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Sheriff Grady Judd To Brief Media On Operation "Swipe Left" Where Drug Dealer's Use Dating Apps to Sell Meth And More
Following a 6-month-long undercover investigation, Polk County Sheriff's Office undercover Narcotics detectives made 60 arrests throughout Polk County and obtained eight (8) arrest warrants related to the sale and/or possession of illegal narcotics. The drug sales transactions all took place on three different social media and mobile dating apps: Grindr, Scruff, and Taimi. Grindr was the app with more drug sales than the other apps mentioned. The investigation began in July 2021 when PCSO received a Heartland Crime Stoppers tip indicating that people were openly selling drugs on the well-known dating app Grindr. PCSO detectives created undercover profiles within the app, and found it relatively easy to strike up conversations with those who were selling methamphetamine, cocaine, Ecstasy, LSD, Fentanyl, and marijuana in Polk County. It was clear during the conversations and ensuing undercover drug buys that the suspects' primary purposes for being on the dating app were to sell drugs – not to find a date. "We've known for some time that suspects will use the Internet and social media to prey upon children online, or to engage in prostitution, but this is something we are seeing more and more of in Polk County – suspects who are using dating apps to sell illegal narcotics. Suspects are getting more creative, but so are our detectives. We're working with these mobile app companies to raise awareness, and asking for their cooperation during our investigations. The good news is, we found that some who were on the dating app were reporting illegal drug sales when it became apparent to them, and the mobile app companies were banning some suspects attempting to sell drugs. When we find drug dealers, we put them in jail." – Grady Judd, Sheriff Detectives filed 159 total felony and 72 total misdemeanor charges against the suspects during the investigation. Altogether, the suspects have 908 previous charges, including 453 prior felonies and 455 prior misdemeanors. Eleven (11) of the suspects told detectives they receive government assistance. Detectives will continue to monitor social media and dating apps for illegal drug transactions. We encourage the public to send us specific tip information about online drug sellers through Heartland Crime Stoppers at www.heartlandcrimestoppers.com to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward.
Based on the online drug sales, detectives obtained 52 arrests warrants for those who actually sold illegal narcotics. During the investigation they arrested 16 other suspects related to illegal narcotics. There are still eight suspects with warrants who are at-large. Detectives also served three search warrants at the following addresses: · 152 Abundant Life Drive, Auburndale· 1550 Robin Street, Auburndale· 2461 Avenue C SW, Winter Haven During the investigation:
· 14 firearms seized (2 were reported as stolen)· Approximately 280 grams of methamphetamine purchased (street value: approximately $14,000)· Approximately 3 grams of cocaine purchased · Approximately 113 grams (130 pills) of Ecstasy · Approximately 1.5 grams of Fentanyl/heroin · Approximately 1 gram of LSD· Approximately 28 grams of psychedelic mushrooms· Approximately 645 grams of marijuana Those arrested are as follows (in alphabetical order by first name): Abraham Hope, DOB 06/25/1994 of Davenport· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Adam Cooper*, DOB 03/30/1977 of Lakeland· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Allen Tyson*, DOB 03/21/64 of Bartow· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Angela Miller-Jordan, DOB 04/30/1966 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Anthony Ballard, DOB 03/08/1975 of Auburndale· Armed trafficking in meth (Capital Felony)· Sale of meth (F3)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of firearm by convicted felon (F2)· Grand theft of a firearm (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of marijuana over 20 grams (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Camilo Jaramillo, DOB 12/01/1994 of Haines City· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Chloe Vandendriessche, DOB 02/13/1995 of Auburndale· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Possession of weapon/ammo by convicted felon (F2)· Violation of injunction for protection (M1) Christina Earp, DOB 04/09/1985 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Christopher R. Baker, DOB 05/24/1987 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)
Possession of meth WITS (F2)
· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Battery domestic violence (3 counts) Daniel Zahony, DOB 11/12/1985 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of prescription drug without prescription (M2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Conveyance burglary (F2)· Petit theft (M2) Danyell Coggins, DOB 01/14/1975 of Winter Haven· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) David Caines*, DOB 12/04/1975 of Mulberry· Trafficking in meth (F1)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of structure or vehicle for drug sales (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of marijuana (M1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Dawanda Gunter, DOB 08/02/1997 of Winter Haven· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Donald King, DOB 08/22/1982 of Lakeland· Possession and delivery of LSD WITS (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3) Donald Taft, DOB 06/30/70 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Doug Billings, DOB 01/25/1968 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Resisting arrest (M1) Frederick Bollard, DOB 09/11/1984 of Bartow· Sale of meth (F2)
Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)
Gator Kleizo, DOB 01/22/1966 of Auburndale· Trafficking in meth (F1)· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Jack Bohannon*, DOB 04/16/1953 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Jacob Cogswell, DOB 09/12/1987 of Bartow· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) James Deese, DOB 10/06/1955 of Auburndale· Trafficking in meth (F1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Jaime Acevedo, DOB 11/09/1986 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Jarvis Tibado, DOB 10/11/1982 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Giving false ID to LEO (M1) Jessalyn Humbertson*, DOB 8/24/99 of Winter Haven· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*she told detectives she receives government assistance Jim Luna, DOB 03/14/1962 of Lakeland· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Jireh Brooks, DOB 04/13/1996 of Lakeland · Sale of meth (F2)· Conspiracy to sell meth (F3)
John Davis, DOB 07/12/1981 of Winter Haven· Trafficking in MDMA (F1)· Possession of heroin (F3)· Possession of cocaine (F3)· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of marijuana over 20 grams (F3)· Possession paraphernalia (M1) John Panzarella*, DOB 08/30/58 of Winter Haven· Delivery of marijuana (F3)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Jonus Banks, DOB 12/28/1980 of Lakeland· Sale of cocaine (F2)· Possession of cocaine WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Keone Fox, DOB 11/24/1986 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Maegan McCarthy, DOB 07/14/1984 of Winter Haven· Trafficking in MDMA (F1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Mar'dasia Brooks, DOB 05/23/1998 of Winter Haven· Possession of marijuana WITS (F3)· Possession of marijuana over 20 grams (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Mark Cox*, DOB 01/14/1981 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Mark Scott, DOB 09/15/1963 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Mary Heffler, DOB 05/17/1972 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Michael Blankenship*, DOB 04/08/1956 of Lakeland· Possession of marijuana (M1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*an affidavit was filed with these charges Michael Decker, DOB 08/13/1966 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Resisting arrest (M1) Michael Sonja, DOB 08/06/1975 of Bartow· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Minter Hall*, DOB 07/12/1955 of Bartow· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Nicholas Sferrvzza, DOB 06/07/83 of Auburndale· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of meth (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Noel Heyne, DOB 10/13/1972 of Lakeland (in custody)· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Phillip Carter, DOB 09/24/1965 of Winter Haven · Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Reynaldo Lopez, DOB 06/16/2000 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Richard Sturges, DOB 06/07/55 of Lakeland· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of marijuana (M1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Robert Reedy III*, DOB 09/17/68 of Winter Haven· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Rodney Bacon, DOB 01/06/80 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Rodney Davis*, DOB 05/03/1972 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth with intent to sell (WITS) (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Ronald Stowe, DOB 04/09/1958 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· VOP (F3) Scott Ledington, DOB 12/06/1966 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Stacey Shepherd, DOB 11/29/1966 of Auburndale· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Thomas Bohuslaw*, DOB 05/30/1965 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)*he told detectives he receives government assistance Timothy Machado, DOB 08/10/1972 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Ty'Bias Giles, DOB 08/12/1999 of Lakeland· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Carrying concealed firearm (F3)· Armed robbery (Capital Felony)· Aggravated battery with deadly weapon (F2) Tyler Oliver, DOB 04/10/1998 of Winter Haven· Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Wandy Noel, DOB 10/22/1991 of Winter Haven· Driving while license suspended (knowingly) (M2) William Anglin, DOB 08/10/1987 of Bartow· Delivery of marijuana (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3) William Waddell, DOB 02/07/77 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Detectives obtained arrest warrants for these eight (8) suspects: Adam Trembley, DOB 08/14/1982 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2) · Sale of marijuana (F3)· Possession of marijuana WITS (F3)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Angelo Lopez, DOB 10/28/1986 of Lake Wales· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Christopher Wright, DOB 04/16/1989 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Donovan Brandt, DOB 03/18/1983 of Lake Wales· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Jesse Velez-Pagan, DOB 10/03/1990 of Dundee· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) John Rials, DOB 12/05/1978 of Winter Haven· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Matthew Gamwell, DOB 07/07/1982 of Lake Wales· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Use of two-way communication device to commit felony (F3)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Willy Dunn, DOB 11/26/1994 of Lake Wales· Sale of meth (F2)· Possession of meth WITS (F2)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) During the investigation, these three (3) suspects were also arrested/charged: Joshua Allen, DOB 09/13/1980 of Auburndale· Armed trafficking in meth (Capital Felony)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1) Henry Sanchez, DOB 10/19/1994 of Orlando· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of prescription drug without prescription (M1)· Resisting arrest (M1)· Battery on LEO· Giving false info to LEO Robert Tillis, DOB 03/09/1973 of Mulberry· Possession of meth (F3)· Possession of prescription drug without prescription (M1)· Possession of paraphernalia (M1)


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Ideal worship, not idol worship
By Ragalekha dd on 07 Jul 2014 0 Comments
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 June 2014, Bhaktivedanta Manor, London, Caitanya Caritamrta Adi-Lila 8.63-66)
When Krsna left Vrindavan and entered the wrestling arena in Mathura, which was all staged by Kamsa, it is described that different people in the audience were perceiving Krsna in different ways. Some were seeing Krsna as paramatma; the ladies in Mathura were very attracted to Krsna and saw him as cupid personified but it was also said that there were some people in the audience who saw him just like stone because when one's heart is made of stone then one thinks that the deity is made of stone.
The Caitanya Caritamrta describes how Lord Caitanya left West Bengal and went to Jagannath Puri. It is described that when he went to Jagannath Puri, on the way he stopped in a few places – one place was Remuna and another place was just outside of Puri, at the temple of Saksi-gopal. Then we get to hear both those stories – the story of Ksira-cora-gopinath in Remuna and the story of Saksi-gopal.
In the story of Ksira-cora-gopinath, Lord Caitanya remembered how previously Madhavendra Puri was there and how Madhavendra Puri had heard about the sweet rice which they offer in Remuna to the deity of Gopinath; it is known as amrta-keli – a play of nectar. It was very famous. So when he saw this offering that was going on, he developed a desire to offer a similar preparation to his own deity, and therefore he desired to know the taste. Then he was thinking, "I am such a sinful wretch. I am desiring to taste things when the offering is not even completed!" He left that place seeing himself as an offender but later that night, the pujari had a dream.
In his dream, the pujari saw the deity of Gopinath who told him that he had reserved a pot of sweet rice for his devotee Madhavendra Puri and the deity ordered the pujari to make arrangements to deliver that sweet rice. So, the pujari immediately got up, first took his bath and then went onto the altar to take that sweet rice and deliver it to Madhavendra Puri although he had no idea who Madhavendra Puri was or where he was! But he just took the sweet rice and went calling out loud, "Is there some called Madhavendra Puri? The Lord has kept some sweet rice for you… Oh, Madhavendra Puri!" Eventually, Madhavendra Puri identified himself and got that sweet rice.
The other story of Saksi-gopal, is of two brahmanas is Vrindavan. One is elderly and wealthy and the younger other one was quite poor. The younger one served the elder one very nicely and as a result, the elder one was so pleased that he said, "You should marry my daughter." The younger brahmana said, "Sir, you are an aristocratic brahmana and I am just a simple person. I am not a suitable match! Your family will not approve." The elderly brahmana replied, "No, you must marry my daughter! I am the boss in my house." But when they returned home, it wasn't quite so. The family was very upset and threw a major tantrum. His wife was saying that she would commit suicide and the rest of the family said that they will take poison and kill themselves! Finally the elder brahmana asked, "What do I do? I made a promise!" His eldest son said, "Just say that you don't remember…"
So the situation came when the young brahmana asked for the promised to be fulfilled and the elder brahmana said, "I cannot remember!" As is customary in India, when there is some disagreement, then a crowd of people get involved and they pass judgment. So the whole village was called and they heard the story from both sides and they were in doubt.
The young brahmana said, "I have a witness. The deity is my witness!" and he went to Vrindavan and he brought that deity. He went before the deity and said, "Gopal, you have to come as a witness." Gopal said, "I am a deity. How can I walk?" The young brahmana said, "If you can talk, you can walk!" So subsequently, the deity walked across India and came to the village to testify and then everyone believed the younger brahmana.
Both the stories are interesting because they show that the deity is Krsna. In both stories, the deity becomes active and does things. In this way, there is no doubt… it takes it beyond doubt, "Is he really God?" The stories prove that the deity is really the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Lager beats Bitter in inaugural John Smith's Stadium Cup
News & Media Lager beats Bitter in inaugural John Smith's Stadium Cup
Lager beats Bitter in inaugural John Smith's Stadium Cup
Heineken UK has gone some way to answering the age old question of 'which is better, bitter or lager?' with a good old fashioned football match at the appropriately named The John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield.
Heineken, owner of the John Smith's and Foster's Lager brands, brought the two giants of the beer world together in a gargantuan clash of Bitter vs Lager in the inaugural John Smith's Stadium Cup this afternoon.
A team of plucky brewers from John Smith's – brewed at Tadcaster in the heart of Yorkshire – came head-to-head with a bevy of brewers from Fosters from across the Pennines in Manchester. It was an encounter that can only be described as 'intoxicating'.
After taking the lead early on, the Foster's Team never looked like relinquishing their grip on the game and ran out 4-0 winners to take the honours and claim the bragging rights.
Lifting the trophy, captain of the winning Fosters team, Andrew Hunter, said: "It was a wonderful game played in the right spirit by two passionate breweries. I couldn't be prouder of the guys from Manchester, a superb performance and great victory."
Jonny Meredith from the losing John Smith's Team said: "The best team won on the day. We had our chances but didn't take them, but we will be back next year better and stronger."
The event was organised by Heineken UK as a way to give something back to their staff and to celebrate the extension of naming rights deal with the stadium in Huddersfield for a further five years.
Heineken UK spokesperson Leigh Jameson said: "This was a fantastic occasion bringing together two of our brewing sites from Manchester and Tadcaster to experience the top class sporting and conferencing facilities on offer at the John Smiths Stadium.
"It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the recent extension of our partnership with the stadium, enjoyed with a competitive spirit."


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Home / Currents • Education / Historic Diné School Accountability Plan Approved
Historic Diné School Accountability Plan Approved
by Native News Online Staff / Currents, Education / 29 Sep 2016
Photo by Patrese Atine (NNWO) (L-R) front row : U.S. Department of Education Secretary John King, Vice President Jonathan Nez, President Russell Begaye and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. (L-R) Back row: Dr. Florinda Jackson, Darrick Franklin, Navajo Nation Board of Education Board Member Delores Greyeyes, Navajo Nation Board of Education President Dr. Pauline M. Begay, Department of Diné Education Dr. Kalvin White, Department of Diné Education Superintendent Dr. Tommy Lewis Jr., and Dr. Patrick Galvin.
WASHINGTON— On Wednesday, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Department of Education Secretary John King finalized the historic Diné School Accountability Plan for 60 Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools on the Navajo Nation before Navajo Nation leadership including President Russell Begaye, Vice President Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation Board of Education President Dr. Pauline M. Begay and Department of Diné Education Superintendent Dr. Tommy Lewis Jr.
"We want a world class education system for our children and future generations. Our responsibility as a sovereign Nation is to challenge our young minds to reach their highest potential, as they are our future leaders. This plan is not a quick fix. It will take everyone from our parents, teachers, administrators and legislators working together to achieve our goal of a world class education for our Navajo youth," said President Begaye.
"The Department of Diné Education has been working to ensure that any Navajo child regardless of where they reside on the reservation will have equal standards and will enjoy a strong curriculum that highlights Diné language, history and culture. These standards will be central in educating all of our children across the Navajo Nation. Navajo leaders, past and present, have worked tirelessly in this effort. We are honored to see this come to fruition and congratulate everyone involved in bringing this important matter to a reality for our children," said Department of Diné Education Superintendent Dr. Tommy Lewis Jr.
Currently, the 60 BIE-funded schools on the Navajo Nation use the state accountability system in which each school is located.
"One of the major challenges with using three different state-based accountability plans is that the student performance data is not easily comparable across three state systems. The academic standards and assessments among the three states vary, which makes it difficult for the Navajo Nation, parents and communities to assess student performance. This plan aims to solve the central issue of accountability," said Navajo Nation Board of Education President Dr. Pauline M. Begay.
"Many of our families and their children move from different parts of the reservation to another. Children entering a new school should be able to pick up immediately where they left off. With high hopes for our children come high expectations in their educational achievements," added Dr. Lewis.
In 2005, the Department of Diné Education initiated the development of the Navajo Accountability Workbook under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), formerly known as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB), to use an alternative definition of Adequate Yearly Progress.
In December 2015, President Obama signed into law the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that replaced NCLB. In preparation for the implementation of ESSA in school year 2017-2018, the Navajo Nation chose to seek approval for phase one of the Diné School Accountability Plan for school years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017.
The Navajo Nation will continue to work with the Departments of Education and Interior to develop and implement the future phases of the plan to be consistent with ESSA.
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Top Police Union Calls For Expansion Of Hate Crimes Law To Cover Cops
The Fraternal Order of Police represents more than 330,000 officers.
By Jacob Fischler
Jacob Fischler BuzzFeed News Reporter
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WASHINGTON — The nation's largest police union Tuesday called on Congress and the Obama administration to expand federal hate crimes laws to cover law enforcement officers.
In separate letters to President Barack Obama and Congressional leadership, Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury argued if targeting people because of "race, color, creed, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability" leads to a higher penalty, so should attacks explicitly targeting members of the law enforcement community.
"Now Americans who choose to be law enforcement officers, who choose to serve their communities and put their lives on the line for their fellow citizens, find themselves hunted and targeted just because of the uniform they wear," Canterbury said in the letter.
The letter also notes the union has tried to address the hate crime definition with Congress in the past, but has so far been unsuccessful.
Canterbury issued a statement about the issue Monday, but the letters, dated Tuesday, represent a formal call for action.
"My thoughts and prayers over the past few weeks have been with the families of officers who were, with malice and forethought, gunned down just because they served as police officers," Canterbury said in his statement Monday. "Enough is enough! It's time for Congress to do something to protect the men and women who protect us."
According to Canterbury's letter, there were 47 law enforcement officers killed by gunfire in 2014, nine of which were "ambush killings," including NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were killed in Brooklyn several weeks ago.
"We do not accept that our uniforms alone make us targets because someone was driven to rage over a perceived injustice or desires to strike a blow against our civil government," the letter said.
You can read the letters here:
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2015 0106 Congress (PDF)
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Jacob Fischler is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, D.C.
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Your Own Thing
Book by Donald Driver Music and Lyrics by Hal Hester Music and Lyrics by Danny Apolinar
Full Length Musical, Comedy, 1960s
5M, 3F, 2M or F
ISBN: TW-9982
Your Own Thing is a rock musical loosely based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The show is set in the late 1960s, in the land of Illyria, which looks very mush like New York City. It is a tale of separated twins, mistaken identities, love triangles and "doing your own thing."
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Full Length Musical
Time Period: 1960s
Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
Performance Group:
College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Winner! The Theatre World Award - Russ Thacker (1968)
Winner! The Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical (1968)
Winner! The Drama Desk Award for Best Adaptation (1968)
The show is set in the late 1960s, in the land of Illyria, which looks very much like New York City. It is a tale of separated twins, mistaken identities, love triangles and "doing your own thing." It opens when a raging storm wrecks a ship on which a rock duet is travelling. They are "identical" twenty-year-old twins, Viola and Sebastian. Even in this life-threatening situation, they are bickering as usual (No One's Perfect Dear). In the confusion of the ship sinking, the twins are parted. Viola lands in Illyria where, being told Sebastian drowned, she expresses her loneliness in the strange city (The Flowers). A mysterious stranger gives her a business-card with a job offer. The all-male rock quartet "The Apocalypse" is short one member since Disease was drafted to fight in Vietnam. Famine, War and Death all hate the idea of being forced into such a role (I'm Not Afraid/I'm Me). Disguised as a guy, Charlie, Viola auditions to become "The Apocalypse's" fourth member (Somthin's Happenin' (Baby! Baby!)). She is successful and joins the group, thanks to winning over their 30 year old manager, Orson.
Meanwhile, recovering in hospital from his shipwreck ordeal, Sebastian grieves his sisters death in the shipwreck (Come Away, Death). Realizing he'll have to move forward on his own, he goes in search of a job and a mysterious stranger gives him a business-card with a job offer. He meets up with Orson, who mistakes Sebastian for his twin, Viola/Charlie and confirms his appointment as the new member of "The Apocalypse". Sebastian is thrilled at getting a job to worry his new manager can't get his name right (I'm On My Way To The Top).
Orson is in love with Olivia, the 30-year-old owner of the nightclub where "The Apocalypse" is the star act. She doesn't want to see him so he asks "Charlie" to deliver a love letter to Olivia. Viola realizes that she also is falling in love with Orson (She Never Told Her Love). Inspired by her own situation, Viola advises Orson on how he should win Olivia (Be Gentle). Unfortunately, Olivia falls for Orson's messenger(s), not realizing the second "Charlie", who likes her, isn't the first, who didn't.
While the mixed-up couples continue their ever-changed yet confusing relationships, "The Apocalypse" set about rehearsals with their newest member (The Apocalypse Fugue), Viola's confusion continues (What Do I Know) and friendships grow (The Now Generation). As the confusion builds, the younger Sebastian acknowledges his growing love for the more mature Olivia (The Middle Years). Separately, Olivia also realizes that she is falling in love with the younger messenger (The Middle Years (reprise)). Meanwhile, Orson realizes that he has identified unexplainable feelings for "Charlie" (Young and In Love). The confusion builds (Hunca Munca) resulting in an argument between Sebastian and Olivia, which they eventually settle (Don't Leave Me). Finally, the mix-ups are resolved. The twins are reunited. Viola gets Orson and Sebastian gets Olivia (Your Own Thing).
Premiere Production: Your Own Thing opened Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre, January 13, 1968 and played for 933 performances. The cast included Leland Palmer, Marcia Rodd, Marian Mercer, Rusty (Russ) Thacker, Tom Ligon, John Kuhner, Michael Valenti, Igors Gavin, Imogene Bliss and Danny Apolinar.
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DANNY - member of "The Apocalypse" singing group
JOHN - member of "The Apocalypse" singing group
MICHAEL - member of "The Apocalypse" singing group
ORSON - the Apocalypse manager
OLIVIA - owner of the discotheque
VIOLA - twin sister of Sebastian
SEBASTIAN - twin sister of Viola
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Embassy Suites Hotel Near LAX Evacuated Amid Hazmat Response to Marijuana Honey Wax Lab
by: Melissa Pamer, Nerissa Knight
Posted: Feb 22, 2016 / 04:41 PM PST / Updated: Feb 22, 2016 / 11:05 PM PST
The Embassy Suites hotel near LAX was evacuated for several hours Monday afternoon amid a public safety response that included a hazardous materials team.
Authorities respond to a hotel near LAX where a hazmat situation occurred Feb. 22, 2016. (Credit: KTLA)
The "active police incident" was taking place at the hotel at 1440 E. Imperial Ave., the El Segundo Police Department said in a brief notification about 3:45 p.m.
The incident was occurred inside a hotel room, prompting the evacuation of the rest of the building and the closure of surrounding streets.
Guests who were evacuated said they heard someone was cooking meth inside a room, leading to fumes, but officials on scene would not confirm that. One woman said she was assisted out of her room by firefighters.
"We're hoping we can get our luggage, at least," Meredith Scudder said.
Hotel guests wait after the Embassy Suites in El Segundo was evacuated on Feb. 22, 2016. (Credit: KTLA)
Guests said they saw two police officers being taken away by an ambulance.
One person was detained and was being questioned, authorities on scene.
"They were using a butane along with cough syrup and soap to extract the THC from marijuana," according to El Segundo police Lt. Scott Doukakis.
The evacuation was lifted before 6 p.m.
Police advised motorists to avoid the area around the Embassy Suites by Hilton hotel, which is just west of Sepulveda Boulevard in an area busy with traffic from Los Angeles International Airport.
Crews have cleared the scene of Haz Mat Investigation @ Embassy Suites 1400 E Imperial Ave pic.twitter.com/OMbAeoaqWn
— El Segundo Fire Dept (@dept_el) February 23, 2016
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M is for... Mötley Crüe
"And there's four of Mötley Crüe"
– Upon Westminster Bridge
So… what do we know about Mötley Crüe?
They are rubbish.
The 'metal umlauts' in the name were said to have been inspired by Löwenbräu, rather than Motorhead. Played Donington (q.v.) in 2009. Officially retired on New Years Eve (q.v.), although apparently not due to a row.
I often wonder what advice Mrs.Medlicott would give.
Mr wet underpants 89
Wait until two are stood in a row and hope.
The modern (-ish) umlaut avoidance tactic possibly renders the second umlaut redundant. However if the umlauts were normil and not metil (copyright Robert Webb) Mötley Crüe would pronounced "Muertly Creuw"…
"When we decided to call ourselves Mötley Crüe, we put some umlauts in there because we thought it made us look European. We had no idea that it was a pronunciation thing. When we finally went to Germany, the crowds were chanting, "Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh!" We couldn't figure out why the fu*k they were doing that."
(Vince Neil interview, Vanity Fair 2009)
Their 'autobiography' -The Dirt is an excellent read if you have a spare half hour. After their initial Spinal Tap-like reminiscing and bragging about their depravities and excesses the editor/publisher must have let each of them read what the others had written. They didn't seem to like each other very much and if they had each been given three bullets the job would have been done without having to bother Mrs Medlicott ..
Excerpts here..http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/29/artsfeatures
When I here the words Motley Crew, I immediately think of Captain Pugwash and his nautical numbskulls. Give me Seaman Staines instead of Nikki Sixx any day of the week.
Dawlishian
There never was a Seaman Staines: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/captain-pugwash-creator-traumatised-urban-5896636
There was a rather weird episode in the late 1980s where some guy popped up claiming that he'd stood in for the original Nikki Sixx in the band after a car crash had incapacitated him for some years and tried to sue the band.
I also recall Dennis Leary's rant about how the good rock stars seem to die young leaving the bad ones, where he used MC as an example of a band that ought to overdose but didn't, something along the lines of " put them in a room full of crack and they'll come out an hour later going 'Yeah! Rock On' – oh God, they're still alive, I think they're about to make a double live album…"
Matthew Trippe, that was, who claimed to have been substituted for Sixx (Frank Ferrano) for six months in 1983. He was laughed out of court, then went on to form tribute band Sixx Pakk to similar response and died in Dec 2014.
Denis Leary may have been right, as Sixx allegedly died of an overdose in Dec 1987 but was resuscitated with adrenaline by paramedics (hear 'Kickstart My Heart', if you can stand it).
Russell dean
Wasn't the criminally underrated Victor Lewis Smith behind the myth of Seaman Staines and Master Bates in Captain Pugwash. VLS was/is a very funny bloke, e.g. this. His ongoing exchanges with Esther Ranzten (sp) are worth the price of the book alone.
Played the last gig of their Final Tour on New Year's Eve 2015 at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. Alice Cooper unfortunately failed to carry out his offer to behead them on stage, despite having had the forethought to provide four guillotines.
http://www.nova.ie/latest_news/alice-cooper-wants-behead-motley-crue/
Anyone care to crowdfund some bullets? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50466071
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
It would seem that we have an answer to the question NB57 puts to Mrs Medlicott – spare the lead singer and not the others
https://twitter.com/Sky_Lee_1/status/1246911929840525315?s=20
We truly are in strange times when Tommy Lee speaks for us
I suppose I should have edited that last comment as "Tommy Lee speaks for many of us" since I shouldn't assume that everyone on the site thinks of D Trump in the same way…
If I were Tommy Lee I'd now be watching out in case one of Trump's dedicated followers decides to shoot Tommy Lee three times thereby sparing the others. I'm not advocating such behaviour, you understand, merely saying that Mrs Medlicott may be inclined to give such advice.
Say what you like about Motley Crue's output, "fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs" has a ring to it.


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Crime Scene Location in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland.
This is the exact location where Irish gangster Martin "The General" Cahill was shot dead in August of 1994.
It is situated at the junction of Oxford Road and Charleston Road in Ranelagh, Dublin.
At around 4 p.m. on August 18th, 1994, the gangland figure left his home in Swan Grove and jumped into his black Renault 5.
He then proceeded to drive down Oxford Road, towards the junction with Charleston Road.
The shooting.
When Cahill slowed down at the junction, a man in a reflective yellow vest walked over to his car with a .357 Magnum revolver and opened fire.
"The General" was shot multiple times and died instantly. During the shooting, his Renault continued to roll across Charleston Road. It then came to a halt against the black railings on the other side of the street.
Afterwards, the assassin, who was not wearing a mask, calmly jumped onto the back of a waiting motorbike, which proceeded to drive off in the direction of Rathmines.
Meanwhile, crowds of shocked onlookers started to gather at the scene.
Broken window glass littered the street, and one of Ireland's most infamous criminals lay slumped over to one side in his car.
The IRA claims responsibility.
A couple of hours later, the Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the murder. According to their statement, Martin Cahill had sold stolen paintings to a loyalist paramilitary called the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The UVF then sold these paintings abroad in order to help fund their organization.
Although Cahill was an experienced criminal, he did not have the means to fence the paintings himself. As a result, he offloaded them to the UVF.
It was his decision to do business with an organization that murdered Irish nationalists that ultimately cost him his life.
Where was Martin Cahill shot?
The latitude and longitude coordinates for the junction are:
Charleston Road
The shooting took place at the intersection between Charleston Road and Oxford Road. The junction is beside the park at Belgrave Square. It is a 5-10 minute walk from the center of Rathmines.
Ranelagh is an affluent suburb on the south side of Dublin. It does not have a bad reputation for violence. This location is relatively close to places such as the Swan Shopping Centre, the Leinster Cricket Club, and the Royal Hospital in Donnybrook.
Photos of the junction and other related images.
Matin Cahill's crime scene.
This photograph of the crime scene shows Cahill's black car stopped against the iron railings.
A red privacy sheet was thrown over the front of the windscreen. The arrow in the middle illustrates the direction that the car was coming from when the attack took place.
45 Charleston Road.
This image was taken from the driveway of 45 Charleston Road.
21 Swan Grove.
At the time of his death, Cahill was staying at 21 Swan Grove. In 2005, the house was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau and then sold.
In the 1998 film The General, he is shot dead immediately after he gets into his car. However, this is incorrect, as he was not shot outside of his house.
The movie was also inaccurate in its portrayal of the gangster. Instead of portraying him as the violent criminal that he was, it painted the picture of a jovial "Robin Hood" type figure who thumbed his nose at the authorities.
Unfortunately, this portrayal was removed from reality. For example, in 1988, he yelled obscenities at his elderly neighbors and threatened to burn their house down. He also reportedly tortured people by stapling their fingers to the floor and hammering nails into their hands.
Oxford Street in Ranelagh.
The attack occurred at the junction of Oxford Street and Charleston Road.
Witnesses stated that the gunman was a man in his mid-30s who had dark brown hair. He spent most of the afternoon standing at the corner with a clipboard and posing as a traffic planner.
The hitman's accomplice was a motorcyclist who drove up and down Oxford Street, pretending to be a courier. His job was to scout out Cahill's position and make sure that he was still in Swan Grove.
This aerial image shows the route that his car took.
He refused to show his face.
Cahill refused to show his face to members of the media. If reporters were present, he would pull his hood up over his head and then cover his face by using his hands. Sometimes, he would even show up at the courthouse wearing a balaclava.
Gate.
Following the shooting, his vehicle rolled across the street and crashed into the side of this entrance.
Cahill was gunned down shortly after he left his house in Swan Grove.
According to a number of reports, he was returning a rented copy of the film Alien 3 (1992) at the time. However, this is incorrect. The movie was actually A Bronx Tale (1993).
Crime ScenesIrish Gangland Locations
The pub where Irish gangster Eamon Dunne was shot dead.
Crime Location in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland
The house where Marlo Hyland was shot dead.
Crime Location in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland


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Using Sled Weighted Sprints to Improve Acceleration
The most critical part of speed in most sports is the acceleration phase that takes place over the first few yards of a sprint. Athletes in nearly every sport spend most of their sprinting time in the acceleration phase, so improving this critical part of sprinting is a necessity. One way of developing acceleration is by the addition of an external load, which was a topic covered in a recent Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research study.
There are various ways to add a load to sprinting, but the researchers in this study focused on sleds. The participants did multiple trials of sprinting in three conditions:
Unloaded sprinting
Sprinting with a sled weighted to ten percent of bodyweight
Sprinting with a sled weighted to twenty percent of bodyweight
The focus was on the start, and specifically on the force against the ground. More force on the ground means the muscles are working harder, and in theory, should also mean greater improvements over time.
The researchers found that the twenty-percent-of-bodyweight condition increased the ground reaction forces in both legs. However, at twenty percent of bodyweight, the ground reaction forces were only greater than the ten-percent condition in the front leg. This suggests that, in the staggered stance of a sprinting start, the back leg was more involved while carrying the ten-percent load.
The researchers concluded that a twenty-percent load was thus the superior load to work with, since it resulted in greater force in both legs, whereas the ten-percent load only worked on the back leg. The idea is that greater adaptations will result from working with a load that increases ground reaction force.
I would like to see an application of these results in a follow-up study. It's great that the propulsive forces were greater in the ten-percent-of-bodyweight sled pulls, and it may well be a safe assumption that this will result in greater acceleration for athletes, but it's still an assumption. Consider a related exercise, vest-loaded sprinting, which does not seem to be as effective for sprinters as sled-loaded sprinting due to its effects on sprint mechanics. Consider also that in many sports, an athlete doesn't begin a sprint from a staggered stance. So, while it's nice that this study suggests an approach, the results call for further testing.
Additionally, the results should be applied to both general athletes - such as the participants in this study - and to sprinters specifically. Sprinters are taught to drive equally from each leg when they start, which may alter the results found in the ten-percent condition. If an athlete is trained to start properly, the ten-percent condition could improve force production in both legs, instead of just the back leg.
So while we are at a good starting point, loaded sprinting is still a topic of some controversy. Some coaches shy away from it and some ignore it altogether, while others embrace multiple methods of loaded sprints. Either way, methods involving resistance from behind, like sleds, parachutes, and partner-assisted bungee cords seem to be superior to adding the load directly to the athlete. Just remember to keep your body in the correct position at the point of attachment for the resistance.
1. Casey Cottle, et. al., "Effects of Sled Towing on Sprint Starts," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000000396
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Blood lactate concentration during three different circuit weight training protocols in men and women
Introduction Differences in lactate concentration between genders have been quantified during resistance exercise 1, but never during Circuit Weight Trainings (CWT), neither comparing different protocols at the same intensity. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare venous blood lactate concentrations in men and women during three different CWT. Methods 15 men (22.53± 2.59 years; 76.66±6.45 kg; 177.21±3.77 cm) and 14 women (20.14±2.88 years; 60.38±5.43 kg; 164.36±5.06 cm), all healthy, non-smoking and active, performed three different CWT: Machine Circuit (CM), Free Weight Circuit (FW) and Combined Aerobic- Free Weight Circuit (CE). The CWT consisted on three laps of eight 8 exercises, trying to involve the same muscular groups. The intensity was set at 70% of 15 RM and 70% of the HRR during the aerobic phases. Venous blood samples were analyzed immediately after each lap and every two minutes in the recoveries between laps, using the YSI 1500 SPORT lactate analyser. Three way ANOVA with repeated measures was used to determine differences between protocols and genders. The significant level was set at ?0.05. Results We found interaction among gender, protocol and measurement (F (8.554)=4.524, p<0.001). The analysis showed significant higher lactate values for men in all the measurements (p<0.001), and significant lower concentrations in CE compared to the others protocols (p<0.001). Furthermore, we found some significant differences between MC and FWC, especially at the end of the session. Discussion Our data are in agreement with previous studies, reporting higher values in men than in women 1-2. This could be due to the higher fibre I muscle percentage in women 3, the hormonal state 4-5 or the greater relative external load lifted by men 2. We have also found less lactate concentration during CE, perhaps due the aerobic phase that helped lactate oxidation 6-7. Therefore, we can conclude that during CWT men have higher lactate concentrations than women, and that anaerobic contribution depends not only on the intensity of the session but also on the protocol used, and this influence is presented in both genders. References 1. Bellezza, PA, et al. J Strength Cond Res (2009); 23: 203-8. 2. Scott, C, et al. JEPonline (2008); 11: 56-63. 3. Staron, RS, et al. J Histochem Cytochem (2000); 48: 623-9. 4. D?Eon, TM, et al. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (2002); 283: E1046-55. 5. Ellis, GS, et al. J Appl Physiol (1994); 77: 209-15. 6. Gladden, LB. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2008); 40: 477-85. 7. Miller, BF, et al. J Physiol (2002); 544: 963-75.
16th Annual Congress of the European College os Sport Science
Autor: Ana Belen Peinado Lozano (UPM)
Autor: Fco. Javier Calderon Montero (UPM)
Autor: Pedro Jose Benito Peinado (UPM)
Autor: Esther Morencos Martínez (UPM)
Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ejercicio Físico, Salud y sus Fundamentos Fisiológicos (EFISAF)
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Meet the Vintner Who Exposed the Greatest Wine Fraud in History
As a new movie shows, fake booze is a real problem.
By Jay McInerney
My first encounter with Laurent Ponsot was a memorable one, though I had no idea at the time how significant it would become.
I was attending an auction at Cru, a downtown New York restaurant that was a mecca for wine buffs before the financial meltdown of 2008, intimations of which were in the air that April night. Bear Stearns had recently collapsed, though you wouldn't have known it from the merriment on display— which included a well-known collector in a pink Kiton jacket slicing the top off a jeroboam of 1945 Pol Roger with a saber.
A few minutes earlier Ponsot, a slender figure with salt-and-pepper hair tied in a ponytail, had taken a seat in back. Amid the revelry he seemed like Banquo's ghost, a messenger from another world. The fourth-generation scion of one of Burgundy's most admired domains, Ponsot was a figure I'd heard of but not met. (The 1985 Domaine Ponsot Clos de la Roche, a wine he'd made with his father, had converted me forever to the wines of France's Côtes d'Or.) At the Cru auction, a large parcel of bottles purported to be old Domaine Ponsot vintages were on offer; Ponsot, knowing they were counterfeits, had flown in to prevent their sale.
Wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan, the subject of a new movie
Soon enough the auctioneer announced that the lots had been withdrawn. After the groans and boos died down, Ponsot exited, his mission accomplished, at least for the moment. The longer-term project, which he pursued for years, was to find out who was counterfeiting his wines.
The vendor of the bogus bottles was a 36-year-old Indonesian named Rudy Kurniawan, who would eventually be sent to prison for fraud, thanks to Ponsot and the billionaire investor Bill Koch. A few months after Kurniawan's conviction, in August 2014, I visited Ponsot at his winery in the sleepy town of Morey-Saint-Denis. Shaking my hand at the door, he introduced himself as the head of the French bureau of the FBI. "That stands for Fake Bottle Investigation," he said. Inside, we tasted Ponsot's 2013 vintage. "When I saw a 1929 in the catalog, I knew it was fake," he told me. "My grandfather didn't start estate bottling until 1934." Also on offer at the Cru auction were assorted vintages from '45 to '71—all fake.
When I saw a 1929 in the catalog, I knew it was fake," he told me. "My grandfather didn't start estate bottling until 1934.
Last spring I visited Morey- Saint-Denis again and tasted the 2015, which is already heralded as a landmark. Ponsot, whose demeanor is at times professorial and at others more like that of a secret agent, told me about the Grand Cru vineyards he has added to his portfolio via lease arrangements. (He would not divulge the names of the vine- yard owners.) He now makes 12 Grand Crus—the highest classification in Burgundy— more than any other domain.
He is definitely a maverick. Although Domaine Ponsot dates back to 1872, his winery is thoroughly modern. "I hate the word tradition," he says, "and I don't like old things." Except barrels, apparently: The winery's oak fermentation vats are 150 to 200 years old. Ponsot is almost unique in eschewing new barrels, which can impart tastes like vanilla. Such wines he calls "beverages."
Laurent Ponsot
Paradoxically, he is also among the most non- interventionist of winemakers, refusing to add sulfur, an almost universal protection against spoilage. "Why would you take aspirin if you don't have a headache?" he says. "I only treat a barrel if it develops
a problem." He also rejects the use of cork, which, as every seasoned wine lover knows, often lets in too much oxygen—or, worse, trichloroanisole, a compound that results in a stinky wet cardboard taint when present in high quantities. (In my experience, trichloroanisole affects more than 5 percent of bottles.) After suffering a particularly high rate of cork taint in the late '90s, Ponsot set out to find a solution.
"I tested more than 4,000 bottles," he told me. (Not his own wine initially—too valuable.) The result, a new enclosure called Ardea Seal, is made of three poly- mers, including one used in artificial hearts, and has a corklike feel and permeability but controls the flow of oxygen. He began bottling his wines with it in 2008; others have been slow to follow. "The problem," he says, "is it's not traditional." He picks up one of the white stoppers, holds it out, and winks. "That and the fact that it looks like a suppository."
Such innovations sometimes seem to annoy his peers, possibly because of the media attention he receives, including his role in the upcoming documentary Sour Grapes, about the Kurniawan scandal. (The movie is to be released this fall.) Although it's been almost a decade since Kurniawan was exposed, Ponsot hasn't given up his investigation. I was astonished when he told me he'd gone to Indonesia and found Kurniawan's parents. He told me that a woman living in Kurniawan's house in Arcadia, California, whom Kurniawan identified as his mother, was also a fraud. "He did not act alone," Ponsot explained. However, when I pressed him for details, he turned reticent, becoming 007 again. "It will all be in my book," he said. Which I will wait for while contenting myself with his wines, some of the purest and most delicious in all of Burgundy.
Jay McInerney Contributor Jay McInerney, the author of Bright Lights, Big City and many other books, is the wine critic for Town & Country.
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Most of these are in German though some do have an "English" facility. Many of these resources are not, strictly speaking, genealogical but might nevertheless be of interest for researchers abroad.
Link/Service/Resource and Comments
Summary: Castle Links (Wikipedia)
to help you find info about historic buildings.
See also NÖ-Burgen (below).
Austrian Church Resources
- Catholic: www.katholisch.at
- Lutheran: www.evang.at
- Jewish / Israelitische Kultusgemeinde: www.ikg-wien.at
- LDS: www.kirche-jesu-christi.at
09/2014 Summary: Links to Austrian Media (Wikipedia)
selected daily papers, radio, TV.
ZEDHIA
ZEDHIA is an interactive online data base available for access to the public and permitting comprehensive historic research; various subscription models are available. The platform makes digitalized full text and in depth structured information resources available on the history of Central Europe's business and economy as well as on Central European genealogy. In addition, the 28.362 volumes and 1.3 million pages of the publications comprised in ZEDHIA register the history of Austrian business from 1812 through 2003.
Online access to church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland and Serbia).
03/2018 ÖFR (in German)
Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Familien- und regionalgeschichtliche Forschung (ÖFR) The Austrian Society for Research on Genealogy and Regional Heritage (ÖFR) - see introduction in English
02/2017 ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online (in German)
by the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) including online search of historical newspapers (1689-1946).
08/2017 NÖ-Burgen (in German)
details about some 2600 castles and historic buildings in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich).
09/2014 Historikerkanzlei Genealogisch-Historische Recherchen GmbH
was founded in 2004 by four historians in cooperation with a university professor for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and has been concerned with global genealogic-historic research from the beginning. The service package includes:
Procurement of (historic) diploma, birth, marriage, and death certificates, procurement of citizenship certificates (if desired in cooperation with lawyers also their validation), search for relatives and ancestors, drawing up genealogical trees, global search for unknown heirs, procurement of certificates ascertaining nobility status, procurement of documents necessary to claim restitution
Lehmann Online - Digital Address Books, Vienna 1859 - 1942
The "Wiener Adressverzeichnis Lehmann" is now available online (in German). Some 200.000 pages list only proprietors and tenants, but not subtenants.
03/2018 MOM - Monasterium
[Virtuelles Urkundenarchiv österreichischer Klöster]
An online archive of medieval charters (till 1500) and a representative collection of documents of the following centuries from many sources including the following monasteries: Aggsbach, Altenburg, Ardagger, Dürnstein, Gaming, Geras, Göttweig, Heiligenkreuz, Herzogenburg, Klosterneuburg, Lilienfeld, Mariazell in Österreich, Mauerbach, Melk, Neukloster, Pernegg, Säusenstein, Schottenstift, Seitenstetten, St. Andrä, St. Dorothea, St. Pölten and Zwettl.
09/2014 Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft "ADLER"
Information about the genealogical society and its library in German but very little content or research guidance.
09/2014 Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918 by Glenn Jewison & Jörg C. Steiner
09/2014 The Museum of Military History
in Vienna
09/2014 The Wien Museum
A general-purpose metropolitan museum with a wide range of collections and exhibitions – from the history of the city to art, fashion and modern culture, from the earliest settlements to the present day. If you are interested in Vienna, this is the place to pick up its traces.
09/2014 Genealogic Research in Carinthia
by Hans Pawlik jr.
09/2014 Dorotheum
the famous Austrian auction house (antiques, art, etc.)
04/2015 Heraldik Atelier - Erika Watzenegger
a commercial heraldry, calligraphy and genealogy service in Vorarlberg (in German).
09/2014 Jewish Museum, Vienna
with information about its exhibitions and archives.
09/2014 The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)
with information about the library and archive.
09/2014 Vienna Database on European Family History
very interesting ennumerations and census information. Some interactive queries are possible but offline analysis requires installion of Kleio, special DB program developed at the Max-Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. Thanks to Ludwig Blaha for finding this link.
FAMILIE AUSTRIA - Österreichische Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Geschichte
an Austrian society for genealogy and history, located in Vienna.
09/2014 Austrian Family History
an excellent site by Kent Stuetz that provides a helpful source of information and tools to assist you to conduct successful Austrian genealogical research. Also information about the "Southern Waldviertel Family History Project"
GenTeam
founded Ing. Felix Gundacker, these free databases containing more than 10 million records are made by and for genealogists (more than registered 25,500 users).
03/2018 IHFF - Institute for Historical Family Research
is a company (established 1989 by Ing. Felix Gundacker) that can undertake to do your research for a fee.
09/2014 The Burgenland Bunch
is a group of genealogists performing various research projects relating to the province of Burgenland. Excellent free monthly newsletters.
09/2014 Online Telephone Directory
09/2014 The Austrian National Library
As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the Austrian National Library (ANL) looks back over a history rich in tradition going as far as the 14th century.
09/2014 The Austrian State Archives
with essential information for researchers.
The Libraries of the University of Vienna
provides a very comprehensive index.
See also: Universities in Austria (Wikipedia)
09/2014 Austria-Forum
including the AEIOU-Lexikon, an encyclopedia of Austrian culture and heritage with a search facility.
09/2014 The Vienna City Council
including information about the Vienna City Archives and
Tracing Your Ancestors in Vienna.
09/2014 Austria National Tourist Office
provides some useful information about Austria today.
09/2014 The Central Statistical Office in Austria
with useful census information.
08/2017 Topotheque
is an online archive, operated in local entities. It is an regional historical source of reference, focusing on not only preserving historical material kept in private hands but making it visible to the public.


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Former UB student Hannah Christensen arraigned Friday morning
Christensen faces felony charge; could face up to four years in prison
JACKLYN WALTERS | The Spectrum
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn speaks at the press conference Friday morning after former UB student Hannah Christensen's second arraignment. Christensen faces felony charges.
HANNAH STEIN , JACKLYN WALTERS
Erie County Supreme Court released former UB student Hannah Christensen from her second arraignment Friday morning before State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns.
Christensen faces one count of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, which resulted in a serious physical injury, a class "E" Felony, according to Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn. Christensen pleaded not guilty.
If convicted, Christensen faces up to four years in prison.
Paul Glascott, Chief of the DA's Vehicular Crimes Bureau is prosecuting the case.
Christensen was allegedly driving on Nov. 1 in front of Hadley Village when she hit UB student Renuka Ramanadhan, who was walking in the crosswalk. Christensen fled the scene and drove to a nearby parking lot where she watched emergency responders treat the victim, according to Flynn's press release.
The victim was hospitalized for "a significant period of time" with a traumatic head injury. She is now out of the hospital and attending school again, according to Flynn.
Christensen was a sophomore biological sciences student at the time of the hit-and-run. UB officials declined to comment on her enrollment, but confirmed she is no longer a student.
Christensen never reported the incident and University Police arrested her on Nov. 16.
Flynn said Christensen would not face criminal charges if she had reported the incident. He said he has no plans to offer Christensen a plea deal.
"Ms. Christensen is a 20-year-old UB student who never got in trouble in her life before and she just made a terrible decision here," Flynn said. "These decisions on most of these hit-and-runs are panic decisions where you know you've done something, you know you've hit somebody, but you make a critical error in judgment. You don't think about the consequences and you leave the scene and now she's facing a felony charge."
Christensen's third arraignment is scheduled for April 9 for a pre-trial report.
Hannah Stein and Jacklyn Walters are Spectrum editors and can be reached at news@ubspectrum.com.
JACKLYN WALTERS
Jacklyn Walters is a junior communication major. She enjoys bringing up politics at the dinner table and seeing dogs on campus.


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Go Wild At These 7 Wildlife Reserves Not Far From Delhi
February 19, 2018 Angel SrivastavaGetting Around, Travel
2018 has come up with a lot of long weekends, and what better way to spend one of them than in nature's lap? Let go of the adventure junkie in you and go wild at these wildlife reserves which are not very far from Delhi!
Distance from Delhi: 244 km (6 hours)
You've seen it in movies and you've heard about it from your friends, it is time you pay a visit to India's favourite national park! Expect to be greeted by a number of wild animals as you drive through this place. While the park is primarily a tiger reserve, spotting one is sheer luck. But you might be able to spot paw marks or if you get lucky then eyes shining from behind dense woods. You'll find multiple resorts offering affordable weekend packages, here.
Sariska National Park
Situated in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, Sariska is a very popular weekend getaway for people in Delhi because of its proximity, and the picturesque landscapes. The reserve is home to many wildlife species, such as Indian leopard, striped hyena, chital, four-horned antelope and Indian jackal. It also has a growing population of tigers.
It is one of the biggest national parks in northern India and located in the Sawai Madhopur district of south-eastern Rajasthan. Besides the Ranthambore National Park itself, you can also visit its two neighboring sanctuaries, namely, Mansingh Sanctuary and Kaila Devi Sanctuary. The park is also popular as a heritage site due to the presence of multiple ruins within its premises.
Keoladeo National Park
Distance from Delhi | 236 km (5 hours)
the Keoladeo National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is situated in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. One of the finest bird parks in the world, Keoladeo derives its name from an ancient Hindu temple, devoted to Lord Shiva, which stands at the center of the park. It is home to more than 230 resident and migratory bird species in a protected area of 29 sq. km. The park is famous for species of birds, including Cranes, Spoonbills, Herons, Pelicans and the rare Siberian Cranes. It is also an excellent place to watch mammals like Golden Jackal, Striped Hyena, Fishing Cat, Jungle Cat, Nilgai, Sambar, Blackbuck and wild Boar. During the winter months, it is also possible to see large Indian Pythons.
Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the foothills of Himalayas in Almora district of Uttarakhand. The sanctuary has been declared an Important Bird Area by Bird Life International as there are more than 200 species of birds in the sanctuary, including Fork tail, Blackbirds, Laughing Thrush, Pheasant, Nuthatches, Parakeets and Monal. The Sanctuary is also home to Barking Deer, Himalayan bear, leopard, fox, musk deer, langur, porcupine, flying squirrel, chital, jungle cat etc.
Dudhwa National Park
Distance from Delhi | 427 km (10 hours)
Hidden among the Evergreen forests of the Terai Region bordering Nepal lies Dudhwa National Park that supports multitudes of endemic species. Dudhwa National Park is a part of Project Tiger that endeavors to increase the rate of this fast dwindling species.
Sulatanpur National Park
Distance from Delhi | 41 km ( 2 hours)
Sultanpur National Park or Bird Sanctuary is one of the most ideal places for bird watching! Birds like common hoopoe, common spoonbill, paddy field pipit, purple sunbird, little cormorant, Eurasian Thick-knee, gray francolin, black francolin, Indian roller, white-throated kingfisher, spot-billed duck, painted stork, great egret, cattle egret, India crested lark and many others permanently inhabit the bird sanctuary. In winter, Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary provides a picturesque panorama of 100 migratory bird species such as Siberian cranes, greater flamingo, ruff, black winged stilt, common teal, common greenshank, northern pintail, yellow wagtail, white wagtail, rosy pelican etc.
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Sex, diabetes and the kidney
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2009 Apr;296(4):F680-8. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.90505.2008. Epub 2009 Jan 14.
Christine Maric 1
1 Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State St., Jackson, MS, 39216, USA. cmaric@physiology.umsmed.edu
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.90505.2008
The incidence and the rate of progression of nondiabetic renal disease is generally greater in men compared with age-matched women, suggesting that the female sex is protective and/or that the male sex is a risk factor for the development and progression of nondiabetic renal disease. In diabetes, even though the male sex still appears to be a risk factor, this relationship is not as strong as it is in nondiabetic renal disease. Experimental evidence suggests that both estrogens and androgens play an important role in the pathophysiology of renal disease. Thus one of the potential mechanisms for the absence of a clear sex difference in the setting of diabetes may be alterations in sex hormone levels. Indeed, studies suggest that diabetes is a state of an imbalance in sex hormone levels; however, whether these changes correlate with the decline in renal function associated with diabetes is unclear. Furthermore, diabetic renal disease rarely develops before puberty, and the onset of puberty accelerates microalbuminuria, supporting the idea of the involvement of sex hormones in the development and progression of the disease. However, other than a handful of experimental studies indicating that treatment with or removal of sex hormones alters the course of diabetic renal disease, very few studies have actually directly examined the correlation between sex hormones and the disease development and progression. Further studies are necessary to determine the precise contribution of sex hormones in the pathophysiology of diabetic renal disease to develop novel and potentially sex-specific therapeutic treatments.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / complications
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / metabolism*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / physiopathology
Diabetic Nephropathies / etiology*
Diabetic Nephropathies / metabolism
Diabetic Nephropathies / physiopathology
Gonadal Hormones / metabolism*
Kidney / metabolism*
Kidney / physiopathology
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Club Drive
Game Name: Club Drive
Platforms: Jaguar
Developer(s): Atari
Genre(s): Racing
As a casual game historian, I can consider what Atari was trying to do versus what they were able to achieve, pat the game on the back, and congratulate it on giving it The Old College Try. And as obsessed as I was with 3D and virtual reality around the time of this game's release, I surely would have been beside myself with glee at navigating these polygon worlds. However, we're reviewing games here, and from any perspective, this is more a tech demo than an actual game.
Club Drive can be quickly summarized as a loose driving simulator in 3D worlds of shaded polygons. You have four creative stages to tackle in the race mode. Two tracks are somewhat realistic approaches to San Francisco and an Old West town. The other two are fantasy levels that place you in an outdoor stunt track or inside a toy car speeding around a ground-level view of a house. Up to two players can spin around the rooms, leap off towering furniture, and even weave between the legs of a polygon cat chasing a little mouse. I have no complaints about the variety and imagination of these zones, and the house level is especially cool and inventive.
Driving through a house in first person. Neat idea, poor execution.
The trouble lies with the execution. Club Drive's ideas are bigger than the code can support. Previous attempts like Hard Drivin', were pretty simple track simulations with the illusion of 3D, flat terrain, and occasional polygonal stunt structures. These games worked because the load was minimal, allowing for a clear sense of speed. Club Drive's designers appear too eager to take the next jump into fully-3D worlds, resulting in a clunky engine severely limited in detail. Cars skate around the tracks more so that actually responding to the road, and frequently wobble around on all surfaces as they try to orient themselves – to the point that the top number keys all perform the same "manual stabilization" function. Cars turn sluggishly, yet also seem unaffected by gravity – you can easily drive up the side of a cliff like Lupin the Third's Volkswagen.
Your speed is also noticeably capped. The stunt track level is the simplest in layout, and not surprisingly, the only one you can floor it to 80+ MPH on. Every other track limits you to a paltry 54 MPH; hardly the kind of blazing speeds you'd expect out of a racing game. It makes a little sense for the cramped house, but even the Golden Gate Bridge rolls by at a lazy pace, mostly ruining any sense of reckless driving or thrilling speed.
These levels are the content for the "race" mode, though there are no traditional AI cars to challenge you. The goal instead is to beat your own time, or to challenge a friend in split-screen two player (which places larger demands on the hardware and becomes more choppy and less enjoyable). Or, you could elect to simply drive around the various levels and take in the sights. Your car is indestructible and you can find small hidden zones off the standard paths; both of which encourage exploration. Should you travel off a cliff or get trapped in the terrain, you can hold down the Option key and rewind your run in real-time. You can wind back to before your mistake, release Option, and seamlessly pick the game up from that point. You can even rewind all the way back to the start of the track, if you wish, and pick your control up at any point in time along the way. Very cool.
Unfortunately, creating your own merriment inside these levels won't last too long. Every zone, except the house, is laid out like a standard race track. There's a start, finish, and course boundaries that automatically engage the rewind system if you pass them. This means your exploration is quite restricted. You can launch yourself freely around about seven blocks of San Fran, and zip around the non-linear house, but there aren't many ways you can take a canyon, coastal road, or the entire stunt track. It's great that the game doesn't limit you from just exploring the levels, but it quickly becomes clear that they aren't designed for this. A freeroaming lack of purpose can get you through a couple plays, or maybe thirty minutes with a buddy just figuring out what you're able to do, but the return diminishes significantly after that. This is especially true when you consider that the engine doesn't make the existing driving all that exciting to begin with, and without other cars to race, the race mode doesn't offer a true challenge on its own.
The hills of San Francisco send your car leaping through the air.
If racing/casual driving isn't your interest, you can play "tag" with a second player in split-screen, or engage in a "collect" mode. You drive your car around a trackless area, picking up power spheres that act somewhat like checkpoints for impromptu laps. You truly can tackle them from any direction, and you're rewarded with a high score for figuring out the fastest and most efficient path to catch all the spheres. Some levels have holes in the wall to help you quickly teleport and come out on the other end of the map (think Pac-Man).
However, these collect mode levels are astoundingly small arena-style cuts of the main tracks. It will take you a little less than four seconds to drive from one end of a map to the other, making it hard to hide spheres or your opponent. Or, to look at it another way, the "San Francisco" collect/tag level actually means "One enclosed, two-level parking garage in San Francisco." The house map consists only of one large room and a connected kitchen and bathroom. The Old West map is just one main street with a row of six buildings on either side. You don't get the freedom to play in the larger zones. I think having the collect mode take place in the full map would actually do wonders to justify the existence of both. But then, aside from a few possible winding detours, such a mode really wouldn't be much different than the solo race system that already exists.
I could go on, but let's be honest, very few people are actually going to play Club Drive anyway. It requires a Jaguar console, which only a handful of modern gamers are going to purchase, and its clearly been defined well before this review as a title not worth getting. The snippier of reviewers (those that like to make you believe games like this are entirely without merit) are missing out on some of the worthy aspects, like the creative levels and the rewind feature. Unfortunately, their final scores are still correct. There's no longevity to this game; there wasn't even when it was released. If you still enjoy playing it, then it's for other reasons (like nostalgia) that can't be attributed to the code on the cart. There's just not enough to do.
Cheery graphics that look neat in stills. Tries a different path than the average racing game. Many inspired track ideas.
Weak driving engine. Capped speed. Larger levels are too limited to truly explore, while smaller, non-linear levels are too tiny to enjoy. No AI racers, choppy two-player split screen; little to keep a player engaged.
Tags: driving, racing
Posted in Jaguar
Bill Kendick says:
And yet, this is my 5yo's favorite game right now. 🙂
The J Man says:
First, I love that you're keeping the Jaguar going with a new generation!
It does have a certain Micro Machines quality to it that I thought was refreshing. This is why I intentionally don't trash games – it's too easy to get jaded in this hobby. If someone's having fun with a game, well, hard to find fault with that.
Charlton says:
True that J man! I stop reading reviewers who are basicly just trying to top each other with their outlandish "funny" negativity. Defeats the purpose of a review.
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AEG: Arenas need greening
By Kevin Reichard on November 16, 2010 in NBA
Industry giant AEG is pushing new environmental standards for the live-entertainment industry, meaning that arenas could be pushed by potential vendors to adopt green management practices.
AEG is a major player in the arena industry: Besides owning Los Angeles's Staples Center, the firm manages Kansas City's Sprint Center, Portland's Rose Garden, and Minneapolis's Target Center, among others. So when the firm says it wants to be a leader in green arenas, others will listen. Indeed, the stated goal from AEG is pretty strong: "to be the leaders in our sector, the sports and live entertainment industries, by establishing the environmental standards by which other such organizations can measure themselves. To accomplish this, we are attempting to detail, measure and manage all aspects of our environmental performance."
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