients for between five and 15 years after knee replacement surgery, known as total knee arthroplasty. They found that sports participation had no significant impact on the longevity of artificial knees.
Historically, knee replacement patients are advised against high-impact activities to preserve the new joint.
"Patients were coming back for their annual review . . . and were participating in a range of 'prohibited' activities. There were patients competing in downhill skiing and tennis, but there was no wear, no dislocations, no loosening and no revisions," said study author Dr. Samuel Joseph. He's an orthopedic surgeon at Linacre Private Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
"Yes, there are patients running marathons and participating in triathlons after knee replacement surgery," he added.
More than 600,000 knee replacements are performed each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The procedure replaces the natural joint with a prosthetic version made of metal and plastic. It's typically done because of severe arthritis, trauma or other joint damage.
Joseph and his colleagues identified 355 knee replacement patients who continued to participate in sports after surgery, more than 100 of whom did high-impact sports. Another 139 knee replacement patients in the study did not participate in regular sports.
In the sports group, three patients underwent further operations on the knee area, though none to modify the new joint. In the nonsports group, three patients underwent surgery to modify or replace their artificial knee because the joint loosened.
Dr. Elizabeth Matzkin is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and wasn't involved in the new research. She said she wasn't surprised by the findings.
"I think as we collect more data, we'll see the tide turn a little bit," said Matzkin, who is also chief of women's sports medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "The goal is to keep patients active."
Matzkin pointed out that knee replacement patients who desire to return to high-impact sports are likely motivated and strong. Additionally, she said, they're probably not obese, a condition that typically threatens the longevity of an artificial knee.
"I think we need to follow large [groups] of patients and their activity levels and how that plays out," Matzkin added. "This is a pretty small study, and we need big, multi-center studies to look at these patients over the long term. But this was a fantastic starting point."
The study was scheduled for presentation this week at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting in New Orleans. Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until it's been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has more about knee replacement.


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According to a report by the Earth Policy Institute, roughly 14 million cars in the US were scrapped during 2009, while only 10 million were sold. Why? It wasn't Cash for Clunkers.
Cash for Clunkers saw 700,000 old, mostly shitty cars traded in for shiny new ones, but it didn't actually impact the total number of vehicles on the road, since its terms dictated a new car had to replace the old.
The EPI instead cites a sales volume that was at its lowest point since 1982, the increased urbanization of the American populace (four out of five now live in towns) and the increased cost of owning a vehicle.
Since the country still has 246 million licensed cars, yet only 209 million licensed drivers, EPI expects this trend to continue, saying that America has reached "the saturation point for cars" and comparing it to Japan, where licensed cars peaked in 1990 and has since seen a 21 percent drop. EPI predicts the number of cars on American roads will drop 10% by 2020 as sales fail to return the 17 million annual level that was achieved between 1999 and 2007, saying that 10 to 14 million is a more realistic number. [EPI via The Guardian]


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By Allan May
Two decades of tranquility in the Philadelphia Crime Family came to an end on the night of March 21, 1980. Late that evening, as Mafia boss Angelo Bruno and his driver John Stanfa sat in a car outside Bruno's row house chatting and smoking cigarettes, a gunman stepped out of the shadows, leveled a shotgun behind the "Docile Don's" right ear and pulled the trigger.
Several theories abounded regarding the murder of the popular Philadelphia boss. One was that Bruno was getting old and losing control of the family and needed to be moved aside. Another held that he was asserting himself in Atlantic City, moving certain union people in to take advantage of the construction boom created by the legalization of gambling casinos there. Still others believe that the crime families of New York wanted to capitalize on the new casino industry in Atlantic City and orchestrated the murder. Whatever the reason, by March 1981, Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo had positioned himself to take control of the Philadelphia mob, including Atlantic City, and had negotiated an agreement with the New York families.
The change in leadership did not mean that tranquility was not about to return to the "City of Brotherly Love." Not as long as "Harry the Hunchback" was around.
"Harry the Hunchback" was Harry Riccobene. The hump on his back was from a birth defect that caused a curvature of his spine. Sometimes called "Harry the Hump," Riccobene was barely five feet tall, spoke in a high pitched voice, and had a long white beard. How imposing could this guy be?
Once a prospective juror described him as looking like "a little Santa Claus." While Harry never kept a sleigh full of toys, he was prone to deciding who was naughty and nice. Like "Bugsy" Siegel and "Scarface" Al Capone, no one ever called Riccobene the "Hump" or "Hunchback" to his face.
Harry Riccobene was born in Sicily in 1910 and was brought to the United States by his parents when he was three years old. Harry had two half brothers, Mario, known as "Sonny," and Robert. Harry became a made member of the Philadelphia Crime Family in the early 1930s. He was involved in bootlegging, gambling, loansharking, and at one time had a talent agency. In the 1950s, he was convicted in Cleveland for selling heroin and spent the better part of twenty years in prison. In March 1975, he was released and returned to Philadelphia.
After the deaths of Bruno and his successor, Philip "Chicken Man" Testa, Nicky Scarfo began purging the family of the people he felt wouldn't fall in line under his leadership. Some family members were upset that Scarfo had moved so quickly into the top spot. John Calabrese was one of them He was murdered in October 1981. Frank "Chickie" Narducci, another, took ten bullets in the face, neck and chest on January 7, 1982. (At the time of Narducci's murder he was involved in a RICO trial that had begun three days before. Harry and Sonny Riccobene were co-defendants in the case.) In addition, Frank "Frankie Flowers" D'Alfonso, an important family earner, was given a vicious beating as a warning to keep in line.
Riccobene's operation was run by his own family members, including his stepmother. He had always recognized Bruno as the boss and paid him his due respect. A Philadelphia police detective once described the Bruno / Riccobene relationship: "Harry was an independent guy. Every year at Christmas he'd send Bruno something and that would be it." Apparently "Harry the Hunchback" could play Santa Claus.
In the early 1980s, Harry continued to run his operations – gambling, loansharking, video poker games, vending machines, and a methamphetamine business – hoping that his arrangement with Bruno would carryover to Scarfo. It didn't. Scarfo wanted a percentage of Riccobene's operation. When the "Hunchback" refused, Scarfo declared war.
In George Anastasia's, "Blood and Honor," in my opinion one of the best books ever written on organized crime, the author gives this over view of the war:
"This might seem strange to someone not familiar with the workings of the criminal underworld. But life inside the Scarfo organization was a three-dimensional chess game. Plots and intrigue unfolded on several different levels, and collisions occurred on various planes. So for months during the Riccobene war, protagonists would be in each other's company and, on the surface at least, appear to be getting along famously. They would socialize at weddings and funerals. If they happened to be in the same restaurant, they'd greet each other warmly and buy each other a round of drinks. It was all part of the Mafia machismo that had taken over the Scarfo organization, all part of the battle being fought on Scarfo's terms, a battle of cunning, guile, and deceit."
Scarfo assigned the contract on Harry Riccobene to Pasquale "Pat the Cat" Spirito. He was ordered to use Charles "Charlie White" Iannece and Nicholas "Nicky Crow" Caramandi to carry out the hit. After several blown opportunities during the early months of 1982, Scarfo put together a new plan. Frank Monte, the new Philadelphia Family's consigliere, and Raymond "Long John" Martorano paid a visit to Harry Riccobene's half-brother Mario. After listening to an offer to "serve up" Harry, Mario told the two men he would get back with them. Instead, he went straight to the "Hunchback" and exposed the plot.
Riccobene, who had hoped to avoid open warfare, now went on the offensive. Frank Monte became the first victim of the war. On May 13, 1982, Riccobene gunmen Joseph Pedulla and Victor DeLuca staked out Monte's car, which was parked outside a Southwest Philadelphia gas station. When Monte returned to his automobile around 9:00 p.m., Pedulla, with a .22 caliber rifle with a scope mounted on it, put six slugs in Monte's head and back. He died within an hour.
With the first casualty of war recorded, Anastasia states, "For the rest of 1982 and for all of 1983, squads of gunmen cruised the streets of South Philadelphia looking for targets."
In June 1982, Scarfo forces got their first shot at Harry Riccobene. The "Hunchback," who was almost seventy years old at the time, was in a phone booth talking to his twenty-three-year-old girlfriend. Scarfo gunman Salvatore "Wayne" Grande approached and pumped five bullets into the little man. Incredibly, Riccobene wrestled the gun away from Grande who was one hundred pounds heavier and nearly fifty years younger. Police arrived and found Riccobene leaning against the phone booth, and bleeding all over the sidewalk; an empty six-shooter in his hand. True to mob protocol, Harry told police that he couldn't identify his assailant.
In July the Riccobene forces struck back. Pedulla and DeLuca spotted Salvatore "Salvie" Testa, the "Chick Man's" son, enjoying a bucket of clams outside a South Philadelphia pizza shop. A shotgun blast from Pedulla knocked Testa off a wooden crate he was seated on, and nearly severed his left arm. Although in critical condition, Testa survived and looked forward to the day he could return to the fray.
Meanwhile, Harry, who had made a quick recovery from his wounds in June, was the target again in August. As he was sitting in his automobile, a gunman, disguised as a jogger, ran by and emptied his gun into the car. Miraculously none of the bullets hit Riccobene this time.
While both sides blasted away at each other, "Little Nicky" Scarfo was able to stay out of harm's way as he was safely tucked away in Joe Valachi's former home, the federal prison in La Tuna, Texas. Scarfo was serving seventeen months for being found in possession of a weapon as a convicted felon.
Scarfo gunman Nick Caramandi, one of the main characters of Anastasia's, "Blood and Honor," talked about stalking Harry and later Mario Riccobene all over the city. He said the hit team would sometimes work from 7:00 a.m. until late into the night. They staked out Riccobene's step-mother's home, girlfriend's apartments, the homes of friends and business associates, all in hopes of getting an open shot at their adversaries.
The failure to kill the Riccobenes infuriated Scarfo and he responded by ordering the murder of Pat Spirito, who he had handed the original murder contract to. Described as a "reluctant hit man," Spirito was murdered by Iannece and Caramandi on April 29, 1983. Caramandi describes Spirito and the aftermath of the hit:
"Spirito was not cut out for the Scarfo mob. He had come out of Trenton and moved to South Philadelphia at a time when mob members were low-key operators concentrating on gambling, loan-sharking, and bookmaking. He was greedy and ambitious, attributes that Scarfo could appreciate, but he lacked the killer instinct. He thought he could slide by generating enough money to keep the Little Guy down the shore satisfied. But he underestimated Scarfo's bloodlust. Spirito was a money-maker, but he was also a whiner and complainer."
After we killed him, "everybody was happy. Everybody hated him. I never seen a guy hated so much."
After Spirito's murder, Caramandi and Iannece were assigned to Salvatore Testa. Caramandi stated that the word coming from Scarfo out of La Tuna was that he wanted to "hear noise." Scarfo was pleased that Caramandi and Iannece had taken care of Spirito. They were promised their "buttons," – becoming made members of the family – when Scarfo returned.
One of the reasons Scarfo wasn't hearing any "noise" was because both Harry and Mario Riccobene were behind bars themselves, having been convicted of the aforementioned RICO charges. Caramandi and Iannece were told their next target was Robert Riccobene. They were assigned at first to work with Eugene "Gino" Milano, a made member of Salvatore Testa's crew, and later with Francis "Faffy" Iannarella.
Six months would go by before there was another casualty in the war. On November 3, 1983 Nick Milano and Phillip Narducci followed Riccobene loyalist Salvatore "Sammy" Tamburrino into a variety store he operated on the ground floor of his home. As his horrified mother watched, Tamburrino was shot to death.
The last murder in the Riccobene / Scarfo War came a little over a month later on December 6. Two crews of hitmen had been stalking Robert Riccobene all day. That afternoon, Iannarella, Iannece and Joey Pungitore caught up with him outside his mother's house. Riccobene had just driven up with his mother and parked. As they walked toward the house Riccobene spotted Iannarella carrying a sawed-off shotgun. Riccobene took off with "Faffy" in pursuit. Iannarella fired a blast as Riccobene vaulted a fence. The shot caught Riccobene in the back of the head killing him.
During the chase, Mrs. Riccobene had grabbed Iannarella and screamed at him to stop. "Faffy" responded by hitting the terrified mother in the face with the butt of the shotgun. It was the second murder in a row where the victim was killed in front of his mother, an infringement of so-called mob murder etiquette.
Four days after Robert Riccobene's killing, Testa, Milano, and Pungitore were ambushed as they were driving in South Philadelphia. No one was injured and this would be the last effort on the part of the Riccobene forces in the war. Scarfo gang member Chuckie Merlino would soon announce that the war was over.
A sad side note to the war was the death of Enrico Riccobene, Mario's twenty-seven-year-old son. Enrico had no real connection to the hostilities that were going on other than being a blood relative. While working at his jewelry store on December 14, 1983, he was notified that Testa, Phil Leonetti, and Lawrence Merlino were looking for him. Enrico went to the safe, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.
Testa would later tell Caramandi, "Now we can kill guys without bullets. They use their own guns. That's how afraid they are of us."
Harry and Mario Riccobene were still in jail when the war ended. However, Mario, despondent over the deaths of his brother and son, pleaded guilty to a third degree murder charge involving Frank Monte and became a government witness. Where as before he had refused to set up his brother for the Scarfo forces he now served up Harry to the United States government. Also set to testify were former Riccobene gunmen Victor DeLuca and Joseph Pedulla. Harry Riccobene, who didn't stand a chance against the trio, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The Riccobene / Scarfo War was over, but the senseless killing that marked "Little Nicky's" rise and fall would continue throughout the 1980s as Scarfo etched his name in blood into organized crime history.
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