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Planned Parenthood Cleared, But That Won't Stop Texas
Alison Wilkinson
Last summer, the media unleashed covert videos made by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress. The videos purported to show Planned Parenthood involved in the illegal sale of fetal tissue—a claim which Planned Parenthood strenuously denied. (Federal law allows providers to accept donations for processing tissue, but not to profit from it.)
Credit: Source.
The response, particularly from Republican lawmakers, was quick and severe. The federal government and states across the country moved to defund Planned Parenthood. Texas was one of those states.
Covert Videos Spur Texas Move to Defund Planned Parenthood
In the months after the videos surfaced, numerous Texas organizations, including the state attorney general's office and Texas Health and Human Services, investigated Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue donations.
In October, Texas officials announced they intended to defund Planned Parenthood, thus cutting it off from all state Medicaid funding. The state's Notice of Termination to Planned Parenthood stated that, in light of the videos, it was "no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner."
Citing program violations allegedly captured on the secret videos, Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement, the "gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed in Texas and the barbaric practice must be brought to an end."
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Executive Director Dawn Laguens said, "It is completely outrageous that Texas officials are using these thoroughly
discredited, fraudulent videos to cut women off from preventative health care." In November, Planned Parenthood sued Texas officials to stop the defunding. The case is currently on hold in federal court until the state official delivers a final notice of defunding. To date, the state has not taken that step, although many Texans believe it has.
Videos Fuel Texas Criminal Investigation of Planned Parenthood
In the middle of the video maelstrom, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson announced she would be pursuing a criminal investigation of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston, which was the subject of one of the covert videos.
Harris County DA Devon Anderson. Credit: Source.
On January 25, Anderson's criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood ended abruptly with an indictment, though not against Planned Parenthood.
The Houston grand jury indicted the two abortion opponents who made the undercover videos, Center for Medical Progress employees David R. Daleiden and Sandra S. Merritt. Posing as middlemen for medical researchers seeking fetal tissue, they assumed false identities and surreptitiously taped Planned Parenthood officials in an attempt to prove that the organization illegally sold fetal tissue.
The two were indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record, a felony that can carry a 20-year prison sentence. Daleiden was also indicted on a misdemeanor charge related to the purchasing of human organs. Planned Parenthood filed a separate federal lawsuit against the anti-abortion activists earlier in January.
Planned Parenthood, said Anderson in a statement, had been cleared by the grand jury of any wrongdoing. "We were called upon to investigate allegations of
criminal conduct by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us. All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case."
The Political Ramifications of Continuing the Fight
Both nationally and at a state level, Planned Parenthood has proven a difficult foe to slay. It cost John Boehner his seat, as he refused to lead a government shutdown in order to halt federal funding to the organization. Investigations of Planned Parenthood at the state and federal level have been fruitless. Defunding threats have been stymied.
Yet Republicans continue to lead the charge against Planned Parenthood, with one of their biggest crusaders being Texas senator and Republican presidential nominee Ted Cruz. His campaign supports the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood "to ensure its morally bankrupt business receives not one penny of taxpayer money."
This, despite a recent Times/CBS poll showing that a majority of Americans support Planned Parenthood and its federal payments, and that more people hold favorable opinions about Planned Parenthood than unfavorable ones.
The Texas indictments, and the finding that Planned Parenthood was not involved in any wrongdoing, may tick those numbers even higher in coming weeks, causing Republican strategists to worry that the anti-Planned Parenthood stance may be viewed as a war
against women.
Said Geoff Garin, a pollster for Democrats and Planned Parenthood, the attack against Planned Parenthood "has been an abject failure in terms of public opinion."
Texas Reaffirms Its Intent to Investigate Planned Parenthood
Nonetheless, Texas lawmakers show no signs of giving up.
Given that the discredited videos were the basis for the state's investigations into Planned Parenthood and its notice of intent to defund, some people—including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders—believe that the grand jury's decision to clear Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing "undercuts the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood."
Yet the decision has not altered the course of Texas attacks against the organization. Immediately after the indictments, state officials publicly reaffirmed that Texas would continue to investigate Planned Parenthood, through both the Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas attorney general's office.
Governor Abbott said of the indictment: "Nothing about today's announcement in Harris County impacts the state's ongoing investigation. The State of Texas will continue to protect life, and I will continue to support legislation prohibiting the sale or transfer of fetal tissue."
State Attorney General Paxton said in a statement: "The fact remains that the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion and the shameful disregard for
human life of the abortion industry. The state's investigation of Planned Parenthood is ongoing."
Lieutenant Governor Daniel Patrick, a Republican who asked the state to open the criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood, was also unmoved. "I will never be deterred from standing up to fight to protect the unborn."
That fight appears to be continuing. On Thursday, Rick Allgeyer, a top Texas health official, announced that he was stepping down after co-authoring a study that suggested cuts to Texas's Planned Parenthoods were restricting access to women's health across the state.
His resignation came amidst significant Republican backlash, which decried his involvement in the study and dismissed the study as biased.
The story of Planned Parenthood and other women's health providers will continue to unfold in the weeks ahead. Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the legitimacy of certain of Texas's restrictive abortion statutes, which led to the shuttering of all but a handful of clinics performing abortions--a decision that will have far-reaching implications not just in Texas, but across the country as well.
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BERLIN — A Syrian asylum-seeker has gone on trial in Germany over the deadly stabbing in August of a German that touched off far-right protests within the jap metropolis of Chemnitz.
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Prosecutors say S. got here to assistance from an Iraqi man who fell whereas preventing the sufferer. The 2 foreigners are accused of then fatally stabbing him. The Iraqi is being sought on a world arrest warrant.
Hundreds of neo-Nazis and others assembled in Chemnitz to protest migration after the demise.
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The United States Donald Trump administration will announce a suspension of funding to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and the rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
According to Hebrew-language news outlets, the US administration is expected to announce its new policy early September, which would effectively cancel the right of return for Palestinians through several steps.
UNRWA reported that the US administration will start enforcing its new policy with recognizing the existence of only half a million Palestinian refugees, who are legitimately considered refugees, out of the total of 5.3 million Palestinian refugees demanding the right of return.
The US administration intends to form a plan in which it rejects the United Nations designation under which millions of descendants of the original refugees are also considered refugees.
The right of return is one of the core issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians claim that about 5.3 million Palestinians, including tens of thousands of refugees who fled in the1948 and 1968 wars from what is now known as Israel, and their descendants, have a right of return to their homes.
Israel rejects the Palestinian demand, fearing that Palestinians would destroy Israel's "Jewish-majority" state after the arrival of millions of non-Jewish individuals.
Currently, Israel's population is nearly nine million, three-quarters of whom are Jewish citizens.
Following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the UN created UNWRA, to help resettle nearly 600,000 Palestinians after the war; UNRWA says that there are 5.3 million Palestinian refugees in the world.
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Though I feel hideously guilty about it, sometimes I feel like I don't really want to be a mother. Yeah, I know, I was trying to concieve and I had been talking about it forever before that, but now that I'm at that place where there's no going back I'm a little scared. This is a change unlike any other in life. Not only have you made a decision for yourself, but also for another new person. What other choice is like that? So final and not only effecting you? Even death, though it matches in finality, doesn't have a part similar to making the choice to bring a new life into the world. I will never not be a parent. My child is coming whether I like it or not and, even if I chose to put it up for adoption (something that will NEVER happen) that won't change the fact that I gave birth to it. It's somewhat panic inducing. I mean, can I change my order? I'd like a little monkey instead. That can't cost as much as a baby, but I won't ask for a refund or anything. Well?
But I love this boy. I love him already and I've only seen a few minutes of him wiggling around and looking very blue and alien. I don't really want to go back, it's just hard to not have the option. He will be with me all the time for the rest of my life, whether he is physically or not. How do parents cope with that?
It blows me away that so many people have children. They must just not think about it, but I don't see how you couldn't. I can't stop. I appreciate my friends who have thought about it enough to realize that they don't want children. I think we are the first in our close group to have a kid, which is surprising coming from our town. Most of the others I knew from high school had kids right away and probably have several by now. But this whole group has made it to ages 25-27 (approximately) with none. And they are wonderful people. They all just think a lot. The sad thing is, they are smart people who would, no doubt, have really cool kids.
John and I have decided on one, unless we strike it really rich! We ethically can't see having more than one in a lot of ways. We each, at one point, thought about having none, but I think that (despite the anxiety) we are both very excited now that it's happening. I don't think I'll ever need to do it again though.
At this point, I think I need to try to stop thinking about it. Is it really doing me any good? I'm just driving myself into a panic about something about which I can no longer do anything.
What Kind of Freaky Mother are you?


Since these are so late, I've opted for more of a discussion style while still reviewing the books.
High marks! The titillating ending of last issue is killed off quick though. I don't think DC is serious about changing much. Ok, new villain, but it's the same formula of mysterious guy attacks Batman or Bruce Wayne out of the blue --> detective stuff --> fist fight --> mysterious person leaves with much less mystery about them. A new paradigm isn't even played with. It's one big page at the end of issue 1 to suggest something then right back to the grind.
Batman again provides full issue musings on Gotham and its history. I dig it. Gotham is a marvelous city. Little convenient that everything that has ever happened there can be traced back to the Wayne family, but Gotham is supposed to always be in turmoil so it works. But it also puts Batman's actions in some continuum where he is just the latest expression of an old idea rather than the product a radial situation. The mayor outright says so. But I do like it. The city itself seems to be suggesting dark magic while also offering the plausible excuse that bad stuff just happens. The villain is embodying these ideas, though, that I'm not sure need a body. He's awesome. I'll be clear. He's what I want in a villain: keeps his mystery, prepared, great theme, actually manages to hurt the hero, looks amazing in everything he does. Especially that last reason. I don't want posing but if by accident, as a by-product of you doing your thing, I wish to high-five you, that's completely acceptable. But back to my point, I don't want Gotham to happen to be the site of some ancient ritual that is the source of all evil (the physical manifestation of) on Earth. I'm much more interested in the questions of "is Batman fighting human nature itself? Is an end possible? Is humanity its own enemy? Is the human mind unraveling under the pressures of its own advancement?". A face on all that just says "no, there's just some jerk, the world is literally black and white".
An enjoyable Batman story. Doesn't seem to be stretching for anything.
Oh Jason Todd. You aren't doing what I'd like and with people I don't care for but I have to know what you're doing. Issue two is another mixed bag for me.
I was curious why and how these three people got together. I'm not suggesting these characters are all loners so would never team up with anybody, they've all been on a team of some sort, but how did they meet? Why did Red Hood break Arsenal out of prison? Arsenal provides as good an answer as we're likely to get with "what else would we be doing?". Hmm… That's not a terrible strong reason. Issue one had these three just together and I don't think the writer (Scott Lobdell) really cares why. I get nervous when a writer disregards reasoning for their stories. It makes caring about them difficult.
Mr. Roy Harper does not impress. He dresses poorly and says generic or dumb things. Honestly, I think it would help the character a lot if he were to be maimed horribly. Give that drifter something to focus on, toughen him up a bit. I don't want to read about someone who isn't special floating around doing not special things.
Kori, Ms. Alien Princess Starfair, is just attractive baggage. Credit to artist Kenneth Rocafort for his fashion sense (two links for him! Get an official site bro). But Starfire is getting full page spreads to look good and that's it. She physically follows the two males around, adding some green light to fight scenes, and making lame sexual innuendos. This isn't just a complaint about how "women need better representation in comics", it's also "there's an incredible powerful alien not doing anything or being the least bit interesting".
So why read this? Because Jason Todd, resurrected- ex- side-kick of Batman, jet sets around the world with Talia al Ghul, daughter of the (Demon's) Head of the League of Assassins, training to become… Actually I don't know what. He's never said he wants to be "the best", nor has he identified a goal (like Kill Batman) that would give a reason for all this training. Maybe it's a habit for people like him to learn new ways to kill people. It's a problem with the narrative that there's no reason for anything that's happening. Fat Lady (Suzie Sue) surprises Jason in his safe house, highlighting his lesson that nowhere should be considered safe, then gets killed. Cool! Apparently there's some history between the two (I've read all Red Hood stories, never heard of her before this). Why was she there? What purpose of the story does she serve? I already knew Jason kills people, does it well, with guns… Maybe her father will come after Jason later, and they'll be a good story there, and I'll applaud in hindsight for the writer creating a narrative that stretches beyond a few issues, but right now I feel "stuff" is just getting thrown around. Nothing is tying the characters together, and the closest thing given as a goal (or quest) is a mysterious girl (also not in any previous Red Hood stories) who points out some mysterious entity that killed some unknown people Red Hood likes for reasons he doesn't relate to the reader. Man, I'm down for mystery but I need a thread to hold onto. Let me know where Jason is mentally. More than "safe houses shouldn't be considered safe". Or give me a mystery to care about. Supermonks being killed by a villain isn't worth my time.
Congratulations on creating a not cliché martial arts master to train Jason! Well, besides being an unassuming old lady. Don't know if modern day teen persona was the right direction. That was odd. It's cool to play around though. Jason's flight wings were the embodiment of his baller status and I'm sure the electricity flicking around them is totally backed up by actual science showing his "wings" would function. But, um, why does Red Hood care about these people who trained him? Maybe this clean slate (new 52) isn't working in Red Hood's favor. The writer is trying a new direction but not connecting to his past, which is where I'm getting mixed signals. That especially makes sense with the "don't effing mention B-Man" chat the outlaws have. Real shame. Jason Todd is fun but divorced from any history, he isn't as interesting to me.
Whilst searching for some online presence to link to for Scott Lobdell (he gave it all up apparently, s'why I opted for the Wiki entry), I found a Q&A he did regarding Red Hood and the Outlaws. He's thinking about issues more than is being let on in the actual issues.
The Series Is Going Somewhere, and Defense of Starfire as a Woman.
There's a calm, sensible approach to story-telling going on here. Instead of instantly teaming up, the heroes are feeling each other out. That type of methodical story-telling works well for the dialogue scenes, as just standing around some old printing press talking kept my engaged, assuming the point of view of each character in turn and checking the scene out with new eyes. Yeah, the characters are more than just some multicolored parade of exposition and punching. What makes Green Lantern meeting Batman a worthwhile event to see if how their personalities match up. I think that's the fan dream, not the "oh GL would make chains and Batman would throw baterrangs!". Cool cool in this regard.
The fighting loses all sense of urgency though. It's obvious each hero is waiting their turn to attack so readers can judge relative power levels. It's not the crazy melee one would expect from three super-powered people slamming into each other for the first time. Everyone is showcasing their signature moves, and it actual flows like a turn-based game. Batman uses gadgets (pass turn), Superman does a flying tackle (pass turn), Batman ect. It's not a fun time now but I'm happy to see the attention to detail and thoughtfulness of it. When the League does form, I just hope the pace of these pick up while keeping the higher thought level.
Dialogue was a letdown in most of this issue. Everyone is so blunt. 'Dad, I want you to watch me play football' 'That's not important to me, son'.Really difficult to care about characters with no personality. It's as though the story is all broad strokes and the details don't matter. A lot of comics function that way. Take any series and just describe what happens in the course of a year and it sounds amazing. Actually reading it doesn't have nearly the same impact. Play to genre strengths. What other form of storytelling gives a new short story every month and lasts for years? Make the moments matter.
I'll just note here, too, that any new dynamic idea for the status quo isn't even teased for issue three. It's only two issue so I won't say "DC lied about everything", but it is shocking how the end of the first issue says "new things!" and issue two ends with "remember this guy?". The characters themselves are richer, the situations they are in are not.
Somebody made a zombie plague (that's what happens). Is this a violent comedy book? I guess we're not taking this seriously. But I'm supposed to care about the characters history and their future development? Things aren't jiving here. SUPER! One of them developed an obnoxious sense of morality. Oh and he won't shut-up? Perfect. Keep telling me how killing things is bad even though that's your job and also only way to survive. I didn't know. Voltic and Black Spider, my numbers two and three for likeable characters, promise something to watch: rivalry. Oh wait one of them dies! And with them another reason to keep reading this series.
The ending takes a page from every military action movie ever created. Are we just working through popular movies of the decades? How can the same writer create a solid first issue concept, then spit out cliché nonsense the very next month?


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Touchscreen Macs could mark the end of iPad – so what could it use for macOS?
In what could be a major reversal of separating the two platforms, Apple could be releasing a touchscreen MacBook in 2025 – which could be a sign to me that the iPad's retirement has been set.
It's not a stretch to assume that iPadOS hasn't become the replacement for most laptops and PCs in recent years, with Stage Manager in iPadOS 16 being confusing and buggy when trying to multitask up to six different apps at once for example.
However, Apple has had a history of denying certain products, such as the iPhone in 2005 when Steve Jobs said that it would be a hassle with the carriers to even make one, but in actual fact, the device was halfway done by that point.
If this is true though, it could mean that macOS is in line for a major redesign to cater to your fingers. So, what could it borrow from iPadOS as it potentially rides into the tablet sunset?
It's 2023 and macOS still has widgets locked to a sidebar that's coupled with the Notification Center – it's time to have the same ability on iPadOS but on the Mac.
Being able to use widgets on the desktop, similar to the home screen on an iPad would work well, especially when a Mac is a touchscreen. If you combine this with lock screen widgets from iOS 16, you've already got a major change in macOS.
Slideover
While you've been able to have two apps in split-view on macOS, there's not been a way to slideover an additional app to quickly check something as you can in iPadOS.
It's something you can still enable on iPad as long as Stage Manager is disabled, and it's always been a useful remnant of multitasking on the tablet, as it's a way of quickly checking email or some Notes for example.
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This feels like the most obvious feature to crossover to the Mac. With apps such as Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro on macOS, using the Apple Pencil would help to scrub those timelines on a 4K video, or highlight certain backgrounds when editing a photo.
Even Freeform, Apple's new collaboration app where you can place images and ideas onto a blank canvas, would work exactly the same as it does on iPad currently so the justification is there.
Is the writing on the wall?
iPad has had a rocky time of it in recent years. While Apple declared iPadOS as a way of separating the platform from iOS to distinguish it better, there's only been a handful of features that are still exclusive to the platform.
And even then, home screen widgets took another year to arrive on iPad, while Lock Screen widgets from iOS 16 are nowhere to be seen on the tablet.
For a consumption device, iPad is perfect, but when it comes to creating content that's not with an Apple Pencil, it can be hard to justify an iPad Pro when a MacBook could do the job just as well, or better.
We're still ways off from a touchscreen Mac becoming a reality, but if it does get announced, and you put it side by side with an iPad Pro, is there a need for the tablet in its current form from then on?
Ignore the haters, Apple – I'd love a touchscreen MacBook
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The Austerity saddle tank, a 1942 design born out of necessity during wartime Britain and intended for just two years of rigorous service as a general purpose shunting locomotive, far exceeded the original expectations of the Hunslet Engine Company design. In fact construction was to continue until 1964, with a total of 485 locomotives ultimately being turned out by seven different manufacturers. They became a familiar sight in a broad range of industrial settings, including military depots, collieries, quarries and steelworks, as well as on a number of main lines in Britain and overseas. This is a photographic tribute, almost three-quarters of a century on from their initial concept, portraying them in glorious grubby detail in their true working environment. Dirty, rusty and sometimes abandoned, these are not images of the 'squeaky-clean' examples to be found on heritage railways, although a handful of appropriate contemporary images are included as a tribute to those who help to keep the magic of the Austerity saddle tank alive today, some thirty years after their demise from British industry.


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How to wear a power suit like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Pt II
This month "the greatest sequel of all time", The Godfather Pt II, will be 40 years old. But rather than waxing lyrical on the inevitable release of the digitally enhanced 5.1 commemorative blue ray edition of the cinematic classic, we thought we'd focus on the Michael Corleone's suits…
From his first scene, Michael's light grey suit (above) speaks volumes for the huge changes that have taken place since we last saw him, both in terms of his acceptance of his role as Godfather and the power that he now wealds.
Later we see him striking a similar pose in a magnificent charcoal grey 3-piece.
This suit would look just as imposing in a boardroom in 2014. The key is its simplicity – the only anomaly is the exceptionally high cut of the 6 button waistcoat.
We've seen a similar waistcoat before – in the original Godfather –
This suit has the same lustrous finish as many of his others – more accentuated than ever in the above still. This distinctive finish is created by blending the wool with silk or mohair.
Furthermore, this suit is double breasted – a cut probably inherited from his older brother Sonny – but also a popular style at the time (1950s post war America).
Interestingly, the suit is cut in a similar style to the 4 show 6 double breasted Michael wears to his wedding in the original Godfather…
which is made from a much heavier, darker cloth. Not the best choice of cloth for a Sicilian wedding – but I suppose when you're as cool as Michael Corleone it doesn't matter!
In the two years that have passed since The Godfather, Michael has developed his own style: single breasted suits in muted colours, long-tip shirt collars and his iconic slicked back hair.
Moreover, Michael remains impeccably well dressed for the duration of the film – ever conscious of the relationship between appearance, respect and power.
40 years on, and suit wearers can still learn much from this iconic business leader.
Godfather fact: The costume designer, Theadora Van Runkle, was nominated for the Oscar for best costume. Runkle was only beaten by The Great Gatsby (featured in Stitch #33), but the Godfather Pt II went on to win 6 Oscars from 9 nominations.
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Episode 20 - Ed Vigil
Chef Edward Vigil has worked in some of the most beloved restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, including The Olema Inn & Restaurant, Ramblas Tapas, and Anaviv's Table. A native of Albuquerque, Ed studied the photographic arts at The University of New Mexico. His cooking career began in his grandmother's kitchen in Santa Fe, where he learned about intense flavorts and the importance of having a direct, personal connection to your food. A pioneer in organic, local, and sustainable sourcing, Ed has devoted his entire kitchen career to living and promoting the farm-to-table ethic. Like countless other restaurant professionals, Ed was sidelined by the COVID-19 Pandemic. His grace under pressure, honed by two decades in the restaurant industry, has always enabled him to roll with the punches. In this episode, we hear how he's adapting to this latest crisis, what his thoughts are about the word apocalypse, and what songs he would put on his apocalypse mixtape.
Songs in this episode:
(Opening) Sofrito, by Mongo Santamaría
1. Sweet Caroline, by Neil Diamond
2. Rape Me, by Nirvana
3. Wild World, by Cat Stevens
4. Jingle of a Dog's Collar, by Butthole Surfers
5. Like a Virgin, by Madonna
6. Fuck the Police, by N.W.A.
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HomePoliticsBipartisan group of legislators push for statutory PFD
Bipartisan group of legislators push for statutory PFD
PRESSURE ON GOVERNOR TO VETO THE $1,600 DIVIDEND
A bipartisan group of legislators has written a letter to Gov. Michael Dunleavy, expressing their continued support of a full, statutory Permanent Fund Dividend.
Signers include Senators Mia Costello, Peter Micciche, Mike Shower, Shelley Hughes, Lora Reinbold, and Bill Wielechowski, Representatives Sarah Vance, Ben Carpenter, Sharon Jackson, Gabrielle LeDoux, Laddie Shaw, Dave Talerico, and Chris Tuck.
"We are writing to express our continued support of paying Alaskans their 2019 Permanent Fund Dividends according to the full statutory formula. As you are aware, the legislature has passed House Bill 2001. This bill provided full funding for dividends to be paid according to the statutory formula when it came to the Senate floor. However, the version that eventually passed included a funding level that had been reduced by almost half," the letter states.
"The amount of each year's dividend is set in statute by a formula that has been in place and remained the same since the distribution of the very first dividends. Alaskans are fully justified in expecting their dividends to be distributed based on this traditional formula. Similarly, they are justified in feeling angry and shortchanged by the legislature's unilateral decision to not pay the full amount owed to Alaskans," the letter says.
The letter contains signatures from from members of all four legislative caucuses: the Alaska House Majority, the Alaska House Republican Minority, the Alaska Senate Majority, and Alaska Senate Democrat Minority.
"The Permanent Fund Dividend is part of what connects all Alaskans, and every Alaskan should have a voice in its future," said Sen. Mia Costello. "I believe we need to hear from the public before any changes to the statute are made. Until the public has an opportunity to weigh in, we need to follow the statute already on the books when it comes to paying out the dividend."
"The legislature and the public spent years debating what to do with the earnings of the Permanent Fund before creating the Dividend program in 1982. It was meant to give every Alaskan a direct, equal ownership benefit in our oil wealth and provide an automatic spending cap to protect the Fund," said Sen. Bill Wielechowski. "It's one of the most successful and popular programs in Alaskan and American history. Hundreds of thousands of Alaskans rely on the PFD, as do many Alaskan businesses – and they deserve to have the consistency and stability of a statute that lawmakers follow. Under the Constitution, the legislature can change the PFD statute, but until they do, the existing formula should respectfully be followed."
The governor will sign the Operating Budget in coming days and must decide whether to accept the $1,600 Permanent Fund dividend set by the Legislature, or veto it and call for a $3,000 dividend through another special session.
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Fred Vreeman / August 10, 2019
The legislature didn't do their job reducing the insane spending. Roll back the state workforce and spending to 2005 levels. Eliminate programs we don't need and fix the statutes requiring state funding instead of local property taxes for programs we do need. We'll be just fine and it'll still be the highest state spending per capita in the USA. Funding bloated government with Alaskans pfd is an unfair tax that disproportionately affects poor people. This must be stopped. I'm glad at least a few of them are talking sense.
Greg Forkner / August 10, 2019
It sounds like some are hearing us finally. Are you listening Bryce???
Ray Wagner / August 13, 2019
The people in the legislature that want to cut our pfd's again are just wanting to pad there pocket books. They tried to make it seem like UAF took a major cut but they didn't all they lost was the extra that they wanted this year in the end after everything they are still receiving as much as they did last year which is bullshit. UAf should be cut by atleast half because they don't need that much they are just greedy bastards who don't know how to budget. They always come ahead of everyone else. When Ryan middle school was supposed to get a new roof for there gym because there was major leaks, UAf was building there expansion on the museum and over spent so they ran out of funds before project was complete so they whined and all the money for the new roof never made it to Ryan middle school instead it went to there way over budget expansion of the museum. The other problem is the pfd was never supposed to be touched by state government. But yet they have there greedy fingers clawing at the money which we the people just let happen. Well now we need to stand up and get back what is rightfully ours for living in this expensive cold ass state.
Dave / August 10, 2019
I still like the idea of constitutional amendment voted on by the people of how the majority want to see the PFD handled if the formula is going to be tampered with or ignored
Joe Geldhof / August 12, 2019
Put the PFD formula into the Alaska Constitution.
Dianne macrae / August 10, 2019
Thank you to those who signed the letter and to some I understand who wanted to sign but we're unavailable to sign.
My family lives below the poverty level and we do not accept food stamps or heating subsidies. My husband is disabled ect. He does get health care.
I, and my family do not want the governor to accept any PFD that is not formulated to determine the amount by the time-aged historical math! That formula IS mathematically sustainable, just, and honorable.
Poor persons and families such as those who have earthquake damage, or medical surprises, or have dreams of catching up from challenges that keep them from from basic needs truly are entitled to the respect from elected person not to have to beg or plead for the correct amount.
Walker did not respect the average Alaskan, nor did the legislation in the past year.
Governor Dunleavy, please respect the PFD, and the citizens of ALASKA. Veto the PFD as presented to you …It would be a mistake that current and future generations would be impacted by. Stand, Mike. Those on the lower-income levels especially need you to stand tall.
Ethan claims to help them but he is using them as props to grow goverment. Stand for the PFD. It would help many who are homeless and need leg up to reach up to solve their own issues with dignity.
Mongo Likes Candy / August 10, 2019
Looks like some got an earful from their constituents after finally getting out of Juneau.
The signers of this letter are all long-standing supporters of the PFD.
Darel M Williams / August 10, 2019
Please veto the pfd bill
Veto the appropriation and then what?
Older Than Alaska got this right.
The Governor should not veto but instead bring the legislature back into a new special session to adopt a constitutional resolution re: PFD that will go before the voters and also top up this years shortened PFD.
Older Than Alaska / August 11, 2019
What comes next? Is half a loaf of bread better than no bread at all? Or does the Guv dig in his heels and veto the half loaf? Either way those who want to grab your PFD win.
Mike in Whittier / August 11, 2019


WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say NBA star Gilbert Arenas should go to jail for three months for bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room. His lawyer says the appropriate punishment is probation and community service.
Both sides filed sentencing memoranda Tuesday, three days before the Wizards point guard is to be sentenced for a felony gun charge.
Arenas pleaded guilty Jan. 15 to one count of violating the District of Columbia's gun laws. As part of the plea deal, the government said it would not seek more than six months, although the judge can give Arenas anywhere from probation to the charge's maximum term of five years.
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International Slavery Museum
- darkometer rating: 7 -
A modern exhibition, separate from but within the same building as the Merseyside Maritime Museum, in a converted former warehouse at the redeveloped historic Albert Dock in Liverpool. It covers primarily the Atlantic slave trade from West Africa to the Americas, but also touches on present-day slavery issues and the wider topic of racism. The Maritime Museum also has some dark aspects, e.g. the story of the Titanic.
More background info: Slavery is as old as human civilization. It was common in the Roman empire, in ancient Egypt and in pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. However, the colonial transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries reached altogether new dimensions of slavery and has to rank as one of the worst crimes against humanity in history.
Portugal was at it first, and initially had almost a monopoly in this business. Later, the other main colonizing world powers, Spain, Holland, Britain and France competed in the trade too – see also under Maison des Esclaves, Senegal.
Britain began to partake in the "business" from the mid 17th century. At the peak of it, in the 18th century, Britain was a major player in the slave trade. Initially most slave ships sailed from London and Bristol, but from around 1740 Liverpool became the main port in all of Europe involved in the slave trade. And it gained immense riches from it. Hence it makes sense that the Slavery Museum is located here.
Slaves were mainly captured (or rather: procured from local slavers) in West Africa, West Central Africa and to a smaller extent East Africa too. There were dedicated, purpose-built slave trading posts on the coast and outlying islands (see Ghana, Senegal and Cape Verde) for "warehousing" the captives. Then they were dispatched – packed like sardines under the decks of the slave ships. And many did not survive the journey. There are estimates that the death rate may have been around 15%. Given the large overall numbers, that figure alone has genocidal proportions.
The black Africans were then sold in the European colonies in the Americas, in particular in Brazil, the Caribbean and south and eastern parts of North America, where they were forced to work in the plantations. The goods from these plantations, especially sugar, coffee, tobacco, and later cotton were in turn shipped to Europe, making for yet more lucrative trade. The trade routes thus formed a triangle: from Europe to the African coasts, from there to the Americas, and from there back to Europe. The name for this was "The Middle Passage".
It is estimated that somewhere between 10 and 20 million Africans were thus uprooted and transplanted to the "New World". Many Caribbean nations in particular are still ethnically characterized by the descendants of these African slaves – as is, of course, the USA with its large "African-American" black population. These, as well as black people in Europe and beyond, are therefore also referred to as the "African diaspora".
Despite the big profits to be made in the slave trade, not everybody was happy with it, and a movement formed that condemned slavery as a shameful practice for an enlightened nation and calls for abolition gained momentum in Britain and elsewhere from the mid 18th century, including the northern states of the emerging USA. France abolished slavery towards the end of the 18th century, in Britain it took until 1807 for the slave trade to be declared illegal. However, slavery as forced labour still continued in the colonies. In the British Empire slavery wasn't outlawed altogether until 1833 in another Act of Parliament. In addition the British Navy formed an Anti-Slavery Squadron targeting still operating slave ships and managed to liberate many thousands from their fate as slaves.
In the USA, there was a sharp divide between the abolitionist northern states (and the southern states that kept on exploiting slaves in the vast plantations of the Deep South – and eventually this division would lead to the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. With the defeat of the Confederate states, slavery officially ended in the USA (although in practical terms slavery-like practices still continued).
More and more countries followed suit, but slavery continued to exist in several pockets around the world. The last country to officially abolish slavery was Mauritania – in 2007!
Yet, slavery is far from being over. Though there is no open slave trade any more, illegal forced labour, human trafficking, child labour and extreme forms of exploitation of workers and domestic servants (including complete deprivation of freedom and no pay) continue to this day. Some estimate that there may actually be more slaves or quasi-slaves today than ever before.
So the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has a mission, not only to tell the history of the slave trade in the past but also to raise awareness of contemporary forms of slavery and the prevalent racism often underlying it.
The Museum was conceived in the early 2000s and opened its doors in August 2007. Within its first ten years it has had some 4 million visitors. And there are currently plans for expanding the museum with additional exhibition space in an adjacent building.
The museum claims to be the only institution of its kind – and that is true in the sense of a modern museum with as wide a coverage as this one. But there are smaller, more limited museums about slavery elsewhere too, such as the one in Kura, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao.
What there is to see: The Slavery Museum is subdivided into different sections. The main exhibition has three separate themes: Life in West Africa, Enslavement and the Middle Passage and Legacy. In addition there spaces for temporary exhibitions, seminars and educational programmes, kiddie entertainment, plus works of art.
The first section is the smallest, and from a dark perspective and also with regard to the museum's main theme the least interesting one. It's more like an anthropological exhibition about various aspects of Life in West Africa in terms of local cultures. On display are reconstructed mud huts, masks, tools, pottery, sculptures and so on. It's more like an overture to the slavery topic, an insight into the life before the tragedy of slavery hit.
The Middle Passage section, on the other hand, is highly illuminating and in parts quite graphic. On display are shackles and various other restraining implements as well as instruments of torture. Graphics and models illustrate the horrendous conditions on board the slave ships. And a large screen projection provides an overview of the different phases of the Middle Passage trade routes and the volumes of goods and slaves moved across the Atlantic. It's well worth watching the entire thing.
The life of slaves after their arrival in the New World is another main theme. It covers such aspects as the selling of slaves like cattle on markets, their living conditions, the hard labour, especially on plantations, and the harsh treatment of slaves – including brutal punishments for disobedient slaves.
Another aspect is the wealth created through all this trade, and the arrival and abundant spread of colonial goods such as sugar, and the effects of all that on life in Britain, are also covered, as are the campaigns for the abolition of slavery.
The final section of the main exhibition looks at the long-term legacy of slavery, how it changed the populations of the Americas, how racism and discrimination persist to this day, but also presents cases of prominent and successful black people in politics, culture and other areas.
Apart from extra temporary exhibitions and art, there's also a so-called "Freedom and Enslavement Wall" by the entrance to the main exhibition. Here, set into an artificial "stone" wall, small screens play a range of videos, including reports from victims of modern-day slavery.
Downstairs from the slavery museum you may also want to go through the Maritime Museum. Apart from general coverage of naval history it also includes a number of rather dark aspects so it is worth a brief coverage here too.
One tragic element of Liverpool's maritime heritage is the Titanic – as she was registered in Liverpool, home to the White Star Line. And the exhibition not only has a scale model of the ill-fated ship, but also various original items salvaged from the wreck. Although I am not sure now if that was part of the permanent exhibition or only a temporary add-on.
However, another tragic ship, the RMS Lusitania, is given a whole section of its own. And more contemporary shipwreck stories are covered too, including the mysterious loss of the MV Derbyshire, a bulk carrier that sank in the South China Sea in 1980 – this was the biggest British merchant ship ever lost at sea.
The naval part of war history plays a role here too, both WWI (the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915, for instance) and WWII. In the latter it was the Battle of the Atlantic that is most closely linked to the history of Liverpool, and therefore gets the most coverage, but they also have sections about the sinking of the German battleship Bismark and on display is a model of its sister ship, the Tirpitz, which was eventually also sunk in a fjord in Norway.
One lesser known aspect is covered too: namely the fate of the sailors of the merchant navy who became POWs in Nazi Germany. Most of them were interned in a camp near Bremen (cf. Bunker Valentin).
Another aspect of maritime heritage that I had previously been totally unaware of was covered in an extra section called "Hello Sailor" – about gay life within the merchant navy and on passenger ships. Apparently that was a comparatively safe haven at a time when homosexuality was illegal (in Britain until 1967). So I found these insights into this "hidden world" quite remarkable and unexpected.
All in all: the slavery museum may not be especially big (at least not yet – see background), but most of it is highly illuminating and well presented, including some, but not overwhelmingly much, multimedia and interactive elements. The most interesting part is certainly the central core section about the Middle Passage and slavery in the Americas. The Maritime Museum is an add-on worth considering, although from a dark-tourism perspective only certain parts are relevant, but one can always go through the museum in a suitably selective manner. Overall, absolutely recommended, worthy of a detour, and a definite must-see when in Liverpool.
Location: on the third floor of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, which is located on the north side of the ring of refurbished warehouses around the historic Albert Dock by the waterfront of the Mersey River in Liverpool, Great Britain.
Google maps locator: [53.4013, -2.9929]
Access and costs: a bit outside the core of the city centre, but walkable and quite easy to locate; free entry.
Details: To get to the museum from the main bus station on Canning Place at the bottom of Hanover Street (which leads through the city centre from Liverpool Central Station) cross Strand Street to get to Salthouse Dock and keep going, past the iconic Pumphouse on your right and the former Albert Dock Traffic Office with its grand neo-classical portal on your left (in future this may become the museum entrance, actually). And a few steps down Hartley Quay will take you to the museum entrance. Coming from the waterfront, turn inland at the old Piermaster's House near the entrance to Canning Dock.
Opening times: daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission free!
Time required: between 45 minutes to two hours, depending on how deeply you wish to engage with the interactive elements and videos.
Combinations with other dark destinations: see under Liverpool.
Combinations with non-dark destinations: Given the location in one of the former warehouses on Albert Dock, the rest of that redeveloped complex has to be the most obvious combination – as is the rest of the waterfront including Pier Head with its iconic landmarks of the Three Graces. These temples of commerce suddenly appear a little less graceful when you've just visited the slavery museum though and realize how much of the wealth of Liverpool's merchants was directly or indirectly derived from the slave trade.
Alternatively you can cool your head by taking a ferry boat across and along the River Mersey, or head into the city centre and the cathedrals.
See under Liverpool.
Slavery Museum 01 - part of the Maritime Museum
Slavery Museum 02 - floor plan
Slavery Museum 03 - African heritage
Slavery Museum 04 - slave ship model
Slavery Museum 05 - the big exodus
Slavery Museum 06 - display cabinet
Slavery Museum 07 - shackles
Slavery Museum 08 - sugar mill model
Slavery Museum 09 - interactive element
Slavery Museum 10 - accounts of modern-day slavery
Slavery Museum 11 - modern-day racism
Slavery Museum 12 - Titanic model in the maritime museum
Slavery Museum 13 - Titanic artefacts
Slavery Museum 14 - history


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Q: How to find average of top half of N numbers? Given N arbitrary integers, how to find average of top half of these numbers? Is there an O(n) solution? If not is it possible to prove that it's not possible?

A: First, find a median of the given array (it takes linear time).
Then, just walk through array and sum up all elements that are greater than the median.
Count how many elements you summed (M).  If M < N/2, then it means that several elements that are equal to the median value (namely, N/2 - M) belong to the top half.  Add to your sum that many median values.  We need this complexity because we don't know how many median elements (there can be several) belong to the top half: if we take them all, we can end up having summed more than N/2 elements.
Now you have the sum of the top half of the array.  Divide by N/2, and you're done.

A: You could use a priority queue. Insert the elements into the queue maintaining a count of how many elements you've seen, n . Extract n/2 maximum elements from the queue into an accumulator and calculate the average.
With a well chosen data structure behind the queue, such as a fibonacci heap, this will give you O(n log n) runtime, as insertion is O(1) and extraction is O(log n).
Unfortunately not the O(n) runtime you were looking for, but with the data structure already implemented, this would produce very understandable straightforward code.

A: This is obviously solvable in linear time, if you can find the median in linear time.
And finding a median in linear time is tricky, but possible. See for example the wikipedia article on selection algorithms.

A: I would suggest this:
Use Quicksort, select some pivot.
This will partition your list into two sublist, one smaller than the pivot, one greater than that.
If the size of smaller sublist is <= N/2, calculate the average say a1.
If  size == N/2 or size == N/2 -1
    you are done immediately.
If not repartition the greater sublist till the total size is N/2.
If size > N/2 partition the smaller sublist.
Repeat all till done.
P.S: you don't need to sort.

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Iowa makes football offer to Bay Port's Plumb
Scott Venci
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
When Bay Port junior Jack Plumb was growing up, he always told people his goal was to play in the Big Ten.
He didn't really believe it was a valid option at the time, but it didn't stop him from dreaming about it.
That dream can be a reality now.
Plumb was offered a scholarship by Iowa on Tuesday, just the latest in a line of schools who want the basketball star to play football instead.
Indeed, Plumb's goal was to play in the Big Ten, but he also had imagined it would come on the court rather than the gridiron.
Basketball is still an option — the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and UW-Milwaukee have made offers — but football has all the momentum.
Iowa is the latest school to jump in, but it wasn't the first and it likely won't be the last. Plumb has been offered by schools such as Illinois State, South Dakota and Western Illinois.
Wyoming was at Bay Port to visit him Wednesday, while Wisconsin, Purdue and Minnesota are among those that remain in the mix.
The Hawkeyes' offer — the team recently received a verbal commitment from Green Bay Preble junior running back Henry Geil — is perhaps the most prestigious yet.
Iowa envisions the 6-foot-8, 240-pound Plumb as a future left tackle. He was Bay Port's tight end in 2016, when he caught five touchdowns, but many see him as an offensive lineman at the next level.
"I was a little bit surprised that they offered early," Plumb said. "They were in to watch me work out about two weeks ago. I talked to (Bay Port coach Gary Westerman) about it, and he said, 'You have shown everything you can to them so far. Now they are just going to want to see you be physical and move somebody off the ball at one of their camps.'
"So I thought all the Big Ten schools were just going to wait until camp. But then I got offered, and I was jacked about that."
Picking football over basketball would not be a surprise, at least when you consider Plumb's family history.
His maternal grandfather is the late Fritz Shurmur, who served as defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers when they won Super Bowl XXXI.
His paternal grandfather is Ted Plumb, who was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bears when they won Super Bowl XX.
His mother's cousin is Pat Shurmur, the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings and former head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
When Plumb was offered a basketball scholarship by UWGB a few years ago, his mother said he'd be the first in the family to play basketball instead of football.
"Then all these football ones came in," Plumb said. "And she said, 'Well, maybe not.'"
If Plumb picks football, he will be the latest in a recent string of Bay Port players to earn a scholarship to a Division I school.
Former quarterback Alec Ingold recently completed his sophomore season at Wisconsin, former offensive lineman Cole Van Lanen redshirted for the Badgers in 2016 and linebacker Matt Lorbeck will be a freshman at Northern Illinois this fall.
After Plumb announced on Twitter that he had received an offer from Iowa, he got a few messages from some of his old teammates.
Ingold texted a picture of Wisconsin players holding up the Heartland trophy — the award presented to the winner of the annual Wisconsin-Iowa game — and after congratulating him on the offer, he made sure to remind him Wisconsin is still better.
Van Lanen also congratulated him, but added Wisconsin is where it's at.
By all means, Plumb would love to get an offer from the Badgers. It's not a slam dunk he'd immediately take it, but it would be right at the top of his list.
"It would mean a lot to me if Wisconsin offered," Plumb said. "Just growing up being a Badgers fan and supporting them all the time, it would be super cool to think that the Wisconsin coaches think you're good enough to come in and play for them."
So when will a decision on all this happen?
"When I know it's right, I am going to make the call," Plumb said. "I don't think there is any point in me prolonging it. I'm also not just going to rush it just to get it done before my senior year."


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Home Regions East Coast Mafia Hit List – Top Lucchese Mob Hits
Mafia Hit List – Top Lucchese Mob Hits
Top 5 Lucchese Mafia Family Murders of All-Time
1 The Lufthansa Heist Murders – In the months after the Lucchese Family's legendary Irish crew leader James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke engineered the biggest robbery in U.S. history, stealing over eight million dollars of cash and jewelry from the Lufthansa Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport, Burke decided to kill several of his co-conspirators, both to cut ties between him and the daring heist and so he could pocket the majority of the proceeds of the score himself. Lucchese mob associates Marty Krugman, Richard Eaton, Tommy Monteleone, Louie Cafora, Joseph (Joe Buddha) Manri, Robert (Frenchy) McMahon and Parnell (Stacks) Edwards all wound up dead over the next six months, as did wiseguy Paulo LiCastri, the Gambino Family's liaison to the heist and Theresa Ferrara, Monteleone's girlfriend and Joanna Cafora, Louie Cafora's, recent bride, for their knowledge of the headline-grabbing robbery. Jimmy the Gent, a longtime confidant of Queens-based Lucchese capo Paul Vario and someone the FBI connected to dozens of gangland homicides in his multiple decades in the rackets, died in prison in 1996, serving a 20 year-sentence for shaving points in college basketball games. A number of the murders linked to the Lufthansa Heist hit parade, were depicted in the gangster film classic, Goodfellas (1990), where Robert De Niro was cast as Burke.
2 The Mafia Cop Murders – Disgraced NYPD detectives Louie Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa worked as a personal hit team for Lucchese Family don, Vittorio (Little Vic) Amuso and his underboss Anthony (Gas Pipe) Casso during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. The pair of mob moles with badges were convicted on eight different counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2006. Lucchese associates Jimmy Hydell and Otto Heidel, syndicate soliders, Bruno Facciolo and Anthony DiLapi, Gambino Family capos Eddie Lino and Bobby Boriello and an innocent man named Nicky Guido, the victim of mistaken identity, were each victims of the cops-turned-mercenaries' body-trail.
3 William (Billy Bats) Bentavena – A "made" member of the Gambino Crime Family recently released from prison after serving six years on a drug-dealing bust, Bentavena was killed by enraged Lucchese associate Thomas (Two-Gun Tommy) DeSimone on June 11, 1970, in a murder that was depicted on the silver screen in probably the most iconic scene from Goodfellas, with Joe Pesci portraying Two-Gun Tommy and grizzled mob character actor Frank Vincent playing Billy Bats. Hours after Bentavena was sprung from the clink the month before, he got into a verbal altercation with DeSimone at his coming home party when Billy Bats began making fun of the notoriously hot-tempered DeSimone regarding a childhood shoe-shine business DeSimone once ran. Less than three weeks later, Bentavena was lured to Lucchese-run bar and lounge, The Suite in Queens and attacked by DeSimone and Jimmy the Gent Burke, DeSimone's mentor and one of the most respected and feared non-Italian mobsters ever. While in the process of driving Billy Batts' body upstate to bury it, DeSimone, Burke and close friend and Lucchese associate Henry Hill discovered Batts was still alive in the trunk, leading them to pull over and stab him another 30-40 times to finish him off. Bentavena was allied with a young, up-and-comer in the Gambinos, named John Gotti, some 15 years away from ascending to "Teflon Don" status, but juiced in enough at that juncture to get permission to whack Two-Gun Tommy before the decade was through (January 4, 1979). Pesci won an Oscar for his role as DeSimone.
4 Anthony (Buddy) Luongo – Short-lived boss of the crime family for a year in the mid-1980s, Luongo was allegedly killed by his own protégé, Little Vic Amuso and his crew on orders from jailed Lucchese don, Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corrallo, Luongo's own mentor, on December 12, 1986. Drawn to Amuso's hangout, The 19th Hole Bar and Grill in Brooklyn, Luongo was driven by Amuso to a house nearby where he received two bullets in the back of the head as he sat down at the kitchen table for a cup of coffee. Luongo was clipped for being too greedy and wanting to isolate Corrallo from his troops and gangland assets, a situation the power-driven Amuso took advantage of to launch his own bloody reign atop the Lucchese throne in the years to come.
5 (tie) Vincent Papa – Lucchese Family drug lieutenant and racketeer, Papa was killed inside the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, stabbed to death on July 26, 1977 by members of the Aryan Brotherhood on a contract taken out jointly by Lucchese leaders and Genovese Jewish narcotics enforcer Herbie Sperling, when they found out Papa had made a deal with then-U.S. Prosecutor and future New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, implicating dirty cops. The Lucchese's representative in the notorious French Connection drug conspiracy, Papa subsequently masterminded the follow-up French Connection heroin heist from New York Police Property Clerk's Office, where 400 kilos of uncut 'H' disappeared in 1971 from the office's evidence room and reappeared on the streets. Sperling would eventually be charged for ordering Papa's jailhouse slaying, but was acquitted at trial, where an AB named Theodore (Tattoo) Blasko was convicted for the actual murder. A fictionalized version of Papa was converted into actor Tony Lo Bianco's "Sal Bocca" character in the smash-hit film made on the case, starring Gene Hackman that won the Oscar for best picture.
5 (tie) Dominick (The Gap) Petrilli – One-time driver and bodyguard for Tommy Gagliano, the syndicate's don that preceded crime family namesake Tommy (Three Finger Brown) Lucchese, Petrilli was slain December, 9, 1953, felled by a trio of gunmen as he sat on a bar stool in the Bronx. Rumors had been swirling that he was cooperating with law enforcement following his return from Italy, where the narcotic lieutenant had been deported a decade earlier. It was widely believed on the street at the time of his death that Petrilli had traded information on his fellow mobsters in the Luccheses in exchange for the United States allowing him to come back to New York.
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Sara Freed November 27, 2021 At 6:30 am
I was wondering if you have any source information about Anthony Luongo's story. Trying to hunt down some information for a friend and wanted to know where your information came from!
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