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Ten role models in wickedness
Most modern financial scams pale in comparison with those of earlier centuries. Morgen Witzel unveils his top ten of all-time villains
Most modern financial scams pale in comparison with those of earlier centuries. Morgen Witzel unveils his top ten of all-time villains
Are we sinking into a moral abyss? In fact, it could be argued that the ethical and moral standards of our day are no worse than those of many past times. In the US in the late-nineteenth century, for example, the era of the Robber Barons, greed was not only condoned but admired. If you made money in an underhanded manner, well, that just proved what a clever fellow you were.
And some of these people were very clever. Some of their methods bordered on genius. They excelled in the arts of wickedness, in ways that our modern-day wrong-doers can only admire. Here, in ascending order, are the candidates for the 10 most unethical business people who ever lived and worked.
10. Anonymous
In London in 1720, at the height of the South Sea Bubble, an individual operating under a false name printed and distributed a prospectus for a business to be capitalised at £500,000 and offered five thousand shares at a value of £100 each. To obtain shares, investors needed only to put down a deposit of £2 per share. The venture was described as "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is". Despite this, within six hours, more than a thousand people had paid their deposits. The man closed his office and departed for the Continent the same evening, never to be heard of again. What takes the breath away is the sheer contempt in which he held those he fleeced. He knew he did not even need to tell them what they were investing in; they would hand over money anyway.
9. Li Zongwu
In his 1911 book The Theory of Thickness and Blackness, Li Zongwu argued that in any sphere of activity – politics, law, business – the two essentials are a "thick face" and a "black heart". Thick face meant the ability to conceal one's true thoughts from others; black heart meant ruthlessness, the willingness to sacrifice the interests of others for one's own. To Li, all that mattered were one's own kin and family; everyone else and everything else was expendable. Li's principles became particularly popular in Chinese business circles in the 1920s and 1930s.
One disgusted Australian academic maintains that the book should have been subtitled "How to Screw Foreigners". Li's ideas contributed to an image of China as a place where foreign businesses were to be swindled and fleeced, an image China still struggles to shake off today.
8. John Law
A Scottish-born economist living in Paris, in 1716 JohnLaw set up the Mississippi Company, which was given a monopoly on overseas trade, and took charge of the national debt. In 1720, he also became controller general of finances in France. He drove up the price of shares in the Mississippi Company by nearly 400 per cent and instructed the French central bank to print millions of banknotes so that people could afford to buy shares.
Law himself did not profit by this. As an economist, he believed that money had no value and was only a means of exchange, and one theory is that this exercise was a bizarre game aimed at proving his point.
Before the end of 1720, the bubble collapsed, the paper currency lost all its value and the entire French economy was effectively wrecked. Law fled the country, later dying in poverty in Italy.
7. Lorenzo di Tonti
An Italian banker living in France in the seventeenth century, Lorenzo di Tonti invented the investment scheme known as the tontine. People subscribe a fixed amount of capital, which is then invested and which pays them an annual dividend. Whenever a member of a tontine dies, his or her capital is divided among the other members and their dividends increase accordingly. Not all tontines are scams, but most were. Common ploys included the managers creaming off most of the investment income and paying only a fraction to the investors, or simply taking the capital and vanishing into thin air.
But even when tontines are run honestly, there are strong ethical implications. Tonti and his successors effectively invited investors to bet on the death of other people and their own survival. People are known to have murdered other tontine members in order to increase their own dividends.
6. Gregor MacGregor
In the early-nineteenth century, Gregor MacGregor looked around for a business venture in South America in which he could persuade people to invest. Unable to find one, he simply made one up – not just a company but an entire country. He claimed to have been made prince of Poyais, an honour conferred upon him by a native American ruler, King George Frederick Augustus I (a fine old native American name, to be sure).
He founded a company for the exploitation of Poyais, sold land rights, raised bank loans and issued £200,000 worth of bearer bonds in the name of the government of Poyais. He even encouraged colonists to set out, selling them gear and passage on ships bound for Poyais. Eventually the settlers returned with the news that Poyais did not exist. MacGregor had already decamped to France, where he set up and ran a similar scheme; then, discovering that the fuss had died down in London, he came back to Britain and ran the same scheme again, not even bothering to change the details. Many criminal charges were brought against him but none were ever proven. He retired a wealthy man.
5. Daniel Drew
A farm boy from New York, Daniel Drew got his start in business as a cattle dealer. Cattle were sold in the market by weight and Drew discovered that, by pumping each cow full of water before the sale, he could increase the weight by as much as 50 pounds and profit accordingly. Later he went into railways, taking control of the Erie Railroad and manipulating its share price repeatedly for his own profit. When a rival Robber Baron, Cornelius Vanderbilt, launched a takeover bid, Drew ordered the company secretly to issue tens of thousands of new shares. Each time Vanderbilt got close to a controlling interest, Drew simply printed more shares. Eventually the price of the shares collapsed; Drew then bought them up at rock-bottom prices. He made huge profits, while not only Vanderbilt but many small investors lost fortunes.
Eventually Drew's complicated financial affairs unravelled; he went bankrupt in 1873 and died in poverty. Watered stock, whether cattle or shares, remains his legacy to the world.
4. Aleksei Stakhanov
Top management has no monopoly on fraud. In 1935, the Russian coal miner Aleksei Stakhanov reported to his superiors that in the course of a six-hour shift his team had managed to produce 102 tons of coal, 14 times the average rate of productivity. He attributed this success to superior organisation and working methods. The Soviet authorities praised Stakhanov to the skies. He was pulled out of his mining job and made consultant to the entire Soviet mining industry, advising on how to improve productivity.
All over the country, miners were ordered to work to new production targets set by Stakhanov. But they were given no tools and no training in his methods,and most failed. They and their families were then sent to labour camps in Siberia, where thousands of them died. Stakhanov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1970.
In 1988, Russian journalists discovered that there was no Stakhanov system; he had simply bribed several other team foremen to add their production figures to his. He had profited, at the expense of the lives of many thousands of his comrades and their wives and children.
3. Charles Ponzi
Born in Italy, Charles Ponzi went to the US in 1903. In 1918, he established an investment scheme in Boston with the purpose of exploiting differences in exchange rates for international reply coupons. But instead of profits the scheme yielded heavy losses. Ponzi realised, however, that as long as he kept new money flowing into the scheme, he could continue to pay the promised returns to investors out of his newly acquired capital, while pretending that this was investment income.
By promising ever higher rates of return, he was able to attract more and more credulous investors and keep the scheme afloat. In 1920, one of his own employees blew the whistle and it was quickly discovered that Ponzi's investment company had debts of $7m. The subsequent financial crash brought down several banks in Massachusetts and plunged the state economy into a short-lived depression. Arrested and imprisoned, he was later released and sent to Florida, where he tried his hand at several varieties of real estate fraud, again with short-term success. He died in obscurity in Brazil, having spent most of his adult life either engaged in financial fraud or in prison paying the consequences.
2. John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller built the largest oil company in the world and was regarded as a hero by millions of Americans. But his business empire was built using fraud, deception, intimidation and violence. Starting after the American Civil War with a single small oil company, Rockefeller gradually took control of the entire oil industry, establishing a monopoly. He offered to buy up his rivals; if they refused to sell, his methods ranged from economic boycotts to intimidation of the owners and their families and staff, arson and even murder. Those who did not join Rockefeller were forced out of business and never worked in the oil industry again. For years, his company, Standard Oil, did not pay a penny in taxes.
Dragged before US congressional investigators, Rockefeller claimed he had no knowledge of the affairs of the business he ran; on one occasion, he even denied knowing that it was in the oil business.
He gave millions to charity, almost certainly to distract attention from his other activities. Eventually a crusading journalist exposed the truth and, after a long court case, the US government ordered Standard Oil to be broken up.
1. Basil Zaharoff
Born in Greece of Russian ancestry, by the age of 35 Basil Zaharoff had already been arrested for bigamy and fraud. This did not stop Nordenfeldt, the first company to make and sell submarines on a commercial basis, from hiring him as agent in the Mediterranean. Zaharoff's tactics had the simplicity of genius. Having first sold a submarine to the Greek navy as a secret weapon to use against Turkey, he approached the Turks and sold them two submarines to counteract the Greek menace. He then went to Russia and persuaded the navy there to buy four submarines to negate the advantage held by the Turks. The commission on these contracts alone made him a rich man.
But that was only the beginning. Zaharoff went on to sell machine guns for the Maxim company – using bribes to secure contracts – and then helped engineer its takeover by Vickers, gaining a seat on the board and having himself appointed chief commercial agent on the Continent.
Now he profited both ways: every sale earned him a commission and the profits to Vickers paid him a dividend. He developed "le systéme Zaharoff", a refinement of his earlier method: sell a quantity of arms to one country, then inform its enemy and offer to sell them an equal or greater quantity. He bought a newspaper in Paris and ordered it to print a fictitious story to the effect that France was proposing a huge military expansion, then rushed copies to every major political figure in Germany. Within a week, the German government announced that it was doubling its expenditure on armaments – and Zaharoff was there to sell them.
After the first world war the British press accused Zaharoff of playing a leading role in the arms race that was itself a cause of the war, and branded him the "Merchant of Death". Undeterred, Zaharoff moved to Monte Carlo, where he bought the casino and married a duchess. The richest man in Europe, he died peacefully in his bed at the age of 87.
For selfishness, greed and callous disregard for humanity, it is hard to think of his equal.
Words of wisdom
The virtuous man, by means of his wealth, makes his personality more distinguished. The vicious man accumulates wealth at the expense of his life.
Confucius, The Golden Mean
Might is right, and justice there is none.
Walther von der Vogelweide, 13th century poet
The goose that lays the golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is taking the golden eggs laid by someone else's goose.
Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money, and What the Bankers Do With It
Money is seldom the measure of much, once you have enough. I cannot be the only person to wonder what those people who have made one million pounds or dollars a year do with it all. Money isn't even necessarily the sign of success.
Charles Handy, The Empty Raincoat
There is something alarming to those who believe that commerce should be a peaceful pursuit, and who believe that moral law holds good throughout the entire range of human relations, in knowing that so large a body of young men in this country are consciously or unconsciously growing up with the idea that business is war and that morals have nothing to do with its practice.
Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company
Morgen Witzel is honorary senior fellow at the School of Business and Economics, Exeter University

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The Master of Arts degree in Catholic Studies requires students to complete 10 courses (30 credits) and one master's essay (3 credits) for a total of 33 credits.
All students in the program take two required courses:
CSMA 500 Catholic Thought and Culture I
CSMA 501 Catholic Thought and Culture II
These two courses provide students with an introduction to the sweep of two thousand years of Catholic thought and culture, but also introduce students to the interdisciplinary way of thinking central to Catholic Studies.
Students are also required to take one course in each of four core areas: theology, philosophy, history, and art.
Courses that satisfy the area requirements are grounded in a particular area of study, but engage that area explicitly in its relationship to other areas of study. Thus, students have an opportunity to consider a given area with some precision, while seeing it situated in the larger frame of Catholic Studies. The MA program offers area courses on both introductory and more advanced levels. Students work with the Director in determining which courses are most fitting to the student's program of study in satisfying the area requirements.
Catholic Studies also offers symposia on specific thinkers, works, or topics. These courses are not area courses, but rather bring many areas to bear on the thinker, work, or topic under consideration.
Students may select their elective courses beyond the two required courses and the three required areas from other area courses or from the symposia.
A selection of courses offered in the MA program:
Catholic Social Tradition
Essentials of the Catholic Faith
The Church and the Biomedical Revolution
Philosophical Foundations of Theology
Philosophical Principles in the Thought of John Paul II
Europe and the Church: 1789 to the Present
The History of Western Education
Catholic Spiritual Narrative
The Liturgy of the Roman Rite
Augustine's City of God
St. Francis and his World
Aquinas the Theologian
The History of Wester
Dante's Divine Comedy
John Henry Newman
Thomas More: The Man for All Seasons
Under the supervision of a faculty adviser, all students complete a master's essay as the final, qualifying project for the degree. The master's essay gives students an opportunity to develop research, critical thinking, and writing skills and deepen their mastery of areas of Catholic Studies that are particularly intriguing to them. The completed paper, approximately 25-30 pages, will be evaluated by a committee of three faculty members who will hold a formal conversation about it with the student. Normally, students complete the master's essay during their last semester of study.


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Cataract Surgery
Frequently Asked Questions
Preparing for Surgery – What to Expect
What do I need to do before the surgery?
After your examination by one of our doctors, you will meet with our Surgery Coordinator, LaJuan, who will thoroughly explain the procedure to you and answer any of your questions. A prescription for eye drops will also be given to you. Use these drops as directed prior to your surgery.
Will I need to see my medical doctor before surgery?
It is necessary for you to schedule an appointment with your primary care physician for a physical examination, lab tests and any other testing required by him, prior to your surgery. A form will be provided to you for your PCP to complete.
The Day of the Surgery – What to Expect
Where is the surgery performed?
The surgery is performed on an outpatient basis at Thibodaux Laser and Surgery Center, which is located across the hall from the Thibodaux office.
When will I be notified about the time of my surgery?
You will receive a call from the surgery center staff the day before the surgery. They will review your instructions, medications and answer any questions that you may have.
What should I do the morning of the surgery?
You may not eat or drink anything after midnight the day before the surgery. You may take your regular medications with a tiny sip of water with the exception of your diabetic medication. Bring a list of your current medication with you to the surgery center. You should make arrangements for someone to drive you home after the surgery.
How long will I be at Thibodaux Laser and Surgery Center?
You will be at the Surgery Center for approximately two hours. The surgery itself usually takes about ten minutes. However, Preparatory time is needed before the surgery. After a short stay in the recovery area, you will be ready to go home.
Do I need to remove my clothing?
Wear nice comfortable clothing (something that buttons or snaps to avoid pulling anything over your head) and slip on shoes or slippers with socks, as it is cold in the operating room.
After Surgery – What to Expect
Do I have to stay in bed when I get home?
There is no need for you to remain in bed. You may feel more tired than usual because of the anesthesia, however any light activity is acceptable. Over the counter pain medication may be used.
Are there any dietary restrictions?
You may resume your normal dietary habits after surgery.
What else do I need to do to ensure that my surgery is successful?
*Use your eye drops as instructed.
*Be sure not to rub or press on your eye.
*Return for all your post operative appointments as scheduled.


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Too much information kills information. — Proverb
The Kanban board was initially used to visualize the workflow of a production process but it can also be used for knowledge work like the software development process. A simple board can be implemented with sticky notes on a wall but it can also be implemented in software with tools like Kanbanery.
The objective of this post is to propose enhancements for the Kanban board that could potentially improve the user experience. The enhancements result from analyzing the properties of the board using principles from the Semiology of Graphics.
Graphical Analysis
The information in a Kanban board consists of the work items assigned to a team for the duration of a sprint (or iteration). This complete and unchanging definition common to all data points is called the invariant. Each work item must at least specify a summary and status, but it can also specify a priority, owner, estimate, tag, etc. In turn, these variations between items are called the variables (or components).
A variable has a level of organization that is fundamental for reordering, comparing and grouping information. The level can be characterized as:
- Qualitative: Like the owner of a work item, it doesn't have a universal order so it can be reordered arbitrarily for information processing purposes.
- Ordered: Like the status, it has a single order from open to closed to convey the progression of a work item.
- Quantitative: Like the estimate, it is possible to say that an item is estimated to take twice as long as another item.
The board is a two dimension plane containing a few geometric elements, each representing some information:
- A point indicates a position on the plane with no theoretical length or area, it can be the size of an avatar to represent the owner of a work item.
- A line has a start and end position with a measurable length but no area, it is primarily used to evaluate the number of work items under a status column.
- An area is composed of points linked by lines which delimit a part of the plane, it is used to represent individual work items capable of containing more information.
The values assigned to a variable are represented with images that reflect different levels of classification. The separation of values, like the different owners, can be expressed by:
- Color: Range of all color sensations which are not always perceived by everyone.
- Orientation: Hatching of lines varying in orientation from horizontal to vertical.
- Shape: Given the same surface, an image can have many different shapes.
The ordering of values, like some priorities being higher than others, by:
- Grain: Hatching of varying lines ranging from fine to coarse-grained.
- Value: Intermediate colors between black and white.
The quantity of values, like estimates in hours, by:
- Size: Height of a column, surface of a line or a quantity of equal images.
Open Items
At the beginning of a sprint, work items are all open and appear under the left column of the Kanban board. This is the same effect as a degenerate binary tree where all the nodes form a linked list. For team members, as for computers, this is inefficient to choose the next item to work on.
An enhancement would be to move the open items to another board. Instead of using the status as columns, another variable could balance the items across multiple shorter columns. If the items are tagged, it might be more efficient to choose from a column with items of the same tag. The problem is that open items with a lower priority might be chosen from one column before other items with a higher priority in another column.
|Tag 1
|Tag 2
|Tag 3
High Priority
Low Priority
This could therefore be extended with areas ordered by priority spanning all tags, as illustrated on the right. The items from the highest priority area are clearly visible while keeping an overview of the remaining work items. Another problem is that fragmenting the board breaks the complete workflow which is core to understanding how the work proceeds.
The actual benefit depends on whether the gain of choosing work items more effectively outweighs the cost of breaking the workflow.
Closed Items
During the course of a sprint, more work items are closed and appear under the right column of the Kanban board. This gives the impression that the length of the column can be compared with the length of other columns to evaluate the amount of work completed so far. This might be misleading because the length is proportional to the number of work items rather than the hours of work.
An enhancement would be to change the representation of work items from punctual elements without a theoretical length to line elements with a length relative to the estimate. By adding these elements under the status column, the length becomes proportional to the total hours of work. The problem is that the estimate for the closed items might be different from the actual time spent which might affect completing the sprint on target.
This could be extended by moving the closed items to another board where the columns would be the relative difference between the estimate and the time spent, as illustrated on the right. The columns should look like an upside down normal distribution where skewness to the right indicates the sprint might not be completed on target. This suffers from the same problem as before of breaking the complete workflow.
Another enhancement might be to supplement the Kanban board with a burn down chart (or burn up chart). The benefit is that the chart is like a time series that displays the progress of the whole sprint whereas the Kanban board is more like a data map that only displays a snapshot of the current state.
This post proposed enhancements for a couple of areas in the Kanban board; open and closed work items. The enhancements sometimes solved problems only to be replaced by other problems. So, the benefit of their adoption actually depends on context.
The enhancements also attempted to extend the board with more variables which ultimately resulted in more boards. So, adding more variables doesn't necessarily add more information; it might actually kill information.


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EAU CLAIRE -- The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire forensics team has placed in the top 10 at its two most recent tournaments.
On Nov. 11, the team traveled with its novice freshman competitors to a tournament at Normandale Community College in Minnesota where the team took second place overall. Freshman Arwen Dale, Eau Claire , placed first in informative speaking, and freshman Angie Hambrick, Milwaukee, took second in poetry interpretation and fourth in the oral interpretation category. Freshman Cate Dunham, Hartland, placed third in after dinner speaking. Freshman Barb Ellevold, Pulaski, placed third in poetry interpretation and fourth in prose interpretation. Freshman Arwen Williams, Eau Claire, took third place in rhetorical criticism.
The team earned an eighth-place finish at the Bradley tournament in Peoria, Ill. Senior Mike Paulus, Eau Claire, was a varsity prose semi-finalist and placed sixth in the varsity duo competition with fellow senior Holly Pyrek, Horicon, and third with junior Ann Hackel, Eau Claire. Pyrek took sixth in rhetorical criticism and senior Nicole Defenbaugh, Wales, earned a fourth place trophy in the event. In novice after dinner speaking, junior Kate Grosskopf, Fall Creek, placed seventh. Junior Melanie Miller, Anoka, Minn., placed sixth in varsity poetry, while Ellevold placed fifth in novice prose interpretation. Dale also placed third in novice informative speaking.
For more information about the UW-Eau Claire forensics team, contact director Karen Piercy at (715) 836-4747.
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According to a new article out of the company, "Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, announced today it has released the next version of its OmniViz™ software solution enabling organizations to process larger datasets at greater speeds. OmniViz is a powerful data mining and analytics solution allowing users to analyze and explore critical information through its interactive and intuitive visualization technology. Utilizing sophisticated statistical and clustering algorithms, OmniViz processes and serves data to organizations to help reveal hidden patterns and features, allowing users to discover fresh insight and easily share that information with both colleagues and clients." Read more


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National Park lodging for under $100 per night
As the nation swelters through the remaining dog days of summer, there's still time to book a national park getaway. But with national park lodgings generally pricey, here's how you can save a few bucks on your stay.
Consider lodgings that can be had for under $100 per night. And we don't mean sleeping in canvas tents or being required to use a community bathroom. Hundred dollar rooms aren't available at upscale facilities such as the Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park or Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley National Park, even during the off-season.
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But here are some national parks where you can still book a room for under $100 per night. Each facility offers a private bathroom and a hard roof over your head. The listed prices don't include taxes, which may boost the overall cost to slightly over $100. Rates are for summer 2012, and rooms are based on availability.
Buffalo National River
Buffalo Point offers both rustic and modern cabins that rent for $86 per night. Smaller motel-type lodge rooms rent for $70. Two of the modern cabins offer an excellent view of the river that flows through a deep gorge although the river is not accessible from the lodging complex. A restaurant, open seasonally, offers reasonably priced food and is within walking distance of all the guest rooms. www.buffalopoint.com/
NATIONAL PARK GUIDE: Arkansas' Buffalo National River
Death Valley National Park
California and Nevada
Two of the four Death Valley lodges offer rooms for under $100 per night. Stovepipe Wells Village Hotel near the center of the park offers small rooms surrounding the historical courtyard for $95 per night. Standard rooms begin at $120. A restaurant, store, and small NPS visitor center are also part of the complex. Panamint Springs Resort is a unique and isolated operation on the western side of park. Motel-type rooms have one queen ($79), one king ($84), or two doubles ($94). A cottage and rooms with three doubles are more expensive. The main building, which looks like it should be located in Key West, has an interesting bar that offers 100 varieties of beer and serves excellent hamburgers. What more can you ask?
Glacier National Park
Swiftcurrent, a mile down the road from better known Many Glacier Hotel, has one-bedroom cabins for $92 per night. The cabins are quite rustic and closely spaced. Cabins without a private bath rent for about $20 less. This is the lowest-cost lodging in what many experienced travelers consider their favorite national park. A short walk from the lodging complex offers some of the most spectacular scenery our country has to offer. glacierparkinc.com/
NATIONAL PARK GUIDE: Montana's Glacier
Grand Canyon National Park
Maswik South, on the Grand Canyon's South Rim, offers motel-type rooms and fairly nice cabins for $92 and $94, respectively. The cabins may be the best buy of any of the South Rim's lodging facilities. Although not directly on the Rim, The Maswik complex is within walking distance of the rim and also near a cafeteria and shuttle stop. A standard double at Bright Angel Lodge, a facility nearer the rim, also rents for $94 per night. grandcanyonlodges.com/
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Woodland Cottages in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Kentucky's Mammoth Cave offers some of the least expensive rooms in any national park. One-bedroom Woodland Cottages rent for only $60. These rustic units are located in a shaded area but do not have air conditioning, an issue during a hot, humid summer day. The nicer Heritage Rooms at the main hotel are more expensive at $94 per night. These are a great buy. All rooms are near the new visitor center where cave tours begin and tickets are sold. mammothcavehotel.com
NATIONAL PARK GUIDE: Kentucky's Mammoth Cave
Oregon Caves National Monument
The Chateau at the Oregon Caves, the only lodging within the monument, offers several economy rooms for $99. Standard, Deluxe, and Suites are available at higher prices. This unusual lodge whose exterior is covered with tree bark is an underappreciated gem operated by a local nonprofit. A restaurant and coffee shop are in the building and NPS ranger-guided cave tours begin a short walk from the Chateau entrance. oregoncaveschateau.com
Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Big Spring Lodge and Cabins has CCC- and WPA-built rustic cabins that rent for $65 to $80 per night, depending on cabin size. The cabins are nicely spaced and sit on a heavily wooded hillside. The lodge serves as a convenient base from which to kayak, canoe, or tube this beautiful river. A cozy restaurant in the registration building is open seasonally and serves regional specialties. bigspringlodgeandcabins.com
NATIONAL PARK GUIDE: Missouri's Ozark Scenic Riverways
Yellowstone National Park
Xanterra Parks and Resorts, lodging concessionaire for the world's first national park, offers less-expensive accommodations at two of the park's nine lodging facilities. Lake Lodge Cabins near Lake Yellowstone offer Pioneer cabins for $79. Old Faithful Snow Lodge & Cabins has motel-style duplex cabins for $103. These latter units are located in the busy Old Faithful Geyser area. While they sneak over our $100 price limit, Yellowstone is on nearly every person's bucket list and this is about as good a deal as you will find. yellowstonenationalparklodges.com/
NATIONAL PARK GUIDE: Yellowstone
PHOTOS: Stunning views, encounters with wildlife
Additional information on national park lodges is available at valdosta.edu/~dlscott/national_parks/lodge.html.
David and Kay Scott are authors of Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges (Globe Pequot) and national park lodging correspondents fornationalparkstraveler.com.
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Carmelo Anthony scored 36 points, and the New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics 85-78 on Saturday in their playoff opener.
After knocking the Celtics from the top of the Atlantic Division, the Knicks took the first step to knocking them out of the playoffs by holding Boston to three baskets and eight points in the final period.
Anthony, the NBA's scoring leader, shot only 13 for 29 from the field but scored eight points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive baskets late in the period that finally gave the Knicks breathing room in a tight game.
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TreeGap is an eco-friendly bed & breakfast dedicated to sustainable living. Our goal is to create a comfortable, beautiful space while employing practices that minimize our footprint on the land. With just two guest residences, you are assured a singular, peaceful stay at TreeGap. Both rooms are spacious, beautifully appointed, and include private porches among many other amenities. Come enjoy our 16 acres of meadows, gardens and woods - your own country haven in the heart of Woodstock.
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4.2 on October 08, 2014
Retreat at TreeGap was the perfect location for a quiet, romantic weekend. Close enough to town, yet extremely private. The beautiful porch off the White Pine Suite was ideal for taking our breakfast. Megan, the innkeeper was a pleasure. She provided everything we needed, but also gave us plenty of privacy to enjoy her beautiful home. If you're looking for a place to stay in Woodstock, look no further!
3.8 on August 23, 2014
Excellebt, immaculate room on lovely bucolic property. Breakfast was fine. Would happily stay again. Price was on the high end of fair.
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Retreat at TreeGap is gem! My husband, 11-year-old son and I stayed in the Carriage House 8/15-8/16 and could not have asked for a more peaceful respite. Megan is a gracious hostess and a skilled cook who easily accommodated my husband's gluten and dairy free diet. Moreover, we'd had some concerns about my husband's allergy to cats, but there were absolutely no signs that Felix had ever set paws in our accommodations. Finally, my son fell in love with Bess, one of the sweetest dogs we've ever met. Near town and hiking trails, we wouldn't hesitate to recommend this property to anyone looking to stay overnight in Woodstock.
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We really enjoyed our stay at the TreeGap. The grounds are beautiful and you are surrounded by nature. It's feels as if you are living in Woodstock vs. staying at an Inn. We stayed in the Carriage House which is a great room and very well equipped with natural bath products, tea, coffee and some other snacks in the fridge. There's a small patio to enjoy a glass of wine and watch the chickens. We will definitely be back!
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I chose the Retreat at TreeGap from a brief online description, and I have never been happier with a decision. It was a birthday weekend for my friend, and I couldn't have chosen a more perfect spot if I had had a hundred places from which to choose. The room was clean and charming, the location convenient but private and the food healthy and delicious. Megan is a charming and hospitable hostess and I look forward to spending time at her beautiful retreat in the future.
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I expected the Retreat at TreeGap to be nice--after all, its not cheap! But the room was so lovely, the land so ancient and spirit filled and our young hostess so utterly charming, that I was floored by the entire experience. This place is special!
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This was the best bed and breakfast we have ever stayed in! An amazing space, wonderful service, and food to die for. Can't wait to come back in the summer!
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We have stayed at TreeGap twice and will continue to see it as our home away from home. It is a beautiful setting, very peaceful, convenient to all the attractions of Woodstock, the food is delicious--Megan is a wonderful cook! We feel so fortunate to have this experience in our lives!
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Was not expecting the surroundings to be so beautiful at the end of the month of November but they were. Babbling brooks, blue mountains visible through bare trees, the sound of wind moving through the tree branches. Fresh air, silence. A deer or two meeting us on the path. A beautiful bird. The guest room is newly renovated and very comfortable. The whole house is well maintained and inviting. The kitchen, where we warmed up our Thanksgiving dinner, brought with us from Manhattan, was spacious and well-equipped. Megan Reynolds, the innkeeper is very accommodating and also very respectful of privacy. Always ready with suggestions and information about activities/hikes/dining in the surrounding area.
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Catching Up With Maroon 5's Adam Levine
By Noah Michelson
Last year, Maroon 5 escaped to Switzerland with legendary producer Mutt Lange in tow to record their new album, Hands All Over. We caught up with the band's pretty boy frontman Adam Levine to chat about their particular brand of pop music, Lady Gaga, and buddy Jake Gyllenhaal's sexuality.
Out: Critics have likened the band's sound to everyone from Huey Lewis and the News to Journey. How would you describe Maroon 5's sound?
Adam Levine: We've been a band for so long. You know Maroon 5's sound has always been changing because I think we're not necessarily interested in fitting into a category. We love pop music. I grew up listening to rock 'n' roll music. My parents raised me on the Beatles and the Stones and folk music -- Simon and Garfunkel and Dylan and all this stuff. I was a teenager in the '90s so I got into the Nirvanas and the Pearl Jams and the Soundgardens and all these bands and rebelled against pop music and hated it. Then when I was 19 or 20, I started getting into Stevie Wonder and Al Green and Bill Withers and all this other stuff so I treat music the way I treat everything in life, which is there's so much variety in music, it's silly to belong to a specific club and try to sound a certain way. Hence, our sound has changed because we just like everything. It's maybe a little poppier than when we started. It was more R&B in the beginning. I don't know what we are. Journey is funny, though. That's a weird one.
I read your first record was heavily influenced by Stevie Wonder and on the second one you invoked the Police and Prince. Who were you channeling for Hands All Over?
Sometimes you wear your influences on your sleeve and you think Man, I want to be Sting right now, or I want to be Prince, or you want to be something and so you emulate it to a point where you can totally tell what you're doing. And I've done that in the past, especially with Stevie Wonder on that first record, but it's kind of better to try -- it's almost like in the beginning you do that and then you figure out a way to meld what you do into something new and unique. First of all, we're a band, which is really weird that we played R&B-infused music in the beginning. There wasn't really anyone doing that. For this record, I had nothing on my mind that was specifically that. I didn't want to be anyone other than myself on this record, so that came through. I feel like this record -- I mean, I said this about the second record, but I was wrong -- I think that this album is free of any hyper-emulization. And also, I was in Switzerland, so geographically I was really isolated from everything, so I was letting it all go, and I just wanted to see what happened.
Earlier this year you said 'Maroon 5 is the most Mutt Lange-friendly band out there.' How did you end up working with him and were you looking for more Shania Twain-style Mutt Lange or more Def Leppard-style Mutt Lange?
Mutt Lange is one of those guys who's done everything. He's produced AC/DC records, Def Leppard records, Shania Twain records, wrote songs you never would have imagined he had ever written -- he did a lot of stuff with Bryan Adams -- and his thing is that, like us, he's neither here nor there. He doesn't really care what something is or where it comes from. He cares much more about the quality of the music he's making, and that's how we felt too. We've never been genre snobs or anything like that, so it's kind of the best possible idea for collaboration. Because when you think about his track record and our track record, it's kind of similar in that no one really knows where to place us or put us. And he was really good at helping us figure out who we actually were and going with that and not being inhibited by anything, especially being as far from reality as we were. We were in Geneva for four months in like lala land, so I'm surprised we didn't make a record that sounded like fucking Snow White. It was so idyllic.
Now that you're putting out a new album, does your wild success with the earlier albums make it easier, or are you intimidated by trying to achieve that level of success again?
I feel older for sure. It's kind of weird. The band released our first record when we were all 22. That's young. We started succeeding when we were 23, 24, and I'm 31 now. A) It's crazy that we've been around this long and B) I start to feel -- not insecure or self-conscious -- but definitely start to feel slightly more disconnected from that youth-based, kind of pop culture. I'm figuring out how to deal with it because I think we still make really poppy music. You know, once you turn 30 you start tripping about that kind of shit too. I see it as a positive because I'm like, 'Fuck everything. Fuck all you guys' -- not you guys -- but it's like I'm just going to do my own thing now. I'm cool, and I have ownership of who I am and what I do, so what everyone else thinks doesn't matter to me. And that's a cool way of making music too, because I feel totally unself-conscious about it. But it's weird, you're competing with these kids, 19-, 20-year-old kids, where you're like, 'You guys don't even know -- about anything. You're kids!' I don't even know where the music comes from. I was just talking to my manager outside -- I'm so disconnected. If you gave me the top 10 artists right now in the country, I'd be like, 'Who are you?' I'm so dissociated from it. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I see it as a good thing because then you have the potential to bring something new and unaffected by other things in pop culture. I think that's great. I think that's going to make us stand out and live forever in the universe.


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Derived from the ancient Greeks, stigma was the primitive practice of burning or cutting a part of the body of an objectionable person as a means to identify them to others. The bearer of this "mark" was to be avoided, shunned, and spurned in public. Those who were stigmatized were assigned the most undesirable category in community because the community feared their "difference" or "illness". Though modern use of the word stigma no longer involves physical markings, a person with a mental illness often carries an indelible mark of shame nonetheless (1). This happens because society views mental illness as menacing, deviant, and unpredictable, and as such, categorizes people with mental illness as undesirable. Despite research showing that depression is neurobiological in origin, stigmatizing beliefs cause a person living with depression to have a diminished sense of self, feel socially disconnected from others, and, as such, have fewer support systems (2).
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Some districts transporting 560,000 Missouri school children may not be consistently doing their job to ensure that all drivers undergo criminal record checks and drug testing and meet training requirements, according to a report by the state auditor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Transit Administration updated the final rule for charter bus services, clarifying several key definitions, including fines.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After six years of lobbying efforts, the federal government is beginning to understand the privately contracted side of the school transportation industry, according to National School Transportation Association past president John Corr. When he first started going to these meetings first started five years ago, many representatives did not even know private companies ran school transportation operations. With a looming security threat assessment, $4 a gallon diesel, increasing costly demands to "go green," NSTA's annual visit to the nation's Capitol could not have come at a better time.
For Sgt. Garfield Green, stepping into the role of Connecticut's director of pupil transportation is one he is ready for.
No one yet knows what Wichita Public School's decision to end its 37-year-old desegregation busing program will do to the racial make-up of classrooms. No one can say how the decision will impact the transportation system; though some have said it could add $1 million to the district's $18 million transportation budget.


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WASHINGTON, November 19, 2013 – For a sold out crowd at DC's Verizon Center stadium, Elton John's status as a legend is already assured. His career, with co-creator Bernie Taupin, includes 35 gold and 25 platinum albums, resulting in worldwide sales of more than 250 million records.
His 1997 single, "Candle in the Wind," is the biggest selling single of all time. And for his fans, who ranged from the young to the very-middle-aged, each song seemed to evoke a certain memory.
Sir Elton is back on tour, and though he no longer dons outrageous costumes, his Verizon Center performance here kept a sold out crowd singing, dancing, swaying and laughing along as he introduced songs and shared anecdotes, while pacing the stage and interacting with the audience.
Over a 2.5-hour performance, the 66 year-old artist performed a jukebox full of hits, 27 in all, from a phenomenal career spanning over five decades. Full disclosure here: I never knew I was an Elton John fan. His tendencies toward softer, pop ballads never appealed to me.
Or so I thought.
Because what truly surprised me was just how many songs from this Liberace of Rock I actually knew and could peg to a time and place in my personal history. Apparently his ever-growing catalog of hits caught my ear and as he played, the memory floodgates opened.
As John dove into "Philadelphia Freedom," I recalled hanging out in a classroom and hearing it on the radio while working on a project for America's Bicentennial.
When he launched into "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," I remembered singing along with a music class back in sixth grade.
Later in the evening and into a spirited version of "Crocodile Rock," I was taken back to a friend's basement in the early 1970s, where we choreographed moves to that pop tune.
The hits, like a musical waterfall, never stopped all night. "Bennie and the Jets," "Candle in the Wind," "Levon," "Tiny Dancer," "Rocket Man," "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," to just name of few of this man's indelible musical footprints, primarily realized with song writer Bernie Taupin.
The night began with an introductory set from the 2Cellos, a pair of crazed Croatians that brilliantly beat up their electrified cellos, delivering some amazing sounds whenever on stage – and they are often on stage with John and his entourage – which in itself is a tribute to pop-rock.
The intrepid cello duo, Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic, opened the show with Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal." While they looked similar enogh to be twins, sporting identical hair and suits and sawing away at identical cellos, it was fun to watch the individual personalities of these very different musicians emerge.
Sir Elton's seven-piece backup band, including singers Tata Vega, Jean Witherspoon, mother - daughter duo Rose and Lisa Stone (of Sly and the Family Stone), were all in a mind meld throughout the evening. The pop-rock output was given a much edgier sound thanks to veteran band mates, guitarist Davey Johnstone and legendary drummer Nigel Olsson – who by the way, boasted a set of excessively deep bass drums that Alex Van Halen would appreciate.
Mr. Johnstone knew when to riff attack on "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," chop at "Love Lies Bleeding" and display bluesy finesse through "Hey Ahab", Sir Elton's recent collaboration with Leon Russell that was fully appreciable.
Sir Elton himself seemed a bit more refined than his former persona. He was not clad as flamboyantly as he used to be in his heyday, sporting no wacky costumes or spectacles worthy of spectacle. During this concert performance, he was simply a music man pounding away at an unbroken string of hits with nimble fingers sometimes dancing, other times bouncing, over the keyboard.
Of particular note during the evening was the moment when the band stepped off the stage, leaving Sir Elton alone to entertain the crowd with just his talent and a smile. Not content to merely rely on yesterday's hits, he sang "The One" (1992) and "Oceans Away" from his new June 2013 album "The Diving Board," created with long time collaborator Bernie Taupin. He dedicated the latter number to the armed forces, particularly those who fought in World Wars I and II.
He also sang "Holiday Inn," written to commemorate his years of hotel living while on the road. However, we wonder how many Holiday Inns the famous entertainer actually stayed at (Not that this is not a fine chain of hotels. But heck, they are not the Four Seasons.)
When the entertainer popped up, it was to mouth "thank you" over and over again while pointing to every audience member hefting license plates and over eager smiles looking to engage him.
The best moment of the evening — when placed in the context of a celebrity who has lived a life of excess and riches with no remaining reasons to prove anything to anyone — was watching Sir Elton, late in the performance, stride to the front of the stage to spend an extended period of time signing autographs for fans able to position themselves in just the right spot. Most performers of this stature no longer bother.
The performer appropriately closed the night with "Your Song," a staple in his repertoire that acknowledges his sincere gratitude for his loyal fan base.
Sir Elton John may have lost some of his once astounding vocal range over the years, along with some of his creative costuming. But in exchange, he gave his primarily older Verizon Center audience exactly what they wanted and exactly what they had come to hear and to see: a memorable night of music that was enthusiastically appreciated by all.
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Please bear with us while this website is being renovated. Check back often to see the progress. You may encounter issues with access to pages and links until we are finished.
You can still find victim memorials by searching the state or victims name by clinking on the search button in the header above.
We are the families and loved ones of murder victims killed by teen offenders. The stories of some of our murdered loved ones can be found on our "Memorials" pages, the heart and soul of this website and organization.
We exist to support and inform each other. Our organization takes no stand on what sentences for these offenders should be: cases and victims' views vary widely, and these decisions are made by the criminal justice system that our society has collectively created. We exist to support the rights of all victim family members to be heard and participate fully as they choose in the criminal justice system. Read more About Us and What We Believe..
- NOVJL welcomes our new national President Liz Hare whose brother was killed by teens in South Dakota.
- With Liz's new leadership, we are also changing our name to better reflect our growing membership and mission. We are transitioning into NOVJM, the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers.
- Family and friends in Massachusetts of murder victims Beth Brodie and Janet Downing have organized efforts to oppose the parole of their killers – something they were not told about until AFTER the law was changed and the killers came up for release.
- We would like to help to put a roof on a widow's decaying home, her husband murdered by teens, leaving their family in real difficulty. Can you help?
- Laura Haynes Shimek gives powerful testimony before Iowa court granting parole opportunities to her mother's murderer. Read her moving victim impact statement.
- Victim's father tours nation with teen killer's grandfather with programs to provide alternatives to youth violence.
- Illinois victims' family member awarded for her leadership in helping the elderly.
- Grieving Ohio family's story featured in two-part national Dr. Phil show in which teens present at the scene definitively fail polygraph tests.
- A Fallen Officer Hero from Texas killed by teens.
- A Michigan father works for justice for his murdered daughter.
- Tom Mauser, father of a Colorado Columbine massacre victim, releases wonderful book Walking in Daniel's Shoes.
- We support the bi-partisan national movement to include victims rights in the U.S. Constitution.
- Victim's sister responds to misinformation in news coverage of their family's case.
- More news coverage of victims families of teen killers here and here.
- Michigan legislature passes victim-friendly bill to deal with teen killers' life sentences. U.S. Court of Appeals issues order staying any parole hearings for teen killers. Michigan Legislature passes on Miller-compliance legislation that is not retroactive. Victims families have suffered re-traumatization in order to be heard. Details here. Attorney General Schuette shows exemplary concern for victims families in his persistence against offender advocates.
.PHOTO: Jody Robinson, NOVJL Michigan
- The Debate That Agonizes Victims Families: whether or not the Miller v Alabama Supreme Court ruling should be applied retroactively or not rages on, with victims families traumatized by all the uncertainty and re-opening of wounds. Our tally to date at the end of 2013: Against retroactivity (and for victims) stand Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Alabama, and Louisiana. For retroactivity (and for offenders) stands Massachusetts, Iowa, and Mississippi. Many states' Supreme Courts have not yet heard relevant cases or ruled yet, so more are expected in 2014. Legal experts predict that the issue of retraoactivity will end up back in the U.S. Supreme Court in the next few years.
- Massachusetts Supreme Court votes to traumatize victims families by re-opening their loved ones' murder sentences. A leading newspaper calls for victims families to be treated better.
- Reporter outraged over Psychologist's argument that a rich kid cannot be held accountable for people he killed because he had "affluenza" – parents who spoiled him.
- Lousiana's Supreme Court joins the growing list of state Supreme Courts to find that Miller is NOT retroactive, and that long finalized cases of teen killers sentenced to life are not eligible for re-sentencing.
- Alabama's Supreme Court joins other state courts and lawmakers in finding that the Supreme Court's ruling last summer for optional sentences only for teens that kill is NOT retroactive.
- Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules against retroactive application of the Miller Supreme Court decision while the Legislature votes to preserve Life Without Parole sentences as an option going forward. And, as elsewhere nationally, offender advocates' claims about offender numbers are exaggerated.
- Victims' families in California approve as the 9th Circuit rules in support of the discretionary life sentences in place for teen killers.
- Nebraska's new law for sentencing of teen killers is supported by many victims families and legal experts.
- Iowa's Supreme Court orders re-sentencing for teen killers, re-traumatizing victims' families
- South Dakota - a lone Court rules on one offender's case.
- Connecticut legislation to free teen killers defeated
- The Texas Senate Affirms Appropriate Prison Sentences
Texas' legislature passes a bill in special session to comply with Supreme Court regulations on sentencing of juveniles who commit capitol crimes.
- Legislation defeated in Illinois
Illinois Legislators supported concerns of victims and law enforcement in defeating retroactive Miller v Alabama compliance legislation. See our fact sheet. The Illinois Supreme Court is one of several states still pending on the issue of retroactivity - oral arguments were heard 1-15-14. Decision could be many weeks or months later.
- A New Hampshire case is reflecting national trends in offender re-sentencing after Miller ruling
- Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy dissects legal problems in Supreme Court's decisions in Juvenile Killer Sentencing
- Montana abolishes life sentences for teen killers
Photo: Officer Larry Lasater of Pittsburgh, California, Killed in the Line of Duty by a Teenager Sentenced to Life
- Teen killers challenge their prison sentences all over the nation
Victims families report being re-traumatized by the flurry of legal and legislative activity around the nation following the Miller Supreme Court ruling, as we feared. Join victims' families in discussion on our Facebook page. California has already begun re-sentencing teen killers. We note that these appeals by offenders for shorter sentences will often fail as many courts are affirming that the Miller case should NOT be applied retroactively and even where it is being applied retroactively, many offenders who do win re-sentencing are still receiving (and will often be serving) life sentences. Appeals to reduce prison sentences for these crimes even include the D.C. Sniper, worst teen mass murderer in USA, who is challenging his life sentences despite his former statements that he feels "like scum" for what he did. And an infamous school-shooter loses his bid for early release.
- NOVJL does not support the incarceration or over-sentencing of the innocent or minimally culpable offenders. NOVJL does support the careful use of risk assessment tools and other good data on a case by case basis to identify which more dangerous younger offenders should be tried as adults.
- Citizen's Resource compiles valuable scientific information on psychopathology, how to best prevent violence, and evaluate offender sentencing. Many of NOVJL's victims were murdered by teenage psychopaths.
- Teens that kill in the news across the nation:
-horrifying details emerge in brutal rape/murder of teacher/mom of three; 14 year old student arrested for the crime
- Illinois teen, 14, allegedly repeatedly stabs her sister, 11, for being "ungrateful"
- Colorado teen predator sentenced to life for murder of 10 year old girl
- Oklahoma teens kill Australian student "for the fun of it", so horrific even the President of the United States denounces it. Families involved agonize.
- teens kill elderly World War II hero veteran.
- shocking story from West Virginia of likely psychopaths killing a classmate.
- teen kills family "just because . . ."
- teen killer found decades later teaching college under assumed name.
- 17 year old convicted of murdering infant just because the child's mother had no money when he was robbing her.
- Arizona Teen brags about killings on social media.
- 14 year old charged in murder of teacher.
Photo: NOVJL murder victim family members of those killed by teens from all over the nation at the United States Supreme Court during the argument of a case that could free their loved ones' murderers.
NOVJL For Victims Rights and Sound Public Policy Regarding Teens Who Kill
NOVJL exists to support and inform victims families and friends of those killed by offenders under age 18. Given the significant advocacy effort that exists for those offenders that gives no information or support to the victims families of these crimes, we found it necessary to organize ourselves. NOVJL is devoted to victims rights and sound public policy regarding teens who kill.
How these offenders are sentenced is the subject of a significant public policy debate currently in which our main concern is that victims' voices are heard. We are concerned also with the significant financial resources devoted to helping these offenders, while virtually no help, information, or support of any kind is being offered to victims' families who have been horrifically traumatized by brutal murders of their loved ones. We are heartbroken each time we hear of victims families who had no idea there was an effort underway to free their loved ones' murderers (until after it was too late to be heard in the process!)
This website tells the true stories of those murdered by teens – truth that is especially important in the face of the willingness of juvenile advocates to minimize and even misrepresent the facts of these horrible crimes in their attempts to paint a picture of reduced culpability by the killers. We know there is much to discuss in public policy regarding teens who kill, but good decisions can only be made when the full facts are known. We know that in every crime some offenders are more or less culpable depending on the individual facts and circumstances. But LIGHT is a great "disinfectant". Blurring the facts of these crimes does not improve the public policy discussion.
We advocate for the constitutional and statutory rights of crime victims that exist in all 50 states and federally. We advocate for best possible policies to prevent such tragedies from ever happening again.
We understand the controversy around the issue of teens who kill and the destruction left in the aftermath of those crimes - we have lived it. We understand the powerful feelings that the youthful age of these offenders creates. We understand the problems in our criminal justice system, as with any human institution. We often do not understand, however, the incredible focus on helping these offenders with no compassion for or attention to the victims they created. The behavior of juvenile justice reform advocates towards the victims families of these crimes during their national policy change push of the last few years has been poor, to say the least. These offenders have committed some of the most horrific murders imagineable. We miss our loved ones horribly.
Help Find and Support Victims Families
There are thousands of murder victims' family members in this nation who are not aware that there is a movement that supports and advocates for teen killers that seeks to change the terms of their incarceration, and often without any notice to victims families. If you are aware of any victims families of juvenile killers please invite them to contact us.
You can also reach this website at www.jlwopvictims.org and www.juvenilekillers.org.
"Victims don't want vengeance, they want healing: but there is no healing until justice is done. And justice is never 'done' as long as the sentence can be undone." ~NOVJL member
"Those under 18 years old may as a general matter have diminished culpability relative to adults who commit the same crimes, but that DOES NOT mean their culpability is always insufficient to justify a life sentence."
~Chief Justice John Roberts, Concurring Opinion, Graham v. Florida, 2010
"Daniels and several members of his family begged officials to lock up Markus Evans for an extended time . . . [but after Evans only served 14 months in juvenile custody for shooting and almost murdering Daniels, his 7th violent felony by age 15] Evans was released at age 17 with no supervision . . . Evans reported to police he was so angry that he robbed a liquor store and shot the clerk . . .17 year old Jonoshia Alexander . . .was found dead in the alley, shot in the back of her head."
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Pesto & Roasted Tomato Crostini
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This is perfect. I've got tomatoes in the garden, pesto and mozzarella in the fridge and now I need to walk over to my corner bakery...YUM!ReplyDelete
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Chandeliers that create amazingly detailed shadows on every surface imaginable make such a huge impact within spaces that it eliminates the need for much else in the way of decor. These showstoppers titled 'Ballroom Luminoso' really make a room a work of art, and this art installation in San Antonio, Texas, featured six of these four foot wide metal based hanging chandeliers.
Crafted by Joe O'Connell + Blessing Hancock Public Art, these globes were all transformed from upcycled bike parts and sculpted into a tremendous amount of detail. The amazing suspended fixtures feature Day of the Dead styled skulls, gears and other traditional elements that are native to the area. The original community where this installation occurred is rich in agriculture, Hispanic culture, and other environmental growth.
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The Oneonta State Cheerleaders won 1st place at the Reach the Beach Competition in Ocean City, Maryland. There are four local cheerleaders on the team, 3 from Whitesboro high School and 1 from Notre Dame Jr./Sr. High
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