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Paul is currently the CEO of ProConvos Inc., an internet technology company that provides an innovative platform that unleashes the power of alumni networks. In a prior life, he was a 15 year veteran of the finance industry specializing in the global technology, media, and telecom sectors in prominent hedge funds such as SAC Capital and Omega Advisors, and in equity research departments in the investment banking divisions of Bank of America and PaineWebber (now UBS). During this time, he also started a boutique financial firm, which was eventually transitioned into a European-based global financial institution. Prior to his experience in the finance industry, Paul worked in the publishing industry for a boutique magazine publisher that specializes in the beer, wine, and distilled spirits industry. Paul received a BS double majoring in Marketing and Management and an MBA majoring in Finance and International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he was the co-captain of the men's varsity tennis team. Paul is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designate.Mike Rothman – Co-Chairman Owner, First Money Media
Mike Rothman is currently the owner of First Money Media (FM2), a firm specializing in monetization, operations and strategy for early-stage tech and digital media companies. Clients include over a dozen venture-backed start-ups across the country including Betaworks, Contently, Newsle, Scoutmob and Yipit among others. FM2 also incubates several new business ideas focused at the intersection of digital content, commerce and advertising.
Over the last seven years, Mike Rothman built Thrillist's advertising sales team, from a one-person operation to a staff of 20+ and a Fortune 500 roster of clients. Rothman most recently founded Thrillist Rewards, Thrillist's e-commerce platform that provides editorialized experiences for consumers and customized promotional opportunities for national advertisers.Prior to Thrillist, Rothman worked at Digitas and in custom publishing, developing content programs for clients such as Starwood and Purina.In 2005, Rothman bicycled over 4,800 miles, from New York City to Los Angeles, over the course of 55-days to raise money for a high school scholarship targeting NYC students ("The Susan Himmelman Shapiro Memorial Scholarship") in honor of his aunt. In his free time, Rothman also volunteers with inner-city youth mentoring programs Big Brothers Big Sisters and the TEAK Fellowship in addition to Career Gear, an organization providing life and career counseling to men in need.Rothman is also an avid supporter of The Moth, a MacArthur "genius" grant recipient and Peabody Award-winning organization that promotes the craft of storytelling via live events, podcasts, radio shows and community outreach programs.Angus Dobbie – Treasurer Director – Recruiting Manager of Global Banking & Markets, Global Asset Management and Global Private Bank HSBC
Angus is a senior finance executive with 20 years professional experience working in international securities operations. He has worked across Asia, the US and Latin America and has extensive academic training in both Finance and Political Science (He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics, Masters Degree in Business and a Masters Degree in International Relations).
Since 2010, Angus has worked in the Recruitment field, specializing in Financial Services personnel. Prior to this Angus's background was in Equity Sales and management, with his most recent position in finance as a Senior Managing Director of The Macquarie Group (heading the Equity Derivatives group within the US operations). Angus was on the Board of the bank's US subsidiary, and served on the Finance, Compliance and 401k Advisory Board committees. Angus was also part of the Macquarie Foundation's launch in the US and an active participant in its strategic direction and volunteer activities.
Angus's work with Career Gear started in 2009, and in addition to his role as Treasurer, he has participated in our Professional Development Series as both a presenter and a mentor.Kristine Stallone – Secretary Vice President for Finance and Administration, American Jewish World Service
Kristine Stallone is currently the Vice President for Finance and Administration at American Jewish World Service. She brings her commitment to social justice and years of international experience in finance to her role. She was the former CFO of Arcus Foundation and the former controller of Americas and of Global Functional teams for Bloomberg LP, the global information service, news and media giant, where she led a team that worked on financial reporting and development of the enterprise-wide financial system. As an independent consultant to nonprofits, she served as controller for Teach for America and Ithaka Harbors, an organization working to accelerate the use of information technologies in higher education worldwide. Ms. Stallone supports and volunteers for several charitable organizations. She is a Certified Public Accountant with a BS in accounting from Mercy College, New York.Jonathan M. Bergman Managing Director, TAG Associates
Jonathan serves as Managing Director of TAG Associates, a $7 billion multi-family office. Jonathan has over 16 years of investment management experience, exclusively managing assets for high net worth families. He serves as portfolio manager to client accounts and conducts investment manager due diligence. Jonathan helps TAG portfolio management clients and their advisors integrate all aspects of their personal financial life, including investments, philanthropy, estate, insurance, and income tax planning. He is a member of TAG's Investment Committee. Additionally, Jonathan serves as a member of the advisory board of a private equity partnership.
Jonathan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. He is past Chairman of The Wisconsin Business Alumni Board of the Wisconsin School of Business.Ken Giddon Founder and President of Rothmans
Founder & President of Rothmans a NYC based men's clothing store with a second location in Scarsdale.
Ken was also the Founder and honorary board member of NY Cares. One of five co-founders in 1986, Ken served on the board from 1986-2014. He also served as Interim Executive Director. He chaired the Nominating Committee, Real Estate Committee and multiple Executive Director search committees.
Gilonne is currently Development Director for New Harvest, a non profit organization that advances the technology behind making animal products without animals, with an aim to end factory farming and provide the world with safer, cheaper, more reliable, and more delicious sources of animal proteins. Previously, she was an EVP at On Demand Book. She has also served as a consultant in corporate responsibility, marketing and communications, and in growth strategy. Gilonne has worked in law, finance, business, peace building, and film. She has also been involved in projects and organizations from financing landmine clearance to decolonization to human trafficking.
Gilonne has a BA from Brown University, MA and LL.M from the University of London, and law degree from the College of Law.Scott Lehmann Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Events, Esquire Magazine
Scott Lehmann is currently the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships & Events for Esquire magazine, a unit of the Hearst Corporation. In this role, he is a key member of Esquire's team that identifies, creates and implements sales and marketing programs to drive sales revenue for the magazine, Esquire.com and Esquire's iPad applications. He has extensive experience in the development of national marketing and promotional campaigns within the fashion, retail, entertainment, liquor and grooming industries, adeptly managing strategic partnerships for highly complex marketing campaigns. Prior to Esquire, Mr. Lehmann worked at Rolling Stone magazine, a unit of Wenner Media. His first job in magazine publishing was with men's lifestyle magazine P.O.V. Magazine (Point of View) where he was part of a team that was named Adweek's 'Start-Up of the Year' and 'Top 10 Up & Coming Magazines.'
Scott graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature with a concentration on Film Studies and Film Analysis. In addition to Career Gear, Mr. Lehmann serves on the New York City 'Young Executive Committee' for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and currently resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife Kristen.Gene Manheim Managing Director, Herbert Mines Associates
Managing Director at Herbert Mines Associates; focus C-level executive search in retail, fashion, and consumer products and services. Previously, he was a principal in a private real estate firm, which specialized in commercial real estate development, consulting, and leasing in the retail sector. In addition, Gene co-founded an international apparel manufacturing company that employed 800 people producing goods for major U.S. retailers. He practiced law and was also appointed by Governor Lowell Weicker to the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Development Authority.Deepen Parikh Partner, Interplay Ventures
Deepen is a Partner at Interplay Ventures, a New York based incubator and early stage investor. He is also a Founding Member of NextGen Angels NYC, the New York extension of a group focused on bringing together like-minded investors under the age of 40, to fund early-stage ventures. In addition, he co-founded NYVC Sports (part of the New York Venture Community) with the mission of bridging the gap between sports leagues, teams, investors, entrepreneurs, and media companies.Sean Pica Executive Director, Hudson Link
Sean is the Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a not-for-profit organization that provides college education, life skills and re-entry support to incarcerated men and women. Sean's responsibilities include program management, business development, fundraising and implementation of the strategic goals and objectives of Hudson Link. Prior to Hudson Link, Sean was the Director of Club Access, a psychosocial clubhouse or adults with mental health disabilities, and a tenant advocate for the James Weldon Housing Projects in East Harlem.
Sean serves as a Senior Fellow with Mercy College's Center for Social and Criminal Justice, on the Service Providers Advisory Committee (SPAC) which collaborates on policy issues in the NYS Department of Corrections, on the Board of Saving Our Society re-entry services organization and as a facilitator for STRIVE Fatherhood Programs. Sean earned a Master of Professional Studies degree from the New York Theological Seminary, a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College and is currently an MBA candidate at Mercy College. Sean lives in Westchester with his wife, Lori.Noah Sorkin Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Advisor Group
Noah Sorkin serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Advisor Group as of April 2008. His is responsible for managing all legal and regulatory functions impacting the independent broker-dealers of Advisor Group.
He joined Advisor Group from Fidelity National Financial, Inc. where he served as Senior Vice President, with responsibility for supervising all litigation matters and regulatory investigations involving the firm's direct operations and independent agents.
Sorkin began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the King's County District Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York, as Senior Trial Counsel, prosecuting felony cases. He then joined Prudential Financial, Inc. where he assumed additional responsibility and was named Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President. At Prudential, Sorkin managed a geographically diverse group of legal professionals and was instrumental in guiding the company through numerous regulatory settlements. He also worked with regulators and sales professionals in coordinating the implementation of new processes. Following Wachovia's merger with Prudential Securities Division, Sorkin joined Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., a full-service broker-dealer and investment
Sorkin received his B.A. from Connecticut College in 1979, his J.D. degree from George Washington University-National Law Center in 1982 and his LL.M in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 2002. He and his wife Stephanie live in Chappaqua, NY with their two children, Dana and Matthew.Andrew Stein Partner, Vicus Partners, LLC
Andrew is a founding Principal of Vicus Partners, LLC, a commercial real estate Firm dedicated exclusively to representing tenants in commercial transactions. As a senior member of Vicus's management team, Mr. Stein oversees the firm's strategic direction as well as serving as a consultant, strategic planner and provider of specialized brokerage services to his roster of public and private sector clients. Mr. Stein's ability to find strategic and creative solutions to both quantitative and qualitative issues makes him a valuable real estate advisor. Some of his recent accomplishments include negotiating on behalf of RW Baird, the World Lung Foundation for their U.S. headquarters in lower Manhattan, representing the Children's Defense Fund with respect to their New York headquarters, representing multiple embassy's, law firms, schools, non-profits and other businesses in leasing transactions throughout the five boroughs of New York City. He is a graduate of Brown University and is currently a member of the Young Men's/Womens Real Estate Association & the International Tenant Representative Alliance.Anthony Vaughn Associate, Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC
Anthony focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in the mortgage banking industry. He also represents architects and engineers providing litigation and general counsel. He has extensive experience with complex commercial litigation, specifically real estate, construction and professional liability matters. Additionally, Anthony's experience includes handling transactional matters for commercial clients and individuals. He is currently serving as a mentor in Career Gear's MAST Mentoring Program where he provides advise and emotional support to assist participants in achieving life / work balance.Warwick Williams Partner Coordinator, FedCap Employment Works
Warwick holds a Master of Social Work from Lehman College and a B.A. in economics from the College of William and Mary. He currently serves as Partner Coordinator for Fedcap Employment Works as well as a Clinical Therapist at Fedcap Behavioral Health Services. He has 18 years of professional experience in the social services and financial services sectors.
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An Insider's Guide to Antwerp, part three: What to do
The final installment of our Antwerp city guide looks at a handful of many the cultural
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The final installment of our Antwerp city guide looks at a handful of many the cultural
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It's not every day that you get a backstage pass to one of the hottest restaurants in west London, but
The Zetter Townhouse Group continues to grow with the addition of its latest property in Marylebone, due to open this spring
An authentic experience in a stylish setting, Portobello Road's Pizza East hits all the right notes
Caprice Holdings is set to open a second spin-off of the original Covent Garden restaurant, this time in Chelsea
The evenings are lighter and that chill in the air is a little gentler: spring is on its way! Ease into the season with Harry's bespoke playlist
Step aside 3D; Electric are taking interactive cinema to another level with the first of a series film events accompanied by live music
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The best chefs confirm what we already knew: that some of the world's top restaurants are located in west London
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Covered Terms: Virtual Personal Assistants • Red Route • Digital Twins
Terms covered in Part 1: Blockchain • Information Scent • Haptic Feedback Incorporation • Age Responsive Design
Virtual Personal Assistants
"How can I help you today?" "Will that be everything?" "Would you like fries with that?" "Would you like to see our specials?" "May I suggest a different color?" "How may I direct your call?"
As our devices become always on listeners and as they become more intelligent and human like, more of us are relying on voice commands to assist us in everyday life. Virtual personal assistants are embedded software programs that utilize voice or text input to respond to your requests based on a contextual story your recorded online history maps out.
Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Google. These are four premiere examples of voice activated VPAs embedded in the most popular devices. As with swiping or touch screen actions, voice activated commands are intended to reduce the time it takes to accomplish a task. One frustration VPAs are seeking to reduce in a users experience is called "app fatigue". App fatigue is a modern expression denoting the tedium many smart phone users feel when trying to perform a basic function. For instance, if you want to edit a photo, you may have to swipe through several pages of icons, open a photography folder, find that icon, then click it to open. Hardly efficient. It's a maddening information hierarchy that leads to feeling like you're looking for a needle in a haystack, with piles of similar looking icons indistinguishable from each other without a magnifying glass. Voice commands in tandem with contextual information about the user are meant to solve this problem by providing a speedy shortcut to the desired action.
The most exciting possibilities VPAs promise though, are their connection to the cloud and your local data using contextual learning. What does this mean? It means that not only will Siri (for instance), tell you when you have your next meeting, but by accessing your online habits, tell you that you can get a run in before hand, suggest a haircut based on the last time you went in for a trim, suggest a gift for one of the meeting attendees, and many other interesting possibilities. Much of what separates man from machine has to do with pattern recognition and acting on these patterns in a way that improves one's life. VPAs are increasingly adept at "knowing what you mean" and not just that, suggesting behaviors that reflect who you are and, who you can be using vast databases of context. (see Deep Learning).
The promise behind these assistants is very exciting, as smart homes, health trackers, mobile phones all feed your data into a central repository where analysis can be done and suggestions can be made that you may have never thought of on your own.
Of course as many can attest to, as it stands today, the hype surrounding these assistants far outpaces the promise.
Even the most basic request to Siri can result in copious amounts of swearing at your device, usually to the effect of how *!#@ worthless Siri can be. "Hey Siri, read me the happy hour menu for my favorite sushi spot" - "Hey Siri, tell me a good song about summer time?" results in a dazzlingly incoherent response, usually asking me to search the web for something it has every right to "know" for itself. This tells us that we've come to demand more from our devices and expect software to learn us. Google and Amazon have implemented VPA personalities in a more helpful way, and have leveraged natural language processing, deep learning and the cloud making them increasingly indispensable. The exciting possibility is that with more data being sent to the network by billions of users, the smarter these assistants get. Using AI and contextual learning, the responses will continue to reflect more accurately what the user means, and what they will want in the future. Apple is lagging in this space but are working to improve this capability as well.
VPAs also are being used to provide customer service in interesting ways. Chatbots or "engagement bots" are less frustrating then they used to be, and companies are using them to handle basic customer relationship tasks. As these get smarter, human interaction becomes less crucial to feeling satisfied as a customer.
We'll discuss more on these "engagement bots" in later posts. Perhaps there is a way you can embed this functionality in your mobile application as users expect more from their machines.
Red Routes
"Red route" is a term used in London to describe roads that are painted red to indicate to drivers that these lanes are exclusively dedicated to public transit. Essentially, VIP lanes for public transportation. Why? These roads are major arterials requiring a steady flow of traffic. Avoiding log jams is the priority.
If you've had any experience in project management, the term "critical path" is similar. How do allow a customer to easily reach their goals in a similar way. It's similar to the idea of Occam's razor, or path of least resistance. How do you create an experience with your site that gets out of the way and let's users intuitively arrive at their destination. Defining these red routes based on user feedback and common behaviors can make your site a pleasurable experience, minimizing frustration and getting out of the way.
Digital Twins
⁃A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical object in the material world. Prominent examples are smart home products, surveillance devices, architectural structures, medical tracking, or any physical object containing sensors that transmit information back to a software repository where that data can be analyzed for future action. One of Busse Designs product examples reflecting this idea is Arlo by Netgear. It's a smart home system using devices that have night vision, streaming of data to the cloud, remote controls, and like. The data can be analyzed by the user to determine the best way to implement the devices. Ideally the software can make changes or report on the concerns most relevant to the user (How often do my cameras detect motion? At what time of day? Is the motion triggered by human beings or other things? How do I best protect myself given this data)?


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A huge crowd is expected to watch some of Australia's best triathletes go head to head at one of the world's best courses for both athletes and spectators at IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong.
The natural amphitheater at Eastern Beach provides a number of fantastic vantage points for spectators, as does the multi-loop bike and run course.
With Geelong providing the location, the entertainment will be provided by two Olympians and a three time IRONMAN world champion, as they go head to head at one of Australia's most picturesque venues.
Arguably Australia's most decorated male triathlete, three time IRONMAN world champion and two time IRONMAN 70.3 world champion; Craig Alexander is excited to again be on the start line for IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong.
"I'm really looking forward to coming back to Geelong to race. It is a great place to race, the waterfront venue is awesome and I have good memories there, winning two 70.3's and a couple of medals at Aussie titles," he said.
Given the races proximity to IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne, Geelong has attracted a stellar elite field, which includes defending IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong champion Christian Kemp, and dual Olympian Courtney Atkinson.
Atkinson, who made the transition from short course to 70.3 last season will again step up in distance taking on IRONMAN Melbourne in a little over a month.
"My goals in 2014 season are focused around trying to master the full Ironman distance race and come October be competitive in Kona. Geelong 70.3 will provide a great early hit out to evaluate just where my body is at with the new focus on the Ironman."
He'll provide Alexander with some stiff competition and be hoping to continue his unbeaten run over the 70.3 distance.
Atkinson's Olympic team mate Brad Kahlefeldt has travelled the same path switching to the longer distance and also enjoying instant success, but is determined to put his demons aside after withdrawing from this race last year in the bike leg.
Defending champion Kemp is coming off a solid showing at IRONMAN 70.3 Auckland late last month and is hopping to fight his way onto the podium's top spot.
Olympian and two time ITU world champion Emma Moffatt will be the headline act in the women's race as the Beijing bronze medalist is hoping to go one better than last year.
"I did Geelong 70.3 last year (finishing second) as a race to end my base training phase. Initially I said I'd never do another one, but I'm all entered and eager to race!! Last year I mixed drafting races with non-drafting and really enjoyed the change, so after Olympic distance long course is something I'd like to take more seriously," she said.
Moffatt's 2014 season will be a mix of Olympic distance and 70.3 races.
"I'll be doing be quite a few ITU World Series races, Glasgow Commonwealth games, and also hoping to qualify for IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships and finish the season back in Australia with the Nepean and Noosa triathlons," she said.
Moffatt is looking forward to racing in Geelong, and in the future expects to make a permanent move into the longer form of the sport.
"It's been months since I've raced so it will be good to blow the cob webs out. Geelong is a great venue for the race, last year I thought 90km on the bike would feel like forever, but the multi loop course goes relatively fast and the two loop run has a lot of variety which mentally makes it easier," she said.
"I think there comes a time in your career where you need a change, both physically and mentally. So the natural progression seems to be to go longer. It's still extremely hard training, but maybe less intense compared to Olympic distance. Also, athletes are able to have more freedom in the races they choose!
Have you seen the destinations Courtney (Atkinson) races in? I wish ITU choose some of the islands he goes too."
IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong is part of the Geelong Multi Sport Festival, held from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 February 2014.
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The unique virtual address Las Vegas is probably to make your organization look committed to making that kind of investment and the impression of the office can send an optimistic message to clients. Moreover, a virtual office provides for to the public the address for websites and for billing and correspondence.
- Assistance on the Floor
Most likely you tour for enterprise, are not in Las Vegas, yet require ongoing assistance to accept mail and documents on your behalf. With a virtual address Las Vegas, your letters may be acquired, confidentially scanned and forwarded to your email, or request they be physically dispatched to your particular address.
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Image is everything, especially in a new economic system like Las Vegas where even well-known manufacturers haven't any legacy to travel on and reputation wants building from scratch. Having an address in the business hub and in a new office tower reveals standing and success at a glance. Chances abound even for small firms to leverage from their enterprise cards and websites.
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As any entrepreneur knows, starting a good business means being everywhere simultaneously and sporting at the very least 10 different hats. Virtual addresses have automated systems and a crew of assistants accountable for receiving calls, mail, scanning and sending them to receivers, and even corresponding with clients on your behalf. With a virtual address Las Vegas, you stay focused on key issues as the administration appears to look after itself.
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With regard to finalizing the offers, you will need to sit down with clients to discuss issues or evaluate plans. Welcoming a client or enterprise partner to a café just would not have the same impression as an authority reception, business aid services and a confidential meeting room. With a virtual workplace arrangement, this comes with no cost that will break a small company budget, yet exudes professionalism, dedication and success.
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When the public is trying to get in on the motion of the world's evolving financial system, it would not take much for a curious competitor to trace you down. A digital address brings privacy and confidentiality to your business dealings, without overheard conversations in coffee retailers.
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Virtual offices remove the headache of administration tasks for mail, signing for important authorized document delivery or accept that necessary package with tools you need. You can be travelling on business, in meetings and focusing on growing your empire while a gaggle of men and women at your virtual address are ensuring your packages are signed and you are notified when something arrives. Taking the worries off your shoulders, an email alert will keep you up to date.
A virtual address Las Vegas allows you to work wherever you like while still delivering the professional effect that committed businesses require. A virtual receptionist and use of meeting rooms means that you'll have the flexibility to address purchasers without the overheads of a lasting office.


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April 5, 2017
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Huntington councilwoman Susan Berland has reignited controversy that surrounded Northport-based Cow Harbor Warriors in recent years. Citing new county legislation that requires financial disclosure by veterans organizations raising funds in Suffolk, Berland abstained from a vote Tuesday to grant the group permission to use a Town park for a fundraising event, stating she will not support the veterans organization until it turns over financial documents required by that law.
Cow Harbor Warriors president Don McKay maintains his group is following all aspects of the county's fundraising laws pertaining to veterans, and is unclear what sparked Berland's concerns.
The councilwoman's declaration renewed controversy that dogged the Cow Harbor Warriors after its inaugural fundraising effort in 2012. Cow Harbor Warriors aims to fulfill a mission of honoring and enabling wounded warriors from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Its request to use Crab Meadow Beach on Sept. 12 for a four-mile run as part of their third annual Wounded Warriors weekend in Northport was approved by the four remaining board members.
The weekend is the group's primary fundraising vehicle. The 2014 event generated $75,000, which was to be divvied up amongst the Northport VA Medical Center, the Semper Fi Fund and Paws of War.
But Berland said she wants more financial documents before she'll vote in favor of giving the Cow Harbor Warriors town permits.
"It's premature for us to granting anything to any veterans organization until they comply with the new Suffolk County regulations," she said.
The legislation, sponsored by Legislator William Spencer (D-Centerport) and approved March 3, 2015, requires veterans agencies to report the amount and percentage of funds raised that were spent to support local veterans agencies and their families.
The legislation also prohibits any person soliciting funds for a nonprofit veterans agency to "fraudulently misrepresent" their record of military service, and allows the county to demand proof of service.
Berland said she requested those documents from Cow Harbor Warriors leadership during a meeting last year, and has yet to receive them.
McKay, who was present at Tuesday's board meeting, said financial documents will be filed with the county by its April 1 deadline to renew their veterans fundraising permit.
The organization supports Spencer's legislation, McKay added, and received a fundraising permit in November 2013.
"If she has any questions or concerns, I'd be more than happy to meet with her and other members of our board and discuss them with her," McKay said. "We have nothing to hide. We are in full compliance and we are looking forward to continuing to raise funds to support veterans causes."


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Today we went on an exciting adventure to the above named cave - I'm afraid I've already forgotten what it means - something about caves and stone or somesuch. After a 40 odd minute trek through the jungle, including wading across a river three times (the same river, strangely) we arrived at the cave entrance which is guarded by a pool of beautiful blue water (oh dear, I sound like a travel brochure!). To enter the cave we had to swim across to some rocks at the back of the entrance.
We then walked for another forty minutes through an underground river which varied in depth from ankle height to neck level - all very exciting. What made it more spectacular were the hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites, along with my favourites - the glittering crystal limestone - so sparkly. The whole place is a geologist's heaven.
In actual fact, caves are regarded by the Mayans as entrances to the underworld where spirits and the gods live, and therefore they have a huge significance in the Mayan culture - before entering caves, and this one in particular, they would spend months gearing themselves up mentally, physically and spiritually (we only had about 12 hours to prepare unfortunately).
Archaeologists started exploring the cave about 20 years ago and have left almost all the artefacts as they found them. These include lots of clay pots which probably contained grain, water and blood as offerings to the gods. They also found the remains of 15 human skeletons all of which have signs that they were killed as sacrifices - probably to the god of rain during a drought that is thought to have significantly impacted on the Mayans about 200o years ago (but don't quote me on that). Some of the sacrifices were children and babies, although we didn't see these. There is still one skeleton completely intact - that of a girl aged between 18-22 - she's in an odd pose, and it's very strange looking at these remains knowing that this was once a living person - it all seems a bit surreal to be honest, especially since there are none of the usual barriers or glass cases separating the tourists from the history - all very interesting.
Enough of the history lesson - to enter the large cavern part of the cave we had to climb up onto a ledge and remove our shoes and walk around in socks to help ensure we didn't accidentally damage anything. The huge expanse of the cavern was amazing - full of stalagmites, stalactites and glitter - the sights were helped a lot by our guide's powerful torch, although at one point we turned off all our lights and sat in complete darkness for a couple of minutes - I'm not sure if I've ever experienced such pitch black before - a strange sensation.
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Ellen and Bryan Sharp | September 1, 2012 | Photography by Kemper Mills Fant Photography
Ellen "Ellie" Loveman and Bryan Sharp met through mutual friends when Ellie was on a visit to East Texas. One special weekend Bryan led Ellie into the backyard where he had recreated on of their most memorable past times and he got down on one knee as he asked Ellie to marry him. The Blur Ridge Mountains created a natural beauty as the couple said their vows. Tying the day together with personal touches friends and family all lended a helping hand to making the day all the more special.
To read more about their love story and see more photos, pick up a copy of bridebook (on newsstands now) and flip to page 58!
Photography: Kemper Mills Fant Photography
DRESS Priscilla of Boston
FLORIST George's Flowers and Glories of the Sun Bouquets
CAKE Evie's Wildflour Wedding Cakes
VENUE Santillane
CATERER Lib & Amy Catering and Chef's Catering
JEWELRY Zadok Jewelers and Tiffany & Co.
ENTERTAINMENT Windfall
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Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist. She explores the figure, the inner & outer landscape, and culture as sites of re-imagination & possibility. She works with images, objects, sound, space, the body, and language.She was born in 1987 in Nashville, TN to a Liberian mother and Kenyan father. Based in NYC, she has exhibited and/or performed her work in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, and Liberia, and her work is included in the Art-in-Embassies public collection in Monrovia, Liberia, in an Art Connects NY public collection in Queens, NY, and in private collections.She received a BA in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College in 2010 and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College in 2016. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Bag Factory (Johannesburg, South Africa), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Beta-Local (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Greatmore Studios (Cape Town, South Africa), IAAB (Basel, Switzerland), Flux Factory (NYC), and the SOMA Summer program (Mexico City, Mexico). Additional awards include a NY Community Trust Foundation Fellowship, the Kossak Travel Grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Recent exhibition sites of her work include the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY), Aljira Center for Contemporary Art (NJ), and the FNB Joburg Art Fair (SA).
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Dawoud Bey: Harlem, USA and Harlem Redux
January 13 - April 11, 2018
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Bey's exploration of everyday urban life early in his career became his landmark Harlem, USA series, which premiered at the Studio Museum of Harlem in 1979 when he was just 26. Harlem Redux marks Bey's return to the community 35 years later. The series comprises large-format color photos reflecting the transition of the celebrated community as it becomes more gentrified and its history more diverse. This exhibition represents the first showing of the two Bey series side by side.
Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) began making photographs at age 16, after seeing the work of James Van Der Zee, who spent decades chronicling the people of Harlem. It was the elder photographer's Harlem on My Mind exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that inspired Bey's understanding that the black community could be the subject of a museum exhibition.
Bey began traveling from his home in Queens to explore the neighborhood that held such history for the country, for black people, and for his family, recalling that his parents had met and lived in Harlem, and family trips there had fascinated him. He became enamored with the vibrancy of Harlem and sought to capture the unique rhythms of life there in his pictures.
While Harlem, USA consists of grayscale portraits and street scenes, Harlem Redux focuses on the architecture and changing landscape of Harlem with an eye on the effects of gentrification, using large-format color photography to capture a community that Bey has said he felt was losing some of its identity and growing more generic.
As both James Van Der Zee and Bey gave voice to a marginalized community and fought the stereotypes of black life, the KIA exhibition will include images from the KIA holdings of 19 James Van Der Zee photographs, dating between 1900 and 1940.
Dawoud Bey holds an MFA in photography from Yale University and is a professor of art at Columbia College, Chicago, where he has taught since 1998. His work has been exhibited worldwide at institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bey is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in October 2017, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
The Harlem, USA portion of this exhibition project is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. The Harlem Redux series of photographs is provided with the assistance of Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.
The exhibition is supported by James and Lois Richmond, a legacy gift from David & Muriel Gregg, and
Above: Artist's photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Top: Dawoud Bey, Clothes and Bag for Sale (from Harlem Redux), 1978, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist
Above right: Dawoud Bey, A Woman at a Parade (from Harlem USA), 1977, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
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More about the artist
Born in New York City, Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, Harlem, USA, that was exhibited in his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had exhibitions worldwide, at institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
His photographs are in numerous collections in this country and abroad. The Walker Art Center organized a mid-career survey of his work, Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995, that traveled throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication of the same title was also published in conjunction with that exhibition.
Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey was published by Aperture in 2007. Aperture also traveled that exhibition to various museums around the country through 2011. Harlem, USA was published by Yale University Press in May 2012, in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago, where the work was exhibited in its entirety for the first time since it was shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. Bey's critical writings on photography and contemporary art have appeared in numerous publications and exhibition catalogs.
Bey's recent work includes Birmingham: Four Girls and Two Boys, a project that features photographic pairings that freshly frame the tragic events surrounding the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The project presents portraits of citizens of contemporary Birmingham; it offers children the same ages as those who died, coupled with adults who are the ages the children would have reached had they lived. The museum published a catalogue, The Birmingham Project, in 2013.


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Comics from the 19th to the 21st Century: an Interview with Jared Gardner (Part One)/
Jared Gardner's Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling was the first book I read in 2012 and it was the ideal choice. Gardner makes an incredibly valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship within comic studies, tracing the history of American comics, from the early comic strips at the dawn of the 20th century, through new digital manifestations of sequential art, at the dawn of the 21st century. Projections combines critical analysis of key comics texts with close engagements with the history of their production and reception, making significant new discoveries around figures and events we thought we already knew, and expanding in important ways the canon of which comics justify our research. There are two elements here which are close to my own heart: First, the degree to which Gardner consistently understands comics as a medium (not a genre) and one which has to be understood comparatively in relation to the other modes of communication at the same time, so comics are discussed in relation to photography, cinema, television, newspapers, books, games, and other digital media, and we remain attentive to patterns of cross-influence across their history.
Second, Gardner makes some significant discoveries about the role of comic fans at key junctures in the evolution of the medium which help flesh out forgotten chapters in the history of participatory culture. His chapter on comics in the context of collector culture touches on some of the same authors and themes I want to explore in my own book project on comics and material culture, so I was delighted to have someone with whom I could bounce some of my ideas about retroconsumption against.
In the following interview, we discuss the relations of comics to other media and the role of fans and collectors in comics history, among a range of other topics. This was an interview I had to do. I kept jotting down questions as I read the book, eager to engage with the author, who surprisingly I did not know, and learn more about the thinking which guided this project. I hope you will enjoy his thinking as much as I have.
The book's subtitle, "the history of 21st Century storytelling," frames your account of the evolutions of comics as a medium in relation to the present moment, which you characterize in the book's conclusion as one of convergence and transformation. In what sense do you see comics as "21st century storytelling"? Is it possible that comics were also embodiments of 19th and 20th century storytelling at other moments of their evolution?
Absolutely! The title is in part an an appeal to scholars interested in narrative and media to take comics seriously as providing a century long history of engaging with transmedial and multimodal storytelling. Narrative theory has become increasingly interested in comics, particularly for the ways in which it complicates its traditionally text-based models and theories; but for media theorists comics often look decidedly "old media"--associated with forms (illustrated magazines, comic books, newspapers) that seem firmly rooted in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It is in fact precisely the adaptability of sequential comics since its full development in the late nineteenth century that has contributed to some degree to this association. Sequential comics first developed in the pages of illustrated magazines in the U.S. & Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. By the end of the century, the illustrated magazine was largely cannibalized by the Sunday newspaper supplement as pioneered by publishers like Pulitzer and Hearst, and as cartoonists moved over to this new venue their work was shaped by the new affordances of the weekly newspaper supplement: color, seriality, a larger and more cacophonous frame within which to tell their stories. As adventure comics in particular began to move into a new format in the 1930s--what would come to be called the comic book--the form again adapted, changing the ways in which it engaged with readers, told its stories, and explored the relationship between text & image, panel and page. So, as you say, comics have always found ways to adapt new media environments and to explore the possibilities of what we might somewhat anachronistically call an interactive, multimodal approach to storytelling from the 19th century on. One of the interesting questions with which I conclude is why, given this history, comics has been so very slow to adapt itself to digital environments in the 21st century.
Your conclusion really describes a crisis in the state of the medium, as comics may evolve away from printed form and become part of the digital landscape. What factors do you see speeding or slowing the dissolution of comics as a print based medium?
I do think comics as a medium are at a crossroads, but I am optimistic that comics will survive the translation into digital forms of production, distribution, and consumption--although what emerges on the other end will likely look as different from the comic book or graphic novel as the comics in the 19th-century illustrated magazine do when compared to those found in the Sunday newspaper supplement. So I guess I would not describe it as a crisis, but I do think that it is time for the best creators working in the form to step up and take more creative risks--and for some brave publishers to give them a safety net.
My biggest concern--and I have written about this probably too much in other venues--is that people involved in comics are understandably overwhelmed by the dramatic contractions of the traditional print mediums in which they have long worked and end up retreating into a kind of elitist stance, making expensive "art books" for an increasingly smaller, older and wealthier audience. That truly would be a crisis for comics, which is why I get anxious when I see, for instance, alternative cartoonists abandoning the traditional "floppy" comic book not for new digital platforms and possibilities, but for $20 hardcover comic books that have no hopes of bringing new readers and communities to comics.
But, I also understand the reluctance of comics creators--especially those who are established--to turn to new media platforms with their work. There are so few working models out there that demonstrate that comics creators, historically among the most exploited and underpaid of our modern storytellers, can hope to receive remuneration for their work on the internet. The big mainstream companies--especially DC and Marvel--are exploring digital distribution models both for the iPad and for personal computers, but for the most part these are simply bland digitizations of traditional comic books. And there is every reason to suspect that these digital comics will continue to diminish the viability of traditional comics stores and the communities they have enabled for the past forty years.
Don't get me wrong. I don't believe in the long run that the traditional comics store can or will survive the next twenty years, again with the exception of some well-placed boutiques. But as we see the loss of serial comics books and comic book shops, we see the loss as well of the spaces and the places for collaborative interpretation and shared ownership that is very much at the heart of comics. Certainly, this should be something the internet can find a way to replace, but I am not convinced that Disney (Marvel) or Time Warner (DC) have much interest in nourishing collaborative readers with a sense of shared ownership in their serial narratives. Which is why I don't believe, no matter how much revenue the big companies are ultimately able to move through digital distribution networks (and so far the jury is out whether they can make much at all), that the model represented by platforms such as Comixology on the iPad or Marvel's Digital Comics for the PC is one in which comics will thrive and grow as a form.
What we need are more creators ready to bring their best work to the internet in order to explore the possibilities of the digital environment: comics that break free from the limitations of the printed page--rolling out into an infinite ribbon or inviting new modes of navigation that open up the page to exploration in new dimensions and directions. But we also need new publishers ready to come in and create a place and a business model where this kind of experimentation can be rewarded and find new readers and new investments. Disney and Time Warner already largely see the comic book part of their business empires as loss leaders or promotional tie-ins for their Hollywood enterprises. We need instead a 21st-century Pulitzer or Donenfeld to imagine the business of digital comics in which a 21st-century George Herriman or Siegel & Shuster can thrive.
As you note, comics have never exerted so great an influence over the media landscape as they do at the present moment, yet they have rarely seemed so marginal as a medium in their own right.
In truth, in some way comics have less influence today than they have in the past century, despite their surprising visibility. Comics sales are down by any measure in almost every corner of the industry and the notion of a "comics scare" of the kind the nation experienced in the early 1950s is truly unimaginable today. The marketing and merchandizing of comics properties is up, of course, making a very few people wealthy and successful, but little in the vast majority of adaptations of comics on film suggests that Hollywood has any interest in learning from comics in terms of how comics have historically told stories and engaged with readers.
For better or worse, the current love affair between Hollywood and comics will likely cool, perhaps with this year's Avengers, which has so much money riding on it at a time when audiences and critics are growing restless with the decade-long tide of comics movies that it seems almost doomed from the start (then again, I loudly proclaimed the iPhone was going to be a flop, so I would not trust my powers of prognostication). And Hollywood has its own crisis to face, one which it has been kicking down the 3-D road for the past few years.
So while I am truly happy for any cartoonist who secures a retirement from a movie deal, outside of the success of scattered individuals I don't believe the future of comics lies with Hollywood. But they may belong with film. Independent films like American Splendor and even the rare Hollywood production like Scott Pilgrim point to the possibilities of comics and film listening to and learning from each other in ways they have not since their shared origins more than a century ago, but Scot Pilgrim of course was accounted a failure by any Hollywood metric. The best hope for comics and film going forward is to create new sites of convergence where creative success and the bottom line will be measured outside of the blackbox accounting of Hollywood.
You describe in your Coda the shifts which have occurred in film viewing as a result of having ready access to a digital archive of favorite films which we can watch and manipulate as we choose. This access to comics starts earlier, yet there has also been a dramatic increase in comics reprints over the past few years. How has this effort to preserve and represent early comics influenced your decisions about where to place emphasis in this book?
I don't think this book would have made any sense to write had it not been for what we affectionately call the golden age of comics reprints, a period of publishing that has seen long-lost newspaper comics and comic books returned to print. I am fortunate to have daily access to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum here at Ohio State, but until recently without such privileged access extensive reading in historical comics was virtually impossible. Of the comics I focus on extensively in the early chapters in the book--Happy Hooligan, Mutt & Jeff, Krazy Kat, Superman, Spider-man, R. Crumb's underground comix, etc.--almost all are now available in accessible reprint editions. The big exceptions here were Sidney Smith's The Gumps and Ed Wheelan's Minute Movies, pioneering serial strips from the 1920s, but I am now working with the Library of American Comics to get one and possibly both into an affordable reprint edition in the near future. Of course, this "golden age" will end long before we recover all of our lost comics history. In the long run, what we really need is a vast digital comics archive of the kind that licensing and copyright laws makes sadly impossible to imagine at the moment.
There has been an ongoing debate between film studies and comics scholars about how much early comics influenced early cinema. How do you characterize the initial relations between these two mass media, which gained public visibility at roughly the same cultural moment?
In the end, though, I see less evidence than do others of clear influence on the level of the fundamental grammar. Cartoonists and filmmakers ultimately learned to tell stories in unique ways as they explored the unique affordances of their respective media. But there is little question that comics helped provide early film with both a model of "celebrity" with the remarkable national success of early comic strip characters such as Happy Hooligan and Buster Brown and with a clear model for how graphic narrative could provide an opportunity to make knowable the often overwhelming experience of modernity.
As I argue, however, there were ultimately lots of reasons--both economic and formal--for film to go its own separate way very early, and it did. Despite their shared origins, comics and film ultimately did not interact a tremendous amount for much of the twentieth century, all of which makes their convergence in the beginning of this century more interesting--especially as that convergence has extended well into its second decade now, a lifetime in term of the half-life of Hollywood film genres.
Jared Gardner is professor of English and film at the Ohio State University, where he also coordinates the popular culture studies program. In addition to Projections, he is the author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature (1998) and The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (2012). He blogs (far too irregularly) for The Comics Journal and Huffington Post.


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Are Drugs Good For Olympic Athletes?
There has been sufficient debate regarding the use of drugs when it comes to athletes. A lot of athletes have been thrown out of the Olympics for testing positive for THC metabolites. However the argument comes in when supporters bring forth evidence that the use of such drugs is better than consuming alcohol, keeping in mind their long term effects on the human body. Since it is the physical and mental health that is most important for athletes, why should they be banned if they are consuming a drug that protects their health from harm? If you think of this issue from this retrospect, then throwing players out of tournaments and competitions just because of drug use is highly unreasonable and unfair.
Another ground breaking news that might stir up conspiracy is the fact that a past marijuana user has now become the owner of the most Olympic medals in history, making a world record. So why is it that a past marijuana user has become one of the best athletes in the world? Isn't marijuana supposed to deter the spirit and performance level of athletes? Then why is it that officials throw off any athletes that are involved in use of such substances? Michael Phelps isn't the only athlete that has been ashamed and exposed to humiliation over a small matter of using drugs. Other athletes include Nick Diaz and Stephaney Lee who were not allowed to compete in their sports after they failed to pass THC test.
So why is it that athletes aren't given the benefit of the doubt and are kicked off due to conservative policies brought forward by conservative officials? It is high time for someone to make changes and allow athletes to go for a safer option in order to relax rather than to damage their liver and body by consuming alcohol.


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Faculty Notes
Published on March 12, 2015 | by LawNews
Prof. Ronald Colombo's The First Amendment and the Business Corporation Selected by Book Club
The First Amendment and the Business Corporation (Oxford University Press 2014) by Ronald J. Colombo, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law, was the spring semester selection of the Business Ethics Book Club, an online book club composed of corporate law professors from across the United States and Canada.
On March 6, 2015, via Skype, Prof. Colombo discussed his book with the book club's members.
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Today is my birthday. My 28th Birthday. I guess I can no longer say that I am in mid-twenties. I have moved to the dreadful late-twenties and 30 is just around the corner (shudders).
I don't like to make a big deal on my birthday, so we try to keep it low-key. Tonight, the hubster and I are shipping E off to my parents so that we can have a night out. We are starting with dinner at Maggiano's and then we are going to see a movie. Still don't know which one we are going to see. Maybe "Valentine's Day".
The birthday celebration doesn't end there. The hubster invited everyone over on Sunday (Valentine's Day) for lunch and cake. So that means, I will spend Saturday running around like a mad woman, cleaning (hiding the mess), and figuring out what we are going to feed everyone.
The bright side to the weekend? It's a 3 day weekend!


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[JURIST] Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich [JURIST news archive], his brother Robert Blagojevich, and four associates were indicted [press release] on corruption charges Thursday by a federal grand jury. Rod Blagojevich was charged with 16 felonies including wire fraud, attempted extortion, racketeering conspiracy, extortion conspiracy, and making false statements. Others indicted include Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris, former general counsel and campaign fund chairman Alonzo Monk, campaign fundraiser and former fund chairman Christopher Kelly, and fundraiser William Cellini. In addition to prior charges, the indictment alleges that the suspects systematically planned to use Blagojevich's office for their own gain:
[B]eginning in 2002 and continuing after Blagojevich was first elected governor, Blagojevich and Monk, along with Kelly and previously convicted co-schemer Antoin Tony Rezko, agreed that they would use the offices of governor and chief of staff for financial gain, which would be divided among them with the understanding that the money would be distributed afterThe indictment also alleges that Blagojevich lied to federal agents about his knowledge of campaign contributors and delayed a grant to a publicly-supported school while trying to "leverage a U.S. Congressman, who supported the school, or the Congressmans brother, to hold a campaign fundraiser for Blagojevich."
Blagojevich left public office;
[I]n 2003, Blagojevich, Monk, Kelly, Rezko and other co-schemers implemented this agreement by directing lucrative state business relating to the refinancing of billions of dollars in State of Illinois Pension Obligation Bonds to a company whose lobbyist agreed to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Rezko out of the fee the lobbyist would collect, and Rezko in turn agreed to split the money with Blagojevich, Monk and Kelly...
In January, the Illinois State Senate voted unanimously [JURIST report] to convict Blagojevich of abuse of power and remove him from office. Blagojevich is the first Illinois governor to be impeached and removed from office. Blagojevich had boycotted [JURIST report] the impeachment proceedings against him, appearing only at the end of the Senate hearings to make a final plea to remain in office. Blagojevich and Harris were initially arrested [JURIST report] in December.


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GAME MISCONDUCT: The Baltimore Banners Book 11
Corbin Gauthier never expected to play with the Baltimore Banners again, not when he'd been traded away in the league expansion eight years ago. Yet here he was, three teams and a lifetime later, back where he started as the hockey team's goalie. And back to the one woman he's never been able to forget—the one woman who is completely off-limits.
Lori Evans isn't the same young girl she'd been all those years ago when she first met the shy goalie. She's older now, more mature and confident, with her feet planted firmly on the ground. Or so she thinks until Corbin shows back up. He's not the same young man she's dreamt of all these years: a little harder, more jaded, more cynical…and more tempting than ever. And he's just as off-limits as before, maybe even more since her uncle is now the head coach for the Baltimore Banners.
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How it Works
Email me. Tell me about your idea, your aims, goals and aspirations and any details you have about timeline and budget.
I'll get back to you super quick and we can get started.
What I Do
I've worked with startups all over the world helping them ship amazing apps that are beautiful and easy to use. I help clients take their ideas and turn them into shipped products. You can view a few of the projects I have worked on here.
If your product requires more than iOS development, for example; design, backend development, or a website, I can put a team together and project manage the release.
Q: What kind of clients do you prefer?
A: I've worked with tiny startups and Fortune 500's. I'm looking for clients who really believe in their product, are great communicators and really want to build something amazing together.
Q: How much does it cost?
A: The cost of a project can range from £10,000 to £100,000+, it greatly depends on the size and complexity of the project. To give you a very rough idea, a small project will be around £15,000, a medium project will be around £40,000 and a larger project £70,000+.
Q: Do you work for a fixed price?
A: Yes! If it works for the type of project then this is actually how I prefer to work. That way there's no surprises for anyone.
Q: Do you work for equity?
A: I never work for just equity however if the stars align correctly I do do part equity and part cash projects.
Q: What happens after the project is finished?
A: Once your project is finished you won't be left alone. I prefer to build a long term relationship with my clients and continue to help them develop and perfect their product or assist them in hiring an in-house team.
All retainers include a short monthly report detailing; results, issues and suggestions.


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Fast. Easy.
Final Tiles Gallery is one of the most used gallery plugin for professional photography.
With this plugin creating a gallery is a fast and easy process. Final Tiles Gallery can be used to make a unique grid layout, while all other galleries have similar layouts: images with same size and same aspect ratio. Final Tiles Gallery is completely different.
With this plugin you are totally free to build a layout as you need. You can mix different sizes and aspect ratio within the same gallery.
The 4 steps wizard
1. Install plugin
Making a new gallery for WordPress has never been so easy and fast.
I've created an handy wizard that let you build a gallery in just 4 steps. After you made your gallery you are free to use it with its default settings or you can customise every aspect and functionality.
- Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Plugins > Add new
- Click Upload plugin
- Click Choose file and select final-tiles-gallery.zip then click Install now
- Click Activate
2. Create a gallery
After installing the plugin you'll see a new entry in the side menu. Click the new entry with label Final Tiles Gallery.
You're now on Final Tiles Gallery dashboard, you'll find here all the galleries you'll create. Click Add gallery on the side menu.
Here is the fast 4-steps wizard, it will guide you through the whole process. In the first step you can give a name to your gallery and also set the size of the gallery.
3. Add your images
You can directly upload images from the WordPress media panel or you can select the images you already have uploaded.
4. Paste shortcode!
Once you have named your gallery, added images, and selected the captions options you can finally copy the shortcode and paste it anywhere!
2 available layouts: Classic Masonry or Flexible Grid
Embed video amongst your images and create a truly interactive portfolio. You can use videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia and any other source with iframe embed code.
Final Tiles Gallery includes 7 different lightboxes to let users see large versions of your images
Give your galleries a special and contemporary touch. You can tune your own hover effect.
Assign one or more filters on each image. This is useful when you have many images of different categories in the same gallery.
Final Tiles Gallery offers a fast wizard to create new galleries but you're free to tune every aspect of your gallery, from image sizes to personalised hover effects.
You can group images in order to make albums. For example, after you click an image you can view in lightbox only the images of the same group.
Plugin code is optimized to be SEO friendly provinding all informations required by search engines in order to index your site and your images.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work on smartphones and tablets?
Does it work with my theme?
We abviously can't test any theme in the world, but Final Tiles Gallery is currently active on about 15,000 websites, so we are 99,99% sure it's compatible with your theme. If not, we'll fix it!


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STYLE: Live Action/2D Animation
GENRE: Pre-School
TARGET AGE: Preschool
LENGTH: 20 x 2 minutes
STATUS: S 1 available now - S 2 in production
Play along and guess with Quizzine! A series where fun clues are given to kids to describe a fruit or vegetable, until they can figure out what it is.
When the answer is revealed, a fun easy snack is shown which kids can create and enjoy with their parents. The Quizzine Web Site will feature the fruit or vegetable with fun recipes along with games and quizzes. Quizzine inspires children to explore culinary diversity, discover new foods and create an appetite for healthy and fun eating through laughter and appetizing imagery. It's a quiz on the cuisine!
Quizzine Productions 1 Inc. in association with Cheshire Smile Animation Inc., Image In and Bejuba! Entertainment
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Bunosilo: Slow Fashion Made-To-Order, Made For You
Remember when your parent would write your name on the tag of your clothes when you were a kid? It signified both that that item was yours and that you didn't want to lose it because Rainbow Brite shirts don't grow on trees and you won't be getting another one. As we get older, we stop marking our names onto our clothing and, if we follow the natural progression of Western consumerism, it becomes more ephemeral. Why would you put your name on something that will go out of style faster than a Hypercolor t-shirt?
When I received a shirt gratis from Bunosilo, an ethical and sustainable clothier, I was surprised to find my name stitched into the tag. Thinking it was a special addition since I would be writing about them, I inquired and found that it is, in fact, a part of their regular production. Sewing names on garments is done in the tradition of large Indian households where it was once a mode of identification. Bunosilo believes that this simple act creates a sense of belongingness and attachment towards the garment and the artisans who created it. I was so touched by the gesture that I wore mine inside out for Fashion Revolution Day so everyone could see the tag.
Bunosilo's made-to-order garments are handcrafted in India and treated as works of art that narrate the story of traditional Indian techniques like hand woven Khadi fabric. Garments are made from handloomed or recycled fabrics and may feature hand printed patterns, natural dyes, or traditional embroidery; natural materials are sourced locally to minimize environmental impact. Their prices are higher than fast fashion, but very reasonable considering the handmade quality. Bunosilo works directly with suppliers and consumers, cutting out middlemen to keep costs down while maintaining fair wages for employees.
The artisans employed by Bunosilo are valued for their work and craft, and each garment reflects their passion and skill. For Khadi fabrics (like that of my linen shirt), Bunosilo often partners with Women Weave, a charitable trust making handloom work profitable, sustainable, and dignified employment for women in rural areas of India. I truly appreciate the craftsmanship of my shirt—machine manufacturing could not replicate the quality and character of the woven material and stitching. And it's got my name in it, so it's not going anywhere for a long time.
Below are some of my favorite pieces from Bunosilo. Shop more handmade garments on their website (they carry men's, women's and children's).


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Help Us Impact the Lives of Seniors
Volunteerism is a key component to life at New Perspective. Whether its residents living in our community reaching out with service projects or volunteers coming into our community, we have volunteer opportunities for all ages. Yet, with the busy lives we lead, the thought of volunteering might seem overwhelming. It's easy to understand the positive impact volunteers have on others, but we don't often consider the impact it has on us. We often find our volunteers come away richly rewarded after reaching out and making a difference in someone's life.
Volunteering. It does your body good.
Did you know there are health benefits to volunteering? In a recent government study, senior volunteers experience positive physical and psychological health benefits, including lower rates of depression and other diseases. So come and join us as a volunteer. It will do your body good. Contact the Executive Director at any of our communities for more information.
A Sampling of Volunteer Opportunities
- Activity volunteers
- Entertainers
- Musicians
- Walking club coordinators
- Bible study leaders
- Friendly presence
- Readers
- Card players
- Magicians
- Artist-in-Residence
- Intercultural studies
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Howling Tongues
Howling Tongues
Origin: Kennesaw, GA
Genres: rip roarin' garage rock & roll, Rock
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THE NEW ALBUM is BOO HISS
Heavily influenced by classic garage rock bands like The Stooges, Big Star, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Kinks, The Howling Tongues, featuring Davey Rockett (Vocals), Nick Magliochetti (Guitars), Thomas Wainwright (Keys), Brandon Witcher (Bass), and drummer Tylor James, demoed 30 songs at their home studio before holing up at The Quarry in Kennesaw, GA, for nine days, to live-track and record the album.
The resulting decimation is soaked with reverberation amplification, kick drum detonations, fuzzy tone overload, over-driven organ, and raspy vocal incantations, making BOO HISS a can't miss pièce de résistance. Within the first 8 bars of lead track "Raw Power in a Red Dress," a brazen bastard stepchild of The Stooges "Raw Power" and The Hollies "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)," one realizes that The Howling Tongues are a performance enhancing drug ready to sweep your worries under the rug. Bottoms up.
Co-produced with T.J. Elias (Blackberry Smoke, Walk The Moon, Third Day), and Michael Bragg, the 9-song album was mastered by Greg Calbi (Ramones, Alabama Shakes, Bon Iver) at Sterling Sound in NYC. Ryan Smith (AC/DC, Allman Bros, Aerosmith), also at Sterling, mastered the tracks for lacquer.
Whether on 150-gram vinyl, silver-spinning plastic orbs or via the ether of the internet, Hiss is sonic bliss. The Tongues inject a bluesy Southern flair on lead single "Vivian," channel melodic mid-tempo Foo Fighters on "Alone," effectuate the funky hip-swivel soul of Prince on "Greatest Lover Around," mash up the boogie-woogie bombast of The Who and Kings of Leon on "Crooked Eyes" and imbue the psychedelic elegy of Led Zeppelin "No Quarter" on the epic 7-minute "Belladonna." As its last eerie notes ring into the ecosphere, it becomes crystal clear, The Howling is near…rock'n'roll's Holy Ghost has re-appeared.
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When people look back on their lives, they often find that they are more successful than they thought they'd be, and have saved less than they intended. They find themselves in financial situations that are more complex and less predictable than they anticipated.
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SpinGo wants to handle every aspect of event creation and their plan starts with the launch of their newest platform, SpinGo Event Master.
The Draper-based company, which grew its revenue last year by 400 percent, connects event makers and producers with communities. In the past they've done this through their discovery platform and marketing strategies.
Today, they are taking it one step further. SpinGo Event Master is an all-in-one management platform that combines ticketing and scheduling solutions with management solutions for volunteers, contractors, special guests, panelists and more. Some of the features include RFID integration, interactive venue maps and event guides.


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We are delighted to reveal that our designs for a new house and refurbished steading on the shores of Loch Tummel have been granted Planning approval by Perth & Kinross Council. The council were highly supportive of the application to replace a rather tired and unspectacular farmhouse with an exceptional new home. We now look forward to progressing the scheme through technical design over the coming months.
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While the media panicked over the halting of NASDAQ stock trading due to a reported bug in the system (more on that shortly), one critical development went under-reported. In fact, it wasn't reported at all.
If the following from France's second largest newspaper Le Figaro is accurate, then we must assume that war is now a foregone conclusion.
While it is too early to rule out categorically the argument put forward by Damascus and Moscow, who blame the massacre on the Syrian opposition, it is already possible to provide answers to a troubling question. What benefit would have Assad to launch an unconventional attack at the precise moment when he had to allow UN inspectors – after being stranded for several months – to investigate the use of chemical weapons?
Operational logic first. According to information obtained byLe Figaro , the first trained in guerrilla warfare by the Americans in Jordan Syrian troops reportedly entered into action since mid-August in southern Syria, in the region of Deraa. A first group of 300 men, probably supported by Israeli and Jordanian commandos, as well as men of the CIA, had crossed the border on August 17. A second would have joined the 19. According to military sources, the Americans, who do not want to put troops on the Syrian soil or arming rebels in part controlled by radical Islamists form quietly for several months in a training camp set up at the border Jordanian- Syrian fighters ASL, the Free Syrian Army, handpicked.
Sense of impunity
As for the summer, their protection have begun to shake Syrian battalions in the south, approaching the capital. "Their thrust would now feel into the Ghouta, where formations of ASL were already at work, but really can make a difference on the outskirts of Damascus fortress," says David Rigoulet-Roze, a researcher at the French Institute for Strategic Analysis (IFAS).
According to this expert on the region, the idea proposed by Washington would be the possible establishment of a buffer zone from the south of Syria, or even a no-fly zone, which would cause opponents safely until the balance of power changes. This is the reason why the United States has deployed Patriot batteries and F16 in late June Jordan.
Military recent pressure against al-Ghouta threatens the capital Damascus, the heart of the Syrian regime. In July, the spokesman of President al-Assad had publicly stated that the scheme would not use chemical weapons in Syria "except in case of external aggression." The intrusion of foreign agents in the south, for example …
The other reason, if the army has actually committed a massacre in Damascus chemical is more diplomatic. Since August, 2012, when Barack Obama warned that the use of chemical weapons was a "red line" that, once crossed, could trigger a military intervention, thirteen smaller chemical attack have been identified without causing American reaction. Admittedly, the evidence is difficult to obtain, since Damascus routinely blocks the work of UN investigators. The sense of impunity felt by the Syrian regime is reinforced by the Russian protection afforded to the Security Council of the UN.Barack Obama, when he arrived at the White House, the Kremlin had proposed a "reset" of relations, not to break the link with Moscow. U.S. Chief of Staff, Martin Dempsey, the principal military adviser, justifies his opposition to intervention, even limited by the fragmentation of the Syrian opposition and the weight exerted by extremist groups.
What are the options?
If the Syrian regime is actually behind the chemical bombardment of Damascus, it will take a further degree is a conflict that has claimed more than 100,000 lives. "There is more of a small-scale test as before. Chemical weapons are now part of the war, where they play a deterrent role. This is a message to the Americans. It is also a challenge to Barack Obama, who risks losing its legitimacy with its allies in the world, "an expert analysis of the case.
Along with clandestine operations from Jordanian soil, the international community, as each time the crisis is reaching a peak, reconsider the various military options. Arming the rebels? "If we do one day we will not say," said a diplomatic source. Surgical air strikes? Possible, but the solution involves risk regionalization of the conflict. Special forces to secure and neutralize chemical weapons sites?Israel hit neighboring Syria repeatedly. But Western intelligence services did not want to risk that stocks of chemical weapons falling into the hands of jihadist groups. Last option, inaction. It is that which seems to have bet on Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
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Everyone wants to be the talk of the town – to be the centre of attention, even if it's just for a moment. But then you don't want to shout about it and be known as an attention seeker. So you decide to do something beyond the norm and get the people to talk about you. But how far would you go to achieve such a feat?
Ever since our encounter with Isetan The Japan Store, we see a trend rising through the seams. And it's pretty… outstanding, actually.
Isetan The Japan Store has been creating a buzz ever since it first opened in Kuala Lumpur. Imagine your friend asking you "Would you eat a 580 ringgit melon?" or "Would you sit on a sofa worth 42,400 ringgit?" We can only imagine the guilt a person would have after spilling some coke on said sofa.
And they are not alone in this buzz worthy bonanza.
Apple has been known to be innovators in technology. And now they've just released the latest, outstanding invention in the industry of technology: a coffee book worth 300 dollars. But it's not just any coffee book. It's a book of all the uniquely designed products they've sold throughout the years.
As you scroll… I mean, flip, through the book, you'll probably feel a certain air of familiarity as you'll remember using these products during your youthful years. Or maybe it was something you saw in your storeroom yesterday. Or maybe all you need to do is sit in your office and turn around… (We are guilty for that). But hey, Apple finally decided to exact revenge on IKEA's Book Book with an actual book. Hooray for them.
Back in 2014, this "party game for horrible people" introduced a very special deal on Black Friday. For only 6 dollars, you could own your very own, limited edition box of bulls**t.
People were uncertain to what Cards Against Humanity meant when they said bulls**t. And curiosity certainly got the best of them. 30,000 people spent their money to find out what was inside, maybe in hopes of stumbling upon a pot of gold.
But once they got home and opened the box, they find themselves staring at a piece of poop. So when they wrote "Bulls**t" on the packaging, they literally meant it.
Supreme is basically the king of being outstanding. Famous for selling clothes, yet they've sold some cool accessories for people to own. And if you think selling a brick for 30 dollars was the coolest thing they did, think again.
They've been selling outstanding accessories for a few years now. From crowbars to hammers and fire extinguishers; everything that has "some sort of illicit/underworld connotation having to do with violence or drugs," so says the author of Supremacist, David Shapiro, they probably have it in their catalogue.
Outstanding, outrageous, or maybe just downright outlandish. Call it what you want. But we think it's outstanding… really.
These products they've released have all created a buzz that caught people's attention. Whether they get people riled up or mesmerized, the product still managed to be the talk of the town. And the best part of it all, the advertising was done for you.
P.S. we just got news that MUJI is joining the fold, as they plan to sell huts for 3 to 5 million yen come 2017. Maybe if they named one of those huts "Jabba", they could probably sell it for double the amount. Just saying.
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