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Gov. Broughton ordered the pleasure driving ban but no instructions on how to determine offenders.
Looking back at the StarNews archives.
Jan. 15, 1913: Officers T.M. Hall and J.S. Lane had an exciting moment last evening when they arrested Joe and Jess Mason at the Mason boarding house on Front and Orange streets on complaint of William B. Register, who alleged they had tried to rob him. When the officers entered the room where the two men were they found both of them armed and when the policemen attempted to disarm them and affect the arrest, Joe Mason tired to use the gun. Officer Lane managed to hold down Mason's pistol hand so when he shot the ball went into his own foot. Officer Hall laid out the other one with his nightstick and they were soon in the lockup.
Jan. 16, 1913: Workmen engaged in leveling the old fortifications on the Cape Fear River at Sunset Park brought to light a complete skeleton of a man, supposedly that of a soldier. The bones were placed in a box and will be kept for a while. The Confederates once occupied the fortifications near the new Sunset Park neighborhood as a defense of approaches to the city during the Civil War and it is stated that later Federal troops occupied them and that there was some fighting.
Jan. 10, 1943: New Hanover deputy sheriffs will be instructed to report the license numbers of motorists pleasure driving. Gov. Broughton ordered the pleasure driving ban but no instructions had been received on how to determine offenders. Sheriff Jones said that motorists at oyster roasts or drive-ins likely would not be cited since those places serve food. Since the start of the war, a 30 percent decrease in personal driving had been noted in North Carolina as the state tried to conserve resources for the war effort.
Jan. 8, 1963: The Star's sports section offered a preview of the upcoming junior high school basketball season and here are some of the names mentioned. I recognize several of them, including my American history at Hoggard High School in 1981, Jack Rasberry.
Chestnut, Coach Bob Kennedy: Bill Baugh, Donald Tadlock, Wallace West, John Askew and Jerry Martin.
Sunset Park, Coach Paschal Barrett: Billy Holt, Don Harritan, Jimmy Benton, Dale Lewis, Buddy Bowers, Bill Cumber, Reggie Whitehurst, Vincent Broussard and Phil Oakley.
Tileston, Coach Bob Moore: Terry Blanton, Danny Kelly, Gene Kennedy, John Rouse, Jimmy Barnhill, Steve Meier, Walter Moser, Dean Norman, Joe Pierce and Gene Wells.
Roland-Grise, Coach Jim Hebbe: Jack Rasberry, David Pratt, Bobby Mizzelle, Jay Horton, Lee Clark, Allen Blake, Eddie Wright, Dick Slack, Billy Davis and Bobby Wilson.
Lake Forest, Coach J.P. Miller: Bobby Kellum, Neal Holleman, Larry Boylan, Marty James, Bobby Carmichael, Brent Moore, Mike Simmons, Nelson Potter, John Burdette Butch Martin and Eddie Dill.By 1963 the Star was covering some Williston High School teams, but I have not seen any coverage of the black middle school team.
Jan. 10, 1963: The current YMCA building has its roots in 1963 when a capital campaign was set to begin to raise $500,000 for the building. The old YMCA building was downtown.
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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by triondfootball, Dec 1, 2009.
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That's is about where I place them. I have us picking #15 in draft.
I will begrudgingly admit that the Hootinanies and king sausage Rudy are playing better. But to put them at #9!!!! Above teams with BETTER RECORDS??? AT #9?????
My question to the guy who wrote this article: Just HOW DO you pull that out of your throat when you're done?
hell, i thought i had it pretty close to right this week!
The rest looks ok give or take due to opinion.
I just get worked up over the titans.
You see, I hate them.
It's an irrational thing I know.
Seriously though, #9 for them is kind of high don't you think? I know they are red hot right now, but they are what they are according to their record of W's and L's.
Currently we are at #14.
serious tenn at 9 wow !!!!! the media has been al VY jock strap
after a 4 game winning streak i say we move up a few notches !!!!!
he has brought an 0-6 team back into playoff contention. thats pretty impressive.
Because records don't tell you alot about how a team is playing now. They are playing much better than any 0-6 team in the history of the game. & they darn sure don't look like a 5-6 team today.
7 weeks ago they did, but not today.
The record only tells you how good your team is at the end of the season.
5-6 in the AFC is "playoff contention" in math only..10-6 likely won't make it (and that's if they win out) it's over. It's impressive to be sure, but #9 impressive?...not too sure about that.
As much as it hurts me to say this, putting together 5 straight wins after going 0 - 6 to start the season is pretty impressive.
I have a feeling it would be #9 impressive around here if the Texans did it. Probably #3, since only the Saints and Colts would admitted to being a little better.
actually, if you look at the teams still in contention and their remaining schedules, 10-6 will almost assuredly get them in.
Who's ratings are these anyway? I put very little value in them being they spelled offense "offence."
guess editing isnt my strong suit.
The Texans don't deserve to be rated in the top half of the league right now.
Besides, as always, we all love the ratings when they love the Texans but question their accuracy when they don't. When the Texans start showing it on the field, we'll get more national love. Earlier in the season when the Texans were playing like a football team, some ratings had us as high as 12th.
i had them in the top ten preseason.
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was at a skywest interview that lasted longer than expected way up north so did not show to the Panel part...did make it to the Stampede however.
so sorry again Michelle.
the Stampede was crowded but met others as friendly as I and had a good time!
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Emerging from New York City's vital folk music scene, the Tarriers achieved nationwide success during a transitional period in American entertainment. With their 1956 record of "The Banana Boat Song," Alan Arkin, Bob Carey and Erik Darling became the first folk trio to place a hit single on the Billboard pop charts. However, they should have accomplished more than they did. They had everything going for them: talent, charisma and ambition. The only problem was that they were ahead of their time. Mainstream American audiences simply didn't know what to make of three young folksingers accompanying themselves on guitars and a five-string banjo. The Kingston Trio and the emerging college concert circuit would change all that, but that would be another two years in the future.
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Undaunted by this setback, the Tunetellers regrouped under a new name, The Tarriers, after the old vaudeville work song "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill." Carlton thought the group would benefit from adding another member and suggested Alan Arkin, a friend of his living on the West Coast. Arkin, who earlier made a 10" solo album for Elektra Records, contributed a breezy, flowing style that perfectly complemented the quartet's sound. "Alan brought a strong jazz sense in terms of the harmonic structure and a certain drive," Darling remembered.
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Before they could record as a trio, Rose asked Arkin, Carey and Darling to back up Brooklyn balladeer Vince Martin on "Cindy, Oh Cindy," a song penned by Robert Nemeroff and Art D'Lugoff's brother, Burt. Unenthusiastic about this prospect yet eager to make a record, the trio reluctantly agreed. While rehearsing the song, Darling recognized its melody as "Pay Me My Money Down," a Jamaican rouser in the Weavers' repertoire. The trio instinctively placed Nemeroff and D'Lugoff's new lyrics over the tune's original Jamaican rhythm and brought the arrangement to life. "Cindy, Oh Cindy" became an enormous hit, peaking at No. 9 on Billboard's pop chart and spawning a successful RCA Victor cover by Eddie Fisher.
After working a few engagements with Martin to support the hit, Arkin, Carey and Darling recalled the incompatibility problems that led to Carl Carlton's departure. "We found ourselves singing with yet another singer who could not relate to our rhythmical style," Darling remembered. The trio told Art D'Lugoff they wanted to build their reputation on their own abilities - not as Vince Martin's backup band.
Rose agreed to let the three Tarriers record on their own, and booked a Manhattan studio in late fall 1956 to produce a single. The highlight of the session was "The Banana Boat Song," a fusion of two Jamaican folk songs that Darling first heard Bob Gibson perform in Washington Square. Released in November 1956, it became Glory Records' second national hit, rising to No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart. Again, RCA Victor quickly capitalized on that success, belatedly releasing a single of "Day-O" from Harry Belafonte's best-selling Calypso album.
In early 1957 the band recorded additional material for an LP, The Tarriers, which was released that April. Rose culled two singles from those sessions, "Those Brown Eyes" and "Pretty Boy," but neither one provided that much-needed follow-up hit. A fourth single, "Quinto," was released in September 1957, but it also failed to chart.
By he time the Tarriers' contract came due for renewal that fall, Rose's primary interests had shifted. Acquiring an option on Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, Rose spent much of his time securing investors for a Broadway production starring Sidney Poitier. Reluctant to invest additional funds into recording and promoting the Tarriers after three unsuccessful singles, Rose let the group's contract lapse.
If American record buyers seemed indifferent to the Tarriers' music, the group found receptive audiences overseas. The trio launched a winter 1957 European tour with an extended booking at the Olympia Theater in Paris, following a successful run there by Edith Piaf. A French label recorded one of the Tarriers' sets, which was released on a 10" LP. The live recordings preserved the Tarriers at their peak. "However, it was here, in Paris, that Alan informed us that he needed to leave the group and pursue his acting," Darling recalled.
After completing the tour with stops in Germany, Switzerland and England, the trio returned to New York and an uncertain future. Carey and Darling opted to keep the Tarriers going by recruiting Clarence Cooper, a Virginia native deeply rooted in gospel music. With Cooper on board, the Tarriers' music became far more intense than it had been with Arkin. Despite its power and beauty, the Tarriers' uncompromising new sound (captured on the 1959 United Artists album Hard Traveling) failed to find a mainstream audience.
During an engagement at The Back Room on New York's Sixth Avenue, Darling was contacted by Fred Hellerman of the Weavers. Pete Seeger had just resigned from the group, and suggested Darling as a suitable replacement. With a Vanguard session looming ahead, Hellerman invited him to participate in the Weavers' next rehearsal. Sensing the opportunity of a lifetime, Darling quickly accepted.
Throughout 1959 Darling juggled his schedule to accommodate singing with both groups, but as the Weavers' bookings increased, conflicts became inevitable. When Art D'Lugoff booked the Tarriers and Leon Bibb for a two-week Village Gate engagement starting December 8th, Darling was already committed to perform with the Weavers. Carey and Cooper played the first night of the booking as a duo, but Bibb suggested they could at least look like a trio if they hired a young Juilliard student, Eric Weissberg, to play bass. Weissberg's versatility on numerous musical instruments impressed Carey and Cooper, and they invited him to join the band. Though Weissberg's dry baritone couldn't have been more different from Darling's unique tenor, the Tarriers' vocal blend remained essentially intact. The new lineup later recorded a superb album for Atlantic Records, Tell the World About This.
Both Darling and Arkin reached new professional heights during 1963. Leaving the Weavers in June 1962, Darling formed a new trio, the Rooftop Singers, with his friend Bill Svanoe and jazz singer Lynne Taylor. In early 1963 the group charted a driving No. 1 pop hit, "Walk Right In," and spawned a national mania for twelve-string guitars. Meanwhile, Arkin was the toast of Broadway. His critically acclaimed performance in Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical play, Enter Laughing, garnered a Tony award. Arkin eventually parlayed this stage success into a movie career, starting with his role in the 1967 hit comedy The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
In the meantime, the Tarriers continued building a reputation within popular folk music circles. A Decca recording contract and a residency at New York's The Bitter End provided some stability and recognition, but Carey's growing unreliability threatened to unravel Cooper's and Weissberg's efforts. "Bob was having problems at home and stuff, and he wasn't showing up for rehearsals," Weissberg remembered. Weissberg suggested hiring an old friend, Marshall Brickman, to play bass and serve as the group's front man. Though the Tarriers officially would be a quartet, Cooper and Weissberg actually saw Brickman as someone who could help them carry a show should Carey fail to show for a booking.
Carey's deepening personal problems inevitably led to his dismissal from the group in the summer of 1963. "Bob was getting worse and worse," Weissberg said. "I mean he was just not showing up and was really doing some weird stuff. And so we just had to cut him loose. He was the last remaining original Tarrier, and he had to be let go because he wasn't cutting it, you know, which is unfortunate."
Launching a solo career, Carey recorded a few live tracks for Pete Kameron's FM label and a studio album for 20th Century Fox. He briefly fronted a seven-member folk chorus, the Tiffany Singers, which recorded for Roulette Records. But when the folk music boom suddenly wound down, his performing career evaporated. Carey took a job with The Howie Richmond Organization, a music publisher located near New York's Columbus Circle. "It lasted a couple or three years, I guess," Weissberg said. "And then it becomes cloudy what happened to him, although it's tragic."
Darling remembers meeting Carey by chance on a New York street in the seventies and was disturbed by his gaunt appearance. Weissberg believes alcoholism fueled Carey's decline, but Harold Leventhal, who briefly managed the group, blames drug abuse. Darling is convinced that Carey's low self-esteem and lack of interest in solving personal problems accelerated his deterioration. Sometime between 1975 and 1980 - nobody knows exactly when - Carey's body was found on a Central Park West park bench. "It's really too bad it ended that way for him," Weissberg reflected. "He wasn't a bad guy."
The Tarriers temporarily disbanded in April 1964 when Weissberg left to fulfill a six-month National Guard obligation. Brickman joined John and Michelle Phillips' short-lived "The New Journeymen," then quit performing to write for Candid Camera and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Cooper had surgery to repair a congenital heart condition and spent the summer regaining his health. When Weissberg returned in September, Cooper felt well enough to resume performing. They reformed the group with Al Dana replacing Brickman. This final edition of the Tarriers joined Judy Collins for a summer 1965 tour of Poland and Russia set up by Harold Leventhal. "We bummed around Europe for a few weeks and then came back," Weissberg recalled. "Then I guess we did a few more gigs, you know, but the folk thing was really dying out, and I was really getting hot in the studio scene. So we just decided that this was enough."
Of the surviving original Tarriers, Darling left music around 1980 to work as a therapist, first in Los Angeles and later in Santa Fe, N.M. He resumed performing in the mid-'90s, releasing two albums on Folk Era. Arkin remains one of America's busiest and best-known character actors, logging memorable roles on stage, screen and television.
Each variant ensemble of the Tarriers created superb, timeless music that merits reissue in this digital age. But the Alan Arkin, Bob Carey and Erik Darling trio truly deserves special attention. Unlike the Weavers, whose early records were coated with a lush pop veneer, the original Tarriers brought folk music to the American Hit Parade on its own uncompromised terms. Its success helped pave the way for the Easy Riders, the Kingston Trio and many other acts to follow.


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Orangutans' sleep habits mimic humans
What do you have to do to get a good night's rest?
The apes at the International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo have sleeping down to a simple science.
Sleep is something we all could use a little more of. When you're an active orangutan, you need your rest, too.
Swinging, climbing and just hanging out is all in a day's work for our Indianapolis orangutans. For the majority of their day, they're on the move, exploring the International Orangutan Center.
Even the busiest orangutan needs a nap and Rocky likes plenty of blankets.
"Rocky obviously loves blankets. A lot of them. He will also sleep in a plastic barrel, which is pretty funny," said ape keeper Austin Paul.
At night, orangutans sleep just like us - or at least like we should - capturing a full eight hours of sleep. They make nests to get comfy.
"We like to give them hay and straw, we even give them blankets and sheets and big cardboard boxes are also very popular," Paul said.
Orangutans sleep above the ground, because in the wild, predators would be a concern. In their new home, they only have to worry about who may mess up their claimed sleeping spot.
Azy, the dominant male of the pack, is also the group's protector.
"Azy likes to sleep up high. He likes to oversee everyone else," Paul said.
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Generally, orangutans like to keep a nice and neat bed, spending time making the perfect spot to catch some sleep.
Chances are you will see the orangutans taking a nap here or there when you visit them at the Indianapolis Zoo, so watch to see the straw piled up or a blanket hoarder curled up on a ledge high above the ground.?


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July 23, 2009
China's leaders have studied the role civil society played in the collapse of the Soviet Union and don't want to make the same mistakes. But as the recent closure of a Beijing-based independent think tank shows, when the Communist Party wins, the people lose, say observers.
The Gongmeng group, or Open Constitution Initiative, was shuttered last week for allegedly violating laws that govern nonprofits. The organization was founded in 2003 and brought together human-rights lawyers and academics to research legal topics and take on politically sensitive pro bono cases.
Gongmeng's work was a rarity in a country where authorities brook little public dissent:
- Its lawyers represented victims of the Sanlu toxic milk powder scandal -- which made nearly 300,000 babies ill -- and investigated institutions like "black prisons," which are illegal detention centers.
- Gongmeng researchers studied the Tibet riots last year and concluded the Tibetans were protesting because of failed government policies that threatened their way of life.
- Gongmeng bravely published its findings in Chinese.
Like other nongovernmental organizations, Gongmeng always operated in a legal grey zone of China's own making, say observers. It's impossible to register an NGO without government sponsorship. So most NGOs --including Gongmeng -- register as a business instead.
That gives Beijing wide latitude to shutter NGOs when they start to expose real problems. Government officials removed computers and files containing sensitive client data from Gongmeng's offices Friday. Last week the firm was slapped with a hefty $200,000 fine for tardy payment of taxes.
The Gongmeng crackdown is one of a larger series of recent blows to Chinese human-rights lawyers:
- Last month around 20 human-rights lawyers were effectively disbarred, in a clear warning to other lawyers not to accept politically sensitive cases.
- It is also a warning to foreign donors who support Chinese NGOs (Yale's China Law Center provided grants to Gongmeng).
- Gongmeng was a small think tank, but the fact that the Chinese authorities went out of their way to shut it down shows the value of its work, observers say.
Source: Editorial, "China vs. Civil Society," Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2009.
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Has anyone driven in Grenada before? If so, how are the roads? Are they relatively safe for a regular joe schmo driver? Also, if you can recommend a car service! Thanks in advance!
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The driving in Grenada is not for the faint of heart, but it can be done. The roads are winding and some portions in poor repair with large potholes. Except for a few spots, there are no guardrails to speak of, even at the edge of ravines or valleys. The other drivers will seem aggressive ... they know every curve and they take them at high speed. Driving is on the left. We rented a 4WD Pajero from Avis, and were pleased with it, but don't expect a brand-new clean Camry here; the vehicles will have wear and tear.
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Oh my! Even if we were to just drive around Grand Anse and St. George only?
If we do decide to rent one, should we rent a car or a jeep (soft or hard top)?
Going off tangent- can I email you for more Grenada questions?
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St. George and Grand Anse are the most congested areas of Grenada, which slows the traffic a bit (even a traffic light or two, as I recall), so not as scary as those blind curves in the mountains. Also, if you are only doing town driving, you might not care whether you have 4WD or a soft or removable top. I don't want to scare you out of renting a car ... just preparing you for reality. Except for the roads being a bit worse than other places, Grenadian driving is not unlike driving in other places in the Caribbean.
Feel free to ask other questions directly.
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Driving in the Grand Anse area, much of the rest of the south-east coast and into St. George's is not a problem, but getting through or out of St. George's after you get there is an experience. Streets are narrow, crowded, and confusing, and require care. Be sure to study your map carefully first so you know where you are going, and avoid the market area if you can. If you can make your first trip in on a Sunday morning, the place will be deserted and you can get the lay of it in comfort; plus it is an interesting town to look at. As for the rest of the island, it is as described. When I was last there 3 years ago there was a lot of road construction going on that improved some areas greatly, but still steep, winding and narrow, and some bad surfaces. Nevertheless, driving is the best way to see the island on your own schedule, and you certainly should explore it. It is very scenic with lots to see. If you start off in the south and the east coast areas even up to Lavera you can avoid the worst of the hills and curves of the mountains until you get the feel of things. I have had both 4-wheel drive jeeps and regular sedans. For any road you are likely to go on as a first-time visitor 4-wheel drive is not necessary, but might make you feel more confident. In my wiew, the smaller the car the better. I have been pleased with David's car rental.
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The descriptions above are very accurate. I've rented a car in Grenada 4 different times, each time from Avis (Spice Isle Rentals). I like the idea of making your first drive through St. George's on a Sunday. For Grenadians, Sunday is a day of rest, and the town is deserted. I found the worst driving in St. George's, with the very narrow streets, deep rain gutters, pedestrians, parked cars, and confusing one-way streets. They even change the directions on them every few years to confuse matters even more! Streets are named on maps, but don't expect to see street signs. You'll need to use landmarks and a little guesswork.
On the positive side, as a result of all the road construction over the last several years, the roads on the island are in much better condition than they were the first time I drove there.
The best advice: Just take your time, drive at a reasonable speed, and pay attention to what you're doing.
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Wow, I appreciate all of your help and advice! I think we're going to rent a car for a few days and brave it out.
Look out for a new Grenada post from me...
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Spent 6 nites in Grenada last yr and rented a jeep and had no problem driving the entire island. Everybody is friendly and most wave as you drive by!
For a great side trip take the boat over to Carriacou as it is truely a different feeling island and we loved it.
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Be warned that the boat ride to Carriacou is through some rough waters!
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What has been said by other posters is true of Grenada driving. Over the past 12 years of visits there we have seen the addition of a few traffic lights and some newly paved roads but driving continues to be an activity not for the faint of heart! As said, take your time and you will be fine. In addition to the driving being on the left some rental cars are left side drive and some right. If you rent a jeep most are standard transmission so if you are used to left side driver's side be sure to ask for that. Our funniest (scariest at the time) rental was the right side drivers seat with a standard -- try shifting with your left hand and working with reversed directionals! My husband put on the windshield wipers every time he went to signal! David's is a good agency as well as Sunsation. All will pick you up at your hotel. Grenada is a special place!
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Urging Action After PCBS Found At P.S. 199 And Other Schools
Dear Commissioner Frieden, Chancellor Klein, and President Greenberger: Given the April 7, 2008 Daily News story revealing that low levels of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were detected in the first-floor cafeteria of P.S. 199, located in my State Senate District, I appreciate that an emergency meeting was called at the school that night. I sincerely regret that I was unable to attend, as I was in Albany, but my staff informs me that representatives from all three of your agencies were present and brought in-depth information sought by the community.
In reviewing the Department of Education's (DOE) study, which was distributed at the meeting, I was comforted by the fact that PCBs were either not detected or below EPA standards in the air and on surfaces throughout the tested portions of P.S. 199. However, it is important to note that this study was undertaken weeks after replacement of the schoolfs windows would have disturbed PCBs in the caulking. I was disconcerted to hear that construction workers, custodians, teachers, parents and even students participated in removing the dust that had blanketed classrooms and the cafeteria throughout the replacement project, all without proper warning or safety protocols.
While any exposure to these toxins that may have already occurred cannot be undone, I urge you to honor the requests made by the P.S. 199 Parent Teacher Association (PTA) in its April 3, 2008 and April 9, 2008 letters, and to take the additional steps proposed at the April 7th meeting, many of which will benefit not only P.S. 199 but also schools throughout our City. These include:
Stop all work on P.S. 199's windows and doors until the toxicity of the remaining caulking can be tested and properly addressed. Parents must be made confident that further work will not expose their children to potentially hazardous dust. More stringent protocols and/or better supervision might be necessary to ensure that the dust is managed more effectively.
Test dust wipe samples and core samples of the playground and surrounding soil, respectively. I was disturbed to hear that parents reported seeing the detached windows being dropped and dust flying through vents and spreading to areas where the children are most likely to gather during recess. Again, there must be protocols enacted to prevent these accidents from occurring again.
Test air quality and dust wipe samples in other schools that were constructed while PCB-laden caulk was in use. Schools that are currently undergoing the kind of work that was done at P.S. 199 should be tested first, both to ensure that students of these schools are not in danger and to provide an estimate of the levels of toxicity that were likely present at P.S. 199 during its replacement project.
Share all pertinent information, including safety protocols and test results, not only with the school administration, but also with the PTA. More generally, I urge you to engage the PTA whenever possible.
Notify, in advance, the school administrations and parents of students of all New York City public schools in which construction involving potentially hazardous materials is to occur. At the April 7, 2008 meeting, a representative from the DOE explained that testing of caulk in schools is not done because current School Construction Authority (SCA) protocols start with the assumption that dangerous levels of PCBs are present. Although the agencies and its contractors might have been aware of this assumption, nobody in the P.S. 199 school community was so notified.
The DOE and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) should work together to establish contact people and/or other resources for parents who suspect that their children may have been affected by PCB exposure.
Lastly, I urge you to work more closely with the community and its elected representatives. Parents and teachers should have been notified before information was released to the press. Likewise, as a State Senator representing the 29th district, I should not have had to learn about a major health concern at a school in my district in the press when City agencies were aware of the issue days in advance.
I thank you all for your service and dedication to the safety of the children of our great City and I hope that you act expeditiously on these concerns.
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Public Works in Ethiopia. Crowding out on-farm labor?
This paper analyzes the impact of Public Works (PW) from the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in the agricultural regions of Ethiopia. In particular, based on a household model with two inputs, I explore the effects of the program on capital and labor decisions using the Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys (ERHS) from 2004 and 2009. Results indicate that PW did not have an effect crowding out adult labor on- farm but it reduced child labor. Furthermore, after analyzing the relationship between capital and labor inputs, there is not evidence suggesting that the program had an effect on the demand of capital inputs (i.e., units of livestock and value of farming tools).
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The first hint the ladies at the Lido Spa pick up on is the men coming to measure. Strangers, in a place where everybody knows everybody, taking tape measures to everything: the lobby; the swimming pool; the walkway along Biscayne Bay; the individual guest rooms reserved for each lady who comes here to escape the cold weather up north for a few weeks, a few months, or even the whole winter, year after year ...
Such a lovely place. Such prime real estate. Who can blame Mr. Edelstein if he should sell the property after 39 years? The ladies agree: Everything has its price.
But when Terry Ross asks Chuck Edelstein about the measuring, he shrugs thin shoulders beneath his sport coat. Gangly and good-looking at 67 years old, Chuck can put on a stammering Jimmy Stewart charm when he wants to. He can play dumb.
"Measuring?" he asks. "Where?"
"You're full of shit," Terry says.
Seventy-eight and six feet tall in her size 11 1/2 heels, Terry Ross can stand up to her boss. A World War II Navy nurse and a postwar Borscht Belt vet who's played every hotel from the Catskill Mountains to Miami Beach, she's earned the right to speak her mind. As the social director at the Lido Spa for the past 35 years, she knows Chuck's shtick.
So when an article comes out in the Miami Herald on November 22, 2002, suggesting that the Lido may already be under contract to be sold to Andre Balazs, the fellow who recently bought the Raleigh Hotel on Collins Avenue for $25.5 million, Ross confronts Edelstein again.
The boss insists: "I didn't commit to anything with that man."
Meanwhile the ladies are in an uproar. They surround tour operator and fitness instructor Gerda Rosner after chair aerobics class. The ladies demand to know: "Where are you taking us next year?"
After 30 years of building up business for the Lido Spa, where else could Gerda bring her more than 100 elderly but active ladies for the winter? The Palm Aire in Pompano Beach is too pricey; Canyon Ranch in Tucson and the Berkshires is for a younger set. "I can't think of any place with the same price," Gerda admits of the packages she offers for $73 to $99 a night, double occupancy, meals, exercise, entertainment, and daily massage included. "Here they have what they need at their age."
Betty Grynwald, one of Gerda's ladies who has been coming every winter from Montreal for the past eleven years and has every intention of coming for a twelfth, offers Mr. Edelstein an ultimatum. "I hope next year I have a place to come to," she smiles, batting thickly coated lashes. "Otherwise I'm going to come live with you."
"Oh, my God," Edelstein groans. "You and my wife?"
Typical Chuck, but not exactly reassuring. So last week, when a letter finally went out to the Lido's employees, confirming that the hotel is under contract for sale, no one was exactly surprised. Who can blame Chuck for wanting to retire? But that doesn't make anyone feel any better. The Lido is the last gasp of the old Jewish retirement hotels that once thrived on Miami Beach; when the Edelstein family pulls out of the hotel on June 1, there will be no place like it for the elters to go. "It's like when someone in your family is very sick and you know they're going to die," says Terry Ross. "When they actually pass away you're so bereft you can't even lift your head up."
Yet the Lido Spa Hotel itself will live on, carefully restored as a chic boutique spa under the ownership of celebrity hotelier Andre Balazs. He's the one who revived the Chateau Marmont, old Hollywood haunt of Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth, and Greta Garbo. With an ironic wink, he transformed the Fifties world headquarters of Standard Oil in downtown L.A. into one of his style-on-a-budget Standard hotels. A spokesperson for Balazs's company Hotels AB confirms that the Lido will be another Balazs restoration. The 106-room property will retain its original Sixties façade and original function as a spa.
But for the past 39 years, the Lido has been more than that. For hundreds of lovely Jewish ladies of a certain age and the faithful staff who serve them, the Lido has been not a hotel, but a second home. A family.
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When Balazs gives a chin tuck to the Lido's aging façade the triumph of youth -- or at least its pursuit -- will be complete on South Beach: Botox, Viagra, and breast implants über alles ... The Morris Lapidus design will be marvelous again, reviving the Miami Modern or MiMo style made famous by the architect's bigger hotels along Collins Avenue -- the Deauville, the Eden Roc, and the Fontainebleau. Savvy students of design will dig the gold columns lit up against that crazy pink backdrop at night and love the neon glow that spells out L-i-d-o S-p-a H-o-t-e-l. Hummers and Escalades will idle on the semi-circular drive where the old Lido vans used to load up the ladies for sightseeing tours. Models and club kids will meet beneath the sea-green-and-blue mosaic carport where long-time guest Millie Schiller used to sit, still smoking after nearly 92 years.
Gone will be the salt-free, sugar-free meals ordered one day ahead with stubby pencils set on long communal tables and deposited by familiar waiters at each lady's assigned seat. In their place will be the whimsical inventions of a young star chef, more than likely recruited from one of those resto-lounges on Lincoln Road. Gone will be the bridge games, nature walks, cash-n-carry bingo -- all replaced by video installations, performance art, and cocktail lounges.
No more will Terry Ross sing Broadway hits or Hebrew blessings in the third-floor auditorium, her soaring soprano suddenly swerving into a sing-song rasp. No more will Hy Siegel's Orchestra play big band standards on Saturday nights while hired host dancers invite ladies with walkers out on the floor. Instead there will be DJs spinning in the lobby and maybe even a series of CDs capturing the spa's new youthful vibe. Out with Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra; in with Ursula 1000 and Groove Armada. Out with the old, in with retro.
Over the course of the past decade, Balazs has redefined the overnight stay by catering to hip young travelers with a strong sense of style. Over the course of four decades, Mr. Edelstein has refined the nostalgic seasonal stay by catering to elderly ladies with intense demands for service ("Fifty goyish women in rooms, no problem; fifty Jews, everybody wants a room change!" he jokes). But so well does Edelstein satisfy his guests that the Lido's season has grown steadily longer, from six months in the early years to an almost completely sold-out seven-and-a-half months this year.
When the Edelstein family bought the 2.5-acre property tucked away on Belle Isle at the eastern end of the Venetian Causeway in 1963, the Lido had already gone bankrupt twice in the two years since opening. "It is very easy not to run a business well," observes Edelstein. "You have to be dedicated and passionate about what you do."
Although he has about 80 employees, Edelstein's hand is in everything. The Lido does not have what is known as a food and beverage manager; the owner himself is out every day to buy exactly the provisions the kitchen needs to fill its orders checked off by guests one day ahead. And when he sits in his office overseeing operational details, he's not above answering phones, checking in guests, even lugging bags to rooms.
Chuck thinks his older brother Bernie, who runs the family's other hotel, a Best Western up in Surfside, has it easy. If guests drop in for a week, and something goes wrong, you're not necessarily going to hear about it. But when guests come for months, they make their gripes known.
"A spa business is very service-oriented," Edelstein points out. "You're dealing with women who are very demanding." Without dropping the serious tone, he can't resist a joke at the expense of the mysterious creatures he serves. "You have a woman and you're not feeding her," he says, as if this is the source of all his woes. "She's on a diet!"
The ladies at the Lido may have asked for a lot over the years, but they never asked for luxury. Although meticulously clean, the rooms offer fewer amenities than you might expect. There is a television, a queen-size bed, and an extra-large walk-in closet. There are freshly washed towels and turned-down sheets, but no hair dryer, no little soaps, no tiny bottles of shampoo. There is no décor to speak of, either; but step outside and there is a breeze wafting in from the bay, sun shimmering on the water, the smell of the sea.
And there is Chuck Edelstein, seeing to it that the staff gives each guest what she needs. "I think it's very interesting I've had help for so long," says Edelstein. Many employees have worked at his hotel for ten, twenty, even thirty years despite what he calls "average pay" and the "uncertainty" of seasonal work. To say nothing of the owner's personality. "It's my way or the highway," he boasts.
Driver Gary Alimo has been at the Lido for ten years too, even though his favorite phrase is "I can't take it anymore!" He takes the ladies sightseeing, shopping, to doctor's appointments, and the drugstore. No one needs to tell Gary twice what has to be picked up from Walgreens. If he's going out to get face cream for this one, he'll remember that he got adult diapers last week for that one, so she could probably use another pack by now. And not only does he know who needs diapers, but who likes her diapers with those little tabs at the crotch called "wings."
Likewise, after twenty years in the dining room, no one has to tell Ernie Fernandez what a woman wants, either. Even when a first-time visitor, like me, quietly picks the olives from her salad at lunch and builds a discreet pile on the saucer beneath her coffee cup, Ernie notices. She will never, from that meal forward, find another olive among her greens.
And Ernie knows better than to clear the plate of Mrs. Juci (pronounced Yoot-see) Horsky of Montreal, a winter resident at the Lido for 21 years. Instead he indulges her by helping wrap leftover food, even though the hotel rate includes three meals and a late-night snack every day. Mrs. Horsky packs dinner rolls and grapefruit and the remains of a chicken hamburger in the basket seat attached to her deluxe walker, careful, always careful not to stain the white envelope she keeps there; it's stuffed with black-and-white photographs taken in Budapest in the late 1930s.
Everyone on staff has seen Mrs. Horsky's pictures. Here is her only son, a toddler on a tricycle. "You will never meet him," she says. "He was killed by the Nazis." Here is her first husband, who lived with her for only fifteen months. "They killed him right away." Here is her uncle, aunt, and niece. "All killed in Auschwitz." And here is Juci in happier days, a salesgirl in a jewelry store. Here is Juci's second husband, dead after fifteen years of marriage. "He brought me to Canada." And then number three, who lived with her for 30 years.
"I have lost three beautiful husbands."
For Mrs. Horsky, who has no living relatives, the Lido Spa is the only family she has left. At 84, she doesn't get around as well as she used to; for the past nine and a half years, shower room attendant Elizabeth Montes has bathed her every morning before her massage. "For me it's not really a job, it's fun," Elizabeth smiles. "With Mrs. Horsky, we even have a joke. Every day she says, 'Are you going to wash my boobies now?'"
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Terry Ross is broiges. She's pissed. Usually the February in-house talent show is one of the biggest nights of the season, but not this year. Some of the regular singers among the guests have passed away. Well, you can't blame them for that. But others who are alive and in relatively good health just don't want to do it this year. Terry already knows what she will say when she scolds the audience: Maybe you're all just getting too old.
That's what she's taken to saying these days whenever any of the guests threatens to spoil the fun. Like Nettie looking down her nose at a joke Terry told in the water aerobics class last Wednesday. What was it? Oh. Why is a man so much smarter when he's having sex? Because he's plugged into a genius. "Whatsa matter? Are you so old you can't laugh at a joke?"
As the social director, you gotta be tough, especially with this crowd. "If you don't let them know who's the boss," she says, "you lose control completely."
In Yiddish, Terry Ross is a tumler, a scrappy entertainer hired once upon a time by the hotels in the Catskill Mountains to teach guests how to have fun. From the end of WWII through the 1970s, the New York State vacationland once known as the Jewish Alps filled up with hardworking immigrants, eager to stay Jewish while becoming American. "Leisure vacations were something that only the wealthy took in Europe," says Vassar historian Donna Dash Moore, currently visiting faculty at Florida International University. "Taking a vacation was considered very American."
The Catskills summers ran into Miami Beach winters. Hotel owners, guests, and the migrant workers known as mountain rats packed up and moved along with the season, carrying with them what Brown University sociologist and former mountain rat Phil Brown calls Catskills culture. Because the immigrants didn't know exactly what they were supposed to do on vacation, the hotels employed tumlers to teach card games, give dance lessons, take guests on nature hikes. At night they put on variety shows.
Catskills culture not only made Jews more American; the nightly shows actually changed the face of popular American entertainment. Known as the Borscht Belt, the hotel circuit gave a start to some of the most influential performers of the Twentieth Century: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Eddie Fisher, Shelley Winters, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Henny Youngman, Jackie Mason, and Joan Rivers.
As the first social hostess at the Lido Spa, the Edelsteins hired Bea Kalmus, a singer and popular New York radio personality. A star's life can get crazy, though, so after a few years the hotel and the diva parted ways. Sometime around 1967, Terry Ross heard through the grapevine that the spa was looking for a replacement.
But by the late 1960s business on the Beach was failing. Terry needed a winter job. So she marched into Mr. Edelstein's office and recited her résumé. "I don't just stand there onstage" -- like Bea Kalmus, she meant -- "I teach handicrafts. I do nature walks. I sing. I'm an entertainment director."
Terry Ross was hired as a tumler and she's kept everybody at the Lido Spa busy for the 35 years since, even as the old Jewish hotels in the Catskills and on Miami Beach shut down or sold out. For practically every hotel that went under in South Florida, a condo colony went up. The old Catskill comics and sing-ers (say it with a hard 'g') found work on the condo circuit, hired for a gig here and there by this or that social committee. But the days of the tumler are over. Alav ha-shalom, Terry says whenever she mentions the name of one of the dearly departed colleagues, rest in peace.
"We're a lost race," she says. "I'm a survivor."
That's why everybody feels so bad about disappointing Terry with the talent show this year. That new girl from New York, Mimi Goldfinger -- bless her heart, she can hardly stay on her own two feet -- has volunteered to tell a few jokes. And Norma Pearl from Montreal, with her sweet apple doll face, has offered to sing "Shine On, Harvest Moon," if nobody minds that her voice is a bit shaky these days. That's a start.
At least some of the bridge players are feeling guilty enough to come to the show. Usually Terry has to spook them away from the card tables, sneak up from behind and shout, "Showtime!" But tonight a few of them are already filing into the rows of banquet chairs by the back door. While the band is still setting up, Mrs. Horsky, as she always does, wheels her walker/chair to the empty space reserved for her in the center of the front row.
There's enough time for Terry to scare up a few more acts while the Hy Siegel Orchestra plays and the boyes invite the ladies to dance. That was another problem this year. As happened with the singers, Terry lost most of her regular boyes over the summer. Alav ha-shalom. She put an ad in the paper looking for gentleman dancers at $15 a night but nobody wanted the job. Finally she had to rely on her remaining host dancer Frank Fitzgerald, a boy singer at Irish pubs in Philly in the 1940s, to bring in new blood. Frank found 78-year-old Tommy, who looks smart in a navy sport coat with gold buttons, and Simon, a bassett-faced 85-year-old who fought with the Red Army in Manchuria. Then there is David, whose wide-open eyes at 88 can look a little lost, but still he has a way with the fox trot. If anyone complains about the boyes, Terry snorts, "So what if they're not gorgeous. You're gorgeous?" Besides, she knows her boyes have made a lot of her goils very happy.
The auditorium is a shimmering tropical wonderland. Every year on New Year's Eve, as the regular guests begin to arrive, Terry brings down her kids or, lately, her grandkids to help decorate for the rest of the season. The theme this year is MIAMI BEACH. Teal and purple streamers caress swaying cutout palm trees. Yellow-orange-green cardboard fish dart among paper flower garlands and enormous silver stars hanging from the ceiling. Strings of glowing pink flamingo lights festoon the grand piano. Stretching from ceiling to floor behind the bandstand shine the numbers 2003.
Dressed in a crisp dark suit and red tie, Hy Siegel hunches over the microphone like Beaky Buzzard in the old Warner Brothers cartoons. Boy, oh boy, can Hy blow that sax, but his singing voice ain't so steady. Kicking off the next number he shouts, "How do you feel about a cha-cha- chaaaaaa!?!"
To the sensuous strains of the Dean Martin hit "Sway," Frank takes the hand of Mimi Goldfinger, the joke-telling New Yorker in a stylish short-sleeved melon sweater, oversized silver earrings, and close-cropped blond hair.
"That frail one," whispers one of the bridge players in the back. "She nearly fell in aerobics today. Doesn't know when to take a rest."
Simon partners up with another New Yorker, the mousy-haired Gladys Kozinn, who gets a charge out of introducing herself with: "My name means happy bottom! Glad-ass!"
Oh, but Gladys's dancing is a scandal. Quarrelsome and vulgar ("Screw you!" is her favorite challenge, followed by the devastating, "You're too fat for anyone to screw!"), Gladys is already the pariah of the Lido Spa; crazy, everyone says, meshuggeneh. But to see the Happy Bottom wiggling away while her poor husband is laid up after a fall at the spa earlier in the week is too much.
"Just look at Gladys," a second bridge player sneers. "Having the time of her life and her husband sick sick sick in the hospital."
At that moment in walks one of the few fellows at the Lido who can qualify as this season's Ladies' Man, a jovial silver-haired golfer escorted by his paramour du jour, an owl-eyed matron with a blond chin-length bob.
"He comes here with one woman and not a day after she leaves takes up with this one," whispers bridge player number three.
"I can't stand to look at him," gasps number one.
As the dance floor fills for "Bye Bye Blackbird," Hy yells, Oh, you're having too much fun! We've got to put a stop to that!
When time comes to start the show, Terry is so upset about the paltry lineup she skips her usual intro. "Don't get too comfortable," she says. "You'll be out of here in ten minutes."
Yet the show does go on, and at some length. Tour operator Gerda Rosner is a good sport, opening with an inspirational reading. "No chair aerobics now," Rosner warns an audience more accustomed to seeing her in the gym than onstage.
At 81 years old, Gerda is a fitness celebrity. A few times a week, at spas across North America and Europe, her classes fill at least 50 chairs with men and women who are most comfortable exercising sitting down. For $25 you can take home a video recorded at the Canyon Ranch that shows her doing exactly the same exercises you'll see in class: lifting and twisting with the long baton; pulling and pushing elastic bands; stretching not-so-elastic muscles.
Three mornings a week during the Lido season, competition for chairs gets fierce. Gladys fires off "Screw you!" Her foes fire back: "You give aspirin a headache!"
In the back of the gym, the Ladies' Man and his owl-eyed lover duel with their batons.
Always right up front, ready to pass out elastic bands or switch the background music, is David Nencel, Gerda's husband of twelve years. A retired jeweler born in Poland, Mr. Nencel survived Auschwitz and at 87 is so hale and hearty he may well outsmart old age itself. Fed up with dating after thirteen years of widowerhood, David declared he "did not want to know from women" and fled New York for Czechoslovakia on one of Gerda's Jewish history tours. He fell in love with the German-born tour operator and has been arranging the music for her chair aerobics classes ever since.
This is not the tale Gerda tells at the talent show. Instead she reads the published memoir of a widow who finds a new husband on a cruise ship. "This is not my story," she clarifies, "but it could be." More important, she wants the single people in the audience to know that someday it could be your story too.
"Never ever give up," she says to the singles.
Bridge player number one harrumphs, "Easy for her to say."
In an exaggerated falsetto, Terry calls from offstage: "You mean there's still hope for moi?"
Owl Eyes leans a little closer to Ladies' Man.
Meanwhile Mimi Goldfinger, waiting her turn to tell her jokes, drifts off to sleep in her chair and scatters her note cards across the floor.
The biggest hit of the show is the comedy team of newlyweds Morris and Louise Cohen.
"Look, I'm a man of few words," says Morris, setting up a gag with Louise. "Do you or don't you?"
Louise gives Morris the once-over.
"I don't, but you talked me into it."
Bridge player number one rolls her eyes: "They're very sexy, these two."
"Yuck," says number three.
At the end of the act Morris, his thin hair standing in tufts all over his head, stumbles over his George Burns finish. "Good- good- night," he falters, then recovers with, "Say 'Goodnight,' Gracie."
"Goodnight, Gracie," Louise smiles.
But the act does not end there.
"This is not in the script and even my darling doesn't know what I'm going to say," Morris stammers, tugging at the bottom of his navy blazer. "Three years ago we were here and I proposed to my darling on Valentine's Day. I had a little ring. I thought it was very simple. If she says yes, I'll give her the ring. If she says no, I'll return the ring. But she said maybe. So I gave her the ring anyway."
Now, Morris wants everyone at the spa to hear him tell his wife he loves her again.
Even the bridge players are won over.
"Never give up," they nod. "Never give up."
Still, it's in the air. These are clearly the last days of the Lido.
Only yesterday
For example: Every year Terry celebrates her birthday at the gala Celebrity Night show. But this year she somehow feels her 78th birthday will also be a goodbye party. Even though she has three closets at home in North Miami stuffed with costumes, Terry goes dress shopping. She splurges on a long lavender gown with a broad flower brocade and lace at the cuffs, telling herself: This will probably be your last gown gal, make it a good one.
Up since New Year's, her Miami Beach decorations shimmer beneath the air conditioning vent like Biscayne Bay at sundown. Her old pianist and dear friend Laura Fisher will join the band, feeling better tonight and looking lovely as ever after a long illness. Everything is as it has always been. Except that behind the bandstand, the big 2 of 2003 has fallen over and is leaning against the 0.
Many, many of her old friends drop in to wish her well after tonight's headliner takes a bow (a big hit from the cruise ships: the very talented violinist and "little Japanese lady" Julie Okah). The best acts who have played the Lido over the years will return, performing for nothing but their love for Terry and whatever liquor and snacks Chuck supplies for the green room. Chuck doesn't come to Celebrity Night anymore. He doesn't come to any of the nightly shows nowadays, except for New Year's Eve. But his big brother Bernie always shows up to give a little speech in Terry's honor.
"Terry's been with us 35 years now," begins the elder Edelstein. "We've grown up together, raised children together. She's family."
Terry picks up where Bernie leaves off: "People always say to me, How can you stay in a job for 35 years? Well, this is not a job. This is my house. I sleep in North Miami and I visit my kids in the summer, but these are my friends and this is my house."
Just when Terry starts to get sentimental, she sees a guest shifting in her seat. "Don't prepare to go anywhere," Terry warns the audience. "I'll be standing in the hall with a stick."
She cajoles the bridge players in the back to move up to the front.
"I'd like you to sit up here so the performers can see your faces," she tells the crowd. "People ask how do you do it? and I say, you have to see my audience. I want you to know that this ... has been ... my calling."
Suddenly the whole lavender hulk that is Terry begins shaking. Her big brassy bass breaks up. She gulps, "It isn't easy."
The audience lets out a collective "Aaaaah."
"It's a bigger comfort for me to walk into a room like this than to walk into the front room of my house," Terry says, wiping her eyes and straightening up on her stool. "Even though I have lots of photographs on my wall, pictures can't take the place of flesh-and-blood people. You are the Lido Spa."
The last waltz
"The party's over!" yells Tommy to the rest of the boyes. "No more dancing," mutters sad-faced Simon. It's a few weeks later and the first show since the bad news broke about selling the Lido. The atmosphere is funereal.
The musicians are arguing on the bandstand as they wait until it's time to play.
"Are you telling me that Mr. Edelstein has a health problem?" Hy Siegel challenges his drummer, Danny Perez.
"No," says the drummer defensively, "I'm saying that Terry says Mr. Edelstein says he got tired."
"He got a good price is what he got," speculates Hy.
Chuck Edelstein looks much younger than he is, but that doesn't mean he doesn't feel the years wearing him down. "You don't have the same energy once you hit 63 or 64," he warns me, trying to explain why he let the Lido go. "Before I could work 'til nine o'clock and then take my wife out dancing. Not anymore."
So when Hotels AB comes along promising to maintain the property and offering him millions of dollars (neither party will disclose the amount, but a former real estate developer estimates the figure at "around $12 million," based on the $25.5 million Balazs spent for the better-located Raleigh Hotel on Collins), Edelstein says, "Why not now?"
By the time the letter went out on March 13, notifying staff of the sale, most of the snowbird regulars had already flown back to the north, hoping against hope they'd be back another year. Now the spa is packed with the South Florida condo dwellers on three- and five-day packages, who will be the Lido's "business" for the rest of the season. The staff can't afford to get weepy.
But the few remaining regulars are heartbroken. Mrs. Betty Grynwald and Mrs. Juci Horsky sit miserable by the front door on March 15, waiting for a ride to the airport at the end of what they now know is their last season at Lido. Juci is wearing two beaded necklaces she made in handicrafts; she will never make such a necklace again. In mourning, Betty wears a long black dress and long black jacket down to her ankles. An elaborate black bow pulls back her hair.
"They're going to cater to the young, not to us," Betty says stone-faced. "There is nothing, nothing that will ever replace the Lido Spa."
When she sees Mr. Edelstein come out of his office, Betty throws her ample arms around his skinny waist, trapping him in a hug. "I'm not going to let you go," she shrieks. "You're not selling this place."
"Let me go," Edelstein urges, wriggling free. "There are people stuck in the elevator!"
Mrs. Horsky says goodbye to Ernie Fernandez at breakfast, flagging him down as he dashes through the dining room to the condo dweller chorus of "Ernie! Ernie!"
"Ernie, I'll kill you," she yells as he passes her by again.
Finally he has a chance for a quick peck on the cheek. Asked what he will miss about the Lido Spa, a frazzled Ernie replies, "Having a job."
Mrs. Horsky shares a sweeter sorrow with Elizabeth Montes, who comes down from the shower room to say goodbye.
"Don't cry today," Elizabeth begs her, through her own tears.
Mrs. Horsky sobs, "Who will wash my boobies?"
Gerda Rosner and her husband rush through the lobby after chair aerobics class. As soon as Gerda saw the letter, she ran to Chuck's office and cried in his arms. Now she's off to an appointment at another hotel, hoping to negotiate a package to bring her ladies back to Miami Beach next year. "I will try to re-create exactly what we have here," says Gerda, unvanquished. "It will never be the same, but I will certainly try."
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Terry Ross points to a line in the letter that says employees will receive a generous bonus commensurate with length of service. "After 35 years, short of giving me a wing of the hotel, I don't know how generous a bonus it can be," she says. She has already picked up a few condo gigs, assuming that Andre Balazs will not keep her on as social director.
But then you never know, says Terry the survivor. "If they called me back in a year or two ... I get along well with younger people." Why not? Balazs is famous for hiring performance artists to work in his lobbies. What better way to preserve the spirit of the Lido Spa than a weekly show or two by one of the world's last tumlers?
"Hell, if you have to go," says Terry Ross, "why not go out having a good time?" That reminds her of a Hebrew phrase: Echron-echron chaveen. The last, the last, is the sweetest.


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Thomas P. Swigert
Tom Swigert is a trial lawyer and a partner in the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney, and he serves as the co-Chair of the Securities and Financial Services Litigation practice group. He represents clients who are parties to complex securities and financial related disputes as well as clients who are the subject of investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Labor, and other regulatory agencies. Tom advises and litigates on behalf of corporations engaged in merger and acquisition activity, including fiduciary and appraisal actions, and he has served as counsel in class actions brought under the federal and state securities laws, ERISA, and state consumer protection statutes. He also represents international clients in connection with cross-border securities and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, and he conducts internal investigations on behalf of foreign and domestic clients relating to accounting, securities, and FCPA issues.
Tom's expertise includes securities fraud, insider trading, officer and director liability, broker-dealer disputes, shareholder and private equity disputes, dissenters' rights, lender liability, mortgage broker claims, deceptive trade practice claims, and commercial contract disputes. Tom has a national practice, and he has tried cases in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy adversary proceedings, as well as before FINRA arbitration panels.
Education & Admissions
Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.)
Dartmouth College (B.A.)
- Minnesota
- Colorado
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Client Achievements
Representative Litigation
- Engaged to conduct an internal investigation for a Chinese company publicly traded in the U.S. relating to accounting issues.
- Counsel for Chinese founder of a company publicly traded in the U.S. in connection with share restriction agreements.
- Adedipe v. U.S. Bank, National Association, et. al. Counsel for defendants in an ERISA class action alleging breach of fiduciary duty relating to asset allocation within a defined benefit plan.
- In re UnitedHealth Group Incorporated PSLRA Litigation and Derivative Litigation. Counsel for defendants in federal class action and derivative cases alleging claims based on the backdating of options.
- Counsel for Australian individual in connection with breach of contract claims against a subsidiary of a French multi-national defense contractor.
- Figas v. Wells Fargo & Co. et al. Counsel for defendants in an ERISA class action alleging various breaches of fiduciary duty relating to investment options within a 401(k) plan.
- In re ATS Medical, Inc. Shareholder Litigation. Defense against purported class action seeking to enjoin a corporate merger.
- Midas Fund, Inc. v. Gammon Gold, Inc. et al. Counsel for defendants in an action alleging securities fraud filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- Represented a Canadian publicly traded corporation in connection with a joint cross-border inside trading investigation conducted by the SEC and the Ontario Securities Commission.
- Represented a Swiss publicly traded corporation in connection with a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation by the SEC.
- In re ADC Telecommunications, Inc. ERISA Litigation. Counsel for defendants in a federal class action alleging fraud and violations of ERISA.
- Ricci et al. v. Ameriquest Mortgage Company. Defense counsel for mortgage lender in a state class action alleging fraud and deceptive trade practices.
- NASD and NYSE arbitrations. Tried numerous customer arbitrations to award for major broker-dealer firms including Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Ameriprise.
- Loop Corp. et al. v. McIlroy et al. Defense counsel for Big Four accounting firm in a state action alleging malpractice and securities fraud.
- Hislop v. Greenwich Street Capital Partners. Plaintiff counsel for former officers of a privately held company seeking recovery from a private equity firm for fraud.
- In re Vroom Technologies, Inc. Defense counsel for secured lenders against lender liability claims brought by a distressed internet company in bankruptcy.
- U.S. Bank National Association v. SGB Corporation d/b/a WestAmerica Mortgage Company et al. Plaintiff counsel for bank seeking recovery of substantial payments retained by retail mortgage company.
- J.F. Rhode et al. v. Divion Technology, Inc. et al. Defense counsel in federal securities fraud action filed against officers and directors of a privately held company. Obtained dismissal which the 8th Circuit affirmed on appeal.
- Zivitz v. Greenberg et al. Defense counsel for a former director and CEO of a publicly traded company in a securities fraud action.
- First State Bank of Cosmos et al. v. Spinner et al. Represented a broker-dealer, its principals, and its employees in a securities fraud matter related to the Towers Financial scandal.
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November 5, 2009
Events & Speaking Engagements
"Arbitration Wars: How to Win Your Employment Arbitration Case," Dorsey & Whitney LLP Labor and Employment 2016 Conference, CLE panel presentation
March 3, 2016
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