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I thought even more colors would be a good idea, don't you agree? I have enough that I can change a few letters and add more color variety to the already fun selection. So the E is going aqua, (actually I think the acrylic color name is "Cloudless").
And here is an S that is going to turn "Green Apple", oh the envy of the other letters! It's a fun project to distract myself, and I get to add even more fun and color to the grey fall days around here. What are you doing to scratch your artistic itch? Post a comment and tell me!
Also I am finishing up a hand painted birthday card for my friend's 1 year old on September 23rd! It's belated but it will still be fun to send it along! She'll be making a scrap book from all the cards she received from her daughter's Card Shower! I love the idea and I have to get it done! More pictures when I get a chance.
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A friend of mine is having a card shower for her beautiful baby who is just about to turn one! I think it is such a lovely idea! What a sweet thing for a mom to do for her little one. I'll bet that looking back on all the memories and sentiments within the cards will be a great way to spend a future afternoon.
Well.. inspiration finally struck for what I might do with the card! Above is just a little sneak peek! A tutorial and more pictures in the next day!
I'm so excited that yesterday I got my hands on the new "Artful Blogging" magazine, by Stampington & Company. Checkout artfulblogging.com to see more issues and even get the ones you missed!
In this issue my favorite artist and blogger, Ishtar Olivera, is inside! With all of her wonderful little creations, from stamp carving to miniatures and doll house creations it is hard to ever get bored looking at her work!
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Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall / Edition 3by Stanislao G. Pugliese
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More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi fell to his death from the stairwell of his apartment building in Turin. Within hours, a debate exploded as to whether his death was an accident or a suicide and, if the latter, how this might force us to reinterpret his legacy as a writer and "survivor." Many weighed in with thoughtful and sometimes provocative commentary, but the debate over his death has sometimes overshadowed the larger significance of his place as a thinker "after Auschwitz."
This volume contains essays that deal directly with Levi and his work; others tangentially use Levi's writings or ideas to explore larger issues in Holocaust studies, philosophy, theology, and the problem of representation. They are included here in the spirit that Levi described himself: proud of being "impure" and a "centaur," cognizant that asymmetry is the fundamental structure of organic life.
"I became a Jew in Auschwitz," Levi once wrote, comparing the concentration camp to a "university" of life. Yet he could also paradoxically admit, in an interview late in life, "There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God." Rather than seek to untangle these contradictions, Levi embraced them. This volume seeks to embrace them as well.
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Preface vii
Prologue: Answering Auschwitz: Levi's Science and Humanism as Antifascism Stanislao G. Pugliese 1
Part 1 Psychology, Theology, and Philosophy
1 "Warum?" Joram Warmund 17
2 Guilt or Shame? Amy Simon 31
3 Primo Levi and the Concept of History Johan Åhr 41
4 Kenosis, Saturated Phenomenology, and Bearing Witness Marie L. Baird 56
5 After Auschwitz: What Is a Good Death? Timothy Pytell 67
Part 2 Humanism and Politics
6 The Humanity and Humanism of Levi Joseph Farrell 87
7 Levi and the Two Cultures Jonathan Druker 103
8 The Partisan and His Doppelganger: The Case of Primo Levi Ilona Klein 114
9 Primo Levi in the Public Interest: Turin, Auschwitz, Israel Risa Sodi 127
Part 3 Literature
10 Primo Levi's Struggle with the Spirit of Kafka Massimo Giuliani 137
11 Ethics and Literary Strategies Sara Vandewaetere 147
12 Literary Encounters and Storytelling Techniques Elizabeth Scheiber 156
13 Primo Levi and the History of Reception William McClellan 169
14 Autobiography and the Narrator Nancy Harrowitz 177
Part 4 Reflections on Writing
15 Writing Against the Fascist Sword Fred Misurella 193
16 "Singoli Stimoli": Primo Levi's Poetry Nicholas Patruno 200
17 Primo Levi's Correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas Ian Thomson 212
18 A Note on the Problem of Translation Ann Goldstein 217
19 Primo Levi: A Bibliography of English and Italian Scholarly Writings, 2003-2010 James Tasato Mellone 220
Epilogue: Primo Levi's Gray Zone: A Sequence of Drawings Terri Bowman 241
Notes 247
Works Cited 283
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has already urged Iran to sign the protocol allowing unlimited and surprise inspections by international experts of any suspect sites.
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley
Better days are coming. They are called Saturday and Sunday. ~Author unknown
I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun. ~Hanna Rhoades, 2006, www.thisgardenisillegal.com
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk
There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author unknown
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.
You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.
No wonder you feel that lost sensation.
You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
~Ogden Nash
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess
Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
~Henry Carey
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs
How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
~Nancy Sproat
On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go in to work on a Saturday. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~Jean Rhys
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe
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Kindness wins with NatsumeThis may be the most charming anime I've ever seen. Instead of endless battles and wars between good and evil we have youkai and humans caring for each other and coexisting. Yes, there is danger, but it can be resolved with intelligence and consideration.
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Vernon Sykes
|Vernon Sykes
Sykes in 2009
|Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 44th district
|In office
January 2, 2007-December 31, 2014
|Preceded by
|Barbara Sykes
|Succeeded by
|Emilia Sykes
|In office
March 16, 1983 – December 31, 2000
|Preceded by
|Pete Crossland
|Succeeded by
|Barbara Sykes
|Personal details
October 2, 1951
Forrest City, Arkansas
|Political party
|Akron, Ohio
|Alma mater
|Ohio University (B.A.)
Wright State University (M.S.)
Harvard University (M.P.A.)
University of Akron (Ph.D.)
Vernon Sykes (born October 2, 1951) is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who has represented the 44th District from 2007 to 2014. He also served in the House from 1983 through 2000.
Sykes served two terms on Akron City Council before his appointment to the House of Representatives in 1983. He also was on the faculty at Kent State University as an assistant professor of political science.
Ohio House of Representatives[edit]
Sykes first served in the House of Representatives in 1983, and served until 2000, when he faced term limits. He was replaced in 2001 by his wife, Barbara Sykes.
In 2006, Barbara Sykes decided to run for state auditor, and Vernon sought the seat again. First facing Patrick Bravo in the Democratic primary, he won with 77.64% of the vote. While heavily favored, Sykes faced DUI charges during the primary election campaign, somewhat dampening his chances.[1] He won the general election against Joseph D. Crawford with 80.78% of the vote.[2]
In his first reelection campaign, Sykes ran unopposed. In the 128th General Assembly, Speaker of the House Armond Budish appointed Sykes as Chairman of the House Finance Committee.[3]
With the 2010 election, Sykes won a third term over Republican Josh Sines and Libertarian Kurtis Liston by taking 77.66% of the vote.[4] With the Democrats again in the minority, Sykes serves on the committees of Finance and Appropriations (as ranking member), Local Government, and State Government and Elections.
Sykes won reelection in 2012, defeating his opponent Ronya Jeanette Habash and earning over 80% of the vote. [5] He was term-limited again in 2014 and succeeded by his daughter, Emilia Sykes.
Initiatives and positions[edit]
As ranking member of the House Finance Committee, Sykes has been critical of Governor John Kasich's privatization measure for the Ohio Department of Development, stating the measure to replace it, JobsOhio, was abdicating too much legislative authority to the executive branch. "This is a new entity and we're trying to make sure we have proper oversight in place."
The former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Sykes has come out against Kasich's biennium budget plan for 2012–2013, stating that he is especially troubled by the cuts proposed to local government, and plans to privatize several state prisons.[6] He stated that he feels as if he has already been shut out of the budget process.[7] Sykes is a member of the budget conference committee.[8]
- ^ Ohio 43 Vernon Sykes Catches DUI charge
- ^ Blackwell, Kenneth 2006 general election results (2006-11-07)
- ^ Four local reps named to Ohio House Finance Committee
- ^ Brunner, Jennifer 2010 general election results (2010-11-02)
- ^ Byard, Katie (7 November 2012). "Sawyer, Sykes win re-election to state legislature". Ohio.com (Akron Beacon Journal). Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ Johnson, Alan (2011-03-22). "Sale of prisons, fewer inmates part of budget plan". Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
- ^ Warsmith, Stephanie (2011-03-16). "Gov. Kasich's budget cuts deep". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ^ Marshall, Aaron (2011-06-16). "Ohio budget conference committee gets good news on state revenues, bad news on Medicaid costs". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
External links[edit]
- Project Vote Smart - Representative Vernon Sykes (OH) profile
- Follow the Money - Vernon Sykes


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By GREG WINTER
Published: March 18, 2001
Tapeworm and botulism have been all but eradicated in this country, and new technologies from freeze-drying to irradiation have been developed to make food safer. But because of changing eating habits and more choices of foods, Americans may be more likely to get sick from what they eat today than they were half a century ago.
The frequency of serious gastrointestinal illness, a common gauge of food poisoning, is 34 percent above what it was in 1948, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not all scientists agree with that conclusion -- some say that food poisoning is as common as in the immediate postwar years, but not necessarily more so -- yet there is no doubt about the scale of the problem.
Every year, the agency says, 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations and 76 million illnesses are caused by food poisoning.
One of those sickened was Taylor Lake Holt, a cheerful 7-year-old boy from Anchorage. Taylor, a cancer patient who had just ended a yearlong ordeal with chemotherapy in 1999, celebrated with a smoothie made with unpasteurized Sun Orchard orange juice. Within a day, he had to be rushed back to the hospital, where it took him four more days to recover.
The juice, it turned out, contained salmonella. The company later explained that it had met rising demand by bringing from Mexico a tanker truck of unpasteurized orange juice, chilled with contaminated ice. The company and regulators agree that this probably caused an outbreak that infected more than 400 people. One elderly man died.
Why, in an age of technologies that protect food, is food poisoning at least as common as it was a half-century ago?
For one thing, people are eating more fresh fruits and vegetables without cooking them, increasing the chance of infection through bacteria or viruses. For another, people are eating more precooked foods, like seafood salads and deli meats, which are more dangerous than traditional sit-down meals served right off the stove or out of the oven.
What is more, the variety of foods available has expanded considerably faster than the government's ability to inspect them. In the last decade, grocery stores have doubled the number of items they stock, from every corner of the world, some carrying new organisms that scientists still cannot identify, much less treat.
In fact, the amount of contaminated food that reaches store shelves only to be recalled for posing health risks has reached its highest level in more than a decade.
''We do have a real problem,'' said Joe Levitt, food safety director for the Food and Drug Administration.
Amid the proliferation of foods, the F.D.A.'s resources to scrutinize them have scarcely changed, often making consumers the first to test a product's safety. A healthy person can withstand most infections, but older people have weaker immune systems and the population is aging, leading many scientists to worry that more Americans are becoming more susceptible to food-borne illness.
''We are the canaries in the coal mines,'' said Dickson Despommier, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. ''The moment someone gets sick, we say, 'Don't eat that food.' It's a miracle that the system doesn't break down more.''
Unappealing though they may be, many contaminated products recalled last year, from batches of moldy Gatorade to ammonia-tainted ice cream, do not pose serious threats to health, manufacturers say. When outbreaks do occur, the food industry adds, better surveillance has quickened the ability to track down the cause, helping to make the nation's food supply, already the safest in the world, more trustworthy than ever.
And the industry says it has made much progress in making food safer. In fact, the illnesses caused by contaminated juice came in spite of stringent new F.D.A. rules for the juice industry in the wake of earlier outbreaks. And Sun Orchard, an Arizona company, had already increased safety by steam-cleaning oranges and bathing them in chlorine to kill bacteria.
Although much of the fear surrounding food safety focuses on meat and poultry, especially beef, the General Accounting Office estimates that 85 percent of food poisoning comes from the fruits, vegetables, seafood and cheeses that are regulated by the F.D.A. and claim a larger share of the American diet each year. And poisoning from such foods can be every bit as deadly as that from meat and poultry.
Still, the F.D.A. has less than a tenth of the inspectors of the Department of Agriculture, which regulates the meat and poultry industry. So while U.S.D.A. inspectors examine meat before it gets to grocery freezers, the F.D.A. must increasingly rely on the companies it regulates to keep their factories clean and their products safe.
Now, with slightly more than 400 inspectors to ferret out violations in 57,000 plants across the nation, the F.D.A. inspects food manufacturers about once every eight years. Some health officials, consumer advocates and epidemiologists doubt that without more of a presence the F.D.A. can catch contaminated food at the source and prevent it from getting into the food supply.


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New York: The Big City (1981), page 6. Will Eisner.
Will Eisner's transition from superhero comics production lineman to game-changing action comics auteur to early master of the graphic novel is really something of a stunning career path when you think about it. It happened over such a long period of time that it isn't seen as the kind of bold, unexpected move David Mazzucchelli's sudden dismissal of Marvel heroes for one-color art comix is; but past Mazzucchelli there isn't really anyone else who's had a career in comics that traced so many disparate paths. Imagine, for context, Bryan Hitch cranking out Blaise Larmee-esque underground webcomics 10 years from now, or Jim Lee announcing his intent to take the reins as the new artist of Prison Pit.
What's really stunning about Eisner's many transitions as a comic book maker, however, (and let's not forget his extended sojourns as a professor of comics and an artist of sequential-art instruction manuals for no less an institution than the United States Army while we're at it) is that he never really reinvented the wheel, instead following a remarkably smooth and consistent progression from project to project, gig to disparate gig. The Mazzucchelli comparison is useful here as well: While even the smallest traces of the superhero artist who drew Frank Miller's "Born Again" are barely visible in the work of the graphic novelist who gave the world Asterios Polyp, this page from Eisner's early-'80s graphic novel prime is immediately, firmly recognizable as the product of the same hand that created The Spirit more than 40 years prior. More impressive still is the way Eisner uses the same bag of tricks he assembled in his decade as the auteur of a weekly (weekly!) superhero comic book on this little slice of understated, observational "serious" comics.
Eisner's approach to that staple of action comics, the fight scene, has been incredibly influential (and occasionally downright ripped off) in the decades since he first brought it forth, but nobody could ever do it quite like he did. The acme of the approach is leaving the figures alone, allowing their actions and interactions the reader's full attention while paring away any and all excess visual information. It works so well in Eisner's comics for a few reasons. First is his almost preternatural understanding of gesture: it's been stated enough times to fill a dictionary that Eisner's way with expressive body language was influenced by a childhood spent around the Jewish theater, but what's important is that no one before Eisner and very few since have been able to isolate every theatrical flourish of a character's physical form at its apex, every action at the height of its motion and its distortion of the human figure. Each shot on this page is as much an action shot as anything out of The Spirit, centered fully around the particularities of a figure in conflict — but here the figure simply takes out and flips a coin, and the conflict is not that of man and man, but man and drainage grate. A reach into a pocket becomes a bowlegged contortionist act, and a shrug of the shoulders something out of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Not only does Eisner find these expressive moments, he amplifies them with a cartoonist's eye for subtle exaggeration, the simplicity of his straight-on framing pushing the eye to a greater consideration of the facial expressions, wrinkled drapery, and scattered accessories that emphasize the anatomical basics of each movement. Though the single figure's motion is meticulously tracked over the course of these twelve panels, with each body part and prop assigned a new role in every panel, some action to perform between every picture, this is far from animation. Rather than using comics to create a perpetual-motion machine, Eisner creates picture after fully developed picture, with the figure enacting a completely different gesture and emotion in each. It's just done so smoothly and consistently from frame to frame that the motion is tangible nonetheless.
Ever the educator, Eisner treats this page as a strict lesson in formalism, stripping away all but what is absolutely essential and then blowing it up to proportions that can only be described as cartoonish. Comics art at its best is always a dance between minimalism and maximalism, and that relationship between the two is expressed beautifully here, a simple truth to go with subject matter that in lesser hands would be banal, but here becomes something to be pored over and marveled at.
Excellent and thorough dissection Matt as usual. This sure is a nice looking comics page. I think Eisner's reputation has dipped over the last decade but it surely only needs a round of astute archival republishing to reinstate him as top-rank comics creator.
good stuff, thanks
@Francis I think the lit-comics boom hurt Eisner just because his writing was something people lauded him for when he'd gotten to the idea of "serious comic book stories" before most others. But it's really not his strongest point: he's one of the all-time best cartoonists and yet he's constantly positioned as one of the literary greats in comics, like Harvey Pekar or something. He's also a touchy subject for critics because Gary Groth nailed the few things that aren't good about his comics so astutely. I think an Eisner art book or even one of those artist's editions might help people to see him with new eyes, as an amazing visual-artist-in-comics above all else.
I'd agree. I think you could make the same argument for the EC comics that were seen as the apotheosis of the medium until quite recently. A lot of that prose now seems lame and over-carbonated. Which isn't to say that they don't have huge merit as works of visual storytelling.


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The fundamental role of competition in the ecology and evolution of mutualisms
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Published: Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 4:57 p.m.
Ashamed of City Commission
Dear Gainesville city commissioners:
I have had it with the incredible lack of leadership from all of you!
Your leadership is not based on your pay. I know many people who would be happy making $30,000 a year and living great on just that money alone.
You ran, got yourselves elected, and have let the people down again and again. And this time it is truly a disgrace!
The whole economy is depressed. Folks are out of work and losing homes, lacking shelter and just looking for a meal. They want food, sustenance, a piece of bread or anything!
A place in our city is willing to give them food without getting anything in return. Yet this place is asked by you city commissioners not to give food to too many people!
I was a business owner and rented a store on Southwest Second Avenue. I was there seven days a week. So-called homeless "bums" would come by daily and sometimes ask for food. No one was mean or evil.
What right do you have, as officials, to deny others food? This is an awful reflection on Gainesville and on you as individuals.
All "those" people who are against the many homeless; let them step up and give a parcel of land, a facility or money. You folks need to work together on this.
I am embarrassed as a Gainesville resident to have this happening in such a small community with so many folks who have the resources and time to work toward a solution.
Let the people eat!
You ran for these positions, now it is up to you to do the right thing.
Lynn O'Keefe,
Long VA backlog mistreats vets
In response to Carlos Rainwater's letter of July 27:
He states: "A backlog of 400,000 cases nationwide is unacceptable and the complexity of the processes imposed on the VA need streamlining. No veteran or dependant should have to wait months, sometimes years for a claim to be decided."
The backlog he mentions is not a correct number. The New York Times reported two weeks ago that the 400,000 claims are for "post traumatic stress disorder" cases from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This does not include other claims: only PTSD claims!
This number also does not include the prior conflicts and claims by veterans from Vietnam, the Gulf War, and even further back from Korea and World War II. One only needs to read the complete figures to realize there are far more than 400,000 backlogged.
As a former administrator, it is certain that any time Rainwater was in presence of VA staff they were on their toes. Rainwater would have been more informed if he had been invisible and able to witness the rudeness of some of the staff responses to veterans; not all, but many!
I am a service connected disabled veteran from the Vietnam era. I waited nearly five years for my claim for PTSD to go through. I find it hard to accept Rainwater's comments as accurate. We keep getting inaccurate information from those in control.
Jay Herron,
A crisis of costs
The health care crisis is not so much about health insurance as it is about health care costs. As a supporter of free market capitalism, I believe doctors should make what the market can bear.
However, our health care system is not a free market, and Obama's plan will make it even less so.
So how much should doctors make in our social health care system?
The doctor profession is close to a guarantee of at least upper-middle income status for even the worst performing doctors. For specialists, "obscenely wealthy" is typical, as indicated by numbers of vacation homes, yachts, airplanes, kids in private schools and fancy cars in multiple car garage homes.
While the health care debate focuses on fragile hospital profits and insurance rates, there is little discussion about the massive transfer of wealth from a large group of hard-working Americans to hard-working doctors through the massively bureaucratic, overly regulated and costly health care insurance industry. This monster bureaucracy essentially fixes health care costs that support doctor incomes and condemns prices to steady annual increases.
If we are going to have socialist medicine then doctors should have to accept socialist-style remuneration.
Some argue that "doctors work hard," "have student loans to pay," "spent a long time in school," "might leave medicine" or "not seek to become doctors." I don't buy those arguments. Perhaps society doesn't need those doctors who are only drawn to medicine for the virtual guarantee of obscene income.
If we are heading toward government run, socialist health care system, then perhaps it is time for our doctor comrades to accept more affordable civil servant salaries.
Bruce Welt,
Yes, we can fight for WUFT
In response to Jeannine Brady's eloquent letter (July 30th) regarding the importance of preserving the current programming on Classic 89 (WUFT-FM): We do have "an opportunity for community recourse," to quote her letter.
There is an online petition currently in place to provide a voice to everyone who wishes to continue the broadcasting of Classic 89 as it currently exists on analog radio.
This petition is available through a community-created Web site dedicated to the preservation of Classic 89. The address for the site is: http://www.classicgvl.org/
For those who wish to sign the petition, please follow all directions carefully, as there is more than one step required in order to ensure security and validity of each entry.
Thank you to all those in the community who have demonstrated interest in and support of Classic 89!
Sue Yelton,
Democracy in reverse is insane
The metamorphosis of the Democratic nebula to that of the Republicans' forming state House District 22 impresses me as a cancerous growth rather than a representation of the political aspirations of the residents of the counties that make up the district. Why is such an insane demographic patchwork acceptable to otherwise sane people?
It seems that in American democracy the fourth echelon politicians are allowed to select their own constituents; that is democracy in reverse at the grassroots. It defies the "proposition that all men are created equal," when constituents are preselected for a preference rather than they doing the selecting because of their preferences.
Would it be possible to propose an amendment to the Florida Constitution to restrict a district to either the borders of one county or those of a few adjacent counties?
Nader G. Vakili,
Lake City
Clean energy now
How can we not want clean energy? Renewable energy such as solar and wind work efficiently for us without destructive and long-lasting side effects.
It's time to do the right thing and help the economy recover as well. Even folks in oil-rich countries are going green. I hope our legislators will pass clean energy legislation now.
Alice Gridley,
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ORLANDO -- More than 80 people were arrested in a federal sweep of four companies that allegedly arranged fraudulent marriages to earn immigrants citizenship, even organizing wedding photos with bridal gowns and elaborate, but fake, wedding cakes, federal officials said Friday.
The immigrants allegedly paid as much as $10,000, while the American citizens were offered $2,000 or $2,500, U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill said. Officials said the couples were "coached" on how to pass immigration checks with fake answers, and in some cases didn't even share a common language with their purported spouse. Immigrants, Americans and company officials were among the 83 arrested.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were tipped off in many instances by officers from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who review each citizenship-conferring marriage to ensure legitimacy. At least one of the businesses kept a standing wedding showroom in its office, complete with a prop cake, an assortment of 10-15 wedding dresses and table settings never dirtied with dinner or drink.
"What we've seen in the past generally is that a person will meet someone, that person might be desperate for some money, willingly engage in a sham marriage and then they go their own ways," O'Neill said. "Here, you can see this was much more sophisticated. They incorporated businesses, they obviously sought out people, people came in."
Robert Weber, special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Tampa, characterized the fraudulent marriages as a threat to national security.
Officials said some of the immigrants had criminal records, ranging from burglary to battery, drug offenses, domestic violence and even aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
They were primarily from Central America and South America, though at least one of the immigrants was from Morocco.
The four companies that allegedly arranged the marriages were incorporated as immigration assistance services. They were: All Kind Services, A-3 Services, American Solutions and Services -- all based in the Orlando area -- and Power of Attorney, based in Daytona Beach. Officials said more arrests were expected.
Two people behind Power of Attorney, Larry Humm and Natalia Humm, pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy and fraud charges. She is appealing a nearly four-year prison sentence for allegedly masterminding the scheme, while he received three months probation in exchange for cooperating with authorities.
Those arrested were from Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, Sarasota, Cocoa Beach and Fort Myers.
Weber warned ICE was stepping up enforcement of marriage fraud. The agency investigated more than 5,200 such cases in 2006 and first half of 2007, up from about 2,300 in 2004.
"The bottom line: If you commit marriage fraud, whether as a United States citizen or one illegally in the country, you will become an ICE investigative target and be held accountable for such criminal activity," Weber said.
The alleged operators were charged with establishing a commercial enterprise to evade immigration laws, punishable by up to five years in jail. The couples, including the Americans, face charges of knowingly entering into a fraudulent marriage to evade immigration laws, also carrying a maximum five-year penalty.
No telephone listings could be found for three of the companies. A message left at American Solutions and Services late Friday afternoon was not immediately returned.
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Leonid Rozhetskin
|Leonid Rozhetskin
Леонид Рожецкин
August 4, 1966
Leningrad, Soviet Union
|March 16, 2008 (aged 41)
Jūrmala, Latvia
|Body discovered
|Latvian Forest
|Russian, American
|Harvard Law School
|Alma mater
|Columbia University
|Lawyer, financier
|Years active
|Net worth
|"Several hundred million dollars"[1]
|Natalya Belova
|1 son
Leonid Borisovich Rozhetskin (Russian: Леонид Борисович Рожецкин, born August 4, 1966; disappeared March 16, 2008) was a financier and lawyer who went missing under suspicious circumstances after disappearing from his villa in Jūrmala, Latvia.[1][2] In 2013, remains found nearby the year before were confirmed to be Rozhetskin's.[3]
Early life and education[edit]
Rozhetskin was born in 1966 to a Jewish family in Leningrad, Soviet Union; he and his mother Elvira emigrated to the United States in 1980,[1] where he became a U.S. citizen. Rozhetskin was a "brilliant student", winning scholarships to Columbia University, where he graduated with distinction.[1] In 1990, Rozhetskin graduated cum laude[citation needed] from Harvard Law School.
Rozhetskin received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University,[citation needed] for teaching Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates during the 1989-90 academic year.
Legal career[edit]
Rozhetskin began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Stephen V. Wilson, a federal judge in Los Angeles, California; he then joined the law firm White & Case.[1]
At the age of 26, Rozhetskin returned to Russia, first as a lawyer at White & Case's Moscow office, and then as the head of his own law firm,[1] representing clients such as the International Finance Corporation (a division of the World Bank), Credit Suisse, Morgan Grenfell and The Moscow Times.[citation needed]
Career in investments, mining and media[edit]
Rozhetskin "amassed his fortune in the mobile phone industry during Russia's privatisation of telecom companies."[2] In 1995, Rozhetskin's focus shifted from the law to financial ventures. Rozhetskin was part of a group that founded Renaissance Capital, Russia's first investment bank, in partnership with Boris Jordan, an American of Russian origin, and New Zealander Stephen Jennings.[1]
In 1998, Rozhetskin left Renaissance Capital to co-found the independent venture capital firm LV Finance. With help from Leonid Reiman, LV Finance secured 25% of MegaFon at the time Reiman was Russia's telecommunications minister.[1] In 2003, Rozhetskin sold the MegaFon stake to Alfa Group.[1]
From October 2001 until January 2005, Rozhetskin served as Executive Vice Chairman of Norilsk Nickel, Russia's largest mining company and the world's largest miner of nickel and palladium metals.[citation needed] Rozhetskin was also a board member and founding shareholder of City A.M., London's first free daily business newspaper.
Rozhetskin founded a production company called L + E Productions with Eric Eisner, son of former Disney executive Michael Eisner. Through L + E Productions, he was credited as a producer of Hamlet 2; he was also credited as an executive producer of the 2009 film Boogie Woogie.[4]
Personal life[edit]
Rozhetskin married model Natalya Belova, who gave birth to their son in 2005.[2] According to The Sunday Times (and other sources[2]), Rozhetskin's friends suspected he lived a closeted life, prompted by what the newspaper called Russia's "machismo and deep-seated homophobia"; the "extraordinary lengths to [he went to] conceal his homosexuality included withholding the truth on the subject from his mother, who characterized claims of her son's homosexuality as a "smear campaign."[1]
Disappearance and death[edit]
Rozhetskin was last seen on the night of his disappearance by two men who were picked up at his villa by a taxi that took them to a club called XXL, Riga's largest gay nightclub.[1] Many Western media sources quickly assumed he was dead,[1][2][5] although the Russian press claimed he was living in California under the Federal Witness Protection Program.[6]
In 2012, a body found in a forest near Tukums was that of Rozhetskin, according to preliminary DNA tests;[7] these findings were confirmed in November 2013.[3]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Leonid Rozhetskin: Russia's missing tycoon". The Sunday Times. June 28, 2009. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
- ^ a b c d e KGB plot fears as London oligarch vanishes and traces of blood are found in his mansion, Mail Online, March 23, 2008
- ^ a b Stewart, Will (17 November 2013). "Body found in remote Russian woods IS missing City AM tycoon... but was he victim of mafia hit?". MailOnline. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ Leonid Rozhetskin at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ City AM backer Leonid Rozhetskin feared dead, Telegraph, March 25, 2008
- ^ В Лондоне исчезла жена Леонида Рожецкина (Russian) from an RBC Information Systems website
- ^ Gain, Bruce. "Missing Americans body a DNA match in Latvia". www.crimelibrary.com. Retrieved 18 October 2012.