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DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - March 3, 2008) - NewMarket China, Inc. (
) today announced the appointment of Paul K. Danner to the Company's Board of Directors in conjunction with 2008 plans for aggressive growth. Mr. Danner was recently announced as Managing Director of Asian Operations. As Managing Director of Asian Operations, Mr. Danner will work closely with local management in China and assist in organic business development activities. NewMarket China has recently announced a 2008 25% organic growth forecast to $50 million in profitable revenue. Mr. Danner will be interviewing with CEOcast (
) tomorrow at 9 AM EST to discuss the Company's rapid revenue growth and plans to expand its regional footprint through potential mergers and acquisitions.
The Company reported $29.5 million in revenue in 2006 and estimates reporting $40 million in revenue for 2007. The Company has already reported $27.9 million in revenue for the first three quarters of 2007 and has maintained breakeven profitability for the last two years. The anticipated revenue increase is based on expected organic growth from current operations. Management is considering acquisition opportunities, as well as investments to increase sales in North America, fulfilled from its Chinese operations. Any potential revenue from prospective acquisitions will be added to the 2008 forecast after any acquisition is completed.
Before joining NewMarket, Mr. Danner was the Chief Executive Officer of Paragon Financial Corporation, an OTC Bulletin Board company he formed in 2001 to acquire financial services institutions. Prior to founding Paragon, Mr. Danner was employed by MyTurn.com, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, where he served in a variety of leadership roles including Chief Executive Officer. Previous corporate positions with a number of Fortune 100 technology companies including Control Data and NEC provided managerial and executive level experience in sales, marketing, operations, finance and manufacturing. Mr. Danner earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Finance from Colorado State University in 1979, and an MBA from Old Dominion University in 1986. From 1979 to 1985 Mr. Danner served on active duty with the United States Navy flying the F-14 Tomcat. Currently, he is a Captain in the United States Navy Reserve and is assigned as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Naval Air Systems Command Reserve Program at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
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NewMarket China, Inc. is a technology leader in the rapidly developing Chinese market specializing today in software engineering, high quality software development and digital multimedia outsourcing services delivered to customers globally. At the same time, the firm is a systems integrator and value added reseller of major global hardware brands in the Chinese domestic market.
Headquartered in Dallas with operations in Shanghai and Beijing, NewMarket China bridges the gap between Western and Eastern business cultures to assist western clients in realizing the advantages of the high quality, low cost technology products and services available from China. NewMarket China also assists Western clients in localizing products and services to realize the tremendous growth potential available by expanding into the Chinese Market.
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Congratulations to our 2017 Asia Pacific Dance Association Scholarship Award winners!! We are over the moon proud and happy to announce our La Beauté Ballet Top Award winners:
Alice Blythe – Pre-primary Ballet
Seina Nakanishi – Primary Ballet 1
And a huge congratulations to our –
La Beauté Ballet Top Tier Award winners:
Kanna Nakanishi – Pre-primary Ballet
Isabella Wood – Pre-primary Ballet
Katie Viles – Pre-primary Ballet
Annabel Sherry – Pre-primary Ballet
Madeline Medill – Pre-primary Ballet
Lily Panousis – Primary Ballet 2
Jazz Addict Top Tier Award winner:
Lily Panousis – Primary Jazz 2
Urban Ignition Top Tier Award winner:
Lily Panousis – Hip Hop level 1
Lily Panousis has previously won APDA scholarships in 2016 for Primary Jazz 1 and Foundation Hip Hop and in 2015 for Preschool Jazz. 2013 award winner was Jazmyn Kaka, Preschool Jazz and 2012 Tahlia Muzembe, Elementary 1 Jazz.
We are also very proud of our 2017 Eisteddfod soloist Lily Panousis and Keira Thompson for their commitment to their solos throughout the year and competing at Wynnum Manly, Ipswich and Beenleigh Eisteddfods. They received wonderful feedback and high scores in all competitions and we couldn't more proud to congratulate Keira Thompson for her 2nd place at Beenleigh Eisteddfod and Lily Panousis for her 3rd place at Beenleigh Eisteddfod. And a special mention to Seina Nakanishi for joining the competition season for Beenleigh Eisteddfod only and achieving a high score with her performance.
Dance examinations and competitions are such a wonderful way to build up confidence and learn the importance of working hard to achieve success. We support you all the way to become a strong dancer and performer with the correct technique.
So what are you waiting for? Book your 2018 classes now!! You'll find all info online and create your Dance Studio Pro account to access our studio handbooks for more detailed info or give our principal Miia a call on 0449 978 113. We can't wait to get you started on your dance journey!

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Post-doctoral Fellow - Kwak Lab
- Employer
- City of Hope
- Location
- Duarte, California
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- January 19 2018
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- Requisition ID: 12570
- Discipline
- Life Sciences
- Position Type
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- Healthcare/Hospital
- Job Type
- Postdoc, Postdoc Fellowship
About City of Hope
City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 5,000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy.
Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research. City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's 20 leading cancer centers that develops and institutes standards of care for cancer treatment.
Requisition ID: 12570
Job Title: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Cancer Immunotherapy – Kwak Lab
A Post-doctoral Fellowship position in the Department of Hematology, Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope is available. The Post-doctoral fellow's function is to support the research and activities of the research laboratory under the direction and mentorship of the Principle Investigator. This position will interact and collaborate with a team of scientists highly trained in translational research of cancer immunotherapy. Fellows will bring their skills, knowledge, and experience to be actively involved in the immune monitory for novel cancer vaccine clinical trial (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01209871). The ideal candidate must have extensive experience training in molecular biology and tumor immunology.
For more scientific background, please refer to our publications:
- Nature Biotechnology. 1999 Mar; 17(3)253-8
- Nature Medicine. 1999 Oct; 5(10):1171-7
- Nature Medicine. 2005 Sep; 11(9):986-91
- Science. 2002 Nov 1; 298(5595):1025-9
- Blood. 2009 Nov 5; 114(19):4142-9
- Seminars in Oncology. 2012 Jun;39(3)253-62
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- Ph.D. degree with research experience; a track record of publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Solid knowledge in cancer immunology, molecular and cellular biology, and biochemistry.
- Expertise in ex vivo assays assessing various immune population, especially T cells and tumor-specific T-cell expansion.
- Expertise in multi-parameter flow cytometry (>5 colors) and intracellular cytokine (ELISOPT) assay is required. Skills in computer programming is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Under the direction and discretion of the Principal Investigator, effectively lead a project in a translational research environment in order to successfully meet project goals.
- Ability to perform and prioritize multiple simultaneous tasks.
- Ability to design and execute experiments, critically interpret experimental results, and present data in a cogent and meaningful manner.
- Candidate should be industrious and have sound technical skills. Candidate should be capable of drafting grant proposals, study protocols and manuscripts.
- Highly motivated and self-directedapplicants with related training and experience will be given priority.
City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.


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It used to be all you had to fear from a bully was a black eye, a fat lip and some bruises. The physical pain would diminish over time, as would the mental scars if you stood up for yourself or one of your friends. It's not that simple anymore.
It used to be all you had to fear from a bully was a black eye, a fat lip and some bruises. The physical pain would diminish over time, as would the mental scars if you stood up for yourself or one of your friends.
It's not that simple anymore.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" may have been an appropriate adage 100, 50 or even 20 years ago, but in the Internet age, threats, insults and cruel jokes never completely disappear. They're always out there for someone to find — and for someone to add to.
As today's special section details, bullying — especially online — has become a growing problem in and out of school. However, it's not just a problem for schoolchildren. Adults, too, are participants, using social media and news websites to attack people who have different views.
Most of the damage happens to schoolchildren. The 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that, nationwide, 20 percent of ninth- through 12th-graders have been bullied. The 2008-09 School Crime Supplement by the National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that, nationwide, 28 percent of sixth- through 12th-graders have been bullied.
Those numbers probably are low. Many cases of bullying are never reported.
Unlike the traditional playground bully, there's almost no escaping a cyberbully. That person's always there, lurking in the shadows of the Web, ready pounce on anyone perceived as being weaker or different.
Often those bullies are anonymous, writing things they would never say face to face. Bullies feed off negative comments and gang up on whoever they decide should be their target of the day. The words a cyberbully uses can be more painful than any "sticks and stones" and can have tragic outcomes.
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death among young 10- to 24-year-olds, according to the CDC. About 4,600 young people a year kill themselves. For every suicide, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Victims of bullying are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide, according to studies by Yale University.
Parents still play the most important role in whether their children are a victim or a perpetrator. They need to teach their children how to responsibly use social media. There's so much out there that it's difficult for most parents to keep track. They may know about Facebook and Twitter, but what about ask.fm, Voxer, Kik and Reddit?
Parents also need to set a good example. The Golden Rule — treat others as you would want to be treated — applies.
It's unusual for a newspaper to devote so much space to a single topic, but bullying has become a serious problem that it requires much more conversation.
Cyberbullying: Special section
Everything in moderation: Monitoring rrstar.com for the bullies
Using the Web as a bully platform not just a teen phenomenon
Bullying is prevalent because we're more socially connected
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Due to a few factors mainly work and college I haven't been able to get out much this year so decided I'd treat myself to a day at what is probably my favourite nature reserve – North Cave Wetlands over the Easter break. I'd managed to get a long weekend off work (nearly impossible!) so thought that after a weekend of seeing family, we'd go to North Cave on the Monday. Also a nice walk to burn off some of the chocolate and pub lunches I'd had over the weekend!
Using EYMS' excellent X57 service we arrived in North Cave and proceeded through the village to the reserve. We opted for the anti-clockwise route and settled down into the East Hide to get my year first Avocet (Y53), Oyster Catcher (Y54) and Shelduck (Y55). I mentioned I've hardly been out this year and at this point last year I was on 99 birds, including a chiffchaff which not many people seem to have seen yet this year! Between here and Turret hide we picked up the usual ducks and gulls. Some people managed to see a snipe but I had no luck with the cryptic beauties. We decided to back on ourselves and go clockwise at the East Hide we were treated to some Great Crested Grebes teasing us with their head shaking, but the ziggy stardusts did not follow through into full courtship display. From the ridge I could see some raptors soaring, however impossible to ID with binoculars and couldn't get them in my scope. Due to there being three I would put these as Red Kites, which seem to be quite common over the reserve however have always eluded me! In my bid to get an ID of them I managed to find the resident kestrel though. Walking towards Far Lake to try for the Red-Head Smew I saw a white dot diving on Carp Lake, there she was! Walked along Carp Lake and at one point had brilliant views of her as we came level, was so close that if it had been a drake I could have offered him my hand in marriage. However it was only a red head, so you wouldn't go as far as marriage, maybe just a nice weekend away in the Cotswolds…
We walked a bit further and I tried for Little Owl in the trees, but had no such luck, I found some pellets however on the ground (most probably from the Barn Owl), as I looked up from poking them with my foot (I wasn't allowed to pick them up!) and was explaining to my daughter what they were a large raptor flew close over head. No need for binoculars or any doubt of the identification RED KITE! Year tick 57 and a long over due lifer! Been a bogey bird of mine for ages! It flew off as quick as it appeared. A trip to the new crosslands hide (door still as stiff as ever) we were entertained by Ringed and Little Ringed Plovers scurrying about, fighting with pied wagtails. This new hide with its excellent views gave us chance to warm up slightly! A downside of birding by bus is that we had to stay a while longer than we wanted to at North Cave, so decided to go to the East Hide for a bit before heading off home.
A good day out which gave my year list a needed bump of 8. Still 40 behind this time last year however! Although this has only been my fourth outing besides BTO WeBS counts so the low number is expected. Bring on June when hopefully we'll have summer weather and summer migrants!


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by Kathy Hepinstall
The Queen Devil has left the building. She took the kids and walked out nearly a month ago, although my brother, Nick, talks as though it just happened yesterday. My legs hang over the side of his bass boat. My bare feet shadow the water beneath them. Nick ties a length of leader to his Carolina rig and says: "You should have seen her the night she left. That damn smirk. And the kids were screaming. They knew." He shakes his head. "I swear I saw big horns on her that night. Must have been the reefer, but Jesus."
This patter has worn me down, these calls at odd hours of the night, my brother high on something, drunk on something, telling me what a bitch she is, how pretty she used to look on Sundays. "All dressed up for church," Nick says. "The devil takes many forms."
I can't think about the two of them right now. Of course I'd like her to come back, take up roost again, but all I can think about is Michael. He came to my house an hour late last night and we fought. "We have to be discreet," Michael said. "I can't just run off right after dinner. I've got to wait around awhile."
"And my feelings don't matter, I guess."
We had sex later, not tender but rough, the fight unspoken but reached for between breaths.
The boat bobs. My feet touch the surface of the lake, a tea sweetened by the bloodbait of bank fishermen.
"We were the perfect couple," says Nick. "Everyone said so. And then she up and frigging left me."
I want Michael's wife to up and leave him. Better yet, I want him to up and leave her. Nick finds no comrade in me on the subject of leaving.
The lake is so calm that Nick's not even using his trolling motor to keep the boat's position. He finishes tying his elaborate knot, cuts off the trailing fireline with his pocketknife, and asks how things are going with Doctor Perfect.
I've kept Michael's marital status to myself. Nick looks down on adultery, along with the IRS, dachshunds, AA meetings, liberals, and fishermen who cast onto the spawning beds. "Everything's great," I say. My stomach hurts. I look up. Bluebird sky, curse of the angler.
"How could everything be great? He's a doctor. All doctors are assholes. Like people who own red Gamblers, especially the ones with the gold-trim package." Nick finishes another beer, crushes the empty can, and throws it into the backwash. He stands up and makes a quick cast into a weed bed. "Get me another one, will you?"
I hesitate and he says: "Come on, Jill, it's Coors Light. That's the closest thing to water you can find."
I reflect upon this statement briefly, imagining a lake full of Coors Light, catfish bumping into sunken boats, herons staggering through the shallows. Nick is busy with his rod and reel, so I put the can of beer by his feet, strip down to my swimsuit, and ease over the side of the boat so as not to disturb his balance. He glances at me between casts, his eyes uneasy. Twenty-four years ago he fell off the dock at Lake Shasta and sank like a stone. Our father went in after him and pulled him out. I stood over the two of them, watching my father press on Nick's chest until water ran out of his mouth and onto the dock. Years later, little boys stepped on that very same spot on the dock where the water dried.
"Jill! Chrissakes. Get back in the boat."
"I know how to swim." He makes another cast. "If you come back in, I'll tell you my theory about why a man shouldn't marry a woman who has never seen The Outlaw Josey Wales. In fact, I'll even-"
When I look back his rod is bent double. "Got a good one! Yeah, you bastard!" Sweat runs down his face as he struggles to keep the rod tip up. I can hear his breathing, an urgent whoosh pouring through the gills of pure win-or-lose. I tread water and watch the battle. The line breaks. The way the rod tip snaps back makes me think of Michael, and of loss. I think of last night, his perspiration running over my chest and down my arms. I was still damp with it when he left.
To the mistress goes the sweat. And to the wife, holier things. Tears, coffee, the water used to brush one's teeth.
"Damn it to frigging hell," says Nick.
My toes point straight down to the bottom of the lake, where an old cemetery rested before the river authority built the dam. The ground beneath me was dry, once, and covered with tombstones. People entered the gates weeping. They knelt down and moved their hands over the new fresh mounds. They planted alyssum, perhaps, or pansies.
My bedroom faces the north side of the lake. The little cottage I rent sits right on the shore, so that the beams from passing boats shoot across my front lawn, illuminating the ornamental grass in the garden. Michael lies on the other side of the mattress, so far away that I must reach for him, sliding my hand across the cool fitted sheet. He seems as one with the bed, happy with himself. My touch seems to annoy him, scatters the hummingbirds of his own company.
I'm the one who wants too much.
I move over to him anyway, kiss him, then move my mouth down to his chest, his stomach. Down lower his scent reminds me vaguely of a live well full of caught bass, that pungent aroma of wild things forced to be still. After a few minutes he sighs deeply. The bedposts stop thumping against the wall. Rhythm abandons the cottage, shimmies out into the lake and moves a bobber, somewhere.
After he leaves, the phone rings. Nick's words repeat themselves. I want to say something to him about it, but I'm afraid of sounding like his mother or his wife.
"I'm telling you, Jill, she's been doing her bangs funny. They stick straight up and make kind of a horn." He's trying not to sound angry, trying to be funny. "What if she impales my children in the middle of the night?"
"Go to bed, Nick. You've got to work in the morning."
"And what a career it is. Linda's always wanted someone with a higher social standing than the poor Utz Chips man you're talking to. I'm telling you, Jill"-his pause is filled with two gulps, a sigh, and the sound of aluminum buckling in on itself-"a white woman will never be happy with a noble savage type." Nick divides all humanity, male or female, into white people and Indians. In Nick's mind his wife is pale and merciless, Winchester rifle in one hand and a torch in the other. Shoot, burn, abandon.
"I have to go to bed."
"You understand me, Jill. You're not like Linda. You're an Indian."
"Nick, I'm English, Irish, Scandinavian, and a little French. Like you."
"Don't forget the one/one hundred and twenty-eighth Cherokee." He goes on to tell me about the bass that broke his heart that day. Snapped an eight-pound test line three feet from the boat . . .
"I was there. Remember? I went swimming?"
A long pause. "My soon-to-be-ex-wife likes to swim. Now she's got that horn to cut the water with."
I'm thinking of Michael again.
As children, Nick and I would sneak out of the house at night and follow the pressure-treated cedar fences into the yards of our neighbors, climbing the stiles, careful not to wake the dogs. Sometimes we picked ripe tomatoes off the vines of jerry-rigged gardens, the kind middle-class people have growing by their swing sets, and hurled them at the houses of neighbors we didn't like. I called him Tatanka. He called me Dancing Horse. The tomatoes hit the tan brick siding. Bursts of red in the moonlight, the closest we could get to blood sacrifice.
Later, our night stalkings became ritualized. We crept close to a house, knelt into monkey grass or button weed or periwinkle, and looked through the lighted windows. Nick had a gift. He could look at the everyday gestures of people and see some larger force at work. The way a person straightened a pillow on the couch or held a glass up to the light or salted a piece of chicken somehow told Nick everything he needed to know. He would stare for a moment at a family sitting around the television. Then Tatanka would speak. "The man in there loves both kids the same. But the mother loves the girl more than the boy. She feels guilty. And this is terrible, Jill, but I don't think that little boy's gonna live too long. Something bad is going to happen to him. I wish I could tell her to pay more attention to that boy."
Nick never made much of this miracle, nor did I. It was something handed down to him, savage God to white boy. One night Nick looked through a window and said: "See that man in there? One time he watched his son try to dive off the high board at the pool. The boy wanted to dive in so bad because he wanted his father to think he was a man, but he couldn't. He was afraid of drowning." Nick shook his head. "His father has never been proud of him, and he never will be."
I said nothing because we were kneeling in our own grass, facing the back of our own house, looking at our own parents as they sat reading in the living room. My brother had been that boy, his toes so close to the edge of the board.
When Nick's wife told him she was leaving him, he called me up and was not my brother, suddenly. He said, "Remember, I'm a hunter. Remember, I have a closet full of guns."
He was asleep on the couch when I walked through the door. I found my sister-in-law standing on the porch, a dozen citronella candles on the railing, lit out of pure nervousness. Behind her, I saw the remains of an illegal bonfire from Nick's last party.
"Where are the kids?" I asked.
She answered: "At Cindy's," naming someone who didn't matter, an every-woman's-friend who waits to take charge of practical matters in a sudden drama. Linda lit a cigarette and I stared in the direction of the squirrel feeder, unsure of what to say. Throughout history, sisters and wives of untamed men have been forced into these conversations.
"Get him out of here," she said.
"He's gone crazy."
"He loves you."
She took a deep puff on her cigarette and the sound made me turn to look at her. She exhaled the smoke and ground out the cigarette on the porch rail as if scorching the very thought of Nick's love. I imagined him as a boy of twelve kneeling out in the grass, tongue still burning from Red Hots candies, watching her.
Michael hasn't called lately. I imagine him at the hospital, making his rounds. Speaking into his Dictaphone back in his office, next to the desk lamp. I drive by and look up into his window, at his face.
Mornings before work, I walk down to the edge of the lake, wading in until the water comes up to my chin. I begin to swim. This is the lake that contains Nick's bass and his lost Rattletraps, his spat-out Skoal and his pissed-out beer, and if I swim out a little farther, toward the old river channel, I will once more travel over the remains of disregarded graves. The water seems darker there. Colder.
Some of the fish in this lake will be caught before the sun goes down. They will strike at a wacky worm or a spinner bait or a Texas-rigged crawfish. They will be pulled through the water, against the currents, helpless against the set of the hook.
I'm growing tired. My arms and legs move slowly. My brother would worry to see me swim this far. This is Nick at his best, protecting me.
One night I pick up the phone, sure that it's Michael. It's my brother. His voice sounds so young, so sweet, that it takes a few minutes to realize that Nick is drunk. His laughter rings through me and I want to take it in, feel the ripples of it, feel the currents and tea-colored warmth of it, but accepting the laughter feels wrong, and so does speaking out against it. Scolding is for white men. Look at how they scolded the Indians, step by step, pushing them back in a single chastened line all the way to the western coast.
He goes on for a while, the usual patter. Then his voice grows tight. "She filed papers on me, Jill! The bitch can't even make out a decent grocery list, but she can file papers!"
"I'm sorry."
"I know what you're thinking, Jill. It's not my partying and not my drinking. I'm just not good enough for her. I'm not a doctor or a lawyer or some frigging asshole that buys her big cars. She looks at me and doesn't see a man."
"You are a man, Nick," I say. Unlike Michael.
"She won't get away with this." His voices startles me.
"All I mean," he says, the sweet tone back, "is that she'll miss old Nick some day."
Later, a call comes from Michael. I try to keep my voice even. He says he's sorry, he misses me, so many patients, God he's so tired, God he just wants to come over and lie between my sheets.
The bedsprings creak. He moves up a little and his head hits the wall. He laughs a tiny painful laugh. Outside, down the sloping bank, across the lake and near the dam, a little boy drowned last week. He fell off a boat while his father was trying his luck with a slow-moving crankbait. Nick told me he won't fish near the dam anymore. It hurts him too much to think of that boy.
When the sex is finished, Michael asks-in his doctor's voice-how Nick is doing.
I say fine.
"It sounds like he's falling apart."
"It's hard when you love someone, and they don't love you."
He must hear the tone in my voice because he says, "You know I love you."
In the dark, I pull away from him, sliding off the bed, leaving the house through the back door. I walk barefoot down to the water's edge and wade out between the cattails. I swim so far that Michael will never find me. I could live among the bright fish, fearing simple things: the talons of osprey, hooks borne by false salamanders, chemicals from pig farms sliding waterway by waterway into the lake.
When I return he is gone. I lie down on the bed and soak the sheets with the lake water running off my body. Tiny invisible dead and living things. An ecosystem roiled by unexpected loss. He has not left a note. I realize that he has never left a note.
Nick's bonfires start up again. "Might as well have some fun," he says, "while the devil's busy coming to her senses." His friends laugh. He opens a beer. The women in the neighborhood hate him, the way he steals their husbands, returns them wild, their horseshoes pried off. The men around the fire barely draw breath as my brother holds court.
"Women hate fire," Nick says. "Why? Because a fire can't be controlled. Sure, you can put less logs on, more logs on, but the fire's got a mind of its own. If women had their way, men would have no beer and no fire. Women like things dark and sober."
The maidenhair fern around his house has been dead for months. His fishing box is a knot of tangled things. Cotton Cordell Red Fins, skirted jigs, pink finesse lures, some old fishing line wrapped around the secretive smile of a Bagley's DB 3.
A rusted pocketknife. An emery board and a child's pink comb.
My baby, he says. My sweet girl.
Nick calls me over one night. I find him slumped on the couch, his eyes the bright color of fish blood. I smell something strange and find the smoke alarm melted on the stove.
"What happened?"
"Damn thing kept beeping, so I fried it."
"What if there's a fire, Nick?"
"Hey." He gestures wearily. "There's two of those beepy things upstairs. Smoke rises." He wipes his red eyes. "I saw Linda at the day care center today. She had on pink nail polish and some bigass earrings and a frigging ankle bracelet. And she's got these weird sideburns now. Jesus, she looked possessed." He falls asleep in a few minutes. I cover him with a blanket and watch him, worried and yet envying him in a way. His pain is real to people, all the neighbors and everyone on the loading docks of the stores he services. And yet, let a man mistreat his mistress and that crime is lost to history.
Nick groans slightly in his sleep. I lean down to him and whisper, "Ta-tan-ka," drawing out his name.
I see Nick's wife for the first time in three months. She's in the Food Lion, eyeing a rack of Utz Chips. Nick hasn't been servicing the stores. Bags are stuffed helter-skelter on the shelves; they litter the floor at Linda's feet.
"Hey, Linda." My words sound high and strange. I am Nick in a woman's form, uncertain, wounded, full of pride.
She looks at me a long moment and then smiles. "How are you?"
"Fine. And you?"
She narrows her eyes, and I can read her thoughts. Should she speak to me woman to woman, or enemy to enemy? "I'm fine," she says flatly. "I miss the house. The apartment's too small." She waits a moment. "How is your brother?"
"Great, great." (Nick has given me urgent instructions on what to say if his wife asks about him.) "He's being a lot more responsible. He went to his accountant and got all of his finances straight and he paid his taxes."
She looks at me a long moment. "And the drinking?"
"Much better."
"Jill . . ." she says. She takes a step forward as if to confide in me, accidentally stepping on a bag of Utz Chips. The bag explodes with a loud boom. Chips shoot out across the floor.
Michael pours merlot into my glass. The waiter has just left the table and now Michael ducks his head and says: "I'm starting to think, for the first time, that Betsy and I just aren't meant to be together."
"What does that mean?"
"Just what I said."
"Are you leaving your wife?"
Michael looks around the restaurant. "Don't say 'your wife.' We're in a public place. Say 'Betsy.' And stop thinking so much about yourself. I'm trying to figure out my own life here."
"Aren't I a part of it?"
"Keep your voice low."
Nick asks me to go to court with him on the day of his divorce. He has dressed carefully, in the manner of someone who never gives up hope, right to the very end, and the sight of his favorite blue tie and a white starched shirt makes me want to cry, imagining him without an ironing board, pressing the collar of that shirt against the kitchen table.
Nick wipes his eyes several times during the proceedings and doesn't look at Linda as he tells the judge: "I was married before God. On my wedding day I made God a promise-that I would love this woman every day of my life. And I have so loved her. I do not want this divorce. She does. Your honor, I do not recognize your authority. I remain a married man. Do what you will. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever." The judge looks at Linda and, although I doubt he's caught the reference to the surrender speech of Chief Joseph of the Nez PercÈ, a flicker of anger seems to cross his face. After all, the judge is a man, and men have been drinking with Nick for months now, clapping him on the back, paying his bills, and saying you shoulda dumped that bitch ten years ago.
Outside the courtroom, Nick leans against his truck, pressing his hand against his stomach as though wounded there. He draws in his breath. "God," he says with difficulty, "demands a certain stoicism from us all."
Michael hasn't called. I drive to the hospital and park on the street, kill the headlights, and look straight up into Michael's office. The curtains are open, his desk lamp glows. I see him hold up something to his mouth-probably his Dictaphone. I wait for an hour, watching him. And yet I can't see him. The light goes off in his office. Ten minutes later his car pulls out of the parking garage and goes the opposite direction down the street.
I sit in the car another hour, just thinking. Temperature of early summer, nothing needed, neither the heater nor the air conditioner.
I drive to Nick's house, sure of my mission but dreading it.
Nick is sitting in his office, surrounded by his stuffed bass and his tournament plaques and all his empty beer cans, crushed in the middle. He flips through a copy of Fisherman's World without looking up at me. "Funny thing, Jill," he says. "You don't use the right test line, you jerk the rod when you should be holding it still, you let some stupid bass get under the boat, you don't keep the rod tip up, you use the wrong color of worm, or you let your sweat get on it, you make one stupid little mistake and you lose, you lose."
"Are you talking about Linda?"
"Screw that horned devil."
I take a step and a beer can attaches itself to my heel. Nick looks terrible. Unshaven, gaunt.
He stares out the passenger window as I drive.
"Where are you taking me?"
"You'll see."
"We need to stop," he says. Meaning beer.
I want to say to him you need to stop all right, but instead I say: "We can stop on the way back."
Nick leans against the headrest and closes his eyes. "My wife is probably out with someone else."
"Don't think about it."
"I don't care. I only married her for breeding purposes anyway. She had nice wide hips and clear skin. I knew we'd have pretty children."
"You do have pretty children."
He slaps the dashboard. "We were happy, Jill! That's the damnedest part of it! Everyone we knew said we were the happiest couple ever! You know what I think happened? She started looking at all her friends' houses and cars and thought, 'I could marry some asshole doctor and have that myself.' And I can't offer her that. You know what I can offer her? Chips. Barbecue and Ranch."
I pass through the quiet streets. Families inside the houses. Late-night talk shows. Sleeping children.
"For ten years, I did not leave that house without telling her I loved her. I did not go to sleep without saying it. I did not make love to her without saying it."
I find the neighborhood and turn down a street.
"I've lost my family. She took them. She took everything from me. I think I'm gonna lose the house. I can't afford it with the child support she wants."
"I can help you."
"Jill, you're a frigging English teacher."
We park under the shade of a maple tree. Nick asks no more questions. The two of us-brother and sister-creep through backyards, climb over fences, avoid pools and dogs.
Lurking in the dark is a children's game. Adults have no business here. Fence rows are boundaries, and those that look for truth and hurl tomatoes will be sued in a court of law.
We climb over more fences, not so nimble as when we were children, and yet we do it. We do not fall.
No dogs announce us when we reach the house. A clear stream runs through the back yard, lined with tiny holly bushes. The stream trickles into a pond edged in stones. I have counted the houses carefully and know this is the one. I've glided past it many nights.
The two of us find a patch of grass and sit down cross-legged. We watch the house for a while. Through the French doors that lead to the living room we can see a man and a woman sitting on the couch together, watching television. I thought the sight of the woman would pain me more than it does. Instead she fascinates me. I can see the way her hair flips at the ends.
I turn to my brother. "So . . . ?"
He's watching the house, his face very still. "You really want to know?"
He licks his lips and stares at them another moment. Finally, he speaks. "Married too long. Man is restless. Thinks a lot of himself. Probably got a couple of kids, upstairs. He's the kind that wanted a boy and then, two years later, a girl. Making everything nice and neat. Probably got two girls instead. Somehow he blames this on his wife. But mostly he's just tired of her. He pictures himself as this great sufferer, just staying in a loveless marriage when he's a doctor and he can have any woman he wants. The truth is, he's forgotten how to love. His children don't really have a dad. Their mother always says, 'Daddy is working late. Daddy is saving lives.'"
I hesitate for a moment and then ask: "Will he leave his wife?"
"No." Nick's voice is gentle. "Never. Just because it's all set up. He's happy being a miserable bored bastard. At night he can go out to his backyard in his bedroom slippers and stare at his pond and imagine himself as a real sad man. That's his pleasure, really." Nick looks at me and continues, very quietly. "The man has a woman on the side. She is so beautiful, and so rare. She can have anyone she wants, but she doesn't think so. Doesn't see how much better she can do. She looks the other way when things turn bad. She can't let go."
Inside the house, Michael gets up and stretches. His wife points the remote at the television. The channel changes.
"Thank you, Nick." My voice breaks.
"Want me to beat him up?"
"If you're sure you can win."
"He looks kind of old, but I dunno. That crazy Frito-Lay man kicked my ass last summer, and he was sixty-four."
We are still sitting there together when all the lights go off in the house. Nick says he has to take a piss.
I say, "Use the white man's pond."
I stand knee-deep in lake water, my back to Michael.
"Look at me," says Michael.
I turn around. The sight of him standing there at the edge of the lake means nothing to me.
"I've been calling and calling," he says. "Is this some kind of game?"
"Go away."
He says something else, but I don't hear. I wade out farther into the lake and begin to swim, water so cool against my face, my feet kicking hard, kicking until the froth drowns out every last bit of him. I join the fish and the minnows and the dead wakes of ghostly boats. I am free, nothing left but the currents and the truth. Michael is gone now, gone to join Nick's horned devil in some tea-colored cove where ex-lovers lurk, all their movements now untraceable. I swim, farther out than I've ever swum before, the water so flat and inviting. My feet kick. Seventy feet below me, the water turns dark. Catfish nudge forgotten stones.
When I get back to the cottage the message light is blinking. Michael. Just a few days ago, that red light would have filled me with hope. Now I don't really care what he has to say. I towel off before pressing the button.
"Jill! Jill! Pick up the phone! I just told the queen devil they were foreclosing on the house! The only thing I have left of my family! And you know what that stupid bitch told me? She says she's coming over to give me her fucking wedding ring back! She says I should sell it! This means war, Jill. This means war!"
Linda's little red Honda sits at the edge of the curve and I reflect, briefly, on the tendency of ex-wives not to park in the driveway. The front door is unlocked and opens without a single creak. My brother is sitting down on the living room floor, his back against the wall. He holds the gun straight up between his knees. I say nothing. He slides his fingers slowly down the barrel. I say nothing. If I look out the window I can see the backyard and the moon.
If I look over by the couch I can see her feet.
Important things need to be said and done. Sirens and flashbulbs will appear soon, and like the shiny parts on a lure they will attract the eye of a hungry public. But my arms and legs feel so heavy and my eyes won't travel to her feet again, black sandals and an ankle bracelet that shines in the light of a swag lamp.
My brother's mouth hangs open a little. His chest rises and falls. He blinks.
I kneel down next to him, closing my hand around the barrel and finding it a perfect temperature, neither cold nor hot. "Let go," I tell him.
Outside in the backyard, a girl and a boy sit under the moonlight, watching us through the window. The boy's breath has the scent of Red Hots. The girl's hair is braided like a squaw's.
"What's wrong, Tatanka?" she asks her brother.
The boy stares straight ahead.
"What?" she asks.


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If you're starting to regret abusing your ear drums in earlier years, you're in good company. About one in six boomers experience hearing loss according to the Better Hearing Institute, a non-profit educational group financed by the hearing aid industry. The AARP reports that there are more people between the ages of 45-64 with hearing loss than those over age 65.
If you or someone you know thinks they may need hearing aids, you should meet with your physician for a medical exam. They might refer you to an audiologist who would perform a more comprehensive evaluation. In case you are one of the many needing a hearing aid its important to become an educated consumer. Here's what you need to know:
There are three types of hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss generally results from wax blockage, punctured eardrum, infection, or damage to the inner ear that prevents normal functioning of inner ear structures. Conductive hearing problems can be improved or corrected with medical treatment.
Sensorineural (nerve) hearing loss is most commonly associated by aging, exposure to loud noises or trauma such as a blow to the head, or damage to areas of the brain that work with the ear to interpret sound. This type of loss may be treated with a hearing aid.
The third, mixed hearing loss is a combination of conductive and sensorineural types and is treated accordingly. If a hearing aid is called for, two general styles of hearing aids; behind the ear (BTE) and in the ear (ITE). There are variations, advantages and disadvantages of each.
Some initial signs of hearing loss to watch for include ringing in your ears or "tinnitus", inability to hear well in groups or in areas with background noise, and frequently turning up the volume on radios, television or other electronic appliances. Many people don't realize that they are experiencing hearing loss until the symptoms are recognized by a third party. Tinnitus can be caused by other medical conditions and medications- that's why we recommend you check with your physician as a first step.
Preventing hearing loss is a life-long process. The easiest way to protect your hearing is to prevent exposure to excess noise. Heavy machinery, loud music, engines, or even a one-time extremely intense exposure can cause hearing loss. It's most common for hearing loss to occur slowly over time as long-term exposure causes destruction of inner ear mechanics. If you live or work in a high noise area, use ear protection. Basic ear plugs used to reduce noise (sleeping partner snoring) won't protect your ears while using landscaping equipment or other high-decibel machinery.
Having a family member with hearing loss, reoccurring ear infections, certain medications or previous damage to the ear can all predispose a person to hearing.
Insurance doesn't usually pay for hearing aids:
Hearing aids require a prescription. Audiologists often sell hearing aids, or partner with a licensed hearing aid retailer. Unless you're a veteran or in some cases, a child under age 13, expect to pay. Prices often range from $1,000 to $7,000 or more depending on the type of model and hearing loss. But you might not need anything nearly as costly; consumers often pay more than necessary or can be victimized by unscrupulous dealers.
Why are hearing aids so expensive?
As with many other areas of healthcare, high hearing aid prices can be attributed to monopolistic pricing and regulations that discourage competition. A hearing aid consists of a small microphone that amplifies weak sounds through a small speaker. Unlike price decreases that we've come to expect from other electronic devices like, the price of hearing aids have actually increased despite the fact that its industry trade association has concluded that hearing aid manufacturers could help more people, sell many more hearing aids and make more profit if prices were reduced.
There are some hearing aid-type devices that don't require a prescription and offer substantial savings. These devices are made by companies including Maxisound, Nexear and Songbird. Prices for their models range from $80 to $500 each. They are most common online, and all are sold with money-back guarantees. So for mild to moderate hearing loss, they're worth a try. (VidaCura carries Nexear brand products, Click here to see them.)
A study conducted in a recent issue of the American Journal of Audiology concluded that these over-the-counter type hearing aids "don't work well and could potentially damage a persons hearing". This is ironic as that study was funded by the Oticon Foundation, manufacturer for Oticon brand hearing aids. We suspect the eyeglass industry said many of these same things about reading glasses when they first were sold OTC.
Be a smart shopper:
Following a principle you'll hear us frequently refer to; you will get the best care if you do your research and ask the right questions. It's especially important for hearing aids since in addition to dealing with your hearing, you'll also likely be spending your own money. If the results of your exam indicate that you might benefit from a hearing aid, consider the following factors: Hearing aids are sold by licensed audiologists and by retailers who have relationships with audiologists. That opens the door wide to potential kickbacks, and referral fees in exchange for recommending higher priced models. This can result in your paying prices higher than you should.
If hearing aids can help you hear better, please consider them. The stigma associated with wearing a hearing aid is largely gone. Celebrities who have been helped by hearing aids include President Bill Clinton, actors Lou Ferrigno and Richard Thomas, and U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf. It's so common to see people with earpieces plugged into one ear, its hard to tell whether they're talking on the phone or improving their hearing.


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Community spirit is the fabric of life in Harfield Village. But what exactly is community spirit and how does our brain allow us to have it?
By Dr Samantha J. Brooks Ph.D.
The social brain is supported by a network of regions functioning together that enable mentalising, or the ability to understand how we might be perceived by others. It also enables us to empathise with how another might feel, even if they are of a different age, gender or cultural background. Mentalising is sometimes also known as Theory of Mind, which means being able to imagine the mind of another person or a group of people. This is the basis of community spirit, allowing us to think about how our behaviour might be perceived within the neighbourhood and adapting to emerging norms. Theory of mind also allows us to police ourselves, for example, by not playing music loudly because it might annoy our neighbours, or not letting our garbage overflow into the street. But also, mentalising, or Theory of Mind, allows us to empathise about how others feel when engaging in activities in the neighbourhood, such as the pleasure of walking one's dog in the park, joining local public events, or enjoying our local top-class cafes and restaurants.
The main areas of the brain that function to allow us to have a strong sense of community spirit include: the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the amygdala and related reward/arousal regions (such as the striatum, insula and hippocampus), and the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex (ACC/PCC), which is a 'collar' of grey matter that encircles the midbrain structures. The advanced areas of the visual cortex, such as the fusiform gyrus and the precuneus enable us to recognise familiar faces in the street. So, the next time you see Lew Norgarb in his tuk-tuk, you'll know that these visual cortex areas in your brain will be at work! Modern neuroimaging techniques allow us to model what happens when these brain areas don't function as well as they should. For example, when the mPFC is damaged or has not developed properly, as in the case of folk living with autism, people struggle with Theory of Mind. That means, that it is difficult to empathise with the feelings of others, which can, in milder cases, underlie social anxiety. Also, an excessively functioning arousal system (incorporating the amygdala, striatum and hippocampus), which is experienced by those people struggling with the ravages of addiction, might seem to act in a selfish way. But in essence they have (temporarily) lost the ability to engage executive prefrontal cortex functions that enable one to consider the perspective of others. The good news is – as I have said before – our brains are very flexible, and so we can learn to strengthen the connections supporting our social brain!
For example, the recent Halloween get-together for kids in one of our local parks, has given us a wonderful memory to cherish, as does the regular Harfield Village carnival that evoke memories of fun, laughter and good times shared. Story telling activates 'feel-good' hormones in the brain, such as oxytocin and dopamine – this is why gossiping, a form of socially-cohesive story telling – often feels quite pleasant (if done with good intentions of course!). And storytelling activates mirror neurons, so that even if you did not experience the Halloween antics of our local children and parents, or have not attended our local carnival yet, or enjoyed the wonderful food on offer in our many cafes and restaurants, simply hearing the story will make you want to stay, and be part of the wonderful community that is Harfield Village!
Dr Samantha Brooks is a neuroscientist at the UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, specialising in the neural correlates of impulse control from eating disorders to addiction. For more information on neuroscience at UCT and to contact Samantha, see www.drsamanthabrooks.com.
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I love a Friday night. The work week is behind you and the weekend is ahead of you. I don't think there is a better night of the week then a Friday night! Firday night is when you get to relax and spend time with the ones you barely saw during the hectic week. At our house Friday is also fun food Friday. That means we usually order take out or cook something special.
There's just something about a pizza on a Friday night. I think that goes back to when I was a child. I couldn't wait to get home from school on Friday. I knew it meant it was pizza for dinner and a good night of tv!! We would all get cozy in the living room and sit with our pizza and watch our favorite shows. Back then my favorites were Full House and all the TGIF favorites!
Things haven't changed much I still love to eat out in the living room while watching my favorite shows.
This weekend is special because it's my first mothers day being a mom! I will be spending the weekend with the little man, my husband and of course my mom! I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Hoping to get some more fall items done. It's suppose to be rainy and cool tomorrow so it will be a perfect day to work on my creations.
Then Sunday we will be heading up north to my moms new cabin she just bought. It'll be nice to spend some time up in the mountains. We are looking forward to spending a lot of time up there this summer. The river is a short walk from her house so it's sure to be the place on a hot summer day!
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BILL PASSED TO CLAMP DOWN ON STREET TRADERS: The Lords have passed a bill intended to stop people using pedlar's certificates to trade illegally in busy areas such as Market Street. The Manchester City Council bill is targeted at traders who flout the guidelines by trading in fixed locations or selling counterfeit and potentially dangerous products. It is set to become law later in the year.
LOWRY TO COMMISSION FIVE £35K ARTWORKS: Five outdoor public artworks which reflect the history of Salford Quays will form a new 'heritage trail'. This is part of an initiative to recapture the rich industrial and social history of Salford. Artists will work with former Quays workers, current residents and history buffs to create their works, which is hoped to be completed by October.
LITTLE HULTON MISSIONARIES ARE MONGOLIAN TV SENSATIONS: Senior pastors Bill and Sue Davison, of Bethony Church in Keyon Way, have become celebrities in their promotion of the good book. Only 2.5% of the Mongolian population are Christian, but a programme of the couple's seminars in the city of Darkhan have become the second most popular programme in the station's history.
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It will come as no surprise to readers that we have very close links to ex-service organisations, or ESOs. One of Australia's best know ESO is Legacy. I was recently contacted by a senior member of Legacy in Victoria about the Philippine Liberation Medal awarded to 51070 FSGT Ewan Clive Quick. The medal had been found in a unit and handed in to Legacy.
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Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security brings you single-source access to the expertise of Bloomberg Law's privacy and data security editorial team, contributing practitioners,...
By Jimmy H. Koo
New York's highest court April 4 rejected Facebook Inc.'s bid to dodge a government request for user information ( In the Matter of 381 Search Warrants Directed to Facebook, Inc. , N.Y., No. 16, 4/4/17 ).
The opinion, which only affects New York courts, provides little incentive for companies to protect consumer privacy, Warren Stramiello, of counsel at defense-side litigation firm Gallo LLP in San Rafael, Calif., told Bloomberg BNA April 4. On the contrary, it incentivizes companies to cooperate with the government and keep it secret, he said.
Facebook, for its part, is left with a bad choice: challenge the warrant and lose, or keep quiet and work with the government "regardless of how ridiculous the warrant may be," Stramiello said.
The New York Court of Appeals affirmed that the Manhattan District Attorney's Stored Communication Act (SCA) request for information from Facebook should be treated as a search warrant. And the court has held "for decades" that an order resolving a bid to vacate a search warrant can't be appealed, Judge Leslie E. Stein said, writing for the majority.
Facebook argued that although being denominated as warrants, the SCA warrants are "more analogous to subpoenas than traditional search warrants" and should be treated as a subpoena.
The court disagreed. "Despite the minor similarities between SCA warrants and subpoenas, in this post-digital world, we are not convinced that SCA warrants—which are required under the statute to obtain certain content-based information that cannot be obtained with a subpoena due to heightened privacy interest in electronic communications—should nevertheless be treated as subpoenas," the court held.
According to Stramiello, the majority's opinion is a "defensible reading of the law—if you consider the law to exist in a vacuum."
Dissenting, Judge Rowan D. Wilson said that through the SCA, Congress granted service providers, such as Facebook, a right to move to quash the warrants, which would automatically provide standing and a right to appeal. "Facebook has a federal right to appeal an adverse decision on its motion to quash," Wilson said.
Concurring, Judge Jenny Rivera said she agrees that the SCA permits Facebook to appeal the denial of a motion to quash the SCA warrants. However, she concurred that the order isn't appealable because Facebook failed to properly assert the grounds for appeal.
"The opinions of Judges Rivera and Wilson show a better understanding of how law interacts with technology today," Stramiello said.
Even though they used different approaches, "They both would have given Facebook a fair hearing on the substance of the SCA warrant with the ability for meaningful appellate review of any decision." Stramiello said. "Regardless of the outcome of that review, the procedure would have encouraged other companies to protect the privacy of their users and struck a better balance between user privacy and law enforcement interests."
In 2013, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. got the warrants in connection with an investigation into disability fraud, demanding Facebook search for and collect communications, data and information from 381 different individual Facebook accounts.
Facebook moved to quash the warrants for being unconstitutionally overbroad, but a New York Supreme Court denied the bid, finding that Facebook lacked standing to assert any expectation of privacy on behalf of the account holders.
Facebook appealed the Supreme Court's order, but the Appellate Division denied the company's bid to stay the warrants, finding that the company's appeals were taken from "nonappealable orders." The Appellate Division rejected Facebook's request that the court treat the SCA warrants as civil subpoenas for appealability purposes.
Facebook appealed to the state high court, which affirmed the Appellate Division's holding.
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and Judges Sheila Abdus-Salaam and Eugene M. Fahey concurred but didn't write a separate opinion. Judge Michael J. Garcia took no part in the opinion.
Thomas H. Dupree of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented Facebook. Vance represented the New York County District Attorney's Office.
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