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Reg Johanson is the author of Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006), and co-author, with Roger Farr and Aaron Vidaver, of N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8. 11 (PILLS, 2008). Poetry and critical work has appeared in Capitalism Nature Socialism, West Coast Line, The Rain Review, The Poetic Front, The Capilano Review, Matrix, dANDelion, and W, among others. He teaches writing and literature at Capilano University in North Vancouver, on occupied Coast Salish territory.
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Thriller tracks conspiracy's twists and turns
Posted by Jane Simon Ammeson on September 21, 2020 September 18, 2020
Parental rage at kids' sporting events is nothing new, but Maggie Russell takes it to a new level when, during her son's last Little League game before the playoffs, she screams at the coach to give her son some playing time.
L.C. Shaw
Even Agatha, her good friend, thinks Maggie's gone overboard, but it gets worse in L.C. Shaw's second novel in her Jack Logan series, "The Silent Conspiracy" (Harper Paperbacks $16, 2020). Grabbing the knife Agatha is using to cut up apples for the team's snack, Maggie marches down the bleachers and plunges it into the coach's chest.
As she watches his body slump to the ground, an inner voice urges her to remedy the situation by turning the knife on herself. And so, she does.
It's not your usual Little League confrontation. But to Logan, an investigative reporter, and Taylor Parks, a television producer, this isn't just an isolated incident. There are news reports from around the country of mild-mannered, highly respected people committing murder and then suicide. It all seems to lead back to a case the couple had two years previously, when they were able to shut down a secret facility set up to brainwash political and media leaders.
Investigating the murders, Logan and Parks discover that Damon Crosse, the man who tried to kill them two years ago when they stopped his indoctrination plot, may have faked his death and is now planning revenge. But it's even more complicated than that. The show Park is producing about a class action suit against a national insurance company may also be connected to Damon, the murder/suicides, and his new fiendish plans.
"'The Secret Conspiracy' is a stand-alone book even though it ties back to 'The Network,' my first Jack Logan book," said Shaw, the pen name for Lynne Constantine.
In addition to her own books, she writes with her sister Valerie. The best-selling team writes thrillers under the pseudonym Liv Constantine. Their books include "The Last Mrs. Parrish," "The Last Time I Saw You" and "The Wife Stalker."
The two are a prolific pair. Shaw said she's just finished her fourth book with her sister and they already are plotting their fifth, while she is also at work on another book on her own.
"The challenge," she said, "is to have endings that are inevitable but unexpected. We like to be tricky and to catch readers by surprise but to also have it all make sense in the end."
L.C. Shaw will be doing a series of virtual events. For a full list, visit her website, lcshawauthor.com/events/
Here are several that are that are free and upcoming:
• Fairfield University Bookstore, 6 p.m. Tuesday, http://www.facebook.com/FairfieldUBookstore/events/
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• Poisoned Pen book store, 1 p.m. Friday, http://www.facebook.com/thepoisonedpenbookstore/live
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Women of Focus tradeshow to offer high-end products, services
The Women of Focus tradeshow is March 6 at The Century Club of Rochester, 566 East Avenue.
Women of Focus tradeshow to offer high-end products, services The Women of Focus tradeshow is March 6 at The Century Club of Rochester, 566 East Avenue. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1fwU7OK
ROC Published 4:32 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2014 | Updated 6:07 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2014
Jill Bates(Photo: Photo provided by Jill Bates)
Armed with a degree in business from Rochester Institute of Technology, Jill Bates has been a successful female entrepreneur during the past three decades. As owner of Jill Bates Fashion, she has grown her own company, learning valuable business and marketing skills along the way. She recently started Crystal Clear Consulting to share her wealth of knowledge with other women who want to start their own ventures
Bates is teaming with Angela LaVecchia, owner of Angelina Vagabonda, to recognize Celebrate Women's Month by producing a high-end event during the month of March. The Women of Focus tradeshow will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. on March 6 at The Century Club of Rochester, 566 East Avenue.
LaVecchia has always been guided by fashion and beauty. Even when she was an outside sales rep in the oil and shortening industry, she wore custom-made imported suits to all of her appointments. That fashion sense combined with her love of Italy as an Italian-American led her to create Angelina Vagabonda where she shares these passions with her many clients. Owning a home in Sicily, Angela travels to Italy frequently, searching for "fun, funky, functional and fabulous" items from handmade Italian leather purses and jewelry to handcrafted ceramics and pottery. Her products will be be available for purchase at the tradeshow.
"Creating a tradeshow in which all of the vendors are female entrepreneurs was very appealing to us," Bates said. "While this is the first Women of Focus tradeshow, based on the great response we have had, we know it won't be the last! Holding the show at the historic and beautiful Century Club, the oldest women's club in Rochester, seemed like the perfect location."
The mission of the Women of Focus tradeshow is to support women business owners and entrepreneurs by showcasing their products and services in an elegant, sophisticated environment. With close to 30 vendors, the show promises to be filled with opportunities to shop, sample foods, win prizes, and network amongst the more than 200 expected guests. Vendors run the gamut from photographers to graphic designers, from bakery chefs to realtors, from yoga teachers to healing energy experts plus many more. For a full list of vendors, http://womenoffocustradeshow.com
Women of Focus is open to the public with an admission fee of $25 per person benefitting The Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley, an educational and grant-making organization promoting economic self-sufficiency for women and girls. Additionally, gently-used formal gowns may be dropped off at the show for the Fairy Godmothers of Greater Rochester, an organization dedicated to providing prom dresses for deserving high school girls.
For more information, go to http://womenoffocustradeshow.com.
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Pittsburgh Steelers might be the NFL's zombie squad
In a league populated mostly by middling teams, it's risky to conduct premature burials.
By Bill Dundas Dec 8, 2021, 9:00am EST
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During most of the game at Heinz Field on Sunday evening, the Pittsburgh Steelers were almost too ugly to behold. For many in Steelers Nation, their favorite team resembled a hideous, barely animated caricature of its former self — similar to the aimless, plodding undead in the low-budget, 1981 movie "Night of the Zombies." The Steelers offense was unable to move the ball or convert on third downs, while the defense had resumed its troubling habit of yielding big chunks of yardage and failing to hold the line in 3rd-and-long situations. For the better part of three quarters — except for what should have been a TD drive at the end of the first half — Pittsburgh's offense mostly looked like dead men running while putting only three points on the scoreboard.
But in the final quarter, perhaps in response to the deafening roar of the world's greatest football fans, the dormant corpse of Pittsburgh's former glory sprung from its crypt to terrorize the Baltimore Ravens, scoring 17 points to send their divisional rivals home wondering exactly what had hit them. Despite some conspicuously missing bodies and the team's halting, Frankenstein movements on the gridiron, the Steelers once again had demonstrated their capacity to surprise an unsuspecting victim. Two weeks after nearly pulling off a similar feat against the Chargers in Los Angeles, it seemed reasonable to question whether this 2021 Steelers team might be enacting pro football's rendition of the zombie siege — those creepy dudes who lull you into believing they're dead and buried, but suddenly . . . .
If nothing else, we might have learned a few things about the Pittsburgh Steelers that seemed doubtful after last week's collapse in Cincinnati. First of all, in today's NFL of parity and widely inconsistent play, the Steelers might not really be too terribly far away from competing after all.
While the Ravens haven't exactly been overwhelming this season, the Steelers somehow managed to beat them at their own specialty — finding ways to win close games. In fact, seven of Baltimore's eight wins this season have been by margins of six points or less.
Secondly, with their backs against the wall, a handful of Pittsburgh's depth players stepped up to deliver performances exceeding any expectations. In the final quarter, when the Steelers most desperately needed to move the ball, John Leglue — a player previously unknown to many fans — was spotted blasting out running lanes for Najee Harris and Benny Snell.
On defense, Chris Wormley, the former Ravens castoff, was making some key plays while Ahkello Witherspoon appeared to make a strong case for additional snaps by delivering a number of big hits plus a crucial, game-saving pass deflection.
This is precisely the kind of backup talent that every contending NFL team must have — players who not only can step in when starting players are lost to injury or illness, but who also show they might be starting-caliber themselves.
Finally, it was established quite firmly that, given a modicum of pass protection and at least a respectable running game, zombie chief Ben Roethlisberger — widely rumored to have died this season — still can be quite scary and dangerous to Steelers opponents.
But as Pittsburgh prepares to face the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday Night Football, some key questions persist which will determine if these zombie-Steelers continue to wreak havoc on the NFL or whether they'll sink quietly back into their graves.
Something which must be solved is the ongoing mystery of why it so often takes the Steelers offense more than half the game to get untracked. Defensively, the Steelers must find a solution for their continuing inability to stop 3rd-and-long conversions, and that solution cannot rely solely on T.J. Watt's uncanny ability to pressure the quarterback.
On Sunday at Heinz Field, we witnessed a haggard band of Steelers clawing their way out of the cemetary turf and back into a crowded NFL playoff race. We also saw clear evidence of why Pittsburgh's loyal, zealous fans continue to be the envy of the pro football world.
That's the kind of foundation any football organization can build upon. If the Steelers catch a few breaks personnel-wise and continue to play the role of every NFL contender's worst nightmare, they might still find a way to finish this season on the upswing. After all, there's nothing quite so blood-curdling as an animated corpse.


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GMO WHEAT UPDATE... USDA investigators are still looking for answers in the GMO wheat case. A USDA official told Reuters they have conducted tests on eight samples of seed and four grain samples and all results have been negative. Investigators are now checking a government seed storage facility in Colorado, which is a preservation center for genetic resources, to see if any of the experimental seed was sent there.
BELOW YEAR-AGO NUMBERS EXPECTED IN CATTLE ON FEED REPORT... USDA's monthly report on feedlot activity this afternoon is expected to show On Feed at 96.5%, Placements at 95.9% and Marketings at 97.9% of year-ago. While Placements are widely expected to be under year-ago, the guess range is wide, from 84.3% to 99.8%, meaning that category will provide the report "read."
RECORD END-OF-MAY PORK STOCKS EXPECTED... USDA's Cold Storage Report this afternoon is expected to show total pork stocks at 663 million lbs. as of the end of May, based on the average pre-report guess. While that would be down around 5% from month-ago, it would represent record-large pork stocks for the end of May. Beef stocks are guessed at 511.5 million pounds.
STILL WAITING ON CASH CATTLE TRADE... With bids and asking prices still far apart, it appears active cash cattle trade won't be seen until late today. Both feedlots and packers seem willing to wait until after the Cattle on Feed Report to get serious on negotiations.
CASH HOGS CALLED MOSTLY STEADY... Market-ready hog supplies remain tight and cutting margins are profitable, which is keeping the cash hog market supported. Cash hog bids are expected to be steady at most Midwest locations to close out the week.
OVERNIGHT DEMAND NEWS... Exporters reported no tenders or purchases.


Listening tests of the 3R USB Renaissance focused primarily on comparing the performance of the Ideon Audio Ayazi DAC (which has been extensively reviewed (here) while streaming audio files through the USB port, with and without the device under test. In contrast to the lab evaluation process which had some limitations (explained on the relevant page), the listening sessions carried out with the system running at High Speed (HS) rate. The source was a computer running Windows 10 and the new Client/Server version of the MusiCHI media player, while the rest of the system was the standard used in all reviews (including the Melos Plus Series Line preamplifier, the Parasound HCA3500 power amp and the ATC SCM-50PSL loudspeakers). All cables used in the USB connections were of typically good quality and compatible with the USB 2.0/HS standard.
Initial installation of the device, in practice, does not even exist as a procedure. As soon as the computer sees the DAC, the introduction of the 3R USB to the chain does not change anything, because it is a "transparent" USB device that does not require a driver or any settings. If everything goes well, the two LEDs on the front light up and the system is locked and ready for use.
First impressions, after some experimenting, converge to that the differences introduced by the 3R USB are not very large or easily perceived. Ayazi's performance, with and without the conditioner, was not heavily altered (producing emotional "eureka" moments or anything), a result which probably should be attributed both on the computer and on the converter acting as a good system with low noise and jitter levels. For this reason, the trivial but quite realistic advice that such devices need to be tested in conjunction with the system in which they will operate applies. A number of systematic and rigorous listening tests, however, revealed that the device does, indeed, introduce some performance changes that can be considered both significant and sound quality improving (given the DAC's price level and quality).
What one observes, first of all, is an improvement in some stereo imaging attributes. Ayazi is, no doubt, a great converter, but the inclusion of the 3R USB seemed to enhance its transparency and clarity, offering a better focus for individual sound objects, a better sense of scene depth and a better feeling of air. These changes become clearer with high-resolution files, probably partly because they contain more information and partly because the effect of the conditioner on higher bitrates becomes more important (based on the logic described on the lab evaluation page). Whatever the cause, however, the listener is facing a soundstage that focuses just behind the horizontal axis of the loudspeakers and sounds more realistic and full, being a more detailed description of the mix.
Small but tangible changes were also detected in the timbre reproduction. The magnitude of these changes was not large enough to alter the tonal balance of the Ayazi, which would be undesirable, given its neutral and transparent character. Nevertheless, with the 3R USB in place, the DAC retained its very good low-frequency behavior, but improved somewhat on detail description and feeling of control, and sounded more impressive.
The performance of the 3R USB/Ayazi combination in the high-frequency region was, also, quite interesting. While the good feeling of speed was maintained, percussion passages appeared better bodied and there was the impression that the system gained in softness, air, and balance. Ayazi retained its warm but slightly dark character and never became too bright or aggressive.
To summarize, the introduction of the 3R USB appeared to have a benign but perceptible effect on the audio performance of this particular DAC. By comparison, the system gained in stereo imaging accuracy, showed better clarity towards the very low/low-frequency part of the audio spectrum and improved in softness, feeling of air and balance in the high-frequency region, while retaining its overall character and tonal balance. With absolute criteria, 3R USB appeared to only positively influence the end result, significantly improving the overall performance.
Residing in an area outside the traditional boundaries of high fidelity, where technology (and the market) are far from being mature and well-established, Ideon's 3R USB seems to make an interesting intervention, addressing, in a pragmatic way, the potential flaws of the USB transmission line, therefore maximizing the DAC potential. Is it worth of the €200,- price tag? All indications converge towards a resounding "yes". The 3R USB is something any audiophile should definitely try out in its own file-streaming audio setup. Highly recommended!
Track #01 Ideon Audio Ayazi DAC+3R USB 44.1kHz.
Track #02 Ideon Audio Ayazi DAC+3R USB, 96kHz.
Track #03 Ideon Audio Ayazi DAC, 44.1kHz.
Track #04 Ideon Audio Ayazi DAC, 96kHz.
Track #05 Reference source (dCS Puccini u-Clock/Teac Esoteric D-70.


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Court denies Mayor Warren's request for change of venue in campaign finance trial
By David Andreatta
PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Mayor Lovely Warren addresses reporters during a City Hall news conference on Sept. 3, 2020.
A regional appellate court has denied a plea for a change of venue by lawyers representing Mayor Lovely Warren and two of her campaign associates in their criminal campaign finance case — setting the stage for a trial in Rochester.
Attorneys for the accused contended in court papers filed in November that media coverage of the charges against the mayor, and protests related to the Warren administration's handling of the death of Daniel Prude in which demonstrators called for her resignation, ensured that she could not receive a fair trial in Monroe County.
"The publicity in this case has been substantially more prejudicial than that of other high-profile cases in the county," the lawyers wrote in a motion seeking a change of venue dated Nov 23.
But a panel of five judges from the Rochester-based Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court found last week that the defendants had not met their burden of proof. In doing so, however, the court left open the possibility of the case being moved to a new jurisdiction if an impartial jury cannot be found in Monroe County.
"We conclude that defendants have not met their burden of demonstration that there is 'reasonable cause to believe that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had' in Monroe County," the court wrote in a decision dated Jan. 13.
"It if develops during the voir dire (jury selection) that a fair and impartial jury cannot be drawn, an appropriate motion may then be made," the decision concluded. "The relief requested in the motion is premature."
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Mayor Lovely Warren and her lawyer, Joseph Damelio, enter the courthouse for her arraignment on felony charges related to alleged campaign finance violations on Oct. 5, 2020.
Monroe County prosecutors opposed the request for a change of venue, arguing that fair trials have been held in other high-profile cases and that it would be a logistical burden considering that they planned to call as many as 50 witnesses.
Warren and her associates, Albert Jones Jr., the former treasurer of her Friends of Lovely Warren campaign committee, and Rosalind Brooks, the city's finance director and the former treasurer of a political action committee crated by Warren called Warren for a Strong Rochester, have been indicted on felony charges connected to campaign finance violations alleged to have occurred during Warren's 2017 re-election run.
The three of them face two charges, including illegal coordination between political committees for the purpose of evading donor limits and participating in a scheme to defraud in the first degree.
Warren's lawyer, Joe Damelio, said Tuesday that the mayor is confident she can get a fair trial in Rochester, but that he and the lawyers representing the other defendants felt it was best to attempt to move the trial.
"It just means we're going to have to work harder at the time of jury selection to find jurors who haven't heard anything about the case — and let's face it, in Monroe County everybody has — or very little and can sit on the case in a fair and impartial manner," Damelio said.
It is relatively rare for a court to grant a request for a change of venue, although it does happen on occasion.
In 2019, for instance, the appellate division found that former City Court Judge Leticia Astacio could not receive a fair trial in Monroe County on charges that she illegally tried to buy a shotgun in violation of her terms of probation stemming from a drunken driving conviction.
That case was moved to Onondaga County, where she was acquitted of the gun charges.
David Andreatta is CITY's editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochester-citynews.com.
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Johann Leopold Abel (englisch John Abel; * 23. Juli 1795 in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin; † 6. Oktober 1871 in Charlton) war ein deutsch-britischer Komponist, Pianist, Violoncellist, Geiger und Musikpädagoge.

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Johann Leopold Abel war ein Sohn des Hofmusicus am Schloss Ludwigslust August Christian Andreas Abel (1751–1834) und dessen Frau Johanna Sophia Friderica, geb. Hein(t)z, Großneffe von Carl Friedrich Abel und Enkel von Leopold August Abel. Sein älterer Bruder war Friedrich Ludwig Abel. Beide Geschwister erhielten von ihrem Vater von früher Kindheit an Violin- und Klavierunterricht. Als Wunderkindern gingen sie mit ihrem Vater auf eine finanziell nicht erfolgreich Konzerttournee durch Norddeutschland. Johann Leopold spielte dabei Klavier und Violine und später Violoncello. Ostern 1814 schrieb er sich zum Studium der Theologie an der Universität Rostock ein. Danach war er eine Zeitlang als Hauslehrer tätig.

Eine einsetzende Trigeminusneuralgie (tic douloureux) brachte ihn dazu, 1819 alles aufzugeben und zu seinem Bruder nach Savannah in den Vereinigten Staaten zu reisen. Die Neuralgie verschwand, aber die im folgenden Jahr grassierende Gelbfieber-Epidemie, der sein Bruder zum Opfer fiel, bewog ihn, weiter nach London zu ziehen. Hier traf er Johann Baptist Cramer, einen Schüler seines Onkels, der ihn unterstützte und ihm Türen in London öffnete. Auch Johann Georg Graeff nahm sich seiner an.

1824 heiratete er in Newington (London) Louise Hopkins. Ihr gemeinsamer Sohn war der Chemiker Frederick Augustus Abel. Der englische Dichter Robert Browning war einer seiner Klavierschüler.

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 Four new waltzes for the piano forte [Vier neue Walzer für das Pianoforte]. I The Vienna Congress waltz [Wiener-Kongress-Walzer] II Á la  militaire III Il zefiretto IV Á la Pastorale. Gedruckt von der Royal Harmonic Institution, London, um 1822
 La speranza. Introduction and Rondo for the pianoforte. [Die Hoffnung. Introduktion und ondo für das Pianoforte]. Veröffentlicht bei Boosey and Co., 1824. Das Werk ist der Pianistin Elisabeth Bisset, einer Schülerin Johann Baptist Cramers, gewidmet.
 Variationen und Rondo all Polacca zu einem Theme aus La gazza ladra von Gioacchino Rossini, publiziert bei Goulding und D'Almaine, Soho Square, London, 1830 Das Thema ist das Thema eines Marsches in c-moll aus der Oper. Darauf folgen vier Variationen und ein Rondo.
 Brilliant Rondo für Klavier op. 2,  publiziert bei Goulding und D'Almaine, Soho Square, London, 1831
 Notturno in B-Dur, publiziert bei Duff, Cramer & Co., 1832
 Sonnet to Sleep, Canzonette, Text: E. L. Montagu. Der Text beruht auf dem Briefwechsel Peter Abelards mit Heloisa.
 Impromptu for the piano-forte, on the air "Say could I live" from Barnett's grand opera, "The Mountain Sylph", 1836
 Fantasia on themes from John Barnett's grand opera "Fair Rosamond" für Klavier, publiziert  bei  Cramer, Addison & Beale, 1837
 Introduzionè e capriccio on the "Yager chorus" from William Michael Rooke's opera "Amilie", London, 1838
 "The Better Land". [Das bessere Land]. Incipit: "I hear thee speak" [Ich hör dich reden] Text:  F. Hemans, Text der deutschen Fassung: A.H. Engelbach, London, um 1840
The Parting Hour, Ballad, Text: Mrs. F. Cleobury, Cramer Addison & Beale, London

Literatur
  John Weeks Moore: Complete Encyclopædia of Music: Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal, and Instrumental. Boston: Lewett 1854, S. 12f (s.v. J. E. Abel [sic!])

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Bloomberg's Gun Groups Keep Claiming that Dr. Lott is a "gun lobby shill"
Over and over again, people working for Michael Bloomberg's gun control organizations accuse Dr. John Lott of being a "gun lobby shill." Neither Lott's research nor the CPRC has received even $1 nor has he applied for funds from any gun organization or gun or ammunition manufacturer. Shannon Watts, founder of the Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action, tries to back up her allegation by referring to charges leveled by the Violence Policy Center in the 1990s.
Research conducted by John Lott, purporting to show that relaxed concealed weapons laws reduce crime has been the subject of severe criticism not just for its methodological shortcomings, but also for its funding source. These questions have focused on the ties to the firearms industry of the funder of Mr. Lott's fellowship, the John M. Olin Foundation.. . . . .
Watts Tweeted a link to the Violence Policy Center claims.
This charge was originally raised when the Wall Street Journal ran a letter from then-Congressman (now Senator) Charles Schumer of New York.
Wall Street Journal Letters
September 4, 1996:
Gun-Control Thesis Is a Shot in the Dark
John R. Lott Jr.'s thesis–that concealed weapons laws reduce crime rates ("More Guns, Less Violent Crime," Rule of Law, Aug. 28)–flies in the face of common sense and a body of scholarly research. The bottom line: Crime is going down despite concealed weapons laws, not because of them.
… [various anti-gun arguments snipped in the interest of space]
…I'd like to point out one other "association." The Associated Press reports that Prof. Lott's fellowship at the University of Chicago is funded by the Olin Foundation, which is "associated with the Olin Corporation," one of the nation's largest gun manufacturers. Maybe that's a coincidence, too. But it's also a fact.
Rep. Charles E. Schumer (D., N.Y.)
A response was provided by William Simon, former US Treasury Secretary and then President of the Olin Foundation:
An Insult to Our Foundation
As president of the John M. Olin Foundation, I take great umbrage at Rep. Charles Schumer's scurrilous charge (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 4) that our foundation underwrites bogus research to advance the interests of companies that manufacture guns and ammunition. He asserts (falsely) that the John M. Olin Foundation is "associated" with the Olin Corp. and (falsely again) that the Olin Corp. is one of the nation's largest gun manufacturers. Mr. Schumer then suggests on the basis of these premises that Prof. John Lott's article on gun control legislation (editorial page, Aug. 28) must have been fabricated because his research fellowship at the University of Chicago was funded by the John M. Olin Foundation.
This is an outrageous slander against our foundation, the Olin Corp., and the scholarly integrity of Prof. Lott. Mr. Schumer would have known that his charges were false if he had taken a little time to check his facts before rushing into print. Others have taken the trouble to do so. For example, Stephen Chapman of the Chicago Tribune looked into the charges surrounding Mr. Lott's study, and published an informative story in the Aug. 15 issue of that paper, which concluded that, in conducting his research, Prof. Lott was not influenced either by the John M. Olin Foundation or by the Olin Corp. Anyone wishing to comment on this controversy ought first to consult Mr. Chapman's article and, more importantly, should follow his example of sifting the facts before reaching a conclusion.
For readers of the Journal, here are the key facts:
The John M. Olin Foundation, of which I have been president for nearly 20 years, is an independent foundation whose purpose is to support individuals and institutions working to strengthen the free enterprise system. We support academic programs at the finest institutions in the nation, including the University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Virginia, and many others. We do not tell scholars what to write or what to say.
The foundation was created by the personal fortune of the late John M. Olin, and is not associated with the Olin Corp. The Olin Corp. has never sought to influence our deliberations. Our trustees have never taken into account the corporate interests of the Olin Corp. or any other company when reviewing grant proposals. We are as independent of the Olin Corp. as the Ford Foundation is of the Ford Motor Co.
The John M. Olin Foundation has supported for many years a program in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School. This program is administered and directed by a committee of faculty members in the law school. This committee, after reviewing many applications in a very competitive process, awarded a research fellowship to Mr. Lott. We at the foundation had no knowledge of who applied for these fellowships, nor did we ever suggest that Mr. Lott should be awarded one of them. We did not commission his study, nor, indeed, did we even know of it until last month, when Mr. Lott presented his findings at a conference sponsored by a Washington think tank.
As a general rule, criticism of research studies should be based on factual grounds rather than on careless and irresponsible charges about the motives of the researcher. Mr. Lott's study should be evaluated on its own merits without imputing motives to him that do not exist. I urge Mr. Schumer to check his facts more carefully in the future.
Finally, it was incorrectly reported in the Journal (Sept. 5) that the John M. Olin Foundation is "headed by members of the family that founded the Olin Corp." This is untrue. The trustees and officers of the foundation have been selected by virtue of their devotion to John Olin's principles, not by virtue of family connections. Of our seven board members, only one is a member of the Olin family. None of our officers is a member of the Olin family–neither myself as president, nor our secretary-treasurer, nor our executive director.
John M. Olin Foundation Inc.
Here is also a Chicago Tribune article by Stephen Chapman, who looked into these claims.
Taking Aim
A Gun Study And A Conspiracy Theory
August 15, 1996|By Stephen Chapman
Some years ago, shortly after being hired by the Tribune, I was asked to do an article for an obscure national magazine arguing the case against federal funding of public broadcasting. After it appeared, though, the magazine's editors got a letter from a reader exposing something shocking: The Tribune's parent company owned several commercial TV stations, and it stood to make more money if public broadcasting were to disappear. His conclusion was that I could only be doing the bidding of my corporate masters.
Damning? Well, not quite. What the letter writer didn't know is that I had written a similar article long before coming to the Tribune, while working for a magazine that had no broadcast investments, that I hadn't discussed the article with anyone at the Tribune and that the newspaper itself, in blind disregard of its own interests, had editorialized consistently in favor of public broadcasting subsidies.
Conspiracy theories are easy to spin and hard to refute. But absent serious evidence, they are simply the idle conjectures of overheated minds. Showing a coincidence is not the same as proving a cause. What may look incriminating to the uninformed may in fact be perfectly irrelevant. Consider the case of John Lott.
Lott is an economist at the University of Chicago Law School who last week presented a paper in Washington based on his examination of crime rates in states that have passed laws granting ordinary people licenses to carry concealed handguns. The first comprehensive study of the subject, scheduled for publication in the prestigious Journal of Legal Studies, it reached a conclusion that did not ingratiate Lott to gun-control advocates.
The new laws, the study found, actually reduced the volume of blood running in the streets–not increased it, as feared by opponents. Lott and his co-author, graduate student David Mustard, calculated that if other states had also adopted such measures, there would have been 1,570 fewer murders, 4,177 fewer rapes and 60,000 fewer aggravated assaults in the United States each year.
Like any academic monograph, this one was open to expert criticism based on the data used, the assumptions made, the variables considered and so on. But to Lott's surprise, the main line of attack was on something else: his scholarly integrity. According to critics, he was nothing more than a venal hireling of the gun industry, paid to prove its official line.
The argument, made at a Chicago press conference sponsored by several gun-control groups, goes like this: Lott is currently the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Olin fellows are funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, which got its money from the Olin Corp., which owns Winchester Ammunition, which has a stake in lax gun laws.
"That's enough to call into question the study's legitimacy," said Dan Kotowski, executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. "It's more than a coincidence." In the stories that followed, several news organizations highlighted the connection.
But there are some serious defects in this conspiracy theory. The first is in the facts. The Olin Foundation was created with money not from the Olin Corp. but from the personal fortune of John M. Olin upon his death. The foundation has no parent corporation and, in fact, is entirely independent. To suggest that it is merely an arm of the gun industry is like regarding the Ford Foundation as a puppet of American carmakers.
Another problem is that the foundation didn't 1) choose Lott as a fellow, 2) give him money or 3) approve his topic. It made a grant to the law school's law and economics program (one of many grants it makes to top universities around the country). A committee at the law school then awarded the fellowship to Lott, one of many applicants in a highly competitive process.
Even the committee had nothing to do with his choice of topics. The fellowship was to allow Lott–a prolific scholar who has published some 75 academic articles–to do research on whatever subject he chose.
His critics prefer not to think he may have actually reached his conclusion through honest investigation. Instead, they clutch at a wild hypothesis.
To accept their conspiracy theory, you have to believe the following: A company that derives a small share of its earnings from sporting ammunition somehow prevailed on an independent family foundation to funnel money to a scholar who was willing to risk his academic reputation (and, since he does not yet have tenure, his future employment) by fudging data to serve the interests of the firearms lobby–and one of the premier research universities in the world cooperated in the fraud.
For some people, that absurd fantasy is perfectly credible. But then, some people could believe that Lott was on the grassy knoll in Dallas.
For the record, the CPRC does not take any funding from the NRA or any other organization involved in the gun control debate.
attacks by gun control advocates
In response to our piece in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg's Gun Groups Keep Claiming That Dr. Lott Is A "Gun Lobby Shill"


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Somehow Bahrein and China are changed. This weekend is the Chinese Grand Prix. In a few minutes QP will start. Renault is again suffering motorissues and it would be a miracle if Ricciardo will start in QP.
Ferrari is the one for pole position this weekend, it seems they have the fastest engine which is perfect along the backstraight of the circuit.
@martijnfc_nl I always love Force India just because I am an Indian.
@osmsüpermenajer this is yet not confirmed by FIA.


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It looks like there's going to be a Mac Tablet after all! Not from Apple, but then given a well done recent article in the Guardian as well as the general rumor mill – well, it was always an "undying" favorite.
I must admit, following the "it'll need to be better than a phone", I'm curious to see what comes out of Apple that has phone functionality. If something does – although the bettin' odds are in favor. It'll also be interesting to see how much "programability" these new things (iTV, iPhone, whatever) have – and if they'll sap any of the indie Mac development market talent for them. The iPod's clearly has some programming API's for games – but those API's aren't exactly what you'd call "accessible" to the average developer.
All in all, though, the indie Mac development community seems pretty healthy. I'm glad – I really think they're the ones pushing the adoption. There's the big apps from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft… yeah – but all the niches that aren't being covered that make up the whole functional usability of the Mac – those are indie.


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Trumped
The Billionaire Duo Behind Trump's Apocalyptic Turn to the Alt-Right
Emily Jane Fox
Trump's New Hire
Exclusive: Steve Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan
Ken Stern
Trump Hires Breitbart News Chief in Massive Campaign Shake-Up
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The Brewing Billionaire Feud at the Heart of the G.O.P.
Two rival families are funding a Republican civil war that threatens to tear the party apart.
Left, by Sylvain Gaboury/PatrickMcmullan.com; Right, by Paul Zimmerman/WireImage/Getty Images.
While traditional Republican donors have mostly spurned Donald Trump, one billionaire family has stepped into the void to quietly become one of the most powerful players in conservative politics. In the topsy-turvy world of Trump's G.O.P., Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer and heir to his billion-dollar fortune, has emerged as the new center of the conservative universe, Politico reports, pouring millions into a sustained effort to bolster the Republican nominee's campaign and remake the party in his image. "They see the establishment as a very real threat to freedom in America, and they see the need to defeat it," Brent Bozell, the president of the Media Research Center, told Politico. "They want to blow things up and start from scratch," another Republican operator remarked.
Yes, some people just want to watch the world burn. But the Mercers' efforts still face fierce resistance from an old-money mainstay of the G.O.P. world: billionaire brothers Charles Koch and David Koch, who have reportedly redirected their time, resources, and considerable donor network toward building a grassroots army to defend the free-market values and classic conservatism that Trump has cast aside in favor of fervent anti-trade, anti-immigration rhetoric. According to The New York Times, the Kochs' master plan involves a $3 million investment in their Grassroots Leadership Academy, which launched in early 2015 with backing from the brothers' Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Offering classes such as "Messaging to the Middle," the training program is designed to educate the next generation of Republicans, and hopefully save the G.O.P. from extinction in the wake of Trump, the Times reports. "We want a cultural shift of people being able to know what they want and how to talk to the people in their communities, so that in the future, when there are political leaders that want to demagogue free-market issues, they do hit resistance," Levi Russell, the director of public affairs for Americans for Prosperity, told the Times.
That vision has put the Kochs in direct opposition to the Mercers, who over the past decade have built their own, rival political organization and donor network. Since the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, the Mercers have donated $73.5 million in disclosed political donations through super-PACs and conservative non-profits, Politico reports. And while the father-daughter team's contributions pale in comparison to those of the Koch brothers, they are arguably the most influential donors of the 2016 election cycle. After weeks of bad press surrounding Paul Manafort's questionable business ties in Russia and Ukraine, and following reports that the campaign manager's efforts to rein to run a tighter ship had rankled Trump, it was reportedly Rebekah who convinced the New York billionaire to replace Manafort with G.O.P. pollster Kellyanne Conway and to appoint Stephen Bannon as campaign C.E.O.
The Mercers—who are also investors in the data firm Cambridge Analytica, which the Trump campaign uses—have abiding ties to both Bannon and Conway. In 2011, the family invested $10 million in Breitbart News, where Bannon was a chief executive prior to joining the Trump campaign, and worked with the media firebrand to turn the book Clinton Cash into a documentary. Before the Mercers began funneling their funds to the Trump campaign, they were staunch supporters of his rival in the Republican primary, Ted Cruz. The billionaire duo donated $13.5 million to the Cruz campaign, during which time they worked with Conway. Now, with Conway in Trump's corner (and under Rebekah's thumb), the Mercers sit at the nexus of the Trump campaign current power structure.
The Mercers have not always been at odds with the Koch brothers and other Republican mega-donors. Around 2011, the Mercers began donating at least $1 million a year to the Koch network, Politico reports, before Rebekah took a more prominent role in the family's political dealings during the 2014 election. Since then, however, the billionaire family, has been thinking bigger. "I don't think it is about Trump. Trump is just a vehicle," an anonymous political operative who worked with the Mercers told Politico, suggesting that the Mercers' shift in allegiance from Cruz to Trump evinces grand ambitions beyond the current election. "It's about wanting to be a player and wanting to beat Hillary, in that order."


That's when I march myself in to get a massage, but of course, I don't go to any fancy schmancy spa, I'm way too practical and not nearly important enough for that. I go to the local foot spa where for $28, I get to lay down on one of their couches and just close my eyes for an hour.
The foot spa is a dark, questionable hideaway in between a Domino's Pizza and a small jewelry store, but by the time I've shuffled my broken body through the door, I am beyond caring. There are no deadlines or children tugging at my shirt. No legos to step on or video games going beep beep beep. You don't need an appointment or to give your name. You don't even undress. It's just… quiet, while the hands of a faceless person rub you to snore-dom. In that room, everyone is invisible, including you. Bliss.
Today, I was desperately in need of a moment. My body ached. My brain ached. I went to the foot spa on the precipice of mental collapse or consuming an extremely large ice cream sundae which I would lovingly regret. I needed this.
I was silently led to my couch, and barely even noticed the fellow lost and exhausted souls lying nearby. I took off my shoes and my sweater, leaving me in sweats and a tank top and lay down. Ahhh.
His hands were upon me quickly, uh, a little too quickly, kneading my face and my hair. I tried to relax, but his fingers were moving so fast on my face I began to feel like he was molding me into a candy dish. And he was kind of pulling my hair. Ow, dude.
He moved down and started working on my shoulders and neck. I relaxed. This was why I was here. His hands were strong like an ox. I like a deep massage, but his rubbing was taking deep to new depths. I tensed. He was double knotting my knots. I peeked at him through my pretend relaxed closed eyes. Holy mother, he was Asian Hulk.
When he moved onto my body, things only got worse, if you can imagine that. He massaged down my legs with such aggression that I practically jumped from the bed. Hello? You don't squeeze someone's thigh! When he rubbed down my back, I was sure he would break something. I didn't think this place had great insurance.
I mentally talked myself up to verbalizing a complaint. I told myself again and again to just say, "A little softer, please." Instead, I mutely mouthed, "help" while convincing myself that soon he would move on to another body part. There was no relaxing, only squinting and holding my breath till he stopped poking my pressure points through to the other side.
I zipped up my sweat shirt and put on my shoes. My angry masseuse was waiting for me with a peaceful smile and a Dixie cup of water. I had hard time meeting his eye. Did he really not know? I tipped him for beating the crap out of me, embarrassed to be doing it, but more embarrassed not to, and left.
That's right, I can. But I don't always have to. Why do I always have to? Next time, I resolved, I'll say something. Better, I'll treat myself to a real massage. Maybe. Hopefully. Ah, whatever.
In the comfortable safe haven of my car, after a day of crazy and an hour of torture, I opened my kindle and popped a butterscotch sucking candy. My shoulders dropped as I sucked its sweetness and lost myself in my book. Finally, finally I relaxed.
Have you ever stayed quiet when you should have spoken up for yourself?
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Love the talking to yourself and silently mouthing "help"! Speak up for yourself! Lesson learned.
why is it so hard??? i mean, we're paying for these things, and yet, it's so uncomfortable to bring up when we're not getting what we paid for.
I think it's because we're a whole of' 'chicken' with a dash of 'people pleaser'…even when we're with a side kick. It is frustrating!
Why , if "they" don't deserve it?
it's ingrained. i wonder if boys have the same problem?
No needs, no wants, no waves – yep, I know it well. I'm getting better at speaking up for myself, but it's never easy. And Asian Hulk would have scared me too! Let's lean the other way and be divas for a change – just for fun!
i don't think i would have said anything if it were old mother hubbard either.
I'm getting better at this actually. Especially when it's hard earned money involved. "Hey, I'm still paying for preschool, remember?" That's what I tell myself. And, I'd like to pay for more preschool. That would be my real relaxation time anyway, right?
Yes I have. It's awful. I did it over and over and over with my father. I wrote a whole book about the consequences of shutting up. This post was great though! I've had hard massages before and there's nothing worse when you expecting to be able to relax!
This is right on point for me. I just wrote about massage (scheduled for next week). I am totally freaked out by the idea, but found a place that uses a Spa Capsule! It just uses water jets so I don't have to deal with a stranger touching me!
I would have second guessed myself out of speaking up by convincing myself that this was how the massage was supposed to be; I had accidentally requested the deep tissue beating massage or something! My mother is the worst at speaking up. She rarely even returns anything because she doesn't want to deal with confrontation!
The Asian Hulk…hahaha…this is so funny and yes, I've been there. Just lying there saying to myself "Say something. Now. Okay…NOW." Fortunately, I found a great massage therapist that I've been going to for awhile who knows where my problem spots are. I'm to the point where I can say "That's the spot. Right there." And that Serenity place I went to closed.
thanks for reading! and yeah, i got to get me a place that knows what they're doing! i don't know why i have such a hard to speaking up or why i'm so cheap with myself! apparently, i'd rather be beaten. haha.


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St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, the choir looking east
Billings, Robert William, 1848, Engraving
An interior view of St Giles Cathedral showing the vaulted ceiling, low arches and large tracery window. In the lower left corner, there is a scroll with a detail of the stone carvings at the top of one of the pillars.
Billings, Robert William
Le Keux, J. H.
St Giles Kirk, often called St Giles Cathedral, is situated on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. A church has stood on the site since around 1120-1140, but little remains of the 12th century structure. St Giles played an important part in the Scottish Protestant Reformation with John Knox serving as its minister from 1560 until his death in 1572. The building has experienced significant additions, alterations and restorations during its history. The Thistle Chapel, a private chapel for the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, was added between 1909-11.
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A couple of weeks ago I happened to be visiting an Essex Wildlife Trust Visitors' Centre where my daughter worked and while mooching around their shop, suddenly, a few yards away, stood one of the most talented footballers ever to pull on a Claret and Blue shirt – Martin Peters.
I went in search of my daughter, an avid Hammers' fan, to tell her of the footballing legend who had appeared in the centre – but I was just too late since, by the time we returned, Martin and his companion had left.
Since then it has been a big regret that I didn't take the opportunity to shake Martin's hand that day.
Over the years, I have interviewed him several times but never had the chance to tell him just how much pleasure he gave me – and some of my friends – in the years that we watched him, both at Upton Park and also at Wembley, playing for his country.
Bobby Moore was my boyhood hero and yes, Geoff Hurst was great as well – but of the West Ham trio who, of course, won the World Cup in 1966 – Martin, who is 75 today, was undoubtedly the most complete player.
He could play well in any position and – in fact – did. In the 364 first team appearances between 1962-70, Martin filled every outfield position – and goalkeeper!
He made his league debut on Good Friday 1962, in a 4-1 home win over Cardiff City and after keeping his place in a 3-3 draw with Arsenal the following day, went in goal at Cardiff on Easter Monday after 'keeper Brian Rhodes was injured. No substitutes then!
Martin was one of those naturally talented types who could do everything. He could run all day – stylishly – he could pass the ball short or long, he was good in the air, he could tackle – and he scored goals, one hundred of them in 364 games before he went to Tottenham.
I'm always wary of comparing players of different eras but I'm confident on this occasion, in saying that Plaistow-born Martin would have walked into any England team at any time.
In fact, he won 67 caps for England, scoring 20 goals from midfield, including the one that mattered most, on 30 July 1966.
Bobby Moore has been rightly eulogised for his performance on that day while no-one has since matched Sir Geoffrey's hat-trick in a World Cup Final.
Martin's goal though, 15 minutes from time, has occasionally been overlooked. At the time he must have thought it was the winner – but we all know what happened then!
Awarded the MBE in 1978, whilst at Norwich City, for his services to football, Martin also played for Sheffield United late in his career and also managed that club for a short spell.
Tony Carr, who played in the same era as Martin at West Ham and then went on to be a highly successful coach of the club's youth team for many years, summed up the midfield player's extraordinary talent with this anecdote.
"There was a lull in training one day at Chadwell Heath. Someone started crossing from wide and Martin was attempting to volley the ball onto the crossbar from the edge of the box.
"He did it once. 'Go on then, do it again,' we said, so he did.
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- supports background uploading/downloading
- supports progress tracking (single task and group of tasks)
- enable to resume, pause, cancel, retry the task
- header configurable
- request parameters configurable

**Quick example**

``` swift
let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("bigfile", ofType: "zip")
let fileUrl = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: path!)!

let task = UploadTask(url: "http://server.com", file: fileUrl)
	.progress { sent, total in
		let per = Double(sent) / Double(total)
		println("uploading: \(per)")
	}
	.completed { response, json, error in
		println("completed")
	}

 Transporter.add(task1 <--> task2 <--> task3)                     // concurrent tasks
            .progress { bytes, total in
                let per = Double(bytes) / Double(total)
                println("concurrent tasks: \(per)")
            }
            .completed { alltasks in
                println("task1, task2, task3: completed")
            }
            .add(task4 --> task5 --> task6)                       // serial tasks
            .progress { bytes, total in
                println("serial tasks")
            }
            .resume()

```

Usage
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``` swift
// downloading task

let task = DownloadTask(url: downloadUrl, destination: des)
	.progress { bytes, total in
		let per = Double(bytes) / Double(total)
		println("downloading: \(per)")
	}
	.completed { response, _, error in
		println("completed")
	}

// uploading task
// upload types: File, Data, Stream

let task = UploadTask(url: "http://server.com", data: uploadData)
	.progress { sent, total in
		let per = Double(sent) / Double(total)
		println("uploading: \(per)")
	}
	.completed { response, json, error in
		println("completed")
	}

// task

task.headers = ["key": "value"]
task.params = ["key": "value"]
task.pause()
task.cancel()
task.retry

// background handling
// add the following method in the app delegate

func application(application: UIApplication, handleEventsForBackgroundURLSession identifier: String, completionHandler: () -> Void) {
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}

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Transporter.headers = [key: value]
Transporter.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 30.0
Transporter.timeoutIntervalForResource = 24 * 60 * 60.0
Transporter.HTTPMaximumconnectionsPerHost = 5

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There are no "self-made" men, only those arrogant enough to believe that they are wholly responsible for where they are in life.
Don't get me wrong. I am all about promoting personal responsibility and hard work; it's a foundation of my focus in counseling- and for a person to truly change, they need a good dose of both. But when we say that, "I accomplished this with my hands and my hands alone," something is missing.
I don't know why I was born into the family I was. We always had food on the table, fashionable clothes (except for Dad, but that was by choice), shelter, family and friends, and no major worries about the basic necessities of life. Why I wasn't born in Tanzania, as an orphan left behind by a violent father and an addicted mother, I don't know. Or to parents who weren't patient with my shortcomings and abused me. Or…you get the picture.
In fact, if it weren't for my socio-economic status, family, friends, geographic location, and so forth, I would very likely have not made the friends I did, found the jobs I worked and went to the schools I attended. I have 100% personal responsibility today and this very moment to make the choices that are mine. But that's just it- make the choices that are mine.
A lot of culture and people and pressures around us give all sorts of confusing messages, and part of my job is to walk with folks while they determine what they will live by and for- regardless of the messages and demands and stresses surrounding them. Figuring out what is my responsibility and what is not is one of the most important tasks I know.


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Fáilte Ireland Appoints New Chief Executive
Michael Cawley, Chairman of Fáilte Ireland, has announced the appointment of Paul Kelly as Chief Executive of Fáilte Ireland. Paul, who was appointed after a competitive process by the Board, is a highly experienced senior executive. He has previously held positions as Marketing Director of Diageo Ireland and European Marketing Director for Aviva and is currently Strategic Marketing Director for UCD Smurfit Business School. He is a native of Wexford and a commerce graduate from University College Dublin.
Michael Cawley said: "I am delighted to have Paul Kelly as the new Chief Executive of Fáilte Ireland. During his distinguished career in world-class consumer marketing led companies, Paul has demonstrated the management and marketing leadership, which will be crucial for the task of continuing the development of the Irish tourism industry which is so vital to Ireland's economy.
"We have been very fortunate to secure the services of such an experienced professional as Paul as a leader of the Irish tourism sector and my colleagues on the Board of Fáilte Ireland and I look forward to working with him in the challenging times that lie ahead. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shaun Quinn, who will retire as Chief Executive at the end of this month, for his many years of service and wish him well for the future."
Paul Kelly said: "I am very excited to have the opportunity to lead such an excellent organisation as Fáilte Ireland and to further the development of such an important industry to Ireland as tourism. I hope to build on the great work done in recent years by Shaun Quinn and the strong team in Fáilte Ireland."
The appointment will be effective from 1st February 2017.
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