Allan J. Leonard was born October 14, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died Thursday, November 3, 2011, the son of Roy L. Leonard and Althea Bethancourt Leonard. He had just celebrated his 85th birthday.
He was a graduate of Fortier High School and Tulane University, both in New Orleans. In the late 1940's, he was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during WWII and later became a high school teacher of American History to military children all over the world at numerous military bases. Although his home was New Orleans, he lived and taught primarily in Japan, Turkey, and Ger- many. He made a positive impressive impact on many of his students, who have re-membered him fondly as one of their be-loved teachers.
He had a vast knowledge of music, movies and the theater and loved talking and remi- niscing with relatives and friends into the wee hours of the morning. His love for New Orleans cooking was unsurpassed, especially for our famed crawfish boils.
Not only will he be missed by his family and friends, but also by his "Berlin Brats" who loved and respected their amazing teacher. Mr. Leonard is survived by his brother, Marvin L. Leonard, nephew Roy B. Leonard, niece Jeannie L. Maloney, great nephews Jason M. Leonard and Matthew J. Wheelahan, great-nieces Melissa L. Knott, Kelly W. Herrmann and Taylor A. Leonard. Additionally, he is survived by 5 great-great-nieces and several cousins.
Per Mr. Leonard's request, in lieu of flowers, please make a donation in his name to the local Channel 12 Station, WYES.
After Katrina I met the most amazing man, Allan Leonard. He was the smartest man I have ever met; you are so right he never stopped talking about you or his students in his days of a teacher. He will truly be missed. Mr. Leonard is different from any person I have ever met. He was amazing. I became his friend after Katrina flooded his home. God had a hand in this whole process, there was a purpose. You know the story, but in case you want to take some pieces for the paper, here is goes, also I am not a good writer, so please correct anything.
One day after Katrina I was at my office. NOT on desk duty (this is when people call into to see a home they may want to purchase, and the phone rang) It was Rose Neel, she was looking for an agent to help Mr. Leonard. They became great friends, he was a teacher for the BRATS and she was one of his students. On this day New Orleans was still shut down and nothing was open. I had a key to the office and was going into pick up a few things to leave town again. I thought what a wonderful person to take such interest and have such compassion for a past teacher. She said "He just wants to come home, after sitting on the Causeway he was transported to Alabama and was living in a hotel", after that I called Mr. Leonard at his hotel. He pleaded with me to get him home. I told him now is not the time, he ask me to please drive by and see if his home had flooded. I drove by his home while we were talking on my cell, he was telling me the whole story about the mess on the Causeway and how he ended up in that hotel. It was hard to describe to him what all his books, movies and papers looked like through his kitchen window. Everything was ruined. He never married and never had children, so these things are all he had except the few friends like Rose. I am a real estate agent and I have been for 9 years. I have met many people but NO ONE like Mr. Leonard.
From that moment on we became friends. A few weeks had gone by and we stayed in touch at his hotel, I finally got him to get a cell phone and he was able to come home to New Orleans. In the last 6 years Mr. Leonard has been through 2 homes, and many visits to East Jefferson hospital. He would often call me from the hospital and I would visit. One time he called very upset because the doctor was telling him that he was incompetent and he could not take care of his own finances or think for himself. He set up a meeting for me and his doctor, thank God they allowed that. I told them that it was the medicine that they were giving him and that he was the most logical, competent person I know. They approved and changed his meds and all was well.
About 2 years ago He called me from East Jefferson hospital, and said He was diagnosed with Parkinson's. He said "Randie I need another home" I said, you have a home, and he said, they told him he could not be released without assistant living care. The hospital gave us one week to find a place; I have never had to look at those places before. I even tried to get him to have a live in. But for those of you who knew Mr. Leonard he was a very lonely man, he liked to be alone, he liked his own space, but he loved my visits and loved to tell his stories. I even ask if he wanted to live with my husband and me for a while. I ask him for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but he always said, NO. During my visits he told me so many great stories. He told me when he was in Berlin, writing for the paper, so much history in that mind and he remembered it all. At first, I would pick him up once a week and we would go to Block busters, lunch, Barnes and Nobles, or just visit and talk. I often spoke about him to my friends and family. My favorite time was taking him to the book stores, we would spend hours. No matter what book I picked up he knew the whole story, no matter what movie I picked up he knew who played in, what year and what was going on in his life at that time. Another great memory is when Rose came in town and we all had lunch. Mr. Leonard did not want to go, but after he did, he was so happy, what an amazing friendship they had. As time went on our visits were fewer. Sometimes he would meet me at the door and not want visitors, he was tired or sick. I am sorry that I did not force myself more to visit; life just gets in the way.
In ending this, please visit a friend, an older person, lonely person or someone that you haven't seen in while. Last Christmas morning I went to visit Mr. Leonard and when I was leaving his room a gentleman called me to his door, he said "excuse me, I know you are Mr. Leonard's friend, but if you ever want to visit me that would be ok." Please remember our old people; they have so much to teach us.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Leonard.
Jeannie said that she has already started receiving kind notes from the Berlin Brats. She hopes to print off the stories from students and faculty at BerlinBrats.org to read at the dinner with their family.
I have some bad news about Mr. Leonard. He has been moved to a hospice and has stopped eating. He isn't able to speak to anyone for any length of time. His niece, Jeannie is planning his funeral arrangements now. She suggested that the brats-faculty and friends share some stories about Mr. Leonard on the berlinbrat.org web site for his family and friends to enjoy. I told her a few stories from the past few years and when I was in Berlin (Soviet Union Trip, his classroom). As we were speaking she took out birthday cards he recently received and started reading them. I think she really enjoyed knowing another side of Mr. Leonard (who she called Uncle Alan). She read a wonderful card from Diane Mahalik. It was a very sweet card and I think it was heart warming for Jeannie to see how much he was loved as she embarks on the difficult task of cleaning up his things and preparing his final arrangements.
Jeannie said that Mr Leonard is a private man, but that he was very involved with his family and came to her home often when she was a child. He used to share slide shows about his travels and tell funny stories about his students. She said that he loved his mother's cooking and was treated to crawfish etouffee whenever he went home. Although he was private, he loved his family and they loved him. She also said that he did have one sweetheart in his life, but that it didn't work out for some personal reasons I won't go in to. But I was glad to hear that he did fall in love and that she is still alive today and they remained friends.
Jeannie assured me that she will keep me posted about his condition and if he passes, we'll be notified.
I am so sad to deliver this news, but I loved talking to Jeannie and sharing stories about Mr. Leonard. I encourage everyone to post the stories about his life, so Jeannie and her family can see a bit more of what we saw in our beloved History teacher.
I had always heard this old claim before... but thought it a Berlin 'urban legend', it is also cited in a 78 edition of Bearin Down - page 7.
I can vouch that the person sitting at the bar is definitely Uncle Allan!! I can't tell what year that was, but probably in the 60's. I never knew anything about that clip! My father was the information officer for the New Orleans Police Department from the early 1950's and retired in 1970. He would handle all of the movie crews that came to our town. In doing so, he would be asked to get some of his family members to go to the movie location and be extras in whatever movie was being filmed. My grandfather, Uncle Allan's dad, was an extra in numerous films here, but I didn't know that Uncle Allan was until I saw the clip. It must have taken place during one of his summers home. I had to watch it over and over. I thought it was great!!
Mr Leonard is downsizing and moving into a one bedroom apartment. I try to talk to him at least twice a month. He doesn't have a computer and is just amazed by all the old movies available on Amazon.com. We have found some of his old favorites for super cheap prices. He is always interested in stories about Berlin staff. If you have any to share, give him a call.
Yesterday, I called Al Leonard. We talked for about 45 minutes. He has a two room apartment with a private bath. His mind is very alert, sharp, clear, but his body is having difficulties related to his Parkinsons disease. He is using a walker in his apartment. He sleeps in a reclining chair that he can control electrically. He said it is very difficult for him to get in and out of bed.
He loves to get phone calls, but you need a lot of patience - you need to let the phone ring about l5-20 times before he can reach the phone with his walker. Please alert people to this fact who would like to call him. He enjoys his books and videos. He is very clear and precise about his finances. He is interested in all the other Berlin teachers and students.
I wanted to share my experience and would like to encourage others to call him when they have time.
"I enjoyed a nice lunch and trip to the book store with Mr. Leonard and his friend Randi in June. He had a variety of ailments this past year but he is able to move around with some assistance. All of this considered, he is doing pretty well. He still lives alone at an assisted living home and is taken on outings by his friend Randi. He especially enjoys long trips to the book store and dinner out. He never tires of talking about old movies and good books."
Mr. Leonard was in the hospital for 8 days with pneumonia. He's out now and doing better but is very depressed. Give him a call or drop a line. He does not have any close family members so he would love to hear from BERLINers!
After spending 4 weeks in the hospital after his fall, fracture, surgery and rehab, all parties agreed Mr. Leonard should go into an assisted living facility.
He's been there 2 weeks.
He has an apartment, which he says is quite nice and has all his books etc with him.
But he's using a walker and confined to the facility, selling his house and car.
He was down to 110 pounds but now up to 130 with 3 square meals a day and the "ensure" they have him on.
Please give him a call or drop a line. He does not have any close family members so he would love to hear from BERLINers!
Mr. Leonard fell on Sunday. His mail man heard him yelling for him on Monday and called 911. He had a non-invasive procedure done on his back (to treat a fracture) and he is feeling much better. He is at the East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, LA. If you would like to call him he can be reached at 504-454-5655. They will connect you to his room, as he'll be changing rooms tomorrow (Saturday). He hasn't been eating well for some time, so he is really enjoying the food. He bragged about the carrot cake and apple pie. He'll be in the hospital for at least another week. If you want to send him a card, I am sure it would make him feel remember. If you want to send a gift, remember that he loves chocolate candy bars. Thankfully, his realator has been willing to go check on him whenever I ask and has even helped get him lawn care assistance. She's a gem. She did go see him today and it lifted his spirits. This accident is probably a good thing. He is surrounded by people telling him how to get some support services. YEAH! He was struggling with that for some time. Anyway, just wanted to keep you updated on the latest with Mr. Leonard.
Rose (Hanson) Neel '84 and Jeri (Polansky) Glass '72 talk to Mr. Leonard fairly regularly. He is back to attending "book fairs" and thereby regrowing his library.
Some days are better than others for him as he copes with Parkinson's disease which leaves him dizzy.
He stills enjoys talking to former students so feel free to give him a call at the number listed further down in this thread. He mind is still sharp as he remembers everything in and about BERLIN and will put you to shame!
To bring you up-to-date I'm alive and well living in "Constructionville USA," aka: Metairie, LA. It's like the wild west here, traffic jams everywhere. The sounds of New Orleans used to be Jazz but now it's the sound of nails on wood. I'm living in a new house, in a new neighborhood but with rowdy neighbors. The doctors and engineers have been replaced by electricians and plumbers.
I was overwhelmed by your generosity of the Gift Certificates. I purchased a lot of books, DVD's and CD's. Those Gift Certificates helped me reestablish my entire library, which brings me great joy.
Thank you so much but enough already!
The local Major Video chain has had a tremendous sale so I have continued my quest to grow the library you all started. Two fairs where books sell for $2 to $3 are coming up soon and I intend to stock up there as well.
I've enjoyed hearing from many of you. I wish I could join you in BERLIN this summer but my health does not allow it. I hope you all have a good time. Give my regards to Steglitz!
Be careful there because I think there are several crypto-commie; pinko-Bolsheviks still out there!
A book of BERLIN Shots is being made for Mr. Leonard. If you have any memorable photos from the 70's and 80's please send them to rosemneel@aol.com or post them to the photo album at www.kodakgallery.com. User name is BERLINbratclub@yahoo.com and the password is BERLIN.
Photos of Mr. Leonard with students, at the school or just memorable moments are appreciated (remember he lost everything), as well as photos of the city and major events. Some may remember the trip to the Soviet Union. If anyone has shots of Mr. Leonard on that trip, it would be wonderful.
YOUR PICTURES WILL BE MAILED BACK TO YOU!! Please include your address with any paper photos and I am happy to return them once I have scanned them in to the program. I will take care of the postage. Please submit as soon as possible so Mr. Leonard can receive by Christmas.
I heard from Mr. Leonard yesterday.........he had just received his letter with the Gift Card(s) to Border's Book Store. He was literally overwhelmed! Shock might be the more appropriate word as he finds it hard to believe that so many would want to do this for him.
Believe it or not he already has a list of books he wants to replace and will be going to Border's today!!! .........like a child in a candy store he's anxious to get his hands on some history books! He informed that he reads in part some kind of history book daily.......so I firmly believe by making this purchase we hit the ball out of the ballpark!
He wanted to know if "I forced you all to participate" .......I assured him........."Mr. Leonard you had that kind of impact on your students.....they asked me what they could do for you!
Strangely, in our conversation via phone last night he mentioned that a lot of students referred to Mr. Sullivan and him in the same breath, both for their style of teaching w/humor and to avoid Rekucki's class. I informed I would have to read him some of the Sullivan Memories on our site.........as indeed he was mentioned several times.
Please know that the Border's Gift Card will be purchased and sent to him next week. Mr. Leonard informed me that he just completed the paperwork and stood in a long line at his local Post Office yesterday to establish delivery at his new abode. He asked that we wait a few more days before sending anything to make sure "Delivery Actually Works" during this hurricane rebuilding process.
The letter with ALL the contributors listed by name and class year has already been prepared and will go out when he gives the go-ahead.
Thanks to ALL who participated in this cause.
Mr. Leonard has bought a house! He closes on Tuesday and moves in on Wednesday. He will still be in Metairie but in a section undamaged. The interior of his old home has now been gutted and is only a shell. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to savage ANYTHING and as yet has not seen an insurance adjuster. As of today he has ordered a refrigerator and a bed to be delivered on Wednesday. His days now are consumed with trying to buy furniture and household items.......plates, glasses and the like.
He sounds so much better but still remarked that he felt once he moves in the realty of losing all his books and CD's will hit him hard.......so we think we're on the right path with purchasing our Border's Gift Card for him!
If you would like to contribute to the Gift Card you still have time. Please see the information posted below for details.
Please continue to call him......this isn't an easy process for anyone and with his advance age and very little family it's even harder. He needs to know we care!
Mr. Leonard is back in the New Orleans area. He is presently working with the Real Estate agent Rose (Hanson) Neel '84 found for him and expects to be in a rental within the next couple of weeks. He NOW HAS A CELL PHONE!
His birthday is coming up soon ~ October 14th. So ring and wish him a Happy Birthday!!!!
Mr. Leonard has checked out of the Holiday Inn in Prattville and is enroute back to the New Orleans area. He does not have a cellphone so once he gets resettled and has a new contact number we will post that here.
Be sure and enter "Mr. Leonard's Fund" in the memo line followed by your name and Class Year.
As noted in a previous post below Mr. Leonard is very anxious to return to the New Orleans area. Since most hotels in the general vicinity are all booked with evacuees and first responders we have convinced him to stay put until we are able to secure lodging for him both enroute to New Orleans from Prattville, AL and some temporary or permanent rental in the general New Orleans/Metairie vicinity.
To that measure, Rose (Hanson) Neel '84 has stepped forward to conduct research for him. Rose has been actively working the phones and internet to locate an acceptable apartment or home to rent.
She has a very promising lead and we hope to have a rental house secured for him shortly.
Meanwhile Mr. Leonard has received calls from several of you. He really does appreciate these and wishes to thank you!
We have been hearing from quite a few of you asking how or what we could do for Mr. Leonard. Since he has lost his home and personal belongings contributing money seems the easiest solution. However, Mr. Leonard is a proud man and several of us who have spoken to him believe he would not accept money. (....additionally he has informed that he is okay money wise having paid off his house, has some investments, and is covered by insurance).
The three things he seems to be the most distraught about is losing his personal library (ie: history books), his CD collection (he loves his music) and his BERLIN yearbooks.
Therefore after consulting with several who have spoken to him (ie: Mark Phelps '73, Mr. Adam Hildenbrand-FAC, Pat (Martel) Little '72, and Rose (Hanson) Neel '84 to name just a few) we propose starting a BERLIN Brats Funds to purchase a rather large (...hopefully) Border's Gift Card. Mr. Leonard could then spend time rebuilding his personal passion of both books and CD's.
To tackle the third item I will be bringing one or two of the BERLIN yearbooks we offer For Sale on our website to the Reunion next summer and have EVERYONE write a personal message to him.
Please indicate "Mr. Leonard's Fund" on the memo line of your check and add your name and class year.
We will then submit the Gift Card in a Hallmark card with everyone's name listed.
In the meantime please call him! All he is capable of doing right now is sitting in a hotel room provided by FEMA in Prattville, Alabama. He may be relocating in a few days and we will attempt to keep you all posted.
Thank you so much for your concern and your desire to contribute in some small way.
Tim Shaw '85, reconnected with BERLIN American High School's beloved US and European History teacher, Mr. Leonard. Tim was in the Montgomery area golfing with his father-in-law that day, one day after Tim's wife, Jenni Hewitt Shaw '85, heard Mr. Leonard had been displaced to Prattville, AL, a suburb of Montgomery, AL. Jenni called Mr. Leonard immediately upon hearing of his situation and made arrangements for Tim to meet Mr. Leonard the next afternoon for a cup of coffee and a boxful of memories.
It's hard to tell who enjoyed the visit more, Tim or Mr. Leonard, but one thing is for sure there is a connection that is hard to sever among BERLINers, students and teachers alike. We pray for the safe return of Mr. Leonard to his home in New Orleans where he was born and raised. Mr. Leonard plans to rebuild his life in Metairie (a bedroom community of New Orleans). While some of his material memories, such as yearbooks, history books, pictures and Russian memorabilia are gone with the wind, his memories of the BERLIN era of his life remain strong, his spirit stronger and his final thoughts to Tim were "When they write about it, I hope they get it right." But what else is a history teacher supposed to think?
I am safe. I didn't evacuate but rode out the storm in a Sheraton Hotel in Metairie LA. It was terrifying. After the storm ended, the National Guard evacuated me (and others) to a hospital. When the hospital was evacuated I was sent to the overpass where buses were supposed to pick us up to take us from the city. The buses never arrived and there were 10,000 people waiting for the buses, pushing and shoving. The heat index was 110 degrees. The dead and dying were everywhere. Things were out of control and there were few policemen or soldiers to keep order. No organization.
I had a heat stroke. They laid me out on Interstate-10 which was full of dirt and grease. I had fainted and finally I was tossed in an ambulance and taken to the airport. It was being used as a triage for the sick, it was not operating. The airport is getting bad publicity because a lot of people were sick and dying there. I was taken in the ambulance to the city of Lafayette and left in the emergency ward. I was able to contact a nephew who brought me to where my niece was. My nephew couldn't help because his business transferred immediately to Memphis and he had to go there. My brother is somewhere in north Alabama and being taken care of, but in poor health.
I am in really bad health. I am 79 years old. I always told you there was life after BERLIN American High School.
As a follow up, I spoke to Mr Leonard tonight. FEMA is paying for him to stay in this hotel for 2 weeks. His nephew's company has transferred him out of town and his niece already has 15 living with her so he opted for the FEMA option.
He has suffered a mini-stroke in addition to the above suffering. He is alone except for a cousin who comes by and takes him out for meals.
During all his transfers he was able to get back and view his house which is destroyed. His car was recovered but is in a different town from his present location.
I have offered him my home (in AZ) but he is insistent on staying close to the area as he would like to get into an apartment in the New Orleans area when people are allowed back in. He feels the availability will be limited and wants to make sure he is immediately there when the time comes.
He has been able to order his meds and has access to his funds. As for personal property all he has is what he managed to squeeze into 2 plastic garage bags.
He has promised to call before leaving the hotel and I will check on him every few days. He has no cell phone nor access to a computer.
He would however love to hear from you. Obviously he is very depressed and at 79, with failing health, this is going to be very difficult for him to handle. A distant cousin in North Carolina is helping him long distance with filing FEMA claims.
I'm sure his situation will change daily. Ideally, in the short term, it would be nice if we could find someone in the general vicinity for him to stay with; at least until he can move back to the Metairie area.
At this juncture he would like to have his lot cleared and then sell, moving into an apt in the same general area.
Again, please call him. He needs to know we care and are thinking of him. By the end of our call there was a huge difference in his tone.
Many of you have asked about one of our favorite, former teachers, Mr. Allan J. Leonard, who taught at BAHS from 1969 to 1987, and who lives in Metairie, LA. (a bedroom community of New Orleans).
Mr. Leonard is single, lives alone and because of medical problems does not travel anymore. It is felt he may not have evacuated. We believe he does have a brother living nearby and perhaps with that connection he did? We have no way of knowing at this point. The BERLIN Brats have registered him as a "missing person" on the Red Cross site, the Nola.com (the specific New Orleans site) and craigslist.com per recommendations from the local networks.
Mr. Leonard did not own a computer and will probably not think to post himself as being safe should he be out of harm's way. It is hoped that if evacuated by the local or federal officials, he will show up on some official list AND alert us.
As soon as we learn anything we will post that information here.
Mr. Leonard is not the only BERLIN Brat affected by Hurricane Katrina. However he is elderly, single, living alone, non-driving and suffering from medical aliments that we know of.
Should you have any information that you can share please do so at: BERLINBrats@gmail.com Thank you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this horrible national disaster. We encourage you do whatever you are capable of to help those in need.


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At DOJ, special counsel Hur protected anti-Trump FBI
Will he keep bureau's or America's interests at heart when investigating Biden?
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
Robert Hur, the special counsel assigned to investigate President Biden's sloppy secret-keeping, played an intricate role in the Department of Justice's maneuvering to thwart dossier killer Devin Nunes.
In January 2018, then-Rep. Nunes was set to release a memo detailing the FBI's abuse of power in its determination to sabotage President Donald Trump.
Under Director James Comey, the FBI became the biggest D.C. promoter of the Christopher Steele dossier.
The FBI took the 30 pages of unconfirmed tattle to judges to get wiretaps on a Trump associate, to the Oval Office, to the intelligence chiefs to have it included in their official Russia election history, and to then-President-elect Trump himself without telling him that it was all Democratic Party-paid smut.
Mr. Nunes — fighting Rep. Adam Schiff, other Democrats and the Washington media — wanted to expose one part of the trafficking: FBI wiretap affidavits under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that relied almost exclusively on the dossier compiled by Mr. Steele, a retired British spy.
Thus began one of the oddest periods in the history of the Department of Justice. The Russia inquiry was being overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whom Mr. Trump appointed. Mr. Hur was Mr. Rosenstein's principal associate deputy AG. But instead of waging a just bureaucratic fight to expose FBI sins, they put up the barricades and protected the G-men.
Justice's weapon was a Jan. 24, 2018, letter to Mr. Nunes urging him to delay or stop publication. "Extraordinarily reckless," the letter said.
Item No. 2. In early 2017, the intelligence community told the FBI that the Kremlin had penetrated Mr. Steele's source network and had planted disinformation about Mr. Trump. This is according to reports for which Sens. Charles Grassley and Ron Johnson won declassification in 2020. What's more, by 2018, the FBI had not confirmed a single Steele felony claim against Mr. Trump or his associates, according to recent trial testimony.
Senior Justice people decided the way to thwart Mr. Nunes was the caution letter, and on Jan. 22, 2018, they began a fast-paced back-and-forth via email to get the words just right.
Mr. Hur looked over a late draft and emailed, "Some suggested edits and comments in the attached for your consideration. Thanks, Rob."
Twenty-four hours later, he looked over another iteration and commented: "Redline with further edits and one comment attached."
The DOJ letter went out on Jan. 24. It relied on press reports on the damage Mr. Nunes was about to unleash and stated, "We understand many members of the House of Representatives have viewed this memorandum and that it has raised concerns."
This would principally be Mr. Schiff and other Democrats who vouched for the dossier — without any independent evidence — at a March 2017 House hearing.
The letter to Mr. Nunes, then the House Intelligence Committee chairman, said: "We have also heard that [the committee] is considering making the classified memorandum available to the public and the media, an unprecedented action. We believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum."
Mr. Nunes did not want to get bogged down. Five days later, committee Republicans voted to publish the memo, and then Mr. Trump stepped in and declassified a Feb. 2 release.
The four-page Nunes memo confirmed that the FBI based four wiretap warrant requests largely on the Democrats' Steele dossier. The memo spelled out that the FBI had an obligation to present the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with all evidence surrounding the target — in this case, Carter Page.
Not one of four warrant applicants told judges that the Steele dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party. A news article cited as backup evidence actually came from Mr. Steele.
What is almost laughable about DOJ's threatening January letter to Mr. Nunes is this sentence: "Though we are currently unaware of any wrongdoing relating to the FISA process, we agree that any abuse of that system cannot be tolerated," the letter said.
That was the problem with the Trump-appointed Department of Justice. It did not know what the runaway FBI was doing to sink the president.
The Nunes memo rocked Washington's dossier-loving Democratic establishment, which went into a four-alarm alert to knock it down. Mr. Schiff put out a counter-memo exonerating the FBI.
Mr. Schiff's memo wrongly stated, "FBI and DOJ officials did not 'abuse' the [FISA] process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign."
The Nunes memo, in contrast, has survived the test of time.
Nearly two years later, the Justice inspector general issued a full-throttled, fact-based condemnation of FBI tactics.
The first of four wiretap applications alone contained seven "significant inaccuracies and omissions," said the report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Mr. Horowitz reported: "Our review found that FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application are 'scrupulously accurate.' We identified multiple instances in which factual assertions relied upon in the first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed."
Things got worse for the FBI in 2020. Sens. Grassley and Johnson won a hard-fought battle to lift the censor blackout on IG report items — a cover-up I can only assume was demanded by the FBI.
The following sentences, for example, were blacked out in the public IG report. This is what intel told the FBI: "A January 12, 2017, report relayed information from [REDACTED] outlining an inaccuracy in a limited subset of Steele's reporting about the activities of Michael Cohen. The [REDACTED] stated that it did not have high confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations."
This was the sensational dossier part that said Trump lawyer Cohen secretly traveled to the city of Prague in 2016 to meet with Vladimir Putin goons and cover up supposed Trump-Russian computer hacking.
It was total nonsense. Yet it drove the FBI/Democratic/news media campaign to oust Mr. Trump from the White House.
Concerning President Biden, Mr. Hur had not taken office at the time the FBI, with Mr. Biden's attorneys, searched the president's home in Wilmington, Delaware, on two occasions, the latest on Feb. 20, and found a still-unspecified number of classified documents. Let's hope he does not fall into the protection mode of anyone involved.
• Rowan Scarborough is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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/* NetHack 3.7	pcsys.c	$NHDT-Date: 1596498283 2020/08/03 23:44:43 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.42 $ */
/*      Copyright (c) 2012 by Michael Allison              */
/* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */

/*
 *  System related functions for MSDOS, OS/2, TOS
 */

#define NEED_VARARGS
#include "hack.h"
#include "wintty.h"

#include <ctype.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#if !defined(MSDOS) && !defined(WIN_CE) && !defined(CROSS_TO_AMIGA)
#include <process.h>
#endif
#if defined(__GO32__) || defined(CROSS_TO_AMIGA)
#define P_WAIT 0
#define P_NOWAIT 1
#endif
#ifdef TOS
#include <osbind.h>
#endif
#if defined(MSDOS) && !defined(__GO32__)
#define findfirst findfirst_file
#define findnext findnext_file
#define filesize filesize_nh
#endif

#if defined(MICRO) || defined(OS2)
void nethack_exit(int) NORETURN;
#else
#define nethack_exit exit
#endif
static void msexit(void);

#ifdef MOVERLAY
extern void __far __cdecl _movepause(void);
extern void __far __cdecl _moveresume(void);
extern unsigned short __far __cdecl _movefpause;
extern unsigned short __far __cdecl _movefpaused;
#define __MOVE_PAUSE_DISK 2  /* Represents the executable file */
#define __MOVE_PAUSE_CACHE 4 /* Represents the cache memory */
#endif                       /* MOVERLAY */
FILE * fopenp(const char *name, const char *mode);

#if defined(MICRO)

void
flushout(void)
{
    (void) fflush(stdout);
    return;
}

static const char *COMSPEC =
#ifdef TOS
    "SHELL";
#else
    "COMSPEC";
#endif

#define getcomspec() nh_getenv(COMSPEC)

#ifdef SHELL
int
dosh(void)
{
#ifndef NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS
    extern char orgdir[];
#endif
    char *comspec;
#ifndef __GO32__
    int spawnstat;
#endif
#if defined(MSDOS) && defined(NO_TERMS)
    int grmode = iflags.grmode;
#endif
    if ((comspec = getcomspec())) {
#ifndef TOS /* TOS has a variety of shells */
        suspend_nhwindows(
            "To return to NetHack, enter \"exit\" at the system prompt.\n");
#else
#if defined(MSDOS) && defined(NO_TERMS)
        grmode = iflags.grmode;
#endif
        suspend_nhwindows((char *) 0);
#endif /* TOS */
#ifndef NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS
        chdirx(orgdir, 0);
#endif
#ifdef __GO32__
        if (system(comspec) < 0) { /* wsu@eecs.umich.edu */
#else
#ifdef MOVERLAY
        /* Free the cache memory used by overlays, close .exe */
        _movefpause |= __MOVE_PAUSE_DISK;
        _movefpause |= __MOVE_PAUSE_CACHE;
        _movepause();
#endif
        spawnstat = spawnl(P_WAIT, comspec, comspec, (char *) 0);
#ifdef MOVERLAY
        _moveresume();
#endif

        if (spawnstat < 0) {
#endif
            raw_printf("Can't spawn \"%s\"!", comspec);
            getreturn("to continue");
        }
#ifdef TOS
        /* Some shells (e.g. Gulam) turn the cursor off when they exit */
        if (iflags.BIOS)
            (void) Cursconf(1, -1);
#endif
#ifndef NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS
        chdirx(hackdir, 0);
#endif
        get_scr_size(); /* maybe the screen mode changed (TH) */
#if defined(MSDOS) && defined(NO_TERMS)
        if (grmode)
            gr_init();
#endif
        resume_nhwindows();
    } else
        pline("Can't find %s.", COMSPEC);
    return 0;
}
#endif /* SHELL */
#endif /* MICRO */

/*
 * Add a backslash to any name not ending in /, \ or :	 There must
 * be room for the \
 */
void
append_slash(char *name)
{
    char *ptr;

    if (!*name)
        return;
    ptr = name + (strlen(name) - 1);
    if (*ptr != '\\' && *ptr != '/' && *ptr != ':') {
        *++ptr = '\\';
        *++ptr = '\0';
    }
    return;
}

void
getreturn(const char *str)
{
#ifdef TOS
    msmsg("Hit <Return> %s.", str);
#else
#ifdef CROSS_TO_AMIGA
    (void) printf("Hit <Enter> %s.", str);
#else
    msmsg("Hit <Enter> %s.", str);
#endif
#endif
    while (pgetchar() != '\n')
        ;
    return;
}

void msmsg
VA_DECL(const char *, fmt)
{
    VA_START(fmt);
    VA_INIT(fmt, const char *);
#if defined(MSDOS) && defined(NO_TERMS)
    if (iflags.grmode)
        gr_finish();
#endif
    Vprintf(fmt, VA_ARGS);
    flushout();
    VA_END();
    return;
}

/*
 * Follow the PATH, trying to fopen the file.
 */
#ifdef TOS
#ifdef __MINT__
#define PATHSEP ':'
#else
#define PATHSEP ','
#endif
#else
#define PATHSEP ';'
#endif

FILE *
fopenp(const char *name, const char *mode)
{
    char buf[BUFSIZ], *bp, *pp, lastch = 0;
    FILE *fp;

    /* Try the default directory first.  Then look along PATH.
     */
    (void) strncpy(buf, name, BUFSIZ - 1);
    buf[BUFSIZ - 1] = '\0';
    if ((fp = fopen(buf, mode)))
        return fp;
    else {
        int ccnt = 0;
        pp = getenv("PATH");
        while (pp && *pp) {
            bp = buf;
            while (*pp && *pp != PATHSEP) {
                lastch = *bp++ = *pp++;
                ccnt++;
            }
            if (lastch != '\\' && lastch != '/') {
                *bp++ = '\\';
                ccnt++;
            }
            (void) strncpy(bp, name, (BUFSIZ - ccnt) - 2);
            bp[BUFSIZ - ccnt - 1] = '\0';
            if ((fp = fopen(buf, mode)))
                return fp;
            if (*pp)
                pp++;
        }
    }
#ifdef OS2_CODEVIEW /* one more try for hackdir */
    (void) strncpy(buf, hackdir, BUFSZ);
    buf[BUFSZ - 1] = '\0';
    if ((strlen(name) + 1 + strlen(buf)) < BUFSZ - 1) {
        append_slash(buf);
        Strcat(buf, name);
    } else
        impossible("fopenp() buffer too small for complete filename!");
    if (fp = fopen(buf, mode))
        return fp;
#endif
    return (FILE *) 0;
}

#if defined(MICRO) || defined(OS2)
void
nethack_exit(int code)
{
    msexit();
    exit(code);
}

/* Chdir back to original directory
 */
#ifdef TOS
extern boolean run_from_desktop; /* set in pcmain.c */
#endif

static void
msexit(void)
{
#if defined(CHDIR) && !defined(NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS)
    extern char orgdir[];
#endif

    flushout();
#ifndef TOS
    enable_ctrlP(); /* in case this wasn't done */
#endif
#if defined(CHDIR) && !defined(NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS)
    chdir(orgdir); /* chdir, not chdirx */
    chdrive(orgdir);
#endif
#ifdef TOS
    if (run_from_desktop)
        getreturn("to continue"); /* so the user can read the score list */
#ifdef TEXTCOLOR
    if (colors_changed)
        restore_colors();
#endif
#endif
    wait_synch();
    return;
}
#endif /* MICRO || OS2 */

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The annual club Christmas lunch is fully booked. The lunch which will take place on Saturday 22nd December prior to the game against Otley has proven to be very popular once again, even before it has been advertised!
We will be running a standby list for anyone that has not yet booked on in case there are any cancellations. We will be contacting those booked on and taking a deposit to ensure that all places are full on the day and to give those on the standby list chance to get on the lunch.


He'll look refined in this sleek, Heritage House 7562 Green(16) Boy's Tie. Delivering a sleek look that when paired with any dress shirt will make him look sharp, and give him the confidence he needs to shine at any formal gathering. This Heritage House Boy's Tie is offered in a magnetic, tonal stripe style with a muted Green coloring, for an elegant, fresh, and completed look. Crafted from the finest Italian fabrics, this 100% woven silk tie provides a charming drape, and a smooth knot. Wool blend lining gives the tie a subtle hand in its ability to bounce back to its original form after wear. Available in three distinct sizes for a proper fit, he will be comfortable and look his very best. Crafted by world renowned fashion designer, Heritage House.


Motocross is nothing but another form of motorcycle racing, which is organized on the enclosed off road circuits. The motocross is the advanced version of the motorcycle trials competition, which used to hold in the United Kingdom. This sport is extremely demanding towards its players.
As we have mentioned above the sport of Motocross has been evolved from the United Kingdom's motorcycle trials competition in the early 1900s. Such competitions were Auto Cycle Club's trials and the Scottish Six Days Trials. In these trials, the competitors had to balance delicately through out the race on rough and uneven surface. Sometimes this was also called as 'scrambles racing' as well in the UK. Slowly it grow popularity and even the French got attracted to it and had their own, 'motocyclette' soon. By 1930s, its popularity zoomed in Britain and many more competitions were organized. After the second World War the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme or FIM which is the international governing body for the motorcycling started an individual European Championship in the year 1952 in which only 500 cc engine bikes were allowed to participate. During this part the Swedish and Belgium riders started to dominate the sport. By this time the Motocross had already spread its wings to the United States as well.
Not only the players from the different countries started to participate, but the auto companies from outside Europe too started to manufacture the bikes for the sport and the huge competition erupt between the European and the Japanese auto company by the 1970s.


One of the most important books in religion this year is a tour-de-force of new investigation, scholarly rigor, storytelling, and humor. In this authoritative work, Mark Massa, program director of Fordham University's Center for American Catholic Studies, reveals how American Catholics' distinctive way of viewing the world is constantly misunderstood by outsiders. This book tells the astonishing story of how a supposedly tolerant American culture has prejudged members of their largest religious group, and how the profound differences between Catholics and non-Catholics explain this animosity. Crossroad is pleased to present the paperback edition with major study guide. Chapters include: The Varieties of Anti-Catholicism in the United States; Do Catholics and Protestant See the World Differently? Catholic-Protestant Tensions in Postwar America; The Power of Negative Thinking; The Death Cookie and Other "Catholics Cartoons"; Catholicism and Science; "Why Does He Say Those Awful Things about Catholics?"; Betrayal in Boston; The Last Acceptable Prejudice?


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Q: Magento Admin 404 We recently migrated our Multi-domain magento setup from a shared host to a dedicated server.
All is working fine fronted, but when I try to go to the admin section I get a 404 error on anything after login.
It seems to work if I remove index.php from the url but then as soon as I click on another link in the admin section it 404's again with the index.php back in the URL.

A: Check in this way
> http://www.yourstore.com/index.php/admin/

or
>  http://www.yourstore.com/admin/

A: -- You need to go your server directly and do this via SSH/ FTP
You have to delete the following file
app/etc/use_cache.ser

If you get an error after that  like

Notice: Undefined index: 0 in
  /srv/www/vhosts/javra.com/htdocs/munchad2/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Mysql4/Config.php
  on line 92

Then go to your Database Management.

*

*Open PhpMyAdmin

*Go to your database

*Click SQL

*Run the following SQL Query:

_
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
UPDATE `core_store` SET store_id = 0 WHERE code='admin';
UPDATE `core_store_group` SET group_id = 0 WHERE name='Default';
UPDATE `core_website` SET website_id = 0 WHERE code='admin';
UPDATE `customer_group` SET customer_group_id = 0 WHERE customer_group_code='NOT LOGGED IN';
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;

Some thing strange happens with the cache when you move the databases from one server to another so it seems like you need to clear it out.

A: After migration from www.domain1.com/magento/ to www.domain2.com/magento/
I was getting 500 Internal Server Error.
So I just renamed my .htaccess to htaccess.txt.
And my frontend started working fine,
But at Backend  http://www.yourstore.com/admin/ I was getting Same 500 Internal Server error.
After trying many option suggested online nothing worked for me and after that I tried to access admin via following URL and voilà worked perfect, Hope this help others.
Try to access as this > http://www.yourstore.com/index.php/admin/

A: Does the dedicated server have mod_rewerite enabled? Does the apache configuration allow .htaccess files to make changes to configuration directives via AllowOverride? Both of those are common ways that the Magento config gets pooched up.

A: This is an old thread but I've also had an issue with ownership what was returning a 404 in admin.
I'd been doing some work on securing the server and some files were owned as root, not apache. So a chown -R apache:apache . fixed it right up.

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Watch Caroline and the Magic Potion (2015) full movies online free.
Caroline dreams of a life filled with adventure. Then one day, while living with her healer Granny and troublesome cat Mus, Caroline gets her chance. While looking through her granny's healing potions, Caroline stumbles across a magic formula that will make her fly. Jumping with excitement, Caroline turns an ordinary umbrella into her own personal flying broomstick. But magic isn't always used for good and when the evil leader of a manufacturing company finds out about the magic potion, she kidnaps Caroline's Granny in order to steal the recipe. When Caroline finds out, she jumps into action and starts off on the adventure of her lifetime to rescue her Granny.


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Disease name and synonyms
Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), pneumocystis pneumonitis
Fungi responsible (links to these)
Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly carinii)
Disease description
In HIV/AIDS patients, PCP is a subacute disease with fever, cough, weight loss, diarrhoea and increasing breathlessness. Prodromal features are often present for 2-3 weeks before the breathlessness becomes clinically problematic. In non-AIDS patients with other immunodeficiency, PCP is a more rapidly progressive disease with more prominent radiological findings and wheeze.
Frequency and global burden
Worldwide distribution. Approximately 2.8 million with advanced HIV/AIDS infection are at risk. Conservative estimates produce figures of around 400,000 cases annually, but this is likely to be an underestimate of the true burden. PCP rates rise accordingly with national GDP and decreasing numbers of TB cases, but the reasons for this are unclear.
Underlying problems and at risk patients
HIV/AIDS with CD4 cells <250 x 106/L, usually <200 x 106/L. Other patients include transplant recipients, corticosteroid-treated patients such as those with brain tumours on dexamethasone, malnutrition in children, hypogammaglobulinaemia and acute and chronic leukaemia and lymphoma patients.
Induced sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluids are the usual diagnostic specimens. Spontaneously produced sputum and oral mouth wash samples can also be used. Detection is best with real-time PCR or immunofluorescence. Beta1,3-D-glucan in usually raised in blood and can assist with diagnosis. Culture is not possible because the microorganism does not grow in any known culture media. Lung or other tissue biopsy and subsequent histology are sometimes necessary for diagnosis.
New RT PCR kit for pneumocystis jirovecii (2017)
BD max platform kit (BioGX)
Real Time PCR (Fast Track diagnostics Ltd)
Real Time PCR (Bird srl)
First line therapy is cotrimoxazole/trimethoprim with corticosteroids for moderate of severe disease. Second –line therapies include pentamidine and the combination of clindamycin and primaquine. Mild cases can be treated with trimethoprim and dapsone or atavaquone. view ECCMID talk by Prof R Miller on PCP.
Outlook and prognosis
If diagnosed promptly, the survival is 80-90% in HIV/AIDS in the western world. In non-AIDS patients, the survival is only 50%. Prevention of subsequent episodes is critical with prophylaxis, while immunocompromised. Patients with PCP should be isolated in rooms as it is transmissible to other immunocompromised patients.
Typical example of moderately severe PCP in AIDS, with bilateral fluffy mid and lower lobe shadows.
An example of severe PCP in a patient in intensive care. Most of the right lung is affected and the left upper lobe. This patient subsequently died.
An example of PCP in a child with a lymphoma on chemotherapy, who was unable to take oral prophylaxis and developed PCP.
Left apical PCP, a rare occurrence, except in patients on intermittent aerosolised pentamidine for prophylaxis.
Pneumothorax in PCP (right sided), a relatively common complication.
CT scan appearance of the apices in one patient with PCP showing the irregular opacities, consistent with alveolar disease.
CT scan showing marked bilateral scattered opacities, some with ground glass adjacent, typical of Pneumocystis pneumonia (Courtesy of Sanjay Sharma, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi).
Occasionally P. jirovecii disseminated to other locations. Here are 3 examples; skin in the ear, with a nodule visible, the retina of the eye (the white blotches not where the vessels join the optic nerve) and the brain showing rounded abscesses.
Patchy areas of consolidation with surrounding ground glass caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii in a lung transplant recipient.


text:
Q: How do I do this select statement? Tables and Columns are Below
Bikers(BikerName, Country, Age, Category, World_Cup_Wins,

World_Championship_Wins, Brand, Bike)

BikerMeetUp(BikerName, Date, Location)

BikeShopInfo(BikeShopName, Telephone_Number, Address, Website)

Brands(BrandName, Website, Model)

Bikes(Model, Price, Weight, Colour, Rating, State)

BikeTyre(Model, Tyre_Model, Size)

BikeForks(Model, Fork_Model, Travel)

BikeBrandSellStock(Model, Size, BrandStock)

BikeShopSellBike(BikeShopName, Model, Size, BikeShopStock)

I want to select the bike with the most total stock available i.e. stock from brand + stock from bike shop? How do I do this? This is what I have so far and it is not executing.
Select model, price, rating, state, brands.brandname, brands.website,
bikebrandsellstock.size, bikebrandsellstock.brandstock, bikeshopsellbike.bikeshopname, bikeshopsellbike.size, bikeshopsellbike.bikeshopstock
from bikes
INNER JOIN brands ON bikes.model = brands.model
INNER JOIN bikebrandsellstock ON bikes.model = bikebrandsellstock.model
INNER JOIN bikeshopsellbike ON bikes.model = bikeshopsellbike.model
WHERE SUM(bikebrandsellstock.stock+bikeshopsellbike.stock)
IN (SELECT MAX(SUM(bikebrandsellstock.stock+bikeshopsellbike.stock)))

A: Maybe you're overthinking it:
SELECT *

FROM
 bikebrandsellstock b
 INNER JOIN
 bikeshopsellbike s
 ON s.model = b.model and s.size = s.size

ORDER BY b.brandstock + s.bikeshopstock DESC
LIMIT 1

A: Your syntax in (SELECT MAX(SUM(bikebrandsellstock.stock+bikeshopsellbike.stock))) is incorrect, you are missing a FROM statement.

A: SELECT model
     , SUM(stock) total
  FROM
     ( SELECT Model, BrandStock stock FROM BikeBrandSellStock
        UNION
       SELECT Model, BikeShopStock FROM BikeShopSellBike
     ) x
 GROUP
    BY model
 ORDER
    BY total DESC
 LIMIT 1;

This solution does not account for ties.


text:
package benjaminmestdagh.expenses.entities;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Created by benjamin on 06/08/13.
 */
public class Currency implements Serializable {
    private long id;
    private double value;
    private String name;
    private String code;

    public Currency(long id, double value, String name, String code) {
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;
        this.id = id;
        this.code = code;
    }

    public Currency(double value, String name, String code) {
        this(0, value, name, code);
    }

    public Currency(String name, String code) {
        this(0, 1F, name, code);
    }

    public String getCode() {
        return code;
    }

    public void setCode(String code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public double getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void setValue(double value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return this.code;
    }
}


Weyl semi-metals and their symmetry-protected generalizations are sought after for their exotic Fermi arcs and unconventional transport properties. Symmetry can force these degeneracies to lie on special points or lines. However, it can be a challenge to find materials that realize these band crossings near the Fermi level. Using the theory of topological quantum chemistry, we describe how the local symmetry properties of a chemical compound (i.e., its orbitals and crystal structure) determine which symmetry representations appear at each point in the Brillouin zone and, ultimately, the topology of the band structure. This theory unites symmetry-enforced semi-metals and topological crystalline insulators. We describe algorithms to search for materials that realize these phases.


If I were to stop reading them altogether, I'd have saved myself a lot of trouble. Cumulatively, by opening them, I've sentenced myself to about seventy years of ill luck in love, life, and so forth. Mind you, the prescribed punishments for not forwarding the inanity tend on the side of inanity themselves: perhaps all I have really sentenced myself to is boredom — it's hardly ill luck if nothing happens at all.
Please tell me why these things (SocNets) are at all compelling?


text:
Jane Winstone
Our namesake
Jane Winstone (1912-1944)
Jane Winstone was born in Whanganui and at age 16, while still a pupil at Sacred Heart Convent, she took up flying as a hobby, travelling to New Plymouth and Hawera for lessons, until an aero club opened in Whanganui. She flew solo at 17, becoming the country's youngest female pilot at the time.
Jane was keen to help the war effort and offered her services to the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in Britain.
A talented pilot and a courageous woman, Jane Winstone was one of 16 women from the ATA killed during the war, when the engine of her Spitfire failed after takeoff. She is buried in the Maidenhead Cemetery, Berkshire, England.


It's good to save. Otherwise you'd just spend all your money on chocolates and funfairs - and only be able to buy a car that went forwards.
So says eight-year-old Duncan, a super Robin Hood Young Saver with The Nottingham.
Being a Young Saver has lots of benefits. You get a Robin Hood money box, a wall chart with stickers and a gift for thrift that will last a lifetime.
We asked three of our Young Savers - Duncan, 8, Emma, 10, and Isaac, 8 - what they know about money, whether they would like to be rich and why it's important to save.
I'd been saving for years and years and years, and I didn't even know. Mum and Dad didn't tell me in case I was tempted to spend it.
It's good to save so you don't spend all your money on chocolates. That's what I'd do.
Most of my money comes from birthdays. Grandma and Grandpa give it to me. I have £181…no, £191 saved. That's enough to buy all the toys I want and some chocolates.
The most money I've ever spent in one go was £10 at a funfair in Glasgow. It was worth it. They had bumper cars.
If I had more money saved I'd go on holiday and buy a toy shop in Ireland. I'd need a bit more for a house. A house would cost at least a couple of thousand. I could buy a car for £100, but it would only drive forward. A good car that could go through water and rough terrain would be about £5,000. If I could buy anything in the world it would be…um, let me think, an Assault Land Rover like the army use. I want to be a soldier when I grow up. Soldiers aren't that well paid but I don't mind.
Rich people aren't always very nice. I wouldn't like to be like that. I think £10,000 is enough money. It takes a lot of birthdays to get that much - unless you've got a mega-rich grandma and grandpa.
Am I'm going to carry on saving for a while? Oh, yes. I'll need money for when I do my A Levels. It's important to save otherwise you won't have money for important things like getting the qualifications you need for life, buying a house, getting food and paying taxes. You have to pay your taxes or they send you to jail. I wouldn't like that.
I get my money from doing jobs. I hoover, pick up the dog's poo, put the washing machine on and make my mum cups of tea. I like buying art stuff with my money. I draw anything that pops into my head. The best thing I've ever drawn was a plane. When I'm older I don't want to be any old artist. I want to be an architect or someone who designs gardens or cars. I'd earn quite a lot of money if I did that, more than for picking up dog poo.
I'd sooner earn my money than win the lottery because I'd appreciate it more. I wouldn't want to be rich because money isn't everything. Your family and your health are more important. I wouldn't like to be poor either. I want some money but not too much. A million would be too much. The person who made Facebook is probably the richest in the world. I think he should give some of his money away because you don't need that much.
It's quite important to save. That money is going to come in handy later on. I've got a Robin Hood money box and a wall chart. I've got the chart on my bedroom wall. I put stickers on it to show how much I've saved. It's quite good fun. I've got about £50 so far and I've only been saving a month. I'm probably going to put money away every month. I think I'm going to be quite a good saver. I'm only going to take money out if I really need it.
You need to save in case you don't get a good job because how else will you get Christmas presents and go on holidays? You would have to save quite a bit to go to Disneyland Paris, maybe £3,000 - it depends how long you went for.
I'm saving so I can have a car, a house and go to university - oh, and in case I have kids. Kids cost quite a lot. I know that because I am one. I'm always needing new T shirts and clothes because I grow so fast. And shoes, I get through a lot of them - especially football boots. I play for a girls' team. I'm quite good. Football players earn a lot of money, don't they?
I'm quite sensible. I've got my head screwed on. I'm more of a saver than a spender. I think it's better to be a saver than a spender because you never know, do you? You might need your savings if you get really poor or don't have a girlfriend when you're older.
I don't spend all my pocket money. I buy things that are really cheap with that. Things that cost more, I think: "I'll get those another time. I'll save up for them." I get £2 a week in pocket money, if I do all my chores. My chores are pairing up my socks, doing the dishes and helping to look after my little brother. Sometimes I get extra for that.
I've been saving a long time, about six years my mum says. I've got more than £1,000 now. I'm saving for a new Porsche, one of the good ones that costs nearly a million pounds. I'm also saving up to go to university because my mum says it's really good.
My mum's mum didn't have enough money, so she didn't get the chance to go to university. To be honest, I don't know what university is that much. I think it's for when you're a teenager and it's like some sort of college - and I'm only guessing here - but in a more fun way.
I want to work for my dad when I grow up - or take over his job. Dad's a welder, he makes motorbike frames. He once welded 4,000 pork pie tins together. It only took him a week because he did lots of overtime. He got £1 a tin, which is a lot of money when you add it up.
The richest person in the world is David Beckham. England have only won the World Cup once and that was when David Beckham was in the team. That's how Beckham got all his money. He tried to get back in the England squad but everyone says he's too old. He probably is too old because he's probably about 43 or something now.
You can have too much money. I had too much money once, so I gave £3 of it to charity on Pudsey Day. That made me feel quite good, actually.
I save so that I can have a car and a nice house and a kid one day. That's the reason. That and being able to give some of it to poor people. I like donating to charity because I'm happy with my life the way it is.
If you'd like to find out more about how you can open a Robin Hood Young Saver account why not visit your local branch and talk to one of the staff there. Alternatively you can read more on the child saving account page.


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Q: Moto secretsmanager mock can't mock more than one secret object at a time I have a method I want to test that calls get_secret on multiple secret objects:
@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def client():
    conn = boto3.client("secretsmanager", region_name="us-west-1")
    yield conn

@mock_secretsmanager
def test_get_secret_value(client):
   client.create_secret(
       Name="one", SecretString="sdfsdf"
   )
   client.create_secret(
       Name="two", SecretString="werwewe"
   )
   # Function that gets value of 2 secrets- "one" and "two"
   # Only "two" will exist as the second call to create_secret() will override the first it seems
   mymodule.get_one_and_two("one","two")

I get an error: botocore.errorfactory.ResourceNotFoundException: An error occurred (ResourceNotFoundException) when calling the GetSecretValue operation: Secrets Manager can't find the specified secret
Am I using moto incorrectly? How can I create two secrets that my function will have access to?
Edit
It looks like this issue was supposed to have been solved. I still seem to have this problem: https://github.com/spulec/moto/issues/1893


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Chevy Volts will embark on 'Volt Unplugged' cross-country tour
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Chevy, GM, Hybrid
DETROIT — General Motors said today it plans to send six Chevrolet Volts on a 3,400-mile cross-country tour to demonstrate the hybrid's extended-range capability and celebrate its public debut.
According to GM, the plug-in hybrid vehicle offers a 25- to 50-mile driving range on a single electric charge, with a 111 kW (roughly 150 hp) electric motor, capable of 0-to-60-mph acceleration in about nine seconds. When the Volt's battery runs out of power — after the 25 to 50 miles — the vehicle uses gasoline to generate more electricity keeping it going for "hundreds of miles." It also can be plugged in for a recharge.
The cross-country drive, which Chevrolet has dubbed the "Volt Unplugged" tour, will run from Oct. 9 in Seattle to Nov. 20 in Chicago. Customers will be able to test drive the Volt and meet the engineering and design team.
"The Volt Unplugged tour will give people a chance to get behind the wheel of the Volt and find out for themselves what makes this vehicle so special," Chevy spokesman Tony DiSalle said in a statement.
"This drive will demonstrate the one-of-a-kind capabilities of the Volt, the only electric vehicle able to drive such long distances under a variety of driving conditions and climates without having to stop to recharge."
During the tour, Chevrolet will offer educational programs to the public about the Volt itself and the development of the nation's electric car infrastructure.
Chevrolet announced that it will begin production of the Volt on Nov. 11 in GM's Detroit/Hamtramck plant. In December, it will release the vehicle on a limited basis to dealers in California; Texas; New York; New Jersey; Connecticut; Michigan; and Washington, D.C. The regular release of the vehicle will occur over the next 12 to 18 months.
The suggested retail price of the Volt is $41,000, including freight charges, and it will be eligible for up to $7,500 in federal tax credits. At present there is no pre-order option for the vehicle.
2001 Chevy S-10 died while driving
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Auto Repair, Chevy
I have a 2001 Chevy S-10 with a 2.2L engine. Was running fine and all of the sudden a POP and the engine died. The engine cranks over plenty fast, in fact it almost sounds like it has less resistance than normal. There are no check engine codes. What could it be?
The engine has a common timing chain tensioner failure. When the timing chain tensioner comes apart it allows part of it to wedge itself between the timing chain and the timing chain sprocket. When this occurs, the chain snaps!
You can perform a comprssion test and see if yiu find a cylinder or 2 without compression. This happens because the valves are stuck without movment. Removing the timing cover and inpecting is a way to confirm this has happened as well.


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In these podcasts, you get to listen in on my conversations with some really remarkable people—hearing what health literacy is, why it matters and ways all of us can help improve health understanding.
Today I'm talking with Dr. Beth Lown, who is a general internist at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lown teaches learners across the spectrum of medical education.
Among her many accomplishments, she is the first medical director of The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and care providers and creating more compassionate healthcare systems. Welcome, Beth.
Dr. Lown: Thank you, Helen. I'm glad to be with you.
Helen: You and I met many years ago at a conference about physician-patient communication.
Helen: Obviously that topic has stuck with both of us since.
Helen: I know your focus today is really about compassion. Start from the beginning with the word compassion. What is it you really mean?
Dr. Lown: That's a great question. I'll define it briefly, but what I really want to do is tell you a story because it brings it to life.
Helen: I love stories. You know that.
Dr. Lown: Absolutely. In brief, compassion is all about recognizing, validating and then addressing the concerns, distress and suffering of others. People often ask what the difference is between empathy and compassion. Before my story let me explain that. I think empathy is coming to understand and to some extent sharing the thoughts and feelings of another person as if you were in that person's shoes.
Dr. Lown: Exactly. By the way, we do feel other people's pain. We have new information from neuroscience about mirror neurons in the brain.
Dr. Lown: It's absolutely true. If that person happens to be experiencing distress, this wakens something we call empathic concern for that person. If you have this empathic concern and you actually value that other person's wellbeing, it awakens compassion. Compassion then causes motivation and intention to help.
Compassion is feeling for another person and acting. Empathy is feeling with that person as if you were in his or her shoes.
Helen: Thank you for the distinction there.
Dr. Lown: Let me just light this up a little bit. You may know this story, but I want to tell this story because I have found it incredibly moving and inspiring over the years.
I'll tell you a story about a man who was 40 years old when he became quite ill with persistent fatigue and cough. He had a low-grade temperature. He just felt terrible.
He could not get into see his primary care physician. He saw various other covering people in the practice, but ultimately he just couldn't connect with his primary care doctor and he was feeling pretty sick. He was also feeling uncared for, so he switched care.
Shortly after seeing this new physician, he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. That happened in 1997. The patient was Ken Schwartz, who was a healthcare attorney. He went in for his initial biopsy. There was a nurse doing his screening there. She was really curt and brusque. The room was crowded, hot, noisy and chaotic. He happened to mention that he had just learned he had advanced lung cancer. The nurse clearly heard something in his voice and she looked up. She saw the fear, concern and worry in his face and she stopped.
She said, "How are you doing?" Then they struck up a conversation. The next day he was waiting to be rolled into the operating room and that nurse came down looking for him. She sat next to him, held his hand and wished him well.
With that little act of compassion, she went out of her way to demonstrate her concern and to try to alleviate some of his fear before he was rolled into the operating room. That's something very small. These little acts can occur in moments. We know that longer acts occur over the course of relationships.
Helen: That's the essence of compassion, even just holding his hand.
Dr. Lown: It can happen in the moment. It's not something that necessarily has to take a long time. That's what people remember. If somebody has a really complicated condition and there are many difficult decisions to make, that requires compassion sustained over time and is based on continuity of relationships and caring.
Helen: Thank you so much for telling that story. You and I both live in the Boston area. We probably both read The Boston Globe Sunday magazine years ago with that article either by or about Ken Schwartz.
Listeners who are worldwide may not know about The Schwartz Center. Could you just ever so briefly tell everybody what that is?
Dr. Lown: We're a national nonprofit and we're housed under the nonprofit status of Mass. General Hospital here in Boston. As you said at the beginning, we're dedicated to strengthening the relationships and the human connection in healthcare and to fostering more compassion in healthcare organizations and systems. That's what we're all about.
Two days before Ken died, he asked his family and friends to create The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. He was worried that in this era of highly technologized, economically pressured and time pressured care that he was starting to see even in the mid-90s, compassion was going to be extinguished.
He charged his family and friends with trying to think of ways to really sustain compassion in healthcare.
Helen: Thank you. From that small moment when he didn't feel compassion and when someone he felt did give him compassion, look how that has grown. I know its impact is across the US, if not around the world.
Dr. Lown: It is around the world because we started something called The Schwartz Center Rounds, which are spreading not only in the United States. We're in well over 300 to 350 places in the United States, but they're also spreading throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
Helen: A little dose of compassion goes such a long way. Thank you for making that so vivid for our listeners of Health Literacy Out Loud. We all care about good, clear, health communication, but we might be coming at it in different ways.
Some of us are clinicians and others are in public health. Some people are teachers, librarians or professors. We all care. What can we do to bring compassion into our communication about health?
Dr. Lown: That's a great question Helen. I think of compassion as a process. It emerges as a result of the interaction, sometimes with a patient and a family and sometimes among a patient, family and the clinical team. The very first thing you have to do is to notice that someone has concerns or is in distress.
You have to be able to focus your attention. That's no small request, by the way. When you think about it, we're now typing in computers. Especially in healthcare, we're responding to pagers and multitasking. There are always so many different things going on. It's hard to focus, but we have to do that.
Helen: How can someone focus? There's so much going on. What can we do?
Dr. Lown: I have this little strategy that I call the doorknob strategy. Before I go into an exam room or a hospital room, and I do it metaphorically no matter where I am, I put my hand on the doorknob for a minute and consciously set aside everything that I'm thinking about so that when I walk through the door, I can fully receive the patient or the family on the other side of that threshold.
It takes discipline and conscious re-centering and refocusing so you can actually look into the eyes, make good eye contact, and see what's in the eyes and the facial expressions of the people on the other side of that door.
Helen: Thank you for that. That's not just a metaphor. You're telling me that I can almost have that tactile feeling too. What a great reminder. First we have to make this commitment to listen and pay attention. What else can we do?
Dr. Lown: I've been so interested in interpersonal communication skills for so many years. I've watched thousands of video tapes and listened to many audio tapes of doctor-patient communication. What you hear is that for various reasons, we don't pick up on the verbal and nonverbal cues about concerns.
You can train yourself to look and listen for that, but you do need to pay attention to that. Doctors in particular need coaching because doctors are trained to listen for differential diagnosis clues and symptoms.
They sometimes unintentionally filter out clues about underlying emotional issues or social contextual issues that are really important in understanding who the patient is as a person and what kind of treatments are going to be okay for them.
Helen: Beth, you're a storyteller. Give me an example.
Dr. Lown: For years I've taught medical students. Medical students are just starting to learn what we call the medical interview. It's taught in a very stylized way, if you will. Somebody might be expressing something that has emotional content and a tear might well up in the eye.
The student might see it but not know how to deal with it, or because they're trying to get through their process that they know they have to complete, they'll go on to some other thing like, "Do you have any allergies?" and the tear is dripping down the face.
It's not to criticize because they're just beginning to learn. They need to learn from experienced role models that it's possible to integrate the social, emotional, psychological, and all of these affective and relational aspects of care while you're listening to medical content that you need in order to be a competent clinician.
Helen: That almost sounds the opposite of what you're talking about. We have to pay attention and clear things away so we can really listen to the person.
Now you're saying in conversations that we not only have to listen for our agenda, but we have to look all around, really notice and be very sensitive to what else is happening, such as just a little tear. Thank you for that.
Now we're paying attention to everything about the other person. What else is part of compassion that we can bring?
Dr. Lown: I said at the beginning that compassion kicks in in the presence of empathic concern if you value the welfare of that other person. Sometimes we are in such a hurry to get on with the diagnosis, the treatment plan, or implementing treatment that we don't always pay attention to how our assumptions are influencing our interactions.
Sometimes assumptions, misperceptions or not fully understanding a patient's context can drive us to ignore other kinds of issues that might be important in creating a differential diagnosis. We need to learn how to bring conscious awareness how our assumptions, stereotypes and unconscious bias may actually be leading to errors in diagnosis and bias in treatment.
We know that exists. We can train ourselves to stop and ask ourselves a few questions like, "What do I think is going on here and why do I think it's going on? Why am I thinking that X is the proper diagnosis or Y is the proper treatment?
As another example, I have often taught from this transcript of a conversation where a young woman is coming in concerned about some headaches and she's just had a little baby. The clinician just doesn't hear her concerns that this could be something serious and that she's alone with this baby.
None of the questions include, "Why are you alone? Do you have any support? Is there a partner around? Are you trying to manage all of this yourself? Why are these symptoms so significant and problematic to you?
"Of course, the symptoms could be significant because they're painful or uncomfortable, but what else could be happening that might be important for me to know?" It's important because this compassionate conversation may illuminate a completely different diagnostic possibility or a more patient-centered treatment plan.
Helen: I hope that we can all add a dose of compassion to our teaching. There's obviously so much to it. You've been working at this for years. You talk about teaching others, and you watch a lot of videos and study this. We can't capture everything about compassion in these few minutes. How can people learn more and improve their practice of their communication?
Dr. Lown: There are several options. First of all, people can go to Schwartz Center Rounds if their hospital, community center or whatever their group is offering them because it is a place to hear the perspectives of other colleagues and peers. Anyone who touches the care of a patient in a given organization can go to these. It's very helpful and you can learn strategies there.
Helen: Thank you. We will have the link to The Schwartz Center on the Health Literacy Out Loud website.
Dr. Lown: There are other programs and courses available. The American Academy on Communication in Healthcare offers courses and there are wonderful online resources available. There are classic textbooks on patient-centered medicine and the patient-centered method of interviewing. I think also looking for role models, watching, and getting some coaching and feedback on your communication style and approach is extremely helpful.
Helen: Thank you. You are a role model for all of us lighting the way about demonstrating concern, acting on it and championing what Ken Schwartz said was so important. Thank you so much for speaking with us in Health Literacy Out Loud.
Dr. Lown: Thank you for having me, Helen. As always, I appreciate the work that you do.
Helen: Thank you. I learned so much from Dr. Beth Lown about compassion and how it fits into great health communication. But health literacy and good communication like this isn't always so easy. For help clearly communicating your health message, please visit my health literacy consulting website at www.HealthLiteracy.com.
While you're there, please sign up for the free enewsletter, What's New in Health Literacy Consulting. New Health Literacy Out Loud podcasts come out every few weeks. Subscribe for free to hear them all. You can find more information along with important links at the Health Literacy Out Loud website, www.HealthLiteracyOutLoud.org.
Did you like this podcast? Even better, did you learn something new? If so, tell your colleagues and friends. Together, let's let the whole world know why health literacy matters. Until next time, I'm Helen Osborne.


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Central Indiana
2021 – Q3 Market Report
Central Indiana is comprised of a 9-county region which includes Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks, and Marion counties. Indianapolis, referred to as "Indy", is the state capital and is the largest city in Indiana. In 1970, the governments of Marion County and the city of Indianapolis consolidated into a city-county form of government. Over the past decade, the Central Indiana area has experienced solid growth and is now home to approximately 2 million residents.
The interconnected highways and railroads around the Indianapolis metro earned Indiana its motto "The Crossroads of America." Multiple major highways, including I-70, I-69, I-65, and I-74 are linked around Indy by I-465 and provide access to 60% of the U.S. population within a 12-hour drive. National railroads interconnect in multiple areas throughout the city and terminate within a fully secure, international intermodal terminal in downtown Indy. The Indianapolis International Airport adds to the city's connectivity. The airport is the second largest FedEx air hub in the world and handles over 5.3 million pounds of cargo annually.
Indianapolis' connectivity allowed for the growth of its thriving agricultural, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and technology industries. Central Indiana is home to large corporations including: Eli Lilly (10,005), Roche Diagnostics (4,500), IU Health (23,187), Community Health Network (11,328), Amazon (5,000), FedEx (5,000), Simon Property Group (4,800 in the US), Allison Transmission (2,500), Cummins (58,000 globally), Salesforce (1,700), Infosys (3,000), Rolls-Royce (4,000), and the city (77,249), state (33,520), and federal governments (16,918), per the Indy Chamber. These large employers coupled with the hundreds of thousands of small employers across the nine county area total over 1 million jobs in Central Indiana.
Indianapolis is also called "The Racing Capital of the World." It is home to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which hosts the annual Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 among other events. Other magnets for tourism include pro sports teams, like the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers, the Indiana Fever, and Indy Fuel. The Indiana Convention Center also attracts many large conventions such as Gen Con and The National FFA Convention & Expo. Gen Con has about 70,000 attendees and a $70 million economic impact. It's the largest event hosted by the Convention Center, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis consistently ranks within the top museums to visit in the country and in North America. There were 29.2 million visitors to Central Indiana in 2019 (prepandemic) who spent approximately $5.6 billion dollars.
Indiana also houses multiple world-class universities with high-ranking programs. Several of these are in Indianapolis or are located within an hour and a half drive: Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (34,699 students), Indiana University – Bloomington (46,723 students), Purdue University (46,806 students), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2,313 students), Butler University (5,306 students), Marian University (4,449 students), University of Indianapolis (6,830 students), and Ball State University (27,369 students). According to the U.S. News and World Report, 2020 edition, Purdue has the #1 Undergraduate and Graduate Biological/Agricultural Engineering Program, Indiana University has the #1 Graduate Public Affairs Program, Butler University is the #1 Regional College in the Midwest, and Rose-Hulman has the #1 Undergraduate Engineering Program (where no doctorate is offered) in the United States. These universities help feed the employment need in Central Indiana.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation states that Indiana is ranked first in State Infrastructure (CNBC 2019), first in number of pass-through highways (IEDC), second in Best States for Long-Term Fiscal Stability (US News and World Report, 2018), second in Property Tax Index (The Tax Foundation, 2019), and in the Top 5 U.S. States for Business (Chief Executive, 2019). Central Indiana is home to suburban cities who maintain high rankings in quality of life. Fishers, a booming tech hub, ranked third in MONEY's Top 10 Best Places to Live in 2019. Indianapolis ranked twelfth in U.S. News' Most Affordable Places to Live in the U.S. Carmel, an arts, culture, and entertainment hub ranked first in Niche's Best Places to Live in Indiana in 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. Central Indiana is filled with vibrant companies, cities, and citizens.
28% Highschool
27% Some College
36% Bach/Grad+
Total Businesses
Source: Esri
Industrial OVerview
INDUSTRIAL POSTS RECORD NET ABSORPTION, DEMAND FOR SPACE INTENSIFIES
The Central Indiana industrial market is made up of 327 million square feet of space spanning nine different counties. The Q3 2021 vacancy rate saw a dramatic positive improvement, moving down to 4.6% from 6.0% in Q2 of 2021; this large jump could be attributed to companies filling spaces that recently finished construction. The average asking rent per square foot continued its upward trend and rose to $4.45/SF. A substantial increase compared to Q3 of 2020 when asking rents were $4.10 per square-foot.¹
Largest Lease Transactions from Q3:
A significant and continuing story in the Central Indiana industrial sector is the ability of Indianapolis to attract large, billion-dollar companies to the area. In Q2, Indianapolis was able to attract Amazon to the Whiteland area and now Frito- Lay has seen the value of having a Midwest location of over 500,000 square feet. Indiana's favorable business environment, Indianapolis' central location to the region, and a low cost of living are driving reasons why large companies are choosing Indianapolis over other Midwest cities.
Overall, Central Indiana posted a positive net absorption of over five million square feet, the highest net absorption since Q1 of 2007. East of Indianapolis along I-70, I-465, and U.S. Highway 36 saw ten leases signed in Q3. Park 100 and spaces around the airport were also high transaction areas during Q3.
Under construction industrial continues to be strong through the third quarter with Whitestown (11 projects) and Plainfield (7 projects) being the most popular new construction locations. Under construction square feet was very comparable to Q2 numbers, with 400,000 of square feet being delivered in Q3 and another 515,000 square feet of industrial space beginning in Q3.
A continuing trend that has been a large driver of demand for industrial space is the accelerated growth of e-commerce sales in the US. E-commerce sales rose to 13.3% of all retail sales in Q2, in comparison that number was .8% in Q1 2000 and 4.2% in Q1 2010. As this percentage grows, along with consumers demanding shortened delivery times, look for industrial space demand to similarly grow.²
In general, Industrial space remained a hot commodity through Q3 2021 with a net absorption of over five million square feet.
High clear heights, spaces under 10,000 square feet, and cold storage facilities continue to be three types of industrial space that are desired by tenants and investors. Flex space containing warehouse combined with office was also difficult to find through Q3 2021
Industrial developers are still confident demand will continue and there is over seven million square feet under construction around Indianapolis. Ambrose Property Group, Scannell Properties, and Becknell Industrial are three of the largest developers in Central Indiana.
Globe Street
INDUSTRIAL ASKING RENT & VACANCY
Source: CoStar
INDUSTRIAL ABSORPTION TRENDS
INDUSTRIAL SALES TRANSACTION VOLUME ($)
Source: Real Capital Analytics
Office space sees a steady quarter, investors eye buildings with high credit & well-established tenants
The Indianapolis office market is comprised of 37.9 million square feet of inventory spanning 20 different submarkets. The Q3 2021 vacancy rate continued its slow rise and reached 18.2%, an increase from Q1 and Q2 of 2021 and much higher than historical averages. The average asking rent per square-foot stayed consistent with Q2 at $20.83. This could be seen as the market hitting its floor and landlords starting to stand firm on their prices as office demand slowly starts to come back.¹
Largest transactions from the previous quarter:
Office transaction volume saw a large upswing in Q3 compared to the first six months of 2021, recording over $154.5 million in sales volume. This is largely attributed to the three largest transactions listed above which all took place in Class A to Class A+ markets. Another similarity between the top three transactions is each had a long-term, established tenant occupying a large majority of the leasable space (at least 50% in each sale). With Crowe and Somerset occupying space in 1 & 2 River Crossing, Geico occupying all of 101 W 103rd St, and Riverview Health occupying all of 14585 Hazel Dell.
After a hopeful and slightly positive net absorption in Q2, Q3 posted a negative net absorption of close to 235,000 square feet in the office sector. A sign that office demand is still shaky, and many are still waiting to see the full effects of COVID on long-term office demand. A positive for the office sector is an increase in under construction numbers, with 133,000 of office space being built or proposed in Fishers, Northeast Indianapolis, and downtown Indianapolis.
Coworking spaces continue to rise in popularity throughout Indianapolis as COhatch, an Ohio-based coworking provider, looks to open four more coworking sites in Indianapolis by early 2022. These coworking spaces are being created in unique venues as well, with sites like an old church, an antique shop, and an old art studio being converted to modern office spaces. These types of spaces let companies choose how many desks to rent, how many offices, and they can reserve meeting spaces for certain times. This reduces the companies rental costs while creating high occupancy for the owner of the space.²
Tenants still hold the upper hand at this time when looking to lease new space. As the year continues, look for landlords to stand their ground and offer fewer free months rent and smaller tenant improvement packages.
Look for companies to attempt to take advantage of a soft market and lease up prime space
in a downtown market that was hit hard during the pandemic. Especially younger, newer companies who are already looking to return to the office and desire popular areas surrounded by vibrant shopping and restaurants.
At a nationwide level, large corporations who rely heavily on business travel, like American Airlines, are predicting a strong return to office at the start of 2022. They also attribute the slowed bounce back to the delta variant and the rise of cases that it caused. Their research also noted that small-to-midsize companies have returned to business travel and in office attendance quicker than large companies.3
Indianapolis Business Journal
CoStar: "World's Largest Airline Expects America's Office Buildings To Fill Up Early Next Year"
OFFICE ASKING RENT & VACANCY
OFFICE ABSORPTION TRENDS
OFFICE SALES TRANSACTION VOLUME ($)
Retail continues steady recovery, sees lowest vacancy rate since q4 2019
The Central Indiana retail market contains 91.6 million square feet spanning over 27 submarkets. The Q3 2021 vacancy continued its downward trend, going from 5.7% in Q1 to 5.3% in Q2 and down to 5.2% in Q3. This improvement could be attributed to businesses turning over in the past nine months and new businesses, especially restaurants, jumping on open space. The average asking rent per square foot also saw continued positive movement, rising to $13.17 per square foot from $13.00 per square foot in Q2, showing a revitalized demand for retail space.¹
Like office space, retail transaction volume also saw a large increase from Q2 to Q3, rising from $17.3 million to approximately $78 million. This is a welcomed return to a transaction volume like Q3 and Q4 of 2020 but is still below pre-pandemic quarterly averages in 2018 and 2019. The retail sector also saw its fourth consecutive positive absorption quarter. Posting a positive absorption of over 125,000 square feet with the downtown area, spaces along Keystone Avenue, and spaces along Lafayette Road seeing the most leases signed in Q3.
A unique retail development announced in Q3 is Back 9, an entertainment facility that will include golf bays, arcade games, billiards, a 350-person music pavilion, and more. The location is interesting as well, situated on the South side of the White River, across from Lilly Technology North. It is another entertainment facility looking to incorporate the river into its appeal and landscape. Depending on the performance of this venue, additional developments incorporating the river to connect with downtown tourists and visitors may be seen.²
Business owners occupying retail space still struggle to find labor and in turn are having to offer higher wages to retain employees. This has slowed some retail owners' plans of expansion and there are still 10.9 million job openings in the U.S. as of late September. Look for laborers to return to the work force though as unemployment benefits related to the pandemic dry up and are scheduled to end fully in early Q4.³
Retail demand will need to be closely tracked as a trend of online spending established during the pandemic lingers and makes companies ask if they should be pushing consumers to the store front or to online stores. Only 20% of retailers said they would be prioritizing in-store experiences over an online experience; many companies plan to stay focused on
e-commerce operations.1
Businesses owners occupying retail space still struggle to find labor and in turn are having to offer higher wages to retain employees. This has slowed some retail owner's plans of expansion but look
for laborers to return to the work force as unemployment benefits related to the pandemic begin to dissipate.
RETAIL ASKING RENT & VACANCY
RETAIL ABSORPTION TRENDS
RETAIL SALES TRANSACTION VOLUME ($)


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Couples can register 1 child for each member attending the conference at $250 foe each child.


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Ameiva auberifocalis är en ödleart. Ameiva auberifocalis ingår i släktet Ameiva och familjen tejuödlor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Tejuödlor
auberifocalis

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