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Israel's Ultra-Orthodox dead get proper burial
Ah, the good old days. Stealing corpses before they even got cold, right under the noses of the police and paramedics just about to take them for autopsy, bundling them in the van and driving them out to some secret place in a cemetery — still whole, uncut — for a proper Jewish burial.
Yoel Greuss, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, sits in his 19th century, impoverished home in Jerusalem's Meah Shearim quarter, grinning as he talks of his adventures.
"A few years ago, there was a man lying dead in his bed, a Charedi [ultra-Orthodox], and the police came. They wanted to take the body for an autopsy, and everybody was inside the apartment trying to stop them, and there was a crowd outside, and somebody distracted the police, and a few of us grabbed the body, wrapped in it in the sheet, and ran outside," says Greuss, a member of Neturei Karta, the most extreme of all the ultra-Orthodox sects, the one that hates Zionism so much its leaders buddy up with Ahmadinejad and Louis Farrakhan.
"This was in Meah Shearim with all the little alleys, right?" he goes on, sitting at his dining room table, a wall of holy books behind him. "The police run outside and ask the crowd which way we went, and they tell them, 'That way,' and the police run that way. Meanwhile, we went the other way. We put the body in a car and drove it to a cemetery and buried it."
I ask him where, and he tilts his head back, a thin smile on his face — no comment.
Israel's Charedim are known for their ability to mobilize tens, or hundreds, of thousands of screaming protesters, to burn garbage bins, to throw stones at police, all for the sake of closing a street on Shabbat, or stopping developers from digging up ancient Jewish graves, or forcing advertisers to take down "pornographic" billboards — or advancing some other holy cause. But for the great mitzvah of preventing autopsies, which they consider a desecration of the dead, Charedi activists over the decades have gone so far as to snatch fresh corpses — usually with the help of a fired-up, intimidating crowd — before the dead could be taken to the coroner's office in Tel Aviv. By and large a Jerusalem phenomenon, the bodies are buried in a local cemetery, the grave's location known only to the gravediggers, a few Charedi higher-ups and the immediate family of the deceased.
In the past, this was the Charedim's tactic of choice against autopsies. But in recent years, they've all but stopped stealing corpses, because they don't have to — the police and courts don't want riots on their hands, so now, unless an autopsy is absolutely necessary to determine the exact cause of death, an activist's call to a police station or a court petition is usually enough to bypass the coroner's office.
"I do not enjoy having to fight the Charedim," Dr. Jehuda Hiss, Israel's chief coroner since 1987, says in an interview in one of the autopsy rooms at the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine, known to all as Abu Kabir, the gritty South Tel Aviv neighborhood where it's located.
Fights over autopsies almost always concern a corpse of a religious Jew or Muslim; secular people don't ordinarily object. So Hiss still has plenty of work. "We did 15 bodies today," he said on one recent evening.
In Tel Aviv's courthouse, Michael Gutwein, a volunteer who heads the litigious arm of the anti-autopsy crusade, explains why cutting up dead bodies is such a sin. "In the Shulchan Arukh [the main source book on Jewish law], it says that after death, the soul, which lives on inside the dead body, feels every little injury 'like 1,000 needles.' So you can imagine what an autopsy feels like," he says. "That's why we care so much — out of respect for the dead."
He recalls a recent case that went to the Supreme Court — a construction worker in Rehovot was run over by a tractor, and state prosecutors wanted an autopsy performed on the body for insurance purposes — to see if the tractor killed him or if he died from a pre-existing heart condition. The dead man was a secular bachelor, but his next of kin were newly religious Jews. They contacted the anti-autopsy movement; Gutwein filed a court petition, and, by the next day, state prosecutors had backed off. Gutwein displays the Supreme Court ruling, which concludes, "The autopsy will not be performed," and is signed by Justice Hanan Meltzer. The secular construction worker, his soul spared the 1,000 needles, received a proper ultra-Orthodox burial.
Dr. Jehuda Hiss, Israel's chief coroner since 1987. Photo by Jonathan Bloom
Charedi activists win their court petitions to stop autopsies "about 80 percent of the time," Hiss says. The activists' own estimates run to 90 percent. Often there's no need to go to court; Gutwein says that after a man was killed in a recent house fire in Ramla, the police wanted to do an autopsy, so he called the Ramla police chief. "I told him, 'The man died in a fire; what more are you going to find out from Abu Kabir?" Again, no autopsy, no needles — straight into the ground.
Gutwein points out, though, that if Charedi activists are convinced by authorities that an autopsy is necessary to help identify a murderer or stop the spread of disease, they won't oppose it. "This is also in line with Jewish law," he says.
At 43, Gutwein lives in Bnei Brak, Israel's most Charedi city, and it is his job to arrange funerals. He got involved in caring for the dead about 20 years ago. "I had a friend who drove a hearse who got injured, and he asked me to fill in for him. Things just went on from there," he says.
Noting that he's stopped "hundreds, if not thousands of autopsies" by peaceful, legal means, Gutwein refers to Greuss and his crew as "fanatics." He recalls once stepping into the breach between police and a raging crowd of Neturei Karta and the like-minded Toldot Aharon sect in the Charedi town of El'ad.
"A young woman died of a drug overdose; there was no suspicion of foul play, but the police wanted to take the body for an autopsy, and Greuss had bused in a crowd from Jerusalem and Ramat Beit Shemesh [an ideological suburb of Meah Shearim]. They were in the street yelling, 'Murderers! Nazis! Gevalt!' — what the fanatics usually yell.
"We negotiated with the police to call off the autopsy, and to let us have the body to drive to the cemetery so everybody would go home," Gutwein continues. "We put the body in one of our ambulances; I start to drive away, and the crazies see me and start screaming that I'm driving it [to] Abu Kabir! I told them I'm driving the body to the cemetery, and they wouldn't believe me; they yelled that I was lying; they broke the ambulance's mirrors and windows."
Back in his cluttered, peeling apartment in Meah Shearim, Greuss explains how he gets the commotion started. If police and paramedics pull up to an apartment in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Ramat Beit Shemesh or some other ultra-Orthodox community, he hears about it immediately on his beeper, cell phone, Mirs or other gadget. If the ambulance is there to pick up a dead body, Greuss calls out the troops.
"I call five guys, each of them calls five guys, and so on. In 15 minutes we have a crowd of 1,000 people," he says.
Greuss, 38, says he ran off with his first corpse in his late teens. "I didn't like studying in yeshiva, so I dropped out at 16. I didn't have anything to do, then I got a job guarding graves at [Jerusalem's] Shamgar cemetery," he says. A couple of years later, there was a ruckus at the cemetery between police who wanted to take the body of a young Charedi man for an autopsy and the crowd that wanted to prevent it.
"This was about 1 or 2 in the morning, and in the middle of all this, the body was laying there, covered, on a gurney," he recalls. "We have a saying — 'no corpse, no autopsy.' So I wheeled the body out of the cemetery, stopped a car [driven by a Charedi man], put the body in the back, and we drove away and just sat there with it. There was a court case going on against the autopsy, and people were demonstrating outside the judge's house in the middle of the night. Next thing you know, the judge cancels the autopsy, and we drove the body back to Shamgar and they buried it."
By now, because of the Charedim's power in the streets and courts, the theft of dead bodies before autopsy is down to about one a year, or even less. The most notorious instance in recent years came in May 2006, when the body of 1-year-old Malka Sitner, daughter of American immigrant Charedi parents, was stolen from the refrigerator of Ashdod cemetery and driven off for burial — while some 250 police tried to hold off a crowd of more than 1,000 Charedim, some of whom were throwing stones and breaking windows.
Police had wanted the autopsy to see if the parents had been negligent in their care of the girl. Greuss, who has managed to stay out of prison but who is under police investigation for a caper or two, freely acknowledges that he was at Ashdod cemetery that day and that he dispatched a few busloads of demonstrators, but says he had nothing to do with the corpse-snatching itself.
However, he allows that during the melee, "Somebody asked me if I could give him five guys. He didn't tell me for what, and I gave him five guys." He also says he heard later from one of the corpse-snatchers about how it had gone down.
"One young guy stood at the entrance of the women's bathroom, like he was guarding the women's privacy, but inside there were a few men, and one of them had a crowbar, and he climbed up the wall, broke the window and climbed down into the next room where the refrigerator was. He broke open the refrigerator door, took out the little girl's body, pushed it through the window down to the guys on the other side, and they ran out of the bathroom with it.
"They put it in a car and sent the car off while some other Charedim set up a decoy," he says. "These other men loaded something that was sort of the shape of a corpse and wrapped in a prayer shawl into the back of a car and drove off. Naturally, the police followed them. When the police stopped their car and saw there was no body inside the shawl, they beat up the driver, they were so mad," Greuss says, smiling.
By this time, the men driving the body of Malka Sitner were headed out of Ashdod. "They were in the last car to drive out of the exit before police set up a barricade and started checking every car coming through," he says. "You see? God protects us."
In an unprepossessing office near Jerusalem's Central Bus Station, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav also smiles as he recounts how he "stole bodies from the morgue at Hadassah, we opened the front door of Abu Kabir and threw rats inside. I was young, 18."
Meshi-Zahav, 51, who resembles a Charedi reincarnation of James Cagney, used to be the chief agitator of the Jerusalem community, organizing all the wild demonstrations against autopsies and every other abomination, but, over the years, he became legitimate. He now heads the well-respected Orthodox volunteer organization ZAKA (Hebrew acronym for "Disaster Victims Identification"), whose main work is to gather the remains of the dead for burial, notably at terror attacks, but which also coordinates the legal side of the anti-autopsy movement.
"Autopsies are becoming a thing of the past," he says. "It's all going to be done noninvasively, by MRI." Indeed, Israel's first forensic MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine went into use in early August at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, near Ben-Gurion Airport. In the first two weeks, six autopsies were performed, he said. ZAKA even helped raise the money to buy it, Meshi-Zahav says.
On this subject, at least, Hiss and the Charedim are in agreement. "If you use the MRI together with the CT scan, toxicological tests and tissue sampling, you can get results almost as precise as from an autopsy," Israel's chief coroner says. "This is the wave of the future — autopsy by non-invasive means, or 'virtopsy,' as it's called."
Virtopsy has also been used in Switzerland and England, and Hiss, 65, is greatly relieved that Israel is joining the club. "After nearly 25 years of fighting ZAKA and the Charedim, I'm worn out," he says. "They've won."


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Yes! Yes! Yes! The Raw Review (#YYYTRR)
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"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
This week's Raw ended with Ryback stood over the prone body of John Cena, but Monday night was about anything but the Three Stages of Hell match coming at Payback. It was the night Daniel Bryan showed the WWE Universe and, more importantly, Vince McMahon & Co. that he is the most over superstar WWE has right now.
Not only did Bryan steal the show, but The Shield continued their impeccable run of great matches, and WWE decided to give us a throwback to the late-1990s with a heel McMahon promo (complete with crowd insult!).
Flyin' Bryan: Marathon Man
If anybody had any doubts about the ability of Daniel Bryan before Raw, they were surely forced out of the minds of Bryan's detractors.
Bryan started by taking centre stage in the night's opening match again dominating The Shield single-handedly, and went on to carry Ryback in one of the night's main event matches (I'm surprised that Raw featured three decent matches too). The lesson to learn from this is simple; Bryan should be doing bigger things than chasing the Tag Team Championships or worrying about being a "weak link".
He is the first superstar to make Ryback look good in a main event match, and it would seem that WWE has plans to turn this aggression into a title run (hopefully with the WWE Championship).
Let's look at it this way; his assault on The Shield and his near-victory was impressive in that he did it alone and captivated the audience, but the loss was semi-expected and it made all involved look good. The real surprise is that WWE gave Bryan the chance to dominate Ryback at times in their match, and gave him the victory (albeit via a DQ). A victory over the number one contender should really put a superstar in line for the next title shot, too.
With the imminent break-up of Team Hell No (I expect at/after Payback) and Bryan being able (and allowed) to hang with superstars who are considered main eventers, WWE would be stupid to not let this burst of momentum lead to a championship match.
And if nothing else comes of this, Bryan is finally chanting "Yes!" again, which can only be good news.
The Shield are still flawless
Aside from the show-stealing performance of Daniel Bryan this week, the title-holding Shield were as impressive as ever. I'm not referring to their well-documented win/loss record, but their in-ring performance.
There is usually a reason why fans get behind supposed heel groups like The Shield. It can be their attitude, the destruction they cause, or their in-ring ability. To me, it really looks like The Shield possess all three of these qualities. They started out by taking out an impressive list of superstars before ever competing in a match, went on to cut some nice promos driven by the almost-psychotic mannerisms of Dean Ambrose, and lately they've been showing their worth in the ring.
And similarly to Edge, I am yet to see a bad match involving The Shield. Sure, their WrestleMania match left a little more to be desired, but that was still a good match and the closest I've seen to a bad Shield outing.
WWE is showing them a lot of faith by having them hold two championships right now, and it is with very good reason. I do not think it is an overstatement to say that The Shield are the best group the WWE Universe has seen in years, because they captivate arenas week upon week.
I know a lot of what I'm saying here has been mentioned in a few of my blogs in some form or another, but it says a lot about the talent pool in WWE when the best matches are being put on at the start of shows whilst the main events pale in comparison. That was the case this week, and has been for around a month now.
I just cannot wait to see how they'll fare as champions with a target on their chest come Payback. The only guarantee is that they will be a part of two outstanding matches.
This week's Raw gave us a glimpse into what this summer in WWE could hold. If you take into account the performance of Daniel Bryan, the continued dominance of The Shield, and the still intact undefeated streak of Curtis Axel you get a good idea of how many different avenues WWE can go down with pushing their talent with SummerSlam as the focus.
Bryan could be in the WWE Championship picture, The Shield could be bringing some real prestige back to their respective championships, and Axel could easily be involved in any multitude of 'upstart' rivalries with established talent.
The crowd helped also in making this week's Raw a good show. They were vocal and wanted their voices heard, and it always makes a show better when the fans create a great atmosphere. I wanted to say thank you to @Synned40 on Twitter for bringing a #YYYTRR sign to Raw this week also, I appreciate the promotion even if it didn't make it clearly onto TV (if anybody else felt like promoting this blog I'm happy for them to do it… hint, hint).
My question to you this week is; given that SummerSlam is the next of the "big four" PPVs for WWE, what would you like to see as its WWE Championship match and why?
Thanks for reading another week of Yes! Yes! Yes! The Raw Review, follow me on Twitter (@SpringerAJ) and tweet me your views using #YYYTRR.


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Teacher sues school over assignment, says she fears young children
Don't laugh. This Ohio teacher had taught high school level foreign languages successfully for years, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
But when reassigned to a junior high, Maria Waltherr-Willard's phobia kicked in. The Enquirer explains that "Documents filed in the case by her medical doctor, psychiatrists and psychologists note that she experiences stress, anxiety, chest pains, vomiting, nightmares and higher than healthy blood pressure when she's around young children."
Walherr-Willard said she was forced to resign, and sued with a claim that she had an agreement with the district that she would not have to teach young children. A judge has dismissed three of her six claims so far.
The district says the teacher would still have a job had she not resigned.
Some might question why someone diagnosed with pedophobia would have a job that by its very nature involves children. But high school students do sometimes seem more like adults than kids, so maybe that's a happy medium. Online education, anyone?


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Week of Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006
Ethel Licata
Ethel Marie Licata, 86, Kansas City, Mo., died Dec. 5, 2006, at The Groves.
She was born May 11, 1920, in Independence, Mo., to James E. and Emma O. Gard. She was a homemaker and a member of the Grandview Community of Christ Church and The Primetimers.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence P. Licata, in 2002 and a grandson, Jason D. Loving. She is survived by her children, Susan K. Licata, Kansas City, Mo., Linda M. Loving, Oskaloosa, and Lawrence J. Licata, Olathe; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Services were Dec. 9 at the Grandview Community of Christ Church, Grandview, Mo. Interment was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo. Memorial contributions can be made to the Oskaloosa Community Center. Park Lawn Funeral Home, Kansas City, Mo., was in charge of arrangements.
Elizabeth Martin
Elizabeth Ann Martin, 41, Oskaloosa, formerly of McLouth, died Dec. 10, 2006, at her home. She was born March 25, 1965, at Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of George Robert and Anolia Corrine "Anne" Clawson Little. She had lived in the McLouth and Oskaloosa area for 10 years.
She was a 1981 graduate of Pomona High School. She earned an associate of arts degree in nursing from Kansas City, Kansas, Community College and was a Licensed Practical Nurse. Elizabeth worked as a nurse for the Cotton-O'Neil Clinic for five years in McLouth, Oskaloosa, and Topeka. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in McLouth and the Lucky Spur Saddle Club in Oskaloosa.
She married William L. "Bill" Martin Aug. 13, 2005, at McLouth. He survives at the home. She is also survived by her parents of Lawrence; two sons, Aaron J. Swallow, Lawrence, and Ryan D. Swallow, Perry; a daughter, Rachel Marie Scrivner, Oskaloosa; and three brothers, Robert Little, Wichita, Ronald Little, Lecompton, and Rodney Little, Topeka.
Services were Thursday, Dec. 14, at the First Baptist Church of McLouth. Burial was at McLouth Cemetery. Memorials can be made to Jefferson County Hospice and sent in care of Barnett-Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 416, Oskaloosa, 66066.
Ray Hinman
Ray John Hinman, 75, Whiting, died Dec. 8, 2006, at the Onaga Hospital. He was the son of Ray Louis and Julia Eckert Hinman. He graduated from Denison High School. He had lived in Denison and for the last 10 years had lived in Whiting. He had worked for Jayhawk TV in Holton and for the Holton Power Plant. He later worked as a machinist for Santa Fe Railroad for 30 years.
Mr. Hinman served in the Navy from 1951-1955 during the Korean War as an electrician. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
He married Gwyn L. Daugherty Feb. 9, 1956, in Holton. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Wade Hinman, Denison, and Lee Hinman, Valley Falls; a daughter Rosa Thomas, Whiting; two sisters, Kathleen Martin, Shelton, Wash., and Mary Bell, Orville, Calif.; six grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
Funeral services were Dec. 12 at Mercer Funeral Home in Holton. Burial was in the Denison Cemetery. Memorials can be given to the Whiting Baptist Church and sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 270, Holton, 66436.
Karen Flory
Karen Nadine Flory, 57, Effingham, died Dec. 5, 2006, as the result of a car accident near Nortonville.
She was born Jan. 26, 1949, in Holton, the daughter of Floyd and Winona Allen Ireland. She moved with her family to Nortonville before she started school. She attended school in Nortonville and graduated from Nortonville High School in 1967. She worked at City National Bank in Atchison for 5 years before taking time off to raise her boys.
She had worked as a cook for USD 377, Atchison County Community schools, in Effingham for the past 15 years. She was the secretary of the Jefferson-Jackson School Nutrition Association of Kansas. She was a member of the Nortonville Christian Church where she taught the nursery and beginners Sunday school classes and was director of vacation Bible school for a number of years.
Mrs. Flory was also a member of the Rebekah Lodge No. 157 in Nortonville and volunteered as the open class foods superintendent at the Atchison County Fair in Effingham.
She married Sam Flory June 19, 1970, at the Nortonville Christian Church. He survives of the home. She is also survived by her sons, Mike Flory, Katy, Texas, and Jeff Flory, Smithville, Mo.; two grandsons; and two brothers, Gerald Ireland, McLouth, and Gene Ireland, Cummings.
Funeral services were Dec. 9 at the Nortonville Christian Church. Burial was in the Nortonville Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Nortonville Pleasant Grove Christian Church and can be left in care of O'Trimble Funeral Home, PO Box 267, Nortonville.
Justin Fujibayashi
Justin D. Fujibayashi, 25, Valley Falls, died Dec. 7, 2006, at the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, after receiving injuries in a car accident Dec. 4.
He was born July 25, 1981, at Evanston, Ill., the son of Carter Akira and Margaret Vincett Fujibayashi. He moved to Greenwood, Ark., at the age of 5 where he lived until moving to Lawrence. He first showed signs of his gift for art at age 7, when he drew a perfect picture of "Ironman" in kindergarten and titled it "For My Dad."
He graduated from Greenwood High School in 1999. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. He received his associate of arts degree from Highland Community College. He was currently a senior arts major at Washburn University. He will receive a bachelor of fine arts posthumously in May.
He had been employed at "On Screen" video stores in Oskaloosa, Meriden and Valley Falls since 2005. He was a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence.
He married Greta Laurine Forsberg June 29, 2003, at McLouth. She survives at the home. Other survivors include his father and stepmother, Tammy Fuji-bayashi, Greenwood; mother and stepfather, Jim Woodhull, Greenwood; son, Henry Owen Fujibayashi, of the home; brother, Brian Fujibayashi, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; sister, Ginny Fujibayashi, Greenwood; four stepbrothers, Rob Woodhull, Hackett, Ark., Doyle "D.J" Warren, Fort Smith, and Joshua Warren and Amberae Laster, both Greenwood; two stepsisters, Kimberly Woodhull, Fort Smith, and Jamie Bridges, Memphis, Tenn.; grandparents, Marian Vincett and Wendell Fujibayashi, both of Chicago, Barbara Carter, Fort Smith, and Bob and Gwen Woodhull, Greenwood.
Cremation was planned. A memorial service was held Thursday, Dec. 14, at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence. Memorial contributions can be made to the Students Against Drunk Driving scholarship fund for schools in Jefferson County or Greenwood (Ark.) High School and sent in care of Barnett-Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, PO Box 416, Oskaloosa, 66066.
David Higgins
David Wayne Higgins, 42, Lawrence, died Dec. 9, 2006, at his home due to complications with diabetes.
He was born May 22, 1964, in Lawrence. He graduated from Perry-Lecompton High School in 1982. Mr. Higgins was self employed as a painter and previously worked for Hardister Painting Inc. He also worked as a mechanic.
He married Valerie A. Schomer in 1984. They divorced. Survivors include his father, David G. Higgins, and wife, Rita, Oskaloosa; his mother, Twila B. Higgins, Lawrence; a son, David A. Higgins, Lawrence; a daughter, Alyssa M. Higgins, Perry; two sisters, Cheryl Cox, Lawrence, and Diane Hiatt, Ottawa; and companion, Jane Morphy.
Services were Thursday, Dec. 14, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, Lawrence. Interment followed at the Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Higgins was an organ donor. The family suggests memorials to American Heart Association, American Diabetic Association, or Higgins College Fund and sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Robert Marrone
Robert Anthony Marrone, 36, Blue Springs, Mo., died Dec. 5, 2006, at his home.
Mr. Marrone was born June 20, 1970, at Kenosha, Wisc., the son of Terrance Anthony and Linda M. Hart Marrone. He had lived in the Kansas City area most of his life. He worked as a technician at the Computech Company in Kansas City. He attended Belton (Mo.) High School and graduated from the DeVry Institute of Technology.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gu lf War, having served in Somalia and Haiti. He served nine years is the military.
Survivors include his mother of Basehor; a son, Cody D. Marrone, Lee's Summit, Mo.; and a sister, Donna L. Huffman, Ozawkie.
Cremation was planned. Inurnment was at the Ozawkie Cemetery. The Barnett-Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, Oskaloosa, was assisting the family with local services.
Pearl Heineken
Pearl E. Heineken, 88, Nortonville, died Dec. 6, 2006, at St. Francis Health Center in Topeka.
She was born Oct. 6, 1918, near Effingham, the daughter of Walter and Charlotte Florence Brown Heineken. She had attended Sugar Bowl, Prairie View and Coal Creek grade schools. She worked at the Nortonville Restaurant as a teenager. She worked for Sunflower Ordnance from 1944 to 1945 and for Atchison Leather Products from 1968 to 1978.
She was then employed with USD 377 as a teacher's aide retiring in 1988. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Effingham and a member of the Nortonville Senior Center.
She is survived by a son, Larry, Wamego; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by brothers, Earl Heineken, Eugene Heineken, Robert Heineken, and Don Heineken.
Funeral services were Dec. 11 at O'Trimble Funeral Home in Nortonville. Burial was in the Nortonville Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the Nortonville United Methodist Church and left in care of the funeral home.
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Recently I've picked up a new hobby. It's probably not one that others would like to have. A few weeks ago, my Bank of America Online account started offering a new feature called Zestimate, from Zillow.com bundled into its' on-line portfolio section.
If you're already a BofA customer with online access, you probably know about the portfolio management feature. For those that don't, the My Portfolio is a section where you can register all your outside credit cards, investment accounts, Reward points programs, etc. to give you a one-stop view of your financial situation. Pretty nice.
The newest addition is a section called 'Real Estate Center' which lists an option to track the estimated value of your home on a day-to-day basis. This service, offered by Zillow.com, calculates the fair market price (roughly) of your home, based on a database of similar homes in the area, and the prices they've been offered for or sold at recently.
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After setting up the home name and listing the address, zip code, and such, you're ready to have Zestimate start estimating the value of the house. I live in a modest 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath home in a decent Midwest neighborhood. The original price a month and a half ago was $185k.
As of this morning, the Zestimate amount has dropped to $172,500. This is averaging around $500/day decrease.
The saddest part of all this? I can't stop watching! It's like driving by a car wreck. You don't want to look, but you can't help but stare. As a people, we're fascinated with disasters, and my home value going down at this rate, definitely qualifies as a disaster in my book.
Now, I have nothing against Zillow or their tool. On the contrary, it's a great wake-up call for people wanting to sell their home, but think they're going to get top-dollar for it like they could have a year or two ago. Housing prices continue to be in free-fall, and there's an estimated 2-4 million people facing foreclosure in the next year if congress doesn't provide some sort of assistance.
'POP!' – Facing the Housing Market Readjustment
We've still got a ways to go before the house prices re-adjust themselves back to where they were, pre-housing bubble. It's like lancing a boil; It's going to really hurt at first, but it'll feel better after it's done. Of course that's no consolation to those facing hard choices of whether to try to save their homes, or allow them to go to foreclosure. But at some point, housing has to return to something approaching 'affordability'.
Many of the investors in real estate and the 'living large' crowd are going to see those investments dry up and blow away (if they haven't already). But those same homes can then be re-cycled through the financial system and sold at a more realistic price to people that will buy them as primary residences, instead of speculative investments. The dream of home ownership isn't dead, just injured.
It may take a couple of years (or more) but eventually we'll be back to where buying a home is again affordable, credit is available for qualifying buyers, and there's a supply of good homes ready to accept new families. It's just a matter of time.
Until then, I'm going to keep watching my home value slowly disappear. Pass the popcorn.
Is your home decreasing in value? Are you upside down in your home? Tell us your story by leaving us a comment!
I am currently away on vacation and Randall from CreditWithdrawal.com volunteered to write a guest article for Cash Money Life. Randall writes about not relying on credit, the economy, and other personal finance topics. For more articles that help you end your credit addiction, visit his blog or subscribe to his RSS feed.


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A Ninja training ground located in the deepest darkest heart of the Amazon rainforest, of all places. The training ground is further disgused as a ninja-themed amusement park.
Frank's SidequestEdit
You get to meet Frank's master who tells him to complete a series of trials to become a "master" (to get the best rank). His sidequest includes doing a flying squirrel jump (momonga arts) which, depends on you, can fly farther or shorter.
Before heading to the end you need to obtain the secret ninja writings which is secretly hidden on one of the many islands.
By reaching the northern and last island, Frank faces his master, which turns on him. His master uses a giant Kebab as a weapon. If you are victorious, you obtain the weapon which The Jonin uses: the Spicy Skewer.


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The DCC Residents' Opinion Survey 2013
The DCC Residents' Opinion Survey 2013
Dunedin (Thursday, 27 June 2013) – Letters have been sent out this week to 4,500 Dunedin residents, inviting them to take part in the DCC's annual Residents' Opinion Survey (ROS).
DCC General Manager Strategy and Development Dr Sue Bidrose says, "The ROS helps us gauge the views of Dunedin's silent majority – it gives us a way to check in with some of those who are less likely to engage with the DCC through other avenues such as the Annual Plan process."
This year, the residents randomly selected from the electoral roll will be invited to complete the ROS online using a unique code, rather than receiving a hard copy of the questionnaire. A hard copy can be made available on request.
The survey is also open to all residents online at www.dunedin.govt.nz/ros and, for the first time, will be sent to all members of the Dunedin Peoples' Panel. To ensure the statistical validity of the Survey results, the responses from the people who were selected are used as the official results.
The Survey is open until 17 July. A reminder letter and hard copy of the questionnaire will be sent to those who haven't responded about two weeks after the initial letter, a practice that has proved successful in increasing the response rate. The results are expected to be publicly available in late August.
Responses from residents who independently chose to complete the Survey online are analysed separately but still provide the DCC with valuable feedback about how it can improve its services.
Dr Bidrose says, "The move to encourage greater online response has been made to ensure that the DCC can deliver the Survey at the lowest cost to ratepayers and the environment - the higher the online response, the greater the cost savings."
In another change to last year, all respondents will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win a prize. Each prize is worth $150 and three winners will be drawn who will be able to choose either a book voucher, a donation to a charity of your choice, a petrol voucher, a voucher for use at Dunedin Public Art Gallery or a voucher and tour for use at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum.
In 2012 the Survey cost approximately $38,500 to deliver. The exact cost varies every year depending on the level, timing and method of response as this determines printing, postage and data transcription costs. Costs are lower if randomly selected residents complete the Survey earlier and online so the DCC expects the cost to be lower this year.
Dr Bidrose adds, "We have been using this Survey for nearly 20 years now and it has become a valuable tool for guiding our decision-making process and prioritising expenditure. It focuses on service delivery and effectiveness, and asks questions about people's perceptions of our performance and we use some of the results as official measures of the performance of the DCC and its departments."
This year, the Survey will be undertaken by independent research company Key Research which successfully tendered for the contract in 2013.


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April 21, 2011
Midnight and the Meaning of Love
by Sister Souljah
at Harold Washington Library
February 21st, 2011 by EVENTS
Date & Time: Thursday, April 21st at 6pm
Location: Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State Street
Sister Souljah, political activist, educator and the bestselling author of The Coldest Winter and Midnight, discusses and signs her latest novel, Midnight and the Meaning of Love.
In this book Sister Souljah delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet with an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it.
Seating is available first come, first served.
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UT provides strong educational value for every dollar of tuition, according to the Princeton Review's 2014 Best Value rankings. The Princeton Review listed UT among the top seventy-five public colleges and universities in its Best Value Colleges for 2014 publication, which compared public and private schools in areas including cost, financial aid, academic quality, and campus life.
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UT Named Best Value by Kiplinger's Personal Finance
UT is one of the best values in public higher education, according to the new Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. The magazine's annual "100 Best Values in Public Colleges" ranks American colleges based on affordability and academic quality. This year, the Best Values program evaluated hundreds of public colleges and universities, then narrowed the list to 100 schools based.
UT Ranked Fifteenth in New U.S. News "Best Colleges for Veterans" Rankings
UT is ranked fifteenth in the nation among all public and private universities in U.S. News and World Report's inaugural rankings for Best Colleges for Veterans. The new ranking category provides data and information on schools that assist veterans and active service members with pursuing a college education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill by providing federal benefits, which include tuition and housing assistance. U.S. News uses its annual Best Colleges data to rank the schools that meet three specific criteria.
UT Ranked Among "Best and Most Interesting" Schools by Fiske Guide
UT has been rated one of the "best and most interesting" schools in the 2014 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges, which reviews higher education institutions in the US, Canada, and Great Britain. UT is one of 300 universities to be included in the guide, which advises prospective students about academic quality, campus setting, financial aid, housing, and extracurricular activities.
UT Ranked 47th Among All Public Universities by U.S. News
UT is ranked 47th among all public universities, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2014 rankings released today. U.S. News ranked UT 101st among all national universities, the same as 2013, and 47th among all public universities, down one spot from 2013.
UT Ranked Among Best National Colleges by Princeton Review
UT again has been named one of the nation's best undergraduate institutions, according to the Princeton Review's "The Best 378 Colleges" list. The rankings noted that "attending UT is about pursuing excellence in all areas of your life and using the knowledge you gain to prepare you for your future." The report also highlighted UT's quality of campus life.
College of Law Ranks Among Most Efficient
The UT College of Law is the eighth most efficient law school in the nation, according to a new ranking by U.S. News and World Report. The new ranking compares its list of U.S. News "Best Law Schools 2014" in per student expenditures, such as faculty and staff salaries, library services, and financial aid.
MBA Programs Receive International Recognition
Two master's programs in the College of Business Administration have earned prestigious Eduniversal international rankings. The Master of Science–Master of Business Administration dual-degree program in engineering and business administration and the master's in human resource management are both top 40 programs in North America, according to Eduniversal's Top 200 Best Master's Programs Worldwide.
Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program Ranks 5th Among Public Universities
The campus's graduate nuclear engineering program now ranks fifth among all public universities and sixth in the nation, according to the 2014 U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings released today. The College of Engineering's overall graduate program rose to 37th among all public universities, continuing the steady annual climb of the last few years.
UT Named a 'Best Value' Public College by Princeton Review
UT consistently delivers an affordable, high quality education and offers plenty of opportunities to engage its students, according to the Princeton Review's 2013 Best Value survey. UT was ranked today among the top seventy-five public colleges and universities in the Princeton Review's "Best Value Colleges for 2013" edition.


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Clarksville, TN – With July quickly approaching on the calendar, Austin Peay State University's all-time sports information director, and Athletics Department Hall of Famer member, Brad Kirtley is nearing the end of a 30+ year career at the university as he heads into retirement.
Kirtley became APSU's sports information director in February 1984 — replacing another Athletics Department Hall of Famer member Sherwin Clift — after working in the Southeast Missouri State University's sports information office.
APSU Sports Information Director Brad Kirtley.
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Clarksville, TN – In the waning hours of the 2014-15 season, Austin Peay State University's athletics department worked to unify the department's presence across all its Twitter platforms.
In all, Austin Peay athletics maintains 13 Twitter accounts. In addition to its primary account @LetsGoPeay, each of the department's teams occupies its own space in the Twitter-verse. During the 2014-15 season, those accounts had varying names incorporating either the words Austin Peay or the university's abbreviated name, APSU.
Clarksville, TN – Over the weekend, news trickled out that the Braves had kicked the tires on Jonathan Lucroy, injured All-Star catcher for the dumpster fire that is the Milwaukee Brewers. And this is not to knock Lucroy – a fine catcher who has proven to be worth his weight in pitch-framing and gap-to-gap power – but rather illustrate how disenfranchised the brass has become with Christian Bethancourt.
Seems odd to already be sniffing around for replacements for the Catcher of the Future after 183 big-league at-bats, yet here we (allegedly) are. Lucroy is 29, Bethancourt is 23. Math says Bethancourt is the play for the present and future. But he's hitting .190 and has ridden pine for much of the season behind A.J. Pierzynski, both because Pierzynski has been raking (13-game hitting streak to start the year, third on the team in hitting at a .281 clip) and because Bethancourt has looked lost at the plate and merely competent defensively.
Atlanta Braves catcher Christian Bethancourt. (Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports)
Friday-Sunday, May 8th-10th, 2015
Clarksville, TN | Raymond C. Hand Park
Clarksville, TN – It's déjà vu all over again for Austin Peay's baseball team as it enters the final weekend of its Ohio Valley Conference schedule seeking a series win against SIU Edwardsville to improve its odds of qualifying for the OVC Baseball Championship.
The Govs and Cougars begin a three-game league set with a 6:00pm, Friday contest. The series continues with a 2:00pm, Saturday matchup followed by a 1:00pm, Sunday series finale.
Austin Peay right handed pitcher Alex Robles will make his 20th straight OVC start as the Govs No. 1 this weekend. (APSU Sports Information)
February 28th, 2015 | 6:00pm
Cape Girardeau, MO | Show Me Center
Cape Girardeau, MO – Austin Peay will close out the 2014-15 season when it travels to Southeast Missouri for a 6:00pm, Saturday, Ohio Valley Conference contest at the Show Me Center.
The contest will have little on the line for both teams. The Governors were eliminated from the OVC tourney race a week ago and SEMO earned the final spot in the OVC tournament, Thursday, without even playing.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015 | 3:30pm CT
Cape Girardeau, MO | Show Me Center
Cape Girardeau, MO – With the OVC Tournament looming next week, Austin Peay State University women's basketball team has one final tune-up when it travels to Southeast Missouri, Saturday, for a 3:30pm contest against the Redhawks.
More will be on the line than just the final dress rehearsal for the tournament.
Saturday, January 3rd, 2015 | 1:00pm CT
Oxford, MS | Tad Smith Coliseum
Oxford, MS – Austin Peay State University men's basketball team will have one last chance to secure a road victory before Ohio Valley Conference play begins, but to accomplish that feat the Govs will have to do it against one of the surprise teams of the Southeastern Conference so far this season.
Sunday, December 21st, 2014 | 2:00pm CT
Nashville, TN | Allen Arena
Nashville, TN – Austin Peay State University men's basketball team will attempt to take momentum into the Christmas holidays when it travels to Allen Arena, 2:00pm, Sunday, to face Lipscomb.
This will be the second time in eight days the two teams have met. A week ago Saturday the Bisons came to Clarksville and defeated the Govs, 69-58.
Austin Peay Governors Basketball at Lipscomb Sunday. (APSU Sports Information)
Written by Colby Wilson
Austin Peay Sports Information Office
Clarksville, TN – Recently graduated Austin Peay State University pole vaulter Molly Basch has earned third-team Capital One Women's Track and Field Academic All-American honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Austin Peay pole vaulter Molly Basch earns third-team Capital One Women's Track and Field Academic All-American honor. (APSU Sports Information)
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University sports information coordinator Colby Wilson was selected the District 4 winner for Story with a Video in the 2014 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Fred Stabley Sr. Writing contest.
Wilson's feature/video "Tuiasosopo and Siliva Bring Samoan Culture to Clarksville" saw football players Isaiah Tuiasosopo and Iosua Siliva describe the cultural differences between their native Samoa and Clarksville both on and off the field plus talk about the adjustments of being so far from home. «Read the rest of this article»


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Me, Me, Me, Me, Me
By Kerry Sulkowicz, M.D.
We have an employee who turns every interaction—work-related or not—into a conversation about her. She's otherwise good at her job, but folks are beginning to avoid meetings with her or task forces on which she serves. "She sucks the air out of the room," a co-worker complained. Is there a polite way to stifle this behavior? — Anonymous, Seattle
This employee's need for attention may arise from old experiences of emotional deprivation and neglect. She compensates by greedily forcing others to focus on her.
That's understandably annoying to colleagues, who are obviously losing patience. (The word "stifle" gave you away.)
Since the current strategy, avoidance, doesn't seem to be helping, you're going to have to confront her about this.
That doesn't mean merely hinting. Correcting this sort of person indirectly ("let's get back to what we were discussing") won't work. She's likely to experience such comments as interruptions of her monologue. Instead, someone—preferably her supervisor or a colleague who has enough of a relationship with her so that constructive observations aren't rejected out of hand—should talk to her privately.
Politely but firmly, tell her that her work is valued but that she may not realize how much she turns the subject to herself. Explain that "it derails conversations, and people have started avoiding you because they feel you don't listen." You'll need to keep your contempt in check. Otherwise, she may make that the subject of your talk, once again hijacking the discussion to meet her needs.
I just left a job where my boss constantly put me on the spot, frequently demanding, for instance, that I settle disagreements between him and someone who was also my superior. What should I have done? — Anonymous, Los Angeles
You've already taken steps: You left. Others stuck in this dynamic might begin to address it by asking themselves if they are subtly offering themselves up as pawns—as a way of feeling at least a bit important. And a boss like this? Maybe he can't take responsibility for difficult or uncomfortable encounters. Maybe he takes sadistic pleasure in a making a subordinate squirm.
Whatever his problem, if you get into this situation again, try appealing to your superior's ego while enlisting his guilt: "I need your guidance. I'm in an awkward situation here, trying to mediate between the two of you. How would you advise me to handle it?" It's a long shot, but if your supervisor has enough empathy to see the problem he's created, it can make a difference. If not—well, sometimes we have to accept the unlikelihood of change in someone on whom we're dependent. And separate from them.
Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D., a psychoanalyst and founder of the Boswell Group, advises executives on psychological aspects of business. Send him questions at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Congrats to my fellow Toronto boy and one of my favs on the forum!!! Our leafs are going all the way this year
Congrats to my fellow Toronto boy and one of my favs on the forum!!! Our leafs are going all the way this year
way to go wendel
Atta boy WC17. Nicely done. Keep up the good work, even if you are a Leafs fan.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, JaBenn, Couture, Wheeler, Lee, Turris, Steen, Letang, Kucherov, Byfuglien, Burns, Zuccarello, Hoffman, JSchwartz, Fabbri, Shattenkirk, KPalmieri, KConnor, BNelson, Konecny, Bjorkstrand, Ladd
G- Vasilevskiy, Bobrovsky
"Cleavage is like the sun. You can look, but don't stare.. Unless you're wearing sunglasses."
Congrats, WC! One of the best, man, keep it up!
Congrats on 5k man - great contributor.
WC, my bud, way to go!! A privilege to know you around these parts. Cheers to your bad self!
Great seeing you back on the boards again, and congrats on 5K! Have a Guinness on me to celebrate.
Your beer mug isn't half-empty, your just half-way to the next refill.....
I wanted to do nothing but a thumbs up but forgot about the post minimum... blah.
Congrats WC!
Great job Wendel, always a great guy here on Dobber.
14 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty -daily starts
H2H, Salary Cap 95mil, Player actual salaries (all)
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies
Forwards: Duchene, Reaves, Kessel, Marchessault, Monahan, Point, Rantanen, Kucherov, Panarin , Saad, T.Johnson, Marner
Defense: Holden, Seidenberg Pietrangelo, I.Cole, Klingberg, Oduya
Goalie: Rask, Crawford
Reserves: D.Strome, S.Johns, Pesce, W.Butcher, M.Jones, K.Kinkaid, Hellebuyck
Prospects: Soderstrom, Gillies, Gusev, Kaprizov, Yamamoto, Makar, K.Connor, Raddysh, K.Wood, T.Terry
Fantrax TAHL 2013 Champion
5000 is a heck of a milestone. nice job.
10 team Full Keeper Roto League
4C-4LW-4RW-6D-2G-5bench-unlimited farm.
C= crosby,m.koivu,malkin,bozak
LW= ovechkin,dubinsky,kreider,benn
RW= marchand,perry,wheeler,atkinson,silfverberg
D= green,doughty,phaneuf,girardi,karlsson,orlov,russe ll
G= lundqvist,price,elliot,murray
under250gp=kuznetsov,rundblad,bjugstad,radulov,mon toya,yakupov,t.erixon,cowan,elliot,cormier,stone,p aajarvi,Nichushkin,mantha,jenner,garbutt,hertl,sev erson,r.boucher,tuch,k.hayes,demko,grubauer,dansk, lee,pouliot,strome,mcillrath,skjei
Awesome stuff man, keep em coming strong!
Thanks for the kind words fellas! It's a pleasure being part of this here community.
I'm glad we are back to being able to talk about actual NHL hockey again, rather than the big-nosed midget and his minions.
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If you are asking for advice and you don't provide ALL the relevant info you will not get quality responses and many forum members won't respond at all.
Include all the details, e.g.; League and roster size, league type (H2H, Roto, Pts only), scoring set-up, daily/weekly starts, how many start at each position, max gp, your roster etc etc.
~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
WHL - World Hockey League (24-Team Daily H2H)
Weighted Scoring: G(1),A(1),PPP(0.5),+/-(0.5), SOG/PIM/HIT/BLK(all 0.05), FOW-C(0.01)
Victoria DH
C(3): Toews, Johnson, Zibanejad
LW(3): Henrique, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Toffoli, Callahan, Palmieri
F(3): Bouma, B. Boyle, Roussell
D(6): Doughty, Larsson, Bieksa, Vlasic, Franson, Stoner
G(1): Talbot, Luongo
Bench:, Nesterov (D), Schelmko (D)
Prospects(10): Bjorkstrand, De La Rose, N. Rod, Dvorak
Lehkonen, Hagg, Lindell, Oesterle, Sorokin
Damn!!! 5K.
You got back on that horse and rode it fast.
Glad you are back!
Always been one of my very, very, very, very favourites!
Keep those great posts comin!
ps. I'd love to send you some more pleasure but apparently I have to do some spreading first.
Congrats on 5K, Mr. Wendel. Keep it up, buddy!!!!!
League:Fantrax 18 Team Dynasty, H2H (4C, 8W, 6D, 1G)
Cats:G, A, GWG, PPP, SHP, SOG, H+B, FOW, S, SV%, W, GAA
C: Backstrom,Giroux,MacKinnon,Seguin
W: D.Brown,Hartnell,Hossa,P.Kane
D: Boyle,Del Zotto,Doughty,D.Hamilton,Hedman,Markov
G: Rinne
Bench: Braun,Comeau, Demers,DeHaan,Polak,Stempniak,Wingels --Fleury


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Power To The People: Customers Are Using Social Media To Make Themselves Heard
Now that social media dominates communication, it should come as no surprise that 80% of companies are planning to incorporate social media into their customer service strategies in 2013. Social media isn't the preferred method of customer service yet, but it's certainly the fastest growing. Customers' vocal and visible complaints online mean they have more power than ever – and high expectations to match. Therefore, companies that plan to succeed must become more responsive.
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Washington, D. C (Nov. 4)
(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
President and Mrs. Coolidge will receive one thousand women who will represent their Sections at the Eleventh Triennial convention of the National Council of Jewish Women in Washington, D. C., Mrs. Alexander Wolf, Second Vice President of the Council and Chairman of the Washington Triennial Board, announced here. The reception will take place at noon on Nov. 15.
Senator William S. Borah of Idaho, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, will address the delegates at the banquet tendered by the Washington Council Section. The subject of his address will be, "International Relations." The convention will open on Nov. 14.
Union labor will enter the life insurance business, expecting to commence operation in January next.
Both group and individual insurance will be issued to trade unions, trade unionists, wage earners, their families and dependents. As policies will be profit-sharing.
On the board of directors are T. A. Ricker, of the United Garment Workers: Morris Sigman of the International Ladies' Garment: Workers' Union.
The possibility of Congressman Nathan D. Perlman contesting the election of Dr. William I. Sirovich, Democratic nominee elected from the 14th Congressional District by a majority of nearly 1,200 votes, was intimated by Congressman Perlman.
Mr. Perlman said, "Although the Smith landslide was certainly in a large measure responsible for my defeat, I am investigating reports of intimidation of Republican voters and of illegal manipulation of voting machines, and if I become convinced that there has been a fraud or if it is necessary to do so in order to gain access to evidence, I shall contest Dr. Sirovich's election."
The Stimnecke scholarship for excellence in Latin and Greek composition, valued at $500 was awarded to Harry Strauss of Harrisville, N. Y., a sophomore at Princeton University.


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Article number two. For a while, I didn't think this article was going so well, but now, I feel better about it.Sir Groovester | Contributions | Talk Page 00:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
|The humor was, for me, not rib-cracking but rather subtle.
|Really good idea.
|Prose and formatting:
|Very well-written...see endnotes.
|Appropriate images...we gotta get something with green gas in it, though.
|I like this piece and wish it success.
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|----OEJ 00:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Endnotes: Mostly very well written. I have a few very minor quibbles -- "The first and increasingly more popular solution..." might lose the "more", which seems redundant. The degree "Phd" is really PhD (go figure).
On humor: I might be inclined to add a few angles here and there. For instance, Dr. Oddaffection of Chicago might propose exporting everyone except the residents of Chicago (the standard "everyone-else-needs-to-sacrifice" ploy). I might somehow bring in the importation of navy beans to Britain -- common beans (as opposed to chickpeas and fava beans) were introduced from the Americas sometime in the 1400s. That probably increased manumission somehow. Also, the Arabs traditionally view farting in public as a great social embarrassment...
(There is a story...Once a young man named Abdul ibn Wazzu blew a flappy stinker while dishing out a kettle of koumis to the elders of the tribe. In shame the young man left his village and traveled to India, where he made a life among Hindu heathens. Fifty years later, sick and elderly, he longed to return to his native land. At the border the crossing-guard asked his home village and his tribe. When the old man told him the guard exclaimed, "Ah yes! By the Prophet's beard (PBUH), that is where one Abdul ibn Wazzu passed gas in the presence of the elders! Haha!" And Abdul turned his face from his homeland and went away to die amongst the unbelievers, knowing that his shame was still remembered.)
One other thing I might try...I understood very quickly that manumission is really farts. Most other (nearly all?) reader will understand that too. You might could find a way to slyly work around the term in such a way that the reader knows you are awkwardly skirting the plain blunt Anglo-Saxon term. I dunno. Maybe not.
This is a nice piece, and a good concept. ----OEJ 00:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


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Cardiovascular Risk in Growth Hormone Deficient Young Adult Males After Completing Growth Hormone Therapy
This study has been completed.
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Genentech, Inc.
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 3, 2008
Last updated: February 9, 2009
Last verified: February 2009
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to compare the cardiovascular risks of growth hormone deficient young adult males who have completed growth hormone therapy to healthy young adult males.
|Growth Hormone Deficiency
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Cardiovascular Risk in Growth Hormone Deficient Young Adult Males After Completing Growth Hormone Therapy.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: isolated growth hormone deficiency metatropic dysplasia pseudoachondroplasia
MedlinePlus related topics: Hormones
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Growth Hormone Deficiency Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency HypopituitarismU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Compare carotid artery intima medial thickness [ Time Frame: During study visit ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Compare metabolic parameters and body composition measurements [ Time Frame: During study visit ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
18-25 year old males, growth hormone deficient, who completed growth hormone treatment 3-5 years prior to enrollment in study
18-25 year old males, healthy, never treated with growth hormones.
Detailed Description:
Adults with growth hormone deficiency are at risk for cardiovascular disease. What age this begins is not known.
The objectives of this study are to compare the following measurements between growth hormone deficient young males 3-7 years post completion of growth hormone treatment and age related healthy controls:
- Carotid artery imaging
- Metabolic and cardiac parameters
- Body composition measurements
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 25 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Endocrine clinic and community sample
Growth Hormone Deficient Inclusion Criteria:
- Males, 18-25 years old
- Completed growth hormone therapy approximately 3-5 years prior to study enrollment
- History of multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies or growth hormone stimulation test <7 at initiation of growth hormone therapy
Healthy Control Inclusion Criteria:
- Males, 18-25 years old
- No confirmed endocrine diagnosis including Diabetes and thyroid disorders
- BMI - z-score within 2 SD of mean
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known risk factors for cardiovascular disease (eg tobacco use, hypertension, diabetes)
- Family history of early cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction or stroke <55years of age) in first degree family members
- Any implanted device
- Medication known to interfere with glucose or lipid metabolism or to influence blood pressure
- Chronic organ illness (eg severe asthma, hepatic or nephritic conditions)
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00711061
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00711061
|United States, Missouri
|Childrens Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
|Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108
Sponsors and Collaborators
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Genentech, Inc.
|Principal Investigator:
|Carol Huseman, MD
|Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017
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|Carol Huseman, MD, Children's Mercy Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00711061 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 3, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 9, 2009
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dwarfism, Pituitary
Bone Diseases, Developmental
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Bone Diseases, Endocrine
Pituitary Diseases
Hypothalamic Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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A) For off season workouts, a lot of players work out on their own with their own trainers.
B) OTAs are not a requirement
OTAs are optional.
Oh, I know, but when the optional costs you a mere $2M for executing the option, regardless of who's job it was to know that, I'm not sure it's a bit not optional.
That being said, there's no way to build a team, especially a sports team, 1,000 miles apart so the clause is awesome because there are idiots out like this **** who'd make this kind of coin and opt-out of being with his team mates. So him thinking that the team would be better-served by working out on his own tends to make me wonder about his commitment to the team. Plenty will schluff it off, but A) some people showed up (maybe not because it'd cost them $2M otherwise), and B) he didn't think it'd help (enough) to be there. Is this clown some Zach and needs his Mommy more than the team? LOL!
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Today I assume my alter ego of a Tasmanian Devil, chewing up and spitting out massive pieces of stock coverage with reckless abandon. Hang with me here. Time is brief for me today given a range of commitments.
First, there will be another company exposure live on the Fox Business Network at 10 p.m. My team and I continue to tag the offices of the bad guys with analysis, not spray cans. And no, I cannot share a preview, so please don't inquire (love y'all). But, please so tune into how I analytically rip apart the innards of a foundering company that you well know.
Second, today is J.C. Penney (JCP) loss-per-share day. If you have been following my not-so-cryptic Twitter messages and comments on Columnist Convo, you should be prepared.
Here are the three things that MUST happen to justify the 23% one-month move in J.C. Penney shares and render the stock an odd name to chase (odd because the fundamentals are scarily weak).
- November-to-date sales have to continue the improvement that apparently began during back-to-school season amid give-the-store-away promotions.
- There is some sense that September 2013 represented a gross margin bottom.
- Year-end liquidity guidance "in excess of $2 billion" must be reaffirmed.
Those are the basics, notwithstanding positive or negative corporate jargon curveballs hurled in our direction by CEO Mike Ullman on the 8-K. Please be aware that for J.C. Penney shares to represent the turnaround buy that recent hedge fund disclosures suggested, ALL of the above three talking points have to occur today.
Outside of the weird land of J.C. Penney analysis, I have a call scheduled with the team at Best Buy (BBY). The stock was slaughtered like a fat pig, I think, as management tried to squeeze out the non-long-term believers prior to the holidays. Although Best Buy is my top client call of 2013, I was dismayed by one key chart I developed.
What, you didn't believe I could produce colorful charts to socially share? Geeky, but important chart, though. It tells a story of increasing price investment starting to creep negatively into a business that is beyond a large chunk of expense outmaneuvers. Other than that eye-popper of a trend line and comments regarding holiday price competitiveness, I think Best Buy's quarter in total delivered, as did the earnings call, where further online initiatives and vendor partnerships were hinted for 2014 (ahem Google). I continue to have a Buy rating on the stock, for now.
Capping this insane day off will be an evening call with the team at Starbucks (SBUX). I have the investment thesis on Starbucks burned to my brain and that is starting to bother me. Have I become too complacent on this high flyer? Is the market too complacent on this high flyer? Regardless, I am curious on the next pockets of growth from inside the store and even grocery aisles. Pictured below is an exclusive snap I took of a new Starbucks "Signature Aisle." More on that here.


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Norbrook, Inc., announced they have received FDA approval on new Tandem Pen injection for the highly cost-effective treatment of penicillin-susceptible microorganisms associated with bacterial pneumonia (shipping fever complex), upper respiratory infections and Blackleg.
According to Chip Whitlow, Marketing Manager for Norbrook, Inc, "Tandem Pen is a highly syringeable, easy to re-suspend, combination of sterile penicillin G benzathine and penicillin G procaine that provides beef producers with a Beef Quality Assurance friendly subcutaneous (SC) route of injection. Beef producers now have a new choice with this combination penicillin-based product to help treat and offset the production costs associated with bacterial pneumonia associated with Streptococcus spp., Actinomyces pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus and upper respiratory infections associated with Actinomyces pyogenes. The product is also approved for effective treatment against Blackleg caused by the gram-positive bacterium Clostridium chauvoei."
According to Whitlow, new Tandemä Pen should be administered to beef cattle at 2 mL per 150-lb. body weight via subcutaneous injection only. Tandemä Pen is available without prescription in multi-dose 100 mL, 250 mL and 500 mL vials.
Observe label directions and withdrawal times. For use in beef cattle only. Do not use in calves to be processed for veal. Treatment must be limited to two (2) doses. For subcutaneous injection only. Allergic or anaphylactic reactions, sometimes fatal, have been known to occur in animals hypersensitive to penicillin and procaine. Therefore, animals should be kept under close observation for at least one-half hour following injection. See product labeling for full product information.


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CHICAGO — History is waiting on Sheila Taormina.
Waiting for her to do something that has never been done.
She just has a few details to work out.
Her new sport, for instance. The modern pentathlon is a unique discipline involving shooting, fencing, running, swimming and riding. As of a few years ago, Taormina had never held a gun. Or a sword. Or ridden a horse.
Her age, for instance. At 39, she is a bit older than most Olympians. Old enough, in fact, that she could be the mother of the 16-year-old teammate who has been her roommate on road trips.
Her finances, for instance. Turns out, riding, shooting and fencing lessons are expensive. And pentathletes, shockingly, are not the first choice of cash-happy sponsors. So, in 2006, Taormina sold her home outside of Orlando to fund this quest.
Details, details, details.
The point is, Taormina is a few weeks from officially making the pentathlon team and becoming the first U.S. athlete to qualify for the Summer Games in three different sports.
"I know if I make the team, I have the potential to win gold," Taormina said at the U.S. Olympic media summit. "I also have the potential to look like a complete fool.
"I'm a wild card. A really fun wild card. When people look at me, I'd like them to say she was brave enough to give it a try. She put it on the line."
It's not the first time. For most of her life, Taormina has been chasing one dream or another. She first went to the Olympic swimming trials as a teenager in 1988 and failed to qualify. She came up short again in '92.
Taormina (pronounced TAR-meena) finally made her first Olympic team as a 27-year-old in 1996 and won a gold medal as a member of a swimming relay team. She retired briefly, but popped up again in 2000 as a triathlete and finished sixth in Sydney. She returned for the triathlon in Athens and finished 23rd.
At that point, the sensible thing was to move on. To take pride in a long and varied career, and begin transitioning to life outside of athletics.
But something continued to nag at her. She had run into a pentathlete in a USOC swimming pool before the '04 Games, and he jokingly asked when she was going to become the first three-sport Olympian.
So Taormina flirted with cross-country skiing in 2005 before deciding to try the pentathlon.
She essentially gave herself two years to become a world class competitor in skills that were completely foreign to her. She was spending $50,000-$60,000 a year in lessons alone.
Taormina had assumed sponsors would be intrigued by such a unique journey, but no one was interested. She couldn't even find an agent to help her look.
"It's been mentally exhausting. I've been on the edge. This probably hasn't been a mentally healthy endeavor," Taormina said. "My family was telling me, 'Please, please, don't do this,' because of the stress and humiliation. I was going to World Cup meets within months of starting the sport and I would lose and lose. I would fall off the horse. It was tough to take after you win a gold medal in one sport, and win a world championship in another sport. I was getting humiliated time and time again, and going broke financially."
You would have to know more of Taormina's story to understand how she got through this. Or maybe to understand how she almost did not.
Between the 2000 and '04 Games, Taormina lived in her native Detroit and made ends meet as a private swimming instructor. A would-be client turned into a stalker and, for more than a year, Taormina dealt with unwanted advances that escalated into frightening threats.
She moved to Clermont, outside of Orlando, to escape the harassment. Her stalker was eventually sentenced to 40 to 60 months in prison and served five years before being released in January. He's had no contact with Taormina, but that doesn't mean his impact is gone.
"It affected me. I lost a lot of my joy, a lot of my naivete," she said. "It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing to say I considered going on anti-anxiety medication and anti-depressants. But the more you talk about it with people, the more you realize how many people deal with anxieties. It's so common. Just being a human being is not easy. So I've learned not to be embarrassed. And at least I can share my story with others, so they know they're not alone."
As for Taormina, she is on the verge of being alone in history. She has one more World Cup event in early May and, barring a major flop, is expected to be named to the Olympic team.
It is what has gotten her past near financial ruin. It has gotten her past anxiety. It has gotten her past too many weeks of training for 60 hours to catch up on untapped skills.
Once she had a chance to make history, Taormina said she could not let the opportunity pass. She could not stand the thought of looking back one day in regret.
So does that mean there is a fourth sport in her future in 2012?
"No, I won't have any problem retiring this time," she said. "I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'd bet my life savings."
And she already has done that once before.


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Many high schools and universities in Uzbekistan have been shut down with students and teachers being forced to harvest cotton, according to Cotton Campaign, a coalition of labour and human rights agencies.
"That is what we've heard in our early reports . . . that schools and universities have been particularly hit this year," said Matt Fischer-Daly of Cotton Campaign.
"Education has ceased entirely in some parts of the country as teachers fulfil their cotton quotas."
Some students are as young as 15.
Doctors and nurses are also being forced to work in the fields this year, leaving patients to fend for themselves, Fischer-Daly said.
Uzbekistan, a dry, landlocked country in Central Asia, is notorious for the autocratic rule of President Islam Karimov, who has been in power since 1990. It is the only state in the world that sponsors slave labour, forcing more than two million of its people, including children, to pick cotton every harvest for little or no pay, labour activists say.
Authorities force adults in the public sector, vulnerable citizens and schoolchildren into the cotton fields. They are threatened with physical violence and loss of jobs, social benefits and even their pensions if they don't show up. Some are even threatened with public humiliation.
Authorities are notorious for forcing people to write letters that they are picking cotton voluntarily.
Business owners are not usually forced into the cotton fields but are expected to help with gas, buses and in any other way possible.
Harvest typically runs September to November. This year, it started Sept. 15, said Fischer-Daly.
About 70 per cent of the harvest goes to China and Bangladesh, two of world's largest garment exporters.
Last year, Uzbekistan harvested just over 3.35 million tonnes of cotton. The country is the world's fifth-largest exporter of cotton and earns $1 billion (U.S.) annually in exports.
Last year, 11 people, including a 6-year-old boy, died during cotton harvest, the largest number killed in a single year. The 6-year-old, who had accompanied his mother to the cotton fields, napped in a trailer and suffocated as cotton was piled on him. His body was discovered at a storage facility later that evening.
Fischer-Daly, who gets regular reports from activists in Uzbekistan, said no deaths have been reported so far but 29 students in southern Uzbekistan were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was involved in a crash.
Some children broke their wrists and shoulders, according to reports.
"They were on their way to a cotton field," said Fischer-Daly, adding that the injured students were between 15 and 18.
According to activists, harvesters are forced to live in filthy barracks without clean water. They are often paid as little as $1 a day; sometimes they aren't paid anything. Many tell of working past midnight, returning to the fields at 5 a.m.


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Efficacy and Safety Study of GSK1120212, a MEK Inhibitor, in Subjects With Uveal Melanoma
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
(The study was cancelled by the sponsor prior to initiation of study enrollment. No subjects were accrued.)
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Last updated: April 15, 2015
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Mariah Carey's bittersweet memories
Mariah Carey admits seeing footage of herself trying on wedding dresses in her new docu-series is "bittersweet".
The 46-year-old singer and billionaire businessman James Packer recently called off their wedding but Mariah's upcoming E! reality TV series, which was filmed months ago, still features scenes where she is busy preparing for their wedding and she admitted it is tough to see.
Mariah told Entertainment Tonight: "All of those moments are bittersweet, but you just have to focus on whatever you're focusing on and keep it moving.
"The stories [in 'Mariah's World'] are interesting because it shows the side of the entertainment world that's not just the celebrity [aspect]. It's real [and] I don't feel like it feels like a scripted kind of reality [show] whatsoever."
It was recently claimed the 'Without You' singer - who has five-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-husband Nick Cannon - is "ready to move on" from James and feels relieved they never made it down the aisle.
A source said: "She's ready to move on. She feels like she dodged a bullet ... The negotiations aren't going well. At the best, she'll keep the ring."
The pair reportedly split after having an argument when they were in Greece.
A source said: "It started in Greece [with] some sort of outburst [from James] which everyone heard. [He told her,] I don't know if I can do this. I can barely take care of my own children."
And the couple failed to attend a planned meet up in Los Angeles back in October to "talk through everything as adults".
An insider claimed: "Mariah and James never met up after that. And they haven't spoken. The way the split news was handled was incredibly upsetting to her."


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