I recently wrote about the purpose of having a purpose and how it provides clarity in decision making. In response, I received a question about how one goes about going from Point A to Point Z when nothing seems to be working.
I used to adopt a lone ranger mentality, whereby I would insist on figuring out the right approach by myself. I probably had a bit of a chip on my shoulder and felt like I had something to prove.
As I've gotten older, I've let go of that and have focused on being more pragmatic. Who else has figured out how to get from Point A to Point B in the fastest, easiest, lowest risk, most proven way? What can I learn from this person to adapt to my situation?
For example, these days I'm reading or listening to a book (or audiobook) at the rate of at least one per week. I don't read every book I buy, as I sometimes use an 80/20 approach to figure out what I need to know in only 15 minutes. But the point is, I'm constantly looking to learn from others.
To successfully use the "learn from others" instead of a "figure it out yourself" approach, you need to leave your ego at the door. Quite often the best teachers are not always the people socially designated to be high status.
For many years now, I've found that my circle of teachers and mentors consists of about 33% Ivy-caliber educated people, 33% from schools I've never heard of, and 33% high school or college dropouts.
Practical experience and expertise doesn't always correlate with degrees or educational institutions.
Let me give you an example of this that happened to me a few days ago. It's terribly embarrassing, so I hope you appreciate that I'm "taking one for the team" here — for your benefit.
The other day I was at the community swimming pool with my three daughters. Since I live in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle area) where there's rain 200+ days out of the year, the pool is indoors. To compensate, it has fun activities to make swimming more interesting than just swimming laps.
One of the features is a rope swing. It's a big thick rope that hangs from the roof and allows one to swing to the halfway point of the pool. At the halfway point, there is yet another rope hanging from the rafters.
The object of the exercise is to swing from the first rope, and while flying through the air, jump to the second rope.
My oldest daughter had been trying several times to make the leap, but kept falling into the pool. I decided to attempt to make it across.
Well the first attempt, ahem... umm... did not go so well.
I swung through the air, flew off the first rope and while I made contact in grabbing the second rope, I missed and basically fell backside first, right into the pool.
It must have been an epic wipeout because even before I hit the water, I could hear my girls giggling like crazy. Apparently, my epic flop made such a big noise that it caught the attention of not one, not two, but threelife guards.
One lifeguard just shook his head. The other was doing his best not to smirk — but he did.
And just in case the noise of my body getting slammed into the pool didn't do it, the small "tsunami" caused by my landing caught everyone else's attention.
And just in case anybody in the entire facility didn't see it, my three girls laughing like crazy surely would have caught their attention. The giggling was so loud that I could even hear them giggling under water.
Okay, so I swam aside, licked my wounds, but now I was determined to figure this thing out.
So over the next hour or two, I watched probably close to 50 people attempt the same exercise. They all failed, except for one person. He was a boy, probably 10 years old, and he made the leap successfully 4 out of 5 times.
He wasn't the tallest person. He wasn't the strongest person. He wasn't the oldest. He wasn't the youngest.
But what he WAS, was the most consistently successful person.
So I studied his behavior to determine what he was doing differently than everyone else — including me.
After some study, I think I finally figured it out.
I decided to test my hypothesis... at stake was my already bruised ego (and having to endure the endless giggles of three little girls).
I nailed it... and leapt to the second rope, and swung across nearly the rest of the pool just like Tarzan swinging on a vine from one tree to the next.
It was a beautiful arch that resulted in my letting go and entering the water — feet first — in an elegant entry.
My girls were cheering (they can be a tough crowd, but when daddy pulls off a feat, they are generous cheerleaders too).
That was the question I kept asking myself during my analysis phase.
There's always some secret, some shortcut, some insight, some technique difference, some mindset shift that distinguishes the successful from the unsuccessful in any endeavor.
I clearly didn't know what it was, but was determined to figure it out (or more accurately, to find someone who already figured it out and to learn from him).
There's a saying that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I personally feel that such an approach leaves too much to chance. I say that when the student is ready and actively seeking out a teacher, the student might actually find one.
In my case, it was a scrawny little 10-year-old kid who could effortlessly swing like Tarzan through the jungle.
Sometimes the best teachers come from the most unlikely of sources. I try to avoid judging the package, and instead pragmatically focus on what the person knows.
When swinging on the first rope, do not let go of the rope with your legs until after your hands have already gotten a good grip on the second rope.
It's the secret that 98% of those who attempted the exercise failed to grasp.
What 98% of people (myself included) do is they swing on the first rope and then completely let go of the rope with both their hands and feet in an attempt to try and catch the second rope.
I call this the falling boulder strategy because basically anyone who tries this approach becomes the equivalent of a big rock flying through the air hurling towards the pool.
I never took physics in high school and college, but I did some conceptual math and figured out the problem with this approach.
I lift weights and I am probably strong enough to pull my body weight up a climbing rope without my legs. I can do that when my body starts at a standstill on the floor.
When I'm trying to catch a rope while in a complete free fall, the force of my weight and velocity creates a momentum that requires much greater force to counteract than climbing up a single rope outside the pool.
I wasn't sure how much more force that was, but given I had gotten both of my hands on the second rope in my first attempt, and how I just couldn't stop myself from a free fall, I figure there's a fair amount of force at play.
What the 10-year-old kid did differently (that I subsequently emulated) was that he supported his entire body weight with his legs on the first rope. As he grabbed the second rope, his hands didn't have to bear his body weight in free fall.
Once both hands were securely attached to the second rope, then and only then did he let go of the first rope with his legs. His hands, now firmly gripped to the second rope, only had to support his semi-stationary body weight for just a second or so — just enough time to get his legs secured to the second rope.
So once I studied what he did, why it was successful, I simply emulated his technique and in one attempt succeeded.
The old me would have felt like I had something to prove. I would have "brute force" learned the right way by making dozens of trial and error attempts until I figured it out all on my own. While this definitely does work (if you have enough time and are willing to fall flat on your face enough times), I was looking for a shortcut… and I found it from the most unlikely of sources, that scrawny 10-year-old kid.
So to the person who wants to know the secret to successfully going from Point A to Point B in your life, career or business, my answer is that the secret is to find the person who knows the secret (and to be open-minded enough to learn from him or her).
On a related note, one of the problems I've focused on addressing in my own life is overcoming very low self-esteem. I've been learning from a great many unlikely teachers and mentors in addressing this personal challenge.
Dear Victor, thanks again for sharing some of your personal endeavors and how you accomplished them.
What I like most of your article, is that at some point of your lonely attempts, eventually you became a natural leader, when other people became motivate by your unconditional effort, even though at the beginning was very challenging for everyone.
For your defense and to give you credit, you established the brand of perseverance in that market niche. Perhaps, it can be mentioned as well, that along the road, you did a lot of other positive things as a natural leader such as make people be aware of the difficulty of the task, make them laugh naturally (even the lifeguards that were laughing with sarcasm), and as a top hollywood star, you entertained them in a healthy way, cause at the end, the task was succesful.
if the 10 year old teacher would not have appeared at that time (even though you were ready to emulate the task), would you had tried again? and if so, for how long more? What strategy would you had used in order to figure it out the right time and place to meet your tutor?


Did you know that as soon as you stop smoking, it only takes 20 minutes for your health to improve? The human body is amazing.
Smoking increases blood pressure due to the carbon monoxide in a cigarette. 20 minutes after you quit smoking, your body's blood pressure and heart rate return to its normal, stable rate.
A lot happens after 2 days. For starters, your coughing will be intense. However, this is something to appreciate. It's a sign that your body is attempting to clear out your airways to allow a cleaner supply of oxygen to the body.
This is also the point where withdrawals are at their strongest. The last bit of nicotine will have gone from the body and the cravings have really kicked in. It's important to stay away from places that encourages smoking at this part of the quitting cycle. If it helps, stay with a non-smoking friend for the day to keep you from any triggers.
It's after two days where you really start to notice your health to improve and quality of life gets better. For starters, even though you're in the middle of suffering from withdrawals, you're sense of taste and smell start to return.
Foods will be a lot tastier becomes the nerves on tongue and in your nose are repairing themselves. Treat yourself to something really sweet to make the most of the newly found sensation.
The withdrawals are now over.
You will notice that your breathing is a lot easier and stronger. If you decide to do some light exercise, you will notice a huge difference in shortness of breath. You'll find you can go on for much longer than only 7 days ago.
When you get this far, you will be so much happier and wonder why you didn't quit sooner.
Your breathing has drastically improved. You will not suffer any shortness of breath associated from smoking.
Everyday tasks will not tire you out any more, leaving you free to use your time to be productive again. After a month, you will be able to see a big difference in quality of your life.
The next few months will be building on improving on the health of your lungs. If you feel the urge to smoke, there are plenty of methods to keep you from smoking. It may be worth investing in an e-cigarette with 0% nicotine just to mimic the smoking action.
This way you gradually reduce the need to do the smoking action while keeping nicotine free.
After 9 months, your body will have its blood circulation back to normal. This leads to better health because you are less prone to illness. Those annoying smoker coughs you had before are no longer a thing. Instead, your coughs are actually clearing your throat and airways.
Your mood in general will also have drastically improved. You will no longer feel moody or become easily irritable. It's important to note how quitting smoking improves metal health as well as physical.
You'll feel less stressed about things in your life and are a lot less likely to develop depression. In fact, stopping smoking can be just as effective on symptoms of anxiety and depression as taking antidepressants.
Here is something that will put a smile on your face and is worth celebrating: comparing this day to the day you smoked your last cigarette 12 months ago, you are now half as likely to develop heart disease.
Congratulations on reaching this point in your recovery! To show you how far you've come, try an activity that you will have found incredibly difficult a year ago. This will spur you on to continue the recovery and prove how much better your life is now you've ditched the habit.
The arteries and veins in your body have fully recovered and are able to grow and expand to increase blood flow. It's after 5 years of quitting that you become just as likely to suffer a stroke as a non-smoker.
After 10 years you are half as likely to develop cancer compared to the first day of quitting.
After 15 years, the chances of suffering heart disease are the same as someone who has never smoked a cigarette.
At each stage in the recovery process, the quality of your health and life gets better and better. As you have seen, it can take as little as 20 minutes to feel the benefits.
You will be able to accomplish so much more as soon as you put those cigarettes out for good.


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Now, listen. This is why I need you.
Most fathers don't dip the moon into bottles of their own tears and booze. A father shouldn't tell his daughter that her moonbeam body echoes her mother's. But he did, with his mouth and with his eyes. That was why we were going to run away: just our hands clasped tight as we roved the hills. Our bare feet and the mountain laurel. Some sheep, maybe, to keep us warm. We were going to fill our mouths with lamb's quarters and dandelions. We would find what we could and steal what we couldn't.
We figured, the world owes us anyway, for setting her up with a dead ma and a pa stuck in a bottle. I'm not much better: a dead pa and a ma who disowned me. A mangled creature, she called me. Sick, she growled.
Her pa is a monster. Coming from me, that's an insult.
That is why, Grandpa—I need to know how to spin straw into gold. She's in the tower of that mansion right now, and I need you to tell me how you did it all those years ago.
No, I can't find Ma. She'll just spit me out again like a bad batch of moonshine. Just show me … please.
Grandpa, the forest at night is a cacophony. Stars swirl in a raucous chorus, coyotes yip and howl; the mosquitoes and cicadas are a damn racket. Since being ejected from home like a knocked-over nest, I've grown in the woods. My toes are callused blue with the dirt of these mountains. I know the rough of the bramble; my heels are pricked and pierced by blackberry bushes. But I'll never get accustomed to the night time symphonies of these azure ranges.
I'm surprised I heard her over it all. She was in the corner of my vision, an extra tangle of roots in the kudzu, until I heard the heave of her sobs.
Trying not to trip when you're barefoot on a mountain is an art form I'm still learning after all these years. I fell into her lap.
She smiled, despite the rivers carved into her cheeks.
For lack of anything better to say, I plucked an ivy leaf out of her hair.
"What a funny name!" she laughed.
"It's a family name," I muttered.
The woods resumed their noise. I hadn't noticed it stopped until the drum thrum of "talk-to-her-talk-to-her-talk-to-her" bludgeoned through my mind.
She talked first, though. Her voice was like a newly minted coin, silver and round.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't…" She looked over my shoulder and noticed my clearing.
"It's fine. I'd rather be here than there." I pointed at the carpeted view of Ashburn spread beneath our feet.
"It must be beautiful to live here. Have this view every night." Her chin tilted toward the town, the blinking fires below, the crooked dark line against the other side of the sky.
This has happened before, Grandpa. Runaway girls from the town find their way up to my mountain. I never ask for them, but they stumble up as if led. The least I can do is make them a cup of coffee and listen to their reasons for running away.
After the tears dry from their cheeks, they smile at me, they push my hair away from my eyes. They tell me I'm beautiful. They might even kiss me before descending back down the mountain. But then, they realize, they only like the idea of me: the mountain recluse with un-brushed hair, long legs, and longer patience. It's the reality of me, especially when it comes to taking me off the mountain, introducing me to their kin, their everyday life, the concept of showing me around town on their clean, slender arms that end in uncallused hands. That's when girls become aware that I don't fit into a dream life. I'm not a fairy tale ending. You don't find people like me in any kind of nursery rhyme picture book.
That night, I remembered how gold looks when lit by a fire. As I leaned the wood together in a triangle and flung the flint to the center, her hair gleamed. She stared into the flame, but I stared at her.
I grinned and glanced around. My pewter coffee pot hung from the branches. My ax stuck up from the stump of what used to be an oak tree.
"No," she allowed. Her smile was like the moon, whittled down to halfway nothing.
"My mountain, then." I sipped coffee out of my mug and refilled her cup.
She stared through the distance, past me, past the valley below. I almost didn't want to interrupt her for the fear that her next words would be goodbye. But her lips parted.
I opened my mouth to tell her the same half truths I had told other runaway girls. My parents died. I never had parents. I was raised by mountain men. I was raised by coyotes. But the truth slid out instead, slick as wet leaves.
"She went wild, stopped talking to my grandpa. She blamed him for everything." I stopped, but her eyes were tangled around me like thorns, so I continued. "My ma kicked me out a month later when she found out that I…" Biting my lip, I looked down at her hand in the dirt, inches from mine. They were the same size. Our chests rose and fell with the night air.
"Oh," she breathed. Her tongue darted forth from between her lips, licked the top, then the bottom. She stared at me and I swear she was finding my soul, just looking at my mouth.
I know you think love at first sight doesn't happen, Grandpa. I know it took you three nights and a miracle to fall in love with Grandma. It took longer for her to return the feelings. We, as a family, are not that attractive. You have scars from the seam where Grandmother sewed you back together. I remember Father's bulbous nose that he said you gave him.
And then there's me. All my unattractiveness collected in my insides, Mother said. All my evil stored in my blood stream underneath my freckled skin and dirty hair. Ma said it must've gotten mixed in with the magic blood, like somehow sin came with the ability to make one thing turn into something else. A sickness.
Before Brenna, I didn't believe in instant connection, either. I was raised on fairy tales just like everyone else; I knew there were witches for people foolish enough to believe in love that took only an eye blink. Witches took a poor girl's legs. One fed a princess poisoned fruit. I was above all that, high on my mountain, just me and the coyotes, watching the moon. Or so I told myself, nights I was so alone not even the lightning bugs pitied me.
But Brenna was different. She listened; I didn't feel like I had to settle into a type of misunderstood castaway for her. We spun our pasts out in front of the jumping fire. Each laugh that escaped her mouth seemed to hold eternity.
"Do you ever miss town?" she asked as the stars blinked with fury above us.
We both laughed. She had told me how she earned a living, leaning across a bar to serve beer to red faced men. Her laugh sounded like wind in the leaves: airy, musical.
"Tell me about it," she implored, then miraculously—like she'd been planning it all evening and just waiting for the right time—rested the top of her head on my shoulder. The skin there tingled and burned, dancing under her fire-like curls. How many nerve endings can be in my shoulder? It felt like a thousand crinkling constellations had been swept under my skin. I gingerly, carefully, slowly, stroked her hair. It was so soft underneath my hands.
I was quiet. I didn't know how to respond to that. They always leave, these girls. That's what makes them runaways.
But he keeps you. I didn't say it because I knew how awful it would sound—the man who hits you, makes you work in a stinking bar—at least he doesn't send you away. So instead, I put my hand over hers and watched the night fall backwards into day.
When she kissed my cheek at dawn, before she clambered back down the mountain, I never expected to see her again. So I watched her as she left, until I couldn't make out the golden dot of her head on the dark horizon.
No, Grandpa, ma won't help. She's happier without me there, just her new husband and her pink baby daughter. Ma can only offer the wrong kind of gold. I need straw and all she has are coins, courtesy of her new husband.
In this matter, especially, I don't think she's likely to help me. Situations like this are the whole reason she kicked me out. To her, there's no difference between Brenna and Violet, other than the fact that Violet lies under the earth and Brenna walks above it . . . and even that difference, I'm sure Ma would prefer to fix.
I placed the last log on the damp earth, still not breaking eye contact with her. "Well, sure, with that logic." I paused, my chest a jungle. God. I swore she could hear it outside of me; it echoed over the whole mountain range.
She hopped off the tree trunk and dusted her hands on her dress.
"I mean that I…" She took one step toward me, covering more than half the graying afternoon between us. "Missed." She put her hand right where my heart felt like it was going to shoot out of me like a bird taking off. "You." She pulled my face down to her hungry lips. Every sinful kiss, every reason my mother no longer loves me, was all worth her in that moment.
Oh, hell. Yes, Grandpa, Violet was that girl at the farm down the way, always stomping with me through the rivers and the dust. You're remembering right: yes, the girl with hair the color of the earth. But when the fever swept through these hills, when you got sick, when Pa got ill, so did she. She died the month after him, that July that was so sticky hot. Remember? Your fever had broken, but we couldn't tell because we were all sweating like fevered folk?
Ma found me praying over Violet's body. Except my prayer, my lips hovering over hers, was the kind of prayer Ma's God never would hear. Sinner! I can still hear her shrill echo. That's when I took to the hills. That's the last time she saw me.
Grandpa, I just need to know how to help Brenna. Please, please, tell me.
"Brenn?" I whispered into her hair later that evening. The golden strands held my words for a half-second before she turned to face me. Her eyes were still closed, but fluttered like a butterfly balanced on a falling leaf.
The skeeters outside convinced me even nature has a metronome.
"Not exactly, no." I could barely see the thin branch of her mouth.
Visions of pitchforks and flaming pyres stamped through my mind. Me, barbecued on a spit. Me, tortured alive, my legs braided shut. Me, eyes plucked out.
In the dark, her silence.
Her hair on the pillow of leaves made a nod, a tender rustle.
A finger poked my side. This girl was lightning, worried to playful in a cricket's chirp.
The constellations above swirled with my breath. I got up, dusting myself off. Brenna brought herself up to her elbows, watching me as my arm disappeared into the trunk of a hallowed tree. My fingers closed around the thin wheel, the miniature spokes. He'd shrunk it long ago, as a spectacle for their one wedding guest: their baby. My father.
"I took my Grandfather's spindle." The weight of it boomed in her palms.
"Because it's the only indication I've ever had that love is real." I remember the fireplace in my childhood home. Father's scratching voice, explaining how his parents came to this country, these hills, with nothing but dreams and sheep. The wooden spindle spun between my fat fingers. The center spoke twirled as I laid on the rug, half asleep.
Brenna put her head on my chest and I held her close. From the tops of the trees, we must have looked like two fox pups, curled against the dark.
I know I shouldn't have pressed her, Grandpa. Don't you think that I know that now? I stood on that mountaintop, watching the sky fill up with messages of "no" the second she didn't come right back, the hour the sky turned black. I screamed her name into the sky that night until a thousand crows flung from their trees and whipped around my face.
Are you going to tell me that in the year you and Grandma hid your love, in the time you plotted the midnight shout of your name in the woods, her faked nervous attack, her pretended insanity, her leaving the king, you never made a mistake? No, Grandpa, I know how close the prince came to knowing your ruse, how close he came to suspecting the new baby prince wasn't his. I'm not the only one who has been tricked by the holes in a late night plan.
The following morning, I left the mountain. I bathed. Washed my face and behind my ears just like Mother taught me. There's no soap in the woods, no indoor plumbing running over to make sure I got every last kiss of dirt off my face.
But I did it. I stumbled into Ashburn—the bright metal song of the blacksmith shop, the leather breeze of the cobbler, and everywhere, the selling. Dollar signs looked like snakes twisted over sticks. This is the world she comes from. This is the world I left. My stomach riled with acid over each shop window; some part of me knew it was where she'd return after me.
I counted the steps and added twenty, just like she'd said, but I had no idea which way that twenty needed to go. I pulled on the sleeves of strangers, but they all shuddered me off.
When you try to find an alcoholic's daughter, Grandpa, you go to the town bar. Because either he'll be there, or she will, trying to drag him off the stool. I didn't need to look long; I followed the men whose steps curled like a chipmunk's tail. All bars are the same, and this one was the brown variation on the theme: stinking, a row of men at the counter while the sun still hung outside on a rope.
At the center of the bar, I found her father. He looked exactly like she would if all the wishes had been sucked out of her, leaving leather for skin. Much as I hated to, I knew that the one way to make a man like him talk was to buy him a beer. I uncrumpled one of the last green bills I had saved from the days I used them myself.
He sucked down the dark, frothing liquid from the wide mouth of the cool glass, after tipping it at me.
"Much obliged," he muttered. I nodded and leaned over a seat next to him.
"Mind if I ask you some questions?" I asked, my thick anger for him housed in my stomach. I tried to keep it from welling up into the back of my throat onto my tongue.
I ignored this and wielded my own question back at him. "Where's Brenna?" He took another swig of beer. My rage started to taste bitter between my teeth.
But what neither of us said out loud was that he had a mean streak: even as a mountain recluse, I heard whispers, passed along stories of what happened if you dared go to his parts of the forest to hunt. They say he wasn't above skinning humans, too.
I bit my tongue. My fingers tightened into a fist, but stayed by my side.
"A bar wench who works so she can keep her father fed and dry," the bartender interjected.
"Shut up, Jeremy, or you'll lose a patron!" He threw the rest of his glass right over Jeremy's head, but it landed against the wall and came to the floor in an uninterrupted crash. Jeremy blinked and went back to dipping what used to be a white cloth into mugs, swiping it over the glass sides and bellies. His eyes were trained at the floor, but his mouth was a white line of lightning. He doesn't approve of this any more than I do.
My stomach lit on fire and my eyes blurred. He still rambled on, his arms flailing out.
I blinked at his stupidity. Those three words back at me—straw into gold—gripped their fingers around my gut. My family history followed me here, across the generations. The room was too small now. My feet didn't have enough room. My lungs didn't have enough air.
He believed his own lie. He was that drunk or that stupid or both. My fists tightened around his collar and I lifted him off the bar stool; he was just another log of heavy wood.
He shrugged and spat at me. The glob landed between my eyes, dribbled down my nose. It smelled like feces and beer. I dropped him back down.
My fists left sweet kiss marks on his nose and cheeks before my hips punched the swinging door on my way out.
That's why I came to you, Grandpa. More logical folk would say you can't hear me, but I know you're still here. The spindle turns. The blue jays shriek in your raspy voice, the whooper wills capture your whispers. Your stone says nothing other than your name, but I need you to speak now, and not just with the wind through the trees. Please, Grandpa, you've talked to me before. You told me to stay in the hills, be brave.
I'm trying to be brave, Grandpa, but my hands have nothing but your dirt now. My lover has never touched golden hay, just greasy, creased dollar bills. You did it once. You turned straw into gold for a simple farm girl you loved. Here's your spindle even: I brought it back to you. Please show me how your fingers touched the wheel. I need to know, for her.
Stephanie Renae Johnson is the Editor-in-Chief of The Passed Note, a lit mag for young adult readers by adult writers. She is also a recent graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne University's Master of Arts in Writing program and has just finished her first book of poetry. Her work has been published by Parenthetical and Penny, among others. She was a finalist for the 2016 Claire Keyes poetry award, judged by the award winning poet Ross Gay. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her fiancé and their seven bookshelves.


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A convicted Gambino soldier testified in a union-corruption trial yesterday that Peter Gotti once warned that if anyone cooperated with the government, he would, "kill them and their families."
Primo Cassarino, who was convicted with Gotti in 2003 for shaking down action-movie star Steven Segal, said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday that he had spoken to the FBI about cooperating with the government during that trial. But when asked why he decided to go to trial with the former Gambino boss he said, "I didn't have no choice. If I didn't go to trial, I'd have been killed by Peter Gotti. Peter Gotti told his brother, Richard, if anybody cooperates, kill them and their families."
When Richard Gotti relayed his brother's warning, he was unaware Cassarino had spoken to the FBI, Cassarino testified under cross-examination in the trial of Harold Daggett and Arthur Coffey. The two International Longshoremen's Association members are accused of conspiring with the Genovese crime family to have them installed as union heads.
Another co-defendant, reputed Genovese capo Lawrence Ricci, has been missing since the start of the trial, leading to speculation that he has been the victim of a mob hit. Ricci is accused of steering an ILA contract to a pharmaceutical company with mob ties. When asked why he had decided to be a government witness this time around, Cassarino said he was hoping to have his sentence reduced. Cassarino's conviction was for racketeering and money-laundering after he tried to force Segal to give them a cut of movie profits in a deal brokered by his former producer.
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FondsMHCA0019 - Diana and Allan Savidant fonds
SeriesSeries1 - Photographs of Diana Lemire Savidant's artwork
SeriesSeries2 - Of Merchant, Fox, and Sail exhibition
SeriesSeries3 - Spirit of the Light exhibition
SeriesSeries4 - CGA materials
Fonds MHCA0019 - Diana and Allan Savidant fonds
Diana and Allan Savidant fonds
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Savidant, Allan (b. 1944)
Allan Savidant of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, was born in 1944. He worked for a time in Ottawa, Ontario, with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and it during this time that he met Diana Lemire (1943-1994). In 1973 the couple moved to Allan's home community of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, where Diana taught art and honed her skills as a painter and Allan worked as business superintendent of the local school district. Diana's works were displayed at various exhibitions and many pieces were sold to individuals across Canada and the United States, with her husband acting as her business manager. A major exhibit of her paintings of local heritage buildings held at the Eptek National Exhibition Centre in 1992 was titled "Of Merchant, Fox, and Sail." Most of the pieces were later donated to the Prince County Hospital Foundation and were put on displayed at the new Prince County Hospital that opened in 2004. Another major exhibit in which both Savidants were involved was "Spirit of the Light" held in Summerside in 1995. Diana Savidant died suddenly in 1994, but Mr. Savidant and the other artists participating in the project carried it to completion. Allan Savidant obtained the status of Certified General Accountant in 1974 and finished his professional career as manager of the Wyatt Heritage Properties for the City of Summerside from 2001 to 2004.
Savidant, Diana (Lemire) (1943-1994)
Diana Lemire was born in Rouyn, Quebec in 1943. She met her future husband Allan Savidant (b. 1944) in Ottawa where he was employed with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. In 1973 the couple moved to his home community of Summerside, Prince Edward Island where she taught art and honed her skills as a painter and he worked as business superintendent of the local school district. Diana Lemire Savidant's works were displayed at various exhibitions and many pieces were sold to individuals across Canada and the United States, with her husband acting as her business manager. A major exhibit of her paintings of local heritage buildings held at the Eptek National Exhibition Centre in 1992 was titled "Of Merchant, Fox, and Sail." Most of the pieces were later donated to the Prince County Hospital Foundation and were put on displayed at the new Prince County Hospital that opened in 2004. Another major exhibit in which both Savidants were involved was "Spirit of the Light" held in Summerside in 1995. Diana Savidant died suddenly in 1994, but Mr. Savidant and the other artists participating in the project carried it to completion.
The fonds consists primarily of photographs, research notes, and collected materials relating to Diana Lemire Savidant's career as an artist. Much of the research related to her exhibits was complied by her husband, Allan Savidant. The materials have been separated into the following series: Photographs of Diana Savidant's artwork; Of Merchant, Fox, and Sail exhibition; Spirit of the Light exhibition; and CGA materials.
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The material is predominately in English. Some of the text in the Series3 ("Spirit of the Light") is also in French
NO REPRODUCTION WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE ARCHIVIST
SERIES AND FILE LISTINGS AVAILABLE
Includes 927 photographs, 79 slides, 20 note cards, and 1 videocassette
Accession 000.22.22 and 001.69.104
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Good advice Tim. I got sooo many emails with just Hi, and then the usual, wanting to work in my studio etc etc. It is the basics that really do make the difference. A good friend of mine is a lecturer in photography, he tells students to hand write a letter to a photographer to gain work experience, very few do. Bizarre. I have had a few students assist when I am in need of help (which is rare), most have been keen. One guy from college started arguing with a client claiming he was right, same guy cut gaffer tape from a live cable with a knife, he also bounced cases (full of lights) up steps instead of carrying them. I haven't used him since!! I have also heard stories of two students from the local college, who went on work experience with a photographer and ended up knicking the client and under cutting him. Rant nearly over, the local college also do cheap work for some big local businesses using students and college studios, undercutting everyone. Needless to say I no longer offer advice and help to the college.
Hi Paul, happy New Year! And sorry for leaving it so late to respond, I had "a bit of a time" before Christmas with my laptop away for repair (new battery) and rather lost track of my blog. Anyway, I'm back and raring to go now.
Those experiences sound truly dreadful! I'm glad nothing like that has happened to me. The worst I had was handing a spare camera to a student to be second person on a job. Luckily I wasn't relying on them because when they handed it back I discovered they had no idea how to use focus lock. There wasn't a single in-focus image in the entire set (unless pin-sharp backgrounds are your thing).
Too often students are beguiled by the idea of being a photographer, when the reality is often too prosaic for them to really want it.


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As VP for Development, Wheeler helped grow the King County chapter from $34 million to $93 million dollars over the course of his 11-year tenure there. The King County United Way became the largest in the country. He participated in a 'golden age' philanthropy in King County and enjoyed working with many influential people, including Bill Gates Senior.
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We think he's doing a pretty good job in his role at United Way and we're guessing thousands would agree.
Rodney Wheeler is a native of Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in communications and journalism.
After working for several years as a broadcast journalist in radio and television, Rodney joined United Way and during a 27-year career, served with United Way organizations in North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, New York City and Seattle and with United Way of America as its Director of Fund-Raising Programs. He has also worked to support public education with the Alliance for Education and has served on numerous non-profit boards including Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Women's Funding Alliance, Rotary International, Wing Luke Asian Museum and Schools First.
Most recently, Rodney taught English in Hangzhou, China for 8 years. Upon returning to Seattle, he rejoined United Way of King County as a development officer on the Individual Giving Team.
Besides loving sports, travel and good food, Rodney enjoys his family and loves being a dad. As a single parent, Rodney successfully raised two daughters from his first marriage and was named "Solo Parent of the Year" by the Solo Parenting Alliance "Father of the Year" from the National Father's Day Council.


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Chronic absenteeism is one of the most powerful predictors of student success, even accounting for other factors such as poverty and disability. Therefore, curbing chronic absenteeism is a key focus of the State of Hawaii Strive HI Performance System, which supports schools' progress based on multiple research-based indicators.
Schools were given Strive HI rating scores for the first time for their performance after the 2012-2013 school year. Ha'aheo Elementary scored a ZERO out of 20 in the absenteeism category. This was due to 26% of our students accumulating more than 15 absences throughout the 2012-2013 school year. According to eSIS and EWS data from April 2013, 76% of students who had 15 or more absences and/or tardies were approaching or off-track in their core subjects. In response to our extremely low score, our school quickly developed and consistently implemented a range of activities and incentives which focused on improving school attendance.
As a result, Ha'aheo Elementary School's 2013-14 School Year Strive HI chronic absenteeism rate decreased from 26% to 8%! (Exhibit A pg.19) In 2014-2015, we were able to keep our chronic absenteeism down at 9%. Our school's current goal is to maintain a chronic absenteeism rate below 11% for more consecutive years.
Attendance is the first step to school success. When students are in school, they can access the instruction and collaborative learning opportunities which will lead to meeting statewide academic standards. It's not just the work that students miss when they are absent or late, but they also miss instructional time, team discussions, and school activities which develop not only their academic growth, but their social and interpersonal skills. Students developing the habit of attending school daily and on time (unless they are sick or have an emergency) will be an invaluable life skill which will help them to be successful in college and in the workplace.
The State Department of Education's goal is to promote college and career readiness for all students. Attendance is a large part of this effort. The Hawaii Department Of Education Strategic Plan asserts in Objective 1A that "All students are engaged and ready to learn." Target 1A in the Hawaii Department of Education Strategic Plan is "To increase the percentage of students who attend school regularly." According to the American School Counseling Association National Standards (CD: A2.8) Students will understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and 3 effort in the workplace. And in the ASCA standard (A: A2.2) Students will demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning.
Families play a critical role in school attendance and therefore, part of our efforts to curb attendance issues is to reach out to parents and families for their support and participation in our efforts. We encourage parents to familiarize themselves with our attendance program to be involved. We appreciate feedback and we welcome suggestions on ways that we can improve our program. Please share your feedback with our counselor, Ms. Maile Kapuniai or Principal.


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Catholic Scholar: 'Pope Francis Has Created Enough Confusion,' So People Now Can Ignore 'Moral Teachings'
By Michael W. Chapman | March 6, 2018 | 5:42pm EST
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Philip Lawler, the highly respected editor of Catholic World News and the author of 10 books and hundreds of essays on Catholicism, said Pope Francis has deliberately created confusion in the Catholic Church, particularly around the issue of Communion for divorced and remarried couples, which has created moral and doctrinal ambiguity, to the point that it allows clerics and lay people to do an "end run around Church moral teachings."
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"Pope Francis has created enough confusion so that there is a huge space for maneuver, for people who want to, one way or another, take an end run around Church moral teachings," said Lawler during his March 1 interview on The World Over, hosted by Raymond Arroyo, a news program that reaches an estimated 350 million households worldwide.
Arroyo replied, "Using this idea of accompaniment and this idea of mercy? And Amoris Laetitia ends up being the centerpiece around which all of this [confusion] is built."
Pope Francis. (Screenshot: YouTube)
Amoris Laetitia is a letter, an apostolic exhortation, issued by Pope Francis in 2016 after two extensive meetings with Catholic bishops in 2014-15. The most controversial section of the letter deals with Communion for couples who have divorced and then remarried.
In such cases, the Church has always taught that the people in such illicit "remarriages" are living in adultery, a serious sin, and thus cannot receive Communion at Mass.
Couples in such cases -- perhaps remarried for the sake of children -- must live chastely, like brother and sister. If they are chaste and obey the Church's teachings, then they can receive Communion. But if they are living together like husband and wife, they must cease and each person must repent, go to Confession, and truly strive to not live in adultery again.
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Amoris Laetitia changes that moral teaching in practice because it permits couples living in adultery to receive Communion, as Lawler and countless other Catholic scholars (and some bishops and priests) have explained.
Lawler agreed with Arroyo and continued, "Yes, yes it is. And that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me – if I'm a camel – in that I was originally very enthusiastic about Pope Francis. But over time I became more and more concerned, and dismayed, and disoriented."
"But when I saw what happened with that synod [bishops' meeting at Vatican], with the manipulation of the synod, and then with Amoris Laetitia coming after it – I said, this is more than simply imprudence in expression," said Lawler. "This is a deliberate effort to confuse."
"The problem is that Amoris Laetitia is intentionally unclear on the one question that everybody had top most in their mind going into the synod, going into both meetings of the synod, which is, 'will the church change her perennial teaching that Catholics who are divorced and remarried illicitly, cannot receive Communion?'" said Lawler.
"The general impression created by the apostolic exhortation [Amoris Laetitia] is that the Church has changed her teaching," he said. "That, as you know, is a controversial matter. Some bishops in some places will say, yes, the teaching has changed, practice has changed. Others say, no, it hasn't. And the masses in the middle are confused."
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Arroyo then said, "Well, clearly, the pastoral approach has changed. If you change practice, you change doctrine. The doctrine ends up not mattering anymore because the lived doctrine [in practice] is transformed into something unrecognizable."
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Lawler replied, "And that's precisely the point. Why else would Pope Francis have declined to answer the dubia [questions] – perfectly legitimate questions from four cardinals – asking him for clarity? Why would you not want clarity unless your intent was to provide that fuzzy space in which people can maneuver around church teaching?"
Four cardinals of the Church have repeatedly asked Pope Francis to clarify the controversial points in Amoris Laetitia. The Pope has never responded.
Changing subjects slightly, Arroyo asked, Archbishop Victor Fernandez said in 2015, "Pope Francis is aiming at irreversible reform. Why? Why?"
Lawler said, "Good question. I don't have the answer. I don't have the ability to look inside his head. But there is something inherently wrong with the idea of irreversible reform, unless what you mean by reform is getting back to the fundamentals of the Catholic faith. Because the role of the Pope is to inherently conserve, to protect the deposit of the faith."


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What will happen if a player is racially abused and walks off the pitch?
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This is a question that was asked by VICE.com to all Premier League clubs.
It follows Porto striker Moussa Marega being subjected to racist abuse from fans of Portuguese club Vitoria Guimaraes last weekend, and who walked off, despite the efforts of his teammates to stop him – and he was yellow carded.
The responses from Premier league clubs are outlined in the VICE article. It seems Arsenal has a really clear view on this, as you'll read in the post.
It seems incredible that such strategies are necessary in this day and age and we will follow this campaign and keep you up to date on its progress.
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EQUIPMENT FOR PILING WORKS. For piling work following equipments are used: Hydraulic piling rig. Crawler crane. Bentonite mixing plant. Shovel. Welding machine. Capacity of each equipment is depends on dimension of pile and site / soil condition.
2013-3-8 · Diaphragm wall Construction plant. The wall is usually constructed in alternative Trench excavation working in bentonite slurry with grab alignment control by guide wall Guide wall Bentenite slurry to balance the soil pressure to protect the trench from collapse .
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Bentonite Slurry is created by mixing water and bentonite powder. Bentonite It is a thixotropic material with a density higher than water and is used at every step of diaphragm wall construction to keep the excavation faces in place and prevent collapses until the permanent concreting works are carried out.
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Interesting facts about trombones
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The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate.
Unlike most other brass instruments, which have valves that, when pressed, alter the pitch of the instrument, trombones instead have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch.
However, many modern trombone models also have a valve attachment which lowers the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet.
Trombones and trumpets evolved from the medieval buisine, a brass wind instrument that originated in southern Italy in the 11th century.
The modern trombone originated in Burgundy in the middle of the 15th century. Efforts to shorten the slide lengths of the S-shaped slide trumpet resulted in the invention of the U-shaped slide.
The trombone was used extensively across Europe, from its appearance in the 15th century to a decline in most places by the mid-late 17th century.
Trombones have been used in a variety of situations, including the courts of aristocrats, churches, and in military bands.
With trumpeters, trombonists in German city-states were employed as civil officials. As officials, these trombonists were often relegated to standing watch in the city towers but would also herald the arrival of important people to the city. This is similar to the role of a military bugler and was used as a sign of wealth and strength in 16th century German cities.
Trombones have been a part of the large wind band since its inception as an ensemble during the French Revolution of 1791.
Until the 18th century the trombone was called a "saqueboute" (in French) or a "sackbut" (in English). Although opinions vary on the etymology, some sources suggest that the word comes from the French word "sacquer," which means to draw out (a sword or the like). The instrument may have gotten its name due to the action of sliding the tube out to lengthen it resembling a swordsman drawing a sword from a scabbard.
The current name "trombone" derives from Italian Tromba (trumpet) and -one (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name means "large trumpet".
Trombones have a range similar to that of the human voice and are capable of producing awe-inspiring harmonies during concerts.
Beethoven was the first to use trombones-until that point seen as religious instruments-in a secular symphony. "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67" ("Fate"), first played in 1808, was the first symphony in which a trombone was used.
Beethoven would go on to use trombones again in "Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68" ("Pastoral Symphony") and "Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125" ("The Choral"), building a foundation for the trombone to stand as a fixture in orchestras in the 19th century.
In the Romantic era, Leipzig became a center of trombone pedagogy. The trombone began to be taught at the Musikhochschule founded by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The Paris Conservatory and its yearly exhibition also contributed to trombone education. At the Leipzig academy, Mendelssohn's bass trombonist, Karl Traugott Queisser, was the first in a long line of distinguished professors of the trombone.
Queisser championed and popularized Christian Friedrich Sattler's tenorbass trombone during the 1840s, leading to its widespread use in orchestras throughout Germany and Austria.
Sattler had a great influence on trombone design. He introduced a significant widening of the bore (the most important since the Renaissance), the innovations of Schlangenverzierungen (snake decorations), the bell garland, and the wide bell flare—features still found on German-made trombones that were widely copied during the 19th century.
In the 1900s the trombone assisted the bass or tuba player's job of outlining chords for the other instruments by playing a bass line for the higher-pitched instruments to improvise over. It was not until the swing era of the mid-1920s that the trombone began to be used as a solo instrument.
Changes in construction have occurred during the 20th century, such as the use of different materials – increases in mouthpiece, bore, and bell dimensions – and in types of mutes and valves. Despite the universal switch to a larger horn, many European trombone makers prefer a slightly
smaller bore than their American counterparts.
The trombone can be found in symphony orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, military bands, brass bands, and brass choirs. In chamber music, it is used in brass quintets, quartets, or trios, or trombone trios, quartets, or choirs. The size of a trombone choir can vary from five or six to twenty or more members. Trombones are also common in swing, jazz, merengue, salsa, R&B, ska, and New Orleans brass bands.
A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist or trombone player.
The largest trombone ensemble consisted of 368 musicians at an event organized by Arena Stage and FAME (both USA) at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., USA, on 1 June 2012.
Beginner trombones usually range in cost from $400 to $1,500. Intermediate, or step-up trombones usually range in cost $1,400 to $2,800 and entry level pro trombones (still largely played by advanced students) around $2,800 and up.
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[Australia] Scientists have turned to crowdfunding to fund a huge project to replant seaweed forests off Sydney destroyed decades ago by sewage.
The University of NSW and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science have launched Operation Crayweed to encourage people to become underwater gardeners to restore seaweed which disappeared from the city's coastline 30 years ago.
The disappearance of crayweed (Phyllospora comosa) is thought to be linked to the discharge of poorly treated sewage too close to Sydney's beaches in the 1970s and 1980s.
Water quality has improved since the 1990s when deep ocean outfalls for sewage were built but the seaweed hasn't returned.
After more than eight years of research, scientists have developed a method of transplanting fertile adult crayweed plants onto deforested areas.
The method implemented at three sites at Cape Banks, Little Bay and Long Bay has been so successful the researchers now want to bring crayweed back to 70km of coastline between Palm Beach and Cronulla.
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About 7000 individual plants are needed for the project. Each crayweed has to be tied to a biodegradable mesh fastened in place on reefs at two to three metres depth.
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Phillies Minor League Hot List: Casimiro, Crawford, Eflin
By Jay Floyd May 26, 2015
Here's another dose of the Phillies minor league hot list as we rundown the organization's top performers of late from the various levels of the developmental system.
Class A Lakewood BlueClaws-
Ranfi Casimiro, image- Jay Floyd
In his last five starts, righty pitcher Ranfi Casimiro has a 2-1 record with a 1.00 ERA. Listed at six-foot-eight and 200 pounds, Casimiro has a 2-3 record with a 2.74 ERA, a .217 batting average against and a 0.94 WHIP in seven starts this year. The Dominican Republic native is 22 years old.
Outfielder Herlis Rodriguez has notched three straight muti-hit games and is batting .322 in 15 May games. The 20-year-old Venezuelan has posted a .257 average with two homers, 18 RBI and six steals in 32 overall games this season.
Class A Advanced Clearwater Threshers-
Righty pitcher Mark Leiter Jr. is 2-0 with a 1.01 ERA in four outings since joining the Threshers' rotation. Overall in 10 games, the 24-year-old has a 3-0 record with a save and a 1.30 ERA. Leiter was the Phillies' 22nd round draft selection in 2013.
Prior to his 0-for-4 effort on Sunday, shortstop J.P. Crawford had gone 15-for-34 (.441 avg) in his previous eight games. In 17 games since he was activated from the disabled list (oblique strain), Crawford has a .375 average with a home run and eight RBI. The 20-year-old was the Phils' top draft choice in 2013.
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Righty starter Zach Eflin has allowed one earned run in 16 2/3 innings over his last two starts. In eight starts, the 21-year-old has tallied a 4-3 record with a 2.28 ERA while striking out 23 and walking nine in 51 1/3 innings. Eflin was acquired in the Jimmy Rollins trade from the Dodgers last off-season.
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Infielder Chase d'Arnaud is 14-for-35 (.400 avg) over his last nine games. In 26 games, the 28-year-old is batting .319 with four doubles, a home run and nine RBI.
After allowing earned runs in four of his first five appearances this season, right-handed reliever Seth Rosin has allowed two total earned runs in 18 1/3 innings (0.98 ERA) over 13 games. Overall, the 26-year-old has a 1-1 record with two saves and a 2.10 ERA in 18 outings.
Chase D'Arnaud Clearwater Threshers Herlis Rodriguez JP Crawford Lehigh Valley IronPigs Ranfi Casimiro Seth Rosin Zach Eflin
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Chairman Proud of Landmarks Commission Accomplishments
Commentary • Chairman Robert B. Tierney
Robert B. Tierney, Chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Last week CityLand published a Guest Commentary from Steven Spinola, President of REBNY. Robert B. Tierney, Chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission submitted this commentary in response.
The Landmarks Law, enacted in 1965, has been responsive to New Yorkers' demand that their historic neighborhoods be preserved. The architecturally and historically distinctive streetscapes found in all five boroughs reflect more than 300 years of growth, and play an integral role in our City's economic well-being.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's creation of new historic districts has in recent years been overwhelmingly supported by the affected property owners, who recognize the positive impact on their property values of the stability brought by landmark designation. The Commission works in partnership with owners in proposed historic districts through an open, transparent public process that involves numerous community meetings, meetings with owners, elected officials and other stakeholders, and public hearings. I am proud of the Commission's accomplishments over the past 11 years, a period during which we have protected 43 historic districts and extensions and 312 standalone landmarks in all five boroughs, totaling 8,079 buildings. Of the 8,079 designated properties 6,362 are outside Manhattan, and 1,717 are in Manhattan.
Historic preservation is an important component of the City's larger planning efforts, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission works closely with other land-use agencies in our shared efforts to protect and promote the future of the City's neighborhoods. More than 1,100 units of affordable housing have been created or preserved in historic districts since 2004. This reflects the flexibility that owners of buildings in landmarked districts retain to develop their properties. The Bloomberg Administration has built and preserved more affordable housing units than any city in the country – enough to house the entire city of Atlanta – and we have done it without sacrificing the historical character of the city, which adds both financial and civic value to neighborhoods.
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Marvel's Disney+ Series Are The Most Pirated Shows Of The Year
What's On Disney Plus > Blog > Brands > Marvel > Marvel's Disney+ Series Are The Most Pirated Shows Of The Year
2021 has been a huge year for Disney+, with five major series from Marvel Studios being released exclusively on the streaming service. These five shows, which include "WandaVision", "Loki", "The Falcon And The Winter Soldier", "What If?" and "Hawkeye", were massively popular, with millions of Disney+ subscribers checking out these new shows around the world.
However, not everyone who watched these shows, saw them on Disney+. According to a recent article from TorrentFreak, these five shows have been the most pirated series in 2021, with "WandaVision" topping the chart.
The top ten most pirated series of the year include:
There are multiple reasons why people pirate shows, sometimes it comes down to cost, where people don't want to pay for a subscription service or refuse to have multiple subscriptions.
But it's important to note that for many countries around the world, the only way to watch some of these shows was through piracy, as Disney+ isn't legally available in many countries throughout Africa, Europe, Asia and in the Middle East. With these shows being pivotal to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also encourages people to watch the shows through piracy.
As Disney+ launches in more countries, it should become easier for more people around the world to watch Marvel's original series legally on Disney+ at an affordable rate.
All five of the Marvel Studios series are available to stream on Disney+!
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Streaming services need to try and work on global releases in countries if they want to stop piracy don't know what I would do if Disney+ wasn't available in Ireland as I watch all MCU stuff so if I had to wait for shows to be released due to licensing agreements and didn't get the chance to watch them before the newest movie probably would stop watching them all together
Dan December 28, 2021
It's a different matter if a user is in a country where Disney+ or another streaming service isn't available yet and there are no legal means to view any of these TV shows yet. However some of the people pirating these TV shows will be in countries where Disney+ is available, but are freeloaders who don't want to spend any money at all. It's also worth noting that people don't need to have every streaming service at the same time, there's a reason why streaming services don't require contracts unlike traditional pay TV services.
Nate December 28, 2021
I honestly think Disney+ just needs to release their digital content on DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital purchase websites such as VUDU, Google Play, and other platforms that allow to buy. Not many people can afford Disney+. If you get what i mean kind of
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