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Westminster is located in Sugar House, just 10 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. The Westminster community includes 39 facilities and sits on 27 acres next to Emigration Creek. We're happy to take you on a tour of the many outstanding new facilities and introduce you to our community of learners. If you're interested in a campus tour or have any questions, please give us a call at 1.800.748.4753.
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Originally built in 1967 for administrative offices during the presidency of W. Fred Arbogast (1963–1968), Bamberger was named to recognize the
contributions from the Ruth E. and John E. Bamberger Memorial Foundation. Renovated in 2002, Bamberger Hall is still home to the many campus
administrative offices including Human Resources, Institutional Advancement, Accounting, Financial Aid and the President's Office.
The Bassis Center for Student Learning is the previous home of the campus library and Nightingale. The building is currently dedicated to former
president Michael S. Bassis (2002–2012) as a retirement gift.
Since the construction of the Giovale Library, Bassis has been renovated and now houses many classrooms (most of which are equipped with
state-of-the-art multimedia technology), the Writing Center, Griff's Roost Cafe, and more.
The building is suited for socializing, studying, eating, and other activities such as poetry slams and SAC events. During the winter, the building is
warmed by its new fireplace and hot drinks, which are served at Griff's.
The ground-breaking of Behnken Hall (nicknamed "The Big Dig") on January 29, 1998 marked the dedication of the second building of the new Residential
Village. Opened in Fall of 1999 under the presidency of Peggy Stock (1995–2002), the hall was named for Mr. Jack Behnken, a trustee, in
appreciation for his continued service to the college.
Stock, Behnken, and Olwell halls are home to our resident students. All three buildings provide students the opportunity to live on campus in
apartment-style housing. Students have their own rooms and share an apartment with up to five other people. The halls also have laundry rooms, 24-hour
security, Internet access in each room, and recreation rooms.
Named after Lawrence F. Black, a late trustee who obtained the materials, it was built by the National Guard as a training exercise in the summer of
1973. It was dedicated on August 10, 1973 during Manford A. Shaw's presidency (1968–1976).
Also, the Oren T. Nelson Boiler Plant donated by trustee and long time friend of Westminster, Oren Nelson, to replace the old heating plant. It was
dedicated April 15, 1988. At the northeast corner of the Black Bridge, it included a small recess built into the west wall at the request of Campus
Scheduling Director Claudia Marques for campus cats to get out of bad weather. Over the years, this campus cat rescuer has treated and found homes for
more than 30 cats.
Built in 1962 with loans from the Housing and Home Finance Administration during President Frank E. Duddy's presidency (1956–1963), Carleson is
named in honor of the Harry E. and Fred A. Carleson families who provided furnishings for the hall. Renovated in the mid-1990's, Carleson Hall is one of
two first-year residence halls on campus (the other is Hogle Hall). Students live in traditional-style rooms with one roommate and shared bathroom
facilities. The halls also have laundry rooms, 24-hour security, Internet access in each room, and recreation rooms.
Containing commemorative Ferry Plaza, the circle was dedicated in 1990 under President Charles H. Dick (1985–1995) to provide an attractive
entrance to the college using the salvaged stones from Ferry Hall (1908), which was taken down in October 1987 to make room for the Bill and Vieve Gore
School of Business.
The flagship and first building on campus, Converse was originally built as a multipurpose administration and classroom building with funding from
John H. Converse, a wealthy Presbyterian businessman in Philadelphia and then-president of Baldwin Locomotive Works. The cornerstone was laid August 23,
1906 under the presidency of Rev. Robert M. Stevenson (1905–1912) and it was completed July 1907, though not actually occupied for another two
years due to a lack of funding for a heating system, furniture, or boarding facilities for students.
Converse was renovated under President Charles H. Dick (1985–1995) and then re-dedicated on Sept. 19, 1989 as part of the Jewett Center for the
Arts and Humanities. Today, Converse Hall includes art studios, a modern media facility, the Admissions Office, and a lounge overlooking Tanner Plaza
The Charles H. Dick Science Building originally opened in September, 1949 during the presidency of Robert D. Steele (1939–1952) with support
from the James A. Hogle family. Named in honor of Westminster's 14th college president (1985–1995) Dr. Dick, who was an educator, administrator,
and fundraiser. He had been president of Centenary College in New Jersey and vice president at Cornell University Medical Center. He graduated from the
University of Kansas, earned a Master's degree from California State University, and a PhD in marketing and management from Northwestern. Also an avid
flutist, jogger and dog-lover, Charles Dick and his wife Barbara won many friends for the college.
Until the opening of the Meldrum Science Center in 2011, the Dick Science Building was home to the majority of the science, physics, chemistry, and
nursing classes, as well as offices for the science faculty and laboratories. It currently houses six classrooms, along with the campus greenhouse.
Formerly the Pontz House, built in 1958 as a gift from Dr. Parke Pontz and his wife under President Frank E. Duddy (1956–1963), it was
originally a residence for use by a member of the administrative staff. The house was renovated during Peggy Stock's term (1995–2002) with funding
help from the DDE foundation as a new and spacious pottery studio, replacing the old farmhouse that stood where Stock Hall stands now. The modernized
center features classrooms for all of the college's popular ceramic art classes, including wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery classes.
Dolores Doré Eccles Plaza provides an attractive entrance to the new Giovale Library (completed in 1997 under the presidency of Peggy Stock,
1995–2002) and a new space for students to relax or study.
The Dolores Doré Eccles Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center is a three-story, 84,500 square foot facility home to the Fitness, Wellness, and
Recreation Department; Intercollegiate Athletic Department; and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The center is filled with educational programs
and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to positively impact their health and well-being. Whether one is attending an athletic events,
engaged in academic classes, or participating in activities to improve their personal fitness, the Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center serves as a
campus-wide community learning center.
The third floor of the facility contains the Center for Nursing Education, home to the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. In addition to standard
nursing school facilities, the center contains two technology-rich labs and a human simulator lab with life-like Laerdal SimBaby and SimMan, known as
"high-fidelity, universal patient simulators." The simulators help students learn under real-world conditions, but within a learning environment.
Dumke Field, originally Dane Hansen Memorial Stadium, was opened October 2, 1949 by President Robert D. Steele (1939–1952). It was a gift of the
George Hansen family in memory of a son and brother, Lt. Dane Hansen, class of 1940, who lost his life in World War II. Having had seating for 1,200
attendants, the stadium has been the college soccer and activities field, commencement green, and later paved parking facility. In Fall 2005, it was
transformed into a 2-level parking structure, with an elevated soccer/athletic field rebuilt on top.
Emigration Creek was the route the Mormon pioneers followed as they entered the Salt Lake Valley in July, 1847 down to their first encampment at what
is now approximately 5th East and 17th South. Historically known for class competitions and tug-of-war across the water, the creek now provides a
peaceful getaway for faculty, staff, and students to read, study, and enjoy nature. Trails and native plants have been added by biology professors and
their classes in recent years in an effort to preserve Emigration Creek's natural habitat and provide a unique classroom-outside-the-classroom experience
for science students.
Foster Hall begun in 1917 under President Herbert W. Reherd (1913–1939) as a partial basement and temporary frame structure for a men's
residence, known as the "Cracker Box". Three stories were finished in 1926 with contributions from the Thomas D. Foster family of Ottumwa, Iowa,
dedicated in June 25, 1926 to the memory of Robert Hubie Foster (1890–1905), a college classmate of President Reherd's. It originally housed 100
students and had a reading room, parlor, and resident director's apartment while the fourth floor was left unfinished for expansion.
Foster was an auxiliary men's residence until the mid-1970's, then home to the School of Education, and in 1989 became office and meeting space for
the School of Arts and Sciences. It was renovated during President Charles H. Dick's term (1985–1995) as part of the Jewett Center for the Arts and
Humanities with funding from Berenice Jewett Bradshaw and re-dedicated on August 30, 1994.
The Giovale Library was completed in 1997. Funded primarily by John and Ginger Giovale (chair of the Board of Trustees), it was dedicated September
12, 1997, and provides 47,000 square feet on three levels to house computer labs, a writing center, information commons, and a small coffee area, in
addition to the Watson Board Room, conference rooms, and reception and exhibit space in the Tower Reading Room, as well as the Information Technology and
Faculty Technology Center offices. As part of the opening ceremonies, books were handed down a line of students, staff, and faculty from the old
Nightingale Library (now the Bassis Center for Student Learning) to Giovale.
Built in 1959 with loans from the Housing and Home Finance Administration under the presidency of Frank E. Duddy (1956–1963), this residence
hall was named for the James A. Hogle family in recognition of their many years of support and service to the college. The hall was designed to house 120
women with a director's apartment, and allowing then-Ferry Hall to be used for other purposes. Hogle adjoins Walker Hall and includes Marimon Lounge for
activities, named after Rosa Bird Marimon, a teacher from the early 1900's.
Hogle Hall is one of two first-year residence halls on campus (the other is Carleson Hall). Students live in traditional-style rooms with one roommate
and shared bathroom facilities. The halls also have laundry rooms, 24-hour security, Internet access in each room, and recreation rooms.
The Jewett Center for the Performing Arts was initially funded by Berenice Jewett Bradshaw and dedicated April 13, 1991 under the presidency of Dr.
Charles Dick (1985–1995). The Jay W. Lees Courage Theater replaced the small theater on the third floor of Converse Hall which was dedicated in
1983 to beloved theater Professor Jay Lees. The Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory (north addition) opened Fall of 2004 under the presidency of Dr. Michael
Bassis (2002–2012).
The Conservatory triples the volume of performance space available on the Westminster Campus. The heart of the facility is the 285-seat Vieve Gore
Concert Hall, which serves as an intimate environment for musical performances. Additionally, the Dumke Student Theatre is a 150-seat, black-box theatre
with stage and seating that can be arranged in any configuration. The Conservatory also contains a rehearsal and recording studio, a technology lab, and
multiple practice rooms.
Together, the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts and Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory house all campus music and theater classes. The Jewett Center's
Courage Theater has been the home of many memorable performances by the Westminster Chamber Singers, Chamber Orchestra, and our critically acclaimed
theatre department. Professional lunches and other campus functions are periodically held in the lobby where you can often see student art exhibits.
The Kim T. Adamson Alumni House was completed in 2008 to give the growing alumni community a place to call its own. Built on the site of the McNiece
House (named for Rev. Robert G. McNiece, a president of the Board of Trustees of the Collegiate Institute and Presbyterian minister who came to Utah in
1877), the Alumni House includes the Alumni and Parent Relations offices, as well as gathering spaces, meeting rooms, and an outdoor patio.
The Maintenance Building, located on the west side of campus, south of the Kim T. Adamson Alumni House (formerly the McNiece House), is used for
storage of maintenance equipment and offices for the Westminster Plant Facilities and service staff.
Built in 1972 under President Manford A. Shaw (1968–1976), the Malmsten Amphitheater provides a quiet, shady area on the north side of
Emigration Creek that includes a concrete stage area and bench seating for concerts, performances, and other gatherings up to 800 people.
Dedicated September 12, 1974 during President Manford Shaw's term (1968–1976), Malouf Hall is named for long time friends of the college, Mrs.
Mima A. and Mr. Anees B. Malouf. The lower level of Malouf Hall houses the School of Education, while the upper level contains classrooms and faculty
The Meldrum Science Center is the culminating project in Westminster's 10-year campus master plan and helps the college attract and retain top-notch
The Meldrum Science Center has also attained LEED® Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building council. This means that it has achieved
the highest quality of energy efficiency. Not many buildings attain this rank of energy efficiency, and Westminster College is proud to possess a
building with such a status.
The Meldrum Science Center facilitates our faculty's inquiry-based teaching. This innovative teaching method is one of the reasons our science
graduates are pursuing degrees in top graduate programs and are recruited by leading national and international employers.
Built in 1977 during President Helmut Hofmann's term (1976–1979), this award-winning structure was named for benefactor Irene Nunemaker who
donated it to create a place on campus where students can escape and find intellectual or religious inspiration. In recent times, Nunemaker has been used
as a chapel for weddings, receptions, programs, and exhibits. It currently houses Westminster's 220-student Honors College.
Opened in Fall of 1998 and named for former trustee William H. Olwell, Olwell Hall was the first of three new residence halls built during the
presidency of Peggy Stock (1995–2002) to house our increasing campus population. Stock, Behnken, and Olwell halls are home to our resident
students. All three buildings provide students the opportunity to live on campus in apartment-style housing. Students have their own rooms and share an
apartment with up to five other people. The Halls also have laundry rooms, 24-hour security, Internet access in each room, and recreation rooms.
Payne Gym is the home of the Westminster Griffins: men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, cross-country, men's soccer, and men's and
women's golf. Built during the term of President Herbert W. Reherd (1913–1939), it was named after the president of the Board of Trustees and
manager of the local J.C. Penney Company; groundbreaking was July 1928 and dedication January 11, 1929.
Though the college worried that it was frivolous to spend money on a gymnasium, the facility, designed by architect Walter E. Ware, provided needed
recreation for the school and groups in the entire Sugar House area. It was added on to and remodeled in 1970 under President Manford Shaw
(1968–1976), and has housed the basketball and volleyball programs, dances, speakers, luncheons, career fairs, orientations, and a variety of other
cultural and social student events–including being the practice facility for the Utah Jazz from 1979 to May 1999!
The Richer Commons provides a beautiful place for students to get together, read, study, or just relax with friends. Often, the campus holds events
such as fairs, concerts, and even Greek tragedies in this nature-filled area.
The area is supplied with benches, tables, and chairs for students and visitors to enjoy the campus in.
Opened in early 1969, the Manford A. Shaw Center is named after the college president who served from 1968–1976. President Shaw was a
Westminster graduate and earned degrees from Yale and the University of Utah. He was also a college trustee. His term saw a much needed Union Building
and Malouf Hall added to campus.
And over the years, the building has seen many changes. Originally, it included the campus post office and a small health center. On January 6, 1969 a
dining room and snack bar were moved from Walker Hall. The bookstore was
dedicated in 1982.
Since its renovation in 2001, the Shaw Student Center is still the hub of activity on campus. Located across Tanner Plaza from Converse, Shaw is where
you can check-out the day's menu, buy your texts at the bookstore, or discuss plans for after graduation at the Career Resource Center.
This residence hall was named after President Peggy Stock, Westminster's (and Utah's) first female college president, who served 1995–2002. The
ground-breaking held on November 16, 1998 marked the dedication of the third and final building in the new Residential Village, which opened Fall of
Originally the dining hall for Hogle Hall in the 1960's during Frank E. Duddy's presidency (1956–1963), the foyer was funded by the
Westminster's Woman's Board in September 1973. Walker has served as the theater during Converse Hall's renovation in the late 1980's and has two
classrooms, includes the mailroom, and currently the Center for Veteran and Military Services. The lower level Samuel Robinson Room (named after a
long-time member of the English Department) has been used for storage and administrative archives.
During Fall 2020, some classes are being held in outside spaces to allow for social distancing. Faculty who want to move their classes outdoors, should follow classroom scheduling guidelines.
Westminster College has easy-to-use walkways and curb-cuts as well as reserved car and van parking for people with disabilities. Tap individual building names for ADA compliance and accessibility details.
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A nursing lounge/lactation room, located in Giovale Library room 033, is available for nursing mothers, offering a private place to feed infants or to use a breast pump.
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ASHEBORO — A giant mural is putting a new florist shop on the map.Lirios de los Valles (Lily of the Valley), located at 435 S. Fayetteville St., Asheboro, has been open just a few months, but it's becoming known for the brightly-colored mural on the side of the building. Flowers, butterflies, a waterfall and a large teddy bear attract the attention of motorists driving by."We'll be known as the flower shop that has the mural," said Pedro Diaz, who owns Lirios de los Valles with his wife Leonor. "We wanted a mural to help promote the floral business."Diaz came up with the idea when noticing the nondescript white brick wall on the south side of the building that long-time Asheboro folks remember as The Vacuum Center. "I wanted to make it more interesting and to represent the flower shop and the bears sold here," he said.So this fall Diaz called Ozzy Aguirre, an all-purpose painter who specializes in murals, to transform the plain white wall into a stunning floral garden.Aguirre was worki... http://courier-tribune.com/news/local/mural-draws-attention-new-florist-shop
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More: Coronavirus: Buncombe releases some jail inmates to reduce risk of virus transmissionBased on recommendations from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Asheville City Market, a primary outlet for Copus, closed March 14.An interim market will open March 21 in the A-B Tech parking lot with a new flow to mitigate virus transmission points and accommodate social distancing. Copus will sell flowers there. There will be no mingling. Shoppers must stay 6 feet apart. They must wait in their cars until they are told to enter the market.In the field, tulips crowd together. Shoulder to shoulder, they push up through the winter mud, turning the field into a tapestry of green spikes, which make Copus think of Pointillism.More: Coronavirus: Buncombe releases some jail inmates to reduce risk of virus transmissionEach tulip bulb costs 40 cents, which means she has thousands of dollars tied up in the field.When the blooms begin to blush, she pries the flowers out of the soil with a pitchfork so the bulb stays intact. They give the bloom a source of food and delight customers anxious to see the riot of colors the spring market brings.Flowers remind us spring is here, and nothing will stop it — not even a pandemic."You can't hide what is impressive about the tulip harvest," Copus said.'We didn't plan on a global pandemic'Copus had huge plans for 2020.She and her husband, the well-known potter Josh Copus, had sights set on triple-digit growth this year. "We got close last year, which is crazy for a farm, and we had every reason to believe it was a good idea to go big," Emily Copus said. More: See how Earth Fare's closure impacts loca... https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/03/20/coronavirus-while-farmers-fight-stay-afloat-asap-opens-markets/2883723001/
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Virginia Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA). AZA, "accreditation" means official recognition and approval of a zoo or aquarium by a group of experts from across the country who carefully inspect each zoo or aquarium that applies for AZA membership. Only those zoos and aquariums that meet their high standards become members of the AZA. Fewer than 10% of the approximately 2,800 animal exhibitors licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture are AZA accredited!
The review and inspection process covers all aspects of an institution's operation, including the veterinary care; physical facilities; safety; security; finance; staff; management; involvement in education, conservation, and research; and adherence to AZA policies. Accreditation takes place every five years and is required for zoos and aquariums to be members of AZA. The Virginia Zoo received its most recent accreditation in 2018 and is accredited until 2023.
AZA accreditation provides a number of advantages to member zoos, including increased eligibility for grants; impartial evaluation on a periodic basis by professional colleagues; invaluable opportunities for staff to learn from other institutions; increased ability to attract and retain a high quality, profession staff; access to specimens from other AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums for loan or breeding; and participation in the Species Survival Plan, AZA's flagship animal conservation program.
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BOSTON -- Manager Joe Maddon has always talked about the energy Yunel Escobar brings to the Rays, but how can he tell when the shortstop needs a day off?
"In talking to him and watching him on the field, I can see when something might be getting to him a little bit," said Maddon, who noted Escobar had not been in the lineup for Wednesday night's rained-out game. "I was looking to get him the day off. I was going to try and figure out that moment. I was thinking about it [Tuesday] against [Boston starter John] Lackey, but his history against Lackey was really good, offensively."
In answering the question, Maddon alluded to having lunch Wednesday with former Major League shortstop Orlando Cabrera to illustrate what he tries to do with players when they get the day off.
"[Cabrera and I] were together in Anaheim. I remember a day, and I was talking to him about this, we gave him a day off and were playing at Shea Stadium at the time," Maddon said. "He was upset that he had the day off and I went up to him in the locker room and I said, 'Don't argue about the day off, and while you're taking the day off, take the day and enjoy the Major League Baseball game and understand that you're one of the best players in the game -- and really understand it from that perspective."
Maddon surmised that when he gives a player a day off he doesn't want the player to "turn [the game] off," instead, "understand what's going on in front of you, and I think it really refreshes a lot of what you believe and why you wanted to do this in the first place."


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CANCUN, Mexico — Tinkling drinks in hand, New Yorkers Lauren Levy and Jacob Schum settle onto lounge chairs a few feet from the Caribbean's lapping waves. Levy adjusts her yellow bikini. Schum smooths his blue Bermuda shorts. They smile at each other and sigh softly.
"I've never seen turquoise water like this before. It's a beautiful thing," Schum says.
The couple had heard of Mexico's cartel killings, casino firebombs, bribery and corruption. But like millions of other Americans craving a break this spring, these workaholics couldn't resist the low prices, flowing drinks and sunny, 80-degree escape.
"We know not to leave the resort, drink the water or eat the vegetables," says Levy. "We arranged for a shuttle from the airport, we wouldn't get in a taxi. And yeah, we feel safe."
Plus they got a great deal, adds Levy: Just $1,500 for five days, four nights — food, drinks, airfare, transportation, everything.
While American tourism to Mexico slipped 3 percent last year, the country remains by far the biggest tourist destination for Americans, with about 20 million U.S. visitors a year, according to annual survey of bookings by the largest travel agencies. It's as if the entire populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and Phoenix all went to Mexico for vacation each year.
And for those Americans who do stay away, it appears that it's also finances, not just violence, that's to blame. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that the economic recession forced 4 percent fewer Americans to travel abroad in 2011 compared with 2010.
While some can't afford the trip, others do stay home out of fear.
The U.S. State Department warns of "gun battles in broad daylight" as Mexican drug dealers fight to control the lucrative trade in marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine that reaps an estimated $25 billion in U.S. sales each year.
Mexican officials say 47,515 people were killed in narcotics-related violence in Mexico between Dec. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2011. Most were people involved in the drug trade, but the number of U.S. citizens murdered in Mexico increased from 35 in 2007 to 120 in 2011.
Certain areas are more dangerous than others, the State Department says. Tourists are advised to stay near resorts and not to travel at night in the resorts of Acapulco and Mazatlan, for example. And in February, 22 Carnival Cruise Lines passengers were robbed at gunpoint during a shore excursion near the Mexico seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta.
Cancun, however, has remained relatively unscathed. And millions of Americans still come, especially during spring break, when the town becomes a weeks-long party.
Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials say the region is relatively free of violence because trafficking in the area is controlled almost exclusively by just one cartel, the Zetas, a brutal and high-tech gang founded by rogue Mexican Army special forces who deserted their units and entered the drug trade. In contrast to many other areas of Mexico, the Zetas are virtually uncontested in Cancun, Latin America security analyst Samuel Logan says.
"The area is safe because Los Zetas control the area and are too dug in for their rivals to fight them for it," he said in an email.
Logan said the cartel maintains control over the region by shaking down business owners, forcing them to pay for "protection" or risk attacks. He said the cartel likely has far more weapons and power than local law enforcement, and that they're likely paying off politicians and police.
"Extortion is the name of the game," said security consultant Walter McKay in Mexico City.
McKay said going to bars, buying drugs or getting involved in illicit activity would put a tourist at great risk in Mexico. But he said it's a safe vacation for the multitudes of bikini-clad visitors who have a singular goal when they reach the numerous resort cities that dot the east and west coasts: to lie on the beach with a beer and a taco.
Other Americans come south to visit family or travel on business. But the draw of sunshine, low prices and close flights are — for many in need of a vacation — the key, irresistible combination. And Cancun, with miles of all inclusive luxury resorts, is the top tourism spot in Mexico. Tens of thousands of bell boys, concierges, clerks, cooks, security guards and housemaids in starched uniforms here depend on the tourist dollars to send their children to school, put food on the table, take care of their elderly.
American tourists in many Mexican resort cities often vacation in a bit of a bubble. They are met at the airport by a driver holding a placard with their name, whisked past street markets, taco stands, schools and health clinics in an air conditioned car. They settle into their resort for the entire stay, venturing out only for an occasional shopping trip in a secure part of town.
Strolling through an upscale La Isla shopping mall in Cancun, Irene Hanson pushed partner Debbie Streeter's wheelchair past one familiar shop after another: Cold Stone Creamery, United Colors of Benetton, Roxy. The Boston couple has traveled the world over the past two decades, and said they were looking forward to swimming with dolphins later in the afternoon.
Mexico's tourism ministry reports a record 190 million domestic and international visitors toured the country's attractions in 2011, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2010. Most of those tourists were Mexican.
"I have no safety concerns," Streeter said. "I grew up street-wise and I can tell if someone is trouble, but these people make their money off tourists. They're not going to hurt us and scare others off."
Nearby, three Brooklyn friends — Carmine Pennella, his brother Dominick and their friend Frank Cirrincione — flexed their sizable biceps into bodybuilder poses when asked for a photo.
"If they wanna kidnap me, have at it," said Pennella, who came down for a bachelor party. Then, growing serious, his brother said they're being careful.
"We heard about hostages and drug wars," Dominick Pennella said, "and we're not wandering around at night. It's common sense. Me, I don't go to places out around Coney Island at night, either."
Cancun: Spring break on despite tourist unease
CANCUN, Mexico — Tinkling drinks in hand, New Yorkers Lauren Levy and Jacob Schum settle onto lounge chairs a few feet from the Caribbean's lapping waves. Levy adjusts her yellow bikini. Schum smooths his blue Bermuda shorts. They smile at each other and sigh softly.


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March For Our Lives - March 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 —An amazing outpouring today in NYC and across the country. Many tens of thousands marched down Central Park West from 77th Street and then down Sixth Avenue to 45th Street in an endless march demanding action of gun control. First, a rally with impassioned speakers, many victims or witnesses to the plague of gun violence stalking our land. And then the march with multitudes walking, chanting, singing, sometimes dancing. What I took away from this was the brilliance, determination and optimistic spirit of these young people who were the mainstay of today's March For Our Lives and judt how articulate, knowledgeable and confident they are. This bodes well for our country, particularly in the face of Trump and the warmongering gang around him. Shades of the 1960's when young people, filled with the same spirit of determination to make the world a better place, took to the streets and demanded an end to the war in Vietnam. It's happening again and there's a clear message to Congress and political leaders: Get out of the way or we'll push you out of the way! Stay tuned.Read More
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Judge Orders Mel Gibson to Appear for Deposition
Mel Gibson was ordered to appear for a deposition within the next few weeks as part of the ongoing child custody case with baby mama Oksana Grigorieva.
We're told he's been ordered to give his depo some time before November 10. Oksana will also give her deposition, but it will take place on a different day. Both depositions will be supervised by a judge.
Sources say the depo will cover child custody issues only.
We're also told that the judge will clarify on November 10 whether the $20,000/month Mel has been ordered to pay in child support includes Oksana's housing costs.
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Vietnam Safer Internet Day Supporter
About our SID activities
Although we don't currently have a formal Safer Internet Day (SID) Committee operating in Vietnam, we've heard from various supporters there (schools, individuals and organisations) who have told us that they've celebrated the day in the past. If you celebrated SID 2020 in Vietnam and would like to share your activities with us, please contact email@example.com.
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Evolution Hoax
The signs of the Last Day will follow one another. Like beads strung out one behind the other.
(Ramuz al-Ahadith, 277/6; Al-Jami' al-Sagir, 3/167.)
No, their knowledge STOPS SHORT of the Hereafter. ... (Surat an-Naml, 66)
Mahdi WILL COME AT A TIME WHEN FITNAHS (TRIBULATION) APPEAR.
(Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, 2-258)
It is He Who raised up among the unlettered people a Messenger [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] from them to recite His Signs to them and purify them and teach them the Book and Wisdom, EVEN THOUGH BEFORE THAT THEY WERE CLEARLY MISGUIDED. (Surat Al-Jumu'a, 2)
SUCH A STRIFE WILL APPEAR THAT NOWHERE WILL BE SPARED. (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, pp. 21-22)
At a time when the world will be in utter confusion and disorder (harj), fitna will appear... WHEN TRADE AND ROADS ARE CUT, people will be attacked...
(Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 12)
Trade and roads between nations WILL BE CUT...
(Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar pp. 39-40)
DO NOT LIE IN WAIT ON EVERY PATHWAY, threatening people, barring those who believe in the Way of Allah, desiring to make it crooked...(Surat Al-A'raf, 86)
... He will appear when those on Earth and in the skies can no longer BEAR the killing...
(Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 37)
Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and ILLNESS AFFLICTED THEM and they were shaken to the point that the Messenger and those who believe with him said, 'When is Allah's help coming?' Be assured that Allah's help is very near. (Surat Al-Baqara, 214)
Great cities will be ruined and it will be as if they had not existed the day before.
(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman, p. 38)
... HOW MANY WRONGDOING CITIES WE DESTROYED, and now all their roofs and walls are fallen in; how many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces! (Surat Al-Hajj, 45)
In the End Times men will come forth who will fraudulently USE RELIGION FOR WORLDLY ENDS and wear sheepskins in public to display meekness…
(Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say 'This is from Allah' TO SELL IT FOR A PALTRY PRICE. Woe to them for what their hands have written! Woe to them for what they earn! (Surat Al-Baqara, 79)
Their (the hypocrites') tongues will be sweeter than sugar…
(Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and IF THEY SPEAK YOU LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY. But they are like propped-up planks of wood... (Surat Al-Munafiqun, 4)
... their HEARTS will be the hearts of WOLVES.
(Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
Then YOUR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED AFTER THAT, SO THEY WERE LIKE ROCKS OR EVEN HARDER STILL. (Surat Al-Baqara, 74)
There Ummah will experience a time when people will RECITE THE QUR'AN, BUT IT WILL NOT GO FURTHER THAN THEIR THROATS [INTO THEIR HEARTS].
(Sahih Bukhari)
They please you with their mouths BUT THEIR HEARTS BELIE THEIR WORDS. (Surat At-Tawba, 8)...
...They SAY WITH THEIR TONGUES WHAT IS NOT IN THEIR HEARTS... (Surat Al-Fath, 11)
HUNGER and cost of living will widespread.
(Death Resurrection, Hereafter and the Signs of the End Times, p. 440)
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and HUNGER and loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast... (Surat Al-Baqara, 155)
Everyone complaining of LOW EARNINGS...
(Portents of Doomsday, p. 146)
(Portents of Doomsday, P. 152)
But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will be a dark and NARROW... (Surah Ta Ha, 124)
The poor will grow in number.
(Death Resurrection, Hereafter and the Signs of the End Times, p. 455)
Allah makes an example of a city which was safe and at peace, its provision coming to it plentifully from every side. Then it showed ingratitude for Allah's blessings so Allah made it WEAR THE ROBES OF HUNGER AND FEAR for what it did. (Surat An-Nahl, 112)
There will come a time for my people when … THE MOSQUES WILL BE FULL OF PEOPLE, BUT THEY WILL BE EMPTY OF RIGHT GUIDANCE.
So woe to THOSE WHO PERFORM PRAYER, and are forgetful of their prayer, those who show off (Surat al-Ma'un, 4-6)
The hour will not come until MOSQUES CEASE TO BE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE PRAY, BUT BECOME PLACES WHERE PEOPLE STOP BY.
(Hadiths Related To The End Times, P. 87)
An evil generation succeeded them WHO NEGLECTED TO PERFORM PRAYER and followed their appetites... (Surah Maryam, 59)
When Doomsday approaches... PEOPLE WILL CHEAT IN MEASURES AND WEIGHTS.
(Ramuz al-AHadith, vol. 33, p.7)
Woe to the stinters! Those who, WHEN THEY TAKE A MEASURE FROM PEOPLE, EXACT FULL MEASURE, BUT WHEN THEY GIVE THEM A MEASURE OR WEIGHT, HAND OVER LESS THAN IS DUE. (Surat Al-Mutaffifin, 1-3)
(Ramuz Al-Ahadith, 448/7)
Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause corruption in the Earth and SEVER YOUR TIES OF KINSHIP? (Surah Muhammad, 22)
MEANNESS and GREED WILL MULTIPLY.
(Sahih Muslim)
...Those who ARE TIGHT-FISTED AND DIRECT others TO BE TIGHT-FISTED... (Surat An-Nisa', 37)
...and you HAVE AN INSATIABLE LOVE of wealth. (Surat Al-Fajr, 20)
There are days of ANARCHY AND DISORDER very close to Doomsday.
(Al Jami as Sagir by As-Suyuti; Musnad by Ahmad ibn Hanbal)
those who CORRUPT THE EARTH AND DO NOT PUT THINGS RIGHT. (Surat Ash-Shu'ara', 152)
THE HOUR HAS DRAWN NEAR but people only feel more greed for the world and draw even more distant from Allah.
(Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Jami` al-saghir, 2/57)
MANKIND'S RECKONING HAS DRAWN VERY CLOSE TO THEM, yet they heedlessly turn away. (Surat Al-Anbiya', 1)
A time comes when the QUR'AN REMAIN IN ONE VALLEY and people in another.
(al-Haqim, Tirmidhi, Hadiths).
When a Messenger comes to them from Allah confirming what is with them, a group of those who have been given the Book DISDAINFULLY TOSS THE BOOK OF ALLAH BEHIND THEIR BACKS, just as if they did not know. (Surat Al-Baqara, 101)
A time will come when the QUR'AN will remain only with its picture, and Islam will remain with its name.
(al-Haqim, ad Daylami)
The Messenger says, 'My Lord, MY PEOPLE TREAT THIS QUR'AN AS SOMETHING TO BE IGNORED.' (Surat Al-Furqan, 30)


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Official: Semi-automatic used to kill ex-Navy SEAL
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Authorities say a 25-year-old military veteran used a semi-automatic handgun to kill former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and his friend at a Texas gun range.
Capt. Jason Upshaw with the Erath County Sheriff's Office says the handgun was found at Routh's home.
Routh is accused of killing 38-year-old Kyle and 35-year-old Chad Littlefield at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range Saturday evening. Authorities say Routh had come to the range with Kyle and Littlefield.
Police say that after the shootings, Routh drove to his sister's home in Midlothian and told his sister and brother-in-law what he had done. After he left, his relatives called the police.
Upshaw says Routh has not made any comments as to what his motive was.


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Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg has a distinctive profile. It aims to create a lean and sharply-defined structure with its main focus of expertise in the traditional areas of engineering, the natural sciences and medicine. It also views economics and management and the social sciences and humanities as essential disciplines for a modern university in the information age.
Researchers at the University of Magdeburg are international networked and work interdisciplinary. Whether fundamental or applied research, it's always about finding a holistic solution to complex relationships and problems. As a catalyst and developmental driving force beyond the local region, the university is pursuing innovation strategies that increase the transfer of technology and knowledge within society.
To study at the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg means: To study at a flagship university, to study at one of the youngest universities in Germany, and to study under the best conditions and with optimal support.


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Tag Archives: romace writer
My new favorite Romance Writer
Lemme quote her from her website : yaraalonso.webs.com
A New Breed of Love Stories is coming your way!
I moved heaven and earth just so I could have a pen name. I even went through a secret poll (asking closest friends) , which among the list of names I researched on and put together and jumbled first and last names, they would want me recognised. At long last, a unanimous decision for Yara Alonso was made!
I have always dreamt of being a writer. I guess one could readily identify me as a wide reader. A book I read, just unfortunate to have forgotten the name and author of that book, once mentioned "If there's one book you want to read, yet ,you seem can't find it, you must write that book". So here I am, fulfilling the author's call to write.
Why romance writing?
A friend asked me that question once. That friend sort of envisioned me being a journalist. He said I always have an opinion on almost everything. Well, I think I am opinionated, too much for my own good sometimes, but I tried veering away by reading romance pocketbooks.
Some ask, why romance writing? I say why not. English they say is the international language. I say it isn't, I believe it's love. Even blind, deaf, mute and handicapped people fell in love. Some have crushes as early as six years old. That is indeed a manifestation that a strong feeling, a strong emotion is possible to exist in a person. It may not be love yet, but if it flourishes it would likely turn to love.
Love is a universal language. A Chinese would speak Mandarin, a Japanese Nihongo, an American English and yet regardless of origin, anyone knows and understands LOVE. A person need not finish any degree to be skilled at loving, it's instinctive and instantaneous.
I have always believed in love, in its power, in its magic. Though I don't have a Cinderella-they-live-happily-ever-after story yet, I believe that someday, somehow, someone would come my way. Someone who would love me the way I want to be loved, would take care of me the way I wanna be taken care of and would be strong for me when I feel like giving up. So while waiting for that someone, I would create a world where love is the center of the story and two hearts would be drawn together and would be bound by destiny. A world where I could make wishes granted and dreams come true. A world where pains, tears and heartaches are pivotal motions to success and happy endings. Stories that might be yours one way or another and heroes and heroines you could and would be able to relate to. True love does exist because I live by that principle, I live by that faith. Those stories would prove that true love happens, while not for me, at least for others.
I would want to reiterate through my stories that loving is not all bed of roses. For loving someone requires sacrifices, compromises and even heartaches, too. For when you love someone, you give that person a potent chance of hurting you, of breaking your heart to a million pieces. But despite the fact that, according to a song, love might kill you, no other experience would come at par with the joy, with the happiness, loving someone could bring.
So join me as we unfold the mystery and force that is LOVE. Happy reading everyone!


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Google Music Lyrics is a Greasemonkey script that adds a lyrics panel to Google Music. It only works in Firefox and there's a single lyrics provider: SongLyrics.com.
The lyrics are cached so that they're displayed instantly the next time you play the same song. You can also edit the lyrics and the changes are saved using HTML5 local storage. To hide the panel, click the title.
Chris Hendry, who developed the script, plans to add other lyrics providers, allow users to import and export lyrics and to make the script work in Google Chrome.


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Lincoln News
Chicagoland Apartment Association: Apartment Living Advocacy Campaign
Mar 22, 2012
The Chicagoland Apartment Association recently launched their Apartment Living Advocacy Campaign in conjunction with a local Chicago CBS station. This educational campaign features interviews with LPC and eight other CAA member firms discussing different aspects of apartment living and what to look for in a rental apartment, from lifestyle and community amenities to leasing and property management considerations. LPC's very own Midwest Regional Marketing Director, Irini Boeder, was interviewed for the latest installment of the campaign television commercials. Click the link below to see Irini's commercial!


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Mossberg's Mailbox
Transferring Your Web 'Favorites'
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help.
Here are a few questions about computers I've received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. This week my mailbox contained questions about transferring "Favorites" from your laptop to your desktop and converting copy-protected WMA files to play on an iPod.
If you have a question, send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com, and I may select it to be answered here in Mossberg's Mailbox.
Q: Can you tell me how to transfer the Internet Explorer "Favorite" Web site addresses from my laptop computer to my desktop computer? Both computers are Windows XP.
Just go to the "Import and Export" command in the File menu of Internet Explorer on the laptop — the machine with the Favorites you want to copy. Select "Export Favorites," and follow the prompts to save your Favorites as a file. You can name it anything you like, and I suggest you save it to your desktop or some other place where you can find it quickly.
Next, copy this file to the desktop computer — the one you want to populate with your Favorites. In Internet Explorer on this second computer, again click on "Import and Export" in the File menu, only this time, select "Import Favorites." Specify the file you copied over from the first computer, and all the Favorites it contains should now be on the second machine.
Q: In your recent review of the new Apple iMac that uses Intel chips, you briefly said it couldn't run the Windows operating system out of the box. Can you elaborate on why that is, and whether Windows will be able to run on this computer eventually?
Apple is now using the same chips in this Macintosh that are used in Windows computers, and it says it won't do anything to stop people from running Windows on these machines. But you can't just go to the store, buy a copy of Windows XP, and install it on these new Macs.
That's because Apple is using some advanced hardware, besides the Intel chips, that differs from what's typical on Windows machines. This hardware, which helps the computer to start up, is called EFI and is approved by Intel. But it isn't recognized by Windows XP. Microsoft says the forthcoming new version of Windows, called Vista, will recognize the new EFI start-up hardware when it comes out later this year. But nobody is guaranteeing that Vista will run out of the box on the Intel-based Macs, as there may be other peculiarities of the new Macs that it can't handle.
In addition, Microsoft's Virtual PC product, which allowed Windows to run — slowly — on the old Macs by mimicking an Intel chip, doesn't work on the new machines. It would seem that such a program shouldn't be necessary on the Intel-based Macs, or at least should be simple to create. But Microsoft says revising it for the new machines would be a big, time-consuming job.
However, I wouldn't be surprised to see some other company come up with an add-on product that would allow the new Intel-based Macs to run Windows, or Windows programs, at fast speeds, long before the arrival of Vista or any new version of Virtual PC.
With such a product, you might be able to choose to start up an Intel-based Mac in either Windows or the Mac operating system; or run Windows in a window inside the Mac operating system; or run Windows programs in the Mac operating system, without running Windows itself.
Q: I have purchased a substantial amount of music online through services such as MSN and Yahoo that sell files in the protected WMA format. Is there any way to convert this music so it plays on an iPod?
There is a way, but it's time-consuming and tedious. You'd have to burn all your copy-protected WMA files (the ones you bought from MSN and Yahoo) to audio CDs — the kind that play in standard CD players — and then re-import them into Apple's iTunes software as MP3s or nonprotected AAC files, manually filling in the tag information.
The iPod can play MP3 files fine, as well as a number of other formats, like nonprotected AAC files. And iTunes can convert nonprotected WMA files to MP3s for use in the iPod. But iTunes can't convert copy-protected WMAs, and the iPod can't play them.
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Because of the volume of e-mail I receive, I can't routinely answer individual questions by e-mail, or consult on individual problems or purchasing decisions. I read all questions I receive and select three each week to answer in the column.
Write to Walter S. Mossberg at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Composite Materials Modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics® Webinar - Archived
In this webinar, we will show how to model layered composite structures. Common examples of composite materials include fiber-reinforced plastic, laminated plates, and sandwich panels, all of which are widely used in the manufacturing of aircraft and spacecraft components, wind turbine blades, and other structures.
We will discuss two approaches that accurately model composite shells: layerwise theory and equivalent single layer theory. In addition to standard structural analyses (such as stationary, eigenfrequency, transient, and frequency domain), the presentation will go over micromechanical, first-ply failure, and linear buckling analyses. We will also show how to include various physical phenomena, such as heat transfer and fluid flow, in a composite laminate model. A live demo in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software will show simulation results for the through-thickness and ply-wise stress distribution in the composite laminate. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session.
Register for Composite Materials Modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics® Webinar
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Robbie Balcombe works as a technical team director at COMSOL. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2007 with a MEng in aero-mechanical engineering and then carried out his PhD in the area of numerical modeling of rolling contact fatigue at Imperial College London.


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BEIJING — Xi Jinping, the man in line to be China's next president, warned officials on a 2004 anti-graft conference call: "Rein in your spouses, children, relatives, friends and staff, and vow not to use power for personal gain."
As Xi climbed the Communist Party ranks, his extended family expanded their business interests to include minerals, real estate and mobile-phone equipment, according to public documents compiled by Bloomberg.
Those interests include investments in companies with total assets of $376 million; an 18 percent indirect stake in a rare-earths company with $1.73 billion in assets; and a $20.2 million holding in a publicly traded technology company. The figures don't account for liabilities and thus don't reflect the family's net worth.
No assets were traced to Xi, who turns 59 this month; his wife Peng Liyuan, 49, a famous People's Liberation Army singer; or their daughter, the documents show. There is no indication Xi intervened to advance his relatives' business transactions, or of any wrongdoing by Xi or his extended family.
While the investments are obscured from public view by multiple holding companies, government restrictions on access to company documents and in some cases online censorship, they are identified in thousands of pages of regulatory filings.
The trail also leads to a hillside villa overlooking the South China Sea in Hong Kong, with an estimated value of $31.5 million. The doorbell ringer dangles from its wires, and neighbors say the house has been empty for years. The family owns at least six other Hong Kong properties with a combined estimated value of $24.1 million.
Xi has risen through the party over the past three decades, holding leadership positions in several provinces and joining the ruling Politburo Standing Committee in 2007. Along the way, he built a reputation for clean government.
He led an anti-graft campaign in the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, where he issued the "rein in" warning to officials in 2004, according to a People's Daily publication. In Shanghai, he was brought in as party chief after a $582 million scandal.
A 2009 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing cited an acquaintance of Xi's saying he wasn't corrupt or driven by money. Xi was "repulsed by the all-encompassing commercialization of Chinese society, with its attendant nouveau riche, official corruption, loss of values, dignity, and self- respect," the cable disclosed by Wikileaks said, citing the friend. Wikileaks publishes secret government documents online.
Increasing resentment over China's most powerful families carving up the spoils of economic growth poses a challenge for the Communist Party. The income gap in urban China has widened more than in any other country in Asia over the past 20 years, according to the International Monetary Fund.
"The average Chinese person gets angry when he hears about deals where people make hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars, by trading on political influence," said Barry Naughton, professor of Chinese economy at the University of California, San Diego, who wasn't referring to the Xi family specifically.
Scrutiny of officials' wealth is intensifying before a once-in-a-decade transition of power later this year, when Xi and the next generation of leaders are set to be promoted. The ouster in March of Bo Xilai as party chief of China's biggest municipality in an alleged graft and murder scandal fueled public anger over cronyism and corruption. It also spurred demands that top officials disclose their wealth in editorials in two Chinese financial publications and from microbloggers. Bo's family accumulated at least $136 million in assets, Bloomberg News reported in April.
Xi and his siblings are the children of the late Xi Zhongxun, a revolutionary fighter who helped Mao Zedong win control of China in 1949 with a pledge to end centuries of inequality and abuse of power for personal gain. That makes them "princelings," scions of top officials and party figures whose lineages can help them wield influence in politics and business.
Most of the extended Xi family's assets traced by Bloomberg were owned by Xi's older sister, Qi Qiaoqiao, 63; her husband Deng Jiagui, 61; and Qi's daughter Zhang Yannan, 33, according to public records compiled by Bloomberg.
Deng held an indirect 18 percent stake as recently as June 8 in Jiangxi Rare Earth &Rare Metals Tungsten Group Corp. Prices of the minerals used in wind turbines and U.S. smart bombs have surged as China tightened supply.
Qi and Deng's share of the assets of Shenzhen Yuanwei Investment Co., a real-estate and diversified holding company, totaled $288 million, a December 2011 filing shows. Other companies in the Yuanwei group wholly owned by the couple have combined assets of at least $84.8 million.
A 3.17 million-yuan investment by Zhang in Beijing-based Hiconics Drive Technology Co. has increased 40-fold since 2009 to $20.2 million as of Thursday's close in Shenzhen.
Deng, reached on his mobile phone, said he was retired. When asked about his wife, Zhang and their businesses across the country, he said: "It's not convenient for me to talk to you about this too much." Attempts to reach Qi and Zhang directly or through their companies by phone and fax, as well as visits to addresses found on filings, were unsuccessful.
Another brother-in-law of Xi Jinping, Wu Long, ran a telecommunications company named New Postcom Equipment Co. The company was owned as of May 28 by relatives three times removed from Wu — the family of his younger brother's wife, according to public documents and an interview with one of the company's registered owners.
New Postcom won hundreds of millions of yuan in contracts from state-owned China Mobile Communications Corp., the world's biggest phone company by number of users, according to analysts at BDA China Ltd., a Beijing-based consulting firm that advises technology companies.
Dozens of people contacted over the past two months wouldn't comment about the Xi family on the record because of the sensitivity of the issue. Details from Web pages profiling one of Xi Jinping's nieces and her British husband were deleted after the two people were contacted.
The total assets of companies owned by the Xi family gives the breadth of their businesses and isn't an indication of profitability. Hong Kong property values were based on recent transactions involving comparable homes.
Bloomberg's accounting included only assets, property and shareholdings in which there was documentation of ownership by a family member and an amount could be clearly assigned. Assets were traced using public and business records, interviews with acquaintances and Hong Kong and Chinese identity-card numbers.
In cases where family members use different names in mainland China and in Hong Kong, Bloomberg verified identities by speaking to people who had met them and through multiple company documents that show the same names together and shared addresses.
Bloomberg provided a list showing the Xi family's holdings to China's Foreign Ministry. The government declined to comment.
In October 2000, Xi Zhongxun's family gathered on his 87th birthday for a photograph at a state guest house in Shenzhen, two years before the patriarch's death. The southern metropolis bordering Hong Kong is now one of China's richest, thanks in part to the elder Xi. He persuaded former leader Deng Xiaoping to pioneer China's experiment with open markets in what was a fishing village.
In the photo, Xi Zhongxun, dressed in a red sweater and holding a cane, is seated in an overstuffed armchair. To his left sits daughter Qi Qiaoqiao. On his right, a young grandson perches on doily-covered armrests next to the elder Xi's wife, Qi Xin. Lined up behind are Qiaoqiao's husband, Deng Jiagui; her brothers Xi Yuanping and presidential heir Xi Jinping; and sister Qi An'an alongside her husband Wu Long.
Xi Zhongxun worked to imbue his children with the revolutionary spirit, according to accounts in state media that portray him as a principled and moral leader. Family members have recounted in interviews how he dressed them in patched hand-me-downs.
He also made Qiaoqiao turn down her top-choice middle school in Beijing, which offered her a slot despite her falling half a point short of the required grade, according to a memorial book about him. Instead, she attended another school under her mother's family name, Qi, so classmates wouldn't know her background. Qiaoqiao and her sister An'an also sometimes use their father's family name, Xi.
In a speech on March 1 this year before about 2,200 cadres at the central party school in Beijing where members are trained, Xi Jinping said that some were joining because they believed it was a ticket to wealth. "It is more difficult, yet more vital than ever to keep the party pure," he said, according to a transcript of his speech in an official magazine.
His daughter, Xi Mingze, has avoided the spotlight. She studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., under an assumed name.
Xi's elevation to replace Hu Jintao as China's top leader isn't yet formalized. He must be picked as the Communist Party's general secretary in a meeting later this year and then be selected by the country's legislature as president next March.
Disgruntlement over how members of the ruling elite translate political power into personal fortunes has existed since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms began three decades ago, when he said some people could get rich first and help others get wealthy later.
The relatives of other top officials have forged business careers. Premier Wen Jiabao's son co-founded a private-equity company. The son of Wen's predecessor, Zhu Rongji, heads a Chinese investment bank.
"What I'm really concerned about is the alliance between the rich and powerful," said Wan Guanghua, principal economist at the Asian Development Bank. "It makes corruption and inequality self-reinforcing and persistent."
Public criticism is mounting against ostentatious displays of wealth by officials. Microbloggers tracking designer labels sported by cadres expressed disgust last year at a gold Rolex watch worn by a former customs minister. They castigated the daughter of former Premier Li Peng for wearing a pink Emilio Pucci suit to the nation's annual legislative meeting this March. Some complained that the 12,000 yuan they said it cost would pay for warm clothes for 200 poor children.
"People are angry because there's unequal access to money-making, and the rewards that get reaped appear to the populace to be undeserved," said Perry Link, a China scholar at the University of California, Riverside. "There's no question in the Chinese public mind that this is wrong."
Premier Wen told a meeting of China's State Council on March 26 that power must be exercised "under the sun" to combat corruption.
While officials in China must report their income and assets to authorities, as well as personal information about their immediate family, the disclosures aren't public.
The lack of transparency fuels a belief that the route to wealth depends on what Chinese call "guanxi," a catch-all word for the connections considered crucial for doing business in the country. It helps explain why princelings with no official posts wield influence. Or, as a Chinese proverb puts it: When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
"If you are a sibling of someone who is very important in China, automatically people will see you as a potential agent of influence and will treat you well in the hope of gaining guanxi with the bigwig relative," said Roderick MacFarquhar, a professor of government at Harvard who focuses on Chinese elite politics.
The link between political power and wealth isn't unique to China. Lyndon B. Johnson was so poor starting out in life that he borrowed $75 to enroll in Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1927, according to his presidential library. After almost three decades of elective office, he and his family had media and real-estate holdings worth $14 million in 1964, his first full year as president, according to an August 1964 article in Life Magazine.
Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, said the nexus of power and wealth can be found in any country. "But there is no country where this is more true than China," he said. "There's a huge passive advantage to just being in one of these family trees."
Yao Jianfu, a retired government researcher who has called for greater disclosure of assets by leaders, said it wouldn't be right to tie Xi Jinping to the businesses of his family.
"If other members of the family are independent business representatives, I think it's unfair to describe it as a family clan and count it as Xi Jinping's," Yao said.
The lineage of Xi's siblings hasn't always been an advantage. Xi Zhongxun, the father, was purged by Mao in 1962. Like many other princelings, the children were scattered to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. The 5-yuan payment Qiaoqiao received for working in a corps with 500 other youths in Inner Mongolia made her feel rich, she recalled in an interview on the website of Beijing-based Tsinghua University.
After Mao's death in 1976, the family was rehabilitated and Xi's sister Qiaoqiao pursued a career with the military and as a director with the People's Armed Police. She resigned to care for her father, who had retired in 1990, Qiaoqiao said.
A year later, she bought an apartment in what was then the British colony of Hong Kong for $387,000 — at the time, equivalent to almost 900 times the average Chinese worker's annual salary. She still owns the property, in the Pacific Palisades complex in Braemar Hill on Hong Kong island, land registry records show.
By 1997, Qi and Deng had recorded an investment of 15.3 million yuan in a company that later became Shenzhen Yuanwei Industries Co., a holding group, documents show. The assets of that company aren't publicly available. However, one of its subsidiaries, Shenzhen Yuanwei Investment, had assets of $291 million at the end of 2010. It is 99 percent owned by the couple, according to a December 2011 filing by a securities firm.
It was after her father's death in 2002 that Qi said she decided to go into business, according to the Tsinghua interview. She graduated from Tsinghua's executive master's degree in business administration program in 2006 and founded its folk-drumming team. It plays in the style of Shaanxi province, where Xi Zhongxun was born.
The names Qi Qiaoqiao, Deng Jiagui or Zhang Yannan appear on the filings of at least 25 companies over the past two decades in China and Hong Kong, either as shareholders, directors or legal representatives — a term that denotes the person responsible for a company, such as its chairman.
In some filings, Qi used the name Chai Lin-hing. The alias was linked to her because of biographical details in a Chinese company document that match those in two published interviews with Qi Qiaoqiao. Chai Lin-hing has owned multiple companies and a property in Hong Kong with Deng Jiagui.
In 2005, Zhang Yannan started appearing on Hong Kong documents, when Qi and Deng transferred to her 99.98 percent of a property-holding company that owns one apartment, a unit in the Regent on the Park development with an estimated value of $6.96 million.
Land registry records show Zhang paid $19 million in 2009 for the villa on Belleview Drive in Repulse Bay, one of Hong Kong's most exclusive neighborhoods. Property prices have since jumped about 60 percent in the area.
Her Hong Kong identity card number, written on one of the sale documents, matches that found on the company she owns with her mother and Deng Jiagui, Special Joy Investments Ltd. All three people share the same Hong Kong address in a May 12 filing.
Zhang owns four other luxury units in the Convention Plaza Apartments residential tower with panoramic harbor views adjoining the Grand Hyatt hotel.
Since its 1997 return by Britain to Chinese rule, Hong Kong has been governed autonomously, with its own legal and banking systems. About a third of all purchases of new luxury homes in the territory are by mainland Chinese buyers, according to Centaline Property Agency Ltd.
In mainland China, Qi and Deng's marquee project is a luxury housing complex called Guanyuan near Beijing's financial district, boasting manicured gardens and a gray-brick exterior reminiscent of the city's historic courtyard homes. Financial details on the developer aren't available because of restrictions on company searches in Beijing.
To finance the development, the couple borrowed from friends and banks, and aimed to attract officials and executives at state-owned companies, they told V Marketing China magazine in a 2006 interview. Property prices in the capital rose 79 percent in the following four years, government data show.
The site's developer — 70 percent owned by Qi and Deng's Yuanwei Investment — acquired more than 10,000 square meters of land for 95.6 million yuan in 2004 to build Guanyuan, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources.
A 189-square-meter three-bedroom apartment in Guanyuan listed online in June for 15 million yuan. One square meter sells for 79,365 yuan — more than double China's annual per capita gross domestic product.
Public anger at soaring housing costs has made real estate an especially sensitive issue for leaders in China. Property prices were "far from a reasonable level," Premier Wen said in March.
The lack of a level playing field and unaffordable home prices mean "you can be cut out of the China dream," said Joseph Fewsmith, director of the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University, who focuses on Chinese politics. "Is the rise of China going to last if you build it around these sorts of unequal opportunities?"
Those with the right connections are able to gain access to assets that are controlled by the government, according to Bo Zhiyue, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute.
"All they need is to get into the game one small step ahead of the others and they can make a huge gain," he said. Bo wasn't discussing the specific investments of Xi's family members.
One of Deng's well-timed acquisitions was in a state-owned company with investments in rare-earth metals.
Deng's Shanghai Wangchao Investment Co. bought a 30 percent stake in Jiangxi Rare Earth for $71 million in 2008, according to a bond prospectus.
Deng owned 60 percent of Shanghai Wangchao. A copy of Deng's Chinese identity card found in company registry documents matches one found in filings of a Yuanwei subsidiary. Yuanwei group-linked executives held the posts of vice chairman and chief financial officer in Jiangxi Rare Earth, the filings show.
The investment came as China, which has a near monopoly on production of the metals, was tightening control over production and exports, a policy that led to a more than fourfold surge in prices for some rare earths in 2011.
A woman who answered the phone at Jiangxi Rare Earth's head office in Nanchang said she was unable to provide financial information because the company wasn't listed on the stock exchange. She declined to discuss Shanghai Wangchao's investment, saying it was too sensitive.
Qi Qiaoqiao's daughter Zhang made her 3.17 million-yuan investment in Hiconics in the three years before the Beijing- based manufacturer of electronic devices sold shares to the public in 2010. Hiconics founder Liu Jincheng was in the same executive MBA class as Qi Qiaoqiao, according to his profile on Tsinghua's website.
Wang Dong, the company's board secretary, didn't respond to faxed questions or phone calls seeking comment.
The business interests of Qi and Deng may be more extensive still: The names appear as the legal representative of at least 11 companies in Beijing and Shenzhen, cities where restrictions on access to filings make it difficult to determine ownership of companies or asset values.
For example, Deng was the legal representative of a Beijing-based company that bought a 0.8 percent stake in one of China's biggest developers, Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co., for 30 million yuan in a 2009 private placement. Dalian Wanda Commercial had sales of $15 billion last year.
Dalian Wanda Commercial "doesn't comment on private transactions," it said in an emailed statement.
Deng also served as legal representative of a company that won a government contract to help build a $157 million bridge in central China's Hubei province, according to an official website and corporate records.
Complex ownership structures are common in China, according to Victor Shih, a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who studies the link between finance and politics in the country. Princelings engage people they trust, often members of their extended families, to open companies on their behalf that bid for contracts from state-owned enterprises, said Shih, who wasn't referring specifically to Xi's family.
In the case of Xi Jinping's brother-in-law, Wu Long, he's identified as chairman of New Postcom in two reports on the website of the Guangzhou Development District, one in 2009 and the other a year later.
New Postcom doesn't provide a list of management on its website. Searches in Chinese on Baidu Inc.'s search engine using the name "Wu Long" and "New Postcom" trigger a warning, also in Chinese: "The search results may not be in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies, and cannot display."
New Postcom is owned by two people named Geng Minhua and Hua Feng, filings show. Their address in the company documents leads to the ninth floor of a decades-old concrete tower in Beijing where Geng's elderly mother lives. Tacked to the wall of her living room was the mobile-phone number of her daughter.
When contacted by phone June 6, Geng confirmed she owned New Postcom with her son Hua Feng — and that her daughter was married to Wu Ming, Wu Long's younger brother. Geng said Wu Long headed the company and she wasn't involved in the management.
New Postcom identified two different people – Hong Ying and Ma Wenbiao – as its owners in a six-page, June 27 statement and said the head of the company was a person named Liu Ran. The company didn't respond to repeated requests to explain the discrepancies. Wu Long and his wife, Qi An'an, couldn't be reached for comment.
New Postcom was an upstart company that benefited from state contracts. It specialized in the government-mandated home-grown 3G mobile-phone standard deployed by China Mobile. In 2007, it won a share of a tender to supply handsets, beating out more established competitors such as Motorola Inc., according to BDA China.
"They were an unknown that suddenly appeared," said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA. "People were expecting Motorola to get a big part of that device contract, and then a no-name company just appeared at the top of the list."
In 2007, the domestic mobile standard was still being developed, and many of the bigger players were sitting on the sidelines, allowing New Postcom a bigger share of the market, the company said in the statement.
William Moss, the Beijing-based spokesman of the Motorola Mobility unit that was split off from Motorola last year and purchased by Google, declined to comment on details of any individual bids. China Mobile "has always insisted on the principle of open, fair, just and credible bidding" to select vendors, company spokesman Zhang Xuan said by e-mail.
Xi Jinping's younger brother, Xi Yuanping, is the founding chairman of an energy advisory body called the International Energy Conservation Environmental Protection Association. He doesn't play an active role in the organization, according to an employee who declined to be identified.
One of Xi's nieces has a higher profile. Hiu Ng, the daughter of Qi An'an and Wu Long, and her husband Daniel Foa, 35, last year were listed as speakers at a networking symposium in the Maldives on sustainable tourism with the likes of the U.K. billionaire Richard Branson and the actress Daryl Hannah.
Ng recently began working with Hudson Clean Energy Partners LP, which manages a fund of more than $1 billion in the U.S., to help identify investments in China.
Details about the couple were removed from Internet profiles after Bloomberg reporters contacted them. Foa said by phone he couldn't comment about FairKlima Capital, a clean- energy fund they set up in 2007. Ng didn't respond to e-mails asking for an interview.
The two are no longer mentioned on the FairKlima website. A June 3 cache of the "Contact Us" webpage includes short biographies of Ng and Foa under the headline "Senior Management Team."
A reference on Ng's LinkedIn profile that said on June 8 that she worked at New Postcom has since been removed, along with her designation as "Vice Chair Hudson Clean Energy Partners China."
Neil Auerbach, the Teaneck, N.J.-based private-equity firm's founder, said he was working with Ng because of her longstanding passion for sustainability.
"We are aware of her political connections, but her focus is on sustainable investing, and that's the purpose," he said in a June 13 interview. "We're delighted to be working with her."
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