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Kingdom of Morocco
Area: 446,550 sq. km. (172,413 sq. mi.) slightly larger than California. (The disputed territory of Western Sahara comprises another 267,028 sq. km or 102,703 sq. mi.)
Major cities: Rabat (Capital), Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes, Meknes, Tangier.
Terrain: Coastal plains, mountains, desert.
Climate: Mediterranean to more extreme in the interior and south.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Moroccan(s).
Population (2004): 31,478,000
Annual growth rate (2004): 1.4%.
Ethnic groups: Arab-Berber 99%.
Religions: Muslim 99.99%, Jewish population estimated at 4,000 people, Christian population estimated at less than 1,000.
Languages: Arabic (official), several Berber dialects; French functions as the language of business, government, and diplomacy.
Education: Years compulsory--9. Literacy--52.6%.
Health: Infant mortality rate--49.72/1,000. Life expectancy--66.92 yrs. male, 71.44 yrs. female.
Work force (10.7 million, 2003): Agriculture--50%; services--35%; industry--15%.
Type: Constitutional monarchy.
Constitution: March 1972, revised September 1992 and September 1996 (creating a bicameral legislature).
Independence: March 2, 1956.
Branches: Executive--King (head of state), Prime Minister (head of government). Legislative--Bicameral Parliament. Judicial--Supreme Court.
Major political parties: Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), Istiqlal (Independence) Party (PI), Party of Justice and Development (PJD), National Rally of Independents (RNI), Popular Movement (MP), National Popular Movement (MNP), Constitutional Union Party (UC), Democratic Forces Front, (FFD), National Democratic Party (PND), Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), Democratic Union (UD), Democratic and Social Movement (MDS), Social Democratic Party (PSD), The Pact (AHD), Liberty Alliance (ADL), United Socialist Leftists (GSU), Moroccan Liberal Party (PML), Party of Reform and Development (PRD), Citizen Forces (FC), National Itihadi (Unity) Congress (CNI), Party of Action (PA), Social Center Party (PCS), Party of Environment and Development (PED), Citizens Initiative for Development (ICD), Party of Renewal and Equity (PRE), Consultation and Independence Party (PCI), Advancing Democratic and Social Party (PAGDS).
Suffrage: Universal starting at 18 years of age.
GDP (2005): $51.990 billion.
Per capita GDP (2005): $1.725 billion.
Natural resources: Phosphates, fish, manganese, lead, silver, and copper.
Agriculture (13% of GDP, 2005): Products--barley, citrus fruits, vegetables, olives, livestock, and fishing.
Industry (31% of GDP, 2005): Types--phosphate mining, manufacturing and handicrafts, construction and public works, energy.
Trade: Exports--$14.037 billion (27% GDP, 2005). Major markets--EU 71.5%, India 4.1%, U.S. 2.6%, and Brazil 2.4%. Imports-- $17.68 billion (34% GDP, 2005). Major suppliers--EU 52.1%, Saudi Arabia 4.8%, Russia 6.7%, China 5.2%, U.S. 3.4%.
Moroccans are predominantly Sunni Muslims of Arab, Berber, or mixed Arab-Berber ancestry. The Arabs brought Islam, along with Arabic language and culture, to the region from the Arabian Peninsula during the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. Today, there remains a Jewish community of approximately 5,000, and a largely expatriate Christian population of 5,000, who enjoy religious freedom and full civil rights. Morocco is also home to a 300-500-person Baha'i community which, in recent years, has been able to worship free from government interference.
Arabic is Morocco's official language, but French is widely taught and serves as the primary language of commerce and government. Moroccan colloquial Arabic is composed of a unique combination of Arabic, Berber and French dialects. Along with Arabic, about 10 million Moroccans, predominantly in rural areas, also speak one of the three Moroccan Berber dialects (Tarifit, Tashelhit, and Tamazight). Spanish is also used in the northern part of the country. English is rapidly becoming the foreign language of choice among educated youth and is offered in all public schools from the fourth year on.
Most people live west of the Atlas Mountains, a range that insulates the country from the Sahara Desert. Casablanca is the center of commerce and industry and the leading port; Rabat is the seat of government; Tangier is the gateway to Spain and also a major port; "Arab" Fes is the cultural and religious center; and "Berber" Marrakech is a major tourist center.
Education in Morocco is free and compulsory through primary school (age 15). Nevertheless, many children--particularly girls in rural areas--do not attend school. The country's literacy rates reveals sharp gaps in education, both in terms of gender and location; while country-wide literacy rates are estimated at 39% among women and 64% among men, the female literacy rate in rural areas is only 10%.
Morocco is home to 14 public universities. Mohammed V University in Rabat is one of the country's most famous schools, with faculties of law, sciences, liberal arts, and medicine. Karaouine University, in Fes, is a longstanding center for Islamic studies and is the oldest university in the Maghreb. Morocco has one private, English language university, Al-Akhawayn, in Ifrane, founded in 1993 by King Hassan II and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. The curriculum is based on an American model.
Morocco's strategic location has shaped its history. Beginning with the Phoenicians, many foreigners were drawn to this area. Romans, Visigoths, Vandals and Byzantine Greeks ruled successively. Arab forces began occupying Morocco in the seventh century A.D., bringing their civilization and Islam. The Alaouite dynasty, which has ruled Morocco since 1649, claims descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
Morocco's location and resources led to early competition among European powers in Africa, beginning with successful Portuguese efforts to control the Atlantic coast in the 15th century. France showed a strong interest in Morocco as early as 1830. Following recognition by the United Kingdom in 1904 of France's "sphere of influence" in Morocco, the Algeciras Conference (1906) formalized France's "special position" and entrusted policing of Morocco to France and Spain jointly. The Treaty of Fes (1912) made Morocco a protectorate of France. By the same treaty, Spain assumed the role of protecting power over the northern and southern (Saharan) zones.
Nationalist political parties, which took shape under the French protectorate, began a strong campaign for independence after World War II. Declarations such as the Atlantic Charter (a joint U.S.-British statement set forth, among other things, the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live), served as a base for the independence movement. A manifesto of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party in 1944 was one of the earliest public demands for independence. That party subsequently provided most of the leadership for the nationalist movement and remains a dominant political force.
In 1953, France exiled the highly respected Sultan Mohammed V and replaced him with the unpopular Mohammed Ben Aarafa. Ben Aarafa's reign was widely perceived as illegitimate, and sparked active opposition to French rule. France allowed Mohammed V to return in 1955, and by 1956, Morocco had regained its independence.
In the year 2006, Moroccans celebrated their 50th year of independence from France. After gaining independence on March 2, 1956, Morocco regained control over certain Spanish-ruled areas through agreements with Spain in 1956 and 1958. The internationalized city of Tangier was reintegrated with the signing of the Tangier Protocol on October 29, 1956. The Spanish enclave of Ifni in the south became part of Morocco in 1969. Spain, however, retains control over the small coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in the north.
During the 1990s, King Hassan made great strides toward economic and political liberalization. King Hassan died on July 23, 1999, and was succeeded by his son, Mohammed VI, who pledged to continue these reforms. Under Mohammed VI, the Moroccan Government has undertaken a number of economic, political, and social reforms, including the 2003 Moudawana, a reform of the family status code, and the 2006 Equity and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated allegations of human rights abuse from 1956 to 1999.
Morocco is divided into 16 administrative regions (further broken into provinces and prefectures); the regions are administered by Walis (governors) appointed by the King.
The Moroccan Constitution provides for a monarchy with a Parliament and an independent judiciary. Ultimate authority rests with the King. He presides over the Council of Ministers; appoints the prime minister following legislative elections; appoints all members of the government taking into account the prime minister's recommendations; and may, at his discretion, terminate the tenure of any minister, dissolve the Parliament, call for new elections, or rule by decree. The King is the head of the military and the country's religious leader.
Since the constitutional reform of 1996, the bicameral legislature consists of a lower chamber called the Chamber of Representatives, which is directly elected, and an upper chamber, the Chamber of Counselors, whose members are indirectly elected through various regional, local, and professional councils. The councils' members themselves are elected directly. Parliament's powers, though limited, were expanded under the 1992 and 1996 constitutional revisions to include budgetary matters, approval authority, and establishing commissions of inquiry to investigate the government's actions. The lower chamber of Parliament may dissolve the government through a vote of no confidence.
The last parliamentary elections were held in November 2002 and were considered largely free, fair, and transparent. At that time, King Mohammed VI formed a government appointing then Interior Minister Driss Jettou as Prime Minister. Cabinet level positions were drawn from most major parties in the coalition.
Following the 2002 elections, King Mohammed VI highlighted several goals toward which the new government should work: gainful employment, economic development, meaningful education, and increased housing availability. To meet the King's objectives, the Jettou government embarked on a series of initiatives and reforms, which he laid out in his early days as Prime Minister.
Jettou emphasized that first and foremost, modernization and revitalization of the country's infrastructure (roads, trains, communications, water, etc.) and national economy (support for Moroccan businesses, preparations for competition, modernization of modes of production, etc.), were necessary towards development progress in Morocco.
In order to create employment opportunities, the government is promoting investment in the tourism, industrial, fishing, and service industries, and is ameliorating, restructuring, and modernizing the education system.
Preparations are currently underway for the next parliamentary elections in September 2007.
Principal Government Officials
Head of State--King Mohammed VI
Prime Minister--Driss Jettou
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation--Mohammed Benaissa
Ambassador to the United States--Aziz Mekouar
Ambassador to the United Nations--El Mostafa Sahel
Morocco maintains an embassy in the United States at 1601 - 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 (tel. 202-462-7979).
Macroeconomic stability, coupled with low inflation and relatively slow economic growth, has characterized the Moroccan economy over the past several years. The Jettou government continues to pursue reform, liberalization, and modernization aimed at stimulating growth and creating jobs. Employment, however, remains overly dependent on the agriculture sector, which is extremely vulnerable to inconsistent rainfall. Morocco's primary economic challenge is to accelerate growth in order to reduce high levels of unemployment and underemployment. While overall unemployment stands at 11%, this figure masks significantly higher urban unemployment, as high as 33% among urban youths.
Through a foreign exchange rate anchor and well-managed monetary policy, Morocco has held inflation rates to industrial country levels over the past decade; inflation between 1999 and 2004 remained at 1.5% and fell to 1% in 2005. Despite criticism among exporters that the dirham has become badly overvalued, the country maintains a current account surplus. Foreign exchange reserves are strong, with over $16 billion in reserves, the equivalent of 11 months of imports at the end of 2005. The combination of strong foreign exchange reserves and active external debt management gives Morocco ample capacity to service its debt. Current external debt stands at about $15.6 billion, or 27.8% of GDP.
Economic growth has been hampered by an over-reliance on the agriculture sector. Agriculture production is extremely susceptible to rainfall levels and ranges from 15% to 20% of GDP. Given that almost 50% of Morocco's population depends directly on agriculture, droughts have a severe negative effect on the economy.
The current government is continuing a series of structural reforms begun in recent years. The most promising reforms have been in labor market and financial sectors, and privatization has accelerated the sale of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) licenses in the last few years. Morocco also has liberalized rules for oil and gas exploration and has granted concessions for many public services in major cities. The tender process in Morocco is becoming increasingly transparent. Many believe, however, that the process of economic reform must be accelerated in order to reduce urban unemployment.
In January 2006, the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Morocco went into effect. The FTA represents an important step towards the President Bush's vision of a Middle East Free Trade Area and is the first in Africa. The U.S.-Morocco FTA eliminated tariffs on 95% of bilateral trade in consumer and industrial products with all remaining tariffs to be eliminated within nine years. The negotiations produced a comprehensive agreement covering not only market access but also intellectual property rights protection, transparency in government procurement, investments, services, and e-commerce. The FTA provides new trade and investment opportunities for both countries and will encourage economic reforms and liberalization already underway.
Morocco is a moderate Arab state which maintains close relations with Europe and the United States. It is a member of the UN and belongs to the Arab League, Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and the Non-Aligned Movement. King Mohammed VI is the chairman of the OIC's Al-Quds Jerusalem Committee. Although not a member of the African Union (formerly the Organization of African Unity--OAU), Morocco remains involved in African diplomacy. It contributes consistently to UN peacekeeping efforts on the continent.
Morocco is active in Maghreb, Arab, and African affairs. It supports the search for peace and moderation in the Middle East. In 1986, then-King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister Peres for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. Following the September 1993 signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles, Morocco accelerated its economic ties and political contacts with Israel. In September 1994, Morocco and Israel announced the opening of bilateral liaison offices. These offices were closed in 2000 following sustained Israeli-Palestinian violence, but Moroccan-Israeli diplomatic contacts continue.
Morocco was the first Arab state to condemn Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and sent troops to help defend Saudi Arabia. Morocco maintains close relations with Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, which have provided Morocco with substantial amounts of financial assistance. Morocco has supported efforts to stabilize Iraq following the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Morocco was among the first Arab and Islamic states to denounce the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and declare solidarity with the American people in the war against terror. Morocco has seen its own terrorism at home as well. On May 16, 2003, Moroccan suicide bombers simultaneously attacked five sites in Casablanca, killing more than 40 people and wounding over 100. More than a million people subsequently demonstrated to condemn the attacks.
The major issue in Morocco's foreign relations is its claim to Western Sahara. As a result of Algeria's continued support for the Polisario Front in the dispute over Western Sahara, relations between Morocco and Algeria have remained strained over the past several decades, although they have full diplomatic relations and there is periodic high-level contact between the two countries.
Western Sahara
For more than 30 years, Morocco and the independence-seeking Popular Front of the Liberation of Saqiat al Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front) have vied for control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory. Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the Western Sahara is based largely on a historical argument of traditional loyalty of the Sahrawi tribal leaders to the Moroccan sultan as spiritual leader and ruler. The Polisario claims to represent the aspirations of the Western Saharan inhabitants for independence. Algeria claims none of the territory for itself but maintains that Sahrawis should determine the territory's future status.
From 1904 until 1975, Spain occupied the entire territory, which is divided into a northern portion, the Saguia el Hamra, and a southern two-thirds, known as Rio de Oro. In 1969, the Polisario Front was formed to combat the occupation of the territory. In November 1975, King Hassan mobilized 350,000 unarmed Moroccan citizens in what came to be known as the "Green March" into Western Sahara. The march was designed to both demonstrate and strengthen Moroccan claims to the territory. On November 14, Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania announced a tripartite agreement for an interim administration under which Spain agreed to share administrative authority with Morocco and Mauritania, leaving aside the question of sovereignty. With the establishment of a Moroccan and Mauritanian presence throughout the territory, however, Spain's role in the administration of the Western Sahara ceased.
After a period of hostilities, Mauritania withdrew from the territory in 1979 and signed a peace treaty with the Polisario, relinquishing all claims to the territory. Moroccan troops occupied the region vacated by Mauritania and later proclaimed the territory reintegrated into Morocco. Morocco subsequently built a fortified berm around three-fourths of Western Sahara and has de facto administrative control over 80% of the territory.
At the OAU (now African Union) summit in June 1981, King Hassan announced his willingness to hold a referendum in the Western Sahara. Subsequent meetings of an OAU Implementation Committee proposed a cease-fire, a UN peacekeeping force, and an interim administration to assist with an OAU-UN-supervised referendum on the issue of independence or annexation. In 1984, the OAU seated a delegation of the Sahara Democratic Arab Republic (SDAR), the shadow government of the Polisario. Morocco subsequently withdrew from the OAU.
In 1988, Moroccan and Polisario representatives agreed on a joint UN/OAU settlement proposal for a referendum, but due to disagreements it never took place. In 1991, the UN brokered a cease-fire and settlement plan, and established the United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (known by its French acronym, MINURSO), which deployed a roughly 200-person monitoring force to the territory.
The UN continues to explore with the parties ways of arriving at a mutually agreed political settlement and to promote confidence-building measures between the parties in the interim. In 2003, former Secretary of State James Baker, working as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Personal Envoy, put forward a peace plan calling for a referendum on issues of autonomy or integration with Morocco. While the Polisario Front and the Algerian Government accepted the plan, Morocco rejected it. After a seven-year effort to assist the parties in coming to an agreement, James Baker resigned as Personal Envoy in June 2004. In August of the same year, Kofi Annan appointed Alvaro de Soto Special Representative for the Western Sahara, to continue Baker's work. Special Representative de Soto left MINURSO in May 2005, and was replaced in July 2005 by Peter van Walsum of the Netherlands.
The Western Sahara dispute remains the primary impediment to regional integration and development goals. The parties were able to set aside some of their differences when, in August 2004, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar led a mission to the region that resulted in the release of 404 Moroccan prisoners of war who had long been held by the Polisario. Today, approximately 90,000 Sahrawi refugees live in camps around Tindouf, Algeria. The exact number of refugees living in these camps is not known since there has never been a reliable census of the population. Several thousand Sahrawis also live in the Moroccan-controlled area of Western Sahara among a large number of Moroccan settlers. Morocco considers the Western Sahara part of its national territory, while Polisario insists on the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination. Algeria supports self-determination of the Sahrawis. The issue remains a major stumbling block to Moroccan-Algerian relations and regional integration.
The United States has consistently encouraged the parties to work with the United Nations, and with each other, in a spirit of flexibility and compromise, to find a mutually acceptable settlement. Morocco has recently expressed willingness to lay out its plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara, and the U.S. has encouraged the kingdom to put forward a proposal for all parties to examine and directly discuss.
Morocco was the first country to seek diplomatic relations with the Government of the United States in 1777, and remains one of our oldest and closest allies in the region. Formal U.S. relations with Morocco date from 1787, when the two nations negotiated a Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Renegotiated in 1836, the treaty is still in force, constituting the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history. As testament to the special nature of the U.S.-Moroccan relationship, Tangier is home to the oldest U.S. diplomatic property in the world, and the only building on foreign soil that is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, the American Legation in Tangier (now a museum).
U.S.-Moroccan relations, characterized by mutual respect and friendship, have remained strong through cooperation and sustained high-level dialogue. King Hassan II visited the United States several times during his reign as King, meeting with Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. King Mohammed VI has continued his father's tradition; he made his first trip to the U.S. as King on June 20, 2000. Prime Minister Jettou visited Washington in January 2004, and King Mohammed came to the United States in July 2004. Secretary of State Colin Powell traveled to Morocco in December 2004 to co-chair with Foreign Minister Benaissa the first meeting of the G8-BMENA "Forum for the Future." In June 2006, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes visited Morocco to meet with Moroccan officials, Moroccan non-governmental organizations, and students.
As a stable, democratizing, and liberalizing Arab Muslim nation, Morocco is important for U.S. interests in the Middle East. Accordingly, U.S. policy toward Morocco seeks sustained and strong engagement, and identifies priorities for reform, conflict resolution, counterterrorism cooperation, and public outreach.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its predecessor agencies have managed an active and effective assistance program in Morocco since 1953, for a cumulative amount exceeding $2 billion. The amount of USAID assistance to Morocco in FY 2005 was $28.2 million. USAID's current multi-sectoral strategy (2004-2008) consists of three strategic objectives in creating more opportunities for trade and investment, basic education and workforce training, and government responsiveness to citizen needs.
The Peace Corps has been active in Morocco for more than 40 years, with the first group of 53 volunteers arriving in the country in 1963. Since that time, nearly 4,000 volunteers have served in Morocco, and have served in a variety of capacities including lab technology, urban development, commercial development, education, rural water supply, small business development, beekeeping, and English training. In 2005, 190 volunteers served in Morocco, working in four sectors: health, youth development, small business, and the environment.
Principal U.S. Embassy Officials
Ambassador--Thomas T. Riley
Deputy Chief of Mission--Wayne Bush
Director, USAID Mission--Monica Stein-Olson
Political Counselor--Craig Karp
Economic Counselor--Stuart Smith
Agricultural Affairs Officer--Michael Fay
Foreign Commercial Officer--Rick Ortiz
Public Affairs Officer--Evelyn Early
Consul General, Casablanca--Douglas Greene
The U.S. Embassy in Morocco is located at 2 Avenue de Marrakech, Rabat tel. 212 (37) 76-22-65.
Short URL: http://m.state.gov/md79845.htm


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David Recordon, one of the key architects of OpenID and other identity technologies that have emerged over the past five years, has envisioned a new direction for OpenID.
His proposal, which was drafted with input from several people in the OpenID community, is called OpenID Connect. At the highest level, it essentially rebuilds OpenID on top of OAuth 2.0, combining the two popular open source systems for authenticating users and letting them share data with social websites and applications.
"OpenID Connect is an attempt to pull the best pieces of two separate technologies together, to create a single technology stack that's simpler for everyone to use," Recordon tells Webmonkey.
The proposed approach combines several interactions around logging in and sharing data with a website or application into one simple step. It also lets a user log in using either a profile URL, a blog URL or an e-mail address. Support for e-mail addresses as identifiers is a big step for OpenID, which currently requires you to type a URL — something that's confusing to people who are used to typing a user name. Asking somebody to enter an e-mail address requires less of a psychological jump.
OpenID Connect hopes to broaden the technology's reach as well. Unlike OpenID, it's been designed to work equally well on every platform in your home: on the web, on the desktop and in mobile apps. "It could even work on your XBox," Recordon says.
Both OpenID and OAuth have seen wide adoption across social sites and applications over the last couple of years, but both still suffer from various problems of usability (for people trying to log in) and complexity (for publishers who are trying to implement them). This is mostly due to the fact that the two technologies weren't developed concurrently, and that they were developed for different use cases.
Many of the complexity problems in OAuth were solved by the creation of OAuth 2.0 earlier this year. OAuth 2.0 hasn't been finalized, but it's already been adopted by Facebook in its Open Graph API, and by Twitter in @anywhere. OpenID, however, hasn't been updated since 2007. Three years is an eternity on the web, especially in the mobile space, which has seen the massive growth of the mobile web and the quick proliferation of mobile apps with social networking built in.
Also, the technologies serve two different purposes. OpenID is a way of proving to a server that you are who you say you are, and OAuth is a way of providing an application access to information such as your photos or your address book through web APIs.
"Instead of saying identity and APIs were different things, we wanted to build them together and make them work together," Recordon says. "This is a smart combination of OpenID and OAuth pieces."
The idea of OpenID Connect evolved naturally from the work being done by Recordon and his colleagues in the OpenID Foundation, the non-profit that develops and popularizes the technology. Others involved in the creation of this new proposal include Chris Messina, who works at Google and drafted a similar idea earlier this year, and Eran Hammer-Lahav from Yahoo, who recently posted an overview of the improvements in OAuth 2.0. Recordon, who is an engineer at Facebook, just stitched together the pieces and drafted the proposal.
Chris Messina is quick to point out that OpenID Connect is just an idea at this point, not a spec or a complete draft.
"David's document is a strawman in a very intentional way," he says. "It is not complete. It's a starting point. The goal is to start a conversation versus saying, 'this is a solution.'"
Update: Be sure to read Messina's follow-up post on his blog.
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Wilmington Celebrates Grand Opening of Lincoln Towers
Posted on 10/07/2013 2:47 pm
Unique Development Brings Much Needed Affordable Housing, New Fire Safety Services to Trolley Square Neighborhood
City, state, and federal officials gathered today for two ceremonial ribbon-cuttings – at the same building—to mark the grand opening of Lincoln Towers, a newly constructed high-rise apartment community that also features a new home for the city's Fire Company No. 5. The innovative community is the result of a unique partnership between the City of Wilmington and the Wilmington Housing Authority and is a milestone in the revitalization of the city's Trolley Square neighborhood.
Located at 1800 North Dupont Street, Lincoln Towers replaces outdated public housing with a mixed-income affordable community for seniors aged 62 and older, with 88 apartments on floors three through 10. The first floor features a beautiful lobby area for residents on one side and a state-of-the-art fire station on the other.
"We are so grateful for the community's support of our vision to maintain affordable housing in this wonderful neighborhood and create modern, energy efficient housing for our elderly public housing residents," said Frederick S. Purnell, Sr., Executive Director at the Wilmington Housing Authority. "This new building enhances one of the most desirable neighborhoods in the City while continuing to provide much-needed affordable housing opportunities in the area," Purnell said. Purnell noted that combining the residential community with the fire station represented an innovative solution to a long-standing problem for the city—replacing two outdated buildings in a logical, cost-effective way.
Wilmington Mayor Dennis P. Williams, who along with members of the Wilmington City Council, participated in the ceremonial ribbon-cuttings, called the development a "win-win" for the entire city.
In his remarks, Mayor Williams thanked The Wilmington Housing Authority for its commitment to serving the housing needs of citizens and for working with the City to provide essential fire safety services to the community.
Lincoln Towers is designed with high energy-efficiency systems and materials, making it one of the "greenest" buildings in the City of Wilmington. All of the apartments, 80 one-bedrooms and eight two-bedrooms, are adaptable for residents with disabilities. In addition, Lincoln Towers features a spacious "community center," on its second floor where residents can gather for recreational and educational activities. An on-site underground parking garage, laundry facilities on each floor, a fitness center, and a computer room complete the amenities package.
Wilmington Housing Authority developed Lincoln Towers, in partnership with The Michaels Development Company. Interstate Realty Management is providing professional property management services that will ensure the community remains an asset to the Trolley Square neighborhood long into the future. Both Michaels Development and Interstate Realty Management are companies of The Michaels Organization, a leader in affordable housing development across the country.
"It is has been an honor to be a partner in this truly unique development, and we look forward to being good stewards of this community for years to come," said Milton R. Pratt Jr., Senior Vice President of The Michaels Development Company.
Funding for the $30 million development came from equity raised from the sale of Low Income Housing Tax Credits allocated from the Delaware State Housing Authority, WHA Replacement Housing Factor Funds, tax-exempt bonds issued by the City of Wilmington, and Federal Home Loan Bank Funds. The development also benefitted from a "green" grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which WHA won through a competitive funding process as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Joining the celebration of this great achievement was John Bohm, Director of Congressional Relations for the National Association of Housing & Rehabilitation Officials (NAHRO), which has designated October as "Housing America" month to spotlight the country's continuing need for quality affordable housing. Bohm recognized WHA for its commitment to creating beautiful housing choices for low income residents of Wilmington, DE.
Lincoln Towers is already 100 percent leased and has a two-year waiting list. The fire station is expected to be fully operational within the next month.


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I was 14 years old when my grandmother, a laughing, round-faced Swedish immigrant who liked nothing better than taking a brisk walk with her grandchildren, called to announce she'd been diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Within a few weeks she was living in our house, her belly swelled up with the cancerous fluid called ascites, lying in bed in a state of unrelenting nausea, with my dad—her son—carrying her regularly to the bathroom so she could vomit. A few weeks later, she was in the hospital. And a few weeks after that, she was dead. Witnessing this as a healthy teenager was horrifying. Far from fading, the memory of my grandmother's death has loomed over me ever since, because, it turns out, that exact cancer afflicted her mother, my great-grandmother.
Three decades later, in my forties, I started experiencing pain in my lower right abdomen. It was variously diagnosed as endometriosis or irritable bowel syndrome. At one routine physical, I mentioned the family history, and my GP suggested I get checked out by doctors conducting an ovarian-cancer study at New York University. There, a sonogram picked up an 11-centimeter mass. My doctor thought it was just a fibroid, but she strongly recommended that I get the test for the BRCA gene; if I had the dreaded female cancer mutation, it would make me 15 to 40 percent more likely to get ovarian cancer.
She wrote the prescription, and I called my insurance company for prior approval. It refused, on the grounds that the ovarian cancer is on my father's side of the family, not my mother's, and is therefore less likely to be passed down (though doctors consider maternal and paternal family histories of cancer equally). Of course, I could have had the test if I paid for it myself. But it cost $3,340, and I had two kids and an underemployed husband.
Fast-forward three years to today: The fibroid is still there. My doctor, who checks on the lump every six months, assures me that if it were cancer, it would be growing, which it isn't. Although that's reassuring, I'd enjoy more peace of mind if I knew my BRCA status. Which I don't. The test still costs thousands of dollars. And I still cannot afford it.
But if bioethicist Lori Andrews succeeds at the U.S. Supreme Court, I may be able to have the test for a price closer to $300. Right now theBRCA test is very expensive because the gene has beenpatented by some of the researchers who helped to isolate it. Myriad Genetics, the patent holder and sole provider of the diagnostic test for the gene, has the right not only to set the price for the test but also to approve or prevent any non-Myriad research involving the gene. Should a commercial entity be entitled to patent a human gene, as if it were a product the company had invented? Andrews, who is also a lawyer, says no. "Patenting a genetic sequence is like patenting the alphabet and charging us a royalty each time we speak," she once told CBS News, and since 2005 she has been working with other lawyers to overturn the patent. Now the case has a good chance of reaching the Supreme Court.
That is why, on a sunny summer day last year, I visit her in Chicago. Even though the skirt suit she's wearing is a TV-ready purple, Andrews, 59, is so slight that she nearly disappears in her large, glass-walled corner office on the fifth floor of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Petite and fair, she brings to mind Reese Witherspoon's character in Legally Blonde. Decades ago, when she was a newly minted graduate of Yale Law School, the elders at her firm openly called her the lawyerette.
Thirty years on, that lawyerette has staked a place for herself on the futuristic edge of her field, where ethics tries mightily to keep pace with technology. "I have been an early-warning system about technologies and about what can go wrong in a society that is hugely enthusiastic about technologies," she says as assistants hand her one document after another. "Throughout my career, I've looked at the impact of technology on individuals and on society as a whole. And women have been central from the beginning."
Fueled by iced tea, chocolate and Coca-Cola, Andrews is variously described by colleagues as a phenomenon and a dynamo. She lives alone in a Chicago town house, where she says she gets by on four or five hours' sleep and spends her off-hours writing mystery novels (in all, she's published 14 books of fiction and nonfiction). Her ex-husband, with whom she has a son, now 23, is apparently still besotted, since he buys her a piece of jewelry every time she notches up another book or major legal win. On the day we meet, she is wearing one of his many postdivorce presents, a delicate antique amethyst-and-gold Art Nouveau necklace.
Born and raised in suburban Chicago, the elder of two daughters of a pharmacist and a homemaker, Andrews has been an overachiever since high school, when she began publishing articles in teen magazines. Her mother was "hugely disappointed" by her decision to go to law school, Andrews tells me. "She said, 'Listen, I don't need a lawyer—I'm not going to divorce your dad, I don't want a name change, and I already have a will. But if you went to beauty school, you could do my hair once a week.' She was serious. This wasn't ribbing me."
Andrews passed the bar exam in 1978, on the day the first test-tube baby was born. Launching her career, she gamely fended off all the era's first-woman-in-the-office sexism, which her personal appearance only exacerbated. After carving out a specialty in the legal twists and turns of reproductive technology, she founded Chicago-Kent's Institute for Science, Law and Technology, which she still heads. "I came of age with the first generation of legal abortion," she says. "Even a conservative female justice of the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, talked about how reproductive control was central to women getting educated and having careers."
Eventually, Andrews's niche expertise in reproductive technology made her the person to call for anyone with law-health-tech issues, and in 1995 she was appointed chair of the advisory committee to the Human Genome Project. By that time, the cases that were finding their way to Andrews had gotten so bizarre that her secretary thought some of the phone messages were practical jokes. A surgeon once called from the OR to ask if it was incest to implant an embryo in a woman's womb if the sperm had come from her brother. A U.S. senator asked if he could ban genetic engineering by making it a crime to insert DNA into an egg. (Her response: only if you are banning all forms of reproduction.) She has considered a variety of unreal-sounding issues, including whether a cryogenically preserved head can inherit property and whether sperm extracted from the comatose can legally be used to make babies. "Usually they are looking for someone who can say, 'Here's the likely legal input if we go down this route,' " says Andrews. There are few precedents to quote in these areas; Andrews uses her experience in the field to engage in highly informed speculation. "In part," she says, "my work is like writing science fiction."
At the same time Andrews was honing her skills, researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City were working toward a breakthrough that would have a tremendous impact on women's health and give Andrews the biggest case of her career. In 1994 researchers sequenced the BRCA genes. One of the researchers had formed Myriad Genetics and under its name applied for patents on the discoveries; the company was awarded 23 patents covering the genes and the testing for them. This means, in practical terms, that every woman who takes the BRCA test must pay a fee to Myriad and that no researcher can study the gene sequence from any woman without Myriad's permission. Myriad has also developed a supplemental test, called BART, that detects another, rare type of mutation in the genes. Cost: an additional $700. Finally, because the company has done so much testing, it has better information than any other company or research group about which mutations in the gene sequence cause breast and ovarian cancer. It used to share this information with a public database maintained by the National Institutes of Health. But recently Myriad stopped sharing, preferring to build its own database.
All these actions, from taking out the patents to keeping data private, are currently legal in the United States. To understand why, back up to 1980. Under American law, it has long been impossible to patent a "product of nature"—a duck, a lemon, a finger. Patents can be issued only on inventions. Then, in 1980, the Supreme Court held that patents could be granted on "anything under the sun that is made by man." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office interpreted that decision to mean that once a gene, or any other part of a living organism, was removed from the body and isolated or altered, it could be patented by, and considered the property of, the company that had done the work. The patent office itself determines, on a case-by-case basis as it reviews applications, what exactly constitutes altering a product of nature. Today, of the estimated 25,000 genes in the human body, 20 percent have been patented, including genes associated with Alzhei-mer's, colon cancer and asthma.
Of the genes now patented, the one for breast cancer is among the most lucrative. For the fiscal year that ended in June 2011, Myriad's BRCA test accounted for $345 million, or 86.4 percent, of the company's total revenue. But these profits did not come without a significant initial investment—which is the strongest argument in favor of the practice of patenting. It boils down to economics: Scientists need money to do their work, and without the commercial rewards from gene patenting, say patent holders, research and development will grind to a halt. "Myriad spent over $500 million between 1995 and 2005," says Myriad chief counsel Richard Marsh. "It took us 10 years to recoup our investment. Nobody will make that investment without the promise of patents." In addition, he points out, the company's patents will start to expire in 2014, 20 years after they were first granted. "Patents are only for a limited time," he says, "and people need to remember that."
When asked about Myriad's decision to stop contributing to the NIH database, Marsh said, "Part of our concern was that people were starting to rely on the data in the database to make clinical decisions, and we were concerned about the rigor and quality of information going into the database. We still want anybody who wants to do research with the BRCA gene to do whatever they want. We encourage people to research and publish, and we have never resisted that." A spokesperson for the company says that Myriad does not charge a fee to use the gene for research and that it has never denied or impeded any research on the genes.
But in Andrews's view, Myriad's profits have come at women's expense. For the past decade, she has argued that the restrictions imposed by patent holders cause financial hardship and health risks for millions of women. Big biotech concerns are "putting patents before people," she says, contending that besides forcing sick people in need of tests to pay fees to patent holders, patents restrict researchers from devising better tests and treatments. She argues that under current law, merely "thinking" about patented genes in terms of further research is illegal because the patent holder controls all uses of his or her invention. "This ability to control all uses makes sense for a machine," Andrews says, "but not for the information code of the human body." She unpacks example after example in the even, measured tone of someone expert at provoking disagreement without raising blood pressure. The company that has the patents on the hepatitis C genome, she says, has prevented other companies from offering inexpensive tests for the deadly disease, and gene patents have also resulted in people's deaths, when patent holders have withheld use of their genes for diagnostic testing in anything other than the patented use. She insists that a gene is a product of nature even in its isolated form and shouldn't be subject to patent. "If isolating a bodily product were enough to make it patentable," she says, "the first doctor to remove a kidney would have been able to get a patent covering all kidneys and get a royalty each time any other doctor removed one."
In 2005, Andrews enlisted the American Civil Liberties Union to represent women and doctors against Myriad's breast- and ovarian-cancer gene patent, and in 2009 the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation—representing 150,000 researchers—filed a lawsuit on the grounds that Myriad's patents are unconstitutional. Andrews herself became the lawyer for the American Medical Association and filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief. In 2010 a federal judge trying the case accepted the argument that genes were unpatentable products of nature, a huge victory for Andrews and her side. But Myriad appealed. Court observers were stunned when the U.S. Justice Department, which had previously supported gene patenting, filed a brief supporting Andrews's view.
Then, in July 2011, a three-judge appellate court overturned the trial court's decision two votes to one. The ACLU appealed to the Supreme Court, and lawyers on both sides expect the high court to take the case. "From the beginning, we've known this was destined for the Supreme Court," Andrews told me after Myriad's successful appeal. "There's far too much at stake to leave it in the hands of the lower courts. For the past 150 years, the Supreme Court has said that no one can patent a product of nature, so I feel confident that the justices will right this wrong."
Andrews's passion on the subject has convinced many people, but according to some, it is also her professional weakness. "Andrews has been honing her argument for about 10 years," says Kevin Noonan, a Chicago-based patent lawyer who filed an amicus brief in favor of patenting. "She's certainly a galvanizing force against gene patenting. The problem for patent lawyers is that a lot of the argument is so emotional. Phrases like 'human life commodified.' Well, I say, fine! Let's run the world your way. Then either nobody invests or nobody shares information."
Andrews's personal outrage and "emotional" talk, as Noonan puts it, has attracted powerful enemies. Andrews says she gets hate mail "all the time" from patent attorneys: "I've written on embryo research, and even the right-to-life people who send me hate mail don't write as devastating mail as the lawyers." Chicago-Kent Law dean Harold J. Krent says prospective students have been known to apply specifically to work with Andrews. Yet even he has felt the heat in the wake of controversy she's stirred up. "I have somebody on my board of overseers who wasn't always thrilled with the positions she took, particularly in the genetic-patent area," Krent says. "He understood that there's academic freedom, but he had been general counsel to a big pharmaceutical company. I think it's important in an institution to have people who speak their mind, even if it is adverse to the financial interest of members of the board or members of the community."
The Myriad suit may be Andrews's most high-profile case, but it is not her first foray into the legal issues raised by gene patenting. That distinction belongs to a case very close to home, in suburban Chicago. A local family, the Greenbergs, had two babies with Canavan disease, an inherited brain disorder that is always fatal, usually in childhood. Early on, the Greenbergs got involved with trying to help doctors and researchers develop a prenatal test and find a cure. They recruited dozens of other families of children with Canavan to provide samples of blood and urine, and after their own older child died, they even turned over tissue from the autopsy. In 1993 one researcher the Greenbergs had been working with, Reuben Matalon, MD, identified the Canavan gene.
Once the gene was isolated, hospitals around the world started prenatal screening; in 1996 the Canavan Foundation offered free testing at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. But in 1997, Miami Children's Hospital, where Matalon then worked, obtained a patent on the gene and would not allow any further testing without a license from the hospital and a royalty payment of $12.50 per test. The hospital also limited the availability of testing.
Andrews took the Canavan case, as it is popularly called, pro bono on behalf of the Greenbergs. Working on a shoestring budget, she attacked the patent on the grounds that for the first years of research, the Greenbergs and other parents had not given their informed consent. Matalon had taken blood and tissue samples from the Greenbergs without asking them to sign anything; when consent forms were finally written and signed, she alleged, they didn't include any information about patents or about the hospital's intent to commercialize the findings. The case was settled, and per the terms of the agreement, Miami Children's Hospital maintained its patent and the right to charge a royalty for clinical testing but agreed to allow license-free use of the gene for research. "It nearly killed me," Andrews says of the case, describing how she had to fly to Miami repeatedly, on her own dime, and file documents herself, as opposed to hiring a paralegal to do so.
Chicago-Kent associate law professor Ed Kraus worked with Andrews on the Canavan case and recalls the scene as she argued that gene patenting was wrong. "We were meeting with these confident, big-firm intellectual property lawyers," Kraus says. "And Lori explained this brilliant, unexpected legal theory. Seeing this petite, blonde-haired law professor, they dismissed her theory as naive and idealistic. Now, it's a few years later, and Lori's 'naive' theory will soon be considered by the Supreme Court." Kraus is an unabashed fan. "Her brain never stops working," he says. "It's not just the sort of raw intelligence she has. The speed at which she processes information is freaky. She has unbridled energy for pursuing important legal issues."
That energy has led her far beyond legal circles. Andrews likes to involve artists and writers in analyzing the big, vexing philosophical questions she deals with, such as, Who owns our bodies? And what does decoding the genome—the building blocks of life—really mean for humanity? "Philosophers and economists have just started thinking about what society will look like in the post-genome era, but writers and artists have been thinking about it for a long time," she says. At one conference she organized, she met and became close friends with the author Michael Crichton, in whom she found a kindred spirit. She taught Crichton her bioethics course over the phone—she in Chicago, he in California—inspiring him to write a scathing New York Times Op-Ed about gene patenting. Noonan credits the Op-Ed she inspired with kicking off the anti-gene-patent movement. Crichton also wrote a book on the topic, Next, before he died in November 2008.
Three years after Crichton's death, Andrews still cannot speak of him without choking up. She wants me to see his last speech about gene patenting and clicks on a video embedded in her laptop. As we watch, she wipes tears off her cheeks. "He was a very private, private person," she says after regaining her composure. "He would show up at my conferences and just sit in the back and leave after and never say who he was. He never wanted attention. He came to the Supreme Court with me. I mean, he is like six foot eight or six foot nine; I'm five one. You can just imagine us walking up the steps there."
As the Myriad case heads for the Supreme Court, Andrews is moving on to something new: the potential perils of social media. She became interested a few years ago when an acquaintance's daughter friended her on Facebook. The young woman was in her early twenties and applying to college. Looking at her Facebook page, Andrews noticed frequent references to a violent Facebook game called Mafia Wars, in which players pretend to be gangsters building their own criminal empires. Andrews, whose professional path was paved with ambition, deliberation and personal restraint, was appalled. She called the young woman and advised her to start deleting. "She didn't believe me when I told her that colleges and employers were turning down applicants because of Facebook posts," Andrews says. "So I started collecting cases and surveys to send her."
In the course of assembling that information, Andrews learned that 35 percent of employers reject job applicants because of information found on social networks and that women bear the brunt of the damage; they are more likely than men to be penalized for revealing themselves online dressed provocatively in photos, or writing about getting drunk, or complaining about past employers, coworkers or clients. Andrews explores the legal pitfalls of social media in her new book, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did, out this month.
Andrews wouldn't be caught dead posting a sexy picture of herself, but asked about the Legally Blonde comparison, she doesn't bother to deny it. "I realize that as I speak, I'm fiddling with a pink pen with, like, marabou feathers on it," she says. But overall, being cute and short has its career advantages: "Because, you know, people didn't expect that I'd actually be able to write a kick-ass brief."
Nina Burleigh is the author, most recently, of The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox.
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PALM COAST — A 44-year-old Daytona Beach man is accused of failing to pay nearly $7,000 in room charges at a Palm Coast Sleep Inn after staying there for almost eight months.
Gabriel F. DaRosa was arrested Tuesday on charges of defrauding an innkeeper, according to a Flagler County sheriff's report.
DaRosa stayed at the Sleep Inn on Kingswood Drive from Nov. 8, 2010 until June 24, 2011, the report states. Management reported that he left with an outstanding balance of $6,842.21. The Sleep Inn has since changed hands and is now a Red Roof Inn.
"When Gabriel first began staying there he gave the management two different debit cards for payment, which were both denied," according to the report. "He would then make up stories and get them to feel sorry for him, so they continued to let him stay there and accumulate a large bill."
DaRosa would "make payments periodically," the report states. He last made a payment on Feb. 4, 2011 for $280, the report states. Additionally, he wrote a check three months later for $4,485.24 "but the check bounced."
When the hotel was sold and under new management, requests were made for DaRosa to pay the bill. He would make arrangements to meet the manager "somewhere in Daytona" but not show up, according to the report. He would then promise to send a cashier's check.
DaRosa was booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility where he was being held Wednesday on $1,500 bail.
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Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn't want to know. In a talk that's part history lesson, part call-to-action, Margaret Heffernan demonstrates the danger of "willful blindness" and praises ordinary people like Benefield who are willing to speak up. (Filmed at TEDxDanubia.)
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NEWSFLASH: Chelsea (check out her market pics too) said I have some juicy news, so I guess I better give it.
It's really not that interesting... only to me I think. But here's the scoop:
After a lot of long, drawn-out thought and discussion, I have decided to change fabric companies. (big sigh...moments of dread...followed by moments of great anticipation and relief)
I know that there are going to be lots of people who won't understand why I would ever want to leave Moda. I do understand why they would wonder that.
It's certainly not that there was a problem with anyone there...they were all wonderful and kind and friendly to me. My design director is a wonderful person, who is super talented and on the ball. She saw something in me, and gave me a shot in a very competitive industry, and allowed me a chance to get my feet wet, so to speak. I really appreciate her for that! (I think I'll probably have to name one of my grandchildren after her now!)
The bottom line is that I didn't feel like it was a true fit for me, for a number of reasons. I won't bore you with those, you have better things to do with your time!
Suffice it to say I have moved to a smaller, much younger company by the name of Riley Blake!!
I am really excited to be a part of their new, up-and-coming company, and to be involved in the enthusiasm they have for what they are doing! There is a great feeling of mutual respect and support, as well as a desire to try new things and be aggressively proactive in the pursuit of all the great opportunities and avenues this industry can provide. They are warm, friendly, open to my ideas, totally excited to have me there, and full of new-blood enthusiasm and a willingness to learn and grow. It feels really great!
Here are some pics of Riley Blake's awesome booth from market...(that I had to steal from their blog ...thanks girls!)
Just wanted you to know about all of that...and to be looking for my new line with Riley Blake, which will be shown at the October Quilt market in Houston. I'll be giving you little sneak peeks as things progress!
It's a new look for me, and I hope you will like it as much as I do!
So that's the news...Go check out Riley Blake's website and see what's going on there!
(Scroll up for my market pics)
Love ya,
Saturday, June 5, 2010
My announcement...if you don't already know
NEWSFLASH: Chelsea (check out her market pics too) said I have some juicy news, so I guess I better give it.
Posted by Lila Tueller at 1:28 PM
11 comments:
- mandbrid said...
I LOVE Riley Blake!!! Yay for you! I hope the change is everything you want it to be.
- June 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Amy said...
Your designs are fantastic. I look forward to seeing what the future has in store for you. Good luck and many blessings!
- June 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Diana Hulme said...
Congratulations! You should just upload straight in Blogger - why are you going through photobucket? I've always wondered why people do that. It seems like an extra step...? Anyway, good luck getting it to work, and congrats again!
- June 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Vickie E said...
awesome Lila...I thought I saw you near the Riley booth at market and my first thought was "she's switching"...and that's cool.
'cause otherwise you would have to keep doing the same stuff over and over again. Don't get me wrong, I love Moda, however, their trend has always been designers sticking to their assigned theme like Me and My sister is always brights, Minick and Simpson is patriotic R, W and Blue etc. So cool for you...can't wait til fall!
- June 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- Kim Walus said...
I'm so happy for you. What exciting news. I look forward to your new line of fabric coming out in the fall.
- June 5, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Ariadne said...
That is so GREAT! I went to market with just a passing interest in Riley Blake, and then pretty near bought every line they had. Unexpectedly. Not in the budget, but Oooooooh, so worth it! I LOVE THEM! Congratulations! - Ari (Buttercuppity)
- June 5, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- Melissa Stramel said...
Hi Lila. Congrats! Makes total sense to me. I am a new designer (hope to meet you sometime) and signed with a small company although I had lots of offers from the bigger ones. I understand that you have to feel it. Plus, it's Riley Blake, which is going so big-time now! I have a tutorial on their blog at the moment.
- June 6, 2010 at 6:48 AM
- Mary Carole said...
Oh how exciting...I LOVE Riley Blake! And yes, I think that is a better fit for your style. Not saying that I don't like Moda...I LOVE Moda as well but I see your designs fitting in more perfectly with Riley Blake's company. Congratulations! Can't wait to see your new line!
- June 6, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Loraine said...
Wow! Big news indeed. I absolutely love Riley Blake! They are a wonderful bunch of people, and I can see why you would want to change over to them. I'm really excited to see what you are doing for the Fall. It was so fun seeing you and your sister and niece at market. Good luck with all your endeavors.
- June 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- Suzanne said...
We currently carry your fabric in our store and love Moda, but I must say you are a perfect fit for Riley and Blake! Of all the companies at market this spring, R&B was the most innovative with their cross merchandising. The matching ribbon, buttons, zippers, ric rac...OMG I was in HEAVEN! I am so excited to see what you come up with!
Strawberry Patches
Bakersfield, CA
- June 8, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- JEllen said...
Well you have thrown me for a loop ~ for days now actually. My daughter and I are opening a new store and I thought for many reasons it would be easier to be all Moda - can't really go wrong right? But then I keep running into Riley Blake. Everywhere I turn, I am falling in love with RB fabric. This post just confirms it I guess. I can't imagine our shop without Lila Tueller. I better head on over to RB and set up an account. btw, we can't wait for Spirit. The patterns have already arrived which makes the wait even harder. Best of luck in your new endeavors. Can't wait to see what's coming.
- June 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM


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Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 8:27 p.m.
Flagler County staff writers Annie Martin and Julie Murphy slipped out of The News-Journal's Palm Coast office one weekday afternoon for an early dinner at the Funky Pelican at the Flagler Beach Pier. The Funky Pelican finally took flight in January after owner Ray Barshay spent about nine months revamping the interior and exterior. The result is a casual eatery with an incredible view of the Atlantic Ocean.
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HOURS: 7 a.m.-11 a.m. and noon-9 p.m. Sunday; 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
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Q: What's it like inside after the renovation?
There's a laidback vibe in the Funky Pelican that's well-suited for its location. You'd feel comfortable throwing on your shorts, T-shirt and flip-flops after a day lying out on the beach and coming straight inside for dinner. There are large windows facing the north, east and south sides, which means there's a ton of natural light during the day. We sat in a booth on the south side of the restaurant next to a window that looked directly onto the pier. You also can sit outside on the brand-new deck to watch the surfers ride the waves and the anglers throwing their lines from the pier.
Q: What's on the menu?
Diners at the Funky Pelican will find a seafood-heavy menu, with Seafood Paella; mahi-mahi with roasted corn, black bean salsa and baja sauce; and fried shrimp, scallops or haddock. The appetizers include a Drunken Shrimp Cocktail steamed in beer and Old Bay, clam chowder and smoked fish dip.
Q: What if you don't like fish?
You'll still have plenty of choices, including burgers, Reuben sandwiches, chicken wings, filet mignon, New York strip and vegetable paella.
Q: What did you order?
For our appetizer, we split the Crab Fusion, a crabcake served with roasted corn and black bean salsa, avocado and garlic curry aioli. The crab was well-seasoned and the sauce was slightly zippy.
Annie ordered the Waaah-Hooo, a generously sized fish fillet topped with butter avocado chunks. Julie ordered the Salmon Says, which is served with "tiger sauce," a not-too-spicy combination of mayonnaise, horseradish and ketchup. The entrees were fresh-tasting and tender. Both come with grilled vegetables and your choice of garlic mashed potatoes or rice.
Q: Do they serve breakfast?
Early risers can start their day at the Funky Pelican. The menu features at least one unusual item — French P.B.J. Toast, which comes with creamy peanut butter and grape jelly slathered onto French toast, finished with whipped butter and powdered sugar. The more traditional offerings include omelets, wraps, shrimp and grits and biscuits and gravy
Q: How much did you spend?
Our food total was $44.28, not including tip.
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Madden NFL 11 goes on sale Tuesday and features a bevy of new features too numerous to mention. They'll go through them during this party broadcast, which will last through 7 p.m. ET and feature "retired NFL legends" and Madden NFL game designers.
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In the wake of Tuesday's loss in Boston, there was plenty of last-game sentiment in the Heat locker room.
Was this the end for Dwyane Wade? Could the franchise truly break ties with Udonis Haslem? Could it maintain ties with just-benched Michael Beasley?
Little thought, however, was given to Jermaine O'Neal, not after he had just completed a 9-of-44 shooting performance in the series.
But O'Neal also is coming off the best shooting season of his 14-year career, had one of the best statistical seasons of an Eastern Conference center this side of Dwight Howard and Andrew Bogut.
Of course, O'Neal also is coming off a $23 million 2009-10 salary.
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"We have a great owner, Mr. Arison, and a great organization," O'Neal said. "Coach Riley, we have a great relationship. And you kind of let the business take care of itself.
"You don't try to worry too much about it. I'm at a position in my career where I feel healthy again. I just want to have an opportunity to play for that champagne and that ring, whether that's here in Miami or somewhere else. I don't know."
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"I knew coming into this year, it was about being healthy," he said. "That was something that I wanted to do, to play over 70 games and I was able to do that. I had fun again. I had a lot of fun.
"Free agency is going to be what it is. I want to play three, four more years, but I want to play and have the opportunity to win a championship. I want to be on a team that can win and win now."
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With the increase of corn acreage over the past few years and more people looking into growing corn, a corn production meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Rice Research and Extension Center, east of Stuttgart on Highway 130.
The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Offices of Arkansas and Jefferson counties will conduct the meeting as well as the soybean production meeting at 8 a.m. Thursday at Pine Bluff's Regional Park in the Waterfront Building.
For the past several years, corn acreage has increased in Arkansas County and last year was the first year that the extension office had the corn production meeting by itself, Grant Beckwith, Arkansas County Extension Agent-Agriculture, said.
"Our rice acreage has been declining and going into soybeans and corn," Beckwith said.
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• 8:40 a.m. — Irrigation with Chris Henry
• 9 a.m. — Corn Drying with Sammy Sadaka
• 9:30 a.m. — Corn Production with Jason Kelley
• 10 a.m. — Corn Fertility with Lee Espinoza
• 10:30 a.m. — Corn insects with Glenn Studebaker
• 11 a.m. — Weed Control with Tom Barber
• 11:30 a.m. — Ag Economics with Scott Stiles
• Noon — Barbecue lunch
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• 10:15 a.m. — Diseases with Travis Faske
• 10:45 a.m. — Seed Quality with John Rupe
• 11:30 — Soybean Production with Jerry Ross
• Noon — Fish lunch
"We are extending an invitation in both Arkansas and Jefferson County," Beckwith said. "Our rice meeting will be held in February."
Producers and others with an interest in corn or soybean production are all invited to participate in these very important educational programs prepared by the county extension service.
For more information, contact the county extension service at (870) 946-3231, (870) 673-2346 or (870) 673-2661.
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The exhibition will be kicked off with an opening reception for the artists and the general public from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 19 during the refuge's Discover the Outdoors Day, 11978 Turkle Pond Road, Milton. Photographs will be on display through Dec. 15. Viewers will decide the People's Choice Award, which will be presented at the conclusion of the exhibition.
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iSchool Campus, a educational-support organization based in Park City, is growing in Utah. The company creates a network and one-to-one technology program in classrooms, offering support and expertise with its designated iSchools. From installation to teacher support, the program aims to put technology in the hands of students.
The company currently operates in nine states, including Utah charter and private schools and neighboring states such as Nevada and Colorado, and is even in the process to seek out international markets such as China. Following a state contract, the company is starting to grow its roots in Utah's public schools, taking the iSchool Campus program into the Gunnison Valley Elementary School in San Pete County, Dixon Middle School in Provo and North Sevier High School in Sevier County.
"The state wanted a mix of schools in the program," said David Nisson, the Chief Operating Officer of iSchool Campus. "Everyone had to apply and 41 schools put in for the program. The state looked at the geographic location, the make-up of the student body and then they looked at the applications in their decision."
"We're deploying in three schools for now and will those schools will be monitored by a third party," Nisson said. "As that progresses, if the state feels like what we do is helpful, then the program can be expanded the year after."
In its second year as a company, iSchool Campus has aligned itself with Apple Inc. to provide iPads, high-definition televisions and Apple TV in every classroom.
"We are trying to prepare to expand rapidly if we need to," Nisson said. "We may be in three schools this year, but next year, that number might be 100 schools."
Nisson said the program is an end-to-end technology solution that incorporates networking, labs and the one-to-one iPad deployment that gives every student a device. To implement the program, iSchool Campus estimates that a three-year program will cost schools $600 per student per year.
"Because we installed and designed the system, we understand it," Nisson said. "We come in and teach teachers how to use it. A lot of schools, the way they think about technology in the classroom is we need to teach our students how to use computers.
"We don't talk about that at all. We teach the teachers how to use it. the time the system is up and running, teachers know everything they need to about using an iPad."
That means if a student is struggling to download an app, the teacher will be first in line to offer technical support. And getting teachers behind the technology will mean a greater impact on the classroom, from using television screens and iPads as the new and improved chalkboard to using educational apps to target students who need more hands-on learning.
"Teachers can become so much more efficient in what they do," Nisson said. "They can manage a classroom better."
Even installing speakers for teachers to use is incorporated into classrooms. The company has also developed a number of classroom management applications such as iQuiz, an app that allows a teacher to design a quiz in minutes, push the quiz out to students and monitor answers as students are taking it.
And initial testing results are positive, Nisson said, with scores rising as the program is implemented.
For the past two years, the company has donated its classroom space to a Holy Cross Ministries preschool program in the summer. iSchool Campus hopes to do more in the community in coming years and has talked with the charter and private schools in the area. Implementation in the Park City School District is unlikely as schools fully implement the one-to-one laptop program this year, but Nisson said going into other school districts, charter schools and private schools are discussions that are in the works.
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