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EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of an in-depth special report on transgender issues. For full coverage, visit http://www.timesunion.com/transgender.
This is the second installment in a three-part series on Drew's journey. Click here for the final installment.
Click here for Part I.
MONTREAL — Drew Cordes was awake and heavily medicated when she was wheeled in a surgical bed to her private room on the first floor, four hours after riding an elevator to the second-floor operating room.
Her gender reassignment surgery was complete and represented crossing the finish line after a long, painful and costly marathon, a conclusion to the journey.
Drew now had a vagina. It was an act of finality. There was no going back.
The surgery seemed a momentous, life-changing moment. Do you feel different, Drew was asked.
"No, just about a half-pound lighter," she said, with characteristic sardonic humor.
Her parents, who had been hovering in a state of high anxiety, grinned and a flood of relief crossed their faces as they observed Drew being Drew.
"God, you look good," her mom, Janet, said, brushing back tears and kissing Drew's pale, freckled forehead. She is a sensitive mother, crying early and often throughout the surgical ordeal.
Drew was feeling no pain. A powerful epidural that numbed her from the waist down in advance of surgery had not yet worn off.
"I don't know what's going on down there," she told her parents, indicating a heavily bandaged groin area beneath a fluffy pillow covering her mid-section.
It was just after 4 p.m. Her parents discussed painkillers with a nurse and mentioned Drew's adverse reaction to some medications, including morphine, the post-operative drug of choice here.
"I want Percocet," Drew said. The nurse said they don't give Percocet and suggested Dilaudid or Oxycodone. Drew chose Oxy.
The nurse left to confer about the painkiller. Drew's parents reminisced about her low threshold for pain, which they attribute in part to her redheadedness. They recalled Drew suffering terribly through wisdom teeth extraction and electrolysis.
They wanted to coddle their only child, but Drew is cerebral and aloof and definitely not a hugger — not before and not after surgery.
Drew got out her laptop and resumed watching the Bugs Bunny "Rabbit Seasoning" episode that surgery had interrupted. The cartoon featured cross-dressing and "pronoun trouble." It was the digital equivalent of comfort food. They smiled and chuckled at funny lines they all memorized long ago.
Drew's mother and father, John, paused to talk in low voices outside her room, to reflect on how far Drew had come and what they had learned from Drew about her transition following counseling with Albany family therapist Arlene Lev. When Drew was having a particularly rough time, she asked her mom to join her at a therapy session.
"Drew doesn't let us into her world very much," her mom said, tears filling her eyes. "We learned in therapy how much courage it took her to transition. We've just tried to support her all along the way."
"Drew's really amazing. I'm so proud of her," her dad said.
A short while later, Dr. Maud Belanger, the attending plastic surgeon, talked about Drew's procedure. "It went really well, there were no complications and very little bleeding," said Belanger, who worked alongside the lead plastic surgeon and her mentor, Dr. Pierre Brassard, throughout the 1-hour-and-45-minute procedure. Excessive bleeding is the most common short-term complication.
Drew's post-operative recovery was expected to be routine. Follow-up care includes removing some of the surgical dressing after four days. After six days, vaginal packing sewn up inside is removed, followed the next day by removal of the catheter and the patient's first experience of urinating as a woman.
"The surgery is hard technically and it's still very much an art," said Belanger, 31, who has spent 10 years working with Brassard on hundreds of gender reassignment surgeries and related procedures offered at the Montreal hospital including Adam's apple shaving, voice surgery, breast augmentation and plastic surgery for face and body feminization.
"It's still exciting to provide this surgery because patients describe it as the greatest moment of their lives," Belanger said. "They talk about how they couldn't live their lives fully before. They're so grateful after the surgery."
Complaints have faded and Canadians have gradually accepted gender reassignment surgery and the fact that the government foots the bill, she said. The medical community has been slower to come around. "Other plastic surgeons still think of what we do as a little weird," Belanger said.
For the patient, severe pain, bruising and general discomfort for days after the male-to-female procedure are common. And the female-to-male gender-reassignment surgery is even more difficult surgically, with a longer recovery period. It takes about six hours of surgery for an F-to-M procedure, roughly three times longer than M-to-F, Belanger said. Still, the number of F-to-M procedures has grown fivefold in the last few years, to about 20 per year, and the average age of patients is falling. That F-to-M number still represents only about 10 percent of the roughly 200 M-to-F surgeries they perform annually in Montreal. Although a large number of patients come from the U.S. and as far away as Japan, about 80 percent are from Canada, where the procedure is covered by public health insurance in most of the provinces where patients live. Other procedures such as breast augmentation and electrolysis are considered cosmetic and are not covered in Canada.
Drew's gender reassignment surgery was covered by her employer's health insurer, CDPHP, which only began covering the procedure about three years ago after losing a claim challenge. A clear policy citing medical necessity was developed and requests for coverage are considered on a case-by-case basis, a CDPHP spokeswoman said. CDPHP covers the series of organ surgical procedures only and does not cover cosmetic or enhancement surgery.
CDPHP's policy states that the potential patient must be at least 18 years old and diagnosed with a gender identity disorder as defined by standard medical texts. The prospective patient must have undergone counseling and is required to have lived and worked as the other gender for a period of time. A second therapist is then required to confirm the diagnosis to ensure the person does not have any conflicting mental health issues.
Surgical costs range from $15,000 to $20,000, but no providers within the CDPHP network perform the surgery, so patients must seek care outside the Capital Region. Other regional health insurance plans that also cover the surgery include Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, CIGNA, EmblemHealth, Anthem and United Healthcare.
By 6 p.m., four hours after surgery, Drew was wiggling toes and moving her still-numb feet for the first time. There was also a dull pressure, the start of the epidural beginning to wear off. Pain was starting to surface. Drew asked to be left alone. She was tired and wanted to sleep. Her parents said their goodbyes, kissed her on the cheek, made plans to return early the next morning. They headed for their nearby hotel.
As Drew slept, fitfully, Rilke's terrifying angel stole into the room.
The next morning, a Tuesday, whimpers of pain floated out of the open doorway and into the hall, trailed by a child-like high-pitched keening.
Drew's white knuckles gripped the hospital bed railings, a plastic tube snaking from her arm to an IV bag.
A copy of Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," an 1,100-page epic, lay untouched on a beside table.
"It's really bad pain. Really bad," Drew managed to hiss through clenched teeth. A nurse entered and asked Drew to describe the pain on a scale of 1 to 10.
"It's an 11, a (expletive) 11," Drew croaked in a low, masculine voice. Her face was a pale mask of pain, with splotchy skin and hair plastered to her forehead with sweat. She was beyond worrying about a female vocal presentation.
The nurse said she couldn't administer any more pain medication for another 30 minutes because Drew was at the maximum the dosage.
Her mom stroked Drew's forehead and made cooing noises meant to soothe her. She leaned over her daughter's writhing body, closed her eyes and extended a hand, passing the palm a few inches above the surgical area in a healing motion.
"It's going to be a tough day," her mom said.
"Yeah," Drew said.
Her father pushed back his Red Sox cap and rubbed a hand over his scalp.
An hour later, around 11 o'clock, Drew had stopped crying and the painkiller was kicking in. She said the pain had subsided to an 8 out of 10.
Three nurses entered the room and announced they were going to get Drew out of bed and make her walk. It's standard post-op protocol. "That's not a good idea," Drew said, looking toward her parents.
The nurses indicated it was not negotiable. They asked her parents, a reporter and photographer to step outside while they helped Drew out of bed.
Her mom went to a corner of the waiting room and dabbed a tissue at red, puffy eyes. She said Drew had texted her at 8 a.m. and pleaded for her mom to come right away.
"Drew never does that. I knew she was in pain then," her mom said.
"To go through that kind of pain shows me she had no choice," her dad said. "This was Drew's essence all along. She absolutely had to be a woman."
We heard shrieks and moans and glimpsed the scene through a doorway as Drew stood, nearly buckled under her weight, and shuffled forward a few feet. She cursed with each movement.
"My voice has gone to crap," she said. "I know I couldn't pass (as a woman) right now."
"Oh, come on Drew. That's the last thing you need to worry about at this point," her mom said.
Drew moved haltingly around the bed, bent over and whimpering at the intense pain in her groin.
It's a movement common to post-op patients recovering at the facility, who have coined a term for it: "the Montreal shuffle."
At least Drew did not also bear a telltale bandage at the throat, as other male to female transgender patients at the Montreal clinic did. It's the mark of an Adam's apple shaving surgery, a common feminization procedure done at the clinic that Drew, who does not have a prominent one, did not need.
It was May 31. Drew would spend most of her time until the June 8 discharge with other transgender people recovering at a quaint bed-and-breakfast next to the hospital. The house is called L'Asclepiade, after the milkweed plant, a wildflower on which monarch butterflies feed.
The house is filled with images of butterflies, a metaphor for Drew's transition from a he to a she.
As the reporter and photographer got ready to leave the afternoon after surgery, a Tuesday, I asked if she felt she had undergone a metamorphosis, received her wings and was ready to soar as it were.
Drew fixed me with a dark stare.
"Please," she said, and rolled her eyes. "I don't believe in that butterfly crap."
Give her the "terrifying angel"— an image that symbolizes the ineffable depths of existence — from Rainer Maria Rilke's metaphysical poetry any day.
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John Nicholas Ringling (1866-1936)
The man who would one day build a great circus empire was born on May 31, 1866 in McGregor, Iowa, to August Ringling, a German immigrant harness maker and his wife, Marie Salomé Juliar. He was the second youngest in a family of seven brothers and one sister.
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In 1905, John married Mable Burton in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was thirty-nine; she was thirty. Two years later the Ringling brothers bought the Barnum & Bailey show for $410,000. It proved a fortuitous investment, as they became the "Kings of the Show World".
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Note: The tender leaves of broccoli rabe and Swiss chard can replace the broccoli; cooking time remains the same. From Joyce White.
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Carbohydrates 8 g Saturated fat 1 g Calcium 56 mg
Protein 4 g Cholesterol 0 mg Dietary fiber 3 g
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• 2 to 3 tbsp. chopped parsley or cilantro
• 2 tsp. soy sauce, or more if desired
• 1/2 c. light toasted peanuts or cashew nuts
Cut the chicken into 1/2 -inch thick by 2-inch strips (discard skin, if preferred). Pat the chicken dry with paper toweling. Sprinkle chicken with salt and black pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large heavy skillet, preferably a cast-iron pan.
When oil is hot, add about half of the chicken strips and sear until lightly browned for 2 or 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove chicken from pan with a slotted spoon when seared. Add another tablespoon of oil and sear the remaining chicken in the same way, and remove from pan.
Reduce heat to medium low and add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil to skillet. Stir in garlic, chile pepper, bell pepper, parsley or cilantro and soy sauce. Return chicken to pan, raise heat again, and sauté, stirring for about 3 to 5 minutes, or until the peppers are tender and chicken is cooked through. Toss with peanuts or cashews.
Nutrition information per serving with peanuts (no chicken skin):
Calories 460 Fat 28 g Sodium 546 mg
Carbohydrates 7 g Saturated fat 5 g Calcium 40 mg
Protein 43 g Cholesterol 106 mg Dietary fiber 2 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 1 vegetable, 6 lean meat, 2 fat.
Serves 4.
Note: From Joyce White.
• 1 head red or green leaf lettuce, or a mixture of both
• 1 or 2 eating apples, such as Empire, Gala, Macoun or Red or Golden Delicious, unpeeled
• 1/2 lb. feta cheese or goat's cheese, or more if desired
• 1 c. shelled pecan halves or shelled pistachio nuts, or mixture of both
Salad dressing:
• 1/2 c. grapeseed or olive oil
• 2 or 3 tbsp. lemon or lime juice
• 2 to 3 tbsp. cider vinegar
• 1 or 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 1 tsp. spicy brown mustard
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
Rinse the lettuce 2 or 3 times making sure that it is free of grit. Drain and spin in a lettuce spinner if available, dry with paper toweling and then wrap in a towel and chill for at least an hour.
When ready to serve, cut apple into thin slices, discarding core and seeds.
Dice the cheese. Combine lettuce, apple, cheese and pecans or pistachio nuts or a mixture of nuts in a large bowl.
In a small bowl or jar, combine oil, lemon or lime juice, vinegar, garlic, mustard, salt and pepper. Beat briskly with a fork or whisk or shake vigorously to combine. Pour a generous amount of the dressing over the lettuce and apple and other ingredients and toss; serve immediately.
Nutrition information per serving:
Calories 520 Fat 48 g Sodium 760 mg
Carbohydrates 14 g Saturated fat 12 g Calcium 330 mg
Protein 12 g Cholesterol 50 mg Dietary fiber 4 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 1 vegetable, 1/2 fruit, 1 1/2 medium-fat meat, 8 fat.
Makes 2 cups.
Note: From Joyce White.
• 2 c. shelled pecans, walnuts, almonds, pistachio or Brazil nuts, or mixture of nuts
• 2 tbsp. grapeseed, safflower or coconut oil
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• Sprinkling of black pepper
• 2 to 3 tbsp. finely chopped fresh herbs, preferably mixture of rosemary, thyme and basil
• 1/2 tsp. (or less) crushed red pepper flakes or chile powder
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a medium bowl combine nuts, oil, salt, black pepper, herbs and red pepper flakes or chile powder, and stir well so as to coat the nuts all over. Set aside.
Lightly oil a large roasting pan. Scatter the seasoned nuts in the pan, arranging in one layer.
Set the pan on the lower oven rack and bake the nuts for 15 to 20 minutes or until just lightly toasted, stirring and turning over with a large metal spoon a couple times.
When lightly browned, immediately remove the pan of nuts from the oven, set it to cool on a wire rack, and then move nuts from the pan to a serving dish or jar.
Nutrition information per serving (with pecans):
Calories 205 Fat 21 g Sodium 150 mg
Carbohydrates 4 g Saturated fat 2 g Calcium 24 mg
Protein 2 g Cholesterol 0 mg Dietary fiber 3 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: 1/2 bread/starch, 4 fat.


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Sometimes it's just not the right time, you know? And sometimes it's the perfect time. Sometimes the perfect time is a little ironic. After all, The Corrections was written before 9/11, before the sub-prime mortgage crisis, when financial products were replacing technology losses. The hit shows back then were Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, ER, Friends, Touched By An Angel (???), and Everybody Loves Raymond. One decade later and, well, another economic correction is underway, with the kind of pop culture spotlight that makes it tangible to a television viewer. Mirror that with the fractured family struggle and I think we might now have a much more receptive audience.


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Students nationwide are encouraged to submit an entry (photo collection, music, video, essay, or photos of a diorama, collage or piece of artwork) that illustrates the vision of how they'd make their school a greener place. "Since every school bus has the capacity to take 36 cars off the road, school bus transportation is inherently ecofriendly. As part of their contest entry, we would like students to demonstrate how their school is committed to green transportation," McKinney added. Contest details and entry guidelines are available at AmericasGreenestSchool.com.
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Mas de l'Ecriture – Grapes at harvest
Pech d'Andre – The last grenache grapes coming in
Clos Romain- Density measurements of young juice
Clos des Fées – Harvesters take a break in the Roussillon
Domaine la Rabidote – Photo of slate terroir
Les Vignerons de Maury – Dramatically lit wine chai
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These days it seems as though most women have some sort of problematic relationship with food and their bodies. They may avoid carbs, fat, or calories. Perhaps they're in the gym three hours a day to burn off their breakfast, or they're vomiting, or using appetite suppressants. Perhaps they look in the mirror and see a large, bloated stomach and monstrous thighs while in reality an average or even slim build is reflected.
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However, let's place this in a cultural context by looking at the average American diet. If a health-conscious individual is living in a community riddled with fast-food chains, they may well look like the odd one out at social gatherings. They may not be super-excited about eating their steamed kale and pasture-raised chicken while everyone else is chowing on fried chicken and french fries, and their diet may isolate them from others. This is less likely to be orthorexia (although it still could be) and more likely to be a cultural mismatch.
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Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox and a former fellow at CityLab. He lives in New York.
"There Goes the Nabe: Up, Up, Up," a New York Times article from 2003, is about what happens when celebrities move into your neighborhood. But the headline, perhaps unknowingly, tells another story: the relatively recent ascent of the word "nabe," which, as my colleague Sara Johnson noted, seems to have come out of nowhere to become common parlance in today's media (and even headline material in the linguistically conservative New York Times).
Real-estate blogs like Curbed rely heavily on "nabe." The Chicago Tribune has used the word, as has the Dallas Morning News and the Salt Lake Tribune. Generally, these publications do so "unglossed": without placing nabe in quotation marks or defining it in running text, indicating its general acceptance. There's a national website for house-hunters called NabeWise.
It turns out nabe is not, as I had cynically hypothesized, a word invented by the incoming urbanites of the '90s and the real estate brokers who found them apartments. Nabe was not, at least initially, intended as a deracialized alternative to our more common shortening of neighborhood: "hood." So where did nabe come from, and why do we use it? Is there a difference between the way we use nabe and hood? Should there be?
Finding the origins of nabe proved easier than explaining its current popularity. Its most common meaning for most of the 20th century – first recorded in Variety in 1933 – was as a neighborhood theater, as in the New Yorker's "They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes" (1970, via the OED).
But the evolution of nabe as neighborhood was harder to pin down. I called Kory Stamper at Merriam-Webster, who tracked its uses over time and reported that the current meaning of "neighborhood" appears frequently in Billboard from the '40s through the '60s, often used as an adjective – "nabe houses, nabe theaters, nabe sports." I also reached out to Visual Thesaurus executive producer and Boston Globe columnist Ben Zimmer, who dug up the earliest use he's aware of: a 1922 Denver Post story that refers to a "nabe gym," easily predating the word's 1942 appearance in the American Thesaurus of Slang, the first example registered by the OED.
After the '60s, Stamper says, the word starts to disappear, its decline in sync with that of urban America in the 1970s, and the exodus from the urban pocket districts to which nabe usually referred. By the late '70s, Francis Clines was able to pass off "nabes" in the New York Times as "humble, darkly reliable taverns that dress up a man's spirit like old clothes and let him stare Byronically into a glass." For a while, it seemed that the "nabe" as neighborhood, like the American city itself, would just drop dead.
At that same, turbulent time, the back-end shortening of neighborhood emerged from the black neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. (Hood as neighborhood, by the way, is not related to the homonym meaning thug -- the latter is short for hoodlum and dates from the 1880s.) Helped along in the popular imagination by countless gangsta rap verses and movies like Boyz in the Hood and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinkin' Your Juice in the Hood, "the hood" came to define inner-city black neighborhoods from the South Bronx to Compton.
The nabe wave, meanwhile, had receded to Brooklyn, where nabe was kept "on life support," as Stamper puts it. She points out a New York magazine article from 1976 about Bensonhurst that referred to the "young bulls of the 'nabe.'" The quotation marks peg the term as Brooklynese, as a localism no longer of national recognition. In the 1983 piece "Booming Brooklyn Starts to Get Some Respect" -- yes, those stories have been running for that long -- U.S. News and World Report wrote that Brooklyn was distinguished by "what its residents call 'da nabes', the two dozen or so ethnic neighborhoods that distinguish it from Manhattan's concrete canyons."
Nabe's Brooklyn-based resurgence seemed equivocal about race – at first. In the New York piece, the nabe is white, Italian-American Bensonhurst (where Saturday Night Fever was filmed), but Gerri Hirshey used nabe in the New York Times Magazine in 1993, in an article called "Snooty Dame at the Block Party," to refer to black Brooklyn as well:
"We like the things of the black people," one of the Japanese women tells me at Phat Farm. And while that's long been true, while Japanese kids were torturing their heads with Afros back in the 70's, never before has black street style gotten its propers, with entrepreneurs like Simmons and Spike Lee making and selling the stuff of the nabe.
Yet as the popularity of the word "nabe" exploded in the '90s, it was as an alternative to hood, with little overlap. One of the first authors to use the word repeatedly in the mainstream media was Robert Lipsyte in a mid-'90s New York Times column. He thought he had invented it. "When I was doing the column," Lipsyte says, "It didn't make sense to call the neighborhood around Union Square 'the hood' -- it was too faux-urban." In 1995, Craig Marks used nabe in a Spin cover story on Green Day (the band's three members grew up in the suburbs of Oakland).
Michael Newman, a professor of linguistics at CUNY, also made that connection. He saw nabe used generally in connection to wealthy and gentrified "Brownstone Brooklyn." "It seems to me that if it's being used to refer to those neighborhoods," he explains, "it's not referring to the ones that might be called hoods."
These days, though, the word "hood" seems to be gentrifying nearly as fast as its brick and mortar counterparts. Curbed – and they're not alone in this – recently called the Upper East Side a "'hood" in reporting its status as one of the most expensive places in the world to live. I doubt the use of a word born of the South Side projects for the UES was intended to sound ironic, but I also don't think that either the distinction between "a hood" and "the hood" or the winking apostrophe alters the word's cultural significance. Rather, to some readers and writers, the original sense seems to be lost, and perhaps irrelevant, rubbed away by time and frequent use. To others, no doubt, calling an up-and-came neighborhood a "hood" imparts a coveted sense of black authenticity. Sometimes, it's just funny. And though "hood" seems like so obvious a shortening of neighborhood that there's no point arguing over its provenance, nobody ever used it as such until a black Chicago gang -- the Blackstone Rangers -- did so in the 1960s.
You can pick any correlation you like for the source of the nabe renaissance of the early '90s—there's no consensus among linguists. There was no famous editorial, blockbuster, or summer radio jam that popularized its use. It just found its way into the words of writers writing more and more about neighborhoods, at a time when "hood" was not something you could with a straight face call the Upper East Side, or as Lipsyte found, the East Village.
These days, hood and nabe may be converging, but they don't mean the same thing yet. The nabe, as in NabeWise -- "Get started and meet your perfect neighborhood!" -- is a place you try to live. The hood is still a place you try to leave. The adjective "hood" refers to something characteristic of the impoverishment of black inner-city neighborhoods, as in the 2002 album Hood Rich, by the rap group Big Tymers. Nobody would substitute "hood grocery" for "neighborhood grocery." And Jay-Z, who grew up in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects, advertised his success in "Empire State of Mind" by boasting about leaving the hood for a new nabe, TriBeCa: "Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn / now I'm down in TriBeCa / Right next to De Niro / But I'll be hood forever."
What holds the words apart is history. Nabe escaped our cities in the late '60s before returning, with everyone else, in the '90s. Hood was there the whole time.
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To anyone interested, I am doing a video series on it, link in my sig. Though I strongly suggest you try it yourself for the full "experience". It can be trippy. Challenge mode, play with wire frame while drunk or using 360 degree view. Now THAT would be interesting to see.
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Robert Wood, Elliot Lake mall inspector, wants partial report ban
The discredited engineer charged in the collapse of a northern Ontario mall is asking for a judicial inquiry into the disaster to keep secret some of its report until the criminal proceedings against him are over.
In an unusual move, Robert Wood notified the commission of his intent to bring a formal application for the redactions of any material in the final report relating to him to ensure he gets a fair trial.
In response, Commissioner Paul Belanger on Tuesday ordered Wood to provide the commission details of his arguments, including any legal justification, for the secrecy request by May 16.
Belanger said he would make the application and its supporting materials public.
In January, provincial police charged Wood with two counts of criminal negligence causing death and one of causing bodily harm.
Evidence before the inquiry was that he had declared the crumbling Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake to be structurally sound just weeks before part of its roof-deck parking lot collapsed in June 2012. Two women died in the cave-in.
In his order, Belanger said anyone involved in the inquiry, which wrapped up hearings in October, as well as Crown lawyers or media, will have an opportunity to make submissions on Wood's application, if they provide written notice by May 23.
The hearing on the application will take place in Ottawa on June 20, Belanger said.
Wood's lawyer Rob MacRae said Tuesday he would not discuss the application until after he had filed the requested materials with the commission.
However, in his letter to the commission, he said the "grave" charges Wood, 65, faces are punishable by life.
"The interim value to the public of the information regarding Mr. Wood contained in Justice Belanger's final report will be dramatically less than the prejudicial result to Mr. Wood," the letter states.
Commission counsel said it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage.
Wood changed final inspection report
The inquiry probing the causes of the collapse that killed Doloris Perizzolo, 74, and Lucie Aylwin, 37, and the emergency response to the situation heard from about 125 witnesses over 117 days.
Evidence was that the roof-top garage of the poorly designed structure leaked from the beginning and decades of water and salt penetration caused severe rusting of its steel supports.
Ultimately, a weld subject to years of corrosion snapped, sending one vehicle and concrete crashing into the mall below.
Wood, who had declared the centre structurally sound, admitted on the stand to changing his final inspection report that minimized the extent of the problems at the mall after he and his partner signed off on it.
The changes were made at the request of the mall owner Bob Nazarian, who was unhappy the mall would look bad when he was trying to get refinancing for it, Wood testified.
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As early voting in Illinois begins Monday, Chicago-area election officials say a record number of ballots could be cast before Election Day.
But that increase isn't expected to come from early voting centers alone.
Election officials also are predicting strong surges in the number of votes sent by mail, an option that state law has made much more convenient since the 2008 presidential election.
Previously, voters could only send in their ballot with a stamp if they had an excuse, such as being out of town on Election Day. Now, not only can voters choose to vote by mail as a preference, but campaigns are allowed to solicit them by sending vote-by-mail request forms. Potential voters then can fill out their ballots and send them to their local election authority.
With little more than two weeks before the election, the changes have led Chicago and suburban Cook County to exceed the number of mail votes cast in 2008. In the city, there have been 23,000 mail votes so far, about 1,000 more than four years ago. In suburban Cook, the 30,000 mail votes cast are 3,000 more than in 2008.
"There's no doubt we're expecting a lot of people to vote early, but whether the early voting goes as gangbusters as it did four years ago is hard to say," said Cook County Clerk David Orr. "But I believe this: Between the combination of vote by mail and early voting, we'll have more people vote before Election Day than ever before."
In DuPage County, about 12,000 voters cast ballots by mail in 2008, but this year the county is expecting 40,000.
Early voting trends were identical in Chicago, suburban Cook and DuPage four years ago: 24 percent of the ballots cast came from early voting centers.
Election officials are sensing the same strong interest in early voting this year, and a change in state law will allow voters to procrastinate even more this time around.
Previously, early voting started a week earlier but ended the Thursday before the election. State lawmakers decided to scrap the first week of early voting, when turnout typically was modest. In exchange, they extended early voting through the Saturday before the election. This year, that's Nov. 3.
Adding those two days during a period when early voting is its heaviest has the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners "cautiously optimistic" that the city will exceed its number of early votes from 2008, said spokesman Jim Allen.
Four years ago, millions of voters across the country grew more accustomed to making their choices before Election Day when campaigns — President Barack Obama's in particular — encouraged and even bused voters to cast ballots early.
This year, that practice will become routine for many voters, said Bob Saar, executive director of the DuPage County Election Commission.
"Once people early vote, they clearly like it," he said. "That has been the trend nationwide."
The city's Allen suggested the stark differences between the presidential candidates also could help boost the early votes.
"Early voting is always reflective of how many people have made their minds up, and if you believe the polls, there are very few people who are undecided out there," he said. "A lot of people already have made their decision, so we're bracing for a very solid push on early voting."
That eagerness was illustrated when hundreds of Chicago voters showed up to early voting centers last week ready to cast ballots after hearing reports of early voting under way in other states, Allen said.
Election officials stressed that those who wish to vote early must present a government-issued ID, which is not required on Election Day. They also reminded voters they can vote early at any location within their voting jurisdiction.
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The term soul ( soul ) was defined as a movement of American blacks in the struggle for their rights during the time of slavery in the United States. Believers American slave owners then tried to legitimize the murder of blacks, claiming that they, as animals do not have souls and therefore the First commandment of Christ is not broken. Black ideologues have made the existence of the soul niggers major moment in the struggle for survival. The result was the soul of the brotherhood. and American blacks began to call each other soul brothers or just the word soul. Continue reading


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The EU and its Member States took further important steps in the protection and promotion of fundamental rights last year, as FRA's just-released summary of its Annual report highlights.
This year's Annual report summary – Highlights 2013 – puts the spotlight on key legal and policy developments in the field of fundamental rights in 2013. These include new international commitments, legal reforms and innovative policies on the ground. For example, last year the EU carried out important legal reforms in the area of asylum, while Member States continued transposing the EU Victims' Directive into national law and pursued their national Roma integration strategies.
While pointing to important to legal and policy developments, the summary also acknowledges the realities on the ground resulting from the rising tide of migration at sea, crisis-driven austerity measures, extremism, child poverty, Roma deprivation and mass surveillance operations.
The Annual report spans areas such as: asylum, immigration and integration; border control and visa policy; information society, respect for private life and data protection; the rights of the child and the protection of children; equality and non discrimination; racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; access to justice and judicial cooperation; and rights of crime victims. It also provides an overview of international human rights obligations of the EU and its Member States (also summarised online for ease of reading) and how the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is being used by national courts as the Charter approaches its fifth anniversary as a legally-binding document.
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