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Police looking for a missing mum-of-three thought to have been murdered say her body could have been moved from its initial hiding place.
Rania Alayed, 25, from Cheetham Hill in Manchester, has not been seen in public since the evening of June 7 and was reported missing from her home nearly a month later.
Extensive searches of land off the A19 near Thirsk, North Yorkshire - including the use of forensic experts and military know-how - have drawn a blank in the investigation into her disappearance.
But it is believed she was taken in a white camper van in the early hours of June 8 from Manchester to Thirsk, where her body was buried or concealed.
Detectives think the Leyland DAF 200 vehicle stopped at a lay-by on the northbound carriageway of the A19 but the exact location is not known.
Detective Chief Inspector Pete March, overseeing the search for her body for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), showed her uncle Ali Aydi around the muddy fields by the lay-bys where police have been searching.
Mr Aydi, a Syrian living in Lebanon, left a simple bouquet of flowers near one possible site where his niece may have been dumped.
Afterwards Mr March said: "It took us three or four weeks before we knew Rania was dead from the time she was killed.
"We believe her body was brought here.
"The question I have got to ask is, 'has she been moved in that four-week period'?
"It may well be after June 8, you might have seen someone in these fields, in these lay-bys, something suspicious or out of the ordinary."
It would probably have taken two people to move the body and they would have required a large suitcase or some carpet to conceal her, he said.
"It would be out of the ordinary, it would not be someone just nipping into the bushes for a call of nature."
Mr Marsh said he was disappointed not to have found Ms Alayed yet, but insisted the evidence pointed to her being dumped at an A19 lay-by near Thirsk.
He added: "GMP has a history of looking for dead people long, long after it - you look at the Moors Murderers. We won't rest, we will revisit and revisit."
Mr Marsh said the search will now move on to other lay-bys further north along the A19.
Before the visit, Mr Aydi said: "Rania was taken from us six months ago when she was brutally murdered, in the most beautiful years of her life. She leaves behind three children who face life without her.
"Her body is still to be found, so we cannot give her a dignified burial.
"It has been very difficult for her parents, who live in Lebanon and face an unknown future for their grandchildren. We are grateful to the community and the police for all they have done and continue to do.
"We appeal to the public who have any information to come forward."
Three men have appeared in court in connection with Ms Alayed's disappearance.
Her husband Ahmed Khatib, 33, of Knutsford Road in Gorton, Manchester, has been charged with murder.
His brother Muhanned Mahmood Al Khatib, 38, of Arthur Millwood Court, Salford, has been charged with murder and perverting the course of justice
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Einstein can't teach me physics! And Michael Jordan can't teach me basketball.
There, I've said it. I've put it on the internet for all to know. I don't think these relative gods of their domain can teach me to succeed in that domain. Before you call me crazy and stop reading, let me make my case.
Einstein was as genius as Jordan was. Geniuses possess innate understanding of their respective fields that most of us do not. Because of this innate understanding, the way they approach that field is very different from that of the average man. This approach combined with their innate knowledge makes them achieve things that we probably can't follow unless we have the same genius. To learn from this genius you must learn to think like him or he must learn to think like you. That's a pretty daunting task to accomplish, and most likely a task requiring years of dedication.
Now what's that got to do with the GMAT you ask?
The internet is full of crazies offering advice on how to improve your score and touting their achievement of a 99th percentile score. They claim to have the the quick fix and magic pill that will make all the difference in finding and catching the GMAT equivalent of a unicorn, the mythical 750+. Since I joined Twitter about a year ago I've been seeing tweets from more GMAT forums that are little more than myth conjuring. The forums scare me because of how poorly the advice given by such posters can and often is taken by those prepping for the GMAT. So today's post is about the proverbial grain of salt that must be taken with all advice, especially as the series of tubes gets more and more clogged.
Giving and getting good advice about the GMAT (and this probably applies to love, career, and marriage too, but I'll leave those topics to Oprah) is a tricky business, because improving test scores – especially those of the computer-adaptive GMAT – is not as simple as many make it out to be. When you consider it in a really basic way, the GMAT is a test of information you learned in 7th through 11th grades. This information, however, is tested in context of the reasoning skills you have developed from birth to now. So anyone who attempts to give you advice really should have context for how you reason, how you learn most effectively, what your academic strengths and weaknesses are, and what your optimal performance habits are. If they don't have that information, then the advice they give you will be generic and possibly harmful. Let's look at who the people giving advice usually are and what that might mean to you…
Your typical GMAT Genius post look like this:
"I took it after some preparation, but nevertheless it was my first test and I got a 710. After a month of preparation I took the second test on the same CD, and I got a 740. I finally got a 770 on the actual test."
Or like this:
"Ohh!! So you didn't do well in the diagnostic?? You expected something better, didn't you?? You thought the questions were easy and you were gliding through but still ended up getting a not so good score!! That happens…let me tell you why!! GMAT is adaptive…remember?? You were not doing well, and that's why you were getting easier questions 😀
Never mind…you will do much much better in the actual test if you start it from today!! Okay so you want to know how much?? Let's say around 100 more than the actual score…assuming that you took it without preparation. Even if you prepared a bit before taking it, but it was your first test…you can easily hope to score 60 more. I took it after some preparation, but nevertheless it was my first test and I got a 710. After a month of preparation I took the second test on the same CD, and I got a 740. I finally got a 770 on the actual test. Let's not get into the score analysis thing right now. We'll come to that later, when I will give you the list of all my test scores to compare."
Each time I see such a post I cringe. I cringe because I fear that the 75% of the world that do not score near a 650 on their first ever practice test will listen to the GMAT Genius' story and prep experience in hopes of replicating her results, and overlook that this person is starting from a baseline of information and testing savvy that the vast majority of the country, nay world, nay universe does not have (and according to GMAT stats will NEVER develop). Much like the GMAT, your preparation needs to be dynamic (adaptive). You need to understand the underlying concept(s) and apply your knowledge and understanding to it so you can maximize your performance, not try to replicate someone else's.
The best way to get advice from a GMAT Genius is to find out what value she found in the materials she used and what study strategies she employed, and then use the materials that would offer you the value you need and replicate the habits that will develop the skills you need. If the GMAT Genius just took tests without reviewing them, its unlikely that the simple act of timed tests will have the same benefit for a 300 scorer as it would for a 700 scorer.
So who should you listen to?
1. Me, of course!
2. The person who had the experience you want (not the score you want) – forget scores; learn from the experiences others had. Find out what was good and what was bad with their prep. If someone can only tell you about their scores and not the things that led to those scores than you probably don't want to take advice from them.
3. GMAT teachers (not simply high scorers) – Individuals who are devoted to teaching others generally have the perspective to give "client-centered" advice. The best of these people will ask you a slew of questions before answering any of yours, the worst of them will spout a generic curriculum that works for the average test taker they've worked with. Given this, try to find someone with experience working with someone with your profile.
In short, Michael Jordan probably can't teach most of us to play basketball the way he does and Einstein can't teach us to understand physics the way he does. To really get what either of these two greats have to offer in their respective fields you have to be close to their level and aligned in approach. I also think Jordan could not teach someone like Tim Duncan, because their approaches are too fundamentally different. Especially for those of you without the innate understanding of the GMAT, you want to find your Stan Van Gundy, a personable teacher who can help you maximize your talents!


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David Harsanyi: Stop scaremongering. The press is freer than everBy DAVID HARSANYI
January 16. 2018 6:36PM
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a group alleging to promote press freedom and the rights of journalists, gave President Donald Trump the Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom Award in its Press Oppressors awards. The story was giddily retweeted across the liberal Twitterverse because, one imagines, people actually believe it.
Watching Trump and the media slap fight like Real Housewives hasn't done wonders for the country, granted. Setting aside the melodrama, self-serving complaints about American press freedoms being in peril are unqualified bunk.
The very breadth and intensity of the anti-Trump press illustrates there are few inhibitions on their freedom of expression. Trump's attacks on journalists — some of them brought on by their own shoddy and partisan behavior — are often unseemly and unhealthy, but it hasn't stopped anyone from engaging, investigating, writing, saying, protesting, or sharing their deep thoughts — every day, all the time.
That's not to say average Americans don't have plenty of reasons to be worried about the future of free expression. There are forces gathering that aspire to criminalize dissent and punish Americans for their unpopular opinions. Many of the loudest voices crying out about Trump's fascism fully support these efforts, rationalize them, or are complicity silent.
"While previous U.S. Presidents have each criticized the press to some degree, they have also made public commitments to uphold its essential role in democracy, at home and abroad," claims the Committee to Protect Journalists. It's true the last President made many public commitments to uphold the press's essential role in democracy, while he was secretly scouring the phone records of reporters and an editor of the Associated Press to uncover leakers. Democrats showed their commitment to a free and open press by siccing the Justice Department on a Fox News reporter and calling him a criminal "co-conspirator" for attempting to solicit leaked classified information, as journalists have been doing forever.
If the Trump administration were to engage in anything resembling this kind of behavior, it would rightly be considered a massive scandal.
While Trump's efforts to stop fabulist Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" from being published are silly, counterproductive, and sure to fail, he is accessing the legal rights that all Americans enjoy. Democrats currently support new laws that would allow the state to ban political books and documentaries. The Obama years made overturning the First Amendment via the overturn of Citizens United a tenant of the Democratic Party platform. Obama, in perfect syntax, engaged in an act of norm breaking by calling out the Supreme Court publicly for upholding the First Amendment. That was rhetoric, too. Few defenders of the press seemed bothered by any of it.
Those claiming that the President of the United States (Obama or Trump) is "overall" more detrimental to press freedoms than the leaders of Russia, Turkey, Egypt, or China not only denigrates those truly fighting for press freedoms in authoritarian nations, but also shows us they don't really understand how American rights work to begin with. Not only is the U.S. far superior in its embrace of open political discourse than authoritarian states, or developing nations, or (nearly) every state in Middle East; the United States is superior to Western European nations, as well.
There is no country in Europe that boasts as healthy an environment for press freedom or free speech as the U.S.. In Europe, libel laws are frequently used by the rich and powerful to suppress unfavorable coverage. In England, Trump would likely have been able to quash the Wolff book. In Germany, the state demands that private online outlets govern speech that doesn't comport with its diktats. In France, the government will decide what is real news. The European Commission Code of Conduct features an array of demands for the government to police speech, which includes online "hate speech" — a flexible and easily abused phrase.
The press is probably safer from government interference (we can talk about megacorporations instilling speech codes another time) than it was from 2001 to 2016. The internet is freer for everyone, including journalists, because of the administration's deregulatory efforts. Political discourse is in better hands because of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. And after an eight-year hibernation, the press has rediscovered its purpose as the opposition party.
Enjoy it while you can.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist and the author of the forthcoming "First Freedom: A Ride through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today."


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There have been all sorts of election irregularities in the Dartmouth trustee election, extending the election deadline was NOT one of them. I, for one, sent a strongly worded email to John Walters, chairman of the Ballot Committee of the Association of Alumni, asking for an extension till May 6. My primary reason was that paper ballots had gone out two to three weeks late. Now that


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Born in 1975, the frenetically productive baroque-pop indie oddball Sufjan Stevens was raised by "eccentrics, hippies, spiritualists" whose idea of a Christmas present was "a home enema kit or a toothbrush made from recycled newspapers".
Perhaps this accounts for some of his conflicted obsession with the season. He's been making an annual festive EP for friends and family since 2001. The collected tracks (both traditional and original) from the first five years were released as Songs for Christmas in 2006 and their homespun mix of wonder and whimsy blew a crisp, quirky breeze through the rather stodgy yuletide genre. It was as though he'd thrown the turkey, brussels and figgy pudding out the window and put on a quirky impromptu pick'n'mix buffet of fresh crunchy veg, challenging pickles and home-made dips.
This year he's delivered a whopping 59-track sackful of songs from his 2006-2010 EPs. It comes with all the trimmings (a poster, fold-your-own star, stickers and temporary tattoos) and it opens with a tender and convivial carolling of Silent Night before skittering into the backwoodsy Lumberjack Christmas, which plays out like a snow globe microcosm of Stevens's style: there's jaunty cynicism ("If the drinking makes it easy/ The music's kind of cheesy/ The specials on the TV/ Ho ho ho ho ho") gleeful loopiness ("I love Santa. He saved Christmas from the martians!") and terse truth ("No one can save you from Christmases Past"). But an abundance of romantic melodies flutter and swirl until you're lost in them: fiddles and geetar-pickin' give way to soft, soothing recorders and layered drifts of gentle vocals, then finally a solo piano and the spectral shiver of a theremin.
At times Stevens can be fey and thin or gratingly quirky. But overall the compilation makes its way towards a bigger story of many ideas, emotions and textures. There's a courtly, medieval romance to his Coventry Carol. His Mr Frosty Man bares no relation to the sparkly Fifties classic: it's a freaky, angry Bowie-esque stomp with a claymotion video featuring chainsaws, shotguns and zombies.
His Jingle Bells is almost a parody of pouty indie covers, punctured by giggling kids. With its hoof-thudding beat and little mane-tosses of electronica, Christmas Unicorn begins like a child's riddle, before defining its subject as "a Christian holiday… a pagan heresy… a mystical apostasy… a frantic shopper and a brave pill-popper" before melting into bell-tolling doff of the Santa hat to Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. You don't need to have spent your childhood unwrapping enema kits to share Stevens's intense mixed-emotions about the big day.
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Last month, the U. S. Supreme Court eviscerated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by removing a key provision requiring states known for their discriminatory actions against minority voters to seek approval from the Department of Justice before changing their voting laws.
In her scorching dissent to the majority decision, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Congress, which is charged with enforcing the law, should be the one deciding whether it is still necessary.
Congress remains free to right the wrong of the majority decision by fashioning a new formula, or coverage provision, to identify states that would need the permission of the federal government before they can change their voting laws. But given the right-wing extremists controlling the House of Representatives, such a formula is unlikely to materialize any time soon.
The Obama administration, which often has been criticized for being too timid in the face of right-wing extremism, has, however, decided to play hardball in this case by taking on one of the biggest voting rights abusers — Texas.
Employing a heretofore seldom-used section of the Voting Rights Act, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. last week said he intends to use the courts to force Texas back into preclearance status on voting law changes.
Instead of a coverage provision that oversees a group of states, Mr. Holder is using a "bail-in" provision in the Voting Rights Act that allows the Justice Department to impose preclearance status on states with documented voting rights violations.
You don't need to dig too deep to document the voting rights abuses in Texas. In fact, you don't need to dig at all. The state has a long history of denying the vote to African-Americans and other minorities, and it wears its history like a badge of honor.
In 1927 it passed a law banning black voters from participating in primary elections. It was ruled unconstitutional, but that didn't stop the state from twice enacting variants of the all-white primary law, in 1944 and 1953.
In 2004, two black students from Waller County, Texas, were threatened with prosecution from the county when they announced their intention to run for office. In 2006, the Supreme Court ordered a congressional Texas district to redraw its lines after finding that district had redrawn the lines to reduce the strength of Latino voters.
The court, as Justice Ginsburg pointed out in her dissent, noted that the attempt to reduce Latino voting strength bore "the mark of intentional discrimination that could give rise to an equal protection violation."
Last year, as part of a wave of voter ID laws that were being proposed and implemented across the country, Texas tried to implement a version that the courts blocked, ruling that it would impose "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor."
But shortly after the Supreme Court struck down the coverage provision in the Voting Rights Act, Texas adopted the ID law.
Given Texas' full-court press to disenfranchise minority voters (and there are a number of other states with similar goals), one wonders just what the majority on the Supreme Court was thinking when they gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The "sad irony" of that decision, according to Justice Ginsburg, was "its utter failure to grasp why the VRA has proven effective." Throwing out the preclearance provision of the VRA, she wrote, is like "throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
The sad irony now is that it is the courts being asked to the rescue the VRA while Congress, the rightful enforcer of the law, stands impotently on the sidelines.


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This title is a play on the word of the subtitle of a book on happiness called The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by social psychologist Jonathon Haidt. I can't recommend this book highly enough to anyone who is seriously interested in what happiness is and where it comes from. I've been reading it, and it seems to me that the best way to understand and process it is to write about it – after all, we learn by thinking about things afterwards; by reflection.
So here, for your enjoyment and edification, is my potted summary of Chapter 1. You really must read it for yourself to understand it properly, and then think about what it says. I'm just writing this to help me understand it, and it in no way represents an accurate summary of the book. Any errors are mine.
The human mind is split. We are divided in ourselves. Even though we intend to do something, like go to the gym, and we tell people we are going to go, we don't. We are controlled by something other than our conscious will. One way to look at this is to imagine an elephant being controlled by a rider. The rider is smarter but the elephant is big and doesn't always do what it is told by the rider.
This division can be seen in four different ways:
1. Mind and Body – our bodies behave independently of our minds. Our skin sweats, our stomachs rumble, our sexual organs seem to have "minds of their own". No matter how determined we are that these things won't happen to embarrass us, they do.
2. Left and Right Brain – the two hemispheres of our brains are responsible for different functions and can act independently of each other. This has been shown in studies of people with damages parts of the brain, and where the connection between the two hemispheres has been cut for medical reasons. The left hand may suppress, or work against, what the right hand is doing. People make up stories to explain what has happened, or what they have done, that do not reflect the facts. This is called "confabulating" and can be seen everywhere, not just in the brain-damaged.
3. New Brain and Old Brain – the "old brain" is the more primitive parts of the brain that we share with the "lower" animals, such as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus and the amygdala, which control basic drives, memory, and emotional learning and responding, respectively. The "new brain" is the neocortex – the grey matter that mammals, particularly primates, have that performs more complex thinking and decision-making. So the neocortex is perhaps what makes us rational and releases us from the mercy of our basic drives and emotions.
Part of the neocortex, however, the orbitofrontal cortex, is responsible for emotional reaction when we are making judgements or decisions. If it is removed then people are LESS able to make decisions, which shows that emotions do not get in the way of decision-making, but rather emotions make decision-making possible by letting us know how we feel about the options. We make the many everyday decisions without conscious thought, and this is not possible without our emotions. So emotion and reason are not as divided as we think.
4. Controlled and Automatic Mind – the older, more primitive parts of the brain have been functioning for millions of years in an automatic way to keep the animal, the primate, and then the human alive and reproducing. The newer, rational, thinking parts have not had as much time to evolve and perfect the way they function. Which part do you think, then, will take over when things get tough? When a lightning-fast decision is needed? When we are under stress? Which parts are working when we don't do what we know, rationally, we should do?
The elephant. "Gut feelings, intuitions, and snap judgements happen constantly and automatically" (p.21-22). When we're asked to explain our reasons our rational mind doesn't always know so it will make something up – confabulation again. Just because the rational mind decides to do something doesn't mean that, when the time comes, it will be in charge of making the decision to do it. We'll turn off the alarm and go back to sleep because more sleep sounds better to the elephant than getting out of bed to go to the gym.
So we have "two minds". Really, though, they are both us, so it helps us to know how they work and why they behave the way they do.
Jonathon Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
By the way, the ancient wisdom came from quotes from Plato, Ovid and others about competing parts of the mind, which I haven't quoted.


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Gov. Rick Scott's call for state colleges to offer a $10,000 degree has reignited the debate over the cost of higher education in Florida.
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott's call for state colleges to offer a $10,000 degree has reignited the debate over the cost of higher education in Florida.
In announcing his plan at St. Petersburg College this week, Scott said students should be able to "go to school and not end up with debt." His plan, modeled after a Texas program, would cut the cost of a bachelor's degree at one of Florida's 28 state colleges by about 25 percent.
Supporters say the plan would make college degrees more affordable.
"The importance of access to affordable higher education cannot be overstated," said Florida Board of Education member Sally Bradshaw, noting the state colleges offer a cheaper alternative to the cost of the state's 12 state universities and are often more convenient for students.
But critics say the plan is unrealistic, noting Scott is pushing for a lower-cost education program in a higher education system that has faced major cutbacks in recent years, including a $300 million cut to state universities this year. Democrats claimed Scott is turning the state college system into "the Walmart of education."
In a less partisan critique, Roberto Martinez, vice chairman of the state Board of Education, called it a "very bad idea."
"The '$10,000 bachelor's degree' is not a serious policy," he said in a letter to Scott. "It will be perceived as a gimmick pretending to be a policy used as a sound bite."
Martinez said Florida could offer more affordable college degrees to its students if it invested more money in the higher education system.
Slowing support
State support for higher education has fallen dramatically in the past five years, largely spurred by the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Florida is part of a national trend, although data show the decline to be more significant in the state than the national average.
State financial support in per-student funding in the higher education system dropped 22.9 percent from 2006 to 2011, according to a report from the State Higher Education Finance Executive Officers, a nonprofit group of education officials from around the country. It compares with a national decline of 12.5 percent during the same period.
From 2010 to 2011, state funding per-student funding in Florida dropped 6.5 percent, compared with a 3.7 percent drop in higher education funding nationally.
Florida, like other states, has tried to offset the decline in state funding with federal stimulus money and charging more for tuition.
But a report last year from the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, a liberal-leaning group, asserted that Florida's "record of disinvestment" in state universities had left state support in the 2011-12 budget year — before this year's cuts took effect — equivalent to state funding in 2002-03.
"Meanwhile, tuition for a full-time student has almost doubled since that time," the report said.
Rising tuition
University tuition has increased in Florida in recent years, particularly since lawmakers agreed to let the 12 universities raise their rates on their own, up to 15 percent per year.
Nonetheless, Florida's tuition rates remain low compared to the nation, ranking 41st among the states this year at $6,232 — well below the national average of $8,655.
Earlier this year, the Legislature backed a bill to remove the tuition cap for Florida's top research schools — including the University of Florida and Florida State University — allowing those schools to raise tuition to a "market rate" comparable to other major public research universities around the nation.
But Scott vetoed the bill, citing "strong concerns for the debt burden on our students and the number of graduates struggling to find jobs within their fields of study."
An October survey from a group that monitors student debt showed that slightly more than half of Florida students who earned a bachelor's degree in 2011 graduated with debt, averaging $23,054.
Florida was among the middle of all states, ranking 33rd, in the survey from the Project on Student Debt at the Institute for College Access & Success.
Into the legislative arena
With the Legislature returning to Tallahassee next week to begin preparing for the 2013 annual session, the debate over higher education funding — including Scott's $10,000 degree plan — will move into the legislative arena where the new leaders are open to the idea of revamping the higher-education system.
Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, has said he wants "to lash higher education to the realities and opportunities of the economy."
Those comments dovetail with Scott's push for more science, math and technology degrees in the higher-education system.
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said he understands the governor's concern about the affordability of higher education.
"I think there are different ways to get there," Weatherford said, noting his emphasis of providing more online classes for colleges and universities.
But Weatherford, who like Gaetz supported the market-rate bill, said higher tuition "has to be a part of the conversation."
He said the state needs to better explain the cost of a higher-education degree compared to what students are paying for that education — pegging the cost of a university degree at $65,000 to $100,000. "Most people don't know that," he said.
"While we want to make sure it's affordable and accessible to everyone ... nothing in this world is free," Weatherford said. "We've got to find a balance there."


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WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney, one of the wealthiest candidates ever to seek the presidency, paid nearly $2 million in federal taxes on $13.7 million in income that he and his wife reported last year, his U.S. returns showed Friday. That came to an effective tax rate of
14.1 percent, lower than millions of middle-income Americans but more than he had to pay.
Most of Romney's income was from investment returns. That is why his rate was lower than that of taxpayers whose income was mostly from wages, which can be taxed at higher rates.
Romney's taxes have emerged as a key issue during the 2012 presidential race with President Barack Obama. Romney released his 2010 returns in January, but he continues to decline to disclose returns from previous years – including those while he worked at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded.
The Obama campaign and other Democrats have pushed for fuller disclosures, reminding the Republican candidate that his father, George Romney, released a dozen years of returns when he ran for president.
Overall, the Romneys' main tax return and separate forms for blind trusts totaled more than 800 pages.
The blind-trust income came from hedge funds and other complex investment vehicles.
The couple also reported $3.5 million in income "from sources outside the United States," citing "various countries." Their forms included filings on holdings in Switzerland, Ireland, Germany and the Cayman Islands.
The Obama campaign accused Romney anew of profiting from millions invested overseas and "loopholes and tax shelters only available to those at the top."
Hoping to resolve basic questions voters might have, the Romney campaign also released a letter from his accountants saying that in the 20 years before 2010 the Romneys paid an average annual effective rate of 20.2 percent, never lower than 13.66 percent.
On average, middle-income families – those making from $50,000 to $75,000 a year – pay 12.8 percent of their income in federal taxes, according to Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation. But many pay a higher rate.
The former Massachusetts governor, whose wealth is estimated at perhaps $250 million, is competing with Obama for the support of middle class voters.
Obama's own tax return for last year showed that he and his wife, Michelle, paid $162,074 in federal taxes on $789,674 in adjusted gross income, an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent. Their income plunged from $1.7 million in 2010, with declining sales of the president's books. In 2009, the Obamas reported income of $5.5 million, fueled by the best-selling books.
The Romneys' tax bill could have been lower.
For the year, they claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of their $4.021 million in charitable contributions, said Brad Malt, trustee of the candidate's blind trust.
The Romneys gave $2.6 million in cash to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the documents show. They gave a little more than $2 million in non-cash charitable contributions – including donations of stock holdings in Domino's Pizza, Dunkin Donuts and Warner Chilcott – to a family trust.
They could have claimed more in deductions, Malt said, but the couple "limited their deductions of charitable contributions to conform to the governor's statement in August, based on the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13 percent in income taxes in each of the last 10 years."
Romney seemed to be painted into a corner by that statement, which came in reaction to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim to have heard that the Republican had paid no taxes in some years.
Romney will be reminded by the Democrats that he also said in August, defending his right to pay no more taxes than he owed: "I don't pay more than are legally due, and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due, I don't think I'd be qualified to become president."
On Friday, Reid continued his drumbeat that Romney should release more of his tax filings, as has been the custom of presidential candidates.
"Look, he has been running for president for three years. Why not see (returns) when he wasn't running for president? That's what we've been asking for, and some kind of an outline from an accountant for his blind trust is not going to do it," the Nevada senator said in a call with reporters. "He's hiding from the American people."
Reid wondered aloud what might be hidden in the undisclosed full returns.
"I could only imagine what secrets would be revealed if he showed the American people his tax returns like his dad did," Reid said.
Romney appears to be physically qualified by any measure.
The campaign released a separate report Friday – by Romney's longtime physician, Dr. Randall Gaz of Massachusetts General Hospital – that said he is healthy and ready to meet the rigorous demands of the presidency.
The report said Romney's heart appears healthy, and he takes a baby aspirin and medicine to treat high cholesterol to help keep it that way. He doesn't smoke or drink. And his resting heart rate is a low 40 beats per minute, in the range of well-trained athletes and reminiscent of President George W. Bush, who also had a low resting rate.
Romney is 6 feet 1½ inches tall and weighs 184 pounds.
As for his taxes, the Romneys' 2011 rate was slightly above the 13.9 percent effective rate they paid for 2010 when their federal tax bill was about $3 million.
They paid federal taxes of $1,935,708 on income of $13,696,951 for last year, according to the returns filed Friday with the Internal Revenue Service. They had obtained a filing extension beyond the usual April 15 tax deadline.
His campaign earlier estimated that he would pay about $3.2 million in taxes for the year, well above the $1.9 million actually paid.
Most of Romney's income is from investments held in a blind trust, and campaign aides have stressed that he makes no decisions on how his money is invested.
Most of the income for the year came from investments, which are now generally taxed at 15 percent, whereas the top marginal rate for income from wages is 35 percent.
The Romneys reported $6.8 million in capital gains, such as from the sale of stocks and other securities, and
$6.37 million from dividends and taxable interest.
Romney's vast fortune and his long association with Bain Capital have been much discussed this year.
Several tax law experts said Friday that his newly released tax returns would not be much help in resolving critics' questions about his sprawling finances – whether he used aggressive tax-deferral strategies, what might be the specifics and tax advantages of his several offshore investments, what was the source of his massive retirement account, and what are the details behind his now-closed $3 million Swiss bank account.
Analysts said details about his investments could emerge only if Romney provided far more of his tax returns – including files dating to his years at Bain, the private firm he left in 2001.
Romney, who initially refused to disclose any tax returns, has drawn the line at providing those from the past two years.
The Romneys applied a $1.5 million tax refund to their 2012 estimated tax payments.
The couple reported $190,350 in book royalties and speaking fees. And Romney also reported $260,390 in income last year from serving on various boards of directors.
Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and his wife, Janna, whose returns also were released Friday by the Romney campaign, paid $64,764 in taxes on $323,416 of adjusted gross income in 2011, for an effective rate of 20 percent.
Just over half of their income came from Ryan's congressional salary. Other income flowed from rental real estate and other investments, including a trust inherited by Janna Ryan. They donated $12,991 to charity, including to the Boy Scouts of America.
Stephens Washington Bureau reporter Peter Urban contributed to this report.


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nrusin J. JL JLjLji The Ohio Jewish Chronicle Serving Columbus and the Central Oliio Jewish Community since1922 ■ VOLUME 72 NUMBER 25 JUNE 23,1994 14TAMMUZ5754 Opposite to Farrakhan unites Macks at meeting page 2 'The Rebbe' -A leading Jewish figure of his time page 3 /Rabbi, what if 0 J. Simpson is innocent?' page 4 Hebrew teacher honored at Kol Ami graduation v page 5 Ahavas Sholom to host Rabbi Yochanan Zweig page 6 B J. installs E Golden page 6 t,tm,,.t7,tum<im,mmimmKftmm,<m.m^mMimm,m"mm,nm niiwiii^nwiiim ——<■ n ■ ■m.iii—iiwiimi m <^mt<m i Bonds announces new rates page 7 ■■■■■ In The Chronicle mmmm CoEimunity ;. 5-7 Federation ..................................12 FrontPage .'...";".: 3 In The News...... ;......." ,...8 Lifecycle...... 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Herziiya is situated to the north of Tel Aviv and is an integral part ofthe major metropolitan area. The city is a major commercial center, exporting one-half billion dollars annually, the hosts Israel's "silicone valley" research and; development companies. Herziiya boasts 29 residences, of ambassadors from, foreign countries represented in Israel, and many of those in Israeli government, business and military have chosen to live in Herziiya. With Herzliya's educational system, culture and arts, sports and high-tech industry, Columbus looks forward to exchanges of information and ' people in all these areas. Herzliya's 122 schools house 20,000 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Over the past several years, as, large numbers of Ethiopian and Russian immigrant children have come to Israel, these new students have also been absorbed into the Herziiya system. In order to prepare students for the 21st century, an overall efforts has been undertaken to raise the computer literacy level in the entire educational system. All schools are to receive state-of-the-art technology laboratories. This has been carried out in a partnership with Scitex, one of Israel's leading high-tech companies. The Israel Institute of Administration and the Le- vinsky Teachers College are located in Herziiya and the University of Herziiya is scheduled to begin its first classes in the fall of 1994. Major cultural institutions in Herziiya include the Herziiya Museum, surrounded by a sculpture garden; the Herziiya Chamber Orchestra, featuring soloists and conductors from Israel and abroad,' and the Founders Museum, which portrays the story of Herziiya from its earliest days. There are also a variety of choirs and dance groups which offer classes and perform. SPECIAL EVENTS Members ofthe community are invited to attend the official signing ceremony sealing the Columbus/Herz- liya sister-city relationship on Monday, June 27, at 10 a.m. at Columbus City Hall, Council Chambers. There will also be a reception welcoming Herzliya's Mayor Eli Landau on June 27 from 5:30-7 p.m. at The Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center. This event, sponsored by the Community Relations Council of the Columbus ■ Jewish Federation, is free and open to the entire community. Funding is by the Columbus Jewish Federation. For more information, call the Federation, 237-7686, Sports are another important aspect of life in Herziiya. The city has a modern, 10,000 seat soccer stadium and a new sports arena which houses basketball, volleyball and hamf- ball facilities. The Yigal Alton Olympic Pistol Range has a hotel and dining facilities. The Israel Center for Martial Arts and Body Culture and the Israel Squash Center are also housed in the city. In addition, the largest country club in Is- ,rael is located in Herziiya. Among the major development projects in Herziiya have been the construction of a new cultural center, sports complex and highway construc tion, as well as the Air Force Museum of Israel. Tourism brings to Herziiya hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to take advantage of a three-mile stretch qf beach served by five major luxury hotels. A marina is now being built, which, when completed, will have a capacity of 800 boats with* facilities unrivaled by any other on the Mediterranean Sea. , , Herzliya's central location near the Tel Aviv metropolitan area has made the industrial zone a prime area for Israel's expanding research and development sector. Among the high tech companies located in Herzliya's industrial zone are Scitex, which produces control systems for both the health and publishing industries; Daisy Systems Corporation of California; National Semiconductor, involved in microprocessor development;' Digital Equipment Corporation, and Tadea, producing sophisticated measuring devices. , Israel has a free trade relationship with the United States, as well as access to the European Common Market. This is beneficial to American companies wishing access to that market. Herziiya wel-- comes foreign trade and investment as well as joint research and development programs which would benefit companies in Columbus and Herziiya. Samuel I. Horowitz is direc-1 tor of the Community Relations Council ofthe Columbus Jewish Federation. Herbert J. Block Memorial Tournament benefits Comprehensive Cancer Center By Ina Horwitz-Whitmore The Herbert J. Block Memorial Tournament began in 1982 with a small group of friends and family who wanted to honor Block's memory. Now in its 12th year, the golfing event has expanded to become a great tournament for a great cause. With proceeds.going to Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at The Ohio State University! the tournament has become a symbol of the Block family's hope that cancer research and education will result in the prevention and ultimately the cure for cancer. Block, who died in 1981, was the co-founder, along with his brother Macy, of Sun Television and Appliances. Began in the late 1940s, the business is now a public corporation and one of the largest retail appliance companies in the midwest. This year's golf outing, to be held June 27 at Winding Hollow Country Club and sponsored by Sun Television and Appliances, should be bigger than ever, with OSU President E. Gordon Gee among the attendees, according to Block's daughter, Julie Block Barkan. Every year has topped the one before, she said. In addition to Barkan, the , Block family is made of of Jay, Janis, Jeff and Jeri; their mother Maxine, and eight grandchildren. "My father was a family man to the fullest," said Barkan. Recalling her father as a "wonderful and dynamic guy," Jeri left that since her father enjoyed golf so much and since it was a sport that naturally lends itself to charity, a tournament seemed to be an obvious way to preserve his memory. "We wanted to do something in remembrance of my father that would be a very happy event and help people at the see TOURNAMENT pg. S
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Opposite to Farrakhan
unites Macks at meeting
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'The Rebbe' -A leading
Jewish figure of his time
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/Rabbi, what if 0 J.
Simpson is innocent?'
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"Peter's dog ate Jefferson's cat," says Mother Martha in a letter I received from the South Bronx.
Mother Martha is the priest of St. Ann's Church in the Mott Haven neighborhood, still the poorest section of the Bronx and, as physicians tell me, one of the most unhealthy places for a child to grow up in this or any other country of the Western world, with pediatric asthma rates and HIV infection rates for females in their older teenage years believed to be the highest in the nation.
St. Ann's is an Episcopal church. Martha Overall, a spirited and gutsy graduate of Radcliffe, used to practice law with the noted trial attorney Louis Nizer but gave up the law during the eighties and now, as the pastor of St. Ann's, she spends most of her days and nights surrounded by young children. Peter is a 10-year-old who lives above a store on St. Ann's Avenue directly opposite the garden of the church. His cousin Jefferson is living with him now, because the 7-year-old's mother has been seriously ill. She will be ill, as it turns out, for a long time and is for now, according to the priest, at Lincoln Hospital.
"First his mother. Then his cat!" says Mother Martha. "When I found him here this morning he was sitting on the front steps of the church. The cat, or what remained of her, was in a cardboard box. I sat there with him and we had a long talk about animals, because I think you know that some denominations don't believe that animals have souls, and he's been told a number of conflicting things.
"After our talk we found a cookie tin. Armando dressed in black for the occasion. Jefferson and Armando dug the hole. We said a prayer and sprinkled water on the cookie tin, and then the little ones threw dirt into the hole. I think that he was pleased, because he kept on bringing people out to see the grave. He dug her up three times to show his friends."
Armando is the sports director at the church. He tries, as do most people on the staff, to give emotional support to kids like Jefferson when they have troubles in their home. Jefferson doesn't open up to many grown-ups, though. He's rather bashful and has melancholy eyes. When things are going well with him, he likes to race around the churchyard with the pastor and her dog. When things are going badly, he hardly talks at all. He gets a hunted look, like that of a small rabbit frozen by the headlights of a car.
Mother Martha says he chose the prayer they read during the burial. Later, he found two sticks and made a cross to stand above the grave. When warmer weather came, he went back to the grave and planted flowers in the grass. "The dog who ate his cat," says Mother Martha, "is named Diesel–a good name, if you ask me, for an antisocial character who eats his friends."


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"Is it nice?" the Ceres woman asked.
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He allowed Hensley to stroke his belly.
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The captive-bred iguana is a vegetarian - mostly. He's known to have a fondness for Chinese food and chicken chow mein in particular.
"Sometimes he'll even jump in your lap to steal your food," Abdaljawad said.
Her store in Lodi specializes in exotic reptiles, insects and birds. There are thousands of animals, from a large tarantula known as a Goliath birdeater to several false water cobras, a rear-fanged variety of snake from Brazil. Abdaljawad and her husband, Sam, breed their own animals in captivity in addition to purchasing locally and importing.
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Abdaljawad has loved animals since childhood, when her aunt found her playing with snakes in the backyard.
Her husband grew up in Palestine, where reptiles were considered taboo. As a child, he collected frogs and lizards secretly under his bed.
The pair met at a reptile show and began breeding animals together before opening their own business in 2010. In January, during a rare quiet moment, they were married at the shop. Then, they went back to work.
"I go with my heart. Sam's the one who has to ground me and make me realize we are a business," Abdaljawad said of their partnership.
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March 11, 2014
First-of-its-Kind Clinic 'Saved My Marriage,' Iraq Veteran Says
March 11, 2014
First-of-its-Kind Clinic 'Saved My Marriage,' Iraq Veteran Says
Editor's note: To read more about the impact of war on military families see "The Uncounted."
(CNN) -- Lisa and Joe's marriage was all but over.
After his return from Iraq, they optimistically went about forging a life together. They married in 2009, got good jobs and moved into a nice house on Long Island, New York.
For Lisa, the war was the past. But for Joe, it never faded away. Even as the years went by and he left the Marine Corps, his mind drifted back and the awful memories grew more intense. They took control of his dreams and gradually replaced his gentle demeanor with rage. He drank heavily.
Lisa didn't know what was wrong with her husband. But his struggle resulted in her own painful memories. One is especially vivid. Reaching for something in their freezer one day, she dropped a bowl of spaghetti sauce on the kitchen floor. Her husband exploded. Mistakes can't be made, he angrily warned her. In Iraq, mistakes could get someone killed.
"It was startling. It was shocking to see that something falling could cause so much panic in him," she said. "Why did he react this way? Where were all these feelings coming from? I didn't really have an answer for any of it."
In November, Lisa and Joe sat down with me in their Long Island home. They've come a long way since that tense night in their kitchen. Still, they insisted their real names not be used in this story and asked CNN to obscure their faces in a video interview because of the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress. They were afraid his boss and co-workers might recognize them.
But they wanted to tell their story so that more people would know about a first-of-its-kind clinic they credit for saving their marriage.
In January 2013, the couple began getting therapy at the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Veterans and their Families in Bay Shore, on Long Island's South Shore. A counselor at the local VA told Joe that he should check out this clinic that opened in December 2012.
Civilians and veteran clinicians work together
The center's concept sounds simple. But it's revolutionary.
Typically, the VA does not treat family members unless the veteran asks for it. But at the center, family members are equally empowered to get treatment, and they can get it with their soldiers in a single, shared space.
Here's how it works: When a veteran or a family member walks through the front door, the family member turns to the left and is seen by a civilian clinician. The service member or veteran turns to the right and is seen by a VA therapist. They also have the option to be treated together.
Dr. Charlene Thomesen, a psychiatrist and the associate chief of staff for Mental Health Services at the VA Medical Center in Northport, was among a small group that came up with the idea.
Thomesen and her colleagues made sure the private side of the clinic was staffed with counselors trained to treat children, she told me.
"There's the issue of newly returning service members being younger and having young families -- the VA does not have expertise to treat children," she said. "I always saw that as a need."
With their patients' permission, the VA and private clinicians meet regularly to share details of their respective sessions and devise the best way to treat the family as a whole.
For example, a veteran who is on a sobriety plan may say in therapy that he isn't drinking but the wife tells her therapist otherwise. Or perhaps one partner reveals there's physical abuse in the home. Knowing more allows therapists to get to the heart of their patients' problems.
Joe and Lisa believe this full-circle approach is exactly what they needed. After the first session together with a therapist, Joe wasn't sure he wanted to continue. "One of my biggest fears was that this guy was going to dismantle my marriage," he said. "He was going to show me that it wasn't worth it or we weren't meant for each other."
Lisa had her fears, too. She assumed that by being completely honest about her feelings, she was burdening her husband when he'd already been burdened enough by war.
Therapy emboldened her to tell him how she felt, and he reassured her.
"It really touched me to know that while I worried about him," she said, "he was worried about me."
So Lisa kept gently pressing, making their appointments because, at this clinic, she could.
Iraqi war veteran encourages patients to get help
Iraq veteran Andrew Roberts can empathize with Lisa and Joe. As director of the Office of Military and Veterans Liaison Services for the clinic's parent health system, North Shore LIJ, it's his job to get out into the community and encourage veterans, service members and their families to come to the center.
The job also helps him continue to heal.
When the 38-year-old came home in 2004, he was constantly anxious and arguing with his father. "He told me that it hurt him and I needed to see somebody," Roberts recalled. "I was angry. I was thinking he should go see a therapist. Finally, after getting pretty worked up about it, I thought, 'Oh God, maybe I should go talk to somebody.' "
Counseling helped Roberts ease back into civilian life, and it strengthened his relationship with his dad. He turned to veterans groups for extra help, and that in turn made him confident enough to pursue a career in veterans affairs. Those jobs led him to his position with the clinic.
"For these veterans, they feel like I did; like you're the first person to ask for help," he said. "I try to say to every one of them who comes in here -- a lot of our peers didn't make it home. I know that they would want us to live the best life possible. You can't live a good life, for some of us, without some professional help."
There is no cost for treatment, Roberts said, because the clinic is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and local partners.
The average length of time for treatment is three months, he said, but that depends on the individual's needs. Some patients may drop in whenever they feel they need to talk.
By the end of 2013, the VA had treated 499 patients on its side, according to Roberts, and the civilian side had treated 92 family members.
The center tracks patients' progress in many ways, said its program director, psychologist Mayer Bellehsen. When a patient or couple begins treatment, a therapist measures their symptoms using nationally set standards for mental health. A patient could be assessed for PTSD, depression and anxiety. Couples answer questions about their circumstances and how they feel based on a nationally accepted model for couples' therapy. Families seeking treatment do the same.
At various intervals throughout treatment, these symptoms are re-evaluated. Patients also fill out surveys, with most showing "a high degree of satisfaction with the services we offer," Bellehsen said.
Because the center is new, he added, it's still gathering enough data to conduct a statistical analysis that would demonstrate, in concrete ways, its successes.
For Joe and Lisa, the center has proved its effectiveness. They hold hands and talk, finally calm after years of chaos.
Every chance he gets, Joe tells the friends he served with that they should do anything they can to get help.
"I let them know," he said, "without a doubt it saved my marriage."


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Raced with the varsity eight … Helped the varsity eight place fourth at the IRA National Championships … Raced to third place at the EAWRC Sprints … Helped the varsity eight capture the Muri Cup against No. 7 MIT April 30 … Aided in defeat of No. 5 Georgetown to capture the Class of 2004 Cup … Also contributed to wins against No. 6 Bucknell, No. 7 Buffalo and, with the varsity four B, MIT.
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Rowed in the varsity eight all season, moving to stroke after the opening race … Helped the Black and White place fourth at the IRA National Championships … Contributed to second-place team finish at EAWRC Sprints, as well as third-place varsity finish for Radcliffe's first Sprints varsity medal in four years … Helped Radcliffe capture Muri Cup against MIT and Class of 2004 Cup against Georgetown … Also had a hand in varsity wins against Bucknell and Buffalo.
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The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, June 23, 1911
Mr. G.D. Anthony is building a large garage on the northerly side of Narragansett avenue, near the East Ferry, for Mr. Ferdinand Armbrust.
The palms and potted plants on the lawn at the Smith cottage on Narragansett avenue attract much attention.
Lobster Commissioners Lots and Harrington visited John Marshall's fish house on the west shore Friday and caught him with 18 lobsters under the legal length. He was taken to Newport Friday afternoon to answer to the charge.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 24, 1936
The Beavertail Golf and Country club will open Thursday for the season. Mrs. Bongartz, who was the managing hostess last year, will be with the club this year, and arrived Tuesday with a retinue of servants. The new grill also will be open. Bob Bennett's orchestra of Philadelphia will play this season, and James R. Masterson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Masterson of Clinton avenue, has been engaged as clerk. The tennis courts are in fine condition and are being well patronized. The number of season registrants far outnumber those of last season, at this time.
From the Newport Daily News, June 25, 1936
Invitations have been issued to Jamestown graduates of colleges, high schools and grammar school, to attend the dance sponsored by Conanicut Grange at the grange hall Friday.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 17, 1961
The Jamestown Bridge Commission last night awarded a contract for painting a section of the bridge to General Painting and Maintenance Corp. of Quincy, Mass., who submitted the lowest bid of $7,483. The bid for 400 gallons of finish aluminum went to Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. of Jersey City, N.J. at $2.75 a gallon. It was voted to offer the Jamestown Shores developers the same passage rate as last year, which is 22 cents per passage. A request by the Shores for a 20 cent rate was denied. Harold E. Shippee, commissioner, volunteered his services during the Newport Music Festival, in case of emergency, to be at the bridge to identify persons residing in Jamestown.
From the Newport Daily News, June 21, 1961
Field Day for grades 7 and 8 was held Monday at the Jamestown School, under the direction of Frederick A. Caswell, seventh grade teacher.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 19, 1986
If the compromise state budget is passed without further revision the state will transfer its dilapidated highway garage on Narragansett Avenue to the town. The process ends lengthy negotiations between state and local officials for the transfer of the garage. (It was expected that the town may tear down the garage, putting in additional parking for the downtown district.)
From the Newport Daily News, June 24, 1986
The Town Council accepted new regulations Monday that would break the town into two water districts, each with its own set of rules. The regulations, which will be voted on July 21, would break the town into urban and rural water districts.
The (Town) Council took the first step Monday toward closing two section of Maple Avenue to traffic. The action came as a result of a petition from 28 residents of the area near Sheffield Cove.
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From the Jamestown Press, June 20, 1996
Town officials are asking residents on the municipal water system to voluntarily conserve water. Town Administra- tor Frances Shockett told the Town Council, sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners Monday night, that North Pond reservoir was now eight inches below peak capacity and that water use was up 12.7 percent over last year.
The Jamestown fireworks display is closer to reality as many community members and organizations have donated to the fund. (The total raised so far was $1,365.)
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From the Jamestown Press,
June 21, 2001
Sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners Monday night, the Town Council approved two requests for expanded water use, one for Central Baptist Church, the other for the Slice of Heaven bakery and restaurant.
Forty-seven islanders received diplomas at the June 15 North Kingstown High School commencement ceremonies, the final event to be held at the old high school.
The Jamestown School graduated 71 students from the eighth grade in ceremonies held Thursday, June 14, in the Lawn Avenue School's courtyard.
The United States Census Bureau recently released information on the demographic make up of Jamestown. The island's total population is 5,622 (51.4 percent are female and 48.6 percent are male). The median age of islanders is 44.2 years, and the largest island population – 1,233 people – are between 45 to 54 years old. There are 1,322 children under 19 years and 73 islanders who listed an age above 85. Islanders live in 2,359 households.


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