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It took less than 90-seconds.
Diamant says he got a call Saturday morning telling him his truck had been recovered in south Houston. It had been completely stripped.
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Houston police's auto theft division says month after month, trucks are the most stolen vehicles in our area.
Officials said they're easy to steal. Some of them are used for human smuggling, but most are stolen for parts.
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Inside Collection (Textbook): High Performance Computing
In all of the above examples, we have focused on the mechanics of shared memory, thread creation, and thread termination. We have used the
sleep( ) routine to slow things down sufficiently to see interactions between processes. But we want to go very fast, not just learn threading for threading's sake.
The example code below uses the multithreading techniques described in this chapter to speed up a sum of a large array. The hpcwall routine is from (Reference).
This code allocates a four-million-element double-precision array and fills it with random numbers between 0 and 1. Then using one, two, three, and four threads, it sums up the elements in the array:
#define _REENTRANT /* basic 3-lines for threads */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#define MAX_THREAD 4
void *SumFunc(void *);
int ThreadCount; /* Threads on this try */
double GlobSum; /* A global variable */
int index[MAX_THREAD]; /* Local zero-based thread index */
pthread_t thread_id[MAX_THREAD]; /* POSIX Thread IDs */
pthread_attr_t attr; /* Thread attributes NULL=use default */
pthread_mutex_t my_mutex; /* MUTEX data structure */
#define MAX_SIZE 4000000
double array[MAX_SIZE]; /* What we are summing... */
void hpcwall(double *);
main() {
int i,retval;
pthread_t tid;
double single,multi,begtime,endtime;
/* Initialize things */
for (i=0; i<MAX_SIZE; i++) array[i] = drand48();
pthread_attr_init(&attr); /* Initialize attr with defaults */
pthread_mutex_init (&my_mutex, NULL);
pthread_attr_setscope(&attr, PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM);
/* Single threaded sum */
GlobSum = 0;
for(i=0; i<MAX_SIZE;i++) GlobSum = GlobSum + array[i];
single = endtime - begtime;
printf("Single sum=%lf time=%lf\n",GlobSum,single);
/* Use different numbers of threads to accomplish the same thing */
for(ThreadCount=2;ThreadCount<=MAX_THREAD; ThreadCount++) {
GlobSum = 0;
for(i=0;i<ThreadCount;i++) {
index[i] = i;
retval = pthread_create(&tid,&attr,SumFunc,(void *) index[i]);
thread_id[i] = tid;
for(i=0;i<ThreadCount;i++) retval = pthread_join(thread_id[i],NULL);
multi = endtime - begtime;
printf("Sum=%lf time=%lf\n",GlobSum,multi);
printf("Efficiency = %lf\n",single/(multi*ThreadCount));
} /* End of the ThreadCount loop */
void *SumFunc(void *parm){
int i,me,chunk,start,end;
double LocSum;
/* Decide which iterations belong to me */
me = (int) parm;
chunk = MAX_SIZE / ThreadCount;
start = me * chunk;
end = start + chunk; /* C-Style - actual element + 1 */
if ( me == (ThreadCount-1) ) end = MAX_SIZE;
printf("SumFunc me=%d start=%d end=%d\n",me,start,end);
/* Compute sum of our subset*/
LocSum = 0;
for(i=start;i<end;i++ ) LocSum = LocSum + array[i];
/* Update the global sum and return to the waiting join */
pthread_mutex_lock (&my_mutex);
GlobSum = GlobSum + LocSum;
pthread_mutex_unlock (&my_mutex);
First, the code performs the sum using a single thread using a for-loop. Then for each of the parallel sums, it creates the appropriate number of threads that call
SumFunc( ). Each thread starts in
SumFunc( ) and initially chooses an area to operation in the shared array. The "strip" is chosen by dividing the overall array up evenly among the threads with the last thread getting a few extra if the division has a remainder.
Then, each thread independently performs the sum on its area. When a thread has finished its computation, it uses a mutex to update the global sum variable with its contribution to the global sum:
recs % addup
Single sum=7999998000000.000000 time=0.256624
SumFunc me=0 start=0 end=2000000
SumFunc me=1 start=2000000 end=4000000
Sum=7999998000000.000000 time=0.133530
Efficiency = 0.960923
SumFunc me=0 start=0 end=1333333
SumFunc me=1 start=1333333 end=2666666
SumFunc me=2 start=2666666 end=4000000
Sum=7999998000000.000000 time=0.091018
Efficiency = 0.939829
SumFunc me=0 start=0 end=1000000
SumFunc me=1 start=1000000 end=2000000
SumFunc me=2 start=2000000 end=3000000
SumFunc me=3 start=3000000 end=4000000
Sum=7999998000000.000000 time=0.107473
Efficiency = 0.596950
recs %
There are some interesting patterns. Before you interpret the patterns, you must know that this system is a three-processor Sun Enterprise 3000. Note that as we go from one to two threads, the time is reduced to one-half. That is a good result given how much it costs for that extra CPU. We characterize how well the additional resources have been used by computing an efficiency factor that should be 1.0. This is computed by multiplying the wall time by the number of threads. Then the time it takes on a single processor is divided by this number. If you are using the extra processors well, this evaluates to 1.0. If the extra processors are used pretty well, this would be about 0.9. If you had two threads, and the computation did not speed up at all, you would get 0.5.
At two and three threads, wall time is dropping, and the efficiency is well over 0.9. However, at four threads, the wall time increases, and our efficiency drops very dramatically. This is because we now have more threads than processors. Even though we have four threads that could execute, they must be time-sliced between three processors.1 This is even worse that it might seem. As threads are switched, they move from processor to processor and their caches must also move from processor to processor, further slowing performance. This cache-thrashing effect is not too apparent in this example because the data structure is so large, most memory references are not to values previously in cache.
It's important to note that because of the nature of floating-point (see (Reference)), the parallel sum may not be the same as the serial sum. To perform a summation in parallel, you must be willing to tolerate these slight variations in your results.


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Amendment 3 Could Make Smokers Pay More To Puff
October 19, 2006
Amendment 3 Could Make Smokers Pay More To Puff
It took a court order, but an initiative petition calling for increased taxes on tobacco products will be decided by Missouri voters on November 7th. Amendment 2 asks: "Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to create a Healthy Future Trust Fund which will:
1. be used to reduce and prevent tobacco use, to increase funding for healthcare access and treatment for eligible low-income individuals and Medicaid recipients, and to cover administrative costs;
2. be funded by a tax of four cents per cigarette and twenty percent on other tobacco products; and
3. be kept separate from general revenue and annually audited?"
The ballot states that the proposed additional taxes will generate an estimated $351-$499 million annually for tobacco control programs, healthcare for low income Missourians, and payments for services provided to Missouri Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured Missourians.
The issue has sparked debate between proponents of the proposed law change and those who challenge the impacts the new tax would have.
The Committee for a Healthy Future was created to generate support for Amendment 3. The group, made up of health care professionals, physicians, and health care organizations, is championing the law change as an effort to stop the spread of smoking while providing needed financial assistance for medical care for under-served Missourians. The American Lung Association, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society have all lent their support to the initiative.
"The Committee for a Healthy Future's proposal provides funding for programs that treat smoking–related illnesses," said Cindy Erickson, spokesperson and chief executive officer of the American Lung Association of Missouri. "More importantly, for the first time, we can fund programs that will keep our children from smoking."
The committee points out that Missouri has the second–lowest tobacco tax rate in the country and, as a result, one of the highest rates of adult and teen smoking in the country. The proponents also state the constitutional amendment will ensure that funds generated will be protected from politicians and used only to address the deadly impacts of tobacco use and to provide increased access to health care services.
"This is a mainstream, common–sense approach to two of the state's biggest health care issues, namely teenage smoking and access to critical health care services for the most needy Missourians," said Katie Plax M.D., director, Adolescent Center, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine.
However not everyone shares the Committee's belief that the tax revenue will be used as described.
According to Ronald J. Leone, Executive Director of MPCA, there are numerous reasons why Amendment 3 is a very bad idea, any one of which is sufficient to once again convince the majority of voters to reject the outrageous 470% tax increase.
"Amendment 3 is not about smoking or the dangers of tobacco. It's about greed and the government wasting even more of our tax dollars. All you have to do is follow the money", said Leone.
"Amendment 3 is an outrageous 470% tax increase, proportionally the largest in Missouri's 185-year history. More than 82% of the tobacco tax increase is not required to be spent on tobacco related diseases or illnesses", Leone continued.
"Instead, that same 82% fattens the wallets of the greedy hospitals, HMOs and drug companies that have bankrolled the massive and oppressive tax increase. These greedy private companies are trying to hoodwink voters into approving their very own constitutional slush fund", said Leone.
"Since 2000, Missouri has wasted almost $1 billion in tobacco revenue that should have been spent on tobacco diseases and health care. A statewide problem such as health care requires a statewide solution and not the taxing of a targeted minority population by some well-heeled special interests. We're confident that common-sense Missourians will once again see through this slick Madison Avenue style campaign and defeat this outrageous 470% tax increase", Leone concluded.
Also opposing the proposed 80-cent a pack cigarette tax hike is, Missourians Against Unfair Taxes, a group of tobacco wholesalers and retailers in Missouri, who have organized to fight the proposal.
Group members say smokers are being unfairly targeted with a tax hike from 17 cents to 97 cents per pack – or $9.70 per carton. The taxes would fall entirely on consumers.
If Amendment 3 passes, the combined taxes on a carton of cigarettes would be nearly $15. The state taxes would be in addition to the $3.90 per carton federal tax and the cigarette taxes that dozens of cities impose in Missouri. In St. Louis, for example, the cigarette tax is 70 cents a carton. In Springfield, the tax is 50 cents a carton. Local and state sales taxes are also added.
The group claims the public was kept from participating in the drafting of the initiative petition. "The proposal was drafted in secret and the public was shut out," said Jim Boeving, of Missourians Against Unfair Taxes. "The public was kept out because the proposal was designed by hospitals and doctors to benefit themselves." Boeving operates Discount Smokes & Beer in Springfield.
The group points out that last year, the state took in $145 million in tobacco settlement money but spent nothing on tobacco cessation efforts. This has caused Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was involved in the tobacco settlement, to become a staunch opponent of Amendment 3.
Proponents warn voters not to be mislead by information being circulated in opposition to the amendment.
"Big tobacco and convenience stores have aligned to mislead and confuse the public about Amendment 3," Erickson stated. "They have spent decades and billions of dollars to protect their profits by lying to the public so it comes as no surprise that they are at it again here in Missouri."
At issue is the allegation that the State Auditor's fiscal note on Amendment 3 commits taxpayers to $2 billion in additional expenditures. In truth, the auditor's fiscal note and a September 11, judgment issued by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brown and an October 11 decision by the Missouri Supreme Court reached the same conclusion—taxpayers would not be committed to expenditures beyond the revenue generated by the tax. Specifically, they stated:
"The actual level of spending will reflect the revenue realized through the increase in the tobacco tax." (Auditor's fiscal note, p. 8)
"The petition imposes a new tax on tobacco products, distributes only those proceeds and does not divert money from existing funds." (Judgment, p. 5)
"We will never have the war chest Big Tobacco has to fight Amendment 3 in Missouri," said Erickson. "But, we have the truth on our side. Amendment 3 will improve the future health of Missouri by lowering smoking rates, improving health care and keeping children from smoking."


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Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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Jim Tucker on Alex jones Show
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,
it's an instrument for the people to restrain the government. Patrick Henry
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 13th in Switzerland
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Bilderberg 2011 conference location and date revealed: from June 9-12, the Grand Hotel Kempinski in St. Moritz, Switzerland
by NewWorldOrder on March 21, 2011
Its confirmed that the shadowy group known as Bilderberg Group will be gathering this year for its annual meeting at the resort city of St. Moritz, in southeastern Switzerland, June 9-12, but they will have a lot of company. St. Moritz is a short distance from Davos, the site of the regular high-priced meeting of thousands of bankers, political leaders and other notables called the World Economic Forum. But unlike at Davos, where the press is always welcome, Bilderberg still tries to maintain absolute secrecy.
As their exact location for 2011 they choose the Grand Hotel Kempinski in St. Moritz, a luxurious 5 star hotel right at the Mauritius spring, the actual root of St. Moritz itself. It is the only 5 star hotel in St. Moritz and immediately opposite of the cable car station to the ski region Corviglia. The hotel has a direct access to the St. Moritz spa. The sports center and local swimming lakes are within easy walking distance. It was no surprise when trying to book a room around 9-12 June, a message appeared the hotel was closed at this period. This is the usual situation for every previous hotel where the Bilderbergers held their annual conferences.
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Alex said he might go.
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Back we're it began if im not mistaking? ... Brettonwoods now this, it is truly full steam ahead.
Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 13th in Switzerland
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Kind of off topic, but as Bob Chapman is a guest today, I thought I'd ask.
Does anyone else feel like Bob Chapman has been pretty much worthless as a guest the last 6 months to a year?
I like Bob. I like his stories.
The only good thing I've heard from him for about a year now is the Ronald Reagan was gay thing.
It's not so much that he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's more like Alex isn't him the right questions anymore.
Just wanted to know if anyone else feels the same way.
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Quote from: blackwater on April 22, 2011, 02:24:55 PM
Just wanted to know if anyone else feels the same way.
I see him more as "the nice old man" whos been doing this stuff for years and alex talks to him cause he is a good guy, guest and "the confirmer".
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 13th in Switzerland
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As their exact location for 2011 they choose
the Grand Hotel Kempinski in St. Moritz
, a luxurious 5 star hotel right at the Mauritius spring, the actual root of St. Moritz itself. It is the only 5 star hotel in St. Moritz and immediately opposite of the cable car station to the ski region Corviglia.
From 1914 until 1982, the hotel was owned by the Graubündener Kantonalbank
. Following a referendum, the building was transferred to the municipality in 1982. A further referendum saw the hotel reprivatized and was
now owned by the St. Moritz Bäder AG
and the municipality of St. Moritz.
Since 2001, the Kempinski group successfully manages the Grand Hotel des Bains.
Kempinski Hotels S.A. is a luxury hotel group. Kempinski Hotels, the trading name for Kempinski Hotels S.A
., is an independent Swiss delisted S.A., which is involved in a number of luxury hotel and hospitality related businesses, including conference, catering and hotel supplies.
Kempinski Hotels now owns and runs an international portfolio of 62 hotels. A further 43 hotels are either under final development or construction in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia.
Today, Kempinski is majority owned by the Crown Property Bureau of Thailand.
Kempinski is also a Member of the Global Hotel Alliance with currently comprises Anantara, Cham, Dusit, Kempinski, Landis, Leela, Marco Polo, Omni and Pan Pacific, encompassing 160 upscale, luxury, and low-scale hotels with over 46,000 rooms in 41 different countries. The CEO of Kempinski, Reto Witwer, is a Swiss National (2008).
Thai quasi-government agency
responsible for managing
the personal wealth of the King of Thailand
and his immediate family
The current total market value of the CPB as per Forbes is approximately 36 Billion USD
, which
makes King Bhumibhol Adulyadej of Thailand the richest royal in the world
The Graubundner Kantonalbank
(known as Banca Cantonal Grigione in Italian) is a Swiss cantonal bank which is part of the 24 Cantonal bank's serving Switzerland's 26 cantons.
The headquarters are located in Chur
, and there are 76 branches around Graubünden.
The name "
chur" derives perhaps from the Celtic kora or koria, meaning "tribe",
or from the Latin curia.
a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius,
the first known bishop is one Asinio
Saint Lucius
is a legendary
2nd-century King of the Britons traditionally credited with introducing Christianity into Britain
It turns out that there is a quite independent tradition of a
Christian British king called Lucius having travelled to the province of Raetia (now in Switzerland) and evangelised it.
He is even said to be
buried in the Cathedral of Chur and is the patron of the diocese.
This tradition was already recorded in Chur in the seventh century and was not widely known in England before the sixteenth.
Oh last years hotel: Bilderberg Conference June 3-6 2010 Sitges, Spain
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The three rings in the logo of Dolce Hotels
and Resorts ---- and
One ring to rule them all:
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 13th in Switzerland
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bump for bilderberg
Quote from: TahoeBlue on June 08, 2011, 01:14:39 PM
top google article on bilderberg:
Interview with Swiss banker reveals Bilderberg 2011 plans for internet censorship are coming
by NewWorldOrder on June 7, 2011
In an
interview with a prominent Swiss banker by WeAreChange on the 30th of May 2011, the deeply interconnected relations between high level management of Swiss banks and the Bilderberg club are exposed
It becomes
clear that Bilderberg uses Swiss banks for money laundering activities, funding of government overthrows, killings and bankrupting countries.
Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank
and member of the Bilderberg steering committee, is named as one of the important figures with
plans to censor the internet
and shut down one of the last places where free speech interferes with their plans for complete control.
Q: This is a very startling revelation that you are making. Why do you feel the urge to say this now?
Because Bilderberg is meeting in Switzerland. Because the world situation is getting worse and worse. And because the biggest banks in Switzerland are involved in unethical activities. Most of these operations are outside the balance sheet. It is a multiple of what is officially declared. Its not audited and happening without any taxes. The figures involved have a lot of zeros. Its huge amounts.
Q: So its billions?
Its much more, its trillions, completely unaudited, illegal and besides the tax system. Basically its a robbery of everybody.
I mean most normal people are paying taxes and abiding by the laws. What is happening here is complete against our Swiss values, like neutrality, honesty and good faith. In the meetings I was involved in, the discussions where completely against our democratic principles. You see,
most of the directors of Swiss banks are not locals anymore, they are foreigners, mostly Anglo-Saxon, either American or British, they dont respect our neutrality, they dont respect our values, they are against our direct democracy, they just use the Swiss banks for their illegal means
Do you think that the Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz has symbolic value?
Because in 2009 they where in Greece, 2010 in Spain and look what happened to them. Does this mean Switzerland can expect something bad?
A: Yes. Switzerland is one of the most important countries for them, because there is so much capital here. They are meeting there because apart from other things they want to destroy all values that Switzerland stands for. You see its an obstacle for them, not being in the EU or Euro, not totally controlled by Brussels and so on. Regarding values
I am not talking about the big Swiss banks, because they are not Swiss anymore, most of them are lead by Americans.
I am talking about the real Swiss spirit that the common people cherish and hold up.
Sure it has symbolic value, as you said, regarding Greece and Spain. Their aim is to be a kind of exclusive elite club that has all the power and everybody else is impoverished and down.
The Grand Hotel Kempinski in St. Moritz, location of the 2011 Bilderberg meeting
Its confirmed that the shadowy group known as Bilderberg Group will be gathering this year for its annual meeting at the resort city of
St. Moritz, in southeastern Switzerland, June 9-12
, but they will have a lot of company.
St. Moritz is a short distance from Davos
, the site of the regular high-priced meeting of thousands of bankers, political leaders and other notables called the World Economic Forum. But unlike at Davos, where the press is always welcome, Bilderberg still tries to maintain absolute secrecy.
Quote from: TahoeBlue on June 08, 2011, 01:31:07 PM
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, on 5 December 1927
, younger son of Their Royal Highnesses Prince Mahidol of Songkla and the Princess Mother (formerly Miss Sangwal Talapat), and is the direct grandson of His Majesty King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) and Queen Savang. His Majesty the King has one older sister, Her Royal Highness Princess Galayani Vadhana of Naradhivas, and one older brother, His Majesty the late King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
His Majesty became King of the Kingdom on Thailand on 9 June 1946. The Coronation Ceremony came later in 1950, after His Majesty has finalized his education in Switzerland, where he met the aristocratic Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakara, who has since become HM Queen Sirikit. During that time, Siam has become Thailand, and was still unstable since the change from Absolute Monarchy to Constitutional Monarchy in 1932. The King came to the Throne after his brother's death, and was careful not to offend the military government. Since the change to Constitutional Monarchy, the people of Thailand was still in need of a King who can guide the country into prosperity.
Thailand has a very much loved Monarch in King Bhumibol Adulyadej (affectionately call as "Nai Luang" or "Chao Yu Hua" by Thai folks or referred as RAMA IX by foreigners as the Ninth Reign successor of the Chakri dynasty which began ruling of Thailand back in 1782 during the Ratthanakosin era.
Born in 5th December, 1927 and at current age approx. 80 years old, His Majesty King of Thailand had his Coronation held back in 6th May, 1950 and is the cuurent world's longest-serving monarch in the world. However, not many people would know the King was actually born in Massachusetts, US and educated primarily in Switzerland. The King has implemented many Royally-initiated projects to look after the poor and underdeveloped remote regions in Thailand over the last few decades. He even had gave up living in luxuriously decorated Royal Palace and converted converted royal garden in the premises as a agricultural research centre. One known favorite residence of His Majesty was a simple 2 storeyed beach front wooden pavilion, Maruekatayawan Palace which is located in a small seaside town of Hua Hin. During recent years, due to old age related issues, the King is spending most of this time there
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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June 08, 2011, 02:55:40 PM »
The meeting in St. Moritz is a ruse, a farce, a faint. No doubt information of interest will be discussed in St. Moritz, but other more sinister meetings of steering committee members will occur in Geneva, Switzerland, during the time the Bilderbergs are in Switzerland.
In many ways this makes sense. Our focus will be on St. Moritz, there will be Bilderbergs there, but some
additionally meetings will occur in Geneva
, because they believe we do not know about this.
They want us to focus our attention on St. Moritz
, where we will protest and attempt to determine what is occurring inside the meeting,
all the while they are making plans in the relative safety of Geneva.
Various sources have indicated that something is occurring in Geneva
. Most importantly, an individual who works for a security company has leaked that the company he works for has been hired for an event in Geneva from 8 June to 12 June. The company is being secretive about the event, which he claims is odd. He does not know the precise location or who security is for, all he knows is that
the event is being called Operation Romance
Update (06/08/2011): one of our readers gave us additional info on the possible location in Geneva:
Its possible that Nestle or Novartis would provide a private location if they dont rent a hotel.? Nestle is usually hosting the rive-reine conference in Vevey, wich is like a mini-bilderberg of Switzerland. that would be a possibility
Update: lots of discussion going on about the exact location of the 2011 Bilderberg meeting. UK newspaper The Guardian has been know to always report objectively about the Bilderberg Group and
they recently said Bilderberg is gathering this year at the Hotel Suvretta House in St. Moritz.
While there is still doubt on which Hotel they will pick in St. Moritz, far more interesting news reached us which could make the St. Moritz events rather insignificant. Different sources told us there will be a second simultaneous meeting in Geneva. Will they use the conference in St. Moritz as a media shield, to prevent too many unwanted visitors at the real meeting in Geneva? All very interesting developments as we are getting closer to the conference date
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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June 08, 2011, 03:24:15 PM »
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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June 09, 2011, 10:10:10 AM »
The attendee list of Bilderberg is still pretty much the only thing that is not a closely guarded secret, as 120 of the world's richest and most powerful people meet behind closed doors,
this time at the Suvretta House hotel in
Switzerland, a venue which not only boasts a "fairytale castle" design, but also its own "Teddy World."
I am still trying to find out who owns the hotel:
Suvretta House is currently closed.
We are looking forward to welcoming our guests between June 25 until September 4, 2011.
Our hotel is managed by Helen and Vic Jacob, who personally make sure that the wishes of even the most demanding guests are fulfilled.
Anton Sebastian Bon (1854.1915) and Major Goldman build the Suvretta House hotel in St. Moritz.
An establishment with a history, and one that made history, too. A legendary history,
beginning in 1912. Hotel pioneer Anton Sebastian Bon transformed his vision into reality, and had his dream built on the Plateau Chasellas
. Two kilometres away from St. Moritz, far removed from the touristic commotion of the town.
The hospitable house in the mountains soon developed into one of the leading establishments of the world.
Although Anton Bon was approaching 60 when Suvretta House was opened
, he was by no means ready for retirement. On the contrary. Dynamic and full of ideas, he created a fantastic world, an achievement rarely matched anywhere else in the world. Trained in the hotel business, and a veteran of many a renowned European establishment, his goal was independence, to be exact his own first-class hotel.
Initially he and his wife Marie took out a lease on the hotels Bodenhaus and Post in Splügen. They then purchased the Rigi First hotel, and subsequently the Villa Pfyffer in Vitznau, which was to become the Park Hotel. But the landmark of his career as a hotel owner was to be the creation of Suvretta House.
Architect Karl Koller drew up the plans and the foundation was laid on April 22nd, 1911. Work proceeded at an unprecedented pace, with 400 workmen working from dawn to dusk. By December of the same year the hotel was ready for the interior outfitting work to commence. A truly magnificent moment!
Bilderberg gathering at:
Hotel Suvretta House, a property owned by the (Monk St. Clair) family of South African Major Charles Sydney Goldman (18681958), invested as a Member, Order of the British Empire, lived at Sydney Lodge, Hamble, Hampshire
...Following the artist's death, the painting in its frame with Latin inscription
passed to a neighbour of Burne-Jones's, whose descendants, John and Penryn Monck, sold the work at auction at Christie's on April 26, 1963
where it was bought by Luis A. Ferré, a politician and founder of the Ponce Museum of Art who would later become Governor of Puerto Rico.[1] Burne-Jones was out of fashion at this time so its export was allowed despite some objections.
South African-born Major Charles Sydney Goldman M.B.E. (b.1868, MP for Falmouth and Penryn 1910 - 18) was a close friend and admirer of Burne-Jones, and the owner of his magnum opus The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, a vast romantic scene depicting the last scene from the legend Morte dArthur, which now hangs in the Museo dArt, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Charles Sydney Goldman (1868 7 April 1958) was a British businessman, author, and journalist who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1910 until 1918.
Born in Cape Colony, Goldman was a uitlander who spent much of his life in the Transvaal.
As a young man he built up a fortune in mining, using some of the profits to purchase an extensive estate known as Schoongezicht in the Middelburg District
. During the Second Boer War, Goldman was a war correspondent for The Standard. Initially attached to Sir Redvers Buller's relief force, he traveled with them as far as Ladysmith after which he transferred to the cavalry advancing north in order to report on their endeavors. These experiences served as the foundation for Goldman's subsequent book With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa.
Charles Sydney Goldman, 1904.
Angeli Laudantes was commissioned by
Goldman in 1898 shortly before his marriage to the Hon Agnes Mary Peel, granddaughter of the founder of the British Police Force, the Rt. Hon Sir Robert Peel.
Clearly something of a character, he was sketched by Spy for Vanity Fair in 1904.
From 1910-18,
Charles Sydney Goldman served as M.P. for Falmouth and Penryn. He spent most of his life in the Transvaal and developed a particular interest in South and East African mining and had an extensive estate known as Schoongezicht in the Middelburg District.
he became
a great friend of Cecil Rhodes
1919 he purchased the Nicola Ranch and Town site in British Columbia which grew to some 300,000 acres
In England
Goldman lived at Trefusis House, Falmouth until about 1929, moving to the Jacobean mansion at Yaverland Manor by 1946.
Yaverland Manor
My husbands family owned Yaverland Manor from 1939 until about three years ago
so they would have been there when you saw the fig tree! We still live on the Island and it does feel like time stands still in a good way. I would love to have seen the old railway network I bet that was marvellous.
Goldman changes his name to Monck:
Hon. Isolde Sheila Tower Butler1
F, #273198, b. 24 April 1925
Hon. Isolde Sheila Tower Butler|b. 24 Apr 1925|p27320.htm#i273198|FitzWalter George Probyn Butler, 17th/27th Baron Dunboyne|b. 20 Mar 1874\nd. 9 May 1945|p27314.htm#i273139|Isolde Butler Tower|d. 26 May 1977|p27318.htm#i273176|Robert S. J. F. Butler, 16th/26th Baron Dunboyne|b. 20 Jan 1844\nd. 29 Aug 1913|p27314.htm#i273136|Caroline M. B. Probyn|d. 11 Jan 1927|p27314.htm#i273138|Francis F. Tower||p19471.htm#i194707|Laura Butler|d. 30 May 1945|p19471.htm#i194706|
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Consanguinity Index=0.0%
Hon. Isolde Sheila Tower Butler
was born on 24 April 1925.1 She is the daughter of FitzWalter George Probyn Butler, 17th/27th Baron Dunboyne and Isolde Butler Tower.1 She married
Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck, son of Major Charles Sydney Goldman and Hon. Agnes Mary Peel, on 23 April 1949
From 23 April 1949, her married name became Monck. She lived in 2003 at
Yaverland Manor, Sandown, Isle of Wight
, England.1
Children of Hon. Isolde Sheila Tower Butler and Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck
Tasha Penryn Monck+1 b. 7 Apr 1950
Rory Penryn Monck
+1 b. 14 Nov 1951
Fiona Penryn Monck1 b. 22 May 1957
Buy Of The Week: Yaverland Manor
This island home was mentioned in the Domesday Book, transformed into Jacobean splendour in the 17th century and lovingly restored in modern times. Now a piece of living history is for sale. Mary Wilson reports
Wednesday, 8 June 2005
Yaverland Manor
, on the south-east coast - a beautiful, Grade I-listed house, said to be one of the finest examples of a 17th-century manor house in southern England. Its history goes back to Norman times, but it was transformed in 1620 by Jermyn Richards, a local brewer, into the fine Jacobean manor it still is today.
Over the massive fireplace in the 40ft-long, stone-flagged Great Hall is a wonderful mural painted in 1840 by one previous owner, one of the Hamond-Graeme family, depicting the coats of arms of owners up to his time.
"This room is the heart of the manor," says Rory Monck, who is reluctantly selling the house on behalf of his mother, the Hon Mrs Sheila Monck, who is in a nursing home.
"My parents bought it just before the Second World War and farmed here successfully until my father died in 1987," he says. "They restored it beautifully, rewiring, replumbing and modernising, while retaining all the medieval character."
They also joined up the former Brew House to the main house, creating a games room and utility room with self-contained two-bedroom flat over.
After Rory's father died, the land was rented out, but the farmer gave it up two years ago, as he could no longer make money out of it.
"You have to diversify to make it work nowadays," says Rory
. "Perhaps the farm buildings, some of which are modern, some listed, could be a successful equestrian enterprise for someone."
The price of Yaverland Manor - £2.5m for house with garden, farm buildings, paddocks and nearly nine acres - could buy you a three-bedroom penthouse in central London. Or, the price increases to £3.55m for the whole estate which extends to 545 acres.
The Anglo-American Establishment By Carroll Quigley
Chapter 6TheTimes
Beyond the academic field,
the Milner Group
engaged in journalistic activities that sought to influence public opinion in directions which the Group desired. One of the earliest examples of this, and one of the few occasions on which the Group appeared as a group in the public eye, was in 1905, the year in which Milner returned from Africa.
At that time the Group published a volume, The Empire and the Century, consisting of fifty articles on various aspects of the imperial problem. The majority of these articles were written by members of
the Milner Group
, in spite of the fact that so many of the most important members were still in Africa with Lord Selborne.
The volume was issued under the general editorship of
Charles S. Goldman
, a friend of John Buchan and author of With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa.
Cecil Rhodes in one of his wills in 1877 left his vast fortune to Lord Nathan Rothschild as trustee to set up the Rhodes Scholarship Program at Oxford to indoctrinate promising young graduates
for the purpose, and also
establish a secret society [Royal Institute of International Affairs RIIA, which branched into the Round Table, the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the Trilateral, etc -- Ed] for leading business and banking leaders around the World who would work for the City to bring in their Socialist World government. Rothschild appointed Lord Alfred Milner to implement the plan.
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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June 09, 2011, 10:21:56 AM »
Prominent Swiss Politician Calls For Arrest of Kissinger at Bilderberg
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, June 6, 2011
A prominent member of Switzerlands largest political party has called upon federal authorities to arrest Henry Kissinger as a war criminal if he attends the 2011 Bilderberg conference
of global power brokers which is set to begin on Thursday at the Hotel Suvretta House in St. Moritz.
Swiss Peoples Party representative Dominique Baettig wrote a letter to the General Prosecutor of the Swiss Federati
on in which he asked, In the name of Cantonal Sovereignty and independence, but especially of the Justices independence from executive power may it be Federal or Cantonal I ask you to check abroad for Arrest Warrants delivered by various Courts, Judges and also for all valid criminal complaints against the persons who were, amongst others, cited as mere examples in my (enclosed) letters to Mrs. Simonetta Sommaruga, Federal Counselor and Mrs. Barbara Janom Steiner, Cantonal Counselor and of course, to arrest them before diligent extraditions.
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
Reply #13 on:
June 09, 2011, 10:51:46 AM »
So the
Milner-Rhodes-Rothschild RAII / Chatham House Group owns the Hotel
GRANDSON Rory Monck:
Rory Penryn Monck was educated at Harrow School
In this picture is
Grandson of Charles Sydney Goldman
who put up the finance for the building of Suvretta House
in the early 20th c,
a letter was found recently in one of the towers during restorations requesting that the Hotel stays unchanged forever
and I think that they have achieved that beautifully, it is a magical place
Harrow School, known simply as "Harrow",
is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.[1]
Harrow has many notable alumni
, who are known as Old Harrovians, including
seven former British Prime Ministers including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel
(the creator of the modern Police Force and founder of the Conservative Party), and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In addition,
nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross
The school has educated three monarchs: Mukarram Jah the last Nizam of Hyderabad, King Hussein of Jordan and his cousin, Faisal II, the last King of Iraq,
and had among its pupils a large number from the
Thai, Indian, Malaysian and Middle Eastern royal families
A number of members of the British Royal Family have also attended the school
Other notable alumni include writers (including Lord Byron, Sir Terence Rattigan and Richard Curtis), numerous aristocrats (including the
current richest British subject, the Duke of Westminster and the prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury
) and business people (including
DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer
, ...
The actual
name change: Goldman to Monck
WE, Withers & Co. of 4 Arundel Street, Strand, London, W.C.2, Solicitors for
of The Albany, Piccadilly, London, W.i, heretofore
called Victor Robert Penryn Monk Goldman
, hereby give notice that on the
22nd day of February 1939 the said Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck renounced and abandoned the use of his said surname of Goldman
in lieu thereof assumed and
reverted to the surname of Monck which is the original surname of his family and further that such change of name is evidenced by a deed dated the 22nd day of February 1939 duly executed by the said Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck
and attested and enrolled in the Enrolment Department of the Central Office of the Royal Courts of Justice on the 23rd day of February 1939.Dated the twenty-third day of February 1939.
WITHERS and CO., Solicitors for Victor Robert Penryn Monk Monck, formerly Victor (158) Robert Penryn Monk Goldman.
NOTICE is hereby given that PETER February 1939 duly executed by the said John Monk Monck and attested and enrolled in the
Enrolment Department of the Central Office of the Royal Courts of Justice on the 23rd day of February 1939.Dated the twenty-third day of February 1939- WITHERS and CO., Solicitors for John Monk Monck, formerly John Goldman Monk (159) Goldman.
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Re: Jim Tucker: Bilderberg 2011 will be June 9-12, in Switzerland
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June 09, 2011, 02:14:41 PM »
I think we should start planning our coverage for the next years meeting. With the white cloth barriers, you can see how scared the globalists are.
Find out where they are going to meet.
Scout out the area around the hotel for the best viewing point.
Bring the following equipment for documenting who the participants are: Laptop computer, Webcam, telescope
Here is a video that shows you how to connect a webcam to a telescope:
The answer to 1871 is 1776
I am one of the people, not a fictional entity created by an incorporated state issued Birth Certificate.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presented the 26th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction on Sept. 23. Items up for grabs at the 2012 event included walk-on appearances in Newsies, Once and more; lunch with Angela Lansbury; and shirts worn by Hugh Jackman and Ricky Martin.
The outdoor fundraiser, which was held in Times Square, Shubert Alley and along West 44th Street, raised money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and featured a host of theatrical memorabilia donated by the theatrical community. The day-long event also boasted a Celebrity Table, where theatre fans purchased autographs by or photos with their favorite stars from Broadway and Off-Broadway. The well-attended event also included a Grand Auction, where "singular items and opportunities such as walk-on roles in Broadway shows, television programs and films" were auctioned to the highest bidder.
Among the Broadway shows scheduled to have tables were Bring It On, Evita, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Naked Boys Singing, Newsical the Musical, Newsies, Once, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Wicked, among others.
Last year, the 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction raised $547,658, bringing the event's 25-year total to $9,185,327.
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Niagara Gazette — The Lewiston Village Board is hoping the voice of its independent auditor will silence the questions about water rates.
Certified public accountant Patrick Brown, of Falls accounting firm Brown & Co., was invited to review water rates between current village bills and estimates surrounding a possible change to the Town of Lewiston's water department.
In a letter sent to the Niagara Gazette Friday, Mayor Terry Collesano said he, Brown and Village Engineer Richard San Giacomo were able to confirm future rates under town control would be higher for approximately 70 percent of village residents. What's more, Collesano said the village should be able to lower its current rates by continuing to investigate what it currently charges.
"While researching the water rates, (we) found that the Village will be able to reduce the current water rate," the letter said. "The Board is continuing to research the water rates, which will benefit our Village residents."
In the letter, San Giacomo also said residents who turn their water off for part of the year – mainly those who leave for the winter months – would still pay close to $30 per year more for water under the town, due to the tax levied by the county's water district, which supplies both town and village customers.
Brown, who serves as independent auditor for both boards, did not respond to requests for comment by deadline.
The village and town boards have been studying the financial effects of consolidating services and have both provided different figures regarding prices village residents would be responsible for if a switch occurred. San Giacomo said a typical household valued at $100,000 using 6,400 gallons of water would pay $213.05 per year while Town Supervisor Steve Reiter countered by saying the charge is actually $160.97.
Figuring out the reason for the difference would require the two boards to sit in the same room together, which was supposed to happen in late January, though it was cancelled following Collesano undergoing surgery.
But there are theories about where the discrepancy is, and Councilman Alphonso Bax has one of them. He said it's possible the village calculations aren't taking into effect any changes in staffing at the village level from the possible consolidation.
"I think the village's figure could be accurate if they're looking at maintaining the same level of staffing," he said following a Town Board work session Monday. "Ours took into account some form of attrition. No one wants to fire anybody, but these times being what they are, that's reality. We offered to take one of their employees ... and they'd no longer be responsible for billing."
Figuring out the cause of the difference was less important for Reiter, who appeared at his limits concerning negotiations with the village.
Reiter, who also serves as the water department supervisor, said he's tired of talking about incorporating the village into the town's coverage and will leave it up to the village to decide what the next step will be.
"I don't know how we can do it any differently," he said. "The last thing I want to do is force village residents to pay more for their water. All I'm trying to do is give our residents a better deal. With what they're saying the math just doesn't add up."


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Frank Sloan was one of the rare breed of high school coaches in northeastern Kentucky history.
He's actually legendary.
Sloan was a head coach who guided the Ashland Tomcats (and Kittens) to regional championships in three sports — baseball, girls' basketball and soccer — during a career that spanned more than three decades.
He coached something — and sometimes a couple of somethings — for 32 consecutive years from 1973-2005.
Few can say they coached 32 years.
Fewer can say they have regional titles in three sports.
Sloan coached some of Ashland's greatest athletes, players like Drew Hall and Jody Hamilton in baseball, Audrey Arthur in girls basketball and Stuart Smith and Clayton Hill in soccer, to name but a few.
"Ashland always had good kids," he said. "It makes it easier to coach in a place like that."
Sloan didn't mind the pressures that came along with being the Tomcat coach. "I'd rather coach at a place where everybody wanted to beat you. That was Ashland."
Sloan and his wife, Cheri, are leaving Ashland at the end of the week for a retirement life in Hilton Head, S.C. They purchased a home in one of the South's best vacation spots.
"I almost have to pinch myself still," he said.
But Sloan said he'll never forget his days of coaching Ashland sports. His journey started in 1973 when Rex Miller called and told him about an opening to teach German. Sloan's plan was to being a graduate assistant coach for Morehead State soccer, where he had been a player for the Eagles.
"I was interviewed on a Friday and teaching by Tuesday," he said. "What a better place to be than Ashland? They were strong athletically and academically."
Sloan said when he was a freshman in high school his goal was to become a coach and teacher. He realized that dream right out of college.
It wasn't long until he was coaching at Ashland, going to Putnam Junior High School to coach football and basketball.
Sloan took over the Tomcats' high school baseball program in 1976 and inherited some outstanding players, including Hamilton, Mark Moore, Donnie Allen, Jon Hart, Scott Crank, Kevin Gothard, Steve Rolen, Daniel Smith, Hall and many others.
Sloan was an outstanding high school catcher in New Jersey so he knew a little something about the game. The players took to his disciplined style but he was always quick to give credit where credit is due.
"Seventy-five percent of being an effective coach is having effective players," he said. "The other 25 percent is discipline."
I was fortunate that Frank's middle son, Jordan, was the same age as my son. We "coached" together during some early youth league baseball. I'll never forget Frank teaching the bunting technique to our players in a back yard. It was so simple yet so thorough — and the Padres became one of the best bunting teams the Ashland National Rookie League had ever seen. He was good with explaining fundamentals to kids of any age. We had a lot of fun that year from the dugout, too, along with our fun-loving head coach Sam Richardson. I'm sure none of us will forget it.
Sloan never bought into the 40-game high school seasons that were starting toward the end of his baseball coaching career. He always wanted more time on the practice field.
"When do those teams practice?" he asked. "That's when you work on things that aren't working. I never understood the 35- and 40-game seasons. Practice is just as important as games. Plus, how many teams have enough pitching for that kind of season? Not very many."
Sloan, 62, was always respected by players and opposing teams for his knowledge of whatever sport he was coaching. He won numerous Coach of the Year accoloades, including a couple in baseball from the days of the Ohio-Kentucky Athetic Conference. He was All-Area Coach of the Year several times in soccer, including when leading the Tomcats to their only Final Four appearance in that sport.
Sloan's mother and father moved to Ashland during his sophomore year at Morehead. It became home to him and them.
Sloan's father was in the service and the family moved from place to place. They were stationed in Germany for eight years which is where Frank learned the language. His mother was his biggest fan, going anywhere the Tomcats went and cheering for her son. She was never shy about offering her opinions either.
"Mom was pretty outspoken," he said.
Sloan was in the classroom for 10 years and then became an assistant principal under Herb Conley, who he considered a role model both in coaching and administrative work, at Verity Middle School. Conley and Sloan together returned Verity into a disciplined school with some tough love. "We did a lot of paddling," Sloan said. "Herb was great. He did an amazing job at Verity."
Sloan's success as Ashland's boys soccer coach, besides the Final Four appearance, included coaching Hill, who went on to a scholarship at UK and the year Smith set a state scoring record. He also coached two of his sons, Brandon and Jordan, who were both accomplished All-Area players. Brandon was even named the All-Area Soccer Player of the Year. Jordan was an All-Area soccer player and also kicked for the football team where he made honorable mention All-Area. Frank's youngest son, Christian, was a swimmer for the Tomcats.
"They were all good athletes, which made it easier for me," he said. "I'm proud of all three of them."
Sloan has been retired for several years and many asked him about his coaching records and success. He decided to do a little research in the Boyd County Public Library and was admittedly astounded at the body of work.
"It's not something you think about at the time it's happening," he said.
But it was never about the records for Sloan. It was always about the kids and it was about winning, which he did in every sport he guided.
Frank met Cheri Hambrick in Ashland and they married in 1977. Cheri, 56, is retiring from Crabbe Elementary after 20 years as an instructional assistant this week. The retirement house in Hilton Head is calling them both.
"But Ashland will always be home," Frank said. "I'll be keeping up with what's happening around here. The boys are still here so, hopefully, we'll have a place when we come back to visit."
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On this, the most political weekend of the year in Kentucky, the weekend of the wonderfully unique Fancy Farm Picnic, it's hard to write a column on politics.
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Off to the farm — Fancy Farm. By the time many of you read this, I will be at the event I have been waiting for since the start of my career: Fancy Farm.
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The calendar flips to August tomorrow and some students in the area will be back in school next week.
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My youngest granddaughter, who will turn 5 on Sept. 2, has been fitted with a pair of ankle braces to help prevent her from falling down so often.
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How many times have I said anything tastes good cooked on the grill?
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I made fried chicken with real mashed potatoes and cream gravy the other night to feed the teenagers in the house and me. Not only did they compliment me to my face, one of them raved about how I'm the queen of fried foods.
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AUGUSTA — If you want to drink a pint of Guinness before 9 a.m. on a Sunday when it's St. Patrick's Day in Maine you can now, thanks largely to a good story.
One tavern owner — a long-time Republican — suggested the idea to Rep. Barry Hobbins, D-Saco, last winter, and just in the nick o' time a bill extending drinking hours to the wee hour of 6 a.m. when St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday was signed into law by Maine Gov. Paul LePage.
The measure ended up benefiting bars all around Maine, but the change was suggested mainly to preserve a long-standing tradition at a single pub in Saco, Hobbins said while promoting the bill.
The law change was just one in a host of bills — some passed into law, some not — offered up in 2013 that were based largely on a story or two or even a tall tale told to a lawmaker.
"A good story always beats the facts," said George Smith, a Maine outdoors writer and former long-time executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine. "You try to have some factual basis, but a good story is a lot better than somebody droning through a long list of complex facts, (and soon) the legislators are all heading down to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee."
Smith, who has done his share of lobbying over the years, said making law by anecdote in Maine is nothing new.
"We get a lot of it in hunting and fishing," Smith said. "Somebody will have one story and it will result in a bill and then you will be starting to change things. It's constant."
Anecdotes often provide easy ways to illustrate an issue.
"The problem I think is partly driven by the fact that many of these issues are actually quite complex, " Smith said. "Legislators don't have the background information they need or the time to whip through complex issues, so it's easy to grab a story, make a slight change in the law, add something here and there, without dealing with anything that's complex and presents a lot of factual information."
A law based on an anecdote isn't always bad public policy, Smith said. But sometimes it is, and ends up being reversed later.
That was a case with a 1995 law requiring the closing of fish ladders on the St. Croix River for the passage of alewives.
The fish, important to American Indians, were believed, without any basis in fact, to be undermining a popular bass fishery. For nearly two decades, the native species was kept out of its native habitat, and the ecosystem of the river suffered. Lawmakers overturned that law this session and alewives were allowed to return to the river, Smith said.
An early advocate for the 1995 closure, Smith said he and many other outdoor advocates came to realize alewives had nothing to do with a declining bass fishery in a lake upstream. But even after that sentiment was shared with the Legislature, it took years to overturn, Smith said.
Smith said this year a law dealing with paying special agents to hunt coyotes in a handful of specific deer yards in northern Maine was unfunded, even though lawmakers were never fully informed whether the effort was having a positive impact on deer populations or not. He said the effort cost the state about $45,000, with the per-coyote cost about $240.
"They don't have any information to tell us whether it did any good in those particular yards," Smith said.
Other laws dealing with guns, student debt forgiveness and even subscription sales online all came forward via anecdote in 2013.
Mal Leary, a long-time political reporter and the bureau chief of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network's Capitol Connection, said that while some people might believe anecdotal lawmaking occurred more in 2013 than in past years, even those observations are based largely on anecdote.
Leary said there's little doubt that every lawmaking session sees anecdotes creep into the debate on bills and that often bills that gain the public's attention are ones that include good stories about hardship or injustice.
A State House reporter since 1975, Leary said anecdotal bills are a just as important part of Democracy as the bills that are fact-based. "The reality is, some lawmaker ultimately has to decide an issue is important enough to put a bill in."
James Melcher, a political science professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, said every lawmaking session is peppered with proposed legislation based on anecdotes.
The bills often affect only a small number of people or even a single town.
"It's pretty common that they arise from a unique situation, and since they affect so few people, they tend not to get a lot of attention," Melcher said, nothing the more high-profile anecdotal bills tend to become law only when they cut across traditional party lines.
Examples in the latest session include one that would help veterans get professional licenses reissued more quickly when they lapse during a tour of duty. Such licenses include professions such as electricians and nurses. That bill was based on the personal experience of a returning veteran from Afghanistan.
Another bill, which prevented the public from seeing information on concealed handgun permits, resulted from fear of what might happen to permit holders if the records were left open.
State police and others testified before the Legislature that there were no known instances of any trouble arising from that information being public, but the measure still moved forward.
A third bill required public schools to allow recruiters from the military to visit schools in uniform. While there were no specific cases brought up where schools had denied recruiters in uniform access, the bill went through with broad bipartisan support.
"The other thing that helped some of these bills was being good symbolic politics," Melcher said. "Even if the recruiter issues were not widespread, they are still the sort of symbolic issue that stands for a broader issue or attitude — what political scientists call a 'condensation symbol.'"
Melcher also noted that laws based on anecdotes often conflict with certain political ideals.
"Most legislators would be disinclined to vote against the interests of the military and many would feel unpatriotic if they did," Melcher said. "One irony is that some of the conservatives who voted for the recruiter bill are some of the same ones who are usually strong voices for local, not state, control."
He said the concealed handgun permit issue was one that highlights how the "media's frame" on an issue can be much different from the public's perspective on the same issue.
"The Maine media consistently saw it as a Freedom of Information issue, and as in most cases where there is a case of government restricting access, saw it as a threat to them," Melcher said. "There were a number of columns written from that perspective and editorials as well; they didn't seem to grasp that very few outside the media saw it that way."
And while LePage signed some anecdotal bills into law, such as the St. Patrick's Day Sunday drinking bill into law — likely because it had potentially broad-reaching ramifications beyond the one tavern in Saco — other such bills he vetoed, noting the bills were aimed at helping a single person or correcting a single instance of perceived injustice.
One of the bills LePage vetoed sought to allow a specific doctor to benefit from a student loan repayment program offered by the Finance Authority of Maine by retroactively changing the rules for eligibility.
LePage agreed the doctor, a psychologist/psychiatrist who treats those with traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder, was serving a critically underserved population, but the doctor's disciplines of study were not covered under the FAME rules for loan forgiveness.
Despite being a good story, the anecdote didn't turn into law.
"Changing the rules of entire programs to benefit a specific individual is not something the Legislature should undertake lightly," LePage wrote in his veto message. If the measure had offered structural change to underlying inequities in the program, LePage said he would have more understanding. " . . . Instead, this bill provides on individual with thousands of dollars of direct benefit."


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For additional information or to verify the authenticity of the check, please contact:
Mary Helen Lane
Additional information concerning this matter may be brought to the OCC's attention at:
Information about counterfeit items, cyber-fraud incidents and other fraudulent activity may be forwarded to the FDIC's Cyber-Fraud and Financial Crimes Section, 550 17th Street, N.W., Room F-4004, Washington, D.C. 20429, or transmitted electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com. Information related to federal deposit insurance or consumer issues should be submitted to the FDIC using an online form that can be accessed at http://www2.fdic.gov/starsmail/index.asp.
For your reference, FDIC Special Alerts may be accessed from the FDIC's website at www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2006/index.html. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Special Alerts through e-mail, please visit www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.
Distribution: FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and Savings)
NOTE: Paper copies of FDIC Special Alerts may be obtained through the FDIC's Public Information (1-877-275-3342).
|Last Updated 08/17/2006