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8:00am Thursday 6th September 2012 in News By Newsdesk
A COUPLE who stole stacks of foreign currency while working for the Royal Mail have been ordered to pay back almost £20,000.
Jayne Hopkins, 44, a delivery office manager at Burnham, was jailed for 14 months last year after gaining £40,000 in foreign money going through the postal system.
Her husband David, a postman at Bridgwater, was given a three-month suspended sentence and 150 hours' unpaid work.
Jayne Hopkins was convicted of theft and money laundering while David Hopkins was charged with converting criminal property amounting to £3,200.
The pair were caught out by investigators when a delivery package was found in Jayne Hopkins' bag in the summer of 2009.
At Taunton Crown Court on Tuesday, Jayne Hopkins, who oversaw staff at Burnham from November 2008 to April 2009, was told she must pay back £10,000 within six months under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
David Hopkins was ordered to pay back £9,974 within one month.
The couple, now of The Dolphin Inn, Ilchester, stole South African rand, Australian dollars, Cypriot pounds and Turkish lira, prosecutor Anthony Vines said.
The court heard the pair fleeced the money after racking up debts of £30,000 by living beyond their means.
Speaking at the time of sentencing, Judge Graham Hume Jones said: "They were both in this together. She was in a high degree of trust and he must have known what was going on.
"The word has to go out to other Post Office employees that those who steal from the mail go to prison."
The couple declined to comment following this week's hearing.


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It's the Friday thing. Time to wrap up the past week.
They opened the bids for the Abby Grill this week. Well that shouldn't be plural, there was only one. There wasn't , technically, even that many because the one bid that was submitted was for an amount that was half of the minimum bid requirement. This means that the bid had to be deemed "unresponsive". It was thrown out. The city is owed $143,867.81 in back taxes. That was the minimum bid price. I guess it's back to the drawing board. I've said this before and I'll say it again. I hope this doesn't turn into another old police station situation.
Dave Sullivan doesn't have a contract yet with the Housing Authority. Mr. Sullivan doesn't posses the required certification to hold the position and is being given one year to get said certification. Reportedly he is being offered a one year contract. Seems about right to me.
Free skating this week on Sullivan Drive ! No jokes about the condition of city streets please. The kiddies are on February vacation and the city has set up a rink right smack dab in the middle of the street. This is a cool idea. Unless you were trying to drive around downtown this afternoon, that wasn't too cool. Overall the good out weighs the bad on this one, in my opinion.
Fifteen new members of the Fall River Police Department are being sworn in this evening at Government Center. All the best to our new officers and thank you.
FROED Executive Vice-President Ken Fiola addressed the Fall River Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday at their State of Business breakfast. Speaking of Fall River's change from a city of manufacturing jobs to a workforce dominated by jobs in the hospital and laboratories field Mr. Fiola opined; 'This is a workforce in transition. This is a city in transition". I worked at Kravif Manufacturing in the early 1980"s. They made ladies sportswear. Manufacturing jobs were on the move out of town then. That's over 30 years ago. Kravif was closed by the mid 80's. This has been one very long transition. Just sayin'.
We all know the unemployment rate is high. Try this on for size. 31% of Fall River residents older than the age of 25 have not completed high school. 17% have not completed 9th grade. Think about that for a second.
There was a controversy in Taunton last week. State Rep. Shaunna O'connell's kids built a snowman. They dressed it in a bikini. The bikini top was adorned with a Confederate flag. The picture got posted on Facebook. While I fully understand and agree with the justifiable displeasure with such a symbol I also have a question or two. My mind works in mysterious ways. I thought it was a snowman? Are there snowwoman? Do they have gender specific snowthings in Taunton ?
By the way beware of your Facebook posts. Big Brother ( the media) is watching .You don't have to be a public official either. Ask around.
District Attorney's in Massachusetts get to spend money that they receive from drug forfeitures. In Bristol County DA Sam Sutter has used this money towards various law enforcement upgrades such as the recently acquired ShotSpotter technology here in Fall River. The Worcester County's district Attorney's Office just used drug forfeiture money to buy a Zamboni .You know, for a skating rink. I swear I'm not making this up.
Alright I've gotta run. This blog was late in being posted. Things have been hectic, especially for such a boring guy. I needed to show Mel that I did make the effort.Have a great weekend kids. Best wishes to my buddy Red! Get better big guy. Boom !
Jamie Tyrrell is a well-known community activist and Fall River native. During his most recent campaign for School Committee, he worked with the city's neighborhood groups and has become familiar with all of the organizations. He has worked for the city of Fall River, Citizens for Citizens and Kravif Manufacturing, and is currently an independent contractor and consultant.


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TORONTO (AP) -- Bobby Valentine insisted he wasn't trying to be critical when he said his struggling Red Sox had "the weakest roster we've ever had in September in the history of baseball."
Two days after his latest inflammatory remark, Valentine tried to explain himself before Sunday's series finale against the Blue Jays, offering an unsolicited clarification at the end of his morning media session.
"The other day when I made a comment about our September roster, that wasn't meant to be a criticism of any players or anything in the organization," Valentine said. "It's a statement of fact because of the injuries and our Triple-A team in the playoffs."
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Add new comment | Filed under: Interviews, Jazz Alive, njpac, Rhonda Hamilton, TD James Moody Jazz FestivalSinger Cyrille Aimée talks with WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton about her recent recordings and performance with the Christian McBride Big Band in the "Sing, Sing, Sing!" concert at NJPAC on November 9. The concert is part of the TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, and Aimée is the 2012 winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which is also part of the festival. Enjoy!
WBGO Says Goodbye To Gloria Lynne
October 16, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.
Add new comment | Filed under: 54 Below, michael bourne, RIPWBGO says goodbye to singer Gloria Lynne, who passed away in Newark Oct. 15 at age 81. Best known for her 1964 hit "I Wish You Love," Gloria won first prize in the "Amateur Night" at Harlem's Apollo Theater at age fifteen. She also wrote lyrics to Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" and performed with, among others, Ray Charles, Harry Belafonte Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones and Ella Fitzgerald. Among her many honors, she received an International Women in Jazz Award and a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 1995, New York City proclaimed July 25 "Gloria Lynne Day."
A memorial service for Gloria will be held at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 Odell Clark Place (138th Street) in Harlem, on Monday, October 28th at 1pm.
Last month, Lynne sat down with with WBGO's Michael Bourne to talk about about her career and performances at 54 Below in New York on August 27 as part of the nightclub's WBGO Jazz Series. We would like to share this interview with you again now. Farewell, Gloria, we will miss you!
Melissa Aldana: The Crash Trio's Jazz en Español
October 9, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.
Add new comment | Filed under: Berklee, Interviews, Jazz Alive, The Checkout, Tim WIlkinsChilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana makes "jazz en español" with The Crash Trio, her group with Chilean bassist Pablo Menares and Cuban drummer Francisco Mela. The group performed live for a WBGO broadcast from the Berklee College of Music's Cafe 939 on Wednesday, October 9.
"Our way of relating with one another - our body language, and our jokes - are different," says Aldana, who won the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. "Latin Americans are very heartfelt, open, and tactile; that's what we're like, and it's a big part of what keeps the group together."
Aldana visited the WBGO studios ahead of this broadcast and spoke with Tim Wilkins - en español - about jazz in Chile, her early experiences in music and the group.
The daughter and grandaughter of jazz saxophonists, Aldana grew up in a house filled with music in Santiago, Chile, where she blew her first notes on an alto sax at age six.
She moved to Boston in 2006 to accept a Presidential Scholarship at Berklee. Mela was teaching there at the time, and Menares joined the group after she moved to New York in 2009.
While jazz legends like Wayne Shorter and Don Byas rank high on Aldana's list of influences, she also highlights Chilean folk musicians like Violeta Parra and Victor Jara, and even "chinchineros" - the musicians who play drums and dance for spare change on the streets of Chile.
"In downtown Santiago, it's very common to see chinchineros with drums on their back, as they play Andean rhythms while they spin around," says Aldana. "Pablo (Menares) wrote a song for The Crash Trio that incorporates these rhythms; that's one of the ways we're trying to bring these influences in to jazz."
For more of The Crash Trio, check back for archived audio from WBGO's broadcast of the group, and review the chat below from during the show. Enjoy!


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October 31, 2009, Birmingham, Ala. — DePauw jumped out to a 14-0 first-quarter lead and extended it to as many as 21 points on the way to a 35-21 win at Birmingham-Southern. The Tigers improved to 6-1 with their fifth straight win, while the Panthers dropped to 4-4.
The Tigers scored on their opening drive as Derrick Karazsia reached paydirt on a 2-yard run which capped a 6-play, 63-yard drive in the opening 3:06 of the contest.
DePauw needed just five plays to cover 80 yards on its next drive to extend the margin to 14-0 as Spud Dick teamed with Alex Koors (left) for a 62-yard score. The Panthers answered on their next series with quarterback Joe Thigpen rushing 33 yards with 1:10 left in the first to make it 14-7.
Dick's 5-yard pass to Mark Branigan with 2:12 left in the second quarter capped a 15-play, 73-yard possession which took 8:30.
Ryan Preuss picked off a Thigpen pass early in the third and Dick wasted little time in connecting with Koors for a 37-yard score on the first play from scrimmage to push DePauw's lead to 28-7 with 11 minutes remaining in the quarter.
Following Walter Arrington's 36-yard kickoff return which gave the Panthers the ball in DePauw territory, Thigpen scored on a 2-yard run to cut the lead to 28-14 with 7:30 left in the third. The score came on the play immediately following a pass interference call against the Tigers on fourth down.
Late in the third Chris Reeves picked off Dick's pass at the DePauw 49 and the Panthers needed seven plays to close the gap to 28-21 as Shawn Morris scored on a 22-yard run with 14:03 left in the game.
DePauw, ranked second in Division III time of possession, took 6:14 off the clock on their next series with Jon Ellis scoring on a 3-yard run which capped a 12-play, 67-yard drive and pushed DePauw's lead to 35-21.
The Tiger defense stopped Birmingham-Southern on downs at the DePauw 17 and the offense was able to run the clock down to 10 seconds and secure the win.
DePauw outgained Birmingham-Southern 355-306 and held a 323-172 advantage in passing yards. The Panthers picked up 19 first downs to DePauw's 18.
Dick completed 24 of 31 passes for 325 yards with three scores for his 13th career game of 300 or more passing yards. Bryan Mulligan caught seven passes for 61 yards and is now just one shy of tying DePauw's all-time receptions record of 195 held by Jay True (1977-80).
Brayden Dahlstrom had six grabs for 69 yards, while Koors hauled in five passes for 141 yards and two scores. The performance pushed Koors' receiving yardage total this year to 934 which is just 57 yards shy of tying the Tigers' single-season mark.
Thigpen completed 13-of-23 for 172 yards and also gained 42 rushing yards in 27 carries. Arrington led the Panthers with 53 rushing yards on 10 tries. Johnny Lawroski paced Birmingham-Southern with six catches for 61 yards and Arrington had five for 82 yards.
Defensively, the Tigers totaled 12 tackles for losses totaling 61 yards as they sacked Thigpen seven times. Tyler Doane and Ryan Woodard each had two sacks, while Alex Fitch, Scott Mason and Joshua Sturek had one apiece. Thomas Wrona paced the Tigers with 11 tackles, while Jonathan Lambert and Kyle Sherer added nine each.
Kyle Sebestyen totaled nine tackles for the Panthers with Cole Rudder adding eight. Victor Allen and Sam Bratt each had a sack as the Panthers' two sacks matched the effort of DePauw's previous six opponents combined.
DePauw wraps up Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play next Saturday when it hosts Austin College at 1 p.m. With a win DePauw can clinch at least a share of its third SCAC title.
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Who Is More Likely to Develop PTSD? Women Have More Sexual Trauma; Men Have Greater Combat Exposure
- Categorized in: Department of Defense (DoD), July 2011, PTSD, TBI, Women's Health
Paula P. Schnurr, Ph.D. |
The ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are enabling researchers to learn more about a question that has plagued them for decades: Is there a difference between men and women who serve in the military when it comes to incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Unfortunately, the jury is still out, according to Paula P. Schnurr, PhD, research professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, deputy executive director of the VA National Center for PTSD, and lead author of a ground-breaking study of women veterans and PTSD.1 "My study was done because women had not been included historically in studies of treatments for all conditions," she says.
In terms of the general population, in samples of all types and studies outside of North America, women are more likely than men to have PTSD — in fact, a twofold increase, according to Schnurr. "One source of this difference is that men and women experience different types of traumatic events," she explains. "For example, women are more likely than men to be victims of sexual violence, so they are more likely to have a PTSD-causing event. But, even when that is taken into account, women are more likely than men to have PTSD — although we do not have conclusive evidence of why."
Is the military different?
This difference may not apply in the military, however. "One interesting finding in meta analyses, prior to the current conflicts, confirm that this doubled rate does not apply in military samples. But the fact is that men and women, up until the current conflicts, had such different experiences in war zones," notes Schnurr. "Women had much less exposure to combat; they primarily had medical occupations."
Incidence of PTSD, she adds, might have to do with type of duty, or even the type of people involved. "Women who experienced sexual assault and not PTSD, and who were able to go through military training may simply be more resilient," she offers. "We did not have a good way to answer these questions until the current conflict, when women have more exposure to battle; it gives men and women comparable experiences in situations where they may be more likely to experience PTSD."
So far, however, the evidence has gone both ways, according to Schnurr. "There was a Rand Corporation study a couple of years ago that, when statistics were adjusted for background characteristics, women had more incidences of PTSD than one might have expected, given those other factors,"2 However, she adds, a more recent study that was published this spring said that men and women were equally likely to develop PTSD; even when both have combat exposure, men still have more. But women are more likely to have trauma outside of the military."
In fact, wrote the authors, "Though it was hypothesized that combat-related stressors would demonstrate stronger negative associations with post-deployment mental health for women, only one of 16 stressor × gender interactions achieved statistical significance, and an evaluation of the clinical significance of these interactions revealed that effects were trivial. Results suggest that female Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom servicemembers may be as resilient to combat-related stress as men."3
Another study supports that reviewing, showing that returning women veterans from OEF/OIF service had lower rates of PTSD than men.4 However, "the findings showed that women had more depression and men more alcohol abuse," adds Shira Maguen, PhD, assistant professor, University of California San Francisco Medical School, staff psychologist for the San Francisco VA Medical Center PTSD Program, and lead author of the study.
"The research seems to have contradictory findings, but I'm confident that, after further research, we will have better indications," notes Schnurr.
Maguen agrees. "Things will become clearer; as we move in time, there will be more studies," she says. One of the things that have been interesting in some recent studies is that they show that when it comes to rates of combat exposure in men and women the gap is decreasing; it could be that women will have greater and greater exposure to a factor that can increase the rates of PTSD."
She adds that the number of women's' clinics within VA is growing and has grown in the past few years. "It's important if you work with women veterans that you be aware of these findings," Maguen says. "There's already a lot of good evidence-based treatment going on, and you have to be attuned to that." >> Page 2
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There are some good 'resiliency' measures out there for both men and women. Also, PTSD may not manifest for many, many years. There are some articles, although not many, on women from the first Gulf War which indicates that PTSD and MST manifests in other forms such as GI problems, etc. I also think we need to be looking at the DOCTORS on base for sexual assaults.
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First-time OpenID users will be automatically assigned a username which can be changed after signing in.
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- By Michael Klesius
- Air & Space magazine, February 2009
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The Apollo 11 command module Columbia is clearly one of the National Air and Space Museum's crown jewels. Displayed in the Milestones of Flight gallery, Columbia is surrounded by Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1, and the North American Aviation X-15. While these aircraft hang high out of reach, Columbia is at ground level, and you can inspect every detail on the heat shield from just a nose away.
That's precisely what NASA engineers need to do as they plan a similar carbon-based heat shield, but one about four feet wider, for the new Orion crew exploration vehicle, which will take astronauts back to the moon. The engineers would like to handle old, proven material, and even rough some up in the lab. The heat shield on Columbia and those of all the manned Apollo craft are off limits, as these vehicles, displayed in museums around the country, are national treasures.
But, as Betsy Pugel suspected, the Smithsonian doesn't throw things away. Pugel, one of the scientists on the Orion heat shield project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and currently detailed to NASA Ames, doubles as a liaison between NASA and the Museum. Last spring she asked if there might be any Apollo heat shield material stored at the Paul E. Garber facility, the Museum's warehouse in Suitland, Maryland. The answer: four crates' worth. When she visited the warehouse in June, the collections staff pulled out an unused five- by two-foot manufacturing sample of Avcoat, the material used for Apollo. Made by contractor Avco, the sample was a glass- and quartz-reinforced epoxy injected into a hexagonal fiberglass honeycomb matrix several inches deep. "My jaw dropped," Pugel says. "It was a piece that gave us direct insight into how they did it back in the '60s. Seeing the real thing, in three dimensions, in color, goes beyond any documentation that we have." The Garber staff also brought out pieces of charred heat shields from the earliest Apollo flights. Orion's shield may end up similar to Avcoat, or a variation called Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator.
Pugel contacted Ethiraj Venkatapathy, flight system manager for the Orion Thermal Protection System's Advanced Development Project at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. In August, Raj, as his colleagues call him, arrived at Garber with a dozen engineers from Ames, Langley Research Center in Virginia, Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Textron Inc., the Rhode Island company that now owns Avco. The engineers were led to a warehouse and presented with blackened chunks of heat shields from two unmanned, suborbital Apollo missions: AS-201, a 37-minute shot on February 26, 1966, that reached an altitude of about 300 miles and landed in the south Atlantic Ocean, and AS-202, launched on August 25 of that year, a 93-minute flight to a 700-mile altitude that traveled three-quarters of the way around the planet and landed near Wake Island in the Pacific.
Despite the fact that the engineers were wearing surgical gloves, the scene was reminiscent of kids on Christmas morning. The visitors examined the material with the curiosity of problem-solvers and the excitement of enthusiasts handling history.
"The shuttle tiles experience about 40 watts of thermal energy per square centimeter on the underbelly side," said Raj. "The Orion thermal protection system will experience about 1,000 watts per square centimeter"—about 25 times the heat the shuttle encounters. A lunar mission will end with a reentry that is far faster than a shuttle reentry. The lunar craft's speed will create temperatures around 10,000 degrees Kelvin—hotter than the surface of the sun—just inches in front of the shield. Raj pointed at the charred material. "We didn't know if we could revive this technology."
Collections staff shipped several pieces to Langley, where they'll be tested for their ability to withstand friction with other hard surfaces, because Orion may touch down on land.
Steve Gayle, one of the Langley engineers, shook his head in amazement at the artifacts. "You can't see some things until you pick up a piece," he said. Gayle marveled at how engineers had fashioned the shield's outer edge, or shoulder, and how the panels of metallic honeycomb substrate beneath the outer ablative material were joined to one another and to the stainless steel bottom of the vehicle. Though Gayle had studied engineering drawings of the old shield, he says he now better appreciates the design and manufacturing features.
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NASA should also look to an earlier project Orion for ablation data. Historian George Dyson wrote in "Project Orion: The true story of the Atomic Spaceship" (Henry Holt & Co.) that ablation could be reduced to zero by coating the ablation shield with a layer of oil. This particular Orion used external nuclear explosions which compressed propellant against a pusher plate to power the ship forward. If the new Orion capsule is to be reused without replacing the ablation material, NASA would do well to examine the data on the originally named craft to see if oil could be the answer.
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What is hand-foot-and-mouth disease?
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is an illness that causes sores in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet, and sometimes the buttocks and legs. The sores may be painful. The illness usually doesn't last more than a week or so.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is common in children but can also occur in adults. It can occur at any time of year but is most common in the summer and fall.
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It is not the same as other diseases that have similar names: foot-and-mouth disease (sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease) or mad cow disease. These diseases almost always occur in animals.
What causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease?
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus called an enterovirus.
The virus spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. It can also spread through infected stool, such as when you change a diaper or when a young child gets stool on his or her hands and then touches objects that other children put in their mouths. Often the disease breaks out within a community.
It usually takes 3 to 6 days for a person to get symptoms of hand-foot-and-mouth disease after being exposed to the virus. This is called the incubation period.
What are the symptoms?
At first your child may feel tired, get a sore throat, or have a fever of around 101�F (38�C) to 103�F (39�C). Then in a day or two, sores or blisters may appear in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet, and sometimes the buttocks. In some cases a skin rash may appear before the blisters do. The blisters may break open and crust over.
The sores and blisters usually go away in a week or so.
In some cases there are no symptoms, or they are very mild. Parents may get the disease from their children and not even realize it.
How is hand-foot-and-mouth disease diagnosed?
A doctor can tell if your child has hand-foot-and-mouth disease by the symptoms you describe and by looking at the sores and blisters. Tests usually aren't needed.
How is it treated?
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease usually doesn't need treatment. You can use home care to help relieve your child?s symptoms.
- Offer your child plenty of cool fluids to help with sore throat. Cold foods such as flavored ice pops and ice cream also may help.
- Don't give your child acidic or spicy foods and drinks, such as salsa or orange juice. These foods can make mouth sores more painful.
- For pain and fever, give your child acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) or ibuprofen (such as Advil). Do not give your child aspirin. It has been linked to Reye syndrome, a serious illness.
Children are most likely to spread the disease during the first week of the illness. But the virus can stay in the stool for several months and may spread to others. To help prevent the disease from spreading:
- If your child goes to day care or school, talk to the staff about when your child can return.
- Wear latex or rubber gloves when you apply any lotion, cream, or ointment to your child's blisters.
- Teach all family members to wash their hands often. It is especially important to wash your hands after you change the diaper of an infected child.
- Don't let your child share toys or give kisses while he or she is infected.
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ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The owner of a local storage business who dressed a monkey statue in an anti-Obama T-shirt said Wednesday the statement was not racially motivated.
"It was not meant to be racial," business owner Rick Bond told Patch.
Bond, a former councilman and police officer, placed the statue in front of his Cedar Grove business, Don-Ric Self Storage at 405 Little Falls Road but removed it Tuesday afternoon after people started complaining.
"I absolutely never thought of it as racial," Bond said. "It's ridiculous."
The monkey statue sported a T-shirt saying "OMG Obama Must Go." The statue was in front of Bond's business for at least a few days.
Bond would not say who dressed the statue, but added it was previously dressed in a Mets jersey. He said the statue was put up to scare away geese from coming close to his business.
Because the statue is near Route 3, it caught the attention of several passers-by, some of whom posted photos of it on their Facebook pages.
But some residents said the statue was racist and depicting the president as a monkey was inappropriate.
Bond did not respond to these remarks Wednesday, but added, "The less I say, the quicker this will go away."
He refused to comment further and drove away.
But Bond's explanation didn't sit right with some critics.
Duncan Francis, a former Cedar Grove resident who grew up in the area, said he was very angry about the monkey statue.
"I'm outraged as a citizen and want to hold whoever is responsible for this racist act," Francis said.
He said he found out about the statue and T-shirt on Facebook.
"There was some Facebook commentary by people opposed to Obama's policies objecting to the statue's racist undertones," he said.
Francis said he's an Obama supporter, but "you don't need to be an Obama supporter to be outraged."
Tucci called the display "appalling."
Montclair resident Keith Brown, 34, agreed.
"It's hurtful," Brown said, "You think about where we are as a people and how far we've come and then you see something like this (so close to home)."
Brown said he works in Cedar Grove and, though he's not involved with the Obama campaign, he has attended many pro-Obama rallies in his hometown to show his support.
"It's messed up, regardless of how you feel about Obama," said 15-year-old Sam Nelan, who reported seeing the statue dressed in baseball attire between two and three weeks ago.
"There's not too much I remember about [Bond]," Township Manager Tom Tucci recalled about Bond. "He only served for a short time. I'm not even sure if it was a full term."
He said Bond did not seek re-election after his one term ended.
Peter Beton of Verona, who described himself as a 'Massachusetts Republican,' said, "Obama hasn't done anything he said he was going to do … but some idiot put that [statue] up."
"It's a little much, a little discriminatory," said Jessica Mondelli, 26. "He has the right to display it, though."
"I feel like businesses would try to stay out of anything political," said Lauren Saxer, 23, "unless they're trying to attract a specific group."
Thomas Reynolds, the president of the Montclair chapter of the NAACP said Tuesday the incident "smells like racism."
"It's incredible to think someone would've put up a statue of a monkey with a white man in the White House," he said, "and I hope the person would take a second look at the messages he's putting out."
Reynolds added Wednesday, "Anyone who doesn't realize what that (monkey statue) means isn't just insensitive," especially when they don't realize how it can be taken as racial.
Reynolds said Bonds needs to study American history to understand why African Americans consider this wrong.
There's a difference in putting up a statue to chase away birds, Reynolds said, and doing something anti-Obama.
Newark Patch Local Editor Paul Milo contributed to this report.


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A mother and child anxiously wait for business in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 26, 2013. (Sudipta Arka Das/Flickr)
A Bangladeshi man ties his pushcart beside the road during a nationwide strike called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Dhaka, Bangaldesh on May 26, 2013. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)
In the wake of the April tragedy at a Dhaka clothing factory, argues Asia 21 Fellow Ejaj Ahmad, foreign companies shouldn't leave Bangladesh, but should try instead to improve safety conditions.
A young socially-minded Bangladeshi photographer turns his lens on his country's garment factories and the workers who brave hazardous conditions in them to scrape together a living.
This Thursday, a nationwide celebration for Bangladesh takes on worldwide significance in the struggle to preserve native languages.
As protestors in Bangladesh's capital continue to rally for capital punishment of a 1971 Liberation War criminal, opponents retaliate by slaying an activist blogger.
After a week of protests in Bangladesh calling for the death of a 1971 war criminal, we take a look at the history that motivates thousands of people to demand capital punishment.
School girls form a human chain as they participate in a One Billion Rising rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 14, 2013. The one-day event called for one billion women around the world to walk away from their homes, businesses, and jobs, and join together in a show of collective strength. The word 'billion' refers to the one billion women who are survivors of abuse. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)


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The Characters (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
Because Margaret Atwood's purpose is to provide as much detail as possible about her imagined new country, the characters in The Handmaid's Tale are not provided with strongly individualized personalities. Offred reports on her experience in detail, but she has been an ordinary person before the changes brought about by the religious revolution. The daughter of an activist in the women's movement, she has gone to college, worked at a clerical job, and fallen in love with Luke, a married man; after his divorce, they marry and have a daughter. After their attempt to flee, Luke disappears, the daughter is taken from her, and Offred is sent to a school run by "Aunts," who train the surrogate-mothers-to-be in their new responsibilities.
The Commander is at first a menacingly shadowy figure, but he becomes more human as he invites Offred to participate in forbidden intimacies. He tries to win Offred's affection, since he gets none from Serena Joy, and he does so by offering Offred forbidden enjoyments: skin lotion, access to books and magazines which were supposed to have been destroyed, and information she is ordinarily denied. As she perceives, he wants to make her his mistress, an outdated conception in this society. In the end, he dresses her up in a skimpy costume and takes her to a former hotel in Boston, now a brothel for the powerful and for foreign visitors, where he shows her off and tries to make love to her. He mistakenly...
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Offred, a Handmaid to Fred, one of the Commanders in the Republic of Gilead. Deprived even of her name, she is known only in reference to her master, as "of Fred." Having already proven her fertility by giving birth to a daughter before the revolution, this thirty-three-year-old woman functions as a surrogate womb for Serena Joy, the infertile wife of the Commander. Other than her role as substitute womb, Offred has no standing in the community; she is a faceless entity, forced to wear a nunlike habit of red (for fertility), the headpiece of which prevents her from looking anywhere except straight ahead. Offred, like all women in Gilead except the wives of the Commanders, is allowed no recreation other than shopping for the household; thus, she spends many hours alone in her room staring at the walls. No women in Gilead are permitted to learn to read, nor are the Handmaids allowed to form friendships with anyone of either gender. Prior to the revolution, she had been a wife and mother, as well as working to support herself. Eventually, she forms quasi relationships with Nick and the Commander. Her one goal is to escape from Gilead and go north to Canada in search of her husband and child.
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The Commander, Fred, one of the leaders of the Republic of Gilead, the husband of Serena Joy, the "owner" of Offred, and the employer of Nick. A conservative man caught up in the strictures of his...
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As in her previous novels, Atwood has chosen a first-person female narrator for the story of the plight of a state "handmaid" reduced to a strictly biological destiny. The reader knows the narrator only as "Offred" in keeping with the Gileadean practice of renaming handmaids as the property of whichever commander they serve at the time (hence "Offred" literally means "of Fred"). Like other Atwood protagonists, Offred begins her narration in a state of psychic numbness, determined to keep from thinking about the nightmarish circumstances of her life. Having become a handmaid following a failed attempt to escape across the Canadian border with her husband and child (the former presumably now dead and the latter placed in an adoptive home with politically correct parents), Offred rejects the premises of the new order but attempts to comply with her captors' agenda. In her passivity, she serves as another of Atwood's studies in the psychology of victimization, and her slow renunciation of that stance creates the novel's central drama. In the course of the narrative she shows a growing willingness to risk rebellion on both emotional and political levels, despite the threat to her oft-voiced goal of survival. Offred cannot repudiate her emotional history, nor can she escape the tacit complicity of her generation in failing to challenge the patriarchal backlash against women's growing autonomy in the late twentieth century. But Offred also reveals herself to be an...
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The Commander
The Commander is a powerful figure in the Gileadean government. He is apparently sterile, although this is not confirmed because, according to law, only women are tested for being fruitful or barren. The first time the Commander is seen breaking the strict social structure is when he sends for the handmaiden to come to his office alone at night: it is arranged like a sexual rendezvous, but she finds to her amusement that he shyly asks her to play Scrabble. As her night visits to the office increase, she becomes increasingly informal with him, sometimes even correcting him, as when she tells him "Don't ever do that again," after he nearly becomes affectionate during the impregnation ceremony.
He acts amused when she shows strength. The gifts he offers her show that he underestimates her intelligence: skin lotion, glances through magazines, and a secret trip to a house of prostitution. These are all presented with the expectation that she will be delighted, with no recognition that she only accepts them because her life is so empty of stimuli.
At the house of prostitution, the Commander does finally force himself upon her sexually, mindlessly responding to the environment of degrading sexuality. His attempts to win the handmaid's approval are contrasted to the fear he has for his wife. In the end, when the their secret relationship has been found out, Offred sees him sitting behind the wife, looking harried and gray: "No doubt they're having a...
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The Commander's Wife
The Commander's Wife was once Serena Joy, the lead soprano on the Growing Souls Gospel Hour, a television program devoted to telling Bible stories to children. Throughout the story, Offred refers to The Commander's Wife as Serena Joy, although none of the other characters do.
Like 99 of 100 women in Gilead, the Commander's Wife has been found to be sterile. On account of her husband's high government rank, she is supposed to receive Offred's baby as soon as it is born. During the traditional fertilization ceremony, she holds the handmaiden between her legs while the Commander attempts to impregnate her. She cannot help being jealous, despite all of the rules built into the ceremony to make the relationship between her husband and the handmaid impersonal; when the ceremony is over, Serena Joy curtly tells the handmaid to leave, even though standing and walking will diminish the odds of fertilization.
In the end, she finds evidence that the Commander has taken the handmaid out of the house in makeup and frilly clothes, and the handmaid finds that her predecessor, the last Offred, hanged herself because Serena Joy found out about a similar arrangement. "Behind my back?" Serena Joy questions her. "You could have left me something." This raises the question of whether there was love in the cold relationship between the Commander and his wife after all. When the handmaid is taken away by uniformed guards, Serena Joy is angry but also panicky,...
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An old friend who knew the narrator well before the events of this novel take place, at least since college, Moira surfaces several times throughout the story as an emblem of resistance to the misogynistic, totalitarian state. She also is used to contrast the government's repressive attitude toward sexuality.
In college, Moira once hosted an exotic lingerie party, selling the sort of items that were sold at the Pornomarts before they were outlawed by the state. Later, after the narrator has been at the teaching center for handmaids for a few weeks, Moira shows up, having been arrested for "gender treachery," or homosexuality. She tries to escape from the Red Center by feigning illness, hoping to bribe the guards in the ambulance with sex. When they cannot be bribed, she shows up back at the center with her feet mutilated, causing the narrator to remember that an official has told them, "For our purposes, your hands and feet are not essential." Her second escape is successful; she makes a weapon from a part of the toilet mechanism and threatens the guard, Aunt Elizabeth, then takes Aunt Elizabeth's clothes and pass and walks out of the Center's front gate.
After eight or nine months underground, she is caught, and the narrator later meets her in Jezebel's, the house of prostitution. Moira is dressed in a tattered, lewd bunny costume. Despite the realization that prostitutes are often put to death in three or four years, Moira claims to like...
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We never learn the real name of the narrator of this story, although she reveals it to several other characters whom she trusts. She is officially known as "Offred." The name means that she is the possession "of the Commander, "Fred", as "Ofwarren" and "Ofglen" belong to Warren and Glen. This name can also be read as "off-red," indicating that she is not well-suited to her role as a red-uniformed handmaid trained at the Red Center.
When the novel begins, the narrator is already a handmaid, and has been "posted" at the Commander's house for five weeks. She is not supposed to express her individuality in any way; she cannot sing, ask questions, or in any way express unhappiness with her situation. Her mission is to become pregnant by the Commander, so that he and his wife will have a baby to raise as their own.
Her history comes out as the novel progresses: she had a husband and a child and worked as a librarian before the government was overthrown by right-wing fanatics and the rights of women were limited, supposedly for their own protection. Attempting to escape the country, she and her husband and child were captured by government troops, and she never saw her family again, although she thinks of them often throughout the novel. In the Republic of Gilead, she is intimidated, afraid to talk openly to the other handmaid, Ofglen, who is her companion, and is certainly afraid of confiding in any of the other members of her household.
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Nick is the Commander's chauffeur. He is an attractive young man about the narrator's age. He is not allowed to associate with the handmaid, but they defy the rules and start a physical relationship. On the night after the impregnation ceremony, the narrator goes downstairs to the sitting room of the house because she feels like stealing something. Nick finds her there, and in the silence they kiss and touch each other.
Nick functions as a messenger throughout her series of clandestine meetings with the Commander. When he wears his hat sideways, she knows that she is to go see the Commander that night. Later, the Commander's Wife arranges for the narrator to get to Nick's room safely at night in order to become pregnant by him, since it appears that the Commander is sterile. She keeps her affair with Nick going, sneaking to his room over the garage even without the approval of the Commander's Wife. Eventually Nick provides an escape from her enslavement. It is revealed that he is a member of the Mayday resistance group and takes her to safety.
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The woman referred to as "Ofglen" in this story is just one of a succession; the narrator knew an Ofglen before her, and at the end of the novel another Ofglen shows up in her place. When she first shows up in the novel, the narrator says, "She is my spy, as I am hers." They are mutually distrustful, carefully keeping conversation to officially-sanctioned topics, each unsure if the other will turn her in to the authorities as a subversive if she mentions forbidden topics. As the novel progresses, Ofglen turns out to be connected to the revolutionary group called "Mayday," a fact that she first hints at by commenting on the weather: "It's a beautiful May day."
Later, she speaks openly to the narrator about the underground movement, and reveals mysteriously that she knows about Offred's evening meetings in the Commander's office. She asks her to look through his paperwork and find anything that could help them fight against the government. When the handmaids attend a Salvaging, at which they are to beat a man to death with their hands for allegedly raping a pregnant woman, Ofglen rushes out in front and knocks him unconscious with kicks to the head. She later explains that he was not a rapist but a Mayday activist, and she was putting him out of his misery. The next day a new Ofglen shows up, explaining that the old one hanged herself when government agents were coming to take her away.
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Other Characters
Cora is a Martha, the housekeeper in the Commander's household.
Aunt Elizabeth
At the Red Center, Aunt Elizabeth is in charge of the less spiritual aspects of the training of the handmaids: she teaches gynecology and oversees discipline. When Moira escapes, it is Aunt Elizabeth that she ties up and strips of her clothes.
The handmaid who narrates this story refers to this character as "that whiney bitch Janine," and she is shown throughout this story to be annoying and pathetic. At the Red Center, when Janine tells the other handmaids-in-training about being gang-raped at age fourteen, they chant that it was her fault, that she led the boys on. The next week Janine announces that this rape was her fault. For the rest of the story she behaves as the model handmaid, is trusted as Aunt Lydia's spy when Moira escapes, and gives her baby up immediately after the delivery is over. Her compliance is achieved at the cost of her sanity: when the handmaids tear a man apart with their hands during the ritual called the Salvaging, Janine wanders around with blood smeared on her cheek and a clump of hair in her hand. Clearly delusional, she babbles cheerfully: "Hi there," "How are you doing?" "You have a nice day."
Luke was the husband of the narrator before the time in which this novel takes place. He had a daughter with the narrator. They were caught trying to escape from...
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Burlington vets Blowtorch ride again
Burlington's next great band is never far away — the city is teeming with them. When one act calls it quits, it's a safe bet that another will emerge shortly thereafter, often with similar membership, à la Chuch to Jésus Vanacho. Such is the musical melting pot that is the Queen City. The question, of course, is "Who's the next great band gonna be?" For this scribe's money, Burlington's best "new" band is a punkish little quartet called Blowtorch. Funny thing is, the group has been around, in one form or another, for more than a quarter-century.
The scene was the University of Vermont in the early 1980s. According to those who were there — this writer was not — Burlington's music scene was a far cry from the sprawling, vital community we're lucky enough to enjoy today. In those days, there were precious few clubs open to original bands, and even fewer original bands to fill them.
"There were no venues, no places to rehearse," says Clark Russell, Blowtorch's 47-year-old vocalist. Russell is recalling the early days of what would become a lifelong — so far — collaboration with guitarist Bill Mullins, 46. Exiled to a waste-storage room in the basement of UVM's Christie Hall, the duo's original band, No Fun, held impromptu Friday night shows for "stragglers into early punk songs."
Eventually, No Fun/Blowtorch branched out to all-ages nights at Burlington's Knights of Columbus Hall. Russell surmises that those early shows may have been the first hardcore and punk shows in the state; local punk legends The Wards also cut their teeth on those bills. "We were punks without earrings or tattoos," he says. "We sort of had our own niche that wasn't quite as harsh as what a lot of people think punk rock is." Still, legitimate venues and support were hard to come by.
Enter Nectar Rorris. Before he helped make Phish a household name, he lent the space above Nectar's — what would eventually become Border and then Club Metronome — to bands looking for homes. "[Metronome] wasn't even open," says Russell. "But Nectar would let us play and keep the door. And he'd keep the bar. It was sort of the only thing in town."
The band's first incarnation lasted until the mid-'80s, when Mullins moved to California. Following a trip to Egypt, the pair found themselves back in Burlington, and Blowtorch's second wave began. That version made it as far as a CMJ showcase appearance at New York City's iconic punk club CBGB's, with a then-unknown punk-fusion act, Living Colour. "I think Iggy Pop was there that night," muses Mullins, adding that he also slipped a demo tape to Joey Ramone.
After a brief re-emergence circa 2000 — with The Pants' front man Tom Lawson on drums — the Torchers again went their separate ways. Mullins continued to play in other local acts (Barbacoa, Chrome Cowboys) and Russell focused on performance art and sound collage with Safari 500 and Recon, respectively.
The band's latest manifestation was born this spring with bassist Kirk Flanagan and Swale's Jeremy Frederick on drums. "I'm not really sure why we got back together now," admits Mullins, seeming genuinely puzzled.
"I don't want to say revenge," injects Russell, chuckling and then mysteriously trailing off.
When attempting to describe Blowtorch's sound, the pair is slightly more effusive but, ultimately, just as vague. Mullins writes the music and collaborates with Russell on lyrics. But that doesn't make either terribly eager to try and define it. "I think the music has a more melodious aspect that sort of defies the category of 'punk,'" suggests Russell. "Although it's not pop-rock, either." Pausing for a moment, he quips, "metamorphic rock?" before he quickly rescinds the idea. But it might actually be pretty close to the mark. Russell goes on to lay out the band's longstanding credo: "No swear words. And no love songs." And that, too, could be a fairly apt description, in a minimalist, punkish sort of way.
While Blowtorch's current canon comprises a decent amount of new material, much of their repertoire consists of songs they've been playing for more than two decades. "I think being a little wiser makes us play with a little more conscientiousness," says Russell. "We've just learned what the strengths and weaknesses of the songs are. But there's a certain amount of not being aware that's a part of it, too. It's really experiential."
Whatever you want to call it, and whatever brought Blowtorch back for another round, area rock fans couldn't be happier. In a relatively short period of time — even for Burlington — the band has generated an impressive buzz. A recent performance at Speaking Volumes was easily an Art Hop highlight. Mullins, in typically unassuming fashion, delivered jaw-dropping riffs with little more flash than an occasional head bob. In contrast, Russell served up a perfectly spastic vocal performance brimming with more punk energy than most rockers one-third his age. Bruising but melodic, fearsome but fearless, Blowtorch are the best thing to happen to Burlington music since, well, the last time they were the best thing to happen to Burlington music.


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We will sign (Bowyer) 'Bowyer signs, official!'Moderators: Lost Hammer, bonehead, chalks, goes2eleven, Alf Garnett's (Ex) Missus, bristolhammerfc, Wheels, sicknote, Romford, Rio, Gnome, Northern Paulo What I want most is a very good player who will work hard for the team and make us a better unit. Must be good in the dressing room.If he can do that then I will be happy. Lets face it everyone of us works with someone who has conflicting views to us on certain things, we can make their lives a misery or we can get on with it. I am not trivialising racism which is a cancer which must be cut out of society but he was found not guilty, and working under this shady old justice system I have to go along with that.
BTW if anybody's interested, the conviction that Bowyer got as a teenager arose out of an incident at the McD's that is just off the Limehouse link. He was still at the Valley at the time of the incident, but was a Leeds player by the time he was sentenced.
IIRC, he pleaded guilty to a public order act offence after being arrested for smashing up the inside of the restaurant. I accept that he was pissed at the time, but the violence started because he refused to be served by a non-white member of staff. This was before the changes in the law that 1. Led to "racially aggravated offences" being charged 2. Led to a jury in a future trial knowing about background, so called "bad character provisions". Its speculation, of course, but would he have been acquitted if the Hull jury had known that he had behaved in a similar fashion before, as a teenager? I hope that the price for Bowyer doesn't deflect AP etc from other features of this proposed deal. I for one would be happier if he didn't play for us.
Re: We will sign nice one i take it that you saw yesterdays thread that AP was going to resign aswell !!!
To all those swinging the racist stick around, one of Lee Bowyers best mates is black. FACT. Doesn't mean he's selectively racist, but I doubt he's in the white hood brigade.
P.S Is it racist when we sing "I'd rather be a paki than a scouse" to Liverpool?
Did you know that the statement "I have black/asian mates" is racist... basically it suggests your mates are alright but you can't speak for the rest of them...
I'd have him back for that money.
Suppose we'll see the protests outside Upton Park again now about bringing a racist into an ethnic community. Twats, 99% of the ethnic locals have never set foot in Upton Park and are never likely too with or without Bowyer. :roll:
Course it is you fuckin idiot, True of course but definatley racist, As for Bowyer he was a fuckin teenager he was probably trying to look hard in front of his mates and made a bit of a cock of himself, he aint rascist, whereas that italian **** PDC definatley is you seem to love him still. Lee Bowyer is a mate of my 1st team player mates ( I know your all jealous) and will be here next week, in fact he is staying at his house on Friday and should sign Monday morning. So if your out arond Chigwell / Epping way at the weekend you might see him having a few beers. Mark my words it aint a wind up.
Does he prefer dry roasted to salted?
Course it is you fuckin idiot, True of course but definatley racist, But isn't the song bigging up pakis? So what if someones a scouse paki??
Not as sorry as I feel for that loony on Big Brother. Not doing wonders for the image of Pakistanis now, is he.....
Just got word from one of Lee Bowyer's best mates that Bowyer is on holiday in France at the moment.
And he (the mate) knows nothing about the transfer.
My Pakistani mate on big brother said you know **** all.
Can you imagine the scene in the dressing....
Bowyer "For fcuks sake Marlon play some decent music instead of that black rap ****" Silence.............. Last edited by hammerdivone on Tue May 23, 2006 4:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Sounds a bit fishy to me...
Going to put my trust in Pards on this one.
If we did sign him, them fair enough, a good squad player. If not, then I wont be too bothered.
[quote="Herts Iron"]Going to put my trust in Pards on this one.
If we did sign him, them fair enough, a good squad player. If not, then I wont be too bothered.[/quote] Ditto. He'll hopefully be a decent squad player for us. I don't see him knocking Mullins out of the side cos Hayden's probably one of our best players.
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