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Over Super Bowl Weekend (Feb 1-2) some friends and I will be attending an Education Start-UP Weekend to develop tools that will help people bring more fun to work.
Here is how you can help us:
1) Tell us your stories: How did you or someone you know make an onerous task more fun? How do you teach others to do the same thing?
2) Tell us your needs: How could your work be more fun?
3) Tell us your ideas: How could employers make work more fun? How can employees do the same? How can job hunting be more fun?
4) Tell us how to help you: Our goal is to create something you can use whether you are doing work, looking for it, or managing others. Tell us how we can contact you when we have something to give you.
At Start-UP Weekend events you are only given from Friday night at 6:30 until early morning on Sunday to come up with an idea, implement it, and launch it into the world. Early afternoon on Sunday we will need to present our project to a panel of judges.
Although we appreciate your ideas no matter when you submit them, if you can get them to us by 6PM on Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 then we can include them in our project.
Please write to me with your ideas right away: email@example.com
Researchers have shown that it if you want to do something it is better to
ask yourself questions rather than to tell yourself things.
Ask, don't tell
by Brooke Allen
If you want to exercise today then it is not a good idea to get up in the morning and say, "I will exercise today." This tells your unconscious that the issue is settled so there is nothing to do. Of course, as you go to bed you might say, "Gee… I forgot all about exercising."
Instead, ask yourself, "Will I exercise today?" This question can only be answered in the affirmative by actually exercising, and this makes it much more likely that you will actually exercise.
I have used this in the design of the 54 questions to ask yourself that I've printed on a deck of playing cards. You can use these to design a personal philosophy of life, and you can find them at LensGame.com.
Question form
I call my questions "lenses" and they are in the form: "Because X, ask yourself: Y."
Some examples:
The Lens of the Boss: Because it is important to know who will bear ultimate responsibility for your life, ask yourself: Who is the boss of me?
The Lens of Needs: Because we survive and thrive by meeting each other's needs, ask yourself: What do I need? What is needed of me?
The Lens of Followership: Because followers have responsibility too, ask yourself: Have I chosen my leaders wisely? Am I blaming my leaders for things that could be my responsibility instead?
Help us make work more fun
Following on the success of The Lens Game, I've begun working on "Work as Fun" ― a series of questions to ask yourself that can help you make work more fun. After all, as Mary Poppins said, "In every task that must be done there is an element of fun. Find the fun and – SNAP – the work's a game."
What questions do you think should be included in this project?
Remember, the form of the question is "Because X ask yourself Y" where X is an irrefutable reason for why the question is important, and Y is in the form of a "first person interrogative" – which is fancy talk for a question that you ask yourself.
Here are some examples appropriate to making work fun.
Lens of Fun: Because fun is hard to define and it encompasses much more than just pleasure, ask yourself: What does fun mean to you?
Lens of Optionality: Because it is no fun to be forced to do something, ask yourself: How can I see something that must be done as a choice I make voluntarily?
Lens of Leveling Up: Because what was once fun can become boring once you've mastered it, ask yourself: How can I up my game?
What do you think?
Because many brains are better than one, I ask myself: What ideas might my readers have for questions you can ask yourself?
Send me the questions you think everyone should ask themselves if they want their work to be more fun.
I am at: email@example.com
I am a securities trader with a business degree, and I wonder if we are like normal people.
Let's find out.
Imagine $10 has to be split between two people who will never meet each other. The first person can propose how the money will be split and if the second person accepts the proposal then that is how it is distributed. But if the second person refuses then neither gets anything.
Although this should be enough to understand the question, you might enjoy reading this article in Quartz called Can You be Greedy Without Being Selfish.
Please take this quick survey:
by: Brooke Allen
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The InterContinental Hotel Group (NYSE Ticker: IHG) is the largest hotel group in the world with seven brands (Intercontinental Hotels, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge, and Candlewood Suites). They claim more than 645,000 rooms in over 100 countries.
If I take the time to join their "Priority Club Rewards" program, I get exclusive benefits like a free newspaper once a week. After I accumulate 20,000 points I get additional goodies such as Priority Check-In and a special phone number so I can wait less time on hold. Points are easy to accumulate because many of their rooms cost more for one night than I spent for an entire semester's college tuition.
As a Club member, they would begin collecting information about me and my preferences so they can tailor an experience just for me. They promise not to release that information to anyone – not even me.
I never bothered joining. Unlike many, I can afford their rooms without going into debt to the credit card company. The issue is time, not money – my life is too short, and I don't want to spend my time with them.
Instead, I belong to a different club, one with more space than InterContinental in more than twice as many countries. And my club is adding 14,000 members and 4,000 rooms a week.
And every one of those rooms is free.
My club is run by the Couch Surfing Collective. Although membership is free, four years ago I chose to donate about $20 and they verified that I was who I said I was, and I lived where I said I lived.
Couch Surfing members don't have membership cards but rather online profiles that can be seen by all 1.8 million members. Other members write references, which can be positive, neutral, or negative – and all references appear on your profile, whether you like it or not.
Right now, I have over 70 positive references (and no neutral or negative ones), and therefore strangers all over the world will welcome me into their homes without any money changing hands. But if I stop
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What follows is an advertisement for an assistant I ran in early 2013. It goes with a story I wrote published in Quartz magazine called: How to hire good people instead of nice people. Read the story to understand what would have happened if you had responded to this ad.
by: Brooke Allen
email@example.com www.BrookeAllen.com
Paul Krugman wrote a piece in the New York Times in which he wonders if Congress will vote on a stimulus package to head off the Great Depression II.
Some believe that it was World War 2 that got us out of the depression because it was the greatest stimulus spending package of all.
I disagree. I believe it was my father's generation, the Greatest Generation that fought the War and that got us out of the Great Depression.
People, not policies, got us out of our predicament.
The NY Times published my letter.
Recently, I reprinted the letter and illustrated it with stamps from my collection. The top contains U. S. stamps, and I notice they feature leaders and statesmen. The 3 cent stamp to the right commemorates the National Recovery Act of 1933, and it shows a woman, a businessman, a factory worker (with a hammer over his shoulder), and a farmer with a sickle, all walking side by side. There was no inflation during the depression (in fact, there was deflation.)
By way of contrast, Germany had rampant inflation. All the German stamps in my collection are un-cancelled. By the time a postage stamp made it to the post office it was worthless. The left-most stamp is for 10 marks, the rightmost 20 billion! Eventually it took a strong leader to get the economy under control… and we see who that was.
by: Brooke Allen
firstname.lastname@example.com www.BrookeAllen.com
A Luftwaffe Airman's Daughter
In 1980, my girlfriend and I were traveling on a rail pass. We left from Milan bound for Frankfurt only because that is where the train went.
A German businessman sat across from us and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Why? Frankfurt is so boring. You should go to Wiesbaden instead."
We asked, "Why?"
"Because that is where we live and you will stay with us."
His wife spoke English with a perfect British accent. It turned out her father had been in the Luftwaffe and had been shot down during the Battle of Britain. He became best friends with a prison guard, and after the war during the summers they would swap children. She grew up partially in England.
She said the difference between the treatment of prisoners by the British and the Germans was astonishing.
We all cried.
We were there having dinner with them because they had decided to make it a habit of being kind to strangers; which is not a bad policy even when the stranger had recently been trying to blow up your country.
Beautiful Women of the GDR
I won a British Airways contest based on my social entrepreneurship site, No Shortage of Work, and the prize was airfare to anywhere BA flies. I put a notice on my profile on Europe's equivalent of LinkedIn called Xing. Dozens of people said they would love to meet me in person so I flew into Frankfurt, then Cologne, and flew out of Hamburg and for 11 days I spent my time meeting people in person I'd only corresponded with before on Xing.
Although my sample size is very small, I have the following observation:
The most interesting, dynamic, interesting, hard-working, fearless, and interesting people I met were:
1) Female
2) Beautiful
3) From East Germany, but were now in the West.
4) Were born under Communism, but grew into adulthood after the fall of the Wall.
My sample size was small and I am partial to young beautiful women so perhaps that is why I find them more interesting than old male businessmen like me, but I still think there is something to this.
What do you think?
An Unemployed German
In 2004, in Nuremberg, I met Kai, a very talented 51-year-old programmer who had been unemployed for 2 years, so my wife and I took him to dinner. His attitudes were self-defeating and I attacked every one of his beliefs:
"The economy is terrible." So, are you just going to wait for it to improve?
"The government is incompetent." Are you going to run for office and fix it?
"I've only had 2 interviews and they both ended abruptly when they learned my age." People are prejudiced. Do you have a plan for how you are going to change them, or are you going to take a different approach?
"I don't have a college degree." That hasn't stopped you for 30 years.
"Nobody cares." There is a whole community of programmers just like you. Are you going to continue ignoring them or are you going to start caring about them and see if they care back?
"There is no work." There is never a shortage of work even when there is a shortage of jobs. Find some work and do it even if you aren't paid.
"I've built some amazing software on my own, but can't sell it." Are you going to learn to sell, partner with someone who can, or give up on doing what you want and start doing what other people want?
"There are no jobs in Germany." You're in the EU now so you can go where there are jobs.
"My English isn't good enough." Sure it is; I understand you perfectly. If you don't understand me it isn't because of your language skills, it is because of how you are thinking.
My wife kept kicking me under the table and whispered, "He just wants your sympathy."
I said, "Perhaps, but it isn't what he needs."
We were living in London at the time and he even flew over to spend a weekend with me to get more of my abuse.
Soon he got unstuck and landed a job in Copenhagen (good pay, company apartment, flight home every other weekend) and a year later he moved to England for another job.
Kai and I have become good friends and my wife and I stayed with him outside London in November 2010.
He says he hates going back to Germany because too many people there think the way he used to.
I was speaking to a group of programmers, many of whom were looking for work. I asked Kai to write a short essay explaining what he learned, and how he changed his approach to what some call "networking." Here is what he produced:
I am an amateur radio operator with a particular interest in radio contesting, in which thousands of radio operators all over the world will spend an entire weekend talking to each other.
I have just completed a series of articles on game design for the National Contest Journal, which is the premier magazine for our hobby.
The articles might be of general interest because they also talk about principles that apply to everything that might be fun or keep you in flow. If you want to know how I use the word "flow" then read the articles.
Note: The picture at the left is of the taller of two radio towers that I use for contests at our weekend house. Click on it for an enlarged version.
"I would go back to the drawing board if it hadn't been repossessed last week."
"Given the economy, and now that you have written the proof that two can live as cheaply as one, I guess I will marry you."
This cartoon was suggested by Brooke Allen, illustrated by Alicia Reeves, and published in the November 21, 2008 on-line edition of Science Careers Magazine in the story Finance's Quant(um) Mechanics.
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published in International FamilyMagazine
Republished in Folks Magazine on 11/7/09.
I was working as a computer programmer at Rutgers University when I saw the perfect job advertised by American Airlines. It had everything that I wanted: interesting work, decent pay, and free travel everywhere American flew.
I sent a letter outlining my skills, and offered to write a resume if they found me interesting. They did not request a resume, but they did call me in for an interview. I thought that it went very well.
A month later, a "thanks but no thanks" letter arrived.
This was disappointing. I called Walter, the hiring manager and asked what was wrong, and why I didn't get the offer. He said it was just a matter of competition; there was someone better.
I asked what I could have done to be better than the competition. He said it wasn't likely there was anything I could have done. The person they hired came from the software vendor who had been servicing their account for years. He already knew their needs better than anyone else could have.
"So, why did you interview me?"
"Because the Human Resources department requires that we run an ad and interview three people before we make an offer."
That made sense.
At the university, I wrote a computer column for a monthly newsletter. Every few weeks I would put out a document about some programming technique or software package.
I put Walter on the distribution list for all my publications. Then I forgot all about him.
Six months later he called me.
"I have a job for you."
"There is only one thing."
"What's that?"
"Get me off that damn mailing list."
"No problem. I can start in two weeks."
"We can't move that fast. It will take six weeks minimum."
"We have to run and ad and interview three people. But the job is yours."
If you don't get what you want, don't forget to ask why.
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published October, 2009, in International Family Magazine
Republished in Folks Magazine on 10/24/09.
When I was 16, my dad told me to get in the car – we were going for a ride. We drove to Bolek's Foreign Car Service. My dad told Bolek that his son needed to learn how to work and he would drop me there every Saturday morning. He told Bolek that I wasn't worth anything so he shouldn't pay me anything. He gave Bolek $100 as an advance against any damage I might do. Then he drove off.
Over the next year I learned to get my hands dirty, how to use tools, and how things worked.
- – -
When my dad had a problem, we went to visit Frank at Frank's hardware store.
Frank was a problem solver and his store was a huge collection of tools and parts for solving problems.
"Looks like this is a job for a ¾ inch bit and a stove bolt." "I'd use a rubber coupling and a hose clamp." "An arc welder is better for that than acetylene."
- – -
Decades later, I became a dad too.
- – -
I sat next to a four-year-old girl at a neighbor's dinner table.
"I hate broccoli. How come I never get what I want? I hate you." She began pounding the table and crying.
While her parents were in the kitchen making her French fries, I turned to her and asked, "Wow. How do you do that?"
Her crying stopped abruptly and she gave me a sly smile. "You want to yell and make a lot of noise. Don't stop. It really helps if you can cry."
"But, why do I want to do that?"
"Because that way you get what you want."
A young boy was given a present by his divorced dad at Cub Scout camp.
"But mommy gave me two presents, and both of them were nicer than this." He wrinkled his nose.
The dad frowned, "You don't think this is the only thing I got you, do you?" That afternoon, the father left the camp to go shopping.
- – -
I sat on the abandoned lifeguard chair as I watched a young girl run across the sand.
She twisted her ankle and fell in a heap.
She began crying hysterically.
Suddenly she stopped, stood, and looked around. Her father was far away; out of earshot.
She collapsed again and bawled even louder.
She stood again. Her father had wandered off so she resumed joyfully running down the beach.
- – -
Today, I can tell you what everything in a hardware store is used for.
But I am terrible at getting other people to do what I want.
Teach your children to manipulate things, not people.
(And the best way to teach them not to manipulate people is to not let them manipulate you.)
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published September, 2009 in International Family Magazine
A week after I moved to Manhattan, I went to a street fair and found there a policeman with a big sign: HELP US PREVENT CRIME
I approached, "I'm game. How can I help you prevent crime?"
He said, "By putting three locks on your door."
"But I already have two locks on my door, and I find it really annoying. How does having three prevent crime?"
"Years ago, everyone had one lock, so we told them to get two. Now everyone has two, so you need three."
"But how does having three prevent crime?"
"The thing is, crooks are lazy… if they weren't they'd get jobs. Your goal is to make your door harder to break into than the next one."
"But that doesn't prevent crime. It just gets my neighbor broken into instead of me."
He laughed, "What do you care?"
A girl moved in across the hall a few months later. She did not have a phone and frequently asked to borrow mine, so I began leaving my door open. She reciprocated, and soon a bunch of us on the floor did. Our tiny apartments became less claustrophobic. Friendlier too…
There were break-ins in our building. But not on our floor – even though none of us bought that third lock. Perhaps it was because we were looking out for each other.
It takes community to prevent crime, and communities are made from open doors, not locked ones.
Putting more locks on your door prevents crime just like stuffing your face prevents hunger.
© 2010 Brooke Allen
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Originally published in International Family Magazine
Shareholders have a problem – themselves.
My friend asked me when his mutual funds would rebound, and I asked him why he cares. He said, "Because if they are not going to rebound, I am going to sell."
I asked him what he would do if he found a fly in his soup. "I'd want to talk to the waiter." And if the waiter said it wasn't his problem? "Then I would want to speak to the chef." And if the chef said he couldn't do anything about it? "I'd demand to speak to the manager." And if the manager did nothing? "I'd want to speak to the owner."
My friend would want to talk to the owner about the fly, but I would want to talk to the owner about what it means to be an owner.
Over the decades, as a trader and market maker, I've been the shareholder of record for billions of shares of common stock, and I have started a few corporations under my own name. While legally, the two forms of ownership are the same, there is a world of difference.
As owner, I know that the customer is a king who can fire me for any reason or no reason, yet my creditors and vendors must still be paid and the taxman must get his due. My employees must keep the customers happy, and my managers must keep the employees happy. I must not only keep an eye on the till, I must save for the rainy day. And when it pours, I will need to dip into those savings to keep the operation running while the customers stay at home. If I want everyone to be loyal to me during good times, I must be loyal to them all the time. I had better believe in my product, or I shall find all this hard to do and sleep soundly, too.
As owner, I must put the interests of all those with claims senior to mine ahead of my own, and only afterward will I receive what is left over. I must bear risk when it needs to be borne, and I can't bail just because I don't like watching my net worth decline. I must be responsible and not self-centered. (And, if I have deep pockets, I can afford to be.) After all this, a sane market might reward me for being responsible, fearless, and not greedy, but only if I actually am. Still, there are no guarantees, for time and chance happeneth to us all.
I asked my friend why he owns stocks, and he said, "Because, in the long run, stocks perform best so that is where I keep my retirement savings." I've been to business school too, and I've heard this claim before, but for the life of me, I can't think of a reason it must be true. Besides, stocks represent ownership, and an investment in ownership is different from saving. Savings are what the owner liquidates to keep the company going during hard times. If the owner liquidates his firm to protect his savings, the business is in trouble.
I asked my friend if he is an owner of General Motors and, upon reflection, he realized that he is through his various funds. I asked if he drives a GM car, and he said he thought their products were terrible.
Imagine my friend complains about the fly to the restaurant manager, who researches the situation, and announces that, in fact, my friend is one of the owners; apparently my friend's broker had purchased stock in the restaurant. When asked what he will do, my friend says, "I will sell my ownership immediately." If my friend, who only cares about return on his investment, sells to someone with a passion for good food, and a respect for the customer, then that restaurant may one day be a place where you and I would like to eat. Until then, we best stay away. Likewise, we best avoid GM cars until its owners care more about their products (and us) than their portfolio.
You might want to test the thesis that a diversified portfolio of common shares does, in fact, perform well in the long run, in which case you should buy, hold, and see what happens. But, be aware that market prices are determined by the fear and greed of your fellow shareholders, and little else.
But, if you want to be rewarded for being an owner in more than name only, you must be in a position to act like one: be fearless and put the interests of the customers above your own.
Don't assume I'm talking about others. If you have money in the stock market, I'm talking about you, my friend.
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published August, 2009, in International Family Magazine
My friend in college, Debra, asked me, "What are you?"
I did not understand the question.
"What are you? How hard can that be? I'm Jewish, what are you?"
I said I was not religious.
"Neither am I. Just tell me what you are?"
I had not been raised with a religion… in fact; it had not been mentioned, kind of like sushi. I was 25 before I had even heard of sushi.
I asked my parents, "What am I?"
My mom said, "Brooke." She laughed.
"I know that, but what am I relative to you?"
"Our son."
"But what religion am I?"
"We don't know. You haven't told us."
"How can I not even know what religion I am?"
"That is a personal choice – you will need to make it yourself. Or not."
This was frustrating, "Ok, let's make it simple. How about race? I'm not Black, right?"
My mom said, "I wouldn't be too sure. There was a lot of fooling around going on. Everyone did it; don't let them tell you otherwise."
It was like sparring with a judo master who fades from every thrust.
In total exasperation, I said, "Look, my girlfriend is Jewish, and she wants to know what I am. Let's start there… I'm not Jewish, right?"
My father became serious, "Do you want me to tell you what I want you to be?"
"Yes." That would be a start.
"When they come to round up the Jews, I want you to be Jewish."
My friend in graduate school, Mona Hakim, was born in Bethlehem. When she was young, her family moved to Lebanon to avoid threats against her father's life. She was going to the American University of Beirut when the civil war started.
She told me that your identity card had your religion printed right on it. Thugs would stop your car, and if you were the wrong religion for that part of town, they would chop your head off and place it on a fence post. Muslims did it. Christians did it.
Some people began blackening out their religion on the ID card. That worked for a while. How could you kill someone if you didn't know what they were?
It didn't take long for the thugs to think up an answer. If you were Muslim, and you weren't proud of it, you deserved to die. Christians felt the same about Christians. They couldn't agree on much, but they did agree on that one thing… don't say what you are, and we'll kill you.
That is when she decided she had to get out of there.
I asked her, "So, what are you?"
She said, "I'm not telling you. I'm through with that shit."
Turns out, she was Mona – good enough for me.
If you conclude that your problems are caused by members of another group, you had better make sure you are not one of them.
If those others are humans, then you are either one of them, or you are inhuman.
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published in International Family Magazine
My wife and I both feel that our society has gone overboard in making people afraid.
One very destructive message inflicted upon children is that they should fear strangers.
In a planet as overpopulated as ours, even extremely rare events provide plenty of copy for the press.
As awful as they may be, abductions are rare. When they occur, someone the child knows (a relative or an estranged parent) is usually the culprit. Strangers intending harm are few and far between.
As parents, we were much more concerned about the physical and emotional harm that we might cause you than the harm that stranger might bring.
Simply riding in a car is by far the riskiest thing most children do. Swimming in a pool is pretty dangerous. Talking to strangers is not.
This is not to say that children should be left to their own devices… not at all.
We believe that very young children are not yet capable of exercising good judgment, whether it is over wearing a seatbelt, gauging the depth of the water, or evaluating strangers. They are no more ready to bear this burden for themselves then they are ready to baby-sit the children of others. Responsible people must look out for their safety at all times since they can't do it themselves. Eventually children will learn responsibility by observing others, not by being told a set of rules.
Our point was illustrated one Sunday morning in a bagel shop. I was reading the Newark Star Ledger and the woman sitting next to me was reading the New York Times She had a daughter (age five or so) who had nothing to do and was catatonic with boredom.
Since the Ledger has comics, and the Times does not, I decided to offer the young girl my comics.
She began to hyperventilate and make squeaky noises. Then she began to cry.
Her mother peered over her paper, "What's wrong, honey?"
"Th. Tha..That." She was gasping for air. Finally, pointing at me, "That man is trying to talk to me."
The mom barked angrily, "Don't be silly. That rule doesn't apply now." She snatched the comics from me and thrust them at her daughter. "Don't embarrass the man."
The girl became even more upset. Think of all the conflicting rules she was expected to follow and the conflicting emotions that were generated.
It is easy to understand where to draw the line. Think about how you would assign blame for an accident. If a toddler, left in the charge of a nanny, were to explore a light socket with a paper clip, would you blame yourself for not protecting the sockets or the nanny for not paying attention? Surely you wouldn't blame the toddler for being curious; it's in their nature.
You may not be innocent, but your children are. Let them lose their innocence at their own pace; it will happen soon enough.[1]
[1] I am glad to see that there is a web site devoted to freedom for children (and not going nuts) entitled Free Range Kids (http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/).
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published in International Family Magazine
When I was young, shooting a TV wasn't as unusual as you might think.
I grew up at a time when it was not uncommon for a young boy or girl to receive a .22 rifle as a graduation present from the sixth grade.
Youngsters would take their rifles to the garbage dump and televisions were a favorite target. They produce such a satisfying sound when the picture tube implodes.
This is because they contain a vacuum and if the picture tube is broken, it implodes. The glass in the front is thick but the back tapers down to a neck of a few inches in diameter and as thin as a light bulb. The safe way of destroying a picture tube is to wrap a blanket around that neck and give it a light tap. The towel will collect the glass shards, and the thick face will easily stop the inrushing air.[1]
However, if you crack the face of the picture tube, the air will be funneled into the narrow neck, which will break off from the pressure and become a high velocity projectile.
A friend was at the dump and shot a picture tube that was outside of its case. The neck was facing him, and he managed to nick a corner of the glass where it was thickest. The neck traveled about fifty feet before it hit him. He was not badly injured, but good enough to make the story worth telling.
My father shot our TV through its face as it stood in our living room. The picture tube was still in the case and the debris was contained.
If you were to shoot a television or computer screen these days, I'd suggest you go for a flat panel. It won't sound as good, but it is safer.
When shooting appliances, do not shoot at anything that can shoot back.
(Hopefully, they have not gotten wind of this story, and have not decided on preemptive action.)
[1] For details about picture tube implosions, see: http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/crtfaq.htm#crtpti
© 2009 Brooke Allen
firstname.lastname@example.com www.BrookeAllen.com
Originally published in International Family Magazine
Republished in Folks Magazine on 10/17/09.
In 1981, I decided to create my own consulting company. It occurred to me that I must learn more about selling if I was to find clients and flourish. For this I took a short sales training class over a weekend. On my next vacation, I visited my grandparents in Cornwall, where we had the following conversation over lunch:
"Grandma, do you remember when my sister and I spent the summer here in 1966?"
"I sure do. That was a great time, wasn't it?"
"It was."
I paused for a moment. I wasn't sure how to begin, "Well, I've taken a class on selling. Thinking back on that summer, I believe you were using sales techniques on us."
"How so?"
"After dinner, you would say something like, 'Do you want to clean up before dessert or afterwards?' That is called the alternative choice close."
She winked at me. "That's true. Go on."
"Then there was the time you made a list of all the reasons I should learn horseback riding even though I didn't want to. Then you gave me the paper and asked me to list the reasons I should not. I couldn't think of anything."
She smiled, "That's called the Benjamin Franklin close."
"You would say things like, 'After we go to the art museum, we'll go for ice cream.'"
"Closing on a minor point." She even knew the names of these techniques.
"We could never play you off against granddad like we could with our parents. In fact, it seemed to work the other way around. You might say something like, 'If you promise to clean the table, wash the dishes, and put your clothes away, I'll then go see if Granddad might take us out for dessert. But we only get this one chance to ask. Is it a deal?'"
She chuckled. "In my day we called that the MacAdoo close. I think it was named after someone called MacAdoo. Car salesmen use it all the time."
I was stunned. She knew all these things I had just learned a few weeks earlier.
"That summer in 1966 was kind of weird. Ruth and I enjoyed doing chores for you that we hated to do at home. You seemed so appreciative."
"We enjoyed your company so much and we did appreciate the help."
"But grandma, you never worked as a saleswoman, did you?"
She laughed. "Well, there was the time that a builder gave us a house. First, he agreed to let us live in his model home. Then, since I helped him sell most of the other houses in the development, he gave us the house as a reward."
She continued, "When your dad and his brother were very young we came to know Dale Carnegie. I learned a lot from him so I thought I'd apply his techniques to raising our children. They worked."
What an amazing confession. "Don't you think you were being manipulative?"
Her answer: "Not at all." She paused. It seemed that she wanted to phrase her answer just so.
To persuade another of something is not manipulative if you are doing it in their best interests and not just your own.
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Republished in Folks Magazine on 9/12/09.
Dennis and I had never been to Canada.
So, in February of 1971 we decided to hitchhike from Terre Haute, Indiana to Toronto by way of Detroit. A kindly gentleman in a pick-up truck offered to take us over the bridge to Windsor, on the Canadian side of the border.
He said, "If you are dodging the draft, don't tell me, but I'm willing to try to get you across."
At the border, the guards asked him who we were. "Just friends."
We would have made it had our backpacks not been spotted in the bed of the pick-up. The three of us were interrogated in separate rooms. It was clear our driver knew nothing about us. "I'm sorry, but we are going to deny you admission to Canada. You must return to Detroit." The official sounded quite official.
I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach. Then I felt guilty; I had just been treated as if I were a criminal. On top of this, I felt tremendous rejection.
Dennis seemed quite cheerful. "Great." He said, "Would you write me a letter?"
"I just want you to write me a letter rejecting me from Canada."
"We've never done that before. I don't even know what you are asking for."
"Well," He paused, "Since Junior High, I've been writing short stories and submitting them to literary magazines. I have not yet had a story accepted, but I have quite a collection of rejection letters from some of the world's finest publications. However, this is the first time I've ever been rejected from an entire country. Would you write me a letter?"
The fellow laughed. "Why not?"
"Great. I'll tell you what to say."
Dear Mr. ##########
Thank you so much for your submission to Canada. Unfortunately your offering does not meet our needs at this time.
We wish you the best in your endeavours.
P. S. God Save the Queen
That night we managed to hitch to Oberlin, Ohio and spend the night in a house full of young co-eds. That was fun.
The next day we attempted to enter Canada for a second time, from Buffalo. The border guard spotted us immediately. A telex had been sent from Windsor describing two whackos.
As he pulled us out of the car, the guard said, "I suppose you'll want another rejection letter."
If you are going to go far, you'll need to deal with lots of rejection. Start a collection.
© 2009 Brooke Allen
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Originally published in International Family Magazine
In 1960, when I was eight years old, my parents bought a television. It was a black and white console model and it cost my dad about a month's take-home pay.
It changed my life.
I could now entertain myself without friends, family, books or using my imagination. I could pretty much have fun without doing anything.
It started slowly but by the end of the decade that box had taken over our family. We would even watch television while eating dinner.[1]
In September of 1970 I went off to college in Indiana. For nine months I did not watch one second of television.
While flying home I practiced the first words I would say to my parents, "I have lived the greater part of a year without television. I will stay the summer in your house because I don't have enough money to stay somewhere else, but I warn you that I refuse to watch television with you. There are so many more important things to say and do." After my time away, I had so much I wanted to discuss with my folks, and the thought of competing with Laugh In, Ed Sullivan and the Million Dollar Movie both scared and sickened me.
"Dad, there is something I must say to you."
"Sure, son. But first, are you still into ham radio?"
"Yes." There was an amateur radio club at my college and I'd remained active.
"Do you still keep a junk box?"
"Yes." A junk box is a large chest in which electronics enthusiasts place old equipment from which they hope to someday cannibalize parts. In the ninth grade I had taken apart a discarded television and rewired it as my first short-wave transmitter. Using Morse code, I'd been able to contact people in every state and dozens of countries with that "homebrew" transmitter.
"I'm glad," he said. "The television is in the barn."
It was in pretty good shape except that there was a bullet hole through the picture tube.
My family had figured out the same thing I had. One evening, after dinner, my dad gathered my mom and my sister around the TV and he shot it.
Usually, the best way to end an addiction is cold turkey.
[1] Warning: Extremely dangerous — do not try this at home.
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Tito Ortiz returned to TNA Impact on Spike TV tonight (Aug. 8, 2013) after inking a hybrid mixed martial arts (MMA) / professional wrestling deal with Bellator and its subsidiaries. See his first appearance right here. Kurt Angle -- a member of Main Event Mafia, which is the new-found posse of his upcoming opponent at Bellator 106, Rampage Jackson -- was quick to interrupt "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" and set the boundaries. Ortiz agreed just before Bully Ray -- leader of the heel group Aces and 8's, who are feuding with Main Event Mafia -- pretty much put them both on blast. And you thought Brock Lesnar to the WWE was painful. Thanks to our partner in crime CagesideSeats.com for the quick translation.
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Montréal, 18 January 2006 – The organisers of the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights, presented from 26 to 29 July 2006 by the 1st World Outgames, have made an important step forward today with the launch of the Preliminary Programme for the event. The launch marks the beginning of an international recruitment campaign to reach individuals and organisations in more than one hundred countries. Already, more than 70 countries are represented. Over the four days of the Conference, some 2,000 delegates will discuss the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights worldwide. The programme will offer five plenary sessions with many prestigious speakers, plus more than 200 workshops. Almost 800 people have already proposed workshops related to the main Conference themes: The essential rights, global issues, diversity with the LGBT community, participation in society and creating social change.


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Epigenomic Annotation of Enhancers Predicts Transcriptional Regulators of Human Neural Crest
Epigenomic Annotation of Enhancers Predicts Transcriptional Regulators of Human Neural Crest
Cell Stem Cell, Volume 11, Issue 5,
Pages 633-648,
Publication Date 13 September 2012
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.07.006
Alvaro Rada-Iglesias
Ruchi Bajpai
Sara Prescott
Samantha A. Brugmann
Tomek Swigut
Joanna Wysocka
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Corresponding author
Present address: Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Ostrow School of Dentistry and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
Present address: Division of Plastic Surgery and Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
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► Chromatin profiling identifies thousands of human NC enhancers ► Many enhancers are functionally conserved in the avian embryo NC ► Chromatin signatures predict novel NC transcriptional regulators ► TFAP2A and NR2F1/2 cooperate to promote permissive enhancer chromatin states
Neural crest cells (NCC) are a transient, embryonic cell population characterized by unusual migratory ability and developmental plasticity. To annotate and characterize cis-regulatory elements utilized by the human NCC, we coupled a hESC differentiation model with genome-wide profiling of histone modifications and of coactivator and transcription factor (TF) occupancy. Sequence analysis predicted major TFs binding at epigenomically annotated hNCC enhancers, including a master NC regulator, TFAP2A, and nuclear receptors NR2F1 and NR2F2. Although many TF binding events occur outside enhancers, sites coinciding with enhancer chromatin signatures show significantly higher sequence constraint, nucleosomal depletion, correlation with gene expression, and functional conservation in NCC isolated from chicken embryos. Simultaneous co-occupancy by TFAP2A and NR2F1/F2 is associated with permissive enhancer chromatin states, characterized by high levels of p300 and H3K27ac. Our results provide global insights into human NC chromatin landscapes and a rich resource for studies of craniofacial development and disease.


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William M. Lansdowne
Chief Lansdowne was sworn in as San Diego's Chief of Police on August 4, 2003. San Diego is the seventh largest city in the United States with a population of 1.27 million people.
Chief Lansdowne was born in Oakland, CA on May 10, 1944. He graduated from San Jose State University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration.
Chief Lansdowne began his law enforcement career in 1966, when he joined the San Jose Police Department. As he learned policing, he also was serving his state as a member of the California National Guard (1966-72). He rose steadily through the ranks at SJPD, commanding a variety of units and divisions - and developing a reputation as a person who cared about his officers and the community they policed. He was accessible and he was not afraid to make decisions. Those skills eventually elevated him to the position of Assistant Chief.
In 1994, a new challenge presented itself. Chief Lansdowne left San Jose to head the police department in Richmond, CA, a diverse community of 93,000. He reorganized the department and its priorities, placing new emphasis on community policing and implementing violence reduction and truancy programs. During his five years in Richmond, homicides dropped by 50% and department overtime was reduced by $800,000 in just two years.
In August 1998, Chief Lansdowne returned to San Jose as that city's "top cop." He continued to emphasize community involvement, holding his department open to public scrutiny. While he was chief, San Jose became nationally recognized as the safest large city in America.
Over the years, Chief Lansdowne has expanded his expertise and his reputation as one of the foremost law enforcement professionals in the country. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and has served on a variety of state and national boards, including the Major Cities Chiefs and the National Conference for Community and Justice.
Chief Lansdowne has been married for nine years to Sharon, a former San Jose police officer. He has two sons by a prior marriage: Greg, a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy, and Erik, who works in sales in Mountain View. Sharon has a son by a prior marriage: Mike Young, a computer engineer, who lives in Fairfield. The Lansdownes enjoy spending quality time with their grandchildren Cassandra and William.
Chief Lansdowne owns a jeep and frequently visits the backcountry. He has explored all of the ghost towns in Northern California and Nevada and is looking forward to exploring Southern California.
- Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice Administration - 1973
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA - FBI National Academy - 1991
- National Law Enforcement Institute Graduate - 1999
- National Law Enforcement Executive Development Graduate - 1996
- American Leadership Fellows Graduate - 2001
- California National Guard - 1972
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- Board of Directors, Major Cities Chiefs
- Board of Directors, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)
- Board of Directors, Governor's Anti-Terrorism Task Force
- Board of Directors, National Conference for Community and Justice
- Member, California Homeland Security Public Safety Advisory Committee
- International Association of Chiefs of Police
- California Police Chiefs Association
- Police Executive Research Forum
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- 2003 to Present - City of San Diego, California - Chief of Police
- 1998 to 2003 - City of San Jose, California - Chief of Police
- 1994 to 1998 - City of Richmond, California - Chief of Police
- 1966 to 1994 - City of San Jose, California - Served in all ranks through position of Assistant Chief
- Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Supervisory, Management (Course Completed - CA P.O.S.T.)
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Screening of 2013 Academy Award® Winner Best Documentary Short, INOCENTE: A Fundraiser for courageous heARTS
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 4:30pm to 7:00pm
courageous heARTS presents an exclusive screening of this year's Oscar-winning documentary short, INOCENTE at the Riverview Theater. Following the film, Inocente herself, Matt D'Arrigo of A Reason To Survive (ARTS), and Lindsay Walz of courageous heARTS will participate in a panel discussion about the healing power of creative expression.
Doors: 4:30PM
Music: 5:00 PM
Film: 5:30PM (runtime: 40 minutes)
August 1st marks the 6-year anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Lindsay Walz, founder of courageous heARTS, is a survivor of this tragedy. She has spent the past six years healing her body, mind and heart. The most important tools she was given on the journey were paints, brushes and blank pieces of paper. Through her art, she was able to tell her story in new and profound ways. courageous heARTS is her gift to the community that has given her so much.
About courageous heARTS:
courageous heARTS is where creativitiy builds courage! The mission of courageous heARTS is to co-create experiences with young people by offering them a safe space, built with the intention to heal and empower-- through expressive arts, community building and leadership development. Our vision is that youth will discover, heal and strengthen their hearts so they can thrive as active, engaged and courageous members of their community.
The heART Center is located at 4164 Cedar Ave. S. in Minneapolis.
Panel Participants:
Inocente Izucar is a California-based artist featured in the documentary of the same name. From a young age, she experienced the uncertainy of being undocumented, as well as the stresses of long-term homelessness and domestic violence. A Reason To Survive (ARTS) is where art became her refuge and her hope.
Matt D'Arrigo is the founder and CEO of A Reason To Survive (ARTS). An artist from a young age, he used the arts to change his own life trajectory away from self destructive behaviors and to pull himself through the illness of his sister and subsequent death of his mother. He was inspired to make it his life's work to use the arts to transform the lives of children and youth facing their own struggles.
Proceeds from the Aug. 1 fundraiser will provide programming support to courageous heARTS.
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Riverview Theater
3800 42nd Ave. S
Minneapolis Minnesota 55406
United States(612) 729-7369
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Leemour Pelli
Leemour Pelli is an artist living and working in New York City. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (B.F.A., painting, 1994), Hunter College (Master of Arts degree in Art History, 1989), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A. in English Literature). She has also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, and at Cornell University. In January of 2008 the artist had a solo exhibition at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York. In May, 2005, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, and in September of 2003 she had a solo exhibition at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The University published a catalogue, and produced a mini-documentary about the artist and her work. Pellis recent exhibitions also include the Paul Rodgers Gallery in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Connecticut, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, and Artcore Gallery in Toronto. Her work has been reviewed in Art News, The New York Times, New York Arts Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.I work in different media including painting, sculpture, installations, drawings, and prints.
My work explores the nature of reality and contemporary existence. It reflects on social and psychological aspects of interrelationships, within the context of perception, sensorial experiences, and the human condition.
In some of my work, I focus on manifesting not only the visible aspects of reality, but what one cannot always see, or what I call "almost sight." That is, I explore a basic collapse and failure in our limited nature of perception. This, in turn, leads to other complications and limitations in the domain of human interrelations and experience.
In order to show this, the works are at times x-rays of life, or x-rays of figures or situations, at times palimpsests, in which I try to show how contemporary modern man is somehow limited – in his/her vision(s), relationships, and in their selves. In the work I also explore the nature of the self as an individual, and that of being contextualized in a space that involves others/relations and the power of time. The human figure, or human landscape, is explored in an anatomical and poetic way – as a place of memory and transformation, whether good or bad, real or imaginary.
At times, the world and figures depicted in it appear to be skeletal, they are, to reference a poem by Ted Hughes, "Almost a person." They are only partially there – to our limited perceptions, perhaps hidden, fragile, broken, failing – longing, loving, parting, basically changing and transforming through the space of time. In some instances, their internal organs fail them – or over power them – sending them out of control – metaphorically speaking, or others (souls and organs) fail or overpower them, etc.
The work also, at times, draws inspiration from literature and poetry, such as the writings of Samuel Beckett, and Ted Hughes. Characters and personas that may resemble those in some of their writings, are re-created and used in a theatrical series of works.
Though the work at times consists of single figures or couples interacting, it may be said that larger issues concerning the break down or malfunctioning of human relations and humanity itself are invoked. A general failure at connection is evident, and the work is about a fundamental collapse: of contemporary social conventions, perceptions, relationships, and one's internal and exterior worlds.
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Education:M.A., B.A., B.F. A.1992-1994 The School of Visual Arts, New York. Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.1991-1992 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.Academie Charpentiere, France.1991-1990 Bezalel Academy of Art andDesign, Jerusalem, Israel. 1987-1990 Hunter College, NY. Master of Arts Degree, Art History.1984-1986 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. B.A. English Literature.1984-1983 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.Fine Art and Art History Courses.One Person Exhibitions:2009 Annina Nosei Gallery and Project Space, NY.2008 Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York.2005 Annina Nosei Gallery. Recent Paintings, NY. The Icehouse Gallery, "Love," said God,say "Love." Greenport, NY. Flying Space, "Love," said God, say "Love," Sag Harbor, NY. 2004 Anina Nosei Gallery, From the Heart, NY.2003 The Art Gallery of the University of Central Florida, Orlando.2000 ArtCore Gallery, Skins, Toronto, Canada.,
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The best of Burma's colonial architecture and numerous temples
Now back on the tourist map, Burma's crumbling colonial architecture, countless overgrown temples, stunning landscapes and locals with shy friendly smiles await in this fascinating country. We visit all of the most fabled destinations such as the temples of Bagan, the 19th century capital of Mandalay, a city synonymous with Kipling and the British Empire, Inle Lake with its famous leg-rowing fishermen, and Rangoon (Yangon) famous for its skyline of golden spires.
We also take time to cruise on the Irrawaddy River and mingle and interact with commuters on local trains. Experience this incredible country before mass tourism returns.
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Daily Mail: Chris Lawrence writes about Discovering Burma (March 2013).
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There are many sensitive issues in returning to Burma and many questions asked about whether tour operators such as ourselves should be going back following years of boycott. George Orwell's famous novel 'Burmese Days' based on his experiences there during British rule includes the lines 'Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted. You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself. Your opinion on every subject of any conceivable importance is dictated for you by the pukka sahibs' code'. Applying this quote to politics today and replacing 'pukka sahibs' with 'military junta' would arguably give an accurate reflection of life in Burma. The debate will continue to rage on if anything has changed under the current ruling junta but the simple answer is we still do not know; although we can research supply chains and try to ensure as much benefit as possible filters down directly to the people and communities there will be monies flowing into the military regime (junta).
Why we have chosen to return
Why we have chosen to return is on the back of a press release from the National League for Democracy in May 2011, this stated 'the NLD would welcome visitors who are keen to promote the welfare of the common people and the conservation of the environment and to acquire an insight into the cultural, political and social life of the country'. This statement echoes true with Exodus' long standing responsible tourism policy that, amongst other things states:
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Twelve men charged in connection with Multimillion-Dollar pharmaceutical thefts
May 3, 2012 |
NEWARK, N.J. – Federal agents today arrested eleven men who allegedly stole and sold millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and other products. Twelve defendants are charged by Complaint in New Jersey as part of a long-term, multi-state investigation initiated by the FBI in Newark into the illegal trafficking of pharmaceuticals and other stolen goods.
U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced the arrests of New Jersey's defendants – 10 arrested in Florida and another in Nebraska – as part of a coordinated national takedown, with arrests also announced today in Florida and Connecticut. A twelfth defendant is still being sought. Two of those arrested on New Jersey Complaints were among those charged separately in an Indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida and unsealed today.
The New Jersey defendants are charged in three criminal Complaints unsealed in Newark federal court today. Four are scheduled to make their initial court appearances today in Miami federal court. According to the Complaints:
Six of the 12 defendants are charged in New Jersey with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen property in connection with pharmaceuticals stolen from a Bayer product distribution center in Olive Branch, Miss., in March 2009, as well as a theft of a tractor trailer containing Perrigo pharmaceuticals that was stolen in Dallas in March 2010. Bayer has estimated the value of the stolen pharmaceuticals – which included Bayer aspirin, Aleve, Flintstones vitamins and Phillips products – to have a wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of $2.9 million. Perrigo has estimated the WAC of its stolen pharmaceuticals at more than $315,000. Among the six defendants is Ernesto Romero-Vidal, who acted as a broker between buyers and sellers and who is named in all three New Jersey Complaints as well as in the Florida Indictment.
Those six defendants are:
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Residence |
Ernesto Romero-Vidal* |
"Bemba" |
46 |
Hallandale, Fla. |
Leonardo Guerra* |
43 |
Clearwater, Fla. |
Miguel Munoz |
"Miguelito" |
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Columbus, Neb. |
Lazaro Luis-Garcia |
43 |
Miami, Fla. |
Miguel Soler |
"Gordo" |
Riguelme Avila (at large) |
Ricky |
59 |
Miami, Fla. |
(*) Also charged separately by federal authorities in Florida.
A second Complaint charges Romero-Vidal and three other men with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen prescription respiratory medicine allegedly taken in the robbery of a full tractor trailer load that originated from Dey L.P. in Allen, Texas, and was destined for Sandoz Inc. in Mechanicsburg, Pa. After the theft was reported, law enforcement recovered the tractor and trailer carrying the stolen prescription medicine in Fredericksburg, Md. Sandoz estimates the WAC of the stolen medicine – including DuoNeb, a prescription combination medication containing Albuterol Sulfate and Ipratropium Bromide and indicated for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – to be $1.15 million.
The four defendants named in that Complaint are:
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a/k/a |
Age |
Residence |
Ernesto Romero-Vidal* |
"Bemba" |
46 |
Hallendale, Fla. |
Daniel Diaz-Paez |
"El Burro" |
37 |
Miami, Fla. |
Silvio Ramirez |
44 |
Hialeah, Fla. |
Martin Lopez |
"El Negro" |
45 |
Miami, Fla. |
A third Complaint charges Romero-Vidal and three other men with three counts of conspiracy to deal in stolen goods. In Count One, Romero-Vidal and another defendant are charged with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen L'Oreal hair care products, including shampoo, mousse and hair color gels. The WAC of the stolen goods is estimated at more than $330,000. Count Two of the Complaint charges three defendants with conspiracy to possess a stolen interstate shipment of Mylan, Inc., a prescription respiratory medicine that was being transported in a tractor trailer that was stolen in Tampa, Fla. The WAC of the stolen Mylan medicine was more than $260,000. In Count Three, Romero-Vidal and another defendant are charged with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen Sandoz prescription respiratory medicine, that was part of theft alleged in the second complaint, above.
The four defendants in the third Complaint, and the specific counts with which they are charged, are:
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Counts |
a/k/a |
Age |
Residence |
Ernesto Romero-Vidal* |
1, 3 |
"Bemba" |
46 |
Hallandale, Fla. |
Reynaldo Tapanes |
1,2 |
"El Gordo" |
45 |
Miami, Fla. |
Ariel Garcia |
2 |
39 |
Coral Gables, Fla. |
Rocke R. Lopez-Batista |
2, 3 |
"El Nino" |
27 |
Hialeah, Fla. |
Four of the defendants, Soler, Lazaro Garcia, Ariel Garcia and Diaz-Paez, were scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert L. Dube in Miami federal court.
Each conspiracy charge carries a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward in Newark; IRS-Criminal Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Joann S. Zuniga; and detectives of the North Bergen Police Department, under the direction of Chief William P. Galvin Jr., with the investigation leading to today's arrests.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jane H. Yoon and Leslie Faye Schwartz of the U.S. Attorney's Office Criminal Division in Newark.
The charges and allegations contained in the Complaints are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Romero-Vidal; Guerra et al. Complaint
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Definition of infradian in English:
Syllabification: in·fra·di·anPronunciation: /inˈfrādēən
Physiology- (Of a rhythm or cycle) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day. Compare with ultradian.More example sentences
- The crayfish Procambarus clarkii is a nocturnal organism that displays a span of overt circadian and infradian rhythms to adapt to daily and seasonal environmental lighting changes.
- The circadian rhythm resides with an infradian rhythm of lunar 28-day cycles, seasonal cycles of cold and hot as well as shifting light and dark.
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Backroom Exclusives 24, Scene #01
Backroom Exclusives 24, Scene #01
Rod Daily, Marcus Mojo
Updated : 2010-11-08 | Views : 2783
Backroom Exclusives
Backroom Exclusives
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Marcus Mojo had placed a booty call to Rod Daily but he couldn't wait for his buddy to get there. When Rod walks in he catches Marcus stroking his hard cock and immediately goes down on the muscular 21-year old stud. Rod strips to reveal his own chiseled abs and throbbing cock which he feeds to Marcus, an eager cocksucker with serious skills. After eating Rod's ass Marcus decides to mount him and fucks him hard until they both shoot gobs of cum.
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