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Skills and knowledge
At INTERPOL, we are developing our ability to train individuals from a variety of sectors in combating pharmaceutical crime.
Training is accompanied by the distribution of an investigative guide produced by the Permament Forum on International Pharmaceutical Crime and available in six languages.
Practical training is delivered in advance of an on-the-ground intervention while specialized courses focus on investigative techniques. Participating officers come from police, customs and drug regulatory authorities, government departments and independent institutes. The assistance of trainers from the private sector completes the exchange of expertise and best practice.
We also offer e-leaning opportunities. Authorized officials from the INTERPOL community and other partners are able to access an online course to get basic knowledge on different topics. These include:
- Investigation of pharmaceutical crime;
- Information technology and traceability;
- Collection of evidence;
- Preparation of a judicial case.
Among our notable partners in the area of training and development are the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore and the Institute for Research (IRACM).
Operation Pangea VIII
June 2015: Targeting the online sale of illicit medicines. More than 20 million units of illicit medicines seized, 550 illicit online adverts blocked and 2,400 illicit online pharmacies suspended.
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The apostle Peter, having witnessed a startling vision of unclean animals descending from the opened heavens (Acts 10:10-16), was prompted by the Holy Spirit to meet with the God-fearing Gentile and centurion, Cornelius. This marked the growing awareness that the Gospel and the new covenant were meant for peoples of every nation.
Yes, Jesus had given the apostles the commission to go and "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Mt 28:19), but there was uncertainty, even great tension, regarding how all it would really work.
Peter admitted to Cornelius his recognition that "God shows no partiality" when it comes to Jews and Gentiles. He then gave a short summary of the Gospel, explaining that God had first proclaimed "peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all," to the Israelites, and he had "anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power." Jesus is the anointed one; in other words, he is the Messiah.
In the Old Testament, anointing was an act of consecration, of setting a man apart in a unique way for the word and work of God. To be anointed, however, was not just to be set apart, but to be given the power to perform the task given by God. A priest was made so by anointing; a prophet was declared so by anointing; a king was named so by anointing. The anointed one — the Messiah — would therefore be all three: priest, prophet and king.
The public anointing of Jesus for his ministry took place at his baptism. Having emerged from the waters of the Jordan River, "the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him." Jesus was not anointed with oil, but with the Holy Spirit; the Incarnate Word was not blessed with human words, but with the Father's voice: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
In this way, the Trinity was revealed, and the mission of the three divine persons was set forth to renew, to redeem and to save.
But why would Jesus, who was sinless, be baptized? Water, which is the "matter" of the Sacrament of Baptism, must be blessed; it must be recognized as more than just a material thing but as a true means of grace. "The blessing of water," wrote the Orthodox theologian, Father Alexander Schmemann, "signifies the return or redemption of matter to its initial and essential meaning. By accepting the baptism of John, Christ sanctified the water — made it the water of purification and reconciliation with God."
As Jesus came up from the waters, the Spirit once again moved upon the waters of creation, marking the start of the new creation, to be fully completed and revealed at the end of time and history. St. Thomas Aquinas, in the "Summa Theologica," wrote: "I answer that, It was fitting for Christ to be baptized. First, because, as Ambrose says in Luke 3:21: 'Our Lord was baptized because He wished, not to be cleansed, but to cleanse the waters, that, being purified by the flesh of Christ that knew no sin, they might have the virtue of baptism.'"
As Benedict XVI noted in a 2010 homily, "to be a Christian is to come from Christ, to belong to Christ, to the anointed one of God, to whom God granted kingship and priesthood. It means belonging to him whom God himself anointed — not with material oil, but with the One whom the oil represents: with his Holy Spirit."
Carl E. Olson is the editor of Catholic World Report.
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This ready-to-go tool will help youth groups find meaningful ways to connect and make a difference in their communities through service-learning. Practical and interactive activities will help youth consider the connection between faith and service, discover the ways they are uniquely designed to serve, and explore service project ideas. It also profiles activities and conversation starters to help you tap into the power of service-learning for building character, challenging perceptions, and shaping leaders. It's easy for a youth leader to scan and it's flexible enough to use with diverse groups from middle school to college.
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Fenerbahçe Introduce New Kits for 2010-2011 SeasonNews • Author: Nathan Redd • Friday, July 23, 2010
Fenerbahçe introduced their new 2010-2011 season kits earlier this evening in a ceremony in Istanbul. The team will have four new shirts to choose from this season, including the classic shirt (now with nine stripes), as well as one in green, white, and parliament blue. There is also a navy goalkeepers' shirt as well. Fans can purchase the new kits and complete training range starting Saturday at Fenerium stores.
In a ceremony just moments ago, Fenerbahçe launched their new kits for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. The team will wear four different shirts this fall. As promised, the classic shirt now features nine stripes instead of five, representing the nine branches of sport that the club competes in. Also as rumoured, the team will have a shirt in parliament blue and a shirt in green. Additionally, the team will wear a white shirt with the club emblem emblazoned in the background. There is also a solid navy goalkeepers' shirt with gold lettering.
Fenerium, the official team store, will begin selling the shirts Saturday. Fans in Turkey can also purchase the shirts online at www.fenerium.com.tr. Fenerium, the official team store, has locations throughout Turkey.
In addition to the new kits, the full autumn/winter collection was introduced Friday, as well as the team training and camp range. The squad has been wearing their camp range this summer, and all shirts, shorts, and training gear will be available starting tomorrow at Fenerium stores.
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We have 5 jerseys? Yellow/Navy, Parliament Blue, White, Dark Blue, Green. WTF?
guys look in the pic where stoch is and behind him is dia. if u look at stoch i think he found him self a girlriend there :P
That really disappoints me, we are creative enough to create our kits on our own.. Only the classic ones are unique..
Real Madrid also has total white ones, they even had the parliament blue, and Casillas wears the same green that we all dislike here at the forum.. Dissappointing!!
The Blue one is my favorite.
I Live in London but i really want the original kit.. anyone who can help?


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My how time flies! I can hardly believe 2015 is drawing to a close, and 2016 will soon be upon us. As I reflect on all our activities throughout the year, I am reminded just how important it is to remain both happy and healthy throughout the holiday season—a lifestyle that would be incomplete without massage therapy!
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Thanks to all who joined us for the latest event in our webinar series! On Thursday, October 29th, 2015, Dr. Leena S. Guptha, Board Chair, and Donna Sarvello, VP of Educational Support, hosted Dawn Hogue, COMTA Chair, to discuss all things accreditation.
October 27, 2015
For many of us, Halloween is the first time of the year we convince ourselves it is okay to have an extra piece of candy. Or two. Or three. Then, by Christmas time, we are left wondering how we so easily gained those few extra pounds, or why we feel so tired all of the time. Throughout this blog, I will:
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Prep work:
Read this page from IBM it is a good starter for 10.
As you can see above I have opened the IBM WebSphere Message Broker Information Center. We do this because it is best practice to ensure that you complete the prerequisites
We will be dealing with installing several components:
- IBM WebSphere Message Broker
- IBM WebSphere Message Broker Tookit
- IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5
- IBM WebShere MQ Explorer
- WebSphere Message Broker Explorer Plugin
Normally I get some fix packs from IBM FixCentral, but it was down as I was writing this article
I will validate this later
Windows Prerequisites
Essential for windows all need is local admin rights as per your domain or local security policies. This can be tricky in some organisation where workstations are locked down. Being a developer you may have special privileges?
The only other thing we need to do is prepare security users/groups for MQ and Broker
User ID restrictions: some operating systems and other products impose restrictions on user IDs:
- On
Windows systems, user IDs can be up to 12 characters long, but on
Linux, UNIX, and z/OS® systems, they are restricted to eight characters.
Database products, for example DB2®, might also restrict user IDs to
eight characters. If
you have a mixed environment, ensure that the user IDs that you use
within the broker environment are limited to a maximum of eight
characters. This is rally important if you are going to
deploy to a Linux Broker. I have several MessageBroker/WMQ
Explorer/Security articles on my blog: http://blog.webspheretools.com and on my Courseware site: http://www.themiddlewareshop.com/blog
- Ensure that the case (upper, lower, or mixed) of user IDs in your broker environment is consistent. In some environments, uppercase and lowercase user IDs are considered the same, but in other environments, user IDs of different case are considered unique. For example, on Windows the user IDs 'tester' and 'TESTER' are identical, but on Linux and UNIX systems they are recognized as different user IDs.
- Check the validity of spaces and special characters in user IDs to ensure that, if used, these characters are accepted by all relevant systems and products in your broker environment.
Set up the required security on Windows
Before you install the Broker component, the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, or the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, log on with a user ID that has Administrator authority.
If you are installing the Broker component, the installation wizard calls the mqsisetsecurity command which completes the following tasks:
- Creates a new security group called mqbrkrs.
- Adds your current (logged on) user ID to the group mqbrkrs.
- Adds your current user ID to the group mqm, if that group exists.
The mqm group exists if you have already installed WebSphere MQ on this system. If you have not, call the mqsisetsecurity command when you have completed WebSphere MQ installation. If you use the Windows Launchpad (described in Installing by using the Windows Launchpad), it completes WebSphere MQ installation first.
Note: If you prefer to create principals before you install WebSphere Message Broker, use the security facilities provided by the Windows Control Panel.
If you are running Terminal Services on this computer, change user mode to ensure that actions taken during installation are completed correctly; for example, the creation of .ini files and other related files in the default system directory C:\Windows. If you do not change user mode, files might be written to other locations and, although the installation might complete successfully, the product might not work as expected.
Before you install any product components, enter the following command to change user mode:
change user /install
When installation is complete, enter the following command to restore the original user mode:
change user /execute
To complete verification, your user ID must have Administrator authority. If you log in with a different user ID from the ID with which you perform installation, you must add that user ID to the groups mqbrkrs and mqm. Use either the Windows security facilities or the mqsisetsecurity command (run this command after you have logged on with that different ID) to complete these additions.
The Windows Launchpad.
This program installs prerequisite products if they are not already installed, and identifies prerequisite products that are not at the supported level.
We are going to start with running this tool form the installation media and see what it reports to us
As you can see below I am running the Launch pad that is inside the WebSphereMessage Broker (WMB) media folder.
As you can see, when this installation wizard was created WMQ 184.108.40.206 was the latest. I am going to try and use WMQ 7.5 instead.
Installing IBM WebSphere MQ
Before install any WMB tools/Broker etc, I am going to install WMQ 7.5
Run setup for WMQ
Click launch IBM WebSphere MQ Installer.
Read and Accept License
Choose a custom installation to learn about how it will install
WMQ 7.5 allows for many instances. If you want to know more about install practices then I cover this in my course http://www.themiddlewareshop.com/product/websphere-mq-7-5-admin-essentials-course/
I have opted to not install WMQ in the default Windows suggested folder, this saved me typing complex paths in CMD prompts. It also stops issues with Windows Virtual folder security.
Click Next
This is a local install, so data folder is not important. In production this would be a separate file-system drive ie D-Drive or similar. Depends on your VMWare or other VM setups.
Click Next and set your log folder. Think about storage limits!
Click Next
Chose you extended features as required…
click Next, Review and Install
Click Finish
The Prepare WebSphere MQ wizard will launch
A Windows Service will be added so you can decide to change the auto start ability of WMQ by modifying the service in the Windows control panel.
I am local so no domain servers.
Click Next and the WMQ Service will start, Click Next and finish.
Here is a look at the 2 services created:
What is the purpose of the AMQSVC.EXE process on Windows platforms ie the Service called IBM MQSeries?
Well, the amqsvc.exe is the MQ Service process, which launches amqmsrvn.exe by way of dcom. It normally runs under SYSTEM account.
MQ needs a dcom object, because it does not run as a traditional Windows service. amqsvc.exe is the operating system service that acts as a stub, which creates the dcom object, and MQ is launched from that dcom object. It is done this way to enable MQ to run under a user specified account, which is required for some of the MQ operations.
To stop the amqsvc.exe process (other than by using the 'net stop IBM MQSeries' command), run the command "amqsvc -stop".
The MQSeries (Windows) service (amqsvc) has a few command line options to help should problems arise:
-INSTALL : Reinstalls the registry keys to make the MQ Service defined
-UNINSTALL : Removes the MQSeries service
-SILENT : Hides error messages when install/uninstall performed
-START : Starts the service (Use Net Start "MQSeries Service" instead?)
-STOP : Stops the service (Use Net Stop "MQSeries Service" instead?)
OK let's look at the user/groups that were created:
I think these are self explanatory and we can have another peek after we have installed WMB.
I think we should launch MQ Explorer one to prove it is OK.
I am creating a Queue Manager called TEST.MQ to see if I can put on a Queue called TEST.Q
I used 2414 as the port in case I forget to remove it and so it doesn't conflict with Broker Default configuration.
Create the QLocal called TEST.Q
Let us put a test message
Let's get the message
We now have a queue depth of 1.
OK I am happy; we have proven WMQ is OK. We should install a Fixpack, bit you can see that in my course.
Completing WebSphere Message Broker now that we have WMQ installed
Installing WMB and MBTK and MBE
We can now see that the next time we run the Launchpad that WMQ is detected. Lists wrong version, but we don't care!
Click Launch Installation for WebSphere Message Broker
Click OK
Click Next
Click Next
I chose to not use IBM default location.
Click Next
Click Done.
Next you will be asked to find our media for IBM Installation Manager. It all depends on how your local installation media was unpacked.
Browse for disk 1 etc and continue
Note we will be prompted for the other disks during installation
I changed the install location
Click Next
Note: I skipped a few screen captures; I am sure by now you get the idea.
Click Install
Click finish
Now it will install the Message Broker Explorer. A bit weird as we already have WMQ Explorer, so it will just update them both to be the same i.e. WebSphere MQ Explorer is updated with the MB Explorer plug-in.
Click Next, review summary then Click install
Click Done.
Let us now go an see what has been installed
Loads of WMB goodies.
I will now look at Users/Groups to see what we have. Essentially we have the new mqbrkrs group. Make sure you have access!
When we launch MQ Explorer or Mb Explorer we get
We can see the new WMB plug-in that allows WMA admins to see the Brokers.
I am now going to run Message Broker toolkit (MBTK)
It will prompt for a default workspace
Choose a suitable location, click OK
You can consult my WMB blog articles for how to sort out configuring a default broker.
Well that's it we have WMQ, WMB, MBExplorer, MQExplorer, MBTKit and a running system on windows.
Enjoy your new Broker Test/Dev environment.


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Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco Travel Guide
Fisherman's Wharf Summary
- Departure point for ferries to Alcatraz, sightseeing tours, and high-speed boat tours of the bay
- Tons of attractions, like the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, Aquarium of the Bay, and Boudin Sourdough Museum
- Powell-Hyde cable car line and F-Market light rail provide transportation to Union Square, the Castro, and other neighborhoods
- Famous sea lions on Pier 39
- Great views of the Bay, Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge
- Clean
- Many restaurants serving local seafood
- Crowded with tourists
- Disney-ish depiction of working waterfront past may strike some as inauthentic
- Street performers can be annoying
- Few nearby hotels that aren't chains
What It's Like
Once a thriving waterfront pulling in clams and Dungeness crab by the boatload, Fisherman's Wharf today is more of a family-friendly amusement park and shopping mall than anything else. But taken for what it is, the wharf has a lot to offer. It's the departure point for ferries to Alcatraz and a number of other sightseeing tours, from leisurely cruises to high-speed boat tours of the bay. Ghirardelli Square features the famous chocolatier's ice cream and chocolate shop, while historic ships at Hyde Street Pier pay tribute to the wharf's industrious past. Since the area is so geared toward families, nightlife is minimal, but there is some action (blues bands, standup comedy) to be found in the bars and seafood restaurants along Jefferson Street.
Pier 39 is tourist central, with two tiers of shopping, dining and attractions. It's crowded and squeaky clean, packed with souvenir and gift shops, seafood shacks, and chains like Hard Rock Café and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., as well as waterfront restaurants like Neptune's Palace. It's home to Aquarium of the Bay, with shark feeding presentations and a giant octopus, and sea lions that congregate on the pier's west side.
It all adds up to two things: a genuinely great family destination and a place that locals understandably avoid for its Disney-ish depiction of a working class past. On the one hand, there's that beautiful view of the bay and boats at rest at twilight; on the other, there's that street performer pretending to be a robot. And then, there's the notorious "Bushman," who hides behind tree branches and then leaps out to terrify unsuspecting passersby (for years, local newspapers have chronicled the Bushman's shaky relationship with local business owners and law enforcement).
Where To Stay
A group of chain hotels vie for tourists' business on or near Fisherman's Wharf. Standouts include the Radisson, with its great outdoor pool and direct access to the wharf (it's also the cheapest); and the Hyatt, which has a quality sports bar and 24-hour fitness center. On the higher end, the Argonaut Hotel and the residential-style Fairmont Heritage Place, Ghirardelli Square offer full-service luxury accommodations.


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As part of the Accenture Institute for High Performance's mission to develop cutting-edge new ideas and insights, researchers often seek the views of academic leaders, business executives and industry analysts. The Connections with Leading Thinkers series captures some of those interviews, showcasing interactions and discussions with some of the world's leading experts.
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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Australian Tour Won't Lead to US Shows
The last time they toured together, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw shattered records, so when they announced they'd be teaming up again for a string of Australian dates next year, American promoters — and plenty of American fans — were hoping it'd be the prelude for a stateside sequel.
Better start saving up for those plane tickets now, though, because McGraw and Hill say their Australian shows will be the only ones they do together in 2012.
"We'll only be touring together next year in Australia," Hill revealed during a recent interview, saying that "I've always wanted to perform there, and now it's the right time. I have great fans there."
"When our manager brought up the idea of tour again together [in Australia] we didn't think twice about it," said McGraw, adding that their affection for Australia made the dates a natural fit. "We had so much fun as a family, we loved the crowd response and we loved the people in Australia and our kids had a great time."
The duo went on to discuss their singing chemistry, with McGraw analyzing their vocal blend. "She is the best there is. She is in an elite class of singers, I'm not even the same room as her when it comes to vocal talent," he insisted. "But our chemistry really works — the roughness of my voice and the power of her voice. She comes from a soul, R&B influence and I come from a 70s, southern rock influence, but strangely the combination works great."


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The Law of Second ChancesBook - 2008
Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is committed to justice for the innocent. But when he's presented with Henry Wilson's case, he's unsure of the convict's innocence.nbsp; Wilson has eight weeks to live, and Tobin has to decide if he can and will help him.
Benny Avrile is a small-time thief with his eye on an oil man's big billfold. But Benny is way over his head on this one. The robbery goes bad, and the oil man ends up dead. Just when Benny's fate is all but sealed, an old friend from Jack's past reaches out...
The clock is ticking on Henry Wilson's life, the cops are in hot pursuit of Benny, and back at home, there are dark clouds on the horizon for Jack and his beautiful wife, Pat.
The Law of Second Chances is a masterfully written legal thriller and an exciting successor to the critically acclaimed The Mayor of Lexington Avenue .
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Xbox and CR Team Up!
chaosmage89 wrote:
HGLatinBoy wrote:
Why cant' you guys have your app like Netflix and Facebook do on Xbox? This is so stupid. I would LOVE to stream things on my Xbox.
You guys should get a dedicated app for XBL and PSN.
What he said, dedicated apps are always good
itd b so much better if we could just stream anime onto our xbox.id put it as only members(free and premium) with xbox live gold can only stream.that would be great
Like my header?
Yeah if you could say have xbox gold membership and CR Premium and just get SD, and maybe HD for the more popular shows, streaming along with the option to buy the episodes as a download, I would totally be into this.
is CR ever gonna release an app for android (like the ones for iPhone & iPad)?
i bet it be free to gold mebers only
new live as the old one passes by
I got really excited at first... now I'm sad... though buying some of my favorite eps wouldn't be so bad... and 2.50 an eps if it's airing every week isn't really to bad and I can take it to work to watch with my friends on my ZuneHD
Hoping for free downloads isn't gonna happen. This deal isn't specific for CR members; it's just that certain CR content is now being sold XBL. If you're a CR member, this isn't really for you unless you want to pay twice to watch shows. A dedicated streaming thing via the 360/PS3 would be cool for those who need it but I think stuff like that is quickly becoming irrelevant as more and more laptops and netbooks start to come with HDMI (audio and video on one cable) output.
Like many posters, I thought. "Hey! Cool!" when I saw the headline. Then I read the announcement, and realized it was pointless.
Xbox Zune, or PSN downloads are crippled by DRM. Thus, they are not work $2 an episode. I've only ever bought some anime when the price was $0.99 per episode. Even then, it's not really worth it. I only paid that much because I had already seen the show via some not quite legitimate methods, and wanted to give back a bit.
If you want me to buy DRM crippled videos, make the price reasonable. $0.75 or less. Otherwise I'll just get what I want other ways, and buy dvd's when they reach decent prices. Contrary to your beliefs, entertainment is not worth much. Especially when the illegal stuff is better quality than the legal stuff. I'm willing to pay for what I want to watch, but I'm not willing to be forced to jump through hoops that I can avoid.
I strongly suggest you create streaming apps for the Xbox, PS3, and Wii. That would increase the number of people willing to pay for a membership to get their shows on their tvs. I know that I'd be far more likely to retain my membership longer if you did that. As it is, when the budget gets tight, CR is the first to go.
Where will this be available, sounds like just America for now?
One shall not.
y xbox only?
ps3 and wii would be great
and more people on the wii and ps3 watch anime than the xbox
My pc has been down for over a month now, & I've been watching CR in HD the whole time from my PS3's webbrowser. ( Where I'm typing this from as well... ) Zune is seemingly pointless to me... If u own a PS3, try it... I kid u not...
Sub-Zero Racing Team: Ice
What's with the horrible, horrible subs? D: If you're going to sell this, why not make the subs at least somewhat properly looking? Heck, hire a fansubber for all it's worth. Because those subs were just so...so...bleh (Oh yeah, just so there aren't any misunderstandings, I'm complaining about the yellow and black stroke text in the Haruhi subs, not about the quality of the translation).
wow this is awsome, or atleast it would be if either of the 2s zunes i bought worked past the second day.
No PS3? FAIL
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I'm hearing former #blackhawks #wild #oilers d-man Cam Barker may get a try out at #canucks training camp to earn a 7 or 8 blueline spot.
PassItToBulis brought up Jim Vandermeer, wonder if he will get a shot with the club?
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Never Again: Shaima Alawadi and Islamophobia in America
On Saturday, doctors took Shaima Alawadi, 32, an Iraqi mother of five, off life support, three days after her 17-year-old daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, found her brutally beaten and unconscious in the dining room of the family's home in El Cajon, Calif. She died a short while later at 3 p.m.
Fatima told reporters that her mother's head had been repeatedly smashed in with a tire iron — a metal rod used to pry the rubber tube from a bike tire. Next to Alawadi's barely breathing body was a note: "Go back to your country, you terrorist."
How to Forget Paris
A friend of mine — one who's wiser and kinder and more thoughtful than I — knows the difficult, painful unweaving I'm talking about. She, too, was carroted down the rabbit trail of a hope-filled future shared with someone, only to discover her bed was left just as cold as the promises she'd so earnestly trusted.
"Falling in love is totally magical and beautiful and gives you this insane ability to operate on 4 hours of sleep a night for a long time," she said. "It chooses you and that gift is one of life's best ones. You have to choose it back, though." She paused, her voice cracking, and I knew she meant it. "At some point, you become more real to each other and the hard work sets in. So you try and try, and even then, sometimes it doesn't work out. And when that happens, you'll be ok." I was looking at her across the table.
"Just let it be sad," she concluded. "Ironically, sadness will be your guide out of sadness."
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She bit her bottom lip first, then lifted her gaze to my unassuming face. When she started looking at me softly, like I was some sort of oft-beaten puppy, I knew what was coming.
"I'm so sorry," she whispered, "but your card's been declined." I offered a solution.
"Huh. Want to try it again?" Unsurprisingly, nothing changed, save her face, which only contorted more.
"Weird," I said. The steam tauntingly danced on my cheeks. "Let me go check with my bank and figure it out." I walked to a table, leaving the coffee, and pulled out my computer. After entering my username and password, my statement appeared on the screen.
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Orlando Bloom receives an honorary degree from the University of Kent in his hometown of Canterbury, United Kingdom on Tuesday (July 13).
The 33-year-old English actor was joined by his fiancee Miranda Kerr and his mother Sonia Bloom, father Colin Stone, and sister Samantha.
"It's a really big deal. It's an exciting day for me," Orly told the Press Association. "I'm really honored to be back in my home town. I have so many amazing memories of the cathedral and Canterbury. I have lived near the university so it's like my playground. It's a huge, huge honor and I feel chuffed, as does my mother – nobody more than my mother."
This was Orlando's first graduation ceremony since missing the graduation at Guildhall School of Music and Drama because he was working on Lord of the Rings at the time.


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... I ... aam I announced his budget this morning what sub listen to what he had to say ... the numbers work ... the smell of smoke and mirrors and here ... if we can come together ... have a serious ... reason to ... debate not driven by politics ... and come together around common sense and copper mines ... the comforter will move this country forward ... to leave behind something better Proechel ... at Suntech's ... welcome back to Opinion Journal that was present Obama talking about his White House by J in these last hours in a few believe those numbers were well ... we've got a bridge to sell yet ... editorial board member Steve Moore is joining me now on the line from Washington ... Steve I guess was that the slide begins ... viewers a broad outline of what the president ... announced today ... I am looking in at seven hundred and forty four billion dollars deficit ... capping deductions and twenty eight percent chained CPI infrastructure bank ... five minutes on individual retirement account set up the syntax ... of carried interest treated as income ... Augustine did these numbers that an optimistic take on a budget ... you know Mary Opko was what pointed out years ago that Barack Obama promised that he would be a transformational president if he was selected and ... on for Chile that's a promise that he stopped yes been transformational and nowhere have we seen that ... more evident than in the his handling of ... federal budget and tax and fiscal issues ... he is transformed doubt that this budget into a colossus with ... trillion dollar deficits not in his first term and that are now looking as he set about seven hundred fifty billion dollar deficits for his second term ... though the new spending that you talk about is almost all financed with ... new taxes as I look through this budget the only some small car that you can find in this budget is this change in the formula for um ... for calculating ... increases in so Security benefits but that's ... really pretty trivial it's about a hundred fifty billion dollars in savings over ten years ... mostly this is a body increase in spending increase in taxes and increasing the size and scope of government which is precisely what this president has wanted to do since the day he entered office ... steep the president says this is a court imposed balanced approach ... ay ay ay ay balance meeting raising taxes for more spending ... um what about the entitled to re form is there any serious ... serious ideas it all in this document ... well of a given us the first car were you shocked about the Processing's balance ... you know that the White House press release as this has two dollars of spending reductions for every dollar tax increase now ... that's a little hard to swallow legislate that the numbers of federal spending over the next five years goes up by six hundred seventy billion sell ... Mary Kay Intel the winner of the dollar the two dollars in spending cuts are one of six other seventy billion more spending ... over the next five years and of course the truth is that almost all of the ... increase in spending in this you mentioned infrastructure back there's a new universal preschool program ... there are other new spending proposals as well ... those would be financed with about one point one trillion dollar tax increase and Mary let us not forget we already have the six hundred billion dollar tax increase in the fiscal God will feel that that that place in January ... and I'm proud of that year before that we have a trillion dollars of Obamacare tax increases so this would be I'd gigantic tax increase to pay for more spending if that balance I guess that's a new high usage of the time ... Steve back in his remarks this morning the president said and I quote ... our economy is poised for progress as long as Washington doesn't get in the way ... where is the band for the last four years ... the idea now I've been saying not for ... the last couple of years ago you know why she would stay on the way I agree with them I think a cap on the earliest poised for recovery the problem is that ... this budget and the sponsor then headed back this Congress while stop poking its finger in every area of the major industry in America but I just give you some examples of myriad that of major industries that are impacted negatively by this budget the energy industry the education industry the health care industry the finance industry you know you just go down the line in every industry wants to be left alone during this budget doesn't do what this president believes that he is providing a kind of helping him on ... every industry when what they really want is to be about the law ... said Steve we now have three budgets out there the house the Senate now the White House generation ... 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Republicans said that if we just continue to operate the budget at this point on automatic pilot it's not so terrible actually these cuts we saw that positive effects of the sequester that's happening now ... though the news gets tighter on federal programs next year or so I think Republicans could do a lot worse than doing nothing ... body and know that probably will the CCD worse by doing nothing but it's definitely worth it this White House budget ever came to pass reached exactly Bank in a statewide anti regulatory Opel is under this budget is a step in the wrong director at it and that's probably an understatement editorial board member Steve Moore ... thank you so much for being with us


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT Engineers split its squad this weekend, as some of Tech's regional stars squared off at a power-packed field in BU's Valentine's Day Invitational. The rest of the track and field squad stayed on the other side of the river at the MIT Coed Invitational.
Junior Uzoma Orji enjoyed a break-out performance on the same weekend for the second consecutive year. Only this time, it was a different event. While Orji caused a national stir last season in the shot put, his emergence in the weight throw this season has signaled a dual threat for the competition at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
On Friday at Boston University, Orji set an MIT varsity record, and took over the No. 1 spot in the Division III national rankings with a weight throw of 62'6.75". The toss obliterated the standing Institute record of 61'6" set in 1985 by Pat Parris. At the same meet, the defending national champion finished fourth overall in the shot put with a mark of 54'4", falling only to Division I competition.
The Engineers had other highlights on Friday, including Ben Schmeckpeper's provisional qualification for nationals in the 5000. Shmeckpeper finished 18th overall with a time of 14:40.66. David Saylor also enjoyed a top-ten finish, closing at seventh in the weight throw, while Tech's distance medley relay missed on its attempt at an NCAA cut, splitting 10:18.30.
Nestor Hernandez led Saturday's performers, leading a one-two-three sweep in the pole vault. Josh Chartier and Omari Stephens finished behind Hernandez, who also finished second overall in the long jump (21'7.75"). Peter Mulligan authored MIT's only other victory, taking top honors in the 1000.


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By Jay Brown In Northern Idaho there is the lake town of Coeur d'Alene, actually more of a city than a town. In the sea of tattooing these days, some of the old timers really shine through as great tattooers as well as incredible artists, one of those is Robert McNeill. I recently got a chance to stop in to see him at his studio on 4th Street right in the heart of downtown Coeur d'Alene. Blue Rose Tattoo is a clean, comfortable shop, with lots of incredible artwork adorning the walls, all of which is either Japanese or American Traditional tattoo designs, all painted by Robert. And speaking of painting, Robert is incredible at that, pin-ups I think being one of his strong points, but he can do anything, all in all Robert is one of those artists that can create on skin as well as he can on paper or canvas. So after we were done with the hellos and the pleasantries, we got down to the interview, which wound up being 43 minutes long, so I am gonna edit things, cause I don't have enough pictures to go with that many pages, and that's a lot of pages so we're gonna trim it down a bit, although it was a great interview all the way through, but we're not writing a book, but I digress… Yes, so the interview. I hope you enjoy… [Editor's Note: Jay's interview, due to its length, will be broken into three weekly installments, this is Part III of III.]
Jay Brown: Okay… Another question I ask everybody. What advice do you have for someone wanting to get into tattooing? Somebody who has got it set in their mind that they are going to tattoo?
Robert McNeill: One, learn to draw. Two, wait 'til you are 25. You need to get some life experience before you tattoo. There is no way an 18-year-old can relate to a 50-year-old war veteran… You know? And half this business is being able to talk to people… It's not just tattooing your friends and your girlfriend. You gotta be able to read people, you gotta be able to understand and empathize with 'em… can't be too judgmental. You have to have some life experience, and you're not gonna get that at a tattoo shop 'cause you are too freakin' busy, you gotta go out there and learn that stuff first. Then you have something to offer the trade. We don't need another deadbeat with an attitude… and really that's all you get in an 18-year-old these days. A Mozart might come along any day, but you have to go through a 1,000 guys that haven't got a clue. I get three to four guys every week.
J: That's sound advice… An 18-year-old is not going to be able to ease someone's mind who is nervous, about ready to piss themselves 'cause they're so nervous about getting tattooed, if you haven't been through a little bit in your own life…
R: That's true, you need to know when to talk… and when to shut up. (Laughs)
J: When I started you had to hang out at the shop, and pay to get tattooed, to get in, you couldn't just walk into it…
R: Yeah, no one is gonna say, "Thank you for walking in and here are the keys to the kingdom" and it shouldn't be (like that). This is the probably the most wonderful profession on earth… Certainly one of them… Chuck Eldridge told me something, he said, "Once you get tattooing and you're in a position that you're gonna be willing to train somebody. You have to promise to never bring anyone into this profession that won't be a credit to it." And I thought that was very good advice and I have practiced it my whole career. You can often tell at a first meeting if a person has that quality to them or not.
J: The guy that I just apprenticed finished a couple of years ago is my last one; I don't need to add any more (tattooers) to the problem. (Robert Laughs) He was very impressive; he went to WSU to get his BFA in Art. He and his shit together, he worked his ass off for it. He did three years, didn't put needle to skin 'til after two years…
R: Yeah it's funny how everyone thinks this is a glamorous profession or a lifestyle. They think it's all big bucks and blow jobs…(Laughter) I can say I spend two hours drawing for every tattoo I do… Not including the time for all the other stuff that it takes to keep a shop afloat. There is no time for fooling around, there is no glamour…Tthe fun is in the work!
J: Well that's great advice! When I asked Philadelphia Eddy that question he said, "Reach in your pocket, give me all your money, go find a nice bridge, and jump!" (Laughter from both)
What else was I going to ask you… So another good question people like to know is who are your influences in tattooing outside of the Japanese tattooers?
R: I would say that Greg James was a big influence on me, more technically than aesthetically, but his approach to tattooing really profoundly changed my approach (to tattooing), Japanese tattooers there are too many to name really. Um, Brooklyn Blackie, I gotta say Brooklyn Blackie. I met a guy who got a tattoo from him when I first started… right when he got back from the Korean war he got a tattoo from Blackie, and it was still the most impressive thing I had ever saw. It was just a ship, it was just solid, looked like it had been painted on with an airbrush… You know? And this was 20 years, 20-plus years old, and it was just wonderful. Just straight up New York old school. It just had a look…
J: Those guys knew what they were doing…
R: I can't say Sailor Jerry (Collins) was really a big influence on me. I never really liked his drawing, I know he was one of the first guys to bring purple in the mix, and a reliable yellow… Duke Hoffman, his drawings always blew me away. Yeah, I would say that's probably it. A lot of my big influences come from fine arts, rather than the tattoo side of it. Part of it is 'cause I think if you rely too heavily on tattooing as an influence it's ridiculous. It's like the kids copying old school tattoos, they think those mistakes in drawing are cool. Those drawings were messed up 'cause those guys couldn't draw very well. If they could've drawn better they would have.
J: But some of those guys were really good, I got a book from Cliff White just put out and it is all stuff from the Bowery, that Bill Jones did stencil rubbings, and went over them with a steel pen, and some of those guys that worked down there could really draw. And some of 'em aren't so good.
R: True. And it's funny how people sometimes will pick the ugliest one. (Laughter)
J: Amund Dietzel, he was way ahead of his time, Fred Marquand…
R: Yeah another one. Chuck Eldridge had me copy, you know Chuck produces those line art books, and I did the Marquand book cover, from his stuff. I've done a few like that.
J: I love Marquand; I have a nice collection of his stuff… (Right then the door opens and a customer walks in, so we ended the interview.) Wow, well we've got 43 minutes done and I think I covered everything…
R: Has it been that long, it doesn't seem like it…?
J: Time flies when you're having fun!
Later we were able to get photos of the shop and Robert with his mural on the side of his shop, he did "The Tattooist," the famous Norman Rockwell painting. It looks as if Rockwell had painted it himself. Robert is definitely one of the Northwest's hidden treasures as far as tattooing goes. His experience, ability with fine art and design, along with a comfortable studio, is just the right combination for a great tattoo. Robert is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/robert.mcneill.33?fref=ts.
You can buy prints of Robert's artwork for $80 and up. Originals contact Robert personally. You can find Robert in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho at his studio:
Blue Rose Tattoo
510 North 4th Street
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
(208) 664-6844.
So if you are ever in the panhandle of Idaho, be sure to check him out…
(Jay Brown is a tattoo artist, machine-builder and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Jay can be found at A Fine Art Tattoo Studio, in Moscow, Idaho.)
Jay Brown: Coeur d'Alene's Blue Rose Tattoo – An Interview with Robert McNeill (Part I)
Jay Brown: Coeur d'Alene's Blue Rose Tattoo – An Interview with Robert McNeill (Part II)
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Jay Brown: Fred Marquand – The Story of an Unknown Northwest Tattooer
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In the prologue to the Masnavi Rumi hailed Love and its sweet madness that heals all infirmities, and he exhorted the reader to burst the bonds to silver and gold to be free. The Beloved is all in all and is only veiled by the lover. Rumi identified the first cause of all things as God and considered all second causes subordinate to that. Human minds recognize the second causes, but only prophets perceive the action of the first cause. One story tells of a clever rabbit who warned the lion about another lion and showed the lion his own image in a well, causing him to attack it and drown. After delivering his companions from the tyrannical lion, the rabbit urges them to engage in the more difficult warfare against their own inward lusts. In a debate between trusting God and human exertion, Rumi quoted the prophet Muhammad as saying, "Trust in God, yet tie the camel's leg."8 He also mentioned the adage that the worker is the friend of God; so in trusting in providence one need not neglect to use means. Exerting oneself can be giving thanks for God's blessings; but he asked if fatalism shows gratitude.
God is hidden and has no opposite, not seen by us yet seeing us. Form is born of the formless but ultimately returns to the formless. An arrow shot by God cannot remain in the air but must return to God. Rumi reconciled God's agency with human free will and found the divine voice in the inward voice. Those in close communion with God are free, but the one who does not love is fettered by compulsion. God is the agency and first cause of our actions, but human will as the second cause finds recompense in hell or with the Friend. God is like the soul, and the world is like the body. The good and evil of bodies comes from souls. When the sanctuary of true prayer is revealed to one, it is shameful to turn back to mere formal religion. Rumi confirmed Muhammad's view that women hold dominion over the wise and men of heart; but violent fools, lacking tenderness, gentleness, and friendship, try to hold the upper hand over women, because they are swayed by their animal nature. The human qualities of love and tenderness can control the animal passions. Rumi concluded that woman is a ray of God and the Creator's self.
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Here is a youth comedy that is leering, offensive, politically incorrect, at times even disgusting and yet not a bummer. In fact, those who stick with it to the end may find "21 and Over" one of the more appealing movies of the season. Written and directed by "The Hangover" co-writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, it's brought off with a crazed, chaotic energy that absolves most of its sins.
To celebrate the 21st birthday of their pal Jeff Chang (Justin Chon), a workaholic pre-med student, his wild-man pal Miller (Miles Teller) and buttoned-down buddy Casey (Skylar Astin) arrange a pub-crawl. Knowing he has a crucial internship interview the next morning, they promise to keep it safe and sane.
He screws up. He trusts them.
The celebration turns into a bender of Australian proportions. Jeff Chang (he is always called by both names, like Meat Loaf) implodes after so many years of repression, drinks himself psychotic, and passes out. Miller and Casey drag the limp birthday boy across the hard-partying college town in a fruitless search for his apartment. En route they run afoul of a hyperaggressive pep squad captain, enrage a Latina girl gang, start a buffalo stampede, throw comatose Jeff Chang off two roofs and commit a hodgepodge of felonies.
You root for them nevertheless because the actors are likable, the mayhem is cartoonishly overblown, there's a nice undercurrent of believable friendship and the pace never slackens long enough for your thoughts to turn judgmental. It's a cheerful jolt of Grade-A idiocy.
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The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David is an important symbol of modern Jewish identity and Judaism, especially considering its position in the center of the flag of Israel. Also known as a Kabbalistic symbol attributed to King David, the Star of David is considered to be a talisman that invokes the protection of Heaven from physical and spiritual harm. This is the reason why many Judaica items have Stars of David on them, especially jewelry such as bracelets and pendants.
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Remarkably, all 22 letters of the Hebrew letters can be found within the shape of the Star of David. This might not be a mere coincidence but actually the reason why the Star of David was chosen as the symbol for David's shield: In ancient times every king had a personal drawing on his shield. This drawing separated him and allowed other soldiers to identify him. On King's David shield was the symbol of a Star of David, possibly in order to remind soldiers to pray during the war because the Star of David contains all of the letters needed to pray.
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Ndamukong Suh was fined on Tuesday by the NFL for his illegal low block on Minnesota Vikings center John Sullivan. Suh was able to avoid suspension but was fined $100,000. It is the biggest fine for an individual play that does not include suspensions.
The NFL seems to have raised the stakes due to Suh's history of fines and suspensions. This is the sixth fine for him in his career. It is likely the last fine that Suh will receive for violating the player safety rules. Next time it will be a suspension.
For the individual play this fine seems to be a little unfair. DeAndre Levy intercepted the ball and John Sullivan was the closest to him. Suh reactied on instinct and went for the block. The problem is that there was no way he was going to tackle Levy. The block was behind the play and took the return for a touchdown off the board.
The block was not grounded in anger toward Sullivan. It was just something that happened during a key part of the game. Suh plays with a killer instinct. The problem is that is what the NFL is trying to get rid of that attitude to protect the safety of its players.
In 2010, Pittsburgh Steelers James Harrison was fined $75,000 for a hit on Cleveland Browns Mohamed Massaquoi. The fine was later reduced on appeals to $50,000. This was a similar situation to what is happening to Suh. Harrison was a repeat offender with malicious hits.
Suh was named caption this year for the first time. This is something that you can't have from your captain. He had to be able to lead without these constant mental lapses. Hopefully this is the last message the NFL has to send him.
The fine should be appealed and end up being lowered. This fine was defiantly too much for the individual play but when it is seen as a warning for the future and a punishment for his past it seems just. The NFL is trying to change the way that players play to protect everyone in these injury heavy days. They are making an example out of him.
Suh apologized to his teammates for the play in a team meeting. Hopefully he is able to put this behind him and reach his full potential as a player and as a captain. He is definitely a large part of who the Lions are and they will need him going forward.


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The Adventures of Rheuma Girl
So I thought, as a little treat, I would share with you the opening few paragraphs from the book so you can decide for yourselves if you would like to read more. Here goes...
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Hello Kerrie, I saw your Fashion Fundraiser on RA Guy's website. Great job and keep up the good work. BTW, I'd buy your book too. I've had RA for 8+ years.ReplyDelete
'There are around 10 million people with arthritis in the UK. That's 10 million individuals, plus their families, each affected in a unique way.' - http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/HomeReplyDelete
There's your target audience Kerri, all 10 million of them. I reckon the publishers are missing a trick or two.
I would be very interested in following your story, Rheuma Girl. :-)ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous15 February 2011 at 17:00
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Coroner or Medical Examiner Records
| Institution and Organization Records
This article is part of a series.
|Almshouse Records
|Civilian Conservation Corps
|Coroner or Medical Examiner Records
|Hospital Records
|WPA Records
|School Records
|Orphanage Records
|Orphan Trains
|Prisons and Penitentiary Records
|Organization Records
This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
A coroner or medical examiner is contacted when an unnatural or unattended death occurs. This includes disasters, homicides, suicides, and accidents. When so many individuals perished after the Titanic sank, the recovered bodies were taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the local medical examiner prepared a report on each victim. John Jacob Astor was one person whose body was found.
If a death certificate is available, look at the signature of the medical official. Was it the doctor, coroner, or the medical examiner? If it was either of the last two, other records may be available for research.
The coroner is a position that was brought to this country from England in the 1600s. The county sheriff worked with the coroner, and often the same person held both offices. The coroner may be appointed or elected to the county position. County court records may indicate that your ancestor was paid to be the coroner or served on the jury that made the official finding based on his evidence. Coroners' records are available in most counties. Some records date back to the 1700s, while others are just a few years old. Unfortunately, this type of record has not been retained in all locations. Some counties have only a ledger book others have the complete file.
During the 1970s, the coroner in large cities was replaced by a medical examiner. The medical examiner must be an M.D., while the coroner may or may not be. A rural community probably has a county coroner who is also the local funeral home director, sheriff, or area physician. The official change from a coroner to that of a medical examiner eventually leads to a change in record access. While records created by a coroner are open to the public, medical examiner's records are only available to the next of kin.
Coroner records (and perhaps some early medical examiner records) may be maintained at the morgue, local historical society, or state archives. Some have been microfilmed, while others are in the original packets. To locate a record in the Family History Library Catalog, search by location, then look under "Vital Records" or "Court Records." Other libraries and archives catalog these records in a similar manner.
The Genealogical Society of Utah has microfilmed some of the early coroner records of metropolitan cities. The attached image is the first page of a five-page entry from the Coroner's Evidence Book of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, recording Isadore Raimonda's fatal stabbing of Dominic Raimonda in 1876. It does not contain extensive genealogical information, stating specifically only the deceased's name, age, height, and date and cause of death, the hospital to which the deceased was taken, and the name of the attending physician. The jury's verdict is given; Isadore Raimonda was convicted of manslaughter, suggesting a search of prison records.
The records of the coroner or medical examiner (if open) should be examined even when a government-issued death certificate is available. These records, particularly those dated after 1960, will usually contain more detailed information about the death and sometimes about the deceased, leading to clues for additional research; the information found in the attached page suggests several possibilities:
- Names of the deceased and the defendant. Although not specifically stated, the record implies that Isadore and Dominic were cousins. Approach any further research with this possibility in mind.
- Translator. The police officer interviewed the wounded Dominic with a translator, so the dying man may have been a recent immigrant. Naturalization records may show if either Dominic or Isadore had petitioned for or received citizenship.
- Hospital. Check hospital records that still exist for more information.
- Verdict. The record concludes with the report that Isadore was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced, a notation made later after the appropriate court has dealt with the case. Prison records may contain additional biographical facts about Isadore Raimonda.
- The coroner also issues death certificates. This document generally provides the deceased's name, age, sex, place of birth, race, occupation, marital status, place of death, date of death, and cause of death.
In contrast to the very full record on the fatal Raimonda quarrel is an entry in the Coroner's Evidence Book of the New York City coroner in 1862.
Usually the records are on file at the office of the coroner or medical examiner. Early records may have been transferred to the city or county clerk's office, the local historical society, or a state archive. The coroner's office will probably know where the old records are located. Some offices will not release the records without proof of relationship to the deceased and a statement indicating how the information in the record will be used. Family history is usually considered a valid reason. Unless the witnesses at an inquest perjured themselves, the testimony should be factual, eliminating erroneous information about the deceased.


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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Effective October 18, 2012, a creditor will be able to file a proof of claim via a new hyperlink on our website (located under the 'Case Info' menu), without the necessity of having a CM/ECF user account. A claim filed in this manner will appear on the claims register of the case in which it is filed. For inquiries, please call the Clerk's Office at (304) 347-3003.


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President's Report
Academic and Professional Faculty Meeting
May 10, 2013
As we near the end of another academic year, I have been reflecting on the many marks of our progress and the significant accomplishments of the College's faculty, staff, and students since last fall, including:
- multiple recognitions given to our faculty and students for individual achievements;
- continued progress in improving our campus climate, as reflected in recognition of our Title IX accomplishments and the work of the LGBTQ task force;
- continued national recognitions and rankings;
- international accreditation for our School of Business;
- an exciting faculty art exhibition, the first in about a decade;
- major strides in our sustainability work;
- completion of a successful strategic planning process;
- continuation of a consultative budget-allocation process;
- a successful January "winterim" online experiment;
- improvements in course scheduling;
- attaining record-high graduation rates;
- distinctive achievement by student athletic teams in several sports.
While we have dealt with many challenges this past year, on the campus and beyond, and undoubtedly will face new challenges next year, we also should take time to celebrate these and many other marks of success.
Commencement. Commencement is an ideal time to do just that. At next week's commencement ceremonies, we will recognize August and December 2012 graduates as well as May and August 2013 candidates. I know you are aware of how much it means to our students and their families to interact on this special day with the faculty and staff who have made such a difference in their education and lives. This day is an important ritual for our students and their families, and an opportunity for the campus community to reflect on and celebrate our work. I encourage you to participate in these celebratory events, as they provide a meaningful capstone to the year's activities for faculty and staff – reminding us in the most visible ways of why our work matters in the world.
Professor Lew Brownstein (Political Sciece and International Relations), who is retiring this spring after 45 years on the faculty, will serve as Grand Marshal and Macebearer. This continues my practice of annually rotating this role among our senior-most faculty to recognize their contributions (Professor Gerald Benjamin, Grand Marshal at last summer's Convocation, and Professor Brownstein began their service at New Paltz in the same year and have shared these duties this year). As I reported last month, we will be recognizing New Paltz alumnus and long-time U. S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey ('68, '70g) with an honorary degree. Lori DuBord, a 1994 New Paltz alumna and long-time staff member to the Congressman, will speak at the undergraduate commencement ceremony.
Faculty and Staff Appreciation Picnic. As another academic year comes to a close, it is time once again to celebrate at this year's all-Faculty and Staff Appreciation Picnic & BBQ, Wednesday, May 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Old Main Quad. Once again, members of the college administration will help cook and serve the picnic lunch.
The picnic is sponsored by the Office of the President to say thank you for the efforts of all faculty and all staff throughout the year. We will again be recognizing staff with our campus Classified Staff Presidential Recognition Awards, an opportunity for us to recognize and celebrate dedicated employees whose excellent work is sometimes under-appreciated outside of their units or departments but that makes a huge difference in our overall effectiveness. I ask that supervisors be generous in supporting the opportunity for all employees to attend the festivities on Wednesday, May 22. Hope to see you there!
Dean Recognition Receptions. Please mark your calendars for two important receptions to honor deans who will be leaving their leadership posts to pursue other endeavors next year.
Hadi Salavitabar will be honored on Monday, May 13, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the College Terrace. We will recognize Hadi for 31 years of service to New Paltz and 12 years of leadership as dean of the School of Business.
James Schiffer will be recognized at a brunch reception on Thursday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the Pre-Function Space outside the Multi-Purpose Room in the Student Union. Jim will be returning to his first loves of teaching and scholarship after five years as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, New Paltz's largest academic unit.
Please make every effort to attend these receptions to thank our colleagues for their service.
Construction Update. Plans are being finalized for construction of a new 236-bed residence hall, to be located at the intersection of South Road and West Hawk Drive, north of Lenape Hall. We anticipate going out for bid late this summer, breaking ground in December, and beginning occupancy in Fall 2015. This project is critical to our future, given growing evidence that housing on or adjacent to campus is a factor in the interest or ability of transfer students to join our community. The Wooster renovation is progressing well and on schedule; the aim is to enclose the building before next winter so that interior work can proceed. Wooster will be ready for occupancy before the start of fall semester 2015. Uncertainty remains about the library renovation and new science building construction, but the most recent assessment is that these projects will go out for bid in fall 2013 and work will commence at the start of the state's next fiscal year in April 2014.
Strategic Plan. The Strategic Planning Steering Committee has considered feedback from the campus community on the previous draft of the strategic plan, and has provided me with a final revised draft. The President's Cabinet and I are reviewing that draft, and I intend to accept and approve the plan in the next several days. It will provide us an excellent framework for our work to sustain New Paltz on a positive trajectory in challenging times. This final version of the plan will be posted on the strategic planning website soon. I am pleased both at the outcome and the process, which I believe achieved our intended goal of developing a community sense of the most critical improvements for us to achieve in the next 3-5 years. Some of these emphasize becoming even better in areas where our institutional performance is already very strong, while others address areas of clear under-performance in which we must improve if we are to continue thriving as a top-tier public comprehensive college.
I am finalizing the composition of administrative and professional members of the new Strategic Planning Council, who will 1) take the finalized plan and work during the summer to identify and prioritize specific recommended actions to achieve the plan's eight major initiatives, and 2) develop metrics and benchmarks for assessing our progress on those actions. I will discuss the final plan more fully and announce these actions in my August State of the College address. As I reported last month, we will wait until fall to identify specific actions that are primarily in the faculty domain. Then, we will add additional faculty to the Strategic Planning Council to guide and advise those elements of implementing the plan. Our goal is to have recommendations on those further priorities established by the middle of the fall semester.
I thank the steering committee members, especially co-chairs Patricia Sullivan and Stella Turk, for their thoughtful guidance of this year-long effort, and the faculty, staff, students, alumni, Foundation Board members, College Council members, and others who participated in the planning process and gave feedback on drafts of the plan.
Enrollment Update. We have been sounding the alarm about remaining successful in an environment of intense competition for new students, as a result of changing demographic, economic, and other factors. You have heard the reality that some SUNY (and many other) institutions faced budget challenges this year because of lower-than-planned enrollments at the start of 2012-13. In the current recruiting season for this fall, we are seeing signs that such impacts are intensifying. We have learned of one SUNY sister campus whose enrollment for next fall's entering class is down by 25%. Another selective SUNY institution is accepting students who we have denied admission, and is offering free residence hall rooms to some accepted students in an attempt to meet its enrollment targets. And yet another selective SUNY campus is delving deep into its wait list to recruit the numbers needed for next fall's entering class.
With this in mind, I wish to share our current numbers for incoming first-year and transfer students for next fall. We received more first-year applications than last year, and accepted more students, but a slightly reduced yield means that the number of applicants who have paid deposits lags slightly behind last year. With 1,108 students having paid deposits (as of end of day May 8) and additional play in our application pool, we have reason to be optimistic that we will reach our target of 1,125 new first-year students (at this same time last year, our count was 1,133). We always try to overshoot, so that we remain at our target enrollment after the inevitable "summer melt" (students who decide not to attend even after having paid the deposit). While the number of students who "melt" has been reasonably predictable, the obvious winds of change in recruitment should make us cautious about whether these patterns will hold this year and in the future, perhaps arguing for even more buffer than in the recent past – and increasing our anxiety about reaching next year's enrollment target (and resulting tuition revenue).
Our transfer population is a cause of greater concern. Despite having fewer applications and accepting fewer transfer students than last year, the number of paid deposits was running ahead of last year during much of this recruiting season. Transfer students who took advantage of the limited residence hall housing that we offered (for the first time in about seven years) accounted for the difference. That picture changed abruptly when that housing option was exhausted. We now lag 56 transfer students behind last year and considerably below our target of 650 new transfer students.
This pattern dramatizes the profound need for more student housing – especially projects such as Park Point. We will continue to stretch our current residence hall capacity by "tripling" at the highest manageable level. But there are staffing, programming, and other limits to how much we can or should use that approach. It should be obvious that housing constraints mean that we cannot compensate for reduced transfer student numbers by admitting more first-year students (even if the pool of applicants would allow this).
Thus, all of the dire forecasts about competition for students are being realized. So far, these are less severe for us than for other New York institutions, but we must be concerned that the same wave hitting other colleges and universities will reach us more fully in the next several years.
This year's patterns suggest that students and their parents will have opportunity in the next few years to be much more selective in choosing a college or university, beyond matters of cost alone. As an academic at heart, I resist certain analogies but acknowledge that increasingly we will operate in a "buyers' market." In this year's budget process, we have prioritized investments to increase our communication and marketing capability and student financial aid. These efforts, along with initiatives identified in the strategic plan to further strengthen our academic and student life programming, will be increasingly critical to our success.
There are some bright spots in the enrollment picture. To date, the percentage of students in our incoming first-year class from historically under-represented racial groups is higher than any other year in the past decade. The percentage of students of color in our incoming transfer class is the highest in our history. The level of academic preparation of our incoming first-year class, as measured by the SUNY selectivity categories, promises to be comparable to the past several years.
Registrations by current undergraduate students for fall semester classes are on par with last year, suggesting strong retention that will support our total enrollment and our tuition revenue generation. Summer undergraduate enrollment is also strong, also promising an important contribution to our annual revenue. Fall semester registration by current matriculated graduate students is nearly identical to the same date last year, but summer enrollments are notably down. We do not have firm figures for new graduate student enrollments.
Digital Design and Fabrication (3-D Printing). Deans Mary Hafeli (Fine and Performing Arts) and Dan Freedman (Science and Engineering) and faculty in Art, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering have been brainstorming and planning for some time about innovative programming at the interface of art and science/engineering/technology. This planning has focused on the interface of digital design and new fabrication technologies, including 3-D printing. The faculty leading this effort have co-taught interdisciplinary courses or paired courses that have included students in art, engineering, computer science, and other areas. The array of projects undertaken and objects created has been impressive, and the excitement generated around this initiative is huge. The faculty have drafted a curriculum for a certificate program that would be made available to our matriculated students and to a broader, continuing education base as well. The curriculum will be submitted for review in the fall.
We have connected with economic development and other organizations interested in supporting the growth and expansion of this technology in the Hudson Valley and in positioning SUNY New Paltz as the leader in innovation, application, and education in the use of 3-D printing in the region. To highlight this initiative, we will be co-sponsoring and hosting a conference on 3-D printing on campus on May 30, 8:30-10:00 a.m. To date, approximately 150 people have committed to attend, including entrepreneurs, artists, economic development experts, representatives of business and industry, colleagues and students from the community colleges. The work of our students and faculty will be featured at the conference. Faculty and staff interested in participating in the conference may learn more here.
State of the College 2013-14. Please mark your calendars for events on August 23, 2013 to launch the 2013-14 academic year. I will deliver my State of the College address at an all-employee event on the morning of Friday, August 23, before classes are in session. We will begin with light refreshments from 8:45-9:25 AM, followed by my presentation at 9:30 in LC 100. This schedule will allow time for our regular orientation activities for new students before we come together again at noon for the traditional new-student Convocation. I ask that supervisors be generous in supporting the opportunity for all employees to attend this State of the College gathering.
Professor Jack Wade, Chair of Theatre Arts and 2013 recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, will provide the convocation address. Professor Hon Ho of Biology will serve as Grand Marshal and Macebearer for 2013-14, representing the faculty at Convocation and at the May 2014 commencement ceremonies.
Presidential Priorities for Summer. Here is a brief overview of some of the work I will undertake this summer. Obviously, completing the vice presidential searches will occupy some of my attention, along with reviewing the position description and responsibilities for the Assistant Vice President for Institutional Research and Planning to begin that search later in the summer. I will be working with the Cabinet and the Strategic Planning Council on implementation of the strategic plan. In conjunction with the Foundation's fund-raising consultant, I have begun work with an external fund-raising steering committee that is advising and guiding strategy for addressing major gaps in our fund-raising capacity. That work will continue over the summer. I am scheduled to speak at the above-noted conference on 3-D printing, and at the New Paltz Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Luncheon in June. In July, I will participate in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Summer Presidents Institute in Annapolis. And, I do plan some vacation time away from work and the campus.
I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at the celebratory events that mark the close of another academic year in the life of the College, and wish each of you a productive, enjoyable, and renewing summer.
Donald P. Christian