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Author Notes: I really like what goes on here. This is a cake where it is grated raw and then sauteed and finished in the oven. The interior is all potato but creamy, even the confit gets creamy. The top taste like the best French fry with crunchy bits of pork tucked in. The salad isn't a must but the vinegar and cabbage go great with the richness of the cake. One note, this is a quick method of making confit. Normally it would be salted and set to cure for a couple of days. This confit isn't meant to preserve the pork. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
Food52 Review: These sure are upscale potato pancakes! The pork confit is sublime, giving the potato cakes a richness that contrasts with the lightness of the wilted Napa cabbage and cress slaw. Made with a mandoline and formed in a ring mold as given these potato cakes have a very elegant presentation, but they do just as well grated on a box grater and fried free-form. I tried them both ways, and liked each: the former were more soft with less crunchy, the latter more crunchy with less soft. Be sure to pack the potato cakes lightly so they stay together when flipped. Serve them as a first course, or fry an egg in the hot pan for a nice supper. —SallyCan
Serves: 4
for the pork confit
ounces pork butt
onion, peeled, trimmed and julienned
garlic cloves, trimmed and peeled
thyme sprigs
bay leaves
whole black peppercorns
lard or non-flavored oil to cover, the smaller the pot the less oil you will need just don't pack in the pork and onions though give them some room
for the cakes and slaw
russet potatoes, smallish ones, you want about 4 cups of potatoes in the end
cup lard
cups napa cabbage, shaved, washed and dried
bunch water cress, washed and dried
cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
carrot, peeled and julienned
1 1/2
tablespoons sherry vinegar
1 1/2
teaspoons Dijon mustard
3 1/2
tablespoons walnut oil
tablespoon shallot, minced very finely
4 each
3 inch round and 2 inch deep ring molds
- Preheat the oven to 225 degrees. Place all the confit ingredients into a sauce pan. Pour in enough oil to cover the pork.
- Place the pan over medium heat. Once you see a few bubbles remove the pan and place it into the oven. Set a timer for two hours.
- At the end of two hours using a towel, remember the handle will be hot, remove the pan from the oven and check to see it the pork is tender. It should shred very easily. If it is tender place it back into the oil and set the pot aside to cool. This can be done up to 4 days in advance and store the pork by refrigerating it in confit oil to cover. When you are ready to make the cakes drain completely and shred the pork.
- Place the cabbage in a bowl and lightly season it with salt.
- In another bowl combine the mustard, sherry, walnut oil and shallot and season it with salt and pepper. Mix it to combine.
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees. Peel each potato. Using a mandoline, place over a clean towel and with the julienne blade in place, slice the potatoes into matchsticks letting them fall onto the towel. Pull the corners of the towel up into your hand and twist the towel so you have a potato ball at the end. Rinse the potatoes under cold running water and then squeeze out as much water as you can by twisting the towel making it get tighter and tighter on the potatoes. The rinsing step is important otherwise you potatoes will discolor before they finish cooking.
- Dump the potatoes into a bowl. Add the shredded pork confit and season the the mix with plenty of salt and pepper.
- Spread the lard over the bottom of a 12 inch non stick skillet. Grease the inside of each ring mold. Place the ring molds into the pan. Fill each mold with the potato pork mixuture.
- Place the pan over medium high heat and once the lard starts to sizzle reduce the heat to medium. Saute the cakes until they are golden brown. Carefully flip them with a spatula and then slide them into the oven for 25 minutes.
- When the cakes are close to being done combine the cabbage and cress with the dressing. Add the walnuts and the carrots, season with salt and pepper, and toss to mix with the dressing.
- Remove the cakes from the oven and place one to a plate. Using a dry towel remove the molds and serve with a side of slaw.
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I would hear from Honey once a year when she came to New York to go shopping at Bergdorf's and Saks and Barneys. She would insist on taking me to lunch at the Four Seasons, and I always accepted. The Four Seasons was not a restaurant that I normally patronized, even on my expense account, but I enjoyed observing many of New York's movers and shakers.
Honey's second marriage lasted five years. It was over when Honey shot and killed her husband in their Palm Beach bedroom. The ensuing trial made all of the papers, and was featured on "Entertainment Tonight" and "Extra." Her famous criminal defense attorney helped her negotiate the movie rights to her story, from which he would receive 50 percent of the proceeds. She had, so I was later told, also given him an attaché case containing hundreds of thousands of tax-free dollars. His fee. It would be deducted from the sale of the movie.
After a five-week trial covered by Court TV, she was acquitted. I had not attended the trial, but I had read the newspaper accounts of what transpired in the courtroom. Her husband had been a brute, frequently beating her, raping her, locking her in a closet or basement. She shot him in self-defense, in fear of her life. The jury bought it, and on the steps of the courthouse, Honey, dressed in black, as if in mourning, bowed her head and waved aside the reporters badgering her for a comment.
When it was all over, she emerged with even more money than she had before; she now owned three country homes, a yacht, a Maybach, and her dead husband's prized Maserati A6GS 2000. She employed a full-time publicist and a part-time bodyguard.
Three years later, after leaving a party in Westchester, she was speeding down the Saw Mill River Parkway in her Maserati. Drunk and somewhat high on coke and singing at the top of her lungs, she lost control of the car and slammed into a tree. The bridge of her nose snapped like a pretzel and her left cheekbone shattered. Six teeth were dislodged, two of which were driven into her lower lip. Police later estimated she had been going over 90 m.p.h., had not worn a seat belt, and had been severely inebriated.
After recuperating at New York Hospital from her injuries, she went to an exclusive clinic, where she had extensive reconstructive facial surgery. Following that, she rented a large suite at the Carlyle on Madison Avenue, where I visited her. I had not seen her for several years. She slowly opened the doors to her suite and hoarsely whispered, "Don't stand there looking dumbfounded. Come in. This is the same suite that Jack Kennedy used to screw his girlfriends in when Jackie was out of town."
Her face was still bruised and her nose was bandaged. Her lower lip was puffy. She was dressed in a gold lamé kimono and wore matching gold slippers with short black heels. She apparently had a face-lift to go along with the reconstructive surgery, and it left her tightly pulled skin looking like a waxed mask. It must have hurt her to smile, but she did so with only a minor wince and the twitch of her brow. Her hair was now auburn. Her eyes were bloodshot and her speech, either from the surgery or from alcohol, was slightly slurred and sibilant.
"I'm in pain all the time," she whispered, whereupon she popped a pair of pills into her mouth, then poured herself a generous glass of vodka and sipped it. "This helps, but not for long. I have to overdose myself to keep the pain under control. I know I look terrible, and the pills help me to forget."
She stumbled and carelessly fell back onto a large stuffed sofa. Seated, she gave me a crooked smile as if we had just shared some absurd joke. Now made voluble by drink and pills, she poured out a disjointed story of her life among celebrities and European royalty, and what she called "a bunch of shitty evil egomaniacs."
After two hours, she became drowsy, and fell in and out of sleep. I told her I thought I should go, and she muttered something unintelligible. I gently kissed her forehead and left her sleeping on the sofa.
I visited Honey a few more times, and each time felt that we had less and less to talk about. Our shared experiences were long behind us. I had already heard the stories of marriages, divorces, and affairs. There wasn't much else to talk about. Her dependence on alcohol and pills had come to dominate her days and nights. I was pained to hear her slurred speech and observe her trembling hands.
After a year, she managed to gain enough strength to leave New York for Monaco, where an estate agent had rented her a seaside villa. There, she was introduced to a handsome young man, an ersatz investment banker who claimed to be descended from one of the oldest and most prominent French families. He was her junior by many years and was artful in his abilities to flatter and amuse her.
She grew increasingly dependent on his attentions, and he manipulated her emotions like an unscrupulous therapist. He became her personal trainer, money manager, and motivational coach. Over the next five years, he siphoned millions of dollars out of her accounts, some of which went to support his young girlfriend and their child. When he had gotten all that he wanted from Honey, he quickly and silently departed. She threatened to sue him, to kill him, to castrate him, and finally begged him to return. He never did.
Honey stayed on in Monaco for several years. I received neither phone calls nor e-mails from her. While vacationing in Florida one winter, I read in a Palm Beach paper that Honey had purchased a large oceanfront house. I phoned and left a message with a servant, but Honey did not call me back.
Another few years passed, and Honey phoned me at my New York office.
"I'm just calling to say I'm still alive and enjoying the company of my seven cats," she said.
"I would love to visit you the next time I'm in Florida," I said.
"I think it's better if we just speak on the phone. My looks are gone. I wouldn't want you to see me. I don't go out much."
I wanted to ask her if she was still drinking, but it wasn't necessary, for I could hear it in her hoarse voice, her slurred speech. I thought of how beautiful she had been in college, of that first time I saw her in the student cafeteria. I thought of her ambitions to be rich and break away from her family. Well, she was certainly rich now. And her parents had died years ago, never having been visited by Honey, though she bought them a house in upstate New York and frequently sent them money. Otherwise, she had nothing to do with them. They had been an embarrassment, best left hidden away. I wanted to scold her, to tell her to pull her life together. I had learned to be a good father and felt an impulse to impart my paternal advice. Instead, I said nothing. I just felt sorry for her.
She interrupted my reflective silence, saying, "We've known each other for such a long time; we were so attractive back then," she said. "I always thought you were the smarter one. And maybe you are. You're happy and content. Aren't you?"
"Yes, I guess that I am."
"I have some wonderful memories, you know. And one of them is of you. I think that you were my best friend. I could always count on you. Right?"
"Right," I said.
Later that year, having suffered a stroke, Honey fell down a flight of stairs and broke her neck. My wife and I were the only ones at her funeral. Not even the tabloids showed up.
Jeffrey Sussman is the author of "No Mere Bagatelles," a biography of Judith and Gerson Leiber, as well as 10 other books. He is president of Jeffrey Sussman, Inc. (powerpublicity.com), a marketing and PR business.


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HUNTINGTON — Bob Spear often stood this summer, staring silently at the disaster wrought by a July flood. A rainstorm had ripped a deep ravine outside his Birds of Vermont Museum, destroying the entrance walkway and cutting off access to bird-watching trails in the woods.
Trees tipped precariously over the edge of the ravine, its bottom a tumble of gravel, exposed culverts and debris. Repairs may cost $40,000 or more, money the museum doesn't have.


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When I was in the eighth grade, at a school in a suburb of Boston, a kid named Brad moved to our town. It was halfway through the year, and most of our grade had known one another for nearly a decade. Considering the conventions of this kind of thing, Brad should have been shunted into social obscurity; he should have been a nonentity, a blip. Instead, he took over.
I actually remember the first time I saw him. (This is extra weird for me because, while I can make some educated guesses, I don't actually remember the first time I saw any of the people I now consider my closest friends.) He was brought into Ms. Balogh's social studies class, and introduced as a new kid. I'd had some personal experience with "new kid" status—my family moved from Israel to the Netherlands when I was in the third grade, and then to Massachusetts two years later—and my heart went out to him. Surely, I thought, he'd spend the next few months playing Magic: The Gathering with the sweaty kids in the cafeteria, slide anonymously into high school, suffer through four tortured years, and then move onward to the endless slog that would be the rest of his small life.
My empathy lasted about 30 seconds. That's how long it took for the two cool girls sitting behind me to kick into a spirited analysis. Brad, it turned out, was "soooo hawwwwt."
It turned out he was awesome, too: funny, smart, curious, and kind. By lunch, it seemed, he knew everyone's name. Inside of a week, we were all hanging out at his house after school. (As I recall, his parents were rarely home—a fact which only now, years later, feels significant.) He was like a hip-hop hype-man, constantly revving us up. One afternoon he persuaded us all to jump out of his bedroom window. It was on the second floor, and there was a soft grass patch below, but it still seemed like a really scary thing to do. I don't remember whom Brad got to go first, or what reasons he gave as to why it was a good move. But all of a sudden the room was a mess of giggling kamikaze stunt pilots preparing for our leaps out the window.
I was a "good" kid—early in grade school, I used to start doing my homework while still in the elevator, on the way up to our apartment—and this was such an obvious "no." I could almost see my parents' disapproving faces hovering in the sky. But—as if suddenly gifted with the spirit we would later come to know as YOLO—I said "fuck it" and jumped. I landed poorly, tumbling head over tail, and could feel my ankle throbbing immediately. I was worried I'd have to go to the hospital, and more worried I'd have to admit I'd literally jumped out a window because some kid had told me to. Instead, I hobbled on a tender ankle for a few days, and told my parents I'd done it playing basketball. It was totally worth it. I mean, I've never since known the adrenaline rush that is jumping out of a second-floor bedroom window.
Another afternoon, Brad asked us if we wanted to get high. I was nervous, partially because I was worried I wouldn't be able to say no to whatever contraband he was about to unwrap. We were watching the movie Kids a lot at the time. Like, over and over. If you haven't seen it (and if you're over, let's say, 14), you should: it's about a bunch of skateboarder teens romping around Manhattan unsupervised, going to parties, hollering at girls, and saying hilarious things. It's also super dark and twisted, involves awful, immoral behavior (mostly on the part of the protagonist), has a tragic ending, and carries a clear message about the repercussions of youthful indulgence—a message which we willfully glossed over.
I certainly wasn't anything like the kids in Kids, and I didn't really want to be. What was so addictive about it for me was that it articulated the reality of an as-yet-unformed concern—a vague premonition hovering somewhere right behind me, just out of my peripheral vision—that at some point soon, this was just going to happen: things were going to get druggy and ugly and weird, and that, partially, was what growing up would be. Later, I'd learn that that was a little true, and a lot false.
A few months later, someone whipped out a pinch of weed that he had stashed in one of the little baggies they give you at the orthodontist, the ones you have to use to tie your braces' wires down with. I had a baggie like that on me too, only mine still had the rubber bands in it for my braces. I took my rubber-band baggie out, waved it around for a bit of prop comedy, got some laughs, and then felt weird. They got high. I didn't.
That afternoon at Brad's, though, there were no drugs. Before waiting to hear a response, Brad stumbled to the refrigerator, grabbed a soda, shook it up, popped it open, sprayed it all over his front door, and then staggered around like a drunk screaming, "I'm high on life! I'm high on life!"
Why have I always remembered that so well? I don't know. When I was speaking with Rookie's editors about writing this, they asked if I'd be OK with having it fact-checked. I'd give them some names of kids I went to school with, and Rookie would call them, make sure that I what I remembered about Brad checked out. And, to be honest, I had a little panic attack.
No one else is writing essays about this 14 years after the fact, right? What would they think when they heard I was? And, worse: what would Brad think if he happened to read it? My best play here was that he doesn't remember me, and doesn't recognize himself. Why would he, right? But if, by some off chance, he does—what if he's not flattered, by pissed? Like, maybe Brad had loving parents that just worked late? Maybe I just happened to be around when they weren't? Maybe they were home and I just didn't remember? Or would he be more than pissed off? Like, when I mentioned to my mom that I was writing this, she remembered I'd once asked her to take me shopping to find a leather jacket, one like Brad had. I mean, seriously, was there some Single White Female stuff going on that nobody wanted to point out to me?
Brad's family moved again pretty soon after he got to town. I have no idea where he is, or what he's doing; he's just some dude I knew once, briefly, a long time ago. But I'm a grownup now, and part of being a grownup is having the balls to be honest. And part of having the balls to be honest is to admit that, yes, this how I remember that kid Brad who moved to our town in eighth grade. Fuck it. YOLO. Jump out some windows.
So say I am remembering this in my own, special way. Say I have streamlined it into a narrative—one complete with plot clichés and moral hazards and ambiguous endings— in my head. It's clear to me, now, why. I saw this kid come out of nowhere, and pull off what to this day is the most impressive bit of assimilation—swift, vibrant, dominant—that I have ever witnessed. And he wasn't a jerk about it, or pushy, or mean. And seeing that at a time when being social, for me, wasn't easy, meant it stuck. Being social wasn't easy, and then, eventually, it was. And I guess I always kind of knew it was possible that I'd get there. ♦
Amos Barshad has written for New York Magazine, Spin, GQ, XXL, and the Arkansas Times. He is a staff writer for Grantland.


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Mental illness 'biggest UK health challenge' - Miliband
The problem of mental illness in the UK is the "biggest unaddressed health challenge of our age", Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.
It "blights the lives of millions", costing UK business £26bn and the NHS an extra £10bn a year, he said.
Mr Miliband wants to give patients the same legal right to mental health therapies as physical healthcare.
He criticised some celebrities for reinforcing the taboo around mental health and called for a culture change.
Mr Miliband was giving his first major speech since the Labour Party conference where he adopted the "one nation" slogan created by 19th Century Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
He said that just as Disraeli addressed the national challenge of sanitation in the 19th Century, and the foundation of the NHS followed in the 20th Century, the mental health challenge facing the UK must be addressed this century.
"One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point in our lifetime," Mr Miliband said.
"There are so many people in Britain today who could be treated but who are intimidated from seeking help. And so many people who need support but... believe that no-one will care.
"For far too long our leading politicians have been far too silent about mental health, part of a taboo running across our society which infects both our culture and our politics.
"A change of culture has happened with illnesses that have previously been taboo: from cancer to Aids to other sexually transmitted diseases.
"But it hasn't yet happened as much as it needs to with mental health."
The Labour leader criticised those in the public eye who "abuse the privilege of their celebrity to insult, demean and belittle others".
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This includes Janet Street-Porter and Jeremy Clarkson, whose "lazy caricatures" reinforce the taboo on the issue, he said.
"Just as we joined the fight against racism, against sexism and against homophobia, so we should join the fight against this form of intolerance."
He announced proposals to improve mental health provision in the NHS, including:
- Rewriting the NHS constitution to enshrine patients' legal right to therapies for mental illness
- Mental health training for all staff
- Better integration of physical and mental healthcare, and social care
"Mental ill-health is a cradle to grave problem with nothing like a cradle to grave service," he said, with some funds earmarked for mental health services not being used for the right purpose.
Neglecting the problem ends up costing the NHS more, Mr Miliband argued, "in the strains and demands placed on those who carry the burden of care and in the trouble stored up over the years as minor problems become major ones".
Meanwhile, the annual costs to UK business are £15bn in reduced productivity, £8.5bn in sickness absence, and £2.5bn to replace staff who can no longer work.
The Labour leader is setting up a taskforce - led by the chairman of Barts Health NHS Trust, Stephen O'Brien - to draw up a strategic plan for mental health in society.
Mr Miliband said: "Too often governments have been stuck in a mindset that thought that physical health should always take priority - or that the answer to our health crises started and stopped with new government programmes.
"But good mental health doesn't start in hospital or the treatment room, it starts in our workplaces, our schools and our communities.
"So the task falls as much to organisations like the CBI as it does to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In fact, everybody has a part to play. Only a nation acting together can overcome the challenge we face."
Mental health charities welcomed Mr Miliband's speech and his commitment to giving patients a legal right to therapies for mental illness.
Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, said: "Mental health is everyone's business. We are now seeing politicians finally realise that it isn't just the responsibility of health services to support people with mental health problems and that they have their own role to play in changing attitudes."
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said: "It is extraordinary that despite the scale of the challenge and the fact that mental illness costs the NHS and employers more than any physical condition, people do not have a legal right to therapies for mental health problems."
Rethink Mental Illness praised Mr Miliband for making mental health a priority, particularly improving the training of NHS staff: "As things stand, you can become a doctor having only studied mental health for a few days.
"As a result many health professionals do not have a good enough understanding of mental illness."


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The Lion's Story
One day a boy asked his grandfather a question. "Grandfather, is it true that the lion is the king of the jungle?"
"Yes," said the Grandfather, "it is true."
But the boy was shook his head in disbelief. "But Grandfather, if this is true then why are all the stories about how the lion is defeated by the hunter?"
The Grandfather smiled and answered the boy. "That will always be the way, until the lion tells the story."This proverb has provenance among many African peoples. In this instance it is attributed to the Ewe-mina people in Benin, Togo ad Ghana. 'Until Lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.' (Igbo, Nigeria). 'Until lions start writing down their own stories, the hunters will always be the heroes.' (Kenya and Zimbabwe).


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Wayne Law students serving public interest through summer fellowships
DETROIT – Fifteen Wayne State University Law School students are gaining experience and serving a variety of agencies and legal clinics this summer, thanks to the support of the 2014 Public Interest Law Fellowships.
The 2014 fellowship winners and their organizations are:
- Shahar Ben-Josef of Detroit, rising third-year student – Freedom House Detroit
- Scott Boyer of Rochester, rising third-year student – Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
- Connor Brown of Detroit, rising third-year student – Legal Aid and Defender Association Inc.
- Kimberly Grzic of Sterling Heights, rising third-year student – Wayne Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic
- Marcus Johnson of Royal Oak, upper class part-time student – Wayne County Prosecutor's Office
- Melissa Kliemann of Ann Arbor, rising third-year student – Federal Defender Office
- Steven Knox of Mount Clemens, rising third-year student – Michigan Legal Services
- James Kresta of Ann Arbor, upper class part-time student – Washtenaw County Office of Public Defender
- Maureen O'Sullivan of Ann Arbor, rising second-year student – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – New York
- Jillian Peterson of Novi, rising third-year student – Free Legal Aid Clinic
- Alexis Shull of Wolverine Lake, rising second-year student – Elder Law Advocacy Center
- Paul Taylor of Howell, upper class part-time student – Free Legal Aid Clinic
- Pamela Wall of Grosse Pointe Park, rising third-year student – Free Legal Aid Clinic
- Patricia Woodruff of Dearborn, rising third-year student – Michigan Children's Law Center and Wayne County Solution Oriented Domestic Violence Prevention Court
- Ashley Zacharski of New Baltimore, rising second-year student – Wayne County Solution Oriented Domestic Violence Prevention Court
Wayne Law created the fellowships in 2009 to give students experiential education and help ease their financial stresses before graduation and to help the organizations for which they'll be working. Fellowship recipients are selected each year by a committee of Wayne Law faculty members, staff and alumni.
Zacharski will spend her summer managing domestic violence cases and working with the judges in the Wayne County Solution Oriented Domestic Violence Prevention Court. "Some of my duties will include preparing judges for hearings and writing memos and orders," she said.
A member of the Women's Law Caucus and Damon J. Keith Students for Civil Rights at Wayne Law, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science at Michigan State University and plans to continue doing public-interest work after graduation.
"I'd like to focus on advocating for sexually and physically abused women and children," she said.
Woodruff will use her stipend to continue her work at the Michigan Children's Law Center in Detroit and the Solution-Oriented Domestic Violence Prevention Court. She began her work at the Children's Center last summer as an intern through Wayne Law.
"At the Michigan Children's Law Center, I am able to advocate for the best interests of children involved in delinquency proceedings and children who are victims of abuse and neglect," Woodruff said. "I advocate by researching for the center's attorneys and by drafting motions and briefs on the center's behalf. The Solution-Oriented Domestic Violence Prevention Court provides me with a different perspective from my work at the center. I work closely with judges specifically trained in handling family law cases where domestic violence is present."
She earned her bachelor's degree in paralegal studies at Eastern Michigan University and is vice president of community outreach for the Women's Law Caucus at Wayne Law. She plans a career that involves advocating for women and children affected by family violence.
Wall will continue her work with the Free Legal Aid Clinic, where she is vice chair of the Board of Directors.
"I'll be working on my own family law and elder law cases," she said. "But my main role this summer will be training, supervising and supporting our 17 incoming student attorneys. I am very excited about the prospect of mentoring our new hires and helping them to be diligent and fierce advocates for FLAC's clients."
She would like to continue her public-interest legal work after graduation. Wall is an intern with the American Civil Liberties Union and Wayne Law Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic, secretary of the Wayne Law ACLU Chapter and earned her bachelor's degree in English from Michigan State University.
Shull won a fellowship to work at the Elder Law Advocacy Center of Neighborhood Legal Services in Detroit.
"I will be working as a student attorney assisting with cases that involve revocation of powers of attorney and wills; preparation of powers of attorney, wills, deeds, restore title to property; protecting and defending in consumer matters; education about co-signing loans; defending against unnecessary or improper guardianships or conservatorships; and assisting in landlord-tenant matters," Shull said.
She earned her bachelor's degree in communications and marketing from Eastern Michigan University and works as an associate communications specialist with Lady4Justice PLLC.
"I thrive in a working environment that benefits the public, and I am so grateful and excited for this opportunity," Shull said.
Brown will spend his summer working for the Legal Aid and Defender Association Inc. in Detroit. He spent last summer as a fellowship recipient working for the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice in Detroit.
"I learned just how much can be accomplished by a small number of dedicated people," Brown said. "I learned how important the law is as a check on the political branches by working on the emergency manager lawsuit. And I learned how important it is that we have organizations to provide legal services to those who lack resources. This was crucial in my decision to work at Legal Aid this summer, and I hope to find similar public-interest work upon my graduation from law school.
"Lawyers at Legal Aid and Defender address themselves to the individual hardships of clients on society's margins. These clients and their problems are many and varied. So, this summer, I will likely be involved in a wide array of case types and stages of litigation. The only thing they surely will have in common is clients in need."
Brown earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan and has worked as a student attorney with Wayne Law's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic.
Ben-Josef will work at Freedom House in Detroit this summer. She gained a fellowship last summer, as well, when she worked with the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
"This experience gave me my first opportunity to use my new legal skills to serve those most in need," Ben-Josef said. "I filed asylum applications, applications for temporary protected status and applications for derivative asylum for Syrian refugees. This gave me a basis for the work I'll be doing at Freedom House and helped me to better define the parameters of what I want to do and what I can do with my legal education."
Ben-Josef, who also is pursuing a master's degree in dispute resolution and a graduate certificate in peace and security studies at Wayne State while she attends law school, earned a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.
"After graduation, I hope to find a job in the field of public international law, whether at a nonprofit or non-governmental organization or otherwise," Ben-Josef said.
Photos from left to right, top to bottom: Shahar Ben-Josef, Scott Boyer, Connor Brown, Kimberly Grzic, Marcus Johnson, Melissa Kliemann, Steven Knox, James Kresta, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jillian Peterson, Alexis Shull, Paul Taylor, Pamela Wall, Patricia Woodruff, Ashley Zacharski.


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Operation Lifesaver Notes Increase in 2014 Crossing and Trespass FatalitiesWASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2015 – Vehicle-train collisions and deaths at highway-rail grade crossings and from pedestrians trespassing on railroad tracks rose across the U.S. in 2014, while crossing-related injuries and rail trespass injuries were lower compared to 2013, Joyce Rose, the President and CEO of Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) said today.
Source: Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety; preliminary 2013 and 2014 statistics The national nonprofit rail safety education organization cited preliminary 2014 Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) statistics showing that U.S. crossing collisions rose 8.8 percent in 2014, to 2,280 from 2,096 in 2013; crossing fatalities increased 15.6 percent to 267 vs. 231 in 2013; and crossing injuries fell 14.4 percent to 832 from 972 in 2013. Fatalities caused by persons trespassing on railroad tracks and property surged 21.8 percent in 2014 to 526 (vs. 432 in 2013), while trespass injuries dropped 2.8 percent in 2014 to 419 (vs. 431 in 2013). For 2014, the rail trespass casualty rate (deaths and injuries per million train-miles) is 1.23, its highest level in the last decade, and the highway-rail incident rate (incidents per million train-miles) is 2.98, the highest since 2008, Rose noted. "Historically, highway-rail grade crossing collisions have dropped greatly in recent decades," Rose pointed out. "While the number of people injured in crossing crashes and pedestrian-train incidents dropped in 2014, the statistics show that challenges remain in our mission to educate a busy, distracted public about the need for caution at train tracks," said Rose. States with the most crossing collisions in 2014 were Texas, Illinois, California, Indiana and Georgia. States with the most pedestrian-train casualties (deaths and injuries combined) in 2014 were California, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York. "These preliminary 2014 statistics demonstrate the continuing need to raise public awareness through our national 'See Tracks? Think Train!' campaign," Rose continued. "Operation Lifesaver, in partnership with major freight railroads, commuter and light rail systems, state and local law enforcement, and transportation agencies, will be expanding the campaign and developing new educational materials to encourage Americans to make safe decisions around tracks and trains," she concluded.
Letter to the Editor: Train Tracks No Place For Family FunFrom the Sunday Maine Telegram, April 27, 2014 (click here to read the original) The caption reads, "The kids got on track to hike ..." Ha, ha. I got it as observed in the Outdoors section of the April 13 Maine Sunday Telegram ("Kid Tracks: Outdoor family fun never really ages"). The photo of two little girls holding hands walking down the railroad tracks was part of a story on outdoor family fun. Did Mom and Dad realize that walking along railroad tracks is not only illegal, but highly dangerous? Did they remember that last year in the Portland area there were several serious rail trespass incidents - one that resulted in a fatality and another necessitating the amputation of a man's leg? They are among the 908 individuals injured or killed last year in the United States walking or otherwise trespassing on private railroad property. Maine Operation Lifesaver has volunteers who, nearly every day, are educating the public about the tragic consequences when a multimillion-pound train bears down on an individual or recreational vehicle that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Frederic Hirsch state coordinator, Maine Operation Lifesaver Bangor
Statement on the Movie "Divergent" by Operation Lifesaver, Inc. President Joyce RoseThe action-adventure film "Divergent," which opened in theaters nationwide this week, depicts a future world where people are divided into factions based on human virtues. Unfortunately, like the young adult novel upon which it is based, in the movie members of the Dauntless faction travel to different parts of their post-apocalyptic city by jumping onto and off of moving trains. Although this movie depicts a fantasy world, in real life, about every three hours a person or vehicle is hit by a train in the United States. We raise this issue because we want Americans to think about that statistic each time they approach a railroad crossing or ride a commuter train, light rail or intercity passenger train. The film-making community has shown increased awareness of the dangers around train tracks in light of recent incidents; we want to spread that awareness to the movie-going public. With the help of our federal government and rail industry safety partners, Operation Lifesaver will soon launch a new national public awareness safety campaign highlighting the need to stay safe around tracks and trains. We invite Lionsgate Entertainment, Summit Entertainment and national movie theater chains to consider supporting this campaign by airing our upcoming video PSA in their coming attractions this summer. Together, we can make a difference, and save lives.
Operation Lifesaver Inc. is Turning Up the Volume on its Anti-trespassing MessageBy Julie Sneider, Associate Editor, Progressive Railroading For Joyce Rose, the most frustrating part of her work is knowing the number of people being killed by trains is increasing. According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), railroad trespasser deaths climbed 18.7 percent during the first 10 months of 2013 compared with the same 2012 period. Although the FRA's Office of Safety Analysis isn't expected to report 2013's total number until March, the trend for 2013 doesn't look good. There were 426 trespasser fatalities from January through October 2013, compared with 428 for all of 2012. As president and chief executive officer of Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI), Rose leads the national office of the nonprofit organization whose mission is to end collisions, deaths and injuries at highway rail crossings and on rail property. Rose can't say for certain why fatalities are on the rise. Part of the reason could be that there are more trains on the move, with freight railroads serving a recovering economy and passenger trains transporting riders in record numbers. What Rose does know for certain is that she and Operation Lifesaver have their work cut out for them. To that end, Operation Lifesaver officials hope to turn up the volume on the rail-safety message this year through "a very big," national public- safety advertising campaign that will use television, radio, billboard, print and social media to get the word out on rail safety. OLI has partnered with the Association of American Railroads (AAR) to present the campaign, which Rose anticipates will kick off in early spring. The organizations began collaborating on it last summer because of the "stubbornness of the trespassing problem," she says. The campaign's "See tracks? Think train!" catch phrase will alert people to stay off rail property. Although the message will target the general population, the campaign will have its own dedicated website and be "very social-media oriented" in an effort to appeal to younger people, she says. The national campaign also will be a departure for Operation Lifesaver, which historically has relied on grassroots communications via volunteers giving face-to-face presentations to community groups, schools and emergency response personnel. Those grassroots efforts continue, but will be reinforced by the national campaign. The effort is OLI's latest attempt to increase the ways in which it spreads the rail-safety word. Since Rose took over as its top executive in December 2013, OLI also has made progress in stabilizing its funding, and recruiting and educating a new crop of volunteers. "We are encouraged by how many new people who weren't associated with the program have gone online to become an Operation Lifesaver Authorized Volunteer," Rose says. "We're getting younger people to volunteer and expand our ranks." Moreover, OLI has stepped up its use of social media, with profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. "Our Facebook 'Likes' are over 6,000 - and we were over 3,000 in 2012, so we've doubled. And Twitter, which we started new in 2012, went from a few hundred to over 2,000 followers," she says, adding that many state Operation Lifesaver chapters have increased their use of social media, as well. Another way OLI educates the public on rail safety is by discouraging photographers, advertisers, television programs and other forms of media from using images that show trespassers walking or standing on railroad property. "I write a lot of letters," Rose says. One of her latest targets is Kiloo Games, the Denmark-based maker of "Subway Surfers," a video game app in which cartoon characters surf on railroad tracks and try to dodge oncoming trains. Rose has written to Kiloo officials, asking if they would consider modifying or taking down the app. The company has not responded to her request, she says. Not all of Rose's letters go unanswered, however. OLI recently entered into an agreement with the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) to inform photographers about the danger associated with taking photos on railroad property without the railroads' permission. "We have a real problem with photographers on rail rights of way," she says. "People love to take a selfie on a railroad track. Or, we'll see a professional photographer take photos of families, high school classes - even a baby in a basket - on the track." OLI's other accomplishments in 2013 included an increased role in the transit-safety arena. Rose served on a committee to advise the Federal Transit Administration on proposed new transit-safety rules. Also, OLI awarded eight transit-safety education grants to transit agencies, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) to work together on rail-safety issues. Rose hopes all those efforts plus the national ad campaign will result in fewer trespasser fatalities in 2014. "We have an important story to tell," she says. "We want more people to focus on our message." Reprinted with permission of Progressive Railroading
Maine in Line to Test Rail Trespass Detection System
"BRUNSWICK, Maine The Federal Railroad Administration announced the Town of Brunswick, Northern New England Passenger Authority, and Maine Department of Transportation, among other partners, will participate in a field research program to develop and test new trespass detection and deterrent technologies." Read more...
At Maine Operation Lifesaver's annual meeting on Saturday, November 9 at the Great Falls Model Railroad Club in Auburn, FRA rail trespass specialist and Maine O/L volunteer Mike Grizkewitsch will make a presentation on the pilot project.
From USA TODAY -- Don't text and walk: Pedestrians step in front of trains
"It's happening with increasing frequency around the nation: Someone distracted by their cellphone, iPod or other device walks in front of a moving train, according to transportation experts." Read more...
State Coordinator, Maine Operation Lifesaver Recognized For Corridor Project
The Maine Transportation Safety Coalition, a group of statewide officials working to promote safe transportation, has recognized Maine O/L State Coordinator Fred Hirsch and the organization's three dozen volunteers with the Traffic Safety Champion Award. The accolades specifically refer to efforts by Operation Lifesaver to educate the public over the past 18 months along the 28-mile rail corridor between Portland and Brunswick where Amtrak passenger service has now been extended. Trains operating as slow as ten miles per hour are now operating at 60 miles per hour and higher. Volunteers performed well over 100 presentations to schoolchildren, professional drivers, emergency responders, and driver education students among others about the dangers inherent at railroad crossings and along railroad right of way. This was in addition to many displays and exhibits promoting rail safety in the six communities along the line.
Rail Trespass Deaths and Injuries Up Considerably in 2012
While vehicle-train collisions and injuries at highway-rail grade crossings were lower across the U.S. in 2012, crossing-related fatalities were flat and rail trespass deaths and injuries rose from 2011, according to Operation Lifesaver, Inc. The national nonprofit rail safety education organization cited preliminary 2012 Federal Railroad Administration statistics showing that rail trespass deaths and injuries were at their highest levels since 2008. Here in Maine there were two trespass fatalities last year compared to no such deaths or injuries in 2011. However, train-vehicle collisions in the state dropped from four to two between 2011 and 2012 with no injuries reported.
"We are gratified with the continued improvement in highway-rail grade crossing collisions, but educating a distracted public in order to reduce trespassing injuries and fatalities continues to be a challenge," said Operation Lifesaver President and CEO Joyce Rose.
Overall, U.S. crossing collisions were down 5.1% in 2012 from 2011, to 1,953; crossing fatalities were essentially unchanged at 270; and crossing injuries fell 11.4% to 917, FRA statistics reveal. Fatalities to persons trespassing on railroad tracks and property rose 7.5% in 2012 to 442, and trespass injuries rose 10.4% from 2011 to 405.
States with the most crossing collisions in 2012 were Texas, California, Illinois, Indiana and Georgia. States with the most pedestrian-train casualties (deaths and injuries combined) in 2012 were California, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida.
"It s a sobering fact that the number of Americans killed while trespassing on train tracks continues to outpace fatalities from vehicle-train collisions," Rose stated. "Operation Lifesaver, in partnership with major freight railroads, commuter and light rail systems, state and local law enforcement, and transportation agencies, is expanding our efforts to encourage Americans to make safe decisions around tracks and trains," she concluded.
Operation Lifesaver Inc. Starts New Chapter with Joyce Rose at the Helm
By Julie Sneider, Assistant Editor
As the new president and chief executive officer of Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI), Joyce Rose is taking over at an important juncture in the organization s history -- and in her career.
The nonprofit, railroad-safety education organization is coming off a challenging period that began in 2011, when a good portion of its U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) funding was discontinued as part of a SAFETEA-LU extension measure. As a result, OLI lost nearly all the funds it used for operations.
"There was a scary period of not knowing how to move forward," says Rose, a former Capitol Hill staffer who became OLI s top exec on Dec. 3. She credited her predecessor, Helen Sramek, with being "masterful" at getting OLI through that initial period of uncertainty prior to retiring in November 2012.
The U.S. Class Is came to OLI s aid and replaced the loss of federal funds -- about $475,000 worth, according to Rose. Moreover, representatives from the Class Is agreed to join OLI s board of directors -- a first in Operation Lifesaver s 40-year history.
Also part of the organization s recent transitional period is new leadership in Rose. The job represents a significant transition in her own life after serving on Capitol Hill for 25 years.
Her tenure there included 12 years as a staff member for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where she oversaw legislative actions authorizing Federal Transit Administration programs, and developed the transit titles of the 2012 MAP-21 legislation and the 2005 SAFETEA-LU authorization. From 2008 to 2012, she served as staff director for T&I s Subcommittee on Railroads and Hazardous Materials. Prior to T&I, she spent 13 years as a professional staffer for the Senate Committee on Appropriations, where she worked for the transportation subcommittee.
Knowing that her boss, U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), would reach his term limit as House T&I Committee chairman at 2012 s end, Rose concluded it was an appropriate time for her to change direction.
"Twenty-five years is a long time to do anything," she says.
When she learned Operation Lifesaver s national office was looking for a new CEO, she thought the job would be a good fit.
"It seemed like a great opportunity to wear a white hat," she says. "There is nothing gray about this kind of job. It s all about saving lives and educating people about the dangers on and around railroad property."
Operation Lifesaver presents free rail-safety educational programs to school groups, driver education classes, community groups, law enforcement officers and emergency responders. The organization started in 1972, when the Idaho governor s office, Idaho Peace Officers and Union Pacific Railroad launched a six-week public awareness campaign to reduce accidents and fatalities at rail crossings. Over time, the program expanded to all 50 states.
In a way, leading a nonprofit safety-education group marks a return to Rose s professional roots: Before working for Congress, she was a teacher in Maryland public schools. At OLI, she supports the national effort -- carried out by 50 Operation Lifesaver state offices and 1,400 volunteers -- to decrease fatalities and accidents by teaching people how to be safe around crossings and rail property.
During her first year in office, Rose plans to focus on two main goals: continuing to reposition the organization onto "sound financial footing" with its USDOT and railroad funding partners; and making what she terms an "important change" in how OLI communicates its message. To increase its profile, OLI is transitioning from a "certified-presenter model" involving in-person presentations of safety educational materials to a web-based "authorized volunteer" model.
"We re going to use technology, social media and innovative communications like our e-learning tools to reach a greater audience," says Rose.
That transition already has started. More educational materials -- some are interactive -- are posted on the OLI website, oli.org. And even more e-learning tools and interactive resources will be posted in 2013, including one that "will teach people how to recognize highway rail signs and signals in a fun way," says Rose. OLI also is increasing its presence on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
"If you look at safety statistics, while we have seen railroad highway crossing accidents go down dramatically over the decades, we are having less success at getting down the number of trespasser fatalities, [a result of] people walking on the tracks or right of way," Rose says. Increasingly, many trespassers are wearing ear buds and, as a consequence, may not hear an oncoming train, she notes.
And, seeing a need to educate the growing transit-riding crowd on rail safety issues, Rose hopes OLI can be a "full partner" with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) as the agency ramps up its new authority to regulate transit system safety, a role created under the new surface transportation legislation known as MAP-21.
"There are more light rail, commuter rail and heavy rail systems in the country than ever before, and transit ridership is up to 10.5 billion rides a year," Rose says. "Although statistically it is a very, very safe form of transportation, there still are fatalities and injuries on transit systems, and we want to prevent those that occur from trespassing on the rail or not knowing the safe way to use the train."
As for OLI s ongoing funding issues, Rose plans on being a strong voice for restoring the federal dollars that were eliminated under the SAFETEA-LU extension measure. Historically, OLI received most of its funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), with a small amount coming from the FTA. It was the highway funds -- the biggest portion -- that were discontinued in 2011.
"I personally think it s appropriate for the USDOT to be a funding partner for this safety program, and I m very hopeful that we ll be able to do that again in the future," Rose says. "I have very strong relationships with the folks at FHWA, FRA and FTA. Those are programs I ve worked with over the years on the Hill. So, a big part of my job now is being the face and point person for working with those funding partners at the USDOT and the railroads."
Annual Meeting Brings Together Volunteers; Latest News, Videos Released
The Maine Operation Lifesaver 2012 annual meeting included nearly two dozen presenters including four new individuals who were trained only hours earlier to become part of the rail safety team. The three-hour event included a business meeting, training, lunch, the debut of two new videos, and gifts and prizes to all attending. During the business meeting, State Coordinator Fred Hirsch gave an update on education efforts along the Portland-Brunswick corridor where Amtrak service would begin in a matter of weeks; that a law enforcement train had been arranged along the Maine Eastern Railroad (see release below); a new poster was revealed which will be given to railroads for posting on signal boxes; the U.S. Attorney's Office is donating three 17-inch computer monitors to Maine Operation Lifesaver; and that the Maine Department of Transportation was likely to renew its multi-thousand dollar credit line for Maine O/L. New presenters introduced included Glenn MacNeil of North Windham, Jason Worcester of Portland, Travis Johnson of Sabattus, and Tim De Roche of Auburn. Mike Grizkewitsch, the Federal Railroad Administration's trespass specialist, updated those attending on trespass prevention efforts nationwide and guidance around the Operation Lifesaver national website (www.oli.org). A delicious lunch was served by our hosts, the Great Falls Model Railroad Club in Auburn, at their Hobo Caf�. The club was presented with a plaque recognizing its major contribution to rail safety (see release below). Two new videos, one targeting passenger rail riders and the other new drivers (see release below), were shown to the more than two dozen attending.
Two New Videos Released Targeting New Drivers, Train Riders
Operation Lifesaver, Inc. has added two snappy, to-the-point videos to its library of nearly two dozen videos which dramatize to the potential dangers at railroad crossings and the seriousness of trespassing on private railroad property. "Imagine" has important safety information and tips to help new drivers avoid a tragic scenario. According to government statistics, drivers are 20 times more likely to die in a train-car collision than in a crash with another motor vehicle. According to OLI President Helen Sramek, the video is a digital tool to help new drivers understand what's at stake each time they approach a highway-rail grade crossing. "What Smart Commuters Know" is a fast-paced, fun video to help riders understand the importance of avoiding distraction on their daily commute or riding a train long distance. Operation Lifesaver Education and Training Director Wende Corcoran noted that "What Smart Commuters Know" is a versatile educational tool. The three and a half minute video will be used by Maine Operation Lifesaver trained volunteers during free safety presentations in their communities. You can forward the video via email or share it with your friends on Facebook. The videos were developed through a grant from the Federal Railroad Administration.
Railroad Trespassing Emphasized On Law Enforcement Train Ride
Area law enforcement from ten agencies were aboard a Maine Eastern Railroad train in October to learn more about the ongoing issue of trespassing on private railroad property, to better understand how it pertains to Maine law, and to ensure the safety of officers and deputies when investigating such incidents. Leading the discussion was Michail Grizkewitsch, trespass specialist for the Federal Railroad Administration and a Maine Operation Lifesaver volunteer. Trespassing includes walking, hunting, riding a snowmobile, ATV, or motorbike, or cross-country skiing on or along railroad right of way, or fishing or jumping from railroad bridges. It also includes vandalizing or otherwise tampering with rail equipment. The trip began at Wiscasset and continued for 45 minutes into Brunswick. There, sheriffs and deputies, police chiefs and officers left the train for further discussion and to watch a safety video inside. Those attending boarded the train again and talked more about trespassing and its consequences, completing their trip back in Wiscasset. Among those on board were representatives from the Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Departments, the Maine State Police, and the Rockland, Bath, Falmouth, Cumberland, Freeport, and Yarmouth Police Departments.
Model Railroad Club Lauded For Rail Safety Efforts
The Great Falls Model Railroad Club of Auburn has been recognized by Maine Operation Lifesaver for its "many years of dedication to railroad safety education through its members and club activities." A plaque was presented to club President Edward Leslie by Darry Nile, Maine O/L's treasurer and long time volunteer, at the club headquarters. Club members have made literally hundreds of railroad safety presentations in the Lewiston-Auburn area. Among those club members who double as railroad safety volunteers are Tom Coulombe, Jay Calnan, and David Gilchrist of Lewiston, Stephen Martelli of Auburn, Dick Clark of Green, Phil Clough of Bridgton, and Paul Lodge of Minot, and Travis Johnson of Sabattus.
Trespass Casualties Down, Rail Crossing Deaths Up In 2011
Preliminary Federal Railroad Administration figures indicate the number of railroad trespass fatalities in the United States fell slightly in 2011 and injuries caused by illegal activity on or around railroad tracks dropped substantially. Incidents at railroad crossings fell, but fatalities and non-fatal injuries rose.
Total fatalities determined to be trespassing last year were 428, a decrease of 1.4 percent from the 434 deaths a year earlier. Injuries not causing death decreased more dramatically down 10.8 percent from 388 in 2010 to 346 in 2011.
The number of train-vehicle collisions nationwide totaled 1,956 last year, or a three percent drop from 2,017 such incidents in 2010. However, non-fatal injuries jumped 12.9 percent from 854 to 964 between 2010 and 2011, and fatalities were up 2.3 percent from 256 to 262.
States with the most crossing collisions in 2011 were Texas, Indiana, California, Louisiana and Illinois. States with the most pedestrian-train casualties (deaths and injuries combined) in 2011 were California, Texas, Illinois, Florida and New York.
In Maine, statistics gathered by Maine Operation Lifesaver show there were four train-vehicle collisions in 2011 including one fatality, but no non-fatal injuries. There were no deaths or other injuries caused by trespassers in Maine last year.
Maine Rail Group Awards Grant to Maine Operation Lifesaver
A grant of $500 has been gratefully accepted by Maine Operation Lifesaver courtesy of the Maine Rail Group. The 2011 year-end gift will be used as part of rail safety education efforts during the next year along the Portland-Brunswick corridor.
Maine Rail Group is an organization of transportation professionals and other individuals devoted to promoting freight and passenger rail statewide. In a letter from MRG's President Jack Sutton, it states the grant "is a token of our appreciation for OLS's important and ongoing contributions to public and railroad safety throughout this region."
Funds will be spent primarily on educational material distributed to thousands of children and adults during presentations and at community events between now and the fall of 2012 when Amtrak service commences along the line. At that time, the 32-mile segment will host many more trains operating at considerably higher speeds necessitating a major outreach to alert the public about the dangers of trying to beat trains at railroad crossings and trespassing such as walking and operating recreational vehicles on private railroad property. Among the items given away at Maine Operation Lifesaver events are brochures targeted to various groups, Maine railroad trading cards, pencils, bookmarks, coloring and activity books, and key chains. Each item carries the railroad safety message.
Maine Crossing Incidents
Note: Maine Operation Lifesaver debuted in 1984.
Operation Lifesaver Testifies In Washington On Its Role In Rail Safety
With cutting spending the main topic of discussion in Washington, D.C., Operation Lifesaver, Inc. President Helen M. Sramek recently testified on the organization's role in improving safety around railroad tracks and trains at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials.
"Operation Lifesaver exists because of a startling fact - about every three hours in the United States, a person or a vehicle is hit by a train. We are the only nationwide public rail safety organization whose sole mission is to save lives and reduce injuries at highway-rail crossings and on or around railroad tracks," Sramek testified.
The trained and certified volunteers who provide free Operation Lifesaver safety presentations nationwide are one of the nonprofit group's greatest strengths, Sramek noted. Asserting that safety is a shared responsibility between the public and private sectors, Sramek discussed Operation Lifesaver's mission to carry out its railroad public safety information and educational programs in all 50 states.
She noted several reasons why Operation Lifesaver's contributions are important, including:
"In the four decades since its founding in 1972, OLI's grassroots network has become part of the national rail safety solution through partnerships, presentations, organized media events, and more recently, enhanced use of technology through web-based training. I urge members of Congress to maintain your investment in this national Operation Lifesaver program," Sramek concluded, "because as the need for safe transportation grows, so does the value of Operation Lifesaver."
New PSAs Rolled Out Promoting Rail Safety
Operation Lifesaver has produced and is distributing a new set of television and radio public service announcements (PSAs) nationwide. They demonstrate to pedestrians and drivers how to use common sense around tracks and trains. The PSAs use humor to convey a serious message about train safety to young adults and families. The campaign, entitled "Shark," compares staying away from railroad property as being just as smart as staying out of shark-infested waters and other dangerous practices.
Click this link www.oli.org/shark to view and listen to the new PSAs.
FRA Releases Demographic Report on Rail Trespasser Fatalities
Trespassers account for the largest number of fatalities in the railroad industry – approximately 500 per year. In order to better understand who is trespassing, their locations, and the reasons they are on railroad property, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a report using three years of reported trespasser fatalities. Medical examiners and coroners across the country were surveyed, and based on the best information available from those who elected to participate in the study, the average trespasser is most often a 38-year-old Caucasian male under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, with a median household income of $36,000. More than 25 percent did not graduate from high school and 18 percent were determined to be suicides.
The report, Rail-Trespasser Fatalities: Developing Demographic Profiles, includes a state-by-state breakdown and shows California and Texas recording the highest number of such events. The report strongly recommends additional demographic analysis to reinforce and expand on these results in order to develop targeted educational and outreach programs and law enforcement initiatives to reduce the number of rail trespassing incidents.
The report is available at www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safety/tdreport_final.pdf
Maine Operation Lifesaver, Inc.
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The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition to hear Costa Mesa's appeal on an injunction barring its outsourcing plan, court records show.
Both labor and city leaders predict the decision will have wide ranging implications for the state's general law cities and their ability to privatize services.
Some cities may flock to a charter, a city constitution of sorts, predicted Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, because the decision will limit their ability to outsource services to the private sector.
"We'll see many cities become charter cities in the years to come," he said.
The city of Costa Mesa appealed the decision that prohibited its privatization plan not for the city's sake, but for other cities that could have benefited from a ruling that may have lifted the injunction, Righeimer has said.
He said the outcome didn't affect Costa Mesa.
"The injunction isn't really as much for us as for other cities," Righeimer said. "Whether it was a published case doesn't make a difference to the city of Costa Mesa."
Orange County Employees Assn. General Manager Nick Berardino said he doubts there will be a sea change toward cities moving to charters.
"There may be some that might," he said, "but I think what you'll find is that because of the corruption and lack of oversight and control that characterizes a charter city with recent events in California, I think most of the public will be very hesitant to leave the jurisdiction and protection of California's constitution."
The decision to not hear Costa Mesa's case he said is a milestone.
"It is one of the most significant decisions for labor in the last several decades," Berardino said. "And it upholds the law which was clear — that general law cities are not allowed to contract to the private sector except for a very narrow range of services."
An Orange County Superior Court judge initially halted the outsource effort after the Costa Mesa City Employees' Assn., backed by the Orange County Employees Assn., sued the city in May 2011.
Recently, the city has backed away from its initial outsourcing plan that began with laying off about 200 city workers. Recently Righeimer said he wanted to work with the employee associations more closely to see where outsourcing was a good fit, and where it didn't make sense.
Berardino said Wednesday's court decision didn't affect his willingness to work with Costa Mesa.
"Even in light of this decision, we're still anxious to collaborate and corroborate with the city," he said.
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Back on February 12, J. Cole dropped Truly Yours—a collection of free songs he described as being "in their raw form, no polish…just a lot of my soul," as a way to thank his fans for their patience. Now, with just under two months before his sophomore album, Born Sinner drops, Cole returns with another half dozen free tracks.
The threat of being sued for raiding Bobbi Humphrey's catalogue was enough to make Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y slap a barcode on the terribly mediocre Live In Concert. It took an out of court settlement for Lord Finesse and Mac Miller to see eye-to-eye over a sample used on what was technically a free mixtape. Those seem to be a new reality Cole is also well aware of, as he opens up the EP with "Cole Summer," rhyming, "This sample was yelling loop me / Ms. Hill, please don't sue me / 'Cause I ain't one of these rappers out here frontin' like he got it / Nigga, I ain't fuckin' got it nigga…"
It combines the penchant J. Cole has established for heartfelt rhymes with some tongue-in-cheek humor over Lauryn Hill's "Nothing Even Matters," as he points out the limitations of his newfound success by noting that the stacks of thousands Drake throws away in the strip club eclipse his. What can we say? Third world rapper problems are still in effect, and Cole isn't above poking fun at himself.
In yet another example of just how fast Hip Hop moves in the Internet/Social Media Age, producer Canei Finch took to Twitter about a day before Truly Yours 2 dropped to reveal that a sample of "Hurt" by The Manhattans powers "Kenny Lofton." The Young Jeezy feature makes this the second time in recent memory Snowman has been paired with another vulnerable emcee over one of Fench's Soul samples. Given the reception of Kendrick Lamar's "Westside, Right On Time," why mess with a successful formula? This one works just as well, with Cole supplying sports-based double entendres that reference '90's NBA combo guard (and current sneaker-head cult hero) Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and the track's namesake, Kenny Lofton.
The radio pandering singles versus heartfelt stream of consciousness dynamic that played itself out on Cole World: The Sideline Story seems to be resolved this go round on both "Head Bussa" and "Chris Tucker." While 2 Chainz one-ups Cole by being his usual, hilariously ratchet self on the latter, both tracks display the balance J. Cole seeks without sounding forced.
Naturally, all of this begs the question of just how much consideration we should give another collection of freebies this close to J. Cole's proper sophomore effort. If you've ever paid for an EP or a maxi-single, then you've essentially already answered your own question. As for Cole's assertion that, "this right here is not a preview of what the album gone bring you," we can only measure these high-quality cutting room floor scraps against an official offering like "Power Trip" and wait until June 25. In the meantime, both casual fans and Cole Stans alike can package these six songs with the first Truly Yours and have something that competes with a lot of albums in the marketplace.
DX Consensus: "Free Album" (the highest possible praise for a mixtape)


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MACOMB, Mich. - "Bizzy Fizz."
Remember that name.
It's the brainchild of Macomb, Mich., teen Skylar Bisel -- who's been creating bath treats and bath candies since he was six years old. Bisel said he stumbled into the idea of creating fragrant bath products while doing a science fair project.
The Dakota High School sophomore said he gave the leftover fizzies to his mom and friends, who quickly demanded more. That's when the idea to make a business out of it sprouted.
His mom, Laura, said she had no idea how big the endeavor would become when she said yes to helping him start one.
Now, nine years later, he's turned into an experienced businessman, inventor, creative director and CEO of "Bizzy Fizz."
He's too young to technically own the company, so his mom signs off on the legal stuff.
But, Bisel says, he's all the brains and brawn behind it. He sells his bath products in stores and online.
Right now, he's busy working on fragrances that might work for celebrities, like Angelina Jolie, and interesting fizzy shapes that might appeal to her children.
Because for the second time in his young life, he's been invited to swag the bags for the Golden Globes.
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When it came to exciting developer and user imagination, Apple's iPhone changed everything. What it change, however, was the degree of difficulty involved in cranking out iPhone applications.
- Smartphone Operating Systems: A Developer's Perspective
by Tom Thompson
Apple's iPhone redefined the concept of the smartphone, but isn't the only smartphone operating system out there.
- MonoTouch and the iPhone: The GPS and Compass Functions
by Bryan Costanich
Building iPhone applications using C#
- Porting Javascript Applications to the iPhone
by Tom Thompson
Tom examines the iPhone's web capabilities by porting a web-based application to the mobile device.
- Inside the Lab: iPhone Software Development
by Jonathan Erickson
Alexander Tyagulsky, coordinator of the ConceptDraw Lab Project, talks about what's involved in releasing an iPhone version of its logic game Aha!.
- The iPhone Application Builder
by Bob Cusick
Why bother writing apps for Apple's iPhone when you can write an app to write the apps.
- OpenGL and Mobile Devices: Round 2
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut a piece of foil 9 by 23-inches. Butter the corners and sides of a 9 by 9-inch baking pan. Line the pan with the foil, leaving an overhang on two sides. Fold the overhanging foil to make them doubly thick. (This will make it easier to lift the bar out of the pan.) For the topping: Whisk the coconut cream with the egg white and vanilla in a medium bowl. Toss the shredded coconut with the flour in another medium bowl. Stir the shredded coconut mixture into the coconut cream mixture. Set aside.
For the base: Whisk the flour with the cocoa powder and salt in a small bowl. Put the cookie dough on a clean work surface and dump the flour mixture on top. Knead the flour mixture and dough together until it is dark and homogenous. Sprinkle a little extra flour on the work surface, and use a rolling pin to gently press and roll the dough into a 7-or-8-inch square-don't worry if it cracks a bit. Put the dough in the prepared pan, using your fingers to press it evenly into the sides and corners. Scatter the coconut topping evenly over the base, making sure you cover the edges well and being sure not to press down so that the coconut mixture lies on top of the dough.
Scatter the chocolate on top and press it lightly into the coconut. Bake until the coconut is a toasted golden brown, the topping seems dry and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool completely on a rack before gently lifting out of the pan by the overhanging foil, about 20 minutes. Slice into 16 square bars.


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Fifteen suspects accused of using food trucks to rig more than a dozen accidents are now sampling the cuisine at a Florida detention center.
The case is part of a continuing crackdown by Florida CFO Jeff Atwater's Division of Insurance Fraud and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) to quell rampant auto-insurance fraud schemes that have plagued the state for years—and siphoned funds from Sunshine State insurers and policyholders in the process.
During the course of a two-year investigation, authorities tracked a Miami-based fraud ring whose routes put a new spin on the term "the lunch rush." According to Atwater's office, the defendants allegedly used the trucks to orchestrate accidents for which they filed more than $800,000 in fraudulent property damage and personal-injury protection (PIP) claims.
It is also believed that the vehicle owners enlisted the help of additional participants posing as insureds to set up more than 12 auto accidents between 2008 and 2010. The division recently announced the arrest of 15 suspects in connection with the venture and expressed optimism about the recent legislative developments in putting the brakes on these scams permanently.
"I am confident that reforms passed this session will help stop fraud at the source while giving us more tools to go after scam artists," Atwater says in a press release. "I will not stand by and let these organized crime rings steal [policyholders'] hard-earned dollars."
Under CFO Atwater's leadership, the division has arrested 166 suspects so far this year. In 2011, the unit apprehended 392 for PIP fraud, which signified a 44-percent increase from 2010.


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xbay wrote:bada wrote:when does the world cup start?
I might join as might be an interesting expirement to see how someone who literally knows NOTHING about the sport can do.
I could not name one player on the US team. Actually are the Americans even in the tourney?
I probably cant name more than two soccer players in the world...
that beckham dude (not sure if he still plays)
and some Brazilian named Rolodingo or Ronaldo or something like that.
June 11 through July 11.
And yes, we're in the tourney. But just like any other year, we'll get through the group stage and then lose. Does Landon Donovan ring a bell? He used to play for the San Jose Earthquakes.
Oh, and for the record, Ronaldo is Portuguese. TMC's favorite neighbors
Thanks for the clarification and info Xbay.
No, never heard of Landon Donovan. Who is he?
Oh, so who is the brazilian guy I am thinking of? Well he PLAYED for Brazil, not positive he is actually Brazilian. It was like 8 years ago or something and I think he was considered one of the best in the world.
Only other soccer player I can think of is Pele... remember him as a kid.
Oh, and I read an article today in ESPN the mag on BART about some italian kid (cant remember his name) that was born and raised in New Jersey but plays for the Italian national team.